News / Poland is the source of horsemeat in burgers? [169]


Slabs of Horse have been traded where the contents and origin are not as labelled. These meat traders could have been sourcing horse from anywhere or buying horse legitimately from Poland and relabelling it as cow. The latest news here in Ireland is that the horse meat has been traced to a meat dealer based in Hull England.

The Irish Police are investigating to see where the fraud occurred was it in Ireland, Poland, England or a combination of all three

News / Poland is the source of horsemeat in burgers? [169]

Poland may not be the source afterall

A gov minister talking about people in Ireland


And this


From
rte.ie/news/2013/0205/366244-garda-probe-into-horse-meat-find-under-way

Language / Poles - don't fall into the French/Spanish trap re pronunciation/accent! [81]


That is where the Basque country lies it most definitely is not in Portugal.

News / Polish Business Centre Club hammers another nail in Blair's coffin [35]


That is true, the economic illiteracy of the morally and politically corrupt neoliberal elite is/was staggering.

News / Polish Business Centre Club hammers another nail in Blair's coffin [35]

It would be a very close call to decide who was worse.

News / Polish Business Centre Club hammers another nail in Blair's coffin [35]

Tony Blair has made millions on the back of dead soldiers.

The man was the best Conservative PM Britain ever had, the creeping privatisation and bent bookkeeping that PFI is has saddled Britain with a toxic legacy.

The man jettisoned every sensible policy the British labour party had he instigated an illegal war based on a pack of lies, some of which are repeated above (there was no human grinder).

He refused to regulate the Banking sector which almost bankrupted Britain he really is the true heir to Thatcher.

It’s amazing to see how far a bit of PR and a grin will get you.

History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]


Stanisław Moniuszko (May 5, 1819, Ubiel, near Minsk - June 4, 1872, Warsaw, Congress Poland) was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. His output includes many songs and operas, and his musical style is filled with patriotic folk themes of the peoples of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (predominantly Polish and Belarusian[1]). He is generally referred to as the father of Polish national opera.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Moniuszko

One of his operettas Nowy Don Kichot, czyl Sto szaleństw (The New Don Quixote, or 100 Follies) The street could be named after the operetta and not Cervantes

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OK I was thinking that sorry for the hijack

History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]

I just thought there may have been some places with an unusual or interesting story that foreigners didn’t know about

History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]

Come on Warsaw isnt all of Poland:) I just picked Joyce and Einstein at random luck of the draw I guess.

History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]


Any foreigners, in France and Spain its common to name even railway stations after famous foreigners in my country it’s not common I was just wondering if there was an Einstein street or a James Joyce Bridge for example. People who had little or no contact with Poland but made an impact that was admired by Polish people. I had a search on the net and couldn’t come up with any.

History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]


Are there any/many places like squares, streets, bridges etc named after foreigners?

UK, Ireland / Living with Poles in London [16]


When did hyperbole become a great British trait?

History / Should we glorify Polish secondary female characters from history? [36]


Does that not make lessons dull?
I cant see how you can teach history without giving some kind of social context ie why things happened.


The books used are crucial, I've seen some history text books which are just wrong usually the ones that appeal to the box ticker type teacher.

History / Should we glorify Polish secondary female characters from history? [36]


Marie Curie is an historical figure for her work nothing else.

History / Should we glorify Polish secondary female characters from history? [36]

History is more than a list of kings and battles.

UK, Ireland / I'm from a small town in the UK and I think Poland is a nation of criminals [37]


Why not post some stats, that would be good.

News / Highlights of passing year, in Poland (or elsewhere) which made hot discussions in PF [57]


You said native English speakers understand it exactly that is bollox, Polish death camp means a death camp run by Poles nothing to do with geographical location, nothing to do with context, nothing to do with PC or being over sensitive (whatever that means), nothing to do with anything else its just wrong.

News / Highlights of passing year, in Poland (or elsewhere) which made hot discussions in PF [57]


Yes


Nonsense, Polish death camp means a death camp run by Poles and is stupid only an uneducated halfwit would use such a phrase

News / Today's release of UK govt papers under the 30 year rule - JPII and the US look bad [18]


Britain selling arms to the openly fascist Pinochet regime is completely moral?


And instigate the global drugs trade something they are still doing with their drug laundering banks and "tax havens" one bank was headed by (a now) government minister. Laundering money for Drug cartels, terrorists and rogue states, if that were a Russian bank.........


There is no correlation between religion and wealth, traditionally the richest parts of Europe have been Catholic some still are some not. Poor (majority) protestant countries disprove your bigoted statement as does the existence of poor protestant areas within rich countries.

There is nothing more dangerous than silly humanities students applying bollox to the real world.

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


How do they know what the temperature was when there are no temperature records and other methods to gauge local temperature are missing or highly inaccurate?

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


It’s a little more complicated than you say, Earths albedo is much more than cloud cover.

Warming as you concede, leads to a reduction in ice and thus a reduction in overall albedo. More moisture in the atmosphere as you say leads to a higher specific heat capacity for the atmosphere meaning it retains more energy ultimately derived from the sun. The interaction between the oceans and the atmosphere which has warmed leads to sea temperatures rising which leads to the ability of the oceans to absorb more CO2.

More CO2 in the atmosphere together with other things (methane and water vapour) causes more of the suns energy to be retained by the atmosphere. Most methane is released into the atmosphere from perma frost areas where it has been locked until warming caused it to be released.

CO2 samples from ice cores simply indicate historic co2 levels in the atmosphere with no temperature records to cross check against except the records derived from dendrochronology. These records show a strong correlation between CO2 and global warming.

The science says more co2 results in more energy retention of the energy that reaches Earth. The question is is this man made? And the scientific consensus is that it is.

Sceptic have had to concede that global warming is happening so they now point to all sorts of possibilities that global warming is not man made without a full understanding of the exceptionally complicated interaction between the oceans and the atmosphere.

There are many more factors involved here.

News / Poland: The poor get poorer - and next year will be worse [40]


Obviously you do otherwise you wouldn’t have chosen that word.

The OP decided to bring the Catholic Church into a debate about poverty in Poland based on his objection to a vanity project. and all we got was Catholic bashing with no other issues addressed. What measures do you think Poland should implement to eliminate poverty?

Do you think all Poland's problems come from the Catholic Church?

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At last a bit of sanity, I too was thinking of the military budget.

News / Poland: The poor get poorer - and next year will be worse [40]


If you don't have a religion your opinion is exceptionally silly, singling out one community from all the belief systems out there is discriminatory and bigoted. If you do have religion its equally silly as one set of beliefs can’t possibly trump another set.

Either way choosing the Catholic Church as one of the key revenue sources that needs to be tapped in order to solve the poverty issue in Poland is rather odd. I would have thought there were other ways to solve this issue but I'm not religious nor am I anti Catholic.

News / Poland: The poor get poorer - and next year will be worse [40]


Form a political party, have that as your platform and see how far you get.

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Quite true.
There is unfortunately an arrogant anti Catholic bias that runs right through the Angol world.

Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]

In Poland as everywhere people are people some however just see Catholic people. The bit I don’t like is that this view is seen as acceptable.

Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]


Yeah, I have many issues with religion as well.

I have seen anti Catholic stuff so many times I know what it looks and smells like.

Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]

Its the same in Ireland north and south, east and west Catholic schools take all people Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Hindu, everyone. In fact some Catholic schools have a larger proportion of non Catholics than some so called integrated schools.

RE lessons are compulsory till 16 years of age, you can opt out but need parental permission to do so.

In Primary schools the only Catholic instruction is for First Holy Communion.

I'm sick of Catholic bashing, don’t like Catholics fine just don’t make stuff up.

If you want to talk about discrimination in education address the issues around non inclusive education.

Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]


Thats me except I'm not Polish, then I got married to give my partner pension rights.
What do you think is wrong with that?

Food / How common GMO Food in Poland is? [25]


Yeah it is, true that humans have selectively bred plants and animals for ever but GMO as understood today is something else altogether.

It’s a con by agri/chemical business to sell more product nothing more.

Making something resistant to your herbicide or pesticide can only mean you want to sell more product. The chances of cross contamination are huge. Maiz in Europe is one that cannot cross with native species. As for other plants, if you opt to not want to eat GMO you will have no choice as once it’s out there it cannot be put back.

The long and short is that GMO = More chemicals.

UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]

And here we have one making stuff up about gay people and the other making stuff up about the Catholic Church.