News / Footie hooligan punch-up thwarted in Poland [47]

Doubtless it is interesting to some. Nevertheless, healthcare here is a shared matter and patching up lowlife who bash each other for fun isn't something that others need to subsidise.

Also there are very good reasons that wrestling and boxing are regulated and that assault is illegal.

News / Footie hooligan punch-up thwarted in Poland [47]

Where people have a right to walk without thugs battling. Regarding your views about their freedom to behave like that, I wonder if they all have private health insurance to cover the cost of treating their self-inflicted injuries or whether they expect the rest of us to subsidise it.

News / Footie hooligan punch-up thwarted in Poland [47]

Actually in a public park, not "the woods".

News / Poles back Gronkiewicz ouster referendum [26]

We suffered enough when LK was in that role.

News / Poles back Gronkiewicz ouster referendum [26]

Whatever you're trying to say makes no sense whatsoever.

News / Poles back Gronkiewicz ouster referendum [26]


She certainly isn't rubbish - not compared to wastes of space like Lech Kaczyński and Paweł Pisorski who preceded her however her distinct lack of charisma and abrasive manner have alienated voters, that and the fact that many of the more political aware in the capital are sick of yet another conservative.

I haven't signed the ouster paper, since I favour waiting for her term of office to run its course in not much more than a year's time and also am undecided about her likely successor. I will however not vote for her should she stand again.


Hard to know what you mean here. Former residents don't get to vote.

News / Poles back Gronkiewicz ouster referendum [26]

The SLD are indeed playing with fire on this one - the Ursynow political camp (among the most radical in PL) are confine their man will win, however HGW (much as I dislike her stance on some issues) is still a better bet.

And yes, it isn't 'Poles' who decide as a nation, it's all residents of Warsaw with a vote - probably the most cosmopolitan, multicultural and politically liberal section of society.

News / Poles back Gronkiewicz ouster referendum [26]

Interestingly the ouster isn't a PiS thing - much of the support comes from the left and centre-left in Ursynow who will probably provide her replacement should they succeed. Most of those involved would be deeply offended to be described as nationalists.

USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]


That's true. During the middle years of the century many clergy were murdered by right-wing forces. Later on in South America also.

If we're talking about artefacts being destroyed, there's the famous case of the Neolithic cave paintings that were destroyed (on the instruction of priests aligned with Franco's forces) simply because they were pre-Christian imagery. Even in Poland, there were several stone circles removed in the 1930s for the same reason.

Off-Topic / Modern parenting = bad parenting? [20]

It can be hell to be on a long flight sat near someone who can't/won't control their kids. Babies will cry on flight, especially during take off/landing - the pressure change is extremely painful for them and raises the question whether or not it's wise for parents to subject them (and other passengers) to that, but at least it's usually only for a small part of the journey. That is no excuse though for people allowing their kids to annoy others. Last week I flew from UK to Poland and a woman with primary age kids were sitting behind me - one of the kids was banging repeatedly on the back of the seat and the woman actually took offense when I told her to stop the kid from doing that. In the end the cabin crew had to warn her to keep them under control.

Similar with bringing very young or badly behaved kids into restaurants - when people pay several hundred dollars for a meal they're buying into the whole ambience of the restaurant. They aren't paying to eat en famille with a loud family they don't know.

USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]


None of that justifies the mass murder and other atrocities committed by Franco's fascists.

USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]

Would you expect them to condone violence?

News / TV Trwam gets credibility stamp [21]


Then they'd better think up a different business plan if they want to meet the criteria for the digital platform. I can't think of any other large scale media service where the financial backers insist on anonymity. Smells fishy in the extreme.

Travel / Driving from London to Poland Poznan [7]

Jardinero's suggestion is good - the Dunkirk ferry is cheap and the road from Poznan is easy to follow. The Calais to Dover ferry is quicker but can be very busy sometimes.

USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]


Really? Nor is beer, but I don't see you advocating a ban on that. Not that there's any evidence whatsoever that the faith in question is 'not good for people'.


The two main denominations of that religion never comment on and hold no organisational point of view about other religions. The more popular of the two in Poland are very particular about that. Christianity however is 'set against' the faith that you believe 'should be banned'.

USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]


Why?

USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]


What about the symbols of any other religion, provided some of those present would like to see them?

News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]

A TV presenter or any other prominent person has every right to air their views.

USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]

None of the above, and you know it. Which of your fascists were carrying out mass executions and accepting illegal military support from Hitler's Germany?

News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]


Perhaps that's because the expansion PiSuarzy is in common use here to describe the failed PiS regime and their nuttier supporters whereas some of the "gutter-level epithets" that you come out with (Madumna, Lady Zgaga, Gronkowiec, Palikmiot, itd) are nothing more than the product of your own unhealthy imagination.

USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]


No is wasn't. It was a coalition of Social Democrats, Socialists, Conservatives, Monarchists and other moderates.

News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]

It isn't. Ever. The various polls done in PL that suggest the PiSuarzy have a chance never translate into electoral success.

Study / Tell me about Collegium Civitas (Warsaw)! [34]


Or perhaps they're just seizing a chance to get on in life. A chance that someone in the developing world does not get easily. One of my staff from Iraq is coming to Warsaw to complete his PhD. He could have chosen other countries, whether in the EU or not. He chose Poland because the cost of the programme is affordable and because the university in question is respected.

USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]


No. What they did is what counts. And Franco was doing it for decades. You sound as if you're trying to say that the end justifies the means.

USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]


Not that the government were communist, but don't let facts get in the way of your morbid fantasies.


As you may know (or pretend not to) he got in the back door, rather like Duckboy and his PiSuarzy. The difference is that the PiSuarzy were thrown out of office as soon as legally possible.

News / TV Trwam gets credibility stamp [21]


Don't be disingenuous - the matter has received enough publicity, and the requirements for a place on the digital platform are transparent.

USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]


I know him more as a convinced liberal. His writings are fascinating. Interesting that he was commemorated by Spanish freemasonry last year - his poetry crosses boundaries.


Stalin's position on religion changed several times during his life - remember he had been a seminarian. Ex smokers are the worst. Ruch Palikota however have never suggested bulldozing churches and locking up clergy. Just maintaining a secular state.

News / TV Trwam gets credibility stamp [21]

Some of us may well have been born as far down the social scale as it gets but have done something about it. As Oscar Wilde says, " we are all in the gutter, but some of us a looking at the stars". TRWAM has goals too. Its short term goal is to get a place on the digital platform. The application process is a level playing field but for some reasontheynthink they should be exempt from following the rules. Why do you think that is?

USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]


Tosh. They attacked the legitimate government and unleashed a reign of terror - one incidentaly that many Polish people fought against as part of the International Brigades. And, more pertinently to the discussion they persecuted religions using the apparatus of the state.

News / TV Trwam gets credibility stamp [21]

No. The rules are the same for them as for any other station wanting a place on the digital platform. I'm not aware of reports from foreign credit agencies being a required part of the financial disclosure component of the application procedure.

If they want to go digital, all they have to do is follow the same rules as other TV stations who are taking part in the process.