Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


You don't feel contempt for people who are massacring civilians and raping people?


It's very hard to disagree with that. Extremely virtual repression, purges, mass deportations, man-made famines, oligarchs and many more things do not point to a healthy society.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


So we agree.


I don't. Ukrainians have a right to describe an armed and murderous horde who've descended on their country as they wish.


As far as I know, they are not waging the most violent and vicious war in Europe since WWII at the moment.

So whataboutery, very popular among r*SSians as if it somehow justifies some of the obscenely inhuman things they are doing right now within driving distance of your home, is an argument that is weak to the point of irrelevance.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [291]


Colour?

It's about how people who have a characteristic that distinguishes them from the majority population where they live might be described by that population. There wouldn't be an issue if people didn't use colour, culture or nationality related terms to describe people is often demeaning on texts or to exclude them.

In the U.K., the term BAME is sometimes used officially now however that's not really for everyday speech.

Some may call it political correctness, some may call it woke. I call it old fashioned good manners.

Language / Owna and Owa name suffix [15]


I've only ever heard it used ironically and with a smile.

Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [128]

You can tell jokes about anyone. It's when those jokes cross a line that problems start, at least under Polish law.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [291]


'Coloured'?

A loaded term. People of colour is better.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


Check out t(e difference between hatred and contempt. And then ask yourself if r*SSians as a nation are doing anything 'special' right now...


At the moment?

Not many people like Pol Pot either (and he was far more recent) however he's dead and we aren't talking about them.


There you go again.

Are orcs (the uniformed killers who've descended on a peaceful country to kill and rape) human?

To repeat the question you're trying to dodge: Are you however in any doubt that r*SSia must not only be defeated but also put in a position where they can never invade a neighbouring country again?

Law / Can a tenant change locks to house without giving access to the landlord [37]


There's probably a dozen of them. I'd have a look at them and see which is most useful. If you put " forum radcy prawnego " into Google, it will bring them up.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]

Perhaps r*SSians should ask why pretty well every stable democracy loathe their behaviour.

Did you see the emaciated Ukrainian PoWs in the show trial today?

Have you seen the footage of the people in Bucha, shot with their hands behind their backs? The photos of whole families shot dead, children included with dried blood on the little girls' crotches?

Has anyone else deliberately blown a huge dam and shooting people (including women) trying to rescue the survivors?

Did you miss the deliberate flattening using thermobaric weapons of the theatre in Mariupol (you know, the one with "children inside" painted on the roof)...

Less of your trolling; trying to make excuses for genocide, child rape and senseless destruction does not reflect well on you.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


Do they?

And what's to like about it?

Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [128]

In Poland.

For "rozpowszechniania treści antysemickich i nawoływania do nienawiści na tle różnic narodowościowych". =Diffusing antisemitic texts and encouraging hatred on the basis of national differences

Law / Can a tenant change locks to house without giving access to the landlord [37]


I'd have a look on one of those legal forums. There's a good one where law students and lawyers give advice (it's practice for the students and there are also actual lawyers there). It's in Polish, though I'd bet that many/most of the people on it speak English.


Yes, it is very strange. What if there was a burst pipe or other emergency.

Is the house in an out of the way place? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but could he be growing something or doing something else dodgy? What's your general impression of him?

Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [239]

Reminds me of that conversation at an athletics meeting.

Q. Are you a pole vaulter?
A. No, I'm German, but how do you know my name...

Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [128]


You can still buy books of jokes about Jewish people in some kiosks. The publisher was fortunately prosecuted (and checked himself into a mental hospital to avoid punishment) however some of the stock is still on sale.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


You sound just like a Glavset troll.


I doubt that.

Are you however in any doubt that r*SSia must not only be defeated but also put in a position where they can never invade a neighbouring country again?

Law / Can a tenant change locks to house without giving access to the landlord [37]


With permission, since it's their home.

Having said that, I've never heard of a tenant changing locks and this is suspicious. Perhaps something illegal is happening there. I rent a flat to someone and it would be a red flag if they did that.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


Given r*SSia,a propensity for subterfuge and spying, as well as having secret teams of Spetznaz in other countries, is there any reason to think that there are not spies or others loyal to Putlerism among them?


What Ukrainians do in Ukraine has zilch to do with r*SSia.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [291]


And, as you know, skin colour makes no real difference to character.


You'd be surprised. I'd be wary of using the phrase 'as a whole', and things are changing in Muslim countries very fast. Europe will certainly become more Muslim, however we seem to admit the most socially conservative who frankly appall people in the countries they've left. I'm in a particular majority Muslim country now (though there's a significant Christian minority as well as secular humanists) and a few things have surprised me here. The rise of the internet, Netflix (that's a now a verb here) and whatever comes next will change everything.


We had free movement. You needed to show a passport going in and out of Schengen however movement for citizens of EU member states was an absolute right.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [291]


Those always change with time. And as the world grows smaller, will those not change faster.

Wort( remembering the thread is about people of colour, not specifically people from, say, Japan or Tahiti.


We did until 2020. All three places however are culturally different and of course there are Italians, Swedes, Selsh people (as there are Poles) of different skin colours.


Can you not say that about any migrant or new Pole, regardless of your 'non-white' thing?

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


Was there any serious suggestion that the Volga Germans (or any other group who were victims of mass deportation, forced starvation and mass executions) were plotting against r*SSia?

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


That's an irrelevance.

Now why do you think the Volga Germans left as soon as they no longer needed 'permission, to do so?

Why does Poland want nothing to do with r*SSia?

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [291]


That's my feeling too.


It certainly is.

Someone's skin colour makes no difference to their character at all.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


Or for any point in living memory, apart for the urban privileged.

It isn't an accident that people leave r*SSia (where was it that you live again?) and its neighbours join defensive alliances to protect themselves from it.


With 'friends' who deport people to the east and throw them in the Gulag, who needs enemies.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [291]


As I do too, to an extent, however cultures are to a large degree shaped by their religious background (and vice versa). To make an issue over someone's skin colour is absolutely against the main Abrahamic religions, both of which were founded by people who had themselves been migrants. Migration has been a part of human behaviour since the first 100,000 Homo Sapiens left Africa all that time ago.


Is it different if an Italian or a Swede or a Welshman moves to Poland?


Please do. Now. Tell your orcs to do that right away. Straight back to Muscovy.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [291]

We're talking about humans here.

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]

@Bobko
I wonder why they wanted to get out of r*SSia...

Is it perhaps because of:

" The deportation of the Volga Germans was the Soviet forced transfer of the whole of the Volga German population from the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to Gulag concentration camps of forced labor located in Siberia, Kazakhstan and even in arctic locations"

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]


Very reasonable given past and current events.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [291]

Even the thread title is dreadful, though I suspect that wasn't the OP's intention.

'Coloured', 'non-white', like 1950s South Africa.

Does it matter what someone's skin colour is?


Quite. We come in all shades and none is 'better' or 'worse'.


In which case you have clearly misunderstood the central message of the Gospels.

Work / Are there any jobs for Americans in Poland? [46]


High pollution levels sadly.


Yes, though I'd add that different ways suit different people. Important is not to worry about making mistakes and most important to ignore what Poles say about learning their language.

News / Poland is the new military power of Europe. [275]


Yes they are.

Democratically elected by majority vote and likely to be replaced democratically at the next election.


Yes, you are.