Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]

Iran?

Some Iranians do consider themselves white and some are even Georgian, Armenian, etc.

It's multi ethnic, hence the decision in the 20s to call it Iran rather than Persia.


We know now that he's local. And sadly there were people who tried to start conspiracy theories about him not being local, or the police lying or footage being manipulated. All BS.

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [149]

A print of this one is going back on my wall as soon as the decorators finish this week.

Robin Hood's Bay, Albert Wainwright 1930

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News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]



At least the other guests at the G20 won't have any problem finding girls for the hotel room.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


For the count, does it tend to be medium sized town, then larger town then rural (where the polling stations are spread out) as in some places?

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


I was wondering if it was something like treading on eggshells. It does help to hear things in context though.

Life / Polish Music. [303]

Too southern, too rural. Maybe.

A 40 year old would have been 15 when it came out.

Life / Polish Music. [303]

An old one, but appropriate right now

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


It's a kind of absolutism. A couple of decades or so ag9 thee was an almost religious attitude to capitalism, and for some reason, capitalism in its most extreme forms.

PL was economically weak then and of course people had just had decades of an absolutist system that some were cynical (and some were quasi religious) about it.

The political voices that pointed out that you can pick and choose what works best from several different systems, and make your own system were drowned out by people offering false certainty.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


It works well. And no reason to have any more private investment than is strictly necessary.

For the coop retail shops. In one or two places they're thriving, in others, moribund and may as well be 'spółki nomenklaturowe". Build them up, and be a rival to fast-growing French chains or the ubiquitous partly church owned pyramid franchise. Instead of foreign owned developers, give low-interest, long term loans to spoldzenie mieszkaniowe to do it.

It's as if the urge to decommunise went to the other, free-market, extreme and fled from the idea that you can do things well and not be ripped off by venture capitalists or magnaty.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


So centre right.

Unless he's got a programme of nationalisation and development of not-for-profit and cooperative business.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Yes. Millions of people, including myself, were disappointed at the last presidential election since the candidate I voted for very narrowly missed. He'll win this time though. He's not first choice, however centre right is better than theocratic opportunists.

A big chunk of Nawrocki's voter base has either died or become too elderly to go out and vote since the last election. Unless the several years' worth of new voters is somehow attracted by a pimp, this should work in Trzaskowski's favour.


There is only truth in the quote you went to all that effort digging up. Treat it as a logic puzzle and see if you can figure how...

Although it's interesting that you think you've discovered something via your fake profiles a social media page for British people that you stalk, when you saw a job ad I ran last autumn. Perhaps check in more often and see some of the other ads, There's a recent one for somewhere hotter where I am now, which you must have missed since you'd certainly have mentioned it.

I love making you my little świnka

Off-Topic / Things We Love [331]


It's Nigel Kennedy (who lives there) playing the violin very fast. Too much smoke already in his other home in Krakow.

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]


Krakow too; shirt collars go dark grey after a day 5here.

There's still nasty traffic jams in the Warsaw rush hour. As well as the pollution monitors being off the scale if the weather is close. Most people would welcome some green policies.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]


For financial markets, I may buy more Rolls Royce and possibly look at GE.

And whatever the usual suspects say, gold (even though high) always rises long term.



Foul.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Well....

The last 3 presidential elections, even....


Is there one? I was in that city several times last year, sadly only briefly and didn't see one.

And you can't vote in any Polish elections (or read the instructions on the ballot paper)


Hopefully common sense will prevail and the candidate who mysteriously appeared from nowhere and has a murky past involving hooliganism and hotel tarts will lose.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


The TV company should show repeats of JP2's visits to Poland and a selection of old but popular films. That and some classic football matches with a special report on the history of football hooliganism.


He wouldn't be able to read the instructions on the ballot paper.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


Is having a baby in a proper hospital, not risking your and the baby's life by having a home birth somehow not "embracing motherhood"?


Somehow, I-S, I suspect that women would say this is by no means a modern phenomena.

Life / Top 5 things I like about Poland [77]


Traditional.


That would confuse people in the U.K. since a cutlet is usually just a small chop, cut from the smaller end of the worst.

Schnitzel is known in Britain, as is escalope.

Life / Top 5 things I like about Poland [77]

Chop does imply a particular cut to me, one with a bone and fat

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News / Will Chinese soldiers be stationed in Poland and Europe in 10 years? [63]


Do you remember those American laptopns, Dell maybe.

The ones that exploded everywhere with tiny burning hot batteries inside. My friends go a new sofa and chairs plus laminate flooring and a carpet for their living room from Dell since her laptop exploded and made burn marks everywhere.


They earn low wages and have growing unemployment; in a society that worships wealth, they'll do anything, and 2000 a month is evidently a lot for them.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


It really isn't.

People are buying cheaper and better alternatives.


They're crap.

Life / Top 5 things I like about Poland [77]


Schabowy? Translates better as pork schnitzel.

Yes, that sort of thing. And pierogi.

History / Where did Poles spend summer vacations in the PRL era? [63]


Just logistics.

It's the number printed on the piece of paper that counts.

News / 2011 Stats: 80% of Poles happy [60]




Filthy.

You must be one of the 80% that's happy.

History / Where did Poles spend summer vacations in the PRL era? [63]


If your coupons are the wrong colour, you've got a permanent shortage

History / Where did Poles spend summer vacations in the PRL era? [63]


Rationing exists in every country. Food rationing is universal in your country and in Poland.

In neither can you buy food without ration coupons.

History / Where did Poles spend summer vacations in the PRL era? [63]


Yes, the closer part.

As you well know, they were infested with payola and grift.

History / Where did Poles spend summer vacations in the PRL era? [63]


Meaning it was more accurate, compared to the gangsterism that was r*SSia's pretence at Communism and Germany's Ordnung-crazed attempt at Socialism.

As a Workers' state it was closer to Socialism.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Wasn't that some local councils dominated by PiS. If PiS are still there, they still control commercial licensing in their city.


He should scrap those ridiculous PiS Sunday trading restrictions, however he's not authoritarian.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Or vote for a better party, as they did when electing the current Tusk government.