News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


But this time Kaczyński's man beat Komorowski and PiS beat PO and consigned the ex-commies to political limbo or, more precisely, to the rubbish heap of history. So it's PiS, not the Kopaczes, Michniks and Delphs of this world, that are having had the last laugh!!!.

You needn't thank me for the nobilitation of including you among the top-shelf losers and their toadies, all way beyond your class. My pleasure!

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


It relates to your claim to everybody has benefited. To some extent that is true. The have-nots are now free to admire many more high-shelf goods than there ever were in Pewex and also to migrate and perform menial jobs in the UK and the Fourth Reich. But average people still feel at the mercy of the powers that be -- bureaucrats, public offices, corporations, bailiffs and Warsaw mayors that have obstructed parking with their post obsession, (Wonder whose brother-in-law made a killing manufacturing, selling and/or installing those black metre-high posts at every turn of the way.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


Everyone has benefited from being able to observe aisles of glittery goods in fancy packaging they cnanot afford. The roundtable elites moved straight from PRL to III RP, whilst the bulk of society are still in PRL. They still have no real say in anything, its the bureacrats, local councils and, EU directives and other decision-makers that have the last word and do what they want. Protests, open letters and petitions even for good causes (that excludes the KOD ranting) rarely achieve anything. The protest against building the Krasiński street bridge in Warsaw will most likely fail to stop it.

"Syty głodnego nie zrozumie" is something you should rush to Google to translate and then make it your life's motto. If you take it to heart It should help de-snobbify you a bit.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


No, no need to attend a ceremony sponsored by the hated Komorowski & Co.

News / Jaruzelski dead / his legacy in Poland [116]

Merged: Watch "Towarzysz Generał" on TVP Historia tonight at 9 PM

Be sure to watch the documentary "Towarzysz Generał" on TVP Historia tonight at 9 PM. This film was kept shelved by the PO regime so as not to offend the sensibilities of those who regard Jaruzelski as (believe it or not!) "a man of honour".

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


There was no dearth of vile slogans amongst the KOD creeps including a placard of a shotgun aimed at a drake (Kaczor)! The Michnikites may chuckle but let's not forget that years of the PO hate industry's toxic rants inspired some loon to shoot dead a PiS staff member in Łódź. He told police he was gunning for Kaczyński.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


Marxism was internationalist, globalist and pushing for a world-wide proletarian revolution. Indigenous entreprenership is national, patrtioic, sovereign and liberating from excessive foreign contriol.
You have no idea how many ordinary Poles, not the "warszawski salon" types of course, complain: "Why are we always under sombeody's boot. Yesterday it was Moscow, now it is Brussels. They include the vast majrotiy who in general support Poland's EU membership, but wonder whether it has to be so interfering and so pro-foreign interests.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


Only the name is Polish, but like nearly all brewesies in Poland it is foreign owned (SABMiller) thanks to the Balcerowicz scheme. Back before the EU strait-jacket was imposed, Poland was free to give domestic entrepreneurs preferential treatment. The early 1990s was the time to launch a major Polish capital offensive, a massive educational programme, extensive credits, tax breaks and other incentives for Polish business startups plus the necessary PR backup. That's how the COP was built in pre-war Poland, with lots of promotion and enthusiasm. Instead Balzer ordered: privatse, privatise, privatise everything in sight, meaning cheaply sell off Poland's industrial assets and throw people out of work. That created a huge pool of cheap manpower for foreign "investors". And now, a quarter of a century on we find 90% of the supermarket goods of non-Polish origin (or produced by foreign concnerns in cheap-manpower), not a single Polish designed and owned major appliance, not a single indigenous make of car or TV set...

Genealogy / Lopatowski Family crest [10]


Surnames should not confused with ethnicity. There are 100% Poles with names liek Schultz, Bardini, Ferenc and Romanow, Germans named Nowak, Kaminski nd Lewandowski, Frenchmen named Pikuta, Mazurek, Orsini, Glauber and Jews with any of the above. The fact that some Hungarian is named Łopatowski (I doubt if he'd have a slash through the letter Ł) does not make it a Hunagrian name.

Genealogy / Lopatowski Family crest [10]


Are you referring to Łopatowski?

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


True, but they are, as Poles say, "rodzynki w cieście" (the few raisins in a coffee cake) or exceptions that prove the rule. Yes there are the SKOK Sparkasse, Marcpol, Polskie Jadło and a few more but in how many decades if not centuries will they be able to compete with Deutsche Bank, Citybank, Santander, Tesco, Biedronka, McDonald's and KFC? The worst is that no-one is really pursuing that theme. Polish business schools effectively teach how to rip off Poland in cahoots with foreign interest groups, although they natrually couch it all in high-sounding "market-friendly" euphemisms. Deputy PM Murawiecki is about the only one who has hinted about the need for Polish entrepreneurship and brands.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


And what has the PO/Petru/KOD clique done or what are they ever likely to do to build a viable Polish business class, comepetitive Polish corporations feisty enough to gradually edge foreign interests off the Polish market? Oto jest pytanie! In 8 years of Platformerdom, during Petru's year-long ego trip and KOD's several-month fling there hasn't been a peep on the subject. There has only been PiS-bashing on the one hand and faithful service to foreign banks and interest groups on the other.

Genealogy / Lopatowski Family crest [10]


There is nothing for Łopatowski as such but many similarly rooted surnames did have gentry in their ranks including Łopacki, Łopato, Łopatacki, Łopatecki. Łopatka, Łopatko and Łopatyński.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


No, they have the duty to act like human beings, not greedy, profit-obsessed bloodsuckers!


Spot on. Delph is only worried about the "poor" foreign corporations who may have to ever so slgithly shave their profit margin. Instead of being super-ultra-mega-hyper filthy rich they will drop down a notch to the extremely, indecenrtly wealthy category. And that in a world where half the population regularly goes to bed hungry! In view of that extreme contrast, can anyone wonder why so many toxic off-the-wall ideologies so easily whip up resentment and foment revolutionary upheavals amongst the have-nots?!

News / US Military: The Army of Poland is crap. [124]


Or, as iun "The Mouse that Roared", invade. lost the war and demand Merkel Plan aid from the victors!

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


The bottom line of what you're saying (and I hope it isn't entirely true) is that big bankers and retailers are greedy scum devoid of human kindness, sensitivity and any sense of pro bono!

Life / Important Poland etiquette question: bite of the herring first, then a shot, or shot first, then a herring? [22]


Perhaps a common sewer, er, um, I mean connoissuer could tell the difference, but
to me they've all got that tell-tale medicinal aftertaste. Sorry!

News / An article: NATO is the American occupation of Poland and Europe, by Mateusz Piskorski [233]


Aside from the fact that Piskorski is a neo-Nazi nutcake who once belonged to Lepper's Samo-Obrona, what alterantive is there to NATO? There was talk about the EU creating a European armed force, but we can all imagine what a mamby-pamby, ragtag, homo-friendly army that would be, further emascualted by the many soft on Moscow Russophiles. NATO may not be perfect, but there is no other equally reliable alternative!

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


Your favourite buzz-words -- endelss PZPR memgbers in PiS govt and countless ways... So name 5! Besides don't you think bansters are rich enough and not worth shedding tears over? If the law states banks may not pass the tax on to customers, and you know of a bank that does, then you should report them to the prosecutor's office. A threat of licence loss would keep banks in line, because Poland is too big and good a market for the financial bloodsuckers to lose.

News / An article: NATO is the American occupation of Poland and Europe, by Mateusz Piskorski [233]

Merged: Obama praises Polish "righteous"

Washington's Israeli Embassy was recently the scene of a ceremony at which four people, including a Polish married couple, were honored for saving Jews during World War II. Walery and Maryla Zbijewski concealed in their home a five-year-old Jewish girl who had been smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto. Attending the ceremony was President Barack Obama who said: "We hear their stories and are forced to ask ourselves: under the same circumstances how would we act. Would we show the love Walery and Maryla did. They could have been shot for opening their home to a five-year-old girl." Elżbieta Wilk, the little girl saved by the Zbijewskis, was also in attendance. So far Poles have received over 6,500 Righteous Among Nations awards, more than any other country.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


You forgot another option -- being for Polish indigenous entrepreneurship, Polish Polish design, manufaturing, brands, logos and retail busienss on the one hand and oppsoed to foreign domination of the Polish market on the other. The EU have somehow forgotten that preferential treatment should be accorded ot post-Soviet states deprived of Marshall Plan aid that couild not freely develop their own market economies. As such they cannot compete with Western biggies.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


I wish I were because I've got a number of good ideas about wat they could and should do, esp. re pro-Polish priorities.
BTW TVP news yesterday reported that the bank tax prohibits passing it on to customers. The bloody, filthy-rich banksters can shave a tiny bit off their outlandishly lucrative profits, or use lower-watt light bulbs or economise in other ways, but not at the expense of Jan Kowalski.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


Somehow no-one recalls you ever listing the many Polish shops and businesses which the PO's preferential pro-foreign-chain policy forced to close their doors. Interesting, eh? The PO and now Petru are pro-foreign and therefore anti-Polish to the core. They add insult to injury by dressing it all up in high-sounding, albeit deceptive rhetoric.

Life / Important Poland etiquette question: bite of the herring first, then a shot, or shot first, then a herring? [22]


You cna have it! Glenviet, Chivas Regal, White Horse, Johnny Walker Red and Black as well as all other Scotches have a krople żołądkowe (Polish stomach drops) aftertaste. There's nothing like cognac or a good, albeit less pricey French brandy.

News / How would Poland change for the better (or worse) under a PiS government? [257]


A very good, concise evaluation of things! The RT (roundtable) was one of the stops along the way, but it started much earlier. "Jedni do lasa drudzy do Sasa" was a polarising situation that would recur during the partitions (there was always a faction cooperating with the aggressors), and during the Great War when one brother in an Austrian uniform was forfced to shoot at his tsarist-uniformed sibling. Already during the 1980-81 Solidarność carnival, pro-KOR-ite and

True Poles (Prawdziwi Polacy) factions took shape and those battle have roughly continued to this day. The Sas-Las dichotomy therefore persists. The Sas group are the largely Poland-bashing, xenophilic, cosmopolitan, Eurocentric internationalists who involve foreign itnerests in Poland's internal rows, and Las -- the pro-Polish group whose motto is "Poland first, last and always!" So nothing has really changed.

Life / Important Poland etiquette question: bite of the herring first, then a shot, or shot first, then a herring? [22]


Shot first and then herring or other zakąska (bite-down, morsel, snack). The traditional Polish way is not just to drink but the bite down each round. That greatly incresases the imbiber's staying power, unlike mean and miserly Brits who just drink for a quick, cheap high.

News / How would Poland change for the better (or worse) under a PiS government? [257]


That same question could be asked of you. How much are the Petru/Schetyna/Michnik clique paying for your fierce defence of their interests? You were not amongst the post-commie and post-KOR-ite elties that struck a deal and came in on the ground floor in post-roundtable Poland, so you are not really defending you own perks and privilege. Why are you defending somebody else's, notbaly those who have already benefited from the transformation? Why not spread the benefits about so the roundtable orphans get some too?

Language / Polish keyboard 214 is best [34]


They are made with dead keys: first you strike the diacritic and then the letter. The ogonek (˛) is to the left of the 1/! key and the acute accent (´) is accesed via Alt Gr and numeral 9. No words in Polish start with Ą or Ę and only a handful with Ó (ów, ówdzie, ówczesny, ósmy...)

Classifieds / Exchange Polish zloty to Euros at a mean on buy sell rate [6]


I consulted asknumbers.com/CurrencyConversion.aspx which is normally very reliable but this morning they gave $1 = 4.57 zł. In the evening I checked again and it was down to 4.06. Must've been a typo with the numeral 5 inadvertently punched by someone (on their third six-pack of VIP lager).