News / Poland, Western Europe and the USA - What if Ukraine disappears from the map? [144]


Ukrainians are far more slavic than russians.... (russkie or rossijane)

Serbs just have a bunch of sick power fantasies and lick the hands of any master that promises them somthing...

News / Poland, Western Europe and the USA - What if Ukraine disappears from the map? [144]


With....... who?

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]


Not true of the younger generation who don't have PRL and/or post-PRL complexes (calque from Polish)

There's a lot of interest in topics like grisly crimes and serial murders among younger Poles the same as in pretty much every other country.

A quick look at youtube shows a number of Polish crime podcasts including crimes from Poland...

see here: youtube.com/watch?v=3eO5Q_Ceqcc

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]


Lord of the Flies is pretty bad.... but probably too well known... 60s 70s Silesia was wildin' with all sorts of depraved guys running around....

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [773]

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News / AI rulez in Poland! The New Polish Open Language Model and AI Technologies. [8]


Is he a Butlerian? Because AI really makes me think that Butler was on to something....

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]


Who's venting... the topic came up in the thread, you commented, I commented... normal interaction.


That's impossible.... it implies Europe is an infinite space.... it's like the population projections for Africa that would only be possible if Africa were run in very.... non-African ways.

It's hard to say how much MENA migration to Europe (a disaster everywhere it's been tried) can be limited because not many countries have tried. Poland has stopped what would have been a flood on its eastern border so... it's not impossible.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]


Yes. 'Nothing can be done to lower migration rates" is a very dreary theme.


That shouldn't affect proportions. If anything, higher reporting rates should lead to a clearer picture of relative criminal activity.... and in Denmark, for instance, non-western immigrants and their descendants are convicted of serious crimes three times as often as the indigenous population (or western immigrants and their descendants) including being around 6 times more likely to be convicted of murder, rape and robbery...

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]


Did you miss the High School English class when they explained "metaphor"?


So far, because Poland has a crappy social safety net and non-Europeans are here to work.

A good reason to keep the safety net pretty bare. If Poland gets a comparable safety net to places like Scandinavia it will attract larger numbers of MENA migrants who don't (can't) contribute to the economy and are wildly over-represented in crime statistics.

Poland (with some help of Eastern neighbors) can keep the psychotic crime level high enough on its own without looking outside the immediate area.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]


I wasn't thinking of Ukraine....

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]


Yes, Poland has no shortage of jackylls preying on the weak and old and poor.... all the more reason that there's no need to import more.

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


Hungarian goulash (gulyás) is an unthickened soup and not necessarily very spicy. The broth is usually clearer than pawian's picture.

What people in other countries call goulash is closer to Hungarian pörkölt (a thick stew, more like a sauce, usually served over pasta).

Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]


I don't believe you. You're lying.

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [339]


Narcissists have an insatiable need to be the center of attention all. the. time.

Never underestimate this.


Yes. How many times have new people shown their face with a goodwill question only to find themselves in the middle of a bunch of monkeys throwing feces at each other?

The more the antics of trolls and narcissists are tolerated the greater percentage of users they will become.....

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]


I've heard more than one Pole refer to crustaceans as 'robaki'... (they have a point if they didn't live in water and were crawling around on land there's no way I'd eat them....)


My particular favorite used to be rock shrimp... ugly and so unpopular and a b7tch to clean (hard shell esp) but really delicious

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [575]


Entirely due to failure of the German political establishment which is alienated from voter concerns and stuck in failed policies with no idea how to move forward.

the russia connection is the worst aspect of them, but again... had mainstream German parties not scr3wed the p00ch so badly they wouldn't be the second biggest party....

History / Benefits of being Polish nationalist: is there any? [17]


patriotism is downstream of nationalism.... if you're not a nationalist to some degree you won't recognize a nation to be patriotic towards....

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [575]


Do German governments have a history of doing that?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [575]


Sounds like a recipe for stagnation.... Merz is making a lot of the right noises but SPD is going to be wrecking ball about defense and probably migration.... at least the Greens won't be able to poison energy policy any more....

Unless there are changes in migration and energy policy that people can observe... then you're headed to situation where AfD wins outright (don't say that can't happen ook at Hungary).

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]


Really is the best part....


Crayfish? (often crawfish or crawdaddy in the South). Raki in Poland (though cooked very differently and not very common)

restauracjahektor.pl/raki-rarytas-w-polskiej-kuchni/

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]


There's also boiled crawfish... (be sure to suck the head!)

I've seen them prepared in much bigger quantities than this picture...

neworleanssaints.com/photos/photos-fans-attend-annual-saints-draft-boil-2023-nfl-draft#2c3c0535-8f53-4efb-8b35-0c99d73c4f17

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]


Apropos of nothing... one food I miss in Europe is boiled peanuts, a street food/snack in the US South

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiled_peanuts

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


reminds who? reminds can't be used intransivetively in English

and Poland is not an English speaking country

that said, it looks like tomato soup (the first recipe for which is from the US).

Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]


I did... ha ha ha... he blocks the person who can actually solve his 'riddles'...

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [562]


The issue at hand is translations of idioms... can a person guess what idiom has been translated

If you can't continue with that topic then maybe go to random and rant away at the walls all you want.


It was first explained to me in terms of wrestling... though other etymologies appear as well, including the idea of an 'emancipated American woman' (leading to chaos?)

My idea is that Amerykanka is not the noun 'American woman' but more an abstract noun meaning 'America(n) (stuff)'. I'm not sure if it's approved usage but I've heard people using -ka as a way of turning... situations into nouns.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [562]


You're supposed to have a translation of the idiom, you idiot.

Ugryźć kulę

Why do you suck so bad at being a good forum member?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [562]


Wolna amerykanka

No-holds barred situation characterized by chaos.

Some say it's related to American professional wrestling.

Language / Do Poles prefer US American or UK English language? [185]


It's lovely.

I'll mention that GAE makes a distinction (informally) that seems absent in the UK.

UK mostly seems to mostly use 'has got' for possession while in the US 'have' and 'have got' are both used but slightly differently.

'have' is simple possession while 'have got' implies some particular relevance.

I have a car. (yippeee yay me! I have a car!)

I've got a car. (we can take it to get to the concert, or I can go on my own to whatever event we were talking about).

I've asked a lot of GAE and British native speakers and almost all GAE speakers have agreed (though they might have to think it through for a moment) and no UK speakershave.

A weird Australian thing (apart from the use of 'confronting' to mean 'moving' or 'shocking' is the expansion of 'own'. Apparently there people say things like 'He owns 50,000 dollars in the bank' or even ''He owns a great deal of patience'. Is that usage found anywhere in the B-Isles?

And when/where id 'different to' appear? I hate that one... just sounds wrong

Language / Do Poles prefer US American or UK English language? [185]


No... students get no particular pronunciation guide in school (including no hints at intonation which is super important in native speech) and almost no Poles use a real RP non-rhotic pronunciation.... even those who want an RP pronunciation can't pull it off.

The vocabulary skews a little British but not strongly, queue instead of line or lift instead of the correct elevator but collocations don't... almost no Poles outside of the UK would say 'X is different to Y' or 'at the weak end' (for 'on/during the weekend').

Hardly any Poles (even advanced English specialists) get much training in things like discourse and pragmatics which often shows in painful ways.

I'd describe it more as 'neutral International' (or what I like call Euro-crap English) with vocabulary that skews a bit British and slang (or attempts at slang) that skew American.

Language / Do Poles prefer US American or UK English language? [185]


Not India? I've seen newspaper stories from there that are..... not easily comprehensible.

Speaking of Nigeria, what do you think of this?

bbc.com/pidgin

I've followed it off and on (mostly off for months and months at a time) but over time it seems much less.... Englishy with more phonetic spellings and Nigerian words like 'dey' (a copula).