jon357
1 Apr 2024
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [274]
I've seen that in shops there. Good that it's a local one.
Fritz Cola
I've seen that in shops there. Good that it's a local one.
jon357
31 Mar 2024
Life / Adopting a cat in Poland? [13]
Vets are cheap compare to wWstern Europe. You don't need a pussy passport. Vaccinations are cheap and there's no cat licence.
If you want to adopt from a shelter, you'll need a PESEL.
What are
Vets are cheap compare to wWstern Europe. You don't need a pussy passport. Vaccinations are cheap and there's no cat licence.
If you want to adopt from a shelter, you'll need a PESEL.
jon357
31 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [1492]
This looks like the way we'll have to go, especially since the US is embarrassing itself and likely to be a basket case for four years.
BAe and Rolls Royce engines are doing very well as are some of the producers across the sea. It's a golden opportunity for European defence manufacturers.
He doesn't, however he's getting old, has killed 300,000 of his country's young men and he's not making progress with his three day special operation.
It will escalate of course sooner or later however his combined opponents are far far stronger than t*SSia.
The US is not the only source of money
Plenty of European countries can outproduce Udmurtia
Plenty of European countries can outproduce Udmurtia
This looks like the way we'll have to go, especially since the US is embarrassing itself and likely to be a basket case for four years.
We shall see. There are some very promising prospects e.g. regarding the production of 155mm artillery grenades and armored vehicles
BAe and Rolls Royce engines are doing very well as are some of the producers across the sea. It's a golden opportunity for European defence manufacturers.
putin does not want negotiations at all.
He doesn't, however he's getting old, has killed 300,000 of his country's young men and he's not making progress with his three day special operation.
It will escalate of course sooner or later however his combined opponents are far far stronger than t*SSia.
jon357
31 Mar 2024
Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [329]
That's actually a good idea.
anti ketchup campaign
That's actually a good idea.
jon357
31 Mar 2024
Off-Topic / Music Thread [188]
She lives in Cumbria now; has a CBE. She's got a new group that only perform tours before Christmas. Unusual music. Well worth looking out on Yourube.
I preferred cooler music than depressive boomer prog rock like Genesis.
Right now, I'm listening to Miles Davies. The Bītches Brew album. I'd forgotten how good it was.
Oh yes, she has a beautiful voice
She lives in Cumbria now; has a CBE. She's got a new group that only perform tours before Christmas. Unusual music. Well worth looking out on Yourube.
mental issues
I preferred cooler music than depressive boomer prog rock like Genesis.
Right now, I'm listening to Miles Davies. The Bītches Brew album. I'd forgotten how good it was.
jon357
31 Mar 2024
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 8 [1455]
Only in terms of height.
Always clean shaven.
And the only photos of me online are group photos without identification.
As I say, don't trust Deepak. Other people here can judge what he's like from his posts.
I wonder what happened to him.
Right, and I look like Tom Cruise
Only in terms of height.
white stubble
Always clean shaven.
And the only photos of me online are group photos without identification.
As I say, don't trust Deepak. Other people here can judge what he's like from his posts.
I wonder what happened to him.
jon357
31 Mar 2024
Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [329]
Jellied eels are sold in about two places in London. Stargaze pie appears more in photographs than on tables. For some reason the Chinese are obsessed with it.
I've never eaten either but would try the pie.
There used to be a restaurant in the Starówka in Warsaw, a holdover from the PRL era that used to serve pancakes with decorative swirls of it on.
In some Polish supermarkets there are twenty kinds, each vying with each other for the crown of repulsiveness.
Mind you, the only faddiness I have about food is avoiding raw tomatoes.
I quite like HP though with the right thing like a bacon buttie and used to like Hammond's Yorkshire Relish when they were still making it. A bit like HP but more bitter.
mouthwatering
Jellied eels are sold in about two places in London. Stargaze pie appears more in photographs than on tables. For some reason the Chinese are obsessed with it.
I've never eaten either but would try the pie.
I don't care where the ketchup has come from, it's vile. Tried it as a kid and that was enough!
There used to be a restaurant in the Starówka in Warsaw, a holdover from the PRL era that used to serve pancakes with decorative swirls of it on.
In some Polish supermarkets there are twenty kinds, each vying with each other for the crown of repulsiveness.
Mind you, the only faddiness I have about food is avoiding raw tomatoes.
I quite like HP though with the right thing like a bacon buttie and used to like Hammond's Yorkshire Relish when they were still making it. A bit like HP but more bitter.
jon357
31 Mar 2024
Life / The climate for gardening in Poland [196]
Popular in WW2 in the U.K.
We used to grow it back in the 70s/80s.
salsify
Popular in WW2 in the U.K.
We used to grow it back in the 70s/80s.
jon357
31 Mar 2024
Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [329]
All ketchup.
Most is varied, healthy and delicious, influenced by all corners of the globe (except for Eastern Europe) and a delight to eat.
No preserved pig entrails, decomposing cabbage or mysterious tubes.
More gruesome.
I have a good friend who works in one of the largest ketchup factories in PL. part of his job is scraping the thousands of flies from the top of the open vats.
ketchup
All ketchup.
like most British cuisine
Most is varied, healthy and delicious, influenced by all corners of the globe (except for Eastern Europe) and a delight to eat.
No preserved pig entrails, decomposing cabbage or mysterious tubes.
Thrilling
More gruesome.
I have a good friend who works in one of the largest ketchup factories in PL. part of his job is scraping the thousands of flies from the top of the open vats.
jon357
31 Mar 2024
Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [329]
Ketchup in general.
It's muck.
We all have; it's an additive-filled race to the bottom.
British ketchup
Ketchup in general.
It's muck.
Try ketchup from Poland
We all have; it's an additive-filled race to the bottom.
jon357
31 Mar 2024
Off-Topic / Music Thread [188]
I like these. A blasst from the past though they had a sort of revival in popularity when I was of the age to know people who liked them.
Do you like Maddie Pryor?
Jethro Tull
I like these. A blasst from the past though they had a sort of revival in popularity when I was of the age to know people who liked them.
Do you like Maddie Pryor?
jon357
31 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [1492]
That's something that in your country and in mine that we don't have to even think about.
Our health services may sometimes be creaking a bit, there continual arguments about transport infrastructure etc however when we complain, it's a case of complaining that the Rolls Royce is too slow.
For all their oil and gas, for all their huge land empire from the Baltic to the Pacific, they have a kleptocracy with rotten schooling primitive hospitals, very poor sanitation, villages with no running water and leaders who live in vast palaces with gold toilets, oligarchs with super yachts and of course, as always, Swiss bank accounts.
I'll take the decadent democratic west over that any time. I can see why Ukrainians want that too.
A problem Putin could have easily solved by now if he'd actually cared about his people
That's something that in your country and in mine that we don't have to even think about.
Our health services may sometimes be creaking a bit, there continual arguments about transport infrastructure etc however when we complain, it's a case of complaining that the Rolls Royce is too slow.
For all their oil and gas, for all their huge land empire from the Baltic to the Pacific, they have a kleptocracy with rotten schooling primitive hospitals, very poor sanitation, villages with no running water and leaders who live in vast palaces with gold toilets, oligarchs with super yachts and of course, as always, Swiss bank accounts.
I'll take the decadent democratic west over that any time. I can see why Ukrainians want that too.
jon357
31 Mar 2024
Off-Topic / Music Thread [188]
They always used to be something that unhappy teenage boys liked.
And they listened to Phil Collins again 20 years later while divorcing.
Genesis
They always used to be something that unhappy teenage boys liked.
And they listened to Phil Collins again 20 years later while divorcing.
jon357
31 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [1492]
An EMP isn't worse than a nuclear holocaust however I suspect that some countries are woefully underprepared.
They can happen naturally and sooner or later one will.
Quality of life.
Some of the orcs who entered Ukraine had never seen a house with a toilet, never used a washing machine and had no idea what a dishwasher was for.
An EMP isn't worse than a nuclear holocaust however I suspect that some countries are woefully underprepared.
They can happen naturally and sooner or later one will.
Productivity, purchasing power, safety, prosperity, freedom
Quality of life.
Some of the orcs who entered Ukraine had never seen a house with a toilet, never used a washing machine and had no idea what a dishwasher was for.
jon357
31 Mar 2024
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 8 [1455]
I don't have any photographs taken since three of four years before covid that have appeared anywhere online. And that one was wearing a hard hat.
Don't trust Deepak....
You're confusing me with your chum Joker. He keeps posting yours....
Doesn't look salt and pepper in your photograph.
I don't have any photographs taken since three of four years before covid that have appeared anywhere online. And that one was wearing a hard hat.
Don't trust Deepak....
like you
You're confusing me with your chum Joker. He keeps posting yours....
jon357
30 Mar 2024
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 8 [1455]
It doesn't work Jim, so quit being a prannock.
As for hair (remember what it was like to have?) I've got the George Clooney look. I don't have the greying gene. Although grey looks distinguished, mine is at best salt and pepper.
It doesn't work Jim, so quit being a prannock.
As for hair (remember what it was like to have?) I've got the George Clooney look. I don't have the greying gene. Although grey looks distinguished, mine is at best salt and pepper.
jon357
30 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [1492]
Quite.
Britain got ours when the economy was extremely tight anyway.
And now, there's no need for a development stage.
Neither did Pakistan. Nor France
Quite.
Britain got ours when the economy was extremely tight anyway.
And now, there's no need for a development stage.
jon357
30 Mar 2024
News / The Fur is Flying! Animal Rights in Poland [87]
In excess being of course killing for sport.
There's nothing at all that can only be got from a whale, is there.
Yet some, Japan for example, kill those intelligent creatures.
Anything in excess of that is kooky
In excess being of course killing for sport.
whales
There's nothing at all that can only be got from a whale, is there.
Yet some, Japan for example, kill those intelligent creatures.
jon357
30 Mar 2024
Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [69]
The term you're thinking of is commoners however that includes 90% of szlachta..
Perhaps you mean proles, plebs or chavs. Ours can usually afford to travel for leisure however PL is old hat for them now.
Too banal.
not of noble birth
The term you're thinking of is commoners however that includes 90% of szlachta..
Perhaps you mean proles, plebs or chavs. Ours can usually afford to travel for leisure however PL is old hat for them now.
is your job in the Polish forum to explain
Too banal.
jon357
30 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [1492]
Mes vacances aussi.
They'd probably sell them though I'd be wary of secret kill switches.
They do make very effective missiles though.
Not where your daughter works.
Douce France, cher pays de mes vacances
Mes vacances aussi.
They'd probably sell them though I'd be wary of secret kill switches.
They do make very effective missiles though.
those virgins...Where would you find so many?
Not where your daughter works.
jon357
30 Mar 2024
Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [69]
There must be tens of thousands of such parties then. The bar and brothel owners would be so delighted that they'd be wetting themselves simultaneously all over Poland. Ryanair and Wizzair's share prices would probably go up too.
What are "commons"?
Google is your friend, and if it rejects your entreaties, think of it as a puzzle.
Most of them are taken by British
There must be tens of thousands of such parties then. The bar and brothel owners would be so delighted that they'd be wetting themselves simultaneously all over Poland. Ryanair and Wizzair's share prices would probably go up too.
What are "commons"?
This is lost on me. I am not a native
Google is your friend, and if it rejects your entreaties, think of it as a puzzle.
jon357
30 Mar 2024
jon357
30 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [1492]
Major arms manufacturers. The U.K. buys them in (though we're developing our own again as we used to) and they're manufactured in France as well. There are a couple of US manufacturers too. All private companies.
Who sells such stuff?
Major arms manufacturers. The U.K. buys them in (though we're developing our own again as we used to) and they're manufactured in France as well. There are a couple of US manufacturers too. All private companies.
jon357
30 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [1492]
Quite.
No need for Poland to develop them from scratch since it's not 1960. The government could easily buy them in from an established manufacturer.
Besides, if tiny Israel can have their NW, then Poland can find both the money and space for them.
Quite.
No need for Poland to develop them from scratch since it's not 1960. The government could easily buy them in from an established manufacturer.
jon357
30 Mar 2024
Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [69]
So there are no cabs in Poland then? Who knew?
Like Joe Baxis?
Ballet dancers eat. Some of them anyway.
taxi. Come on, this vulgar means of transport is for Britis
So there are no cabs in Poland then? Who knew?
invent something new and original
Like Joe Baxis?
ballet dancing
Ballet dancers eat. Some of them anyway.
jon357
30 Mar 2024
Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [69]
The person next to you could have taken them and you could have got a cab home.
Paw, try to apply some logic.
Quite. The guy in the photo is unlikely ever to be mistaken for a ballet dancer.
how can it be me if I was the one taking the photos
The person next to you could have taken them and you could have got a cab home.
Paw, try to apply some logic.
stop stuffing himself.
Quite. The guy in the photo is unlikely ever to be mistaken for a ballet dancer.
jon357
30 Mar 2024
Life / Neoliberalism and family formation in Poland [100]
I don't.
I don't either.
One treats a queen differently from a *****, just as one treats a waitress differently from a pole dancer.
I don't.
One treats a policemen differently from a thief just as one treats a teacher differently from a student
I don't either.
jon357
30 Mar 2024
Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [69]
Hard to know what you mean by "commons" and like most people who've seen buffets before, I don't tend to take photos to marvel at the food.
@pawian
If that's you in post #55, I'd think about seeing a dermatologist...
Show us photos you took at a contemporary event attended by commons so that
Hard to know what you mean by "commons" and like most people who've seen buffets before, I don't tend to take photos to marvel at the food.
@pawian
If that's you in post #55, I'd think about seeing a dermatologist...
jon357
30 Mar 2024
Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [69]
No they haven't.
Especially the pineapple.
It looks nice, however a buffet's a buffet.
long forgotten in Western Europe
No they haven't.
1970s dinner party/buffet food
Especially the pineapple.
It looks nice, however a buffet's a buffet.
jon357
30 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [1492]
Lovely. They keep doing that.
Russian forces downed one of their own Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jets over Crimea by accident
Lovely. They keep doing that.