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delphiandomine   
7 Oct 2012
News / Failures of Poland and Tusk`s government [191]

And RP would never, ever, touch the PiSuarzy.

Exactly.

All that stuff about "showcase homosexuals" from PiS voters, after all.
delphiandomine   
7 Oct 2012
News / Failures of Poland and Tusk`s government [191]

Tomorrow Kaczyński holds talks with Pawlak. I have it on good auhtority that the no-confidecne vote will be discussed.

But - again - Pawlak is meaningless. They need to get Ruch Palikota to support any such vote, otherwise it's doomed to failure.
delphiandomine   
7 Oct 2012
News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]

No they can't - scooters can only be driven with a full car licence or cat. A (or - soon to be cat AM too).

People on this board are happy to have their right to a happy jaunt continually threatened by the Polish filth.

Threatened?

I've never even been looked at by the police, yet alone questioned when riding a bike. Then again, I'm not swerving all over the road after a few beers.

As I said before - you have rights, but only when those rights don't infringe on others. You have no right to ride a bike drunk, even in the UK where a prison sentence of at least a month is possible.
delphiandomine   
7 Oct 2012
Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]

Any more?

(re : thread title - blame my first language ;)

Curious silence.
delphiandomine   
7 Oct 2012
Real Estate / Best Mortgage Lender in Poland? [25]

Because normally, billionaires sue people for making untrue statements that defame them, not make counter statements.

Except that you'd be at the mercy of a Polish legal system where the independence of the judiciary is - well - questionable.

And my point was not only about Czarnecki, it was about the influence of the communist era in Poland today.

Of course, but what else could be done? There were two real options at the time - either remove them totally from business/etc, or bring in foreign expertise. Unlike Czechoslovakia and Hungary, Poland didn't have the cash to appoint foreign experts - so they went with the pragmatic option of allowing people with experience to actually run things.

We already saw what happened in many State owned enterprises when they allowed the workers to take control - the ruin of the shipyards, the destruction of state-owned factories - all under Solidarność control.
delphiandomine   
7 Oct 2012
Real Estate / Best Mortgage Lender in Poland? [25]

Why didn't you post this, too?

In a statement published on Rzeczpospolita's website Czarnecki admitted having signed documents on co-operation with communist secret services as a university freshman tempted by prospects of gewtting the chance to study abroad.

delphiandomine   
7 Oct 2012
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

This seems logical. The PiS offensive (economic forum, Poland Awaken march, no-confidence vote) has replaced the Smolensk issue in the party's agenda. Macierewicz is closely associated with the Smolensk investigation and tends ot be on the radical side, so it was to be expecetd he wouldn't fit in with the current more businesslike and less firebrand iumage PiS is hoping to convey.

So in other words, all the screaming about Smolensk can be abandoned for the sake of winning an election?

What a surprise.
delphiandomine   
7 Oct 2012
News / Qatar Airways opens contact centre in Wroclaw! [27]

Not sure that Poland should bring more call centers instead of some "real" business into the country.

Well - it's a good way to develop the basic infrastructure needed, as well as providing a good reason for people to start learning languages.

It's not the best thing ever, but take Allegro for instance - their normal method of recruitment for non-technical jobs is to hire from people who work for their help desk first.
delphiandomine   
7 Oct 2012
News / Is Jarosław Kaczyński the new Lech Wałęsa? [74]

I'm really hoping and praying that the people of Poland see through this.

Of course they will - Kaczynski will never manage to shake off what happened in 2006 with Marcinkiewicz.

The question arises: to what extent is that possible?

With Kaczynski calling the shots? Impossible - the man is haunted and obsessed with power.
delphiandomine   
7 Oct 2012
Life / A rant about "patriotism" in today's Poland [60]

You (and most English speakers, I've noticed) just automatically expect everyone to speak English and are surprised when they don't.

Who is "you"?

I only use English if the other person is happy to use it - otherwise I use Polish. Can't imagine going into the shop and using English...

The Flemish are this taken to 11; god help you if you start the conversation in French.

The Walloons are worse - they simply don't know Flemish.

One thing I adore about Poland is the fact that if someone hears English, they'll try and use it even if they don't know much of it. I remember telling some boss in a supermarket here that a checkout girl deserved a hell of a lot of credit for using English towards me when she heard me speaking in English, even though I addressed her initially in Polish.
delphiandomine   
7 Oct 2012
News / Qatar Airways opens contact centre in Wroclaw! [27]

He's doing a great job of it - I always thought that he would make a fantastic President of Poland.

Even his influence is having a great job outside of Wroclaw - Walbrzych is starting to get attention now, too.
delphiandomine   
7 Oct 2012
Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]

I thought It's clear that I'm living in Poland B ex-PGR, I heard it several times from certain expats, so it must be true.

Why don't you just answer the question?

It's not a thread to debate where posters live or don't live - it's a simple yes/no question with a simple answer.
delphiandomine   
7 Oct 2012
Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]

A simple thread, simple answer required - yes or no.

Yes.
delphiandomine   
7 Oct 2012
News / Qatar Airways opens contact centre in Wroclaw! [27]

Call center... well, better that than nothing but I would rather like to see it in Białystok or Olsztyn

Lublin would have been a wonderful choice, but I guess Wroclaw has the office space and IT infrastructure to support it.

haveing vast regional differences in development is not good for anyone in the long term.

No, it's a total disaster. Spain is showing that right now.

I really don't know why more companies aren't opening up call centres in Lublin - it has a huge young potential workforce, decent connections to Warsaw and now an international airport. Wroclaw costs are already high, comparatively.
delphiandomine   
6 Oct 2012
Life / A rant about "patriotism" in today's Poland [60]

It's better to praise and defend an adopted country, than it is to constantly bang on about "patriotism" after having deserted your country.

One suspects that the "patriot" has never actually lived here.
delphiandomine   
6 Oct 2012
Life / A rant about "patriotism" in today's Poland [60]

So says the British prole who fancies himself the gatekeeper Poland. Go back to Aberdeen.

Yawn.

I'd tell you to get out of my country, but frankly speaking - you're probably not in Poland anyway. Such hatred can only come from an immigrant or one that isn't in Poland to begin with.
delphiandomine   
6 Oct 2012
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

Guys, did you notice that Antoni Maciarewicz has been hushed up by his boss for the last few weeks.......

I wonder if he won't be pushed quietly to the sidelines or into Solidarna Polska...
delphiandomine   
6 Oct 2012
Life / A rant about "patriotism" in today's Poland [60]

I don't think you have any clue about either Poland or being a patriot.

Course he doesn't, he's just another foreigner pretending to be Polish to suit his motives.
delphiandomine   
6 Oct 2012
News / Is Jarosław Kaczyński the new Lech Wałęsa? [74]

All the high and mighty Baltzermanns, Belkas and Rostowskis have no contact with normal ordianry Poles but live in their elitist storybook world of ivory towers and marble corridors.

Remind us who was insulting who for shopping at Biedronka, and remind us who is so out of touch that he didn't have his own bank account?

Sorry, but Kaczynski has nothing in common with the "ordinary Poles" - the guy was brought up in a privileged position, he was allowed to study freely (didn't he study law, a profession that was closed for years to people who weren't well connected?) and he was protected during the turbulent 80's. He then spent most of the 3rd Republic in politics. That's not a guy who knows a thing about my life or others.

What's a Pole to do who had 3 kids and a wife to support, took out credit (the banks are constantly encouraging people to) to finally renovate the flat, and then he is thrown out of work.

How terribly socialist of you.

What's the Pole to do? He should be living within his means rather than taking out loans that he can't afford to pay back.
delphiandomine   
6 Oct 2012
Life / A rant about "patriotism" in today's Poland [60]

In it a recording from Steve Jobs states his favorite quote was from the retired Canadian ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky who said "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."

Except the puck in 20 years time is in knowing English and either German or French (or preferably both). That's when they need to work, not in 100 years time.

Patriotic Poles need to adopt the same philosophy for themselves and their children.

So you think they should skate somewhere uncertain and risk an uncertain future for their children rather than taking the sensible bet of learning the two/three foreign languages likely to dominate Europe in years to come?

China would be in a world of trouble if the US decided to change the dollar and impose (in conjunction with Europe and the Americas) a total blockade of Chinese products.
delphiandomine   
6 Oct 2012
Life / A rant about "patriotism" in today's Poland [60]

they rather will not listen to songs in Polish

They're fools for not doing so - Polish rock ballads are vastly superior to English ones in my humble opinion. And yes, I've done my share of telling foreigners to listen to them ;)

then history of Poland in XX century

This is one thing that seems to get utterly neglected no matter who the Education minister might be. It's the most important of the lot - the mistakes made then should be learnt from and never, ever repeated. What are kids going to learn more from - ancient kings, or the horror that was WW2 followed up with the PRL?

For me, Poland's strength is how talented her workers are at languages - I am pretty certain that no other country in Europe of a comparable size (or bigger) has this amount of talent in languages. The UK? Germany? France? Romania? Spain? nope.

But Chinese is simply a non-factor. The Chinese want to do business - the West has the luxury of choosing who to buy from.

And remember, today's children needs jobs tomorrow, not in 100 years.
delphiandomine   
6 Oct 2012
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

Well, you must admit, the Karta Nauczyciela does give some nice things ;)

But I would be massively in favour of reforming the system so that bad teachers can be sacked for incompetence. I know one particularly shocking example where a teacher is totally unable to control high school kids - she's bullied by them, they have no respect for her and yet they can't fire her.