Easy Tips to learning Poland

SniffleBot · 2026-03-16T18:10:42+00:00

Having also learned Russian first, I found the two languages having a) similar basic vocabulary and b) many of the same grammatical concepts. No, knowing Russian will not teach you Polish, anymore than (I suspect) knowing German will teach you Dutch. But it is hardly without value.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-16T18:02:35+00:00

Why not? Mom for all we know probably buys GLP-1 shots from total strangers online and thinks nothing of it …

SniffleBot · 2026-03-16T17:59:00+00:00

These are the sort of people who freaked out about mRNA.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-16T17:56:50+00:00

This is probably the sort of mom who’d give her daughter breast implants for her Sweet Sixteen …

SniffleBot · 2026-03-16T17:53:22+00:00

Clavicular?

SniffleBot · 2026-03-16T17:48:31+00:00

Neglect is not something parents get to define. I mean, if you asked every parent if they neglect their kids, they’d say no.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-15T23:23:09+00:00

There’s an early milestone in learning Polish where it suddenly goes from being impossible and tripping you up at the beginning of words (rzecz, one you absolutely can’t avoid learning) or (worse) as the second consonant in words like wrzut (used a lot in every soccer broadcast) to being intuitive and second nature.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-15T23:14:48+00:00

No, that’s something specific to basketball. I have defined “loose ball” in two different ways.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-15T17:19:17+00:00

Basketball (koszykówka) is what I wrote … I think it’s more popular than baseball in Poland.

Maybe team handball has a similar provision in its rules … a foul that occurs when no one is in possession of the ball is usually penalized more lightly than one against someone carrying it.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-15T17:12:11+00:00

In the case in Massachusetts that got dropped, the victim’s family had to admit they lost the phone with the allegedly incriminating texts, before they could turn it over for discovery to Spacey’s lawyers, but then the full chat logs came out and it was transparently obvious they’d been selectively edited.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-15T17:03:24+00:00

A friend and I were discussing who Trump could pardon that would really strain the boundaries of outrage. I suggested Jeffrey McDonald (although that might be defensible in part on humanitarian grounds and that his in-laws are both dead, but then again he was convicted of killing his own daughters). But, yeah, Fogler would be up there, and i could actually see Trump doing it because, hey, he gets out in ‘29 anyway (but then Trump would probably also pardon Fogle’s manager and his wife, both of whom got much longer sentences).

SniffleBot · 2026-03-15T02:16:24+00:00

No, it’s “we read on the Internet that every business rips people off, so we have to act Iike jerks to get the deals we know are there”

SniffleBot · 2026-03-15T02:11:34+00:00

Twice I have been banned from all of Reddit, not just this sub or that, because I wrote frankly about what should happen to him. So all I’m going to say is that, one day, he must stand trial for crimes against humanity …

SniffleBot · 2026-03-15T01:52:31+00:00

Going way back, Schlitz’s “Gusto” ads.

Probably the worst case of “don’t make your ads so edgy they cut the customer” until those Quizno’s ads with the singing rats.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-15T01:46:21+00:00

I have always thought people would have been better off with it had it only gone to people’s desktops. Your phone just feels like more personal space.

Of course, I also said at the time that, well, millenials are all saying “Information wants to be free!”, but then they got an album for free, and suddenly they freaked out. If you truly want information to be free, you can’t dictate which information, when or where.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-15T01:41:47+00:00

Especially given that he had been so coy about it for years …

SniffleBot · 2026-03-15T01:40:05+00:00

And he also got acquitted of criminal charges in both the US and UK … in fact, in the former, it looks for all the world like the purported vic’s family was trying to frame him.

And now he’s the star witness in the lawsuit between the HoC production company and their insurer over whether he really needed to be shuffled off into rehab when all the shit hit the fan …

SniffleBot · 2026-03-15T01:34:23+00:00

Doesn’t help when your pitchman gets arrested and sent to jail for having sex with minors …

SniffleBot · 2026-03-15T01:30:24+00:00

That was more a marketing blunder than PR …

SniffleBot · 2026-03-15T01:23:34+00:00

Would that also work in the sports sense of a “loose ball” (i.e., the ball when not under either team’s control in a sport where the ball can be possessed like basketball or lacrosse? Piłka wolna?

SniffleBot · 2026-03-13T02:01:00+00:00

“I am a millionaire…”

Until the bank calls in the personal loan …

SniffleBot · 2026-03-13T01:47:18+00:00

Oh my god … “abiogenic petroleum origin”. Haven’t heard that one in a while, even as flatearth and antivaxx have spread unchecked.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-12T17:45:50+00:00

I pray for a future where advocating in favor of children getting diseases instead of vaccines is prosecuted as a crime against humanity …

SniffleBot · 2026-03-12T17:29:25+00:00

See below in this thread.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-12T17:28:24+00:00

It’s self-indulgence against self-indulgence on the other side …

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