History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [314]

The weather is lovely in Szarlota - if any of you guys are ever in Poland in spring/summer, seeing Kaszuby is a must. No lovelier region in Poland :)

And - as far as Poland's EU membership is concerned - it has to be said that the amount of investment done in tourism and infrastructure in Kościerzyna, Kartuzy and many other Kashubian towns and villages wouldn't have been possible if it wasn't for the EU.

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [314]

Wherever I go, it's thanks to my hard work.

Don't ever deny nazi crimes on Poles, and we won't have a problem.

See you.

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [314]


Look, Alien - I can tolerate when you talk nonsense about the "greatest cultural achievements in Poland's history" under EU, because that's just idiocy and the world is full of idiots. I can live with that.

However, I will not tolerate when you sh*t on the memory of Poles murdered in gas chambers. In Auschwitz Poles were murdered long before the first transport of Jews arrived there. Poles died in gas chambers of Brzezinka, Majdanek and Sonnenstein, so stick to Eurovision, Alien, and we'll be alright but when you deny nazi crimes on Poles we will have a problem.


You think it's funny? I am leaving for Majówka today and will come back on Sunday. You had better wise up until then.

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [314]


Examples, Alien, give me concrete examples.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


... and because the best way to encourage Poles to do something is to officially forbid it, it only increased the Marian devotion of the masses. :)

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

The Month of Our Lady

We are almost in May, and May in Poland is a traditional Marian month. Tomorrow we are off to Kaszuby for our Majówka; on our way we will surely pass many Marian shrines like this one...

... and I will definitely attend Mass in Sanctuary of Mother of God the Queen of Families in Kościerzyna...



... so if you have any special prayer requests, let me know and when I'm there I will say a part of Rosary in your intention.

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [314]


Only to be expected from Racowie. *high five*

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [314]


Civilisation-wise we are where we always have been (with certain amount of deterioration visible).


Well, the 1989-2004 leap was at least equally important as the 2004-2024 one.


Say what? Please name those "greatest cultural achievements in Poland's entire history" in the last 20 years accomplished thanks to the EU.

I can to some extent agree with civilisational/economic leap but cultural? Explain yourself, Alien! ;)

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


:D

Ladies and gentlemen, AntV has left the building (to do manly things!).

*full respect*

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Don't you just hate when that happens? You say one thing and you are accused of something totally different or the worst kind of bad will is ascribed to you.

E.g.

AntV: I think women should retire 5 years earlier than men, with full pensions.
Paulina: You f*cking mysoginist sexist arsehole! You just want to keep women away from the job market as soon as possible and confine them to taking care of their grandchildren while men enjoy their comfy jobs for 5 years longer! Why do men like you even exist???!!!

AntV: I think women should retire at the same age as men, with the same pensions.
Paulina: You f*cking mysoginist sexist arsehole! It's typical that you don't take into account that the burden of bearing and raising children is mostly on women! Of course, they should keep raising new generations and work as long as men do. You make me sick, you women-hater!

AntV: I think men should retire 5 years earlier than women, with lower pensions.
Paulina: You absolute pig! So, you want to enjoy retirement with your pals while we are working our arses off for slightly higher pensions? OH EARTH--how can you bear carrying such creatures!

etc. etc.

:)


And I explained why you are wrong to which you replied with your typical "you're talking out of your ass". *rolls eyes*

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Here's a good essay on the detrimental effects of coeducation...

klubjagiellonski.pl/2020/12/28/koedukacyjne-klasy-w-szkolach-do-blad/


The idea of not forcing teenagers above certain age into compulsory education if they don't want it.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]

@AntV

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Communication_Port

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Huge disappointment :(

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Thanks, Iron. It's just common sense, nothing else. I don't know why Paulina gets so worked up about it.


But it takes time to become a professor, and an adiunkt doesn't earn all that much more than a primary school teacher (the job is easier though, and the prestige higher - that I will admit).


All around the world, students in segregated schools achieve better results than in coeducational ones. But... the problem of money is the same everywhere.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Indeed...

... and here we arrive at the problem of teachers' salaries. A lot of women take up teaching profession because they have high earning (or at least well-earning) husbands and can choose a career that gives them job security, a lot of free time (because most of them stick to one job at one school - that's 18h/week in Poland), as well as certain amount of prestige (especially in smaller towns and villages) because remuneration is not their primary concern.

Men, on the other hand, are traditionally seen as providers in Polish society, so if they decide to take up teaching, they have to be prepared to work crazy hours to live on a decent level - especially at the beginning when salaries are ridiculously low. Of course, with time, when they are promoted, their salaries rise, they have two full-time teaching jobs (or more!), plus something on the side (private tutoring, matura courses, extramural classes on weekends etc. etc.) they can make very good living. Unfortunately, not too many have enough grit and determination to stay at school for that long or are willing to work that hard.

So, salaries should be higher but as long as there are hordes of women willing to do the job for peanuts money, they won't be higher. One solution would be to give up coeducation - if women were allowed to teach only girls and men only boys, it would force the government to rise the salaries just to find enough men willing to do the job. Of course, the cost of state-run education would skyrocket in such case, so the system stays the same when it comes to wages but changes when it comes to the level of teaching (the dumbing down and trimming of curricula is nothing short of frightening). It's hard to be an optimist about the future of it all.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Thanks, Anti. It's years of teaching experience, observing the students and talking to other teachers and parents - the conclusions are inevitable. Alas.


At most.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


And most parents, apart from an insignificant low-life minority, want the best for their children and certainly wouldn't force their academically gifted kid out of education. So, you are trying to justify something that is detrimental to the educational system as a whole, and to the overwhelming majority of students, with something that pertains only to small minority. That is idiotic.


... and most teachers I know share my point of view. I suppose it might be a good idea to work as a teacher for a while, to understand what they think and why, and it might be a good idea to have children, to understand what parents think and why. Try to go easier on judging people and calling them names before you try either of the two things. :)


Is that the standard of behaviour that you want to reach? Good luck. :)

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Then it means that you have equally low reading comprehension. Take for example point 3 - I never argued against trade/vocational schools and never said that education over 13 would be forbidden for anyone. Merely that it wouldn't be compulsory for those who are not willing to continue their education but are forced to because of enforced obowiązek szkolny until they're 18 years old.

Lenka created a strawman argument and you agree with it. :)


I didn't call either Lenka or you any names and you insulted me just like that. Your vulgar chamstwo would be despicable even in a man, and you call yourself a woman. Pathetic.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Nope. Compulsory education for those who have neither intelligence nor the willingness to do so is a load of bollox. They not only waste their own time but also make it difficult for others to learn, as they tend to be the biggest trouble makers. Why should 20 students in each class suffer because of 5 retards?

1. What is better - parents pushing kids out to schools, just to get rid of them (it is usually the greatest half-wits who are always at school, for their own parents can't stand them so much that they kick them out to school every day and complain whenever there is bank holiday and their genetic progeny has to stay home with them) or encouraging them to find employment?

2. In my 20 years of teaching, on every possible level from primary school to university, I am yet to meet someone who would be completely unwilling to learn until the end of primary school (13-14 years old) and then suddenly find studying fascinating. If there are such people, they are 1 in a million, and you can't design an educational system for 0,0001% of students.

3. Nobody is talking about throwing anyone "into the world with nothing". Education not being compulsory doesn't mean that it would be forbidden. Simply, those who have no interest at all in learning nor willingness to learn, wouldn't be forced to stay at schools until they're 18.

4. For the people I'm talking about, staying at schools for 4-5 more years wouldn't mean they would be better educated. They would be just pushed up a class every year, just to get rid of them (if you don't think that's the case, you don't know the reality in Polish schools), demoralising normal students in the process and making education more difficult for them.

5. There will always be grass to cut, sidewalks to sweep, trash bins to be emptied and city toilets to be scrubbed perfectly clean. Not everything will/can be automated. Our cities and towns will simply be cleaner and better looking.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Of course I meant those for whom school education is torture. Others, over 13, should continue learning but it should no longer be compulsory, and should be considered a privilege not a right.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]

I wanted to see what Paulina, as a member of the younger generation, would have to say about that, and I suppose I could write a lengthy essay about the matter but basically it's...


This.


This.


And this. Plus, the feminisation of the teaching profession has, in general, made a mess of the entire thing (a topic for another essay).

If I were to add anything else, I would also stress the idiocy of co-education, the pauperisation of young teachers (and hence negative selection to the profession), and the disappearence of master-student relation (teachers these days are basically expected to be waiters serving knowledge). The compulsory education until the age of 18 is another example of lunacy - we are keeping a bunch of retards at schools, retards who can't wait to be 18 and finally be "free"; they should be freed much earlier, when they're about 13 years old and are able to read and write (barely).

All of the above has, of course, profound influence on many areas outside education, like for example the ridiculous overproduction of idiots with higher education, with worthless diplomas and degrees, who expect to join the middle class (at least!) just because they graduated from a university, and the resulting chronic lack of good and affordable plumbers, tilers and electricians.

Besides, social media, internet and mobile devices wrecking kids' attention span, too many distractions, the drastic fall of readership, the reluctance to undertake mental effort of any sort... *sighs*... I could go on.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


I know the answer to this question but I want to read Paulina's explanation first.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Hey, nobody's perfect.

You are always trying to see the worst in people, Paulina. Try to notice good things too sometimes for a change.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


... and poetry. The soul-penetrating poetry of Russia.

You are a good advocate for your country, Bobi. I would have hope for the Slavic Revival if there weren't 27 Kostyas and 11 Velis for every Bobko. ;)

Language / Cult statements in the Polish language [31]

And some classics by "fachowcy":

Wedle winkla, wedle piona, a robota spierdolona (With a plumb line, with a square, and the job's botched anyway).

...and the same guy would also say: w moim fachu nie ma strachu (in my trade there's no fear).

:)

Edit: and, of course, the immortal "Uuuu, panie, a kto to panu tak spierdolił?". :D

Language / Cult statements in the Polish language [31]

It's ChWDP

Chcę Wstąpić Do Policji ;)

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


Hey, nobody's perfect.

And I don't like homophones either. If a word is spelled differently, it should sound differently!

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


I said most, not all. :)


Give him a chance, he's a brotherly Serb. There's a good Slavic heart under the rough surface!

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


It does, but very rarely. Remember Crow - everyone thought he was bat crazy at first, but then most people loved him. :)

And look at PF today--who's here to hate? (apart from Strzelec). Even Crno, with his naivety and swallowing all sorts of nonsense, is a likeable fellow all in all.

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*high five* :)