Life / Things that annoy you in Poland. [133]


Because you're a normal person and not a toxic narcissist. Let's look inside the cogs and wheels of a narcissist's brain for a second. It's very convoluted and difficult for non-narcissists to really get, but we can do an approximation.

Normal person hearing an honorific expression: That's nice, I should reciprocate.

Toxic narcissist hearing an honorific expression: *What are they trying to pull? What's with showing 'respect'??? If they use a respectful form now.... they might no always use it!!!! Danger! Danger! Danger! Who is anyone else to decide whether or not to show me respect, the worms!!!!! How effin' DARE they???? What can i do? I KNOW!!!! I'll just address everybody the same and demand... DEMAND that they do that to me, that way they won't be able to be disrepectful to me!!!!!

*In reality these ruminations go on much longer and are much more intricate, this is just a highlight reel....

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


To manage, to be able to handle something

Life / Profoundly Peculiar and Perplexing Proclivities: Probing PRL Personality Patterns Paraded in Public [16]


It's called a "p|ssing contest", a bonehead recreational activity that many here are addicted to.

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


You're about to shoot them for sleeping with your..... lover..... (no inferences, no judgement, I just wanted to make it more gender neutral)

Now thinking of a more idiomatic translation.... maybe "It's the principle (of the thing)." or even "you broke the code".... (maybe too modern).

I wonder if it's used in other contexts now and other types of betrayal....

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


A typo born of frustration.... alas, what could have been.....

Trzaskowski will be good nationally, and hopefully he'll grow into the international role of the position.

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

Well the PO candidate is selected.

Predictably the camera friendly and glib Trzaszkowski ran away with it over the glum and temperamental Sikorski.

For domestic things Trzaszkowski is fine, for international (esp security) arrangements I'd prefer the more serious and experienced Sikorski.

I'm not very clear about Nawrocki... does he have a serious chance (outside of PiS loyalists?)

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


This is the original question and you are wrong. In context (of boots) imprint was a very acceptable answer. Maybe not the optimal one but not incorrect.

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


Get lost!


cause you can't fall upwards onto a tree

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


Especially funny since he (true to his teacher profession) prefers rules based translation rather than contextual translation.

This is why he thought 'sticky' rather than 'stick-like' was an appropriate translation of 'kijowy' and 'herby' rather than 'little herb' was an appropriate translation of ziólko...

Contextually 'imprint' is fine especially if the context is about boots.

UK, Ireland / London is Poland's 24th largest city [85]


Is that possible? The height of veganism seemed to occur a couple of years before the pandemic.... then public vegans began leaving the diet one after another.

It's a viable diet for some (not sure if it's even possible for others nutritionally).

Travel / Road traffic - Emergency lane use [23]


Idealistic policy ideas have to be balanced with practical concerns. I don't think any British government over the last 20 (at least) years has done that. Hardly alone, Germany is the champion of well-intentioned and poorly thought out policies.

Travel / Road traffic - Emergency lane use [23]


Good aims don't necessarily mean good policy.


Yes, because turning the population into medieval peasants would improve the global situation....

Love / Polish - Pakistani relationship. How it works in reality? Are Pakistanis a good men? [85]


Was the fact that poor Sara Sharif had a Polish mother mentioned much in the British news cycle? How was custody granted to her dirtball father (who apparently had a record of abusing Polish women).

I know that noticing things is becoming illegal in the UK (see Southgate) but the more I find out about this case the angrier I get (and not just at the dirtball 'family' that killed a little girl).

Love / Polish - Pakistani relationship. How it works in reality? Are Pakistanis a good men? [85]

I dont' know how I'm just finding about this now.... Well I'd heard of the disgusting story but had no idea there was a Polish connection

Disgusting pieces of human filth, Urfan Sharif, his wife and his brother abused his daughter Sara for two years until died.... then the three fled to Pakistan and were arrested when they returned to the UK

Apparently the girls' biological mother was Polish....

Will look up more about this tragic story.... why was the girl put in an abusive home?

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


Heard a 25 minute or so press conference on the news where he didn't outline a single policy position.... he's not a serious candidate.

News / Mister President Andrzej Duda - Best Poland could get. [96]


Brokeback Belgrade?

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [980]

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


Very bad. The question was completely predictable and it's not good that he had nothing prepared (like the disastrous Harris 'interview' in which she was stymied by completely predictable questions).

One misstep should scuttle his whole campaign but he needs to come back from this and soon.

Life / Polish fences - complete anthology [74]


Especially since he looks pretty white... unless Swedish media lightened his skin tone (which they've done in the past to prevent 'harmful stereotypes').

But he's still in Sweden and I really don't think he'll be deported... if Swedes had the cojones they could treat him like Koreans treated the human waste known as Johnny Somali.... but I'm not hopeful on that front.

Life / Polish fences - complete anthology [74]


And from Sweden, a reminder of why it's necessary to just keep them out rather than delude ourselves into thinking we can separate the wheat from the chaff once they're in the country....

lbc.co.uk/news/syrian-asylum-seeker-deported-sweden-pushing-91-year-old-down-stairs-mugging/

He's not deported yet (despite committing 19 crimes).

Food / Regional products from Poland with EU certificates and without [18]


According to a paper on the food culture of the Wielkopolska region they were publicized more widely after WWI because the Nov 11 holiday was associated with Piłsudski who was not popular in the region due to his lack of support for the Wielkopolska uprising....

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]


This is russia, he could withdraw from Ukraine entirely, pay reparations and call it a victory and no one will dare contradict him in public. Do you seriously think any of the russians here would actually criticize him?

Food / Best hypermarket to shop for foods in Poland? [50]


All the Iron Curtain countries had equivalents of Pewex, but AFAIK only Poland let local people go there freely. I remember seeing one in Budapest and trying to go in and not being allowed, even after showing an American passport. Apparently it was only for foreigners resident in the country...

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


More like Budapest, Balaton and maybe some a couple of places in the West (Hungary, like Poland, has a west-east prosperity divide... maybe even more extreme).
I saw a tv report circa 1986-87 about a Hungarian-American visiting and being impressed by Budapest and saddened by the dilapidated falling down villages not too far away...

I think the DDR was overall the most economically well off.

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


The same was true in Poland... even during the crises and rationing....

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


Poland got the same pro-socialist pro-soviet/pro-russian stuff but it never worked here.

Germans.....

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


I can understand Wessis thinking that.... there's no excuse for an Ossi not seeing russia's imperial ambitions and not preparing for them.

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


Because shutting down nukes and opening your borders to young men from violent chaotic countries that you can then never get rid of is just *chef's kiss* in terms of policy.

Language / Dog Commands in Polish [49]


Do nogi!......!!!!! DO NOGI NIE NA NOGĘ!!!!! PRZESTAŃ!!!!!

Language / Dog Commands in Polish [49]


one idea is in the youtube vid I linked (may be dialect pronunciation of 'seek')