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


the society should decide on the laws if a society wants no same sex marriages or at least no adoption for same sex couples then it should be the law - what do you want?: not interfering of religious beliefs of members of society with the law? why?

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


because the bible says so :)

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


would you give same sex couples right to adopt children? if so why?

Love / Polish girls and contraceptives [68]


I don't know, man - either you don't read this forum at all or you have very short memory, but Torq is very critical of PiS - and has a new found love for the fake Kosiniak

Work / Choice of Poland's OFE ( Open Pension Funds ) [30]

@pawian

I never said PiS where thieves - you did (oh go figure)

Work / Choice of Poland's OFE ( Open Pension Funds ) [30]

if PiS are thieves then you are an accomplice if you ask me

Work / Choice of Poland's OFE ( Open Pension Funds ) [30]

do you collect 500 plus for your kids, pawian - if you do you are not exactly in the position to criticize PiS

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


at least you listen to both sides, Lenka

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


where do you get those figures from? the top of your head?

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


I can't believe you are that naive

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


you need to subscribe to newsweek to read the article - nice try though

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]

there is no point in discussing politics with pawian, Spike

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

which laws PiS proposes is unconstitutional?

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


roundly rejected by a single person - you probably don't read too many sources on the internet

Law / Polish Citizenship by Descent Question - Polish Citizenship Acts [36]

as far as I know the Polish citizenship law before the second world war dictated that accepting another's country citizenship meant renouncing of Polish citizenship. However the law after the second world war allowed for dual citizenship. I think trying to get a Polish citizenship in your case could be complicated.

News / Modern F-35 bought by Poland. Good decision? [288]


I also can't think of a war with Russia - I just don't see a reason why Russians would want to invade Poland

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


your dog is a brilliant lignuists then - Polish dogs are not that bright :P- there was a case of a relinquished Alsatian in a shelter in Britain whose masters were Polish and the dog could not understand commands in English

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]

ok - I was pulling your legs somewhat, people - PiS (Duda precisely) actually broke the constitution once at the very start of PiS majority - yeah, you anticipate well - but I can't help myself but make fun of you for not knowing your own constitution which you presumably want to defend - the article 7 of the Polish constitution states that the authorities are bound to operate based on law and within the limits of the law - based on that (and the articles of the constitution regarding the constitutional tribunal) it can be argued that the president didn't have the right to reject signing twe five judges elected by the previous parliament as a form of my personal consolation after admitting the above I want to stress that PO goverment ignored or defied in a range of 20 rulings of the Constitutional Tribunal, passed the amended law to vote in 3 extra judges into the constitutional tribunal in clear violation of the constitution probably in hope that the Constitutional Tribunal would pass on that one like they did to the OFE contributions - which reminds me of utterly scandalous and/or absurd rulings by the Constitutional Tribunal itself proclaimed in the past


I should have said I was teasing with you a bit (which is also not entirely true) - I never claimed my English is perfect

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


I don't know, maybe such incidents have never been commented in mainstream media but I never heard of a similar incident to the one I described in my previous post - I have a cousin who is born German and he never faced such problems in Poland (he was married to a Polish girl and has been living and working here (in Poland) on and off for several years now and before he frequently visited) - he speaks some Polish but with an accent - I can speak some German but not enough to have any real form of a debate especially on a forum like this one - also there are thousands of elderly German tourists visiting Danzig especially every year and i have never heard of any form of harrassment against them

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [140]

I can't imagine something along the lines of golumbki with sour cabbage to be honest

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [140]


- I heard golumbki (aka gołąbki) are essentially greek dolmas - the thing is dolmas are made with vine leaves and not cabbage leaves and it is the cabbage leaves that give golumbki its characteristic taste

News / Modern F-35 bought by Poland. Good decision? [288]


- it's only the Baltic sea that stops us now heh ;) :P

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


there was an incident where a Polish university professor was head butted for speaking German to a German colleague on a Warsaw tram - it happened in 2016 - I haven't heard of any similar incidents though

Travel / Why do you visit Poland? [223]


he commanded the defense of Olsztyn in the 1520 Polish-Teutonic order war - the thing is that the cities (with large German populations)(and not only the cities but also the gentry) of the lands later called Royal Prussia rebelled against the Teutonic Order long before (during the 13 year war that ended in 1453 or so) and chose to join the Polish kingdom with a lot of self-goverment though


not before the end of the 13 year war and the Toruń peace

News / Modern F-35 bought by Poland. Good decision? [288]

we would love to have one - after all, all we dream of is a revenge for the Swedish Deluge :) :P

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


yes, they do behave suspiciously as if there was something wrong with the lists - and i do not claim to know why for sure (my guess as I pointed in my previous post is that the number of individual judges on all lists combined is shamefully small - I also mentioned that one possible motivation is protecting those loyal judges from ostarcism in their job environments)

- Gazeta Wyborcza has found no wrongdoing in the case they revealed besides obvious pointing out that the judges on the list benefitted from PiS rule so I doubt there is a skeleton in the cupboard there (at least not of scandalous magnitude)

we also don't know how Wyborcza got their hands on the list they published - it could have been a controlled leak

Travel / Why do you visit Poland? [223]


what I know his mother was German - also there is no record of him writing anything in Polish (but Polish writing system hasn't been established by then if I recall correctly) - the city of Toruń was founded by the Teutonic Order if I recall correctly and the Knights attracted German settlers to their towns and cities (although the land Toruń was founded in was inhabited by Poles - even at the end of the World War 1 the majority of the area of Toruń was Polish from what I can gather) - Copernicus also belonged to the German fraternity when he studied in Italy

as for his Polishness - Polish sources claim that his father was Polish originating in Kraków - Kopernik looks like a Polish surname with roots in the German word for copper though - nik is a Slavic ending

i guess Copernicus understood (and probably spoke) Polish but probably identified as German

Travel / Why do you visit Poland? [223]


I can't remember anything special about Płock - there is a pretty old cathedral and a zoo on the banks of Vistula - I guess the zoo isn't spectacular and to see a cathedral you need half an hour or so -

what I would recommend is going to see Toruń - Toruń is about 100 km from Płock with half of the way covered by a paid motorway - it is a nice city with an mostly untouched by war old medieval city centre - in Toruń you can visit a museum of gingerbread with English guides where you can bake your own gingerbreads - Toruń is also where Copernicus was born

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


I feel your pain, man - elitism (mainly financial elites -but they are cahoots with most of the governments and the judiciary) is one of the worst problems this world faces - in my opinion workers should have a big share in the companies/firms profits not just their salary (say half of the profit of companies should be distributed among the workers according to their input which would also probably require also limitation to the amount of dividend and salaries of the leadership) - maybe it sounds a bit bolshevik to some people but that's my view

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


PiS officials claimed that the support lists couldn't be published because of the RODO regulations - I have only a very vague idea of what this RODO is all about so I have no idea if this was/is legitimate or not

anyway, in my understanding PiS is reluctunt to publish the lists because they want to protect those judges who are loyal to them/side with them from witch hunt (dintojra) from there peers - though there is also a possibility that the support lists globally show quite a narrow support among the judges and it somehow may have been seen as shameful by PiS