Off-Topic / Best posters [886]


That word isn't generally used nicely in English. Nowadays it's probably mostly ironic by the public at large or nastily by religious fundamentalists. Heath and the German word heide are related.


That's more a religion nowadays.


More people outside villages who are a bit wild.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]


Heathens live on a heath, wild, open common land away from a church and outside a settled community. No religion, no values. A perjorattive word nowadays.

Good languages are of course never precise or orderly and it should be said that people (usually anti-Pagan) sometimes use them interchangeably.


That's half the internet.

Genealogy / Can Polish people discover they have Jewish heritage themselves? [24]


Where? There's no reliable source.


Podlasie?

It's a nice region, a very rich history and a melting pot of different cultures.


A friend recently did that.

He had to take a DNA test and join a religion.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


I googled her name and nobody even remotely connected to politics comes up. In fact almost nothing comes up.

So it's hard to know what would motivate someone to post in the thread ordering people not to vote for her.

Genealogy / Can Polish people discover they have Jewish heritage themselves? [24]


From what period?


Hardly a 'fact' and that text certainly doesn't mention P9land.


A very beautiful place. Do you know it?

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


Which party is she involved with?

History / Not proud of my Polish heritage [110]


Neither of those two ethnicities existed in its present form then.


Yes, he probably would have appreciated it providing it brought stability.

Genealogy / Can Polish people discover they have Jewish heritage themselves? [24]


It's been theorised and none of the current theories point to gardens or talking snakes.

Nor was mitochondrial Eve either the first human or the only human of her time.

Genealogy / Can Polish people discover they have Jewish heritage themselves? [24]


We can't know that any of those existed, especially Adam and Eve who are simply a creation myth.

History / Not proud of my Polish heritage [110]


He lived long before the modern concept of the nation state and before today's continental European nationalities formed.

Genealogy / Can Polish people discover they have Jewish heritage themselves? [24]


DNA privacy?

It's not America and you can find out a lot about your roots.

Life / The Polish Wedding - What is it Like in Poland? [338]


I'm not sure Christine Lagarde would agree with you.

Or a friend of mine here who runs an investment club and has written books on investing.

Life / Why is women-hatred and stereotyping so popular in Poland? [181]


All of them?

News / Poland highest inflation in 20 years [319]


Fortunately inflation there is lower than most places and the county is economically resilient.

Genealogy / Can Polish people discover they have Jewish heritage themselves? [24]


DNA tests don't seem very popular in PL.

That's a shame, because you can discover interesting things as well as finding distant relatives.

Life / The Polish Wedding - What is it Like in Poland? [338]


Perhaps they'll switch to contactless or PayPal.

News / There is no Poland without the Church! [178]

One would hope so. Not good optics when wearing a soutane.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [124]


In Poland?


Are they off topic too?

I might screenshot that and send it to your appalled daughters.

Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [156]


That's only for parties.

I don't ever speak English here, not from one month to the next. That's why I'm on here so much probably.

Though I've been asked twice recently in the U.K. by Poles if I'm Polish. Once when I was speaking English and another time when I was overheard on the phone and she said in Polish "ooh, you must have been here for a long time because you're staring to get an English accent".


It's not exactly Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz.

Life / Why is women-hatred and stereotyping so popular in Poland? [181]


Easy to shift.


Very strong Pennyroyal Tea. Does the trick every time. Unless they've banned that too.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [124]


It needs balance.

And so does she.

Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [156]


In Poland? Obviously Japanese with a Yokohama accent.

Seriously, of its something straightforward, I can often pass. Friends joke about having an eastern Polish accent or used to back in the day.

Not rare for auditory learners. I know Poles in the U.K. who can pass providing they're saying something straightforward and short.


If so, they'd pretend they'd they weren't but would secretly like a chance to get back what they lost after 89.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [124]

I'll look for that one. A bit like that German guy.


Sounds very one sided...

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [124]


Indeed. As long as they keep their vices to themselves, it's fine.

I may continue this thread, which one is best to go next, Rita Gorgonowa or the Mazur Cannibal Family?

News / There is no Poland without the Church! [178]


I once saw a gaggle of seminarians in Poznan, eating Mars Bars in the street on Good Friday.

Mind you, Paetz was still there then so maybe they needed to take the taste of his emissions away.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [124]


Nor should anyone.

I'd just have given her some mushroom soup.

Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [156]


You assume he knew or cared.


Żoliborz nomenklatura. He probably has a Swedish passport, a bicycle and eats vegan bigos.

I got the impression that he's one of those who thinks high air pressure or sitting with his back to the driver on a tram make you ill, that weak tea is a stimulant and that ice cream is bad for the throat.

And probably has one of these.
mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1875847-Do-you-dunk-your-penis

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]


Have you any actual proof that he favours this in Poland?

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


If either r*SSia or Poland were like the U.K. or U.S. there may be a possibility. As it stands? No.


Perhaps he's trying to present himself as less extreme with an eye to future political office.

Life / Why is women-hatred and stereotyping so popular in Poland? [181]


The more I think about it, the more I like it. A phrasal verb with more dynamic meaning than the statice verb hate.