News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]


I live in a small place (a tiny village in a forest) that is not connected to natural gas grid (and probably never will) - we couldn't afford LPG heating installation -also when we went for central heating, coal was still the cheapest option in Poland

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]


it was very much a subsidy (maybe I haven't expressed it clearly enough) - the subsidy was a fixed amount of 3000PLN paid to every household that has declared it used coal for heating - it just happens so that the subsidy roughly covered our yearly need for coal (because I live in a not a very big appartment in a four appartment building (a 'familok' if you know what 'familok' is)

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]


we bought 1,5 tonne of coal from the government programme in January for about 2000 per tonne - 1,5 tonne is nearly as much as we need per year - thanks to the government 'coal benefit' we have free heating for the entire season - last year we spent more than 2000 PLN on heating

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]


I don't know if you read about it, mafketis, but some communists in the time of Russian revolution advocated 'community of wives'

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]


my grandma kept geraniums because she believed they can heal an earache, but I don't remember having ever used them

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]


man, so this is what's happening now in schools - I never heard of such things in my school days (the only instance where I have seen this was in a psychiatric ward)

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]

Yeah, sure: women just love to share toilets with men in schools, clubs etc

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]


what I think is that this insanity is premeditated: it is a clever ploy by the financial and other elites to divide the societies (and the world) in order to turn people's don't attention from growing disparity of income and wealth (including the shrinking of the middle class) in the developed nations (and the world at large)

it is exactly why Britain (the UK) is leading in this madness - Butler of the World by Oliver Bullough is an essential read on the subject (as per recommendation by Rafał Ziemkiewicz)

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]


what is the second wave of feminist goals? I'm genuinely curious ( I don't know anything of waves of feminism apart from universal suffrage)

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]


yeah, like I told you - you are ultraconservative

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]

to repel mosquitos?

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]


you are ultraconservative then :P

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]


you are wrong, Korvinus - I have examples from my own family, who can't be called rich by any standards yet they gobble the TVN propaganda and hate PiS - think of turkeys voting for Christmas

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]

@jon357

I have posted only three times in this thread and my first post was on March the 8th so just a couple days ago - so no: you haven't answered my question

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]


what do you call 'extreme conservative' views

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]


sure - if the conservative views are held by the majority of the population

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]


would you agree for men to have a say in abortion - I mean if abortion was on demand of the father?

Life / The climate for gardening in Poland [340]


there is still snow forecast up until the middle of March in Poland - we just had a couple of nice sunny days a few days back but... it's still not spring

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


in other words: "We were a peaceful nation, untill those bloody Ukrainians did not bend over backwards for us."

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]



biedronkas don't have them - I would gladly prepare them for food after trying some in the UK - you can however grow your own if you have some piece of a garden plot (my grandad used to grow turnips for rabbits and nutrias that he kept)

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


you read it all wrong

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]


no "pierdalać" does not exist - s/w/dopierdalać are constructed in a linguistically regular manner from the word "pierdolić" which originally meant simply 'to f.ck" - now "pierdolić" means also "to talk bullshit" and "to not give two ***** about something"

Life / Understanding Poland's Birthday Tradition [66]


Birthday spanking is (as far as I know) only aplied to people on their 18th birthday celebration - and not by their parents but by their peers - still I haven't witnessed or heard about the practice from people I know (I only read about it on the internet)

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]


potatoes are not frost resistant so people don't leave them in the ground for the winter (at least here in Poland) - we leave some leek to overwinter in the garden as leek tends not to fare well in our cellar - the thing is leek is pretty conspicuous in the garden even with some snow

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]


he was appointed in 2018 ago by no other than president Duda - this is how incompetent PiS cadres are :P

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


please stick to the facts - the girl was not not allowed an abortion but denied an abortion by gynecologists who refused to perform the procedure

News / Polish PM Tusk- dictator or not? What Poles think? [455]


Mr Tusk is well remember in Poland as Mrs Merkel's sycophant who compromised/endangered Polish national interests

Language / Test to determine proficiency of Polish? [7]


there are online placing tests for language schools in Poland (those that teach Polish as a foreing language) - just google 'test języka polskiego dla obcokrajowców online'

History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [275]


assuming you are German (judging from your user name) how would you call the entire German political class who based German economic policy on the dependence on Russian gas (and now German frantically get back to minining lignite to fill the void)

Life / Polish Nursery Rhymes [253]


this part goes like this:

Hop hop hop
Jedzie chłop
Na koniku hop hop hop
Aż dojedzie.. (can't remember what was next)

and I have no idea what Hotsaway represents

translation
Hop hop hop
A man rides
a horsey hop hop hop
Until he reaches... (that's as far as I got :P)