UK, Ireland / The best way for a Polish person to learn English? [46]


The Poles did.

They banned Wymysorys. By the time they unbanned it, the danger was done

Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [156]


I bet Starbucks won't drop their prices.

News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [412]


The politics of sound bites and psychological manipulation

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


That's my feeling to.

It's very easy to say what should be done. Saying how is a much harder task and actually doing it, especially under massive constraints is harder by an order of magnitude

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

This is worrying.

"The Americans should know that any US military intervention will undoubtedly be accompanied by irreparable damage."

Do they have the capacity to do this or are they just sabre rattling since they know the end is near.
theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/iran-threatens-us-with-irreparable-damage-if-trump-joins-war

News / Will Poland as a NATO member be drawn into the Israel/Iran war ? [250]


Didn't you suggest once that the world was flat?


Perhaps in your country.

Remember that Putler has threatened this and is currently upgrading their bases.


Sadly true. Rightwing propaganda targets the gullible.

News / Will Poland as a NATO member be drawn into the Israel/Iran war ? [250]


That wasn't NATO either

News / Will Poland as a NATO member be drawn into the Israel/Iran war ? [250]

They don't, and in fact they buy many weapons from NATO member states (however that is nothing to do with NATO).

This is a silly thread title. NATO is forbidden to engage with either Israel or Iran.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

It looks like more bombing today, and Israel running low on weapons.

News / Will Poland as a NATO member be drawn into the Israel/Iran war ? [250]


It is not eligible to join.

They dont meet two criteria. The first criterion is that they must be in Europe or North America. The second is that they must have a reasonable human rights record.

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


This one?


https://polishforums.com/travel/poland-videos-travelling-throughout-88708/

That was a classic thread.

Many new facts about Poland. Nobody knew that Salzburg is in Poland. You were the first person to tell everybody that Salzburg is in Poland. Salzburg is a really nice guy. His wife is beautiful.. Nobody ever told them that Salzburg is in Poland as well as you.

It's great to know about

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Not only Saudi. Several of the countries in a position to do so have increased production recently. Maybe they got a call, maybe they're just doing it because the deteriorating world situation makes that a good course of action.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


If that had a meaning, it would be worth reading.


Have you met most Saudi men then?

The state has rules in both countries about women's dress and customs differ in each country by region. People differ in their individual tastes too.. Many of the thousands of Saudis who go to Bahrain, Kuwait, Dubai etc at the weekend are happy to relax and behave differently from home.

In Saudi, hair covering isn't mandatory however it is a tradition for Arab women in conservative societies. Some people are stricter than others. Saudi has now removed the requirement for a flowing overdress though most wear it in public by choice. They've come from the dark ages to the modern world in less than half a century. So what if their society is conservative?

Moan about it more, why don'cha?

And even if KSA were as repressive as you suggest or can drag up from the internet, so what? Does that excuse anything that happens in Iran?

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


They are forced to wear that.


This is what the more secular urban middle class want to wear.

Even in the ultra-religious Saudi, the hijab comes off some of the women or is at least relaxed with the veil off on the flight to Dubai as soon as the seatbelt sign pings off.


That's how it is. A massively repressive theocracy with tens of thousands of political prisoners and mass executions. Some things may be less rigorously enforced than Saudi however they are very different places. One was mostly Iron Age apart from the north west bit round Mecca, Medina and Jeddah until the 60s and even that was apparently like stepping back centuries.

Iran is far more established and had the monarchy period. Just as oppressive in some ways and that has continued in a toxic combination with the Ayatollahs.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


No. Thatcher's, the Yanks' and the nasty bastards' favourite.

The good politicians and other good people did their best. And won in the end. Through 'rules-based' structures and methods.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


No thanks.


If they were a bit more autistic, they'd rule the world.

Don't confuse a country's ruling coalition with its actual people.

None of us in any country like rightwingers, none of us like nationalists, however sometimes we have to live with them until we can make them somewhat more horizontal and motionless.


I'd say yes, however he knows little having a very low IQ and cognitive decline.

What he does know is that he's been played like a fiddle. He (or his strategists) tried to play hardball with their betters and it didn't work. America is our wayward daughter, blowsy, peroxide blonde, boomerish, called Karen and with a pistol in her purse. Unfortunately her elderly mother Sophia has been doing this sort of stuff for far longer than she's been alive and is better at it. And cleverer. And takes statins, goes to the gym and hasn't quite got Alzheimers yet. And holds quite a few cards that the public don't generally think about.

Now back to Iran...

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


So a minority.


Recent. Almost as recent as the Egyptian inhabitants of the Gaza Strip.

The majority of people who came to the land of Israel are from the MENA region, despite your frantic googling.

Do you deny them the right to their own country?

Anyway, this is about Iran; not the usual antisemitism.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Surely you don't believe that crap?


Except racists. They emerged fully formed from Stonehenge.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Not all Israelis from the MENA region are Mizrahi though, are they.

Google is not always your friend.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Did they flee Portugal to save their lives then?

If the term MENA region is too vague we'll ignore the 1940s pogroms in Iraq, Yemen, and Morocco and just concentrate on the majority, people who fled there from within driving distance of Jerusalem.

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I don't think the world was ever like that. it was quieter and more sociable pre-technology though the pic is set ini Manchester which was never really pre-technology since it was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution.

Plus. whenever there were fewer white people in the Americas or brown people in Europe it was neither better nor worse. Unless you were a Native American or African, in which case it was much better but far more boring.

The pic is idealised. The buses were full, the tip deck was smoky and the people ill-fed and worn out by very hard work while others sipped champagne.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


It is t. There's thousands of words on the conflict generated daily and you never hear this mentioned.

Nevertheless, they are Egyptians. The Gaza Strip is contiguous to the northern Egyptian conurbation, the largest in Africa. Most are Egyptians, some of them Zott.


Another common myth.


Since 1967.

As mentioned (and the useful idiots put their hands over their ears about this), most Israelis' roots are in the MENA region. After centuries of pogroms, they fled there for their lives.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


They didn't.


Africans don't all look alike, however there are very strong common cultural, social and economic traits within Arab societies as well as (apart from Lebanon) a near identical world view.


The two state solution was proposed by Israel. Arafat refused. He wanted it all.

1. How many leaders of palestine can you name before Arafat?
2. Why was there not a word of talk about a palestinian state (or country) at any point in time until after the 1967 six day war?


Most residents of the Gaza Strip are Egyptian of course and arrives there in the 60s,70s and 80s.

Incidentally the 'resilience convoy' who say they're crossing North Africa and attempt to enter the Gaza Strip are attracting ridicule and dismay in the region. The words I heard today (in the MENA region, in a landlocked country to the south) was "exhibitionist", "r*SSia sponsored " and "seditious". Mostly they are attracting ridicule.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Bangles yes. Brits not so much much unless it's Health&Safety, training and security.. Canadians and some Poles in education. More Filipinos, Indians, Sudanese Italians and Aussies doing various jobs otherwise,

It's better not to refer to Pakistani people like that. This is not 1955.

The others?

- Lebanon???? Flourishing???

- Tunisia? A dump with a small population and a capital built by the French. I go there sometimes to Tunis for work stuff. Rubbish piled high in the streets of the capital, power cuts, people fist fighting each other in public and open prostitution.

- Algerians? An unstable country with one of the highest corruption levels in the world, a dysfunctional economy and 30% unemployment. They can't keep the electric on either.

- Morocco? More Berber than Arab, again, a dysfunctional economy despite better agricultural conditions than the rest, again 30% unemployment, a massive disputed region and a guerilla war, no freedom of speech or media.

-Egypt. 110 million and growing, tens of thousands of political prisoners, no real economy, public debt that they can't pay and dependent on international aid for food. And they can't keep the electric on 24/7 either.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Hardly racists since they have.

No Arab state has functioned successfully (or managed to keep the electric on all the time) except KSA, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman who pay others to do it.

Dubai and Qatar are quite efficient however they are both minority Arab. Dubai is over 70% Indian.


It's more that they have somewhere else to go. The majority of Israelis are descended from people who fled the MENA region due to pogroms and repression. They are from that region and have nowhere else to go.

What is Israel supposed to do? The two state solution was raped, murdered and dismembered like Hamas' victims on 7/10

Anyway, this thread is about Iran. One of the vilest and most repressive states in the modern world who were making nukes to destroy a democratic country (they have been explicit about this) and have attacked British ships in the Gulf.

Law / Zloty lifts Poland's Economy [58]


If you've got Krone, even though it's fallen a fair bit against sterling, it now seems to be rising again so unless war breaks out soon, autumn might be a good time to visit.

Forget summer. It's jammed with tourists,

The zloty seems to be up and down against sterling. Presumably the same aga8nst other currencies.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

He seems to, doesn't he.

There were protests before. Possibly with discreet support from other countries. This may well be the case now.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Some pretty big anti-regime demonstrations in Iran today.

Law / Zloty lifts Poland's Economy [58]


You can get nice pierogi there, mostly chilled to cook. Cooked and takeaway would be nice and ubereats probably does them.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Snap back.

What evidence do you 'need'? Decades of diplomacy? Google is your friend and ChatGPT is your friend with benefits.


Hence the bombing of the sites where they do it and where their nuclear technicians are.