News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [233]

Stop being such a twerp, Jim.

We're all used to your inane jerkery here however a stranger might see your rubbish and not realise that you're trolling.

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


Don't be daft. It was a particularly weak 'riddle'..


Not "still" but "again". I returned several days ago.


Until last week I was at home in Warsaw drinking bland and fizzy beer, eating gherkins and pushing a trolley around Biedronka. Then a few days in the U.K. and now back here for a while.

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


There you go again...


There was no 'idea' to have.


Why on Earth would anyone care what outsiders think about their country unless they have some sort of "cultural cringe" inferiority complex?

And it still doesn't say "leek"...

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [233]

Rubbish.

Vaccination is a lifesaver and any weird online stuff that promotes vaccine hesitancy leads directly or indirectly to people, often children in vulnerable communities, dying.

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

@Alien
Everything.

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

Sometimes when cooking foreign food.

Plus Wild Garlic sometimes in the countryside however on the whole it's traditionally disliked and associated with banana republics lived in by greasy looking people who drive on the wrong side of the road, have revolutions, drink weak tea without milk, lose wars, and kiss statues in church.

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


I use it in cooking probably far more than you.


Don't be a doilum. There are enough of those here already.

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


As countries go, it's very much not 'white' though is it.


That's not a high bar.

Nor is it a genuine statistic since there's no such thing as "white America".

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

Do drink a black coffee and neck a paracetamol.

Did you see my question about adjectives in the other thread. Not a hard one (B2-ish) but not so easy if asked out of the blue.

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


We love them really despite their inferiority complex about us. Otherwise we wouldn't keep saving them from their neighbours.

We used to buy a lot of their wine however now we make better wine. Mostly white wine (sparkling wine from Sussex is better than a similarly priced bottle of champagne and it's noticeable that the French now dislike blind tasting competitions because we keep winning) however for red, the average quality coming out of our King's realm of Australia tends to be better than similarly priced stuff in U.K. supermarkets from France.

As a nation, they never quite seen like the adults in the room though.

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


They had so many other bad habits too. And post in the end.

Vampires are a Transylvanian thing. We don't have many in the U.K. nowadays except for in Whitby (which is by the way famous for its food, mostly garlic free).


They're obviously scared of mine due to sheer scale however in Poland it's more an inhibited lower middle class thing about being afraid people will see their pee pee. Same in saunas in PL where people go around wearing towels.


The railways do need renationalising (together with buses and public utilities) however what in your opinion is a "better" system.

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


Same, though almost never in wh unless I'm trying to give a particular impression. And always pronounce it in herb and hotel unless speaking in my local dialect which doesn't use h at all.


Not really. The distinction is almost inaudible.


It's a tricky one. There's that, there's the one that looks like the letter æ and a few others. The sound differs. I've found that some Poles (especially ones who did English courses at Warsaw university in the 80s/early 90s - I met their "famous" and genuinely excellent teacher and he spoke like Dame Celia Volestrangler [worth looking out on YouTube] so they probably got it from him) pronounce it in a ridiculously exaggerated way, cet rather than cat. It sounds almost South African or like someone from the Channel Islands. There's also a snobbishness inherent in Polish language and society which leads to a distorted idea of what's "correct" or not when speaking. I've seen people correct each other while speaking which would just lead to a headbutting where I'm from.



There are a few sounds that are awkward enough to give linguists nice doctorates to frame on their wall.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [233]


They helped people at the time. I had elderly relatives who got it and died before the vaccine was produced and elderly relatives who got it and didn't die after the vaccine was rolled out.


It doesn't.


They certainly didn't have freedom before. Did you think that the gulag system was invented after the revolution or that Tsarist r*SSia had free media, religious freedom or freedom of movement?

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


Of course.

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A few leeks??? Crikey, that's a lot unless they're mini-leeks Presumably you mean raw rather than fresh (I'd not use unfresh ones at all) however you must be tholeeked up.

I'm not bothered for raw ones though occasionally put a little butter n a green salad.

Try making Glamorgan Sausage (use strong Cheddar not mild cheese and leek not onion. Use English mustard or Ukrainska rather than Polish). I do them sometimes and they always go down well in PL.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [233]


That's fairly normal.

Nevertheless, vaccination is perhaps (together with antibiotics and the NHS) the biggest human advance in medicine.

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


That and war/political change making a fragile bourgeoisie feel more fragile yet and determined to preserve what they feel distinguishes them from hoi polloi.


Wouldn't that be a different word? Perhaps it exists in some dialects.

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

@pawian
The strips?

Inheritance law.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [233]


Perhaps much more than you...


What precisely do you mean by that?


Yes. People die.

Do you remember that film clip the antivaxxers were touting on social media allegedly showing people dying of covid in the streets in Iran? It was actually a clip from a TV drama about Saddam gassing Kurds but hey, who cares about reality.

Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [510]


As Feniks rightly said recently, it wrecks interesting and perfectly good threads.

Basically a handful of nihilistic American underachieving boomers and the odd (very odd) younger poster are mostly behind it all. With help from others.

Always with whatever 'hot button' issue the media has told them to hate, trans women, Muslims, Mexicans, virologist, other scientists, people who believe workers should get the full fruits of their labour, whatever's on the banner at the bottom of the screen on Newsmax.

The rest of us? We don't always agree, we all come from different places, have different life experiences but we can and do chat about interesting things.

Unfortunately it's like having an interesting classroom discussion which is spoilt every time by the stupid kid at the back drawing a cóck and balls on the blackboard.

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


What a load of old bollocks.

What they have in common is that both languages are Indo-European. Neither "branched off" from the other.

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


It isn't. Serbia is an obscure, tiny (and shrinking) place that is relevant to very little.

And this thread is about the English language, not Serbia. The owner of the forum created a special thread for you to bang on about Balkan issues.

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


No relevance at all.


While you were away from the forum, were you by any chance in a hospital or similar facility?

Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [510]


Obsessed with that subject, aren't you...

Sad for you that your days of sucking men off are well and truly over...

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2635]


r*SSia knows very well that their major cities would be under a metre of glass were they to try that.

Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [510]


Yes, you mention it constantly too.

So we all know what you secretly want but can't handle how you feel.

Do you like watching gladiator movies?

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


Why would anyone need to?

You must live in a shítty place.

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


York?

One of the nicest cities in the world. And no gun crime ever. Why? Because guns are rightly unavailable.

It's interesting that the only people here who are promoting easy availability of guns are people who live in a place with a stratospherically high level of gun crime.

Nobody else wants that.

Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [510]

And fascinated.

That's obvious from your every post.

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2635]


They are anyway.


The inherent hypocrisy of the right-wing.

Some nice news from the front. A £21,000 Ukrainian drone took out a £6,000,000 Orc defence system. More of the same please!
metro.co.uk/2024/04/29/epic-moment-21-000-ukrainian-drone-takes-6-000-000-russian-radar-system-20735270/?ico=top-stories_home_top

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

@elizabethwilliam
Are you an AI?