Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [793]

@Rich,
"Have you a better one?" is British English!
We Yanks tend to use the modal auxilliary "Do + pronoun",
where as the Brits mostly forego this usage:

"Have you some change?" vs. "Do you have some change?"
etc.

Both are technically correct. Cf. German from Germany vs. Austrian or Swiss High German. etc.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

Trump's declaring war on the US-Constitution and can only be
stopped by a less craven Supreme Court!

Once again, Chief Justice Roberts SHAME ON YOU!!!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Please define "Americans" for us, Rich!
Am dying to hear your answer.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

A parasite is often a convenient label for someone or ones who
honestly need help and the deserved assistance that comes from providing
basic, human services for all citizens worthy of such assistance.

A few scammers out there, as with a few rotten apples, shouldn't be allowed
to destroy the entire crop, should it!

Off-Topic / Random game admin, calling someone a 'Na**' is totally fine on online? [9]

Being uncritically pro-Nazi = being anti-people...PERIOD!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Speech may be free, however the violence which it could incite, isn't and should
indeed be punished swiftly and surely!

For this very reason, the FRG to this day doesn't allow for jokes about the Nazi period,
either in public, in open forum or in print.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Protecting the rights of any retard who speaks whatever gibberish is on their mind is
ok by me. Merely so long as we acknowledge it for that it really is.......GARBAGE!

News / Trump and Nawrocki [23]

Who??!
Educated American native speakers, that's who!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Idiocy remains protected by the Constitution.

News / Trump and Nawrocki [23]

'Still a darned sight better than your NorwegianLOL

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Quit playing dumb, RIch!
We're tired of your trolling.
Only a delusional person could take you seriously.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [793]

I agree here with Feniks!

@Ironside, have you a better one?

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

"Have you researched the Muhlenberg Plan yet?"

No, have you?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

@Rich,
Anyone who honestly "admires" Hitler is either plain mentally ill or is
advertising for mere shock value, nothing else!

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

@AntV,
A brief English lesson, buddy!
A "huckster" is someone who deliberately deceives in order either
to derive personal profit from or damage the well-being, reputation as well as finances
of another person.

I've done neither, so go stuff it.

@Rich et al.

If serious, adult debate cannot take place in open forum between a president
and their constituents, it's time to re-assess that for which our nation stands and
it certainly is NOT democracy.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

@AntV,
You don't know the meaning of the word, sir, even if American English is your first and only language!

@Rich,

1) Preserving the environment
2) Acknowledging LGBTQ rights
3) Diversity studies at colleges and universities
4) Debate over gun control
5) Teaching US history accurately, even if not always flattering
Need I go on?

Our president might do well to remember the words of one famous American Revolutionary patriot
"I disagree with nearly everything you've said, but shall defend unto my death your right to say it."

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

A truthteller is usually avoided, AntV, just remember that!

@PolAmKrakow,

Wrongo, pal!! A jingoist is someone who espouses your "My country right or wrong" sentiment,
NOT an American, German, Brit, Pole or what have you.

Donald Trump, who deems his opponents "evil", is truly the evil one.
Above all, a sitting US-President is morally bound to listen to ALL opposing
points of view (if intelligently expressed), even if he disagrees.

Who died and made him G-d anyway? Perfect we humans ain't.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

Hate to disappoint ya, PolAmKrakow,
but I'm a Yank, not a Brit:-)

Danke, B.B.

@AntV,
no more a myth than German nearly becoming the national language of the State of Israel
back in '48 because of all the "Jekkis" or "German Jews" who settled there. Hebrew only won
by a hair's breadth.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

Meaning??
What the heck does your post have to do with mine?
Moreover, German almost became the official language
of the United States and lost only by one vote:-)

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

Bully for you, pal!
Guess what, one size doesn't necessarily fit everyone
and just look and see what happens out there across the broad
American country when dumbbells like you try to fit a square peg
into a round hole.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

Yeah, right!

Ahemm, some folks out there are simply not cut out to pack heat, face facts.
You've been weened on too many movies, pal.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

With only one or two flagrant exceptions, namely a Cologne high school roundabout 1967 and
a similar Erfurt prep school in the early '00's, Germany also is way too enlightened to entertain the cavalier
use of firearms as is the case here in the States.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

Arming teachers is a short term and impractical solution!
Educators may not be either versed in or necessarily competent in
the use of firearms per se. Expecting everybody in any field to be equally adept in
both their work, in the case of teachers pedagogy, as well as in Rambo-style
assault weaponry, is a clever pipe dream straight out of Hollywood, but has proven
tragically impractical in real life. We can't all be like the anti-gun mom in "Suddenly" (1952?)
who miraculously whips out a rod in the nick of time and kills the crook just as he's about
to shoot her young son.

No dice, PolAmKrakow, try again:-)

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

Your argument is typically idiotic!

The use of firearms in order to defend oneself against immediate and present danger,
such as being deliberately attacked, is clearly justified as clear and present self defense,
also known in certain contexts as justifiable homicide.

This obviously has nothing to do with every mass shooting on US soil from
the Texas Bell Tower shooter way back in '66 right on through Columbine,
Sandy Hook and what happened the other day.

Let's not confuse issues here, Rich.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

My response to yesterday's unspeakably horrific attack: "Guns must go, before more of them go off!"
Mayor Frye of Minneapolis is absolutely right when he said that it's enough already with the flowers
on moist grave sites and flowered words by latter-day gun advocates, trotting out the sympathy when it
suits them only to make themselves look like good and caring people.

This outmoded culture of bearing arms illegitimately must change in order for gun violence to cease.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

Not so, Rich!
That's merely one more example of skewed journalism twisting the facts.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

It most certainly does!

Usually during a Republican administration there's
going to be a sharp spike in violence.

When average Americans with access to assault weapons are systematically deprived of basic services
while the mega rich simultaneously thumb their noses at the problem...right in their faces,
tragically, it's to be expected that the disaffected in this country are going to lash out at the upper crust
with a vengeance.

For the umpteenth time, folks, humans are only "higher" animals; mess with us and we'll mess with you.worse.

Study / English or German speaking school in Poznan [4]

Right on, Ron2!

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1014]

Heard that before, Rich.
Sure blacks enslaved other blacks in Africa prior to being taken to the New World.
However, that's hardly the point now, is it.

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]

Right on, mate! Good catch:-)
Also known of several Sterns who are/weren't Jewish.