News / The quality of Polish media coverage [50]

So don't watch in that case. This is a free country. Your wife and kids might be a bit upset because that's where most of the interesting programs are. Or maybe you don't have any family ? It does seem that most of the posters on here with your kind of views tend to be single guys.

Genealogy / Want to find a person [762]

Could be Iwacewicze ? Now in Belarus

USA, Canada / Poles and Americans, what do you think, are we friends or enemies? [187]

The EU isnt trying to nullify Brexit - they have told them to pay the cash they owe and leave in 2019. It is the British parliament that is having second thoughts

Real Estate / Notice period with rental contract of flats in Poland [15]

Second one.

Life / Why do so many Polish strive to be accepted by the West? [78]

Yes the west does not like criticism but it does not responding by jailing, mudering and poisining critics like the Russians do.

As for Russia being more spiritual than the west i have never noticed that on my visits. Unless by the East you mean Nepal or Tibet ?

Life / Why do so many Polish strive to be accepted by the West? [78]

The German invasion did start 17 days before the soviet one so i guess you are right.

Queing for oranges is only the most evocative symbol of the failed state - add in empty shelves, secret police, dictatorship, lack of free speech and terrible living standards. Thats what happens when you have to live like Russians

Life / Why do so many Polish strive to be accepted by the West? [78]

But many of them know the rationale, because they can remember Soviet rule. They can remember standing in line in the snow at Christmas for a few bitter Cuban oranges. Nothing on the TV, in fact no TV. Plenty of flaki.

Life / Why do so many Polish strive to be accepted by the West? [78]

I think the main reason that they strive to be accepted by the west is that the 40 years of rule from the east between 1945 and 1989 was a disaster.

It started with rapes and destruction, confiscation and murder and it finished with Poles having to queue in the cold for every day necessities.

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Yes it's important but there are threads about it - your obsession with it is spoiling a nice forum - just like the flame wars between Harry and Polonius used to. Im sure there are other forums just dedicated to that kind of stuff ?

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

LOL trusty Wikipedia :)

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Cops killed by firearms in the US last year - 160. Rest in peace.

Cops killed in Poland - 3. Also rest in peace.

If you were here and listened to the radio you would know that that this killing last week has created a long debate here about access to firearms and whether the automatic weapons came from. If that was in the US it would be forgotten by the time the nascar race started on TV.

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

Or it could be widened to a discussion of free speech in Poland in general.

However having that discussion seems to mean that if you are generally a liberal live and let live person; that you should be held accountable for the actions of some rapist taxi drivers in the UK many of whom arrived in Britain even before you were born.

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

Yes that is a good idea - trawling the internet for stories about the Muslims, who pay your wages, is not the issue here . I am sure that Breitbart has a comments section where you can talk to like minded people.

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

@sig

I agree that is a worrying sign of bigotry. Interestingly the figures for Poland a very similar - especially in rural areas. There are several polls available on the Internet but this one says 48 percent of Poles view Homosexuality as reprehensible.

rp.pl/Spoleczenstwo/170519348-Sondaz-Pew-Research-Center-48-proc-Polakow-Homoseksualizm-jest-naganny.html

News / Anti-Defamation League want Macierewicz (Poland defense minister) appointment withdrawn - GW [42]

So you probably need to look at Sigs post about how offending peeople is an essential part of free speech.

If this Ruritanian organisation is paid for our tax zloties then that is an abominable waste of public money.

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

I was at Oktoberfest and I ate an overpriced Haxn- same as every year. Christ only knows where you get this tripe from.

No uneducated Americans are not detonating bombs in the subway. But they are not absolved from blame - they elected Bush who started an illegal and unnecessary war that put the region in flames. I'm not much of a climate change fanatic but it is a contributing factor to migration - again the US pulled out of efforts to control it - due to Trump who was elected by uneducated Americans. Now by pulling out of the sensible migrant compact he is unwilling to help clean up the mess.

If you get on with your neighbors in Saudi then fair enough - but what would they think of you calling all Muslims 7th century barbarians ? It's nice that you like gays and minorities but it does not sit easily with your call to hang all communists without trial.

I don't know how much time you spent in Czech but politically it is very different from Poland and Hungary. There is no religious wing, no pandering to expat Czechs and Babis' party votes with the centrists in the EU parliament. They mostly want a quiet life, a stable koruna that will support their exports to Germany and they are an extremely liberal, thoughtful and laid back people - the political culture is more like Ireland than Poland.

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

You think the world will disintegrate without the US ? You are a migrant yourself Sig - paid Well by people you despise. You are welcome in Poland as a hard working person but also as a migrant.

News / Should Poland traitors face the death penalty? [105]

There is a clear way in 2017 to punish these MEPs - vote them out at the next election if you don't like their actions.

Executions is a 1917 solution.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Heavy buffet lunch on the krupnik again ? If you are talking about Sig then the fact that he does not speak Polish might be a slight obstacle. Cushy jobs pay far less than he earns now and in any case they are dished out to small town Soltys and other PiS cronies.

News / Should Poland traitors face the death penalty? [105]

What is a position of power ? Sports minister ? University rector ? Museum director ? Head of an oil refinery ? Trainee prosecutor? Should they all be executed?

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

There are many cases of catholic clergy abusing kids - all over the world, and with victims running into the thousands. The question is whether this means that all Catholics are barbarians? That abuse is part of the culture ? etc - because you are making the same generalisations about Muslims.

I am not radical, I am certainly not left-wing. I certainly have as much integrity as you do.

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

llanellionline.news/2017/11/30/claims-police-found-wanting-caldey-island-abuse-case

British Police at fault, social services at fault, church at fault. Abuse carried out by refugee

Very similar case

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

Well Polish Ultra is testing the desirability of total free speech.

Sig - have you been following the case of the Polish child abusing monk given shelter in a British monastery for years ? Many victims and a huge cover up. It has many parallels to Rotherham. I'm a catholic - does that mean I am a child abuser too ?

In both cases the police are involved, criminals are being locked up and questions asked about why it happened. What more comment do you want ? You are clearly obsessed with this.

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

I doubt it - in Britain the prosecution is brought by the crown not by the govt. unlike
Poland of course where Ziobro decides who goes on trial. So an independent monarchy does have some value. He defrauded his mortgage company and that is a little less heroic than going to prison for his beliefs.

I agree that the hate speech laws were too hasty, not thought through and counter productive. I don't think that is a justification for extreme racism howeve - it's a symptom not a cause.

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

I thought Robinson was jailed for mortgage fraud ?

They are allowed to have rallies - nobody turns up. They are allowed to stand in elections - nobody votes for them.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

fakty.interia.pl/polska/news-co-polacy-sadza-o-dostepie-do-broni-palnej-sondaz-cbos,nId,2454512

There you are. You can google the other countries yourself. You probably need to argue with the other 33 million poles to oppose gun liberalisation. For myself the evidence is obviously so overwhelming that guns equals more murders.

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

I used to hang out a bit in Wembley in the 90s - most of the Asians there are Hindus from Uganda and Gujarat and they are an extremely successful wealthy and generally peaceful community, grateful to have been take. In as refugees by the British. There are some great restaurants there if you want some cultural enrichment

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Well then you only need tell the 86 percent of Poles who oppose gun ownershipthat they are not citizens.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

There are only a few children at this daft march. Given that most Babcias won't let their grandkids out without 10 layers of clothing they are hardly going to be keen to expose them to thousands of unruly and drunk football hooligans. Only a few thousand are hardcore racist but probably 20000 are football ultras. The families there are a mix of mohair and odd looking adults.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

Sig - Next year when you are here you can walk there with your Polish family and see how safe it feels. For about10 years it has not been a pleasant march but an excuse to take cheap amphetamines and smash things up. It's not particularly racist apart from a few nuts but it is often very threatening. That's why many families now leave Warsaw for the duration.