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Posts by Wincig  

Joined: 1 Sep 2016 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 5 Apr 2023
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Posts: 227 		From: Paris, France
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Wincig   
30 Nov 2016
Study / Turkish guy to study at a university in Poland. Is that problem for Polish people? [139]

If religion is necessary for a person to feel comfortable and content with their life, it is not my place to judge it.

+1

Perhaps hair is evil and must be covered up

Not as dumb as it might seem. In many civilizations, hair (especially female) was (is) considered to have some "sexual" element attached to it. And today we all wear covers on our pubic hair, at least in public. So where do you set the boundary??
Wincig   
30 Nov 2016
Life / Millennials even worse than baby-boomers? [60]

Rolex watches? Who the hell wears a Rolex

a famous publicist once said that one had missed his/her life if one did not own a Rolex by the age of 50..
Wincig   
30 Nov 2016
News / V4 (Poland) wants Serbia and 5 others in EU [60]

Other countries have made sacrifices like Poland which does not lay claim to the Lwów region, nor does Germany plan to reclaim Breslau.

The voice of reason

Every issue that involve Poland is emotional to me, to all of Serbians, as far as I know. Nothing that say or do Anglos, Germanics or Franks or even Russians can`t affect my emotions as that what say or do Poland.

That sums up very well your pbs Crow: too many emotions, not enough rational thinking!
Wincig   
28 Nov 2016
Off-Topic / New Anglo-Polish alliance in the making? [55]

Do you actually know anyone who eats it??

Yes, me! And I am not even a Brit!! The key is to spread it very thinly over buttered toast. If you put too much, then the taste is too strong and it becomes not edible

Tea 'with milk' on other hand, has a lovely golden colour or a very dark brown depending on how strong the infusion of tea is before the milk is added

Used to have my tea as above before I moved to Poland in 2005 and saw the light ; now I would not dream of having it any other way than the Polish way. It is also how they drink it in Turkey; they should know, the Turks being by far the largest tea drinkers in the world
Wincig   
28 Nov 2016
Off-Topic / New Anglo-Polish alliance in the making? [55]

I don't think it's that popular nowadays.

I am not too sure. One only needs to look at the uproar triggered by Unilever when they tried to raise the price a few weeks ago..
Wincig   
23 Nov 2016
News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]

When that happens the rich will start a world war to get the economy going again, kill a 100 million people to stop global warming and all will be well again.

Currently, temperatures in the Arctic are 20C above normal (-5 instead of -25). And if 2016 is confirmed as the hottest year ever, it will mean that 16 out of the 17 hottest years ever recorded would have been in this century
Wincig   
23 Nov 2016
News / Jesus Christ is Now Officially the King of Poland [164]

Maybe they are taking their cue from the French surrealist Alfred Jarry and his play "Ubu Roi" . It is a parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth with bits of Hamlet and King Lear tossed in. "The action is in Poland, meaning anywhere" . Here is the plot.

Ubu kills Venceslas the King of Poland and all the nobles; " I have the honor to let you know that in order to make the kingdom richer I will kill all the nobles and steal their money". Ubu's henchman gets thrown into prison; he then escapes to Russia, where he gets the Tsar to declare war on Ubu. As Ubu fights the Tsar, his wife tries to steal money that Ubu has stashed in the palace. Ubu has, in the meantime, defeated the Russians, and has also been attacked by a bear. Ubu's wife pretends to be the angel Gabriel, in order to try to scare Ubu into forgiving her for her attempt to steal from him.
Wincig   
22 Nov 2016
News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]

anti-Serbian propaganda in mass media

Do you seriously believe that the entire US (or western) media just wrote whatever the Clintons told them to?

defended Europe and Poland with it.

Defended Europe and Poland against whom?
Wincig   
21 Nov 2016
News / Poland And the Pope: Not Happening, Apparently [58]

I know they have cars but they belong to the community, not the individual nun.

A priest I knew drove around in one of those sporty Alfa Romeos. Used to generate quite a lot of gossip in the parish !
Wincig   
20 Nov 2016
History / German history of my new home in Poland [30]

A - 345 years; Silesia is Polish since 990 until 1335 when ...

I do admire your precision Ziemowit; but then where was Silesia before 990??
Wincig   
20 Nov 2016
News / An EU army. Impact on Poland [155]

France, prefer to use their air force and medical units, do not like to put boots on the ground.

except in Mali, Liberia, Congo, Centrafrica, Guinea, Lebanon, Syria, Irak .. where French (non medical) troops are on the ground
Wincig   
20 Nov 2016
Genealogy / Create gene bank of Slavic and therefore Polish people? [44]

They are Serbians who took Islam during Ottoman Turkish invasion on Serbian lands and Europe.

yes, and since history is facetious (or God, depending on your inclination), you have the exact mirror with the Gagaouzes, who are Christian Turks.
Wincig   
20 Nov 2016
News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]

As if it were written Tramp in Polish (what I hear)

From Trump to Tramp, just one letter.. A reminder that the Tarpeian rock is not far from the Capitol?

Up next we make our Frenchmen great again

Not sure I get it..
Wincig   
20 Nov 2016
News / How serious is existence of Lithuania as independent state between Poland and Russia ? [65]

Nah he isn't a russian troll he isn't zealous enough

I agree. He's far too much of a 'character' to be a Russian troll

In fact, I agree with both of you. And Crow does keep us entertained.

@Crow: you mention in another thread your "Sarmatian" connections. I guess you are aware that Sarmats were originally people from Iran?