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jon357   
29 Jun 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]

And now Poland has had to scramble jets. The Orcs used 500 missiles to down one Ukrainian F35.

[Due to the attack by the Russian Federation carrying out strikes on objects located in the territory of Ukraine, Polish and allied aviation has begun operating in our airspace," said a statement.
mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-nato-scrambles-warplanes-russia-35470041
jon357   
29 Jun 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]

wake up to burning

Just when you thought the Orcs couldn't get any more squalid in the way they treat their young men:

Into the chaos of no man's land ride the Russian soldiers. Flying across the steppe at 50mph on cheap Chinese motorbikes, their objective is to breach Ukrainian defences and cause havoc behind enemy lines.

But few will ever make it. Most are picked off by drones or artillery fire. Some self-destruct by crashing in the mogul field of shell craters. The life expectancy of those who do survive the journey is little improved, stranded and surrounded by the enemy as they are.

"Basically it's a suicide mission," Yevhen, a lieutenant captain in Ukraine's 28th brigade, said flatly. "Because they never come back."

Nonetheless, these latter-day cavalry charges - on what the Russian army refers to as its "iron horses" - are a growing feature of Moscow's military strategy, in response to the ever greater pervasiveness of drones, which account for up to 70 per cent of all casualties.

thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/putins-suicide-bikers-speed-into-no-mans-land-to-cause-chaos-fxh2ch270

At least the dogs in no-man's land won't go hungry.
jon357   
29 Jun 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]

Lovely news

Saturday's pre-dawn strike on the Kirovske base, in occupied Crimea, targeted Russian aircraft, air defence systems and storage facilities for ammunition and drones, according to Ukraine's security service.

"Available data indicate the destruction of multi-purpose and attack helicopters Mi-8, Mi-26 and Mi-28, as well as the self-propelled anti-aircraft missile and gun complex Pantsir-S1," an official told the Associated Press.


telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/28/ukraine-destroys-russian-helicopter-airfield-drone-strikes/
jon357   
28 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [1002]

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jon357   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

it's nothing new or unheard of. Although people usually wouldn't bother to make just such roast potatoes as the main dish or something, I guess.

It's very rare though, and of course never a main dish. And not at least weekly.

zapiekanka ziemniaczana

That sounds interesting, like a gratin.

I'm sure some Polish foods would go down well among Brits too if done properly

Klopsiki in dill sauce goes down well, as do baked cheesecakes.
jon357   
28 Jun 2025
Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]

We're not sad, it's just natural "resting face" for Poles. And that's apparently typical not only for Eastern Europe, but also for Central Europe:

This is a fair comment however Poles are the exemplar of those.

Georg Mikes (who was last in Poland in 1939) wrote about the unhappy expressions on people's faces on trams in Warsaw, people looking as if they wanted to be anywhere else except that.

german....

....And Scandinavian

Miserable buggers too.
jon357   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [286]

Why are they all criminals?

All in this thread are either criminals, victims or possibly witnesses and grieving relatives.

UK, Germany, Sweden , France, Italy

All pleasant places to live,

EUSSR genocidal ethnocidal crimes and theft of the Polish people

Do tell.

In a more appropriate thread of course.
jon357   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

it's not some kind of "revelation" to Poles

It is quite a revelation. Unless the ones I've served them to many times over the decades are just being polite. That and hungry since there are never any left.

Yorkshire pudding too. Always goes down very well, especially if it's done properly.

Glamorgan sausages always go down very well in PL. I do them with Cheddar and a bit of Parmesan though rather than Caerphilly. A milder one lie, that would be closer to the Polish taste though.
jon357   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

Because they are better

Why better? Have you made the recipe from the person's website?

That must have been quick since your owner only googled it a few minutes ago.

They look burnt and have got stuff on.

And are just some American person's website recipe rather than something eaten by the million.
jon357   
28 Jun 2025
Food / Do you call it kiszka or kaszanka? [61]

Kaszanka

Fry it (or bake it in foil) with chunks of green apple. If you do it in the foil, put whole mushrooms in too.

That works nicely.
jon357   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

They're still not proper roast potatoes.

Just stuff from a recipe website from America run by a woman called " Hey! I'm Julia".

There are pictures of roast potatoes above.

That thing shown below from her website is just a website recipe. Nice enough to eat and has stuff on top, but still from a foreign website made by someone called Hey! I'm Julia who's probably never had roast potatoes.


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jon357   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

I've googled it and that's what I've found, among others

I've never heard of these "Ash-roasted potatoes, cooked in the ashes of a campfire or charcoal grill", but have been eating roast potatoes for too many decades, have made them hundreds of times, and probably into 4 figures, including last night and at least weekly in Poland.

Too much hassle to make the "ashes of a campfire or charcoal grill" on a wet Tuesday teatime. Much easier just to use the gas or leccy oven or the Yorkshire range back in the day. And easier still nowadays to do them in an air fryer.

Here are roast potatoes


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jon357   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]

Aren't you a little prejudiced?

No.

There is a shop in Warsaw that sells lamb, is not that people do not want to eat it.

Many if not most Poles (and certainly most Ukrainians) have never eaten it.

Come one pubs in Britan suck

Many of not most are very nice, not nasty-ass London £5+ a pint pubs, but proper ones.
jon357   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

except russian where it's cалат оливье (Olivier salad, named after the inventor

And Ukrainian. They have quite a nice version.

I really like some forms and can't stand others...

Use the kind in jars. Snip the fillets into pieces. If you use matjas, soak first for 2 days at least, changing water.

Chop a couple of green eating apples finely. Same with onion. Mix with the chopped herring, add mayonnaise (not cream) and press under a plate for at least 24 hours, draining any liquid off. Refresh with mayonnaise before serving. Stir in chopped dill.

rolmops on the other hand.... meh..

I could live on those.
jon357   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]

Btw howcome all the lamb kebabs in the UK haven't sent all the Poles packing yet, given that it's their favourite fast food but they're deathly afraid of that particular meat?

A couple of decades ago, a little after the 2004 influx, I was in a kebab shop in Preston, listening to a couple of young men with shaved heads (Probably called Przemek and Karol) trying to persuade a rather daft looking young woman (maybe an Aldona) to try a doner kebab. They were explaining that in fact it's really nice but she just seemed terrified at the thought.

After all, It might be "ostry" and contain lamb and actually taste of something.
jon357   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

think it's completely vile

A lot of it is.

I'm away at the moment, back in a couple of weeks or so. Come round ours and I'll do a śledzik that you'll like.

Generally, we don't have or want much Polish food in our home. Neither of us like it much, except some of the soups. If course some of the soups, plus things like pierogi, gołąbki, schabowy etc are generic Eastern European, findable from Szczecin to Vladivostok.
jon357   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

a 'salad' that's essentially peas and carrots floating in a lot of mayonnaise

Russian Salad.

They don't like that being the name in English.

Sledzik is disgusting

Mine isn't.

There doesn't seem much variety in what they serve at the festive season.
jon357   
28 Jun 2025
Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]

At the same time, provide parking spaces that do not cost a fortune

They don't.

policies aim to drive cars out of the city.

There are too many cars in the city and very good public transport. It is the role of the council to reduce congestion and the need to leave vehicles somewhere
jon357   
28 Jun 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]

With Ukraine, my hatred grows in direct proportion to the amount I think about it.

You'll hate it even more when it proves to be the end of r*SSia.

Why Harte them. They have done you no harm.

Also.... look at russia's allies... a veritable who's who of some of the worst governments on Earth......china.......north korea.... Iran.,,,.

Choosing between their vision of the worlds and that in Europe, Canada, Australia etc is not a hard one.