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Roger5   
31 Oct 2015
Life / Polish culture versus rotten West [279]

I trust you're being more than a little facetious, Roger5.
LOL

Not in the least. If you'd travelled widely in Poland in the last ten years, you'd know what I mean.
Roger5   
31 Oct 2015
Life / Polish culture versus rotten West [279]

Except in backwards areas of Polska B

InPolska, you insist on using this disparaging term for eastern Poland. I have travelled through many parts of western and northern Poland that were nowhere near as developed as the area in which I live.
Roger5   
30 Oct 2015
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

Polonius, if your beloved Polonia stopped sending charity to poor relations and came and contributed with their brains and their brawn, Poland would develop faster. You call my point nitpicking. I call your defence of decidedly unpatriotic hypocrites blinkered, and just because they are, by and large, extreme conservatives like you.
Roger5   
29 Oct 2015
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

abandoning of Poland in times of need

I can understand young Poles leaving for greener grass, but what I can't stand is them telling us how we should live in Poland. And the vote thing annoys me, too. Anyway, when their kids ask them what they did in those early days to help a resurgent Poland after the wall came down, they can say, hand on heart, "I left".
Roger5   
29 Oct 2015
News / Roman Polanski accused of unlawful sex with a minor [403]

Kaszynski, as a lawyer, does know that the matter is very complicated since several countries concerned but as a cheap populist, he pretends that everything is so easy to please his followers who of course are completely ignorant and buy any bs

I agree with the first part, but not all of his followers wear mohair berets and listen to Radio Maryja. Some are highly intelligent, although none of those people contribute to this forum.

I am shocked because I did not know how low he is....

Really? He's a politician.
Roger5   
28 Oct 2015
Classifieds / Polish Business Opportunity [11]

whilst the hard workers at the bottom do all the graft for less than all of them

Aren't these the people you are trying to recruit?
Roger5   
28 Oct 2015
UK, Ireland / Sugar tax in the UK. Polish friends addicted? [55]

wędliny is the real culprit

A little of what you fancy does you good - your soul if not your heart, especially if you buy good quality produce like Kindziuk or the excellent dry Biebrzański suasage from Kabo. I pigged out on a smoked bacon and egg breakfast last Sunday. It was my first for ages, and I probably won't do it again this month. I also can't resist a good smalec if I see one, again, not too often.

Yesterday I observed what was in students' lunch boxes and was pleased to see all kinds of salads and other good things (the girls' ones, anyway).
Roger5   
27 Oct 2015
Feedback / ATT MODS: HOW TO EMPTY A OVERSTUFFED BOX? [12]

I would but I'm skiving as it is. Better get back to work. I'm sure someone will be along soon to help. "I've always relied on the kindness of strangers." Who said that?
Roger5   
27 Oct 2015
Feedback / ATT MODS: HOW TO EMPTY A OVERSTUFFED BOX? [12]

Pol, to quote Groucho, "A ten-year-old kid could do this; run out and get me a ten-year-old kid." Seriously, grab a youngster.
Roger5   
26 Oct 2015
Life / "Survivor's report" from a children's mass in Poland [62]

I exaggerated. I wasn't terrified, just mystified as to what I could confess, but others were tearful. I suppose my point is that you can take a group of five-year-olds and turn them into devout anything. The Jesuits even provided a guarantee! You can even persuade some of them to kill people of a different religion. Let them make their own minds up.
Roger5   
26 Oct 2015
Life / "Survivor's report" from a children's mass in Poland [62]

It would be better to give them a good education first, and then let them decide what religion, if any, they want to follow. I wonder how many would say no thanks. I remember the terrified, tearful kids waiting to go into their first confession. In fact, I was one of them. And before Pol jumps in, you don't have a monopoly on morality. "Christian" morality was being taught thousands of years before Christ.
Roger5   
26 Oct 2015
UK, Ireland / Sugar tax in the UK. Polish friends addicted? [55]

roz, I know it's not scientifically valid evidence, but when I walk down the street in Poland I don't see many fat kids. In the UK they are everywhere.
Roger5   
26 Oct 2015
Work / Poland seeking more natural English speakers [54]

If someone has a good pass at CPE, their writing will certainly be better than 80% of native speakers, more if we are talking about Americans.
Roger5   
26 Oct 2015
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

As an expat, you are in a comfortable situation

At the risk of splitting hairs I'd say I'm not an ex-pat, but I take your point. I live quite comfortably but that's down to me usually working seven days a week. I know that a lot of Poles are having a hard time, and no-one should have to leave their country to go cleaning abroad. I have a friend with two degrees who works a night shift in a UK factory. Anyway, I have to go to work, so take care, and I hope you are well now.
Roger5   
26 Oct 2015
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

I won't even talk about Polska B, which seems almost untouched in the last 20 years.

I live in Podlasie, and I can tell you that the changes in the last twenty years have been enormous.
Roger5   
26 Oct 2015
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

Polish growth 1. resulted from EU money and foreign investments

Is that a bad thing?

benefit a few Poles only

I'd say more than a few, and everyone benefits from stability. I've lived in two countries during runaway inflation and economic collapse, and it always hits the poorest hardest. I've never been a PO fan, but I feel bound to give credit where credit is due.
Roger5   
26 Oct 2015
Life / Is "Polish person - Atheist" an oxymoron? [24]

I am starting to think the only thing that can stop the tide of persecution against Catholics is another Inquisition.

You are living in a parallel universe.

I have friends at Radio Maryja and they agree with me.

Of that I have no doubt.

The current pope loves gays, atheists and muslims.

It's called Christianity.
Roger5   
26 Oct 2015
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

Yes, a very fair assessment.

"Poland grew 23.8 percent between 2008-2014, and was the only economy in the EU to avoid recession in 2008, which the country last saw in 1992. Civic Platform did a terrible job in selling this economic record and PiS a great one in tapping into persistent discontent."

PO got flabby and complacent, and their campaign was defeatist. Where I live there were hardly any PO roadside posters. It was as if they'd given up. Anyway, that's democracy.

If people think that there's going to be a New Jerusalem in Poland any time soon, they are in for disappointment. Voters may have rejected PO, but very few have any wish for a theocracy. Poland is respected internationally, and not because of PiS. Let's see what the coming years bring, but I expect Kaczynski and his puppet to make the usual hash of it.