Travel / Taxis from Gdansk airport? [65]


Exactly, the new train is excellent isn't it. There isn't any need for those shark-like airport taxis.

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


They didn't. Most young people (or any people for that matter) didn't vote at all, and there's certainly no suggestion they'd have voted for the Kaczynski gang. In fact everything points to the fact that only a minority tolerate them. And that minority is shrinking.


Amazing that some of these sheeple didn't see it coming. Although universally depressed, Kaczynski, Macierewicz and Ziobro have a reputation of being so pernicious toxic that they were bound to reappear once they'd pulled the wool over people's eyes.


The one in Warsaw was huge, and the banners suggested people had travelled far.

Off-Topic / WB's body building and general fitness thread [97]


Sadly some get that from a young age and never get beyond it.And different kinds of cognitive dissonance can hit any one of us, especially in times of great stress and pressure.


And it will terrify some; massive changes and turmoil ahead.

News / Polish magazine causes outrage with cover showing white woman being sexually attacked by 'migrants' [57]


Nobody read that trash anyway

News / Cameron's EU reform good for Poland [95]

Annoying that the referendum's going to be during Glastonbury weekend meaning 100,000 young people busy and also right in the middle of the holiday season.

Law / Polish wife in the UK cheated on me. Divorce - what now of the kids? [15]

Thanx for the tip. If anyone is looking for a lawyer on that field and they find a very fat blonde one called Zofia W, I can not, repeat can not recommend.

Life / Polish culture versus rotten West [279]

Easily, sadly, and a bigger risk to anyone elderly and ill that the kid sneezed over. Not to mention anyone ill with hiv or a whole shred load of other immune disorders who could die from their coughing.

Off-Topic / WB's body building and general fitness thread [97]


Since the other ones stopped posting I suspect I'm the only arse bandit in the village of Llandewi Breffi and on viewing the pictures I


Having said that, he's quite nice from the back view, has a decent face and I've always had a thing for gingers

And his political stuff, although I think it's talk does actually mean well and has a sound vision of the future and he is passionate about it; the world needs more people like WB, roidz & booze or not.

Life / Polish culture versus rotten West [279]


'Divided' perhaps in a 99% - 1% split.


Nobody is 'pushing' vaccination. It is perhaps the most significant step in healthcare ever.


More about saving lives.

In the (rather silly) discussion about Poland v. west, it's reassuring that some of the silliness that came from homeschooling cranks in America about not vaccinating children against diseases hasn't caught hold in Poland.

News / "We will not hesitate to shoot Kaczyński dead" - KOD Facebook page [164]


That's pretty well the opposite of reality.

Classifieds / Where to find English - speaking community in Warsaw? [15]

Try Legends Bar. Also look at the Facebook page for Professionals in Warsaw. Their parties aren't my kind of thing, but I did turn up at one to meet a friend who goes and they're mostly youngish and some are from Britain.

Life / Polish culture versus rotten West [279]


Total nutters.


Since all the fuss caused by the discredited former doctor Andrew Wakefield and the extreme columnist Melanie Phillips in the UK several children who were denied the vaccine by their parents have died of things like measles. It's also a risk to anyone with a compromised immune system that an infected and sick child might come into contact with in the doctor's waiting room.

News / Cameron's EU reform good for Poland [95]

And he just did. Part of his bid for power after that dork Cameron goes.

News / How would Poland change for the better (or worse) under a PiS government? [257]


It's easy Po. You just type the name into Google and so so much comes out.


North, South, East, West?

News / How would Poland change for the better (or worse) under a PiS government? [257]


The would be this guy, maybe: wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976WARSAW03169_b.html

Evidently not that much of a'commie'.

This is actually very relevant to the thread. One way that life has changed for the worse in the short time PIS has been exercising its malign influence is that people (many of whom live in glass houses and should NOT throw stones) are bandying about insinuations about people during the PRO years as we have seen with the allegations about Lech Wałęsa.

Genealogy / How can death influence twins, I wonder? [6]

Your profile says you live in Singapore, not Minnesota. Nor are you a native speaker of English. Your transference errors are consistent with you being a Russian.

Much as I (in common with most people in Poland) dislike Jarosław Kaczynski, if there were even one shred of truth to this nonsense it would already be very much discussed. And although he has many faults, an impaired intellect is not among them.

And why would the Russians be doing genetic testing on LK's remains and putting the medical results online.

Very significant that the dodgy documents you posted (and the creepy site you linked to) are Russian. Looks like a particularly ham-fisted bit of Putinist trolling.

News / How would Poland change for the better (or worse) under a PiS government? [257]

There are plenty of ex-Party properties round there and also in other inner suburbs; I even used to rent one myself. Visitors who lived here in the 80s were sometimes surprised at the opulent standards compared with other homes built during the period.

There is a case for all transactions between 1988 and 1992 to be audited.

News / How would Poland change for the better (or worse) under a PiS government? [257]


We aren't talking about most of the houses in the entire neighbourhood, are we now, Po. Just the ones divvied out by The Party to their loyal supporters and useful idiots.

A good friend of mine was offered one but refused on grounds of decency.

Poland will certainly change for the better if there is an audit of such transactions...

Work / Is it possible to find a job on short notice in Lodz,Poland? [4]

Without speaking Polish or being able to teach languages, your only hope is an English speaking call centre: there's a few in Poland.

That or some sort of Callan school.

News / How would Poland change for the better (or worse) under a PiS government? [257]

I wonder what would be a suitable nickname for Żoliborz, a district where there was a substantial amount of real estate, mostly villas, distributed among the faithful servants of Natolin and Moscow...

News / The Guardian destroys the Kaczynski twins [42]


At last the penny dropped.


I suspect your version of 'balanced' would involve supporting JK. Pols show that most people in Poland do not.


Codswallop


He's responsible for that himself.

Life / Cyfrowy Polsat... NC+ - which channels can you watch in English? [25]

I just had a quick look and they're saying they have protection for it.

Having said that once (but only once) very recently I couldn't use iplayer. A day later it was ok. I think they change the addresses they use in the UK.

I used to use it in Iraq just after the ISIS thing started since they had to route civilian Internet traffic through Iran and almost everything is blocked from an Iranian IP address.

Life / Cyfrowy Polsat... NC+ - which channels can you watch in English? [25]

I think they do but I'm not sure. They have something called DNS leak protection although for myself I like the fact that it's very very simple to use.

News / The Guardian destroys the Kaczynski twins [42]

You're mixing him up with someone. He's in fact an established writer for a respected (and entirely independent) newspaper.

Strange that you say "the jury's still out" since there is no jury and the excellent article should be judged by its content - which is flawless.

Life / Cyfrowy Polsat... NC+ - which channels can you watch in English? [25]

@dolnoslask, try TunnelBear for a month. I've used half a dozen Or more VPNs over the years (including Hotspot Shield) and found TunnelBear to be by far the best and easiest to use.

History / Chance of Lwów once again became coming part of Poland [344]


100 years ago was early 1916 when they were in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and at war.


That was before the massive post-war population moves. The land may still be there but the people moved; someone else owns it now.

Nobody wants Russia or the Soviet Union, and the cretin Putin is roughly despised, however most of the people of that region are now Ukrainians. And Poland does not want to split the Ukraine, a country already struggling with an illegal Putinist invasion in the east.

Life / Cyfrowy Polsat... NC+ - which channels can you watch in English? [25]

Yes. I do sometimes, usually for Masterchef, Bakeoff etc. Plus also for 4OD (we like Grand Designs but the FilmOn More4 stream isn't great - too much buffering and sometimes just drops).

Life / Cyfrowy Polsat... NC+ - which channels can you watch in English? [25]


Tunnel Bear (who never, ever disclose data to any outside agency; their server is set up so they don't see your IP) are good. $4.99 a month, easy to cancel (just one click) and very easy to use compared with most VPNs. If you don't want to pay for it, the free version gives you 500mb a month. For $4.99 it's unlimited bandwidth. A Canadian company.

News / How would Poland change for the better (or worse) under a PiS government? [257]


That would actually be an excellent move. I don't just mean the scandal of Zatoka czerwonej świnii down in Wilanów and that large building on ul. Kostrzewskiego that was built for senior MSZ people who bought the free holds for peanuts but also the commercial and residential properties round the capital, especially in North Warsaw that were sold at a massive discount or even given away under very questionable circumstances when the Berlin Wall fell.

One issue is that there are certainly PIS figures who themselves ripped off Poland in the same way however I suspect it will all come out in the wash - especially if PIS try their vindictive stuff with people who subsequently succeed them in office.

News / Polish magazine causes outrage with cover showing white woman being sexually attacked by 'migrants' [57]


You very much referred to Ghandi. You introduced him to the thread to try and make a point that didn't work, due to your lack of perspective. Trying to suggest that he was unpopular among British when in fact he was hugely admired.


How would I know or for that matter care. You might perhaps reflect that in your country, aborigines were being routinely murdered until relatively recently.


Rubbish. The film was shown on TV here and show nothing of the sort. It shows a particularly violent racist attack by thugs from villages who had been drinking on the beach.

Part of (most pertinently to this thread) the insecurity that the less intelligent and less cosmopolitan I. Society where skin colour and nationality are concerned - hence the crude publicity stunt by the contemptible 'w sieci' fanzine, a publication that most people here had never heard of until this week.



The same nutty nonsense from an ignorant inadequate.