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jon357   
4 Mar 2017
News / The Mayor of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz cuts down 150,000 trees in the Poland's capital. [84]

If Soros newspaper

Oh dear. Is that the best you can try to do? VERY weak...

I doubt she's worried too much about what newspapers say. Some attack her and some praise her - yet her voter figures are larger than the Warsaw readership of any one publication.

Shame she cut the trees down though - she should have opposed that little bit of PiS nastiness.
jon357   
4 Mar 2017
News / The Mayor of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz cuts down 150,000 trees in the Poland's capital. [84]

Wrong as usual, Wulky. In fact Gronkiewicz-Waltz for all her various good points and bad isn't particularly liked by LGBT organisations, having had just one meeting in a decade. She's liked by the voters of Warsaw though, having won two elections in a row, the most recent one outright in the first round of voting.

But don't let the facts confuse you.
jon357   
4 Mar 2017
News / Polish MEP Korwin-Mikke's latest outrage, insulting women [216]

15 points iq less.

'Decades of research show unequivocally that men and women are equal in general intelligence (IQ)'
forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2016/06/21/why-women-are-smarter-than-men/#1a4ff14f17e6
jon357   
4 Mar 2017
News / Polish MEP Korwin-Mikke's latest outrage, insulting women [216]

As I understand it, he didn't mention human sexuality...

Nor is he qualified to say what is or is not a disease.

He did however denigrate women, the latest in a long list of offensive acts that are done only to provoke. The last one cost him thousands; hopefully this will cost him thousands more.

A marginal figure (who once stabbed himself in a restaurant toilet and blamed a non-existant Chinese assassin) with very little support and a habit of deliberately offending.
jon357   
4 Mar 2017
News / Polish MEP Korwin-Mikke's latest outrage, insulting women [216]

This guy makes people cringe here in Poland, not least because of the coverage abroad of some of his more toxic comments:

he argued that women should earn less than men "because they are weaker, they are smaller, they are less intelligent. They must earn less, that's all."

fortune/2017/03/03/european-parliament-sexist-comments-janusz-korwin-mikke/
jon357   
4 Mar 2017
History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

Quite. He obviously hasn't heard of Marie Curie, Singer or Gombrowicz or ever used petrochemicals that have come out of an oil well...
jon357   
2 Mar 2017
News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

Then again, it's nice to see this topic revived so that we can remind ourselves just how many criminals are within PiS.

The things you hear about them at a local level is horrific.
jon357   
2 Mar 2017
Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]

Yes, on the territory of the former Commonwealth.

Yes, and also across a wider area

The legend is that Marco Polo brought them to Europe. The truth may never be known.
jon357   
2 Mar 2017
Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]

They and similar items are made in one form or another across a huge part of Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Asia and the Middle East and have been for a very long time. The origins are probably in the east, either Tatars or Chinese.
jon357   
2 Mar 2017
Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]

They are usually boiled and sometimes fried, but I didn't know they were baked.

I've had baked ones, however the recipe came I think, from Russia, as did the cook.
jon357   
28 Feb 2017
History / What do Poles think about Turks? [761]

Nationalism rarely involves logic or good will. Here in Poland, most people don't ever think of Turkey except as a holiday destination.
jon357   
25 Feb 2017
Classifieds / Random Classifieds Ads Poland [261]

Sounds a fairly good deal and that area is actually ok to live in. Also a good landlady is a big plus.
jon357   
22 Feb 2017
Polonia / Polish people in Saudi Arabia [11]

Do they still have the foreigner ghettos?

The compounds? Personally I never lived in one there - just on a residential street. People I knew who lived in compounds were certainly not restricted to staying in them. If your brother had such an issue it sounds like something from his employer.

especially in relation to booze

Some of them have normal pubs in, with beer pumps etc, some have a choice of restaurants. Some even have a visible weed dealer. Most are small and don't have any of that.

For either men or women, it's one of the safest countries to be in, one with a very low crime rate and a generally very polite if somewhat dull and conservative population. A foreigner there is more likely to be at risk from other foreigners than from a local.
jon357   
19 Dec 2016
Life / Opłatek, not presents, epitomises the true Polish Christmas spirit [85]

And of course the church as a long history of coopting pagan practices and putting a christian veneer over them

Like Christmas itself, Yuletide, something that long predates Christianity. It's no accident that major Christian festivals occur round the Winter Solstice and the two Equinoxes.
jon357   
19 Dec 2016
Food / Christmas pudding in Poland [22]

175g self raising flour,

You can get it in Warsaw at that place on Emilii Plater however it isn't cheap. Best to pop a bit of baking soda in when you sieve the flour instead.

That looks a nice recipe. I'd probably use butter not marge, maybe half butter half lard (sod the arteries) and I'd finish it off in the oven on the day.

I just made some mince pies, nothing to make rum butter with and I don't fancy vodka margarine but nice all the same.
jon357   
19 Dec 2016
Food / Christmas pudding in Poland [22]

it won't have time to mature properly

Yes

to get the really authentic taste the fat used should be suet

And yes.

Christmas cake and pud are very forgiving and you can substitute ingredients very easily.

Also yes. There are some very good recipes for quick ones that don't need much maturing. They don't taste quite the same but you can cook them a bit longer and up the alcohol content and they're OK.