News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]

Of course, it does. Whatever you may hold against PiS, Poland enjoys the freedom of speech. I was telling in another thread about that anti-PiS exibition just in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw.

Andrzej Duda is president of all Polish people including those who have put up up this anti-PiS exhibition.

News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]


Probably it is not a bad thing after all. This is a pharaonic project for which the government will have no money in the future. The Germans are not capable to finish their big hub in Berlin, and despite much progress having been done in Poland recently to tarnish the infamous image of "polnische Wirtshaft", Germany is still a better organized country than Poland. And they carry on without the big hub in Berlin and can still manage.

It is unrealistic to assume that such pandemias as COVID-19 will never return. On the contrary, it is realistic to assume that they will return and on a larger scale. Perhaps not in a year or two, but they will. It was already obvious 10 or 15 years ago when these types of pandemia were breaking out on a local scale, but were succesfully quenched.

The air traffic is not likely to return to the levels observed in the times before COVID-19, so what should we need a pharaonic hub for? To baptize it "Lech Kaczyński Airport"?

News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]

But they started to dig that ditch across the Vistula Split, didn't they?

And they did cut down a lot of century-old forests in the Białowieża Forest, too

Work / Choice of Poland's OFE ( Open Pension Funds ) [30]


That was a brilliant answer coming from a self-conscious citizen of Poland who proudly refuses to buy the bullshit of PiS propaganda.

Well done!

Life / Izabela? - Advice with Polish name for a girl [36]


It is. But I think 'Bela' was preferred in the 19th or early 20th century When you divide the name, you will have "Iza-bela", and they now prefer the first part as a shortned form, while more than a hundred years ago they chose the final part. Another thing is that the name wasn't popular among the so-called common people at that time.

Such preferences change over time. For example, I've watched a very interesting lecture of the archeologist Przemysław Urbańczyk on the times of Bolesław Chrobry recently, and the lecturer noticed, comparing the iconography on banknotes and coins, that the king was portrayed en face in the times of the PRL, whereas before the WW II and today he is portrayed in profile.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


One may assume there are two ducks in Polish politics: one is Donald Duck, the other is Kaczyński Duck (kaczka=duck)


I would probably abstain. Now look how Duda has suddenly become kind to everyone. His gay patrols gone, he just thanks people for voting for him, but also for voting for his competitors. Smiles and kind greetings for those who want to listen, supporters or enemies alike. As my neighbour uded to say: :"Cukierek umaczany w truciźnie".

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Latest poll for the second round (in %) in wirtualna polska:
Trzaskowski: 48,1
Duda: 45,8
Undecided: 6,1

A relatively large proportion of the undecided in the poll.

Language / POLISH 18 - 30 years old know MUCH BETTER ENGLISH language than their own native language! [102]

That's true. This is because in the declension of the nouns: oko, ucho or ręka we can still find forms of the archaic dual number alongside the modern ones.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


It means there is a multitude of people who are looking for a third option beyond the existing political duopoly. And Hołownia's good result also means that this third option isn't Konfederacja.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


What worries you about him?

(So, the Wieczór Wyborczy is over, and recommend to everyone the Russian film "Anna Karenina" on TVP1 which has just started. If you turn the Polish sound off, you may follow the original track in Russian. Not sure if one can turn the English subtitles on, but certainly the Polish ones are available. A linguistic feast!)

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


Hołownia presented himself as a candidate of citizens (kandydat obywatelski). Poland's president is not like the US president. He has probably a little bit more practical power than the British Queen, so basically the president of Poland is the "guardian of the chandelier" at the Palace. So I think Hołownia could carry on well as a president.

I voted for Hołownia (by no means believing he would get to the next round) to show my distance to a party who so easily got rid of the long-term OFE program because it just wanted to fill up the current budget deficit.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

First exit polls:
Duda: 41,8%
Trzaskowski: 30,4%
Hołownia: 13,3%

So Duda is the first, Trzaskowkli passes the threshold of 30%.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

The wp.pl website says the turnout at 17:00 was 47,89% but the turnout at the same hour in 2015 was only 34,41%.

So, a big advance on the previuos presidential election.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


Doda would be a very good choice. Well, anyone would be a good choice except Duda. Unfortunately she hasn't submitted her candidacy for the contest :-( .

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


You certainly do not live in Poland and don't "feel" the reality here, so I am happy to forgive you calling me Ziemodimwit :-).

If you asked one hundred people in whatever street of whatever town in Poland who Robert Biedroń was, you would possibly get 98 positive replies as to who he is. And this will be not because he runs for presidency in the coming election, but because he was the first openly gay mayor of a town in Poland.

But then, if you asked the very same people who Różański or Witkowski was, you would probably end up with one or two positive replies to that question at the maximum.

Witkowski is a such an insignificant candidate for presidency that I didn't even bother to open the Wiki link which Lenka provided.

As for Różański, the name only associates in my mind with some opressor of the Stalinist era, but I doubt it was him whom Delph had in mind. If so, I think that's too far away in time to be relevant for the current presidential election in Poland. Anyway, most people in Poland would not identify such a name in either case.


Thus, the above presumption of yours is highly inaccurate in reference to the word 'basic'.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


Who the hell is Witkowski. Maybe I miss something ...?

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


Who the hell is General Różański? I somehow missed it ...


You can't find any non-communists in PiS for removing the communist scam elsewhere, can you? If so, they're all a gang of post-comunists in PiS ...


What party would that be?

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


Has Trzaskowski crossed the magic line of 30% now?


In September things will actually get worse for PiS. They need to fix the election as soon s possible. That's why they had insisted on an even earlier date with all election going postal on which project they illegally wasted about ZŁ30 million by premturely printing voting cards.


I concur with this. If they did it, then the egg - as JR says - would be dripping off JK's face for ever (like it is dripping off Lazarus' face right now)..

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


I already told a story here about a small town in Lubelskie where two guys beat a bloke who stood at an election rally among Duda supporters calmly, but was holding up a plate which said "No for the Ballpen".

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Whatever people might tell against Duda and PiS, I shall admit that democracy is still alive in Poland. Yesterday in Warsaw I was walking the Krakowskie Przedmieście Street down to the Royal Castle and was passing the Presidential Palace. On my way I spotted a guy seated just in front of the Palace and holding a plate which said 'Precz z faszyzmem" (Down with facism). Then, on the border of the pavement with the road there was an exibition of large photographs with texts showing PiS politicians which presented their corruptive "deeds" and how much money it costed the Polish taxpayer. I was sort of surprised at the rather great number of those deeds having been accumulated throughout the period when PiS have been in power.

All that in front of the Presidential Palace and no police or other force dismanting the exibition. Thank God we are not yet a Putin-style republic. I wonder if Konfederacja with Bosak as the main tenant of the Palace would have tolerated this kind of exhibition.

[On a side note, I wonder if such an exhibition were allowed in case of presenting the achievements or problems or whatever else concerning the LGBT people. That could be a real test for the Polish democracy!]

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


I've always said on this forum that Trump is a big player. He once went totally bankrupt and then recovered and that is always an extremely good lesson if you pass it successfully. Neither Duda nor JK nor Bosak would be able to achive this in my view. Neither Trzaskowski, to be honest, but at least he seems to be much less naive than Duda.

History / Life in Poland in 1800-1900 [18]


There is the Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe (English version available) with tons of scans of documents and pictures.
Their motto: Each picture has his own history, some histories have their pictures.

nac.gov.pl/en/

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


This is quite simple. Trump invited Duda having the Polish-American voters in the US election in mind.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


You've misread my post, darling.

I was not talking about Polish people living in Poland, but only of those handful of Polish people who post on the PF



It only means that they've alredy begun to soil their pants even if it is still 4 days to the election.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


This is particularly true when you watch the propagnda spilled out from the public television TVP. I would have never imagined that it came over the surface once again. Of course, the slogans and subjects promoted are different, but the techniques of manipulation is virtually the same. A source of eternal disgust for anyone who is capable of thinking on their own.

Of course, there are lot of peole who believe this kind of propoagand. There have always been people who need an "'authority' which explains to them the surrounding world in simple terms.


They probably imagine that the level of bureaucracy and competence in Poland is as high as in the countries of the "rotten" West they actually live in at present, while in fact it is not. On the other hand, they despise certain values promoted in that rotten West, so they are quite happy that Poland under PiS rejects them. In this way they get the false image of Poland as an orderly organized country which is not true, at the same time not realizing that ideas and values of the democratic rotten West add enormously to the freedem and thus prosperity of the said West. In the end. The Polish expats abroad tend to find themselves in the trap of their own illusions.

It has always striked me that the majority of people on the PF living in Poland, both the handful of native Poles as well as foreign expats in Poland, have totally different opinions on what is going on in Poland than the majority of the delusional Poles posting from the "rotten" West.

Life / Izabela? - Advice with Polish name for a girl [36]


A lot of politicians, including PiS politicians for whom the so-called Christian values are so dear, have "mistresses" on the side and need not to leave their wives. Kazio Marcinkiewicz could have also done that thus sparing everyone the trouble of reading about his turbulent union with Isabel.


Or simply Belcia as the father of Izabela Łęcka called his daughter in the "Lalka" novel (it is available in English trnsltion as an e-book "The Doll" on amazon.com). Also her caring aunt, hrabina Karolowa, did that as well. Just read this:

- Tylko bez egzaltacji, Belciu! Nie masz lat szesnastu i na życie musisz patrzeć serio. Nie można przecie dla jakiejś idiosynkrazji poświęcić bytu ojca, a choćby Flory i waszej służby. Wreszcie pomyśl, ile ty przy twym szlachetnym serduszku mogłabyś zrobić dobrego rozporządzając znacznym majątkiem.

- Ależ, ciociu, marszałek jest obrzydliwy. Jemu nie żony trzeba, ale niańki, która by mu ocierała usta.

Have you read the entire text of "Lalka", Pawian?

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


That a was good point. The majority of conservative Catholic gentry (szlachta) did not want any reforms of king Poniatowski and his liberal circle. The gentry people in the country despised Warsaw at the time considering the city a seat of evil. And in the end they got what they deserved - a tsarist most conservative rule which wanted to wipe Catholic religion out of Poland and eradicate the Polish language from the Earth. Hahahaha.

Now the clowns of the PiS party woukld like follow in their steps. Forming fag patrols in every town and village is perhaps their preferred activity they would like to pursue in the times of the crisis. Hahahaha.

Life / Izabela? - Advice with Polish name for a girl [36]


Oh, that soap opera was really good. I've always wondered what made this otherwise reasonable PiS politician leave his wife and get into all this.


It is. One of the main characters in Bolesław Prus' novel "The Doll", Izabela Łęcka, was commonly referred to as 'Bela' in her family circle.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


I don't, because they are not prone to being educated. Did you hear of an incident in Ryki where one bloke came to an electoral meeting with Duda and calmly stood there among Duda's supporters holding up a plate which said "Nie dla długopisu". He so much infuriated two of the supporters that they beat him up in front of his teen daughter. He later commented that it was a "perfect" example of the famous pro-family policy pursued by Duda and PiS.

Travel / Fortune Tellers/ Astrologers in Warsaw [27]

I would have never expected you to go to one, by the way. Besides, 25 years is too long a period for a fortune-teller to tell a world-wide predictions. It is more likely they specialize in the life of a particular person (which possibly could include dying from a virus, but I doubt any fortune-teller would go that far as telling his customer the cause of his death).

Contrary to Ask Donna, many scietists predicted that there will be an outbreak of a virus epidemia sooner or later (due to various factors facilitaling such event).