News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


Saw this story on this nasty piece of work....

oko.press/tomasz-duklanowski-kim-jest-ten-czlowiek

takeaways: He's gone too far before but then goes all religious to try to get out of it....

money quote: "Mówił, że modli się, by mniej nienawidzić opozycji. Bo wie, że nienawiść to grzech" (He said he prays to hate the opposition less, because he knows that hate is a sin)

scandal: Two years ago he received "Krzyż Kawalerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski" (Knight's Cross of the Order of Restored Poland, the second highest order awarded in Poland.

This must be revoked!

petition here:

petycjeonline.com/pozbawienie_orderu_tomasza_duklanowskiego

Po polsku / Staram się polepszać się po polsku :) [85]


raczej

Ukraina wygra.

lub

Zwycięstwo Ukrainy.

Jedyna możliwość.

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


Jail, that deserves jail time.

Po polsku / Staram się polepszać się po polsku :) [85]


Chyba już w maju/czerwcu będzie wiadomo jak wygląda dalszy przebieg wojny.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


It will only do that once it realizes the money train is over (the basic dynamic is that lukashenka dangles the offer of the 'union state' in front of putain in exchange for money and never delivers).

word is, that his recent trip to China was about assurances against russian expansionism.... supposedly China doesn't like russian claims against other countries (because the idea of redrawing borders opens up a bunch of pandora's boxes for china too)

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]


Maybe I'm confused and it's you that's the bad driver? Didn't you pretend you didn't need a driver's license some time in the past?

UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]


Is there anything in the new deal that hasn't been on the table since 2018 or so? (year chosen arbitrarily)

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]


Are all your friends such bad drivers? Wha'ts up with that?

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Like the Budapest memorandum, signed by russia (which then unilaterally broke its word)


nope it wasn't


you mean as already happened in MAriupol (10s of thousands of civilians killed by russia?) or Bucha? Those won't happen again?

you are not only old, but you're crazy, crazy crazy

go to russia if you like the way they do things... the US is clearly not your type of country

UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]


you have no future in diplomacy....

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


you and I know that but novi is one of the kids on the short bus if you get my drift.... his brain stopped learning things many, many years ago and now it just repeats mistakes he 'learned' in an endless loop....

very sad....

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

I asked for a


instead of a


you offered a


which is not the same thing at all..... so, point, game, set, match and tournament for mafketis, succkkkkaaaa!

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


There was never any formal agreement. Stop lying you lying liar. If any russians actually think there were agreements then they're even stupider than I thought... and that's saying something!

Please point to any proof that there was ever a formal agreement or shut up about it forever.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Germany tried that with russia.... they even had a name for it "Wandel durch Handel" (small change through business).... how did that work out and would it work out any better for any other country?

News / News article on Poland absorbing Ukrainian refugees [47]


The ongoing migration that picked up in the late teens played a role too... Ukrainian labor was an important part of Polish economic success then and that helped create positive feelings about both countries in both countries.....

News / News article on Poland absorbing Ukrainian refugees [47]


we'll probably never know because russia's openly stated plan to create 10's of millions of refugees by attacking civilian infrastructure (a war crime) failed... spectacularly! like every other russian failure in this war....

so.... mind your own beeswax son, you ain't in our league with your russian coxxvkking

News / News article on Poland absorbing Ukrainian refugees [47]


It's not all problem free... but what's surprising his how few problems there are... and the NYT doesn't have a framework for that.

UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]


I resent that implication!

I did have a very nice Beef Wellington with onion sauce in Malta a few years ago and some other (presumably British things) that were nice so it's not all terrible but... fried tomatoes are the devil and beans for breakfast is the Devils' Mass!

News / News article on Poland absorbing Ukrainian refugees [47]


journalism in the US is dead.... long story that began with Gannet buying up regional papers in the early 1980s and ending with most NYT writers not having any real journalism experience....

News / News article on Poland absorbing Ukrainian refugees [47]


Yes the NYT is an objectively terrible newspaper and reading it for information is not a good idea....

From my viewpoint in terms of numberrs it seems a lot like late 2019 before the pandemic I hear lots of russian/Ukrainian on the street and in public transport and in stores (among both customers and staff).

Numbers are definitely down from last March-June or so

Not certain why the NYT thinks teachers need 're-training'....

Ukrainian (which they've all had in school even if they mostly speak russian) is so close to Polish that children achieve fluency very quickly and AFAIK there have been no calls for Ukrainian or russian language education for them.

The historical animosity is mostly a polonia and/or far right concern at present. It's not something that the overwhelming majority of Polish people think of often.

Polls among migrants are notoriously unreliable and whether a person stays longer or returns home is subject to a lot of different factors. Many are staying for the time being and we'll see what happens after the russians are chased from Ukrainian lands.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a bunch of Polish people who go to Ukraine then to take part in rebuilding opportunities....

News / Mr President Joe Biden comes to Poland again [177]


the Chinese "deal" might as well have been written by the chatbot... anonymous with no new ideas (crucially no method of enforcement should russia decide to break it.... which it will because no russian government can be trusted to keep any deals....

So.... so far
Biden - 2
putain -0

the mere fact that China is proposing this is recognition that the US has the initiative (not necessarily really due to Biden himself).

UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]


He's not in the US... he's in Deutschland. I don't think Germany has that many cheese traditions? Or am I crazy?

I'm a little surprised that there hasn't been much in the way of artisanal cheese in Poland (unlike say kiełbasa or bread where some traditional forms have been revived in recent years). There might be some nicer white cheeses but they were also generally better in the PRL...

Polish cheese is far superior to most of what can be found in the US (or abominations like 'cheese food') but it's nothing special by European standards...

I also only recently discovered 'reneta' apples (reinette) at a peasant market I go to at times.They used to be widely grown in Poland and are now mostly supplanted by reddish rocks in grocery stores. Very nice, soft but firm and mostly sweet with a very faint sourness in the mix.

I've never been on a stay in the UK so I don't have much to say about British food beyond the versions that make it to tourist hotels in places like Spain or Malta... and that is.... mostly.... not good.... fried tomatoes are just.... blech (why do that to a poor defenseless tomato.... why?) and the idea of beans for breakfast is still something I haven't come to terms with....

Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]


Sounds more like very quick way to empty your stomach of all contents and/or regret the day you were ever born.... brrrrrrrrrr

UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]


So many British dishes sound like slang names for sexually transmitted diseases.... don't forget clotted cream, kippers or spotted dick....

Food / Kefir drink in Poland [79]


I have a friend who swears by Krasnystaw

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Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


Looks too small for goose or turkey....

Duck?

Guineafowl (perlica)?

Po polsku / Wymiana jezykowa polski-angielski [19]


chyba

najbardziej interesujące

albo

najciekawsze

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]


If, by swede you mean 'rutabaga' then Poles are convinced that, like turnips, they cause digestive problems (maybe domestic varieties do...)

I think they were also eaten during after WWII so they may have been classified as poverty food that people avoid when times are better (the elderly mother of one friend of mine won't touch rabbit for that reason).

In the US I used to cut rutabagas into little strips and fry them like french fries.... I also miss turnips (the white type that are purple at the top)...

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]


pasternak and pietruszka look very similar which may have lead to the mistranslation of parsley root as parsnip (found in some dictionaries I think) but they are different plants and have different tastes (similar but distinct).

In Europe, AFAICT, many or most countries have one or the other but not both.

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]

IME parsley root is used in soups and salads in Poland which is not the same as parsnip (pasternak)