News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]


So I'm guessing you believe "life" begins at conception?
So how do you feel about the morning after pill? Or what about condoms? are they allowed coz they prevent your sailors reaching their target? At least 200,000,000 sperm cell per ejaculation? oh no, we're all gonna burn in Hell!!!

Dutch caps? Are contraceptive injections ok? or implants...maybe we'll go old skool and bring back the coil?

You're living in the 1950s man, I'm surprised you know how to turn on a computer.

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]


I don't really see the connection? Could you explain why Poland should scrap Euro2012 so that then can build abortion clinics? With that kind of dough then you must be suggesting that every town in this place must be getting a clinic, are abortions in such demand here? Wow, I never realised that.

But sure yea, why not have abortions here for women who want it? It's a bit pointless not having it anyway in Poland when you consider that most countries that share a border with Poland have legal abortions & also the fact that you can find places that'll do illegal abortions here anyway. Best to make it legal and safe for all involved.

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]

women who are


are pretty f€ckin awesome. More of the same please.

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]


you wouldn't be saying that if your mother/father/brother/sister had been travelling on the train.


Both need to be done.

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]


When it happened I had some alcohol in my body, would've been illegal to drive.
My knowledge of first aid is pretty poor too and I doubt that any of the crash survivors/cops/straz woulda been in the mood or have the patience in such a stressful situation to try and listen to some lad with pigeon Polish.


I was, I was saying that those responsible should be held accountable and should be sent to jail. Every family should receive financial compensation too. The rail system needs to be computerised further and the unions that have so much power in PKP should be taken apart. This would all be both constructive and progressive. Will any of them happen? I think we can agree that none of the above will actually happen.


yea, I know that. I cannot understand why they don't though. I cannot wrap my head around the overall feeling of absolute apathy that the vast majority of Polish people and the Polish government has towards the issue of road safety.

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]


yes, I do. Do you think I'm here by choice? No way, Jose. I'd leave in a shot except I'm tied down with a missus and a kid.


nothing's easy in this place, just mountains and mountains of paper work for even the most trivial of things. Try being a foreigner in Poland, it ain't easy to get anything done.

Hey ya never know, I wouldn't mind going into local politics, but I need to vastly improve both my Polish & Silesian. I'd join RAS though, I think Silesia deserves autonomy, but that's for another thread I suppose.


How the Hell would I know, I've never heard of Potters Bar. I'm not British so I couldn't care less what happens to the British rail network. I said that in an earlier post, maybe read the full thread. I live here, work here, pay my taxes here, use the trains here and I find it an insult that some heavily unionised PKP clown would try and deflect responsibility already.


You lot just don't get it do you? Needless deaths. People are dead and the most probable cause is human error, yet all ye wanna do is play down the numbers. Even if it was only one person it's too many. The attitude to life here is very very different. If it doesn't affect you, then you do not care. Makes me sick.

And in regards to road safety, what are the authorities doing to try and bring down the number of deaths?
SFA, that's what.


After your sick comment yesterday you shoulda been banned. You're a cold prick Greg boy and I want nothing to do with you.

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]


neither did the 30-odd people who have died because of the Polish rail system in the last 6months.

Typical Polish reaction to blame everything else except themselves, that's why this country will never achieve the lofty heights of the delusions of grandeur that it espouses to. And that sucks coz I have to live here in a country where substandards are the norm and nobody wants to try and change anything because that would involve gettin up off your arses, taking responsibility and rolling up sleeves. And we all know that the Polish go-getters immigrated from here a long time ago.

Travel / Driving from Krakow to Wroclaw to Gdansk in June (roads and driving time info) [11]


Poland does have Police :P

Is it for the football games? Traffic will be a nightmare, it'll take hours and hours. Best thing would be to get a plane between the cities. Normally, I'd suggest a train, but with all these train accidents in the last few months you might be better flying

oltjetair.com
or
lot.com

It'll be cheaper too, you can fly for about 100zl and the cost of petrol for your trips would be huge.

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]


that doesn't excuse it though.
Just coz shít happens somewhere doesn't mean it should happen somewhere else too y'know?

Was anyone held accountable over the last accident? If not, why not? Will it be the same again this time? If so, why?

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]


sorry to sound rude man, but I don't live in or use trains in the UK. I live and work in Poland and use the trains here and it frightens the living Jaysus outta me when stuff like this happens and then to make things worse, nothing, not one fúcking thing gets done to try and improve things.

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]


yea sure, say that to the families of the 30+ people that have been killed in the last 6months.

It's ridiculous, over 1000 people died on the roads last year, trains are crashing or derailing like crazy lately. A handful or planes have crashed, mostly privately owned one.

And what's being done about it? Nothing. It turns my stomach that nobody is doing anything to try and fix the brutal state of infrastructure in Poland. People just shrug and say "Yea, that's Poland" Yea mate, that's bull**** and all those deaths come about because of the collective laziness and acceptance of the **** standards of things in this country.

Will PKP release their findings?
Will anyone be fired?
Will anyone spend a day in prison over this?
Will the families of the victims receive compensation?

For too long the people that run this place haven't been answerable to anyone and they've gotten away with subpar standards for donkeys of years. The people who live here have a responsibility to try to force changes. But will they? No, coz nobody here gives a shít about their fellow man in this country. And that's the reason why Poland will never be anything but a bit player in Europe and the world, sorry to say it but it's the truth.

Love / Indian wife wants divorce from her Polish husband just after two months. [52]


I don't get this, you left your studies coz you got married? Why didn't you stay and finish your education? Will the college let you go back?

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]


at least 3 accidents in the last 6months?

History / Romantic Aristocrat Stories from Poland's Past [16]

ok, so I've been looking at this Napolean thing and there's something weird going on here.
Apparently, the bird died and was buried in France, the family wanted her exhumed and the body brought back to Poland.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Walewska#Later_years

However, according to the page about her 2nd husband, Philippe Antoine d'Ornano, "her heart was placed in the crypt of the d'Ornano family" and this is the best bit......" and her body was brought back to Poland for burial. (In 1869, however, her coffin was found to be empty. It was speculated that some unknown necrophile had removed her remains.)"

This story has everything! Sex, violence, love, war, more sex and love, betrayal, politics, at least one (possibly 2) lovechild(ren) a massive payoff and even a spot of possible necrophilia.

Thanks guys, someone should redo the movie about this....I call assistant director.

Travel / Is Poland's Wroclaw zoo worth visiting? [17]


Yep, sure is. Doesn't stop everybody doing it tho. So long as people are only giving them fruit it's probably ok though.....probably.


Yea, I'd forgotten about that. Pretty big too, loads of sheep and pigs and goats and some horses too.

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


yea, it's dumb, they're actually given an allowance AFAIK

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


She's doing nothing illegal, she has just as much a right to draw the dole as you do.


No, she went on the dole because it was the only way that she could do a FAS course. She didn't have a job at the time, because she had moved back to Ireland after the tourist season in Donegal.


"I had been unemployed on and off. Then I came back to Dunfanaghy after the season was over, and it's very hard to find a job then. I went to social welfare to ask what options I have. I had a conversation with a Fás officer to see what's possible for me. And then I decided if it is possible to do a course or two and then start my own business straight away, that would be fantastic."


Indeed she did say that, both in that Irish Times article and also on the John Murray radio show on RTE1, however in both cases the comment is made in jest and there's nothing bad in it


I severally believe that she doesn't want her business to fail, why would anybody want that? She'll lose every cent she's saved to put into it. If it does go down the swanny then yea she'll be entitled to go back on the dole, but there's nothing illegal or untoward in that. Every EU citizen living in Ireland has that right.


No more than anyone else in Ireland on the dole. At least "Magda" is trying to get out of her situation and will be trying to set up her own business and has taken on a FAS course to improve her education. There are a whole load of lazy so-and-so's in Ireland that should be doing the same.


C'mon jackeen, the vast majority of people who moved to Ireland moved there to find work, work, with the exception of Roma gypsies and some asylum seekers, who are not legally allowed to work until their application for asylum is processed. (Which is pretty stupid btw). And also man, you gotta say that a huge amount of the unskilled workers who worked on sites and farms around the country have gone home.

Polonia / Poles and Austrians, do they get along? Vienna districts? [30]


We can swap, I'll take your job in Wien and you can have mine and live here among 40million Poles. :P

History / Romantic Aristocrat Stories from Poland's Past [16]

That's a good idea, thanks a lot.

History / Romantic Aristocrat Stories from Poland's Past [16]


indeed it is true to the proper dictionary meaning of romantic, but my editor wants mushy lovey-dovey stuff.

Thanks for the princess Daisy stuff lads, I'll give it a go with me editor, he might go with it since she ending up dying here.

& thanks for the


stuff too.

History / Romantic Aristocrat Stories from Poland's Past [16]


Cool, I see she was his mistress, that's quite steamy, nice one.

Anyone got any other suggestions?

Love / Living with a Polish man, but he has a drinking problem? [60]

dump him. problem over.
1 question, why was he holding soup when he punched the kid?

Travel / Is Poland's Wroclaw zoo worth visiting? [17]

yea, go it's pretty cool and bring some apples and pears and stuff, there's a bear who stands up and begs for food. It's really awesome........oh wait, they might still be sleeping...wait until spring.

Work / Warsaw or Krakow - what is the better place to work in? [19]

Look at it this way, it could be a million times worse, what if you lived in Zabrze, or Chorzow, or god forbid Rzeszow
Plus this is the most boring time of year, everyone is too miserable and broke to go out...or using the cold as an excuse. Spring isn't far away.

Work / Warsaw or Krakow - what is the better place to work in? [19]

The problem lies in the fact that people from Warsaw are.....well, people from Warsaw....& they can't drive too.
The problem with Krakow is the fact that people think they live in the most beautiful city in the world...check Prague, Barcelona, Rome.

I'd stay where you are but look for a better job, what do you do? Is it teaching? I feel like that too, I've really come to hate teaching and try to do as little of it as possible.

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


hahaha, where did you think


was referring to? Uranus. (^_^)

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]

here's the full story.
Irish Independent today had a terrible article about a Polish woman called "Magda"

alturl.com/fafd2

It was found out by some Internet posters that the people who wrote it did a very hacked job of translating it.
bit.ly/zk7hID

The so-called journalists were copying an article that appeared in a Polish newspaper.


Now the Polish Ambassador to Ireland has become involved.

alturl/atm98

Shame on the Irish Independent, hopefully tomorrow it'll be made to print a complete apology and retraction.

Classifieds / Tauron Nowa Muzyka Festival [6]

yea, I've been the last 2 years. It's mostly electro/dance and some hiphop.
It's pretty well run, except for the bullshit that you cant use cash and have to use festival tokens.
It's right in the centre of Katowice too, there's a campsite and all near to it.

There's another fest a few weeks before it, OFF, it's more alternative/guitar orientated. OFF is also bigger, but whatever floats your boat music-wise, they're both really excellent festivals...I think OFF won an award for best medium sized festival for 2011.