Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


The poorest places? If they could get their acts together so easily, we'd not be in this mess. The Calvinistic approach, that it's 'bad choices' or their own fault is naive. The richest places? Give a donation from the aid budget and do it the next year without end or change. While simultaneously fighting all attempts by poorer states to have a more equitable economic system.

Sadly we let this happen. Time to sequester all the financial resources hoarded by billionaires and/anyone with over a few million in assets, (they can always get warehouse jobs or maybe some online work) and use it to reduce the inequality that causes the situation now, That and mitigate climate change.

It's probably too late for both though.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


No large affluent and cool/fertile country does any more. We trashed the world, more and more is becoming hard to live in, and we in richer countries (I'd include Poland) kept all the resources rather than develop the economies of places that the migrants have to leave.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


Yes.

Remembered not agonised over. The message is above all that they should not be nationalistic or a monoculture.

Life / Hey POLISH Do u like PARTYING a lot? [30]


Like a carpet burn on your knees?

Po polsku / Dyrdymałki o Niczem 2 [312]

@Alien
No matter how long you live in a different country, most people still count in their first language.

Also, when people get Alzheimer's, the first thing to go are foreign language, the last thing to go is music.

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]

You don't need to comment on every thread.

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]


And is the direct heir to a better known party formed in Munich which unfortunately held office between 1933 and April 1946.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


I liked them too. Nouvelle Vague films. They used to have ale Weekend on every few months.

Plus those very colourful ones with singing. I forget the director's name. Les Demoiselles de Rochefort and Les Parapluies de Cherbourg.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


As I recall, Uruguayans say they've had a cono of a day, and Argentinians never would and find it crude. Or the other way round.

Off-Topic / Serbia etc. thread 3 [437]

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Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [278]


The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion is mainstream Protestant Christianity and in any case I was sending you off on a Google hunt.

I nearly said Agapemonite, Southcottian, Non-juror and CathAp. One day, I'll say, however it's more mainstream than all of those. Though I do quite like Antoinism.


He really didn't ever meet Jesus. Post-mortem, we cannot say.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


I think they stopped that in the 50s or 60s. It must have been a teacher's dream to have them nodding off from red wine in the afternoon.


Love and hate. And they do have some excellent quirks. I hope they don't lose them.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


That's what I was thinking of, "cono".

A bit like the English speaking world. I'd avoid saying "cúnt" in America, however in Australia I maybe wouldn't.

Even between Yorkshire and Lancashire it differs. In Lancashire, little old ladies use it, in Yorkshire, it's far less acceptable.

In my town (which has, sometimes very old pre-Englisc dialect words that even the next town don't use, we say "clacker" 'snatch' and "clout" for certain lady parts. In a lot of the rest of the north, 'clout' means clothes, influence/power or 'to hit' and 'clacker/snatch' don't have the meaning we would give them. A lot of code switching goes on.


They usually used to get those in from other editions, usually the American one. At least once, the journalists there refused to sub-edit the story because they were too gruesome.


People used to send those in and get a decent amount of money if they were chosen. A couple of thousand a week, more when the payments used to increase.

The piles of letters were divided in half, sent to a lady in Yorkshire and a lady in Sussex who would choose the best then swap them over with each other and have a second look. They were both people who'd worked in the London office as journalists previously. For the letters, they were paid a flat fee for reading the thousands of them, and a bonus for any usuable ones they selected. When they used to meet once a year, they used to say three words to summarise a joke (e.g. stranger, biscuit, station) and fall about laughing.

A lot of the ones sent in were the same jokes, again and again. When the Indian and African editions were done from Britain, most of it was very Indian or African humour. Very pretty postage stamps on those exotic letter though. The lady in Sussex was elderly and not married so the lady in Yorkshire used to give them to her son.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]

I can believe that. At primary school they used to scare us by telling us that French kids had to go to school on Saturdays.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]

Even now, a word can mean one thing in Uruguay and another in Argentina.

I miss the RD. It was a big part of my life when I was a kid, not just reading it but certain other specific factors.

Towards the end, it started to go downmarket, and also used to print more articles from the American edition with the English corrected but the body of the article the same.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


Usually 4 or 5. I started several weeks after my 4th birthday. Many nowadays have pre-school as well.


It would be interesting to see.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


A Levels? Done at 18 usually, though the brightest kids (I'll not boast) could do one or more at 17. Usually rigorous, a lot of essays, however I suspect they're not as hard now as they used to be.


Sometimes it can be overkill. Better understanding deeply rather than memorising.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Did you see the British edition, or any of the African ones? If so, did you like the joke pages and the inspirational quotes at the end of the articles?


More likely that they donated them, or RD supplied them since it was the Iron Curtain and RD was set up as a non-profit foundation to promote western values.

Almost gone now, just online which is very sad. I have a strong family connection to it.

There also used to be an edition called Read from Readers Digest, for people whose first language wasn't English.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [278]


Ember-Day Bryanite originally, however nowadays I waver between Antoinisme and The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion.

Now who are you saying has suggested that St Paul met Jesus, despite never mentioning it in any of his substantial corpus of letters about Him.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


We used to get American ones in the shops. I suppose they were ready printed and of course didn't need translating.

Some good stories, some not. They (and the ads in them) were an interesting glimpse into life there.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [278]


What suggestions. From whom?

It's not impossible. There were only about 50,000people in Jerusalem at the time. It's notable that St Paul didn't mention any encounters in his letters

They may have passed each other in the street, however you can say that about Stalin and Hitler who lived a few hundred yards from each other in Vienna for a short period.

Remember, the historical Jesus, and St Paul's Logos/Christ may well have been very different.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


I've heard that saying, however it wasn't about magpies, it was foxes.

It means that people often like to boast, even of they've no grounds to.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [278]


I wonder why he thinks they met.

News / Will Poland as a NATO member be drawn into the Israel/Iran war ? [250]


If they don't like that, they can look elsewhere for people to save their sorry arses next time they're at war with Japan.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [278]


This is not a binary thing. Most people in the world are neither Christians nor atheists.

Nor are morality and ethics restricted to one source.

There are good people and bad people who are members of religions. There are good people and bad people who are atheist.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [278]

Maybe it appeared in a burning bush or imprinted on a shroud.

Or pthe forum's owner started it........

History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [187]

I'm not for them. There's no legal basis.

Skin colour matters little. Or should matter little, however sadly racists exist and do discriminate on those grounds.

To say that there are separate races is rather daft.

History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [187]

Given that you mention it every three minutes, I'd have thought you'd have figured it out by now.

Not that people in real life generally do.

About skin colour, there will come a time when most of the ones that exist now will be history and the term mixed race won't be used since everyone will be.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [278]


No. I did Uranus...

History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [187]


Or better still, have a café crème colour.

Much nicer than washed out pinky white.