jon357
25 Aug 2023
Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [330]
An update.
They (UberEats) refunded the dosh straight away after receiving the photo.
An update.
They (UberEats) refunded the dosh straight away after receiving the photo.
jon357
25 Aug 2023
Life / Was Legionella in Poland a biological weapon attack? [22]
That's true, however the disruption is small and there are also outbreaks in Liverpool, Dorset and Las Vegas. It's the worst time of year for it, especially with the current heatwave.
If I was working for a malign state actor (i.e.r*SSia) I'd probably go with Salmonella or even better, clostridium.
And so no one will guess
That's true, however the disruption is small and there are also outbreaks in Liverpool, Dorset and Las Vegas. It's the worst time of year for it, especially with the current heatwave.
If I was working for a malign state actor (i.e.r*SSia) I'd probably go with Salmonella or even better, clostridium.
jon357
25 Aug 2023
Life / Was Legionella in Poland a biological weapon attack? [22]
Plus, it doesn't pass from person to person anyway.
Someone is more likely to get it in a temporary garden swimming pool, ice from an ice making machine (and how often are those cleaned?) or from poorly maintained air conditioning systems, and of course this is the time of year when a/c systems are operating.
Swimming in lakes or rivers can also be a cause, specially in warm weather.
I'm surprised there's not more legionella given the growing summer temperatures in Europe and for sure, if anyone wanted to use biological warfare, they'd use a different and more effective bacteria.
Plus, it doesn't pass from person to person anyway.
Someone is more likely to get it in a temporary garden swimming pool, ice from an ice making machine (and how often are those cleaned?) or from poorly maintained air conditioning systems, and of course this is the time of year when a/c systems are operating.
Swimming in lakes or rivers can also be a cause, specially in warm weather.
I'm surprised there's not more legionella given the growing summer temperatures in Europe and for sure, if anyone wanted to use biological warfare, they'd use a different and more effective bacteria.
jon357
25 Aug 2023
Life / Was Legionella in Poland a biological weapon attack? [22]
It seems unlikely.
Legionella outbreaks are very common, especially during the right weather for it.
It seems unlikely.
Legionella outbreaks are very common, especially during the right weather for it.
jon357
25 Aug 2023
Travel / Being Straight and Visiting Gdańsk [20]
As long as you don't flaunt it.
Damn... A lot of heterophobia in Polish night clubs?
As long as you don't flaunt it.
jon357
24 Aug 2023
Travel / Being Straight and Visiting Gdańsk [20]
You'll just make yourself miserable, and as 'pavloff' claims to have seen with his very own eyes, end up pleasuring yourself outside Cologne Cathedral in front of groups of school kids.
Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment and other misconduct are all over the newspapers and everywhere online.
Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on relationship coaches, seduction boot camps, and couples' therapy in a search for happiness. They could be spending that money on better clothes, holidays in Mykonos and Sitges and having their homes redone in more fashionable ways. Plus of course drugs and minicabs.
But don't worry. If you take your girlfriend with you and buy her a strap-on, your heterosexual phase will be behind you.
You'll be fine as long as you don't flaunt it.
and is it safe?
You'll just make yourself miserable, and as 'pavloff' claims to have seen with his very own eyes, end up pleasuring yourself outside Cologne Cathedral in front of groups of school kids.
Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment and other misconduct are all over the newspapers and everywhere online.
Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on relationship coaches, seduction boot camps, and couples' therapy in a search for happiness. They could be spending that money on better clothes, holidays in Mykonos and Sitges and having their homes redone in more fashionable ways. Plus of course drugs and minicabs.
But don't worry. If you take your girlfriend with you and buy her a strap-on, your heterosexual phase will be behind you.
You'll be fine as long as you don't flaunt it.
jon357
24 Aug 2023
Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [330]
I think so. There's something similar in Hochdeutsche.
chata and hut
I think so. There's something similar in Hochdeutsche.
jon357
24 Aug 2023
Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [330]
We just had a Telepizza for the first time in ages.
It was edible, except for several very long human hairs in one of the pizzas.
Don't their staff wear food prep caps?
We just had a Telepizza for the first time in ages.
It was edible, except for several very long human hairs in one of the pizzas.
Don't their staff wear food prep caps?
jon357
24 Aug 2023
Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]
@amiga500
Cultural and/or religious. That can change and isn't anything to do with 'race'.
@amiga500
Cultural and/or religious. That can change and isn't anything to do with 'race'.
jon357
24 Aug 2023
Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]
They aren't 'stooping, to any lengths (or even depths). They're trying to give context since the appearance of Sweden in those stats is far less to do with the number of rapes than it is about Sweden's very broad definition of that crime, or the likelihood of a woman reporting it there, the stigma involved in a report relative to, say, rural Poland and the high level of support provided to victims relative to almost anywhere else.
The fact that they have to stoop to these lengths
They aren't 'stooping, to any lengths (or even depths). They're trying to give context since the appearance of Sweden in those stats is far less to do with the number of rapes than it is about Sweden's very broad definition of that crime, or the likelihood of a woman reporting it there, the stigma involved in a report relative to, say, rural Poland and the high level of support provided to victims relative to almost anywhere else.
jon357
24 Aug 2023
Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]
Fortunately banned in civilised countries.
It apparently exists in Poland in a limited way and is quite comical. Almost designed to have the opposite effect.
conversion therapy
Fortunately banned in civilised countries.
It apparently exists in Poland in a limited way and is quite comical. Almost designed to have the opposite effect.
jon357
24 Aug 2023
Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]
Sort of. There are people who do overuse it however they're mostly down south and therefore beyond help or consideration. A lot depends on the particular speech pattern of the user. Lucy Letby is likely to be hearing it a lot for the foreseeable and I doubt the King has heard it more than a few times in his life. As I say, it's spoken so the tone of voice and context matter and it can be quite offensive. To describe, for example, a meal as that would only be said to offend.
No worries.
was a general expletive (like k**wa in Polish or f**k in the US) used
Sort of. There are people who do overuse it however they're mostly down south and therefore beyond help or consideration. A lot depends on the particular speech pattern of the user. Lucy Letby is likely to be hearing it a lot for the foreseeable and I doubt the King has heard it more than a few times in his life. As I say, it's spoken so the tone of voice and context matter and it can be quite offensive. To describe, for example, a meal as that would only be said to offend.
I understand that you thought that maybe I'll find it useful and I thank you for sharing that information.
No worries.
jon357
24 Aug 2023
Off-Topic / Udmurts - what lovely people! [10]
It needs breaking up.
One issue is that the orcs dump people in the republics. I suppose orcs will have to get used to being a minority when they're living in newly independent republics.
I wonder if such a Federation can be left
It needs breaking up.
One issue is that the orcs dump people in the republics. I suppose orcs will have to get used to being a minority when they're living in newly independent republics.
jon357
24 Aug 2023
Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]
I never liked those two.
Too suburban and southern.
hale-pace
I never liked those two.
Too suburban and southern.
jon357
24 Aug 2023
Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]
It certainly could, as a cruder alternative to knackered. "like a kick in the bollocks" is spot on.
Would result in an arrest in the U.K. unless she consented to him patting her growler.
If you choose the story option and it's consistent with the story. It wouldn't be a great idea for the transactional letter or the formal report.
Bolloxed can also mean "tired", right?
It certainly could, as a cruder alternative to knackered. "like a kick in the bollocks" is spot on.
pats his secretary 'on the fanny
Would result in an arrest in the U.K. unless she consented to him patting her growler.
Can one use a vulgarism like "bollocks" in an exam
If you choose the story option and it's consistent with the story. It wouldn't be a great idea for the transactional letter or the formal report.
jon357
24 Aug 2023
Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]
That's a lovely example.
Someone who'd say that might say "gave me a bollocking" which sounds more expressive and is more usual when referring to your self. The paragraph as a whole is very good and when I mark the written papers for C1 exams, I'd give you 5/5 for that.
"I'm going to bollock my assistant 'cos she's been nicking hobnobs off my desk" works.
I've heard the phrase "bollock-faced expats" for retired Brits who live in Spain and voted for brexit. If you want an example of that sort of face, Google WH Auden for pics of when he was older. (When he was younger he looked just like Dustin Lance Black which frankly doesn't bode well for him in the future)
My wife bollocked me severely yesterday because I came home totally bollocksed
That's a lovely example.
Someone who'd say that might say "gave me a bollocking" which sounds more expressive and is more usual when referring to your self. The paragraph as a whole is very good and when I mark the written papers for C1 exams, I'd give you 5/5 for that.
"I'm going to bollock my assistant 'cos she's been nicking hobnobs off my desk" works.
I've heard the phrase "bollock-faced expats" for retired Brits who live in Spain and voted for brexit. If you want an example of that sort of face, Google WH Auden for pics of when he was older. (When he was younger he looked just like Dustin Lance Black which frankly doesn't bode well for him in the future)
jon357
24 Aug 2023
Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]
It is. The rest of Britain too, however it doesn't always work and isn't generally written. In spoken English, the context is quite tricky, and as I say, a lot depends on the tone of voice.
As an adjective, bollocksed can also mean being very drunk and the verb "to bollock someone" or the verb phrase "to give someone a bollocking" can mean to severely admonish someone.
To drop a bollock is to make a mistake.
The dog's bollocks is of course something very very good.
It is in Scotland though
It is. The rest of Britain too, however it doesn't always work and isn't generally written. In spoken English, the context is quite tricky, and as I say, a lot depends on the tone of voice.
As an adjective, bollocksed can also mean being very drunk and the verb "to bollock someone" or the verb phrase "to give someone a bollocking" can mean to severely admonish someone.
To drop a bollock is to make a mistake.
The dog's bollocks is of course something very very good.
jon357
24 Aug 2023
Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]
It certainly can be but isn't well regarded and doesn't always work. It's not really written language (unless it's actually about goolies) since it all depends on the tone of voice.
And vice versa for me. I was surprised that across the Atlantic it means your arse not your chuff.
I don't think that was widely known in Britain until bum bags came in during the 80s and people found out that in America they're called fanny packs.
bvllsh
It certainly can be but isn't well regarded and doesn't always work. It's not really written language (unless it's actually about goolies) since it all depends on the tone of voice.
the british meaning of 'fanny' also came as a surprise
And vice versa for me. I was surprised that across the Atlantic it means your arse not your chuff.
I don't think that was widely known in Britain until bum bags came in during the 80s and people found out that in America they're called fanny packs.
jon357
24 Aug 2023
Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]
Relax. I mentioned something I'd come across (without recommending it), and since you'd not heard of it, it was something new to you. Whether it's of interest to you is another matter. It's still worth reading about though, even if it's an inapt treatment for that condition.
For the record, I feel the same about miracle cures and declined treatment using that method for a particular issue.
It is however potentially an example of the (very often quack) treatments that go around Poland like those oxygen chambers and a few others.. I was dismayed to learn that some Americans here were practising the quack treatment called chiropractic in Warsaw. A dangerous con that can often do more harm than good. Homeopathy and a few other very dodgy things too, sadly.
BTW, 'bollocks' isn't generally used that way in English, however it's a very strong word for anything other than a part of the male anatomy that's best used very sparingly indeed.
Yes, if some "method" claims to cure everything then it usually means it's bollocks
Relax. I mentioned something I'd come across (without recommending it), and since you'd not heard of it, it was something new to you. Whether it's of interest to you is another matter. It's still worth reading about though, even if it's an inapt treatment for that condition.
For the record, I feel the same about miracle cures and declined treatment using that method for a particular issue.
It is however potentially an example of the (very often quack) treatments that go around Poland like those oxygen chambers and a few others.. I was dismayed to learn that some Americans here were practising the quack treatment called chiropractic in Warsaw. A dangerous con that can often do more harm than good. Homeopathy and a few other very dodgy things too, sadly.
BTW, 'bollocks' isn't generally used that way in English, however it's a very strong word for anything other than a part of the male anatomy that's best used very sparingly indeed.
jon357
23 Aug 2023
Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]
His claims are pretty impressive, aren't they. It seems to cure almost everything.
I only know him to say hello to. He seems OK however I've no idea about how (or if) his method works. A family friend in the U.K. has the same illness and although she can certainly afford any fancy private treatment going, she still as far as I know has the illness.
Nevertheless, it seem to happen in a lot of different cities in Poland and somebody (a doctor) suggested it for something else.
If his method worked on all the stuff he claims it works
His claims are pretty impressive, aren't they. It seems to cure almost everything.
charlatan
I only know him to say hello to. He seems OK however I've no idea about how (or if) his method works. A family friend in the U.K. has the same illness and although she can certainly afford any fancy private treatment going, she still as far as I know has the illness.
Nevertheless, it seem to happen in a lot of different cities in Poland and somebody (a doctor) suggested it for something else.
jon357
23 Aug 2023
Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]
It just occurred to me why that was familiar. Someone I know slightly is involved with treating that illness and has some sort of special method (that I don't know any details about). He's called Viktor Żenni and is in Poland. Have you come across him?
Edit.
I just had a look on Google and he has a website:
zenniviktor.pl
Hashimoto disease
It just occurred to me why that was familiar. Someone I know slightly is involved with treating that illness and has some sort of special method (that I don't know any details about). He's called Viktor Żenni and is in Poland. Have you come across him?
Edit.
I just had a look on Google and he has a website:
zenniviktor.pl
jon357
23 Aug 2023
Off-Topic / Dangers, opportunities and hidden purpose of sending Prigoshin to Belarus. [25]
And was apparently decapitated.
Couldn't happen to a twattier guy.
he crashed the plane.
And was apparently decapitated.
Couldn't happen to a twattier guy.
jon357
23 Aug 2023
Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]
Nothing at all, and as you say, normal. If anyth8ng, it's a sign that a language is a living one.
There's nothing "wrong" in having loanwords in a language
Nothing at all, and as you say, normal. If anyth8ng, it's a sign that a language is a living one.
jon357
23 Aug 2023
Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]
The Daily Mail? Oh dear....
Infinitely preferably to r*SSian hate books.
The Daily Mail? Oh dear....
such books will one day appear in Ukrainian schools as well!
Infinitely preferably to r*SSian hate books.
jon357
23 Aug 2023
Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]
Normal enough. I've been approached in Warsaw plenty of times over the decades.
woman asked men on the street if they would sleep with her
Normal enough. I've been approached in Warsaw plenty of times over the decades.
jon357
23 Aug 2023
Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]
That's one reason the U.K. government has intervened in this matter.
Remember, it's relatively new, growing fast and as I've said ad nauseam it's a time of change in which medical regulatory authorities and the NHS are sometimes slower to react than one would wish.
What next, the Daily Stormer?
confused young people
That's one reason the U.K. government has intervened in this matter.
Remember, it's relatively new, growing fast and as I've said ad nauseam it's a time of change in which medical regulatory authorities and the NHS are sometimes slower to react than one would wish.
Sargon_of_Akkad
What next, the Daily Stormer?
jon357
23 Aug 2023
Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]
Wouldn't not posting gruesome pics of surgical procedures that don't affect you be an even better option.
I'd guess that breast enlargement surgery is gory enough if you watch the op. Nevertheless, nobody forces you to have that or gender reassignment either.
Hard to know why you bothered posting that, since it won't deter even one person from having that or help the lady in Wrocław.
Wouldn't counselling be a better, cheaper option
Wouldn't not posting gruesome pics of surgical procedures that don't affect you be an even better option.
I'd guess that breast enlargement surgery is gory enough if you watch the op. Nevertheless, nobody forces you to have that or gender reassignment either.
Hard to know why you bothered posting that, since it won't deter even one person from having that or help the lady in Wrocław.
jon357
23 Aug 2023
Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]
Aren't most surgery pictures things that you'd not ogle.
Yet someone on 'twitter' who needs some fresh air put them online.
How do you think those pics help the lady who was asking about safety in Wroclaw?
very trauma inducing pictures
Aren't most surgery pictures things that you'd not ogle.
Yet someone on 'twitter' who needs some fresh air put them online.
How do you think those pics help the lady who was asking about safety in Wroclaw?
jon357
22 Aug 2023
Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]
That's just crap about celebrities that you've found on the internet, and a great deal of it inaccurate.
You'd not have seen such a list fifty years ago and in fifty years time, such a list will be much longer.
Here are some
That's just crap about celebrities that you've found on the internet, and a great deal of it inaccurate.
You'd not have seen such a list fifty years ago and in fifty years time, such a list will be much longer.
jon357
22 Aug 2023
Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]
That doesn't make much sense, does it...
You should probably look for a less silly meme. Humanity is much more complicated than that.
That doesn't make much sense, does it...
You should probably look for a less silly meme. Humanity is much more complicated than that.