News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


An anecdote from America: How do we know Columbus was a liberal*? Because he didn't know where he was going, he didn't know where he was when he got there, and he did it all with other people's money!

*liberal - in the USA this term has lost any connotation of liberal (laissez-faire) economics and implies libertinism in the social realm and a generous welfare state in the economic sphere (hence the mention of "other people's (taxpayers'/ money). The "not knowing where he was going" has to do with brainless, ill-considered go-gooderism.

News / Most Poles believe current Sejm (Parliament) in Poland will be better [64]


Indeed, that's one way the losers can console themselves. What's left of the Platformers should live out their days in the sticks. There they can't do too much damage until they finally fade from the scene altogether.

Re backbenching, nobody was born a politican. Neither Duda nor Szydło have ever held their present posts before and are now learning the ropes. Fortunately they are under the skilled tutelage of an experienced senior statesman and master strategist. How the PiS team share out tasks and responsibility is less important than what their government achieves. By their fruit ye shall know them - the Good Book proclaims.

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


Simple impotent fury, frustration and resentment expressed by a loser! C'est tout!

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


The markets = neo-colonial enslavement turning Poles into mere hirelings in their own country!

News / Most Poles believe current Sejm (Parliament) in Poland will be better [64]


Even a blinded backer of the all but defunct Platform would know she has never been PM before. Name someone in PiS with more political experience than Kaczyński.


There's a way to deal with an excess of air time for the wrong party: rein in the media like they did in PRL and make sure they are fully free. Free to support PO and denigrate PiS. That's called democracy, Platformer democracy, that is!

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


You sure defined the losers' train of thought correctly. You can lie and distort, manipulate statistics, hurl what you regard as "clever" epiteths and do all the name-calling and back-biting you want, but there's no getting away from the fact that you are all BIG LOSERS. All your impotent frustration, grumbling, moaning, whining and whinging cannot chnage that. Maybe in 8 years' time you'll get another crack when pre-election surveys are showing PiS 46, Petru 17 and PO 5.2.

News / Most Poles believe current Sejm (Parliament) in Poland will be better [64]


Yes, he is a strategic genius and has more poltical experience than anyone else in the party. Remember it was he and his brother who master-minded Wałęsa's successful presidential bid against the lefty-libertine KOR-ite loons who used a Wyszyński-bashing "Catholic" (Mazowiecki) as their puppet candidate. The ungrateful Wałęsa became the twins' eternal foe after the "Bolek" connection freaked him out and he overthrew the Olszewski government in his now legendary nocturnal coup.

I know you are hoping PiS fail and would prefer to see the least experienced person in charge. But unlike your ilk, the embittered, frustrated losers, those who have Poland's best interests at heart are hoping the "good change" succeeds.

Off-Topic / Some November afternoon in Warsaw... Poland Solidarity with France [44]

[Moved from]: PC-blinded French political scene finally sees light

Rzeczpospoltia writes that it has taken the recent barbaric masscre in Paris to finally force the French poltical scene and leftstream media to see the light. Up till now they had agonised in a PC strait-jacket that tried to hush up, disguise or conceal everything that put Muslim Arabs in an unfavourable light such as the disproportionate percentage of convicts and illiterates amongst France's Arab community. Now the ostensibly leftist authorities of Hollande are taking decisive counteractive measures that would not shame LePen or Sarkozy.

It shows that under certain circumstances even some of the the usually horse-blinkered and short-sighted PC-loving "bleeding-heart" leftists can come to their senses.

rp.pl/Publicystyka/311159923-Graczyk-Francja-przemowila-innym-glosem.html

News / Most Poles believe current Sejm (Parliament) in Poland will be better [64]


Once again you have completely compromised yourself. Only a petty-minded, fault-finding nitpicker would even ask such a lame question. It's almost as bad as "I wonder when the next Polsih Tupolev will crash in Smolensk." Anyone genuinely concerned about Poland's welfare migth wonder how well the new government will do. Maybe even ask what can be done to help them in their task? But again I made the mistake of erroneously assuming you are someone who cares.

You care all right but only about provocative PiS-bashing and promoting your cockeyed PC utopia.

News / Most Poles believe current Sejm (Parliament) in Poland will be better [64]


Dunno how well it fits Janusz Korwin, but if you insist!

News / Most Poles believe current Sejm (Parliament) in Poland will be better [64]


You seem unfamilair with how nomenkaltura worked and your historical context is skewed. After 1956 things loosened up and universities were open to all qualififed students, not only to the children of old guard stalinists like Szechter. Naturally someone openly opposing the PZPR or USSR woudl have problems. In various professions PZPR membership was required the higher one got. An average teacher could get away wtih not belonging, but a headmaster usually could not. An NCO could function in the army without PZPR membership but if he wanted to advance he would have to join. Same with law students and lawyers. Most lawyers were not party members but if they wanted to become judges... well, you get the drift.


Since when does the Preisdent of Poland have to ask delph for permission to visit a friend or professional contact or his Auntie Zosia?

News / Roman Polanski accused of unlawful sex with a minor [403]


Maybe you think Roman P. (that's how lawbreakers are named in the Polish media BTW) should be praised, extolled and idolised?

Genealogy / Baranowo Parish Records after 1902 [14]


PANUS: probably derived friom the once fairly popular first name Pankracy.

News / Most Poles believe current Sejm (Parliament) in Poland will be better [64]


Any proof or is this yet anothery delphic pipe-dream?

News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]


There may be a few economic similarites but certianly not Gierek-era propaganda policies. Word is going round that Bronisław Wildstein, whose Wildstein's List unmasked legions of Gierek and other PRL collabroators online, is interested in heading up TVP. "The state has to be re-ploughed (or ploughed over) to eliminate pathologies," he told Gazeta Prawna. "It won't be easy because the government will have against it the media, big business, professional chambers, especially the judicial one, and the Constitutional Tribunal." Asked if he would sack half the TVP staff, Wildstein replied: "I haven't counted, but maybe more like three-quarters. Maybe less."

News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]


PiS can be called centrist or (as they say in the States) middle-of-the-roaders depending on what polar extremes are chosen. If we use RN and Palikot, then PiS is indeed right in the middle.

News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]


I agree -- that was not a good move. PiS are not angels, after all. Not only in poor taste, but it may backfire at some point when PiS hope that PSL support some government initiative.

News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]


The point is that it's not up to the losers or any outsiders to decide who speaks, announces or does anything on the winning government team. Kopacz's embittered resignation speech told it all. Reps of all the remaining parties and privately even some PO stalwarths felt it was very petty, mean-spirited and in extremely poor taste. Luckily all the losers can do is sit by, gnash their teeth, spew their vitriol and pretend they don't see how their Platform is rapdily disintegrating from within.

News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]


The single fee covers all radio and television sets in a single households. One can stop paying the fee by getting rid of one's radio-TV receivers.

The nitpciking Platfus losers kept grumbling about Kaczyński running things from the back seat so the govt line-up was annoucned by both him and Szydło. The PiS govt is a team operation. The "power" (siłowe -- what would that be in proper English?) ministries are manned by Kaczyński's tested colleagues, whilst the economic ministers were selected by Szydło from amongst her associates. She was in charge of drafting PiS' economic programme, so each side of that winning tandem did what they do best. The result: a great government line-up!

News / US air base to be in Poland [193]


Putin may be an ego-tripping megalomaniac but he's not a madman. Knowing he is outdeveloped and outarmed by America, he would not dare venture into or launch a missile against any NATO country esp. one with GI boots on the ground.

Why is NATO making all the fuss about keeping some agreement not to set up permanent bases in ex-commie states when Moscow flagrantly broke its agreement to honour Ukraine's territorial integrity.

News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]


Not at all. Fools will continue to have access to any media they like inlcuding GW (Gówniane Wieści) and Urban's Church-bashing smut sheet "Nie". Both

are great to line a dust bin or wrap yesterdays' garbage in.

News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]


Nobody compared mirgants to a disease (apples & oranges?) but correctely warned that an unrestrained influx of poorly educated people with poor personal hygiene potentially bearing exotic diseases from a subtropical region constitute a health threat to Europeans which they do. Only the dingbats who believe in the "someone-may-be-offended" PC dictatorship wish to suppress the truth. But utlimately the truth will prevail and, like the lying and scamming Platfusy, the liars will end up on the rubbish heap.


Anyone who believes the BS being concocted and churned out by Telewizja Nonsensowa (TVN) and Gówniane Wieści (GW) should have his head examined!

News / Warsaw's silent march in support of 5th Commandment - Thou shalt not kill [75]


That's called preaching to the choir.

What is this thread about?

Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]


Should be souper (super means to suck an egg for example).
But what about the reply: G a.

Polish language!

Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]


And Filip became Pilip. No longer used today as a Christian name but still encountered in certain surnames such as Pilipiak, Pilipski, Pilipowicz, etc.


An anecdote that comes to mind is an exchange between Voltaire and Friedrich der Große. In the convention of the riddles and word-games popular at the time, the Prussian emperor sent Voltaire an invite which read:

P/venez à ci/sans.
Voltaire répondit: G a.

Can anybody make any sense of it?

Hint: If handwrittten, the slash (diagonal) should actually take the form of a horizontal fraction bar, unavailable (as far as I know) on my comptuer to separate the top element from the bottom one.

News / Warsaw's silent march in support of 5th Commandment - Thou shalt not kill [75]


All I can say is you've got a way with words and would make a good homilist. The minute they lift the celibacy and male-only requirements you should definitely consider entering the priesthood.

To close, I personally believe that rather than ostentatiously shedding crocodile tears over a single tragic incident it is better to point out the probable adverse results of different life choices. Does not today's widespread hedonistic, consumption-obsessed "anything goes" mentality lead to a society of confused and unhappy children? Should they not be our prime concern?

Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]


How about poultry from la poule?

News / Warsaw's silent march in support of 5th Commandment - Thou shalt not kill [75]


....Also to those who don't to agree to blur or relativise the difference between right and wrong. Amen!