News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


According to well-informed sources, the army will seal off the access to the Dmowski round-about where the march is to start. Sources say the authorities exclude any possibility for the nationalists' march to set off from there one hour before the official march begins (as planned by the nationalists). Not without reason the body which organizes the official march is the Ministry of Defense. People who want to participate in the Independence March (the original one organised by the nationalists) have no other choice but to join the official march with President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki - says the source quoted by wirtualna polska.

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Work / Panic at the doctor - I need a sick note (L4) from my work in Poland [9]


This is true. Why on earth have you been waiting for a month without having a sick leave.


Only a psychiatrist can do that in Poland. They can do that with the delay of six months even!

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

The court in Wrocław has just annuled the mayor's ban regarding the march in Wrocław.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


Yes, I do. There are a lot of people other than black in Africa and Africa is surely a place for them, too.


Pseudo-Poles or armchair Poles ... what is the difference?

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


Do you think that a railway ticket from Budapest to Warsaw is so expensive?

Last year, the then interior minister Mariusz Błaszczak could not see racist banners like "Only white Europe" (Europa tylko biała) with his own eyes during the march. Perhaps he could not, but the police force he supervised could not see them either. This year the interior minister pays 1000 zloties in addition to each policeman who will work on the 11the of November (many of the police force have been on strike which takes the form of a sick leave). Doesn't the Polish state become "theoretical" again?

The mad dreams of psudo-Poles living abroad may not include the above factors, but you live in Niederschlesien, Dolno, a province which today is Polish, so you should know all this.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


Agreed. This is no good decision by HGW. This is not PRL and the mayor cannot simply ban a march because she doesn't like it.

I think she has some other agenda behind her decision. She wants to manipulate the government into defending the march, so she can next say that PiS support the nationalistic scum in Poland.

Luckily for everyone, her decision can be taken to court and I can't imagine a court upholding such a ban (independent courts are very important!).

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]



So he could just be a "true" Hungarian patriot.

Do you see any difference between "patriot" and "nationalist", Dolno? Below, you can see those "patriots" with the banner reading "EUROPE AWAY". Do you imagine a representative of the Polish government participating in the march in Warsaw having such "guests" from abroad?

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]



The Polish government knows perfectly well what they are doing and would not listen to a stupid facist loony like yourself claiming to be a true Polish patriot who has spent over 20 years outside Poland paying taxes to foreign governments.


It was precisely in Wrocław where another facist loony burnt the effigy of a Jew during one of the previous marches.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


That picture above (one in the middle) is perhaps essential for explaining why President Duda did not want to take part in the March once his condition that the colours during the March should be only red and white could not be met. On the photo you can see a lot of dark green colour which seems to be the colour of the ONR (nationalist movement). On top of that this sign:



which clearly reminds people of some other one that brought Europe to ruins was lavishly displayed during the March.

It is worth noting that no member of the Polish government decided to participate in the March this year. They all say they are busy being engaged somewhere else and usually outside the capital. Even the PiS government has decided that flirting with the nationalist movement can be quite embarrasing as they are hardly popular among Polish people at all.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


Well done! Could you perhaps write a
- blue pill version
- red pill version
of reporting the Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw?

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]


Neither of his numerous admirers on this forum has ever thought of relocating to Vova's promised land for good.

Even Spike31 prefers London to Moscow, unfortunately ...

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


And what about Greece? Greece's case seems to be an interesting one in the context of Poland's claims for reparations from Germany ...

A report of a special committee of the Greek parliament which was being prepared for several years says that Germany should pay Greece 299 billion euros in compensation for destruction, robberies and economic exploitation during the occupation of the country by the Third Reich in 1941-1944]. In addition, Germany must also repay 11 billion EUR to the Central Bank of Greece - this is the loan amount (including interest accruing for 75 years) which Reichsbank borrowed in the Bank of Greece in 1943 and later did not return.

This "invoice for occupation" was drawn up on the basis of very meticulous research. Among others, 400 thousand pages of documents from the American archives regarding German crimes committed in Greece have been inspected. During the occupation the Germans killed tens killed tens of thousands of Greeks and 300,000 people died as a result of hunger resulting from the German occupation policy.

The Germans insist that they do not have to pay any compensation to Greece. In their opinion, the case was terminated when in 1960 they paid 115 million marks to the Greek government, that is, the sum which is equivalent to about 200 million dollars today.

(based on the article from the Rzeczpospolita daily)
rp.pl/Ekonomia/310299963-Grecja-chce-od-Niemiec-299-mld-euro-za-okupacje-w-czasie-II-wojny-swiatowej.html

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Isn't Angela Merkel going to participate?

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

As far as an image of Angela Merkel is concerned, nothing is going to beat this one (advertisement of a cabriolet):



Fancy a new hairstyle? Rent a cabriolet.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Last Wednesday, the conference of the organizers of the Independence March took place. The head of the initiative, Robert Bąkowicz, said that the 100th anniversary of regaining independence by Poland is "a moment in which we Poles should unite and not divide".

- Despite the fact that some political differences divide us, despite the fact that there are situations in which we are in a very strong political dispute, we would like to invite President Andrzej Duda - added Bąkowicz. He explained that the organizers want the president to speak at the beginning of the March.

According to the information provided by the media, talks between the Chancellery of the President and the organizers of the March of Independence continued for some time. According to the media, the Chancellery wanted a guarantee that the only symbols that would appear on it would only white and red colors.

Apparently, such a guarantee could not be obtained. The president will not take part in this demonstration once again.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

President Duda has said that he will not participate in the Independence March in Warsaw this year.

- I would like us to go together in the Independence March, and it is a matter of responsibility to society. Let's stand side by side and show people that we can be together. We do not have to bite ourselves - president Andrzej Duda said in a Friday interview for Rzeczpospolita. Many people took these words as the president's invitation to the march organized by the nationalists.

However, according to the RMF FM radio station, the president himself will not take part in this demonstration.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


Tbh, I can clearly see in the indicated article of DW that they were Syrians:

Eight men were arrested in the idyllic German city of Freiburg on Friday in connection with the rape of an 18-year-old woman. Police said that seven of the suspects were Syrian men aged 19 to 29, and one native German aged 25.

What's your agenda in accusing the German press of unfair reporting, whereas you unfairly report what they have siad?

News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]


And I know you love to write meaningles, but quite lenghy Bolshevik-style manifestos against Poland's membership in the EU that fulfill your dreams of a petty chauvinistic Polish nationalist who has been choosing to live outside Poland for many many years.


Agreed, the photo you've posted isn't very much convincing for Merkel or Macron as political leaders in the democratic world. But diplomacy has its obligations and you just cannot say: I don't like you, so go away, I don't want to have a picture with you. Besides, both Merkel and Erdogan do not look especially happy on that photo.

News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]


No, they were not. New treaties have been signed, but no, they did not amount to a change in basic rules.

In Poland, the majority of people, including Our Great Leader Chairman Jarosław Kaczyński, still support the idea of Poland's presence in the EU.

What is more to it, Chairman Kaczyński explicitly supports the idea of Angela Merkel in the post of Bundeskanzlerin and says it is the best available option for Poland.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

You don't know who I am, what I do for a living and what I add to the wealth of a nation. Unless your post-commie sources inform you on that from Moscow?


You are the prime example of a "true Polish patriot" who has been choosing to live outside of Poland for many many years, so you better shut up your mouth in the discussion regarding true Polish patriots.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

Sending money to Poland means that they may be "Polish patriots" at most. Being a true Polish patriot reguires speaking Polish and living in Poland.


Yes, you can. But only as a Polish patriot and not as a true Polish patriot.

News / Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw. Is it going to be the biggest march yet? [1530]

What about introducing the Monday of 12th December as a first Polish bank holiday?


Maybe yours are typically spent with head under the cold water tap ...


You are Polish? But in your profile you say you don't speak Polish. Then you are not a true Polish patriot since true Polish patriots speak Polish and choose to live in Poland.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


That is not entirely true. You would find one more except for the said passport of yours.


Of course, only in case when that lobotomy of yours has not been performed ...

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]



Please, do not confuse one's obsessions with one's education. A person may have a high-quality education and yet may be obsessed with something which has nothing to do with their education. Likewise, an obsession may touch an uneducated person, too. The problem is purely medical in nature rather than educational.

In practice, this forum seems to be bound to have two clown at the same time. Last time, they were British clowns, this time they are American ones.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


I simply don't believe it. Could you please provide a link? Isn't "l'anglais n'est que du français mal prononcé"?


Austausch? [Bei der Konferenz gab es einen tollen Austausch von Ideen]

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


It's OK, you shouldn't worry about this. My Longman dictionary dates back to the 1990s and at that time no one had ever imagined the verb "swarm" to be negatively linked to the noun "immigrants" or "refugees" as political correctness was probably unheard of at that time.

You'd better watch out not to use the term "send someone into Polish death camps". Such a term (in die polnishen Vernichtungslager) was used on the website of the "Augsburge Allgemeine" in the article entitled "Der steinige Weg der Juden in Bayern" on 20 October, but after the Polish embassy in Berlin protested against it, the passage has been changed accordingly into:

Aus der jüdischen Gemeinde Fischach konnten noch 1939  42 Menschen auswandern, 56 jüdischen Fischacher deportierte die Polizei 1942 in die deutschen NS-Vernichtungslager auf tschechischem und polnischem Gebiet und nach Theresienstadt.

augsburger-allgemeine.de/bayern/Der-steinige-Weg-der-Juden-in-Bayern-id52496081.html

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]



My "Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English" says the following:

swarm - verb [Intransitive]; to move in a crowd or mass: As the fire spread, people came swarming out of the building. | The photographers swarmed round her.

However, BB was using swarm as a transitive verb (foreigners swarming their streets), so perhaps this is where the difference in usage lies ...

Off-Topic / Ukraine - a country in Central Europe? [28]


Not only geographical. I think it is a historical and cultural thing as well (with the exception of Switzerland perhaps). Once Germany has said good-bye to its efforts to eventually build a vast central European empire which should over time become German in character, the political concept of Central Europe may be safely revived again. East Germany would be a very important link in that scheme because of its strong Middle Ages Slavic backdrop and its important historical connections with Czechia, Hungary and western Poland.

Classifieds / Meeting Fellow "Language Scholars" Travelling to Poland [3]


What kind of progress do you make with every stay of yours? Is it only "practicing" things you had learned before a visit or are you able to learn new things as well?

It is actually hard to learn new things without being totally immersed which means living in the foreign country and not only visiting it for a relatively short period of time. Thus, in my view, such a stay would mostly mean practicing things that you have already learned.

Work / Poland - Corporation in corpo, what to do if you work for 4 languages and you are not paid for? [7]

Tell them you are going to quit the job.