Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [165]


Fun fact - the first TV morning show in Poland was called "Kawa czy herbata?" ("Coffee or Tea?") :):

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawa_czy_herbata%3F

Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [165]


Not where I live... If you visit someone's home here and they ask you "Tea or coffee?" they usually mean some regular tea and not tea made from nettle with mango or whatever :)) If they want to offer you something else than a regular tea (most often black tea) then they'll specify that they have green tea, herbal tea, flavoured tea, etc.


Because people usually say specific name of whatever home remedies they need at the moment - "rumianek", "mięta", "melisa", etc.

Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [165]


Interesting, do you know which parts of Poland they come from?

That's the data concerning drinking tea and coffee in Poland from 2014 article:

portalspozywczy.pl/napoje/wiadomosci/polacy-pija-chetniej-kawe-czy-herbate-zestawienie-badan-rynkowych,106979.html

"Tea is one of Poland's most popular drinks - 98% of Poles declare drinking it on regular basis. We drink only water more often. (...)
In Europe only Ireland (2.18 kg), the UK (1,93 kg) and RuSSia (1.38 kg) are ahead of us. (...)
On the world stage Poles are on the 9th place ahead of such countries like Japan, China or Saudi Arabia where tea is considered as a national drink.
(...)
We pick most often black tea (58.9%), herbal tea (14.2%), Earl Grey (10.2%), green tea (8.1%) and fruit tea (7.1%)."


Yeah, not my style either, but I love that fake mini food stuff - I could own them just to look at them :)))

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? - part 2 [54]


What point and how on Earth does it prove it? :D 🤦

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]


How about multiple times o_O


Yeah, and why did it leave Poland? Because it stayed against the will of Polish people.


You are an old lonely man noone wants to talk to in real life who's so afraid of a home invasion that he keeps a gun on every floor of the house.


I realise it's probably difficult for Americans to understand what it's like to live in a country as safe as Poland if they haven't lived here and experienced it themselves.

You keep your rights, high crime rates and mass shootings and we'll keep our "handouts" while living in a safe country with low crime rates and no mass shootings :)

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]


Your paranoia is your problem though. You don't live in Poland, you live in the US and we all already know that you have a gun on every floor of your house lol So what's your problem then? Why are you obsessing so much about gun laws in Poland? o_O


Where? In my neighbours' place?


I've honestly never heard about such case taking place in Poland - robbers breaking in and raping the female home owner.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? - part 2 [54]


It's your claim, not mine.


I haven't said that. You can carry a gun if you have a proper license for it.


You are allowed to defend yourself with other tools though.


Noone can outdo you in your stupidity - man or woman lol

No matter how often and how much you keep insulting me - you can't change facts. And the facts are that Poland is much safer than the US and majority of Poles don't feel the need to own a gun and they are against more liberal gun laws.

According to a CBOS poll from 2022 70% of Poles are against more liberal gun laws:

300gospodarka.pl/news/polska-dostep-do-broni-2022-cbos

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? - part 2 [54]


That's a lie, of course.


Poles compare what's happening in the US to what's happening in Poland and they say "NO" to American "gun culture."

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]


LOL

RuSSia invading countries isn't rare though. They keep doing that in recent years.


I'm not saying that's what I would do - I'm saying that in Poland usually it would be enough for thieves to realise that someone's inside the house/flat to resign from breaking in.

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]


I suppose so, but you'd still get arrested for owning an illegal gun.


Are you blind, purposefully obtuse or retarded? I already wrote in my previous comment that according to Polish law you don't have to "match weapon for weapon".


You mean at my place? No, I don't have a fire extinguisher (and I don't know anyone who does).
Those are not "weasel words" - that's simply the reality. Yes, sh1t happens, but because it's so rare the risk is low and people are ready to live with such low risk. Car accidents happen and yet majority of people drive their cars on the roads every day anyway.


My first question would be - if they're so high that they don't care then how would they be able to get into my place in the first place.

Secondly - robbers high on drugs breaking into ordinary people's houses to steal stuff must be something very rare in Poland, because I haven't heard about such cases.

And if it did somehow happen and they would be trying to get into the place without caring that someone's inside then police's advice is not to confront the robbers, but find a safe space (go to your neighbours, for example) and call the police.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [124]

@mafketis, it could be, I guess, but it's also possible that this priest was simply a psychopath. Happens.


To be honest, not much can surprise me anymore...

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [124]

A 60-year-old priest attacked a 68-year-old man with an axe in a car during an argument over a real estate and then burned his body when he was still alive on the side of the road. He admitted to what he did:

o2.pl/informacje/zwloki-w-lasopolu-zarzut-zabojstwa-dla-ksiedza-przyznal-sie-do-winy-7182208431172192a

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]


You must be a special kind of moron then, because I asked Google to translate that legal text into English and apart from one mistake it's all understandable.

But even if it wasn't understandable I summed up it for you in one sentence in my #217 post:
"You can use anything available to you at the moment."

To go further into details of the Polish law concerning self-defence - if someone is attacking you with fists, you can use a knife to repel the attack. If someone is attacking you with a knife and you have a gun, you can use a gun. So you can use a tool that is giving you an advantage over the attacker. Get it?


Cms_neuf doesn't live in a house though.


If those are thieves then in Poland it's normally enough to turn the lights on and they ran away. Majority of break-ins happen when owners are not at home.

Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [165]


Yes, it's made from grains and chicory. It's drank, for example, by people who can't or don't want to drink caffeine and by kids (my niece likes it).


Yes, herbal teas and such are used as home remedies, but herbal teas are not regular tea. Regular tea (black tea being the most popular in Poland) is used as ordinary, everyday drink that Poles consume during meals and when they're simply thirsty. Of course, you can add some stuff that will make a regular tea have some more healthy properties like honey or raspberry juice when you have a cold, for example.


It can be accompanied by a Polish donut or a cake of your choosing, of course :))):

Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [165]


Maybe that's one of the reasons why Poles often add lemon slices or lemon juice to tea - to help with digestion. 🤔

"Polish style tea" earrings :):

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]

@cms neuf, haha... "Home Alone" style :D 😂👍

Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [165]


Yes, coffee is mainly for caffeine, but tea isn't for health maintenance - it's just for drinking like water (that's why Poles prefer it weak/diluted, I think). My family members drink tea during meals and most of the time when they're simply thirsty. I used to do that too before I switched to drinking water instead.

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]


You can use anything available to you at the moment.


VI KRN 34/74:

"Działającemu w obronie koniecznej wolno użyć takich środków, które są niezbędne do odparcia zamachu. Użycie, zwłaszcza z umiarem, niebezpiecznego narzędzia nie może być uznane za przekroczenie granic obrony koniecznej, jeżeli odpierający zamach nie rozporządzał wówczas innym, mniej niebezpiecznym, ale równie skutecznym środkiem obrony, a z okoliczności zajścia, a zwłaszcza z przewagi po stronie atakujących i sposobu ich działania, wynika, że zamach ten zagrażał życiu lub zdrowiu napadniętego."

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]


Do you know when most children are being conceived? During autumn-winter period :)


Don't worry Mr 800+, we all will be replaced by AI eventually anyway :)))


Don't be an idiot. I'm actually saying the opposite - many Poles have some kind of roots thanks to the history of Polish state being multi-ethnic and thanks to immigrants (there were even German immigrants in my Kielce).

Oh, and btw, my standards are very high, unlike yours, apparently.


Must've been someone else then. I doubt that your family history is 100% ethnically "clean" though :)

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]


The US didn't invade Poland together with the Nazis, didn't murder thousands of Polish officers, didn't deport Poles from their homes, didn't send Poles to forced labour camps where they were dying like flies, etc. Yes, let us remember about that.


And inbreeding? lol Do I remember correctly that you have German roots? 🤔


Are you playing dumb on purpose?

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]


The post-war baby boom was a universal phenomenon and it happened all over the world:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-20th_century_baby_boom


Yeah, thanks to Nazi genocide and people being forcibly deported by the Soviets and Polish communists from lands where they lived for generations - that's so f*cking "amazing" according to you? o_O


Compared to whom? The Nazis? lol *sigh* 🙄🤦


You sound like Poles suddenly made up their minds about communism and Soviet domination only in 1992 :D Are you freaking serious?? Torq, ffs...


Yeah, sure, they were waiting for hell to freeze lol Stalin wanted the AK to bleed out so the Soviets would have an easier time to take over Poland - that's all there is to it.

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]


Yes, during partitions. That was one of the reasons why uprisings happened. Poland was losing a lot of men in your wars.


You stopped at the river and watched the Nazis burn Warsaw to the ground.


Of course o_O After you "liberated" Poland lol I even wrote about it on the forum (and provided links to articles). 🙄🤦

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


I meant that the whole chocolate is soft, it falls apart almost :) The ingredient list says there's 32% pistachios, Kadayif 9%, but also some hazelnut and peanut paste added. 🥜

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


Yes, bingo and bravo!!! :))) 🥳

It's a Dubai style chocolate with a filling made of pistachios and kadayif pastry (those strips ranging in colour from white through yellow to orange). When I saw the filling I figured it could make a confusing riddle :)))


I've also tried it only now to see what's all the rage about lol It's OK, but nothing to die for (szału nie ma), imho. I actually love pistachios, but somehow pistachio flavoured fillings aren't my favourite. I ate some time ago a meringue with a lot of pistachio cream on it with some marmalade inside from a local bakery and I did like that cream a lot though - it was sooo soft and light, just perfection ;O 🧁👌✨

As for that Dubai style filling - even though the flavour didn't "wow" me, I've got to admit it's a bit addictive for some reason lol 👀 and the one I tried is soft and I'd say pleasant to eat.

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Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

It's not reheated bigos, resin nor a sandwich with dark bread.


Nope, no veggies there!


From what I understand the strips are traditionally either baked or fried (?).


Yes!


Yup, it's a filling and it's all about the filling with this one!

Tip: it isn't Polish, but can be bought in Poland.

News / Famous Poles die - your memories [112]

The star of kabaret Hrabi and earlier Potem has died of cancer at 59 :(

Potem got really popular in the 90s, so I'm really nostalgic about that group, because I remember them from my childhood and youth. Their best and my favourite was a group of sketches titled "Bajki dla potłuczonych" - a kind of anti-fairy tale take on most famous fairy tales:



RIP

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Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

@gumishu, this is the site of the former mine - it literally says "Nickel, chrysoprase and opal mine in Szklary":

kopalniaszklary.pl/

Btw, chrysoprase has a pretty colour too :)

showcaves.com/english/pl/mines/SzklaryHuta.html

"The underground tour show quite exceptional bands of opal and chrysoprase in situ in the walls. That's the reason why it was declared a geotope. There is also an underground mineral exhibition with unique specimens of chrysoprase, you will probably see nowhere else. The shop sells jewelry which was created form the chrysoprase and opal from the mine."


I don't know to be honest. I did read in some article that foreign tourists interested in geology visit it too, so if they don't have tours in English that's a pretty big mistake, imho. Also, I didn't even know this place exists so they could do some better marketing too. 🤔

What is this?:

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Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]

@jon357, but life is not too short for you to be an a$$hole, huh? :)))


Yes, you clearly prefer not to see the truth that's inconvenient for you. You remind me of pawian - two a$$holes that can't take honest criticism or someone disagreeing with them.


And it's started with you saying that Roma tradition is worth preserving and I commented that not all of their traditions are worth preserving. And then you asked this sleazy question (sorry, but I do think it's sleazy): "who decides?" Would you ask that question if it was about superstitions concerning people with albinism in Tanzania? Or would you simply say that they are wrong, backward and should die out?

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


In order to be objective and believable? You were the one who wrote that "the more developed and affluent the society, the less slack the6 can be cut."


The word "debilny" hasn't been used to describe people with disabilities for a long time in Poland. I've never heard it being used as a medical term in my entire life. Words can have more than one meaning or with time they can change the meaning altogether. Read about word "kutas" if you don't believe me :)


If you tend to criticise just one group of people and avoid criticising other groups of people for the same thing then people have a reason to suspect that you're a hypocrite. Do with that what you will.


I'm not spoiling anything - I have the right to write what I think as much as you do. Whenever I write something you don't like you accuse me of being "deliberately argumentative" which is lame. I will write it again - I have the right to write what I think about your views and behaviour (and anyone elses) just like ANYBODY ELSE on this forum. You can't change that, so if you don't want to discuss stuff with me - then just don't. Noone is forcing you. You can discuss with someone else or go out and get some fresh air and exercise :)

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


No, it doesn't - you are the one giving out such vibe, so how about you make your stance more clear.


That's not what you're doing though. I haven't seen you criticising the level of women's rights in Saudi Arabia, for example. The same with Iran which maybe isn't a rich country, but it isn't some third world hell hole either. You even dishonestly compared wearing a hijab in Iran to women wearing coats in Europe. That's the kind of bullsh1t behaviour I'm talking about.


Don't be obtuse. I use this word whenever "stupid" doesn't cut it as the translation of the polish word "debilny" and that's the meaning of this word that I used in that context:

merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retarded

"informal + offensive: very stupid or foolish"

Also, I don't recall you having any problem with me calling Novichok a "moron" or calling his comments "retarded", so spare me this sudden hypersensitivity.


OK, but it's 21st century. There's no reason to believe anymore that menstruating women are somehow morally/socially/religiously "unclean" or that hospital is "unclean" and therefore you shouldn't go there. That's simply a dangerous conviction.


That's probably partly true, but I suspect that just like in case of Jews it was also intentional - to preserve their culture and ways. Such self-isolation has its price though - such hermetic communities are more likely to be rejected by the society or at least treated with suspicion.