News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Er..don't you mean over a shorter period of time?
I am firmly on the side of those who argue that retail sales are going to be hurt by this. It reminds me of Sundays in Britain in the early 80s - defeatist, grey and boring. We learnt our lesson - which is, let the free market decide.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Do you know how unoriginal that comment is WP? I'm sure you do. Why do 800,000 Poles live in Britain? How does Arka Gdynia win 3-1 away on the final day of the season at their "friends" stadium and there is no suspicion of match fixing? Why do people keep buying Beyonce records?

All these things are a mystery, and will doubtless remain so, but what is done is done. Don't try to understand, and I will forgive you your silly posturing of a mythical "Greater Poland" in seemingly everything you say and do.


Your society is in America. You are a misguided chap, that's plain enough. I've tried to help, but if you are too far gone to see the truth, or you seem to miss Poland so much........ (although by your own admission you were 8 when you left...)

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


I don't want your citizenship thanks Dirk:) A waste of time and effort, with sweet FA in return. As I said, back in the day it would have meant relinquishing British citizenship but you obviously prefer to gloss over that pertinent fact.

Meanwhile...... it is WE who have to put up with the inconvenience of shops being closed on a Sunday to feed some medieval idiots' egos. Not YOU.

I think that is the first and only time I have shouted on this forum:)

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Again, it's not "Our" Dirk. It has nothing to do with you, You don't live here. Sick of repeating the fact.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Lol Dirk. You at it again? Not in the mood for your boorish Poland love today mate.
Ever heard of GDP? Ever heard of standard of living index? Poland is a poor country. Not to be compared with any of the above, bar one. Even then, one might argue that Greek shipping puts most of Polands' trade in the shade. Get over it. Otherwise, why aren't you back here?

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


And I saw lots of people agitating in long queues at 7.30 on Saturday morning and the supermarket staff wringing their hands in exasperation.. PIS have seen how the Germans and Austrians live and think they can emulate them:))

Clueless fools. The Polish government - not the Germans......

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Taken a straw poll of people here. They seem to approve :( :(
Bonkers for a poor country where the economy is part driven by retail. Not that a lot of people care about their children having to sort out the foreseeable economic mess further down the road. Poland can always apply to the IMF.......................

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Full time position, no real selling experience required, but a commercial background would be helpful. This is hardly the board for this sort of thing, but please PM if you are that person. It probably beats teaching for a living :) :)

Law / Polish EU Drivers Licence - can I get one the easy way (by paying for it)? [185]


Mmmm - the sheer number of signs, a lot of which are actually rarer in the wild than a bison, and what is the pass rate....? What about the lunacy of the pedestrian crossing, and when it is safe to proceed? Getting the sineage bang to rights is a lottery, if you don't happen to have a trained memory.

As for the test content, I'm only going by what we actually do day to day when driving. I've never had the need to reverse round a tight corner between two hazards, so I'm sticking to my assertion that it's a load of bull. No emergency stop? No hill start? But nonsense like avoiding tightly packed obstacles when reversing?...... :))

The idea to suss out the route is a top one - as long as the test follows a prescribed route. Mine didn't in Womble don...

Law / Polish EU Drivers Licence - can I get one the easy way (by paying for it)? [185]


Of course now you have to show your ID, so there would be no way of being registered as the test taker, unless you actually were....

Rather like other matters that have been discussed here, I would suggest that anybody who can, takes their test in another EU country. The test there can't possibly be as unfair and unnecessarily drawn out for job creation purposes as in the Polish system.

Law / Polish EU Drivers Licence - can I get one the easy way (by paying for it)? [185]


To be fair, a lot of people were at one time tempted to go down the illegal route, because passing the Polish test is so subjective and idiotic. I have driven here for more than 30 years, and never yet had to reverse round a blind bend to a starting position (in fact, anyone with any sense would realise that is a dangerous manoevre) but they insist on keeping the cone test....

Also the theory test is designed to make the learner fail (equalling more money for the system)The Polish driving test (and methodology) sucks big time. As a result I am for anything that plays the government at their own scummy game.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]


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' [1538]


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' [1538]


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' [1538]


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' [1538]


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' [1538]

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' [1538]

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' [1538]


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' [1538]


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' [1538]


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' [1538]


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' [1538]


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

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]


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' [1538]

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' [1538]


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.