News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


No he won't you russian pawn....


No he won't.

The real results: It's worth remembering that President of Poland is not a policy-making position. The likely result is just more obstructionism making it difficult for parliament to actually get anything done.

The big question is.... will PiS be able to control him? Duda was a weak, accommodating sort and always gave in to Kaczyński in the end (did I say that?).
I think he's going to go into business for himself.... look for corruption scandals to start erupting in a few months....

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


I doubt if it's every been used literally....

that said, it does not mean...


It means to use everything at one's disposal (and then some) to achieve a particular goal.

You are wrong. We're all wrong sometimes.

Only narcissists are never wrong (in their own demented minds).

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


He has it in his dvpa....

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


kvrvvy dla wszystkich!

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Nope.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

First exit polls released....

Trzaskowski has a razo thin lead 50.3 to 49.7

I hope it holds.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


It means to go above and beyond, do everything possible to achieve a particular goal.

Life / Polish Music. [303]


I've been wondering why it hasn't been used recently.... told old for PO constituency?

Life / Top 5 things I like about Poland [77]

schabowy can have bone... I think the boneless cutlets are more modern...

I'm not sure how many Americans know 'schnitzel' (they've for sure heard it but many are probably not sure if it's a kind of chop or sausage or roast....).

Breaded pork cutlet

Life / Top 5 things I like about Poland [77]


If I try to explain it to an American I'd probably say 'breaded pork chop'...

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


The gate was open because things had been relatively peaceful for a while.... I guess Palestinians are like cobras... don't take your eyes off them for a second.

And again... why is it that on that one day (part of it at any rate) they were able to carry out coordinated multi-directional attacks in a matter they've never been able to before?

That seems kind of.... weird....

History / Where did Poles spend summer vacations in the PRL era? [63]


In store limits are normal, government issued ration cards are not...

History / Where did Poles spend summer vacations in the PRL era? [63]


Not because of shortages... that's a socialist specialty.

History / Where did Poles spend summer vacations in the PRL era? [63]


IINM he was a hard core Stalinist (for sure Enver Hoxha was, I remember reading articles in Albania today (from uni library).

History / Where did Poles spend summer vacations in the PRL era? [63]


Part and parcel of socialism.... it's not workable at a societal level. Which elements can be integrated at a national level?

History / Where did Poles spend summer vacations in the PRL era? [63]


That explains the ration cards....

Po polsku / Niemcy maja nowego kanzlerza! [25]


Prawda, forma istnieje ale rzadko się używa i za zwyczaj odnosi się do różnych rodzajów broni.

Po polsku / Niemcy maja nowego kanzlerza! [25]


jedna broń = eine Waffe

trzy bronie = drei Waffen

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


The actions of the terrorists stink of russian training.... Palestinians have never been able to mount coordinated multi-directional actions before (or since). they couldn't even maintain coordinated action (or the attacks would have been a lot worse).

The guy who called his parents (obviously drugged out of his skull) screeching "I'm killing Jews!" show what a lot of this is about.

How many Gazans would go back to the Oct 6 status quo if they could?

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Depends on country too. The original British skinheads were a working class thing and had some weird manifestations (one branch was big into knitted sweaters). The racist branches were more against Pakistanis than blacks (and there were black skinheads too).

In the US they often flirted with nazi style imagery but were mostly a-political (even some who used nazi symbolism did so for shock value and not political commitment). I knew a few back in the day and they were typical US punks - middle class kids, often smart, but alienated from their environment (esp parental materialism and/or hypocrisy).

Nastier strains existed too but I never had any contact with them and IIRC were mostly around big cities on the coasts.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


Evangelicals in NYC? That.... doesn't seem likely.

Evangelicals (for the blissfully ignorant) are made up of a number of different protestant denominations primarily in the south. They tend to be low church (that is buildings and institutions aren't important - what's important are individuals and their 'personal relationships' with Christ.

They also read the bible... a lot. and are obsesses with the idea that we are living in the End Times described in the New Testament. While such beliefs are older, the founding of Israel convinced them of this even more.

They are fanatically pro-Israel as this is crucial to the second coming (as they understand it).

Some think Jews are more or less exempt from the otherwise universal need to become Christians while others think that Jews have to be saved like everyone else.

They have lots of other weird ideas (collectively many of the strangest are not shared by all groups) and on the whole are not poor. Not as well off as Mormons but hardly poverty cases.

One of the oddest manifestations of Evangelical .... devotion is the idea of the Red heiffer. I guy has been breeding them for years to create a heiffer that can be sacrificed in Israel.

youtube.com/watch?v=Z_LZHwJfgeI

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


It would be nice.... I'm fairly sure there's one already....

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


What international laws are being broken by Ukraine?

What international laws are being broken by Hamas?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


back to square one....


The situations are not similar....

What do you think would happen to Israelis if Palestinians had anything like parity in terms of ability to project force?

On the other hand, Ukrainian treatment of russians is very different from russian treatment of Ukrainians.

Ukrainian returning pows look like they've been in a torture concentration camp while russian pows look healthy. Ukraine tries to avoid civilian deaths while russia is now specifically targetting civilians, etc etc etc.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


Not my solution.... it's not what I support, it's a likely outcome.

I would prefer for Palestinians to try to get a reasonable peace with Israel (very available) but what they want is an overwhelming victory over Israel.


Stop projecting.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


No one does....

And again... where would Israelis go in the unlikely event of Palestinian victory?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


That's our brand!


Jordan? There's no real dialect line (one way of telling Arabs apart) between Palestinian and West Jordanian... and then there are how many other Arab states?

Many Palestinians would love to shake the dust from their feet and move but keeping them in Israel is more politically advantageous...

Where would Israelis go in the (extremely unlikely) case of the Palestinians being able to drive them out of the country?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


On the whole Jews have been more willing to share than the "locals" were... which is not even taking into consideration that many/most Palestinians aren't from the area of modern Israel but were drawn there for economic reasons.

A similar situation in some ways to South Africa...


I have said (and believe) no such thing. What I have said is that conflicts of this kind usually end with the expulsion of one of the groups (any Germans in the Sudetenland now?) That's descriptive, not presciptive.

Neither side wants a two state solution and neither side wants a single secular state.

What does that leave?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


Would they wipe out all the Israelis if they could?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


How'd that work out with Gaza?


I've understood that perfectly for years. Both sides want all the land and neither wants to share (some Israelis are less against that than others).


They had a chance to do that before and failed and made sure they would never have the chance again... Arabs are bad at creating/maintaing countries.