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Polonius3   
7 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

diplomats?

Indeed, the hero of the Sowa & Pryzjaciele tape scandal whose inappropriate attacks on Kaczyński and PiS were highly undiplomatic. "We'll slaughter that pack" (ie PiS) or talk of "Poland giving America a bl*wjob" are but two well-known Sikorskisms. Why does Tusk regard himself as a sacred cow, out of bounds and untouchable? It's downright laughable that such a one would have his turncoat lawyer Giertych turn the matter over to the prosecutor's office. Easily insultable, thin-skinned sissies have no business in the rough and tumble world of politics!
Polonius3   
7 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

@jon357

was disgracing her office

Yes, as are those politicians tarmac pounders, editors, etc. who keep showing Kaczyński with a Hitler moustache, in a jihad turban, behind bars, against the backdrop of a swastika and hammer & sickle to mention but a few glaring examples. Either poltical satire is done away with regardless of whom it targets, or it no holds barred. The losers' camp want an open season on satirising Kaczyński but not on their shifty-eyed poor man's Führer. Heil Donald!
Polonius3   
7 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

people who post very sick 'memes' about their country

In that department PO/KOD are second to none! Remember PO's only programme as formulated by landslide election loser Schetyna: PiS-bashing via ulica i zagranica. That's that only promise that band of shyster politicans have ever kept!
Polonius3   
7 May 2017
Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [115]

Flaki isn't a soup

Nowadays Polish flaki (in the US Polonia known by the diminutive form flaczki) is most often a thickish soup or pottage. But it can also be a potrawka, a kind of ragoût, often served with marrow dumplings. The catering and food industries mainly promote, but the ragoût style can still be encountered sporadically in Polish homes.
Polonius3   
6 May 2017
Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [115]

chlodnik litewski

Only once did I serve chłodnik to third-genratrion PolAms not familiar with it, and it didn't go over. They all tasted it to be polite, but left much of it in their bowls.
Polonius3   
6 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

full of university kids

Teenagers, university kids and young adults can easily be "motivated" to march, wave flags, carry whatever placards they're handed, etc. Nothing new there! And the "total opposition" has had loads of experience in that area. The only question is: who is footing the bill? Ahead of hteevent, Mayor Gronkiewicz had plastered Warsaw public-transport buses with large street-circus posters. Again -- who paid for it?
Polonius3   
6 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

money to distribute

Anyone know how many coaches Schetyna managed to organise for Saturday's street circus? And who footed the bill? PO coffers or local council or other taxpayer sources?

Whatever the case, it was another flop. Schetyna had predicted 100,000 and not to prove himself a loser again, multiplied the official police figure of 12,000 by nearly nine. Any hyPOcrite needing a morale boost should watch TVN. Today's e-techniques are great for mutliplying crowd size. jon's "broad cross section of society" comprised chiefly PO and a few PSL operatives, KOD wannabes, ex-SB types, ORMO widows, ZOMO wives, PZPR OAPs and others with PZPR or PRL connections. Those born after 1985 were few and far between. When's the next street circus scheduled for? Schetyna will probably predict 250,000 tarmac-stompers.
Polonius3   
6 May 2017
Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [115]

zsiadłe mleko

Zsiadłe mleko is literally clabbered milk, not sour, soured or sppoilt milk. It clabbers as it ripens. It's like with how yoghurt got cleverly foisted off on the American public. Liek the plague the marekters and promtoers avoided such terms as fermented or soured-milk product. Most Yanks go through life believing it's a kind of pudding or custard.
Polonius3   
6 May 2017
Life / Poland's Prison System Compared to America's [36]

the USA to other first world countries

Racial minorities, specifically N-words, who account for no more than 13% of the US populaiton, constitute 38% of the country's prison inmates. That tells us something. Of course lefty libtards will claim that only proves the US justice system discrimnates against them. But no matter how one slices it, the fact remains that ******* do disproprotionately to their actual numerical strength commit the most crimes. Comparing multi-culti countries to those with a more homogeneous population might be eye-opening. The problem is that there will be fewer of the latter if the Merkelite Third-World welcomers get their way.
Polonius3   
5 May 2017
Life / Poland's Prison System Compared to America's [36]

Rehabilitation is a farce. Only a fraction follow the straight nad narrow after their release. Most make new contacts in prison, cook up plans and think up new ways to commit "the perfect crime". Only a libtard could speak of revenge and advocate molly-coddling ruthless, hardened criminals.* Penal as in penal system refers to punishment, and a prison is not a health resort. A less-frills, more hard work regimen might serve as a deterrent and decrease the recidivism rate.

*LATEST NEWS: This just in! A prison van has collided wiht a cement truck and a dozen detainees have escaped. Be on hte look-out for 12 hardened criminals!
Polonius3   
5 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

I sincerely doubt that anyone

Don't look for logic in the losers' camp - round the clock they nitpick and scrape the bottom of the barrel in search of anything they can smear the good-change government with. But what else can they do? Only fume, rant, chant and pound the tarmac in impotent fury and sterile frustration. If they channeleld some of that wasted time and energy into developing some programme, who knows?!

Meanwhile, chill the Hoop Cola, make some popcorn and get ready to sit back and enjoy Saturday's Platformer street circus!
Polonius3   
5 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Suggested slogans

PLATFORMER'S LAMENT

Why do Platformers deride and scoff?
"We want to get back to the trough!
Privatisation our pockets lined,
We lived it up, we wined and dined.
That's why we now march, shout and chant
Hoping Tusk will hear our rant,
And by plane or train return,
So again the nation we can spurn.
Schetyna is a poor man's choice,
We need a leader with clout and voice
To teach us, counsel and advise
And lead to scamsters' paradise!"
Polonius3   
5 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

closing down ambulance stations

CAn't comment as it's the first i've heard. May one know you know this? Got wtyczki (spies) all over the country to keep you filled in?
Polonius3   
5 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

hyPOcritical

Getting ready for Saturday's tarmac-pounding extravaganza? Schetyna has ordered hyPOcrite mayors around the country to send busloads of marchers to Warsaw and pledges to bankroll the operation. They are hoping 100,000 take part. For many provincials and hayseeds a free excursion to the capital and visits to the big, well-stocked shopping malls is always a big treat. PF-ers planning to help swell the crowd should prepare the appropriate placards, e.g. Kaczyński with a Hitler moustache, as a towel-headed jihadist, in prison garb, behind bars, the sky's the limit! Suggested slogans: "PiS are ruining the country. PO will do a better job!" or "Hands off SB pensions!"
Polonius3   
5 May 2017
Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [115]

slimy stuff in a jar

Most likely those were maślaki (slippery jacks), which indeed are kind of slimy. Other pickled mushrooms in vinegary marinades (pieczarki, kurki, borowiki, etc-) are not slimy.

I forgot brined cucumbers (ogórki kwaszone). Foreigners used to cucumbers pickled in vinegary marinades (ogórki konserwowe, korniszony) find the brine-cured variety to have an unusual, musty off-taste.

Recently a stateside cousin of mine visited us. He's in his 50s with a very Polish surname but was raised in American suburbia and displayed what could be called a "milk-shake mouth" and "peanut-butter palate". He raved about most of the food we served but didn't much fancy marinated herring, sour cream on his jam-filled naleśniki, sękacz or twarożek ze szczypiorkiem for breakfast. He loved the strong 7-8% beer but thought the coffee was too strong.
Polonius3   
4 May 2017
Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [115]

I have in mind not so mcuh expats who may have Polish spouses or have spent some years in Poland and acquired a taste for previously unfmaulair foods, but first-time visitors to Poland. Over the years I have shown numerous visitors, mainly Polish Americans, around Warsaw and communicated with many via correspondence. The 3rd, 4th and futher generations of Polish Americans are usually fond of the stereotypical old standbys: kapusta, kiełbasa, gołąbki, pierogi, krupnik, naleśniki, pączki and a few other favourites, but often draw the line at such things as tripe (flaki), black pudding (kaszanka), jellied pig trotters (zimne nogI) and aspic dishes in general. To the uninitiated zsiadłe mleko (clabbered sour milk) is milk that has gone off, althouhg in Poland the cultured variety is now commercially avaialble alongside the kefir and yoghurt. I was surprsied to learn that żurek is amongst the favourite soups of fireign visitors. One would think it has a very non-Anglo-Saxon flavour that takes some getting used to. Perhaps it's the novelty of it being served by some restaurants in a hollowed-out loaf of rye bread that's the main attraction?! Have you had any similar experiences?
Polonius3   
3 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

concerns the very rural areas of Bieszczad

Some unsuspecting soul who happens to tune into PF might think you have some inside line into what's going on all over the country. But you don't. You're a foreigner with a limtied command of the lingo, lacking a deeper feel for the country and trying to get a glimpse from the outside, while wearing your regulation horse-blinkers, of course, and then potificating on the basis of random media scraps and snatches. Poltiics is an extremely complex, multi-layered and multi-faceted field with undercurrents that cannot even be guessed at. Quite often what is going on is the exact opposite of what it appears to be on the surface. Playing the pundit with the tiny crumbs of information and misinformation that come your way is downright laughable. ROFL!
Polonius3   
3 May 2017
News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]

non-Polish parent

A Soviet ciitzen and NKVD member in the late 1930s and an AK crusher in the PRL Soviet-installed puppet state. Obviously it rubbed off on Włod who did not join some normal party but stayed close to the block. Again more proof of the kind of people that ruled the roost as a result of failed lustration.
Polonius3   
3 May 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

What about the small man

That's a good one. When did the 20% psost-commie clique ever think about the little guy? It was always "what's good for the clique", our side, our oldboys, our servile stooges, our useful idiots... Your crocodile tears are clearly hyPOcritical! But never fear, lower-case will soon spring ot your defence. Hey, if you induct Mayfixit, you can recreate some semblance of the Brit Bully tag team.
Polonius3   
3 May 2017
News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]

the idea will be dropped

If that occurs, it will be yet anotehr feather in PiS' cap, attesting to the government's sensitiviy to the nation's voice. Scrubbing a project that lacks sufficient public is no disgrace. On the contrary, it's a sign of poltical prudence and maturity.
Polonius3   
3 May 2017
News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]

pre-PO/post-KOR coalition

Sorry folks, that was 20 years ago and I was recreating things from memory. I thought the AWS-UW coalition was then in power, but Wiaodmości said tonight that when the post-communist 1997 constittuion was adopted ex-PZPR operative Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz was PM. Incidentally, his father was a Belorusian in the Red Army and NKVD and after the war was personally involved in liqiuidating former AK members.
Polonius3   
3 May 2017
News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]

President Duda

President Duda has called for a constitutional referendum next year, marking the 100th anniversary of Poland's regained independence in 1918
"Poles have a right to say whether the constitution, which has been in force for 20 years, should be changed," Duda said during events marking the 3 May Constitution Day celebrations in Warsaw.

The current constituion was forced through when former high-level communist leader leader Aleksander Kwaśniewski was president and the government was under a pre-PO/post-KOR coalition. The 1997 constitution's imprecise formulations have resutled in many needless squbbles and excessive national polarisaiton.

"It's time for a serious constitutional debate, not just with politicians but with the whole of the nation," Duda said.