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Polonius3   
31 Aug 2015
News / Have PO (Platforma) operatives in Poland fallen into a panic? [332]

PO would need to panic

If you're right, then why have most Poles had their fill of the Platfusy. Becuase of their crafty, glib and clever PR (Tusk and Kopacz can talk their way out of most anything!) it took many people a while to put two and two toegther, but luckily they have now seen through the façade of hypocrisy, lies and corruption. The day of judgemnt is at hand -- 25th October, isn't it?
Polonius3   
31 Aug 2015
News / Have PO (Platforma) operatives in Poland fallen into a panic? [332]

summed up

No, I've summed up jon, the consummate Orwellian.

PiS regime

When someone introduced the PO's scams to a thread abotu alleged PiS offences, that was called off-topic.

This thread if strictly about Platformer scams and muck-ups, so let's leave PiS out of it.
Polonius3   
31 Aug 2015
News / F-22 Raptor fighter-bombers in Poland thumb nose at Tsar Vlad [6]

The most advanced and deadly fighter-bombers, the F-22 Raptors, are taking part in exercises in Poland for the first time. They put all the antiquated Soviet-style scrap metal the Rooskies have to shame.The American warplanes are not only super-siwft but can create their own magnetic field making them virtually invisible to radar. Maybe its time to pay a courtesy call to Crimea and recover the illegally annexed peninsula for Ukraine?!
Polonius3   
31 Aug 2015
News / Have PO (Platforma) operatives in Poland fallen into a panic? [332]

Merged: PO's abuses, scams, lies and unkept promises

Long is the lisr of the PO's abuses, blunders, scams, lies, unkept promises and oldboy nepotism. They include:

**Increasing VAT despite pledges not to raise taxes
**The gambling scandal
** Liquidation of the Gdynia and Szczecin shipyards
** Tusk's false promise that he had found Arab investors for the shipyards
** The clandestine recording scandal
** Despite EU funds and promises to the contrary, failure to complete motorways for Euro 2012
** Purchase of Bryza aeroplanes bypassing the required tender
** Robbery in broad daylight of pensioners' savings in the open retirement funds
** PO Senator Misiak's vote-buying scandal in Wałbrzych
** The wife of PO Minister Grad mysteriously "wins" tender in husband's ministry
** Minister Grabarczyk staffs Polish Railways posts with his cronies and their wives to the detriment of rail service
**Successive road-building tenders are called off but money is not lacking for new officials
** Despite promises not the raise taxes, excise tax is raised on natural gas and beer
** The Tusk government builds some of the world's most expensive roads, pricier than those in mountainous countries
**Despite promises to de-politicise public television, the PO puts it party flunkies into power in the broadcasting establishment the moment Komorowski was elected president
** PO MP Sawicka admits on TV that Tusk had effectively destroyed the Central Anti-Corruption Agency
**State railways are broken up into 8 separate companies, all staffed with the PO's hand-picked flunkies
** The port of Świnoujście is blocked by the Russo-German NordStream pipeline which even the PO's own Sikorski compared to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
** The 2010 Polish Presidential plane is sent to a decommissioned former military airport in Smolensk devoid of proper landing facilities and a normal control tower
** Under PO rule unemployment skyrockets to 13% and more
** PO-backed candidate for mayor of Sopot Karnowski is accused of corruption by the prosecutor
** Bungled army reform creates a force in which ¾ are officers and NCOs and very few privates
** The PO government's "friendly state" programme turns out to be a media happening
** PO's hate campaign leads to murder of PiS activist in £ódź
** Under PO rule Poland's national debt rose by 380 billion zł in four years' time
**Tuskites fail to land Technological Institute and EXPO for Poland, unlike Kaczyński government whose successful lobbying made Euro 2012 possible
** Only President Kaczyński's vigorous opposition stopped Tusk drawing Poland into the Eurozone in 2008.
** Tusk's "single window" de-bureaucratisaiton drive is a fizzle. Poland's red tape continues to scare off foreign investors and is the bane of Polish businessman as well

** CBA chief is recalled before the end of his term for exposing PO's gambling scandal
**Following the Rywin scandal ex-commie Leszek Miller was honourable enough to resign; following the gambling scandal Tusk holds onto the "trough" for dear life

NOTE: This is but a small sampling of PO misconduct which omits mountains of abuses and irregularities at the local town-hall level. But it is sufficient to show why the ruling Platformer gang has been steadily losing support. The Polish nation should be commended for their angelic patience in putting up with it all for so long, but there is always that proverbial last straw....
Polonius3   
30 Aug 2015
News / Polish Parents protest against Poland's pro-homo sex education [75]

I don't get involved

Contact the education ministry about the content of their sex ed curriculum which they tried to pass under the wire for the new school year creating more things PiS will have to undo. I was only reporting what the leaflet said. Again, don't kill the messenger.
Polonius3   
30 Aug 2015
News / Polish Parents protest against Poland's pro-homo sex education [75]

pornography

So you also advocate and/or promote pornography? Interesting! Do you favour all different kinds including incest (sex with gran), rimming, homo perversion, or just certain types. Do you think there should be more of it on prime-time TV? And would you want your little kids (if you've even got any) to regularly indulge? Will it enrich them, provide them with worthwhile cultural or spiritual values or expand their intellectual horitzons?

Or does porn simply create a caste of very rich producers and another class of short-lived STD-infected porn stars?
Polonius3   
30 Aug 2015
News / Polish Parents protest against Poland's pro-homo sex education [75]

what "pro-homo" content there

LGBT circles are infiltrating schools and instituions of higher learning as well as non-governmental organisations. In various way they are struggling to become a privileged, downright untouchable minority. And they start work at the bottom. They see to it that the content they're propagating makes its way into materials pormoting sex educaiton. They are loudly demanding their obligatory presence in Polish schools.

There will be more such propaganda in this school year since the Platformer education minister is forcing more such content down the throats of school children and teachers.

fronda.pl/a/terlikowska-propaganda-lgbt-przynosi-skutki,49968.html
Polonius3   
30 Aug 2015
News / Polish Parents protest against Poland's pro-homo sex education [75]

Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz led a march of parents in Warsaw on Sunday to protest against the promotion of pro-homo content in Poland's educational system. "The controversial sex education being imposed from above reflects the demands of LGBTQ community," a leaflet distribtued at the march stated. The dmonstrators fear outside agitators promoting abortions and sexual perversion will be brought into Polish schools to indoctrinate school children.

It is heartening to see Polish parents who take their job of child rearing seriously and will not be bullied by the loud and pushy homo-promoting lobby.

wpolityce.pl/spoleczenstwo/263788-rece-precz-od-naszych-dzieci-masowy-protest-rodzicow-przeciw-deprawacji-w-szkolach
Polonius3   
30 Aug 2015
News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]

award people with their professor title in public,

Aren't you becoming obsessively Harryesque? This is the umpteenth time you mentioned such a minor point as if desperately bent on turning every trifle into a mega-indictment. Funny, you never applied that approach to shifty-eyed Don, his shady Platfus gang and their myriad scams and blunders.

Kaczyński was like a father

Are you exactly like your father in every way? Even if Duda regards Kaczyński as his father and mentor, that doesn't imply an identical sensitivity and personality.
Polonius3   
30 Aug 2015
News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]

too dogmatic

A bit like the pot calling the kettle.... You and your fellow-PiS-bashers dogmatically insist on equating Duda with Kaczyński, although those are two distinct personalities. That would be like saying Kwaśniewski was no differnet than Jaruzelski or Bierut.

Duda is trying very hard to adjust to his new role -- give the poor guy a chance!
Polonius3   
30 Aug 2015
News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]

he isn't that man

That's a bit like saying a 8-year-old boy learning the ropes will never be a good footballer because he still isn't a Pele, Messi or Boniek. PiS-bashing is the only name that fits here.

Like everyone else, Duda needs time and moral support to hone his MO and perfect his tactics and strategy. You and your ilk seem determined not to give him any, because PiS-bashing and PO brown-nosing is your main priority.
Polonius3   
29 Aug 2015
News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]

so far Duda

Jarosław Kaczyński was criticised for his assertive stand towards Germany, suggesting that Poland was becoming a condominium of Germany and Russia. Now Duda is being criticised for his fence-mending. In PiS-bashing circles no matter what a PiS-rooted poltician does or says he will be roundly attacked. You just can't win!
Polonius3   
29 Aug 2015
News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]

experience

Politicos with lots of experience tending the trough are two a penny. Maybe it's time to air out the stuffy political establishment and bring in someone with a fresh attutide and new ideas, someone not hamstrung by stifling, mindless routine. Duda may well be just that man!
Polonius3   
29 Aug 2015
Language / Ambulans displacing karetka - similar meaning of different Polish words? [19]

AMBULANS

These prefixes (pro-, anty-, post-) did not emerge at the turn of 1989/90 but seem to be used a lot more these days in political jargon and media speak. On the other hand definitely post-1989 is the extensive use in advertising and commercial packaging of mega, ultra, plus, optima, etc., typically added to an existing product to suggest that it is "new and improved".

Re hot, attractive young females the term laska (walking stick) is widely used. Of course, there is also the less polite form d*pa. But only older folk use such slang expressions as cizia, babka or kociak, roughly translatable as bird, gal and sex kitten respectively.
Polonius3   
29 Aug 2015
Language / Ambulans displacing karetka - similar meaning of different Polish words? [19]

świetlica dla podróżnych

I've never seen that phrasing either. Since a świetlica can be a communtiy room, day room or after-school club (place where kids stay before being collected by parents after school), I presume that other than the benches or chairs of a typcial waiting room there may also be books and periodicals, maybe comptuers and board-games available.

trzeba wezwać pogotowie

Also "trzeba wezwać karetkę".
Maybe AMBULANS is seen written more often nowadays than POGOTOWIE. I've never seen KARETKA POGOTOWIE on the sides of an ambulance.
Polonius3   
29 Aug 2015
Language / Ambulans displacing karetka - similar meaning of different Polish words? [19]

Merged: Ambulans or karetka?

In PRL an ambualnce was universally referred to as a karetka pogotowia (emergency van), and the word ambulans was largely reserved for ambulans pocztowy (postal van). Now the word AMBULANS is prominently displayed on medical-emergency vehicles. Probably by analogy to other languages. Anyone recall exactly when the change-over occurred?

Know of any other such changes during the post-1989 transition?
Polonius3   
29 Aug 2015
News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]

the President has very little to say

True, but those happen to coincide with the policies of the poltical camp from which he sprang. PiS & Associates will turn the pledges into reality. They will also have to sort out and clean up the mess (test-tube babies, gender change on demand, etc.) the Platfusy leave in their wake.
Polonius3   
27 Aug 2015
Genealogy / Tracing my Polish ancestors? My fathers Polish surname is Daj [13]

Durejko

DUREJKO: root probably Old Polish dur (madness) which gave rise to such words as dureń (fool), durny (foolish) and durować (to go wild, act crazy). The -ko ending* is typical of the NE Lithuanian-Ruthenian borderlands of the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

*Other examples include Kościuzsko and Moniuszko.
Polonius3   
27 Aug 2015
UK, Ireland / Common pitfalls for Poles learning English [187]

"I've had lunch",

Calls to mind an anecdote about two New York taxi dirvers. One asks: Jeet? The other replies: No, Jew? (Did you eat? - No, did you?)
Polonius3   
26 Aug 2015
Language / Sentences: stół z powyłamywanymi nogami / Nasi przodkowie na mchu jadali [25]

Harry understands Poland

No godless, globalist, leftist, cosmopolitan bent on imposing his Anglo-agnosticism and sterile secularism on his hsot country can ever understand the true soul of Poland! At best he can try to jsutify his skewed views by searching out some Polish turncoat renegades who sh*t on their native heritage and blindly ape all things foreign.
Polonius3   
26 Aug 2015
UK, Ireland / Common pitfalls for Poles learning English [187]

abundance of prefixed verbs

You'd better believe it. Take chodzić, jeść, pić, stać, etc. and the seemingly unlimited prefixes that go with them and change the meaning each time.

I especially like the interrupted frequentative verb forms such as popłakiwać (to cry for a bit, stop and then cry again or give off a sob every so often). You mentioned a similar one: pomieszkiwać: to live (somewhere) off and on.
Polonius3   
26 Aug 2015
News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]

Oscar Wilde

Who said an "old perv" can't come up with interesting thoughts (like "work is the curse of hte drinking class!"), just as madman butcher Adolf also gave the world the VW and Autobahn.

The latest IBRIS poll: PiS and allies 39,1%, PO 19,0%, Zjednoczona Lewica (SLD, TR, Zieloni i UP) - 8,3% Ruch Kukiza (Kukiz'15) - 7,0%, Nowoczesna Ryszarda Petru - 5,6%, Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe (PSL) - 5,2%.

IBRIS poll

This is one of the first polls in recent times to show so many smaller parties clearing the 5% (or 8% in the case of coalitions) threshold. Many surveys have shown only PiS, PO and Kukiz.

If such results were produced by the October election, PO could team up wtih PSL and Petru but would still have only some 29% of the vote. PiS would have the option of co-opting Kukiz, although potential problems with such an unpredictable character might prove daunting. If faced with the prospect of parliamentary absence, PSL would probably join PiS in a coalition. PSL has been in every parliament in free Poland.
Polonius3   
26 Aug 2015
Language / Sentences: stół z powyłamywanymi nogami / Nasi przodkowie na mchu jadali [25]

German minority

Jawohl! Meistens in Oppeln.

je biedronkę

Another linguistic slip - with non-human creatures inlcuding insects* in Polish we use the verb żreć, not jeść. Here is should be: Pająk żre (or pożera) biedronkę.

But as an expat persona non grata about to receive your walking papers back to Ulster or whevever you came from, you are forgiven. Actually a minor lingusitc point. Much more telling is missing the double-entendre in the moss business.

*I do know that technically a spider is not an insect and a tomato is not vegetable.
Polonius3   
26 Aug 2015
News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]

wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114871,18627542,cbos-pis-na-czele-po-spada-wchodzi-kukiz-lewica-poza-sejmem.html#TRNajCzytSST

Latest CBOS poll results: PiS 36, PO 27, Kukiz 12. A TNS Polska survey showed that 67% are dissatisfied with the performance of the current Kopacz government.