News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Before a flutter of googling, here are some recent pics of women in Tehran. in the provinces of course, dress (like everything else) is more traditional.

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News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

The law in Iran doesn't force anyone to wear full hijab. Only a headscarf. Most however choose to wear it since that is part of their culture.


You don't have any.

Calm down. It's nearly payday.

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One thing I've noticed is a real anger that their kids who've grown up abroad often don't see themselves as Polish.

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Do you see that often?

Are they in the room with you now?

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [717]

Looks like their practice of deporting people is causing a few problems...

In January the Associated Builders and Contractors - a trade organisation - said the construction industry would need to attract 439,000 workers this year to meet demand for construction services. Should it fail to do so, it said, labour, construction and housing costs would escalate.
thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/ice-raids-trump-florida-illegal-immigrants-deportations-8dl06r5cp

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In PL they pretty well all say that and pretend they've not been mugged.

The general lack of contents insurance means they don't report burglaries and other crimes aren't reported since they don't see the point.

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That rant, together with your disgraceful personal history, suggests that you would do well to follow your own advice

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@WarSore
A poster here who doesn't post much has an appalling story about one of the bars off Marszałkowską. The guy wasn't even looking for tarts however one slipped him a roofie, took him back to his hotel and robbed him.

He died, being of an age, and the police did their best to obstruct justice, "losing" paperwork and interfering with the autopsy. Madia bar, mafia tart, mafia cops.

There are worse stories too. One about beating up and robbing an old guy who'd fallen over in the street and píssed himself. Because he'd come out of a bar, they assumed he was a foreign drunk, bashing him with truncheons in the police station and taking all his money.

Because his trousers were wet and his wallet was full, they didn't bother to check his trouser pockets. After someone did, they found that not only was he sober, but he'd had a stroke and in his pocket was an embassy ID card. He was the husband of a very senior diplomat. That caused a scandal which was hushed up at the time.

And there are worse things than that.

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You don't say how long you've been in PL.

If it's a couple of decades or more, you might remember the student demonstration in Łódź where the police weirdly decided to use rubber bullets on protestors.

Unfortunately some klutz in the police armoury didn't look carefully enough (some used to be barely literate) at the label on the box of bullets. You can imagine the rest.


There's an overlap between the police and organised crime. Even regarding kidnappings.

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Long overdue.

Iran did say that they "may" block the straits, however they are aware of course that this would be a major escalation and likely to be very hard for them to achieve.

And of course Pan Ryszard has forgotten about the Exxon and Oxy oil that goes that way.

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Or in fact it does a great deal. Perhaps Bhutan have it right.


Perhaps people who work in crap jobs and struggle end up fixating on it,


Far from a coincidence that cameras were rolling.

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Materialism is of course bad, however yes, salaries should be enough to make it attractive and also have a golden goodbye if they're voted out. And yes, corruption among politicians and others in public life should never be normalised and should always be prosecuted.

Parliamentary immunity (and that of judges and prosecutors) should also go immediately. There is no good reason for it; they are not diplomats.

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Up to no good in Albania apparently.

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He'd not be chasing money like that.


That's long gone.

Being money-minded is however considered unworthy. It's not considered a good topic for conversation.

It must be one of the few places in the world where the head of government is not allowed to know exactly how much money they have or what it's invested in.

In Poland however, the culture is more materialistic which has bad effects on political life.

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Why compare?

It seems much better to have a generalist in office than a mathematician.


She had degrees in both Chemistry and Law from Oxford. Nevertheless, she was a bad person. Our current Deputy PM has a part time qualification that she got while working in an old people's home. It is the equivalent to the certificate that kids do at 16. Yet she is a highly skilled politician, and also comes across as much more genuine and much brighter than most elsewhere in Europe.

About people further up the social scale, one thing that distinguishes there from most other places is that the brightest people often don't go into corporate life. They go into public administration, security services, the arts,, farming and the military. Some have money already however most aren't obsessively chasing it.

About Poland, a back bench politician doesn't earn much and few like to declare their assets, There is also corruption in public life which leads to cynicism.

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Nor is it a church, mosque or temple, yet it's not unusual for communities' holidays to be celebrated.

If he didn't like that, make a formal complaint. Instead of making a díck of himself by destroying something.


Not exactly easy universities to get into. Better a degree (ideally an arts degree) from there than the way they do it in France. And of course there's no real reason for a politician to have a degree at all. Some of the best of them didn't.


The civil service aren't politicians. The people at the top of it are, by the way, very often "educated generalists" something that works well.

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That so often just gives mediocre people some polish and connections.


There's talent there, however rarely in politics.

Some U.K. politicians are disappointing when you meet them. In Poland that is squared; there are some truly appalling people in the Sejm, some of them known to me.

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You'd think they'd have known the difference.


That one hit headlines everywhere.

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The place where one party leader held a press conference and waved a dildo on camera and a former president ran a party political broadcast dressed as a court jester under a banner saying "everything is black and white".

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [103]


Welcome to Bedlam!


Most such things are identical however in PL they like high sugar content.

Same with Jogobella. Some Polish shops in the UK sell it. It's just ordinary yoghurt, albeit heavily sweetened. Masmix too; identical to any similar product.

I even know a shop there that sells Apap. Basically pound shop paracetamol at premium prices.

This is all a bit off topic though.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Something as serious as that really does need acting on if true or partially true. Even as things stand, it needs independently investigating.

We've all seen the numerous pics of him and Epstein. I wonder what the truth is.


Caesar could hold a military parade without thousands of empty seats.

It's interesting to guess what will come next in Iran.

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That's the key. He was a tyrant.


It's more that he tried to invade the U.K. and of course he had the Vatican under his thumb and "interesting" relations with Spain. Both of those parties also wanted to invade. Fortunately the Spanish hated him however it was a close call.

Fortunately he was defeated at Waterloo.

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An utterly evil character. No redeeming features whatsoever.

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Very wise.


It's not going to be easy, unfortunately.

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [103]


All foreign combatants including The Netherlands and France were there.

Your appraisal is a good one and very very close. There were also issues with the Polish government-in-exile (in fact both of them, since there was a split) which played a role.

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Nothing honourable about Trup...

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There is.

Travel / Traveling! What to do in Warsaw and Krakow? [39]


I'd not call that hipster. More wealthy boomer.

There's parts of Stara Praga which feel better. Classic hipster; mediocre bars opened with family money.

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [103]


In some ways it ended in 1989.


Remember, pogroms are easy to whip up and take on a life of their own. I'm far less critical of those caught up in the Kielce pogrom after seeing how easily people were whipped up into pogroms (and they were pogroms) after the misinformation about the Southport killings.


Better still, beat up the (Polish) organisers who advertise such tours in the worst places with vodka and títties in the ads.

Anyway, Krakow is old hat now.

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They like to argue that black is white and white is black. You should see what some of them say about Jedwabne; they don't believe it themselves but desperately want to.


Nobody was "denied". This has been covered here many times before.


Someone once posted a screenshot of the relevant papers from the national archive here. Perhaps you missed it. It's probably findable. The Ambassador also made a statement about it to dispel the myth.