UK, Ireland / Brutal stabbing, Poles arrested [36]


Ha. You do talk some crap. First of all - he held a job - so that's a mitigating circumstance then is it? That will get him 10 years off then for good background? :)

Stabbed/beheaded? Allegedly the bloke murdered the victim. Where's the point of difference?

Hurt the children? Mmmmm...............................................

The kidnapping law is interesting though. I well remember the situation of a Katowice child who went missing over 20 years ago. The kidnapper had second thoughts and contacted the police - asking what would happen if he set the child free, and she identified him............... 25 years in prison was the police response....

He then asked what he would get if he killed her. The answer - you guessed it - 25 years.

You don't have to ask what he did.

UK, Ireland / Brutal stabbing, Poles arrested [36]


Yes, but surely you see? The fact that it was a Pole is of no significance to the victims.

UK, Ireland / Brutal stabbing, Poles arrested [36]

Crow and Dougpol united at last.

What was the point of your post Jon? I suppose when enough Brits move to Poland we will have some particularly shameful statistics too. Which I have done my best to add to. I've had my run ins with the Polish filth, but never actually hurt a fly. There are how many Poles in the UK? So why is this stuff newsworthy?

Life / How Safe Are the Polish Cities? [179]


And - if you drive on Katowice plates there the police keep on pulling you over.

The only time in my life I ever gave in to temptation and told the police to simply **** off.

Pure scum.

Life / How Safe Are the Polish Cities? [179]

There are heaps of derelict waste sites and the transport is non-integrated and over-crowded - fixed it for you. Obviously you don't live here. Utopia it ain't.

Life / How Safe Are the Polish Cities? [179]


What country is this you are talking about? Germany or Austria maybe?

Travel / Abandoned / Derelict places in Poland to visit [22]


Interesting then :) In communist times I had a ganders at the monks' remains in the crypt of the Franciscan church in Krakow - perfectly preserved for 350 years in the crypt micro-climate.

Travel / Abandoned / Derelict places in Poland to visit [22]


Somebody please correct my ignorance, but it just look some like some storage caverns from the photos. What's the attraction ?:)

Real Estate / New Build and Old Flat in Katowice, Poland [6]


Delph the voice of truth as so often. Why can't others tell it as it is.

Much better to buy from the council.

Lofts and roof spaces are still a good ploy, where you have to install water, leccy et al yourself. I am negotiating a buy in a German built block in Gdansk at 2,000 zl a sq. metre, though there are added costs re: communal renovations.......

Travel / Traveling across Poland with a dog. [13]

Big dogs can quite readily go 12 hours without walks. Big bladders.........
There's a hell of a lot of nonsense written on the subject, but to be honest Polish transport companies are generally eminently sensible. I read horror stories about the marque trains in France and Germany refusing passage. Ridiculous.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [900]


Read your British history Spiritus. You said you are British? Don't let your Polish blood colour the truth. Which you know is this:

Due to appeasement, Britain was absolutely unprepared for war.

I can think of another country which was also completely unprepared for war, and British serviceman died by the hundreds of thousands to liberate it and Europe - and don't you ever forget it!

News / Have PO (Platforma) operatives in Poland fallen into a panic? [332]


Yes - we have gone through this before Delph on this board, but an excellent report. Thanks.
It is an simple opinion though that the East Germans dealt with their communist gremlins, and full credit to them. Poland should absolutely have done the same. In my view. In a perfect world. Olszewski was the last chance to face up to criminal misdeeds on a nationwide scale. You might say, more fool them, for all those millions who didn't play the system, or didn't managed to get hold of some of the ill gotten gains.

Of course a lot of people fell by the wayside after communism, but others had to be retained, because plutocrats though they were, they had the contacts and held the seat of management. But why is the smell of corruption still prevailing after all these years, and not so in other previous Warsaw pact countries?

You could say all above is irrelevant - but at that time - 1992 - it could still have been acted against in a lawful and proper way. That's what Polonious is saying, and I was living here at that time, and I saw what he could see, and I share his opinion of that time.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [900]


Thank you Donoslask..

My pals at junior school were of Polish origin. I would go with their families to some of the bashes at the Sherwood Rise Polish club in Nottingham.I loved the symbolism of the Zywiec beer with the dancers on the bottle . Everybody was aristocratic in manner and it was a great atmosphere, and I remember the national anthems too at the end of the evening. As you say, veterans from the British legion would attend and vice versa.

All this talk in Poland today, from people who should know better, would have got short shrift from those ex- serviceman. I grew up with an "uncle" in the family who was from Plock, and knew why the British Polonia hated not only the communist regime, but also the brainwashing that fed ingratitude, that lives even today in Poland, drip fed to grandchildren, to what Britain in particular did for the Poles in going to war against the Krauts..

News / Have PO (Platforma) operatives in Poland fallen into a panic? [332]


I couldn't agree with you more Polonious. That was the time for Poland to prosecute its' communist traitors within an inch of their lives, and to fix that murdering sunglass wearing Moscow lover - but unfortunately the moderates, as usual, (including our Kashubian friend) had their way.

Today's Poland has it's scars because of the night of the knives, and those thieves got away Scot free because the population had no balls. Now it's too late, and don't confuse this PIS gang with Olszewski. They are not fit to lace his boots.

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [900]


A disgusting post and communism rewrote your history for you, so you know **** all. And no Pole would dare to opinion lying filth like that in Nottingham streets at closing time if he values his teeth.

News / Polish Parents protest against Poland's pro-homo sex education [75]


Again, Polonious spells it out.

Do you think there was no interest in pictorial sex before the internet Polonious? Are you going to tell us you don't look at pron sites?

I do - and so does the huge majority of the internet generation. It's a fact of life, good or bad.
Now I suggest you grow up, or simply shut up.

News / Polish Parents protest against Poland's pro-homo sex education [75]


Because they were against people living their lives. And after such pathetic censorship the Polish media went completely awol.
In spring of 1992 Katowice had a local TV show on every second Saturday morning. The first hour was given to "soft" porn clips, and for the second hour the SAME presenters then ran a children's show live in the studio.

You really couldn't make it up.


No - the study said 13 per cent had some homosexual encounter, or specified desire (latent or not)

Study / From UK to Poland - studying for a Masters Degree in Warsaw [14]

Good luck with that. I pay a small fortune for my daughter to study - there are no grants for living expenses. At least you don't pay tuition fees, such as were introduced in the UK by the traitor Blair.

News / Polish Parents protest against Poland's pro-homo sex education [75]


Mmmm. Some study (a paper in the Lancet no less - don't recall...) stated that 13% of the European population has homosexual tendencies - whatever that might mean........

.the education authority has a duty to educate - because ignorant Polish homophobic parents think gays don't exist, and the grandparents who teach the schoolchildren such disgusting hatred grew up in a sick society called communism.

Polonious is a good example of the grandfather I refer to.

PS: irritated to hell by the short time lapse for edit.

FIX IT PLEASE MODS!

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]


Because we love Poland, and anybody with any intelligence knows that a PiS government would be a minor disaster for Poland on so many fronts. I would spell them out for you Polonious, but you are too dogmatic in your views for it to be worth my time.

Travel / Car Hire in Gdansk and trip to Kaliningrad [14]

If the OP were born in Trojmiasto (which he obviously wasn't) he wouldn't need a visa. This does beg the question - why go to Kalinigrad at all (unless it's a holiday romance of course)?

Most of the population are engaged in trying to get visas to go in the opposite direction, and who can blame them?

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]


Nobody cares about this sort of thing in Poland Jon. A non-story, unfortunately.

Life / Racism & study with part time jobs in Warsaw ? [53]


Don't worry - I have lived here for 23 years and Poles so love to stare. It might simply be because I am one ugly son-of a...... :)

The way they stand and stare: nobody has ever thought to correct that (regrettable) fault in their national psyche.

Also Warsaw is full of (older) people who came from elsewhere in Poland and don't know how to behave in a modern society, and so push, instead of being patient in crowds.

There are normal people everywhere, and those who have some sort of social inadequacy. Ignore them.

Travel / Whats your favourite Polish city and why? [132]

According to Barclays wealth management, UK cities are ranked so, in terms of prosperity:)

Poland anybody?

1 London
2 Reading
3 Cambridge
4 Birmingham
5 Bristol
6 Leeds
7 Cardiff
8 Manchester
9 Liverpool
10 Newcastle


Mixed views on that Delph - some say that El presidente is a good egg (some of my corp clients went selling there and couldn't be more upbeat.....

And others maintain that it's still a pariah state.

Please take them up on this and report.

It's frankly amazing that Poles choose to holiday in Cuba et al. You would think they had had enough of restrictions, but they seem to love it - maybe because they can act the rich kid. Naughty comment, but otherwise, why go?

Please don't steer away from the topic - Polish cities, thank you

Travel / Whats your favourite Polish city and why? [132]


Been there.

Post communist dump. Sorry to tell you but truth hurts.

PS: I was in GW in communist times. As I was too busy trying to score, maybe I missed the Teutonic knights stuff?

USA, Canada / For my dad... "free Steve Wlodarz" He is serving life without parole in a United States prison [32]


Yes, and yet in the "Land of the free" Bill Cosby walks free and unchallenged for likely rape (allegedly), due to their perverse statute of limitations. Now, (touch wood) if one of his alleged victims were my daughter......

It's an ill wind.

I don't know if it's any better in Poland. The police seem all powerful here and are allowed by society to act like instant judges.

USA, Canada / For my dad... "free Steve Wlodarz" He is serving life without parole in a United States prison [32]


Really? Blink.

Sorry for the OP. Who would want to live in America, where justice is but a game? (sic).

Love / I'm a Polish girl (my boyfriend is British) and I'm proud [58]


Cough...........

Travel / Whats your favourite Polish city and why? [132]


+1. B Stok is very nice. It has the only remaining and original Hortex cafe/milk bar Great stuff too :)
I think the OP was talking about the BIG cities, and I was purposely dissing them. They have the giant budgets, and are running out of excuses.

Travel / Whats your favourite Polish city and why? [132]

We are just two oldish blokes ******** about the state of Polish cities. The OP said that Wroclaw specifically was great. That's fair enough. But for the purist, Polish cities are best visited through an alcoholic haze.

German cities - then you're talking architecture and beauty. Polish cities, nope.

And of course - it doesn't need spelling out.... anything of beauty in present day Poland was built by Germans.