News / Polish-Russian war? Drones entering Polish airspace. [151]


I'm about the same but other way around.

I have about 1% trust in Putin, and exponentially less trust in Zelensky. Z has spent considerable effort in trying to get NATO/West directly involved, from what I can tell. Glad Polish leadership is showing cool heads. Although, it sounds like Paulina is ready to go full GI Jane.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [192]


I'd love to read more, but time to read more is scarce. I'm lucky to get an hour of personal reading time a day. One of the things that make me ponder early retirement.


Not sure about that. Besides, not everything done is for military terms-there's also political terms.

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I'm not a Russia hater by any means, but I wouldn't say their victory is near. Seems like they are winning, but in a very laborious and grinding way. They win centimeters at heavy costs...or so it seems.

Seems like the only ones who have any semblance of desire to continue this SMO are those sitting in government offices and, probably, defense
manufacturing boardrooms.

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He wrote A Midnight Clear, I see. Heard of that novel-never read it.

I'm amazed how some places gravitate to certain writers, musicians, etc. I went into a bookstore in Poznan years ago and was floored to see a pretty decent number of Don Delillo novels. Delillo of all people.


A lot of people are crazy about her work. Doesn't do much for me. I was forced to read Ethan Frome-not my cup of tea. I can see the writing talent, but the story had me crying for mercy.

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@Torq

Never heard of William Wharton the novelist...Maf is right, some Americans don't even know who he is. 🙂

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EDIT: Torqi just used the pronoun he so it's not Edith, although some photos of her may lead a contemporary mind to think she or he may have been suffering from some type of dysphoria.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [192]


Understandable!

I took a independent study course in university on Steinbeck. I had to write a 10 page essay for each novel. I started with Grapes of Wrath and commenced to writing my 10 pager on the migrant camp in Grapes of Wrath and how it represented a socialist/communist utopian state that was under attack by capitalist overlords. I basically condemned Steinbeck as a commie/socialist.

By the end of the course, I thought he was closer to a Chesterton Distributist than a socialist. Neither a capitalist fanboy or a commie.


😀. More like horrified glances and one glare of embarrassment.

As in Edith??!!

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Because Steinbeck wasn't a socialist; at least, I keep trying to make that argument when it comes up.

The commies/socialist characters in In Dubious Battle , for example,are pathetic, self-serving, self-defeating, and destructive.


What do these acronyms stand for?


Unless evil and its utter void of good is considered. Then, it makes sense-complete sense. Although, it still remains stupid and depressing.


Good point. Shows that if reason doesn't manage the emotions, we become nothing but animals.


Make that two of us!


Very reasonable. I'm 57 and still wear them daily from May- September.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1003]


You've been talking about corvettes forever on this godforsaken forum....Time is short, just buy the damn thing.

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Not really. I grew up around a lot of guys who were into cars and would spend hours messing around with them, but it never really resonated with me; however, there was a guy in my neighborhood who had a yellow stingray. I thought it was like Bo Derek on wheels.

I appreciate them, but from a distance.

But, if you want to drive on down and let me drive your 'vette, I'm in.

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Good point.


Every time you say this I hear Vickie Lawrence's voice playing Mama on Carol Burnett.

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@Novichok

Do they feel like they look?

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@jon357

We have some at our local zoo. They are very odd and interesting looking. They look like a blob, but swim with elegance and grace.

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@jon357

I remember hearing something of that sort, also. However, I think manatees are strictly fresh water animals.

@Bratwurst Boy

Nothing wrong with romantically holding the tale in your heart, BB.

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That's what I thought- maybe 0.5-1% of population was German extraction. But, about one-tenth of the American population was of German heritage in the late 18th century. Certainly not a dominant element of the early US population, but enough to be noticed.

There was debate about translating laws into German to publish alongside the official English translations, so German immigrants were in the minds of the early American government.


No kidding? I'll have to research that.

You familiar with manatee? They are our hippos.

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [437]

One of my colleagues is originally from Nigeria (or could be Uganda), she said everyone speaks English because there are so many dialects they can't understand one another in their parent language. The joke is every family has a dialect. She said that the dialects are even starting to go away over there.

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Absolutely! Many of them hold a certain amount of charm. This German one, though is more pure propagandist..or so it seems.

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That's been one of my recent laments: how forms of mass communication have made culture more homogeneous. Here, in America, I could travel 100 miles in any direction and hear differences in speech and expressions. It's been flattened out. You still have some of that, but it's not as pronounced. Go to Georgia and 7 in 10 will sound like they are from Columbus Ohio.

My job demands that I speak with people from all over the the US-90% sound the same. I find it sad.

Wine, doesn't appear to be his thing. I love the genuineness of his remarks.

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [437]

Is that old or futuristic English?

My fave wine tasting note is: not bothered about it. Dint go wit crisps.

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😄. Good one.

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Yes.

Met a self-described highly-educated girl in a bar back in the pre-internet days who adamantly made the German language claim. She became infuriated that someone of my lowly state would feign the slightest bit of skepticism at her claim. The more natural reason I used, the more indignant her properly educated self became. I would have left it alone but she possessed some pleasing physical features, and I knew the more agitated she'd become, the better my chances of receiving an invitation for a sleep-over would be( I wasn't living a religion-informed moral existence back then).

Anyhow, this encounter led me to question the veracity of her claim; maybe she was right. So, I set off to research it at the main library of my fair city. And, my skepticism was validated. It's a myth.

I provide a brief explanation of it in the reply to your PM.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1003]


Yes, you are an intellectual huckster.

Have you researched the Muhlenburg Plan yet?

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News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1413]

I've read 7...within 14 days of each other...all from same region...weeks before an election...candidates from a non-status quo party thats gaining power.

One helluva coincidence...or, is it?

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [147]

Edouard Zier -"Eve"

Hanging in the art museum at Rogalin Palace near Poznań.

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Which word? I've got Webster's 2nd at the ready to remedy my ignorance.

Have you looked up the "history" of the Muhlenburg Plan yet?

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Which you aren't. You are a huckster.

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@Lyzko

Hahaha! My lord, you are an intellectual huckster. Whether or not German was ever in the running to be official language of Israel, I don't know. But, I do know that German was never ever in consideration as official language of America.

Anyhow, Iron makes a wise proposition when it comes to conversing with you:


I shall adhere to his wisdom.