News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


I was done after the second.... (AZ one of the reasons I did that was to avoid the mrna experiments)...

I'm not planning on any further vaccinations (I've never done flu vaccination).

And again, it was and remains a crime against humanity to force those under 50 (or maybe 40) to take it.

I've never been an "anti-vaxxer" and had the usual childhood vaccinations but the handling of the covid 'vaccines' was more full of red flags than a Mao Zedong birthday rally.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


Mine didn't since I got covid twice (once for sure, second suspected).... did it help keep the symptoms in check? Who knows?

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


Just a kind of crappy, leaky one that shouldn't have been given to anyone under 50....

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


The Big D....

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


Lots of supposed herbivores occasionally eat meat... cows, horses, sheep.... baby birds are especially popular opportunistic snack, nature's popcorn....

Life / Poles turn their backs on organised religion. [148]


most would say it's about accepting ideas of Jesus Christ being born truly human and truly god, from the Virgin Mary, being crucified for human sins, dying and ascending to heaven and returning at some point in the future to judge the living and dead.

But a Southern Baptist and Greek Orthodox won't agree on much beyond that.... in general protestants rely more on scripture and Catholic and Orthodox rely more on the the church (each thinking they are the one true church), Mormons think of themselves as Christians but many/most other Christians don't necessarily agree, etc etc...

For evangelicals (esp Baptists) it's all about a 'personal relationship' with Jesus while Orthodox think no such thing, but rather share in divine energies that happen during thier long and arcane services (and may spend a lot of time interacting with icons). Catholics have communion, most protestants don't...

Life / Poles turn their backs on organised religion. [148]


Different denominations have different definitions....

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


My hierarchy of poulty

1. goose
2. duck
3. chicken
4. turkey

Mostly I think turkey is over-rated except as a carrier for stuffing, esp cornbread stuffing....

I've had other poultry (partidge, guinea fowl, pigeon, maybe others...) but none of it made any particular impression....

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Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]

Goose is my favorite poultry but I feel bad about that because geese seem smarter than most birds.... especially single geese without a flock are very affectionate toward people....

Still.... frickin' delicious.

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


Whose animal when it was alive or turned into food?

Was it yours and you slaughtered/butchered it yourself?

Maybe turkey? or goose?

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


To it looks like there are bones in it... I still say tail of some critter. It looks a bit like a neck, but it looks more like a tail, probably pig or lamb....

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Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]

It looks like neck or tail... not sure what critter though.

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News / Polish military contingent in Lebanon. [184]


Gulf Arab states are very dysfunctional... they rely on imported labor with no real rights (muslims have no problem with slavery and that's how Gulf Arabs treat a lot of the workers their countries rely on).

youtube.com/watch?v=tJuqe6sre2I

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News / Polish military contingent in Lebanon. [184]


What makes you think they want their own state? Arabs are generally terrible at running states (I'm open to counter-evidence...).

They want to rid the region of Jews - they make that very clear.

Neither the "two state" nor "singular secular state" idea is wanted by either side. That leaves victory for one side and exile for the other.

News / Polish military contingent in Lebanon. [184]


Because their inability to accept the proximity of Jews has destroyed their society. They could have had peace anytime they wanted... they don't want it, they want to run all the Jews out of the Middle East and they can't and they'll destroy themselves utterly before they accept that.

What's so hard to understand?

News / Polish military contingent in Lebanon. [184]

Interesting tweet from Eric Weinstein....

tldr: Yahya Sinwar invented a new method of war involving making the enemy kill civilians for photo ops.... trading Palestinian lives for video clips that could be used for propaganda....

x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1846814909096776062

News / Polish military contingent in Lebanon. [184]


Look at Kuwait... there were a _lot_ of Palestinians working there when Iraq invaded... they virtually all supported the invasion and were kicked out after it was over.


Even Arafat was born in Egypt IIRC....

It's largely an invented ethnicity (lacking the markers that set some Arab groups apart from others) born out of hatred for the Jews....

youtube.com/watch?v=bACNYtaLBQI

News / Polish military contingent in Lebanon. [184]


They tend to stab allies in the back.... no country has taken them in and not regretted it. Maybe russia (on their side now) should start a service to settle there there.

News / Polish military contingent in Lebanon. [184]


More accurate to say Palestinians happenned.... there's a reason that other arabs mostly all hate Palestinians and don't want them in their countries.

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]


I think I've only really heard the first three, I checked on a hunch that the others were in dictionaries.... there's also Dutchwoman which I may have heard and apparently Chinawoman (now offensive, like Chinaman).

So the only real way of forming explicitly female nouns for nationality is with -woman which is no longer productive (that is new forms can't be made).

And again the only two (ethno-racial, not nationality) words I've ever heard with -ess are Jewess and Negress (both offensive now).

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]


The only nouns for nationalities that have specifically female forms I can think of include

Frenchwoman, Englishwoman, Irishwoman, Welshwoman and Scotswoman.... The pronunciation of the first four are not always clearly distinguished (though they can be) from adj plus noun (English woman, French woman etc).

Lots of nationalities can be either nouns or adjectives depending on the context esp those ending in -an (American, Hungarian, Mexican, Chilean etc) national adjectives that end in -ese theoretically can be used as nouns though it sounds a bit awkard ?A Japanese ?A Portuguese? and those that end in -ish really resist nominalization *a Polish, *a Spanish *a Danish (about a person, not the pastry).

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]


Which seems to be everyone in the universe except you.... please provide information that anyone else is using that abomination.

"Pole" applies equally to men and women the same way 'German' or 'Canadian' or 'American'. Why introduce a sex distinction that's not needed?

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]


or Polish people, which is what most native speakers would say

News / Poland and Germany should unite, says Lech Walesa [113]


Trials almost always take place where the alleged crime was committed.

News / How strongly are Poles sure that president Duda defend Poland's interests ? [265]


Not as long as you're around....