Law / My very old PASZPORT KONSULARNY has a pesel number. [8]


A pesel number begins with your birthday.... last two numbers of the year you were born, the month then the day and then 5 more numbers.

So a person born on July 17 1964 would have a pesel that begins 640717.....

News / Poland hopes to attract hard-working, trouble-free immigarnts - Ukrainian, Belarusians and Vietnamese [139]


If they don't try to claim when they first encounter border guards then they get pushed back past the border like any other shmuck that tries crossing illegally, tha'ts my understanding.


My thoughts exactly.... especially Germany where Merkel era migration has been and continues to be an unmitigated rolling social and economic disaster with no end in sight...

x.com/AndrewHammel1/status/1844798442599514310

News / Poland hopes to attract hard-working, trouble-free immigarnts - Ukrainian, Belarusians and Vietnamese [139]

Weird that no one is commenting on Tusk wanting to 'temporarily' and 'territorially' suspend the right to asylum... presumably to counter the russian/belarusian slavers (aka human traffickers) that try to dump them in Poland (and the Baltics and Finland).

notesfrompoland.com/2024/10/12/poland-to-suspend-asylum-rights-as-part-of-tougher-migration-policy-to-regain-control-of-borders/

It's especially significant since Tusk is a well-known EU insider.

Thoughts?

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


Yeah, a cannonball.

What about 'carry someone on a ram'?

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News / Polish vodka as a mean of protest [49]


More like months... most very old people with a good quality of life regularly have small amounts of alcohol (I remember a news story about a lady in her 90s who was mentally alert and had a small glass of schnaps every evening.

Life is a series of tradeoffs and life is full of double edged swords and alcohol is one of them. Like I said, too little is better than too much (many teetotalers fear addiction and they should probably stay way) but consumed in moderation it probably brings more health benefits than danger.

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News / Polish vodka as a mean of protest [49]


There are some meals that I can't imagine without wine.... duck, rabbit, goose, my combination porkolt/gulyas among them. The wine and food complement and improve each other for a more enjoyable experience.

While the rule for alcohol is 'too little is better than too much', in moderation it makes life nicer and probably has health benefits.

News / Polish vodka as a mean of protest [49]


The data suggest that alcohol, in small doses, has some beneficial effects (in terms of gut biome, blood quality etc). Unfortunately it's very easy to overdo it and consume it in quantities that nullify the benefits....

News / Up to 80 Polish fighters killed in Ukraine [63]


And Poland received some kind of recognition and restitution from Germany (whether it was enough is another matter).

But Polish people were forced to lie about russia's involvement after WWII... lie about Katyń, lie about the Soviet invasion, lie about russian non-participation in the Warsaw Uprising, lie after lie after lie were maintained in public.

It's very natural that many harbored more negative reactions to russia (in it's ZSSR skinsuit) than to Germany.

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]


They're not rare.... I see one occasionally where I live (well inside city limits).

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


you could have fooled me... cause the impression i have is that all the mainstream parties are simply trying to ignore the problem and/or call anyone who notices the proble a bigot or nazi...

meanwhile....

x.com/euusforum/status/1777764311253082582

what are any mainsteam parties suggesting?

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


anti-immigrant or anti horrible, dysfunctional migration policy?

pro-russian or funded by russia because it sees an opportunity?


i wonder if this might help explain.... (nb that's one month that's no over yet).

x.com/andrewhammel1/status/1840072569325584455

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


why? which issues make it appealing?

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Polonia / Which country is better SPAIN or POLAND [118]


Maybe, but once is enough....

Polonia / Which country is better SPAIN or POLAND [118]


Malaga's lovely but so hoooot, I've been places that are hotter in temperature but nowhere that _felt_ so subjectively hot..... parrots on the beach are nice. People are nice but the accent takes getting used to... I'd like to remind them of the existence of the consonants s and d (and sometimes l and/or r) makes Spanish a lot easier to understand.

I've only been to Lanzarote and Fuerteventura in the Canaries but strongly prefer Fuerteventura, the locals are just a lot nicer. A Polish acquaintance who'd worked on both islands said she had the same idea... Lanzarote people were kind of closed and weird (and her mainland Spanish boyfriend agreed).

My favorite parts of Spain are probably those with connections to Catalan culture (not the full independiste model) but Valencia or Mallorca are great. I'd love to visit Mallorca again but it's become a symbol of over-tourism and so I'd feel guilty.....

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


More German political failure! Just what we needed!!!!!

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


Actually...... it's ¡Ay, caramba!

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


Then they are slacking.....


I know someone who has studied the Spanish Civil War and Franco in depth (using Spanish sources of which there are far more than English).

They say he wasn't especially fascistic. He was a traditionalist strongman and hopeless on economics (autarky... it never works) but he didn't have the fascist... je ne sai quoi... he wasn't about creating an iron future as much as trying to recreate an imagined Spain that never existed....

I'd say if there's a non-circular definition of fascism it's related to a certain kind of naturalistic worldview in which there are predators and prey and the strong devour the weak. Most everything else comes out of that.

AfD (as much as I despise them) dont' seem fascistic... and they are the _only_ part in line with majority citizen opinion on migration. Take that away and they have nothing but the current German system is too dysfunctional for that.