So, we've got the biggest "christmas tree" in Eurp

27.11.05, 14:18
I had to abbreviate "Europe" as there seems to be a restriction on free
speech in the number of letters one can put in the title.

I don't know how we can talk about journalistic liberty in this country when
things like that happen, butidigress...

I see that we have been graced with a "choinka" made out of steel pipes,
which will have something like 2 million lamps on it. It is the largest in
Europe. There won't be any green on it, and of course it is no more a
christmas tree than the palm on Charlie De Gaulle's roundabout is really a
palm tree.

It is in fact a monumental piece of kitsch.

Unsurprisingly, the person who has sponsored this, a bloke called "Kott" from
some or other bank has a German surname (in Polish it would have a single "T"
at the end, although the full German version went through the second sound
shift and became "kotzen" in High German, but this is the Plattdeutch or Low
German version) and so Kitsch is in his blood.

I think they should stick the palm tree from outside the Stock Exchange on
top of it just to round it off nicely in all its kitschy glory, or failing
that we could stick Donny Tuthk on it to be a nice lithping Chrithmath fairy.
It would certainly give the leader of the PO something else to do other than
mince about being a sore loser.
    • nasza_maggie Re: So, we've got the biggest "christmas tree" in 27.11.05, 23:27
      erm, I heard the one in Portugal is the biggest?!!!
      At least, that's what they said on Euronews!

      Hands off the palm tree on Jerozolimskie! I've had a few drunken laughs there
      during summer at around 4am on way home from Nowy Swiat - if you move it, it
      spells disaster!!!!! smile))))))))
      • waldek1610 Western media treats Poland like .... 28.11.05, 07:43
        Sadam's Propaganda Minister treated American Military invasion; "There's no
        americans nowhere to be seen" while you could literaly see US Marines in the
        foreground, just about to take this Sadam's croni captive....

        nasza_maggie napisała:

        > erm, I heard the one in Portugal is the biggest?!!!
        > At least, that's what they said on Euronews!

        I'm not surised, in western Europe there's a long standing tradition that
        Poland is not to be mentioned in a positive context. Palace of Culture and
        Science in Warsaw has a highest mounted clock in the world, it is "leagable"
        from 5 miles, but Britsh prefer to boast with their Big Ben, which is in fact
        much smaller.

        You can call me paradoid, or say that I beg for recognition...I don't care, to
        me it just seems silly. It crack's me up how British or Americans bend
        backwards, and look the other way whenether something notable is hapenning in
        Poland;

        Kwasniewski is given one of the only few "state visits" at the White House
        during Geroge "W" Bush presidency, and BBC showing the footage form the ball it
        honor of Polish president, BBC speaker talks about Bush questioned by the world
        media about Palestinian-Israeli conflict, simply aknowleaging, that that
        happened "while Bush was hanging out with Polish president"...
        • ianek70 Re: Western media treats Poland like .... 28.11.05, 10:55
          waldek1610 napisał:

          > You can call me paradoid, or say that I beg for recognition...

          Thanks, I think I will.

          > It crack's me up how British or Americans bend
          > backwards, and look the other way whenether something notable is hapenning in
          > Poland;

          For example?

          > Kwasniewski is given one of the only few "state visits" at the White House
          > during Geroge "W" Bush presidency, and BBC showing the footage form the ball
          it
          >
          > honor of Polish president, BBC speaker talks about Bush questioned by the
          world
          >
          > media about Palestinian-Israeli conflict, simply aknowleaging, that that
          > happened "while Bush was hanging out with Polish president"...

          Bush hangs out with presidents all the time, it's an occupational hazard. They
          don't say on the news "Mr. Bush issued grave threats towards Iran while the
          Latvian president rummaged through the White House kitchen drawers trying to
          find a spoon."
          • waldek1610 Re: Western media treats Poland like .... 28.11.05, 12:23
            anyways the best laughs I have when BBC foreign corespondent in Warsaw stands
            as always in the front of the comunist era Forum hotel...(Thank's god it was
            renovated, and has now quite fasionable elevation now!) Anyways whenever
            western journalist is in Poland they always find the shabiest looking grab
            socialist style building and stand in a front of it "reporting" from Poland.

            Funny part is that with every passing year they will have a tougher time
            finding anything that looks bad in center of Warsaw. Then they will propably go
            to some village and stand by the farmer "babcia" who's milking her cow...
    • nasza_maggie Re: So, we've got the biggest "christmas tree" in 28.11.05, 10:15
      no!no!no! Hold on Davey. Now it seems the largest one is in Rio in Brazil and
      it floats!
      Ok, that's not Europe but they've just shown in on TVN24smile
      • usenetposts Re: So, we've got the biggest "christmas tree" in 06.12.05, 20:21
        nasza_maggie napisała:

        > no!no!no! Hold on Davey. Now it seems the largest one is in Rio in Brazil and
        > it floats!
        > Ok, that's not Europe but they've just shown in on TVN24smile

        That's not "Eurp" so it don't count.

        It probably only floats because they logged it, knowing that lot.
    • ianek70 Re: So, we've got the biggest "christmas tree" in 28.11.05, 12:48
      usenetposts napisał:

      > I see that we have been graced with a "choinka" made out of steel pipes,
      > which will have something like 2 million lamps on it. It is the largest in
      > Europe. There won't be any green on it, and of course it is no more a
      > christmas tree than the palm on Charlie De Gaulle's roundabout is really a
      > palm tree.

      That would go a long way towards explaining these EU budgetary negotiations.
      "Marcinkiewicz! What do you need 60 billion euros for? Isn't 54 billion enough?
      What did you do with the money we already gave you?"
      "We spent it on tinsel, miss. And sweeties."
      • nasza_maggie Re: So, we've got the biggest "christmas tree" in 28.11.05, 12:56
        you forgot the 'mohair berets'smile)))
        • ianek70 Pensioners' hats 28.11.05, 13:05
          nasza_maggie napisała:

          > you forgot the 'mohair berets'smile)))

          Well, I'm not one to digress, but since you started it smile
          Have you noticed that everywhere in Europe old men wear their traditional
          regional or national hat, but old women all wear mohair berets?
          Catalonian grandads wear completely different headgear from aged Bavarians,
          Poles, Scots or Parisians, but their beloved wives balance the same shapeless
          mohair blobs on their heads.
          Why is this?
          Why?
          • nasza_maggie Re: Pensioners' hats 28.11.05, 13:25
            Ian, I think it's just a mohair fetish we won't understand until we get to
            their agesmile)))
            There MUST be something in itsmile
        • waldek1610 Question for Maggie 28.11.05, 13:07
          As a British Queen's servant, do you get health-care benefits? Or at least some
          knock-offs, for example; used royal clothes or left overs from Backingham
          Palace kitchen?
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