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Tevery Best posted:I miss the Snickers spread so much Really, it must have been found to cause all sorts of mega cancer. Why else kill such an amazing product.
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Osmosisch posted:It's so loving depressing seeing the amount of plastic bottles my in-laws use on any given day. I and my kids have been drinking the tapwater there without any trouble for a decade now but no sign of that changing their minds. Probably a stupid question, but you don't have deposits on plastic bottles?
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Feb 27, 2024 09:59
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No, deposits in Germany are made with big sturdy bottles in mind, and polish bottles are thin and crumbly
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Feb 27, 2024 10:02
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We (Finland) seem to have a deposit on nearly all plastic bottles, even the flimsy ice tea half-litre ones. And half-litre juice concentrate bottles. But all soda and mineral water bottles have had deposits for ages. It's a neat system.
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Feb 27, 2024 10:08
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We don't have plastic bottle deposits either, do they actually achieved something, or are they a cynical facade like "plastic recycling"?
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steinrokkan posted:We don't have plastic bottle deposits either, do they actually achieved something, or are they a cynical facade like "plastic recycling"? Less trash.
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steinrokkan posted:We don't have plastic bottle deposits either, do they actually achieved something, or are they a cynical facade like "plastic recycling"? According to the organization in charge of the deposit system (link contents in Finnish), 97% of aluminum cans, 90% of plastic bottles and 92% of glass bottles in the system were returned to collection spots. I won't take a stance on what happens after they've been returned by the customers to the recycler, though.
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Bright Bart posted:My part of the country just now [you know what it is but don't say it outright I've doxxed myself enough talking about work and my publications] has excellent tap water. Stellar. My wife, lifelong warszawian, refuses to drink tap water unless it's been boiled or run through a filter. It makes no sense!
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Poland is on the way to establishing a system based on Germany’s plastics policy. Sejm passed the regulation last summer, so it should begin to roll out soon. A plastic bottle below 3l will have a return surcharge of 50 gr. added. Apparently Lidl has some machines in place and some cities, like Warsaw, are also investing in them.Comte de Saint-Germain posted:My wife, lifelong warszawian, refuses to drink tap water unless it's been boiled or run through a filter. It makes no sense! That’s crazy, I am a Warsza Mokotow fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Feb 27, 2024 |
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Feb 27, 2024 10:17
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If we're talking about Patek it should be mentioned how embarassed Stern twats are that the company they bought almost 100 years ago bears a dirty Slav name: https://www.patek.com/en/company/the-manufacture#patek-philippe-key-points "Patek Philippe has been pursuing traditional Genevan watchmaking artistry without interruption since 1839. The manufacture benefits from full creative freedom, which allows it to design, develop, and craft watches that connoisseurs consider to be the world's finest – as pledged by its founders Antoine Norbert de Patek and Adrien Philippe. In addition to exceptional skills, Patek Philippe also nurtures a tradition of innovation that has meanwhile been crowned by over one hundred patents." I remember when local watch forum that is really into Swiss stuff wanted to maybe invite them to celebrate some kind of important date in Antoni Norbert Patek's life and they completely ignored it. Antoni was such a cool dude, had to GTFO from Poland after unsuccessful anti-Tzarist uprising, which didn't stop him from peddling his shiny wares to Tzar and Moscow elite. Should be called "Stern and Sons" if they weren't cowards. gently caress them and their boring, overpriced baubles.
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Only slightly related, our top chef Wojciech Modest Amaro’s real name is Wojtek Basiura. He was so ashamed of his turbo-Polsih surname, he took his wife’s name and kept it after divorce. His kids are also Amaros and gently caress no, their first name are not Polish either.
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alex314 posted:If we're talking about Patek it should be mentioned how embarassed Stern twats are that the company they bought almost 100 years ago bears a dirty Slav name: drat... as of now I am boycotting Patek Philippe, and refusing to purchase their products
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I would never boycott pátek, only pondělí-čtvrtek
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That's messed up about Patek Philippe. I'm a little surprised since I visited their official museum and about half of it was about Patek's interesting life before watchmaking. *The* focal point display isn't even a watch but his collection of gold plates showing the history of Poland. They put it front and centre where he was from and what his real name was. That was like 15 years ago. Is it just that German-Swiss folks get more disdainful of the slav the richer and more geriatric they get? Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Feb 27, 2024 |
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Mokotow posted:That’s crazy, I am a Warsza I remember the days when rust colored water wasn’t uncommon. Early 90s Mokotów.
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Feb 27, 2024 12:53
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That's true, but I always associated it with the lovely Ursynow wielka plyta piping. gently caress it, nothing we know is true it turns out.
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Feb 27, 2024 13:39
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Yeah, we'd get rusty water from time to time whenever some pipe decided to give up the ghost, but that didn't influence the generally very good quality of water outside of those incidents.
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One day I'm going to be rich. Then I won't have to run out and grab things at the dirty, exploitative Żabka on the corner. I'll do my last minute shopping at the clean, high-ceilinged exploitative Żabka in the nice part of town. Mokotow posted:That's true, but I always associated it with the lovely Ursynow wielka plyta piping. Yeah it has been nothing but head explosion across the board the past few pages.
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Idk, I lived all over Warsaw (Mokotów, Sadyba, Jelonki, Ochota, Muranów) and spent a good chunk of time in various adjoining towns (Piaseczno, Piastów, Otwock) and I have constantly found the water to be quite hard. Try buying a glassed electric kettle and see how much poo poo gets stuck on it in half a year's time. Having said that, this is my only complaint against local tapwater (along with being uneasy at just how terribly rusty it gets every single time they stop the flow for an hour or so) and it is perfectly solvable with a filter.
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Bottled water is cringe, but then again I do miss Muszynianka sometimes.
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Agreed it's hard as gently caress. I don't remember Mokotow being so bad (teehee) but in Srodmiescie I have to regularly take a chisel to the showerhead to lop off calc buildup. Or dippping armature in lemon aicd.
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Uhh, Google Translate says Żabka means basically what my brain was guessing it does --- why would someone name a grocery store that? --- asked by a person living in a country with a grocery chain named Piggly-Wiggly (not that I ever lived in an area with one)
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Polish tap water I think is hard all over. Actually just all the water sources of drinking water. But in the nicer sources it's testy and certainly not unhealthy in those amounts minerals of a wide variety. Back in Canada some of the high content minerał water was from Poland. Supposed to be healthier for you but yeah no the little tiny amount of magnesium won't correct a definit or function as a supplement.
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Hard water tastes much better and is more pleasant to drink.
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OddObserver posted:Uhh, Google Translate says Żabka means basically what my brain was guessing it does --- why would someone name a grocery store that? Biedronka set the precedent  I miss the old logo.
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Hard Water. Hard Men. Hard Republic. Hard Core.  Seriously though, hard water is better than very soft water.
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Yeah, at making me scrape limescale off every surface
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goblin week posted:Yeah, at making me scrape limescale off every surface Turn that hard water into hard tea!
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OddObserver posted:Uhh, Google Translate says Żabka means basically what my brain was guessing it does --- why would someone name a grocery store that? imagine cyberpunk 2077 but instead of Arasaka and Miltech two biggest megacorps are called Froggy and Ladybug. On the other hand, we have convenience store chain called Leviathan, which is even more funny.
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Question for the thread: does this man look like he knows his goulash? To me, he looks like a man who knows how to use paprika.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Question for the thread: does this man look like he knows his goulash? More countries should make their most stereotypical looking citizen the president.
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That's a man with a collection of cavalry sabres
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He's seen the ugly face of war but there were no tanks or helicopters or even machine guns involved
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Certainly a guy who enjoys a hot oily lángos while taking a dip in a hot spring
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Mokotow posted:oily lángos I sometimes wonder if the Hungarian dishes and snacks here are abominations (like 'Mexican' food in the northern US and Canada) that would make a true Magyar cry.
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It's been ages since I've seen a langos stand, smdh Nowadays everybody sells stupid bullshit like funnel cake, I guess an oil-saturated sheet of dough topped with its own weight in garlic suddenly isn't fancy enough steinrokkan fucked around with this message at 11:26 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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Funny, the Belgian frites stand on my way to work added a sign for 3 kinds of langos just yesterday.
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steinrokkan posted:It's been ages since I've seen a langos stand, smdh Although the "big thing" nowadays seem to be  trdelniks, fries, and other overpriced garbage.
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It's certainly not progressive and this kind of joke wouldn't pass the editor for near any other ethnicity. (Poles like Czechs and Lithuanians are far too white for making fun of them with stereotypes to be considered punching down, while at the same time those stereotypes are the same ones the most privelleged white people have of other groups being less intelligent, less educated, monolingual, greedier and lazier but at the same time somehow more 'real', handy and family oriented).) But I guess we all do know this guy he very much exists: https://www.theonion.com/polish-man-that-landlord-sent-over-smashes-hammer-throu-1851285768
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steinrokkan posted:It's been ages since I've seen a langos stand, smdh My friends who are refugees from Hungary made us authentic langos the last time we were over. If I didn't know how bad working in an food industry was, I'd turn that langos into pure money.
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