News / E.U. Denounces Poland's Authority on LBGTQ Free Zones [150]


Exactly. They didn't really think it through.

They expected support and found they didn't get it. I was walking very close to where Po3 lives a couple of days ago; there were several visible from his front door. He must be seething.

Apparently Flying Tiger have had to reorder those rainbow bags several times; there's probably a factory somewhere producing them just for the Polish market.


They're everywhere now. I live on the edge of Kampinoski Forest and you even see them abandoned and awaiting collection up here.

News / E.U. Denounces Poland's Authority on LBGTQ Free Zones [150]


You don't get to decide.

And meanwhile, the few PiS supporting rural districts which are considered zones are heavily criticised and every day Poles hang more and more rainbow flags in solidarity with those that PiS have tried and failed to intimidate.

News / E.U. Denounces Poland's Authority on LBGTQ Free Zones [150]


It's a discussion forum.

And fortunately the LGBT scene here is thriving.

News / E.U. Denounces Poland's Authority on LBGTQ Free Zones [150]


The thread is about a specific issue in Poland, and the response towards it.

Very gratifying to see how little support PiS have on the issue.

News / The Fur is Flying! Animal Rights in Poland [87]


Always.

News / The Fur is Flying! Animal Rights in Poland [87]


Abattoirs don't practise euthanasia.

News / The Fur is Flying! Animal Rights in Poland [87]


There is no such thing as 'gentle slaughter'.

We are however talking about proposed legislation here in Poland rather than anywhere else.

News / E.U. Denounces Poland's Authority on LBGTQ Free Zones [150]

There's nothing to understand; the political and social situation here is far more nuanced than an outsider can easily comprehend.

And the ridicule that PiS have brought upon themselves by their rhetoric is already rebounding on them.

News / E.U. Denounces Poland's Authority on LBGTQ Free Zones [150]


That's so funny.

News / E.U. Denounces Poland's Authority on LBGTQ Free Zones [150]

That doesn't really add much to the discussion...

News / The Fur is Flying! Animal Rights in Poland [87]


Yes.


Really?


The one wise comment you've so far made.

News / E.U. Denounces Poland's Authority on LBGTQ Free Zones [150]

That post proves my point entirely.

Pure gammon...

News / The Fur is Flying! Animal Rights in Poland [87]


Have you read the bill?


Really? No. Not really. That's actually one of the silliest things you've said.


Have you ever been in a poultry factory farm?

BTW, you conveniently forget that factory farming is less labour-intensive and employs far fewer people than conventional farming...

News / The Fur is Flying! Animal Rights in Poland [87]


You seriously 'think' that banning fur farms would "ruin Polish economy"???? How much fur do you even see people wearing here nowadays? (Not that you see anything here, being elsewhere).


If that had a meaning....

Food / What Polish foods and brands do you miss when you go to other countries? [216]


Very much so, especially in the industrial North. It used to be a staple food, though not nowadays.

It's one thing I don't miss.

News / E.U. Denounces Poland's Authority on LBGTQ Free Zones [150]


As I said above, most sane people are not haters...

Life / Sobering-up station in Poland [13]


There was the case I mentioned. That one was a little untypical in that the victim and the witnesses were lawyers.

Otherwise, being drunk at the time would certainly make someone's account be considered less reliable.

Real Estate / Buy an apartment in Warsaw now or wait [14]

Hugely so. Very few 'dodgy' areas (and a sluggish housing market in/near those places).

There are some lovely bits of Żoliborz. Annoying for shopping though; it doesn't do well for supermarkets.

News / The Fur is Flying! Animal Rights in Poland [87]


For disliking cruelty to animals and seeking to do something about it?


That's one of the lamest responses I've seen here. Even by your pathetically weak standard of logic.

Food / Black pudding & kaszanka [36]

It took me 20 years to figure this out!

Hard to know which is 'better', kaszanka or black pudding. It probably depends on how you're serving it and what with. Plus, with comfort food it depends on the context and the memories. Right now, I'd eat either.

Life / Sobering-up station in Poland [13]

Deniability. If the person was drunk, the police can say they don't know what they were doing.

News / The Fur is Flying! Animal Rights in Poland [87]


same here. People stare because they think I'm underdressed.


You're an honorary Yorkshireman.

Genealogy / Funny Polish surnames [64]

There's a Polish writer (I've met him) called Gniewomir Kuciapski.

I gather he's changed his name now.

News / E.U. Denounces Poland's Authority on LBGTQ Free Zones [150]

Poland has always had a diversity of opinion without being necessarily polarised; people here understand the nuances in life.

Most sane people are not haters.

News / E.U. Denounces Poland's Authority on LBGTQ Free Zones [150]

It's perhaps surprising (and certainly cheering) how many balconies here have rainbow flags very prominently displayed.


Yet the commercial gay scene here is thriving.

Real Estate / Buy an apartment in Warsaw now or wait [14]


We get that here, on the other side of Babice; it's the wrong place for an airfield. It affects quality of life, potentially affects real estate prices, and with all the amateur pilots taking off and landing in a built-up area, risks an accident one day.

Having said that, Żoliborz is still a nice place to live. Whether the proposed new bridge and the road building connected with it affects that is yet to be seen.

News / E.U. Denounces Poland's Authority on LBGTQ Free Zones [150]


Some certainly think about it a lot, and make threads about it.

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


Agreed. Turek too.


It's nice. Kutno, further along the railway line, is similar. Both have an OK town centre.

None of these places though are particularly affluent, and it will be a while before we see much of an uptake of electric vehicles there.

News / The Fur is Flying! Animal Rights in Poland [87]


Before my time. Wearing fur has been unfashionable for decades.

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]

No. The last one started to need repairs a few years ago which coincided with going away for work, so we sold and didn't replace it. There's no need for one in a big city, especially one like Warsaw with good transport/bad traffic and parking problems.

If you're handy for the metro and shops there's not much point. It's usually (especially at peak times) quicker to use the metro here. Plus, on the rare occasions I'm in Śródmieście nowadays, it's usually in the evening for a meal/drink so it would mean a taxi anyway.

A few people I know in Warsaw (and back in the UK) ditched theirs during/after lockdown.