Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


My mom's speciality. She loved telling us that

No Chemikiem, I can think of a hint bit I'm afraid it will make it too easy so I will wait till tomorrow:)

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Oh my, and here I thought I'm coming up with something new :( And that translation is even better...

What about:
Did your hands grew to your a**?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Yes :) Although usually it's more about deceiving in a fun way.

And groundhog is sitting and folding them in these papers...

Any ideas Chemikiem?

Genealogy / Which Polish first names are considered unpopular / obsolete in Poland? [124]

Mirosława is I think the most common name with slawa ending.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

Not another one...
The fact that it's your prefered British way doesn't mean everybody wants to live that way. I personally find British architecture completely impractical. Houses the size of flats or smaller but with stairs taking a lot of space and no benefit of isolation as most houses are built without any cellar, just on the ground level. Is the 'garden' is supposed to make up for all that ? Not everyone would agree.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

Oh for Pete's sake, get off your high hourse and walk around coucil estate in your home country.

And it was London and not Warsaw or Katowice where many ppl died in a fire because of dangerous materials being used.

I think what bothers you most is that noone wants to share your view. Neither the goverment nor , more importantly, the residents.

Life / When will SMOKING BE BANNED? (from public areas in Poland) [44]


True but you are suggesting that these laws are in place to earn money with private prisons. Poland doesn't have private prisons yet we have even lower limits.

Plus I can't see private prisons being created in Poland. We have completely different penitentiary system and our prison guards are uniform service along with military and police.

And even though we have harsher laws somehow I can't say this about Poland:



Walk to the pub, take a taxi or have a friend drive you. Somehow I don't see a reason to drive after drinking. And that poor guy drinking few beers after work has a simple solution- drink and not drive.

As to the thread topic (I know how keen you are on staying on topic Johhny) smoking is already banned and pubs survived. Although I must admit that the ones that have smoking part are doing better during winter.

Life / When will SMOKING BE BANNED? (from public areas in Poland) [44]


You do realize Poland has lower alcohol limits? Even the higher limit is lower than the USA. . Have a look on here before you start posting about it again

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_driving_law_by_country

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]

It's called predictive text- new language :) I sometimes forget to switch between Polish and English and then things like that happen. But why it would change salki into salami is beyond me, especially since it's left katechetyczne...

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


The thing is that there was never ever a question about their stance.
Of course you are free to think it's news and Polonius posted it to inform ppl but I don't.


Wow, that shows real knowledge of the issue :)


Even though I don't agree with your statement that's not what I was saying. I simply said that it's a non issue for PiS the same as with same sex couples.

And to be fair I think religion at school harms the church. Especially with teenagers. It would be benefitial to move them back to religion rooms (salami katechetyczne).

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


The thing is though that everyone knows their stance on that issue. That's what I'm arguing.


Oh get of your high horse.
1-ppl don't make their voting choices by what they read on PF
2- Polonius is the most biased here just pro not against and somehow you don't have a problem with that
3-as I said, PiS stance on homosexual relationships is well known
If you notice I didn't say anything against PiS just that this is a no news 'news'.

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


Which doesn't make it any less obvious. I would even say that it's obvious because of who said it.

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


I'm not stopping him, I'm expressing my opinion. If he has the right to create yet another thread with all his typical cliches then I have the right to say I find it irritating and boring. Especially since it's a news in the same way I'm a queen of England.

I'm waiting for announcement that PiS will not remove religion from schools, won't vote Kaczynski out as the party's leader or something obvious like that. And then we can all go 'wow! Really?! I never would have guessed that! It changed my life!' If I practice long enough I may even say it with a straight face

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


SiostrzEniec not siostrzaniec. Be careful with your spelling because that's one of your weaknesses.

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


Yeah, yeah, keep on repeating that like a mantra and maybe you'll convince someone.
Seriously do you have your slogans stored somewhere so you can paste them in your posts? Would save you a lot of time...


What he's doing is creating yet another thread in news that is no news but just the opportunity for him to praise PiS and moan about homosexuals. Boring really and irritating

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]

No suprise there. Did anyone expected PiS to change anything in that matter? No news story.

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

If you look at Lyzko post you'll notice he means female relative. He translates both as niece in which case it's siostrzenica and bratanica. I corrected the spelling as for niece not nephew.

You are right about the case if you look at the original post though.

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


BratAnica


Siostrzenica means niece. Siostrzeńca is a variation of the word siostrzeniec which means nephew

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

It's nice how most of the pro gun ppl keep ignoring that majority of Poles don't want easier gun access. It seems Polish society prefers to function without USA-style 'freedoms'

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Well Macierewicz already said that PiS will pass the changes but in slower, more quiet way that won't start such opposition from citizens. So we may not take his word (quite a lot of ppl consider him a bit crazy) but he is part of the government.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


So you are calling the 3 legal reasons for abortion a demagogic slogan? So how should I call these situations in which a women can have legal abortion without being accused of using demagogic slogans?

We are talking about existing abortion law (with 3 demagogic slogans as circumstances allowing it) vs new proposal making any abortion illegal (including when the women life is in danger) not about selfish, irresponsible women treating abortion as contraception (since they wouldn't be able to abort legally no matter under which law).

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


So deseases, genetic desorders and rape are the results of poor choices? Good to know.

Did you read what I wrote? What abortion clinics? We are talking about situation when the doctors say after tests: there is a problem we have to talk about (the pregnancy is dangerous to you, your baby doesn't have chances to survive...here are the options ) and letting her decide. And yes, she will have to face the consequences so she should also be the one to make the decision.

Thankfully she doesn't have to 'wriggle her way out' of anything...yet.


Maybe I did take it wrong but to me it seems that you wanted to say that giving a women the right to terminate the pregnancy even if it endangers her life is in no way beneficial to her no matter what she thinks about it.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Who are you to say what is benefitial to women? Why aren't we allowed to decide for ourselfs what is good for us? Why this constant 'saving women from the trauma' bs from the pro life side? Let them worry about themself and leave me alone.

It's one thing to say about saving the life from conception and quite another to sell the bs about helping women while in fact taking the right to decide away from them. Especially when you want to eradicate abortion even when the women life is in danger... oh yeah, real do gooders for women.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

That's bollocks. There were always ways for women to abort even including herbs. No one 'introduced' it because it was always there. The difference was that the methods were not as reliable and more dangerous.

You are free to have your opinion but talking about abortion as something that appeared only in recent times is simply wrong.

Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [241]


What you actually said was:


And:


And you have a living proof in me nad Paulina that we do know them and also sang them. If anything else that comment shows your ignorance of Poland as Hej Sokoly is basically a must on Polish big parties. But you say you never heard them being performed.

Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [241]


And yet in your post you attacked Polish culture:


And yet earlier you posted that Poles don't know any such songs (even one verse was your opinion I believe) and don't sing it at all. Now you change your tune to 'not as alive'


And Irish is not?
Plus you focus on one or two things and if they don't exist in their 'true form' you deem them dead. Culture is also food (were in Poland traditional foods are still eaten on regular basis even abroad) in patterns (plenty of folk patterns still appear in modern designs) and so on. Your claim that because we don't have (or remember) as many songs as Irish our culture is dying is silly. Folk culture is not the only culture. We have centuries of music, literature, legends and language to talk about, both from folk culture as well as the one created in towns so focusing on folk songs is, again, silly.

And we still create our culture. Culture is not some dead object that you have or not. It's alive and evolving (including also foreign influences) and created again and again by each generation. I would rather say that the culture that doesn't change and is not given new 'food' is a dead one.

Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [241]


I love it too. My older sister called it a ''song about Marysia' when she was little since she didn't know what rozmaryn was. I also like 'u przasniczki' but they are not as popular as Hey Sokoly.


I usually am pretty patient and can't be bothered but enough is enough. No one who truly respects his culture should disrespect others.

Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [241]

I have nothing against you being proud of your Irish culture but you shouldn't belittle other cultures to feel better about your own. That's a weak person tactic.


So folk song is the only sign of culture? How silly of you... have you ever been to Polish party with drinking singing of Hej Sokoly? Have you ever heard Polish kid saying Kto Ty Jestes poem? Do you know how many ppl know whole passages of Pan Tadeusz or parts of Trylogia?

If you think Polish culture doesn't exist because you didn't meet ppl singing folk songs from memory than you are just one silly goose.

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


Moral right? No, I don't think so. It's not a god given right to have a gun. It's a man made product that falls under certain regulations as almost anything else.


And? Your building permit are granted by government workers not elected, you are judged by judges that are not elected... the same goes for driving license, permission to open a shop, sell alcohol so on, so on.

And I definitely wouldn't want someone granting permissions just because he wants to win votes.


So you do have a proof (and not only your assumption) that they wouldn't get the permit! Great! Can you share it with all of us? Or maybe you have an argument how they would suddenly find money for it if only someone else was granting the permits?

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


Do I stop pro gun lobby? Not at all. Let them try to promote it all they want. All I'm saying is that at this time such change in legislation would go against the views of majority of Poles.


And they can do in the frames of current law. I'm not stopping them, am I? However I have the right (as the majority of Polish society it seems) to be against any changes in the law.


There is no confirmation that there is an increase or is it in any substantial number. If there was another poll we could judge somehow but for now it's only assumption.


No, it's a right. You might not like how it's granted but that doesn't change the fact that Johnny's friends didn't even apply so there are no grounds to say they wouldn't get it. Simple as that. More relaxed laws would do nothing for them as their issues are money related.