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jon357   
2 Jul 2025
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

since some retards had managed to fall out of windows that no one should be allowed to open their window more than a few inches...

You can open windows there. There are rules about young children living above a certain floor level in social housing and rightly so.

As Atch says, hotels often have window restrictions and that I'd guess comes from their insurers.

AC?

A waste of electric and bad for the environment. Just use a decent fan.

Anyway, it would be bizarre to install a/c just to use for 6 weeks each year..
jon357   
2 Jul 2025
Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]

Truth. But maybe we're a little bit 'battle-hardened' when it comes to the old precipitation.

I've seen people from other parts of Europe look appalled in winter in the Pennines where some days tha black clouds and rain are so heavy that it never really gets light.
jon357   
1 Jul 2025
Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]

That's funny, because the only city that comes to my mind as worthy of visiting in the US is New York

It's great to visit, though people say it can be challenging to live in.

Some places in the South sound worth a visit, Charleston, Savannah. Miami, the cities like Biloxi in a string along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico
jon357   
1 Jul 2025
Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]

@mafketis
Perhaps it depends on whether the capital is either a purpose build one like Washington or Canberra (which Aussies sometimes describe as a waste of good fields) and/or a historical one like The Hague or on the other hand, the country's biggest city; those are always hated unless you're North Korean and have to pretend to like them.

Valletta is tiny just a blip in a big Katowice-style conurbation

A bit like Manila
jon357   
1 Jul 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [295]

Here's one on topic, though not very nice.

Officers with the Metropolitan Police reviewed CCTV from a number of days in June 2024 that showed her pinching and scratching children under their clothes on their arms, legs and stomachs.

Several of the children were seen to be pinched dozens of times over the course of the day. Most cried and flinched away from Lecka after she did this.

Other instances of abuse included kicking a child who was on the floor, pushing children headfirst over cots, shoving another child onto a mattress in the sleep room and aggressively covering a toddler's mouth as he started to cry.

cps.gov.uk/london-south/news/nursery-worker-who-abused-multiple-children-convicted-child-cruelty

A tackier news source but a more lurid article.
Roksana Lecka, 22, has been convicted of 'badly harming' 21 infants at the Riverside Nursery in Twickenham, south-west London, last year.

She admitted seven counts of child cruelty, including kicking a boy in the face and punching a girl in the side, justifying this behaviour by claiming she was sleep deprived from smoking cannabis all night with her boyfriend.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14816495/Polish-worker-22-1-900-month-Montessori-nursery-GUILTY-attacking-21-toddlers-care.html
jon357   
1 Jul 2025
Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]

one reason they are often disliked by most in the country

One of many reasons.

Of course people from a country tend to stay in the centre when they're visiting their own capital, unless they've friends or family in the suburbs. I did some work in London a couple of years ago, sort of northwest London between the centre and where Milo is. Spending time on Wembley and Kilburn High Streets sort of restored my faith in the place. Shopkeepers were as friendly as in the north and prices weren't Londoney.
jon357   
1 Jul 2025
Life / The Best Things About Poland [65]

I guess there's no consideration for them.

Zero.

They can always read novichok's daily rays of sunshine instead.

Everyone knows God makes them in his lab from a combination of dill, nationalism and melancholy

They make them in rooms behing Sphinx restaurants out of marjoram and very weak tea.
jon357   
1 Jul 2025
Life / The Best Things About Poland [65]

@Torq
We haven't had it for so long that it's refreshing.

And he writes extremely well.
jon357   
1 Jul 2025
Life / The Best Things About Poland [65]

where they slither from their ichorous eggs before making their instinctual migration

If they don't mummify them all in plastic pickle barrels like that couple in Łódź a few years ago.

shaven-headed

Shaven only on top and at the sides. Left shaggy on the back of the head in a 'Małopolska Mullet'.
jon357   
1 Jul 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

This would be some kind of solution

All r*SSians should do this.
jon357   
1 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

It doesn't always pay off.

It almost never does.

Ask them to work a 16 hour day for five years

Why would anyone do that? That's more than double the maximum limit.

Tell them to take their 3 weeks vacation

5 weeks plus statutory holidays.

Looks like PAK prefers the third world.
jon357   
30 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]

manifestations in the streets

Ghostly ones?

The truth is, they just want their own stuff because they think it's better,

Or it has more sugar, salt and chemicals in.

They even buy packets of fvcking marjoram and bloody tubs of margarine. The same anywhere.
jon357   
29 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]

Ukrainian Salo is the mother of all bacons.

It's an evil thing.

paper-thin, half-crisp, limp excuse for a meat strip

You're mistaking it for the nasty-ass American and Canadian stuff.

This is the real thing. I'll be eating it in a couple of weeks, in a seaside hotel with an unlimited breakfast buffet, in my favourite town in the world.


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jon357   
29 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]

production of Yorkshire Bacon probably can't be sold in the entire U.K.

There's plenty. And Lincolnshire bacon is edible too.

how could Poland potentially import it

At market value. It's a premium product, many times better than that rank 'bekon' stuff.
jon357   
29 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]

why Polish uses the English word for the same product.

They're imitating a superior product. Their 'bekon' doesn't have the good bit in. It may as well be Canadian or American stuff. Much worse.

A bit like their use of Gobelin and Travertina when they mean nothing of the sort and saying they work in 'gastronomia' when they peel taters in a canteen
jon357   
29 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [194]

Traditionalist..
I'm sorry to inform you, but you are incorrect.

No. He was a traditionalist.

Your websites are extremist and heterodox.

masonic

He wasn't a mamber, not that there's anything wrong with being one.
jon357   
29 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [194]

modernist

He was a traditionalist.

He prayed with muslim, jews, and

Why not?

he man hated Catholicism

He didn't.

The last true Pope was Pope Pius XII.

You don't get to decide who is or isn't the Pope.

If the 'validity' of the leader of a religious denomination somehow depends on them irrationally hating the same people that you irrationally hate, looks like you've missed the point of that religion.