Life / A nuclear family in Poland - is it a new trend in our society? [13]


I know you're old, but _that_ old? Check out ethnographies and you find that independent nuclear families are extremely rare across the world (and are polygynous famlies "nuclear" to you?)

Life / Poland - what is your brand? [39]


I think somebody needs a hug!

(((((((Albany NY))))))))

better now?

Life / Poland - what is your brand? [39]


No one = four more than get along with you....

Life / A nuclear family in Poland - is it a new trend in our society? [13]


Then why isn't it found more often in pre-industrial peoples? If it were so natural you'd think that parents and offspring would be the building blocks of more systems. It isn't. And it carries with it certain problems.

When does an adult's primary nuclear attachment stop being the family in which they are children and start being the nuclear family in which they're parents? This is an interesting point because Polish culture has never definitively answered whether adults should show primary loyalty to their spouses or parents (and one reason why meddling parents-in-law cause so many young marriages to fail).

Life / A nuclear family in Poland - is it a new trend in our society? [13]

The nuclear family is actually kind of an anomaly. The tight-knit extended family is the norm and is very reliable and durable (thought it tends to impede innovation).

The nuclear family was created by and for the industrial revolution and tends to be inherently unstable as the relationships are too charged.

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]


Why would this be a decision to be made by Russia?

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]


Don't take it seriously, nothing on this forum is very representative of Poland.


Most of the time most Polish people don't think of Bulgaria at all (a little too far away) or they think of it as a nice place for a seaside vacation.

They think of Serbia even less. Crow is on a one-man quest to create a Pan-slavic empire headed by Serbia (and Poland Russia becoming allies is apparently part of that mad dream) and no one takes him seriously.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


The conscience clause does not allow him to to refuse to give a referral to a doctor prepared to carry out the procedure in question. That's why he lost his job. Had he simply said "I can't do this, see doctor X" no one would care.


But I bet he got off on knowing she was suffering while carrying to term a fetus with no chance of life beyond suffering.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

And enjoy their patients' suffering, not unlike a certain Dr Ch....

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


He reminds me of the surgeon in Kings Row (old American novel) who always found excuses for not using anesthesia - it turns out he enjoyed inflicting pain on his patients when he could. I'm convinced Chazan is cut from the same cloth. He's a sadist who does what he can to make his patients suffer....

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


That sounds vaguely like toilet trouble: He had a bad case of the banters.

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


Eek! Too.... declasse...


In my dialect (GAE) repartee is usually non-count (like water) while riposte and comeback are count.

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


I wouldn't say "mainly" but why not enjoy words rather than treat them like potatoes? And since when does repartee have a plural?


zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz huh? What? sorry dozed off a second there.


Normal forums aren't as crazy about keeping everything "on topic" all the time. And I hardly ever go on name calling sprees, I occasionally might go on a name-calling rampage or junket, but never a spree, that is just sooooooo gauche.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Did he actually say this?


He wasn't doing his job (which includes redirecting procedures his "conscience" won't allow to other doctors)


No one is going to improve the problem of badly written legislation by dismantling the constitutional tribunal or making it a rubber stamp agency... just saying.


He was an employee charged with fulfilling certain tasks which he did not do. Quite enough cause for termination. And if abortion is not part of the job description for a doctor how could doctors save the lives of women when continuing with pregnancy would endanger the mother's life?

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


Let's not go too crazy.... an occasional good comeback does not "one of the wittiest persons" make


Cause he totally is! He sees Jews everywhere, idolizes PiS beyond any measure of things they do in the real world, he simultaneously denounces and longs for the PRL.... He's almost a kind of national treasure, they should put him in a museum somewhere.

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


Oooooh SNAP!!! One of your best comments ever! (virtual high five)

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Exactly. The law requires this and he didn't do it. He broke the law. If his "conscience" prevents him from doing the job he's being paid to do then he needs to change jobs.


Immaterial. It was his job. He dind't do it.


If he was stupid enough to fall for it, then good riddance. All he had to do was his job.


That is your right.

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

employ you?

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

More good news everybody! The Good Change government just appointed a former teenage hooligan as mayor of a small town!

In 1997 Jack Kowalewski was part of a group of group that beat a man with sticks, boards and a metal rod in front of a disco. He received a 9 month sentence (suspended).

In 2016 the mayor of Lubraniec, a small town in the Kujawo-pomorski region died, and Kowalewski was nominated by a local PiS bigwig to hold the office until elections are held in December. Newsweek suggests that people in the town are afraid of speak of Kowalewski on the record....

The best part is one of the commenters: Niestety PiS jest zbieraniną nieudaczników i cwaniaczków, dlatego trudno tam znaleźć kogoś normalnego na stanowiska... Unfortunately PiS is a collection of losers and conmen, that's why it's hard for them to find someone normal to nominate....

newsweek.pl/polska/jacek-kowalewski-wyznaczony-na-burmistrza-lubranca-przez-premier-szydlo-dlaczego-,artykuly,399255,1.html?src=HP_Section_1

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


The irony of course is that he probably doesn't care at all about the issue (it's not like he ever did or would reproduce) but was trying to reassure the more religious part of the PiS base (and the church and church media) that they're thinking of them.

Unfortunately he bunged the job (as usual). He should have delegated that to people that no one cares about but since everyone know by now that PiS c'est lui he has to weigh in on more issues publicly himself (and he's a poison pill).

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

Good news everybody! The Good Change government is making it easier to throw pregnant women, disabled people and senior citizens onto the street...

biznes.onet.pl/wiadomosci/kraj/eksmisje-kobiet-w-ciazy-zmiany-w-ochronie-lokatorow/2jxh2p

What a culture of life!

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]


I think that's your decision and if the current situaton is good for you then stay and don't (get married? the original is "don't go into stabilization") and on the other hand if you know what kind of woman you're looking for etc, a you meet her it will become love by itself, it's never too late

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]


Why? What possible rational reasons are there for such a move? It ranks at the bottom of the corruption index by Transparency International (even Bulgaria's a little better). The Czech Republic or Slovenia would be much better choices.

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


why did you do that?


are you learning?


Nor are you very likely to in Slupsk....


Słupsk isn't very big or very attractive to Polish people, let alone foreigners. You might check the bus/train connections to Kołobrzeg or even better, the Tri-city area (Gdańsk-Sopot-Gdynia).

Your best bet in Słupsk is becoming conversationally competent in Polish. People are probably curious about you and if they realize they can talk to you you'll probably find people start inviting you for dinner and the like. Staying with English alone is not likely to be that useful in making friends there (imagine you're a foreigner who shows up in Thailand somewhere like Khon Kaen or Mae Sot (just picked some random cities from a map).

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

A famous case a few years ago involved dr Bogdan Chazan who purposefully prevented a woman that was legally entitled from having an abortion.

She and her husband have spoken in the media for the first time yesterday, describing the months of mental agony she went through carrying a fetus that was doomed to die shortly after birth and then having to watch it die.

"It was the conscious decision of prof Chazan that our child should suffer and die"

tvn24.pl/wiadomosci-z-kraju,3/prof-chazan-odmowil-im-aborcji-dzis-opowiadaja-swoja-historie,685587.html

There is nothing remotely moral about the actions of Chazan, he broke the law and felt no remorse and forced his patients to conform to his judgement rather than make their own moral judgements. A thoroughly despicable person - probably a sadist.

Classifieds / Random Classifieds Ads Poland [261]


That means you're unqualified for the local labor market.

Genealogy / Polish looks? - part 2 [81]


Is this before or after the large-scale migrations after WWII?

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


What was threatened (and is now dead) is the rule of law. At present Poland is ruled by the leader of the ruling party whose opinions are supposed to outweigh any published laws...

If you support rule by party (and party leader) as you do, then I guess there's no problem (until PiS loses at which point you will scream bloody murder)

Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

that's what I meant by (and some other). I assume that more Czechs who realize it probably have some Gypsy/Romani ancestory as well.

Realigning ethnicity by language and cultural affiliation rather than genes alone is one partial way out of the current mess of multiculturalism and towards societies that work.

The muslim problem remains since they don't outmarry (without outmarriage there is no real assimilation or even integration, only ghettoization). But that's a separate problem.

Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Both the modern populatons of Czech and Poland are a mishmash of Slavic, Germanic and Jewish (and some other) genes (the second maybe a bit more prevalent in Czech and the third maybe a bit more prevalent in Poland).

At present, Polish and Czech are primarily about linguistic and cultural affiliation. People who speak the languages natively and identify with the culture are Polish and Czech - somebody whose great great great grandad was from there but who no longer knows the language or cultural norms is not.