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Joined: 30 May 2008 / Male ♂
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Speaks Polish?: Yes, but I prefer English
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pawian   
24 Nov 2024
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Today rightist PiS is going to announce their candidate. They also think they are very clever coz they chose their man who isn`t formally a member of the party. He has been only working for them for long years. :):):) That is why the promoters are going to emphasise his "independence." hahaha buhahaha
pawian   
24 Nov 2024
Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]

to summarise their posts.

Yes, because I refuse to waste time on their useless doodle. ):):) Never mind, let`s talk about sth much more pleasant here.... ):):)

A water pipe burst in one of the toilets. I borrowed equipment from a friend of mine who explained everything to me and I did it myself. A piece of cake.

It meant cutting of the broken piece and replacing it with a new one using a special heater for plastic materials. Heated pipe endings are joined with a wider linking piece after you melt the plastic. It takes a minute.

Amasing technology! I still remember how plumbers struggled with fixing those metal pipes in the past and how long they spent on screwing all pieces together and insulating all the connections.
pawian   
24 Nov 2024
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [726]

One riddle is pending in 169 but instead of a new one, I will provide you with the online dictionary of Polish slang
and collouqial speech

miejski.pl/a-0.html
which contains mostly single words but longer idioms are also available.

E.g, what does it mean when you inform sb?:
In the name of principles, madafaka!!!
pawian   
24 Nov 2024
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

If not to and for the people

Who said that not????

Serbians are protectors

Not really. Many Serbians are handsome black eyed and black haired guys and Polish women appreciate such looks. But this entails zero protection. :):):)
pawian   
24 Nov 2024
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [726]

I'm tired of all the arguments.

Exactly!!! Me, too. Tell it to hyenas who provoke them when they fall on the carcass of an already solved riddle to devour chunks of rotten meat from it. Yuk!!!!! I prefer those stinkers keep away. :):):)

this thread really will die a death

It will if I stop posting. But I am not going to. So, don`t worry about the thread and do as I said with what maf tells you and which I can`t read coz his posts don`t show up on my home comp.
pawian   
24 Nov 2024
Life / Polish women fight for their rights - manifa and other events [306]

Patrycja Volny, the daughter of the iconic anticommunist opposition singer and poet Jacek Kaczmarski has just published a book about her father. She reveals extremely negative behaviours of him towards herself and her mother. Kaczmarski, addicted to alcohol, is described as an obsessive abuser and even molester. At one moment, mother and daughter had to leave their home and seek shelter in an institution protecting women from family abuse. It happened in 1980s while the family were staying in Australia.

The scandal is double. Firstly, the book and its content ruin the monumental status of Kaczmarski as a legendary bard of the anticommunist opposition. His songs really contributed to the collapse of communism in this part of Europe. I still remember how I recorded his concert aired in FREE EUROPE RADIO in mid 1980s. The quality was terrible coz communists suppressed the signal but it didn`t matter. Later I listened to that concert many times.

Secondly, the scandal concerns people who tried to silence Patrycja Volny and make her stop working on the book. She complains they refused to accept the suffering under her father`s boot as sth important and worth dealing with. She was supposed to shut up so that the legend could live on.
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]

they only hunt for fun, without eating their prey.

Hmmm, I can`t be so sure coz today I saw feathers scattered all over the ground in the tortoise enclosure and the carcass was missing. Not even the head or legs which are inedible. It might have been a cat. Or another predator.
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Polish politics is a circus.

Yes, there is a special thread for it. I started it years ago.

SLD do well,

You wish success to leftists but support conservative Sikorski at the same time??? Jon, it looks like you are troubled with split personality disorder. :):):)

As long as Konfa perish

You are my boy now. :):):)
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Darling, how about commenting on Polish politics instead of on me???? :):):) I have already felt appreciated and fulfilled. hahahaha Now get back to topic. What`s wrong with you??? What happened to the old placid relaxed jon the Brit??? You sound as if sb sprinkled your tail with pepper..... hahahaha
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

called a drunken cúnt,

WOW, JON, did I manage to pyss you off???? Quite a stunt, isn`t it??? hahahaha buhahaha

Sorry, mate, as long as you insist on acting as a hyena towards me, Poland, Poles and Polesses, I will insist on dealing with you in typical baboon fashion. :):):) And your insults are like water off my duc.. ape back coz I am higher in the evolution than you despite being of simian origin. hahahaha
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]

will get secondary poisoning from ingestion.

I suspected it but wasn`t sure. Thanks, now I am going to give it up.
Still, those country cats which visit us are based in nearby farmhouses coz a cat isn`t able t survive on its own in such an area, opposite to the city. I suppose they regularly get their food from the owners and they only hunt for fun, without eating their prey.
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]

detecting human scent. You should have used gloves

Yes, I knew about it but was too lazy to put them on. :):):)

They might just prefer your compost.

Exactly. Camera trap picture No 3 shows a piece of refuse brought by the rat to the barn backdoor.

Well, actually, it isn`t such a nuisance to my farming as moles. I jokingly said it was a war on the rat but to be honest, I don`t consider them such a threat. The only problem is they compete with hamsters, which are seriously endangered, for food and habitat.

Best of luck!

How is it that I read your whole long post with pleasure while I am not able to do it with other posters` lengthy production/output and tell them to provide a summary???????
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

WOW, CROW, jak ty mnie tera zaimponowałeś!!! You have really impressed me now!

I thought you would reply in your usual dirty manner. But you haven`t. My jaw with all natural teeth dropped onto the ground. :):):)
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

what a decent woman need?

A decent woman needs an appreciative male who makes her difficult life easier by taking care of kids and the household when she can`t coz she is burdened with job duties or she feels down.
Simple.
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
News / Germany eyes Poland's economic miracle [44]

with cash with/ from EU funds.

Hmmmmmm............. Polish export per capita is higher than France`s, Spain`s or Italy`s.


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pawian   
23 Nov 2024
News / Germany eyes Poland's economic miracle [44]

it is only Germany.

And the Chinese no longer have to buy anything from the Germans. And - what's worse - they will soon start to overtake them in other industries, such as the production of high-end energy or medical equipment. Germany saw China as its great opportunity. Today, China is its deadly rival.
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Parliament`s Speaker, Hołownia, declared his participation in the race.

Quite clever. He knows his chances are very low, around 10%. But he is going to bargain with Mr Honourable Prime Minister Reverend Donald Holy Tusk to keep him as the Speaker for the rest of the Parliament term. The initial agreement signed by the coalition stated his Speaker`s job would last two years so now he is fighting for two more. How? He will trade resigning from the presidential run for remaining the Speaker to the end of the term.
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
News / Germany eyes Poland's economic miracle [44]

It seems Germans were very short sighted when they happily traded with China.

Germany played a major supplier role in China's industrial revolution, supplying industrial machine tools of all types for factories, electronics, and cars, trucks, and trains for the transportation network.

Now the situation has reversed. The Chinese are pushing the Germans out of the market. Chinese electric cars are starting to flood Europe. They are cheaper and more technically advanced. The German car industry cannot compete with them.

pawian   
23 Nov 2024
Food / Polish food vs Ukrainian food [31]

in the Netherlands.

BS. Poland imports more fruit and veg from warm countries like Italy, Greece or Spain. Do we import lemons from the Netherlands???? hahaha
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]

Remove all food if possible.

At first, the compost heap came to my mind when I read your advice.
However, today I was raking walnut tree leaves around the house and suddenly realised rodents don`t need compost refuse cos they can easily feed on nuts which remain in inaccessible places like among bushes or behind the fence. Let me remind you all the house is surrounded by giant walnut trees.
When I sometimes walk along the garden, I can hear crackling noises under thuya trees - it is mice working hard on nuts.
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

manners.

Darling, I saw a mispelled name of Mr Trzaskowski in your post but it was in a quote without the OP`nick. So I asked which moron had made that mistake.
If you want to avoid such questions, darling, correct mistakes in your quotes.
Verstehen???
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
Food / Polish food vs Ukrainian food [31]

Millions in Ukraine grow their own food on their dachas.

When millions of Polish farmers or private growers like me produce food for themselves, it is also very organic. :):) E.g, I never use chemicals on potatoes against Colorado beetle, I collect them manually.
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
News / Germany eyes Poland's economic miracle [44]

we copied it from the Germans and it works! :)

Better not.
An intriguing article about German economy which has been collapsing for some time and the prospects for revival are dim.
newsweek.pl/swiat/niemiecki-model-upada-kryzys-bedzie-gleboki-zaboli-cala-europe/485tnj7

The German aversion to new technology is well-known. Germany now has one of the worst mobile networks in Europe. The Internet is incredibly slow. And fax is still king. More than 80 percent of German companies use it. When a parliamentary committee recently decided that the Bundestag would no longer use fax machines, the motion had to be submitted... by fax.

I can read more and more articles in Polish media how Germans lost their traditional Ordnung muss sein in many aspects of economy and life as well.
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Another party which already chose their candidate is nationalist Konfederacja and the chosen one is their leader called Mentzen.

I consider myself a hardline PiS voter

Yes, we know. But we still hope you will deal with this mental disorder one day. :):):)
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
Food / Polish food vs Ukrainian food [31]

Ukraine's food is where Poland was 20-30 years

I am afraid it is a false notion. Ukrainian farming depends mostly on gigantic areas cultivated by big concerns, often with international holders. Do you really believe they don`t know how to use chemicals on their fields??? That`s sancta naivitas..... :):):)
pawian   
23 Nov 2024
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

he has the credibility on the world stage and would be a safe and pragmatic pair of hands.

That`s not enough. We also need a Pres who takes care of Polish women. Sikorski used to forget about them as a Euro MP when liberal laws were passed in the EU.
It is strange you prefer to forget about it now. Too many forgetful guys at a time, that is why Mr R. Trzaskowski has won. :):):)

Sikorski a conservative politician discourage liberal stay at home in the second round.

I would certainly go to vote for him in the second round. But I would sabotage my ballot card in the first one, to show my disapproval of the guy. He is a great politician but I dislike him as a person. Makes an impression of a wet blanket. :):):)