News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


What have they actually built?

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Let's get back to the real issue that the presidential race should be run on.... massive PiS incompetence and corruption and Duda's complete failure to act independently of their neo-PRL ways...

Completely inadequate economic response to the coronavirus economic dislocations.

Massive boondoggle projects that aren't need or wanted.

Shadowy economic doings of the Szumowski crime family.

Unrepentant PRL communist prosecutor appointed to the Supreme court.

Duda's spineless caving in to each and every demand by the first party secretary.

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Something that the neo-PRL nomenkklatura of PiS is completely incapable of, witness what they did to Pride of Poland (a microcosm of everything wrong with them).


Maybe to 10 year old boys, they seem more like corruptions sinks for party cronies to cash in rather than anything that's actually needed.

Life / Neighbours complaining about Barbecue - what is the law in Poland? [21]


Go with that.

They built their garage too close to your grill... their problem.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


how Soviet of you....

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By appointing more communist prosecutors to the supreme court?


how? especially since extreme anti-gay rhetoric tends to highly correlate with crappy economies....

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Then it should do nothing for large state owned enterprises too (or education or healthcare).


The problem wasn't the lockdown (which probably did a lot to slow the spread and save lives) but that once it's started it's going to be hard to stop. It shouldn't have been started without a clear exit plan.

This is the old rule of any bureaucracy - it's always about 10 times easier to start something than to undo something.

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Oh please, he couldn't take over the initiative of falling off a bridge, he was told to go in this direction to distract attention from the awful performance of PiS.

Let's talk about those tarcze.... and everything PiS is doing for small businesses....

Let's talk about how they saved Pride of Poland from millions of zloties of profits and international respect....

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they're awful at doing anything that requires expertise because they priortize party loyalty over anything else (just like in the PRL, PiS = neo-PRL)

They've left most people high and dry and _still_ have no real economic vision for lessening the devastation wrought by the pandemic they're big mouth useless phonies...

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And lost him more... including that crucial "Don't want to be stuck in the 19th century" demographic...


And PiS keeps on diggin'

wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/wybory-2020-przemyslaw-czarnek-o-lgbt-oni-nie-sa-rowni-normalnym-ludziom/9vd252v

Money quote (from a PiS posel and part of Duda's campaign staff)

"Skończmy słuchać tych idiotyzmów o jakichś prawach człowieka, czy jakiejś równości. Ci ludzie nie są równi ludziom normalnym"

"Let's stop listening to that foolishness about supposed human rights or equality. Those people aren't equal to normal people."

Now Duda gets to own that or tries to walk it back.... neither choice is going to help his chances.... (except among self-exiled and/or plastic Poles who claim to not support PiS)

Language / Harmless old-fashioned Polish swear words/phrases [159]


psianoga (as a single world) as two words, 'psia noga' it would mean 'dog's leg' or 'dog's foot' The two aren't distinguished much in everyday Polish and often 'noga' (leg) is used where (foot) might be more used in English. On the other hand dog's don't have legs (nogi) they have łapy (paws).

It's considered old fashioned and I can't say I've ever heard it...

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You're thinking in terms of culture rather than politics... which is why Trzaskowski has a wide open field if he concentrates on purely economic and political issues - because PiS has no record worth speaking of and their economic response to coronavirus has been the same as all their responses - finding ways to funnel money to cronies while leaving everyone else out to dry.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]

Well pickled veggies are very healthy (store canned... not so much though home-canned aren't bad).

Polish cooking has long been fry heavy (partly maybe because that crappy PRL ovens were unreliable and cooks rarely found them worth using... I wondered why there weren't more baked/roasted types of dishes in Poland until I tried using one of these things... not encouraging. Ovens have improved a lot, but it takes time to catch up.

A difference might be that young Polish women can generally cook if they want/need to. A whole lot of American women... can't cook (cooking was kind of collateral damage of feminism) can most young-middle aged Irish women cook?

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Exactly!

Karta rodzinna is a stupid distraction, just like this:

angora.com.pl/images/central/cover/.angorabig.jpg

translation: "I'll yell 'Uncouth rabble' and people will forget all about your scams and incompetence"

It worked then sort of, keep the dialogue about PiS incompetence and dishonesty! they have no record to defend or be proud of and don't let them squirm out of that

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


See that's a big cultural (practical) difference... I can't imagine Polish parents grabbing a frozen pizza as a regular thing (though things might be different for the youngest parents)... I had the impression that the ready made crap starting to clog up Polish stores is more for working singles...

In English speaking countries cooking tends to be perceived as menial work and cooking for the sake of cooking has more... importance in the Polish scheme of things.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


This isn't... real life. You do realize that, don't you?


you can't do anything to me... you do realize that, don't you?

Don't answer... you are too boring to interact with...

Study / School meals in Poland [145]

No one pays any attention to you in real life, do they? Why do you think that is?

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


Normal people understand that. It's only misanthropic freaks that need to shout it every 34 seconds....

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


Yes, a wise society invests in young people and does things like provide meals for children of poorer (or less functional) parents.

A foolish society declares it's the parents' responsibility to feed their kids and lets children from vulnerable backgrounds to their own devices (and then pays for that dearly later on with overflowing jails).

The way the US treats vulnerable people is almost unimaginably cruel - they're left on their own as they try to figure out the rules and if they make a mistake it's straight tot the most brutal prison system in the developed world....

The real fools are those who are proud of this cruelty...


Kids need lots of fat for their brains to develop properly. The brain, I repeat, is a _very_ expensive organ that needs lots of fuel.

Language / Does being surrounded by Slovak language help in learning Polish? [6]

Slovakia more than Prague.... (although Czech seems a bit more similar in some ways) and the biggest benefit will be learning the morphology and syntax of Slavic (except for Bulgarian/Macedonian) languages - the cases and case agreement systems and the very different (far simpler!) verb systems of Czech and Slovak will come in far more handy for understanding Poland than the words on their own.

A problem in both countries is the larger variety (and presence in public life) of regional dialects compared to Poland where most dialects have mostly disappeared in favor of more or less standard Polish.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

That's what I mean when I say that PiS and it's supporters act more like an opposition party than a ruling party. They're all about comparing themselves. That's understandable since they have no real achievements to point to (besides welfare handouts and cronyism).

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I saw the collectors when I was downtown on Saturday... and Wielkopolska is probably the least supportive of PiS in the whole country...

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Well that's the kiss o' death. If a crazed Serbian nationalist like Crow wants it then it can't possibly be good (or even remotely sane).

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How much did Duda win in 2015 and how much did Szydło?

Also what about the idea that PiS sees the writing on the wall and kind of wants him to lose (while not making it toooo obvious) so they can blame the president for all their own failures?

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But there's a lot of room for changing laws especially those that are far more based in religious particularism rather than any kind of ethical universalism. The moral status of fetuses is not a settled issue.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


You scare easy, kids need fat (the brain is an expensive organ that needs fat to operate properly people who cut too much fat from their diet tend to suffer from 'brain fog'). They're not fashion models and if they can be kept from rampant junkfood snacking fatty meals in school will do more good than harm.

The only two that I wouldn't eat of that list was the pasta with 'boloński' sauce that looked like dog vomit and the strawberry pierogi (and that's mostly because I've never gotten my head around sweet main courses, I really don't get it the same way I've never gotten the idea of fruit soup before a savory main course... what?????).


I remember when it was as much as your life was worth to find fresh vegetables for about half the year... you remember the song "addio pomidore" don't you? Europe in general has only recently (comparatively speaking) started sending fresh vegetables across the continent.

I also don't like mock meat - I love tofu done right but not when it's masquerading as chicken white meat... blech ) I used to make pretty good tofu burgers but I wasn't trying to make it seem like meat it was a carrier for the other ingredients.

Not long before coming to Poland there was a great falafel place close to where I lived and one of my favorite meals was freshly made hummus tahini with freshly made pita - heaven. My normie co-workers were freaked out and wouldn't even sample it which I didn't understand.

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The difference is you or I don't want to compel others to follow our dictates (if a woman wants to carry a rapist's fetus to term then she should) and he does want to force others to follow his position.


He'll just make excuses for them, or say it's not important...

But yeah, I went shopping yesterday (and bought a jeans jacket so I can look like an unemployed bum) but the shopping center looked... devastated more closed/empty storefronts than still running in the middle of the downtown area in a formerly high foot traffic zone.

The problem is that supporting smaller businesses doesn't give opportunities for kickbacks and patronage and so the PiS establishment is uninterested...

Love / Does Polish guy hide his divorce usually? [7]

Dump him. Nothing good will come from a relationship with someone that toxic.

People's relationships with their exes are a very good indication of their general personality - this guy is dishonest and vengeful. Get out while you still can.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


Only works if you boil the pasta with a crap ton of salt though you need something to cut the acidity of the tomatoes....

chicken breast is the most boring meat in the world so you need to spice that mother up somehow... and of course you'll enrage any Italians who witness the atrocity of pasta with a chunk of chicken plopped on top of it...


Wha'ts the difference between the regular and "Bio" sets? why are there vegetarian options every single day? I wonder what the proportions are (regular vs vegetarian vs bio) either they're wasting a lot of food or overcharging

And who's allergic to wheat? Or is this for the fashionably pseudo-celiac crowd?

Love / Does Polish guy hide his divorce usually? [7]

Massive red flag. Only awful, horrible and deceitful psychopaths say that. Dump his @ss!