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JonnyM   
3 Apr 2011
News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

I am a nice guy :)

I'm sure!

My own feeling is that Poles in Germany or elsewhere don't have anything at all to worry about over a Polish comedian who's doing this kind of routine - if anything it gets people to think and humour is very good at overcoming hatred when it's done in the right way.
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

that provoked a passionate response by you

A rather dispassionate response even, that it's all a fuss over nothing

that prompted another response by you.

Trolling, and you are a troll, is intended to do just that.

if you think I "talk too much about Jews"

Six times in your last post, seven in the post before that. Unhealthy.
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

I can say the same about you.

No you can't! I rarely, if ever, mention Jewish affairs. You do very very often.

I think its only common sense that Germans show the same senstivity to Poles

Well, Germany has a fairly developed legal system which doesn't discriminate on the grounds of race or religion, plus a very well developed and organised Polish lobby with a strong political voice. I don't see them prosecuting this Polish guy.

So basically you aren't really making any point at all, except perhaps you wish that one ethnic group was as assertive as another.
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

But I'm sure there would be a market for

Unlikely - though such comic books exist in Poland. Strange that you mention Jews seven times in a short post - added to some of your previous posts in countless other threads, it looks like you have an obsession with them. Why?
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
UK, Ireland / Polish war veteran (98) charged with attempted murder in Scotland [11]

Wow!

A 98-YEAR-OLD Polish war veteran has appeared in private at Perth Sheriff Court, charged with attempting to murder two policewomen - using a knife and an axe.

It follows a disturbance at his terraced home at Birch Row, Scone, on Tuesday afternoon, which resulted in police officers responding.

Sylvester Nowak is believed to be the oldest person ever to be held in custody in a Scottish court.

JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

I just suggested that it was a possibility and was not necessarily a definite thing here.

A very remote possibility. Remote, even pointless.

You don't think there should be any standards of what is shown on public broadcasting?

If by that, you mean not offending the sensibilities of highly strung people then no - let the market decide.

I notice Johnny you seem to be sensitive to whenever I mention Jews or Jews and Poles together for some reason. Why is that?

You notice things that aren't there, as your post attacking a successful Polish comedian suggests. Did I mention Jewish matters in my post? No.
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

the German media didn’t invent Marek Fis, but don’t you think they may have dropped some hints, as to what “he could do” to be a big German media star?

WTF?? You're saying 'the media' give professional advice to performers?

The Germans should also apply this to the Polish people since if the Germans won the war

Do you think the performing arts should be controlled by someone, and rules applied? How? By whom?
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
News / Poland liberalizes drug laws in effort to focus on treatment [35]

So why not make certain substances available in a safer form?

I wonder about the alcohol lobby. Chomsky talks about 'the war on certain drugs'. As far as I'm concerned, plenty of people enjoy using drugs and drug use is not going away regardless of legality - I found it absolutely rife in Saudi where the strictest penalties exist. So maybe it's better to do it in the light rather than the dark?
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
News / Poland liberalizes drug laws in effort to focus on treatment [35]

Always the question of, if permitting drug use, will the nation become a society of addicts?

Remember drug use of one sort or another is permitted in most if not all countries. Poland for example allows alcohol, nicotine and caffeine, all psychoactive drugs, to be sold.

I say, even if legalized, only maybe 7-8% of citizens will regularly use these drugs

Exactly, every country has its addicts - I'm addicted to nicotine, some people to alcohol - decriminalising other things wouldn't neccessarily lead to an increase in use - after all, addicts will use something even if there are the harshest penalties.
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
Travel / Bars in or near Pomiechowek [5]

There are a couple of fairly rough bars just down the road in Nowy Dwor - one near the station that does cheap pizza too, but I don't remember the name.
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
News / Poland liberalizes drug laws in effort to focus on treatment [35]

Decimated my generation round here.

That's perhaps due to the rubbish that it's cut with and the poor diet that goes with affording black market prices for it. Medical grade heroin is exceptionally pure, though almost as bad as alcohol for the liver.

I've also seen the damage that criminalising drugs can do and would have agreed with you until I met rich middle-aged long-term heroin users - and even they occasionally get a bad deal.
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
News / Poland liberalizes drug laws in effort to focus on treatment [35]

in and out of prison for the rest of their lives.

In and out of prison to get large sums of money to buy an essentially benign natural product with an intrinsic value of a few pennies - but with a price hugely inflated due to prohibition and the profits going to organised crime. The Volstead Act all over again.
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
News / Poland liberalizes drug laws in effort to focus on treatment [35]

t drugs are somehow cool, trendy, cutting edge, bla-bla-bla

Drugs, whether alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, opium etc have been around for millennia. Seems a bit pointless taxing some and banning others - what right does a government have to tell people what they should consume. Better to decriminalise everything and let people make their own minds up.
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
News / Poland liberalizes drug laws in effort to focus on treatment [35]

Better to legalise like Czech has. As the law stands now in Poland, possession of even a negligible quantity of marijuana means 48 hours in the cells and pages of paperwork. While the real criminals carry on regardless.
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / So...which of you are actually IN Poland? [41]

Well, so what is keeping you in UK then instead of being in Poland?

I'm just here temporarily to sort something out that I have to deal with in person. Thought I'd be here for three weeks which is a lot, then more and more delays, then a work trip to Libya was cancelled due to the war there. Not long now though, and back to PL.

A few things - shopping public transport and driving come to mind - are easier, but really, I'd rather be at home in Warsaw...
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / So...which of you are actually IN Poland? [41]

Wouldn't the everyday bureaucracy kill any entrepreneur spirit?

I think there are plenty of ways to get over that - after all, Polish people do fine, and the rules of life there aren't hard to learn. The cost of living though isn't particularly cheaper - food and clothes certainly aren't, and real estate in Warsaw is much more expensive than where I am now in the UK.
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / So...which of you are actually IN Poland? [41]

it's about time that other nationalities 'discover' Poland as a great place to live

Absolutely! I went for a one year contract extendable to two and just stayed. It's an easy place to live, the people are OK and there are many more pluses than minuses.

Because of the 'Polski potop' in the UK, there are now Poles returning with husbands/wives/partners, so there will be plenty more newcomers soon. Incidentally, the only foreigners I've seen who truly haven't liked it are a few foreign people of Polish extraction who went there looking for something specific and found a different reality. Most people who've come to Poland grumble a bit, but basically like it and don't want to leave.
JonnyM   
2 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / So...which of you are actually IN Poland? [41]

why is it?

Work, spouse, lover or just preference. Plus the fact that Warsaw is a nice place to live. The provinces aren't bad either.

I was there for 11 years with hardly a break until a couple of months ago, and am going back in a month - it's home now.
JonnyM   
1 Apr 2011
Life / "Whiskification" of Poland? [32]

Vodka is the best straight or mixed in drinks.

I'm a vodka drinker myself - straight, the east European way rather than with a mixer. A civilised way to get drunk.
JonnyM   
1 Apr 2011
Life / "Whiskification" of Poland? [32]

All copies of something that originated in Scotland and Ireland

Which once covered a rather larger area than they do now, and the largest of the two whisky producing regions you mention is most definitely in Britain.

It's not Anglo Saxon though is it?

I'm not sure if we know what the Anglo Saxons drank. What we do know is that they haven't existed for many centuries.
JonnyM   
1 Apr 2011
Life / "Whiskification" of Poland? [32]

English whisky

What? Regardless whichever part of the UK it comes from, it's still a traditional British drink.

Only Scots and Irish make whisky

And Japanese, Canadians, Americans, Poles, Indians..
JonnyM   
1 Apr 2011
Life / "Whiskification" of Poland? [32]

I'm half Scots half English, and I've honestly never felt there's much difference. Much less so than the North South divide.
JonnyM   
1 Apr 2011
Life / As a black gay man (US) visiting Warsaw this summer, will I get beat up for nothing? [65]

though the chances of me being in Poland and Warsaw around June this year seem rather slim at the moment, to be fair.

Same here - early June I'll be there, late June, probably on board a ship. If my job changes, I'll PM you and suggest a beer.

Its venison mate, the same as a cow = beef.

Tastes totally different. Much better. Not much deer roast in Poland though - but try wild boar or sucking pig stuffed with kasza - very Polish and tasty!
JonnyM   
1 Apr 2011
Life / "Whiskification" of Poland? [32]

drunk any good Anglo Saxon whisky lately?

No. I only drink whisky from the northern parts of the UK. And sometimes Polish whiskey.

But Poles in general prefer vodka. Alcohol shops in Poland sell far more vodka than all the other spirits put together.
JonnyM   
1 Apr 2011
Life / "Whiskification" of Poland? [32]

definately not Anglo - Saxon.

Pretty much the same. A Martian wouldn't see a difference and anyone who would get worked up about it should find a nice hobby instead.