Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]

Not for editorial content, for financial irregularities and compliance issues about their broadcasting licence including donations to political parties, jamming rivals' frequencies, signal strength and abusing the frequencies meant for traffic and weather updates. Enough to be taken off the air in most of the free world.

Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]


That's the point really - it's very bland and boring, aimed at the elderly, and the few bits of nasty stuff are well reported. People's dislike of it is as I stated above - it's connections to political parties, the behaviour of some of the characters involved with it and the televangelist who runs it buying a Maybach from the donations he solicits from pensioners. Check out the TRWAM website and the newspapers they publish for content!

Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]


Me too, in a way.
You've hit the nail on the head about why people here have strong views on it. If there's a campaign against it in PL, it's more of a campaign against the two specific political parties they are linked with (one of them the twins' party, now in opposition and the other a far-right party who was their coalition partner) than their broadcast content, which is mostly banal.

Also there is something compelling about slick way they operate financially, and considerable embarrassment among educated urban Poles that it exists and gets international publicity about its excesses.

Delphiandomine is right - since their political protectors (an important thing in PL) were kicked out of office they have to be very careful.

And it is certainly an interesting phenomena - capaigning to close bars down, its supporters picketing funerals, outlandish statements, including about having the First Lady put to sleep, and broadcasting on the frequencies that car radios use for automatic traffic announcements, so your car radio changes to RM every 20 minutes!

Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]



More a dislike of the whole 'ciemnogrod' thing, the blatant political activism of the RM organisation (including directly supporting and funding a party who wants to stop 'BritsinPoland' from owning their own homes or voting in elections), the visits to the South American nazi fugitive and the discrepancy between the poverty of the listeners and the Maybach that their donations paid for. Plus a general antipathy among the educated to televangelists.


Check the schedules for a polemicist or feliotonista- that's when you're most likely to her the shocking stuff.


They're trying to behave a bit, and no longer jamming other radio stations or having unscreened calls.


Since you seem interested in religious radio, try Radio Jozef, the Church's official station.

Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]

Surely he ain't an agent from the Family Of Radio Maryja spamming the forum? Best not to be cynical - unless it turns out his real name is Fr. Tadeusz R and he's posting from the back of a Maybach. ;-)

Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]

Yes that's why I mentioned it after your comments on Przystanek Woodstock.

I remember hearing them advising their listeners not to donate to Wielki Orchiestr for all sorts of reasons. Closely followed by an appeal for money from O. Rydzyk himself.

Love / Sexual diseases! Please tell me how I go about getting tested in Poland? [103]

The question is still unanswered. Here it is again.

Love / Sexual diseases! Please tell me how I go about getting tested in Poland? [103]


So you're claiming some special wisdom? Or not?


Couples who are both virgins being sexually incompatible. But either you are unable to understand the comment or chose to ignore it.


Maybe it is "too complicated for poor me" (and I prefer it if u don't refer to me as "u") - which is why I asked the questions:


So answer us then.

Life / Any treatment centres for homos in Poland? [455]

He didn't make a slur, "every single message board" - hardly a source, and just how many do you troll? "Simply saying so changes nothing" - simply saying so and repeating ad nauseam is just about your only technique, and yes, you do seem to have an interest in the topic.

Life / Any treatment centres for homos in Poland? [455]


No he wasn't.


Sources?


Or a successful point that stymied your trolling.


And disbelieve it.

Life / Any treatment centres for homos in Poland? [455]

A false argument. Suggesting someone is gay, isn't a slur. Pointing out, quite reasonably, that the number of posts you have made on the matter suggests you have an interest in homosexuality is no more or less than a reasonable observation!

Love / Sexual diseases! Please tell me how I go about getting tested in Poland? [103]

This makes absolutely no sense at all - you are evading and fudging the issue still.

1. What "relationship' do you suggest exists between incompatibility and capability?
2. How does this relate to the OPs question?

Love / Sexual diseases! Please tell me how I go about getting tested in Poland? [103]


Plenty! I even used to be one.


Your comments reflect a technique frequently used by the cult you are a member of.


This too - fudging and evading the issue. Show me where I wrote about "capability"?

Love / Sexual diseases! Please tell me how I go about getting tested in Poland? [103]


And then find that they are sexually incompatible, causing endless misery to both (or more often to one). Virginity is not especially a virtue.

Love / Sexual diseases! Please tell me how I go about getting tested in Poland? [103]

Have a look on google. They claim to be virgins.

Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]


Didn't they have a pop at Wielka Orchiestra too?

Love / Sexual diseases! Please tell me how I go about getting tested in Poland? [103]


Don't forget the Betanki!

Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]


Confirmed without doubt. Not a rumour.


Yes. I have heard some pretty unpleasant stuff with my own ears, during talks given by an individual called Stanislaw Krajski. About a particular group of people (I won't add fat to the fire by naming them) infiltrating Polish society, plotting world domination etc. The usual malicious nonsense. Other stuff too.


Interesting who and where - very few people actually listen to it.

Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]


That's just the tip of the iceberg. The RM outfit has been involved in all sorts, including far-right party politics, operating a private university (that allegedly won't take students from Warsaw in case they corrupt the others), a viciously right-wing newspaper, a television station (check out their website) and a number of businesses. Not to mention its financialk connections with a notorious ex-Nazi who is on the run in South America and is wanted by the US for operating death squads in the 1970s. The Church in Poland has openly criticised it and asked people not to listen to it - though it has some grassroots support among fanatics.

The televangelist guy who runs it (who came back to PL when his operation in Germany was closed down by the government) famously said that the late Mrs Kaczynska, wife of the dead president, was an old witch and should kill herself, said that if Jesus came back today he'd drive a Mercedes, and is himself driven around in a Maybach costing around half a million dollars, funded by donations from impoverished old age pensioners.

Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]

Which of course led to people making multiple donations of a groszy, costing them (I think) 2.50 pln each in procesing fees!

Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]


What's not to like!

The fact is, Radio Maryja's (and TV Trwam's) core listeners (not actually that many - they claim about 3m audience share - rather fewer Poles than were PZRR members) are octogenarians, late middle aged people in small villages in the east, clergy and people with an unhealthy religious obsession.

There are other less fanatical Christian broadcasters - Warsaw Archdiocese operates Radio Josef for example, however RM gets so much publicity because they like to shout loud, have a talent for putting their foot in their mouth and have the 'Family of Radio Maryja', a kind of geriatric rent-a-mob, almost a church within The Church, which Pope John Paul II made the point of publicly and pointedly refusing to meet during his final visit to Krakow.

Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]


And have made a few poor business decisions.

News / Giant Jesus Rising in Świebodzin ( Tallest in world ) [323]


Remember, Christ's message isn't religion, and vice versa. As St Augustine said "There are many outside who seem to be inside and there are many inside who seem to be outside".


People even say that in real life I sound a bit like Hyacinth Bucket!

BTW, I like your posts too ;-)

Life / Any treatment centres for homos in Poland? [455]

Or just having a good day out. Beats sitting in the dark posting on fora!

Love / Sexual diseases! Please tell me how I go about getting tested in Poland? [103]


They're quite common in London apparently, and my last flat in Warsaw had them. The place I lived in when I first moved to PL, too. A traditional Polish remedy is to rub the legs of the bed with spirytus to stop them climbing up at night. But I just called out the dezinsekcja people instead.


Unfortunately I have, in Warsaw. Didn't tell me he had them until after he'd stayed in my home. :-( There was a huge outbreak of them in Warsaw and Poznan a couple of years ago, with some chemists running out of the lotion.

Love / Sexual diseases! Please tell me how I go about getting tested in Poland? [103]

Exactly - though PL has quite an incidence of Scabies (Świerzb) - not really an STD, but can come from bedlinen used by a carrier (and sex too) and the little buggers survive laundry. Bedbugs as well, but you can get those in even the cleanest homes, and they like the warmth of Polish flats.

Life / Any treatment centres for homos in Poland? [455]


And replaced with mass murder, oppression, and the invasion of, among others, Poland.


So who are these "same globalists", who


?

News / How can Poles make a conscious choice about elections? [15]

Yes, or make sure you're in the local newspapers - which in the case of the supermarket ones in Warsaw, are often published by the local gminy anyway and round election times are little better than election leaflets.

Though I remember a bit of fuss a few years ago, out in the direction of Komorow or Michalowice or thereabouts when it turned out that a local councillor had twenty five people registered as voters in his three bedroom house!

Life / Any treatment centres for homos in Poland? [455]


Right. We see. You're saying most people are deluded.


The list would be long - and there's plenty mentioned in this thread already if you've been following it.

Work / Doing my course in Krakow, working in EFL in Poland (newbie questions) [43]


I've come across it once, and he lasted a couple of weeks in the classroom before being fired and deported (not from Poland). They're actually not so easy to forge nowadays, and it's worth mentioning that they never issue duplicates if one is lost.