I once fell victim to not noticing that Air Canada had changed its baggage collection policy, leading me to step out of Toronto airport in January wearing my Caribbean clothes and with no luggage. Only the genetic Eastern European resistance to cold saved me until I got to the hotel.

Some 6k calories in there, you can feel the light warping nearby.

How the "Jews? What Jews, we don't have any! We just tossed the last one out!" city became the gay capital of Poland, and the iron fortress of liberal centrism, is certainly a PhD-worthy topic.

Choose your Poland carefully on 11 Nov!

Poznań:

- colourful parade
- Roman legionnaire cosplay
- superheavy croissants

Warsaw:

- nationalist rally
- Tommy Robinson as a guest of a PiS MEP
- vandalism and "people I don't like, get out!" chants

"Zygmunt Wasiński saved the croissant from oblivion" is a totally normal sentence on Polish Wikipedia, cc: @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

Careful, one is 1000-1200 kcal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mar...

There are several, this one being closest to my work.

With this part of Poland not celebrating independence until the German temporary squatters were forcefully evicted a few months later, St. Martin's Day eclipsed the independence celebrations, leading to funny scenes as Warsaw endures the far-right march and Poznań eats a lot of this:

This is what happens when you don't need to mind the votes from middle-aged men who are afraid that the next thing is you taking the sweet sound of their BMW combustion engine away.

France's shtick is cheese, wine and linguistic backwardness, not technological ;-)

Yes, and the same people come down here and tell us that if we optimise our processes better, we will be able to finally get rid of the odium of Polnische Wirtschaft 🫠

BSW is now just B as Ms. SW quit leading the party.

But! I harp on Germany often, but I know when to praise the country for its moments of brilliance, such as the "Wagenknecht capitulates faster than Ukraine" headline from TAZ.

I can understand the "we like to count our money physically" argument on some level, but "I like the touch of VGA cable as opposed to HDMI/DP" just doesn't land well.

In before I get a "Jakub, I understand that you come from a country where everything new is getting adopted immediately without afterthought, but we in Germany value legacy compatibility" DM. C'mon, postdoc dude from Jena, don't fail me.

No, to the cooling fan that we have in lieu of AC.

1995 called, wants its Internet back ;)