Mokotow posted:

Was it simply no meat, or was there some kind of substitute?

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

a podcast for cats posted:

That was semi-intentional, I wanted to add an anecdote/observation in an edit and changed my mind later on. Too long didn't write was that in my experience Baltic and Polish women who emigrate abroad often don't realise just how amazing their skillsets and experience often are. Something something educational system cultivated impostor syndrome and something something business culture of creeping responsibility without adjusting pay or recognition.

Anne Frank Funk posted:

I understand being sick of clancy chat theorycrafting, but what I actually meant is, is the thread decontaminated from the mindset that we need a safe space to discuss EE matters pretending there's not a loving war just around the corner.

Anne Frank Funk posted:

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.

There was a campaign to get people to drink it instead of buying bottled water. And to ask for it in restaurants. The restaurants were enccouraged to put up signs in turn encouraging you to ask for tap water, and places like coffee shops and obiady domowe were asked to have pitchers and glasses out for self serving. They would get tax incentives to make up for revenue lost on selling bottled still water.

The result? I have no clue. But at least a few people got turned off government water. They were suspicious. If it's fine than why are you spending so much convincing me it's fine?

Bright Bart posted:

The best street food is grilled cheese dumplings (the one that look like pierogies) from the stalls selling góralskie sery and homemade cranberry sauce.

Except they started to serve pure cow's milk cheese instead of the ones they sold in block and served it with cranberry sauce out of a supermarket container rather than the stuff they sold in jars.

Mokotow posted:

No, onions are inherently Polish… like, we call ourselves “cebulaki” - onion people.

Your mom’s not Polish hth

Mokotow posted:

Crossposting from the TVIV Foundation thread

I was surprised to find they’re filming the next season starting next week in my hometown Warsaw in Poland. They’ll do a week of filming at the Divine Providence Temple , which is a huge modernist concrete building we affectionately call “the juice squeezer”. They’ll also do filming at the POLIN Jewish museum which has some fantastic Foundation-style interiors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Divine_Providence?wprov=sfti1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POLIN_Museum_of_the_History_of_Polish_Jews?wprov=sfti1

Doctor Malaver posted:

Looks healthy. Many bugs splattering over the hood means a healthy ecosystem.

Mokotow posted:

I’m trying to think of a Polish actor speaking English in a movie and Olbrychski’s role in Salt came to mind, but he was a playing an old soviet agent.

Anyhow, there’s a bunch if people on YouTube and I think this guy sounds like 85% of Poles speaking English: https://youtu.be/JS0aWS7uSzQ?si=JvrDrrf_V-g1BZ-c

It’s a bit more rounded and nasal, I want to say? Russian accent is very sharp and hard by comparison, using layman’s terms.

Rappaport posted:

Wrong country, but the Finnish swearword for vagina is often used as punctuation as you describe. Some English-speaking friends were horrified to learn it was the local equivalent to the "c-word".

Rinkles posted:

Tangentially, I wonder how Holender (Dutchman) became a mild curse word in Polish.

Mokotow posted:

Its amazing how much Dutch immigration we’ve had around Warsaw around the XVIs century. There’s a town named Holendry outside of Warsaw, and if you go there, it’s basically the Netherlands on a mini scale, down to how the scenery is the same due to polders they’ve built there. Apparently the Dutch quickly established a monopoly on shipping things on barges down the Vistula to Warsaw. Another left-over are the so-called Dutch hills north if Warsaw in the Puszcza - since the Dutch settled on bogs and low-lying lands, they’d place their houses on 5-10 metre high mounds. My friends family had a house on one of those mounds in the middle of the forrest, it was great (except winter, it was really fuckin steep and would murder your tires and gearbox).