Love / More loveless sex of Poles living in the regained lands [73]

Polonius3, you auld dog, Is this a thread about where you can most easily get a one night stand in Poland?
Dress it up anyway you like P3, that's what you're advertising.

Life / Supermarket culture rules in Poland? [18]


Are you really in Poland?


Same here in Krakow, it's chokablock with butchers, green grocers and especially bakeries.

Fish mongers... you can get fish in shops, it's fierce expensive compared to other dead animals and we are a fair bit from the sea...

I miss fresh fish, there are loads of frozen white meat fish but they don't taste very good. I don't know of any fishmongers though, although there are plenty of Sushi bars.

The best fresh fish you can get around here is fresh water trout, it's great.

Food / Anybody in Poland actually eats soup-mix soups? [27]


I don't know about you but I have to wait forever and a day to get served in most places, political eastern Europe invented slow food restaurants :)

On a serious note, I disagree, most Poles live in the countryside and every town has it's farmer's market where fruits and veg can be bought for less than in the supemarkets.

I do see the pack of soup thingys but not the microwave dinners enmasse, like in Ireland, Britain and North America.

The sheer amount of green groucers here alone should make you suspect quite the opposite from your last post there Jonny.

Polonia / Any Polish parents of pre-schoolers in Johannesburg area? [6]

Hello Sally,

You should probably check witht the Polish Embassy in South Africa and there are many forums and sites for Poles in S.A.
Polish in Johannesburg - Polish Expats in Johannesburg
internations.org/johannesburg-expats/polish

And I was talking to a lady today who said there are forums abotu Polish people in S.A. online in gazetta wyborcza that she found very helpful.

Life / The major religion of Poland? [33]


Christmas, Easter, All saints day are probably the most important. (although I think some of them were incorperated into Christianity, to make the conversian easier).

Most of the people I know couldn't care less about what religion others are.


How would you know? fair enough the hard core religious dudes and dudetts could have a funny costume or hat, dead giveaway but most don't flaunt it.


Saw this bumper sticker the other day in Krakow, made me laugh, you know the usual one of the fish (relating to Jesus).

News / Poland now soft-pedalling ACTA signing [107]


Yeah, the E.U'll push it through.


Some of the rest of us get free sex too!

Life / Yard waste / plastic burning - is such typical behaviour in Poland legal? [30]

No and authorities now have the right to come into a house and check. But it is done.

History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Government_of_National_Unity

History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]


Are you saying, to get certain things during communism, you didn't improve your chances by becoming a member? because that is what I am saying.


Perhaps I did not explain what I meant well enough,

Yes it was a tragic accident.

I firmly believe that the "fixated" "nutters" (as you call them) have an issue, that is the unresolved issue of Katyn.

I believe that many Polish people would have grieved and moarned the death of so many of thier known citizens but the fact they were going to comemorate Katyn, which Soviet Russia never appologised for, or really got any grief for, the way Nazi Germany has, toppled many over the top and still today I hear about the crash on the radio.

I think this is part of the postoccupied mentality of Poland that many just choose to either ignore or disbute, perhaps for thier own guilt in selling thier allies out? And perhaps they had no choice in letting Poland be occupied by Soviet Russia after the war because they were knackered, still doesn't change much.

And saying that people are "nutters and fixated" because they think the PRL was an occupation is just bad sportsmanship, old bean.

History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]


IF we are talking about (paraphrase the title) would you classify Communism as "Soviet occupation", then nope, it didn't.

You know this already Jonny, you also know that you couldn't pee during communism without joining and that that was a simple fact of life and dispite the "brave" talk of somepeople, many at the time thought the occupation would never end, at least not in their lifetime.

Is it just for the sake of argument?

And to add to the debate, I think it is very wrong, for the Nazi Germans to take blame for their wrong doing and the winners of WWII, to get away with murder.

Just look at what happened with this whole Katastrofa Smoleńska and tell me it has nothing to do with the undercurrent feeling of grief Poles still have for Katyn.

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


Thanks for the informative post.

"Accountability" is an important part of journalism for me.

History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]


And how many were party members after the occupation? Sure you couldn't pee during communism without being a member.

(and you don't get to call my grandparents traitors because I diagree with you hahaha:)

here's a read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_occupations#Poland]Soviet occupations (Wiki)


And on a personal note it had/has all the halmarks of an occupation, left on the mentality of the Polish people.

Here's another: Occupation of Poland

News / Poland now soft-pedalling ACTA signing [107]


This is the reason people are protesting, it's masquerading as legit enforcment of the law but that's not it.
Anyone can buy a pirated film from any of the targs (markets) here in Poland and I see nothing done about that.
But controlling what you see on the internet, in the name of copyrights? nobody is swollowing that one, except P3.
2012 masquerading as 1984 (you can use that:)

Study / Shocking! Test standards in Polish schools. [165]


You gotta hate the Dutch :)

But I agree, it is shockingly poor English for such a mark.

News / Poland now soft-pedalling ACTA signing [107]

I actually think they are doing it now for the very reasons you have just pointed out.
How else could the occupy wall street movement have been organised without the internet? i don't think it could have and certainly the mainstream media ignored it for as long as possible. Wikileaks showing the gunning down of innocent people would also never have been shown to us.

This is control of the internet, it will come in a few guises, antipiracy, antiterrorism, antipedophilia rings but what it actually is is control of information.

Knowledge is power.

News / Poland now soft-pedalling ACTA signing [107]


His point was clear to me anyway.
Taking extreme examples and using them as similarities makes it an "invalid argument" with reference to Polonia3's post.

News / Poland now soft-pedalling ACTA signing [107]


I didn't realise you were such a PO supporter.


Congratulations on being (and I mean this) COMPLETLLY OUT OF TOUCH WITH WHAT IS HAPPENING IN POLAND.

10s of thousands of people continue to protest accross this country (Poland;).

News / Controlling the internet ACTA in Poland (Like SOPA) [34]

I think what will happen is this, they will start in with this anti-copy right censorship, then hackers will attack governments (as they have been doing).

Governents will see this as an act of "terrorism" and highten the "security" of the internet to catch these people.


thenews.pl

It'll all be done in the name of "security".

Which begs the question, whose security?


And what's a fecking "Moslem"? If they are going to ban freedom of speech, least they can do is get their spelling right.

News / Controlling the internet ACTA in Poland (Like SOPA) [34]


And that's what happened, fair play to them:


English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout


Google too

And:

Wired.com, where the homepage is redacted, at least until you mouse over the content;

Greenpeace.org, where the Internet has gone dark and your mouse acts as a spotlight;

Mashable.com, where the front page looks almost normal, but the content is all about SOPA, including 'This is the Internet After SOPA [PICS]";

Google.com, where they've blacked-out the Google logo in a way that sustains the site's basic functionality-so they're not misusing their power too much- but makes their point very, very clear.

Washington Post

Reddit and the blog Boing Boing are also took part in the "blackout".
bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16590585

The internet is the only free voice, much of the information we share could not be accessed any other way.

News / Controlling the internet ACTA in Poland (Like SOPA) [34]

They are.


That seems to be a major part of the problem.

Secrecy of negotiations (Wiki)


Will we be telling our children about when the internet had free information?

News / Controlling the internet ACTA in Poland (Like SOPA) [34]

bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16686265

News / Controlling the internet ACTA in Poland (Like SOPA) [34]

I always thought that the censorship of the internet would come under the guise of anti-terrorism, seems to be the phrase that pays these days.

How could "occupy wallstreet" or such information be spread so quickly without the internet? I don't think it could be.

I can see how the internet has made the powers that be, who are very happy with the statuesque, would want to limit our information.

I dislike making comparisons to the Soviet Union but here we are.

What do youz think about the

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]


I was here in 2002, a mortgage was the same price as rent.
And people were telling me back then that prices were too high.

Most people in Poland live in the countryside, just look at the demographics of the country, 38 million people and relativly few in the cities.
As this country has been turning from an agricultural (rural) to a customer based and industrial erconomy people will move to the cities but that doesn't mean they have to live in zone one.

This also effects the price per metre square and so long as there is work and there is work, the prices are not going to plumet like some have warned.

I personally think that the world economic crises happened at a good time for Poland. If the economy had have persisted, Poland would have become the next Ireland.

It was just before it got rediculious that this price correction happened, you can't call it a crash even by looking at your own predictions just there milky.

Is Poland a good property investment? Not unless you live here and that depends on where you live.

Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]

Actually that's a point. I heard for example that in the Polish film "Sex Mission" (great film:) that when they were running away, they said "Lets go West!" and the English translation was "Lets go East!".

This is hearsay and I am not sure of the exact details but you might have been right during communism.

Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]


If I ever meet him, I'll kill him.

I have also noticed that countries that speak foriegn languages the best (like Norway and the Netherlands) have subtitles not a lektor.
A compromise would be to have him only in the left speaker, then you could turn the fecker off.

News / Polish hero pilot lands 767 without wheels. (Warsaw) [191]


I wouldn't stay up in the air for longer than necessary unless I was aware of a problem.

News / Polish hero pilot lands 767 without wheels. (Warsaw) [191]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_airliners_by_airline

List of accidents and incidents involving airliners by airline[/url] (Wiki).

LOT seems to have had only three major crashes, Aeroflot not looking too good but I am not sure how reliable this info is and you also have to take into account, the number of flights, I suppose.

News / Polish hero pilot lands 767 without wheels. (Warsaw) [191]

You'd imagine so but I'm not a pilot... yet :)

News / Polish hero pilot lands 767 without wheels. (Warsaw) [191]


Didn't the guy spend an hour going around the airport before landing? that's what I heard, maybe he knew and was running out of fuel and made the call?

Last resort and fair play to him for getting it right, talk about pressure...,
Nice to have a bit of good news for a change.