News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [112]


The Social Democrats are centrist rather than left.


It didn't. I remember the length of the dole queues, former steelworkers begging for money, police (and soldiers dressed as police) attacking lawfully picketing miners and in the north east, we're seeing the third generation of dolites.

Plus, in 1979 when the b1tch took office, 40% of people owned some shares and we all owned the water, gas, electric, trains, buses, BP and a few other things. Now 12% of people have shares and the rest have nothing.

UK, Ireland / Better being female in UK or Poland? [15]


So perhaps yours is. I saw that last week on Grójecka.


That's a few interesting points however I'm sure you could find all of that in PL and in large quantities. I'd guess that socioeconomic class has as much (or more) to do with it as cultural differences. Except of course that the U.K. was the first country to industrialise and women have been wage earners for 250 years.

UK, Ireland / Better being female in UK or Poland? [15]


It's a Polish word.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [233]


No.

Every time a fat 65 year old dies of a heart qattck or whatever, half of Twitter insists that it's a 'vaccine-related' death.

As if nobody got ill before.

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2616]


A paid liar.


There are people that pop up here to say that the chemical weapons attacvk in Salisbury was a 'false flag' operation.


And very good too.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [112]


Look at some of their policies. Centre-right or centrist.

Perhaps the Overton Window shifted there during the conservative Merkel years.

About Germany; adding East Germany to the BDR still seems to affect voting patterns. In the UK people are looking forward to seeing the Tories wiped out for a generation; all polls suggest that they'll suffer their worst loss in political history.

Life / The climate for gardening in Poland [224]


Bug killing.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [233]


Most people have been responsible and followed their health service's advice regarding the recent pandemic.


A weird thing to write.

Almost as weird as spooling out negative and irresponsible crap about lifesaving medicine like the sicko that you are.

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2616]


You've summed up vladimir putain well there.

And it's spelt "neighbour".

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2616]


neighbour in Europe. Which Poland is and r*SSia partly is. In fact it is correct everywhere outside one particular region.


That might well happen; the technology around drone swarms is growing fast and r*SSia do not have it.

Imagine if Ukraine send a swarm of 10,000.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2810]


Weird logic.


Your adopted country is awash with guns yet it still has the highest murder rate in the developed world.

UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [117]


We are, however there's one who wonders why you keep reopening boring anti-British threads...

Off-Topic / Islamists and the Woke Left are uniting to topple the West [30]


If anyone counts as one of the good guys, it's him.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]

Two sexes, many genders. Some societies have had third, fourth and more genders for millennia

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [233]


Rubbish.

And you had all vaccinations yourself. Pull yourself together and try not to be such a jerk.


More rubbish.

Stop being a cvnt.

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2616]


It isn't 'far left'. It's centrist at best.


Cut out the fake concern. President Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian Armed Forces have first class strategic and tactical advice.


They are to all intents and purposes. L'etat, c'est lui.

UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [117]

@Alien

OK, why not...


More than vestiges. Plenty of people use it many times daily as a matter of course. I grew up using it and that certainly wasn't centuries ago.


I find southerners colder than northerners.


That's very very Polish. More so than English.


The rudest people I've come across are probably Berliners.

Life / Examples of popular Polish music? [995]

@Korvinus
Opera does work well with a modern updated libretto. Do you know the 90s filmed version of Marschner's Vampire? Dated now but well worth it.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [263]


The phonetics are very wrong. Should be /ˈlɛtɪs/ although schwa is also acceptable for the second vowel albeit rare.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [263]


We learnt the phonetic alpahbet (or a version of it) in the first year of primary school, aged 4/5.


That's how I'd do it for a Polish learner.

Leer is of course a word, and that's the only mistake in English, apart from in vegetables and it looks like they've corrected it. In any case, b can be written with an open loop and that would bre consistent with the way the kid writes p. Old-fashioned though. And wieprzowina is clumsily written but fine for a primary age kid.

I don't see anything major.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [263]


Could read leer or equally beer which would be consistent with the poor and outdated style of handwriting.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2810]


Quite.

Some of the posters from one particular country think that if more people had guns then they could stop violent crime.

Yet in that country they have 120 guns per 100 people and it doesn't stop violent crime at all; in fact they very obviously have none of the highest rates of gun crime in the world.

The bad guys are better at using them and have the element of surprise.

UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [81]


It's certainly not truly stifling and I'd say that we're one of the most democratic and egalitarian societies in the world (foreigners may drool over Downton Abbey which is just lowbrow fiction) however it's worth mentioning that the old RP accent was always that of a tiny minority.


It's not a tourist attraction (well, not only) however back in the day it was extremely seedy and most Londoners are pleased to see prostitution, gambling dens, alcoholics, clip joints, pórn shops, gangsters and panhandlers replaced by classier shops and bars, nice restaurants and good flats. It's a shame about some of the traditional cafes and restaurants that have been priced out of the market however there are still some of you know where to look.

quote=pawian]I am still in a deep state of shock after the leek riddle[/quote]
To be fair, Paw, it doesn't look much like "leek" and wasn't much of a riddle.

Then again, life is butter melon cauliflower.

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [579]

A modern version of strip farming is quite common in Poland.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


I'm not sure why you say that. Some societies have had this for a li g time and don't get stressed about it.


More "currently unchangeable" for Homo Sapiens though as science develops that is unlikely always to be the case.

And yes, for certain other species of mammal sex can and does change.

Gender is a social construct and varies hugely between societies. Our Neanderthal ancestors, BTW, appear to have had few or no differences between gender roles.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [263]


It doesn't look like leek. That isn't a K.


Silent since about 1870 and never universal. Queen Victoria did pronounce the silent h after w however she was brought up in deliberate isolation by her German mother and German servants.


Me too. The phonetics for rabbit are just plain wrong.

UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [117]


It's mostly not older people. That stampede on public transport that happens in Warsaw (the Moscow crush) is spectacular. And rude.


Berliners? They're famous within Germany for being brusque. Different if you know them personally of course however I'm thinking of people in shops etc. When I visit friends in Berlin they are friendly. In shops or in public places I've found real rudeness and when there generally prefer to deal with Germans of Turkish heritage.


Brexit changed nothing about that however, yes, the attitude towards mainland Europe has traditionally involved a certain disdain. In large part due to their habit of dragging us into wars. That and the garlic.

UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [81]

Or maybe it's not a riddle since that letter isn't a K.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [263]


It's neither a riddle nor a k.


It's more like Monday evening where I am right now. The working week goes from Sunday to Thursday and nobody works much after 2pm.

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [579]

Rapeseed is usually grown in the largest fields possible. That just looks like smallholders planting some on their strips.