Food / Smalec in a Jar - how to make it better? [19]


Yes, it's basically a heart attack on toast, but what the heck? As the lady said, "When I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider taking it up."

Food / Smalec in a Jar - how to make it better? [19]

Some types have onion and bits of bacon added. I bought some in Galeria Biała in Białystok on Wednesday and it is delicious. Just spread it on toast or fresh bread. It's often served with a slice of picked cucumber on top. Excuse me, I have to visit the fridge.

News / Nazi gold train 'found in Poland' [90]


True, but aren't their readers' comments repugnant?

News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]


This is not true in the case, I would guess, of 99.9% of the world's population. Perhaps more.

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

It's your skin, but if I saw that tattoo on somebody, I'd wonder who it was addressed to.

News / Nazi gold train 'found in Poland' [90]


I think I read that this information was part of the 'death-bed' confession. Hard to imagine it not being booby-trapped. They should let those two chancers go in themselves and get it, with the proviso that if they get blown to bits, all bets are off.

News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]


Don't you mean Polish police dog? If the dogs are dumb, as in stupid, can you account for that? After all, dogs are dogs, the world over. Perhaps you are suggesting that the Polish police are too stupid to train them in a way that would satisfy you.

The publication Harry refers to (one I believe you are familiar with) states that riot police with attack dogs guarded the rainbow 24/7. You have been selective in referring to an unusual incident to illustrate the presence of riot police. It's a good thing you are not a journalist. You'd be forever twisting the facts!

Travel / My comments about Poland after staying there. [29]


Sorry you have such a downer on Poles. Hasn't anyone from your country ever got sh1t-faced to celebrate a major achievement? The guy won an Olympic Gold Medal, had a few scoops too many, and paid his cab fare with his medal. Hilarious. I'd love to buy him whatever he's having. Good luck in your "Top civilized country".

News / Surprising ranking of Polish supermarkets (Biedronka expensive?) Living expenses in Poland. [35]

I just wish Auchan, Kaufland and several others would introduce a ticket system at the deli counter. The assistants couldn't care less who's next. I must have walked away twenty times, muttering like a bag lady. I can't believe that the owners of these places don't have such a system in their stores back home.

Language / [SEX] Polish sentences/expressions [41]


I'd have warm feelings about you, too if you did that for me. Seriously, though, it does seem a bit strong. Is she a teenager? I'd try to cool it with a fairly formal, avuncular response.

Language / [SEX] Polish sentences/expressions [41]


That's not as risky as doing Polish rodeo.

Travel / Can I make payments by credit card in Poland's Biedronka stores etc,? [25]

Was that because they don't accept that bank's cards, or was it perhaps just a technical glitch?

Love / Polish - Pakistani relationship. How it works in reality? Are Pakistanis a good men? [85]


Stop shouting, you berk. My source of information is not as you wildly suggest. When I worked in Turkey (perhaps the best place in the Islamic world for women to live) women there opened up to me in conversation, probably because I was a foreigner and not a Muslim. They all complained about the status of women in their society. Even more telling and sad was when I asked groups of people whether they would like to change sex for, e.g. a day or a week to experience life from the other side. While a few men said yes, it might be interesting, every single woman said that she would like to change sex immediately and permanently. I found that depressing. In Europe, in Poland, for example, women enjoy being women.

History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]

Thatcher polled 43.9% of the vote in 1979, 42.4% in '83, and 42.2% in '82. She never spoke for the majority of the British people. She knew the value of 1. splitting the opposition, 2. buying votes (council house sales), and 3. a war.

News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]

Yes, it says, "The square is patrolled round the clock by riot police with attack dogs." This is a blatant lie. I intend to write to the author and ask him to change it. Perhaps I already have.

News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]

What kind of person would burn a rainbow?

Life / Top 5 things I like about Poland [77]

True. My local one opens at 0500 and closes at 2100. It sells about twenty different loaves and rolls, as well as irresistable chocolate cake. My local supermarket sells great onion bread which reminds me of the sadly defunct Bakery and Brewhouse in Oxford, a pub which sold its own beer, and had portholes in the walls through which you could see the bakery in operation.

Life / Top 5 things I like about Poland [77]


Anything would be better than bread that tastes like cardboard. If you mean that all bread sold in the UK tastes like cardboard, then I'm afraid you haven't looked very hard.

Travel / My comments about Poland after staying there. [29]


This I have never seen. I think your problem might be your choice of in-laws ;-)

Life / Top 5 things I like about Poland [77]


There's certainly much more obesity than when I arrived fifteen years ago, but I don't think it's quite as bad as you say among children. Having said that, it will be a serious issue within twenty years. It doesn't help that doctors are too willing to give kids a note excusing them from games. When I was a kid even 'the fat kid' (there was always and only one) had to do the hated cross country running, whose name we appropriately abbreviated. In my faculty's first year intake last year there wasn't a single student who could have been described as obese, and only one girl who was a little on the porky side. This will, I fear, not last long.

News / Homosexual lobby steps up infiltration in Poland [110]

Perhaps the USA could send over some of its highly intelligent dogs to breed with our European ones, you know, the ones that are too stupid to attack. By the way, if there are any European police dog handlers reading, they must be having a great laugh. Stoooopid.

Travel / Where to eat best donuts in Wroclaw? (Bakery, local places, etc) [10]

The difference between a Dunkin' Donut and, e.g. my mother-in-law's doughnuts is immense.
Here are the ingredients of the former. Source: Dunkin' Donuts, via The Washington Post.

Enriched unbleached wheat flour Palm oil Skim milk Sugar Water Soybean oil Egg yolks Leavening Salt Defatted soy flour Soy flour Soy Lecithin Wheat starch Konjac flour Wheat germ Carrageenan Natural and artificial flavor Enzyme modified egg yolks Gelatinized wheat starch Coloring Defatted wheat germ Powdered sugar Dextrose Corn starch Vegetable oil Titanium dioxide Artificial flavor

That's 27 ingredients. I haven't had a doughnut for about two years, and yes, too many are unhealthy, but you should see my skiing, vollyball-playing colleague who ate 17 doughnuts last Easter. He's as fit as a butcher's dog.

Travel / Where to eat best donuts in Wroclaw? (Bakery, local places, etc) [10]

Why eat Dunkin'Donuts when you can get the real deal? It's like going to KFC in Baton Rouge and ignoring the local fried chicken.

Travel / Where to eat best donuts in Wroclaw? (Bakery, local places, etc) [10]

wroclaw.naszemiasto.pl/plebiscyt/wyniki/najsmaczniejsze-paczki-we-wroclawiu-plebiscyt,10031,t,id.html

History / Sin of omission against Poland (Uprising ignored by Britannica) [25]


What a strange thing to say.

Life / Single mothers in Poland [175]


That would have been entirely impossible. The mother would have had childcare duties which would have restricted her movements, leaving the man to do everything else. It should be obvious than clans and the division of labour were the solution. Until recent times, in anthropological terms, the optimum size of a group was two thousand, above which number the group would split.

Life / Single mothers in Poland [175]


I didn't, you did. Please post a link to your stats on high substance abuse and domestic violence among homosexuals. If you have stats on substance abuse and domestic violence among homosexual couples, all the better.

Life / Single mothers in Poland [175]

My lesbian ex-sister-in-law raised three fine boys, two of whom are married (to women) with kids of their own. The only problems they had in their upbringing came from the intolerance of others. I suppose some would dismiss this as merely anecdotal.

Life / Single mothers in Poland [175]

Polonius, presumably you'd see children brought up by one heterosexual parent as preferable to them being brought up by a homosexual couple in a loving, stable, long-term relationship. Correct me if I misrepresent your views.

Love / Recommendations for live wedding bands in different cities in Poland. [36]

Try this:

zespoly-weselne.pl/Jelenia-Gora