News / Dealing with constant insults against Polish [323]

Yeah, the passion of the people is quite sth. As a Scot, I can appreciate that. The insults are not rooted in facts. Ideas stick unfortunately.

However, the flip side is that it lets some people here see how it feels to be insulted. I've heard all kinds of primitive, racist remarks that, frankly, are unwarranted and don't need to be stated. Particularly towards Arabs.

Still, to conclude on a positive note, many Poles have heart. They can be proud of certain things

News / Dealing with constant insults against Polish [323]

Useful skills to survive in the modern world, wouldn't u say?

They have pulled off some neat ATM tricks in Scotland. The Poles are a resourceful bunch!! They overrate their education system but they have my respect. Polak potrafi rings true

Food / Polish National Dish [54]

Off limits sunshine. Nah, just kidding, it isn't as plentiful as in Scotland or NZ but u can get some prime cuts.

Lamb curry is nice but I just can't think of my poor kind being killed

Food / Polish National Dish [54]

They are both fairly common. U can buy mussels in thousand islands dressing and other sauces. Oysters are also available

Food / Polish National Dish [54]

Don't flatter urself Canuck. There is such a thing as coincidence

Food / Polish National Dish [54]

Yeah, maybe people may have been put off by the name, rak. It means cancer too as many will know.

It's a delicacy.

Poland could do with some creative ideas with sausages. U know, we have bangers n'mash. The Poles have such a range of sausages, don't just grill them in oil, use their versatility!!

News / Should rape carry a life sentence in Poland? [146]

Yeah, such attitutes brought rise to a plethora of vicarious liability cases. I can imagine them being a ballache in litigation circles. I wonder how it would work in Poland. Many say that Poles don't like accepting the blame for anything.

Inextricably linked to blame culture is compensation culture. I had a lesson with a student on this back in summer. The topic for a new thread maybe? I don't wanna hijack threads. The UK would get a bad rap, it's actually worse than America according to some commentators.

It'd certainly open a few eyes, the stuff I was reading.

News / Should rape carry a life sentence in Poland? [146]

Thanks matey!! I'm not gonna lay into Masks tho, he just could've been more tactful in what he wanted to say but he's a smart commentator on so many things. I prefer to look at the good side of people.

As for psychologists, I believe that they can serve a useful purpose but they prey on people's weaknesses. Too many people just pop off to the doctor too nonchalantly. A quick fix solution if u will. Please don't think me insincere, I'm just of the belief that the combination of 2 things would really help. Firstly, the knowledge that I did nothing to provoke the butt rape (assuming I was raped by a group of strong homosexuals). Secondly, the support of my family. Their encouragement and 'being there' will always mean more to me than a quack who is, after all, just doing a job.

This is the topic for another thread tho, societal attitudes to doctors.

PS I said butt rape as, in Scotland, rape is the forcible insertion of the penis into the vagina without the woman's consent, or sth closely related to that. Sorry, my legal background crept to the fore.

News / Should rape carry a life sentence in Poland? [146]

This thread is highlighting the problem. I applaud all the female posters who have piped up. Many men just cannot grasp the emotional and psychological torment that women go through. They think that a tick on a document and the following visits to a quack are enough. But that's a cop out, a fob off for the victim. The psychologist may be able to offer more insight into her condition but that's debatable. It depends on their competence. The fact is, words can run and run but the scarring remains.

And for those of u who think I'm just spewing out nonsense, I've known a rape victim who still bears the scars after SOOO many years. I also knew a terrified young woman where I worked in Japan be threatened with rape. She was stalked. I escorted her home to give her relative safety.

Although life sentences are too draconian, penalties should be stiff. I acknowledge too that the rapist may have had a brutal life and partially understand his motives. However, that cannot condone the blatant invasion of another's privacy.

News / What is the future of Catholic church in Poland. [154]

In what way? I met some of them in Hiroshima, I can't see how I'm anything like them Clara. They have agendas to thrust on u.

News / What is the future of Catholic church in Poland. [154]

As long as it's the revisionist version of it, we have nothing to fear. I don't think Tusk is a homophobe, unlike Jarosław Kaczyński. I have no time for judgemental, holier-than-thou characters.

Life / Poems for Poland. [41]

It's not that hard really

Life / Poems for Poland. [41]

That's what we call a crude poem, LOL. No mention of Scotsmen there. We have balls, trust me ;)

Language / What is the most annoying thing about non-native Polish speakers? [90]

Or cześć instead of do widzenia, LOL. I did that by mistake once. The opposite works to a lesser extent. I said do widzenia to a girl at the hairdresser. We know each other and she looked at me quizzically and said 'cześć' in a tone that suggested that that's what I should've said.

Hardly annoying tho, there has to be acceptance that foreigners sometimes just don't know. They are not doing it to be awkward.

News / Poland has the highest shopping IQ [46]

Siegfriend, some Poles have a lot, some don't, like anywhere. But generally they have less. Bank adverts will be there regardless, people fall into the credit and borrowing trap too easily. Set a sprat to catch a makerel and all that.

U r right tho, Poles save for a rainy day (for the black hour in Polish).

News / What is the future of Catholic church in Poland. [154]

I'll have a look at it. Haven't got 2 hours at the moment tho.

Have a read of the link above Ian, quite revealing.

"But if that person tries to infect others with their homosexuality, then the state must intervene in this violation of freedom."

This says it all, from Lech Kaczyński. Infecting people, that's a terrible way to put it. Violation of what freedom? The freedom of association? The freedom to choose? There is a magic word, NO. People have that right to say it.

lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08031904.html, hilarious from monkey boy

'We sin when we deliberately do what we believe is wrong', from the following, dignityusa.org/faq.html. This is from a priest with 28 years experience. Homosexuals, acting from their 'genetic programming', clearly don't sin

News / What is the future of Catholic church in Poland. [154]

Socialist, hehehe. On some issues I have socialist 'leanings' but I am a liberal. As Wahldo has said, I play Devil's Advocate very well. I can see different positions well.

It may surprise u to know that I also have views that square with right-wing thinking. Few, yes, but they are there.

So, care to read the article I posted?

PLEASE Lesser, comment on the following to see how u damage people more by labelling them and giving them complexes and mind-changing treatments like ECT. Harm to others is a far greater offence than harm to self, especially if u affect a whole category of people.

pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-7721.html
here, please read it

Remember the words 'private', 'informed consent' and 'understanding' lesser

News / Should rape carry a life sentence in Poland? [146]

The official stand was modified to modernise it, u CLEARLY didn't read my link. David and I are from Scotland, many Scots have a decent grounding in Protestantism and Catholicism. I don't think he needs to learn more.

OK, let's have a discussion about these points that can be successfully defended. Please, we'd be delighted to take u 2 task.

David wasn't saying that Catholics were fanatic. He said that ur beliefs are.

News / What is the future of Catholic church in Poland. [154]

Lesser, I can't believe what I am reading here. Please, donate away, if u feel that a certain cause is worth it.

I don't question how u spend ur money at all. If u met me, u'd see that I am very tolerant.

OK, let me put it 2 u another way. Poles, from a young age, have Catholic influences around them. This was particularly true when JPII was the Pope. They don't need to be told to come to church. I've had priests round so I just speak English. I've talked to many Poles on this point, being a teacher gives me that possibility.

Rydzyk is a guy who has done what the best capitalists do, broadcast himself often and manipulated people.

News / Should rape carry a life sentence in Poland? [146]

Well said dtaylor, right on!! One of the many functions of law is to act as a deterrent. Heavy penalties help in that regard.

News / Poland has the highest shopping IQ [46]

WB is right, u can't spend what u don't have. Unless u r on wads of credit. It's like calling Scots stingy when we are just thrifty, u can always turn it on its head.

News / What is the future of Catholic church in Poland. [154]

It's not what he does with his money that concerns me lesser, never has been and never will be.

It's how he gets his money that For4 and I were commenting on, quite a difference, wouldn't u say? This is the Information Age, people can educate themselves through books or online materials, reducing the need for a priest. It's a bit like a footballer, they know that their career will be short and want as much in the bank as possible. Priests just lack moral scruples sometimes, a tragic irony if ever there was one.

I echo what For4 says, u seem to lose every argument u have with me. I'd love my 'glaring inconsistencies' to be pointed out to me.

I promise, I will buy u a torch as a source of light 4 u.

These religious freaks are persistent. I remember my mum, many years ago, turning the priest away for harassing our family and thrusting his religious nonsense on us. I think a torch went up his jacksie too.

News / Should rape carry a life sentence in Poland? [146]

I expanded my horizons by travelling a fair bit, after reading for my LLM at Uni. I've lost track of how many books I've read but I like to think that I have taken the best out of those books.

So, lesser, did u read the URL I sent? U simply reiterate ur dislike of leftist thinking which, incidentally, isn't mine.

Yeah, we won't agree as u occupy the space held by absolutists and fanatics. Compromise comes from seeing the opposite position, it's an art. Clannad once wrote, 'The art of compromise has been our greatest strength'. Shame u will never truly understand that.

Southern, no, perversions can be 'free-floating evils' in philosophical language. Read Feinberg on Harm. Prison doesn't even enter the equation. It's vastly disproportionate to the misdemeanour. Miscreants can be better treated in other ways.

Life / Paulina Lenda, Polish singer, 15 years old -- astonishing [18]

Well, it is quite tricky yeah, horrible for beginners who can't follow it perhaps.

I must admit, I don't like the whiny part of it but why be negative?

UK, Ireland / All That Manners Business [I'm Polish, moved to UK as an au pair.] [87]

Nah, she's quite a well-proportioned lass actually.

News / What is the future of Catholic church in Poland. [154]

Fantastic commentary For4, it reminds me of John Lennon singing 'Imagine' from his white mansion. Imagine no possessions as he is surrounded by them, LOL.

Yeah, unjust enrichment is a crime and they almost fall into that bracket in my book. Playing off of people's sympathies is lame. That's why I believe in self-guided faith. The only person u r ever with throughout ur life is u, or God if u care to see it that way. Not a priest in a BMW.

So, make a pact with me, myself and I folks and don't line the pockets of these deluded preachers.

News / Adult movie producers looking for 'actresses' in Poland or just a weirdo? [120]

Yeah, right. True that, even mild things pass as SH these days. What a sad world we live in. I'm certainly guilty of SH if that's the case, no cops to be seen tho :)

News / Adult movie producers looking for 'actresses' in Poland or just a weirdo? [120]

The key word is 'asking'. If it was once then it probably doesn't constitute harassment. This is in the loose sense. Harassment is generally a more persistent process.

However, hairball, asking sb for a shag could be considered as sexual harassment as SH is basically unwanted attention of a sexual nature. Hence the term 'constant harassment' for a more persistent approach. This is a more precise, legalistic view of it

News / What is the future of Catholic church in Poland. [154]

Good post Orzel, apart from the difference between spirituality and religion. U can still be a spiritual person and not go to church. Otherwise, what u said was spot on.

News / Should rape carry a life sentence in Poland? [146]

Confirming this fact is the New Testament's forceful rejection of homosexual behavior as well. In Romans 1, Paul attributes the homosexual desires of some to a refusal to acknowledge and worship God. He says, "For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. . . . Though they know God's decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them" (Rom. 1:26-28, 32).

This is probably from the same article as u swiped Lesser. This is fanatacism and some of the worst argumentation I have seen. Merely adhering to the standards laid down in the Bible is a sign of a weak-minded individual. Informed consent replaced moral highgroundism a long time ago.

Maybe u should go rapping on the doors of homosexual people and inform them of the need to avoid 'sin' and see what response you get.

Oh, u MUST read this lesser. It is a more modern version,
religioustolerance.org/hom_rom2.htm

Stay in the Dark Ages if u wish but the above URL will hopefully enlighten u. Get ur head out of a book and into reality.