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Posts by pawian  

Joined: 30 May 2008 / Male ♂
Last Post: 19 Mar 2025
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From: Poe land
Speaks Polish?: Yes, but I prefer English
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pawian   
3 Jan 2025
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [720]

to do with Kaczyński?

Yes!! Why such a phrase on him??? It isn`t accidental usage.

You can't hold a candle to someone?

You mean you are too drunk to hold a candle and light sb`s passage/path etc ???

meaning is to intentionally annoy someone by provoking them in a playful manner.

Yes, exactly!! But why such on Kaczyński???
pawian   
3 Jan 2025
Food / Why Poles not like rice? [95]

The original dish doesn't contain fish:

This is simply amasing that I enriched another nation`s traditional dish with my own improvement which makes it better than the original !!! Ja prdle!
pawian   
3 Jan 2025
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [462]

Misplacing 'the' is a little offense

Of course. But it was funny to see Ptak trying to squirm out of it which he failed. :):):)
pawian   
3 Jan 2025
Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]

t hat is no protection at all; it is fake

Exactly!!! Just like your protection of your women!
Amassingly, we still hold same opinions on each other! ):):)
We must be twin brothers. I am this wiser one. Ha!!!

But I never involve your family

Infantile denials.

Actually, I don`t care. I only mention it to show we are the same. Like twin brothers.
pawian   
3 Jan 2025
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [462]

...paralyzing the ability...

Yes, I guessed it but wondered if Ptak was able to identify and correct his mistake. He wasn`t, really. AmaSSing!!!

Ptak, you assigned article THE in the wrong place, thus changing the syntax which seriously disturbed the logic of your whole utterance. Go back and see it for yourself.
pawian   
3 Jan 2025
News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]

So where from Ukraine get fuel now?

the closed pipe was only used for transit, not to supply Ukraine.

Are Polish taxpayers going to pay for yet another Ukrainian

Yes, we are coz it is democracy and the coalition decides about Polish politics and policies now. If you don`t like it, go back to emigration in your French Canada. Ha!!!
Ale Ci powiedziałem! Ha!!!
pawian   
3 Jan 2025
Food / Polish cakes made in Poland [115]

It looks like a load of bread rolls to me.

Indeed, but it is wet sandcake based on cottage cheese.
pawian   
3 Jan 2025
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [807]

Feeding, yes!!!
But an alien - no!!!
Look closer. If you can`t notice it, use your intuition on the surroundings.
pawian   
3 Jan 2025
Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]

Tell me more of what I think.

hahaha AmaSSing how you refuse to comment on Novi`s opinion coz you prefer not to hurt your besty buddy here. :_):_):_) Twisting and wriggling out, that`s your specialty.
pawian   
2 Jan 2025
News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

Goals of Polish presidency as I see them:

Forgot about one goal:
- encourage other countries to aid Ukraine as much as possible to win the war, start the restoration and prepare Ukraine for the EU membership.

can't do

You have no idea what Mr Honourable Prime Minister Reverend Donald Holy Tusk is up to. :):):)
pawian   
2 Jan 2025
Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]

women as species are irrational idiots. Women are morons.

Ptak, do you agree with Novi, your best buddy here????
No twisting this time, skip your regular evasions referring to me or my family.
Just yes or no is enough.
So, yes or no???
pawian   
2 Jan 2025
Language / New Years wishes in Polish? [40]

an invitation to a fight

What a surprise!!! I have always thought so about your contribution, too!!!!!! :):):)
It is so amasing we share the same opinion on each other. :):):):)
Are you sure you aren`t my twin brother who got lost when our family were escaping through swamps and primordial forests before the dogs of communist services????

As far as I am concerned dosiego is cute
and original

Of course. In contemporary Poland, still used in ads, commercials, memes and cards. Not in spoken language, though.

compared with Do nastepnego Roku,

????? That`s something new to me. :):):)
pawian   
2 Jan 2025
History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]

there were probably like a couple of dozen physical copies of movies in circulation around the country and thousands of those small town/gmina village cinemas

Gumi, I thought about what you said. If we weren`t so conflicted like now, I mean me as a decent ape which worries about Poland`s future in today`s world and you, a blind rightist who worries only about the future of your fave PiS rightist party and your own situation coz they don`t rule anymore, I would admit you were right coz now I can recall the problems with too few copies of Western films allowed by communists for circulation.

But as you are what you are and in result our relationship is as it is, I won`t say anything and won`t admit you were right. Sorry. :(:(:(
Turn to your rightist buddies to cheer you up after this setback. HA!!!!
pawian   
2 Jan 2025
Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]

Where do you get such a

From your comments. Simple.
Check the chronology of the exchange above:

Novi wrote: Women are parasites and suggested it wasn`t only his opinion.

I asked: Do you mean Ptak also shares your opinion on women???

Ptak replied: Most certainly not yours.

That meant Ptak doesn`t consider most women as parasites but still thinks so about my women aka the ones in my family and all women I have had a close relation with in my life.

Hence, my comment: This means you claim my women are parasites.

followed by Ptak`s silly denial.

Thank you for your attention. :):):)
pawian   
2 Jan 2025
Language / New Years wishes in Polish? [40]

cała nasza literatura jest do dupy

Who said it and where?? :):):)

olbrzymia część słów jest bezwartościowym anachronizmem

Who said it and where???? :):):)

wykrętów,

Who used them and where??? :):):)
pawian   
2 Jan 2025
News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]

Ukraine shut down the Russian gas pipe supplying fuel to Slovakia and neighbouring countries. Wise move coz imperial Russians will lose 5 billion $ yearly.
Putin suggested that Russians can supply gas through the Polish connection which is shut down too but can be made operational any moment.
Dear imperial Russians, stop daydreaming. No deals until you:
-withdraw from Ukraine
-pay the reparations for death and destruction
-send your war criminals to the Hague.

Did I forget anything????
pawian   
2 Jan 2025
News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]

You mock 100 promises by Mr Honourable Prime Minister Reverend Donald Holy Tusk?? But this is a coalition gov. If at least 40% Poles/Polesses had voted for his party, he wouldn`t need any partners now and 100 promises would have already been fulfilled or nearly completed.
Blame yourself for not voting them. Ha!!!!
pawian   
2 Jan 2025
Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

English speakers use their buying a pig in a poke.
While Poles/Polesses say : buy a cat in a sack.

Interesting story with those cats. After WW2, Polish settlers came to Regained Lands aka former Eastern Germany which somehow were deprived of the feline population. Settlers paid through the nose for ANY cat that was available.

Trading two big sacks of wheat and an ex German bike for a Polish born/raised cat is even depicted in the most popular Polish comedy. The saying is much older than the postwar events but coincidentally they hit the nail perfectly.




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pawian   
2 Jan 2025
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

They have guns and the fact somebody may get hurt by accent or commit suicide means shlt

Stop twisting. The madly drunk soldier with mental problems was shooting at civilians. Now imagine that anybody can obtain a weapon. How many maniacs would roam streets to take out their life problems on people???
pawian   
2 Jan 2025
Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]

3 cats and 3 different reactions to firework shooting in the village centre nearby:
Black Pearl, the most fragile of all, stayed at the most isolated place in the house, far from the windows.
Ginger, the oldest, wasn`t bothered at all. He lay on the sofa and dozed.
Diaboł aka Devyl, the youngest, was fascinated. Spent all midnight on the window sill and observed the lights.

Amasing!
pawian   
1 Jan 2025
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

Poland is so lucky with that restriction on gun ownership. We don`t need US like massacres here.

Latest story:
"Today in the afternoon in the town of Mielnik (Podlaskie Province) a soldier of the 18th Mechanized Division carrying out tasks as part of the Safe Podlasie operation, after arbitrarily leaving the camp area with his service weapon, fired shots at a civilian vehicle and then took refuge in a nearby forest," we read in a statement by the Operational Command on the X portal.

"As a result of the search activities undertaken immediately, he was immediately captured by soldiers from the Mielnik Task Force. No third parties were injured in the incident. Initial findings indicate that the soldier was intoxicated," it added.

"The explanatory activities are being conducted by the Military Gendarmerie in Białystok," it was reported at the end.

pawian   
1 Jan 2025
Language / New Years wishes in Polish? [40]

Pawian is on the side of angels

Actually, as an Old Soul, I am. Thanks for your recognition. :):):)

Trylogia should be buried, not to mention Chlopi.

Trylogia is nice as patriotic reading to provide relief for tormented souls but doesn`t reflect the Polish language of 21st century coz it was written in 19th century. You have no contact with the current language except your short visits to Poland once in 10 years.
So, don`t grumble that Do siego roku isn`t used in everyday communication except ads and commercials.

The language has transformed, you can`t blame it cos it lives on its own.
I hope you won`t whip it for that impudence. :Like certain Roman emperor whipped the sea for bringing storm to his navy. ):):):)