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Daniel Tilles

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10 months

Polish is such a rich language 🇬🇧 badminton 🇫🇷 badminton 🇩🇪 Badminton 🇪🇸 bádminton 🇵🇹 badmínton 🇳🇱 badminton 🇮🇹 badminton 🇸🇪 badminton 🇵🇱 badminton, babington, baditon, badbington, bagminton, bibington, badmington, babinton, badbinton

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Lou Bega singing Mambo No. 5 at a concert in support of Polish troops defending the eastern border amid a migration crisis is the most surreal thing I've seen for a long time

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Leaving a Polish family gathering is 5 minutes of saying goodbyes and 15 minutes of negotiating how much food you have to take with you

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10 months

Spaghetti polonaise

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1 year

When I first started learning Polish - and had mastered animal names but not plural endings - I used to think how nice it was that they warned drivers there could be dogs in the road

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11 months

Italy may have invented pizza but Poland has perfected it

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4 years

My favourite Polish idioms: - co ma piernik do wiatraka (what does gingerbread have to do with a windmill): it's irrelevant - nie rób wiochy (don't make a village): don't be an embarrassment - można z nim konie kraść (you can steal horses with him): a good, trustworthy person

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3 years

Gdańsk's top-rated tourist attraction: cute dog on the balcony (open 24 hours)

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An Australian fan swore profusely in Polish during a live broadcast from Qatar on Polish TV, saying he learned the language while drinking vodka with a Polish friend

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8 months

Lech Wałęsa turns 80 today. He celebrated with a cake made of meat

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1 year

Traffic was brought to a halt on a road in Podlasie, Poland while a herd of almost 100 bison crossed. Via:

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Polish state TV interrupted an opposition politician to cut to live images of the prime minister eating John Paul II's favourite type of cake in the late pope's hometown

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Daniel Tilles

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4 years

So Trump has banned travel from Poland because it has "failed to take precautions" against coronavirus, but not from the UK, Poland has 47 cases of coronavirus so far; the UK has 460. Poland has shut down all schools, unis, museums and other institutions; the UK has not.

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4 years

These are photos of Poland's health minister at the start of the coronavirus crisis and now. This man has been working incredibly hard.

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4 years

A farmer in the Polish city of Lublin has refused to sell his land to developers. Here he is harvesting his crops last week in the middle of a housing estate. Via Igor Gorczyca on FB:

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1 year

The scenario for anti-terrorism training exercises by Polish police and the FBI in Poznań seems to have been written by Dan Brown

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4 months

My mother is learning Polish by watching Polish crime shows on Netflix

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1 month

Kraków is indeed a city of great cafes. But this photo was taken from Starbucks

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Coffee in Cracow….a city of great cafes. Here to launch #TheWorldcoffeebycoffee

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4 years

Kraków is so inclusive that its buses have spaces not only for the elderly and people with disabilities, but also wizards dressed as horses

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2 years

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10 months

Poland's deputy agriculture minister in dialogue with farmers leaders

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Polish chess grandmaster Jan-Krzysztof Duda refusing to shake the hand of Russian Denis Khismatullin, who has expressed support for Putin's war in Ukraine, at the World Rapid Chess Championship

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Daniel Tilles

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5 years

@scottmann4NC "Trackers are showing a gang confrontation in Kensington. All units, prepare to enter premises. Lethal force authorised"

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4 years

Slightly different approaches to social distancing between young and old today in Poland

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1 year

Punks and police in Poland, early 1990s

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5 months

The Jewish community of Łódź respond to Grzegorz Braun's antisemitic buffoonery in the best possible way

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6 months

Warsaw/Katowice/Kraków/Sopot

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4 years

A Hungarian hospital - Politician with a much better mask than doctor (who's wearing it wrong) - Tiles falling off the wall - Lift out of order - Fire extinguisher lying in a corner And this was published on Orban's own Facebook page

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4 years

Workers in a factory in Grodno, Belarus. When their boss claims Lukashenko won the election, someone shouts: "Whoever voted for Tsikhanouskaya, stand up." Via @poczobut

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5 years

My favourite Polish idioms: - kiełbasa wyborcza (electoral sausage): a campaign promise with popular appeal - nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy (not my circus, not my monkeys): not my problem/business - odgrzewany kotlet (reheated cutlet): an old issue someone is trying to revive

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2 years

Police in Poland were called out when CCTV operators saw that an elderly man had been lying on a bench in cold evening temperatures for over an hour. When they arrived, they found him doing this:

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2 years

The far right organised an anti-Ukrainian protest in the town of Sanok and precisely zero people turned up. For years Polish nationalists have tried to stir up hatred towards Poland's large Ukrainian migrant (and now refugee) community. But they have consistently failed

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11 months

European Games opening ceremonies: Baku 2015 Minsk 2019 Kraków 2023

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4 years

Pani Jadwiga, patronka roku 2020

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1 year

@FIFAcom @jakubjanktojr Jankto would have faced jail for homosexuality in the country where you just held the World Cup

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6 months

Poles have a more favourable view of the US than do Americans

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1 year

It always annoys me how English-language media have this unofficial hierarchy of languages whereby some (usually Western European) are allowed their own letters with diacritics but others aren't. She's called Iga Świątek, not Swiatek

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Daniel Tilles

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4 years

The Polish nationalists unveiled their new kamikaze units at yesterday's Independence March

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4 years

An introduction to Polish grammar, part three: case endings

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1 year

My favourite Polish word without an English equivalent is kombinować, meaning (roughly) to arrange/sort out/plan something but in an underhand way (see also, załatiwić) Another good one is kilkanaście, meaning an amount between 11 and 19

Merriam-Webster

@MerriamWebster

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Non-native English Speakers, what’s a word from your language that you think is perfect that doesn’t have an English equivalent? Take us to church.

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4 years

Today's news: - Poles eating less meat - Meat eating more Poles

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1 year

@prezydentpl @AndrzejDuda Kobiety stanowią około 60% studentów uczelni wyższych, 40% pracowników naukowych ale 0% Prezydenckiej Rady ds. Szkolnictwa Wyższego

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5 years

Polish border guards got a nice surprise when a choir from Ukraine arrived at passport control. Via Юля Балабанова on Facebook:

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3 months

You've taken things too far this time, Gdańsk

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Technically true but completely missing the story

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

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Poland's ruling party leads in election - exit poll

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4 months

This year is the 20th anniversary of when I first moved to Poland. To celebrate my time in this fantastic country, here's a thread of ten things that have changed over those two decades. If there's popular demand, I'll also do a list of ten things that haven't changed

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2 years

Australia's @abcnews bizarrely calls Poland's Prime Minister "Mateusz Kusznierewicz". He's actually called Mateusz Morawiecki. Mateusz Kusznierewicz is a Polish sailor who won gold at the 1996 Olympics

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6 months

In Poland we don't say cabinet we say kabaret and I think it's beautiful

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4 years

@theJeremyVine The photo is actually from Poland, a country that has been far better than Britain at implementing and keeping to social-distancing rules

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9 months

Konfederacja oczekuje, że podatnicy posprzątają bałagan po wiecu na krakowskich Błoniach

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W Krakowie powstał pierwszy w Polsce pączkomat

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4 years

The year is 2020 A.D. Poland is entirely occupied by the virus. Well, not entirely...One small village of indomitable Poles still holds out against the invader.

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"Holland: Cheese, Cocaine and Killers" headlines Polish state TV, a government mouthpiece. "The Netherlands has serious problems with the rule of law." In unrelated news, the Netherlands yesterday called for Poland's EU funds to be frozen due to rule of law violations

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1 year

The first catkins appearing on the trees in spring is always a wonderful sight in Poland

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2 years

Now Putin is made to wait even by the president of Kyrgyzstan (h/t @MJMarszalkowski )

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Daniel Tilles

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4 years

Tonight in Poland we've seen: - Ruling party leader declare in parliament that opposition MPs will go to jail - Opposition MP pepper sprayed by plain clothes police while peacefully presenting her ID - Plain clothes police with telescopic batons using force against protesters

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4 years

In a fitting symbol of where Poland is in 2020, the two presidential candidates are holding "debates" on their own at the moment in completely different places

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3 years

"Thank you for flying Ryanair. Last year, over 90% of our passengers were not kidnapped mid-flight"

Ryanair Press Team

@RyanairPress

3 years

Our FR4978 flight has landed safely in Vilnius at 19:25hrs UK time (21:25hrs local time). Here is Ryanair’s statement on today’s diversion to Minsk Airport 👇

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3 years

@RyanairPress Do members of the Ryanair frequent flyer scheme at least get acknowledged if they're kidnapped by an authoritarian regime during one of your flights? Just wanted to check before I book my next trip

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3 months

No context Poland

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2 years

Poles have the most negative view of Russia among the 53 countries surveyed for the 2022 Democracy Perception Index. 87% of Poles view Russia negatively (the highest among all countries) and only 5% positively (the lowest among all countries)

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Donald Tusk, Poland's likely next prime minister, revealed his phone PIN code during a live TV broadcast of the first sitting of the new parliament

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3 years

Winter is coming 😷

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4 years

Polish state TV news reported this evening that Spain is living under "the dictate of LGBT ideology"

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Kobiety stanowią 58% lekarzy w Polsce, 74% stomatologów i 84% wszystkich pracowników służb medycznych - ale wydaje się, że 0% rektorów uniwersytetów medycznych

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3 years

"From Hitler to Neuer" is Polish right-wing weekly Do Rzeczy's completely normal reaction to the German goalkeeper wearing an LGBT rainbow armband

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4 months

Why haven't you moved to Poland yet?

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A campsite in Poland offers guests free electricity, but one couple took things a bit far by subtlely charging their Tesla. After being told off by the owners, they left a one-star Google review complaining about "staff checking who has what connected to the electricity"

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4 years

Speaking of idiomatic horses, I've always loved the fact that the Polish version of "I could eat a horse" is "zjadłbym konia z kopytami" (I could eat a horse with hooves). As if eating a horse would be perfectly normal, but you'd only eat it with hooves if really desperate.

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4 years

See, Polish is easy

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3 months

Your wholesome content for today is the time that kids in Poland sent pictures to kids in Poland, Kiribati:

I CARE FOR POLAND - short documentary about village Poland in...

Film produced for the Polish Ministry of Environment for the opening ceremony of United Nations Climate Change COP19 Conference.PRODUCTION: SERVIMEDIA // www...

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I think Kiribati just gave up when it came time to name cities.

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Daniel Tilles

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5 years

Roman ruins in Britain are called 'Roman', not 'British'. US bases in Germany are called 'American', not 'German'. Nazi German camps in Poland should be called 'Nazi German', not 'Polish'. Please can people stop arguing that the adjective denotes location, not responsibility.

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2 years

Turns out that Poland's staple diet is also the best for the environment

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5 years

@PatrykJaki Są błędy

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2 years

Refugees from Ukraine have caused large increases in the populations of Polish cities: - Rzeszów: +53% - Gdańsk: +34% - Katowice: +33% - Wrocław: +29% - Kraków: +23% - Lublin: +20% - Poznań: +16% - Szczecin: +15% - Warsaw: +15% - Łódź: +13% - Bydgoszcz: +13% - Białystok: +12%

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3 months

Definitive proof that Poland is in fact a southwestern European country

Tom Vasseur 🇺🇦

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@edentravels The real question is of course: is Poland actually Southern Europe?

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4 years

Poland (📷 Robert Kuszyński)

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Classic Polish train experience. Our six-person compartment is an absolute sauna but noone wants to open the window so I just stand in the corridor. Two hours into the journey it turns out the heating in the compartment is on and set at 28°C

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4 years

In Poland we don't say "sex change" we say "replace your furnace" and I think it's beautiful

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2 years

Today's explosion in Poland happened in Przewodów village, which is in Dołhobyczów district, within Hrubieszów county. Good luck with those names, international media

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4 years

Polski rolnik ucieka przed zagrożeniem ideologii LGBT

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4 years

Trying to explain Polish politics today

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3 years

A week in the life of the Polish government. Wednesday: we'll teach that the EU in an "unlawful entity" in schools Friday: we reject "colonial" EU court order to close coal mine Sunday: please can the EU impose sanctions on Belarus

Mateusz Morawiecki

@MorawieckiM

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I have asked @eucopresident to expand tomorrow's #EUCO agenda and discuss immediate sanctions against A. Lukashenka regime. Hijacking of a civilian plane is an unprecedented act of state terrorism. It cannot go unpunished.

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2 years

In Poland we don't say "that will never happen" we say "raport jest gotowy i wkrótce zostanie opublikowany" and I think it's beautiful

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3 years

Polacy, what's the ideal amount of bułka tarta on your fasolka szparagowa?

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5 years

Not long to go until Justin Trudeau has recreated the entire Village People

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Tusk is such a centrist that even his PIN is 5555

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4 years

With Poland in coronavirus lockdown, deer were seen wandering the streets of Zakopane

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3 years

To liberał?

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4 years

The Polish part of this meme feels particularly apt at the moment

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4 years

Ciężkie życie homofoba w XXI wieku

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Poland: resisting plagues since 1347

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The Polish language is a hard language

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1 year

Sofiia, Natalia and Danylo, Ukrainian child refugees in Anglesey, have only been learning Welsh since September but already speak beautifully

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Yes, around 17 million Poles have exited polling stations so far

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Are there any exit Poles already?

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"You're worse than English bread," reads a sign at a protest in London against the Polish anti-abortion ruling. Poles in the UK regularly complain about the quality of bread compared to their homeland