News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


I agree that on principle there's no reason for Poland to try to help Mama Merkel keep up the pretense that her 2015 decision to open German borders to all comers was anything but an unprecedented disaster.

But look on the bright side, if they do send "refugees" here they'll just immediate decamp back to Germany.

Study / Looking for suitable English secondary school in Warsaw [17]


The only university education worth anything in Poland is taught in Polish, english language programs are small and not very good (to put it delicately).

So you'd want him to finish a Polish high school which is easier said than done if he doesn't already know Polish.

Why Poland?

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


It's not his current job to take partisan positions in Polish domestic politics. The failure of JK to understand that led to the current massive failure on the part of the Polish government.

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


Tasteless but accurate. Do you think a lot of voters would be happy if JK's hubris and small-mindedness stopped the flow of EU money?

And a multi-speed Europe sounds pretty good or do you want to finally accept the Euro and have Poland lose all control over its economy?

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


Chasing some bee in Jaroslaw's bonnet is hardly what I'd call "interests".

Very poor showing and poor statesmanship.

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


I dunno, JK was pretty dismissive of him when asked if S-W would be able to join PiS saying in effect no promises had been made.

The US government that PiS most reminds me of is GW Bush, almost everyone who tried to work with him ended up burned and regretting their contact with him.

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


that you're suffering from a massive case of "sour grapes" then one expects you to write what you just wrote.

Tusk was a popular prime minister has been a popular whatever-it-is-he-is-now and Poland blew a massive amount of goodwill and respect because of JK's all-consuming irrational hatred for him.

The government just did massive damage to Poland's image and interests in the EU with their little stunt.

I only hope Saryusz-Wolski finds comfort in destroying his career for JK's destructive toxic desire for vengeance (for what? who knows? who cares?)

Food / A request for WHEETABIX to be stocked in Polish Tesco's [39]


How many non-indigenous Brits _can_stand British "cuisine"?

Life / What items is Poland's market missing? [20]


Especially in warm weather!

Traditionally Poland just doesn't have any conceptual space for liquids that are colder than room temperature. It's kind of getting one but not too quickly.

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


Why is this? Is it because more mainstream parties are modifying their policies and become more euro-positive (as opposed to middle-eastern/north africa positive) or is it fatigue and/or dishonest media?


Depends on what you mean by 'demagogues'.

Life / What items is Poland's market missing? [20]


you've obviously never had southern ice tea (tea infused liquid sugar)

it's just a cultural thing (like japanese and koreans liking food that's scalding hot) americans think the cold brings out the flavor certainly very cold cola tastes better than lukewarm

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


Again, you are such a commie tool.

This is straight out of Fidel Casto's playbook called "turning defeat into victory", never admit defeat and trumpet any setback as a great victory until the people believe (if they know what's good for them).

Why don't you just call yourself PRLonius3?

Life / What items is Poland's market missing? [20]


American way of making a cold drink (like ice tea).

1. Fill the glass with ice (pack it in!)

2. Pour the (already cold) liquid over it.

European (incl Polish) way of making a cold drink

1. Fill the glass with lukewarm liquid

2. Drop two sad, little, already melting ice cubes in it.

Life / Immigration Free Poland is Not Being Racist [194]


Yes, I got frustrated for years of noone understanding the word niqab...

Life / What items is Poland's market missing? [20]


I think they're a hard sell in Poland, people think of firanki in the same way (though they don't work as well)


Actually extremely easy to find now, any żabka, fresh or similar store keeps some drinks cool (maybe not frosty american standards but cool enough).

Life / Immigration Free Poland is Not Being Racist [194]

But almost all muslim majority societies (at least sunni ones) are converging around Saudi norms. The Saudis have successfully imported burqas and other toxic customs into many sunni majority countries.

Don't you think this is a problem? (not to be solved by facilitating people from those countries into Europe)?

Life / Immigration Free Poland is Not Being Racist [194]


In other words you have no problems with the facts, just the source


Didn't Europe have enough middle eastern religions? why import and support more?

Life / Immigration Free Poland is Not Being Racist [194]


Is it accurate or not?

Please if you know of any information that discredits those article (other than not liking the source) please feel free to post them here.

Life / Immigration Free Poland is Not Being Racist [194]


I know. And I meant what I wrote. Nothing indicates that they want equal rights for muslims, especially women.

Sharia courts are a graveyard for womens' rights and supporting them means active hostility towards the idea of any kind of equal protection or equal under the law (But since there's no British legal system I guess law by identity is the order of the day - one law for muslims, anothe for jews, another for christians etc etc etc).

Sharia courts are not very good for equality of muslims in other ways too as they encourage and reinforce ghettoization so that the muslims that they want so desperately to bring to Poland will remain ghettoized and never be competition for them.

Life / Immigration Free Poland is Not Being Racist [194]


Part of that is that they don't want muslims to have equal rights, especially muslim women

Why are they so prejudiced against muslim women?

youtube.com/watch?v=4gZCFdHkd4A

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


Just be quiet, you don't know Polish and don't follow the Polish media. JK and AM have consistently implied that Russia is responsible. I don't believe that. But that's the official PiS line (the idea is Tusk and Komorowski conspired with Putin).


They didn't fly on the same plane, the flight that crashed was planned by JK (in a petty political spat with Tusk who was already PM). If you want to blame anyone, blame Kaczynski..

Life / Immigration Free Poland is Not Being Racist [194]


Just lurvely how it's working out, isn't it?

express.co.uk/news/uk/732064/Sharia-court-told-rape-victim-return-attacker-husband

telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8686504/Sharia-a-law-unto-itself.html

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4103918/A-sinister-British-Sharia-court-one-girl-s-tireless-hunt-father-s-killer-brutal-murder-Pakistan-uncovered-revenge-killings-Lancashire.html

Food / What are favorite herbal teas in Poland/especially loose leaf? [15]


Shouldn't there be a Polish version of the survey?

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


Only because it's easier than blaming himself...


or............ RUSSIA?!?!?!?! That's the scenario that JK and AM keep pushing.

Sometimes a plane crash is just a plane crash

Life / Immigration Free Poland is Not Being Racist [194]


You don't have a consitution and you don't even have a legal system? What kind of pathetic excuse for a country do you have there anyway?

Work / Finance Work in Poland - is it hard for a non-Polish speaking person? [35]


Okay, I agree that dominic is no ray of sunshine (quite the opposite, a little raincloud bringing gloom and despair wherever he goes) but if you cna't take what he says then you'll never make it Poland. It can be a great country to live in but you need to toughen up and learn to be assertive or you'll end up with shoeprints all over your face.

Poland is not super religious but it's not post-religious like most of west europe (which also means it can survive, post religious societies usually get eaten for breakfast by religious ones).

News / Penderecki, Poland's greatest living composer, accused of being SB informer [62]


I'd love to put people that did crap like that in jail, but it requires a detailed and careful appraisal and not mass banninations.

Poland has never shown the political will to come to impartial recounting of the communist period.

News / Penderecki, Poland's greatest living composer, accused of being SB informer [62]

No, too many competent people were involved in various ways with the PZPR for Poland to get along easily without them.

News / Will Polish-Americans need visas to visit Poland and other EU countries? [21]


Yes, any time an embassy stops charging processing fees that's more money has to come from somewhere else....

But (as in the previous thread on this topic) visas for Americans won't come into effect until 12 months after the EC passes the vote (and AFAIK it's not on their agenda).

At present this is all just political showmanship...

News / Will Polish-Americans need visas to visit Poland and other EU countries? [21]

Regarding visas for Poles, the real reason is money. I've read that visa processing fees are a major source of income for embassies in countries that have them and more or less pay for the diplomatic service.