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jon357   
28 Jun 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

Is it a bin for stuffing dead cats and dogs in?

the sewers of London

Parts of the sewers of London are quite pretty.


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jon357   
28 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Terms of Ukrainian Surrender [67]

$300B.

Nothing 'stolen' since any funds from miscreants was sanctioned according to law and in any case the orcs have caused far more damage that needs reparining.
jon357   
28 Jun 2024
History / Historical Polish parades [42]

traditional Polish parades

They are now.

Every tradition starts sometime.

such a way that big corporations can enslave humanity without much resistance.

Crikey. I'd worry more about marketing, advertising and social media if I were you.
jon357   
28 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Terms of Ukrainian Surrender [67]

All r*SSians can do is make veiled threads.

A sure sign things are going badly for them,
jon357   
28 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Terms of Ukrainian Surrender [67]

we'll be there

I've a feeling you won't.

Two years in and you still haven't got anywhere.
jon357   
28 Jun 2024
History / Historical Polish parades [42]

Kreuzberg probably not

Very true. No country is its capital, except perhaps Monaco and Luxembourg.

Kreuzberg has its nice parts. I'll be there soon, except we're staying the other side of Mitte, where Friedrichstrasse meets Oranienburgerstrasse. It will still be nice to go to Kreuzberg for an evening though. There's a bit of a story about the hotel I chose. It looks a nice one, sort of a 'concept' hotel.

I once went to Kreuzberg on May Day by mistake. There was a very different sort of parade and fortunately those don't happen in Poland.
jon357   
28 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Terms of Ukrainian Surrender [67]

Given that everyone

Well you would say that, wouldn't you...

Don't worry, Ukraine will prevail.
jon357   
28 Jun 2024
Food / Polish cakes made in Poland [115]

didn't know there was such a word in English.

There isn't, however Americans refer to twaróg as Farmers' Cheese.

Cottage Cheese, made with curd grains and usually cream and titanium dioxide, is related to twaróg, but is a very different product. It's usually lower in fat than twaróg (I always prefer the full fat form of that) and therefore is t as useful for baking.

pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_cheese
jon357   
28 Jun 2024
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]

Well, because men value

Women's holiday destinations have zero to do with what men (perhaps you mean "some men") 'value' or don't.

is best to choose quite young ones, between 18 and 22 years old

Why?

European standards......... because it is different elsewhere. I think it's high time for Poland to stop being a parrot of the West

Poland is in Europe and has always had plenty of extramarital sex without requiring input from others

this leftist approach

This'?

And what has sexual behaviour got to do with workers' control of the means of production?
jon357   
28 Jun 2024
History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]

use denaturat to wash a rooster after killing

We used to have a sort of spirit stove that used it. Smelt dreadful.

Meths was also popular for cleaning windows and degreasing engines.

Nowadays, it rarely contains methanol, due to the effect that can have on meths drinkers. I think,they just put some th8ngs in to give it a nasty taste and smell nowadays.
jon357   
27 Jun 2024
History / Historical Polish parades [42]

And needs to be stopped.

You can't turn back time, ever. Bette Midler tried.

Poland has a long tradition of marching; if anything that seems to be growing. A good thing, since it brings people together.
jon357   
27 Jun 2024
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]

and I find that skin color to be quite beautiful

It's striking to see. Only one tribe and they're also very tall.

Humanity has lots of skin tones, and they're all beautiful.

In Poland, there are people who look Mediterranean, people who look Tatar and people who look Scottish or Scandinavian. The world is a mix.
jon357   
27 Jun 2024
History / Historical Polish parades [42]

How many people have tribes? Are numbers of that demographic shrinking then?

You seem to have a fixation about that topic; there are threads enough for you to opine about it in; we're actually talking about the tradition of parades in Poland. Good to see plenty this year.
jon357   
27 Jun 2024
History / Historical Polish parades [42]

at odds with each other.

No surprises.

Anyway, the more the merrier.

parada being taken over by big business."

It changes it, and not always for the better, but no bad thing to see advertisers and big companies finally recognising the buying power of the demographic.

You can have both grassroots and corporate involvement. The Caribbean Carnivals in the U.K. have both, as does Pride London and that generally works well.
jon357   
27 Jun 2024
History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]

toxic alcohol called denaturat

Meths (short for methylated spirit) in English. Nasty stuff.

This picture was doing the rounds online a couple of years ago. Do you think it's genuine?


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jon357   
27 Jun 2024
History / Historical Polish parades [42]

coz the first one took place in 2005

I took part in that. They're always nice events and great fun.

Can you guess why

Why? I noticed two rather than the usual one but sadly couldn't attend.
jon357   
27 Jun 2024
Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]

Did you know that cats can growl

They fluff out their fur to look bigger. Postural changes too.

I used to have one, from being a kitten to old age, who would do that if she felt threatened. If she was really on one, she'd start turning round sideways in a sort of a spin.

The one we have now growls like a dog when he hears our neighbour (he hates her) coming home from work.
jon357   
27 Jun 2024
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]

Europe is multicultural, including Poland increasingly. There have always been people who've lived abroad , married someone from a different culture and returned.

Australian Aboriginals make people from Ghana look white

I've known people in Africa who were almost jet black. And when working in Sudan, I saw a couple of members of a tribe who are so black they almost have a dark bluish shade. And of course there's no shortage of white and lighter skinned people here. I know north and west Africans who could easily pass for Polish.

We all know there is a sunsegment of Polish women

What is a 'sunsegment'?

And why shouldn't women go on holiday for a bit of fun? There are enough men who go to Pattaya and elsewhere in Thailand for much the same thing. What do you imagine all those young men and women go to Izmir and Faliraki for? To look at the art museum and the ancient cathedral?

In any case, there isn't the slightest suggestion that the lady in the photo who won the beauty contest has anything to do with holiday romances, and if she did, so what?

Does it mean the PF has become more tolerant

Two or three far right trolls, one in particular, an old man from Poland who never actually goes to PL deter new people from posting.

She was born in the UK but has lived almost all her life in Poland and is Polish. How is she different from Omenaa Mensah or Aleksandra Szwed (among others)?

She's not, and we'll see exponential growth of this over the next few decades.
jon357   
27 Jun 2024
Food / Polish cakes made in Poland [115]

cottage cheese.

Cottage cheese or twarög? I'd use twaróg instead for cooking.
jon357   
27 Jun 2024
News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]

don't understand how you can make conspiracy theories about a plague that killed millions of people

They can't help themselves. A real streak of evil.

Let's treat it as a test against the next plague that will surely come.

And this will happen. It could be at any time and is likely to be far worse.