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


How about...didn't live to see (hear, experience, etc.).

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


Maybe you should start up a new thread called Pole-bashing Corner or maybe set up an entirely separate forum called Polanophobes United. Surely quite a few PF-ers who always support the "other side" that Poland is in conflict with. There they could spread their wings and bash away to their heart's content. The Brit Bullies will probably be the first to sign up.

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


In Poland some Poles who know English well (translators, teachers, journalists) sarcastically say things like "moje kongratulacje" or calques such as "ciągniesz mnie za nogę" (you're pulling my leg).

In America when someone sneezes people say "gesundheit", not "bless you" as in the UK. That must be a Yiddish contribution.

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

An estimated 100,000 to 130,000 Poles (the exact number will never be known!) were butchered by bloodthirsty Ukrainian fanatics in Wołyń and Eastern Małopolska. Several thousand Urkrainians also died in the fray when Poles organised self-defence groups to protect their homes and villages from the rampaging ethnic cleansers. That is a huge difference.

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


But (życzę ci) miłego dnia, szczęśliwej podróży, dobrego lotu. Time of day greetings are all in the nominative: Dzień dobry, dobry wieczór, dobranoc. (no dobre popołudnie!)

Moje gratulacje (my congratulations) or gratuluję
Sto lat nich żyje nam (so again it's not życzę ci stu lat).

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


It's "of" something or other only because the implied życzę (I wish) requries the genitive case.
Isn't German similar. It's Guten Tag not Guter Tag because the implied "ich wünsche dir" requires the accusative case.

Love / Looking for a Polish love song [78]

Here is a similar language-learning song. It works both ways -- for those learning English or Polish:

Dzień dobry - Good morning!
This bouncy and cheery fun song has been used for years to teach PolAm youngsters a few Polish basics:

Dzień dobry - Good morning
Jak się masz - How are you?
Uśmiechaj się - Keep smiling,
Ja Cię kocham - I love you.
Przepraszam - Excuse me.
Nie szkodzi - No harm done.
Gdzie idziesz? - Where're you going?
Baw się dobrze - Have fun!

Love / Looking for a Polish love song [78]


Here's one (but please don't ask me to translate or provide the music -- that's for you to track down or maybe some other PF-er can help out):

Goya - Piękny Czas Tekst piosenki

Love / Looking for a Polish love song [78]

Check out: piosenkimilosne.org/jacek_sadowski__zatrzymaj_sie_na_chwile,76897.html

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


You can also say "ale ubaw" (what fun!) or "ale mieliśmy ubaw" (we sure had a good time, really had a ball!)

Food / Why Poles not like rice? [95]


In our home kasza gryczana (buckwheat graats) are an at least one a week staple. I also like oat as well as millet porridge for brekafast. Gołąbki made with barley (kasza jęczmienna) are tastier than the rice variety. But that's jsut my take on it. To each his own! But all those grains are far less nutrient deficient than rice.

Food / Why Poles not like rice? [95]


But rice is sadly deficient in nutrients. Rice-eating countries produce small-sized people whose bodies lack iron, Vitmain A and many other essentials. neededd for balanced developemnt. Read on:

The most damaging micronutrient deficiencies in the world are the consequence of low dietary intake of iron, vitamin A, iodine and zinc. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is prevalent among the poor whose diets are based mainly on rice or other carbohydrate-rich, micronutrient-poor calory sources. Rice does not contain any β-carotene (provitamin A), which their body could then convert into vitamin A. Dependence on rice as the predominant food source, therefore, necessarily leads to VAD, most severely affecting small children and pregnant women. In 2012 the World Health Organization reported that about 250 million preschool children are affected by VAD, and that providing those children with vitamin A could prevent about a third of all under-five deaths, which amounts to up to 2.7 million children that could be saved from dying unnecessarily.

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


Of course, the judicial apparatus was especially vulnerable to secret-polcie pressure and gratuities. I did nto mean to exclude them but was focusing on those who carried out Wałęsa's parliamentary coup -- elected officials.

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

As you undoubtedly know, lustration focused on secret collaborators (tajny współpracownik) of the UB and SB amongst those elected to political office. Child stars in a feature film would not be covered unless in their adult life they had been secret-police informers.

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


Oh, so where in Poland is the wreckage being kept and investigated?
Yes, lustration should cover everyone in political office.

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


As a member of the sweep-Smolensk-underthe-carpet faction, who never blame the impotent PO regime for even failing the repatriate theTupolev wreckage, you will not appreciate Macierewicz's efforts at keeping the issue alive until it can be utlimately resolved.

But Macierewicz's main claim to fame was throwing open secret-police files in 1992. Had that process been allowed to play out, there may have never been an ex-commie SLD and the de-communisation process would have been over in a few years' time. As it is, it continues to drag on, poisoning the Polish political scene. Wałęsa and other shaking-in-their-boots collaborators (the same old familiar mafia -- Kwaśniewski, Tusk, Mazowiecki, Moczulski, Pawlak, Niesiołowski, Kuroń, Geremek, Bugaj, etc.) quashed that democratic process through their nefarious parliamentary coup. Anyone interested is urged to watch the film "Nocna zmiana" which clearly identifies the nocturnal plotters.

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


You are describing the high-living PO operatives rather than the far more
modest PiS people. Super-ultra-hi-tech wrist watches costing as much as a good second-hand car (15,000 zł), caviare, vinatge wine and cognac lunches at Sowa & Przyjaciele and similar extravagance have long been a hallmark of the Platformer elite.

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


Bl**dy hell, holy sh*t, what the f*ck, goodness me, oh my gosh, or how about this oldie: land sakes?!

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


The most PZPR hangovers, socialsits, crypto-marxists and simialr leftists scum were found in the SLD, UD and UW and then PO. The fewest in PiS. Do your homework and find out the truth rather than bandying half-cocked accusations about.

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


According to assorted leftists, crypto-marxists, hyper-market exploiters, anarcho-libertines, Zionists and similar riffraff who do not have the Polish nation's best interests at heart and are therefore not worth bothering about. One should always CONSIDER THE SOURCE.

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


A field day of frustrated impotence in their own back gardens and embittered minds, one that has no bearing on anything. Bottom line: poor losers letting off steam!

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


So through all your petty-mindedness you are not even willing to give a democratically elected majority a fighting chance. The fact that they are the first politcial camp to win a full mandate means something. For that reason alone they deserve respect and some some measure of confidence rather mean-spirited mud-slinging, bellyaching and nitpicking.

Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [128]


A passenger plane began experiencing mechanical problems and the captain told the passengers: "In order to make it to the nearest airport I have ordered the luggage and most of our fuel dumped but we still won't make it unless we lighten our load some more. In order to save the women nd children on board will any able-bodied males willing to make the supreme sacrifice please step forward. An American volunteers, opens the hatch, shouts "God bless America" and jumps. A Frenchman follows, shouts "Vive la France" and makes his exit. A Brit is next, shouts "God save the Queen" and takes the plunge. And finally a Pole comes foward, shouts "Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła" and pushes out a Russian.

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


All you Platfusy, Szechterites and assorted crypto-commies have this obsession about "standing up" to Kaczyński and seem to believe that everybody's sole priority is getting rid of him. Instead, PiS is developing as a strong team player whose teamwork has enabled them to win the presidency and become the first party that Polish voters have enabled to govern independently -- quite an accomplishment in a poltically fragtmented country like Poland. As a well-coordinated team, they will continue to work for the benefit of Poland. And all the frustrated squawking, jeering and Dutch uncle advice from the losers won't make a bloody bit of difference.

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


I think even a brainless and heartless PiS-basher like yourself can appreciate the fact that poor Beata ran herself ragged criss-crossing Poland during the campaign. Don't you think she desrved a short rest after that gruelling ordeal?

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


After an arduous day of working on the cabinet line-up she took time out and upon the British ambassador's invite saw the latest Bond film. You expect her to work 22 horus a day?

Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [128]


A pilot flying a small plane over Africa experiences mechanical problems and has to bail out by parachute. He lands in Caniballand and is walking through a native village when he sees a butcher's with a large sign: SPECIAL ON BRAINS TODAY! Intrigued he wanders in and sees a long refriegrated meat counter with the goods displayed behind glass: English brains £5.20 a pound, Italian brains £5.65 a lb, Polish brains £5.79 a lb, and Russian brains £55 a lb. He tells the butcher: "All the other brains are within a similar price range but the Russian brains are sky high. Are they really that good?" To which the butcher replies: "Hell, no, but do you know how many of those SOBs you gotta catch to get a pound of brains?!"

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


Eight years without having to view those ugly Kopacz, Niesołowski, Schetyna and Mucha mugs on the telly (OK, Mucha isn't that ugly!) will enable the failed Platformer experiment to slip into blessed oblivion.

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


No such luck. Donald Dracula made a mess of things in Poland and high-tailed it off to Brussels before he could face the State Tribunal. He is unlikely to return earlier than when his term expires. They probably won't want him there much longer, so he'll be back in Poland hoping the dust has settled and his have been swept under the rug and forgottten.


Not for long. The failed expriment of the Three Tenors (two of whom were eliminated by power-hungry Tusk) will soon be only a memory. The sooner the better!

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


That's for the winning side to decide who holds what post. Losers have no say in the matter although they are now squawking the loudest. It's in the PO's own interest to focus on their own political survival which is becoming precarious. Will PO make it to the next election with at least its present 19% support or will it drop to near (or maybe below) the threshold level? Oto jest pytanie!