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Barney   
1 Feb 2012
History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]

Not an Occupation
Polish citizens born and bred ran the country which was a multiparty state.

Very few Soviet troops remained in Poland after the mid 50s. The few that remained did so as an act of friendship.

Everyone sent ambassadors so they all recognised the PRL as legitimate.

Occupation
The appointment of people into positions of power was controlled through the Communist party which was ultimately controlled from Moscow.

Soviet troops could not be removed no matter what their number as millions were just across the border.

Recognition at the UN for the PRL is a joke, the UN was established by the colonial powers.
Barney   
29 Jan 2012
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]

Lyzko I'm surprised that you would type this gross generalisation that distorts Jewish history. Man there is so much to say I don't know where to start.

It seems that you like the image of Jews sitting in salons playing harpsichords below nice art only to be brutally murdered in the most horrendously industrialised system imaginable. That of course happened the tragedy is the vast majority of Jews to be murdered in the holocaust were cap makers and bottle washers people with nothing, no one to fight for them no one to remember them.

The Christian churches responsibility for Jewish persecution; well that is something else altogether it undoubtedly happened in different places at different times.

Prohibitions were placed on Jews as Catholics placed prohibitions on Protestants and vice versa in different places at different times. It's more to do with the social changes that were happening in the local area. If it were a centrally driven Catholic thing I'm sure that they would have done a better job of persecution in a rolling thunder kind of way. The Reformed Churches may also be blamed but not dammed

The fact that Jews often with names deriving from trades were quite wealthy goes some way to demonstrate your generalisation is just that.
Barney   
25 Jan 2012
News / Controlling the internet ACTA in Poland (Like SOPA) [34]

Some people say that Boycott - not wars or violent demonstrations - will be the key to successfully fight for your rights in the future. If people are united, there's nothing that can defeat it. It is reported to work well both online and offline ;).

Unfortunately in the land of free speech we have this Antiboycott Compliance.

ACTA concerns me also because it's going to restrict access to medicine. I am so glad it's finally coming under scrutiny from the public.

Thats an important point generic medcines will be hit hard.
Barney   
16 Jan 2012
Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]

or a national legal system.

This is it really, a property contract, nothing more nothing less.

IT WAS NOT AN INJUNCTION TO ACT LIKE AN ANIMAL!

You have nothing to base that statement on other than your own imagination of what people get up to.
Barney   
16 Jan 2012
Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]

Those who don't believe in 'higher things', must therefore believe in 'lower things'.

What a pig ignorant statement!

I remember reading a report from one of the Balkan wars of a young girl murdered; the Journalist poured his heart out describing all the things this teenager was robbed of. What pleasure her family were denied, never seeing their girl grow; Never seeing their girl enjoy reading, music, film, dancing, Never seeing their girl having her heart broken or the lovers she would never have.

Her Family would never see her form herself.

I don’t know what higher things you have in mind other than a cage.
Barney   
12 Jan 2012
Genealogy / I'm half Polish American, but I'm very Patriotic about my ancestry [47]

lol, what DO you mean? *puzzled*

It was just a silly joke no harm meant, Ireland is smaller and giving directions easier for eg you would say take the Galway road or more likely say go to Monaghan then Sligo then down to Galway. None of that junction 13 on the M9 then the A4432 to where you join the M63 as far as junction 4 etc business. Its just one of those cultural things that sounds funny.
Barney   
12 Jan 2012
Genealogy / I'm half Polish American, but I'm very Patriotic about my ancestry [47]

My mother was born in Longford in 1917.

You can get an Irish passport no problem.

But I am still just another Brit as far as you lot are concerned, eh?..;)

If you talk road numbers and all then yes you would be seen as British (but that is not a bad thing, being British I mean, the road number thing is bad and you shouldn't do it)
Barney   
10 Jan 2012
Language / Give me some reasons to learn Polish [126]

There were protests in Britain when the tuition fees were increased

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That placard made a serious point in a humorous way.

Study for personal reasons is a valid enough reason otherwise everyone would be studying how to sell hamburgers and insurance, remember everyone has a hobby.
Barney   
10 Jan 2012
UK, Ireland / English dad, Polish mum are parting. What about the child? [27]

In theory kids can not be taken outside of the UK without the permission of people who have parental responsibility.

This is true however the parent with care can travel outside the UK with the kids (without the other parent’s permission) provided the trip is for less than 30 days. The parent with care is decided at court unless the parents agree who is the primary carer
Barney   
26 Dec 2011
Travel / Wroclaw Fountain is Amazing - is it working in winter? [12]

They usually turn fountains off for the season.

Otherwise probably freeze and destroy the pipework. Using antifreeze would not work (pure meths may work but the dangers of outdoor parties are well known).
Barney   
22 Dec 2011
Work / Average monthly salary in Poland is around 1000 PLN (few hundred bucks). [387]

Generally don't like places where "the tip" is written into the bill as a "service charge". But I'm a pompous ass anyway ;)

9 times out of 10 that goes to the managers not the workers, never pay the service just tip the person serving you.
Tipping is such a minefield I hate it in North America where you have to tip to subsidise the employer or to get service. The only tightwad is the owner who expects others to pay for their employees but thankfully I haven't been for a while. I always tip in restaurants in Europe but never in Bars.
Barney   
22 Dec 2011
Life / Poles hard working or just born lazy. [58]

There’s no bad pay just bad workers.
Great!! I look forward to this new policy being rolled out across the boardrooms of the world.
Barney   
19 Dec 2011
Life / Is parity the answer for Polish women? [262]

That largely explains why men look for beauty (and why women doll-up) and why women seek security (financially stable men).

Zim you sound like a bad B movie
Barney   
19 Dec 2011
UK, Ireland / Is the UK referred to as the Islands in Polish media back home? [62]

Not really, the Duke of Wellington, corn laws, Crimea....that takes us to 1880 or there abouts....the Entente cordiale and so on. So that leaves a 25 years gap where the focus was on Empire building outside Europe ie screwing the French.
Barney   
19 Dec 2011
UK, Ireland / Is the UK referred to as the Islands in Polish media back home? [62]

Wrong, Britain was engaged in imperialist enterprizes around the globe both before and after 1902.

Correct, the phrase is used in British schools for 15 year olds describing a policy that didnt exist in practice or on paper.
It illustrates the strange relationship between Britain and the rest of Europe.
Barney   
5 Dec 2011
Life / Sweets in Shoes - old Polish tradition on December 6 (Mikolaj)? [13]

I was told today about this tradition today it’s to celebrate Saint Nicholas day. It sounded like a good tradition that kids would look forward to, perhaps it’s regional (Wielkopolska). I assumed it was country wide
Barney   
2 Dec 2011
Life / Is parity the answer for Polish women? [262]

Zim you could easily work for any propaganda agency at anytime in the past, you are almost uniquely qualified with the vacuous monologues and evasion.
Barney   
2 Dec 2011
Life / Is parity the answer for Polish women? [262]

"A group, as such, has no rights. A man can neither acquire new rights by joining a group nor lose the rights which he does possess. The principle of individual rights is the only moral base of all groups or associations. Any group that does not recognize this principle is not an association, but a gang or a mob."

Quite obviously bollox as the ideas of collective punishment/guilt or at a smaller level joint venture are well described in law. This silly idea flies in the face of almost every discipline known to man.

Zim stop posting stuff you feel makes a point cos you heard it from some bar room bore.