Language / The "end piece" of a loaf of bread in Polish [80]


one of my favourites too - but Americans beware you won't pass drug test after eating poppy seed cake - it contains traces of opiates

Language / The "end piece" of a loaf of bread in Polish [80]


I don't know Atch - are you trying to prove something?
like your preconception that Polish cuisine has no cake tradition?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


-Polish law allows now for children with suspected Down syndrome to be aborted - PiS will probably work on banning such eugenic abortions - do you think a person with a Down syndrome doesn't have the right to live - what do you think about the quality of life of a person with Down syndrome?


PiS are bad with PR - if they were better they would already be showing children with down and preparing the ground for the law which they intend to pass which will ban most eugenics abortion

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


was murder always agreed upon as morally unacceptable? - look at the WW 2nd if you don't want to go any deeper - In Hitler Germany it was no offence to kill a Jew - so the notion of what is moral and what is moral was not universal even for murder

btw you know what democracy is? - it's the rule of the majority - if a majority decides that something is unacceptable and should be punished in this way or another then it is the law - end of dispute

Language / The "end piece" of a loaf of bread in Polish [80]

there was a specific term for a cake in Polish before and it is still regional in parts of Poland or refers to a specific type of a cake - the name is kołacz

nowadays ciasto can both mean dough and cake (perhaps even pastry as in French pastry)


sour cherries are typically dark when really ripe - sweet cherries are much more varied - they can be very light (yellow with a red blush), red, or even almost black (various varieties) - from a biological point of view sour cherries and sweet cherries are two different species - it is easy to tell appart a sour cherry and sweet cherry tree (the leaves are distinctively different - but also the size and shape of the trees is different)

Language / The "end piece" of a loaf of bread in Polish [80]


it's not entirely correct - typical Polish bread is a mixed one with wheat and rye flour and typically you have more wheat flour in the mixture (the leaven used is typically purely rye though) - pure rye bread (or bread with the dominance of rye flour) is not common in Poland (I like it very much though) - it uses a lot more leaven and can be quite sour - I once had excellent rye bread with caraway in the Italian Tirol - they also have very good rye bread in Eastern Germany from what I observed

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

abortion is illegal in most cases in Poland and doctors who perform abortions can face jail time if caught - there was widespread hypocrisy in Poland when it comes to abortion though and underground clinics were tolerated - I don't know about the current situation

and yes I am for jail penalty for doctors who do it in cases that are not allowed by the law


John I haven't found the exact figures for Poland - but according to Daiy Mail the percentage of teenage mothers in the UK where there is a lot of sexual education is higher than in Poland where there is almost nil sexual education - looks like your simple mechanism doesn't work

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


if we assume that a 8-weeks old foetus is human then abortion is murder all along

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


are we supposed to respect the right to murder people - from what I have heard we put murderers in jails

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


you know Polonius these guys preach PiS rule is catastrophic to Poland so you understand the worse for Poland now the better for them (at least they hope so) but we'll see

Travel / Need advice on trip to Poland [12]


she said it is near Kolno - Kolno is near (north of) Łomża - i am not sure if trains still reach Łomża (they used to) - anyway I think it would be better to rent a car to travel in the area (it is not very developed and in recent years many bus services have been cancelled)

Law / Not having a car insurance for a little while in Poland [13]


if you don't use a car there wouldn't be legal problems (if it safely parked especially on a private property) - but as Looker said the continuity must be preserved - so your company will demand from you the payment for all the time you haven't been in Poland - if you have the resources now just pay the OC (they usually want you to pay for half-a-year periods anyway)

Law / Not having a car insurance for a little while in Poland [13]


AC - Auto Casco - non-compulsory
OC -ubezpieczenie od Odpowiedzialności Cywilnej (odpowiedzialność cywilna = legal liability) - compulsory


actually more like civil liability according to bab.la examples

Life / Why Polish Diminutives/Nicknames are so popular? [14]

it can be a nickname derived from his family name and not the first name - it is fairly common in Poland - his surname though could not be very popular and it's difficult to extrapolate it from the nickname

News / Poland Sports News [1079]

Merged: Poland's first ever win in Euro finals

Poland beat Northern Ireland 1-0
however if they play like this in the next matches I don't see them in the play-off phase

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [656]

I don't need women - at least not for sex heheh :)

Law / Need help on how to cancel a company in Poland. [8]


dissolving a limited liability company is not a straightforward process in Poland - you need to see a lawyer here as it involves going to a court

News / Mieszkania Plus programme - PiS fulfills yet another campaign promise [50]


I believe it is just a first step - there will be more savings to the budget when restrictive law is enforced calling for taking over of all possessions of the scammers - I believe PiS wait for having control over the Constitutional tribunal to pass such laws - it's not that long only half a year to go

News / Mieszkania Plus programme - PiS fulfills yet another campaign promise [50]


rmf24.pl/ekonomia/news-rzeczpospolita-morze-fikcyjnych-faktur-oszusci-wyludzili-82-,nId,2147153

News / Mieszkania Plus programme - PiS fulfills yet another campaign promise [50]

sorry it does not explain 80 billion PLN extracted from the state - I think you haven't got a faintest idea how real and dangerous scammers operate

News / Mieszkania Plus programme - PiS fulfills yet another campaign promise [50]


hmm you never heard of the PO scandals and affairs - interesting

btw I am not sure what the government was doing if it allowed for billions of zlotys to be snapped away from the state by VAT scammers - for years

80 billion zlotys is around 1/5 of the Polish budget

News / Mieszkania Plus programme - PiS fulfills yet another campaign promise [50]


well there are people who don't think that way and they have extracted over 80 billion PLN in undue VAT refunds from the sate last year

or maybe you think they worked for all that money, do you?

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [656]


you definitely wouldn't stand out in Poland - but as far as I can tell you could as well pass for a German or a Czech

Food / I SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM - the best ice cream shop in Poland? [34]

I think the tradition of making ice-cream came to Poland from Italy - I haven't travelled that much in my life but I was in southern Italy and their ice-creams where not much different to Polish - I only had and ice-cream once when I was in the UK but it was rubbish - I vaguely remember that I had ice-creams in Germany and they were quite like the Polish variety as well

Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]


I think it is a complex issue - it sure has to do with recent and not so recent history - but even though you may ridicule the idea I think it also has spiritual background i.e. what kind of souls embody in this nation for the most part

Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]


Lyzko Jews are known for their solidarity and Poles not so much (even though we had Solidarity movement) - if there is bribery involved I wouldn't call it help sorry

Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]


you are wrong Poles don't help Poles - solidarity among Poles is very low -

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


Karwa sounds Kashubian too me but I might be wrong - Karwa is an old Polish and Pommeranian form of Krowa (cow)

History / Current Polish-Russian relations.. What do the Poles think? [60]

this is not true - however Slavs were once a gentically homogenic entity originated somewhere in the north Ukraine possibly in the swamps of the Pripyat' river - from there they expanded in a couple of directions initially and started to mix with indigenous populations where they expanded

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]

you won't win this war - no amount of thinly veiled insults will help this