News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

Which means Poland won't be the next Japan, but the next Greece.... and maybe it's time to start thinking of exit plans. I don't want to leave but when the PiS sh1t hits the fan.... it's gonna be brutal.

News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]


Not to mention bankrupting the healthcare system... PiS has had every opportunity to increase funding and what has it done? Promised more handouts to the easily fooled in exchange for votes....

And criminally underfunding education....

But the well educated (like teachers and healthcare professionals) aren't so easily manipulated so PiS has them in its dvpa (as the saying goes) while promising babcie and dziadki who long for the responsibility free days of the PRL more 'free' money...

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


I was taking about the Polish dish nóżki w galarecie (jellied (pig) legs) which is shredded and boiled meat from pigs feet served with vegetables in jelly the pig meat isn't pickled but people pour vinegar on it at the table, pickled pigs feet would remind a Polish person of nóżki...

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


Everywhere? I associate pickled pigs feet with the south and African Americans, that is anyone in the south might like them while in other parts of the country it will mostly be black people (similar dynamic with things like collard greens or pork rinds).

They're not a million miles away from nóżki w galarecie though nóżki aren't pickled though vinegar is poured on them at the table...

Here's an appetizing image indicated that they are sometimes dyed pink.... for some reason

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


After checking wiki..... they look like cocktail onions... Those are a dish in the UK?

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


How would you have the foggiest idea since you're in Norway (or some other godforsaken shthole?)

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


I'm pretty sure the onions are sliced up. But still, they're raw, pickled onions.
I only recently discovered that many (most?) Poles treat raw onions with suspicion, they can be used in small amounts in some salads but they seemed to be regarded with suspicion as being harmful to digestion (and the liver according to a friend).

I'm also surprised that Polish people don't pickle eggs. I used to enjoy the pink pickled eggs sold in convenience stores in the US... I thought I would hate it, but... not that bad.

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


Maybe they have and didn't care for them.... I've seen pickles as ingredients in mix vegetable pickles, but I don't think Polish people think of onions as a dish on their own...

I wonder why Poles don't pickle sausage like the Czechs do (utopenec IIRC)

Hungarians pickle all kinds of things (including little watermelons...) but they mostly use a single sweet vinegar flavor... one great thing I had there was pickled plums with garlic inside (where the seed had been).... weirdly delicious.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


an inevitable part of the 'reform' was that two diferent... roczniki... (no good english equivalent I can think of) are shoved into the same year, so overcrowding.... not that hard is it?

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


Let me guess, math has never been your strong point?

I don't understand my Mr "I hate Soviets" is defending an educational reform meant to turn back the school clock to PRL times...

But whatever.... believe what you want to believe off in far away Norway....

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


I do not believe you!

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


'do rzeczy' means "know what s/he wants", "self-assertive (in a good way)" etc I'm reminded of how an American woman once interviewed for a job where I worked... my boss approvingly called her "Baba do rzeczy" and employed her (unfortunately we couldn't compete price wise with her other jobs).

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]

PiS is up to their corrupt PRL tactics....

Since Marian "Burdel Tata" Banaś is going on vacation and trying to remove anyone who's from the wrong party from NIK, one vote failed and they just called in more party hacks from PiS so that they could vote again...

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


As long as 500+ keeps coming voters won't care.....

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


Prostytucja i Sutenerstwo!!!!!!

And as long as people get their 500+ they don't care and their votes are secure!

PiS prostituted an entire country!!!!!!!

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


the version I know is just "the cobbler's children go barefoot" though there are many variants... often people just say "the cobbler's children..." (or "the shoemaker's children..) and the rest is understood, like "the best laid plans..."

Now I'm trying to think of Polish proverbs that are similarly abbreviated... can't think of any

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


Walk in the middle of any large Polish city for half an hour and it's very obvious that they are not against immigration at all...

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


you're the expert on both! I defer to your expertise!

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]

Does PiS now stand for Prostytucja i Sutenerstwo?

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


And the head of NIK profiting from prostitution is of course, no big deal....

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]

Latest scandal to go unremarked upon by indifferent PiS supporters...

Head of Supreme Audit Office (NIK) is a PIMP!!!!!

money.pl/gospodarka/superwizjer-marian-banas-powiazany-z-gangiem-sutenerow-klopoty-nowego-szefa-nik-i-bylego-ministra-6426583870654081a.html

Extra irony..... he finished a post-diploma course in Religious studies!!!!!

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Me either... I think of trzymać as physical (not sure if that's always true I'm pretty sure it's not) I think I learned 'trzymać' in a context where somebody was holding something and the context in which L2 words are learned tends to influence how learners think of them more (native speakers usually can't remember learning everyday words like trzymać or hold or keep)

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


maybe better "to hold one's thumbs" (in German IIRC it's to 'press the thumbs' - in (American) English it's to cross one's fingers (for smn)

Genealogy / KUKULA ancestry [32]

My guess is that it's a Hungarian version of a Polish or Slovak name or maybe a Hungarian spelling of Romanian cucul "the cuckoo"

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


IINM it used to mean the opposite... interesting.

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]


I would say the church's behavior since the end of socialism harmed the church - religion as a compulsory subject in schools probably did the most harm as it turned the church into a repressive authoritarian institution (rather than a refuge from oppressive authoritarian institutions).

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


No adulterous ones!


What don't I understand about PiS and their neo-PRL management style?

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


I despise and laugh at anyone who believed that. A bunch of PRL-mentality apparatchiks won't be corrupt? HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


The way it was explained to me was that the dip in the top was for sauce (rather than have them swimming in sauce as in the pics). I don't remember them being rubbery, much less so than pyzy ziemniaczane though they should be a little elastic.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Well, using animal terms about adult people is usually insulting, so I'm going to say it's more like 'guzzle down' or 'lap up' (like a cat) and refers to someone drinking at the slightest provocation (not to mark a special occasion or relief after a long hard day).