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


Quite. One thing everyone knows about PiS from their disastrous part-term of office a few years ago is that media manipulation is a priority for them and that they despise any alternative point of view.

News / World's 'most wanted man' (a Pole) found working at British Subway restaurant [43]


They don't (in Warsaw, anyway) buy it daily. They get it every few days and use the oldest first. Many prisoners throw it away. It's possible (for those who have money) to buy fresher bread or crispbread on the 'buy up' which happens (in theory) every ten days.

News / World's 'most wanted man' (a Pole) found working at British Subway restaurant [43]


No the prison officers were being misleading at best. That food he mentioned was from the visitors room, where there is usually a small canteen where visitors can (in certain circumstances) by food for inmates, to be consumed in their presence. The slop that is served in the cells is far far worse. They certainly don't get scrambled eggs, salad or bread that is in any way fresh.

Here's another bizarre story about a dangerous criminal hiding out in the uk.


scotsman.com/news/odd/polish-criminal-jailed-for-naked-drugs-rampage-through-dundee-toys-r-us-1-4007681

History / "Poland's Concentration Camp" ?? [570]


That's the key to it really. Being open about a dark chapter in history doesn't blacken or compromise the nation as a whole. Pretending those dark chapters didn't exist and getting all indignant about it (and nobody believes the protestations) does however darken and compromise any nation who does that.

Life / Africans in Poland and diversity [60]


Where do these nutters come from?

Off-Topic / Polish and Russian Christians! Lest's unite today! [41]

Ktos, dear boy, Putin is neither a Jew nor a Mason.

Shame really because if he was a Jew he'd have left Russia and if he was a Mason he'd be a good person.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


This makes a lot of sense. Plus education, positive role models and a defined way out of the poverty trap.

National service helped a bit, though in the Polish military the drinking culture that pervaded it right from the top back in the old days was a bit counterproductive.

Banning stuff so rarely seems to work - giving an alternative and above all giving hope seems to be the best way.

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


Easy issue. Corruption, contracts, vanity.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


It would probably make things worse, with people paying even more on the black market, or making bimber. Poverty reduction is a tricky issue - it takes generations of hard work and very high spending.

Life / Why is Orange Poland such a crappy / expensive network? [53]

I had a business contract with a couple of dozen phones on, and never ever got full value from it. Also, I didn't like waiting for the phone they give you - it suits me personally just to buy one.


Thanks - I'll try that!

Life / Why is Orange Poland such a crappy / expensive network? [53]

Orange used to phone me up too, before I switched to Play.

Much better to use pre-paid anyway, as a rule. It costs me almost nothing and a 100zl top up lasts for months.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]

Hence the massive funding from the EU which is slowly tackling it. One of the worst issues is rural poverty with people stubbornly clinging onto their three hectares and expecting to support a family from it. That and sending family members to the uk to send back remittances.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]

If anything the economic progress here has been a success, thanks in very large part to EU membership and good stewardship by the last government. Poverty levels have noticeably decreased.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


If only you'd been here before Europe entry and after, to see the difference.

Travel / INFORMATION ABOUT TOURISTS ARRIVAL IN POLAND [15]


That statement would be a surprise to most.


Rife in Poland without help from overseas visitors who in any case can't read the thousands of adverts.


"Clean rooms for €10 a night" - not in Warsaw.

News / The shame of Duda making late night visits to Kaczyński [79]

So funny, PO, but still the usual nonsense and entirely unsuccessful as an attempt to distract from the point of the thread - specifically that the unelected dictator Kaczynski is summoning his puppet president and his parliamentary sidekick premier to shady meetings in the middle of the night.

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


Almost? Entirely!

And still, the Polish pro-democracy rallies continue, the public (18% of them anyway) who were duped into voting for an unelected dictator who summons the puppet president to secret meetings in the dead of night have seen through it all, hence the approval ratings.

Life / Good furniture shops in Poland? [11]

It depends what sort of thing you like, but this place (out in Łomianki) has some interesting stuff: witek.pl

There are also a few branches round Warsaw of a chain called 'Red and White' however the quality is variable.

News / The shame of Duda making late night visits to Kaczyński [79]


Chivalry is the resort of the despicable, however firstly, 'lady' is pushing it for female PiSists and secondly I would firmly remind you of the way you refer to more respectable and decent politicians.


Quite. It's not only a genuine grass-roots movement, however those dark conspiracies like Kaczynski summoning his wretched puppets 'the dud' Duda and the appalling Szydlo for clandestine meetings (always in the middle of the night, then again with his conscience he shouldn't be able to sleep anyway) are conspiring against them and the nation as a whole.

Fortunately without success.

History / "Poland's Concentration Camp" ?? [570]


Apparently he admitted it. He wasn't someone who tolerated opinions that differed; this was a shame since the groups who were locked away may well have contributed well to the war effort.

News / The shame of Duda making late night visits to Kaczyński [79]


Given that PO ran the country so much better, we can say that it's actually in the whole nation's vested interest that the Kaczynski gang go.


Indeed. Just any party where there isn't an eminence grisé that has the power to summon the 'president' and that putrid hag Szydlo to their presence in the middle of the night.

News / The shame of Duda making late night visits to Kaczyński [79]

There you go again, Po.

It's actually quite insulting to Poles (but at least you haven't called them "the worst sort of Poles" like that idiot Kaczynski) to assume that the people who attend the Polish pro-democracy rallies are somehow duped. The same sort of rhetoric that your paymasters used before 1989 about those Poles who supported the pro-democracy movement back then.

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


And all the others except Waitrose and the Co-op are publicly traded and can be bought by shareholders anywhere - I think all the big 4 have substantial investment from other countries.

As long as shares are traded, the owners of those shares can be from anywhere - and only a very odd sort of person would want to prevent that.

News / The shame of Duda making late night visits to Kaczyński [79]



A very sad way to describe the ordinary men and women of all ages and backgrounds who attend the rallies. At least you haven't been stupid enough to call them "the wrong sort of Poles" as that creep Kaczynski did. The same sort of contempt that the PiS gang show to the people of Poland and more pertinently to this thread, the same sort of contempt that these weird nocturnal meetings show for Poland.

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


Precisely where families like to spend time together.

Now this daft idea really will be unpopular...

News / Poland's democracy defenders in Brussels turned out to be EU employees. [62]


No, Po, the EU 'leadership' do not take part in the Polish pro-democracy rallies.

News / EU debate on Poland [23]


Now Po, the point of a single market is that all areas within it operate on a level playing field. None have an inherent advantage and no reason whatsoever why a business should be owned (or invested) in by an individual or company of any given nationality.

That's how single markets work, and Poland, as the largest beneficiary by far of subsidies, has done extremely well out of it.

News / Why has the US dollar reached almost 3.99 zł in Poland? [56]


are voted out of office. Until then we can expect the same continued instability that we've had since the election.

News / EU debate on Poland [23]


The largest net beneficiary.


It's a single market so an irrelevance who owns what.

News / Do you believe that western Europe (ie EU) won`t punish Poland if Poland try to go out of EU? [44]


Don't be silly. Ethnicity has no effect on eligibility to benefits. If you mean people seeking asylum, they get even less.