Life / Why do Polish people throw trash on the ground? [12]


Under Poniatowski Bridge it said for decades "Farawell (sic) Ian Stuart". They never cleaned it off u til the whole bridge was repainted.

Scuse the typos. Using a phone.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

Interesting who will make their pizzas or repair their homes.

Life / Why do Polish people throw trash on the ground? [12]


Try a game I used to play. Works on teams and the WKD. Close your eyes and see if you can count to ten before seeing graffiti. It rarely reaches about five.


The opposite of me though inwazji Urzynow when I first came decades ago (a much smaller place then) and in Dolny Mokotów for several years. Some of the parts just beyond Mordor and also bits of Stegny are graffiti central.


Łódź is especially bad for that.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]


There were courses for educated unemployed and one of the possibilities was learning to be a language trainer. I employed a guy (I'd actually known before; he was a journalist but had worked for 20 years in the same niche magazine and didn't really have transferable skills when the magazine went bust) who'd done such a course. It was life changing for him. Not a great teacher however sadly for so many it's just a means to an end.


Culture shock. It comes and goes.

Poles in the U.K. often suffer from this, in part because they have a hard time with the mindset of those ardours them, especially in industrial regions where most of the jobs are.

Life / Why do Polish people throw trash on the ground? [12]


Even if they don't step in dog turds they still get fine dried turd powered in their clothes and lungs.


Which part of town?

Some London boroughs keep the lights lit by the £100 fine for littering. I'm surprised Warsaw doesn't.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Nobody would force you, and you really don't notice after a while.

I'd not use the word junk. Junk is negative. Genitalia are positive.


Would you be disgusted though?

Anyway, you can see more on displaying its covered by fabric sometimes. Clothes designers and their customers often like to flaunt what they've got.

This is a long way from America's illegal attack on Iran though.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]


Empik did, and people do generally have their own tastes in media.


That is so weird.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Why would it?


There are anyway.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]


Albanians often. Poles sometimes on a kind of pyramid scheme/scam. The stock is loaned to them and they don't make much.

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The clothing is just something outsiders see. It's generally self enforced among women. The real oppression of course happens indoors.


That happens anyway.

There's plenty of beaches in Poland where people go without clothes. It's no big deal.


Generally when the novelty wears off, nobody notice

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]


It is very weird. I knew someone whose brother moved to London and used to take a crate of Coca Cola back from Poland on each visit.


The irony is that very few of the Polish shops are run by Poles and most are a sort of pyramid scam.

Having food you miss from home is one thing, but pepper, sugar, orange juice????

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head. For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
1 Corinthians 11:6 - 10

That's religious conservatives all over.


Basically nutters.

The world is of course mostly patriarchal howeevr it would be a better world with no rules on dress at all. Whether people want to wear a full burka or walk down the street naked and fully aroused, what's the problem?

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]


That's very true. Assimilationist however they don't generally fully accept those who do, except as some sort of novelty.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]


Depends. Liverpool is closer to Warsaw than Szczecin is. 2.5 hours on the plane v. a day on the train.

People assimilate to different degrees, however it is easy to live in a bubble nowadays watching one's own TV, buying Masmix, Jogobella and even bags of sugar from home.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


They are in much of that region, however KSA has relaxed their rules. Most still wear the abaya though.


No "a". The word just means covering, as mentioned here. It is not restricted to clothing.


Do most women hate men?

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Before a flutter of googling, here are some recent pics of women in Tehran. in the provinces of course, dress (like everything else) is more traditional.

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The law in Iran doesn't force anyone to wear full hijab. Only a headscarf. Most however choose to wear it since that is part of their culture.


You don't have any.

Calm down. It's nearly payday.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]


One thing I've noticed is a real anger that their kids who've grown up abroad often don't see themselves as Polish.

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]


Do you see that often?

Are they in the room with you now?

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

Looks like their practice of deporting people is causing a few problems...

In January the Associated Builders and Contractors - a trade organisation - said the construction industry would need to attract 439,000 workers this year to meet demand for construction services. Should it fail to do so, it said, labour, construction and housing costs would escalate.
thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/ice-raids-trump-florida-illegal-immigrants-deportations-8dl06r5cp

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]


In PL they pretty well all say that and pretend they've not been mugged.

The general lack of contents insurance means they don't report burglaries and other crimes aren't reported since they don't see the point.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]


That rant, together with your disgraceful personal history, suggests that you would do well to follow your own advice

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]

@WarSore
A poster here who doesn't post much has an appalling story about one of the bars off Marszałkowską. The guy wasn't even looking for tarts however one slipped him a roofie, took him back to his hotel and robbed him.

He died, being of an age, and the police did their best to obstruct justice, "losing" paperwork and interfering with the autopsy. Madia bar, mafia tart, mafia cops.

There are worse stories too. One about beating up and robbing an old guy who'd fallen over in the street and píssed himself. Because he'd come out of a bar, they assumed he was a foreign drunk, bashing him with truncheons in the police station and taking all his money.

Because his trousers were wet and his wallet was full, they didn't bother to check his trouser pockets. After someone did, they found that not only was he sober, but he'd had a stroke and in his pocket was an embassy ID card. He was the husband of a very senior diplomat. That caused a scandal which was hushed up at the time.

And there are worse things than that.

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]


You don't say how long you've been in PL.

If it's a couple of decades or more, you might remember the student demonstration in Łódź where the police weirdly decided to use rubber bullets on protestors.

Unfortunately some klutz in the police armoury didn't look carefully enough (some used to be barely literate) at the label on the box of bullets. You can imagine the rest.


There's an overlap between the police and organised crime. Even regarding kidnappings.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Long overdue.

Iran did say that they "may" block the straits, however they are aware of course that this would be a major escalation and likely to be very hard for them to achieve.

And of course Pan Ryszard has forgotten about the Exxon and Oxy oil that goes that way.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]


Or in fact it does a great deal. Perhaps Bhutan have it right.


Perhaps people who work in crap jobs and struggle end up fixating on it,


Far from a coincidence that cameras were rolling.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]


Materialism is of course bad, however yes, salaries should be enough to make it attractive and also have a golden goodbye if they're voted out. And yes, corruption among politicians and others in public life should never be normalised and should always be prosecuted.

Parliamentary immunity (and that of judges and prosecutors) should also go immediately. There is no good reason for it; they are not diplomats.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Up to no good in Albania apparently.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]


He'd not be chasing money like that.


That's long gone.

Being money-minded is however considered unworthy. It's not considered a good topic for conversation.

It must be one of the few places in the world where the head of government is not allowed to know exactly how much money they have or what it's invested in.

In Poland however, the culture is more materialistic which has bad effects on political life.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]


Why compare?

It seems much better to have a generalist in office than a mathematician.


She had degrees in both Chemistry and Law from Oxford. Nevertheless, she was a bad person. Our current Deputy PM has a part time qualification that she got while working in an old people's home. It is the equivalent to the certificate that kids do at 16. Yet she is a highly skilled politician, and also comes across as much more genuine and much brighter than most elsewhere in Europe.

About people further up the social scale, one thing that distinguishes there from most other places is that the brightest people often don't go into corporate life. They go into public administration, security services, the arts,, farming and the military. Some have money already however most aren't obsessively chasing it.

About Poland, a back bench politician doesn't earn much and few like to declare their assets, There is also corruption in public life which leads to cynicism.