Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


Hey, it is just like me! I am Pole educated on the British English and the word line sounds too simplistic and what is worse, connotes different things. :)


Yes!

to pull the string over.

Life / Satirical cartoons about Poland and Poles [17]

I might get a tattoo.

Think about it. It`s a life decision.

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Study / Student dormitories vs private rooms in Poland. What's the best option? [12]


Dorms provide more fun. E.g, you can install a private jaccuzzi in your room.
reddit.com/r/europe/comments/etbozu/cracow_student_caught_with_jacuzzi_in_his/

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News / Poland -- 23rd most innovative country [8]


No, they hadn`t. Now it is much worse, under PiS Poland has dropped to 39th position out of 127.

cyfrowa.rp.pl/technologie/44416-mit-polskich-innowacji


And PiS is doing the same today. Why has PiS become PO????

Work / Choice of Poland's OFE ( Open Pension Funds ) [30]

Yes, PiS needs it to cover 500 plus and other benefits.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

aaah, only after a while did I understand what you mean. hahaha Sorry, no, if it was about a queue, I would say: little tail.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Yes, correct.

to be in the tail.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


Yes, but you know what PiS nebolshevik propagandists will do with him if he gets to the next stage? They will go over and over his clapping after the antiChurch speech of certain liberal journalist a few months ago. If that doesn`t help, they will accuse him of taking bribes (from students at Medical University) just like they did with KO`s Grodzki in Senate.

How can it affect viewers, I wonder?

Life / Blasphemy not OK in Poland! [54]


First of all, they buy property. Secondly, they invest in funds and direct stocks. Thirdly, they purchase art.
Don`t you do it yourself in the USA?

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


Here you are, darling. Last year you vehemently defended Piotrowicz, once a communist prosecutor who oppressed the democratic opposition, today a prominent figure in PiS.

News / Is the Polish-Polish war ending? Is the PiS-PiS war beginning? [14]

And I have just read a comment which might shed more light on the situation: PiS sent secret services to Banaś` offices and houses to find out what papers he has against PiS. The commenter said: hopefully, Banaś didn`t keep his files at home but in a safe place and when he is pressed too much, they will surface, causing a little earthquake.

Language / New Years wishes in Polish? [40]

Is it still published in NYC? I liked reading it when there.

News / Is the Polish-Polish war ending? Is the PiS-PiS war beginning? [14]

PiS are desperately trying to cover Lichocka`s scandalous finger. The drowning man clutches at a straw.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


Coz he is a true one, too? :):) Son of the regiment, sort of. See what I mean:


Ironik, darling, that`s the notion Soviets kept to while dispensing "justice" to the enemies of people. When Stalin ran mass purges in 1930s, he also ordered his henchmen to arrest and execute or send to Gulag family members of the accused.

Now you gladly follow this tradition - isn`t it wonderful? hahaha

PS. Who said it last year? - delph or maf - you can take Iron out of PRL but you can`t take PRL out of Iron.

Ha!

News / Jacek Kurski, the new chairman of TVP (Telewizja Polska) [37]

hahahaha depolitization. Oh, sancta simplicitas!
I hope Borsuk is ashamed of his BS today.

Life / Living like a local in Poland - What does it even mean? [30]


I was told it is quite the opposite - Polish tomatoes and produce in general has proper natural taste and smell.

Life / Welcome to winter in Poland! (-19C tomorrow) [64]

Welcome to winter 2019/2020 - a thin layer of snow just once for a few hours from December to February.

Po polsku / Jak zwykle chodzi o kasę! [48]


I PiS robi to samo.


I PiS robi to samo.


I PiS robi to samo.


No żeby sobie porównać jak PiS stał się Platfusem. :)

Work / Choice of Poland's OFE ( Open Pension Funds ) [30]

PiS government has decided about the fate of OFE funds - they will be dissolved. Experts claim it is daylight robbery on people`s money. More exactly, 15% of it - that`s the tax the state is going to collect from each individual account.

biznes.pap.pl/en/news/pap/info/2859369,poland-s-lower-house-approves-ofe-pension-fund-wind-down

News / Mateusz Matyszkowicz, executive director of Fronda will lead TVP Kultura [15]


Nobody really predicted what PiS would do to state public media. The truth is they are even more propagandist than communist. Shame on those neobolsheviks from PiS.

foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/25/poland-public-television-law-and-justice-pis-mouthpiece/

Life / Hosting home party for my Wroclaw colleagues. How much drinks and food to prepare? Any activities/games? [14]


The best option is to buy a little of everything and eveyrbody wil choose what they like. I would certainly prefer wine to vodka or beer at a home party.

Food / Name of this particular Polish sausage [32]

My fav types of sausage are the ones which are well smoked, called Wiejska - Rural/Country sausage here:

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History / Greater Poland Uprising (1918-1919) [10]

There is a good film made about the Rising: Męskie Sprawy - Males` Job. See the skirmish between insurgent Poles and Germans at 1:22:45. Made in 1980s so the special effects aren`t too good.

youtu.be/HcUGU9I9MIM

Genealogy / I am an ethnic Pole. What is my blood type group? Need help translating. [12]


In that case, you should consume large quantities of meat products which are the best for your group. People with type 0 thrive on meat.

My type is A and I thrive on meat-free diet based on fruit and vegetables, beans and legumes, and whole grains.

health.harvard.edu/blog/diet-not-working-maybe-its-not-your-type-2017051211678

Love / Hispanic girl Polish guy [9]


Was it written in the Book for nought? :

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


Nearly 5 years have passed. They didn`t listen to your desperate calls. :) Poland is still in the EU. What a shame. hahaha

Language / New Years wishes in Polish? [40]


Hmm, I never heard "wszystkich radości" before. But it sounds OK, fresh and different than those traditional cliched greetings. :)

News / British schoolboys very sensibly dealt with by the Poland's authorities after theft in Auschwitz [45]


Some youth did much worse things in Auschwitz or Majdanek.

dw.com/en/israeli-teen-desecrates-majdanek-death-camp-while-on-school-trip/a-45070048.

nypost.com/2018/03/22/israeli-man-caught-urinating-on-auschwitz-memorial/

Life / Blasphemy not OK in Poland! [54]


He didn`t make much of the ruling and continued to perform blasphemous acts. E..g, in 2019 when he trampled on Black Madonna picture.

wprost.pl/prime-time/10276545/nergal-zdeptal-obraz-matki-boskiej-doda-komentuje-niektorzy-nie-doceniaja-drugiej-szansy.html

Law / Parental Child Abduction (Indian man married to Polish wife) [32]


Unfortunately, very few people think about it during the prime of life. It is pure abstraction to them. Some start at the old age..... :)


Hey, don`t walk out on us again! It is unfair. We have invested so much in you and now you are leaving us only to come back under another nick. Do you realise that after some time, you will run out of catchy amusing nicks? What will you do then????


We must wait and hear more from the father`s side. Anything is possible.