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jonni   
15 Oct 2010
UK, Ireland / The more subtle differences: Ireland/Britain v Poland [310]

Only because you guys "discovered" the place, notwithstanding that there were people already there :)

Indeed. People sometimes forget though, how much crossed the atlantic during the C20.

What's that?

Not Greek, in fact. My bad. It's the head of Nefertiti, solid gold. The Germans, understandably but oddly, want Priam's Treasure back from the Russians. The original owners want both.

elginism.com/20100220/2744
jonni   
15 Oct 2010
UK, Ireland / The more subtle differences: Ireland/Britain v Poland [310]

The Elgin Marbles, Benin Bronzes and the Rosetta Stone

And the Orkney Chessmen which the National Museum of Scotland wants, not without justification.

Having said that, there are some pretty important parts of British heritage in museums around the US, and the single most valuable item in Germany, museum or otherwise, was made by Greeks and plundered from Turkey.
jonni   
15 Oct 2010
UK, Ireland / WHAT IS SO SPECIAL LIVING IN U.K [90]

Yet the non-EU (mostly African, of course) passport holders are waved through quickly like VIPs at a popular nightclub!

Those are probably the ones with UK visas issued by the British government in their home countries, whereas EU passport holders - the majority of passengers in most airports all have to go through together. I kind of miss the days when I'd get off a flight from Poland, and just sail through while the Poles had to queue.
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
Food / Cider now available in Trojmiasto [14]

A drink for teenage girls and southerners. Unless it's scrumpy, which is interesting once every few years, to remind you what it's like.
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
Life / Has anyone in Poland that you know been affected by H1N1? (swine flu) [44]

Here's the latest update - seems like it's back again.

wbj.pl/article-51595-swine-flu-grips-poland-in-october.html

Three times the number of cases and suspected cases of flu were recorded in the first week of October in Poland than in the same period last year. The majority of reported cases were diagnosed as swine flu.

Between October 1-7, 15,750 cases or suspected cases of flu were registered in Poland, up from 12,500 in the last week of September. Statistically, nearly five in every 100,000 Poles caught the flu every day in the first week of this month.

Meanwhile, in the same period last year, when the swine flu epidemic reached Poland, only 5,887 cases and suspected cases of infection were recorded.

"The number of cases is great, much greater than last year," epidemiology professor Andrzej Zieliński told TVN 24.

jonni   
13 Oct 2010
History / Unusual soldier (The bear - named Voytek) [71]

I remember that thread. I posted today's because the design has just been unveiled, the site has been chosen, permission has just been granted and the campaigners are trying in earnest to find the cash to build it.

There's now a facebook campaign which I'm part of - why not sign up?
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
History / Unusual soldier (The bear - named Voytek) [71]

I'm talking about a BRITISH momument

For something that happened in one country to people of another country. Neither of those countries being Britain, the country the bear lived in. If we had a memorial for every tragedy in the world, the country would sink into the sea under the weight of them. Nevertheless, the Imperial War Museum does acknowledge the murders at Katyń, and there is this: Katyń Memorial, Cannock

alkingbritain.co.uk/walks/walks/walk_photo/180103

In a bankrupt country which can ill afford to waste £200K on a bear's monument!

Nothing quicker than a kneejerk reaction. In penance, you should maybe send some money to the people who are paying for it privately:

Voytek Memorial Trust: donations to,
c/o Stuart Allister,
Greaves West & Ayre Chartered Accountants,
1/3 Sandgate,
Berwick upon Tweed.
TD15 1EW
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
History / Unusual soldier (The bear - named Voytek) [71]

but they don't get a monument

Many monuments, a memorial museum and a major film by Andrzej Wajda.

Only in the UK!

Where the bear lived.
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

Maybe - the problem was people not waking up in the morning due to carbon monoxide poisoning. A few landlords went to jail because of this. Personally I had the gas taken out when I started to rent the entire house out, for a whole raft of reasons.
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
History / Unusual soldier (The bear - named Voytek) [71]

Polish bear 'that fought Nazis' to be commemorated

This is from today's Daily Telegraph. A nice story:

The £200,000 monument is to commemorate the extraordinary life of "Private Wojtek", a 6ft tall, 500lb brown bear who served alongside Polish soldiers -- and lived out his years after the war in Edinburgh Zoo.

A maquette of the planned work, by Scottish sculptor Alan Herriot, shows Wojtek's 'keeper', soldier Peter Prendys, placing a hand on the shoulder of the gentle giant, a stance he always adopted when the pair walked around camp together.

Wojtek -- a Polish boys name which means the "happy warrior" -- was acquired by the Polish Army as a cub, and quickly took on the role of mascot to the 22nd Company of Polish Army Corps.

Apparently the bear did quite a few brave things and reacted when he heard the Polish language.
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

gas installations, eh?

Tenants of low rent flats and bedsits being gassed due to landlords not having the installation serviced. The free market didn't want it, but there were too many fatalities. Now we have to get a service certificate yearly.
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

You have the choice, at least here, to go to them. Right now, tonight even.

I do indeed. I'm in the UK this month. My nearest pubs are my local (Varsovian knows it). It's a conspicuously affluent place. Few if any of the customers smoke. The next one (near the cigarette shop that I'll go to in a few minutes) is the very opposite. It does smoking lock-ins, but I tend to avoid it because the customers are a sad, sad bunch.

Why stop with smoking? Since we know what's best for people, lets start some other campaigns. These arguments start giving credibility to other people who want to limit plenty of other things that are known to be bad for other people.

Like compulsory seatbelts, sober driving, not having sex with your children, and making sure landlords have the gas installations checked.

Hell, some nannying folks sure do think they know what's best for all of us free-thinkers.
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

There is plenty of comfort and healthy air in non smoking bars, wouldn't you agree?

Yes.

Regarding the second bit, are people are too stupid to make their own decisions?

It would certainly seem so.
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

Proved not to work in achieving which goal exactly?

Comfort and health of other customers, of course, as well as most importantly a reduction in nicotine consumption which has huge ramificatrions on public health issues, child poverty, commercial exploitation of the developing world and workplace absenteeism. There is nothing good about tobacco.

Are you gonna call me 'gay' like you did to those other peeps

You mean Polonius3 and his constant threads on homosexuality, a subject that obviously occupies his mind. Who or what are "peeps", by the way.

They did not prove not to work because they weren't even tried and others clearly would work. But blind zealots, like yourself, refuse to even consider many alternatives

Amazing, really. Different jurisdictions have tried many possibilities over the years, but most are moving to total bans, whether you like it or not.

bent on enforcing their nannying liberty-killing on others. Only a certain sort would consider this a "victory"

More of the same tosh. :-)))
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

Again with the childish denials.

You know, the insults people use can often follow a theme when repeated frequently, one that reflets the insulters inner insecurities.

In fact the only 'alternatives here' are ones previously debated and tried, but proved not to work. You have had nothing fresh to say. In fact the only fresh thing about this issue is the air in mercifully smoke-free bars and restaurants.

A victory - not only in the discussion, but also for people who don't want to breath others' nicotine, carbon, saltpetre and cyanide fumes.
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

Why, convicted of being a dishonest Liberal hypocrite, of course. You well know just what thread I am referring to. ;)

Further nuttiness. You should get out more.

so you blindly ignore all evidence and all well-reasoned arguments that don't support your emotional view. Very Lib.

Except you've presented neither, just a kind of sophomoric pretend-libertarian, faux Ayn Rand hysteria without even getting that right.

As per usual.

I don't go to restaurants that don't have non smoking sections. I vote with my wallet, why others?

I'm a very heavy smoker and have smoked for about 30 years, but when I go out to restaurants, they are often very good ones - I don't like a meal that I've looked forward to and budgeted for being served in clouds of cigar smoke. I remember when this was common, years ago, and it wasn't nice.
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

So the people have voted with their wallets?

More the bar owners just ignoring the law.

..I think I might have a solution for your workers...

Exactly. danger money and gas masks.

Property rights are the foundation of personal liberty.

Wonderful!
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

convicted dishonest Liberal hyprocite

The voice of reason. Convicted of what, by the way?

Why do I bother?...

Most people here wonder why you bother too.

So then it is up to the person, who very well knew what environment they would be working in before they took the job, to look for a different job.

So they can't stop smoking and keep their job? I see lawsuits brewing.

Why would a pregnant woman be going to a bar???

For a drink. Maybe bitter lemon, or if she's daring, she could heed the advice of some doctors and have a glass of red wine.
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

This doesn't explain the resistance to common sense, free market solutions like smoking and non-smoking establishments, segregated smoking areas, smoking hours, etc.

They've been tried in plenty of places without much elan.

I think pregnant women shouldn't be drinking booze so we should ban them from bars anyway.

So you're against personal liberty on the grounds of what you think. Not that bars only sell booze or that gestating women aren't capable of deciding for themselves whether or not they should go out or stay at home in purdah.

Many in the hospitality industry were against the ban and many are themselves smokers

And many are not.

Non-smoking areas should be only for smokers.

Ridiculous and of course illogical.

This is a lie you have been fed. Look at all the evidence...

Shrill, hypersensitive nonsense. Show us some of your 'evidence'.
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

So somebody tell me again which side is against personal liberty?...

The personal liberty of non-smokers to go to a public place without getting other people's smoke in their hair, clothes, lungs? The personal liberty of a pregnant woman to go somewhere without worryng about inhaling cigarette fumes? The personal liberty of staff not to get cancer or COPD through passive smoking?

I like to smoke - but I'm happy to go outside to do it. It preserves and respects the personal liberty of others.
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
News / Human Trafficking in and from Poland [80]

I don't feel sorry for the women 'falling' for all the promises and the big money abroad in some exotic country.

Some Polish women were recruited in Poland, by two Polish men, to work in pubs in the UK. When they got there, their passports were taken away and they were locked up in a brothel in my city (Leeds). The case only came to light when one of the women told a regular customer who went to the police. This type of thing has to stop.

The women became concerned when they were not taken to do bar work and Szydlowski turned nasty, alleged Mr Woolfall.
"He told them they were going to a brothel," he said. "He was aggressive with one woman and slapped her across the face saying 'Do you think everything is so nice? You have to pay - why do you think you were coming?'"
Mr Woolfall added both women felt they had no option but to do as told, saying: "He controlled them. There was no-one they could rely on for help."
When they were taken to the massage parlour their passports were taken by the receptionist and were told to get changed.

yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Polish-women-snared-by-sex.825781.jp
jonni   
13 Oct 2010
Love / Been seeing a great guy from Poland.. but there are issues with his ex. [18]

Yes. They have a seven year old child together, so there can never be the same degree of separation between them as if they had been just ships in the night. If you take a guy on who's in that situation, you have to respect the reality of his life and never, ever question or criticise any dealing he may have with the mother of his child from the point of view of your own emotions.