History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]


Not a certain "patriot" here... (or so it's been said, but I ain't one to gossp so you ain't heard that from me, no you haven't!)

History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]


Not me! I've got Polish taxes to pay! What about you?

History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]


I would never support such activity (the question of whether LK belongs in Wawel is a separate issue). I'm all in favor of letting people mourn, commemorate on their own in peace.


What possible relation is their between Smolensk and the first Polish uprising against communist rule? I'm completely againt the forced penetration of Macierewicz's conspiracy craziness into ceremonies meant to commemorate separate and quite unrelated events.

History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]


No, that's why deranged and insane people make me lose my cool.


Since when is LK buried on Nowy Świat? The Smolensk "commemorations" are about keeping the low information PiS voters worked up and angry because without their anger the party is over.

History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]


In other words... it's a political rally first, memorial service second. How is that investigation coming along?

History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]


Cause all else being equal I prefer that non-deranged rational people be in charge of governments.


NO! STAY RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE! SRBIJA NEEDS YOU! (unless you're actually posting from Gopher Heights, Illinois in which case stay there).

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]


I wouldn't quite that far.But Germans need to keep talk about German suffering during or directly after WWII to a bare minimum for pretty obvious reasons.

I'm able to sympathize with civilian casualties anywhere, but proportion has to be maintained, so German hunger after WWII has to get in line behind the victims of starvation in the Siege of Leningrad and Dresden comes behind Warsaw.

History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]

Cause you're even more deranged than he is. Congratulations, that's a feat!

History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]


I eagerly await Polly's full conversion to the Smolensk death port cult. Before we know it he'll be spamming us with "betrayed at dawn" PiS boilerplate.

History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]


Because it's become a morbid death cult exploited for political gain by a mentally unstable character who already has one coup attempt on his record? I don't personally wnat to disrupt it but I have no respect for those involved and won't pretend I do.


Yes, the monthly death porn orgies are very disrespectful toward the dead and their families.

It all stems from JK's guilty conscience since the whole misbegotten idea to go to Smolensk was his in the first place. He needs to be shamed to keep his rationalizations between him and his therapist and not out in the public for everyone to see.

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]


Yes, they were terrible, but there is no way on earth I'm going to feel nearly as much sympathy for civilian casualties OF THE COUNTRY THAT CAUSED THE WAR IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!! with those of civilian victims of the country that bore the brunt of German aggression.

I can feel some sympathy ffor them but it's an issue the cool headed would be advised to not push.

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]


And it was economic ignorance and policial hubris that made anyone think that a manufacturing giant could share a currency (with no transfers) with service economies in the south (and made it impossible to leave).


One of the reasons that Poland is doing well now is that it's become part of the Germany supply chain.

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]


There's no "several years ago" about it. They've lost 30% of their GDP with no hope of ever getting it back (since they don't control their own currency).

Here's a hint: austerity does not cure sick economies, it makes them worse so that the government is forced to sell assets to foreign creditors. Germany has made out like bandits by sucking up Greek assets while lecturing them about their spendthift ways.

The Euro is not a currency (since it there's no common fiscal policy or transfers) it's a license for Germany to loot the south.

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]


Oh yes, a petty tyrant who wants to bully oher countries about policy. A triumph!

The problem is that for all the nice rhetoric about European solidarity Germany has done everything it can to gain the maximum benefit and ensure that other countries get the maximum burden of the EU.

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]


It's not falling for something but observing something. Name three things Germany has done to improve relations between countries of the EU since 2000.

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]


Worse, the toxic loan shark scheme known as the Euro (most destructive force in the EU today) There is no way for the Euro to work in such different economies as Germany and Greece and anyone who ever thought it could work is a moron who should be excluded from making economic policy.


Germany is culturally destructive, Germans don't seem happy unless they're antagonizing everyone around to death and trying to bully them.

News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]


With Germany assuming it's rightful place as the most hated country in Europe as it continues its grand tradition of interfering with other countried and antogonizing its supposed allies.... My own opinion of Germany (source of most of my DNA) has plummeted since Merkel's attacks on Greece and unfathomable generosity to hundreds of thousands of young men with no education, skills or hope for integration.

Electing her again puts it at the level of Putn's Russia - a constant source of strife and conflict in Euope.

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]


Then how did the hijabed auschwitz thrill seekers know they were talking abou them?

The story has more holes than a metric tone of swiss cheese.

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]


No, no. It's not. I've yet to hear Polish young people trade four letter words in English. Some might be polonized and used in the middle of sentences or as stand alones, but Polish people chosing to speak to each other in English outside the classroom (or workplace if they're forced)..... doesn't happen (no reason it should).

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


I think he's saying more that they're often bought not at supermarkets but at produce wholesalers (giełdy).

In the city that's probably true (for those setting up stands on the sidewalk). Though in the country side it's more liable to be from the field (not a given, but more likely)

News / Why Poland has no problem with terrorism [64]


Not if the majority of Polish citizens has anything to say about it...


Honestly...irony is just totally lost on some people. I thought you English were supposed to good at that.....

The point is that the experiences of Polish people in countries like the UK is one reason for resistance to plans to try to help Mama Merkel save face.

News / Why Poland has no problem with terrorism [64]


One of the reasons that Polish people are not eager to replicate the UK's experiment with large scale muslim immigration....

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


It's called "World War II followed by communism". Throughout the communist period food was generally available but required planning and forethought (and large cash outlays at times). In the worst of times there were ration cards for some types of food (if people could find the rationed items which was by no means a given).

Empty stores (or 'grocery' stores mostly selling vinegar) and endless lines to buy anything were the daily course of things in the PRL.

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]


meh, ime Poles are not afraid of open verbal conflict and would much more likely address the objects of their disaffection directly. If they reported that the locals yelled mean things at them.... that would sound more Polish. Alternately if it were reported that locals were saying mean things about them to other tourists (and didn't care if they were overheard), that would fit. But the wording "locals could be heard (in English) making abusive remarks " doesn't immediately suggest that.

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]


This is a big red flag that the story is invented. Why would Poles speak to each other in English? So that foriegners can 'overhear' them?


What evidence do you have that they were circumspect in their behavior and reasonably polite?

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]


Iranians going to Auschwitz? Isn't that like Disneyland for them?

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


How recent is that? When did fresh produce come to be available year round in the Isles? The current system of southern Europe (plus some non-European countries) providing year round 'fresh' tomatoes and the like is relatively recent in Poland (began in the 90s but only hit the big time with the arrival of the big hypermarkets and chain supermarkets).

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


Part of that is historical food trauma, which is realtively recent in Poland (most of the 1980s for almost everyone and into the mid 90s or so for the poorer part of the population). I don't think the British have really had food trauma since the late 1940s early 1950s (or whenever it was when rationing ended).

Also related is shopping trauma which is why the prospect of stores being closed for one whole day is preceded by masses of people buying enough food to feed a family of 17 for three weeks and why closing stores on Sunday is a non-starter here. Closed stores still make a lot of Polish people nervous. It takes over a generation for trauma to work itself out of the population (in severe cases like for Ukrainians it's still there).

Language / Polish slang phrases - most popular. [630]

Yes, at least as recent as a year or so ago. But it doesn't mean c1pa, just something like great, super amazing etc. I just heard that a recent slang expression is 'kot' (meaning very good).

"Oglądałeś Django? Mówię ci, film jest naprawdę kot" (courtesy urban dictionary)

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Why would I do that? All news sources have their biases and the intelligent consumer takes the biases (and the degrees of same) into account. You seem to see the world in very weird black and white. If someone doesn't share your laughably extreme cartoon views they must have equally absurd opposite views. How old are you anyway? Six?