Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


I likewise do not support universal gun ownership, possibly highly restricted and registered target pistols, small-game arms, but certianly not combat weapons. But I too am wondering whether a continued, prolonged series of terrorist attacks lasting years won't change the thinking of many Europeans. If even just a few of the Paris concert attendees had been packing a rod, they could have taken out one or more of the terrorists and thereby saved a number of lives.

News / The Left wing (not-so Slow) death in Poland [120]


As much as you dislike PiS, there's no need to feed people such a crock of BS. The most ex-commies, pinkos and fellow travellers were obviously in the SLD and smaller leftist groupings. Other than that, they were found mainly in UD, UW, Samoobrona and PO. (Don't forget Balcerowicz, Gieremek, Kuroń and others were all former card-carrying communists!) PiS was the last place they would go. PiS' predecessor Porozumienie Centrum was the same way.

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


Apples and oranges? I'm not a politician, only an observer.


UNITED RIGHT GOVERNMENT ON THE MARCH:
**After presenting her policy paper, PM Beata Szydło won a vote of confidence from parliament. PSL abstained from voting, signalling according to some the possibility of informal voting coalitions with the government in future. ZL shares with PSL a general aversion to so-called "progresesive" social experimentation and "engineering".

***Polish CEOs to lose golden parachutes? According to the authors of the amendment, the change is aimed at counteracting exceptionally high severance packages and compensation for board members of companies owned by the Treasury.

***Earlier, PO MPs announced that they would reject the draft, which provides for, among others, the re-election of five judges of the Constitutional Tribunal. Three judges on the Tribunal had their terms expire in recent weeks, with two more seeing their terms expire in early December. Polish President Andrzej Duda has not extended the terms of the rest of the Tribunal members. The passed amendement will see five judges standing for re-election to the Tribunal. thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/229619,Sejm-passes-amendment-to-Constitutional-Tribunal-bill#sthash.AXEjD9fl.dpuf

***President Duda's office willł report to the prosecutor's office the deplorable state of the presidential villa in Klarysew. "The state we found it in attests to a lack of respect for taxpayer money," stated presidential minsiter Andrzej Dera.

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


As well as the shabby, ragtag Rooskies who cross into Poland to shop for essentials lacking in the "glorious" RF. As long as our faithful and fearless GIs have their boots firmly set on Polish soil, Poles can sleep peacefully.

God bless America! Long live NATO!


PiS do not fear a "pyskata baba" or two. The more so that all they can do is rant, rave and fume. PM Szydło can hold her own agaisnt a bunch of frustarted females.


I don't belong to nor sympathise with PO, hence I feel no need to use deceptive euphemisms.
The constitution and law do not exist to satisfy the emotional or polemical needs of cockeyed PF loudmouths and nitpickers. Nowhere is it said that a party leader must hold the PM's post. The ex-commies won one election but put PSL's Pawlak in that post. Krzaklewski led the AWS but Buzek was PM. In the current term the same person is PSL leader and club chairman, although the PO had two differtent people in those posts. These are unregulated areas left to the discretion of politicians.

You would love to have newcomers run the show from the very outset, since that would be a blueprint for disaster. No-one has got Kaczyński's hands-on expertise, practical knowledge and strategic wisdom. Under his enlightened guidance and tutelage Duda, Szydło and other PiS debutants will aslo acquire the necessary political skills.

News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]


Hoolies constituted a tiny fraction of the tens of thousands of marchers. No-one remembers seeing so many Polish flags in a single march. Even if all of Poland's RN backers turned out (and they didn't) you would have a coupla thousand at best. The rest were normal, decent, patriotic Poles. Maybe the reason for the calm and lack of trouble was that people felt for the first time in years that a truly Polish president and government were now in power. There was no need protest against PO on the leash of foreign corprorations. Also. thai hideous symbol of perversion, the notorious "rainbow", had fortunately been dismanteld and dumped.

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


The new foreign office (with balls) will most likely have Russia be put on trial before the European Tribunal for delaying the Smolensk inquiry and refusing to return the wreckage.

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


That's called gdybanie in Polish: what if such and such had happened or didn't occur or failed to take place???? Gdyby babcia miała wąsy to byłaby dziadkiem. (Please get someone to translate it for you, OK?)

News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]


You've got your wires crossed. Apparently you are not aware of what the Polish people have been saing about PO: "Kiedyś był ochotnikiem ORMO, teraz głosuje za Platformą!

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


What will you be quoting when Nowoczesna's parliamentary club outnumbers that of PO? That seems to be the general trend, although it may take a few weeks or even months. The PO is doomed and may not even clear the 5% threshold in 2019.

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

Merged: Poland's new dynamic trio!

Madam PM Szydło, President Duda and Chairman Kaczyński constitute a new Polish trintiy or dynamic trio which will soon get the country moving. The Losers will try to set them at odds by grumbling, making insinuatons and spreading rumours about how this one or that has more say. In actuality, each member of the team has a unique contribution to make and all three complement each other.

O n the optehr hand, the behaviour of the PO lossers should surprise no-one. What else can they do but sit on the sidelines and malign, deride, insult and fester in their impotent fury and frustration.

News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]


Has Delph been alleging or suggesting that Kaczyński is Jewish?

News / Anti-Defamation League want Macierewicz (Poland defense minister) appointment withdrawn - GW [42]


Indeed, why were you among the first to jump on the Zionist-defending bandwagon. One can't help but wodner: R U 1 2?

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


LEWACKI, LEWAK - radcial leftist, ultra-leftist
LEWICOWY, LEWICOWIEC - leftist

Language / Harmless old-fashioned Polish swear words/phrases [159]


Choroba = old-fashion English pox on you
BTW choroba is a eupehmism for much stronger cholera.
Psia krew & psia jucha
Jeny kochany (euphemism for Jezus kochany)
Oj rety = euphemism for oj rany (English zounds < God's wounds)
NOTE: Invocaiton of the Deity or Blessed Mother were extmrely strong curses back when so they spawned a series of euphemisms in different in English i.a. gosh (God), good grief (good God), gee whiz (Jesus), cripes (Christ), bloody (by Our Lady) heck (hell), darn (damn)

History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]


Quite possible. I truly sympathise with those who have to watch what they say for fear of losing their job or suffering other reprisals.

History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]


The ścieżka zdrowia (gauntlet), tear gas, water cannon, demonstrators bludged with batons and a guy whose legs are run over by an APC are sufficietnly brutal. The film could not focus solely on ZOMO vilence, since it had to cover so many different events. It's only a few years old so I doubt if any political pressure was exerted on the film-makers.

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


Maybe yes, maybe no. Today's tabloidised media are more interested in shocking, surprising or titillating than informing, becuse that sells newspapers and incresases viewership amogn the lumpenproles. We have National Geographic Channel airing "the world's 10 most stupid stunts..." or hear "at the present rate, Austria's popularion will drop to......" or "rain forests will be so many % smaller by 2020." Such projections assume that the current rate will continue uninterrupted when we know that many different htigsn cna happen along the way. There is a trend and then there is s backlash that reverses it.

History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]

Merged: "Wałęsa" on TVP1?

Anybody watching the feature film "Wałęsa" on TVP1? Any comments or criticism?

Food / Pierogi recipe and filling from my grandmother [179]

Merged: Buckwheat & farmer cheese pierogi

BUCKWHEAT & CHEESE PIEROGI FILLING (farsz pierogowy z kaszy i twarogu):
Swish 1 c buckwheat groats in bowl or pot of cold water and pour off any impurites that float up. Rinse groats in sieve under cold running water and drip dry. Place groats in saucepan with 1 t salt and 1.5 c boiling water, cover and cook on low heat until water is absorbed. Set aside covered to cool to room temp. Combine groats wtih 1 c fork-mashed farmer cheese and 1 finely minced onion browned in about 2 T oil. (Optional: one cooked fork-mashed potato may be added.) Combine ingredients, salt & pepper to taste and use to fill pierogi. Feel free to juggle ingredients according to preference the way our immigrant ancestors did. They cooked by feel, not according to recipes.

Provide sour cream with the cooked pierogi. These are great for Wigilia!

UK, Ireland / My bad experiences with Polish neighbours in UK (not meant to offend) [173]


Anybody know of any such barber in Warsaw? (LOL!)

News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]


The truth is the same but not everyone's got equal access to it. The number of today's marchers has ranged from 15,000 to 100,000 but who can know for sure, especially at night. There is only on sure-fire method: count the legs in the crowd and divide by two.

Seriosuly though, police so far have reported no serious incidents. The number of Polish flags was staggering. Some were shooting off fireworks despite a ban. All in all, this was probably the most peaceful march in years.

News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]


The march has progressively degenerated. The bulk of marchers were originally normal, decent Poles, Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, ex-servicemen, uniformed services, families with youngsters led by the hand or pushed in prams and strollers...

But the moment disturbances erupted on the sidelines or in small pockets in the broad flowing river of patriotic Poles, the tabloidised media felt that thousands of peaceful marchers were boring and preferred to focused on the trouble-makers. Each year that attracted more trouble-makers until last year (I believe) PiS disassociated themselves from the march. The truth is the same regardless of who is in power.

News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]

Merged: Independence Day in Poland - 11th November

A day full of patriotic susbstance and symbolism. President Duda delivered a moving speech in Piłsudski Square, stressing that freedom is not won once and for all but must be repeatedly gained. A display of crack military drill followed and historical re-enactmetns are due to take place. TVP1 showed an interesting docuementary on Paderewski who was seen saying: "My sole purpose in life is to restore a free and sovereign Poland. (...) First service to the homeland and only then art." He spent his entire personal fortune on patriotic and charitable activities including saving some 1.5 million peasants from starvation. He was indeed true to those words and deeds throughout his lifetime.

Anyone planning to attend the "Patriot" March (or Stadium Hoolie Parade)? Duda will not be there. Another example of something worthwhile turning into its antithesis. To a large extent the media are to blame. By seeking sensation and focusing mainly on violent peripheries they have attracted those whose only interest is a good punch-up and enabled the march to degenerate.

UK, Ireland / My bad experiences with Polish neighbours in UK (not meant to offend) [173]


The plural of medium is media. The proper way is to say "the media ARE always sensationalising things." But probably due to today's abysmally poor knowledge of Latin, more more you hear undereducated e-gadgetarians say "the media IS this or that", as if it were a singular.

UK, Ireland / My bad experiences with Polish neighbours in UK (not meant to offend) [173]


It's all about semantics. If a word has a pejroative ring to it and you do not want to convey a negative climate, then use something else. An advocate of multi-culti mixing and integration can use the term ghetto to tendentiously denigrate an ethnic neighbourhood. But if that is not one's intention, such neutral terms as enclave, neighbourhood, section, quarter, etc. can be used insetad.

UK, Ireland / My bad experiences with Polish neighbours in UK (not meant to offend) [173]


That's the most normal thing around. The USA was a land of Little Italies, Little Polands, Little Mexicos, Chinatowns, French Quarters, Germantowns, Dutch Villages, etc., etc. It was extremely normal for people not knowing the language and customs of an alien land to flock together for survival and self-proteciton. They set up their own shops, places of worship, schools, institutions and clubs. Across Europe most Jews preferred to live in shtetls. Expats not only in Poland but elsewhere as well tend to hang out with fellow-expats. People seek a common frame of reference, common experiences, interests, likes and dislikes. One can call that a ghetto mentality or simpyl human nature. Chances are, if you suddenly landed in Mongolia, you too would seek out compatriots who spoke your tongue and saw things the way you do.

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

Many dzienks! I thought so.

Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]


How much would you give for a 500,000 złoty note? In PLN or USD?

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]


Off the subject but I had a Polish-born grandad who was full of Old Country anecdotes, funny sayings and what not. He didn't speak a word of German but taught me the following (wirtten the Polish way he pronoucned it):

Czapka - myca, kasza . gryca, słonina - spek, gówno - drek. He had served in the music corps of the tsar's army and also told this one. On the side of a railway carriage were the equivalent Russian initials K,.Ch.Ż.D. (for Kijowsko-Charkowskaja Żeleznaja Doroga), A Jew was looking at the initials and asked a conductor what they meant. Wanting to have some fun the conductor said it stood for Konduktor Chorosz Żyd Durak. The Jew scratched his head and said. You know we Jews read from right to left. In our language it would mean: Diengi Żydu Chuj Konduktoru. (Translation not available!)

Merged: Twórca = creator?

Polish widely uses twórca to mean author, artist and other cultural producer.
In English we can say "the creators of this film went to great lengths to...."
But can we use creator a s a synonym for artist/writer/etc. the same way twórca is used in Polish? Wystawili swoje prace twórcy ludowi z naszego regionu. (Folk creators from our region - doesn't sound just right to me.

What about you?