Life / Polish fences - complete anthology [74]


A high proportion of land, especially in the north or Scotland and awakes is marginal land that you can't grow much on so yes. Though that same sense of community is common to islands. Japan is a good example.


I've seen ones that are crazy big, though yes, most are small.

There's a small private road a bit like that near me in Warsaw. No individual fences and better for it.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


No such thing.


The difference is that for some people it's very real. For you, it's just contrarian bitter trolling and online:

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


Pot, kettle, black.

Life / Polish fences - complete anthology [74]


I don't know about Germany or America so much but in the U.K., those two things were threatened less. Plus there was always more of a sense of community and less desire to erect barriers.


Big blocks of flats with a facade designed to look the way it did and one doilum in the middle of the block puts fancy windows in. That just looks like a gap tooth.

History / The restoration of Polish cities from WW2 destruction [123]


They (or specifically the architects they employed) certainly had a sense of aesthetics. Post war housing in industrial Europe however had to be built cheaply and quickly and that is the same whether the country's political system was on the left or the right. IMO, many of the social housing blocks of the same era in Warsaw compare very well to some of the ones in London or Manchester or Glasgow.

Perhaps if fascists hadn't destroyed so much of Poland, there'd have been the money to build prettier buildings.

Of course if you want very attractive large scale social housing, several of the suburbs of Paris are the best place to look. Was France communist? No. Were the local authorities who built the best blocks there communist? Sometimes. That or Socialist. Were the architects who designed them communist? Very often yes.

History / Polish Army Day [82]

So far, it looks pretty good. We're off for lunch with friends in a while but are avoiding the city centre since the crowds for this are huge.

What's been on TV so far is impressive.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]

Insane questions deserve glib answers.

Questions like that about trans people insult people who have problems and challenges in their lives that neither of us would like to deal with.

The reality is that most cultures in the world (especially the most traditional ones) have transgender subcultures (sometimes very visible, sometimes less so) and far too many get murdered or beaten by people who can't deal with people who are different. Playing rhetorical word games online or focusing on American exhibitionists with stubble and makeup are tiny ingredients that go towards ,asking their lives more hellish than they sometimes already are.

I'd hope that with the increased amount of talk (and yes, increased legal protection) those people would have chances in life that don't involve dancing with feather bias round their neck or prostituting themselves to men who fancy a bit of todger but can only bring themselves to do it if the other party wears a dress.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


Can be but really best isn't.


Less so, and of course it's an individual choice.


Of course. That question answers itself in the penultimate clause.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


How sweet.

As you were told, this is not only something new; it is something growing fast and sports bodies are beginning to address it.

Anyway, how many people take part in the Olympic that you hate so much?



Your deliberately unpleasant language no longer shocks. It bores.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]

The fact is that time does not stand still, and the values of the recent past are more and more outdated year on year. Younger people generally have no issue with people who are trans, and trans people are only going to get larger in number, not smaller.


Don't be so contrary. You don't need to participate in every thread and your views are sadly well enough known already, as are your trolling tactics. They are boring, as are you.


What a ray of sunshine...

And how does this help the OP who asks a genuine question about her sister?

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


That depends on whether or not you really do identify as one and live as one.

Not the stuff you get up to in the spare bedroom when your wife's out at bingo.

History / This anti-Ukrainian propaganda for no valid reasons must stop [70]

Sad to think that anyone would think for even a minute that this is actually a Ukrainian nationalist.

It smells fishier than rotten caviar and Simonyan's crotch.

History / This anti-Ukrainian propaganda for no valid reasons must stop [70]


Maskirovka.

They drop something like that in to distract. If it was intended for U.K. consumption they'd be using terms like 'Old Bean' which nobody born after about 1915 would say.


The GLAVSET trolls get paid by the word.

Don't you think it odd that right now, someone who really is Ukrainian would be appearing here to post a weird thing like this?

Best not to fall for it.

History / This anti-Ukrainian propaganda for no valid reasons must stop [70]

I smell a r*SSian paid troll trying to confuse and sow divisions between Poles and Ukrainians.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


Civilised countries don't 'execute' anyone at all.


An adult who lives and identifies as female. What else?

Moan and whine all you like, the future is trans and there's nothing at all you can do about it.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


I am what I am as a famous Voice in ancient Israel said and both Popeye and Gloria Gaynor too.

Regarding trans matters, what will be will be and once a stable door is opened the horses are out.

Significant that you've also wittered on about trans issues in other (more appropriate) threads than here. This is about a women who asked about a family member's trip to Wrocław. Not the opinions of geriatric immigrants in America or what people think or don't think about sports rules.

Whining on an Alf Garnet level belongs in the Daily Mail BTL field. And you'd be wise to remember that the show 'To Death Us Do Part' has aged like rotting haddock

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


You can, however you'll probably get in trouble. Best to plan it carefully like last time so you won't get caught.

Life / Polish fences - complete anthology [74]


Here in Poland people don't so much have neighbours as people who live too close.

History / The restoration of Polish cities from WW2 destruction [123]


Post war development (not unique to countries that had communist governments), a need for housing, increased urbanisation, and the fact that industrial growth came relatively late to Poland with the industrial boom happening from the 60s onwards.

Life / Polish fences - complete anthology [74]


Privacy (even though you can generally see through them) and a psychological feeling of safety, of protecting what's yours.

Not unlike the Polish habit in supermarkets of standing in front of the shelves/chiller cabinet while choosing something and blocking others from getting near or the habit of getting into long discusssions with salespeople in shops, ignoring the queue forming behind.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


You're confusing can't=nie mogę with can't=nie potrafię here...


What a little ray of sunshine you are.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


You can.

Not many would believe you however given that you post on social media with the exact opposite of your views here, it's not entirely impossible that in real life you actually are an 18 year olds black woman.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]

Well there you go. It looks like they've considered the issue and made a ruling.

Do you agree with their ruling?

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


There you go again.


I've told you already, and you'd do better to get hysterical with someone interested in swimming competitions than someone entirely uninterested. What do I think about her participation? It's something the sports body should have ruled on before the event. What do I think about changing rooms? Nothing. That's a matter for those who use them.


If you're looking for perfection, you will be in a permanent state of disappointment.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


That's been clear along.

Worth mentioning that you and I are the only two here who've discussed it with civility rather than mirroring the awful hysteria in clickbait newspapers and social media or just arguing for the sake of it.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


Transgender sportspeople?


Learn some civility. You asked twice, I answered twice. Here you are again: My opinion is that I have no issue at all with trans people either being excluded or included in sports competitions if the body who govern the competition consider that there is or isn't an unfair advantage.


Odd you thing that sports competitions aren't a matter for the organisations that govern them. Do you think the court of public opinion should decide the rules of games?

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


On the whole there are quite a lot. Transgender sportspeople are a far smaller subset and sports bodies exist to regulate competitions.


Not at all if the organisations that govern swimming galas consider that she has an unfair advantage.


It is, actually, in the matter of competitions they regulate.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


So there's no need for you to get so worked up about it.


They did and still do.


Trans women? No problem at all. Nor trans men being banned from men's sports if the appropriate organisation has a case for that. As I've said, it's up to sports governing bodies to decide if the gender assigned at birth gives an unfair physical advantage, not outsiders. Issues like people who are intersex (I'm thinking about Castor Semenya) have already been addressed. The decisions may suit some and not others however since sports governing bodies exist to regulate sports competitions, that's something they do not lack experience in.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


Not so 'rising'. Mostly an online thing among the boomer generation, generally in the twilight of their lives now.


It is small.


And there are far greater injustices in this world than issues about who can ride a bicycle faster than the next person.

If 'injustice' about women playing competitive games worries you, there are thousands of potential female sportspeople in parts of the world where they are more or less forbidden to do sport at all.

As I say, this is a matter for the governing bodies for sports competitions.

We only hear so much about it because the media like to get click from people who are easily riled up.

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


No more or less OK than I am with match fixing, doping etc.

I'm much less OK with the flood of clickbait articles whipping up hatred that affects privileged sportspeople (whether trans or cis) or the sensibilities of the suburban lower middle class far less than it affects LGBTQ people getting beaten up on rough council estates or cross dressers in the slums of Rio or Manila getting shot to death.