Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]

I'd add though that 5he OP asked about transphobia rather than homophobia.

And it's encouraging that people feel freer to report either.


I suspect that a massive chunk of the population don't "show up in some ghettoes" either...

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


Yes, very seriously.

It's 'on the rise' because people report it and the police act, something which, as you know, never really used to happen.


It's getting a lot better since it was ignored before but isn't now.


Crikey, has Berlin deteriorated that much so people 'can't leave their home without fear'?

Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]


His brother lived in Bristol and there ar plenty of Poles there.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


In your country? No.
In the country I come from? No.
In Poland? No.


There you go again.


A country isn't a 'business' (not that you're in any sense a reliable authority in business) and this has nothing to do with diversity or the safety of minorities in Wrocław.

It's just a rant,

Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]


That certainly used to be the case. When I went there myself just after it was built, some people I was visiting made a point of going there. There's better all over London and has been for years and there's now fancier places in Warsaw.

The big tourism draws for Poland in Berlin used to be TKMaxx and Primark however Poland has both now.

Georgia though is something new and it's worth mentioning that Malaga has become a big destination for Poles.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


They don't.


They had four years of that loon and dumped him.


And that would of course be the fault of the rightards with their fake culture wars and sociopathic personalities.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


You've obviously not read this thread.


Always voluntary.


Conservatives?

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


You mean taught?

Perhaps you should become an educationalist. Although actually working in a school is obviously problematic you could play your part in influencing policy rather than ranting online.


As does everyone, whether they share your views, hold the opposite view or have a more nuanced outlook.


Given the very low amount of time off work, the stresses around their heathcare 'system' which causes 300,000 plus bankruptcies per year and the stratospheric levels of gun crime, that's no surprise.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


That you can't stop.


Is someone forcing you to put a dress and wig on?


The world doesn't revolve around that one country. In most aspects of life they are well behind developed countries.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


There's little difference between those and online clickbait.


Hell on earth. He won't stop the trans rise though, although perhaps it will be delayed due to mass riots and burning hospitals.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


Of course, one reason why public oversight is so important.

And that public oversight will also include protection. That won't satisfy the online screamers and nutters like the poster above, but so be it.


They prey on society as a whole and fools are taken in by scammers calling themselves 'investors' who want to make more money from someone's job than they themselves do in wages.

But hey, feather boas and sequins. Easier to get worked up about that than accept you're being robbed daily.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


Except that evidently you don't.

And yes, people can and do change gender. This will only become more common rather than less.

Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]


Yes, that's where I live.


I thought so too.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


Well there you go. We address issues.


Who were evidently listened to.

But hey, online crackers still bang on about the issues, caring less about people than their:own bigotry.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


Who hasn't?


Your population's smaller and their medical system is for profit.

I still think all the noise and vitriol online about pretty well any sort of change serve only to distract from real issues and provide a handy smokescreen for the worst people to cash in. Those who push the online hysteria, often mentioning kids, paradoxically couldn't care less about them.

Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]


They rarely live longer and are miserable through worrying.


I've only had good experiences over there and very mixed experiences here.

Minor things go away usually. With more serious things, a profit motive (and the worst doctor in the world, Dr Google) harm rather than help.

Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]


Yes. Every three months and no symptoms of diabetes.


I've used both, though disapprove of the concept of private medicine.

I've a few other horror stories (including about a drunken surgeon) however I'll not tell them since there are good doctors too (hopefully most of them) and I'd not want to put people off seeking help when needed.

When I have any problems (currently I'm off work due to a spinal fracture after a "fall onto a sitting position" onto a concrete floor, something I don't recommend to anyone) and I'm here in PL, I go to a friend who's a doctor and who I trust implicitly.

Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]


Yes.


In Poland, you get sent for (often paid) tests for little or no reason other than hypochondria and money.

The funniest experience I had at a Polish doctor was when I went with a friend who didn't speak Polish. The doctor gave some rather odd medicine (it was a very straightforward issue which is only ever treated with one simple drug) and I had to go back with the patient a week later since the medicine he'd been given hadn't worked. It was a different doctor on duty and when she was told that the previous doctor had prescribed the meds and there was no improvement, she replied "of course not, she doesn't know what she's talking about".

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


Quite. That's existed since the first ape used a stone as a tool.


It will be, and we're getting there. Remember that a lot of damage has been caused over the centuries as medical treatments have slowly but steadily evolved.


That's something that medical ethics specialists are discussing now (and have acted on in the U.K. at least). The issue isn't helped however by all the noise and vitriol on social media by those who fear change far more than they care about any teen.

Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]


Not so much laughing as feeling despondent about unnecessary tests and cynical about the national hypochondria in Poland. I even know people who can tell you not only which type of tree gives them hay fever but also what 'percentage allergy' they have. Plus I've come across people who won't even let their kids eat ice cream for spurious reasons.

I have full medicals for work reasons more or less every three months and perfect blood sugar levels as well as the blood pressure of a 25 year old, so a blood pressure test with no indicators of an issue given when I went to get painkillers for a cracked rib was overkill.

The one medical issue I do have is treated by occasional injections. It's something inherited and straightforward to manage. The doctor I go to for it writes out long prescriptions full of irrelevant things (including, yes, rutinoscorbin). My friend who's a doctor far above the one I go to in the pecking order says just to ignore it, have the shots and the painkillers since the doctor who prescribes all the unnecessary stuff is almost certainly getting bungs from the drug manufacturers if not kickbacks from the chemist across the road from her surgery (which she always tells me to go to).


Good that she spotted something, however I'd guess that there were specific pointers that led her to send you to one.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


They're more interested in enriching themselves while distracting others with manufactured culture wars.

Fortunately the under 30s in developed countries are digital natives who are harder to con.

Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]


It is very much overweight. Overweight in the U.K. is either from 23 or 25 depending on ethnicity/age/sex (some people are more prone to diabetes) and obesity is from 27.5 or 30.

Nevertheless, there is always sensitivity about weight and since the woman in question was pregnant, extra sensitivity is appropriate.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


You always say that when people have a different point of view to you (and most of society certainly has a different point of view to you). Nor do you have a record of making good decisions in life.


There you go again.


Zero to do with Poland and at least one of those shysters you mention will be behind bars where he belongs. In Europe, we don't want the toxically polarised politics that exist over there.

All I see in your post is the same old tap room trash talk from those who get angry about things they can't change. Just spewing hatred about those who are on the up.

Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]


It's the national sport. Prescriptions full of unnecessary medicine, and piles of unnecessary tests. I had a cracked rib once and the doctor wanted to send me for a diabetes test, despite having no symptoms at all of diabetes,

I remember that the manufacturers of 'rutinoscorbin' (as Polish as bigos) ran a survey about its clinical effectiveness among doctors. 50% said it was a miracle cut for everything and 50% said it was useless. They still throw it at you though.


They tend to be very sensitive about the matter of weight.

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]


I'd say it wasn't that much of a fluke. The evils there started several decades earlier (Kaiser Wilhelm's famous 'Hunnenrede' speech was probably the first warning sign, or perhaps even the war crimes in the 1870 invasion of France) and we should be under no illusions about the millions there today who would have preferred Germany to have won WW2 rather than lost it.

r*SSia is no different.


And many many more aren't. Just sheep in villages or blocks.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


Your own personal experience that sex isn't pleasurable?

Perhaps take a different approach and a different level of respect to the people you're doing it with.


Hard to disagree with that, however I bet you watch TV, including ads. I don't (except for a show called Police Interceptors that I like and another one where people with OCD clean other people's very mucky homes). And limit your consumption of online news sites.

This thread is proof of how many weak minded and limited people are passively being riled up to feel hatred about people who are for example trans, or about refugees while some very unsavoury people make money out of them. A very skilled distraction technique.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


Why do you think that's a 'lie'?


Get over it. There's not a thing you can do about it, despite your bitter hatred.

You've said nothing except how bitter you are with life. And meanwhile, what you stupidly call 'woke' is whupping your sorry ass.

News / Russian agents plan sabotage acts in Poland??? [74]


If they know their job (and I suspect they do) they'll probably have been doing that in one way or another for a long time. And Mmy they continue to do so.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


I'd wait and see first. Gender reassignment is still very much in its infancy.


It isn't though, is it.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


Your phrase. Humanity is certainly gendered, isn't it.... And people outside the gender binary are far from new. Perhaps you'd prefer them to stay silent.


Anorexia (in its most severe form) results in death.

And attempting to make false comparisons is a logical fallacy. And results in making your argument pointless.