Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]

It's worth 10 2016 zloties, aka about 3 US dollars. Enjoy it for what it's worth (even if you could exchange it which I don't think you can).

Study / Review of the Poznan University of Economics? [18]


The mission and vision of almost any English language programme in a non-English speaking country is to attract students who think they can study in English, extract some money from them and discard them.

The old system (first year intensively learning Polish and then in regular classes with Polish students) worked much, much better in actually teaching students something.

Feedback / Member warning system to prevent abuse / spam / off-topic posts [145]


But didn't someone point out that the random and often just plain wrong thread merging does the same thing?


One brain gooooood, no brain better!

Feedback / Member warning system to prevent abuse / spam / off-topic posts [145]


Feisty! I like it!

But which particular post was off topic in what way? I've had posts that were completely on topic removed to random because......?

And to be frank, why the jihad against thread drift anyway?

Feedback / Member warning system to prevent abuse / spam / off-topic posts [145]

The most annoying thing is there's no link to the specific post that brought about a warning. So the person getting warned has no idea what brought the warning on.

I have strong opinions and I express them strongly (and I expect others to do the same) and I've gotten two warnings out of the blue and I have no idea what they were for except maybe the mods (whom I despise openly) were feeling especially stupid that day.

0= off topic posts. Have you ever given a thought that your posts on the main forums had nothing to do with the thread. Perhaps you were feeling especially stupid on those days?

Law / Uber in Poland - illegal [28]


I can understand why you find the article uncomfortable but the entire business model of Uber is turn de facto employees into "independent contractors" so that all the financial risk is outsourced to them.

Established company taxis are cheap enough in Poland that I would have to be one miserably cheap SOB to want save a couple of zloties.

The problem of mafia taxis can easily be solved by having taxi ordering stands in the airport.

Law / Uber in Poland - illegal [28]


Uber is a racket

houstonchronicle.com/business/outside-the-boardroom/article/Uber-is-in-the-sub-prime-auto-business-7955561.php?t=4ca09c1fff&cmpid=twitter-premium

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


They prefer PiS's lies.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


surely Masłowksa (feminine form)


There's no 'v' in Polish so probably not the original name. It might be abbreviated from Karwowski (which is not super common but not super rare either).

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


The sequence 'ti' is not really found in indigenous Polish names or words so it might have been Matycki and then respelled for Serbian (since it doesn't have an equivalent of 'y')

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


Supermarketariat of the nation unite! You have nothing to lose but your pampers!


You really hate Poles who fail to fall in the party line, don't you?

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


That might be happening, but I do not trust government news sources.

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]


There have been at least two black members of the Polish parliament. Both were naturalized citizens.

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


Poland currently has no functioning constitution. It has been discarded. Poland is currently functioning under a system of rule by party (leader). It's kind of like the PRL.

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


It was a group effort, Winston certainly did his part....

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


Certainly, but as reported in the linked story the priest acts with no detectable compassion or Christian (or human!) feelings. A very poor example, he sets.

I have no desire to determine church policy, but I reserve the right to judge the behavior of those who set themselves up as public moral exemplars - this guy isn't.

If you want to know why young people in Poland are more and more indifferent or hostile to the church that story is a good example.

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


What could be more anti-family than a priest who refuses to preside over the burial of a child because he disapproves of the dead child's parents?

There is no way that the priest in question should call himself a Christian...

wiadomosci.onet.pl/poznan/wagrowiec-ksiadz-odmowil-pogrzebu-noworodka/d260r6

The priest supposedly said to the grieving father: "pan nie jest żadnym ojcem i pan nie może być ojcem, bo z akt wynika, że nie ma pan ślubu kościelnego, a kto nie ma ślubu kościelnego nie może być ojcem"

"You're no father and you can't be because according to the records you don't have a church wedding and whoever doesn't have a church wedding cannot be a father"

Sick and perverted is just the right word.

History / Current Polish-Russian relations.. What do the Poles think? [60]


PiS types chafe under Russian rule but at least life makes sense to them then. They get to be eternal victims, responsible for nothing. The idea of a Poland that is not being victimized scares them to death. The could forgive Russia for Smolensk (if we pretend for a moment that Russia engineered it) but they could never forgive the EU and NATO for offering Poland a place at the table of nations that are responsible for themselves.

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


The PRL ethos runs very deep in PiS supporters.... Party, party uber alles...

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

Students are rarely enthusiastic about the content of examinations. By itself this means nothing.

Some quick wiki-looking found that competence in the national language is a compulsory part of just about school leaving exam in Europe. (I'm not sure about the UK because the system seems to be a complicated mess and the more descritpions I read the less coherence there seems to be).

Being American I'm not sure on the logic of the whole matura/abitur/le bac system though, why isn't a diploma enough?

But, if a country wants such exams then the national language seems to be a pretty normal subject for them.

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


Why is this "absolute nonsense"?

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


Then the documentation and supporting evidence will soon be placed in the public domain? Yay!

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


Any excuse to keep from following the law?


Then expect Poland's international market ratings to plummet like a tamale dinner in a toilet. Why would first world countries want to invest in an economy in ruins, ruins I tell you! Seriously, according to you and Morawiecki Poland is in worse shape than Greece and should be hitting a _major_ recession as soon as the international markets realize this.

I hope PiS supporters have got some fall back plans because PiS isn't going to have money to buy them off for much longer once the economic collapse hits....

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


So can we expect indictments? On particular charges? Or is this political kabuki meant to distract people from the lawless nature of PiS and rule by party leader rather than rule of law?

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


Loathesome to those who want to live in a society under the rule of law. I imagine it's quite comfy to those who long for the security of the PRL and rule by party leader.

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


Well Frau Merkel's rash decision seems to have had a bunch of unintended consequences. Among them of course is a massive rollback in womens' de facto freedom in countries that receive many 'refugees' but also it is making the real (as opposed to idealized and/or imaginary) effects of large scale muslim immigration to Europe a topic of discussion.

Most crucially, some people are losing their fear of being called names for looking at these issues with a critical eye. Many people here (on both sides of the issue) resort to childish name calling and/or irrelevant anecdotes instead of data (which is what I'm interested in). I'm interested in what works and not some candy-in-the-sky wishful hoping about what could work if people just could be freed of that pesky human nature or if the clock could be turned back so we could redo history.

Reports condemning Poland as an oasis of thoughtcrime does nothing to improve the real problems that exist (and will ultimately simply strengthen the current mostly loathesome government).

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


Because it would take a lot of time and money to develop such a program and, again if you've forgotten, there was no time or money.

Think of it like this: Your house is on fire. You can either a) dump a few thousand gallons of water on it right now (probably causing some water damage as well as fire damage) or b) create an elaborate plan of chemical fire retardents that would take two weeks to put together.

a) or b)?

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

My summary of every Crow post ever:

blah blah blah Mad crazy Serbian nonsense, blah blah blah

close?

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


It would have been nice to do that if there had been money and time for it. There was neither. Poland and almost all Polish concerns were broker than broke.

Were mistakes made? Of course. Were revisionist fantasies possible? No.

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


The rule of law is dead, but rule by party leader continues in the glorious tradition of the PRL.