Life / A Muslim Arab in Poland who loves Polish KABANOS & VODKA [20]


I have the idea (from comments they have made) that most or maybe all muslims in Poland have had pork but don't like the taste (a few have told me they don't like the taste... which how would they know?)

If a person grows up eating pork (or lamb or goat) the taste is normal. A person who hasn't had either of those all their life is likely to not like them (they all have specific aftertaste that regular eaters don't notice).

I remember the first time I had lamb... I kind of wanted to spit it out because of the aftertaste....

So religious prohibition aside most won't eat it more than a time or two

Food / What's more popular in Poland beer or vodka? [59]


It's my understanding the word (and the garment) are modern creations of political islam (one of the worst ideas of the last 100 years).

Headscarves were usually called tarha.... men also wore/wear head coverings of various types in some places or on some occasions. The idea that women shouldn't show their hair in public (and that this should be enforced by law) is a product of globalization.

It seems frankly stupid to me as do a lot of political religious symbols...


A Middle-Eastern colleague once told me that some muslims interpret the koran as specifically banning wine.... 'they don't say anything about vodka!'

I can understand why people in hot dessert climates would have cultural restrictions on alcohol (which dehydrates the drinker) but again... some carry it to ridiculously weird lengths.

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


Here's a hint: you will have to change your laws or your values or far worse.

With migration, bad cultural values drive out good ones. Let hundreds of thousands of people from low trust chaotic societies into a high trust well-run society and either the arrivals try to assimilate (not intergrate, assimilate) or say goodbye to your well-run high trust society.

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


I'm talking about cases where it has been determined their life isn't in danger (and especially if they've committed crimes like rape in Germany).

Which is more important to you.... the 'human rights' of a rapist? The right of German girls and women to not be raped by pseudo-refugees?

Do you want a solution or not?

No solution will be acceptable to those who don't want a solution. What's your plan?

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


Keep them in protective custody then. Germany does not owe them anything more.

One good solution: Make all announcements regarding asylum in person. If the person is rejected then they go into custody awaiting deportation.

You'd be amazed at how many will do what they can to return to their 'unsafe' countries in those conditions.

At present people are notified by mail and simply go underground so they can't be found if the decision doesn't go their way, like Herr Stabbby von Stabstab in Solingen.

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


Yes. Calling the AfD Nazis is understood by many as 'well.... I guess maybe the Nazis weren't so bad....' Not a smart strategy.

Change Germany's horrible dysfunctional migration policy (including rapid deportation of criminals and immediate deportation of those turned down for asylum who re-enter the country).

How such policies could be controversial is.... mind-boggling...

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

AfD aren't nazis.... the single issue that makes them popular is Germany's dysfunctional and broken migration system.

Wanting to deport illegal alien criminals does not make them nazis....

I don't like them because of their russian ties but their popularity is entirely due to mainstream parties being out of touch with the population.

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


Note this (via Andrew Hammel)

tagesschau.de/inland/regional/badenwuerttemberg/swr-straftaeter-abgeschoben-erleichterung-in-illerkirchberg-100.html

Everybody's happy that an afghan criminal is being deported except for a young woman working for a refugee rights group who's almost crying at the thought of a convicted rapist being deported....

There's no arguing with or convincing someone like that... you just have to ignore them.

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


German political impotence strikes again!

And the resistance with which 'center' and leftist Germans are opposed to deporting anyone (including criminals with multiple offenses) means AfD will simply grow....

Which sucks because they're funded and controlled by moscow....

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Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [241]

I dunno about that particular brand, but in the short term it's fun....

Malt liquor = stronger than usual beer, in the US it's heavily associated with African Americans (I worked in a store for a short time and about 90% of malt liquor was bought by black customers).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt_liquor

Language / How to correctly pronounce "złoty" in Polish? "ł" letter [17]


Maybe 70 years ago!!!!

Pronouncing ł like an American "dark l" (like ll in 'all') is the old pronunciation, then called 'stage pronunciation' (maintained in some broadcasting/theater until some times in the 1960s) and now usually referred to as 'kresowe' pronunciation (it's still found in some populations in former Soviet places).

But in modern Poland the universal pronunciation of ł is like 'w' in 'water'

ładny = WAHD-nih

miło = MEE-woh

Łódź = WOOTCH

Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [241]


I never went in for wino fare... but I had a few very fun evenings (followed by absolutely miserable mornings) thanks to King Cobra Malt Liquor (aka devil in a 16 oz. can).

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Language / Are czegos and coś interchangable? [14]


It has a dictionary entry....

sjp.pwn.pl/szukaj/cosik.html

Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [241]


It was a trick post... and you fell for it.

"Arizona" is not normal wine, it's 'jabol'.... the closest US equivalents might be things like md 20/20, thunderbird or night train

It became famous as the title of a late 90s documentary on the hopelessness of life on commie collective farms after the collapse of communism.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabol

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_(film_1997)

it's even on youtube



How do you not know this?

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


Define 'normal'.... AfD (as much as I despise them) is the _only_ mainstream political party that agrees with a large majority of the population on an important issue.

Germany should follow Denmark's lead. A mainstream traditional party modified their platform to conform with majority opinion of Danes and the 'extreme' right party disappeared.

What's stopping them apart from cowardice and fecklessness?

Food / Buying alcohol, wine in Poland. It's very difficult. [86]


Swedes (like Norwegians and Danes) actually don't drink as much as some nationalities but when they do drink they tend to binge....

Finns are a separate case and have a very weird relationship to alcohol.... they seem to use drinking jokes like others use sex jokes...


Well in the PRL everything was state run which is where the everyday term for liquor store (monopolowy) came from.

Language / Będę kupowała/będę kupić [18]


Polish doesn't have a subjunctive... it has a single irrealis form usually called the conditional in English that corresponds with much/most use of the subjunctive in languages where it's important (like Spanish).

compare:

he would go 'poszedłby' sp: iria

I want him to go

sp: Quiero que vaya (I-want that he-go)

pl. Chcę, żeby poszedł (I-want that-he-would go)

Travel / What are the best countries to live in? [161]


dictionary.cambridge.org/pl/dictionary/english/z-list

Originally about entertainment, in NAmerican English it can be extended to other areas of life meaning 'least desirable' 'worst possible'

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

Hungarian Paprikakrem eats ketchup's lunch.... far better. Ketchup has it's purposes... I guess... but paprikakrem is great!

Not that csipos (means 'spicy' or 'hot' = pikantny) contrasted with edes ('mild' 'sweet' = łagodny)

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]

An irritation that probably does no good for the environment and maybe actually harms it (the connected caps seem to use more plastic).

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]


How? If I twist them off it's just more work to do what I've always done....

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]


Attached bottle caps are the devil's pepper grinder!

They are an abomination... they make it harder to drink from, pour from or to re-close the bottles they're on.

And they do nothing for litter.

Dumb, dumb, dumb idea....

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]


All evidence points to them going to complete crap starting around the end of covid (or maybe still during).