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jon357   
14 Jul 2013
UK, Ireland / Warning by Poland's Government before you go to the UK [53]

camp would be the right word many males have to turn to prostitution t

Same in Warsaw too. Doesn't make them camp especially.

I am sure its not the ideal route for your hardy lad from the Polish sticks.

I saw a card in a phone box with "Polish my Pole" written on it...
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
UK, Ireland / Warning by Poland's Government before you go to the UK [53]

You and I may not think so, to someone from the boonies in Poland it may just save a life or family.

True. Desperation about money or a chance to get out of boring as hell small towns still draws a lot of people from PL to UK - and many come a cropper.

A bit melodramatic though and somewhat obvious. Did you see the fake scabs all over that rather camp druggie?
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
News / More technology, but less common sense in Poland - Rydzyk? [40]

Personally I find it boring as hell, and insipidly sentimental. I spend a lot of time in a frien's shop and she has to have it on when her old lady customers are in, since they hassle her about it. As soon as the shop's quiet the radio goes off for the sake of her staff who can't stand the sound of it.

Religion sort of fascinates me.

Hard to say whether religion in general ultimately does more good than harm or more harm than good. The Family of Radio Maryja though is firmly in the latter category.
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
Life / What are the favorite (foreign) countries for Polish expats to live/retire? [22]

Poles are taxed on their world wide income

It depends. If someone spends less than half the year there and also severs certain other links, their income from outside PL isn't taxable.

Additionally, if an income derives from elsewhere and is paid into a bank account elsewhere, there's little if anything that the US can do.

Poles are taxed on their world wide income, there are structures in place in Poland which are far more beneficial than you would find in the Austria,Switzerland or the UK.

This is true.
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
News / Smoking in Polish restaurant & cafe's is forbidden [15]

But as much as cigarette smoke may spoil things, it's not the only thing to worry about. Lung cancer is the biggest cancer killer in the UK, and growing evidence suggests it's diesel particles from exhausts:

A bit of both. Damage from smoking stops your lungs from throwing off various particulates like the ones in diesel smoke.
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
News / Smoking in Polish restaurant & cafe's is forbidden [15]

The situation as it stands isn't so bad. Just a shame that there's a lobby to ban it altogether. I still strongly favour letting businesses decide, providing - and this is a strict condition - the rooms are unstaffed.
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
News / More technology, but less common sense in Poland - Rydzyk? [40]

Just tuned in to TV Twram

Do you watch it often? I remember you saying you'd listened to Radio Maryja!

Not sure how praising a fringe religious group like the Family of Radio Maryja is technology, however since they're now on TV and the internet, it really is a case of

More technology, but less common sense – Rydzyk?

jon357   
14 Jul 2013
News / Smoking in Polish restaurant & cafe's is forbidden [15]

So allow a bar to decide its policy - smoking or non-smoking. This would allow people to choose an establishment that suits them. For mixed groups it may well be a factor, like music, food, clientele, that determines which place they choose.
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
News / Smoking in Polish restaurant & cafe's is forbidden [15]

as most terraces have some form of roof there is no true ventilation as smoke rises,

Then make it an area for smokers only. Those who want a smoke free environment can go elsewhere. Nobody is frogmarched to a bar.
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

In this case de-communisation

No need for that. Unless someone is guilty of a specific crime their political affiliations are irrelevant. Unless you'd prefer political prisoners.
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

A false allusion, since the 3 million Poles in the PZRR were not Nazis. Regarding thepost-war process in Germany, the ringleaders needed to be tried for their part in mass-murder, so did anyone else who was guilty of a specific and proveable crime. The rank and file were largely people caught up in it. Many subsequently became very valuable citizens (von Karajan and Heidegger come to mind) - as are the millions of Poles who were members of the party.
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
News / More technology, but less common sense in Poland - Rydzyk? [40]

I think that's a Freudian slip on your part, but there we go.

Fascism is notoriously difficult to define, however Umberto Eco's definition is as good as any. Recognise anyone?

Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt
1. The first feature of Ur-Fascism is the cult of tradition.
Traditionalism is of course much older than fascism. Not only was it typical of counterrevolutionary Catholic thought after the French revolution, but is was born in the late Hellenistic era, as a reaction to classical Greek rationalism.

Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt, Umberto Eco
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
News / More technology, but less common sense in Poland - Rydzyk? [40]

One sometimes wonders why Pole-bashing expats

I don't think there are many expats here. Nore is there any Pole-bashing, unless you consider criticism of your eccentric and outspokenly fascistic views to be bashing.
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
News / Smoking in Polish restaurant & cafe's is forbidden [15]

In larger restaurants enclosed smoking areas are permitted, provided they are physically separated and properly ventilated.

This works well. Outside should be exempted.
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

Any member of the PZPR who did not hand in his membership card during the 1980-1989 Soldiairty period could be barred from certain sensitive and/or deicison-making posts

No reason for that. People are entitled to hold political views and are entitled to change them.

Poland would have to go through a period similar to French Revolution of 1789

And nobody wants that. After every revolution, there comes a dictator.
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
News / More technology, but less common sense in Poland - Rydzyk? [40]

That looks like some weird set of slogans. I have indeed watched TV Trwam and it is an opiate par excellence. I remember when they were doing that illegal thing with the cable platform (more technology, less sense) for which they were heavily censured, which meant they kept appearing on all the unused cable frequencies in Warsaw. Until of course they were stopped and had to start behaving like all the other TV companies - a thing which does not come naturally to them. A soporific TV station.

So, Pol3 .Do you watch it yourself? And do you interact with

thinking yuppy-PC circles

in order to experience

the full, multi-faceted Poland

???
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
Love / Are Polish girls better cooks? [45]

Wasn't there a regular character on the Howard Stern show called "the kielbasa queen"? Was she Polish American or was she called that for another reason, and if so, what?
jon357   
14 Jul 2013
Life / Cigarette prices in Poland [27]

You do realise that most people here can pop out to the shops and buy them for themselves. Most users here live in Poland and those who don't are mostly on a continent you wouldn't be able to economically deliver to. ;-)

By the way, I think you mean railway station rather than train station. Always sad to see someone from the UK who speaks English in a far less cultured way than many foreigners.

Nowadays most mainstream UK brands are available in PL, however Benson and Hedges are better found in large cities? What is it with Lambert and Butler? When I used to smoke, I remember that the only people who bought those those were as rough as a bear's arse.