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


I feel the same when I'm back in the UK (which is cleaner, has nicer and older streets and you can cross a road without risking your life). It hits when I go into a shop and the person behind the counter smiles rather than scowls and when a stranger on the train or buys smile and talks to you.

It passes after a while.

Home is where your cat is.

Life / Poetry and Poets of Poland [58]


Have you met many poets or philosophers?

Most of them look like they need some fresh air and exercise.


Grow up.

Life / Poetry and Poets of Poland [58]


So much of human life makes you 'physically nauseous' that it's a miracle you have any stomach contents left.


Tell that to Homer, Sophocles and Sappho.

Poetry is universal and here in Poland, there is both bad and good.

Food / Wax Bean Soup Recipes [29]


Sadly Nunczka passed away several years ago and won't see your reply.


Very English too; traditional in the North. Butter beans are very versatile and make a nice soup, though I'd not use dill in it..

In Poland they're usually used a little differently but are always good.

Travel / Poland's Super Hub Airport [17]


A lot depends on the airline group. Warsaw gets people who fly in on Qatar Airlines and Turkish too.

As a hub, it's obviously smaller than the big ones like Frankfurt and Schiphol (ugh) but much nicer and less stressful than some of its rivals like Vienna, or Dusseldorf. Copenhagen is sort of a 'mini-hub' now and there are plenty of routes that are via either Warsaw or Copenhagen. Munich seems to be growing as a hub now and isn't at all bad.


I've changed planes at the new one in Istanbul (horrible, as nasty and as totalitarian-looking as the new Berlin airport and even more expensive in the shops/bars) a few times over the past few months and each time, I noticed that around half the flight are from r*SSian provincial airports. They are really cashing in on the war.

Life / Specific Military to join? [13]


If you join a navy you will find it quite difficult to avoid going to the 'sea coast' at some point in your maritime career.

Travel / Poland's Super Hub Airport [17]


Quite.

And there are already four major hubs in this time zone as well as several second level ones (including Warsaw which is growing organically as a hub anyway).

Life / Poetry and Poets of Poland [58]


He is excellent.

I prefer Tuwim, and the translation that Pawian posted (the translator is slightly known to me and a few other posters here, and as I recall reads this forum sometimes) is absolutely spot on.


You've just described a huge chunk of the world's literary corpus.\

Classifieds / Apartment For Sale in Arlington, VA [6]



If he's putting it on here, I'd guess that there aren't people lining up on the kerb competing to buy it.


Nor mine.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

No need; I barely 'tried' at all and succeeded very nicely indeed.

Don't worry. Society as a whole 'tries' constantly to evolve. If social and political change, whether electorally in Poland or by mass communication frightens you so much now, wait until you're olde. The world, including of course Poland, will be unrecognisable to you.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

Better than you did, and a very clear description of reactionary hysteria.

PiS and those of their tendency came before them make, as reactionaries always do, the very common mistake that people in developed societies are constantly moving forward, and the 'norms' whose loss terrifies them (which were never universal anyway) ceased to be true norms by the time they enter politics and within a couple of decades are seen as old fashioned.

This election could go in different ways. The war will have its effect as will the number of older and less well educated voters who died and the number of new voters who have grown up in a more outward looking and world, and a danger (for both PiS and Poland as a whole) is that the extreme hysteria and paranoia that they have done their best to whip up is both offputting to most people under 35 and not hysterical enough for the pond life who might be tempted to vote for Konya or other fringe ideologies.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


Nutty rants like that are one of many reasons that reactionary social conservatism always loses in the end.


Except they don't believe at all in protecting workers from exploitation at all, do they. LOL.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


You're trying to create a binary split between two absolutes. Politics (the kind involved holding office rather than just fantasy) is not absolutist and PiS, as you know, are a right wing party, deeply socially reactionary, with some economically left wing elements that they've derived partly from Christian social justice and partly since they are of course a vote winner.


Returning.

And of course Platforma aren't enriching themselves personally any more or less than PiS activists are. PO are rather too much to the right for me, essentially centre-right like wet Tories, however their social policies are certainly more in line with mainstream opinion than PiS' hysteria about Teletubbies and abortion.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


I don't much like the scouts and supply line analogy however this sentence is a good one.

Most developed societies are relativistic rather than absolutist. Even in a fair society where the people control the means of production and where extremes of wealth and poverty are rare there is still private business.

Regulated of course, however only a fool or a sociopath would want all business and finance to be unregulated.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


Did anyone say that? They are right wing on most issues.


For the rest of the earth's population however, it relates to economics and equality.


Far more than you think. Your post however shows you have a very jaundiced take on those times.

Some real spite, bile and hatred here, all of it from people who identify here as right wing. Says a lot, doesn't it. And meanwhile, no matter how hard they work, whether they want to or not, there are people (who don't care if they live or die) making more from their jobs than they themselves are earning.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


Read my words carefully.

Anyway, though some of PiS policies are economically left (left/right aren't 'Thatcher era terms'; they arose over 200 years before she was born and are still current now she's burning in hell).

The Polish ultra-traditional right, from Dmowski's day until now have always looked east in some pan-savic fantasy of Ciemnogrod, whereas more forward-looking politicians have looked west, south, north or indeed anywhere except russia.

And those politicians in Poland who are best disposed to russia (we all know who they are) ar on th right rather than the left.


The right wing want their chums to make more money from your labour than you do and don't care if you die from lack of money. The left wing want us and those around us to enjoy the full fruits of our labour.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


They were never pro-Russia.

In Poland, it tends to be the right wing that looks east to Ciemnogrod.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


Their target is Poland and the other western liberal democracies who oppose russist autocracy and ultra-conservatism.

Nothing to do with PiS. PiS isn't Poland and Poland isn't PiS.

Study / "MAGISTER" OR "MASTERS DEGREE" - ARE THEY THE SAME? [75]


Quite a few countries use that term to describe masters degrees. Nothing to do with the old Kingdom of anywhere.

Is 'libertises'' even a word?

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


And those qualities either deter or encourage groups of voters. Fortunately most are deterred by politicians like that.

Poland is no exception (and there's no 'propaganda' about Poland. Only dialogue that the OP personally disapproves of).

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


They don't. They agree, disagree, argue, support each other and formulate policy. It's politics and the nature of a union.

Nobody doubts Poland's commitment to Ukraine. Nor is there 'propaganda' against Poland. Sometimes people come on the forum claiming that Poland is somehow 'misunderstood' whereas in fact Poland is as 'understood' as any other major European country. It is not Shangri-la. People can learn about it; and the fruit of the learning rarely leads to the same point of view that is held by the most ultra-conservative and reactionary posters.


Don't be silly.

Anyway, mass population to and from Poland and most other inhabited places will only increase and continue long after the lives of anyone here today.


You wouldn't think so to read most of it. Then again, you're wrong.

News / Polish MEP Korwin-Mikke's latest outrage, insulting women [216]


All those talented women staying at home while the men, regardless of talent and ability, go out to earn.

For a mathematician and bridge player, he's not very logical.

I suspect he just says these things to annoy people. Never forget the time that guy stabbed himself in a restaurant toilet and blamed it on a 'mystery Chines assassin'.

Travel / The tick in Poland are very dangerous is it true? [27]


In the forests, not a much in towns.

You just need to be careful. I've not been bitten by a tick in three decades.

Love / Connecting with GAY MEN IN POLAND [56]

Ooh, y'all do think about it a lot...

History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]


I'd say so too, and indeed politicians in developed societies spend a lot of time and money on gauging the public mood.

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]

And pretty well everywhere though (I did two at a rough 80s comp in England). I've never never understood why so many Yanks are monolingual.


People criticised Marek Bella for that however he was good at his job. With Jaro, he talks about vision for the future but as you say has a very limited perspective. I suspect he gets off on being a big fish in a small pond.

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]


I'd hope that most of them are since all except trumpet and bush 2 are well educated.

Life / ID card for Child in Poland - requirements? [7]

@Aneta Cichon
No, he doesn't. The travel should be fine.

History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]


Sorry, we nicked them first.


We're all victims of both our history and mediocrity too. You are, we are and they are.

I'd still like to see key businesses in Germany owned by Polish companies and suspect that idea would be less popular in Germany than Poland.

History / Enemies, Strangers, Friends. Poles and Germans. [82]


As you know, who owns the key industries is important. And of course, Poland is more than agriculture.

Is there a precedent anywhere for capital not flowing to the centre?