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jon357   
7 Jun 2024
History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]

If you consider the import/export exchange between Poland and Germany

There is shocking asymmetricality in that plenty of German companies own large production and distribution facilities in Poland whereas far fewer Polish companies own large production and distribution facilities in Germany.

How best to mitigate or reverse that?
jon357   
7 Jun 2024
News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

Because it's progressives that are doing everything they can to keep them up and running

Hard to know where you get that from.

Which should not be Europe's problem..

Except it is now Europe's problem. We'd not be discussing it otherwise.

How wonderful for them and how wonderful that progressives have new fast food options!!!!

That's a weird thing to say, and shows little understanding of how people actually live. Hard to know where you get the 'fast food' thing from either; it tends to be sit down meals of very high quality. The level of custom they get shows there's a demand.

How does letting them in to the UK help turn Ethiopia into less of a sh7thole?

Again, a crabby council estate housewife comment; Ethiopia's actually a nice place (have you been?) with a shifting demographic that has led to their higher social strata being marginalised. There are plenty of Europeans living there; why shouldn't the opposite happen?
jon357   
7 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Let's talk about shoes [334]

enthusiasm about slippers

If you have underfloor heating, they're redundant anyway.
jon357   
7 Jun 2024
News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

They're not desperate.... or at least they weren't desperate before falling into the clutches of the human trafficking networks

So, yes, in fact you're acknowledging that they're desperate.

human trafficking networks so beloved by progressives....

I wonder why you say that human traffickers are "beloved" of anyone, particularly "progressives". It seems an especially unworthy comment, something that crabby suburban housewives with low educational attainment who haven't had an orgasm since before Lepper hung himself might make in that tabloid newspaper that 'novochok' likes quoting trash talk from.

migration from low income countries in the middle east and Africa to Europe is a known quantity

It's a trend caused in very large part by the high birth rate among the middle classes in that region and lack of industrial development.

There are some welcome individual exceptions

Some. Recently Ethiopians of high social status (Amhara and Tigrayans) have started showing up in my part of the U.K. They're coming because their party lost the elections and they aren't getting the sinecure jobs, being booted out of public sector work and not getting/losing business licences. It's another group's turn now. Nevertheless, they're entrepreneurial, well educated, highly cultured and have a low crime rate. If you visit my part of the U.K. when I'm there, I'll, take you to an Ethiopian bar for some food and then to the Eritrean one across the road.

but the overall trend is dire

That's what happens when you allow unrestricted capitalism rather than the public good determine public policy.

Nevertheless, as I've said already, governments are to blame for this rather than the individuals who ar simply availing themselves of something that is available.
jon357   
6 Jun 2024
USA, Canada / Why Americans don't allow men to be in briefs at the beach/swiming pools? [90]

couple of pugs

And it's AI generated. It was originally made by a British guy to take the píss out of holidaymakers in Benidorm.

I'll not post many of those "spotted in Walmart" pictures. They're too gruesome to see.


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jon357   
6 Jun 2024
Off-Topic / Let's talk about shoes [334]

In the photos they look like women's flip-flops without back straps

They're men's sandals, and they never have a back strap.

Very good for the climate and environment in the cultures the6 come from. It can be a bit odd wearing them at first; you feel culnerable to mi or injury, however in reality it never happens.

you can judge a person by their shoes.

Easily. Salespeople often look straight at the shoes to suss out what someone can afford.
jon357   
6 Jun 2024
News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

Some people are less 'responsible' than others; were anything else the case, the world would be a very different place.

Poland could well do with a new influx of people.
jon357   
6 Jun 2024
News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

No, they're desperate people who've been sold a dream. Blame geopolitics, not refugees.

Encouraging settlement in Poland, especially by groups with a high birth rate, would be a great way of solving Poland's population crisis.
jon357   
6 Jun 2024
News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

Perhaps show some compassion.

Let the courts deal with any crimes that may occur, and acknowledge that their situation isn't the migrants' fault.

And as I say, Poland's population is falling. One way to mitigate that is perhaps to encourage people to settle in PL.
jon357   
6 Jun 2024
News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

individual migrants

I don't blame migrants; the vast majority are just ordinary people and the small number in this border situation were doubtless absolutely desperate, manipulated and possibly drugged up by Belarus.

So... you blame the Polish government

Don't be silly, Maf. You know perfectly well what I mean.

Let them in?

Polands population is tally g, so why not?
jon357   
6 Jun 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

Yet plenty of people use it, and there are productive and profitable solar farms in places with a less sunny climate than Poland.
jon357   
6 Jun 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

all paid

No, they didn't. Most people had deals with private companies; and solar works well. Cleaner than coal which is of course being phased out in the developed world.
jon357   
6 Jun 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

Those who payed for the solar panels are already quietly regretting the idea,

Most didn't pay; they came as part of funded schemes.

It works.
jon357   
5 Jun 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

Windmills and solar panels are already outdated.

They aren't.

Really? what has Sir Keir said to convince you that he is the right man to lead our country?

Yes really.

Why would he need to 'convince' anyone that he's the right person? Round my way, almost all constituencies have Labour MPs, despite relentless propaganda in the tax exile owned media. He's the elected leader of the workers' movement which represents the many not the few, the industrial workers rather than suburban p1sswilly office monkeys or 'green' housewives in Hitchin or Shoreditch hipsters.

The failed Tory regime has been in office for 14 years; now it's our turn for the next 20.
jon357   
4 Jun 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

There is nothing wrong with a nice, flat green land. It really doesn't have to be hilly to be pretty

True. Round Mazowsze it's mostly just flat though, with a lot of commercial orchards.

Can you post a photo of such thing?

I've only seen them a few times. The city put them out on the coldest days so people can stand around warming their hands.

- 24 C

2005 was an especially cold year. Beyond bracing and quite a few lost earlobes. And that scratchy feeling inside your nose when it gets really cold.
jon357   
4 Jun 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

Although I see much more solar panels on houses in Poland than in UK

Perhaps that's more about where you live in UK and where I live in PL since I see the complete opposite.

There are new funding schemes in PL for solar, and heat exchangers are selling well.

I do know in UK a lot of people sell their electricity from solar to the grid.
Don't know if in Poland it's the same

Edit: Just confirmed you can't do that in Poland

PiS didn't allow it, and sadly the scheme was stopped for new users in the U.K. however this is likely to change soon after next month's election when Labour are back in as they should be,

This scheme (two way electricity metres) works well for farmers and especially for small scale water power. A small plastic waterwheel can generate a good amount of power, doesn't have the issues about storage that solar has, can run 24/7, doesn't need planning permission if you only have one, and is very cheap(from about £400) to buy. All you need is a stream with a decent flow.

but most people will only notice them for 30 seconds as they drive past

Agreed, and the part of PL that I live in isn't especially pretty. It's mostly flat and the countryside has been spoiled by ugly houses with plastic roofs and large numbers of billboards lining the main roads. They work well in towns; France has a new law that large car parks have to be covered by them.

present in Warsaw

They sometimes put braziers in bus stops in Warsaw on particularly cold days; it's not unusual for old people to freeze to death while waiting and this is intended to reduce that.
jon357   
4 Jun 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

That covers 40%

Which is a high percentage. They should be compulsory for larger developments.

Americas lead like Britain

Other way round.

And you still have no clue.
jon357   
4 Jun 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

So how much time have you spent in Poland?

I'll answer it for you.

None. You've never been to Europe and never will.
jon357   
4 Jun 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

documented government sources

This isn't some sort of creepy 'debating club' with cretins demanding 'sources'. In any case, you don't have the intellect or the education to handle such a thing in the Polish language..

So, how much time have you spent in Poland.
jon357   
4 Jun 2024
News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]

He should become a professor.

He was higher up the pecking order than that.

marjorie-taylor-greene

A loony