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Atch   
15 Oct 2023
News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

And here's the news from the Polish community in Ireland.

Long queues have been forming since early this morning at 11 polling stations around Ireland. Thousands are queuing outside the Polish Embassy in Dublin. Voter registrations have increased by 10,000 since last year. However considering that there are about 120,000 Polish nationals living in Ireland, it's very disappointing that despite the increase only about 25,000 are registered to vote. But gradually I think Polish people are beginning to become less apathetic about the voting process and beginning to realize that your vote can actually make a difference.

Polish voters explained why they had turned out in such large numbers to vote.

"because we can lose access to be part of, the possibility to be part of the European Union, if the current government would be still in power."

"We're just trying to help all the people who are in Poland and my family and friends to change what their situation and what the political situation is in Poland right now, because its pretty bad and I think we're all here to change it."

"That referendum is a joke, I think is the best way to describe it, so I'm not planning to participate in that."

"Its a very decisive election so I think people turned out. I didn't bother in previous years but this year it just feels like it will make more of a difference."

rte.ie/news/world/2023/1015/1411018-polish-dublin/
Atch   
15 Oct 2023
News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

as long u recognise the elections were fair and free.

Free they are, but not really fair. You need proportional representation with the single vote transfer system (PR-STV for short) to have a really fair result in an election. In the EU only Ireland and Malta have that system of voting. Europe needs electoral reform at this stage.
Atch   
14 Oct 2023
Travel / Krakow during Easter - good or bad idea? [19]

The markets 'targowisko' or 'bazar' are a great place in any Polish city to really mix with the locals and get a feel for the real life of the place, as opposed to the touristy stuff. In the week running up to Easter they're really busy and full of locals doing their Easter shopping. You'll love it! :)) They don't just sell food, you'll see stalls with table linen, bedding, Easter decorations, flowers, old watches, glassware, clothes everything really.

visitmalopolska.pl/-/place-targowe-miejsca-z-niepowtarzalna-atmosfera

Hope you have a lovely holiday!
Atch   
14 Oct 2023
Travel / Krakow during Easter - good or bad idea? [19]

This seems like a beautiful and festive time,

Yes, it absolutely beautiful. But it's primarily a religious festival so things are fairly quiet over the Easter weekend. Polish families tend to celebrate at home or visit each other's homes. I'm not sure if many would go to a hotel/guesthouse for Easter. However, if you visit a church on Easter Saturday you can witness the blessing of the baskets of eggs and sausages which people will eat for Easter Sunday breakfast. There is actually a big basket blessing ceremony in the main square in Krakow.

You could go to Mass on Easter Sunday morning. Many families go for a walk in the afternoon so if it's a nice day you'll see plenty of them in the park. On Monday you could try this:

inyourpocket.com/krakow/Emaus_546e
Atch   
12 Oct 2023
News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

I think you've lost your mind, sir.

Well, he believes that UFOs have landed on Polish soil ..........

And he once advocated storming hospitals with pitchforks and torches.

If Frankenstein ever creates another monster Korvusz (or Korvku, take your pick) will no doubt lead the lynch mob. I bet he keeps the pitchfork by the front door, the points nicely sharpened.
Atch   
12 Oct 2023
News / Should Polonia and expat Poles lose voting rights in Polish elections? [85]

As many as 70 percent more Poles than four years ago.have registered to vote abroad this year.

That's a good sign. It's mostly the younger demographic presently living and working in Europe. Some countries have issued warnings to expect very long queues if you're intending to vote, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, Sweden and Luxembourg. The Polish Embassy in the Netherlands even suggested that voters there could instead register in Germany and Belgium! Ireland is expecting a fairly massive turnout.

In total it's over 600,000 which is double the number of the last parliamentary election.

"In western Europe, the Polish diaspora tends to vote for parties currently in opposition. For example, in 2019, the main opposition group, Civic Coalition (KO), received 43% of the vote among Poles in Germany while the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party got 24%. In the UK, KO got 37% and PiS 20%."
Atch   
11 Oct 2023
Life / Public transport in Warsaw [10]

the metro line if following the 70s communist plans instead of taking note of the new neighbourhoods

I haven't looked at the details but I know that it's going through areas already pretty well served by trams and buses. Some of the trams are a bit of a walk, maybe 15 minutes but I think that's acceptable. People don't like it though, especially in bad weather. However some of the more outlying districts beyond the end of the tram line are the ones that really need the Metro as they rely entirely on rather infrequent bus services.
Atch   
11 Oct 2023
Life / Public transport in Warsaw [10]

Best thing about public transport in Warsaw is the frequency and relative punctuality of trams and buses. Worst thing is the overcrowding. Buses need their own dedicated bus lanes because they frequently crawl along in heavy traffic. Metro needs expanding. The east side of the city is not very well connected with the other side. A journey across the river can involve can involve at least one tram and a bus or even two trams. However the new Metro line will help.
Atch   
6 Oct 2023
Love / Question about Polish dating/women [42]

You said

Wars are Hell.

and then decided that

There is something very poetic about wars

Make up your mind.

To express the regrets or joy of having one?

Listen to them and judge for yourself.
Atch   
6 Oct 2023
Love / Question about Polish dating/women [42]

There is something very poetic about wars and death.

Really? That's not what you said to begin with. But anyway ..........

There are quite a few songs about abortion.
Atch   
6 Oct 2023
Love / Question about Polish dating/women [42]

Well, the US avoided it as long as they could, only coming in 1917 if I remember correctly, and not deploying any actual troops until 1918. They only saw action for about six months.
Atch   
6 Oct 2023
Love / Question about Polish dating/women [42]

hey were never relevant enough to matter in Poland or the US

In Poland, it's understandable. In the English speaking world or anywhere that English literature is studied, then their relevance is considerable. Every educated person will be familiar with the term 'First World War Poets' including anybody who has studied English literature in an American university. High school students in the the USA should have heard of them but largely haven't because you don't have a proper national curriculum and basic education is deficient and dumbed down.

In fact, war poetry is an entire genre of literature and every nation has produced its war poets.

"war poetry was produced across Europe, by poets as diverse as Giuseppe Ungaretti, Georg Trakl, Guillaume Apollinaire and Anna Akhmatova, and further afield from countries such as Australia and New Zealand, Canada, India, the West Indies and Turkey."

stupid and heroes die first

But not all of those poets died in the war. Many came back.
Atch   
5 Oct 2023
Love / Question about Polish dating/women [42]

Three idiots

Who were decorated for bravery. You said poets were girly men. You were wrong - as you so frequently are.

Wilfred Owen: 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in the attack on the Fonsomme Line on October 1st/2nd, 1918. On the company commander becoming a casualty, he assumed command and showed fine leadership and resisted a heavy counter-attack. He personally manipulated a captured enemy machine gun from an isolated position and inflicted considerable losses on the enemy. Throughout he behaved most gallantly.'

Siegfried Sassoon: 'For conspicuous gallantry during a raid on the enemy's trenches. He remained for 1½ hours under rifle and bomb fire collecting and bringing in our wounded. Owing to his courage and determination all the killed and wounded were brought in.'

Edmund Blunden: 'For conspicuous gallantry in action. He displayed great courage and determination when in charge of a carrying party under heavy fire.'

The fact that you had to look them up speaks volumes. Ignorance, thy name is Novichok.
Atch   
5 Oct 2023
Love / Question about Polish dating/women [42]

. Etiquette and poetry

Etiquette means basic manners and norms of behaviour which are the foundation of a properly ordered society. Maybe it's because there are so many like you with no respect for etiquette, that your society has become such a mess.

are for girlie men

Here's a few poets for you:

Siegfried Sassoon - awarded the Military Cross.
Wilfred Owen - awarded the Military Cross.
Edmund Blunden - awarded the Military Cross.

Plenty more to choose from. Look them up.
Atch   
4 Oct 2023
Love / Question about Polish dating/women [42]

Next you'll tell me I shouldn't dip my biscuits into tea.

I sense you're being tongue in cheek but just in case ..........no, you shouldn't do that either, not in public anyway but plenty of people do.

"an adult human female"

Is the definition in Europe different?

That's my point. An adult human female is the definition of a woman. A 'female' without any context can be anything. Therefore a female sheep is called a ewe, a pig is a sow, a female human is a woman and entitled to be referred to as such. Otherwise you accord her less respect than a farm animal. That's what the author of the etiquette book had to explain to Americans over a century ago and they still don't get it.
Atch   
4 Oct 2023
Love / Question about Polish dating/women [42]

forced on us by the LGBT freaks

Not true. As I just pointed out in the previous post, this usage has existed in America since long before LGBTQ rights. You're using this thread as an excuse to start going on about your fixation/obsession.
Atch   
4 Oct 2023
Love / Question about Polish dating/women [42]

a female

Referring to women as females is a vile Americanism :) I came across a book years ago which was published in America during the late 19th century, explaining the basic etiquette of polite behaviour for the newly rich and prosperous American man. It actually referenced that usage saying something, loosely paraphrased as 'Do not refer to ladies as females. The term female should be used only for animals. Women are human beings and the female of the human species deserves the dignity of being referred to as such.'

Other gems included 'You should refrain from chewing tobacco in company' and 'You should not spit in the street' :)) Also you shouldn't tear bits of your bread and throw them into your soup!

That`s about 10 out of 38 million.

Which means that that three quarters of the Polish population are not.
Atch   
4 Oct 2023
Love / Question about Polish dating/women [42]

I have family in Poland, and like Eastern European women.

I'd advise you not to refer to Polish people as 'Eastern European'. They don't generally like being referred to as such and with good reason.

As far as finding one in her twenties to marry you, the older man/younger woman thing is not especially common in Poland. Most women in their twenties marry guys of a similar age. As others have commented, you can have a child with a woman in her thirties. Plenty of women have their first child in their late thirties these days. But a woman in Poland who is over thirty and not married, may not fulfil your ideal of the 'Eastern European' woman as she's more likely to be highly educated ( a Masters degree is pretty common for Polish women), career oriented, wanting to continue working if she marries and has children, a fairly typical modern European woman.
Atch   
2 Oct 2023
News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

But you wrote about diplomacy, not about internal politics.

Yes, but a certain amount of diplomacy can be good there too especially if your party needs to form a coalition in the future. You can also exhibit diplomacy in how you deal with the electorate.

some parts of the interview weren't conducted in English,

I was wondering whether it could be a mis-translation of what he said.
Atch   
2 Oct 2023
News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

I'm not following it that closely either but when I'm trying to enjoy my YouTube viewing campaign ads keep popping up. Utter nonsense from PIS such eg. actors playing 'ordinary folk' looking disgruntled and saying things like 'last time Tusk was PM I lost my job' as if nobody has lost a job under PIS. From the PO side we have ridiculing of Kaczynski, taking clips of him and messing with them to make him look even more of an old codger than he is with the voiceover 'Dwarves are running the country'. It's stuff for a satirical comedy show, not a serious political campaign.
Atch   
2 Oct 2023
News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

I thought it's Irish and a legit newspaper,

Always check the 'about us' section of websites. I thought the site looked a bit 'un-Irish', I'd never heard of it and the source of the news was RT.

You can listen to the original interview here:

economist.com/podcasts/2023/09/11/volodymyr-zelensky-tells-our-editor-in-chief-about-how-ukraine-is-preparing-for-a-long-war

a pretty big difference between the diplomacy of PiS and PO, for example

Up to point but in many ways they're cut from the same cloth, at least as far as internal/domestic politics is concerned. Plenty of mud-slinging and childish lampooning going on from both sides in the present electoral campaign.
Atch   
2 Oct 2023
News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

He seems to forget that they are guests in our countries

Unfortunately this is a bit of a Slavic trait - not very good at diplomacy.

Btw, despite the name, the source is not an Irish newspaper, just in case anyone thinks it is. It's Australian. They say they report Irish and European news but I also go straight to the horse's mouth for local news myself.
Atch   
2 Oct 2023
Australia / Power of Attorney to sell land in Poland from Australia [17]

i made the mistake of going here.

Seeing as I provided you with some advice regarding your legal dilemma, it would be in order to say thank you. Manners do seem to be sadly on the decline in these times.
Atch   
2 Oct 2023
Australia / Power of Attorney to sell land in Poland from Australia [17]

Dont thnk its wise to visit Poland

I don't think you should go out in public at all - anywhere :) By the sound of you, you risk being carried away by the men in white coats.

Anyway, to answer your original question, the best thing to do is to use a Polish lawyer based in Melbourne just to get things rolling. A couple of examples below:

prolawyers.com.au/polish-lawyer-melbourne/

polishlawyers.com/australia/victoria/melbourne
Atch   
30 Sep 2023
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1024]

That was from Confucius.

Zigong asked about governance. Confucius said: "Enough food, enough weapons, and the trust of the people." Zigong said: "If you had to go without one of these three, which one would you give up?" Confucius replied: "Weapons."
Atch   
30 Sep 2023
Life / Question about Polish medical treatments [4]

I have the skin condition seborrheic dermatitis,

This might be helpful to you:

reddit.com/r/SebDerm/comments/10d1ubp/finally_found_a_treatment_that_cleared_up/
Atch   
29 Sep 2023
News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [559]

PiS is a leftist party.

Yes, it's basically economically socialist and socially conservative.
Atch   
29 Sep 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

they wont work multiple jobs in most cases.

And rightly so. This is not the USA. Giving out 500 a month and promising to raise it to 800 doesn't help either.

I have not heard of anything like this 6000 immigrants

notesfrompoland.com/2023/06/20/container-town-opens-in-poland-to-house-thousands-of-asian-workers-building-chemical-plant/