Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]


So are you...

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]

There was the Polish crime writer who wrote about murders. And had committed them himself...

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


Probably Caer Lud.

Did Serbs do the cave paintings at Lascaux as well?

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


Isn't the spread of almost every language to an extent inseparable from some sort of politics or other? Even an obscure, minor and unloved language like Serbo-Croat.


Who knew?

And did Serbs build Stonehenge, Ayers Rock, the Cerne Abbas Giant and the Step Pyramid of Djoser too?

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


What is a 'false language'?


And is the pre-Indo-European substrate based on Serbian too?

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [592]


Who said Polish, and why be greedy? Ot that you've any money to invest


And no wonder where you are. Great to see Tesla stock absolutely collapse.

You should get used to this happening.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [592]

How are Tesla shares doing right now?

Edit. I just saw you reply
I get an ok percentage in the U.K. and als9 on term deposits.

It's possible to invest ethically too.

Plus gold has done well, and people shouldn't underestimate ERNIE for long term deposits.

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


Indeed. Some Ukrainians say that most white-skinned people in the r*SSian 'federation' are basically a type of Finn.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]


That's a large demographic and I'm sure many are touchy (watch them trying to turn somersaults over Jedwabne) however it's good if fewer are.


I almost never look at non-musical YouTube videos and never listen to podcasts but good that people are taking an interest. It would be good thoug( if the better quality newspapers had more crime coverage instead of leaving it to Fakt etc.

USA, Canada / To move back to Poland from the USA or not to move back....that is the question [124]


Important to remember that around half voted against him, and his antics (especially that 'doge' nonsense and firing thousands of essential workers) is likely to lose him congress.

USA, Canada / Censorship and violation of 1st Amendment in US [147]


Basically the Tube Alloys project which gave them nukes. Something they'd tried to develop themselves but couldn't.

And of course the Marshall Plan was a loan. A loan that the U.K. paid off in full, even though most other countries never did.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]


There a few that were written about, but people don't like to think they exist and there's the idea that anything which happens in Poland reflects eithe4 well or badly on the nation as a whole.

I was at a meeting just after the Łódź ambulance murders where so done started taking about it in English. The woman next to him told him in Polish that he shouldn't discuss it in front of foreigners. She either didn't know or it just didn't register with her that we both spoke Polish well.

The FBI say that there are around 40 serial killers operating at any one time in America. If we do the maths about population size, there may well be several right now in Poland. And it has that mix of urban and rural (different types of serial killer) plus a sort of general disaffect in society, a "mind your own business" mindset that could make detection harder.

The Silesia stuff might work well in the thread. The Lodz ambulance murders and Gorgonowa are well known but are stories worth telling, as is Katarzyna Onyszkiewiczowa, (The Female Demon).

Some of the stories are just too sad though, like the couple several years ago who had baby after baby and pickled them one by one in plastic pickle barrels.

News / AI rulez in Poland! The New Polish Open Language Model and AI Technologies. [12]

I like it that the Vatiacn document quotes Ecclesiasticus/Sirach near the beginning. "Ancient wisdom" is often nonsense however the book written by Yeshua Ben Sirach is not.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]


It shouldn't really have. Usual suspects. The topic bleeds into every thread and usually by people (don't take it personally - I wasn't thinking of you) who've not done a blind thing in their lives to attempt to mitigate it by doing something that increases opportunity and economic development in the poorest countries.


That's true, however Europe is the most affluent and urbanised continent and more and more will come. Space is not their main consideration.

I suspect that people movement (and the growth of AI) will be the defining trends of our century, barring another technological leap and/or WW3.

Anyway, best to continue the discussion, should you wish, in more appoporiate threads. When I get back from work, I'll maybe look for some grisly crimes to post about.

I had an idea a while ago to write about the Mazur Cannibal Family (a thing in the late 50s/early 60s about a particularly dangerous family to the north of Warsaw) or about the 1990s infamous Warsaw Head Basher who used to creep up behind women in the centre of Warsaw, bash them on the head with a hammer and then run away. He was never caught..

Feedback / Suggestions for forum features [14]

It's a x after the date. I just clicked on the one for your post #7 and the report thing came up.

I'd guess Admin will see the Mrs Whatsit's loans spam when he has a look later. I think he's in or near Illinois where its 4am so probably he's snoring away happily.

USA, Canada / Censorship and violation of 1st Amendment in US [147]


And hasn't actually avhieeved any of those things he said he'd do right away.

Anyway, that slimy little turd Musk is their real president.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]


Yet we don't see a drop, despite any measures. It will only increase.

A thread on the actual subject (there are all too many here) would be a more apt place for you to vent on this issue.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]


Did you miss the Social Education lessons when they explained that people get bored and often stressed by constant repetition of the same dreary themes.

We know you're no fan of some types of migration, however raising things in a constant "why oh why" way just stresses good people and gives fuel to racists.

Some things are easier for countries to fix than others; this is one of the hardest things and migration will only increase over the next few decades.


I suspect you know that reporting rates (for any crime) are far higher in Scandinavia than in a lot of places and in Poland they are lower.


Very true.

And I'd guess that due to low reporting rates, the actual crime rate in Poland is higher than most people would guess.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]

As far as I know, nobody's 'imported' (except for VIP experts headhunted by the goevrnment or big companies, or maybe footballers however they're both the exception), nor do these crimes appear to include anyone from elsewhere.

And nor as far as I know do any particular non-European demographics in PL have a crime rate higher than that among other residents of Poland.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]


One of the victims was a Doctor. This is by the by however and of course the crimes have nothing to do with immigration.

Btw, they haven't ruled out further victims, maybe strangled in their flats and lying there dead.

We probably won't know until the heat from the radiators starts to liquify their gruesome cadavers and they start to drip drip drip through their downstairs neighbours' ceilings.

UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]


Where? Oysters are nice.







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UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]


Me too. Most Polish people have never had them, or if they have, they've had them at a daft price at an oyster bar (there's one in Warsaw), maybe 'les six' or 'les douze' with a glass of champagne.

If your home in the UK is near the sea, it's nice to take Polish visitors to the harbour where oysters are landed. There's always a place where you can eat them cheaply, (in Scarborough it's the front part of a fish wholesalers), necked one by one with nothing but maybe a squeeze of lemon, so fresh they're probably still alive.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [592]


Cryptocurrency seems like Ponzi schemes. Most of it is scamming one way or another.

Greed really. Interest from a savings account plus some safe and ethical investments should be enough for anyone.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]


Three now. A Pole (who was caught trying to leave a flat) for one attack, a Pole and a Ukrainian for another.


As far as I know Ukrainians are not 'imported' nor equally as far as I know does the Ukrainian coommunity have a higher crime rate than society as a whole.

History / Were Marx, Lenin and Luxemburg right about capitalism? [44]


Hard to know where you pulled that bit of nonsense from.


There seems to be an odd idea that Marxist-Leninist-Kimilsungist thought is the gold standard of the Workersa' Movement. It isn't, any more than a moderate, one-nation conservatism wants fascism.


That won't happen, any more than your far right politicians won't cut out nationalism.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]


Two out of the three guys arrested are Polish and one from next door.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]

There have been a series of attacks on old women in Warsaw over the past ten days. Strangled in their flats and robbed. Several potential perps have been arrested and are being questioned.

miejskireporter.pl/czwarta-ofiara-seryjnego-mordercy-seniorek-w-warszawie-wsrod-zatrzymanych-polak-i-ukrainiec

History / Were Marx, Lenin and Luxemburg right about capitalism? [44]


That sounds like the Razem bourgeois left rather than the SLD workers' left.

Other countries have the same split too. I prefer the workers' left, however they really do refuse to evolve sometimes and get stubborn. The problem with grassroots organisations ids that they are resistant to change.


I kind of agree, however LGBT (at least the first three letters) isn't about genitals. It's about people iving a decent life without hassle from individuals and sectors of society who have unwanted same-sex 'ueges' and wish they didn't, translating that to hostility and exclusion.

Socialism is entirely about workers' control over the means of production and getting the full fruits of their labour. As long as the right wing is infused with bigotry though, the blue haired and tattooed people will stand with us (or claim to) and we will stand with them.

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


Irish stew is what the French call a blanquette. Try Lancashire hotpot if you can get the lamb or maybe a nice pan of Scouse which is very simple and cheap, and which you can do nicely with minced pork.


Same. Though even the Zupa Gulaszowa that you get in the south west is vhunkier and thicker.


After I fist came to PL, my best friend and his brother came to visit. They have Polish roots. We went out and had gulasz. They described it as "rank".

UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]


Originally so cheap and so many off the coast of Kent that they were used in pies to bulk them up and use less meat.