Life / Expat Communities in Far-Western Poland [46]


Chorzow to be precise.....the last time I gauged their opinion (and it was solicited I suppose) the police "joked" that they understand why I I would like a white society where "I could walk with my wife in the streets and not be attacked by some ***** fecker with his dirty thieving hands etc...") The starred word is that race word for a black person....

Next time I must leave my phone on record:) :) Seriously though, unless your car is registered from out of town, they are polite enough ninety percent of the time. I couldn't comment on the Western borderlands which is the topic, but as Dolno says, it follows that the closeness to the border would mean that Poles are better assimilated and no longer stand and gawp when they see a black face. Silesia is, even today, still stuck a little in that time-warp, and race hate behaviour is never prosecuted.

Life / Poland A, Poland B [75]

Only the dim part Lyzko. I never go there. I was in Krakow yesterday for the airport, but other than that, wouldn't **** on it if it was on fire.

Travel / Returning to Poland after 20 years in America [18]

Johnny - God was too busy with Scotland. QED.

Travel / Returning to Poland after 20 years in America [18]


Well it wasn't God for a start. Unless you believe in Santa Claus. I was told it was Mieszko....

Life / Expat Communities in Far-Western Poland [46]


Polish authorities don't do hate crime. Whenever I'm stopped by the traffic cops I wind them up by saying I had to get away from Britain and all the blacks. That sets them off on a racist tirade about "the filthy vermin etc etc..." Wroclaw and Tri City have normal educated populations who travel, but the Polish hinterland sees plenty of race crime still, and when it happened to my daughters' boyfriend nobody stepped forward to say a single word in his defence.

So, no, Poland is not yet the great liberal land that it historically was, and probably never will be, with Ziobro and these fecking eejits running the asylum. Thank God the huge majority of the population want nothing to do with their rampant nationalism.

Travel / Returning to Poland after 20 years in America [18]


Not many people burn coal in Warsaw do they?
And I thought you were banned? You have no voice here.

Travel / Returning to Poland after 20 years in America [18]

It's alright mach1 - Ziemowit is one of those "educated" patriots who thinks that God created Poland and everything if perfect. It is in fact high time, in 2018, that a blanket ban was put on burning coal in the home, But of course nobody cares about the health of the general population here, and syncophants like Ziemowit are simply encouraging the government to avoid their responsibilities in this regard.

Travel / Can't eat onion and going to Poland, tips on food needed [11]

Beer. I kid you not. When I was a student in London, one awful winter I got by on beer and bread. Having said that, it was a long time ago, when London beer was full of nutritional value.

Law / UK born, want to move to Poland. Rules? [17]


Cough cough. Again, have to take issue with you there Dirk. A lot of housing in Polish cities is suddenly inflated beyond rhyme and reason. I'm moving back to England and there is a lot of stock in the scenic area I am looking at around the Uk equivalent of zl 700k. Here in Gdynia you get a gated new build (M3) flat in a condo for that money, and you can hear the old biddy next door going to the toilet, the walls are so thin.

And the view is of.....another condo. A prison.
Horses for courses and all that...

Law / UK born, want to move to Poland. Rules? [17]


Make sure it's not the Polish village, unless you are catholic of course..........otherwise the neighbours and the priest will make your life hell.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


I would, but I'm no climate scientest. I studied geology. I believe the glaciologists who simply observe there was no ice sheet loss at all for 1500 years, then from the 1970s it suddenly decides to shrink on masse (excuse the pun).

And depending on whether you read the "Carbon brief" website, or some Cambridge researchers' paper, you can come up with different theories. I would love to debate this, but am too busy baking for Christmas.

And I'm more interested in Brexit right now, as I wont be around in 70 years to witness the greater effects of plus 40 percent CO2 emissions.. Neither will you. How very convenient for us both. Fortunately independent workers are winning the argument and governments will be forced to listen to the reality of global warming once we get rid of this populist surge of career ranters.

That might take a while:(

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


No. Real and projected temperature rises are much faster than found in the geological record. Ask glaciologists and sedimentologists. It's scientific fact I'm afraid.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


Pork causes cancers. Too much pork in the Polish diet:(

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


Yep. Looks pretty definitive from here. This unprecedented speed in the trend of temperature rise has clearly (not) been caused by the CO2 emissions from the proliferation of herds of Aberdeen Angus cattle.

As long as the US economy rises year on year for the next 50 years, and America suddenly decides to invest hundreds of billions in the undeveloped world, the planet might have a chance to survive through increased tech.....

Oh, wait.......

Life / Where to Find a household storage company in Krakow? Help [16]


Useless when they don't quote prices.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


No - you are never personal maf, so I guessed it was the "Royal" we..:)
The thing about the idea of excusing doing little because advanced tech will find a way in the future (the American way is raised GDP funding R and D) is going to leave things a little late - llke a Brexit for the planet.

We need a world wide referundum on whether to panic or do nothing of consequence, as before!

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

American consumers..... lots of talk of the Chinese and the Indians being the main problem, but we industrialised nations need to step up.

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News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

That's like saying the law doesn't apply to me. Actually in the next thirty years China should be overtaking others in cleaner technology, IF the US based argument of higher GDP and more science does in fact lead to a decrease in carbon emissions.

I'm with TheOther on this one. Do you have children Maf? All this talk of "We wont accept a drop in living standards" really equates to "Our shareholders will oust us if we don't see year on year growth.."

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


You can add America to that list......one of the worst offenders - because there is no financial need for them to be the culprit.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


The economic facts are that coal will always be the "best" option, until that never-never day when fusion or perpetual motion is realised. The people who take such decisions don't live in central Katowice or wherever, breathing the worst of the pollution from domestic burning of coal, but are insulated in their ivory towers.

Britain was rich enough that it could import its coal, and Thatcher (wrongly) could dismantle 240 coal pits at a stroke, without too many years of industrial and social strife, and the miners went off, in the main part happily to use their construction skills in the private sector/ invest their pay-offs in heating firms etc etc...

This process will take longer in post socialist states because the miners don't understand that the doors of the zoo are open......

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


Yes - lived 22 years there....my second home:)
To be fair, the air is cleaner now (but only because swathes of industry was bankrupted). Did you see that David Attenborough was there and gave a keynote speech Atch? I wonder what he thought of the place?

The argument for coal is that Poland cannot afford to change....but like a couple in a bad relationship, she (Poland) is not even trying.

Poor job.
theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/05/brutal-news-global-carbon-emissions-jump-to-all-time-high-in-2018
Basically our goose is cooked anyway. Nobody important really cares as long as GDP rises (which it must, if our society is to function) Catch 22, ad finitum.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


Spike, it's not me who supports Tommy Robinson, or whoever the man is, and your posts are those of the Polish immigrant who feels that he is superior to the other immigrant populations. There's little point in your trying to wrangle out of the truth of the matter is there?

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


No, of course not. Not in Spike world. Spike appears to assume a supposed superiority, and speak on behalf of a good too many of his countrymen, who magically, when they reach the promised land, fall under the misapprehension that they are somehow brighter or necessarily better qualified than the Asian in the office, even when it turns out that the person in question is of Asian descent, was born in Britain in the 1950s, and went to the same school as whitey here.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


Wombling free:) Tory, but with a very pleasant liberal bent, and in the best meaning of the word:) A terrible "football" club when I lived there in the 80s, but beer to die for:)

And shed loads of Poles are very happy to live there, as Mrs Dougpol did, but just like Spike, a fair few of them come out with the usual racist ****, as though they don't see the hypocrisy, and didn't have an education.

{Dougpol shakes head, perplexed}

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


So lets get this straight Spike. You would vote for May's Brexit and an end to Freedom of movement....as long as it doesn't affect you, right? You actually agree with the xenophobes that Eastern Europeans should leave Britain, them being the "white ******" and all that (nonsense)?

You come across as the usual hypocrite, one of to whom such draconian changes to peoples' rights obviously does not apply.

Work / Theft and racism at a workplace in Poland [3]


If 2 plus 2 always made 4 we'd have the answers to the world's problems. Seeing as you're not going to accuse her to her face, and don't have any proof, just write it off?

Go out and buy a replica - leave it next to her again, and wait and see what happens.
If the second one disappears too, then you a have a serial scarf thief. A little trial and error, or establishing a controlled experiment, doesn't help at all, but might make you feel better.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


And in the meantime, Spike has to "suffer" his British muslim neighbours.... tut tut!

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


I think Crow is blabbering Duda style about Poland having "sold out" to the European Union.....hence his opinion about Poland losing its' supposed independence. And all because he's jealous. Living in a pariah state as he does.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2018/nov/21/how-populist-are-you-quiz

I scored left of Barack Obama:):)

UK, Ireland / UK Sky TV in Poland [39]


Why? Acestreams do all the sports, and their film channels are no better than Netflix. Why bother? I scrapped my UKTV box ten years ago. And all UK terrestrial channels are better than anything Sky could serve up.

Delph's advice is 100 percent correct, and the cards phone home as well, so I have no idea why you would want to do this in the internet age (other than because you can?)