News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


That was for you - a peace offering:) I forgot that English is your second language, so probably you didn't get the nuance. I made an opinion about the topic; you joked about "old" people with dementia. I asked you politely not to - that was the order of things. My brother was 62 btw, so it could happen to anybody. Nothing to laugh about.

Next topic?

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


Still my favourite TV recording of Chopins' 2nd Piano Concerto, Andre Previn, LSO. A true force of nature.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


It's not your fault Wulkan, because you wouldn't know, but as it happens I have just lost my one and only sibling to dementia, and it's a terrible disease, so less of the wisecracks about personal health topics if you don't mind:) It's very upsetting.


Thje thing that annoys me is that they leave out the news that they don't like, and report what happened to Mrs Kowalski, with her ducks having 25 chicks, instead. Not news, especially when Duda vetoing legislation was the news of the day one would have thought:))

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


Of course. Me too. It's tedious at times with all the plastic sets and presenters. but I get annoyed at being blatantly lied to as if I am a total idiot, so the only alternative, the state broadcaster, is a big no,no.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


That's funny. All of my friends and my family make a point of avoiding TVP. It's good that we're not all the same.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Totally agree with you there as far as the only victims.... although the Jewish population was of course the largest civilian war victims if you discount the Soviets' genocide on their own peoples. I thought that had been put to bed by Polish/Jewish contingents together at numerous death camp ceremonies. I well remember the joint service at Auschwitz on the anniversary of liberation, and the father in law was invited there as an witness to the event, but he declined, as he happened to share your view that the Jewish dead historically had inordinately too much of the victim status

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

It is strange that Poles who supposedly make such a boastful scene of their apparent christian virtues are so keen on digging up the dead to prove some self-serving theory. First it was the 92, and now it's Jewish murder victims, and the illogical point making of "Well - it was only 450 dead actually...."

Tasteless at best on both counts. In a perfect world we should let have the victims of both tragedies rest in peace.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


Not comparing evil with todays' world, but some peoples are just as gullible today in falling for blame politics:(

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


Ah - see what you mean now Lyzko. Yes, they did take him, because he really wanted the job:(

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


Don't be silly Lyzko. Please stick to American history. As TheOther rightly states, the opposition parties held a majority in the 1933 "free" election. Even murder and intimidation on an unprecedented scale didn't allow Hitler to get a parliamentary majority. They were the biggest party - that's not the same thing. In Catalonia, the Pro-independence parties won the election,and as a coalition will form the next government. The biggest party in parliament has no allies of much size. That's how people agree and are free to horsetrade in a democracy with that system, but in a nationalist madhouse what you get is anarchy.

Lesson learnt in Europe? Time will tell, and some have nuclear:(

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


What about arresting people who murdered Jews then? A bit late, and Wiesenthal and others tried, but today we have a so-called democratic political system, and if one could get the neighbours to talk........

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


No, they didn't. Back to the history books for you.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


I suspect that many of these ministers haven't studied the material either, but have been been briefed by civil servants who are at best a tad one-sided and

opinionated.
I must say I haven't studied the Jewish question, and so am ignorant of the facts. I would hazard a guess that I am not the only one.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

I have a query.
In the 1970s, Britain had a couple of pornography campaigners (anti anything at all that was titillating). One of them, called Mary Whitehouse, declared a certain film (Deep Throat) to be "disgusting" and "obscene" - and upon being asked how precisely, she said that it featured certain scenes that were "an affront to public morals"

When asked if she had seen such a film (which any schoolboy of the time found deeply disappointing in actual content) she replied that she hadn't seen it, and had no intention of doing so.

So my question is simply this. How many of Poland's government ministers and their lobbyists have actually studied the literature, as to how particularly the Poles reputation as a state is allegedly being smeared, or should they be categorised as modern day Mary Whitehouses?

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


Why do you keep shouting? We can hear you perfectly alright. Nobody else does that - not even loudmouth me. I think the Mods should be told.

Life / Why are Polish people so strange & unusual? [51]


No argument there. Netanyahu is a politician of the worst kind and has surely lost any standing outside his own country, so his criticism of just about anything counts for nothing in diplomatic quarters.

Life / Why are Polish people so strange & unusual? [51]


At present they do have a lot on their plate, denying free speech and generally allowing themselves to be brainwashed by an idiotic concept of nationalist "go -it-alone" government.

Life / Why are Polish people so strange & unusual? [51]


Here we are all quite pally, and visit each other's gaffes, to yes, enthuse about our own "Come Dine With Me" successes and failures , and look after Fido etc etc. Sorry to be so positive about it all, but that's my experience after 27 years away from the old crumbling Dougpol estates.

Life / Why are Polish people so strange & unusual? [51]


Not in the UK. Quite the reverse. They would let their countryman starve. We British act one hundred percent like a clan when away from Blighty, and Americans probably do too?

"I just need a small loan to get me home..."
"I don't think I can help you old chap....."
"Oh, that's a shame. I don't know how I will pay for my fare back to Luton without my wallet. My whippet will be missing me and we're playing in the 5th round of the FA cup on Saturday and I can't miss that!"

"You're British?!! My dear fellow - why didn't you say so?!! American Express?"


Talk about generalising:)) My neighbours are 99.9999 recurring Polish, the wife is Polish. Not bad types:) Only the dog isn't Polish, and he's a difficult fellow.

Work / Can I find a job in Poland that requires speaking in English? [82]

IBM.....

News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]


He he:) The Germans needed some good roads in Poland to deliver their badged goods to Kaufland. And could somebody please tell that bloody shop to stop with the silly jingle. At least I never had to listen to such rubbish at Spoolem in the '80s :))

News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]


Yes I am. Britain can afford to do the decent thing. Poland is way behind, can't afford socialism, or PIS's brand of, and people should be tightening their belts and not spending what they can't afford. It's my money.


So I take it you have never run a S.C. here Dolno? Otherwise you wouldn't make such a statement shirley?

News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]


Dirk. You have never lived here have you? I say again - ALL of the modern infrastructure revolution is paid for at least 2/3 out of EU funds. Without that Poland would still be in the dark ages aka commie land.

But a poster who enjoys arguing with himself can't see that simple fact. Probably because you don't know Poland. A long time ago I posted a picture of the by-pass that goes from Gdynia port up to the ring road. It stretches for 7 kilometres, crosses moraines, rises 350 metre or whatever, and is a terchnological marvel. As well as being totally necessary.

It cost 100,000,000 of those Brussels notes. The EU paid two thirds. Without that, the streets of Gdynia would still be blocked with container juggernauts. And it wouldn't have been built with out the EU. That is no slight on Poles and Poland. Where the holy crap would the money be coming from for all this?

Just a little appreciation of people who help to make your life a bit easier, getting to work, to play etc, a little bit faster, and safer wouldn't go amiss.

Oh! I forgot! You don't live here! But you feel fit to comment on OUR lives every single evening. Why aren't you on a Chicago forum or something instead? Just a thought....Here to help.

News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]


They didn't? LOL.
The average Polish salary when I was married in the 80s was 40 dollars a month. You do the maths. My point was that the EU rescued Poland's infrastructure - something the country would not have been able to do on it's own thanks to an inability to use the right mix of concrete on its prior construction.

Probably because of widespread corruption ? Just a guess :)))

News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]


PIS are a socialist party economically. What is it about that fact that is so hard to grasp? So what exactly makes me a socialist? If you mean I care about freedoms, then sure. I hate the Katowice police and would set the dog on them, if he could bite, but that's anarchistic, not socialism. I would like nurses and teachers to be paid properly, if they would only help themselves, but that's not socialism. I care about refugees, who are fleeing persecution and death. That's humanism, not socialism. I hate ZUS and unfairly high taxes - that's not socialism.

So, where's the socialism?:))


Please don't twist my words Dirk - I was so clearly referring to infrastructure pre-2004

News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]


?? Not a communist Dolno - I hated the SLD and Miller. I leave it to you Poles to stupidly put old communists, that you managed to oust at one time, back in power, and also buy Jaruzelski's book by the millions when he should have been lynched by the mob.

A case of the kettle calling the pot black I feel with regard to any left wing inclinations.
You don't get more left wing than handing out 500zl times 4 willy-nilly to every layabout with 5 children who can't provide for them himself mainly because he doesn't get up early enough.

As cms says , you weren't here pre 2004. Poland was a shambles, and would still be so today without the 66 percent that made modern infrastructure possible, plus the multi-nationals with real jobs. Don;t believe me? Ask any professional what he was offered at interview for a multi, and ask him what the Polish competitor offered him. They simply cannnot compete on remuneration. A fact of life, and who cares in the UK if Tesco is British, or jewish, or Swahali? The world has changed. Some people never grow up with it, but luckily money talks.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


I am not having that Chemikiem. That is simply not true.
There is NO regard.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


But do you really think so? Maybe in a Scandinavian state? In the UK - nah. Not going to happen. Happy to be corrected. Or not happy if so - sense of proportion here?


Clearly those people are barking too. Unless it is taken out of context?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Catholicism is a disaster for any modern state. You can philosophise as much as you want, but at the end of the day, people will always do what is best for them.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


My wife and daughter for a start Ironside. Are you calling my family? I hope not youth. :) And millions of others are appalled every time PIS open their mouths and pour out their filth. It doesn't really matter though - it's only a PIS sideshow. The electorate is so dumb that they don't notice the real **** show that is going on here.

You wouldn't know about that of course - because you don't live here, so your opinion is void. You still haven't answered my query about your opinion of Norwegian women and their pro-choice lives.


Of course not. Nobody is being murdered. I don't understand your point.