News / The Mayor of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz cuts down 150,000 trees in the Poland's capital. [84]


Check "pislamski" in google, in case you didn't realize, that's the Polish form of "Pislamic".

News / The Mayor of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz cuts down 150,000 trees in the Poland's capital. [84]


You have to ask? It's one rule for Polly, another for everyone else.

News / The Mayor of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz cuts down 150,000 trees in the Poland's capital. [84]


Analfabeto! (quick! run to google translate!)

The name is Gronkiewicz-Waltz and I'm entirely okay with investigating her administration. I'm not a party hack whose loyalty is up for bids.

And I'll believe the current very unpopular law is going to be changed when it happens.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]


Could the mods manage to explain why they merged this with a completely different topic?

Working as a TW was not a crime when it happened and it's not a crime now. If anything it's a question of hypocrisy.

Are the mods trying to cover for this and make sure it doesn't get discussed?

History / What do Poles think about Turks? [761]

Which is kind of how Poles think of Russians, which is why Serbians hoping for some kind of Polish Russian alliance are sooooo misguided.

If I were crazier, I'd find a Serbian forum and keep posting all the reasons that Serbia needs to ally with Turkey. I wonder how people would react...

News / Good news: Poland's PiS to rule at least 12 years -- Morawiecki [91]


Hey, they're getting rid of Poland's unsightly tree cover, doesn't that count?
They're reducing the size of the bloated diplomatic car pool as well.
And I'm sure they're trying to reduce the over large number of parties back to PRL levels...

News / Good news: Poland's PiS to rule at least 12 years -- Morawiecki [91]


At which point there will not be a single tree left in the country! And the party will control the courts so that it can't be convicted of anything! And schools will have returned to the PRL model and teachers won't be able to teach things that contradict what the party leader says is true (at present)

... yay?

Polonia / Polish people in Saudi Arabia [11]


Do they still have the foreigner ghettos? My brother worked there for a while a couple decades ago and essentially wasn't allowed to leave the grounds (except to get to work and back).

"Without any problems" needs a few giant qualifiers...

Work / What are career opportunities for a foreigner in Poland? [16]


Not to mention being able to talk to the customers to explain various products...

Food / Kefir drink in Poland [79]


I'm thinking that while there are some things that Poland does really well dairy products are kind of hit and miss and I think most Polish people just aren't that picky about them.

I'm still bummed that they just completely dumped the glass milk bottle system they had in place in the early 90s in favor of plastic... I used to love the little bottles of cream with the foil tops.

Food / Kefir drink in Poland [79]


I won't argue with you on that. My point was that it does exist as a commercial product in some parts of Europe, which you seemed to not realize.

Food / Kefir drink in Poland [79]


Then why is it marketed as 'raw'? The following story indicates they are filled daily by a single farmer (with safety measures in place though the system is not perfect).

modernfarmer.com/2014/03/americans-envy-europes-raw-milk-vending-machines

Food / Kefir drink in Poland [79]


Nope. Look up "raw milk" and Slovenia (or Italy).

telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/news/is-raw-unpasteurised-milk-safe-does-it-taste-better

thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/raw-milk-machines-everywhere-in-europe-why-not-in-the-usa-and-canada

Haven't seen them in Poland yet.

Food / Kefir drink in Poland [79]

A couple of years ago I remember trucks selling unpasturized milk on the streets of Budapest, it was in a big tank and people brought their own empty bottles.

I've also seen dispensing machines (I think in Slovenia too).

Polonia / Let's talk about Sweden and other Scandinavian countries [236]


Modern (3rd wave) feminism is largely a retreat into the traditional feminine role of social arbiter. Endless drama about micro-aggressions, appropriation, inclusion, safe spaces etc are just updated versions of 1950's coffee klatsch club women (very roughly Betty Draper in the first season of Mad Men) and their cutthroat status competition....

Being taken seriously by western men is uncomfortable and so many women are looking for some kind of excuse to retreat to the home and escape the glare of public life and islam does that for them. The determination with which European leaders facilitate the increase of the muslim population is not happening in a vaccuum - it's what a lot of political leaders (and some supposedly feminist women) want.

Polonia / Let's talk about Sweden and other Scandinavian countries [236]


False equivalence. The Vatican is as much a religious establishment as a country and Dudowa and Dudówna are actually Roman Cathol8ics, so following church doctrine (when visitng the church).

None of the Swedish women were muslim and Iran is not a giant mosque (in theory) but modern Muslims seem to be determined to make non-muslims follow Islamic law as much as possible.

Examine Iran's record on religious freedom before justifying their nasty government's behavior....

Polonia / Let's talk about Sweden and other Scandinavian countries [236]


Everything I've heard about the Swedish government over the last generation would _strongly_ suggest the latter.

Race trumps sex in the PC sweepstakes (and Islam is a race in the PC worldview).

Food / Kefir drink in Poland [79]


Economies of scale. "Real" buttermilk would be too expensive to produce on an industrial scale.

Longing for "real" foods produced in the old ways is not too far removed from wanting millions of people to starve to death....

Food / Kefir drink in Poland [79]


This doesn't explain the very different consistencies in the US and Poland....

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 [1050]


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.