News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


Ending up with autodidacts who swallow ideas in an unstructured way from weird websites.


Those who aren't are the ones who need education.


Clearly in your case it wasn't especially effective.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]

Your slly post doesn't affect the facts at all. Russia is on a long-term economic, political and social decline.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


You said it.


A wounded and dying skunk sprays the nastiest odour.

News / What should Poland do to solve the population crisis? [101]

That's probably not an immediate solution, Vlad...

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


Things had to be reliable; they were incapable of producing spares; not that most of what they produced was ever worth exporting in the first place.


They just sell minerals/hydrocarbons to others; rather like an African state.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


And raw material extraction, like the third world. The amount of manufactured goods they export in relation to their size is tiny; when dod you last buy anything made in Russia?

That and the declining life expectancy...

Law / Good bank in Poland to open a personal account where the Polish address/karta pobytu and pesel is not required [11]

No, you have to have an address, and usually a few other things.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


Strong and getting stronger. Unlike Russia (Burkino Faso with rusty nukes), it isn't dependent on selling minerals.

News / What should Poland do to solve the population crisis? [101]


Quite. That one didn't work; even the most eager (and justified) recipients are sceptical about its future.

Love / What to expect at a bachelor party in Poland? [15]


A euphemism if ever there was one.

And a risky place; best to avoid.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


Not much learning goes on without them. PiS would probably like that; the less critical thinking among the populace, the more support they have.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


The same. If a society undervalues its Teachers, Doctors, Nurses, Carers, Police, etc, the whole community ends up paying a heavy price.

News / Polish Police Hunt for Bad Taste Boorish Brits [39]


Why would they want ot do that?

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]

Russia certainly repeats their mistakes.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


It isn't about what they plan.


Nobody is interested in learning what Russia wants them to do. Poland above all.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


When countries have the misfortune to be near Russia, it can be scary indeed...


You can see his facelift a mile off. Botox too; he's got a really waxy look like Lenin's corpse.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


Of course not. And Putin's facelift almost splits open whenever he thinks of the new gas fields that are opening up...

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


The whole place is a giant Ponzi scheme dependent on minerals and hydrocarbons increasingly available cheaper elsewhere.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


Now the demographics have changed, they're perfectly placed to achieve something.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]

Just as Russia lies more and more as it fails as a state.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


That's small change. I'm surprised they can get anyone to work for that.


Their dodgy budget would look far wose if they had to pay living wages to public sector worses. Do you remember the nurses' strike?.

Hard to stop them all striking though. And there's generally support for them within society.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


Russia lies like others breathe.

USA, Canada / Pulaski Day (celebrated in the US only) [54]


Yes. It is a part of history that people are interested in.

News / Polish Police Hunt for Bad Taste Boorish Brits [39]


How would you know how people behave in Poland, other than by reading about what others say on the internet?


Or smiled and wished the high-spending, positive and happy revellers well.

News / Polish Police Hunt for Bad Taste Boorish Brits [39]


Who said that? It's the fault of the companies that organise stag weekends.

It looked like they were having fun anyway; far less of a nuisance than a Krakowian football crowd.

Tell us, Bieggers, have you ever seen any stag parties in Kraków? Oooops; I forgot you've never been to Poland.

USA, Canada / Pulaski Day (celebrated in the US only) [54]


I doubt that's physically possible.

Cross dressing and genderbending was surprisingly common among the Eighteenth Century's wealthy. The Chevalier D'Eon is the best known example, there are a few notable military and scientific men who turned out to have been biologically female, and the famous Warsaw resident Casanova was known to slip a frock on now and again...

News / Polish Police Hunt for Bad Taste Boorish Brits [39]

If Kraków doesn't want rowdy stag parties, the Krakowian organisers of them shouldn't spend so much money advertising them in 'lads' mags'.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


You think that any sort of referendum or voting conducted by Russia is even slightly honest?

USA, Canada / Pulaski Day (celebrated in the US only) [54]

A remarkable woman.

USA, Canada / Pulaski Day (celebrated in the US only) [54]


On my school report.


It's certainly a real story, and an interesting one.