Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]


A lot of people reject tatar - raw minced beef dish.

While I love it and make it once a month. Be careful to use the meat which you have frozen for a few days to kill all parasites it it!!!

My comfort food - when I feel down, I eat tatar:

What can we see here?
raw minced beef
yolk
chopped onion
chopped pickled cucumber
sardines
pickled noble mushrooms
spices: oregano, pepper, ginger, curry
olive oil
soya sauce

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Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [211]


Amasing that is had never happened before. This year`s winter isn`t so much worse than the ones before. I think the Tatry Mountains management took a new course towards bigger safety.

Law / I am pregnant but the father is now ghosting me [17]


Is he American by any means??

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]


I am afraid you need to rephrase it coz now it is unintelligible. :):)

Life / "Weird" "Strange" "Unique" Polish Customs [36]

My close friend collects alcohol. He buys it or receives as gifts. He rarely drinks it. Prefers when guests do it. I can`t help him coz I always visit him by car.

This edition of his collection includes a lot of booze from Ukraine - he works with Ukrainians in the food processing plant as a manager.

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Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Sometimes such early childhood traumas can haunt a person through all their lives. Be more understanding.

History / Ghetto Uprising better known than Warsaw Uprising? [111]


Now you are taking it too far. :):)


Yes, there were a lot of such people in history. They had nothing against Jews personally, but they prefered to keep silent when Jews were persecuted. Such a person was Mościcki.

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


Nope, they weren`t happy. Churchill`s speech in Fulton in 1947 proves he was worried about the newly arisen Iron Curtain. The problem was Western allies didn`t want to fight another cruel war against the USSR for Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe. Can you blame them, after the experience of WW2?


You lack logic and historical knowledge. How could they have a problem with Germans who had to leave their homes if it had been arranged by the victorious superpowers in Yalta???

Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]

Poles aren`t afraid to speak what ails them. Brits - on the contrary.

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Travel / Pot in Poland for tourists [285]


Don`t forget Kazimierz. Isabella and Kazimierz are a couple bonded for ever.

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Travel / Do Poles like to hunt? Hunting in Poland. [211]

One of my acquaintances in the countryside is an avid hunter. This is his gallery.

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Work / English teaching books in Poland: villains and heroes [30]

I don`t like when textbooks make a mess and introduce confusion.

E,.g. this book for 5th grade primary school suggests meals are the same as dishes. Yes, they can be, but it isn`t such a popular notion so why needlessly confuse kids ??

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History / The great mistakes of Poland's history? [216]


Polish gentry and aristocracy gained a superb position over the king and other social classes. They cared only for their own interest and ignored the interest of the state. It all ended with partitions coz Polish elites saw nothing wrong with having their gigantic estates protected by Russian troops instead of Polish ones.

News / Jacek Kurski, the new chairman of TVP (Telewizja Polska) [37]

TVP under Jacek Kurski ran a hideous campaign against the mayor of Gdańsk which was one of the reasons he was assassinated a few years ago by a PiS fan. Later, a few known people publicly stated that TVP was guilty of inciting to murder. Furious PiS TVP pseudo journalists sued their critics but are losing in courts.

E.g,
Krzysztof Skiba (a famous rockman) won in court with TVP for the third time
The District Court in Warsaw decided in the appeal that Krzysztof Skiba does not have to apologize to Telewizja Polska for the words that the station was hounding the murdered mayor of Gdańsk Paweł Adamowicz and is "morally responsible for his death".

Thank you PIS!


This means the station and its chairman, Jacek Kurski, contributed to murder.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


But a new supply has just arrived:

What is it for?

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Life / Understanding Poland's Birthday Tradition [67]


What is it???

History / The Battle of Stalingrad saved Poland [34]


Yes, but the choice of words in your posts makes an impression you do agree.

E.g., because that would be stigmatised as "speaking with the voice of Kremlin".

Stigmatise has negative connotations. If you juxtapose the word "stigmatise" and the phrase "the voice of the Kremlin," you suggest that calling sb`s views the voice of Kremlin is improper or outwardly bad.

Besides, when you introduced Engelgard, you hid his political agenda. There is a brutal war close to Poland and you write about an obsessed nationalistic pundit that he is simply Polish historian etc. Not Polish historian, politician and writer but Polish nationalist politician and historian. That makes a big difference.


I hope you understand now why we suspect you of clandestine work on behalf of proRussian nationalists???

You wanted to stir us up and you were successful. hahahahaha But no more.

History / The Battle of Stalingrad saved Poland [34]


And the chief editor of proRussian, antiUkrainian nationalistic magazine Myśl polska.

Kania, are you a member of myślpolska team that you propagate their views so enthusiasticaly here??? :):):)

It is the last time that I have fallen for that trap of yours. :):):) No more! hahaha

History / The Battle of Stalingrad saved Poland [34]


No, it was the overall defeat of Nazi Germany during WW2 which made them drop those plans. In early 1943, when they were losing the battle at Stalingrad, they were still carrying out Ost Plan, annihiliating Polish Jews and brutally colonising Zamojskie region.

Does the historian suggest we should be grateful to Soviets winning the battle for saving Poles ??? ):)

Not necessarily.

Reason No 1
Soviets were able to win coz they had been receiving huge aid from Western countries. Without it, Germans might have eventually crushed Soviet resistance in 1942 and pushed the Red Army back far into the Asian part of the USSR. There wouldn`t have been any battle of Stalingrad.

Reason No 2
In 1945 the USA developed atomic bomb. If Germans had refused to surrender unconditionally, they would have evaporated in nuclear explosions all over Germany.

Conclusion: the battle at Stalingrad didn`t play such a vital role in saving Poland.

News / Alexander Dugin is coming to Gdańsk! [17]


I looked at their site on Youtube. AmaSSing svoloche - fully pro Russian, obsessively antiUkrainian.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]


For a good reason - you are both rightists. A bit different coz you personally are neutral to minorities of various kinds, while he hates them all.


He is devil incarnate, indeed.
Johhny, APAGE SATANAS!!!!

Life / Being a Jew in modern-day Poland; Israeli Jew who is of Polish descent [279]

Today, Polish politicians express their sorrow over his death coz they remember him as a good friend of Poland.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

:):):):)
Johhny, do you need my help against your ideolo buddies who are bashing you so relentlessly??? Just say one word only and the Rohimirrim monkey riders shall answer and come to your defence!!!!

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


I don`t like tests so much as you suggest. Worse, I don`t like assessing students at all - it is mental drudgery to try to be objective and fair at all times when I need to mark their performance. It costs me a lot of time and energy and if I assess a lot of students at a time, I feel really exhausted.

However, I know that without testing my students would stop studying out of class completely. We have too few classes to depend only on the things we do at school and to hope students will acquire excellent language skills only through classroom work. They have to do some work at home, too, to absorb English more efficiently. A part of this out of class work is preparation to tests, as well as regular home assignments, both written and oral.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]


You are obsessed with this challenging. Why don`t you go out and shoot a deer to relax???


Control those meltdowns, please. Go out and shoot ....... etc


If you are tired of London, you are tired of life. Simple.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Aaargh, now I know what you meant - lipa tree, in Polish it means a failure.

But, what did you really mean by ART of TREE???

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Sth about Linden?
PS. Without googling, I recalled : Unter der Linden Strasse. A long avenue lined with tall trees

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]


Ha, I see my mediation worked! Good! Shake hands and be buddies again, like in the glorious past.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]


Guys. This is awful how you treat each other though you are ideological buddies. Stop it at once coz you introduce unhealthy atmosphere in the forum.

Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [211]

The Tatry Mountains have been closed to tourists and mountaineers for the first time in history, due to extreme avalanche hazard and severe conditions on trails. Amasing!

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