News / Polish-Russian war? Drones entering Polish airspace. [153]


Probably with good reason.

Sometimes it's better to keep your cards close to your chest and sometimes it isn't.

News / Germany's Socio-Political Climate and Its Impact on Poland [5]


There seems to be a lot of support.

Among the fascists in France, there have been issues about bank loans from r*SSia. What are the rules about party financing there and are there any financial links to Moscow?


Very little probably.

Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [109]

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Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1019]


It's all over the media, even in other countries.

Not 'ignored'.

There are even sick people apparently sharing video clips of the murder.

Sad when an immigrant from another country is murdered by a local.

Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [109]

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Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [109]

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News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [194]


Basically cheap words and a cop out.


Deeply disturbing, and undermines the billions they waste on propaganda.


It isn't. It's still one functioning country. There are two parliaments, neither is controlled by either ISIS or by r*SSia/UAE.


NATO's and Poland's response was actually rather clever,

Genealogy / Do you consider Gorals, Lemkos, and Silesians Poles? [77]


Clients, and brutality.


As there always has been and still is.


They certainly were and do. Even in more settled Arab countries, there's constant rivalry and backstabbing by tribes, as well as very authoritarian power structures and of course kleptocracies, as Iraq has always been.


As the orcs wish they still were.

Genealogy / Do you consider Gorals, Lemkos, and Silesians Poles? [77]


They most certainly did, and they did it far more than now. The Ottomans couldn't stop them.


They very much did.


Have you spent much time in both places to compare? The difference is vast.

Now less of your orc propaganda; your attempts to gaslight do not work, and get out of the tribal territories that you pretend are called 'Siberia'. And the fake unrecognised statelets that you occupy.

Genealogy / Do you consider Gorals, Lemkos, and Silesians Poles? [77]


It's what they believe that matters, Not what you believe,ieve.


They always did. Tribal societies who literally lived (and often still do) by raiding.


Ur of the Chaldees, one of the most significant archaeological sites in the world? Or Eridu, perhaps the oldest urban settlement?

Genealogy / Do you consider Gorals, Lemkos, and Silesians Poles? [77]

This book is a bit of a mess (as is the very eccentric writer) however it's strangely unputdownable.

You have to read between the lines to get the juicy stuff about Ribbentrop, Graham Greene, Barbara Hutton and a whole host of other famous men and women who were friendly with her mother whose favourite phrase was "Heil Hitler, Ole and pants off"!

Genealogy / Do you consider Gorals, Lemkos, and Silesians Poles? [77]


Hearts and Rangers or nothing.


I've been in his bedroom. Quite a nice room for Birmingham.


Read "Sherman's Wife" by Julia Camoys Stonor. A bit rambling but it'll tell you a lot about that set including Borja y Merry del Val and Pacelli.

And it probably has the best first sentence of any book ever written.


There's no such thing as a 'synthetic people'. If an identity forms, national or otherwise, it is very real.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [787]


Grey?

There's an expression about a grey ending. Are they connected?

Genealogy / Do you consider Gorals, Lemkos, and Silesians Poles? [77]


Same same, except the weegies are even less likely to have soap in the house.

Genealogy / Do you consider Gorals, Lemkos, and Silesians Poles? [77]


Too weegie and those glasses don't suit.

Genealogy / Do you consider Gorals, Lemkos, and Silesians Poles? [77]


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


I'm surprised the Tums were sober enoug( to play.


A nice old song, beloved of us Scots.

Genealogy / Do you consider Gorals, Lemkos, and Silesians Poles? [77]


Give it time.


Enough did.


If it's taught in the schools they'll have to.

With any language, it's use it or lose it.

Related: https://polishforums.com/archives/2010-2019/genealogy/poland-lemkos-exist-5788/

Genealogy / Do you consider Gorals, Lemkos, and Silesians Poles? [77]


They still have a devolution movement and hopefully this will gain in strength,


Decades of gaslighting, plus the whole city of Lviv moving en masse to Breslau.

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [149]


Kitsch too.


So many of Ricky Mujica's paintings are of women.

Do you like Georgia O'Keefe?

Genealogy / Do you consider Gorals, Lemkos, and Silesians Poles? [77]


They've never been 'absorbed'. How well do you know them?


They very much do and always have.


I remember some fool saying much the same here a few years ago. At the time, the PM was Mr Blair, from Edinburgh, his Deputy was Gordon Brown, from Renfewshire, the Leader of the opposition was Mr Cameron, from a Highland Clan and the leader of the third party was Mr Menzies-Campbell from Glasgow. And the Head of State was half Scottish.


So you say.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]


There aren't any, and nor is that. The media always go for headlines.


Or even good governance given its relative prosperity compared to European regions as a whole.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]


When I was there in April, it didn't seem like a "poor, criminal ghetto like run down place".

Just an average European industrial region. Could be anywhere in Northern England, Northern France or South West Poland.

Genealogy / Do you consider Gorals, Lemkos, and Silesians Poles? [77]


That's happened already of course.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]


Got 15%

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]


A clear majority.

15% is a fringe vote.

Genealogy / Do you consider Gorals, Lemkos, and Silesians Poles? [77]


Hard to know where you got that from.

Are Silesians and Kashubs separate nations or not?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [787]


It's almost always obvious. Only a skilled user of the ones you pay for can get round that, and even then...


Makes sense. We say "manana manana".

To nie Kanada...

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [787]


Basically yes. Like randka z policjantką or plastik fantastyk.


More that it figured out that search engines have a somewhat limited A.I. assistant.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [787]


Same.


Makes sense. To look under the bonnet of the car.

Off-Topic / Habemus Papam / The New Pope [95]

He seems to be a very good Pope.

The pope said: "For example, CEOs that 60 years ago might have been making four to six times more than what the workers are receiving, the last figure I saw, it's 600 times more than what average workers are receiving."

The Pope added that he had heard that "Elon Musk is going to be the first trillionaire in the world". He said: "What does that mean and what's that about? If that is the only thing that has value any more, then we're in big trouble."

thetimes.com/world/europe/article/pope-leo-elon-musk-wages-un-first-interview-hnw7zbvk8