Life / Can someone tell me about the reason behind being gay in Poland being wrong [148]


I'll remember that next time the grandkids call. I wonder if that Mazur person thinks sexuality and fertility are medically related.


And always get. No matter how much you hate that...

Life / Can someone tell me about the reason behind being gay in Poland being wrong [148]

Obsessed with it, they both are.

Of course the real answer to the question "what do lesbians do in bed?" (gay men too) is rather boring. Mostly sleep, listening to the shipping forecast and maybe The Times crossword...

Life / Can someone tell me about the reason behind being gay in Poland being wrong [148]


Exactly. Most don't worry at all.


Haha haha

History / BARBAROUS / BARBARIC / BARBARIAN tribes in Poland [62]

Mostl likely with some Jewish and Slavic admixture.

History / BARBAROUS / BARBARIC / BARBARIAN tribes in Poland [62]


Quite.

And plenty of people with R1 male haplotype have Jewish roots and dna.

Life / Can someone tell me about the reason behind being gay in Poland being wrong [148]


Almost without exception.

History / BARBAROUS / BARBARIC / BARBARIAN tribes in Poland [62]


Quite. It's very possible in that region. I wonder if he's had a dna test.

Life / Street festivals, parades, celebrations in Poland [7]

Have you been to the Mironalia festival in Warsaw. There's always something interesting.

History / BARBAROUS / BARBARIC / BARBARIAN tribes in Poland [62]


Perhaps they're Jewish.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


And of course some from the countryside, from farming backgrounds...

Love / Polish girls and contraceptives [68]


Quite. Not exactly an achievement. People here are used to getting round silly situations though, and also very adverse ones. The primitive attitude to family planning touted by some in PL has actually very little effect.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Plenty of politicians do just that; it all depends on how the lie is presented.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


Indeed. There's simply no support for it.

History / Saint Virgin Mary Queen of Poland crushes the Red Army [66]


Very much so; and the process continues as the world, the environment and people's priorities change. Right now, there are a lot of under 30s here who've had a life so safe and stable that their forebears could barely dare to dream of it. Some of the values you mention earlier would have been unrecognisable to people 200 years ago and unbelievable a few generations before that.


Have a look at his writings on Wolnomularstwo; they are obsessive and deranged.

History / Saint Virgin Mary Queen of Poland crushes the Red Army [66]


That guy is an utter crank. Some of his writings are absolutely off the wall.


As times of struggle fade to times of peace, the values born out of those struggles evolve.

History / Saint Virgin Mary Queen of Poland crushes the Red Army [66]


Does everyone who's an 'ethnic' Pole fit that criteria?

Is the Pole in Pułtusk who's a Mariavite any less of a Pole than her neighbour who's Catholic?

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


No, of course not.


And how would such a tiny minority trigger a vote in parliament?

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

K-K is one of the more credible figures on the political scene right now.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

A vote by whom? None of the parties in the Sejm want it...

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

You didn't. You just suggested an escalation of gun ownership in a part of the world that has far, far fewer shootings than in your own.

As you've been told before, there is no appetite for reduced gun control in Poland, and no especial desire in Germany to see them on the streets.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Rattled somewhat?

Mass gun ownership doesn't work. There's a reason the civilised parts of the world don't do it...

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


Deliberately, since it is an irrelevance; terrorists care little about such niceties. And as I said, there's roughly one gun for every two Germans...


The two terrorists shot people who were sitting in their cars.


Rubbish.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


Indeed; it's an insult to people's intelligence that they even suggest that. There's a big difference between a gun that fits in a handbag or holster and one of those Rambo-style assault weapons.


Yes, and even in countries with a poor level of gun control, police are shot and killed in the line of duty, just as the country whose lack of gun control a poster is praising has by far the most mass shootings.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

80 million people, 40 million guns.

Though of course it might have been very different if Kurdish people in Shisha cafes carry weapons...

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


Guns aren't illegal in Germany....

Life / Blasphemy not OK in Poland! [54]


The true blasphemy is how the rich accumulate wealth.

He's one of the good guys anyway.

Life / Welcome to winter in Poland! (-19C tomorrow) [64]

It didn't really feel like winter at all this year. We've put things back out on the roofgarden that we'd brought in. Off to Italy for a few days tomorrow; I'd booked it assuming somewhere mild would be a nice break from the weather here, however it turns out that there's only a few degrees' difference.

Genealogy / Seeking Czarniecki family members and ancestors from Lublin, also Margiewicz, Danilowicz and Andrulewicz [77]


Did you get a DNA test in the end? Ancestry.com brings up any distant relatives that have also had them; you may find they have already done a lot of the research that you're trying to do.

History / Polish treasures in Sweden? [18]

"I'm shocked"
No you aren't!


What imperialism? It was a war between two countries, both regional powers, both monarchies, both with large territories.


Yours too!


There's a strong moral case for the various countries that have Parthenon Marbles to return them (and I'd support this). There isn't however a legal case, since they (at least the ones in London) were bought, to save them from destruction, rather than plundered.

History / Polish treasures in Sweden? [18]


Yes, it makes it very OK. It isn't a car, nor is it any other sort of recent purchase or acquisition. It's about items that have been in Sweden for a very very long time. If there was a legal or moral case for returning them (which there isn't), every country that had ever been in a war would have to part with items (including a few exhibits in the Muzeum Narodowy).

And it's isn't as if there's any particular fondness or sense of loss in Poland for minor items that haven't been there since centuries before living memory.