News / Don't go to Poland ... because you could end up coming back in a coffin [313]

Interesting quotes today:

Mariusz Sokołowski, a spokesperson for the Chief of Police, expressed his disappointment that the documentary did not include Polish data concerning stadium security.

"The police department was asked to provide information for the BBC journalists, but that data was not included because it did not fit the angle of the program" stated Mr Sokołowski."

wbj.pl/article-59310-poland-defends-itself-over-bbc-polish-soccer-racism-documentary.html

Let's be honest, the BBC decided the story they wanted to tell and then went looking for the evidence, very selectively.

News / Don't go to Poland ... because you could end up coming back in a coffin [313]


Britain's violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it has been revealed.

Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa - widely considered one of the world's most dangerous countries

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html

Perhaps the UN and European Commission who compiled the statistics are completely wrong though and you are right.

News / Don't go to Poland ... because you could end up coming back in a coffin [313]

Britain never quite learnt how to shake off the delusion of superiority from the days of the empire

Whilst Poland and Ukraine have issues to address, other countries could provide the same analysis of Olympics host city London

Over the last 12 months in London

99 murders

3,325 rapes

63,655 Residential burglaries

What is considered normal in Britain isn't acceptable in other countries.

met.police.uk/crimefigures

Those in glasses houses surely should think twice before throwing stones .

Time to stop lecturing the rest of the world and deal with your own problems first.

Law / Credit for British in Poland? [10]


Let's all sing together....'Oh comrades come rally........'

As I recall, they don't hold guns to people's heads when signing contracts.

Businesses taking advantage of the poorly educated and fools is nothing new.
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Law / Credit for British in Poland? [10]

Depends what you need I guess

British financier provident.pl should be able to help you increase your difficulties if you have them :)

More seriously with regular banks- go joint with your wife/gf/bf and use his/her family home as security if you are unable to provide your own.

News / Why is PO still in power? [9]


The current strategy is working beautifully, no need to change it.

Pick up the disenchanted, single issue voters, and build it up.

It can be evolved into the 'party for change' closer to the election.

Politics doesn't need to be about principals- your Winston Churchill was right: "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

Learn how to manipulate and ride public opinion.... that's all its about..

News / Why is PO still in power? [9]


You mean say like a party which was created less than a year ago and now has 42 MP's?


I didn't expect you to have your head in the sand quite so much...Palikot will be part of a ruling coalition next Parliament.

The arrogance of the establishment does his work for him...

News / Should Poles care who becomes French President or is it irrelevant? [45]


Very true. Sarkozy had himself firmly nailed to the 'more europe' mast when it came to fixing EU made problems such as the Euro.

As the Euro-zone falls apart, it could be useful to have a French President not so heavily personally invested in the whole project.

Life / Teenage Pregnancy in Poland [108]


Give it some time.

Countries don't degrade into anything goes neo-liberal hand wringers overnight... Poland has some time before it falls to the level of the UK concerning teenage pregnancy rates and crime

Law / Netherlands car insured by Polish insurance company [4]

A really poorly thought out question...

Of course it isnt possible

News / Presidential elections and debates 2015 Poland [472]


Really?

As PO and PiS fight the same old battles which young Poles are tired of, the way is clear for Ruch Palikota to shake up Polish politics

It just depends which position Janusz wants. I suspect it is Prime minister.

The arrogance of the ruling classes is one of RP's biggest assets

Love / Prevention of child abduction by Polish mother. [232]


If only sex/family planning education contained some simple advice , such situations could be easily avoided.

Namely:

-> Before having unprotected sex, at least consider the possibility of this resulting in a child. Think carefully and discuss with your partner if you are happy with the idea you may have a child together and the responsibilities that go with that

-> Ensure you have a long term stable relationship with appropriate family network. Children are hard work and expensive. Fixing 'mistakes' or custody cases in court is expensive and emotionally difficult.

In neo-liberal 'anything-goes' Britain,values of the 1940's and 1950's seem to have been forgotten. The cost to society of the absence of any morals is significant- research concerning the impaired life outcomes for children of single parents is particularly saddening.

The RC church is very easily attacked, but some of their ethical standpoints concerning marriage are surprisingly valid. You don't have to be a religious zealot to have some basic common sense...

As for advice OP. in your mess, hire the best lawyers you can afford and hope for the best.

Life / In case you didn't hate Polish drivers yet.... [15]

The really bad acting gives the game away really

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]

Delph- considering your bigotry towards Polish Americans and utter hatred of the RCC perhaps it should be live and let live? Glasshouses & stones and all that eh?

Law / British managers superior to Polish [52]


To be fair to the British Barney, the Americans devised most of the toxic sub-prime CDS's and so forth which created the mess.... The Brits were just stupid enough to buy them

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

Michael:

I'm glad you didn't try to defend the cheap jibe at the workers.. glad you are finally seeing some sense.





Its evident from your comments you have nothing but hyperbole to add to the debate. The shrill squeal of a keyboard warrior taking information from a blog. You need to realise that blogs are written to attract readers and that doesn't always involve giving a balanced, objective account of the facts.

PKP IC and PR do some things well and others not so well. Same as DB, Russian Railways or even your school.

PR successes are in the same bracket as 'government efficiently completes XYZ project' in terms of news/blogs: who wants to read something mundane and mildly positive?? Bad news /controversy sells - the masses like something to complain about.

Clearly you have not read recent financial reports on PR to be familiar with the current financial situation.

Some appreciation of the complexity of the task and considered analysis would do you a service, compared to tabloid hyperbole soundbites

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

Evidently you have no experience in the train industry whatsoever. Firstly you have no understanding of how large an organisation a PKP was, and the complexity of it. Break up was always going to cause problems. Perfect solutions are only available to keyboard warriors, not in the real world.

The cheap worker jibe is a tired old neo-liberal media line. Its easy because it doesn't involve any thinking. In any business there are good and bad people. There are good and bad teachers in your school. Fact of life.

If we want to find a failed railway system, we need to look no further than Britain- the most expensive railway in Europe, overcrowded with ticket prices rising 8%+ every year.

Privatisation was a miracle for a dozen mega-rich transport moguls!

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

A sad event and no time for speculation or politics.

RIP.

Genealogy / Being ashamed of Polish ancestry? [156]

I'm not sure how trying to negate everything a poster writes has anything to do with this thread, where the chap is discussing Polish Ancestry

You could start a thread 'Explaining my bigoted views towards Polish-Americans' to deal with your own issues, no?

Genealogy / Being ashamed of Polish ancestry? [156]


How many Polish-American weddings have you been to Michael?

Here we have a chap who is apparently proud of his ancestry- isn't that something to celebrate rather than attack?

Life / Letter-mail international Forwarding and redirection with Poczta Polska in Poland? [17]

Poczta Polska are really the bastions of knowledge on all things Postal... take a friend who speaks Polish and everything will become clear

Work / Minimum basic salary in Poland [96]

Some useful for information for those with not fluent in Polish.

Law / Can non polish EU citizens claim unemployment assistance in Poland? [7]


You mean the Brits who blindly follow girls to Poland?

A superiority in spinelessness perhaps Michael!

Life / What is wrong with Poznan? [197]


Let's be honest you were desperately searching for it!

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]

Surely xenophobic hatred of the worst kind by Jimmy Harte?

Do Irish senators have immunity from prosecution? He must surely know that joining the EU means giving up any control over European migration.

Don't worry Senator Harte , increasing EU integration will mean your hatred will become ever more irrelevant.

News / Icy blast cleans the streets of the homeless in Poland.. [63]


You make a good point, indeed my questions were phrased to create debate.

Namely, we can all wring our hands behind a shiny laptop computer in a warm apartment with a glass of chardonnay, but implicitly you and nearly everyone else agree with the 'street cleaning' metaphor as we simply ignore the problem or don't even allow it to enter our minds. That has to be true- it would only take a few hundred people across the country who cared to eradicate homelessness for good.

But the reality is,we are fast becoming like any other capitalist country- happily trampling over the poor, to hell with anyone else, in our desperate chase for an extra dollar.

Language / Community interpreting/public service interpreting in Poland [13]

The current system works rather well

The language of Poland is Polish.

If you choose to live/work in Poland, either learn the language or have the intelligence to have a bi-lingual secretary to help out.

I can see that 'Community interpreting' would be a lucrative new market for interpreters, but why should hard working polish taxpayers fund this?

We can only hope that such madness doesn't invade our country.

Perhaps we should ask the inhabitants of Poland 'B' if they would be happy with relatively wealthy foreigners demanding such services?!

Some people have no shame

Law / IT department (computer programming) - Opening up an Office/Business in Poland [53]

T0bias- if you are genuine:

A pointer:


Reliable contributor. Accountancy expert of some kind judging by his posts


Opinionated English teacher, who is frequently banned for his self indulgent rants

News / Monument gets erected when a clique rules in a small Polish town [29]


A Lawyer and served as vice chairman of Solidarność post 1989.

8,257,468 votes in the 2005 Presidential election 2nd round, with 54.04% of the vote

Or should we believe a British keyboard hero in Poznań??

Unfortunately Delphia would be wise to study Latin : wisdom such as nil nisi bonum is sadly beyond him.