Food / Kefir drink in Poland [79]


Okay, maybe you can answer a question. The buttermilk I remember from the US was very thick and fatty (and maybe slightly yellow tinted) I never much liked drinking it but I cooked with it all the time. The buttermilk (maślanka) in Poland is very watery and crappy to cook with (in similar recipes that I'd use in the states).

What is buttermilk in the states (I'm from below the mason dixon line) and Poland?

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]


And accusative? I don't think either is treated as being animate....

Life / Comparing Poland and Romania [108]


to do..... what precisely?

Life / Comparing Poland and Romania [108]


that's what crow does, he goes contrary to everything history and anthropology has revealed.


But modern Romanian has a kind of Balkan structure (avoidance of infinitives, future tense derived from the verb 'want', post-posed articles, co-flation of dative and genetive...

Is Thracian supposed to be where Balkan structure comes from?

Life / Comparing Poland and Romania [108]


the mind boggles..... what would infantile nationalist fantasies look like for you?

Life / Comparing Poland and Romania [108]


Yes, how dare the fools protest againt rampant governmental corruption. Real slavs simply accept their leaders stealing them blind (see Russians under Putin, Ukrainians pre-Maidan, Serbians... always).

News / Tusk turning his back to idea about Intermarium (New Commonwealth), seeing only EU as future for Poland [124]


He's playing to the people that voted for him. they want him to wreck things.... and that's what he's doing.
Check Chris Arnade's twitter feed for explanations.

Life / When will SMOKING BE BANNED? (from public areas in Poland) [44]


Start reading this blog: velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com

It will make you re-think everything you thought you knew about tobacco (and alcohol) addiction and harm reduction and government policies.

Life / When will SMOKING BE BANNED? (from public areas in Poland) [44]


That's the dirty little secret that governments don't want to publicize, they _want_ people to smoke because it's a big source of revenue and smokers cost them less. This is why governments pour money into programs that don't work and attack harm reduction programs (like electronic cigarettes).

Life / When will SMOKING BE BANNED? (from public areas in Poland) [44]


The figures (which I've come across before) are that taxes on tobacco generate far more than it costs to treat tobacco related illnesses.

This is one reason so many government authorities reacted so negatively to electronic cigarettes.

What I personally don't like about smokers is the fact that approximately 99.9 % of them are littering pigs who simply drop their cigarette butts wherever they happen to be outside.

Language / "Poles" or "Polish people" - which is better to use? [200]


IINM it's kind of derogatory in Australia.

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


I think you mean 'bestiality' aka 'zoophilia'.... animals cannot consent.


Find some parents that think that and get back to us.

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


Yes, religion lessons are pretty much universally loathed by high school students in Poland.

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


Who's the heir apparent?

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


And the Polish constitution is effectively in abeyance since the party leader decided that it should be put aside when it conflicts with his immediate political goals.

Start following the constitution and rule of law and then we'll talk.

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


You're referring to PiS voters I assume? If Duda is against homo sapiens marrying I guess that says something about supporters of the current government. Notice i did not use the word "sub-human". I'm too polite for that.

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


Correction. That makes it _hilarious_!

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


Now he's worried about the constitution after helping his master rape it? Not impressed.

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


Polly moaning about men having sex with each other..... sounds about right.

News / How serious is existence of Lithuania as independent state between Poland and Russia ? [72]

Second wife. The first was Czech (IIRC her kids spoke Czech to some degree when they were younger)

Language / Harmless old-fashioned Polish swear words/phrases [159]


I've never heard it used about a person, usually it's generalized frustration/rage, more like GD it! Sh1t! Mother!Fvck! (maybe not as strong as the last)

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


he was a thug, Daniel with a gun would have meant a lot more Poles than himself dead

(that said, killing him over trivia was completely wrong and I hope the perpetrators have a miserable rest of their misbegotten lives in prison)

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


Things make sense when you realize the entire US "gun control" movement is about trying to keep guns from urban minorities (especially blacks and hispanics) without actually saying that.

Similarly, most urban liberal education policy is about resegregating schools by exporting minorities (especially blacks and hispanics) out of cities where liberals live.

US liberals have a bunch of policies that are extemely anti-black and anti-hispanic but since they can't say that and keep their liberal status they come up with these weird and elaborate workarounds.....

Genealogy / Possibility and proof of being Tatar [15]


I cannot say I agree, but Tatars have been intermarrying with Poles for many generations so who can say. If I saw her picture and was asked I would say she looked Polish or Russian....

Life / Opłatek, not presents, epitomises the true Polish Christmas spirit [85]


Wigilia is an occasion and Christmas Day is no big deal in Poland. New Year's Eve is another big holiday (strengthened in the PRL due to Russian influence?) but epiphany is like Christmas Day, not much happens for most people.

Christmas in America is a festive season (who does advent in the US?) and Christmas Day marks the end of it (no Boxing Day whch I had no idea what it was before I moved to Poland saw references to it on Sky TV).

New Years Eve isn't as big a deal in the US (outside a few big cities) and Epiphany is mostly known where there are orthodox (Greek where I'm from) or from Spanish speaking countries (Christmas isn'ta big holiday in Spain, Epiphany, dia de los reyes magos, has always been bigger). Latin America seems to be a mixed bag in holiday terms....

Life / Opłatek, not presents, epitomises the true Polish Christmas spirit [85]


Of course not. I think it's a perfectly legitimate way to give believers a feeling of connection to the religion, especially crucial when it was young and there's no reason to change now.


I'm not a believer (though, like Camille Paglia, I respect religion). It's never been my favorite holiday but I have no desire whatsoever to inflict my lack of faith on people who do find comfort in it.

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]


So suck it up citizens! These Albanians and Iraqis need our help!


But you have to get them to work for them to be cheap labor. How many of the Merkeljugend have found jobs?


But western governments have made it completely plain that they will not halt the policy no matter what the voters want (which is faaaaaarrr more dangerous than anything FPO has advocated in the last couple of years).

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]


Put yourself in the position of being in your own country and your government is cutting back needed services to citizens in order to take care of a bunch of economic migrants masquerading as refugees. Would you want to vote for a party that says it wants to put citizen interests first or for a party that doesn't even seem to much like the fact that country exists?


you're clearlyd unable to actually find terrible party positions or terrible things said by FPO people, enough with the fear mongering already!

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]


I'm not interested in history of reminiscing. I've asked several times for specific policies that you disagree with and you won't or can't provide them.

Your fear of FPO is irrational and possibly caused by groupthink.

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]


I'm not just talking about you, almost every single story talks about how extremist and nasty FPO are..... without actually mentioning any particulr policies they prefer.

The few policies I've heard of sound okay,

rolling back EU intergration... (would a straight up 'do you want more or less EU integration?' referendum actually pass in any country?)

limiting participation in Mama Merkel's Madness... (worst poltical decision since WWII why help her pretend it's been anything but a disaster?)

leaving the EU if Turkey joins.... (especially under Erdogan)

Either name some policies they're proposing that are bad or stop expecting me to pay attention when people say they're so terrible.