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Ironside   
2 Feb 2013
Life / Foreigners in Poland - the identities of our native or the host country [66]

Poland has yet to see an immigrant group which is large enough in numbers to be recognized by the local population and cause the problems that you see in western societies.

Poland had that experience behind her. Why would she wanted to start it anew.
Ironside   
1 Feb 2013
Life / Foreigners in Poland - the identities of our native or the host country [66]

given that the eu has directly subsidised many of the poorest members of polish society
they really shouldnt complain

What a nonsense? I just don't dig the way some people think.It is not as if your rich uncle give you some dough to blow.

It is much more complicated than that.
Ironside   
31 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]

you forgot to mention the thousands of Poles who come here simply for the welfare benefits

The facts say otherwise but sure feel free to repeat that BS ad nauseam.

and I bought a Farm in The Podkarpacie.

Do you mind to share how did you manage to do that? Is there no restrictions in place?
Ironside   
31 Jan 2013
Life / Foreigners in Poland - the identities of our native or the host country [66]

Oh we have a big shot here.

In my opinion Poland could do more to encourage foreign entrepreneurs to this country.

In my opinion Poland could do more to encourage local entrepreneurs for example make sure they will get paid for the job done.Unlike those contractors who actually build highways but money from the EU pocked by some fat cats with gov connections. Do you happen to know something about that?

I have never heard of communities of ' Expatriates' in Warsaw, this would suggest the Expats are assimilating into the Polish community.

there is other option, there are too few of them to form communities.

also the benefactor of some of the highest EU subsidies in the entire EU.

Still being discriminated as to agricultural benefits.
You make it sound as some kind of grace bestowed on Poland by the EU. If I'm reading you wrong I do apologize.

Po is a supporter of business.

You mean that support some few cronies of them to pocked money destined to pay for highways in Poland. I mean PO gov in Poland know exactly whom they given money to. When those thieves failed to fulfill their obligation what was/is stopping the PO's government from hunting them down and send them behind the bars where they belong?

Nah PO is not a business friendly but a swindle friendly.
Ironside   
31 Jan 2013
History / How Poland was losing her intelligentsia [19]

Hey, what will be my next post about? I mean - when was the next wave of emigration after that of 1831?

It is your thread.
Ironside   
31 Jan 2013
History / How Poland was losing her intelligentsia [19]

Correct me if I am wrong.

I have answered to your direct question. You can make out of this what you will but do not get personal and do not play games with me.

I can as well say that because you are the part of the swampy ecosystem and you found yourself comfortable habitat, you are refusing to admit the truth about your surroundings because it would bring discomfort into your life.
Ironside   
30 Jan 2013
History / How Poland was losing her intelligentsia [19]

E.g.,

Poland is ruled by morons who do not think about building or investing into the future but about stealing what resources are available.
they thinking is _Not what we can do to improve but how to have a cut in this. It is a perfect niche for the swamp creatures and brown-nosing dickheads not for intelligentsia and if they have to play by the swamp's rules.
Ironside   
29 Jan 2013
Love / Polish Catholic girl - do you have the same relationship problem as me? [28]

I have to say

Yawn! You have to shut up as you have nothing to say and it shows.

GTF out of there

I could expect that out of all people you would support such nonsensical trolling of the kid. The point is for him there is still a chance, you are just another @@@.
Ironside   
29 Jan 2013
Love / Polish women and foreign men [76]

That is just generalization of the worst kind. How many Polish women do you know, and how many are marriage breakers?What about men it this equation are they stupid sheeplike creatures?
Ironside   
28 Jan 2013
News / Man taken to court for abusing Poland's president [35]

And this from the guy who uses phrases like:

My phrases reflect reality if imperfectly. Whereas your phrases try to create reality which exist only in your perception.
If a person who thinks that a Gay's Parade is not necessary a good thingee is in your eyes an undemocratic extremist and you really belief it. Then it is your problem not a fact.

There are such people and there are such political parties, as well you know.

Except for few nutter on the fringe of reality there are no such people I know off and definitely there is no such political parties save the Palikot batch/(maybe). PiS is a classical Polish socialist party as opposed to Soviets or western socialists.

If you mean ND as far as I know they are only forming nucleus in opposition to Soviets Poles who are ruling Poland at the moment. It is difficult to say what they mean,so far all they say is that Polish state shoudl be run in the interest of the Polish people which is hardly a reactionary or secluded idea.

Poland has something of a history of this - though many have tried to drag it back into the dark ages.

Only in your perception. That is only reaction of people when some people force ideas down their throat. Retching reflexes if you please.
You seems to fail to understand that ideas which you believe to be democratic have been adopted by some democracies only 20 or 30 years ago. Those ideas are in fact just an appendix to democracy not democracy integral part and such additions are not necessary suitable for everyone.

Actually you can have it both ways, where legal systems do not discriminate on the basis of things people cannot or do not wish to change about themselves,

What is discrimination and what isn't. Do you have definition ready?
Ironside   
27 Jan 2013
News / Poland is the source of horsemeat in burgers? [169]

I'll pass on the beefburgers.

First of all - how do they know that those burgers were made in Poland.
Second of all - what is wrong with the horse-meat?It is very healthy after all! :)
Ironside   
27 Jan 2013
News / Man taken to court for abusing Poland's president [35]

As certain tendencies in society - i.e. the most conservative and religious people - get upset if they can't legalise and propagate their "little ways".

Sorry but all kinds of persuasions will not magically make gays into majority. Would you like to impose minorities views on majority or you would rather dispute what is right and whats wrong. Cannot have it both ways.

No shortage of either ultra-conservatives or religious fundamentalists wherever you go Fortunately as a secular liberal democracy , in Poland their aims are thwarted.

Again missing my point! In Poland you do not have ultras nor extremist expect for some individuals and Soviet Poles of course. Polish way is to maintain a balance and common sense. What you call extremist are just people whose values are under attack by the international activists of so called liberalism which is nothing more than yet another mutation of Bolshevism. Those are a real life extremist and provocateurs.

You are of course entitled to your opinions. However even your consistency in using terminology of the global revolution do not change the facts.
Ironside   
27 Jan 2013
Love / Marriage with a polish woman - Heaven or Forever Hell ? [60]

one day I decided that I will find me a wife in Poland and so I did ...brought her here

A big mistake! I find dudes who are looking for a wife in a foreign countries - shifty - and their motivation suspicious. Also a good guy in his haste can make a mistake. He should ask himself - what kind of woman would leave her country and her family for a guy she know a month or so? Life is no a movie as you have learned the hard way.
Ironside   
27 Jan 2013
News / Man taken to court for abusing Poland's president [35]

A country like Poland, a secular democracy with a centuries-old liberal tradition, a respect for freedom of speech and behaviour and a legal system that doesn't moralise, actually gives equal rights to all and is an environment where freedoms are cherished. What one person thinks 'correct' or 'incorrect' is a matter for them only - not society as a whole.

In Poland there is unwritten rule that everybody can stick to their own system as long as they do not try to legalize and propagate their own little ways as a majority of population stick to Christianity and that is good. Not need to fix what is not broken! Unfortunately Soviet Poles, upstarts and foreigners seems to be unable to grasp that aspect of the Polish culture and their attempts at improving Polish society often backfire into their face!

Hence they tend to blame it on the "right wing extremists" or on the RCC. Instead looking for labels to shift the blame for their own failures onto the others they should have learn from the experience. Mind your own businesses and nobody will bother you.
Ironside   
27 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]

What wasn't highlighted was which banks had lent the money. As can be seen on this chart:

A very good post Rich. You should start a thread on the subject.

and Poles will have to stay in their country to develop it further

To make the start all that criminally incompetent bunch of intertwined cliques shoudl be eradicated.
Ironside   
27 Jan 2013
History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]

But it was in the very beginning

Or the end? What you call Russian history is just the end product of indigestion of some upsetting individuals and what they fed students for breakfast in the Voroshilov Academy.

They are nutters on par with Dmitry Merkulov.
Ironside   
26 Jan 2013
News / Man taken to court for abusing Poland's president [35]

Let me refresh your little selective stalinist memory a little:

Did I hit the nerve?
What goes around come around.

Two guys were taken to court for offending PiS President, Lech Kaczyński:

Yeah! What your little NeoStalinist clique were howling then?Would you like to refresh your little memory?
Yet nobody was using the state special forces to hunt down internet sites.
PO little regime already hunted down few people who dared to laugh at Prime mister and president. What your little mass-media-block is saying now?
On that example is easy to expose their bias and double standards.
Ironside   
25 Jan 2013
News / Man taken to court for abusing Poland's president [35]

freedom of expression was much worse under the failed regime that preceded them.

Well if you think about Gays parades only!
I mean a regime maybe totally Stalinist and repressive but as long as they would let Gays to march unmolested they are great and democratic gov in your eyes. Cheers for jon spiraling on his little personal merry go around down to the place where common sense is only a swear word.
Ironside   
24 Jan 2013
History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]

One of his operettas Nowy Don Kichot, czyl Sto szaleństw (The New Don Quixote, or 100 Follies) The street could be named after the operetta and not Cervantes

Well it is still Don Quixote and not new at that, you are hard to please.
What about Winnie-the-Pooh street?

Winnie-the-Pooh street in Poiland
Ironside   
24 Jan 2013
Travel / Is it safe to travel to Poland? [194]

Then please show me the last known incident, where a black man in FF/O was attacked

So show me accidents in Poland that ended in killing refuges in an arson attack/ Like has been a serius problem in Germany not so long ago.What is German excuse - poverty and lack of jobs? phew!
Ironside   
24 Jan 2013
History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]

Come on

Roosevelt

Also there are lots of streets with his name in Poland.
De Gaulle:
also some
Thomas Wilson a few plus park in Poznan.
Roosevelt few streets - I don't understand why, regardless which Roosevelt.
Napoleon Bonaparte - few places named after him including streets.
Ironside   
24 Jan 2013
News / Failures of Poland and Tusk`s government [191]

You are wasting time! :):):)

I know, I'm just surprised because I believed you to be cynical not stupid.

Why not? After all, PiS are worse than others. They brag of their high morale but every now and then somebody proves it isn`t true.

Are they perfect - no! Are they worse than others? No! After all they just try to change things - it would be easier and more profitable to let it all rot!