News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


It means that someone with something against Muslims has pulled a set of statistics out of his arse-crack.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

Not really. The guy's a nutter with little support among Muslims in the UK.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


And I was agreeing with it.


But generally you don't like them.

This makes no more sense than to generally dislike Christians.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

Can Christians be characterized as 'friendly/unfriendly'? Does that mean that Polish people are the same as Mexicans, Australians, many sub-Saharan Africans, South Sea islanders, all of whom are nominally Christian? Some Muslims are nice and some aren't. The same with Christians, unbelievers and so on.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


Great. So the likes of Poland and North Korea are wonderful examples of pure culture. Pity the poor people in France, the US and the UK.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

The France, Brazil and Holland football teams are miles ahead of the representatives of Poland. The more unsuccessful the country is, the more likely it is to be monocultural. North Korea is the most obvious example.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


You are doing great, perogi2000. Just keep on posting, and anyone dropping in on Polish Forums will give Poland a very wide berth.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

Seems to be what the Polish right want.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


The fact that hardly anyone wants to move to Poland isn't really something to be proud of.

Life / My Słowianie (music video mocks stereotypes about Poles and Slavs) [46]


I don't know that he isn't. In the same way that I don't know that you are not a Chinese spy, secret Muslim or part of a conspiracy of homosexualists. The idea that most people are not Russian spies is simply an assumption on my part.


'Gazeta Polska Codzennie' to give it its full name.


So you haven't read the newspaper, or do you simply not understand its contents?


Who are representative of the thought of the Polish right.


Fair enough. So I trust this will be your last contribution to this thread.

Life / My Słowianie (music video mocks stereotypes about Poles and Slavs) [46]

Donatan has been Accused of being a Russian agent by the right-wing press in Poland.

Love / Poland's virginity market [17]

I'll make a few points about the article.

Obviously, we're on the lookout for things in the Polish media that are attracting attention, but are not accessible to English-speaking readers.

This happened to be the 'most read' in Poland over the new year.

The article is not 'anti-Polish' as it was written originally by a Pole, and published in a Polish newspaper. Therefore, to claim this, you would have to imagine that the author, the newspaper and its readership were, for some reason or other, anti-themselves.

It is just a 'human interest' story (the same thing happens in other countries, no-one is claiming it's an exclusively Polish phenomenon).

And about linking to our blog.

If people don't like the stories, then don't click on them and ignore the thread.

If the mods don't like me doing this, then I'll stop doing it.

But I don't see the harm in it. It gives us traffic, as well as providing content for Polish Forums.

I'd suggest it's a lot better than many of the threads discussing 'the Joos', Asians looking for Polish girls, and 'strange' Serbian nationalist threads by Crow.

Love / Poland's virginity market [17]


Do you speak Polish, Barney, or only English?

Harry is right, the story was taken from Poland's leading (liberal) newspaper.

I could link to this for your benefit, but you don't understand Polish, do you.

So, basically, Barney, you are following the far-right narrative of the likes of Ironside, that there is a Jewish/Communist elite dominating the media, intent on crushing Polish patriots.

Just like with the Panorama programme.


In that case, get your 'free translation service' to explain this article to you.


Everything you say about the expat papers must also logically be true of Gazeta Wyborcza and their readership. (It was their most read article over the New Year).

Your problem, Barney, as both myself and Harry have observed, is not with 'content', but rather with the nationality of those providing the content. Would it change your perceptions were you to learn that the writers were Polish and Norwegian rather than English?


If an article in a Polish language and English language publication are practically identical, then you can either criticise both or neither.

If you (illogically) choose to have a go at one, but not the other, then you can be accused of prejudice.

You criticise 'expats' writing news in English, when all they are doing is making Polish news accessible to individuals such as yourself who can't speak Polish.

It looks very much like a case of 'shooting the messenger', doesn't it.

Love / Poland's virginity market [17]

The virginity market in Poland?

Love / Poland's virginity market [17]

How would you know?

Life / Polish people and racism. [943]

True. It's hard to say whether Poles are racist to Chinese or not because most (unless they have lived in the west) have yet to meet any.

Think about Europeans in China twenty years ago. The Polish reaction to Chinese would be similar to the way Chinese reacted to Westerners when they met them for the first time.


Please don't contribute if you have nothing useful or intelligent to say.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]


Almost certainly you know nothing about this case other than what you have read ina few newspaper reports so why speculate?

Have you nothing better to do?

How about pulling the wings off butterflies, for example?

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]


Of course, it is possible.

Just as it's 'possible' that we will find out that the six killed in Kamień Pomorski were all escaped homicidal maniacs, intent on causing murder and mayhem.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

Some drunk driver killed six in Kamień Pomorski yesterday.

Perhaps INSPE would like to have a go at defending that.

After all, we don't know whether the victims themselves were not drunk, and had they not been killed, they may have got in cars themselves and killed others.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

I thought of replying to INSPE's idiotic points, but realised it would be a waste of time.

Please ignore him.

Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]


Isn't that what a lot of posters here are looking for?

A true friend tells the truth, and not necessarily what you want to hear.

Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]


Write a book on the subject if it makes you happy in some way. But however many words you use, or however many posts you make, it will still be her metaphor and not mine. Have the last word, if you like.

Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]


She used the word 'fart'. It wasn't something I invented out of my imagination. What more is there to say on the subject?


Because what she said was 'coarse'. If you don't like what Agnieszka Holland says, then have a go at her, not me.

It was her metaphor, not mine.

Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]


I understand perfectly what she said. You could too, if you really wanted to.

As I wrote, what interests you is not what either she or I wrote, but rather the respective identities of the writers, and you have chosen to misinterpret the words in a crass attempt at point scoring.

Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]


Writing a great deal will not make what you have written true.

You are plain wrong, and writing personal abuse will not change this fact.

You said something about trying to improve Poland. Perhaps this will happen when people start listening to the message without shooting the messenger. I'm sure you are not excluded from Agnieszka Holland's perceptions of her homeland.

Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]


It means the same. You are not interested in what was said, only who said it. You are merely proving yourself yet again incapable of objectivity, even with regards to some quite simple and easily understood words about the expulsion of air from the anus.

Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]


And what she said involves smelling some unpleasant odor as well. The two statements mean the same.

You are merely attempting to find a way to criticise me (a foreigner) without criticising a famous film director (Polish), even though all I did was to summarise what she said.

Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]


There is no difference in meaning between: 'sniffing farts' and 'a suffocating atmosphere hitting you, a wave of bad air as when someone keeps farting in a closed room'?

The former statement is the same as the latter, just written more concisely.