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


I recommend British (or Irish) sausages. They make a difference. And I'd use ordinary mushrooms (pieczarki). Home picked are best but any will do.

Lean bacon (Lidl sell an approximation of it) works best.

The beans are optional and the egg shouldn't be overdone. Fried bread is traditional with it but not healthy.

In London they often have their southern version of bubble and squeak (they do it like a patty down there). In the north we don't, but you can have fried potato (the precious night's boiled potato sliced and fried.

Lorna sausage is a Scottish alternative and easy to make at home.

It must always, but always, be washed down with a mug of very strong tea with a little milk.

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




Vile.

Life / Is it worth returning to Poland in old age? [168]


Yes, Ziobro.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [255]


Is unnecessary.

A courthouse is about the law and justice. These are secular and for all.

Only the most conservative in society favour mixing religion and state. Why should the rest of society accept the wishes of its most conservative elements%?


trumpetcùnt can do nothing.

Good when Satanic groups assert their rights to have their emblems in those cases where red states have allowed religious texts in inappropriate places.

Life / Is it worth returning to Poland in old age? [168]

That's an issue too.

Years ago there used to be a pollution monitor in Warsaw with a big display. It was near DH Smyk. The council had to take it down because all the displays were pretty well always on red.

Where we are has forest on three sides which helps a bit.

For retirement, perhaps a summer house on the edge of Warsaw but near the metro. Somewhere in the Med for winter.

News / Good news: Poland's PiS to rule at least 12 years -- Morawiecki [91]

A good Stilton, made in one of the six villages that make it, is hard to beat.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [255]


I gather that part is optional and in any case it has no relevance to having religious texts displayed on the public estate.


He was there already and is no stranger to suffering a horrible death.

Love / Are Polish men shy and take things slow? [123]

They do in Poland. There are a few new ones.

Personally, I've been maybe four or five times in the past thirty years, twice for premiers in Warsaw where I only went for the champagne, the buffet and the glamour.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


That's might be true. I did wonder if it was due to the winter weather there.


They do. Now buzz off and go for a nice walk. Maybe on a busy highway.

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

I'd heard it's good there but that video is just some highly subjective online thing with somebody being nice.

Go to Scarborough or some parts of the West Coast overlooking the Irish Sea and you will find the best seafood you've eaten in your life.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [255]


Not relevant, Jim since one lapse doesn't justify a greater one.


Because we're discussing it.


Maybe He hates you.

Life / Is it worth returning to Poland in old age? [168]

It is ultimately the same thing

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [255]


As is all life and the universe(s)

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [255]

So it's exactly as I say..

Courthouses are an inappropriate place to display religious texts or promote any single religion


Did you think it was "founded".

Life / Is it worth returning to Poland in old age? [168]


If I reach 100, my insurance company will give me a velocipede.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [255]


Are you suggesting that there isn't a constitutional separation between church and state?

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


A strange thing to write.



Don't be silly.

Once again you're digging yourself further and further into a hole. It shows you up for the appalling individual you are.

Life / Is it worth returning to Poland in old age? [168]


That's clearly due to the dangerous situation there.


I'm wondering myself about a retirement venue for a few years time. Poland maybe in the summer but definitely not in the winter.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]

Looks like you are confusing the words import and export.

Time to turn your computer off and go for a walk.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [612]

Rather than the term narcissist, it''s probably better to talk about the Dark Triad/Tetrad.

If you aren't familiar with that term, it's worth reading up on. Depressing though to know that such creatures walk among us.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [612]


True.

I once had a lot of contact with a malignant narcissistic sociopath. She was one of the most unpleasant people I've come across.

I'll not tell the stories since I'm still traumatised and you'd probably not believe some. I'll mention though that she used to walk up to pretty well everyone she met and whisper "don't tell anyone, but I'm a multimillionaire". When she was fired (for theft and sexual assault) she sent an email to the whole workplace saying she used to be an Olympic athlete and was returning to sport. She was 62 and around 150 kilos. She used to say she "thrived on conflict".

Interestingly her son back in Australia refused to allow her to see his kids.

In my opinion she was beyond any help. I suspect Novichok is too. His Facebook page is the exact opposite of what he posts on here. It's all peace and love and opposing gun ownership and opposing the republicans and their orange-faded leader.

Whatever is going on in that head is not pretty.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


They wouldn't. The developed world would simply sanction imports from there including financial transfer services and arms purchases and would remove visa exemptions.

Language / Slow Talk in Polish TV [12]


There's a very good podcast that I listen to. It's called "The news in slow French".

Worth listening to and helps with following French radio generally.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


They won't invade Greenland or any other NATO country. They would instantly find themselves friendless and under international sanctions..

Anyway, trumpcùnt will be out of office in 4 years and hopefully dead before that.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


I think I prefer Miss Smilla's feeling for snow. The register feels more accurate.


I'd guess that Hoeg expected his readers to guess quickly. That or he realised they would and moved towards the somewhat strange ending.

He's good at building suspense though and as you say, great fun and as Barney says, a great read. His Book of Danish Dreams is good too but not an especially jolly read due to the dark subject matter.

You're right about the way he approaches Greenlanders, both in a realistic and a romantic way. That contrast reflects the paradoxes of dual heritage.

The heritage thing reminds me of a really good book I read last week. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. It was on the Sunday Times and NYT best sellers lists and was Barack Obama's book pick.

Not off topic since some of it concerns Greenland and the Inuit too. A lot to do with dual heritage, asylum and migration and the paradoxes around that. I expected it to be painfully politically correct though it isn't. It doesn't make light of racism and unconscious bias however it also takes the pıss out of Identity Grievance and fixating on a part of your ancestry.

Exciting too, set mostly in London (and the Arctic) and has lots of killings and spook stuff. The ending of the book and sting in the tail really isn't so predictable and I recommend it.

Study / Can I change my Switzerland Schengen 3 months tourist visa to Poland study visa [9]


Do you know why Polishforums doesn't have a Christmas nativity play?

They tried however among the posters there were plenty of little donkeys but they couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

News / Good news: Poland's PiS to rule at least 12 years -- Morawiecki [91]

@Alien
Get away! Who knew!

Cambozola is German though. Both are better and more flavoursome than the blue cheeses that Biedronka etc sell.

There used to be a Polish-made one similar to the Danish one Danablu called I think Rokpol which did have a little flavour however like Danablu and Cambozola it was factory stuff.

Study / Can I change my Switzerland Schengen 3 months tourist visa to Poland study visa [9]


Or German or Italian.

And increasingly English is used as a lingua franca (perhaps we should start saying lingua anglia?) in Swiss cities.


It's not used in Nigeria but is used in some other, less populous parts of West Africa. Several. Oh tries are switching to English though despite the French government's attempts to bribe and coerce them not to. The French told them that French was the major international language. They were naive then but are less naive now and can see that it clearly isn't.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [255]


And those Christian founders took great care to separate religion and public life.


Mostof the early ones from the UK didn't 'escape' and worship freely at home. Some of them were appalling fanatics though, more like the Taliban in religious outlook than any major denomination active today. They left after Cromwell's extremists had been defeated and could no longer impose their bleak religious view (including banning Christmas, dancing and theatre) on others.

News / Good news: Poland's PiS to rule at least 12 years -- Morawiecki [91]


I don't think much of Polish blue cheeses.

They all smell fresher than PiS policies though, and are as bland and characterless as Platforms.