News / Poland's young voters turning to the right - DW news [105]


Yes, of course. That's the UK - post Brexit. Why on earth do you think the Tories are so keen on leaving the EU? Your turn next for zero to negative growth in your little ex-GDR, if you get the weird local anachronism that you are praying for. The stinking world which existed until recently, that I well remember from my travels in communist Germany in the 1980s. Now get down on your knees and pay homage to Uncle Juncker and the EU for your hand-outs, there's a good lad.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Zalaweika (or however you spell it:) )

Life / Picking up BBC television in Poland [41]


VPN. 6 dollars a month.The 5 UK terrestrial TV platforms until your eyes pop-out. Google......
Nobody watches via a television anymore; my satellite system was decommissioned 5 years ago when they concentrated the Astra 2D beam on the UK.

News / Poland's young voters turning to the right - DW news [105]


Wouldn't the term "opinion"? be substituted here for "fact." ?


Opinion

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


Swedish.

News / Poland exports 60 million tonnes of meat annually.. but.. [11]


Afraid so. And anyway, Polish meat is only good for curries. Pretty tasteless without spices. The problem with buying from butchers' is that you only have their assurance that the meat is British, or whatever - but if it's wrapped then at least the barcode tells of its' governance.

I shall definitely be cutting down on Polish meat and processed hams from now on - not least because of Pork's carcinogenic properties - but that's for another thread (we can't blame the department of agriculture for that)

News / CHERNOBYL...threat to Poland? [29]


With today's working practices and technology there is little risk while the older reactors are being decommissioned. Much less risk in fact than the burning of fossil fuels - it's the age-old chesnut - and they are old sayings because there's scientific fact to back them up them - that coal burning power stations killed far more people than any nuclear power plants have, by many factors of zero. Delph and his statistical bent will come to my aid on this one.

News / CHERNOBYL...threat to Poland? [29]


That's not true though Johnny, is it. To be a real ale aficionado is not a problem. What is a problem is if you drink a lot of the chemical crap like Tyskie that is"brewed" and bottled in 9 hours....

The lad said on this forum that he went to the part of Chernobyl that is open for guided tours (the abandoned town several km from the affected part of the plant) You do know that Chernobyl produces electricity today, don't you?

Nuclear power is a wonderful thing, but very few engineers are required - which is why Poland, with it's "full employment" of never-ending low pay job creation schemes, will never finance it.

News / CHERNOBYL...threat to Poland? [29]


Dogs can survive nuclear fallout johnny, until they run out of Royal Canin. Mine would die pretty quickly without someone to scratch his ears though.That reminds me - it's a great shame about my fellow Brit - he visited Chernobyl. Do you think that trip killed him?

Law / Buying a car in Poland or Germany? [36]


Nonsense. 500 zl tax when I imported cars, up to 2000 cc. Never ever buy a second hand car in Poland, unless it's family, or the car has proven recent receipt from Germany etc.

Polish sellers always sell high. If you like wasting money - fine.

Travel / Visiting the Polish Balitic Sea coast in the Winter [30]


Maybe your English is not so good after all Lyzko - and the American system is employing you on your academic achievements, but not for your fluency in a second language - unless you are being pedantic on purpose of course.


I do - and my mates do. We don't tolerate racists here in Polish Tri-City. So you obviously do. Glad we cleared that up. Shocking,as I said. Have a nice day now.

Travel / Visiting the Polish Balitic Sea coast in the Winter [30]

Are you for real? Do tell us what would happen if you appear at your classes tomorrow and pronounce "It's good that we are all white faces here today, isn't it"? You would be up on a college charge - I worked at the opposite end of the academic pay scale to yourself, but the results would be the same whoever you are.

The man is out of order and suggesting that Poles everywhere share his racism. They don't.

Travel / Visiting the Polish Balitic Sea coast in the Winter [30]



Missed that, did you? Not having a go at you Lyzko, but you wished the chap happy hols. That suggests that you condone his racism, and you are clearly a sound bloke. His comments are not acceptable where I live - I don't know about your hometown.....

Travel / Visiting the Polish Balitic Sea coast in the Winter [30]

The OP/ I thought it was clear. and I'm shocked that you condone the scum.


But openly racist people like the Op are not welcome. Tric City is an open society. Let him stay with the Eastern German racists - that's where he belongs.

Travel / Visiting the Polish Balitic Sea coast in the Winter [30]

To the OP. Don't come to Tri City. We don't tolerate scum racists here thank you.

Law / Fishing laws in Poland [4]


I presume you are talking coarse fishing? The laws even for that are pretty draconian. Fisheries protection.....You need to visit the town hall or some such place and apply for a licence. You can't even fish off the pier without one. Anyway, depending on where you go, there are byelaws etc etc. Of course there are close seasons; some locations are club only, more so than in the UK for example. In Britain you can just turn up at a coarse fishery, pay a day fishing rate, and cast your line. Here it is more complicated, but that doesn't seem to put of the mob of Silesian fishermen (who of course are fishing an empty acidified lake simply to get away from their wives)

Life / Poles against gay marriages. Really? [120]

Nice to see some balance on this forum Pawian, instead of the usual "Poles don't want......" rubbish. Well done. The previously conservative proletariat are coming more and more round to the feeling that they should be free to think for themselves, and that others' lives are of no concern of theirs.

Some sections of the state and the church don't like that, because their perfidious influence is weakening. That's tough.

Life / Worst aspects of living in Poland? [82]

And of course, as in Hungary, they will make the big announcement. "We have listened to our electorate, and we have decided to make life a little bit easier for them to do their shopping, to build their lives, to be free to earn a salary as they see fit.....etc etc..."

Wankers.

News / Community action in Poland [7]


Did you actually take the time to read the article and digest it Ironside? Mmmm..... I think not. From experience, it is easy to spot when the student is cutting his homework:)

These community groups have had to battle local dictatorships, general apathy, and scavenging "businessmen" dressed up as local figures,for years. Now people are realising that they can complain, can organise and deliver petitions, can set up fundraising, and have a real voice on some of the action delivery that affects them, the local ratepayer. Most countries have constant public hearings, where the local populace fill the town hall to debate - but only 80 years ago people were being herded into the same and the building set alight. Only now are the new generation realising there is real power in community action - and you want to blather about a "supposed "smoke-screen"? Easy for you to be negative, as per - when you contribute nothing yourself to your self-professed homeland"

. Of course, the local mayor needs to be a good egg too.We only have to travel to towns such as Bielsko and Gdansk, to see that one of the two is doing it right - and the other has major economic and social problems.

News / Ultra nationalist protest at death camp in Poland - serious mistake? [146]


I refer you to my post in Off topic. Public insult or attacks based on race, orientation etc are against European law and you can be prosecuted for it. There is no difference. Poland was in the EU last time I checked and therefore has to obey the law, not the moronic laws of the Straz girlies just now, trying (and failing) to order me to put my dog on a lead as we ambled slowly at heel down MY local street.

The priorities should be that all rights are respected, and I would keep those "protesters" at least half a kilometer from the gates of Auschwitz. If they don't like the theory of rememberance services, they don't have to go there. I never go to catholic rememberance services, becasue they irritate me too - but I wouldn't be so disgusting or aggressive as to physically be there and to offer an opinion (as in the Corpus Christi processions - when I simply leave town)

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


Yes they do. More cultured people live in those:) :) Seriously, those flats are curiously expensive, and the plastic would damage the multi-fuel stove.


Yeah. Because the government refuse to shell out 80 percent of the cost in grants, because they want to push coal.

Off-Topic / Work in the US or in the UK? Moving out of Poland. [8]


Better get to the UK before March 31st then, if that's a plan? Unless you enjoy reapplying for right of stay that is.

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


Bolek. Bolek.
You don't live here, and with respect, don't exactly have your finger on the pulse. Kaczynski nearly won because of the sympathy vote. Had he lived, his brother was going to get hammered out of sight. Unlike Delph, I can't be arsed to research the polls from that time.

But they are out there. Until PIS happened across the idea of bankrupting Poland's future budget by embarking on its rabid socialist agenda, it was dead in the water.

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


"It" being the EU? You and I know that 66 percent of a whole lot is a whole lot. Poland wouldn't even have managed the 33 percent for funding countrywide infrastructure if it weren't for the EU led consumer society driving the economy.

As usual it's Polonia talking through their arses. If it were left to me, I would strip you of the vote because you (Polonia) bring nothing to the party.

And Dirk - are you really sure you are this highly educated whizz kid that you would have us all believe? Because you don't half talk bull about simple economics which are not opinion, but, rightly or wrongly politically speaking, still cast-iron fact.

Study / Expat kids in schools in Poland [77]

Delph will be along shortly. Try to avoid the schools (such as I attended 100 years ago), where the desks are in rows facing the blackboard. Constant teacher led classes are so old hat and lame in methodology - but nobody thought to tell the Polish education ministry.

Life / Worst aspects of living in Poland? [82]


Yes.........Russian is.

Life / Worst aspects of living in Poland? [82]


Yeah...people on the street will call the police when you're walking your (under-control) dog without a lead, but they wont "inform" on their neighbours when they are guilty of poisoning the locality by burning rubbish.

What was the word I used earlier - to describe Kurski......?

Life / Worst aspects of living in Poland? [82]


The only major one I can think of is the weather. Five months of tedium. Dirk says it's a winter wonderland. Not to those who live and work here. In holiday time, yes. Not during the daily grind.


Please do not pass disinformation to the OP. Your post is pure nonsense. Domestic coal burning raises pollution levels to life threatening levels for many in the cities. That of your moniker being a prime example.