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delphiandomine   
26 Aug 2015
News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]

Kukiz won't hold on. He's managed to turn Telewizja Republika against him by getting into fights with them, and he's had a very clear and obvious falling out with the PiS-establishment too. Without a single sympathetic media outlet and a loss in the JOW referendum, he has no chance.
delphiandomine   
26 Aug 2015
Language / Sentences: stół z powyłamywanymi nogami / Nasi przodkowie na mchu jadali [25]

I missed that bit. I wonder why he says that, especially since some of us were doing very nicely before and came for all sorts of reasons. Especially since he's an immigrant himself.

One suspects that Polonius is on the sauce today.

With a very few exceptions (dipomats, missionaries, etc.) people emirgate to improve their lot.

Or they go for the chance to learn a foreign language, live in a different culture and so on. Some of us liked it and decided to stay.

For example - Poland has a tiny property tax and no car taxes. Works for me.
delphiandomine   
25 Aug 2015
Law / Car Insurance in Poland (A/C) [32]

I want to put my car in storage in my garage whilst I carry out extensive restoration work on it, also cancel my car insurance.

It's pretty simple. Does it have registration plates? Yes? Then you need to pay insurance. If you hand the plates back to the registration office and cancel the car registration, then you don't need to pay insurance.

As long as it has plates (regardless of condition), then you're obliged to pay insurance. It's actually very sensible when you think about it...
delphiandomine   
23 Aug 2015
Law / Buying a car in Poland or Germany? [36]

So that SUV is absolutely vital then, isn't it? :D

(don't mention Trójmiasto, that S6 bypass is horrific)
delphiandomine   
23 Aug 2015
Law / Buying a car in Poland or Germany? [36]

In the difficult, challenging and entirely urban environment of Katowice, anything with wheels will work.
delphiandomine   
22 Aug 2015
Life / Advice needed on Dental implant in Poland [119]

why such a strong statement, 'Delphiandomine'?

Because most people posting here are simply posting from the clinic that they work in/own. :)

Any guest poster certainly is doing it to promote their own business.
delphiandomine   
21 Aug 2015
Law / EU-citizens need residence to be freelancers in Poland? [9]

Can I with this status avoid ZUS and health insurance altogether and have my private insurances?

No. A person registered as self employed in Poland has to make mandatory ZUS contributions. There's no escaping this.
delphiandomine   
21 Aug 2015
Work / English teaching or English language preschool in Poland? [15]

I am looking to work within preschool teaching English, I will be based close to Poznan and don't really know the best way to look for a position.

Actually, if you want to work in a preschool, it will be pretty easy to find a full time job. There's a distinct lack of natives that can actually work with such children - but be warned, the salaries will be low. What are your expectations, financially?
delphiandomine   
21 Aug 2015
Life / Living Expenses in Krakow [42]

I've read that in Poland the proportion of young people who are studying is one of the highest in the whole world.

Over 50%, actually. The number is huge, and you have to remember that the average HR/recruiter here doesn't really differentiate between an MA from Poznań and an MA from Berlin. With such a huge amount of graduates to choose from, it's no surprise that someone with higher education and no skills is cheap.

I know that studying abroad or taking part in exchange programs is not affordable for everyone - even for Germans...

Not really. A lot of people do it in Poland - a summer spent working in the UK/Germany combined with the Erasmus scholarship means that it's quite affordable to do so.

Therefore it was really surprising that their SSCs belong to the group of more "stingy" employers...

Usually, these days - someone will work for an SSC for 2-3 years. After that, they become quite valuable to other employers (particularly in the growing start-up field!) - so they leave and go elsewhere for better money.
delphiandomine   
20 Aug 2015
News / New constitution In Poland? [57]

The Platfusy aimed their hate industry's largest calibre arsenal against the IV RP, slandering and misrepresnerting its noble, patriotic intentions.

You mean they stood up against the blatant corruption and greed found within the IV RP, including the blatant attempts to take over almost every single institution with their supporters?

Since the Platofrmers are good at PR (about the only thing they're good at), they succeeded in brainwashing many Poles to givre the IV RP a bad name.

The IV RP got a bad name entirely by itself, what with the fact that it stood for incompetence, nepotism and more.

some of whom inadvertently or consciosuly (for the money) are serving foreign intelligence.

Funny you should talk about foreign intelligence, given the actions of people like PiS that wish to destroy our very good links with Germany and France. One would rather suspect that the prickly foreign policy applied by PiS can only be an attempt to help Putin.

Merged: PiS and their proposed new constitution

Reading this article should sober up anyone daft enough to think about voting PiS.

notesfrompoland.com/2015/09/04/polands-referendum-and-election-the-big-issues-no-ones-talking-about/#more-837

It introduces a constitutional obligation for state schools to teach religion, as well as a civic right for 'cultural and religious' symbols to be publicly displayed.

What kind of party tries to force children into compulsory brainwashing?

Like I said, vote PiS, get Communism.
delphiandomine   
20 Aug 2015
News / New constitution In Poland? [57]

Because he did not embody the spirit of Poland.

A man that was born into nobility, rose to the top of his profession and became a professor, helped Polish exiles, led a university faculty, supported the ideals of Pilsudski, had the support of foreign governments and was a highly successful minister didn't "embody the spirit of Poland"?

Polonius, you've posted some amount of crap on here in the past, but this is remarkable even by your standards.

He was closer to the alienness personified by PF's Bully Brits.

Hardly. The man was as Polish and a genuine patriot.

Of all people, a president should be on the same wavelength as sthe majrotiy of his subjects who were not liberals, agnostics or judaeophiles.

I don't know how to explain this to you, but President Narutowicz was elected with the support of the left, the centrists and the minorities. In other words, a broad section of Polish society and certainly the majority. It was only the right wing Polish Catholics that opposed him - which was not the majority within the II RP.

All the legalistic mumbo-jumbo about him having widespread support not withdstanding, but it was not popualr support but that of certain poltical elites and interest groups. He could not have won a popular election.

Meaningless, and certainly no reason to insult him.

Don't forget that his rival for the Presidency, Zamoyski, had willingly sat in the Russian Duma. Traitor.

May I remind you that politically, he was very close to Pilsudski?

...except the budding IV RP which will rise again. Regardless of whether it will called that or not. A rose by any other name......

It's gone, Polonius. Duda, Szydło and others have no interest in the Kaczynski IV RP project.
delphiandomine   
19 Aug 2015
Life / Polish people and racism. [943]

Yeah it is Delph, as a slang for "et cetera" or etc.

It's simply wrong. It's not in Webster's, nor is it found in any other credible English dictionary.

Anyway, we should stress that the worst racism is found among people with no connection to Poland.
delphiandomine   
19 Aug 2015
News / New constitution In Poland? [57]

And how would your hypothetical Narutowicz-Piłsudski coaliton have dealt with the parliamentary anarchy that necessitated the 1926 coup

Quite well I imagine, given that President Narutowicz was a follower of Pilsudski's ideals and that he would've enjoyed the support of the man himself.

It has to be said Polonius, I cannot understand why you're so fiercely against one of the greatest men ever to hold the Polish presidency. Certainly, his accomplishments far outweigh any President of the III RP.
delphiandomine   
19 Aug 2015
News / Polish-foreigner marriages increasing [48]

Actually is exactly the opposite: What made Poland strong and resist so many agressions until now was EXACTLY the social cohesion of the polish culture and religion.

What are you on about? Until 1945, Poland was always an ethnically and religious diverse country, and still is today to a more limited extent.
delphiandomine   
19 Aug 2015
News / New constitution In Poland? [57]

I wonder what was "presidential material" in the eyes of Polonius, given that President Narutowicz was a success in his life and also had the right background for those times (born into nobility, etc etc).
delphiandomine   
19 Aug 2015
News / New constitution In Poland? [57]

He was elecetd by the Naitonal Assembly not by popular vote, and there were no surveys back then showing whether the public supported someone.

But the National Assembly was voted for democratically. It's no different to how the German President is elected today.

His professional credentials may have been OK, but the vibes he sent out did not gel with the nation as a whole. You can try to impose your subejctive personal views and prejudices (liberalism, agnositcism, anticlericalism, cosmopolitanism, etc.) on 1920s Poland, but that will always be an ethnically, culturally, politically and religiously alien entity to an outsider of foreign stock.

What are you on about? He was supported by a broad section of Polish society, except the right wing that tried to portray him as somehow not being Polish. In 1920's Poland, he was perhaps the perfect candidate, not least because he had experience in reconstruction, excellent foreign contacts and was politically moderate. The fact that he had a good relationship with Pilsudski would have guaranteed success as well.

And no matter how hard you try, 1920's Poland was not some Catholic-dominated state, but rather a multi-ethnic state that clearly belonged to all her citizens, not just the Catholic ones.

It required the relatively mild 1926 coup d'état and the 1935 constitution to remedy the anarchy and contain widespread security threats (Soviet subversives, Nazi Fifth Column, Ukrainian terrorists, etc.),

Don't forget the threats from Polish Catholics, too, that were determined to dismantle the rights of all Polish citizens.

Had a coalition between President Narutowicz and Pilsudski held, I suspect that Poland would have been a dramatically different place and for the better. The entire post-1935 policies of Sanacja destroyed any hope that Poland had even before the war.
delphiandomine   
19 Aug 2015
News / Polish-foreigner marriages increasing [48]

DAMN...POLES NEED SOME VARIETY IN THEIR DNA, LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND RELIGION.

Why?

Can you perhaps give us one reason?
delphiandomine   
19 Aug 2015
News / New constitution In Poland? [57]

A new constitution should ensure a more equitable balance of power between parliament/government and the chief executive.

The President isn't the chief executive, and this model was already replaced 18 years ago. There's absolutely no appetite in Poland for a strong Presidency, and the majority remember the attempts by Lech Kaczyński to make the office more than it actually was.

the right to appoint certain key figures (eg the heads of the Supreme Court, State Tribunal, possibly also foreign minister)

Why on earth would you put such power in the hands of one person? It would simply lead to constant deadlock and fights - the 4th French Republic suffered badly from such poor division between the parliament and the president.

As I said above, PiS only want to change the constitution because they know that it's easier for them to win a one off election than it is to win 231 seats in the Sejm. However, I find it interesting and downright weird that they're supporting a return to the PRL-era idea of the Presidency.
delphiandomine   
19 Aug 2015
News / New constitution In Poland? [57]

merely a statement that Narutowicz was not presidential material for Poland.

So - let's see. According to you, someone that was and had -

- Born into nobility
- Family history of opposing oppression
- Supported the ideas and values of Pilsudski
- Helped exiled Polish citizens
- World class expert in his field
- Dean of a university faculty
- A highly successful minister
- Centrist in politics, able to find compromise
- Trusted by foreign governments

- in your eyes, wasn't suitable for President?

Are you serious?

Narutowicz was supported by a broad section of Polish society and also had the support of the various minorities, which made him a real man of the Polish nation. It's such a huge shame that such a talented and able President had his reign cut short.