Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

I am just drinking £omża Niepasteryzowana and it is very nice. Not great, mind you, but very good indeed.

Language / Translation request: words like the / and / or / left / right / this, etc... [19]


It needs to be remembered that words like "on" and "in" are only roughly translated as "na" and "w". And "at" can mean both "w" and "na". I had problems with that when learning English. Like, in English you can sleep on the train but in Polish it sounds as if you slept on the roof of the train. In Poland you can only sleep in the train. As inside. And that is just a tip of the iceberg. I sometimes still do confuse "in"s, "on"s and "at"s when speaking/writing English.

Language / to be substituted (with reference to football) [7]

Pio, almost, but not quite. Your translations sounds slightly artificial to me. I'd say:
Zostanie zmieniony za 10 minut (or Wymienią go za dziesięć minut)
Właśnie został zmieniony. (Właśmie go wymienili)
Został zmieniony z powodu kontuzji (Wymieniono go z powodu konstuzji)
Zawodnik z numerem 17 (z siedemnastką) wymienił zawdonika z dziesiątką (z numerem 10)
Wymieniono go z powodu kontuzji.
Trener wymninił go na innego zawiodnika (piłkarza)

Language / WISŁA or VISTULA?? [46]

As well you can ask why Italy=Włochy, Hungary=Węgry, or my personal favorite Niemcy=Germany=Deutschland...

News / Poland's elite more pro-US than society? [29]

I like Americans. They can be iritating sometimes and this constant smiling thing of theirs freaks me out, but they are not mean. They can be trusted most of the time (within reasonable boundaries, if not too much money is at stake). They'll wont cheat you just for fun of it. Contrary to Russians.

Life / Can a 17 year old, buy beer and cigarettes in Poland? [30]

Unless you go to the shop and say "I am 17 y.o. and give me that beer, please!" you should have no troubles. If you not look like a kid no one is going to ask for your ID. Well, most of the time. If so, just go to another shop.

Language / to be substituted (with reference to football) [7]

My bad. I mistyped it, and some beers do not excuse me. English words I do check several times, but when writing in Polish I had asumed that I can't do wrong...

Typing it on my Amiga didn't helped, it is somewhat difficult to use any spell checker there.

Life / As EuroPride visits Warsaw - is it the start of overdue social change in Poland? (homosexuality promotion) [144]

I do believe that so called "tolerance" torwards homos is no more then just a fad, a current fashion. In twenty years or so, it will disappear, as it is unnatural and harmful to the society, and homos will be treated as any other perverts.

Life / Strange attitude to shop naming in Poland? [5]

Really? I live in Poland all my life and never noticed it. As a matter of fact, I cannot think of a single exaple. Maybe it is some special kind of shop, what's type is obivious to a Pole and puzzling to a foreigner... Still, it does not ring the bell.

EDIT: On second thought, maybe a shop in a small village, a village sporting just one, single shop, it would make sense. At least to me, it would make a sense.

Language / I teach English to some Polish people - how to explain them tenses? [33]

I do speak English, for good or bad, twenty years now, and I still don't quite understand English past tenses. Yeah, I know the definitions, and if I ponder about what I am about to write/tell, I can use it correctly, but it still don't make any sence. WHAT SANE PERSON NEEDS TWO DIFFERENT PAST TENSES?? If it was in the past, it was in the past! Period. Say about silly English fads...

Life / As EuroPride visits Warsaw - is it the start of overdue social change in Poland? (homosexuality promotion) [144]

What I meant, the general public sooner or later understand that it is nothing wrong to "discriminate" against people whose choices have merited such a treatment.

Or maybe someone developes a cure, some drug or medicine, to help these people out, if it is, in fact, biologically determined.

Life / INVISIBLE MAN in shops and offices in Poland? [70]

I such a cases you need to use a magic phrase: "Gdzie się kurwa pchasz!" Believie me or not, a boor will not say a word and go right behind you ;)

News / Palikot - too liberal/modern for Poland? [197]

Palikot is a retard. I cannot be bothered to actually listen to him anymore but I am going to assume that everything he spawns is retarded by definition.

News / Palikot - too liberal/modern for Poland? [197]

Are you kidding me? Do you know any of his antics? He is the reason I can't think of PO seriously any longer. I mean, if they tolerate such an err.. individal... for so long, how can I respect them.

News / Palikot - too liberal/modern for Poland? [197]

Yeah, I realise he cannot be actually stupid if he got so high. But since his monkeying around is more or less deliberate, so worse for him. He is not a primitive fool, he knows better and still behaves like that. The more reason to despise him.

As for the changes Polonius3 outlined, aren't them mostly cosmetic? Aside from "not subsiding of political parties". I can agree with that, but I also know no polititan will vote for it. I guess Palikot knows it too, otherwise he would have not proposed that.

Language / Dziękujecie in plural form [11]

Dziękujemy and so on means "we thank you", if you look for that.
"Thanks" I'll tranlsate as "dzięki"

Language / Dziękujecie in plural form [11]

It sounds somewhat informal, but no one is going to take the offence. I guess. One can say to his boss "Dzięki, panie dyrektorze". At least to me it sounds normal.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]

Bywalec means frequenter or regular customer.

News / Tusk cracks down on designer drugs ("dopalacze") in Poland [171]

While I'm not sure if "dopalacze" are indeed as dangerous as the media tend to portray it, I think that recent crack down on them is a good thing to do. Generally, govenment is trying to do something good and the thing they have choosen will not hamper the lives of ordinary pepole. One could wish that earlier "reforms" of previous govenments have strived to do something like that.

All in all, the PO's rule turned out not even half as bad as I expected. For now.

Love / 20% of adult Poles are single and live with Mummy! [238]

I lived with my parents untill I found a wife. That the only resonable thing to do.
Why anyone would want to live all alone? I married somewhat late, and could afford a flat much earlier, but to what end?

Love / 20% of adult Poles are single and live with Mummy! [238]

Boy form Wroclaw, have you ever heared of hotels? When you bring a girl there, at the very least she don't know where to look for you, if she have bored you out of your mind...

Love / 20% of adult Poles are single and live with Mummy! [238]

Maybe Shawn, but full rent of what? Fleabag room? And what about eating? Cleaning? And loneliness when there is no girl on the horizon? I happened to rent a room or two, or even flat, now and then, but I cannot imagine why anyone would liked to live like that on the daily basis.

Love / 20% of adult Poles are single and live with Mummy! [238]

ShawnH, I look at your post and I don't understad it. Cultural diferences? Maybe. Living in a condo all alone, when you don't have to? I don't see the point. Why make it harder for yourself? For the betterment of your character? Making yourself a better, self relient person? I can see that, but I could be not bothered. I see it as selfsacrifice. Noble couse, to be sure, but I am not all that noble... And not willing to be.

Love / 20% of adult Poles are single and live with Mummy! [238]

Skill for a lifetime, eh..? A skill I was not bothered to acquire, then.

Well, maybe I am a spoiled brat. Once I was taken care by my parents. Now I am being taken care by my wife. I just give money and live along. Drink beer, read books, play copmuter games and troll internet forums. And don't see a reason to change my evil ways. Maybe I am a bad person. But I still dont see why your way, ShawnH, it the better one. Is it?

Love / 20% of adult Poles are single and live with Mummy! [238]

Well Shawn, I take my father's hat off my head (decorated with a sea shells, no less) and bow my head to you. Let's the Force be with you (Niech Moc będzie z tobą). Cheers.

News / SHOULD POLAND HAVE NUKES?? [154]

The problem is, the only imaginable reason Poland is going to need nukes, it is against Russia. So if we, one day, start to test nukes, or something like that, the next day we are going to face the (preemtive) Russian invasion. And it would give NATO perfect excuse "This dirty Poles have broken non proliferation treaty, it is their own fault, they should deal with conseqences alone".

So, unless Poland can acquire, ready to use on day one, nukes, it is not going to happen.

News / SHOULD POLAND HAVE NUKES?? [154]

What's the use of a health care system in the face of Russian invasion?

News / SHOULD POLAND HAVE NUKES?? [154]

The problem is, Poland had her share of health care reforms already, thank you very much. And every such a reform had made a health care slightly worse. In concequence, today we have terrible health care, but it still exists... For now. One more "reform" and we will have no health care to reform anymore. Well, maybe it collapses after two reforms. But there is no way in hell for Polish health care to any survive more of it.

So I prefere for a government to turn their colective attention to a nukes. Or "dopalacze". Or whatever that is not related to everyday's life. That will give them a feeling that they are doing something important, but without ruining everyone's life, for a change.

News / SHOULD POLAND HAVE NUKES?? [154]

What country needs nukes?
Nukes are great equalizers. Just like a gunpowder was.
Gunpowder once would let a farmboy kill a knight. Let someone with basic training to defeat one who could afford to train martial arts his entire life.

In the same way nukes would enable any shabby, ragged country to stare down world's superpower. Every country in the world needs nukes.
Granted, there is some significant danger for all Earth's life going extinct in the process. But that is the risk I am willing to take.

News / 30 to 40 thousand abortions by Polish girls in foreign countries [142]

Here where I live, relatively close to Czech border, more then half of the women I know visited Czechs at least once.

EDITED: I have just seen how it looks like :-)
I am NOT suggesting that I did have anything to do with the reason for said visits...