Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [698]


Nobody's bothered with the głowa mała one.

For sure Lenka knows along with a few others. The person I picked it up from is from Podlasie and uses it all te time.

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@cms neuf
And far too little.

Plus of course the sheer number of flats/houses either standing empty almost always or used only at weekends. Something to penalise in order to alleviate demand and homelessness.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [698]


You mean:

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Tax revenue from second homes, and end tax breaks for leaving houses and flats empty.

Sadly, no party in PL ever seems to have the balls to do that.

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It has been for a century now.


Better still to have doctors, midwives, nurses and actual equipment than to bleed out onto a Silentnight Divan.


Foetus.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [494]

About investments, UK government bonds look more and more attractive. The higher than average yied due to trumpian instability make the interest much better.


Yep, the Qutbists, ideological fanatics bankrolled by the Gulf. Israel won't give an inch though, especially with their current parliamentary make-up; most Israelis (or their forebears from about 1880 onwards) fled there to escape centuries of persecution and pogroms across the Middle East; the coalition partners that have forced Bibi's hand and will end his government (and his persona liberty due to outstanding corruption charges) are mostly people a generation away from fleeing there for their lives.


It's the opposite of that; it is our enemy r*SSia showing why they must be crushed.


r*SSia wrote that script. The most evil polity by far on the planet right now.


Good luck - someone has to win.

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Nobody ever mentions Egypt in all this. A country of 110 million with the largest conurbation in Africa right next to the Gaza Strip and where most of the Gaza residents are from. They haven't even opened their border. Do I personally approve of Bibi's approach? No, he has crossed a serious line. Gaza and Palestine? A lost cause and a sort of benchmark of "Moral Purity", especially among those (UK is full of them) who really don't grasp that the concept of nationhood and/or countries is a colonial construct in the Arab world or how Iran and Egypt are driving the whole conflict.. There are threads on this, anyway.


At the moment, yes. A lot of contracts will be happening however we may yet have to nationalise, depending on how serious it gets. Privatised public utilities? Apart from certain (mostly small scale) exceptions, they should not exist.


That's how the Tories spun it when they did the sell offs. Even my granny was given gas board shares. I bought (and thank God sold quickly) some Post Office shares. Of course everything went to large corporate investors, mostly foreign.


I won 140 quid yesterday on the lotto! The first major win apart from 30 quid a few years back.

Premium bonds and (right now) gilts are a good way to invest too, and for the good of society.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [494]

@Barney
Ethical investment is always best, and it's possible though not easy to do right.. End users of military plane engines aren't always the best people though.

If you scratch most large multinationals hard enough you'll find something. We can't all change the world in one go, though. It's important to find something achievable and stick to it.

It's not so much about who buys military tech (better from us than from China, America, France or r*SSia) as whether or not they're unionised, do they use zero hours contracts or fake 'b2b' stuff (an office bid is not a business, despite the contracts companies use to avoid tax), have they donated to Tory/reform/libdem/snp/green and have they closed down factories in my country and switched production abroad.

In many ways, I'm done boycotting things. Old age beckons and if it's a choice between being absolutely altruistic and freezing in front of a one bar fire and being fairly altruistic and toasty warm, it has to be the latter.

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The Daily Telegraph is suggesting they'll keep rising. If they win the SMR contract they'll rocket

I've got some and will probably buy more.

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There are a couple of million.


You've never been there.


There are a few people who live near the old Mosque in Wilanow and some shops that cater for the community. Plus, the Arab restaurants all together on that bit of al. JPII and some Sufi and Shi'a in Wlochy/Ursus.

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And right on cue, Rolls Royce (as mentioned in post 400) went up nicely.

This was not unexpexted due to the strategic defence review which was released a little while before the markets closed.

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Pretty well "Pan". Though used as an honorific in some places (generally further east) for clergy.


You always prefer the old to the new, don't you.

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How would that work?

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What a load of cobblers.


Yesterday was a very good time to change a few k.

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He didn't handle it well.

Nevertheless, his government won't collapse any time soon

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [698]


Got x-ray eyes, have you?

You want standing on them you get standing on them.

Był taka prośba źe głowa mała.

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It's a time to buy PLN and has nicely corresponded with a biggish expense today..

There is likely to be volatility though due to uncertainty about how he'll handle the next crisis. It will settle, however we can expect sell offs.


It's generally better when he doesn't.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [698]


Here you are.

Anyway, back to the topic: That your head is small.

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Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [698]

Cut them off, just for you?

That's a bit of a tall order isn't it.... You have to use your imagination. Ask your wife for tips on that.

Here's a Polish idiom that fits the situation. That your head is small.

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You'd barely believe the speed of it in Africa. Roads appearing in days. Huge limos of unknown make with Chinese writing on appearing in the car parks of ministries.

I get about in that region from the top to more than halfway down the continent and the sheer speed and scale of what they're doing is a wonder to see.

In return? They're playing the long game. What isn't strategically important now may well bee important in three or four generation's time. They look that far ahead.

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You spend twice as much per year on it as the entire budget of NHS England. Slightly more than twice.


I've always felt the same. But wonder nowadays if their AIs (their best and most super secret one, better than the best that your country and mine and the U.S. have, even the ones we don't know about) also have the same Chinese mentality. That would be a dangerous thing.

Now they just seem to sit and wait, and undercut and sell.

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They do, your lot do (and spend even more in it) and probably China too.

Destabilising and polarising societies. Or online comments anyway.


Their government are cüntish however yours are worse.

This whole phenomenon will grow and grow until it ceases to work. We've seen peak gammon in the more developed parts of Western Europe. It's less effective in France.

For Poland, the Polish-Polish war is nothing new. It's part of the culture and that of course helps to foster a more nuanced attitude. Decades of authoritarian and laughably unrealistic propaganda helps to foster cynicism and scepticism. Nuance and scepticism are the propagandists's worst enemy.

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Poland is more nuanced as a rule, although yes, there are some disturbing trends and someone somewhere is paying to propagate them.

Those tacky long beards and 'manosphere' crapola. Someone is pushing that. Also the bound presentation volumes of 'Ayn Rand' that in Europe you only seem to see in Poland. Someone is pushing that.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [698]

You can certainly stand on your eyelashes. You can stand on other people's too. Whole heaps of eyelashes.

So you were as always wrong since it is literally possible.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [698]


It is physically possible.

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I wonder if there are any malign state actors who spend billions encouraging the same?

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She probably discovered the kompromat that Putler and Trup have on him. A weird person; in my country and yours, she'd be in prison.


Sir Keir would disagree, as would most of the rest of the world. Both of those two ignore his every word.

All that's needed is that Nawrocki doesn't try to mess things up. He was elected as part of a party that exists to argue, to disrupt and to forde people imto their reactionary and hypocritical standard of morality. Duda at lkeast behaved himself internationally. Nawrocki needs to do the same.


The swish of the schoolroom cane.

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If anything, it will be about the defence of any countries taking part (particularly those with a nuclear arsenal), plus advancing the strategic interests of those countries in the region.

Macron has mostly given up his aspirations and the election of Nawrocki does affect Poland's role (and credibility) in this. A shame, since Poland has a large and capable army.

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That doesn't in any sense depend on the eu.


I see it as all the worst of the past 30 years of Polish politicians all crammed into one uninspiring body.

A frothy brew of Lepper, Palikot, Kaczynski and that senator who was filmed doing coke with tarts in Konstancin.