Travel / Fortune Tellers/ Astrologers in Warsaw [27]


In the UK, a tiny minority of travellers are like this. In Poland, you don't tend to get many people calling at your door.


The real ones don't advertise their services.

Travel / Fortune Tellers/ Astrologers in Warsaw [27]


I once heard a cassette recording of a colleague's visit to a clairvoyant in the UK (they used to sell you a tape of the visit). She was basically cold-reading the whole time. Her voice was going up at the end of every sentence (a bit like some Americans talk) making each statement very subtly a question, so she could gauge the customer's reaction.

Travel / Fortune Tellers/ Astrologers in Warsaw [27]


Yes, there are plenty. Including one very famous clairvoyant who's on TV sometimes.

There's also SMS fortune telling, basically a scam.

In Poland there are some traditional forms of folk divination practised in the Autumn, around All Soul's Day and St. Andrew's Day.


More usually other forms of traditional practice.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


That's nothing to do with LGBT matters.

The gospels don't mention them at all.

They mention quite a lot else though, like praying in private; something very different from Duda's public displays of religiosity.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


Duda's tweeting in English, trying to backtrack and pretend his words were taken out of context!

They weren't. The reportage was entirely accurate. And he just risks alienating voters. The only ones he'd attract by that weird sort of rhetoric are ones who'd vote for him anyway.


From the early 1840s railway boom in the U.K., when ordinary people could first afford to travel.

And before of course, for those with the financial wherewithal to do so, as Atch points out.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


More likely gained him 30 crazies that were probably going to vote for him anyway if they can find their dowôd osobista under the pile of bottles and lost him 300,000

The prat was just dog-whistling to the least savoury of his fans.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]



As ever, it depends on who turns out to vote. This in Poland favours rural and small town older voters. It isn't beyond the realms of possibility however that there will be a larger than usual show of urban, younger voters, as there was when PiS were thrown out of office before.

News / Britain - problem for Poland and Poles? [122]


That suggests otherwise.

This thread suggests the issues are not as you present them in the post above: polishforums.com/off-topic/antiterrorist-laws-acatholic-engineer-85550

Anyway, you're posting about your problems in a different country,rather than anything in Britain.

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]


They both have a beauty and character of their own, especially Łódż.

Generally nicer people than in most other cities too.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


Not a chance.

In any case, it's the floating voters rather than fascists that swing elections; and for a whole heap of reasons, the Overton Window is shifting.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


It's that same feeling when you're a quarter of the way through a book or a film, yet you know exactly how it's going to end.

USA, Canada / Can Americans Travel To Poland After JUN 16, 2020? [13]


There's only one possible reason. Very low demand.

USA, Canada / Can Americans Travel To Poland After JUN 16, 2020? [13]


Very much so. The situation here in Poland is very fluid now; the first wave hasn't peaked yet. News from America suggests that it's far from over and changing fast.


This has happened to me. Fortunately I'm at home since I live here, however I need to be somewhere else at the moment and can't get there (and would need to go into quarantine if I did).


It feels very strange here right now. Things are open however people aren't going out.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


A project I'm familiar with for single mothers in a deprived area of Leeds did something similar. There was a budget for some training, and what they wanted was to learn simple dishes and to know what was good; they had no real idea of nutrition and the project was a success.

Education is the key; this however has to be widespread and sustained in order to be truly effective.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


That takes a lot of work and a lot of time; we're looking at generational issues. The generation who grew up in the U.K. with rationing during and after WWII are probably the healthiest generation ever. We want to replicate this, and it isn't easy.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


Of course. The well-being and future growth of children is something that can never be skimped on, can never be compromised and can never be left to chancE.

The school meals programme in Poland is a good one, as it is in the U.K. too. Some of the measures (like 'forbidden foods' for packed lunches in the U.K). can seem draconian however ensuring good health in children, inculcating good eating habits, tackling childhood obesity, prolonging life-expectancy and encouraging a good relation to food tat the kids will practise and pass on to their own kids is invaluable.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


School meals are, for those who need that.


Who?

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


That's the whole point. That they are free.


It's both really. Firefighting, where the need is immediate, together with fostering good eating habits for the future.

Your point about trauma to the kids is an essential one. No child should suffer because of the perceived failings of the parents, and a lot of hard work is needed to truly break the vicious circle of deprivation.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


Everybody.


School meals are free to those in need.

In Poland, despite severe budgetary constraints, society does its best to alleviate poverty. Good school meals are a basic, especially as the duty of every school is to give every child in that school the best start in life that they can.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


School meals are.

As Kaprys pointed out, society provides them.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]

More of your usual nonsense.


It's free. Society can well afford to educate every child well, and to provide decentt, nourishing meals at school. Meals that compare well with what any child, regardless of background, gets at home.


Do pay attention; we're talking about Poland. Which provides decent school meals to its kids. Education is free too.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


We tend to do it more carefully over here in Poland. Hence a good school meal service rather than charity.


It is here.


The economy's doing quite well here, COVID aside.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


Everybody wonders that.

In most places, the ideal is to support families that are struggling to cope, help them to manage life better. Not incarcerate people for poor parenting skills and split families up.


If it was that cheap, schools wouldn't be short of money. The costs, especially in a district with high population density and high povert6 levels, quickly mount up.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


In your ideal and nonexistent world, yes. In the real world, not parents live up to that ideal. Hence good, and where necessary free, school dinners.


The prisons would be full and the kids' homes would be bursting to the seams. And families struggling t o cope with life would be penalised and . Rather than helped to cope.


In the U.K., all kids are the local authority's responsibility anyway, hence social services, educational guidance etc..

Of course if a school has to feed kids (as they should), then they need to be very well funded.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


That is not however an excuse for not providing school dinners. A child needs food and a good education regardless of how poor the parenting is.

Otherwise the vicious circle never breaks.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


It's the kids who don't get that, or even a first breakfast (plenty of kids in Poland don't), that need to be fed.


That's school dinners. They're always on a tight

Study / School meals in Poland [145]

Ours (in Doncaster) were actually ok; it's a rich area for farming. Except during the potato crisis in the mid 70s when school dinners were making chips from sweet potatoes.

Probably quite trendy nowadays, but then it was just weird.

@Atch mentioned sugary desserts. As I remember, they skimped on the sugar. If it was a sponge pudding it would be strangely unsweet with a barely visible smear of jam

I got big portions though (not always desirable) being the son of one of the dinnerladies....

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


You get the same here in bary mleczne.

Unless you mean Smash which is sold here now too.

Work / Hands-on agricultural jobs in Poland? [20]

Very few.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


Crikey! That's nicer than the school dinners I had in that town. The salad (a rare offering) were the only decent thing. The meat pie was always lamentable. At least it hasn't been privatised, which doubtless makes a difference. It's a town that has long had issues with poverty; the school meal is probably the main meal of the day for some kids there, so it deserves to be decent.