News / Poland's TVP revolution [10]


Neither was worth one tenth of it. It's so good they've been fired.


I am surprised since the downgradidng of Poland's rating by S&P seems to have been fair. Haven't you heard Beata Szydło telling repeatedly on various occasions of her electoral campaign that "Poland was in ruin" as a result of PO in government for the last eight years. S&P must have been listening to that as well ...

News / Germans: Geh raus of Poland's business! [61]


Indeed, it is true; the country is our biggest export market and as far as I know, Germany renounced her "Drang nach Osten" policy, hopefully for ever.

At present, Germany has been subjected to the "Drang nach Norden" policy effectuated by immigrants and refugees from the Middle East and Africa.

Language / Give me some reasons to learn Polish [126]


That one is incredibly funny. I guess he wanted to say "Dziękuję z góry, panie Adamie" which should be "Thank you in advance, Adam". What a strange coincidence with "a mountain" being "góra" in Polish.

At first, I thought he was spending his time in the mountains from which place he was writing a post-card to a "Mr Adam".

Life / Africans in Poland and diversity [60]


We've already achieved this through your presence on this forum. Thank you so much!

Life / Africans in Poland and diversity [60]


I don't think you are. I seriously think you are the admin of this forum who is just posting for fun under the guise of poland4africans.

Life / Africans in Poland and diversity [60]


Ask Delph. He is good in joining protests and demonstrations.He can help you.


For that go and ask to Harry. You may mix your genes between you two and make the world look more diverse!

Life / Africans in Poland and diversity [60]


You should first point out where I was a racist. I shall point out to you that instead of replying to facts I presented to you, you started to call me racist and "whitey" which term is racist in itself. Then obviously YOU are a racist, even if you are black!

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


Saying this, you have shown that you don't have the slightest idea how the VAT is constructed and how it works. I shall remind you that in Poland as well as in the UK there was once no VAT, only the retail tax existed.

Life / Africans in Poland and diversity [60]


This is because they have been living in Germania for thousands of years. But the skin of the first Europeans wasn't white at all. It was brown rather than white or black, but in the course of years, the evolution made their skin white since those with lighter skin were better adapted to the European climate than those with the darker shades of skin.

Yes, in Germania as well as in Poland they are awfully white. Yet Angela tries to make up for it by allowing too many non-whites in too short a time. Unfortunately, evolution doesn't work as fast as Angela, so we may expect some serious problems with all this, I am very much afraid.

Life / Africans in Poland and diversity [60]

Not only. Personally, I am for the EU. But there are racists in the EU, too. They say they don't want any more refugees in Bavaria these days.

Life / Africans in Poland and diversity [60]


It's simply too cold to join you. Maybe when spring comes...

When Poland becomes as diverse as France, we could have repeated shootings like they have in Paris. Pas moi, je ne suis pas Charlie tout simplement ...

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


That's exactly what happened. When Tusk said "no tax rises", a tax rise occured.


That's exactly what happened. When Tusk said "don't pay the radio/TV fee" (it was at the time PiS was in power in 2005-2007), I myself stopped paying, but when PO came back to power I began to receive the reminders to pay. I am sure voters did take that into account when they were voting PO out of office last year.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


What does this "extra tax" mean? I thought this "retail tax" was meant to replace the value-added tax (VAT). If so, you cannot call it an "extra" tax imposed on top of the existing taxation. But I may be wrong - can you elighten me on that?


I have an account with them, but so far I haven't noticed anything by which the bank passed this tax on me as a client. Can you enlighten me on that, too?

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

Here you are not only half-wrong, but you are totally wrong. There is welfare in Poland, but it is not as generous as in Western Europe. The new PiS government of which you haven't said anything good yet plans to develop welfare state in Poland and notably with regard to families so as to expand the birth rate, but also stop emmigration.

News / EU debate on Poland [23]


Once more, I shall remind you how France was once thrown out of Algeria even if Algeria was too week to "dictate" their whims.

You seem to be a true little French colonialist and that is why you are unable to understand the modern world.

News / EU debate on Poland [23]


You are only half-right in this case. The EU has broadened its internal market considerably through the accession of the new members. It's a two-way street, you know.

Plus, there are also substantial capital out-flows from Poland to the EU, but they are not taken into account.in your reasoning.

Work / What is deducted from a salary in Poland apart from Income tax? [155]



You mean the retired must "survive" on 1,000 Z£ a day in Poland and this makes their life so harsh?

Polonia / Should Poles help Germans organize protests demanding free media ? [136]


Notice that we didn't have any Pétain government in Poland which makes one less skeleton in the Polish cupboard and one more skeleton in the French placard. Could the territory of the Vichy government of France be referred to as "France B" and the one under the control of Adolf Hitler could be referred to as "France A"?

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


All these demonstrations is some sort of blague. No one in their right senses pays any serious attention to them. As a typical TV viewer in Poland (various channels), I didn't notice them at all and it was a great surprise for me to discover in one of your posts that there are so many of them planned ahead.

Really, I would be more interested in the new theory that Scots are "Sarmat after Sarmat", so they are practically Poles. That would make big headlines in the news!

Genealogy / How many Poles have Scottish ancestry? [8]

@Crow

In what circumstances has this theory been developed?

Polonia / Should Poles help Germans organize protests demanding free media ? [136]



I'm not sure if I'm included in that group (wrinkly old white angry bitter reactionaries), but my view was meant to present the immigration crisis in a broader perspective. It is well known these days that the present population of Europe consists of a mixture of three major immigration waves: (1) oldest : archaic population (2) middle : hunters-gatherers (3) most recent : agriculturers from the Middle East. Each one came and fought fiercely with the predecessors to gain the best resources for themselves. The first one could compete with the Neanderthal men. Peaceful co-existence occured as well and the eventual result of these waves was a mixture of races of which mixture we are the final product.

Facing the fact that the white Caucasian-type procreates much less slowly than ever before and that it is richer than ever before and also the people in the neighbouring lands, it is easy quite easy to see in Europe some space to be fulfilled by another "race". My point is that there is nothing unusual about it bearing in mind the ancient history of Europe. Of course, it may be somewhat painful for the present population of Europe to see all those people coming in great numbers in too short a time. Incidentally, the term "wrinkly old white reactionary" nicely renders the nature of the deeper-level problem that is behind the current immigration crisis, but the huge immigration phenomenon like the present one to Europe is nothing new at all.

Of course, most of of the white Caucasian-type Europeans do not dig up archeology papers in the internet to read them and draw some disturbing conclusions on immigration. But don't we have some more recent examples? The herds of Europeans immigrating to scarcely populated North America and throwing out the natives of America to gain the land and other resources? An even worse thing happened in South America where the Spaniards exterminated the rather densely-populated lands and were truly merciless (in the name of God to be honest), to get out all the gold and silver from the hands of the natives and later on extract it from the mines in which the natives were forced to work usually until their premature death.

Polonia / Should Poles help Germans organize protests demanding free media ? [136]

Everyone has been jumping on Frau Merker, but did she have any other choice then let the refugees and immigrants in? She has tried hard to distribute the immigrants among other member states, but Poland and other Eastern European countries opposed the idea which is what Bavaria does at the moment. At that stage InPolska called Poland stupid and racist, but these days InPolska - in accordance with her twisted French logic - calls Frau Merkel a "witch" for letting the immigrants in. On what principles the French logic is build upon? - no one ever knows!

In my view Europe has had no choice. Frau Merkel has fallen victim of the political correctness that has been developing in Europe for decades now. Imagine the Bundeskanzlerin declaring "We don't want any refugees who are mostly muslim in Europe!" in the beginning of the immigration crisis. She would simply have been called xenophobic and racist! Now that the crisis is in full progress, the political correctness as we know it has started to be challenged by some.

It has been very easy to exclude Christianity and Roman Catholicism in particular from the scope of political correctness. Poland and its people as predominantly Roman Catholic followed suit. Even the British expacts on the PF along with InPolska find it very easy to ridicule Christianity as some sort of "superstition".

In my view, Europe will not be able to get rid of those immigrants who came last year. She will not be able to stop those who plan to come this year either. It's impossible to stop any massive influx of people by any other means than military force which is unlikely to happen. Building walls is to no avail, too. Did the wall once built by the ancient Roman Empire on its northern borders stop the influx of those barbaric Germanic tribes who eventually put an end to the existence of this empire? No, but some here still ask if the books by Houellebeq are worth reading.



The future ahead of Europe seems to be bleak. And not only because of the political correctnes that reigns over it. It is because Europe has commited suicide in the last two world wars. Or is it because Europe wasn't in a particularly good shape before that so it put the fire to start those wars?

Is the supremacy of the white Caucacian-type man in Europe slowly coming to an end?

Language / "Róbta, co chceta" - Polish slogan meaning and usage [25]



This famous "RÓBMY SWOJE" quote from one of Wojciech Młynarki's songs was strongly placed in the world of PRL's "real socialism". In PRL and in the time after, it was understood in the way that Polo describes. But I think its meaning is deeper and not necessarily such. The text is clear in suggesting that "róbmy swoje" can mean precisely "sticking one's neck out", but not intentionally and on purpose. Thus the author meant a much more universal thing than what people thought of it in PRL Here is the fragment that depicts Christopher Columbus whom the king urges to be careful about his health, quit smoking and sailing and go to see the doctor. In reply Columbus says nothing to the king, but thinks to himself: let's do our own thing as long as we care and in all modesty, let's go sailing again and perhaps we might discover one of the Americas one day.

Raz króla spotkał Kolumb Krzyś,
A król mu rzekł: Kolumbie,
Pruj do lekarza jeszcze dziś,
Nim legniesz w katakumbie!

Nieciekaw jestem, co kto truć
Na twoim chce pogrzebie,
Palenie rzuć, pływanie rzuć
I zacznij dbać o siebie!

A Kolumb skłonił się jak paź,
Po cichu tak pomyślał zaś:

Róbmy swoje!
Pewne jest to jedno, że
Róbmy swoje,
póki jeszcze ciut się chce!
I zamiast minę mieć ponurą,
Skromniutko, ot, z Ameryk którą - odkryjmy...
Róbmy swoje! Róbmy swoje!
Może to coś da - kto wie?

Likewise, other parts of the song convey the same idea

Language / "Róbta, co chceta" - Polish slogan meaning and usage [25]


It did sound like that in the 1960s since such forms of the verb were common in the rural populations still using the local rural dialects. Thirty years later such a phrase lost the connotation of being backward and rural and was adopted as a kind of lingustic joke aimed precisely at young people who caught up with this idea very well. Byt you don't live in Poland to know that, do you?


I don't think the phrase has ever caused any moral indignation in Poland. If it does, it does only in the circles close to these circles in PiS who despise Owsiak and are ready to ridicule everything associated with his actions around WOŚP. For many young people such a language was the language of their grandparents which is no longer used by themselves or their parents, so the idea of "moral indignation" in them is just as funny as the idea of Owsiak "playing" his orchestra in the streets is for the ideologically-orientated members of PiS. But again, you don't live in Poland to get this sorted out in a proper way, do you? The cultural background in Poland is completely different in Poland than it is in the US or Western Europe.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


These were just slogans which Polo typed in capital letters. He is fully entitled to type slogans in capital letters.


It is even worse than that. And YOU ARE WORSE THAN THE WORST OF ALL AUTHORS OF THE DAILY MAIL'S COMMENTS SECTION..

Polonia / Should Poles help Germans organize protests demanding free media ? [136]


Ha, ha, ha, forced into line? What the hell are "free" media in the "free" Western world (that set an example for Poland and other dumb Eastern European states) for, if they have to be "forced into line"?

You obviously didn't read Michele Houellebecq's book "Soumission" (Submission) and you obviously don't want to read it.

Language / "Róbta, co chceta" - Polish slogan meaning and usage [25]


You are wrong on that. The phrase "Róbta co chceta" has a particular connotation which Pol's translation renders nicely. Yours has a very neutral and common meaning which is not what the Polish phrase is.

Polonia / Should Poles help Germans organize protests demanding free media ? [136]


A very unimortant incident,indeed, the reporting of which could be delayed for four days. All this in a country where much more trivial incidents are reported instantly and with a lot of noise around them.

Polonia / Should Poles help Germans organize protests demanding free media ? [136]


It was forseen here on the PolishForums, but those forseeing it were just labelled racist twats who had no future ahead of them while those representing the liberal and progressive Europe were marching very fast to achieve their goals of integration.


The "problem" with the Poles in the UK, for example, is that they are very likely to become undistinguishable from the local population in the next generation, whereas many Muslims in France or many Turks in Germany do not want to integrate and no "multiculti" is going to help them. The cultural difference is simply too big.


This was allowed to happen since it was happening in democratic countries with free media in the free western world. Could it have also happened in Poland which is presently under the brutal dictatorship of PiS of which fact the German politicians complain so much? This is a question to which every PF-er must answer themselves.

Classifieds / Are there are any Czechs in Warsaw? [7]


The Czech generally avoid Poland and Warsaw is no exception.
Mluvite po cesky?