Language / Sentences: stół z powyłamywanymi nogami / Nasi przodkowie na mchu jadali [25]


It's obvious. Any evidence to the contrary? With a very few exceptions (dipomats, missionaries, etc.) people emirgate to improve their lot.

Law / Zloty climbs as ratings agency upgrades Poland [34]

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China stockmarket crash and the Polish Zloty and market in Poland?

Can anyone explain what is happening on the Chinese bourse and whether it already has had an mpact on weakening the US dollar vis-a-vis the złoty? The current rate is $1 = 3.66zł, down from to 3.75 not long ago.


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Genealogy / Krupski name [36]


The name is Slavic. Lenin's wife was Krupskaya. It could be nay of those you metnioned, expect indigenously German. The source is the word krupa (groat, cereal grain).

UK, Ireland / Poles again shed blood for Britain [13]


They also want the kind of equal pay native pommies get for their work. The reason so few showed up for the demo was their fear of getting sacked. The right of Poles to strike or protest is also rather "iffy" and debatable.

News / New constitution In Poland? [57]


The Platfusy aimed their hate industry's largest calibre arsenal against the IV RP, slandering and misrepresnerting its noble, patriotic intentions. Since the Platofrmers are good at PR (about the only thing they're good at), they succeeded in brainwashing many Poles to givre the IV RP a bad name. So probably the term will not be used at present, but its hopefully much of its substance will be put into practice to sweep away the crooks, scammers, shady busibessmen, corrupt politicnas, etc., some of whom inadvertently or consciosuly (for the money) are serving foreign intelligence.

News / New constitution In Poland? [57]


Because he did not embody the spirit of Poland. He was closer to the alienness personified by PF's Bully Brits. Of all people, a president should be on the same wavelength as sthe majrotiy of his subjects who were not liberals, agnostics or judaeophiles.

All the legalistic mumbo-jumbo about him having widespread support not withdstanding, but it was not popualr support but that of certain poltical elites and interest groups. He could not have won a popular election.


...except the budding IV RP which will rise again. Regardless of whether it will called that or not. A rose by any other name......

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]


That's probably why it's been said of hyper-materialistic people like you and your fellow-Bully Brits that the English have a shopkeeper's mentality -- they know the price of everything but the value of nothing!

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]


Nothing to do with time periods but common sense, prudence and human decency. True misanthroipy is depriving people of a deeper appreciation of truly humanistic values for the sole purpose of brainwashing, exploting them and siphoning away their hard-earned money. Unless you beleive that to be the epitome of human achievment.

Too bad I can't recall his name -- no it wasn't a Spielberg or Woody Allen -- a third-rate Jewish Hollywood film director, but his statement which appeared in Newsweek maybe 20-25 years ago has come to symbolise the essence of commerpop. He said: "I don't make movies so people can have a better life, I make the kind of movies 12 years olds will buy a ticket to see."

That goes beyond the entertainment industry and holds true for nearly all of today's heavily advertised goods, services and lifestyles.

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]


One of the major threats facing homo sapiens today is run-away commercialism -- which is displacing genuine tradition, family, culture, human emotions, religion and patritoism.

It is replacing positive human emotions and reactions with fads, crazes, snobbish trends, allegedly new and improved (but in actuality junkier than their predecessors) Made in China products and flashy and pricey fashions.

Many thiunking people today are obsessed with global warming and environmental pollution which are bona fide physical threats but often fail to see the mind pollution and devastation caused by the commercialisation of the human psyche -- man's heart and soul.

News / New constitution In Poland? [57]


And how would your hypothetical Narutowicz-Piłsudski coaliton have dealt with the parliamentary anarchy that necessitated the 1926 coup, with the Stalinist and Nazi 5th columns, Ukrainian terrorism and the inevitable detention of subversives at Bereza Kartuska and the Brześć Fortress, not to mention the economic crisis and widespread unemployment?

Your highly ahistorical "and they lived happily ever after" version is precisely what it implies -- a neverland fairy tale!

News / New constitution In Poland? [57]


Yes, but that is an extraneous added step away from direct democracvy. Same with the US College of Electors which should also be done away with. The ribbon-snipping German presidency is a total farce!

News / New constitution In Poland? [57]


Agreed, that's an americanism, but he is head of state. There is no one universally ideal model for everyone. Parliamentary democracy at present just does not work in some ex-Soviet Central Asian republics where government is in the hands of traditional clans.

Poland's 1921 hyper-parliamentary constitution led not to substantive debate but to chaos, fisticuffs and disturbances requiring police intervention. It required the relatively mild 1926 coup d'état and the 1935 constitution to remedy the anarchy and contain widespread security threats (Soviet subversives, Nazi Fifth Column, Ukrainian terrorists, etc.),


He was elecetd by the Naitonal Assembly not by popular vote, and there were no surveys back then showing whether the public supported someone.
His professional credentials may have been OK, but the vibes he sent out did not gel with the nation as a whole. You can try to impose your subejctive personal views and prejudices (liberalism, agnositcism, anticlericalism, cosmopolitanism, etc.) on 1920s Poland, but that will always be an ethnically, culturally, politically and religiously alien entity to an outsider of foreign stock.

News / New constitution In Poland? [57]


A new constitution should ensure a more equitable balance of power between parliament/government and the chief executive. The president's powers should be slightly strengthened (not to the point of eliminating the PM altogether as in the USA nor even the French model of overshadowing him). This could inlcude a gretaer say in foreign afffairs, the right to appoint certain key figures (eg the heads of the Supreme Court, State Tribunal, possibly also foreign minister) and a 55% (rather than 51%) parliamentary majority to override presidential bills.

News / Is Kinga Duda of Poland the most beautiful first-daughter of the world? [50]


If Maria is the one on the right, Poles would say: MA CZYM ODDYCHAĆ!

News / New constitution In Poland? [57]


No justification for assassination, merely a statement that Narutowicz was not presidential material for Poland. That's a difference. The only assassins one could regard as heroes would have been anyone who managed ot bump off Hitler or Stalin.

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]


In practical terms such assimilation is usually the equivalent of rootlessness - the loss of one's cultural heritage and birth right in favour of culturally sterile, nondescript global Anglo-commercialism. In other words abandoning rich, time-honoured traditions and values to emrbace commercially driven trends, fads and fashions concocted on corporate drawing boards.

News / New constitution In Poland? [57]


Only by a minority of leftists, liberals, agnostics and suchlike assorted eggheads - not by the Polish nation as a whole. And it's the nation that counts, not some snobbish elite.

News / New constitution In Poland? [57]


Not so ghastly as he's made out ot be. He is one of the left's betes noires but he was in favour of a moderate, modern, non-violent "Poland first" patriotism and did not condone uni beatings of Jewish students or smashing up Jewish shops like the ONR thug squads did. His major failing was his readiness to give up Poland's former eastern territories.

Narutowicz may have been the darling of leftist, liebral and libertine agnostics but was too anti-Catholic and pro-Semitic for post-partition Polish society as a whole. You and your ilk may personally favour such tendencies, but that does not mean they would have been good for Poland in that period.

News / New constitution In Poland? [57]

He had them all fooled. Since he was viewed by many as a socialist (a label he gladly shed early on - "I exited the red tram at Independence street" - he used to say), radicla leftists thouhgt he's be their man nad lead to reovution. Minorities found him more palatable than the endeks.

Life / Polish people and racism. [943]


You know what they say about one rotten apple spoiling the barrel.

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]


What % support in your view do the Gowin and Ziobro factions enjoy: 2-3% maybe?

News / New constitution In Poland? [57]


An authoritarian figure to be sure or at worst a benevolent dictator -- certainly not a Stalin or Hitler.
He gave parlaimentatocracy a chance and it ended in constantly squabbling, mud-slinging and fist fights, police had to be called in at times to restore order. The country was unfortuanteky plagued by hostile diversity: Ukrainian nationalists one of whom assassinated a Polish cabinet member and stirred up unrest, Hitler's Fifth Column Volksdeutsche, Stalin's Jewish KPP subversives... Was he to just sit back and observe all the niceties of polite parliamentary decorum? Instead, he lauunched his Sanacja (sanitation or clean-up) campaign which protected the country up till the outbreak of WW2.

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]


That would be good news if PiS had a comfortable 256 seats. Otherwise the Platfusy will be tempted to continue their 10-year hate campaign, wasting more time, energy, effort and media space on their sterile and fruitless back-stabbing for the benefit of their foreign-capital and domestic scam-monger masters. With a decent president and a solid PiS parliamentary majority, Poland can resume its clean-up campaign and move the country forward.

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]


I forgot to add that the PSL and the United Left both got 4%. That's bad news for the leftists who, as a coaliton, need 8% to win seats.

News / New constitution In Poland? [57]


Before dismssing a presidential-type constitution, one should first ask oneself is the American and French system of government undemocratic?
The Great Piłsudski soon realised Poles were not suited for a parliamentocracy (he called it sejmokracja) which involves loads of sterile squabbling, bickering, backbiting for the love of one's own grandstanding "eloquence" rather than getting things done. The post-1989 period has amply illustrated the reversion to that "diarrhoea-of-the-mouth" rabble-rousing.

Life / Polish people and racism. [943]


Whenever an immigrant communtiy is not very large and is clearly outnumbered by locals, its memebrs are usually law-abiding and well-behaved. In my youth people avoided slummy Negro neighbourhoods like the plague for fear of muggings, carjackings, theft and wanton vandalism. But across the river in Canada the small black minority was known to be hard working, clean and law-abiding. Maybe that's the answer -- limit the volume of immigration.

History / What was better in Poland under communism? [67]


You wouldn't call someone today dirving a gleaming Passat or Golf a Nazi, even though the VW and Autobahns were clearly Adolf's contribution to mankind. One of the good things about about PRL were the 1001 drobiazgów shops (something like a poor man's Woolworths) where you could get alll kinds of sundry household and general-use items for pennies. Now you have to drive to Arcadia, leave your car in the underground car park, ride the escalator and spend time hunting through the aisles of Leroy Merlin or suchlike to find a wall hook or whatever. After all, time is money! Ladies miss the pasmanteria shops (needles, thread, lace, etc.) which used to be in every neighbourhood. Also, many bemoan the passing of the bar mleczny - a far cry from the chain greaseburger joints.

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]


The latest political-preference poll conducted by TNS Polska shows 41% for PiS, 22% for PO and 11% for Kukiz. No other party would make it through if elections were held at present.

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