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Posts by pawian  

Joined: 30 May 2008 / Male ♂
Last Post: 19 Mar 2025
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Speaks Polish?: Yes, but I prefer English
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pawian   
31 Mar 2021
Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]

Also the choice of capitalizing a brand name is mine.

Oh, wee see. So you only intended to express your utter fascination with it

because otherwise they might stop offering it.

That`s quite a plausible reason for your promoting it.

I'm not in any way associated with dairy business or dairy product placement

Now we believe you. You are excused and free to go wherever you want. You can also stay here.
pawian   
31 Mar 2021
News / Famous Polish writer prosecuted for free speech [71]

the myth of "moral superiority" of PiS is vanishing

Yes, that is why anybody who comes after PiS is doomed to be dubbed "decent" coz those currently ruling rightards are unbeatable when it comes to moral evil. They are so corrupted that it verges on perversion.
pawian   
31 Mar 2021
Life / Another reason Polish people and Poland pisses me off [52]

feel entitled to their private version of Polish.

Yes, that`s normal in every language and also shows in Polish threads here. I realise you are irritated coz you feel linguistically excluded next to native Poles, but that should only be a bigger incentive for you to learn the language and all its intricacies, instead of that typical moaning of yours..

They create pseudo words to reflect their emotional attachment to objects and persons.

Exactly, we also do it here coz it is funny. Have you ever heard about "playing with the language"?
pawian   
30 Mar 2021
Life / Barking Dogs in Poland [65]

bark all day and night at any sound

Yes, exactly, you never know what various sounds may entail. But do not overlook another important trait - dogs also react to smells. So they can bark after smelling sth strange.
pawian   
30 Mar 2021
Life / Barking Dogs in Poland [65]

Guard dogs in Britain only bark or bite when there is a danger.

Coz they are lazy. Barking when THERE ALREADY is some danger is useless. Dog`s role has always been to WARN about the danger so that a human could take proper action in time. That`s what Polish dogs do - they still stick to ancient traditions which go back to prehistoric times. British dogs have lost those primordial instincts.

Ignorant dog owners who let their dogs bark all day and night.....

That is called the freedom of bark. Poles are freedom oriented people.
pawian   
30 Mar 2021
Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]

or Danish salted butter

No, thanks, a few months ago I became salt aware and have tried to cut down on it since then. With poor results - I can`t give up some favourite salty stuff like roquefort etc.

You need to stop worrying so much

It is high time we started worrying before it is too late. :):)

life without butter? Pfa!

I use olive oil instead and never regretted dropping butter. The only exception is butter in my fish egg sandwiches.
pawian   
30 Mar 2021
Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]

Weird..

Not so much. I stopped using butter a dozen or two years ago. :):)
pawian   
30 Mar 2021
News / Famous Polish writer prosecuted for free speech [71]

Like the return of the PRL, or worse

Also, a great example of rightard hypocrisy. When President Komorowski was abused and the legal steps were taken by prosecutors,. rightards cried out loud about freedom od speech. Now when "their" President is abused, they conveniently forget about their old "ideals."
pawian   
30 Mar 2021
Life / Barking Dogs in Poland [65]

Why do dogs in Poland bark so much?

Simple. They realise they are on a contract hire with their human owners to protect the house and family against intruders, either human or bestial. So, it is normal for them to carry out their duties the best they can, primarily by barking, then biting.
pawian   
30 Mar 2021
Food / Polish Salted Butter [68]

I remember my first encounter with salted butter in 1980s. It was butter sent to communist Poland in charity transports from Western countries, in our case it was Norway. I quite liked it as some kind of novelty. Later I have never had it.
pawian   
30 Mar 2021
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Are you actually going to contribute to this thread or just carry on trolling?

I see johhny is intent on causing eternal trouble in this thread. According to the saying: when the cat is away, the mice will frolic. :):):)

During my absence, I used or recalled a lot of idioms which we had never exploited here, but was too busy to put them down.

However, this one will suffice for a while:to pull a wire. hahaha

the bad ballerina is disturbed by the hem of her skirt

It means that when sb can`t swim very well, they say the water is too thick.
pawian   
16 Jan 2021
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Yes, it is MatoĊ‚ek He-Goat. As for that idiom, I checked it and got a surprise coz it never occured to me. No, he isn`t like you said, his main problem is he is a bit dumb and naive.

Hint: the inside of that arcade building:


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pawian   
16 Jan 2021
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

To blacken someone.

Yes. Do you know the origin of it?

hiding away and isolating oneself from people?

Nope, although Lenka jokingly agreed.
I think this sand can also be translated as dust meaning dirt.

to be tickled pink - I am not sure but I guess when people praise you, your face blushes with embarassment. hahaha
pawian   
16 Jan 2021
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Boohoo.

Don`t hold a grudge. I don`t do it on purpose. :):) I know you are not a fan of WW2 weapons but I was hoping sb else was. Unfortunately, not.

Yes, this is Allie Mc Graw after Love Story becamse s a big hit. The magazine is from August 1970. Funny that none of other American posters knew her.

Where is it?


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pawian   
16 Jan 2021
News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]

Real patriots that want Poland to be a vasal state.

If you don`t mind Poland being a Russian vasal state, then you are a traitor.

Don't call yourself Polish

Actually, I am Polish while you are not anymore after 30 years in emigration. You are a pathetic migrant loser who talks a lot of stupidities about Poland from a safe distance but you even didn`t raise your kids to feel truly Polish as you admitted once. If the things go your way, it is me and my kids who will have to live under the Kremlin occupation again. While you will be living a comfy life in the USA.

All your production here is useless and harmful to Polish interests. Get lost, you stinking traitor.

Keep to the topic of the thread please
pawian   
16 Jan 2021
News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]

It doesn't MAKE SENSE for Poland to stay in the EU! Does it BB?

Economically it still makes a lot of sense. Politically, even more. Your arguments are infantile so either you reason like a kid or you are a Kremlin troll. Simple.

From the point of view of the patriots camp

The funniest thing is that real patriots, not connected witrh the rightists and nationalists, consider them traitors and Kremlin stooges, too. Like you are.
pawian   
16 Jan 2021
News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]

Not quite a reperation for the genocide and destruction, but a compensation for the lands which Poland lost in the East.
pawian   
16 Jan 2021
News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]

regulated by different international acts and documents.

That`s a double standard. Regained Lands are regulated but reperations aren`t. :):)

I'm not even going to legitimate that nonsense by replying to it.

I knew it. :):)
pawian   
16 Jan 2021
Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

because of white flight.

You are trying to smuggle in those off-topic racial issues again, but stop coz you should know it is illegal in this thread.

feminism and wokeness took root in the US during the 1950s and 1960s.

Yes, luckily, and they are going to stay there for ever. I wonder why you are wasting so much time and energy doing this Sisyphean labour of trying to extinguish them. .

Polonia wins the match! Undefeated!

hahaha still too early for that undeserved triumph coz you withdrew from our nice male guards` criminal acts discussion.
pawian   
15 Jan 2021
Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

I already did!

Nope, you didn`t.

biographies of the three recent female Democrat mayors

No, that still isn`t any reliable statistics. You were expected to provide proofs that feminism led to Polish Ams` flight from Baltimore. So, you blame female mayors who started their terms in 2007. But very conveniently you didn`t mention the fact that Baltimore`s population had been falling systematically since 1950s.
pawian   
15 Jan 2021
News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]

then it immediately opens the door to a monumental claim against Poland.

Yes, but that is their plan exactly - lead to the situation when Germany adopts aggressive approach towards Poland so that they can ask the Kremlin for assistance. With Russian help, they will be able to rule in Poland at last.

We lived this situation after WW2 - the Soviet Union was the main guarantor of the Polish claim to Regained Lands. Now, certain circles want history to repeat. Communism replaced by nationalism - the Kremlin will grab at such an opportunity happily.
pawian   
15 Jan 2021
News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]

there are two simple states of relations between the two countries/nations: love or hate

You are making things up now. Where did I say I love Germany? Remind me coz I don`t remember. hahaha

In fact the most important thing is the national interest.

Yes, I see it this way, too. The Polish national interest is to stick to democratic Germany and the EU in general.

If not, we will become a dictatorship like Belarus with the only difference that Lukashenka is an ex- Soviet product while the democracy in Poland will be destroyed by rightists and nationalists. And protests against the rightwing tyranny will be supressed by Russian troops, like in the past. Thank you very much for such national interest. Not national , but nationalist interest, you wanted to say.

If you dropped that foolish romantic outlook on politics,

No, I beg YOU to give up that hatred of Germany and the EU coz it is useless anyway - 80% Poles oppose your views. Yes, I know, you hope that nationalist and rightist propaganda will change it one day like water erodes the rock - but I wouldn`t count on it. Reasonable people see through your sick goals and will do their best to contain them.