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delphiandomine   
21 Oct 2012
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

This is simply not true. It is rubbish that mainstream media feed people, that only a select minority think this crash was dodgy. Truth is a lot of people are not, if not saying it was intentional, getting very suspicious.

A lot of people? It's mentioned on stuff like David Icke forums, which tells you how credible the whole thing is.

Why not stick to the facts and hammer the relevant authorities for -

a) allowing a flight to a disused airport
b) the utter crap that was the VIP transport division of the Polish Air Force
c) allowing all those people to attend on the same plane

etc?

Oh, that's right... because people won't be encouraged by details such as "not qualified to fly the plane" because it implies that the Poles were at fault.

while others than got genuine concern.

I think it's notable that all the figures show people with "genuine concern" to be among the uneducated in Polish society.

Well if it was planned then that was the intention. Jarek Kaczynski was also expected to be on this plane.

Hence his claims of assassination - because he has a massive guilt trip about the whole thing. That much is obvious.

No not really. The state of one or a few bodies does not prove that none of the victims were shot.

I think the photographs speak for themselves - it was a horrid, horrid accident.

No but that it is the point of them being published. The point is to be provocative.

I think you need to learn more about Russia, to be honest. It's a country that has (except, perhaps, during Stalinism) never really been under central control - they are notoriously incompetent and useless. The publication of these photographs just proves that they are absolutely useless at even following basic procedures such as not allowing anyone but official photographers to have cameras on the crash site. It might be a provocation, but it's likely to be a provocation by some fringe idiot who just wants to cause pain and misery because he can.

I just wish for the sake of the dead that they would let them rest in peace.

Strange that you haven't mentioned the true story behind Anna Walentynowicz's relationship with her family in the years before her death, though. It's all coming out now - she was ignored by her family, and her son had little to do with her before her death. It also seems that he misidentified her.
delphiandomine   
20 Oct 2012
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

Are those pictures bringing anything new or significant about the Smolensk Crash? If not what gives?

Actually, yes. The state of the President's body silences the conspiracy theories about the victims being shot or otherwise and makes it clear that there was a crash.

WP - you're right, those pictures are horrific.
delphiandomine   
20 Oct 2012
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

If they really did want him dead, they could have waited five months and then staged a suicide (which would have been entirely believable given the humiliation Lech would have just suffered).

You'd also wonder why they would kill the one known to be the puppet of his brother - when the brother was far more dangerous and unpredictable.

Funny how it's all gone quiet in the search of electoral gains, isn't it?
delphiandomine   
20 Oct 2012
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

Very often they are the same people who believe that their saviour Lech wouldn't have been utterly humilated at the election which was coming very soon.

Some opinion polls had him down as little as 20% - a first round defeat was looming.

Anyway, why on earth would the Russians want to draw attention to themselves when they could just wait another few months?
delphiandomine   
20 Oct 2012
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

Yeah sure. That depends on what you want to believe. Some would say they reacted in the worst possible way.

Some would say that, but they are on the fringes of society. Heard from Macierewicz recently? No?

Talk to Polish people or older generations, they will tell you.

Polish people I know laugh at the concept of Russia going to all this effort with a country that is firmly in the EU and NATO camps. Why would they bother when they've got nothing to gain anyway?

The older generations? Plenty of them don't agree with that view, too.

Now, if you said that Lithuanian politicians have problems with Poles, you could be right...
delphiandomine   
20 Oct 2012
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

No, PiS would conduct a witchhunt, come up with some nonsense to justify blaming Russia and then go after domestic political opponents in revenge.

We don't need American experts - Poland has plenty of experts in every single area. We have professors in aerodynamics, we have professors in aviation, the lot. If we need outside help, we can ask German, French or British experts within the European Union to help using already established academic links. Why America?

it does matter to them who is in charge.

Really, it doesn't. For all the mud thrown at Russia by the twins, did you see them do anything in return? They shrugged their shoulders and got on with business.

and the government now just does not like Poland.

The government in Russia now hardly cares about Poland. It's pretty much a non-factor in Russian politics. In fact - if you want evidence of this, check out RussiaToday. There is a clear opposition within Russian politics to the missile defence idea, but apart from that, they really couldn't care less about Poland.

It's a bit like the football rivalry between England and Germany. The Germans don't really care (they hate the Dutch far more), but the English hate them.
delphiandomine   
18 Oct 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

she's making decision about getting rid of another human being inside of her and this is the problem.

Depends if you think it's human or not.

For me, if it's not able to live unassisted outside of the body (with the intervention of modern medicine - you're looking at around 20 weeks) - then it's not a human, end of story.

I would physically restrain her from having an abortion after 6-7 weeks.

I think that's far worse than abortion.
delphiandomine   
18 Oct 2012
Life / Polands new immigrants from the West. [36]

Poland should bail on the whole mess and become truly independent like Norway, Switzerland and Russia.

Except Norway, Switzerland and Russia aren't independent at all. Norway is part of the EEA, Switzerland has signed many treaties with the EU (and was more or less told to adopt Schengen and Dublin or face those favourable trade/finance treaties being torn up), Russia is hugely dependent on the EU in terms of oil/gas sales. Poland leaving wouldn't change anything but a return to 4 hour delays on the border and less mobility for her people.

If Poland isn't careful they can become another Greece.

How? Poland has a constitutional debt limit of 60% of GDP - and they aren't known for falsifying records. It's just ever so slightly different to the Greek levels of debt.

But for some reason the Elites want Europe to become another United States.

Well yes, a single market for labour, products and services is the end goal. No harm in that - it means people can live and work freely wherever they want under one set of common rules.

everybody's working for pennies.

Hardly. Been reading freepl.info too much?
delphiandomine   
17 Oct 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

I think her body is hers and hers alone. Of course, she should be provided with all the impartial support she needs by trained professionals (and not priests or anyone else with an agenda) - but it is still her decision to make.

Delph, you mention adoption. I think that's the best can happen to unwanted children.

Indeed. These guys will never, ever understand it because they'll never be in the position.

People wanted democracy and free choice and now they forse their morality on others. Sick.

I don't think half of them even wanted democracy and free choice - they just wanted their morality forced on others.

democracy has nothing to do with killing innocent newborns to be. It's sick to feel that way.

It's just quite ironic that people were agitating for democracy and free choice - then they immediately started agitating to change the law on abortion to reduce the free choice given to women. No surprise, of course.
delphiandomine   
17 Oct 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

should she abort?

If she wants to.

Certain barbarians would happily have her give birth and then snatch the child away for adoption - which could easily be far worse than abortion psychologically. They don't care though, they've got the baby.
delphiandomine   
17 Oct 2012
Life / Polands new immigrants from the West. [36]

Then, they got lured into euro currency.

Actually - if you look back, the EU only let them in because they produced some figures saying that they were doing fine. Now we know it was all lies, but at the time, Greece wanted in. They certainly would have been better out of it from the very beginning, but their own greed ruined it for them.

Poles are among the most European of the lot. Haven't you heard the demands to be considered an integral part of central Europe? Haven't you seen the massive amount of participation in European projects? They still identify with Poland first, but we all do - being European exists alongside nationality. Anyway, the EU doesn't suppress it - it encourages it. If it didn't, why does the EU have a massive bill every year for translation?

When you see countries like Belgium striving to stay one piece because of their languages, what are you actually thinking?

The thinking is logical - everyone plays by the same rules under the same environment. It's not quite there, but look at how Schengen has caused many communities to function as one. Go to Gorlitz/Zgorzelec, or Irun/Hendaye - these places are operating as one, not two. Borders are vanishing before our very eyes. As the EU evolves, barriers will fall and people will mix more and more. It's no bad thing. Languages are encouraged in the EU and diversity is embraced. I wrote a letter to my local MEP once asking if I could use my own minority language (not English) in correspondence with her - and she replied positively, saying that it would take time to get the translation done, but they were happy to reply in my mother tongue if I wanted.

But hey, the financial agenda keeps going. Lets have a crisis and then ask for a unification, it's an old trick.

Self inflicted crisis, you should add. No-one made the Greeks borrow all that cash.
delphiandomine   
17 Oct 2012
Life / Polands new immigrants from the West. [36]

but in actual real policy they should never had surrendered the ability to 'print' currency.

Yes, but that's because their economy before was based upon printing drachmas and creating an inflationary environment in order to soak up all the undeclared income. The whole system relied on deflation in order to combat the rampant income tax evasion.

What's happening in Greece is the slash and burn of the future prospects of an entire nation.

They've only got themselves to blame. If they hadn't lied so much and actually paid tax that they owed, they would be in a far better place now.
delphiandomine   
17 Oct 2012
Language / Busha and JaJa [140]

Actually - since Des got banned, not one thread has been closed or destroyed through arguing. It might get a bit personal like above, but nothing worthy of closing the thread or even mod intervention. They're both big boys, they can have exceptionally pedantic debates without anyone posting 'hahahahaha polonia is laughing at you' style nonsense or insulting Jews, or even Busia.
delphiandomine   
16 Oct 2012
Law / Registering Foreign Car In Poland [24]

I hopefully want my stale pobyt before my divorce is finished.

No chance. The karta stałego pobytu is only issued after 5 years of residence based on a valid reason - owning property isn't enough.

also would this first registration be enough to connect an internet abbonement.

No. You'll need the EU certificate of residency in order to do that as well as a PESEL - you'll need about 6-8 weeks for this.

If I immediately register as resident in poland in our property the day I arrive would this be enough to put the car on polish plates and what kind of time frame will it take?

Others can advise as to the length of time needed to register it, but if you register as resident, it'll only be valid for 3 months until you get the EU residency certificate - at which point, you get 5 years valid residency.
delphiandomine   
16 Oct 2012
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

Still earlier, after the first exhumations, we had learnt that bodies which had been still in good shape were not dressed in garment provided by families. That pieces of soil, various rubbish as well as rubber gloves were not only inside coffins but also sewn inside bodies. Also, medical documents were falsified.

Are you sure about this? Freepl.info is notorious for making up stuff.

Today, we are learning that one of Russian blog sites has published drastic photos from the crash site in Smoleńsk and Moscow morgue.

What do the photos show?
delphiandomine   
16 Oct 2012
Life / Polands new immigrants from the West. [36]

Greece is testing ground in how to change your society from Market Social Economy to Debt slavery for all.

What?

Do you actually believe this rubbish that you're writing? It was the Greeks who got themselves into a mess of debt, no-one else. Greece is actually a testing ground for how to prevent a country from collapsing economically. They're actually managing to cut their debts - which is what everyone wants.
delphiandomine   
15 Oct 2012
Language / Busha and JaJa [140]

Aha, this is interesting to me - thank you very much :) I would love to know more - do you know of any links that I could read about the subject of competition between the language schools? I always thought that Polish had one defined 'standard' - I didn't know about any such competition.

Evidently, since there is no "babcia" in the Linde's dictionary.

I think if there's going to be one person who figures out why they're using Busia and not Babcia, it's going to be you :)

I am not sure where such conclusion can be drawn from.

Ah, I'm just trying to understand your posts - I'm surprised that the word wasn't found in dictionaries at the time, but then, I was under the impression that Polish was standardized much earlier than the end of the 19th century.

While we're at it - do you know of any sites that detail where the Poles came from that emigrated to the USA?
delphiandomine   
15 Oct 2012
Language / Busha and JaJa [140]

Boletus - on a serious note :

Does this mean that the Polish word for "grandmother" is a relatively recent invention and possibly dates from after the mass emigration to the USA at the start of the II RP?
delphiandomine   
15 Oct 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

These women were giving their permission for something unnatural to be done to their bodies

If you take that approach, it means all but natural medicine is by nature "unnatural".
delphiandomine   
15 Oct 2012
Language / Busha and JaJa [140]

I could indeed.

ampoleagle.com/busia-or-babcia-ongoing-controversy-p4400-125.htm

Written by no other than a prominent poster on PF who sees homosexuals everywhere.

Then again, given the amount of factually incorrect rubbish on that site...
delphiandomine   
14 Oct 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

but once you say you're 100% behind him it makes people look at you funny.

Now you understand why we think those Babcia's are very strange when they idolise Jarek ;)
delphiandomine   
14 Oct 2012
Language / Busha and JaJa [140]

As for Busia, the mystery remains unsolved; I would opt for this word having evolved in the language of Polish immigrants to America in the environment of English. Children who heard "babusia" could have been shortening it to "busia" in America and go on uncorrected, while in Poland they would be taught to say "baba" and "babcia" instead.

How would that explain the (allegedly - according to PF posters) grandparents demanding that Busia is used, however? Why would they willingly use incorrect Polish?
delphiandomine   
14 Oct 2012
Language / Busha and JaJa [140]

Oh, it's certainly in widespead-ish use - but what makes it even more interesting is that the "Słownik Języka Polskiego" from 1905 contains this -

babka, babcia, babciutka, babeczka, babusia, babuœ, babuchna, babunia, babuñcia, babuleńka and babulinka.

No sign of Busia/Busha there - so how on earth did it become an widely known and accepted part of Polish-American language?

Then again, they listen to Polka music, blissfully unaware about where it actually comes from ;)

(PS : thanks to Polonius)
delphiandomine   
14 Oct 2012
Language / Busha and JaJa [140]

No more! :(

I'll try and keep it on topic though -

I'm surprised how much these words are used in the US - the Polish emigration is fairly recent, yet these words seem to be incredibly common among the early 20th century emigrants.
delphiandomine   
14 Oct 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

P3 - one problem with your approach is that determining who the father is of an unborn baby requires putting a needle into the womb - which carries a 1% risk of miscarriage.
delphiandomine   
14 Oct 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

It disturbs me when anyone is 100% behind him on anything.

It disturbs you when he says that ZUS contributions for the self employed should be cut for small and medium businesses from the current 1000zl a month?
delphiandomine   
14 Oct 2012
Language / Busha and JaJa [140]

Not again. Please. I can't take any more of it.
delphiandomine   
13 Oct 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Like the little chlidren being murdered that CAN'T SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES

Oh Patrick, you're making it oh so easy. In fact, it's so easy that I'm not even going to bother, except that it's funny that an American should see fit to interfere in Polish debates.
delphiandomine   
12 Oct 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Perhaps a better solution is for men to simply stop talking about the issue.

I'm sure it's not only me that sees the irony in some old American living in Warsaw telling Polish women what to do and what not to do.