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Barney   
12 Mar 2012
UK, Ireland / There's not a lot wrong with Poles in the UK. There's just too many of them. [72]

At the time, I had two steady girlfriends who both slept with me simultaneously every weekend. I had no need to meet other women since I was the centre of attention from a pair of beautiful women.

Perhaps they turned the sound of the TV up to drown out the noises of an undoubted sex god?
Barney   
22 Feb 2012
History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

Courage and a desire to be free are not tangible facts. It's not something that can be quantified, or measured anyway. It's something that can only felt and can only inspire.

It’s easy to interpret the rising as a disaster especially for those "hard empiricists", how you want to interpret it is something else all together. The rising is still seen as a beacon for freedom loving people. It's hard for others to understand what something like this means to a nation.

All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
Barney   
4 Feb 2012
Life / Why Milosz not Herbert ? [38]

Then make a new thread, where all trolls could gather.

OK, yes post was off topic, just responding to a comment about Roth. For goodness sake don't be so touchy.
Barney   
4 Feb 2012
Life / Why Milosz not Herbert ? [38]

One of the current committee, an Elderly Swedish professor (I forget his name) intensely and openly dislikes American novels which is why Phillip Roth hasn't got one. There's also the rush to give the prize to people when they're still alive and when the choice is between an 80 year old and a 90 year old, the 90 year old gets it.

I agree with the thrust of what you say but Roth is crap.

Incidentally in the English speaking world American fiction is far superior to any thing else and has been for some time.
Barney   
30 Jan 2012
History / Polish inventors - what have they ever given to the world? [101]

isn't Arabs who invented distillation? like around 10th century?

The first mention of distillation references Mary the Jewess,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_the_Jewess

She is credited as the person who discovered the process.
Barney   
19 Jan 2012
News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]

The Founding Fathers had it right. 1st Amendment, Freedom of Speech. That's a democracy.

Did the founding fathers not outlaw murdering your own citizens that too would make you a democracy yet it happens.
Freedom of speech is not the freedom to say "Yer Ma's yer Da an yer Da's yer Ma" (The worst insult when I was a kid). There is more to a democracy than rigid rules. (OK Amendments are how you bend the rules)

I do understand that you are saying that no limits should be placed upon expression, that false outrage fills column inches and that is an inconvenience, the downside of free speech.

There are limits to free speech in every country even The US for eg you cannot call for the murder of someone especially a rich man, you cannot "glorify terrorism" whatever the hell that is; Other democracies have the right to form themselves how they want they dont have to use the US model which was designed to prevent change.

So you have a pinhead drumming up publicity this is how you do it in a democracy when you have no talent.
Barney   
18 Jan 2012
News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]

Freedom of speech does not give you the right to steal or create websites that are breaking copyright laws.

But sopa is more than that it prevents you telling someone where to find such sites.
Barney   
18 Jan 2012
News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]

aaaah, OK. so laws should be written based on a popularity contest. you're hilarious.

All Laws in a democracy are based on a popularity contest.

I think what you are not getting is that commonsense has to be applied, that’s why the discretion of a judge and the separation of the legislature are important.

Freedom of speech is not just freedom to accidentally offended, intent has to be considered. As someone said the other day the US founding fathers were spot on in designing the constitution what they couldn’t foresee was the retards that would end up in congress. Take that a step outside the floor and you have all sorts of nutjobs saying anything they like, not to advance a noble cause but to stick it to the man as they see it.

We all restrict our freedom of speech/thought on an everyday basis its called social grace.
Barney   
18 Jan 2012
News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]

Alcohol was not used as a disinfectant or purifier.

The shellfish thing, I remember that lemon juice was initially used to see if the oyster for eg was alive thus safe to eat.
Barney   
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]

This is being reported today

The shooting exposed a long-simmering conflict between the country's civilian prosecutor general, Andrzej Seremet, and Poland's chief military prosecutor, General Krzysztof Parulski. Seremet plans to bring military prosecutors under civilian authority, but has not publicly explained his reasoning

He said:

PAP quoted Przybyl as saying he objects to the planned reforms and that he tried to commit suicide "in defence of the honour" of military prosecutors. "I wanted the [military] prosecutor's office to continue as it is, and under the leadership of General Parulski," he said. Przybyl said under Parulski all investigations would be carried out "honestly" and under no pressure.

Barney   
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]

I only said the weapon was available, i did not say that any guy on the street could use it.

Yes of course.

Everyone knows that there is a degree of criminal in the armed forces, look at the amount of stuff that the USA army lose's.

Not just loosing stuff the corruption in arms sales is worldwide look at Britain and Tony Blair stepping in to stop a major investigation into corruption with BAE systems. It seems that any dealings with arms companies, which by their nature must be secretive, are prone to corrupt practices.

Edit

what I mean is that he just wanted to make a show and not really kill himself...

Strange thing to do, why do you think he would do that?
Barney   
10 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]

Obviously the shooting wasn’t faked, the question is why did he do it. He said that the civil authorities were going to take over the investigations that had been carried out by the military. If there was/is corruption the civil authorities would be better placed to investigate, that would be normal. Questions about any illegal methods used in the Smolensk investigation would quite rightly be part of any outside review.
Barney   
9 Jan 2012
News / Polish prosecutor 'shoots self after news conference' [93]

Col Mikolaj Przybyl was defending a military investigation into media leaks related to the air crash that killed the Polish president in 2010.

He asked reporters to leave so that he could take "a break".

Upon hearing a loud thud, the reporters returned to find him on the floor with a pool of blood around his head.

news/world-europe-16466522
guardian/world/2012/jan/09/polish-prosecutor-shoots-himself-conference
Barney   
17 Sep 2011
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

Historically it was extremely difficult and expensive to map land accurately particularly in the North European Plain, the steppes and the North American plaines.

I made a joke the other day but it is hard to see Poland as eastern. There is something about the oriental idea but I dont think it is relevant to modern Poland.
Barney   
15 Sep 2011
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

....there would be little else to be said.

Poland is in Northern Europe.
It is good to hate people for reasons of latitude as well as longitude.
Barney   
5 Sep 2011
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [534]

There was a very interesting Irish language program on the BBC last night called Smuigleiri Leabhar (Book smugglers) telling the story of attempts to keep the Lithuanian language alive in the face of Russification. It made for some uncomfortable but very interesting viewing however throughout the film I had an uncomfortable feeling. A Lithuanian nationalist was lecturing an Irish speaker that he wasn't Irish cos he sometimes spoke English, making a case for the removal of Identity through cultural imperialism yet ignoring Lithuanian language policy towards Polish speakers.

youtube.com/watch?v=Safla4aCvnk
The whole film can be found on the BBC's iplayer type Smuigleiri Leabhar to find it.
Barney   
12 Aug 2011
UK, Ireland / Why Poles will never belong in England [283]

Yeah,the Greeks and Spaniards,they never riot..................

Not poof riots anyway....Edit to put in sarcasm winks;);)

Okay Lyzko, what was your point?

He was having a dig at the Brits.
Barney   
12 Aug 2011
UK, Ireland / Why Poles will never belong in England [283]

Ah you can eat it the same with soup, it just involves the invention of the spoon which I may add is up there with the wheel.

PS Neutral on the nationality issue
Barney   
12 Aug 2011
Law / Poland on its way to Greece? [64]

The ascension states are compelled to adopt it as part of joining the EU once they have met the criteria. All they can do to delay joining is to screw up their own economies and which government would do that;)