Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [125]


Where is 'here'?


We'd better dip into our pockets. I'm sure Novi has already, being so rich from the 'American dream'.

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [125]

@Alien
This.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [766]

Here's a photo riddle. I took the pic that this is cropped from in Poland. It's taken in a famous place, Where and what?

BTW, it went fine today. Not a melanoma and nicely lasered with smoke and crackling noises.

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Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [864]


Every country has its own cultural DNA. Ours are the Four Estates (arguably five). That document about Divvis Flats in Glasgow that you linked to is part of the Fourth Estate, as are some of the tabloid articles that trolls here occasionally link to. It may look like washing dirty linen in public, however it is in fact part of the process of maintaining stability and effecting necessary change.


No, however people with more and bigger guns than you can lay your wizened old fingers on can do precisely that and do it very efficiently and quickly.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [864]


Makes sense. We did all that 1500 years ago, so it's settled down a bit. Our residents of Dodge City spoke Latin, Welsh and Englisc.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [864]


You wouldn't know "put to rest" if it climbed into your battered old car, ran over that fake wishing well you have in your garden and bummed Lil' Stabby.

Repeating the same nonsense about wanting gun laws weakened doesn't make any difference, In Europe we are happy without your high levels of gun crime.


This is not a debating club.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [864]


That has nothing to do with Poland or anywhere else in Europe.


You aren't. We are more developed in Europe and not interested in a society with so much gun crime and such a high murder rate.

We've seen how your "freedom" works: daily shootings and paranoia. Keep your sick Wild West fantasies where it belongs. Stuffed up your obese arses and far far away from Poland or anywhere else in Europe.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [864]

In most of Europe, heavy gun control is the will of the people. A reason why parties who support weak gun control don't win votes.


It means nothing in Europe.

Anyway, we're talking about Poland, and there is no significant movement to change the present law.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [528]

Looks like you and I both had the same idea about a post 🤒

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [528]


Who decides which ideas are "misguided" and which aren't?


That's the old "no labels, no solutions" argument. Don't you think it's a paradox, I-S, how rejecting progress always gets dressed up as wisdom. Clarity isn't delusional; it's how humanity truly moves forward most sustainably.


So... progress is just a niche hobby, the poor are a moral threat, and the masses are sheep? Sounds less like analysis and more like a convenient excuse to ignore change.

Reducing people to percentages and dismissing their agency isn't insight - it's elitism. Progress isn't driven by a chosen few; it's built when ordinary people demand better and refuse to be written off.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [766]


Thank God. Some bigos has blobs of raisin paste in which lift it though.

Even though ogórki małosolne are nice and crunchy, the cz*sn*k just spoils them and they're better without.


Not a fan.. Don't worry about the 4% though. With tamarind, less is usually more.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [864]


Exactly.

Their obsession with guns is hard to figure out. It leads to a stratospherically high gun crime rate. It's as if they permanently live in fear.

There are even stories of Jehovah's Witnesses knocking on doors and being shot, and people being shot when they stop their car in the countryside and call at someone's house to ask for directions .

And they can't figure out (or pretend not to figure out) that we don't want this in Europe.

Fortunately most people over there are not like the demented geriatric clowns and ex-jailbird felons that come here to troll.

Work / Warsaw job with US experience (tech company) [11]

@Alien
It's a good time to come, however there are a lot of cis and citizenship applications from people wanting to get out of there. A huge spike for applications in the U.K. and apparently the same in France.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [864]


It seems pretty weird to me. Even wanting those things. I don't mean antique pistols or muskets, more assault rifles and semiautomatics.


Do you know that film. Maybe called Tremors, about ten giant worm u der the desert.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [766]


Thanks. The internet being full of Aussie private clinic websites about it with loads of photos doesn't help. Plus right now I'm in a place where everyone's black so they don't need many dermatologists due to having better skin generally and also more resistant to the sun. It could just be be due to falling asleep with glasses on and the thingy doesn't have ragged edges which is a plus.

What will be will be.


That's a good guess.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [864]


It's a strange sort of individual who would collect guns. They must be very weak that they fetishise weapons.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [766]


Vimto (a fruit drink from Manchester but mostly sold now in Arab countries) in the gulf though it obviously isn't that. Pepsi across the Muslim world (not that either) a drink containing almonds and a crazy amount of sugar in North Africa (very nice and tastes a bit like liquid marzipan, mostly a breakfast thing), in some places baobab juice (really nice and you can buy it in powdered form though not within the EU due to bureaucracy), sometimes a hibiscus cordial (both of those are all year round in Sudan) and in a few places they mix Seven Up and milk which is nicer than it sounds.

Is it almonds?


Life is fine and for rejoicing in (though that depends on what the dermatologist says about a sinister sun spot that's growing suddenly - fingers crossed, I'll know more tomorrow) however g@rl1c is for very small quantities only. OK in southern Italian cooking. In minute quantities. It totally ruins lamb.

Poisonous to cats as well. Mine likes licking Tabasco (cats don't feel the heat from chilli) however I caught him slurping up some spilt sriracha and was a bit worried.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [766]


It looks like something very traditional that they eat in North Africa, usually in the evening in Ramadan. That has honey, dates, palm syrup and nuts in. I can't remember the name though.


Teriyaki? That sounds nice.

I was worried that it could be particular flavour that I hate so much I can't bear to mention the word in English. Po Polsku, it's called cz*sn*k. Th8 king about it, the Polish name is as bad or worse. A flavour that should never walk the earth.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [528]


That's what we have back home now.

Steady change is sustainable change and yes, it's a paradox that the only way to make that is to work through grindingly slow bureaucracy.

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [125]


All, pretty well.

It's a dangerous place for several reasons, ot really to do with religion.

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [125]


Very few citizens of Saudi Arabia (about 10%) are Shia almost all are Sunni. Egypt is nearly all Sunni too, Iraqis are split between Sunni in the North and Shia in the south.

If you want to find Shia, they're mostly in Iran, Azerbaijan, southern Iraq and in Turkey

Shia tend to be more mystical. Sunni just means Orthodox.

There is a third strand too, called Ibadi however they are small in number. Plus Alevis who make up half the urban population of Istanbul, and don't have mosques. They are very liberal.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [528]


So what. Is practically, productive and in line with 'human nature' whatever is?

Can you turn the clock back? And what about the majority of people who like progress?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [766]

Yokan or yubeshi. My guess is yokan or sliced yubeshi.

Probably contain8ng nuts, walnut or pistachio.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [766]


Is it sweet potato yokan?

The Japanese like sweet potato as confectionary and I think that plant originated in Africa. They also have sweets with sugarcane in. Dates too.

There's a date yokan. Is it that?

It does look like a type of yokan.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [528]


Yet churches are closing down every week. I suspect your stats are inflated by Chinese, Korean and African overseas students.

There's no religious revival. The orthodox (more often than not fake orthodox episcopi vagantes groups) that say they're getting beardy proud boys turning up are deeply reactionary sects, all guns and tradwives.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [528]


Do you believe them? Those stats are not credible.

Attendance is plummeting in Poland, ever since the death of JP2 and faster yet since Covid.


Why are so many churches around Europe closing?

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [528]


Do you not see that happening before your eyes?


What do you have against progressive values? Do you want a return to a golden age in the past that never existed?

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [528]


No, and it's weird that you think that.


The new government have kickstarted industrial development and are starting (or trying to start) the most ambitious housebuilding project in Europe. The economic indicators are good right now and the currency is strong. They've also managed to work out a trade deal with Trup which doesn't give in to any of the nasty things the trumpists wanted. The only concession is to buy some Boeings for BA which is now foreign-owned anyway.


Overrun? Weird.

And migration has fallen since it increased massively under the Tories who wanted to make money for buy-to-letters and nasty hotel chains as well as undermine society by creating a poor and desperate pool of cheap labour.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [528]


Less of the snark.


You don't. Church attendance is haemorrhaging across Europe, including in Poland. This will not change any time soon.


The Fabian Society? As in George Bernard Shaw, John May ard Keynes, Annie Besant, H.G. Wells and Bertrand Russell? It still exists today and I used to be a member back in the early 90s. They have an excellent quarterly journal. What is your specific experience of that discussion group?


Enjoy your two days off a week, your statutory paid holidays, your right to vote, your statutory paternity leave, your access to hospitals free at the point of use, your right to divorce, your right not to work 14 hours a day and your free compulsory schooling. All these and much more were obtained for you by socialism. Did you think that the rich gave you all these things out of the goodness of their hearts.

If you're waiting for the rich to share their wealth with you, you'll be waiting for a long time or if you're waiting for terrified and mean-spiriypted conservatives to be less terrified, mean-spirited and conservative, you'll die of old age before you see that.

Polonia / Polish bus crash in Croatia. Is there a fate? [226]


I don't really need YouTube for that however yes, there's probably plenty on there about it; normal enough for a society that loves to wash its dirty linen in public.

The mould problem is even worse in privately owned houses. It's one of the wettest cold countries on the planet and the battle against rising damp, condensation, wet rot and mould are constant.

A friend in London moved to PL, rented his ground floor flat (late nineteenth/early twentieth century private flat) to some Poles. They put expanding builder's foam in the airbricks (as we both know, Poles hate drafts, especially the dreaded przyciąg). The result? My friend was sued by his upstairs neighbours whose wallpaper fell off due to the damp caused by blocking the vents.


More people trying to carry out a complex and expensive task and achieving a partial outcome. Not every student gets a first, not every Local authority gets everything right and not every businessperson investor makes a fortune (unlike Jim, PAK, etc here who only ever achieve great success in life, despite in reality being failures) and not every doctor becomes a consultant.

All you can do is the best with what you've got (and there are some who will always snipe at that - most things are far easier to say than do) a task made harder by bureaucratic and corporate structures working against you. So often the story of social welfare has been about sticking plasters which are put on and never replaced since new challenges appear.


That's what happens when programmes are started by Labour and subsequently deliberately undermined by the Tories. Similar things are happening now in your country and happen often in mine.


That's Divvis Flats, one of the developments in Glasgow like Red Road mentioned earlier. Glasgow had some of the worst nineteenth century slums in Europe, was very heavily bombed in WW2 with a large loss of life and an even larger loss of buildings. For decades afterwards the city was under massive pressure to put a roof over people's heads, and for all their faults, places like Divvis did that for a while and were replaced decades ago with better social housing.

If you want to see a good example of social housing in Scotland in that period, google Leith Banana Flats (or just watch the scene in Trainspott8ng where they're shooting a skinhead's dog from the flat windows).