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Roger5   
26 Oct 2017
Love / How common or culturally accepted is divorce in Poland? [43]

in the strict sense, it is not the equivalent of a divorce

That's a bit Jesuitical. It is in effect a divorce.

a sin to get remarried outside of the Church because then you would be committing adultery.

I've only been married the once, but as a cradle Catholic am I committing the sin of fornication because I didn't get married in a Catholic Church?
Roger5   
26 Oct 2017
Love / The age of consent in Poland is only 15 [147]

Do I get a warning now for abuse at pedo forums ?

I wouldn't be at all surprised. The punishments meted out here are as arbitrarily given as at the Colosseum.
Roger5   
26 Oct 2017
Travel / Gdansk Christmas markets [26]

hot mead, have you tried that yet?

No, sounds nice. Can't say I've seen it sold at the Christmas markets I've been to. Perhaps I had eyes only for the wine.

I'm not sure I'd fancy Gdansk in December. One of the reasons I left the UK was that damned cold wind.
Roger5   
26 Oct 2017
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

For goodness sake don't be such a great lummox.

You might know this, from another great lummox:
"Those are nice things, coming over here...filling the country with bugs...swindling the peasants...and the poor of Ireland. We want no more strangers in our house."
Roger5   
26 Oct 2017
Travel / Gdansk Christmas markets [26]

Don't forget to try a cup of hot mulled wine. They always sell this at Christmas markets. It keeps the cold out, and puts a smile on your face.
Roger5   
23 Oct 2017
Classifieds / Trying to learn Polish language in Bialystok [16]

The city has changed a great deal in the last ten years. I remember when the Best Western hotel Crystal was the most handsome building in town. Why not come and have a look? There's a brand new opera house, Branicki Palace has been beautifully restored, and you would hardly recognize the place.

Minus 5? I'd call that a refreshing chill. Try minus 32.
Roger5   
23 Oct 2017
Classifieds / Trying to learn Polish language in Bialystok [16]

When you consider just how honoured Zamenhof is all over the world, it's dispiriting that in his birthplace he is largely forgottem. I have spoken to students in Bialystok who have never heard of him. I wonder why that is...
Roger5   
23 Oct 2017
Classifieds / Trying to learn Polish language in Bialystok [16]

The Espersnto cafe in the old town square has a language exchange club which meets every month. I'm sure you could find someone there to help. They have a facebook page. I know the guy who runs the club. PM me and I'll hook you up.
Roger5   
22 Oct 2017
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

wtf are you on about? I've just passed that village hall. It's full of people celebrating a wedding. No debt. The cobbles were a pain in the arse. We don't get boy racers speeding through. Why tell me about my own village when you have no clue what you are talking about?
Roger5   
22 Oct 2017
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

The leave vote was an expression of existential dread and increasing alienation

Nicely put, and very true, but the knock-on financial effects do matter. I remember seeing a photo of a Welsh town that had greatly benefitted from EU funds. The place had been a post-industrial dump, with boarded up shops and a depressed look. Regeneration money made the place look alive again. One Remainer shop owner put a sign in the window which said something like, "This town was a s***-hole before EU funding". Poland has benefitted enormously from EU membership, including on a local scale. In my small village we have a new 450000PLN village hall, and a new road that covered cobblestones.
Roger5   
21 Oct 2017
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Not exactly en masse, though, was it? As for that sleaze Johnson, he was a europhile all his life up to that vote. According to a Labour peer he recently admitted that he went to the Brexit side to thwart his old rival Cameron. He has no principles other that what will benefit himself. Anyway, it's beer o'clock and showtime, so I'm out of here.
Roger5   
21 Oct 2017
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Britons...voted en masse for Brexit.

No, they really didn't. There is a lot of evidence (anecdotal, of course) that a great many people who voted for Brexit believed that the Remain camp would win, and that they voted as a protest in the hope of reform while being broadly in favour of the EU in principle. Add in lazy young people who didn't bother switching off Big Brother to go and vote, and I believe the will of the people was not represented in the vote. I'm not complaining. I don't live there and I accept the outcome, but I think it's an unmitigated disaster that could have been avoided.
Roger5   
19 Oct 2017
News / US Investor seeks 700 million dollars in damages from Poland [45]

Dom, I'm not disputing your knowledge of hydro-electric energy, but how do you respond to this? I haven't lived in my home country for many years. A Pole who has been living there for half the time I've lived here in Poland knows much more about life on the ground in the UK than I do.
Roger5   
14 Oct 2017
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

cms, when I see posts like your last, I wish there were 'like' arrows on here. So mature.
Speaking of which, I'd have put dd's age at 16.