News / What kind of Poland do most Poles want? [101]


??????????

What kind of person would even think of using a phrase like that, much less post it online?

A Poland where people use phrases like that is not one that most people would want.

News / Poland -- Europe's only counterweight to Russia [271]


Yes, and you touted corruption levels under the former Putinist government as a reason for Putin to invade the now! Classic...


As a French speaker you have probably figured out why...


Random quotes? Random research? Do you expect everyone that call you out to pop down to the National Library and pore through archived manuscripts? You were called out on your bullcrap - get used to it instead of squirming.

To repeat. Russia openly threatens Poland. has invaded a sovereign state friendly to Poland. Poland does not trust Russia. Nor do most other stable democratic countries.

News / What kind of Poland do most Poles want? [101]

In your opinion. Would you rather a miserable couple stay in a toxic marriage with all the accompanying effects on the kids, domestic violence, alcoholism, child abuse?

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


Nope. In your mind.


Why a. a Jewish ocularist, and b. why bother mentioning the gentleman's religion. You seem to have athing about Jewish people.

Life / Do Polish People steal a lot? [330]


This is true, but there are obviously a lot of exceptions. Central Warsaw doesn't lack pickpockets or beggars.


Mostly vehicle offences and things like bootleg vodka/cigs. Unfortunately there was a spate of Polish men advertising jobs back in Poland for women in UK care homes and when the women arrived they found themselves locked in brothels with their passports taken. The Poles have largely been muscled out of that by similar lowlife from south-east Europe.


Police in some parts of small town southern Poland have said that the local crime rate plummeted after EU entry. Basically all the local bandziory and smarkaczy had gone to Britain or Ireland.

News / What kind of Poland do most Poles want? [101]


And not only.


Being (for now anyway) more rural than most of those.

I notice you don't mention alcohol related deaths


or deaths on the road, despite the fewer cars per capita. Poland leads in this respect.


Not a positive thing at all, where people are trapped in miserable and destructive broken marriages for economic or social reasons. Staying together "for the sake of the kids" is not in any sense a positive thing.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


What? Retired people? Private sector workers? Doctors? Lawyers? Shop workers? People who work for Catholic charities? Engineers? Teachers? During the last Polish pro-democracy rally I recognised people I know who do all of those things.

Come off it, Po. you know perfectly well that nobody believes your inane and amateurish propaganda.

News / What kind of Poland do most Poles want? [101]


Basically places that people want to live. A few times people here, mostly younger women, have described London to me as "the nearest place to civilisation".


More weasel words?

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


Very far from normal. Just an online windbag with a very chequered history doing online amateur polemics that are completely out of touch with the situation in Poland.

The Polish pro-democracy protesters have nothing to worry about from things like that; indeed I'd be surprised if that many of them read English. They tend to be ordinary people who are appalled at the attacks on democracy and on Poland by the toxic PiS cult.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


A highly respected organisation. Perhaps you prefer far-right set-ups.

And deny it though you pathetically tried, Mr Kijowski was invited to Washington.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


Don't be silly. Why would the world's largest news agency use a secondary source in a foreign language. When a phone call to Freedom House would save all that hassle.

Much as you dislike the fact that the leader of Poland's pro-democracy movement was invited to Washington, that suggestion was really clutching at straws...

History / Is 5th partition of Poland possible? What kind? How? When? [73]


Indeed, however Ukraine is not Poland's "own sovereign property, art, and culture" and nobody credible has ever suggested that...


Poland's rights do not extend to invading Ukrainian territory and nobody (except yourself, an American with, shall we say, deeply eccentric ideas) has even suggested that.

To remind you, since you evidently have difficulty grasping the concept, Poland and Ukraine are friendly countries who respect each others borders. Neither sovereign state have any irredentist ambitions.

You remind me a bit of that crazy who used to post here with a similar user name, LegalEagle (which he was anything but) that believed or pretended to believe that Lech Wąłęsa was still president!

News / What kind of Poland do most Poles want? [101]

What a load of old tripe. Copied and pasted from somewhere awful too.

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


That, Po, is a matter for forestry experts. I, and I suspect anyone else who doesn't pretend to blindly follow the PiS regime would doubtless trust the experts, (read the FT article if you haven't already) than the current regime's moneygrabbers.


Exactly.

History / Is 5th partition of Poland possible? What kind? How? When? [73]


The 'situation' here does not involve Poland illegally annexing Lviv or any other part of Ukrainaian sovereign territory.

Indeed no government here has suggested it, there is no political or popular will to do so and it would be in direct contravention of international law. Indeed the economic and political sanctions and travel restrictions that would result would be something Poland would not want to see.

Furthermore, as a historic champion of freedom and self determination (mostly...) Poland simply would not get involved in this.

News / Poland -- Europe's only counterweight to Russia [271]


And Russia isn't? Russia is one of the most corrupt states in the world, and the circles around Putain are extremely corrupt and proven beyond any doubt to be so. They are also murderous, as the poisoning of Aleksander Litvinienko in Londan and the unnatural and untimely deaths of so many of his pponents proves.

BTW, when you say "the previous (pre-Maidan) governement was corrupt", one presumes you mean the the previous (pre-Maidan) Putinist puppet regime.....


And so is a huge chunk of the dicrator Putain's gang.


Up to them. Russia in general and Putin in particular are not the policemen of Ukraine, fortunately.


That's a classic - one of the most meretriciously inane comments to appear on this forum in a decade!

Polson, you do realise that Google is a search engine, don't you?Meaning they don't actually produce the websites (like this one) that come up on the search engine. Including the ones quoted that demolished your point...

Would you also suggest that a public library isn't "a valid source" or that the phone book isn't "a vaild source".

And yes, you are very much a Putin apologist, having defended him to the best of your (evidently limited "Google is not a valid source"!!!) ability on this thread and elsewhere.

But it doesn't wash. People are by and large intelligent and sensible enough (providing they don't say stuff like Google is not a valid source) to cut through the propaganda. And here in Poland, quite simply, nobody believes it...

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]

There is no credible suggestion at all that the trees they are cutting down by the thousand are infested by spruce bark beetles, nor that the logging they are doing would prevent infestation - this is purely a cash cow. And a very sad one.


ft.com/cms/s/0/5cc92ce4-f730-11e5-9afe-dd2472ea263d.html#axzz454I4zufz

Life / First hand experiences of the Mafia in Poland [28]


And even more to the point, why on earth would anyone want to involve the CIA, some sort of American thing, about the Mafia in Poland?

News / German government tells journalists how to badmouth Poland [42]


Better in fact to understand a bit of history since all this was signed off by the governments of the two (now friendly) countries decades ago.

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


Indeed one of the last virgin forests and also one of Poland's main tourist attractions. And PiS are deliberately raping it for cash.
euronews.com/2016/01/18/poland-activists-call-for-bialowieza-forest-to-be-protected/

Here's a little information for those unaware of Bialowieza about the area that PiS are destroying for cash. One of the very many (and entirely negative) aspects of Polan's post-election political scene:



theitalianeyemagazine.com/en/where-to-find-the-ultimate-virgin-forests/

One of the many, many problems with PiS (a party who were an abject failure when they held office for just 17 months a few years ago before) is that they have very little of either self-awareness or self-control and people are understandably worried that this is the tip of the iceberg.

So far, they've:
- tried to destroy the Constitutional Court
- withdraw funding from families having fertility treatment
- proposed banning women from terminating a pregnancy if they're raped
- abolish the newly won independence and neutrality of the justice system
- broken into the NATO offices in the middle of the night

and much, much more...

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Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]

They weren't, Po and well you know it. As shown to you above the logging was always at a sustainable level. Now the PiS regime, presumably as part of Kaczyński's plan to destroy Poland have massively increased the logging in Poland's principle National Park.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


He was invited by Freedom House.


The Associated `Press website:
bigstory.ap.org/article/9375d23803914b5a9ff5e15977d94df8/computer-specialist-becomes-face-polish-protest-movement

Law / Brit/Pol divorce. Husband - British, non resident Poland. Wife - Polish resident, Poland. [10]


This can be true, however it looks like the OP and his ex aren't fighting over assets/custody so surely everything should go as the former couple have agreed between themselves?

News / German government tells journalists how to badmouth Poland [42]


In Super Ekpres etc? Not that many facts there and no reason this should be.

Life / Swearing in front of children - is it normal in Polish society? [26]

It's going off topic a bit so best switch this to random, but the Polish Mullet is a bit different. There are some pictures of them somewhere on here.

Life / Swearing in front of children - is it normal in Polish society? [26]


Thousands have. Not the mullet you're thinking of, but a different kind, the Polish Mullet, where they leave the back of your hair thicker than the rest. Less hassle than to carry round a sign saying "provincial".


What else can one do when talking about large groups of people. Unfortunately the near constant swearing, particularly 'kurwa' comes as part of a package of behaviours. Not all 'kurwa' swearers dress like that however yes, extreme behaviours and habits in any society tend to come as part of a cultural/socioeconomic package.

And to keep to the thread, it's the OP's house and daughter and if some guest (an in-law or not) offends their host, they can either apologise and stop doing it (pretty hard for such an ingrained habit) or they can stay out of his home.

I wouldn't allow that in my home here in Warsaw, he doesn't need to allow it in his home either.

Life / Swearing in front of children - is it normal in Polish society? [26]


This is true, however it occurs far more within the Polish language. If you walk round town here, in the daytime, and count the number of times you hear the word "kurwa"...

Worth remembering that it means "wh0re". Interesting what that says about the psychology of the nation as a whole that they chose the word "wh0re" as not only their favourite obscenity, but one that an awful lot of people in Poland parrott out several times a minute.


This is also true, however its the tracksuit-wearing, mulleted, church-going, bigos-eating ones ones further down the food chain whose use of it you (and the poor wee kiddies) hear.


It is very much 'normal society'. Every society is comprised of different elements and the poorer and less-educated are the vast majority. Hence hearing it all the time.

I favour this approach:

News / Poland directly threatened by ISIS. Do Islamists planning terrorist attacks in Poland? [390]


are an irrelevance here, Crowie.


They've managed very well so far in controlling the situation and the fact that there has not yet been any terrorist attack here suggests theyre doing fine.

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


I doubt that article would make much impact on sales. Website hits maybe, however they aren't exactly short of those, being one of the most visited news websites in the world.


I don't think any of us could possibly disagree with that. Why are the PiS regime hell-bent on chopping the forest down?

News / Poland directly threatened by ISIS. Do Islamists planning terrorist attacks in Poland? [390]


And you would know this precisely how? And despite flying in the face of all evidence.


No you didn't. the Serbs butchered innocent people and only came to Britain in a van from The Hague. To repeat, Poland's response to a terrorist threat has little or nothing to do with Serbia.


And look what happened to Serbia? Poland however is not so daft. One reason that:

a. Poland avoids Serbia like the plague,
and
b. Issues like anti-terrorism (whether from ISIS or not) are dealt with in Poland and EU wide. Nothing to do with obscure Balkan states.