News / Polish military contingent in Lebanon. [183]


There you go. And the tiny place that is Gaza is hardly representative of the Islamic world.

Btw, that group you linked to is a propaganda site launched as PR by Israel.

I remember once seeing a map of countries where ones that allegedly had the death penalty were coloured red. It was laughable. I was in one of those countries in West Africa at the time (for three years) and nobody in the country's history had even ever been arrested for it, never mind anything else.

How much time have you spent in Islamic countries or do you just rely on the internet?

News / Polish military contingent in Lebanon. [183]


They don't, but never mind.

Have you spent much time in Muslim countries?

News / Polish military contingent in Lebanon. [183]


Intelligent people generally do.

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]


It isn't, simian face, really it isn't.


The last refuge of scoundrels/lobuzy


If only

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]


Or the opposite, since it's perhaps the richest and most dynamic language in the world.


You have to bow down before us and weep as you worship us for giving you the language that you'll reply to this in. Kwestia jest w tego typu.

And yes, I do know thats a crude phrase in Polish that Poles, male or female, criticise the use of. W każdym (bądź) razie the kulturalny ones.


What the frig?

Your female version of Poles is awkward and counterlinguistic however at least it's not as bad as "trainings".


Dlaczego takie brzydkie do mnie mówisz?

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]


Since none of those exist, it doesn't sound at all. And it's a comically bad sounding word that nobody sober would use..

Etymologically, it has the idea of "less faeces".

It would t be so bad if it did t end in -less...

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

@mafketis
Quite. Nouns for nationalities don't sound great in English, with a few historical exceptions, mainly close to England or with historical contact, like Poles, Finns, Spaniards, Arabs, Scots. Turks, Swedes, Danes. Many others are either derogatory and/or military slang, Chinaman, Kraut, Frog, Wop, Dago, Mick, Seppo, Kellper, Yanito, Saint, Saffer, or slurs about black, gypsy and Pakistani people.


As you know, English is one of the least gendered Indo-European languages, and given that pole can mean kij or laską, putting an -ess doesn't sound comfortable.

Anyway, try it with Finn and people will think you're talking about bridge.

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If they're in a village, they could well be siblings, and their parents too.

I must say, he's got the better deal in that marriage.

Mind you, if a certain other thing is as big as the rest, she'll be walking bandy legged after the honeymoon.

News / Poland and Germany should unite, says Lech Walesa [113]

Authoritarian regimes tend to do that. You don't need me to tell you though that Germany is strong on paperwork and maybe there was just so much that a lot slipped through the net.

News / Poland and Germany should unite, says Lech Walesa [113]


I'm pretty sure it has. They tried to dispose of the records however they were found by a Polish researcher.

News / Poland and Germany should unite, says Lech Walesa [113]


Probably as much as it should be given his age. He'll do less than that probably, perhaps in a prison hospital.

News / Poland and Germany should unite, says Lech Walesa [113]

True, however the case now is happening as a result of a EAW from Poland who do prefer to try some cases themselves.

News / Poland and Germany should unite, says Lech Walesa [113]

This shocked me.

A verdict is expected in the trial of a former officer in the East German secret police who stands accused of the murder of a Polish firefighter at a Berlin border crossing 50 years ago.

Martin Naumann, now 80, is accused of shooting Czesław Kukuczka in the back at close range on 29 March 1974 as Kukuczka walked towards the last in a series of control posts at a transit area in the divided city, having been told he had a free pass to escape to West Berlin.

theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/14/trial-former-stasi-officer-martin-naumann-1974-berlin-shooting-czeslaw-kukuczka

Hard to understand why the trial is in Germany rather than Poland.

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [145]

They usually prefer non-representative for cultural reasons.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]


Me too, however my experience of diplomats, politicians and others on one side and Chinese businesspeople and others on the other side doesn't inspire me with optimism

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [145]


I quite like that painting. I'd have it on the wall.

Not so much Jason Anderson which looks like something from a Dubai hotel lobby.

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Both. The data stuff is just a tool to use with supercomputers.

I'd guess that the first we really hear about it is when they start to make a killling on financial markets. Then steal a march on scientific and technical research.

By then it will be too late to stop if it isn't already.

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They know that already BB. And prepare for it.

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Yes, and they have long term plans.

Your country and mine try to plan a bit for the future but aren't that good at it. America tries to plan a bit further but despite throwing money at projects are very bad at it. China plan 200 years in the future.


You're an optimist. China. And to a lesser extent r*SSia (who after all invented it) would love nothing more than repeating those mistakes. They're in it for the long game.

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They aren't by any means. They are how ever by far the most dangerous and probably the most advanced.

If you've a spare hour or so, read up on cliodynamics.


It's pretty well what it's all about right now. Not cartoons or poems but data (even the most seemingly banal data) and what AI and supercomputers can do with it.

News / The Baltics states rely on Poland as their main defender against Russian aggression?? [213]


I remember someone here complaining that the Daily Mail was responsible for the "deaths of countless Poles" in the U.K.

Basically an internet nut job. As we both know, up to a million went and most are happy there.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]


Remember BB, the technology that civilians encounter is usually several steps behind what certain countries' military have. Do you trust China?

Especially in light of their large scale data harvesting.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]


As you said yourself, it's about the quality.


You wouldn't have. Read what I wrote carefully about what China is doing right now with data

Yes, under the circumstances. It's not ideal, however if you look carefully at what I wrote about China and technology you will understand. Artists come second to the economy and global security.

With the rise of AI and China, it's not about daft pictures that AI can draw, it's not about writing bad poetry in the style of historical poets. It's not even about bank chatbots or business letters. It's about military use and industrial technology.

It wouldn't only only be artists who are put out of business. It is about the well-being of millions of people and in any case. AI will put many of us, including people reading this, out of work within a couple of decades.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

Poloniusz reminds me a bit of a guy I read about in the local paper.

He drove his car to a petrol station, went to the bit with the compressed air to inflate your tyres with, stuck the nozzle up his arse and literally exploded showering the whole place with gut and blubber.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]


Rumour. And if I was kidnapping Polish miners and selling them into slavery in the developing world or anywhere else, both the Ogólnopolski Związek Zawodowy Górnictwa and Solidarność Górnicza might have something to say about it...

As for smuggling men into Europe for cheap labour, plenty of men come anyway as some on here perpetually whine about however they don't get work permits, Jim.

Now tell us about Lil Stabby. Is he out of jail yet? We always thought it was gun crime that was the problem where you are, not knives...

News / The Baltics states rely on Poland as their main defender against Russian aggression?? [213]


It's what Poland wants from Poland, Crowie. Nothing else. Its citizens know what they want, don't hold back in expressing opinions or arguing about them among themselves, and don't want anything to do with r*SSia.


Moroccans? Are you smoking something.

Anglos? Perhaps you mean British, and the U.K. and Poland have excellent relations. A million Poles live in the U.K. and the two contries' governments get on very well.

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And I bet you probably believe that conspiracy woo. Angry little incels so often do.


Did you think he was British? How strange. And his most famous song didn't even give you a clue. The other two names are people you've only ever read about online (normal for you) whose fame was in the past when you were still trying to fit into outsize short trousers, Sweet Cherry Pie.


Actually closer to four years ago now. COVID restrictions for travel hadn't been fully lifted back then and every stage of the journey there and back from Poland was hassle. All for a week of meetings. Nice to get out of the house after all that lockdown though. Not that you get outdoors much yourself for obvious reasons..

News / Polish military contingent in Lebanon. [183]

Generally a lot of good, though they get let down by member states. They do a lot in a crisis, and people who complain about migration would have a lot more migration to complain about if it weren't for the refugee camps they run here in central Africa.

Their peacekeeping forces save a lot of lives too.

News / The Baltics states rely on Poland as their main defender against Russian aggression?? [213]


The have a permanent military contingent there as part of NATO. Germany is leading the Enhanced Fprward Presence there, just as the United Kingdom is leading it in Estonia and Canada is leading it in Latvia.