News / Attack on Poland's judicial independence [50]


Nonsense, Gumi. You're just trying to confuse in order to deflect attention from a very valid criticism of the current attacks on justice and on the law here. Especially since you can't criticise the substance, so look for an analogy to whine about....

News / Attack on Poland's judicial independence [50]


So in what way is that 'manipulative'?


Planning a safe journey for passengers is exactly the same. Clue, you take great care to avoid an accident...


Yes. For many years


According to his passport...

And isn't it amusing that a couple of people (with history of this on here) want to criticise a blog, pretending it's 'anti-Polish' when in fact it reflects the views of a huge number of people, perhaps even the majority here in Poland.

News / Attack on Poland's judicial independence [50]

That tells us nothing except that as usual, you're insulting anything that doesn't promote a far-right point of view.

We'll dismiss the 'hysterical' comment since it's subjective, we'll dismissed the 'biased' comment since it's an op-ed piece on a blog and doesn't pretend to present every different viewpoint, so let's have a look at 'manipulative'. In what way is this excellent article 'manipulative'?

News / Attack on Poland's judicial independence [50]


Again, it looks like you didn't read the article (or the other, even better one) on the same blog.

News / Attack on Poland's judicial independence [50]


Nor are you, for that matter - you've never even been to this continent, never mind Poland. And the article is written by a Polish citizen who has lived here roughly twice as long as you have been alive.

Interesting though that you think the ethnicity of the writer gives an article 'merit' - there are plenty of articles in the Polish-language press here saying exactly the same thing. Admittedly you wouldn't understand them (and nor would many other people reading this) however very good to hear you say that they have 'merit', Bieggers.

News / Attack on Poland's judicial independence [50]


Looks like you didn't read the article.

And don't confuse the concept of an Attorney General with the PiS cult's new 'Prosecutor General'.

News / Attack on Poland's judicial independence [50]

Just read the article and find one lie in there. It's a shocking attack on the judiciary and the basic principles of justice within a democratic society. Not that a democratic society appeals to the PiS cult in any case.

UK, Ireland / Daniel Pelka murder: Polish mother and stepfather face life sentences [96]

Quite. I think polishinvestor misunderstands the meaning of the phrase "political correctness" however in any case, he died because of human failings, because of two people's appalling behaviour.


Exactly. They are very limited in their powers (and woefully under-funded - there are fewer than most people think) and to a certain extend are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Had Daniel Pelka been under proper scrutiny, they may have been able do do something to support him and the family however that didn't happen, and "what ifs" are rarely helpful.

Travel / Behavior of Polish travellers on Planes. [72]

In what way is it 'uptight' to expect to sit in a seat you've paid extra for?

Travel / Behavior of Polish travellers on Planes. [72]


All 38 million?


A very big deal if you pay to sit near the front, or for extra legroom and there's some hassle because an oaf is sitting in your seat.

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

You're talking of course about the lady who was re-elected.

Not perfect, being a little too conservative, but popular enough to win a re-election, something that PiS have never achieved and don't look in the least bit likely to now.

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


I think we will see a lot more of this; hence the importance of an independent media.

News / An article: NATO is the American occupation of Poland and Europe, by Mateusz Piskorski [233]


No such thing Crowie. Here in Poland, support for the EU and for NATO is particularly strong. Most people never ever mention Serbia and plenty couldn't find it on a map, much less care about the place.

That Piskorski person you mention is a fringe figure at best, by the way.

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


That sums them up perfectly.


Cobblers.

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


Vindictiveness, small-mindedness, hysteria.

That and a total inability to understand the concepts of either loyal opposition or a plural society

News / An article: NATO is the American occupation of Poland and Europe, by Mateusz Piskorski [233]


There is no great chance of either happening. Both the EU and NATO have considerable support in Poland. This Piskorski is a creepy non-entity.

UK, Ireland / Daniel Pelka murder: Polish mother and stepfather face life sentences [96]

A sad end to a sad story:


mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/evil-step-dad-daniel-pelka-7270689

In every sense. Three dead, a child appallingly mistreated. Bad all round.

Life / Important Poland etiquette question: bite of the herring first, then a shot, or shot first, then a herring? [22]

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Life / Important Poland etiquette question: bite of the herring first, then a shot, or shot first, then a herring? [22]

Last night, we were eating a smoked sturgeon that someone had given to a friend. One of the three of us is from the former Soviet Union and did the vodka and fish the Russian way. He complained that the vodka (czysty Krupnik) didn't taste nice. The other person (who is Polish) said half indignantly and half laughing that you aren't supposed to actually taste the vodka!

The sturgeon by the way was delicious albeit scary looking.

Travel / Behavior of Polish travellers on Planes. [72]

Some of it's the same psychology that makes the Warsaw Metro seem so formal and solemn, some of it is less experienced travellers getting stressed and thinking you have to, some of it is pack mentality and conformity - a couple of people do something that looks official and 'ordered' and others think they have to as well.

I'm pleased the clapping thing on landing seems to be less popular. I'm sure that one came from disaster movies.

Nice though to see all the oohs, aahs and wonderment when people who haven't flown much (if at all) look out of the window when the plane is coming down to land in Poland in the wintertime and all the street lights reflected in the snow and it looks pretty.

Travel / Behavior of Polish travellers on Planes. [72]


At Modlin the security lines are the big problem - it tends to have a lot of families travelling together plus a lot of inexperienced travellers and few business travellers, so lots of unpacking of things, hassles about fluids in baggage etc. At the actual gates, it's worth paying the fiver for priority so you can wait away from the gates in the cafe and go at the last minute. The only problem with that is that the people in the main queue, snaking round the whole gate are rather fraught by that stage that they think you're pushing in and can get nasty.


At Istanbul airport all the gates are in long rows and you don't actually need to know the gate number for the Poland flight since you can see the queue of people from a long way away.

It used to be just the same at Victoria Coach Station - Long queues and more - I once saw a near riot there to get on the coach first just in case there weren't enough seats. They used to have to have the Poland coaches right at the end, separate from the rest because the queues and scrambling were a safety issue!

Travel / Behavior of Polish travellers on Planes. [72]


Same here. Not much difference between Poles or anyone else when on board (apart from the clapping thing that you sometimes get on low-cost flights).

I've noticed some rather strange behaviour at airports though - all lining up in a queue ages before the flight boards and quite a bit of pushing and shoving, especially at Modlin. As if they think the plane will take off without them

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


They didn't. Only you do. On here.


More accurately and truthfully (not that you seem to care much about the truth) the few market traders you mentioned were squatting on the site of the new metro interchange station right in the centre of the capital, in a temporary building that they always knew was temporary when they took on the temporary leases.

Perhaps you think people illegally selling plastic shoes is more important to our economy than an underground rail network that takes hundreds of thousands of people to work every day and that the illegal traders who were holding up the development (at a huge cost to the taxpayer) and who were all offered new premises were more important to our economy.

Only someone who is either hysterical and out of touch with reality (like PiS supporters) might say some such nonsense. That or someone like yourself who left Poland decades ago and prefers not to live here.

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


This very much fits both PiS and their few supporters within the business community. Mostly at town hall level - that's where the PiSites get away with it most easily.

As Lech Kaczinski, the worst president Poland has ever had and the PiS leader's unmissed twin said "teraz k*rwa my", "Now it's our f*cking turn (for corruption)".

No wonder so many people are coming out for the Polish pro-democracy rallies.

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


Basically trying to create another demographic to vote for them (since they only have one group of voters and that group is dying off) and, like every other scam they try, it will backfire on them.

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


Basically PiS and their gang want as much corruption as possible - providing they themselves earn from it.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]



Basically they want a return to pre-1989

Work / Salary opinion - Warsaw Junior Translation Coordinator for media products [11]


That's possible, but involves a very very modest and puritanical life indeed.

Work / Information about jobs for Indian students in Poland [286]


Yes, a few.