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


What evidence is there that Palestinians want to 'granted' a state by Israel? They don't want Israel to exist. How do you negotiate with that?

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


Their merchandise on the ground might think of themselves as 'freedom fighters' but the leadership living in the Gulf in luxury are entrepreneurs whose commodity is dead Palestinians (and a few dead Israelis as seed money).

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


Hamas is not a political or even relgious organization.... it is a money laundering scheme that uses civilian lives as a resource to keep the money flow going.

Once you accept that, everything they do makes sense.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Here are some russians not focusing on certain things....

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Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


I'm not sure if I've heard it either (it was more described to me as something some people say....).

anyway, for feniks: what does it mean?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Think of Latin roots...

USA, Canada / What kind of American food do Poles like most? [119]


yes it is. Also, in the Southern US it's used as a generic term for any sweet carbonated beverage so you can hear people say things like: "What kind o' coke you want, Pepsi, 7up or Orange??


Hasn't been the same since they took the cocaine out of it....

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


No, pimp and wannabe gangster Nawrocki would be worse...

News / AI rulez in Poland! The New Polish Open Language Model and AI Technologies. [13]


The purpose of AI is to eliminate jobs. That's it.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Was this before or after he became a sexual criminal (Pan Jerzy that is)?

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


they're helping Poland already by defending themselves against russia...

This is why I don't like PiS and Nawrocki (and Braun and konfa in general) they all have delusions of Poland becoming some kind of self-reliant North Korea or Albania and seem to think either Poland doesn't need allies or that the US is enough of an ally or that russia could be an ally...

That's all delusional sh[t.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


How many times? When russia attacks Poland who should Poland go and ask support from?

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


How so? Cause I don't see carrying russia's water as having any benefits now or anytime in the future....

Any politician that sees a possible non-enemy in russia is an enemy of Polish interests...

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


By not realizing he'd been in a care home for months..... great support.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Thank you kindly. I must be crazy for thinking that the guy that wrote a book about a gangster and swindled an old man out of his apartment and who enjoys the company of hooligans could ever be a gangster wannabe.... Nothing says 'catholic' quite like stealing an old man's apartment....

And, probably to get support from Braun, his 'no NATO for Ukraine' line objectively helps russia, echoing russian puppets like Orban.


I'm an eclectic moderate functionalist-realist. I favor policies that work (in the real world to make people's lives better) over any ideology. I align with progressives on some issues and not others.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


A slow horse race. He's not that great but better than a gangster wannabe whose willing to weaken opposition against Poland's biggest enemy (russia).

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Zyn (little packets) based on the idea of Swedish snus..... (but while they contain nicotine they don't have any tobacco).

Not a plug of tobacco stuffed in the cheek (I grew up in skoal country... nasty stuf).


He's been trying to court the (very few and very insane) Polish politicians who are more likely to be pro-russian so... make of that what you will.

Language / Use of "Pan/Pani" in Poland vs Other Countries [30]


In Polish, it's intrusive, like slapping the back of someone you don't know and getting in their face "Hey buddy! Do you like tripe??????"

Like someone raised in a barn.

Language / Use of "Pan/Pani" in Poland vs Other Countries [30]


What usually happens.... learner learns pan and pani as both Mr and Mrs/Ms/Miss and a polite way of saying 'you' to a single person. At some point they also realize something about the etymology and then they never think about it again.

Language / Use of "Pan/Pani" in Poland vs Other Countries [30]


So you successfully coerced him into assimilating to your standards.


It would not help his standing to be heard calling some rando 'ty'... but as long as you're happy, who cares?

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Not yet.... but if it thinks it can claw back into power it might give in on russia to lure in Braun, Konfa crowd... it would be monumentally stupid and harmful to Poland but I doubt if most PiSians care about that.

Language / Use of "Pan/Pani" in Poland vs Other Countries [30]


Does he reciprocate or use Pan? That would sound to listeners as if you think you're his boss....

History / Where did Poles spend summer vacations in the PRL era? [63]


I think he's talking about vacation trips...

And there was very little tourism from the satellites to the USSR... and none at all from the USSR to other Warsaw pact countries.

Internationally, the big foreign summer vacation destinations in the PRL would have been Balaton in Hungary and the Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria (esp around Varna)

Other seaside commie places (Romania and Jugoslavija) seem to have been much less common destinations.

Language / Use of "Pan/Pani" in Poland vs Other Countries [30]


I think no one who learns Polish as a foreign language processes them that way.... the range of usage is a lot wider than any single English equivalent and I think most non-native useres most of the time just think of them as 'pan' and 'pani'...


Believers use 'ty' with God because they want to stress their closeness to him. Using 'ty' with a priest is claiming a personal relationship with them that they may not (most probably don't) want.

The division between pan/pani and ty is partly about familiarity and partly about recognizing people's personal space (metaphorically). I remember a former boss explained he would never use 'ty' with a secretary because it would be akin to forcing a level of familiarity that neither wanted.

Language / Use of "Pan/Pani" in Poland vs Other Countries [30]


Sounds very weird.... I could imagine "Would the gentleman like" "Would the lady like"... transference from Polish could be the origin.

In the US I'd never use 'madame' due to the other, less pleasant meaning of the word ('burdel mama' in Polish)

I would definitely use 'Sir' and 'Ma'am' as forms of address to people I don't know (maybe 'Miss' to younger women)


Seems a little.... intrusive... though I tend to address priests (not that I speak with them often) as 'Pan' rather than 'Ksiądz'. I'm not entirely sure if that counts as a mistake or not...

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [586]


you recognize Northern Cyprus?

Also the old national voting blocs are nowhere near as strong as they used to be. I remember what a shock it was a few years ago when Cyprus didn't give Greece 12 points.... politics and diasporas still play a role but much less of one.

The Eurovision... whatever it is, has changed entirely over the last few years. Comments that reflect the situation from the 90s or 2000s are very out of date now.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]


And those responsible will blame everyone but themselves....

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]


The German government is perhaps the stupidest collective entity in Europe made up of (mostly) high IQ people....

Stopping nuclear power was idiotic.

German migration policy is idiotic.

Germany thinking russia could be manipulated into acting like a normal country was idiotic.

Are there any broad German political agendas that aren't idiotic?

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


I don't think Mentzen is a sheepdog who can lead them to PiS.... age is a very big factor with older voters like the gibs that PiS is always promising them and young voters not being taken for granted.

PO is not great by any means but Nawrocki's whole.. persona does not appeal to anyone under 40 or so.

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


Not gonna work... Mentzen has a younger base that specifically doesn't like PiS.... Some in Konfederacja are not terrible when they focus on social welfare issues (broadly understood) but their culture war crap and/or pro-russian slant is not a winner with younger voters.