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delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
News / Monument gets erected when a clique rules in a small Polish town [29]

His "regime" was meaningless, as the President of Poland only has ceremonial power, with a tiny hint of executive power (the ability to propose and veto legislation). What happened with the Polish economy during that time had nothing to do with him at all.

Typical Polack, you've got no idea about Poland.
delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
News / Polish hero pilot lands 767 without wheels. (Warsaw) [191]

I've applauded the quality of LOT pilots on here several times before, but that doesn't seem to matter to American idiots who like moaning about the food, or love complaining about customer service because they wouldn't change their non-refundable ticket.

I'm convinced that LOT pilots are actually very very well trained - the sheer skill of this landing (and watching it several times - look how little the plane bumped upon landing!) says it all. Obviously the food and service isn't to American standards - I mean, how dare they serve Polish food while being merely polite?

And as for the moaning about non-refundable tickets - obviously, American carriers would refund a non-refundable ticket.....or maybe not. But at least they can pretend that they would.

There's certainly a reason why LOT and not the military handles VIP flights these days.

The report states that one person was taken to hospital, but that's still not much. Bet there's lots of bruised LOT-hating American egos though :)

One person is absolutely nothing given the circumstances, and they could easily have injured themselves on the slides (common, apparently).

The plane was 14.5 years old and flew intercontinental flights, so not old at all. And it's exceptionally rare for this sort of thing to happen.
delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

But through reading history, and trying to be impartial, I have become very interested in and sympathetic to Poland which I knew nothing about until I really penetrated deep into historical sources (bypassing interpretation).

You'll soon learn that unless you're 100% behind Polish interests at all times (and never ever commenting on times when Poles have done bad things), certain racist elements of this forum will attack you constantly. It's amusing ;)
delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
News / Polish hero pilot lands 767 without wheels. (Warsaw) [191]

Capt Tadeusz Wrona, 20 years experience on the 767, around 70 years old

Hats off to him. Absolutely textbook landing, and for there to be no injuries is a sign of how stunningly great that landing was.
delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

But hopefully not all news from Cegielski are bad.

I hope not too, but it depends a lot on whether the workers will reject the influence of the anarchists who were winding up a lot of the workers recently.

Ciegelski could still do very well if they focus on one thing, but the current situation where they have lots of production halls full of old machinery just isn't good.
delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

the Germans claim German. the Poles claim Polish. and this is the point of the thread, nothing else.

Let's quote some people via Wikipedia, shall we?

According to Czesław Miłosz, the debate is an "absurd" projection of a modern understanding of nationality onto Renaissance people, who identified with their home territories rather than with a nation.

Similarly historian Norman Davies writes that Copernicus, as was common in his era, was "largely indifferent" to nationality, being a local patriot who considered himself "Prussian".

Miłosz and Davies both write that Copernicus had a German-language cultural background, while his working language was Latin in accordance with the usage of the time. Additionally, according to Davies, "there is ample evidence that he knew the Polish language." Davies concludes: "Taking everything into consideration, there is good reason to regard him both as a German and as a Pole: and yet, in the sense that modern nationalists understand it, he was neither."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus#Nationality

So - both Miłosz and Davies, darlings of Poland, both say that it's absolutely absurd to define him as one or the other - and I suspect they're right.
delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
News / Polish hero pilot lands 767 without wheels. (Warsaw) [191]

No, It was Johny English...

Answer the question or get lost, PiS boy.

Apparently he was quite old and very experienced, but no confirmation.

I assume he wasn't under severe pressure

No pressure, just a total failure of the landing/nose gears to lower. No pressure at all...
delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
News / Polish hero pilot lands 767 without wheels. (Warsaw) [191]

No injuries.

Absolutely fantastic landing. I've just watched the video, and it was absolutely spot on - to take the plane down so smoothly and without incident in such a situation is praise-worthy.

(but was it a Polish Captain/First Officer?)
delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

Fantasising again.

According to Jewish law someone is Jewish if his or her mother was a Jew. The mother of Kopernik(us) was German. :D

I like the way that the usual racists make it seem like it's a bad thing that he might have been a bit German. Amusing, really.
delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
Life / Trick or treat in Poland [24]

It's entirely true ;)

Nothing here as well, which was surprising...
delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

2. Nobody really knows if this money has already been spent or if it is still on accounts.
3. Poland is too poor to have used that money on railways today, and tried to shift it onto roads. The EU voiced its objections but nothing has been decided yet.

It looks like the money hasn't actually been spent - in which case, it's just a matter of Poland not having the money to take advantage of the 1/3rd funding. No real issue there - better than doing a Spain and borrowing vast amounts of cash to pay for white elephant projects.

Trade unions are needed but when the fate of the whole business is at stake, they mustn`t be so relentless. A few sites have already been closed in result if trade unions` harmful actions. FSO, for example.

Indeed, Ciegelski in Poznan (I'm very familiar with them - I know someone who supplies a lot of products to them) is another example of a business getting ruined by the sheer stubbornness of the moustaches. I can give a great example - in one of the production halls (now lying quiet) - out of 16 offices, 8 were dedicated to Solidarność activities. That's absolutely ridiculous - and it's no surprise that they're doing nothing nowadays. Same story across the entire site.

According to my friend's contact there - they had a proposal to sell off 75% of the site and buildings, and use the cash to focus on something that would generate a healthy profit for the company. But - of course - the moustaches refused, because it would involve redundancies and retraining. Why bother, when you can still turn up for work and do absolutely nothing for 8 hours?

Always thought that the real reason many businesses collapsed so quickly in Poland was due to Solidarność living in dreamland and believing that the Government would continue the same old system of generous subsidies and nice benefits for workers. I agree that trade unions are needed - but when they cripple a business, they absolutely aren't.

Another amusing story here was with the Poznan tram orders. They lost to Solaris, a genuine Poznan/Polish success story - and rather than focusing on where they failed, they chose to scream and shout in the press about unfair treatment and how they deserved the order and so on.
delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

How much hatred is contained in just one sentence .

Hatred?

I know to your type, any criticism of Poland is immediately hatred (see also : right wing Jewish groups in Israel - it's amusing how many similarities there are) - but it's true. Poland has nothing to offer Germany except a large market for German products and cheap labour.

I am just Polish . I am not interested in investigating my DNA if I am 100% or 99.9 % Polish .

The truth is that you could easily be 0% Polish and 100% Ukrainian, you have no idea.

No one in the world cares about Poland , good , but , we, Poles care .

Nah, you don't care. If you did, you'd put a stop to many of the things that hurt Poland, but you don't, do you?

Let's not forget how lawyers were obliged to use the "kasa fiskalna" due to rampant tax evasion. I also remember how a private doctor refused to give me a "rachunek". And let's not forget all those PATRIOTIC NASZA POLSKA types who claim "renta" and then happily work all day.

Poles only care about Poland when someone that isn't Polish dares to point out the utter hypocrisy.
delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

Your revisionism will neither change minds nor history of Poland , you can claim whatever you wish

The only revisionist here is you, sunshine.

Among the top ten famous British is Isaak Newton who is not British , he is Jewish . But no one claims in a wiki he is Jewish or says he is 40 % British 60 % Jewish because of his mother Hannah , a Jewess.

Yawn. Most people couldn't care less what he was. Jewish, British, European, who cares less?

So don`t play heresy , you just make fools of yourselves altogether with this home spun German lunatic self made historian .

Would that be like Norman Davies and many of the "historians" that write ludicrous stuff simply to sell books in Poland?

Mikołaj Kopernik was of course Polish . And no one will check his DNA , because there is no proof of his other than Polish ancestry . Thats a common attitude of Germans who want to overtake our land , our heritage and national identity .

Yawn. Germans don't want Poland - what do they want a country with poor infrastructure, divided identity and a heritage that mostly involved fighting with her neighbours over petty things?
delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

I have started to like the Serbs after reading information from Serbs like you and others on this forum.

You really are one strange individual if you "like" or "hate" people based on the internet.

The last Polish president was Pro-Serbia.

HAHAHAHA.

Pro-Serbia my ass. The only time that he ever supported any Serbian cause was when he supported the opposite of what the Government supported, just for the sake of opposition.

Tell me, name one act (not words) that he did to help Serbia? What did the PiS government of 2005-2007 do to help Serbia?

Incidentally -
delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

I think you need to take off those rose-tinted spectacles and see that no government in Poland since 1945 has managed to effectively deal with the railways.

But for starters - why does Przewozy Regionalne need 3 ticket checkers on every train? I take one train regularly (from Poznan-Pila - 2 hours) - and there are THREE people employed to simply check tickets on a train formed of 4 carriages. Why?

Ah, I know...it's called trade unions.
delphiandomine   
1 Nov 2011
News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

So they haven't actually used the money, so what's the problem? And blaming Tusk and PO when PKP Grupa SA is still very much in the hands of lazy moustaches is deceitful at best.
delphiandomine   
31 Oct 2011
News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

I tell you what, why don't we split the difference here and both agree that Copernicus was mixed but that he was predominately of Polish ancestry?

Just *why* are you so hung up on the fact that someone might be a little bit Polish? I mean, you're American, not Polish, why do you care?
delphiandomine   
31 Oct 2011
Work / Working in Poland - Logistics, procurement, imports-exports [12]

1) In Poland good jobs even in the private sector are not announced in adds or through the internet, they are only taken by connection or "recommendation".

Same as anywhere.

2) Generally companies avoid hiring people with a regular contract, they prefer more flexible ways of employment as consultants (one person companies) or freelanching even if the job has regular duties.

Only true for low level workers. Anyone who is valued won't be asked to work this way.

b) If there is somebody that works as an accountant for ex. in a small company might have a different salary than an accountant of a big company. This is partially logical but can these difference be like the 2nd earning 3 times as much as the 1st.

Again, totally normal. Big companies pay more because they attract the best.
delphiandomine   
31 Oct 2011
News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

Off topic, MediaWatch. Stick to the thread, and cease flaming.

I think you should think more about what you are writing before you click on the "post your message", Derpyandomine. Can you explain why you assert that there is no definition of Polish ethnicity because the Polish ethnicity has only existed 1,000 years?

Of course there's no real definition. It's artificial, and made up.

I don't expect you to understand such complicated concepts of "Poland was made up of several different tribes that came together, all of different ethnicities". Even today, there's still a hell of a mix of ethnicities in Poland - Ukrainians, Lemkos, Gorale, Kashubians, Silesians, etc. Then add in all the mixing with the Jewish and German communities, along with Lithuanians and Rusyns - and then look at some of the evidence, such as the settling of Scots - and you soon realise that to claim such a thing as "Polish" is just utter idiocy.

Poland, like the rest of the world, is an ethnic melting pot. The *only* way someone could claim to be 100% Polish would be if they could trace clear, unbroken lineage straight back to the beginning of the Polans - and that's obviously not going to happen. Sorry Des, but your fantasy of being some sort of WHITE POLISH POWER NATIONALIST is just that, a fantasy.
delphiandomine   
31 Oct 2011
News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

Copernicus's ancestry is 100% Polish.

Yeah yeah. Sure. You can't prove it, and the evidence suggests otherwise. Incidentally, as we've discussed a thousand times before - there is no such thing as being 100% Polish, partially because Poland was formed from several tribes that came together. Was he a Polan? We have no idea. You won't find a definition of "ethnically Polish" because such a thing simply didn't exist prior to the founding of the first Polish state in 966. However, it would be fair to say that to be Polish, you'd have to be ethnically Polan. Was Copernicus? Unlikely.

99.9% of all the other Germans in their area

What utter rubbish. There were plenty of German Catholics in this part of the world, and many of them didn't convert. Then again, you've never been here, what would you know?

Instead she and her family were glad to be CATHOLICS and glad to SUPPORT Poland!

You really have no idea, do you? Germans were anything but united at that point - European history contains many twists and turns, and there were certainly some Germans who preferred Poland over other Germans. Don't forget that many Germans actually assimilated into Poland and became Polish - hence why many Poles (especially in Western Poland) have Germanic names.

They are still ethnically Polish

Again - you have no idea. Claiming that they're "ethnically Polish" is utter rubbish, because you have no idea about their real history. Plenty of Poles became German, likewise in reverse - in this part of the world, claiming to be 100% anything is laughable. In fact, it only tends to be racist American Polacks who use such lines, because they don't want to admit that they, just like everyone else, are nothing but a mixed breed mongrel.

Let's be honest, MediaWatch. You only scream and shout about people being 100% POLISH, because it's not acceptable these days to say ******** blacks" and suchlike. It's still the mindset of a racist, except one that learnt to be racist within what society deems as acceptable. Still blatant racism, though.
delphiandomine   
31 Oct 2011
Law / Polish passport for child of Holocaust survivor [10]

Read the 1951 Act on Citizenship recently, have we?

5. Obtaining foreign citizenship leads to the loss of Polish citizenship.

Tygrys, you would have obtained your citizenship through deception. Not cool.
delphiandomine   
31 Oct 2011
Law / Child Support Poland - my story and advice request [22]

Of course there are problems with the legal system- name a country which has a perfect system.

I find it hilarious that you're defending the Polish legal system to make a point, when all sorts of commentators from bloggers through to human rights organisations have commented on the terrible problems that the Polish system has. Then again, what do they know? I mean, you want to make a point against some random person online, so screw them - they know nothing!

Ask yourself why Lepper was never imprisoned, and you've got your answer as to why the Polish legal system sucks.

Also if any of you can put forward any "Good" polish Lawyers in the area of Rzeszow it would be really helpful.

No. Don't get a Polish lawyer in Poland - get one in the UK. Polish ones will be prone to seeing it from "her side" and will likely **** it up on purpose.
delphiandomine   
31 Oct 2011
Law / Polish passport for child of Holocaust survivor [10]

She got her US citizenship in 1957

Unfortunately, you aren't eligible. The act of 1951 makes it clear that anyone obtaining a foreign citizenship automatically loses Polish citizenship.
delphiandomine   
31 Oct 2011
News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

Consultations are going on.

You couldn't make this stuff up!

The sheer ridiculousness of seeing Ziobro and Kaczynski fight over Rydzyk is just a guarantee to stay in opposition for more than 8 years.
delphiandomine   
30 Oct 2011
UK, Ireland / "If it's not Polish, it's shite" - What is great about Polish Beer in UK? [78]

The average joe in this country goes to the pub and drinks a pint of stella, carlsberg, fosters.

All brewed in Britain and with a distinctive British taste.

Anyone who has drank the genuine thing (at least - Carlsberg and Stella) knows fine well that the British variants are pathetic, weak and utterly undrinkable. As for Fosters - anyone drinking that deserves ridiculed.

It also says a lot about how poor Britain is if everyone is drinking "foreign" brands. I mean, can't you produce ONE good lager?