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Picking up on last thread 🇭🇺 chat One of the most fascinating EE things for me is the Finland-Estonia-Hungary connection. They share a language group but Hungary is ten million km away from both Estonia and Finland. I guess it kinda makes sense they’d get involved into each other’s poo poo at some point.
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2022 20:14 |
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# ¿ May 21, 2024 04:03 |
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I agree Mongolia should have an honorary membership in the EU, though I’ve just had a read and it seems the claims of however-many-percent of Europeans being descended from Genghis is myth (even though some 16 million people in Asia could be). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_from_Genghis_Khan
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2022 20:30 |
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Bringing back bigos chat lost in the last thread, because I’ll be drat if I let a good food post go to waste.quote:In the pots warmed the bigos; mere words cannot tell What Mickiewicz, strangely, fails to note is that bigos absolutely needs to stand for two or three days before you have at it. In a restaurant, you’ll find it under Bigos Myśliwski (Hunter’s Bigos) which an old commie joke would describe as “saurekraut on plate, meat in the forrest”.
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2022 20:52 |
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Maybe if Estado Novo was communist…
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2022 20:54 |
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I think it’s absolutely normal - it smells like a motherfucker, doesn’t taste in any way interesting when you’re a kid and the pinnacle of your cravings is anything smothered in ketchup and, I will agree, looks like barf poo poo. Having said that, a proper one with good meats and real sour bread is amazing and I hadn’t had it in ages and I miss it. Can’t think where I could buy a proper one though.
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2022 20:58 |
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Just realized I know very little about the history of Mongolia’s statehood 🤔
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2022 22:24 |
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I always felt Polish was super young, coming into common use around the XVI century, but 1850… drat, that’s recent. Is there a Latvian national epic?
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2022 23:35 |
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Erm, is “the Bear Slayer” a ham fisted analogy? He’s slaying Russians, I mean? Edit: hm, seems actual bears do get shredded Edit2: There’s a lot of beef with Christians Mokotow fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Feb 14, 2022 |
# ¿ Feb 14, 2022 23:43 |
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Listen he tried twice ok????????
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2022 00:06 |
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Whenever I read or hear about stuff in Argentina, I get strong EE vibes. But then there’s so much more there that makes it anything but 🤷♂️
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2022 00:18 |
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There’s been a Brazilian meat place in Warsaw for ages, but that’s about it. There’s a significant Spanish diaspora these days that came with the Spanish construction companies following EU subsidies, so we’re good on the Spanish restaurants front. Surprisingly, since one of our largest national shopping chains is Portuguese, its weirdly easy to buy Portugese groceries.
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2022 00:28 |
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Osmosisch posted:My wife made me vegetarian bigos on our first date and it's held a special place in my heart ever since ❤️ Was it simply no meat, or was there some kind of substitute?
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2022 09:48 |
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I’m going to lean towards bigos needing something more in it, even a soy substitute, for it to be more than sauerkraut stew. Then again, if you fill it full of mushrooms, some dried veggies or even dried fruits… question is when does it stop being bigos 🤔 That’s a great write-up, I had no idea how these languages stack against each other. I guess this reminds me of the turkic language group on a smaller scale - there are spots of turkic stretching all the way to China, some of them fairly ancient and quite different from other, more modern branches. Mokotow fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Feb 15, 2022 |
# ¿ Feb 15, 2022 10:54 |
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How American would you guys say this veggie mix is? In Poland baked potato=USA. And corn. Mokotow fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Feb 16, 2022 |
# ¿ Feb 16, 2022 15:55 |
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According to a quick search, broccoli is the most popular vegetable in the US and I don't think cauliflower is a good replacement at all.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2022 16:58 |
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Kind of surprised you guys know Hortex
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2022 18:01 |
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Donation will land you in prison. They’ve cone down super hard in the last 20 years on bribes, wether during traffic stops, in hospitals or to grease the wheels, so to speak. Corruption now happens at a higher level, or takes the form of nepotism. As far as life saving procedures, they get absolute priority, but since the system is backlogged, everything else doesn’t, so even crucial surgeries (but not “lifesaving“) get scheduled years in advance. It kinda sucks, but it isn’t the absolute worse.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2022 21:01 |
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Not only was someone ordered to work that crane, they complied
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2022 16:16 |
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Being openly gay, as in showing affection to a same sex person in public, is unfortunately dangerous in Poland, even in Warsaw, where there have been incidents of stabbings, not to mention other forms of thuggery.
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2022 22:58 |
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People have been buying up paączki for the last two Thursdays because lent and easter are so late this year and everybody thinks the drat doughnut day should have happened by now.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2022 00:15 |
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Ordo Juris is a great story for the ages. It’s a religious think-tank/law firm, initially financed by some Brazilian yahoos tied to Opus Dei. It’s staff are exclusively lawyers. They’ve inserted themselves into all religion-adjacent cases, provided pro-bono help and even drafted some of the most hardcore legislation, including the anti-abortion laws. Few weeks ago most of Ordo Juris splintered into a new organization, headed by the up-till-then second in command, one mr. Zych, who claimed the organization was too hardcore in pursuing its goals and that he always envisioned it as more of a forum of though exchange. In response, the guy running the organization, mr. Kwasniewski, pointed out the was down to moral issues - namely, mr Zych having an extramarital affair with one of the org’s top female lawyers, Pawlowska herself married. Oh, also, Zych was a witness on Pawlowska’s wedding. He also got his teeth punched by Pawlowska’s furious husband when he arrived one day at the Ordo office. It’s also worth noting Pawlowska ran an online presence where she highlighted the virtue of being in a catholic relationship (until she didn’t). This resulted in a new meme, based on a real wedding photo showing Zych in the middle and the then-happy couple in the middle.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2022 13:17 |
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OddObserver posted:Is Zych labeled as ... holy spirit? Yes, because he impregnated Mary.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2022 14:13 |
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We can still talk about Ukraine and the impact of the war on EE here, that thread ober there is for direct Russia va Ukraine chat.
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# ¿ Feb 24, 2022 10:01 |
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We’re having a run on petrol stations in Poland, apparently. Morning was fine, by evening lines would backlog onto roads. I’m hearing this from people all over the country.
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# ¿ Feb 24, 2022 22:12 |
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According to analysis conducted by a media institute, the fuel price rise gossip in Poland that resulted in an afternoon run on stations was distributed by a network of 300 accounts previously tied to COVID disinformation.
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2022 01:06 |
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There are hiccups in the fuel supply system, and apparently its due to social media disinformation brought to you by the same account groups that dealt with COVID disinformation. It’s not horrible - Yesterday I’d usually see one gas station with no gas, next one with premium only and the next one with normal supply and a 10-15 minute wait. There seems to be a lot of scorn among everyone towards people showing up with fuel drums to fill their own reserves, to the point where I think you’d get your rear end kicked if you did. Also, some captain of the industry types tried gouging the price by increasing the prices on their petrol stations to to 10 PLN per litre. Apparently Orlen cut them out of their distribution network immediately. Oops.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2022 12:59 |
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2022 17:06 |
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The controls on the Polish side took from 2 to 4 hours, including queuing, after you’re out from the Ukrainian side. There certainly was no free flow of anything or anyone (I know that’s not what you’re saying) BUT I did hear things might have been different on pedestrian crossings.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2022 18:50 |
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That’s great to see and hear!
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2022 19:43 |
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There’s a thread for it right here in D&D!
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2022 20:54 |
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We’ve had a lit of goodwill in Poland towards Belarus and I don’t think there’s a connection between the Luka-Putin betrayal of Ukraine and the average Belarusian here. Someone did however mention Ukrainians refusing to work with Belorussians on the Warsaw subway.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2022 22:58 |
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Lots of angry/drunk Ukrainians on the streets of downtown Warsaw tonight. The Russian embassy has been vandalized a tad on the outside, but I wonder how lo g before a molotov gets lobbed over the fence.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2022 23:56 |
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Hey, I didn’t realize I’ve lost my PMs when I lost a toxx :/. I’ve emailed you!
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# ¿ Feb 27, 2022 12:30 |
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Looks like honorary EE member Finland opted to celebrate the conclusion to the ski jump competition in Lahti with * checks notes * paratroopers firing fireworks?
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# ¿ Feb 27, 2022 20:24 |
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The olds in my side if the family have very much a “they had it coming” mindset (or “why wear such a short skirt”) without being pro Putin. There are some mental gymnastics there, but the gist seems to be Ukraine should have went through a break up after WWII along language/nationality lines, sort of what Batka was showing on his map a few days ago. My wife’s family on the other hand is perfectly sane. I do think coming outright as #ISrandWithPutin would get you punched in the face. Even the usual Putin shills are nowhere to be seen or play the “see, everyone should have access to firearms!” alternative line.
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# ¿ Mar 4, 2022 14:26 |
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mobby_6kl posted:No idea what they have on him but shooting your own negotiators isn't a great look I imagine it was a “you’ll never take me alive, nazis!” type of situation
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2022 14:42 |
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Walking around downtown Warsaw today, the number of Ukrainians on the street is insane. It’s mostly teens and young people, acquainting with a new place. And then, just like a second ago on the subway, you’ll see them sitting on a bench crying.
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2022 17:53 |
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Torrannor posted:That's not at all unexpected, and still heartbreaking Google translate mostly. One of the younger girls seemed to also understand a lot of Polish. I also called their older sister in Warsaw and she’d translate whatever I said on the car speaker system. I was actually surprised how hard it was to understand Ukrainian for me.
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2022 18:48 |
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https://twitter.com/marcobreso/status/1501201298762485761?s=20&t=almFKLnOtjxbs5RBNwrrAw Sometimes this country is more bearable.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2022 18:15 |
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# ¿ May 21, 2024 04:03 |
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I hate Ziemkiewicz*. But let’s not forget his greatest day when he decided to send his daughter to the capital of western debauchery, the UK, and was denied entry and deported for extremism while he was taking her there to begin her studies. * like many, Ziemkiewicz started out as a Sci-fi writer and evolved into a turbo racist shitheel “journalist”.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2022 23:36 |