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jon357   
30 May 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

And nuclear energy is much safer

Yes. Nobody falling into open fireplaces, nobody burning their hands, no chimney fires and safe for kids.

radiation is fun and exciting.

Not as fun as a gob full of coal smoke or a burn on your carpet.

Poland needs coal.

What for?
jon357   
30 May 2024
History / The restoration of Polish cities from WW2 destruction [123]

most flats built in communism were tragically small

They were small elsewhere and are small today. Keeps costs down, and not as small as the huts the people in them came from.

tenement hall

Apartment blocks?

Why build 'replicas'? Are we stuck in the past with no good new ideas?
jon357   
30 May 2024
Travel / Greatest Old Towns in Poland [74]

Market square is better

Not in English.It doesn't work well since it's more than just market stalls.

Spoils the view somehow.

A Polish thing. Too many cars, not enough discreet parking or car-free zones. They should pedestrianise that town square and have some public art there.
jon357   
30 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

destroyed

Zniszczony. Destroyed or badly damaged. And the 80% refers to centrum. All of Praga plus some parts of Śródmieście Południowe and Powiśle survived. There are some amazing pre-war buildings, some with their original wallpaper.

The suburbs generally survived in whole or in part; most of the streets around me are 1930s and I live in a house completed in 1938.
jon357   
30 May 2024
History / The restoration of Polish cities from WW2 destruction [123]

Pity

Or the opposite.

And it's modern architecture more than anything political.

The old town looks pretty in old photos, however at least the new housing has enough space, proper bathrooms and no rats, damp or exploitative private 'landlords'.

check the last photo.

It looks beautiful. Lots of green space and nice warm homes.
jon357   
30 May 2024
Travel / Greatest Old Towns in Poland [74]

Pułtusk

It's a lovely town. The rynek (works better as "town square" rather than market square") is about 30 metres longer than the second longest in Europe, which is in Dublin.

Of course Plac Defilad in Warsaw is longer but I never think of that as a square since most of it is taken up with a very nice large building.
jon357   
30 May 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

That picture could almost be today. Especially in Praga which survived the war or in the southern part of the city centre which wasn't as badly damaged since they'd run out of explosives and only had petrol. Plus that was where the German occupiers lived.
jon357   
29 May 2024
Life / Is there a self-help movement in Poland? [13]

Marble Collegiate Church in
mid-town Manhattan! A lovely looking edifice as I remember.

I've seen it and thought it was beautiful.

even mocking the need for both G-d
and religion itself.

She didn't even believe the rubbish she wrote herself. A failed Hollywood screenwriter who hit on a scam to sell unreadable books to sad young men.

EST movement during the late '70's "We are where we are by choice alone",
as you might recall.

Were they something to do with 'Esalen'.? I knew a young actor once who used to pay a group either somehow connected to them or based on them thousands for 'training'. He went off and lived on a commune connected with them eventually and was never heard of again.

the first self-help books in North America

Have you read any Mary Baker Eddy? My old man used to recite a thing she wrote about illness not being real. He lived into his nineties and was going to the gym three times a week when he was 88 and was working u til the lockdowns so it obviously did him no harm.
jon357   
29 May 2024
Life / Is there a self-help movement in Poland? [13]

Perhaps things have changed some.

They've always been around, including some seriously weird stuff. A few years ago they were pushing drivel from a guy called Norman Vincent Peale though thank fúck it never caught on in PL.

Now the Ayn Rand cult is dumping her 'books' in PL as cheap editions. There's also 'NLP' now and worse besides.

They used to sell headsets where people used to listen to words being read out to a background of white noise in the hope they'd learn English without actually trying.
jon357   
29 May 2024
Life / Is there a self-help movement in Poland? [13]

I saw Louise Hay's books have been translated into Polish. Is she popular there? And what about the controversial "The Secret"? And binaural beats?

The Secret, crystals, homeopathy, chakras etc.

All that crapola, plus 'biomagnetic' 'therapy', Ayn Rand rubbish, 'ascended master teaching' , stuff with crystals, 'chiropracty' and reflexology too.
jon357   
29 May 2024
UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]

A strike leader s a good person to have in politics.

The shinners don't take up their parliamentary seats for various reasons (they don't recognise U.K. jurisdiction and in any case wouldn't take the parliamentary oath) and personally I prefer SDLP who do take up their seats, however she's clearly a very able person.
jon357   
29 May 2024
USA, Canada / Why Americans don't allow men to be in briefs at the beach/swiming pools? [90]

But I do AND from a much more prestigious University than yours.

You don't. And you don't know which universities I went to either.

You were a small town car mechanic after leaving prison. And are barely literate.

So, for the sake of fun, what's your 'degree' supposed to be in and where are you did it?
jon357   
29 May 2024
USA, Canada / Why Americans don't allow men to be in briefs at the beach/swiming pools? [90]

people walk around Poland naked

On naturist beaches, yes.

There's a popular one near Gdańsk and an even more popular one in the suburbs of Warsaw.

I hold a higher degree than you do

You don't.

sometimes women go topless on beaches

Normal, even expected in France.
jon357   
29 May 2024
USA, Canada / Why Americans don't allow men to be in briefs at the beach/swiming pools? [90]

]laws that are in place for some odd reason.

A very odd reason. Prudishness. Naturism is popular in Poland and has been for many decades.

]my college days

You never went to 'college'. The only courses you ever took were prison training schemes.

You are not only disgusting but obsessed

Isn't he just.
jon357   
29 May 2024
USA, Canada / Why Americans don't allow men to be in briefs at the beach/swiming pools? [90]

Satan's nudist

Why would naturism have anything to do with 'Satan'?

to lust after

Just enjoy the beach. I'm sure you can lust after people elsewhere.

impure thoughts

You were boasting about giving a teenage girl cocaine and ringing her ding in other threads.

Don't pretend to be riding here, Humpty.
jon357   
29 May 2024
UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]

Go for Astra coffee

I used to live very close to their factory in Poznan. A nice smell. A good brand too. At home we buy beans due to having one of those machines with a hopper. Generally I get whatever's on special offer at Biedronka.

Jacobs Krönung

I don't rate that one much at all. I used to get it free. The coffee in England is generally good if you buy it at the right shop. M&S and Waitrose both have good coffee.

You go to MC Donald to eat a healthy meal?

MaccyD's salads are a sad thing. Especially as the chips are the best thing there.
jon357   
29 May 2024
Off-Topic / thinking of writting a book about myself [219]

aiding and abetting a crime.

Have you that little self control that you can't be in the company of someone attractive without sexually assaulting them?

Then again, given your past history (and current difficulties) the answer to that question is obvious.
jon357   
29 May 2024
USA, Canada / Why Americans don't allow men to be in briefs at the beach/swiming pools? [90]

.They have Nudist summer camps for pervs

Sexual compulsives get their jollies easily enough without going to naturist beaches.

granpa's testicles and granny's boobs bouncing below their knees.

So don't look. Enjoy the sun and the sand.

And plenty of men wear speedos on the public beach. The OP has no clue what they are ranting about.

That's my feeling too. Plenty do (though some probably shouldnt).
jon357   
29 May 2024
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

charm of coal

There's not much charm except for a coal fire at home and mining is dirty and dangerous work.

The issue is when it's not adequately replaced and when the economies in the regions are abandoned after centuries of creating wealth for others.

Poland (and Germany) should cease coal mining. This will certainly happen when the new generation of SME reactors are on sale. Before tha, there are golden opportunities for micro generation especially in former coal mining areas. Meanwhile, it's up to all of us to ensure that the benefits of this go to the workers and to the communities they live in rather than passive 'investors'
jon357   
29 May 2024
USA, Canada / Why Americans don't allow men to be in briefs at the beach/swiming pools? [90]

99% should be covered

And when the women cover thoroughly, racists complain.

You should see the Polish nude beaches. Often a horror show but at least healthy.

It's where I first met a Very Famous Politician before he was in politics and when he was just a former child actor whose twin brother wanted to be Mayor.

Not an especially pretty sight.