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amiga500   
27 Apr 2023
News / EU, Germany, Euros and Poland. [54]

What? Musiała is a Polish name, His mother is Polish and emigrated to Germany in the early 2000s. Which ties into the EU thread as in those days Poland was bottom of the pecking order and people had to leave their beloved country to get a job that did not pay 2 zloty an hour. Luckily that has changed and Polish women do not have to immigrate to questionalble countries like Germany for economic reasons anymore.

Of course he is half Nigerian, but half Polish also. So as part of the war reparations that Germany owes we can take 75 million off the 300 billion that is due if you return our player to his rightful place in the Polish national team, or to the Nigerian national team.
amiga500   
27 Apr 2023
News / EU, Germany, Euros and Poland. [54]

Poland beat us at Fußball???

Well if you give back some of our players, you do know Jamal Musiala is half polish right?, not german! ;)
amiga500   
27 Apr 2023
News / EU, Germany, Euros and Poland. [54]

only when Poland starts paying Germany the billions it gets till now from the EU pockets.

We have been paying all along, You missed some points from the article, that much more money goes back to the EU companies that were allowed into poland as part of the EU money and also the EU money was used for projects that benefited Western Europe. Also the dismantling of our manufacturing base to benefit EU.

"Between 2010 and 2016, Poland received 2.7% of GDP as EU transfers annually, and sent 4.7% as profits to western investors."

"The EU-funded highway system in Poland for example, primarily developed the west-east axis, promoting German trade and North Sea ports, rather than the north-south axis which would boost Poland as an eastern European trade hub along with its Baltic ports."

Anyway good to tacticus getting his skirt in a knot about the inevitable rise of Poland ;) I am sure we will be accepting german refugees during the next economic crash, escaping their islamist fellow citizens.
amiga500   
27 Apr 2023
News / EU, Germany, Euros and Poland. [54]

The woke Guardian commissioned an article praising Poland, vis a vis Germany, without mentioning the far right fascist PiS blah blah

Amassing! How the world has changed. Poland Stronk!

"Poland has experienced uninterrupted growth over three decades, the longest in European history. Its GDP has increased tenfold nominally, sixfold when corrected for the cost of living. It has a record low unemployment rate of 3%, lower infant mortality than Canada, higher female life expectancy than the US and less violent crime than the UK ."

"China-US rivalry may soon be echoed in regional (and friendlier) miniatures, such as a Polish-German divide. As eastern Europe grows in power, it is questioning its role in the pecking order."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/25/poland-change-europe-high-achievers-country
amiga500   
16 Feb 2023
News / Mr President Joe Biden comes to Poland again [177]

Great post by both Jon and Pak! Joker has been beaten black and blue. I don't expect him to yahoo out of his trailer park for a few days now. Who will collect all those valuable glass bottles from the rubbish tip now?
amiga500   
4 Feb 2023
News / Alexander Dugin is coming to Gdańsk! [17]

if you deposit 500 euro for a VIP ticket, he'll allow you to physically lick his ar*sehole while he pontificates on the genocide of the Ukrainian people.
amiga500   
4 Feb 2023
Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]

why are you whiskey bastards taking a perfectly good thread off topic? you are not captain haddock in tintin.
amiga500   
30 Jan 2023
Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]

A sign of a mature and confident nation rather than a minor place of cultural cringe is not caring when others make fun.

Exactly, also taking ownership of the word and transforming it into something positive and fun, like blacks did with nig*a and gays did with queer. People from the subcontinent in U.K should do the same with paki.
amiga500   
29 Jan 2023
Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]

bloody yanks always find a reason to get offended, like redskins it's not the actual native americans that are offended but some woke academics causing a fuss. same goes with polaks, i take it as a compliment and also self depraciating humour, use it all the time.
amiga500   
29 Jan 2023
History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [275]

What if Poland was attacked by RuSSia? How would Orban behave?

Polak, Węgier - dwa bratanki,
i do szabli, i do szklanki,
oba zuchy, oba żwawi,
niech im Pan Bóg błogosławi.

English translation: They would behave just like in world war 2 and for centuries before that, do what they can to help.
amiga500   
29 Jan 2023
History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [275]

That's because the official language in Ukraine is Ukrainian, just like in Poland - Polish

Ukraina dla Ukraniców? Now you sound like a Banderist, the german minority in Poland has rights to be taught german in school, why should the same be denied to the hungarian minority in Ukraine?

In the school year of 2014/15 there were 387 elementary schools in Poland (all in Upper Silesia), with over 37,000 students, in which German was taught as a minority language (that is, at least for three periods of 45 minutes in a week), hence de facto as a subject." .. "there were three asymmetrically bilingual (Polish-German) schools, where most subjects were taught through the medium of Polish""

And yet PiS politicians

And yet you can't provide any evidence for this, in contrast to being provided with all the facts on how Poland has cut friendly relations with Hungary.

Orban's behaviour is treasonous.

The EU recently gave a hungarian oil refinery an expemption from the sanctions, so they import the oil from russia, ship it to slovakia where it is refined, and then able to be sold to Austria, Czech, Slovakia etc.

So now awaiting your moral outrage to extend to the European Commission, please call von der Leyen a piece of sh*t, and call all those that support the EU over Poland scumbags.. tick tock i'm waiting.
amiga500   
28 Jan 2023
History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [275]

but this seems to be the PiS policy towards Hungary

Your PiS derangement sydrome has really affected you, Kaczynski personally insulted Orban, all high level meetings were cancelled and the V4 is now the V3. Stop bringing your PiS hate into every thread. In a time of war this is borderline treason.

the far right (whether in Poland or abroad) tends to sympathize with russia

excuse me punk? Check yourself before you wreck yoursel you silly yank, my posts have shown i'm totally against russia invasion.

Amiga probably meant Ukrainians didn`t allow their Hungarians to seperate and join Great Hungary.

I meant that the ethnic hungarian minority were forbidden to teach hungarian in schools before the war and they are disportionatlly being consripted to fight in the east during the war.
amiga500   
28 Jan 2023
History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [275]

So there goes the claim of PiS politicians and PiS supporters

Who said that exactly? afaik relations between poland and hungary are not the best, and kaczynski critisized orban.

the scumbags that vote for him.

Calm down, youve seen too many ukranian psyops on facebook. ever wonder why those fake photos of atrocities you fell hook line and sinker for were never mentioned by the mainstream media, and the ukranian minister who kept goin on about them was fired?

Orban is allowed his stance, as is half the world. Besides the ukrs have treated the hungarian minority in the carpathians badly.
amiga500   
28 Jan 2023
Language / Test to determine proficiency of Polish? [7]

As part of my prep to spend a few months in Europe, I will be doing some hardcore polish language learning. But before I get to that, am looking for an online test to determine what level (A2, B1 etc) I really am at.

Is there an online course one can do that tests your knowledge and gives you a level grade, one that gives feedback on areas of deficency would be a bonus.

Thanks Polish language experts!
amiga500   
19 Jan 2023
News / War propaganda - are we really THAT retarded? [28]

Why don't we demand higher standards of information coming from the war

Naive in the extreme, but I admire your idealism.

Integrated Operations in the gray zone is standard doctrine for the military. All those memes and news reports you see are a part of the war. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13523260.2021.1980984?cookieSet=1
amiga500   
15 Jan 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Besides after the ukraine-russia war, like guns and grenades from bosnia in sweden, there will be even more guns aplenty in poland, but only the ukranian and some polish mafia will have them. best to get ahead of the curve now and regulate it properly.
amiga500   
13 Jan 2023
Travel / Weird and wonderful Polish train fares [79]

Why change something that works very well?

Except it's not working very well. that bigmouth.pl site has some interesting articles.

"The activists of the Together party calculated how many 2nd class high-speed rail tickets (in the case of Poland EIP) can be bought for the median earnings in several European countries. Poland fared very badly in this ranking. - for the median salary you can buy only 21 Pendolino tickets from Warsaw to Krakow. This amount is striking, especially when we look at Sweden, where for a median you can buy 41 more tickets to cover almost the same distance in the same time.

Now most of these countries have competition and open access on their railways, thus keeping the goverment owned corporation hones, and stimulating the economy and society through cheaper fares.

PKP rubbish
amiga500   
13 Jan 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Years ago perhaps. You would not now,

stop using brit bully boy tactics to try and win an arguement u are already on the canvas for, There is no hairy or delph to back u up in the most snide pom way possilbe. you know nothing about pak and have no way of knowing if he got a gun licence in poland, i reckon he's bought an AK-74 or similar in his travels in ukraine and belarus.

there is no appetite in Poland for weakening the law on guns.

Stop being so dogmatic, PAK explained he wants to make it better, agree wholeheartedly about the pot thing, as our wise and kind leader morawiecki said, it is imperitive that people have the skills in firing and maintaining a firearm for the long term survival of poland.
amiga500   
13 Jan 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

I remember many years ago an episode of Ranczo dealt

I remember that ep! great show! just goes to show that poles have the brains that only in extreme circumstances are guns to be pulled out. I thinik it's drilled to them in childhood that even two bottles of vodka does not overcome it. Also the fact that they are well hidden helps.