Barney
10 Jul 2013
Travel / Rihanna complains about lack of privacy on Polish beach [150]
Nonsense, the word is unacceptable
another leftist PC propaganda spiel
Nonsense, the word is unacceptable
Barney
10 Jul 2013
Travel / Rihanna complains about lack of privacy on Polish beach [150]
Everyone under the age of 40 is pretty:)
Actually she's quite pretty. If you don't believe me, ask some 16 year old boys:)
Everyone under the age of 40 is pretty:)
Barney
9 Jul 2013
Barney
9 Jul 2013
Travel / Rihanna complains about lack of privacy on Polish beach [150]
I dont like all of her music but I would never dream of calling her a mulata
Can we all just agree that woman is positively repugnant.
I dont like all of her music but I would never dream of calling her a mulata
Barney
9 Jul 2013
Travel / Rihanna complains about lack of privacy on Polish beach [150]
Yes it is, Des is correct here as is Shawn who flagged it up much earlier
Mullato is not a racist term in Europe,
Yes it is, Des is correct here as is Shawn who flagged it up much earlier
Barney
3 Jul 2013
News / Polish 'patriotic' brands? [14]
I'm not criticising the Empire just pointing out that in most of the world and especially Europe brands and patriotism are not synonymous. Certainly there are good Polish products there is even a thread about them.
I don't think you are criticisng 'the home of the brave and the ladnof thre free'
I'm not criticising the Empire just pointing out that in most of the world and especially Europe brands and patriotism are not synonymous. Certainly there are good Polish products there is even a thread about them.
Barney
3 Jul 2013
News / Polish 'patriotic' brands? [14]
Who makes the waterboards?
This week Uncle Sam is everywhere in US adverts and the media are running a list of the 'most patriotic' American brands, as perceived by surveyed Americans.
Who makes the waterboards?
Barney
3 Jul 2013
Travel / Just visited Poland - here is my random rant [154]
There is no year zero, they lived and worked in that world. The reset button is not pressed every time society changes otherwise you would have no continuity of ownership of anything.
Tuition fees are a way to limit access to education and stop mobility, it's a kind of neo Stalinist central planning
Exactly
I've said it many times on this forum - the current generation aged 50-70 will more or less bleed the next generations dry.
There is no year zero, they lived and worked in that world. The reset button is not pressed every time society changes otherwise you would have no continuity of ownership of anything.
Tuition fees are a way to limit access to education and stop mobility, it's a kind of neo Stalinist central planning
The human mind is a wondrous thing. Education is about much more than finding a good job.
Exactly
Barney
2 Jul 2013
Travel / Just visited Poland - here is my random rant [154]
Yes
There was next to no burden placed upon the Education sector by these immigrants if anything they allowed the economy to grow thus being a net benefit to those countries. The individuals who benefited were those German citizens who had their education funded by the economic activity of migrants. They did not "low ball" white workers there was a labour shortage. Without the migrants there would have been much less growth.
The commodification of third level education is a direct result of government policy where by the hoards of psychology students subsidise more (obviously) vocational disciplines.
To fund all this the base has been widened producing an indirect tax on the middle class.
Does one really need a degree to tell someone to stack the beans?
Is it then really "the cart before the horse"???
Yes
There was next to no burden placed upon the Education sector by these immigrants if anything they allowed the economy to grow thus being a net benefit to those countries. The individuals who benefited were those German citizens who had their education funded by the economic activity of migrants. They did not "low ball" white workers there was a labour shortage. Without the migrants there would have been much less growth.
The commodification of third level education is a direct result of government policy where by the hoards of psychology students subsidise more (obviously) vocational disciplines.
To fund all this the base has been widened producing an indirect tax on the middle class.
Does one really need a degree to tell someone to stack the beans?
Barney
2 Jul 2013
Travel / Just visited Poland - here is my random rant [154]
I think you are putting the cart before the horse those things are linked in that the free movement of labour is the high price for the free movement of capital.
I think you are putting the cart before the horse those things are linked in that the free movement of labour is the high price for the free movement of capital.
Barney
2 Jul 2013
Travel / Just visited Poland - here is my random rant [154]
This is exactly what is wrong with the world, education is not a commodity.
This is exactly what is wrong with the world, education is not a commodity.
Barney
2 Jul 2013
Barney
2 Jul 2013
Travel / Just visited Poland - here is my random rant [154]
Two things firstly what is education for and secondly why do progressive countries have a progressive tax system.
Education, I believe is not just to produce business people. Education is for the mind body and spirit or at least that is the Dominican (Catholic) view of education which has recently become trendy. It doesn't matter what someone does after they graduate, no one complains what happens to women after they leave school. It is not a waste of education and resources to teach women to read for example.
A progressive tax system allows the builder to partially fund third level education, their son or daughter may benefit from it. Limiting free education created discrimination in education.
Two things firstly what is education for and secondly why do progressive countries have a progressive tax system.
Education, I believe is not just to produce business people. Education is for the mind body and spirit or at least that is the Dominican (Catholic) view of education which has recently become trendy. It doesn't matter what someone does after they graduate, no one complains what happens to women after they leave school. It is not a waste of education and resources to teach women to read for example.
A progressive tax system allows the builder to partially fund third level education, their son or daughter may benefit from it. Limiting free education created discrimination in education.
Barney
26 Jun 2013
Work / Corporate integration or blackmail in Poland's companies? [30]
Sounds like a good decision
That gives you just cause to climb the clock tower before dawn with several boxes of ammo
I convinced my team to forget about the rope bridges and other bollocks like that in favour of strolling back to a pub we'd passed where I'd get the first round in.
Sounds like a good decision
I've heard that the latest craze is to put teams through miserable weekends where they're forced to exist in "extreme" conditions to bond as a team - fine and well for professional athletes, but for office workers?
That gives you just cause to climb the clock tower before dawn with several boxes of ammo
Barney
26 Jun 2013
Work / Corporate integration or blackmail in Poland's companies? [30]
You are right I didnt know that.
I'm sure it was grand, I just don't staff organised things.
My worst nightmare would be to be compelled to go on a team building thing...........lashing a few barrels together and rowing to the island to dig up lunch. The very idea makes me shiver
Edit
Relatives of my friends chose to go to one of those camps a few years ago, they are reasonably well off and didn't need to. I don't know if the camp was subsidised or was now a wholly private concern.
in Poland companies are required to pay a certain amount in the company social benefit fund,
You are right I didnt know that.
That said, on the one I helped organize, we got them a cool young band, surfing lessons and kayaks.
I'm sure it was grand, I just don't staff organised things.
My worst nightmare would be to be compelled to go on a team building thing...........lashing a few barrels together and rowing to the island to dig up lunch. The very idea makes me shiver
Edit
There are thousands of holiday camps round PL which were set up for works holidays - very often the first time anyone had had anything like a holiday and nowadays fondly remembered
Relatives of my friends chose to go to one of those camps a few years ago, they are reasonably well off and didn't need to. I don't know if the camp was subsidised or was now a wholly private concern.
Barney
26 Jun 2013
Work / Corporate integration or blackmail in Poland's companies? [30]
Does everyone get to go on these Integrations?
In my experience they are worse than the plague 95% don't want to be there. There is also the point that forced class integration can be a disgruntling experience especially for the working class.
If the Bosses wanted to lavish largesse on people they would give them a pay rise.
Does everyone get to go on these Integrations?
In my experience they are worse than the plague 95% don't want to be there. There is also the point that forced class integration can be a disgruntling experience especially for the working class.
If the Bosses wanted to lavish largesse on people they would give them a pay rise.
Barney
26 Jun 2013
Life / Expat, immigrant, foreigner. Not all foreigners in Poland are expats. [84]
That's odd the term is just not used by Irish people it would be like a British person using the term Fatherland.
I've known two in Warsaw
That's odd the term is just not used by Irish people it would be like a British person using the term Fatherland.
Barney
26 Jun 2013
Life / Expat, immigrant, foreigner. Not all foreigners in Poland are expats. [84]
There is no way that Irish people would use the term expat, it just doesn't roll off the Irish tongue.
An expat is a migrant with delusions of grandeur.
Irish expats
There is no way that Irish people would use the term expat, it just doesn't roll off the Irish tongue.
An expat is a migrant with delusions of grandeur.
Barney
22 Jun 2013
USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]
Where did I say that?
At one point there was an understanding between the Church and the German State which has been used by anti Catholics and conspiracy theorists as proof for some sort of nonsense.
The Fascists in Spain had the blessing of much of the Spanish Church's hierarchy but most people and a large portion of the clergy were solidly pro democratic.
Barney hahaha nazis were blessed by the Church??!..
Where did I say that?
At one point there was an understanding between the Church and the German State which has been used by anti Catholics and conspiracy theorists as proof for some sort of nonsense.
The Fascists in Spain had the blessing of much of the Spanish Church's hierarchy but most people and a large portion of the clergy were solidly pro democratic.
Barney
20 Jun 2013
News / Anti-atheisation institute in Poland emerging [110]
That would be "good family"
Nothing wrong in believing in constitutional monarchy, it's just not democratic.
Yes, and good Christian family... But never good atheist family. Wonder why?
That would be "good family"
Either that or believe in constitutional monarchy; I certainly do.
Nothing wrong in believing in constitutional monarchy, it's just not democratic.
Barney
20 Jun 2013
News / Anti-atheisation institute in Poland emerging [110]
It's possible to be both a democrat and an atheist I agree, but to be a monarchist one must either believe in god or be undemocratic.
and there are millions of people who are happily both.
It's possible to be both a democrat and an atheist I agree, but to be a monarchist one must either believe in god or be undemocratic.
Barney
20 Jun 2013
News / Anti-atheisation institute in Poland emerging [110]
The concept of monarchy goes hand in glove with Christianity, a democrat and/or an atheist has to reject the unelected
They are in fact very compatible - since the Divine Right of Kings hypothesis is not universally held. The concept of Monarchy has evolved over the years (and was never absolute; there are majority Buddhist countries ruled by Monarchies - they dont have gods at all).
In Christendom all kings were supposedly chosen by God
The concept of monarchy goes hand in glove with Christianity, a democrat and/or an atheist has to reject the unelected
Barney
20 Jun 2013
News / Anti-atheisation institute in Poland emerging [110]
In Christendom all kings were supposedly chosen by God which makes atheism and monarchism incompatible
In Christendom all kings were supposedly chosen by God which makes atheism and monarchism incompatible
Barney
18 Jun 2013
News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]
Though generally true as that statement is some state broadcasters are subject to military censorship allowing Government ministers to go unquestioned.
Of the mainstream media it is well known how their finances/ownership look like.
Though generally true as that statement is some state broadcasters are subject to military censorship allowing Government ministers to go unquestioned.
Barney
18 Jun 2013
USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]
But it was as a direct result of the Nazis that Stalinism survived for so long.
The invasion of the Soviet Union both allowed and forced the rapid expansion of the industrial base prolonging the USSR and enslaving Poland.
The bolshieskilled, tortured and persecuted people for seven deacdes
But it was as a direct result of the Nazis that Stalinism survived for so long.
The invasion of the Soviet Union both allowed and forced the rapid expansion of the industrial base prolonging the USSR and enslaving Poland.
Barney
18 Jun 2013
USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]
And handed to the Nazis.
The victory of patriotic Spanish forces over misguided domestic leftists aided by outside Stalinist forces meant that Europe was saved from Sovietisation.
And handed to the Nazis.
Barney
17 Jun 2013
Life / Etiquette in a Store and Market Queues in Poland [146]
I've lived in several countries and that seems to be the norm everywhere.
There is probably some Victorian book somewhere on how to apply common sense to any particular situation but I don't have a copy so I refuse to go shopping.
I've lived in several countries and that seems to be the norm everywhere.
There is probably some Victorian book somewhere on how to apply common sense to any particular situation but I don't have a copy so I refuse to go shopping.
Barney
17 Jun 2013
USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]
The Spanish civil war was a fundamental test for European society, were people going to support freedom of choice and conscience or not. Democracy failed, the so called liberal European nations allowed the Fascists to arm murder and terrorize the people of Spain because they had made the fundamental mistake of voting for the wrong side. The one sided arms embargo enforced by the "liberal Empires" prevented the democratic forces from prevailing. These same people allowed the Nazis to grow and expand with disastrous consequences.
There is no rose tinted glasses being worn here the brutal facts are that the Fascists murdered and killed hundreds of thousands of people including many after the war and much with the blessing of the Church. There is no point trying to falsify history the Church sanctioned these things and the so called liberal western democracies facilitated the slaughter.
You have apparently succumbed to all the romanticised literary hogwash which has tried to glamourise one side and villify the other.
The Spanish civil war was a fundamental test for European society, were people going to support freedom of choice and conscience or not. Democracy failed, the so called liberal European nations allowed the Fascists to arm murder and terrorize the people of Spain because they had made the fundamental mistake of voting for the wrong side. The one sided arms embargo enforced by the "liberal Empires" prevented the democratic forces from prevailing. These same people allowed the Nazis to grow and expand with disastrous consequences.
There is no rose tinted glasses being worn here the brutal facts are that the Fascists murdered and killed hundreds of thousands of people including many after the war and much with the blessing of the Church. There is no point trying to falsify history the Church sanctioned these things and the so called liberal western democracies facilitated the slaughter.
Barney
16 Jun 2013
Barney
16 Jun 2013
USA, Canada / Prayer, relgious symbols OK in public in Québec! Poland watches. [99]
And the fascists slaughtered hundreds of thousands, the apologists for fascist and racist regimes don't care.
The victims of the Spanish Red Terror of the 1930s which lasted only a couple of years did not even get a show trial and were slaughtered in the tens of thousands.
And the fascists slaughtered hundreds of thousands, the apologists for fascist and racist regimes don't care.