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gumishu   
9 May 2011
News / Kaczyński wants a people-friendly Poland [64]

Can anyone really imagine Pawlak or Napieralski going into a coalition with him after the insults towards them and their parties?

what instults against PSL and SLD - give examples please - avoid going over the top or you lose credibility - it is quite simple

Can anyone really imagine Pawlak or Napieralski going into a coalition with him after the insults towards them and their parties?

what instults against PSL and SLD - give examples please - avoid going over the top or you lose credibility - it is quite simplebtw delphi as I had stated here before I personally witnessed small scale electoral fraud in Poland small scale but still an obvious fraud -

- however I have read reports (enough to paint a bigger picture) of similar fraud - some people even documented such fraud (filmed it with their phones) - if I can find it I will post it here - all these cases were fraud against the UPR/Korwin Mikke - this is only to state instances were fraud was obvious (like votes cast for UPR and UPR result zero) - think some people who would do such fraud were more intelligent or just could not drive the number of votes down to zero (like in cities)

still, you must have heard the news of the ballots dumped in Włocławek paper mill (some couple of thousands) after the last presidential election (all of which were votes cast for Kaczyński) - I can link it here if you wish (though I already did it once here) - the ballots originated in Toruń

and again this is not Great Britain with its tradition of civic society and the concept of fairness ingrained in the society - this is Poland and it is a post-communist country with little civic society (which is also a result of deliberate policies involving the media)

I don't claim Kaczyński and PiS is electable - I doubt they would be able to form a coalition with anyone - including PSL - and yes they have mostly themselves to blame (and Kaczyński personally has mostly himself to blame - had not he tried to take over Samoobrona the PiS-LPR-Samoobrona coalition could have well ruled even today - wanting too much at a time proves destructive very often)
gumishu   
8 May 2011
Study / Animation courses to study at Polish universities [5]

I don't think they teach film animation in Kraków - your best bet is £ódź with its cinematographic school - filmschool.lodz.pl - £ódź is less then two hours by train from Warsaw (film animation is not an every-day curriculum in universities in Poland or elsewhere)
gumishu   
8 May 2011
News / 2011 Netherlands discuss Polish deportation plan [118]

May I remind you, Grzegorz, that it is Poles who willingly go and work abroad?

Stu - many people have little or no choice, simply, believe me - I guess Polish unemployment figures would double if all the Poles working abroad returned

Grzegorz also has some issues with 'shady' privatisation of Polish industries and financial sector - most industries got sold for less than their 10-year share in Polish market - I was talking once to a man who was familiar with (if not insider of)Polfa Poznań privatisation (now GlaxoWelcome) - he told me Glaxo would get the return of their investment in just a couple of years (even as few as 3) - sounds like selling yourself out cheap, ain't it?
gumishu   
8 May 2011
News / Kaczyński wants a people-friendly Poland [64]

By the way - do you know anything about Jaroslaw Kaczynski's personal wealth? Always been interested in this - seeing as he went from academia to politics and never had the chance to earn money "outside".

I don't know a thing about Jarosław Kaczyński's academic career (contrary to his twin brother who was a professor of law sciences) - I believe he had not pursued any academic career but I may be wrong here

I find it hard to believe that most of these political events aren't subsidised in some way. I mean, PO are backed by wealthy people - but PiS? SLD? PSL?

main political parties in Poland (those who won at least 3 per cent of the votes in the last parliamentary elections) lived off a state-subsudy - PO wanted to change this (to cut the finances for PiS (and SLD I guess) - PO would be just fine with the grants from big business in Poland - tells a thing or two about the two parties) - I haven't followed the news enough to know if they actually succeeded (the topic was last on agenda in December 2010) - PO argued that the subsidies cost 60 million PLN each year - then they come up with a two-day election - the additional day will cost us at least 65 million

Delph, he doesn't even have a bank account so it's hard to say.

care to watch the video Sean and care to notice the very specific reason he would not have/use a bank account on his name - is this English at all??
gumishu   
8 May 2011
Life / Uptight Poles [262]

I have to disagree.In certain ways you are constantly uplifted.

actually to feel uplifted is a spiritual experience - seek and you will find
gumishu   
8 May 2011
News / Kaczyński wants a people-friendly Poland [64]

hmm I believe you have a feeling those 'intelectuals' or intelectuals (whichever suits you) expressed some desire to able to tell people when they should be happy and when upset but I don't find anything in either the original post of the thread or in the article linked that could support such an idea (maybe it is your gut feeling but these are difficult to debate)

sorry to grumble so much - I just find too many people are biased in their judgement of Kaczyński (which is media-created to my mind mostly (completely one-sided etc etc - bordering in a knee-jerk reaction in many individuals - perhaps not so much here in the PolishForums) - oh I grumble again ;)
gumishu   
8 May 2011
News / Kaczyński wants a people-friendly Poland [64]

Pretty much.

Wonder how much public cash was wasted with this?

why do you think there was any public cash involved?

btw slightly out of topic - I'm pretty sure you all remember that people laughed when the news that Jarosław Kaczyński does not have a bank account hit the screen - apparently he did so for a quite specific reason as mentioned here

youtube.com/watch?v=IlVk_nKZUwI
gumishu   
8 May 2011
News / Kaczyński wants a people-friendly Poland [64]

Look at the first post, gumi. The implication is very much there. It was a meeting, not a lecture ;)

by the way I looked at the first post and couldn't see what you saw
gumishu   
8 May 2011
News / Kaczyński wants a people-friendly Poland [64]

What, Tusk doesn't want a people-friendly Poland?

and does he? what makes you think he does except his own words? maybe compulsory school education for six-year-olds? (of course they need to be mixed with older years to achieve better 'socialization' meaning they should grow up and take all those punches from older kids they sure deserve with gratitude and patience - children should be good Christians, no? )
gumishu   
8 May 2011
News / Kaczyński wants a people-friendly Poland [64]

No intellectual will tell me to smile or frown and I think many Poles would react in exactly the same way

but where did you get these intelectuals wishing Poles to smile (or frown) at their behest (man those dictionaries drive me mad ;) - can you say on command instead of 'at one's behest' in English
gumishu   
8 May 2011
News / Kaczyński wants a people-friendly Poland [64]

Further proof that JK is a desperate opportunist. What right does a group of so-called intellectuals have to decide if people smile or frown?

JK may be a desperate opportunist - but where did you get this other sentence from?
gumishu   
8 May 2011
News / Kaczyński wants a people-friendly Poland [64]

I don't call telling people how fine they are when they lie to us friendliness - if someone kicks you in the ankle praising them makes as much sense as hating them
gumishu   
8 May 2011
Life / Uptight Poles [262]

I'm left waiting for the positive one then :-)
Seriously Seanus, I quite like you but most of your Polish people stories are negative and biased. Or condescending. Or a combination of the above.

Magdalena - the thing is Poland does not provide for many uplifting experiences - but perhaps what we sow is what we reap
gumishu   
8 May 2011
Life / Uptight Poles [262]

"The cigar is a great resource. It raises your spirits. Are you troubled by something? The cigar dissolves it. Are you subject to aches and pains or bad temper? the cigar will change your disposition. Are you harassed by unpleasant thoughts? Smoking a cigar puts one in a frame of mind to dispense with these......"

yes - end very often at the expense of others -

- I used to commute to Wrocław and back home every week when I studied there - very often there was nowhere to sit (I mostly used direct trains because my mom used to work for PKP and we were entitled to travel for free) - so I very often had to stand in the passageway (the stretch from Wrocław to Opole is not that big and I never complained :P) - then people would leave their compartments to have a smoke in the passageway (I'm pretty sure it was against the regulations but I never have seen any PKP people intervening - it was an tolerated practice simply) - most of the smoke does not leave the train even when the window is open it just flows down the passageway - I was almost getting suffocated by the smoke (I could hardly tolerate cigarette smoke when I was younger) - but what was I supposed to do - ask them to stop smoking? - this was a tolerated practice so how do you expect they would react - I often moved to another carriage but these people just keep popping up from their compartents for their turn - were these people considerate?

btw the thing is the practice of smoking in train passageways only emerged (AFAIK) after PKP had done away with carriages dedicated to smokers (which was/and is a silly thing to do) - expecting people will quit smoking just because of that??
gumishu   
8 May 2011
News / POLISH COPS TO BREATHALISE CANOE USERS.... [30]

if there is no limit to how much alcohol can be consumed then there is no legal threat to those who like to have a lake trip after say a bottle of vodka - and even after just a couple of beers many people don't think reasonably any more (if they ever did)
gumishu   
8 May 2011
News / Poland A and Ukraine B. Compare how far Poland has advanced. [282]

Ukrainians ended up resulting to total brutality in order to try and win freedom.

the only 'however' here springing to mind is they could not win any freedom by killing this or that amount of Poles - the leadership of OUN knew that the tides of war have turned by the time of the massacres - meaning the Ukraine would end up exactly in the same spot as in October 1939 (i.e. under the Soviet boot) - perhaps Ukrainian masses did not know that - also after the war most Poles left Ukraine in so called 'repatriations' - perhaps this is not what the leadership of the Ukrainian nationalist movement could have predicted but nevertheless is very ironic

I'd also point at events such as the Lwów pogrom

I am not familiar with the subject - could you provide some sources - I am a bit lazy and a bit concerned the search on my own would take plenty of time
gumishu   
8 May 2011
Life / Uptight Poles [262]

btw aphrodisiac - some people can hardly tolerate tobacco smoke (including myself sometimes) - so hmm you could be more thoughtful sometimes too
gumishu   
8 May 2011
Life / Uptight Poles [262]

Well, maybe, but I still think that some Poles should be more relaxed.

if you said 'would be better off relaxed' I would agree thouroughly - btw the Universe supposedly works as a mirror
gumishu   
7 May 2011
News / Poland A and Ukraine B. Compare how far Poland has advanced. [282]

Polish people are to be blamed too. they did many bad things to Ukrainians as well but they weren't as brutal as Ukrainians

well, they were - but it is long forgotten (only written records survived) past (17th century, Cossack uprisings)
gumishu   
7 May 2011
News / 2011 Netherlands discuss Polish deportation plan [118]

Why should Poles a few hours drive from their home be allowed to sit on their arse getting Dutch unemployment benifits? Might be OK if it was a genuinly reciprical arrangement ,but clearly its not,unless Polish unemployment benifits have shot up lately.....

I agree with you on that completely - freedom to work - perfectly fine
gumishu   
6 May 2011
Life / Water from wells in Warsaw - Safe to drink? [24]

it's 1) more convenient 2) more hygienic 3) not overly expensive to buy drinking (it comes from deep wells - the water is tested for contamination) water in 5 litre bottles in a supermarket (should cost below 2 złoty) - tap water is not drinkable (or hardly drinkable) in many cities and towns in Poland
gumishu   
6 May 2011
News / Poland A and Ukraine B. Compare how far Poland has advanced. [282]

Wikipedia also states "citation needed" with regard to that point, which often means that the 'fact' in question has been made up.

read the article about Arthur de Wiart - it states the same thing even in greater detail Adrian Carton de Wiart
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_De_Wiart

sorry about the mistake in the name
gumishu   
6 May 2011
News / Poland A and Ukraine B. Compare how far Poland has advanced. [282]

who said Poland gave Germans a kicking in 1939 - I haven't
- still Polish troops managed (with the help of Soviet late joining) to almost run the Germans out of supplies (fuel, ammunition) - Polish troops also managed to put plenty of German millitary equipment out of use (mostly tanks - it is agreed most of these were light tanks - and planes - if some only temporarily) - Hitler insisted on an offensive on France that same year but the supply shortages and losses in equipment among other factors made the German Head Staff to strongly object to it

Each of them could have turned round and joined the fight: how many of them did? Oh yes, none: but keep on whining about the 'British betrayal'.

are you sure you know what you are talking about - firstly there was no fight between the British and Germans on the 1st of September when Polish destroyers first met elements of the British Navy on the North Sea - so what they were supposed to join - how do you know they haven't joined the fight pretty soon after becoming interoperational with the British Navy - btw do you think Polish and British Navy were interoperational in the interbellum period? based on what?

So, simply because Britain wasn't fighting, Poland couldn't? Pathetic.

the whole Peking Plan (devised by Arthur de Wiart the chief of British military mission to Poland in 1939 - as wikipedia states) was to save some of the Polish Navy from certain destruction early in the war as demonstrated by the fate of those bigger ships that remained in Polish coastal waters - (ORP Wicher and ORP Gryf - both were sunk early in the war (in the first week of the war AFAIK)- just use wikipedia - the English one has articles both on ORP Wicher and ORP Gryf) - Germans simply had huge advantage over the Polish Navy not to mention the ships were a pretty easy prey for their Stukas which could be over Polish coast in minutes from their bases) - you can read on the English wikipedia that the three Polish destroyers proved useful for the Allies in the later years of the war and that shows Operation Peking made sense

turning around in the middle of North Sea to fight the Germans either on Baltic or on the North Sea on the September 1 was against the basic idea of the Peking Plan (Operation Peking) - and it could prove disastrous simply - the Germans could have easily taken out the squadron fighitng alone (their U-boots spotted the squadron on August 31 in Kattegat and a then also a German sea plane followed it for a time - meaning Germans knew of the presence of the Polish squadron in the North Sea) - remember the ships were humble destroyers not some dreadnoughts/ships of the line - and I guess Germans could muster an overwhelming force in hours to hunt the Polish ships in case they headed towards the German coast (a kamikaze raid anyone??)

btw I think the three Polish destroyers would have joined any action if the situation pressed to assist the British - the situation did not demand it however on the 1st of September 1939 (mainly because Germany and Britain were not in war)

You are claiming that a treaty between two nations was a 'local agreement': prove it.

you behave like a spoilt child - and as if your opinion was somehow superior - show me yours I'll show you mine :P (should I start to think you don't have nothing to back up your claim??)
gumishu   
5 May 2011
News / Poland A and Ukraine B. Compare how far Poland has advanced. [282]

You claim a treaty signed between two nation-states was a local agreement: you prove it was a local agreement.

as it was a international treaty you should be alright finding the right info on the wikipedia - don't you think - so go on - you show me yours then I'll show you mine :P

Even if that claim was true (which it is not), it still doesn't change one fact: the entire country was captured in less than three months

so was France, Belgium, Norway, Holland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Danmark - it would be the same story with the UK had it not the defence of the English Channel ( it probably would be the same story with the Soviet Union had not Hitler raged about lowly Yugoslavia)

gumishu:
and ? did those British ships engage any Germans?

Yes actually, once war had been declared.

well, so Błyskawica, Grom i Burza could not possibly have joined the British on the 1st September to fight the Germans because the British simply were not fighting anyone - and behold they could not have been on the way to engage the Germans at the time (for the same reason) - this solves your mistery about Polish ships by-passing the British patrol (as I have mentioned they met and received sailors form the British)

btw the English wikipedia article on Plan Peking (Operation Peking) clearly states it was created and advanced by the British admiralty and agreed upon by the Polish military leadership

gumishu:
the Czechs decided to conquer most of the area - so they have violated the local agreement

Got any proof? There's internationally-witnessed documentary proof that the Czechs actually asked Poland to keep to the terms of the international interim treaty and Poland refused. And anyway, Poland had already broken the treaty (the day after it was signed).

please do link it here :)
gumishu   
5 May 2011
History / Poles in the Napoleonic era [224]

I have moved on...I just will chime in whenever german history is being downtalked and denied in those lands.

well, it was a Polish mistake to propose it, but the plebiscite included emigrees from the area to central Germany - almost all of them voted for Germany

between 1895 and 1919 335 thousand Germans settled in the area (from other regions of Germany) - they were either economic immigrants or state officials (they mostly settled in the cities I presume) - in this sense they wouldn't be called ethnic minority in Germany now - would they??

large part of those who voted for Germany were not German nationals (their mother tongue was not German but Slavic) - they simply did not identify with the Polish statehood (never knew any etc etc) and perhaps even Polishness for various reasons (though their speech was actually a Polish dialect) - this is shown anectodically in stories where brothers were fighting opposite sites in the "Silesian Uprisings"

the plebiscite area was under German admnistration and German police and para-military organizations were present
gumishu   
5 May 2011
History / Poles in the Napoleonic era [224]

Problem was it wasn't a "part" but a lose collection of farms and several villages around the urban centres which were predominantly German.

so how come there were areas that had Polish majority there? how many villages you have to cluster to outweigh a major city??
gumishu   
5 May 2011
History / Poles in the Napoleonic era [224]

Maybe because it's one set of rights for Poles but another one for Germans...I like to point out this double standard whenever I can! :)

you can own a business in Poland even a house in Poland - is that not enough?
gumishu   
5 May 2011
History / Poles in the Napoleonic era [224]

different times - don't compare current European politics to even that 50 years ago
gumishu   
5 May 2011
News / Poland A and Ukraine B. Compare how far Poland has advanced. [282]

The ships entered the North Sea, and at 0925 on 1 September learned about the German invasion of Poland. At 1258, they encountered the Royal Navy destroyers HMS Wanderer and Wallace and received a liaison officer. At 1737, they docked in Leith, the port of Edinburgh.

c'mon Harry wake up :P

I surmise you have lost an arguement Harry
gumishu   
5 May 2011
History / Poles in the Napoleonic era [224]

had Kaczyński not grieved that RAŚ is a representative of German interests (it is funded partially by some German organizations) even most people in Upper Silesia would never have heard of it - Kaczyński is a lousy politician but MANY Poles don't have anything better to vote for (including myself)