Love / What are the good places to meet decent woman motivated to establishing a family in Ustka area? [32]


Take my wife....................

Just don't take my beer! :)

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

I don't love Poland at the moment.

Same old witch-hunt nonsense, as an excuse not to work to put conditions in place to improve peoples' day to day lives.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


A tad akin to the Nazis. Except that PIS haven't started imprisoning their own (Eric Rohm style) and sadly are unlikely to do so:)

News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]


Like Johnny's disgraceful behaviour you mean?

News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]


Walesa a traitor? Grow up boy.

All the others were cowering and frightened, while Walesa and his ilk actually acted, and acted without fear for their own skins.

And what about the Kiszcaks of this world? Him and the general were Russians in disguise. If they had been British they would have been lucky to escape execution, and that's an absolute given.

News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]


What? And why would that be?


Have you ever been to Slask Polonius? I don't think so. It's a wasteland - and if the old industries were still pouring out their toxic pollutants the country would be bankrupt - IMF style - all over again.

Don't speak of subjects that you clearly know nothing about.

News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]


But it depends where that land is. I am for compulsory purchase in some cases - where the leaseholder refuses to sell, holding out for a mythical price, and so ruining the landscape for one and all.


Civil disobedience.

Walesa is a hero who earned the world's admiration. End of.

When it comes down to their word against his, PIS are the traitors. I would be out on the streets and my dog would be put on fighting mode.

PIS are dangerous k un ter kintes and we need to fight them..

Polonius - I was here in communist times. Were you? I saw how the Poles whimpered and were frightened, and with good reason.
And who were threatening them?

Other Poles.

In Britain that would have meant Civil war. History will reflect that Walesa and his ilk are the heroes. For remaining calm and negotiating a ground-breaking settlement with the communist Scum.

Yet nobodys like the Kaczynskis dared to question that? Time for action methinks, and to put these dangerous nobody jokers in their place.

News / The dossier of TW "Bolek" - Poland's IPN assisted by police enters the home of the late general Kiszczak [306]

**** a duck.

Walesa is a far greater man than the Kaczynskis and their mob put together. He may not be an academic, but was clearly brave, motivational, and could take decisions, while remaining calm and sensible.

Only ten years before the Zomo had murdered his co-workers in the Food Riots - who was to say worse couldn't befall the shipyards and mines this time around. Wujek coal-mine was bad enough, but history tells us that Walsa's softly-softly approach was bang on.

As to "Agent" - a lot of people got themselves in ****, and (were forced) to sign papers they shouldn't have as a Get Out of Jail Free card. The Geremeks of this world (and who would criticise such a figure) actually went further along that road to enable himself an education.

Who are the fools here?
I'll give a clue - one of them killed 90 plus people through his arrogance.

Work / English teaching books in Poland: villains and heroes [30]

I think Empik does......

Life / Whats up with Polish guys getting drunk and looking for a fight? [60]


And you don't criticise things British? I bloody well do.

Life / Whats up with Polish guys getting drunk and looking for a fight? [60]


So - what would have happened if the Romanians had closed their border in 1939 and told Poles to bugger off? You speak excellent English Grzegorz so you will be cognisant with the English term "Batting on a sticky wicket"? Also known as, you're talking bull.

PS MODS - this ON topic because I am on-topic - as to the 3 city pub culture, and when I am not staring perversely at the barmaids, I am always ready for a snarl at the refugee question.

Of course no rude words or threats are exchanged but the atmosphere of aggression is sadly there. In answer to the thread, there is LITTLE aggression in Polish pubs, as opposed to the UK.

I should know. i could build another house with what I have spent in pubs here:)

Life / Whats up with Polish guys getting drunk and looking for a fight? [60]


Yep. Racist. Absolutely.

Ask 1000 Poles what their feelings are about the refugees from Syria and the overwhelming majority wiil say " We don't want those people here. It is not our problem, and they are a different culture, and shouldn't be here (in Europe). Send them back - to fight, or die."

Racism is a kind word anyway. Blind ignorance and hatred would be closer to the mark. I can forgive the first, but not the second.


Go and do one. I've paid more in tax money than you might earn in ten years. I have contributed and am entitled.

You? Polonia can go suck an egg (I am on 4 warnings so can't say what I really feel about Polish scum).

Oh wait - I just did:)

Life / Whats up with Polish guys getting drunk and looking for a fight? [60]


Let me put it this way....

When a Pole talks about "dirty/disease carrying/muslim/dark skinned/terrorist" (delete as applicable) foreigners, then I will cancel those racists from my friends list.

I wont associate with, make love to, or drink with racists.

Thanks.

Life / Whats up with Polish guys getting drunk and looking for a fight? [60]


Wulkan is a weirdo on this board. Don't worry about him Mike - and come to the Tri-city of Gdansk. People here are normal and I guarantee you a welcome. As to the rest of Poland - yes, the majority are self-serving racists, and after 23 years here I despair of them.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


A correction? Aka profit-taking.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Yawn. One of my clients who is in the media has to go to Warsaw on Monday to beg for his contract with a new boss at TVP, who of course has been appointed because of his pIS membership.

I suggested it would be a worthwhile round trip just to see the TVP man's face when the contractor tells him to go and **** himself.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


But to make the Wisla navigable is of utmost importance going forward Harry, wouldn't you agree?

Life / I woke up in Poland's Hilton of Drunks after the Juvenalia party. Must I pay the 300zl fine? [49]

In normal economies the police and the authorities don't steal. Because they are being monitored. I refer to Western Europe..... (of course the USA also doesn't apply as a "normal" country here either.)

There would be cameras in that holding place where the poster was - so yes - what happened to him is actionable. Of course, they would simply say that the cameras weren't working - but the software could prove that lie anyway.....

Theft is theft - what would happen it I broke into the locker rooms there, and took 300 Euros from the wallets of those people.

It's the same thing isn't it?

Life / I woke up in Poland's Hilton of Drunks after the Juvenalia party. Must I pay the 300zl fine? [49]


We all hear stories about the "policing' in those drunk tanks. Are they all apocryphal? And it's all very well to say " Don't put yourself in that position...."

While at university I thought it might be a wheez to moon at a passing police car, and got a free night's kip for my pains, a cup of tea in the morning and 30 quid D and D from the magistrate in the morning. All very British and above board.

And my belongings were returned 100 percent prim and proper. Not the case with these thieving bastards evidently. I will take the posters' word over theirs'any day of the week thanks Inpolska:)


Exactly Roger. During communism there were far too many here who simply stared at the ground and said they were powerless and couldn't change anything. And now they seem to think this kind of behaviour should be tolerated.

Mind you a lot of Poles love this concept of ' A short sharp shock". They love a bit of brutality and authoritanism, aka stealing in this particular case.

And we all remember those thousands of people who were jailed simply for riding their cycles in the village when drunk.
Only in Poland:( The Germans have a word for the Poles who perpetrate such outlandish punishment, starting with D and ending in ...koff. Can't think why...:)))

Life / I woke up in Poland's Hilton of Drunks after the Juvenalia party. Must I pay the 300zl fine? [49]


Get somebody to wreck the place? Only joking.

No.

I would pay somebody to wait for them to finish their shift.....................

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Yes - they hijacked everything. I am beginning to understand, after living in this mixed up country for 23 years. All I know is, I could not have pillow talk with a PIS lady :))))

And the labrador would in all likelihood growl anyway ( which would be funny, as he is generally mute as a point of reference)
PS: i agree totally about the vision, but refuse to agree that Thatcher was right on the UK political scene of the time.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


The Polish Thatcher. Without the market policies of course, but a demagogue all the same. I regret not being in the UK for the street parties when Thatcher died but if I outlive this Berkshire Hunt I will hold a very big party, and that's a given.

It was amazing that nobody celebrated the sunglass wearing general's death, but maybe people were tired.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


And that is desperately sad. My own mother died too early, and I always called my wife's (late) mum my second mother in affectionate moments, which she reciprocated. She was a leading Katowice Solidarity activist and was perhaps fortunate not to be interned in Martial Law. But the Kaczyńskis and their ilk and Radio Maria brainwashed her without mercy, just like the communists tried to do before them.

The second generation who can see that reality have at the very least a deep dislike of that distortion of truth and history.
But someone here posted that Poles will never accept political pluralism, and I (very unhappily) nominate him for the past 2015 Polish Forums "In a Nutshell" award.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Public disobedience? If others don't care, why should we? Anything that weakens this government is worthy.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


..........who states that refugees "bring diseases....." - also to be fair, repeated by Walesa and the present president among others.

Three guesses who spoon fed them that racist nonsense :) Clue, it's those in "authority" who have a spiked statistical probability of buggering boys.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Kaczynski is as camp as they come. And since you hate gays so much, how is it that he would be immune?

Especially as he is a hateful example of the orientation. Nobody would care about his sexual orientation, but because he is an arrogant and hateful chap, in Britain snide little references to his homosexuality would be all over the tabloids.

And that's a fact. Here, far too much "respect" is afforded these political Berkshire hunts.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


Under-rated guitarist. Never knew he was of Serbian origin. That diminishes him somewhat of course unhappily.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


And all the time the Polish coal trains roll into Gdynia from Silesia............
And even more trains (with higher BTU yielding graded coking coal) roll out from Gdynia..........

My old drinking pals in Katowice are in their forties and get 3400 zl a month net as a face-work pension for the rest of their natural. Not too bad, as it takes a lot of people a lot of effort to earn that much in their pockets for a solid weeks' graft.

And all the while PIS bribed away by promising the miners "full consultation" - whatever that means, when they should be doing a Thatcher on Polish coal mining.

Bloody mad, and guess who picks up the tab.


That is vital, and that the institutions be coerced into lending to undergraduates. At the moment a brilliant student from a poor family cant go to university, because they can't feed themselves. So their ambition is lost to the nation.

What a crazy situation, like pre-war in Britain.

Life / Welcome to winter in Poland! (-19C tomorrow) [64]


Don't like you anymore Roger :( I must look up my mum's recipe - she were a Mancunian :)
Cold but boring as hell here, with tedious Baltic skies and only hot beer and a snoring labrador for company.

Forest won though!:)

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

The ex UK ambassador to Warsaw, Charles Crawford, has written in the Guardian newspaper forums thus:

"When I was UK Ambassador in Warsaw when the PiS-led coalition was in power from 2005-07, I was startled to be sent from No 10 a 'secret' letter to the PM from a senior UK academic familiar with Poland who warned that democracy in Poland was about to be overthrown. Shock!

I replied that it was utter drivel, a completely ignorant or mischievous misreading of what the Kaczynski twins represented and wanted.
I see that many commenters here are again making similarly fevered claims........ "

..............PiS (who have plenty of ex-Solidarity people in their ranks including J Kaczynski himself) tend to think that the 'thick line'".... (of nepotism)...... "was too generous to the former communists and their privileged children, many of whom have done impressively well in keeping senior roles in public and business life and skewing public debate in a leftist direction. They (PiS) want to recalibrate things somewhat so that Poles who do not come from that crafty self-serving communist tradition (or who have been historically disadvantaged) get a better chance. Hence moves now to clean out a range of people from eg the state media and the court system..........................."

Etc etc....

The guy is obviously one of Cameron's goons, and has had one too many bottles of plonk. The ignorant fool makes me ashamed to be British.