jon357
18 May 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]
Or a desire for them.
The rest of your post is bullsh1t.
don't have a need for them
Or a desire for them.
The rest of your post is bullsh1t.
jon357
18 May 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]
In short, people don't want them, despite your silly whining about 'turd worlders'.
Some of the crap posted in this thread shows otherwise.
In short, people don't want them, despite your silly whining about 'turd worlders'.
Americans dont tell Europeans what to do in their country
Some of the crap posted in this thread shows otherwise.
jon357
18 May 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]
Just as the majority of Poles are not interested in legalising them.
the majority of Americans are not interested in banning guns
Just as the majority of Poles are not interested in legalising them.
jon357
17 May 2018
Real Estate / Best area in Krakow to live? [43]
Oh dear Dolno, perhaps you should have a look at this. A white shirt gets grimy very quickly in Kraków...
Looking at the map, Delph's neck of the woods looks very very clean compared to Kraków.
euronews.com/2017/11/30/poland-among-europe-s-worst-for-smog
Do you know how badly damaged so called progressive EU countries are compared to Poland,
Oh dear Dolno, perhaps you should have a look at this. A white shirt gets grimy very quickly in Kraków...
Looking at the map, Delph's neck of the woods looks very very clean compared to Kraków.
Poland has some of the worst air quality in Europe, with 33 of the continent's 50 most polluted cities,
euronews.com/2017/11/30/poland-among-europe-s-worst-for-smog
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jon357
17 May 2018
Work / What Jobs are there in Poland for an Englishman besides teaching english? [70]
Yes, it really does make a difference.
There are plenty of jobs now where people don't need Polish, however it would be hard to get on in those jobs, and it would severely restrict someone's social life. It would just be scraping at the veneer rather than understanding the society you're in and would effectively condemn people as permanent outsiders.
I can't help thinking of two people I know in Poland. One guy is British with all four grandparents from Poland. He doesn't speak the language and spends his time with other expats and Poles who want to speak English. Another guy is black from the Caribbean. He speaks Polish very well and is accepted as an insider.
Yes, it really does make a difference.
There are plenty of jobs now where people don't need Polish, however it would be hard to get on in those jobs, and it would severely restrict someone's social life. It would just be scraping at the veneer rather than understanding the society you're in and would effectively condemn people as permanent outsiders.
I can't help thinking of two people I know in Poland. One guy is British with all four grandparents from Poland. He doesn't speak the language and spends his time with other expats and Poles who want to speak English. Another guy is black from the Caribbean. He speaks Polish very well and is accepted as an insider.
jon357
12 May 2018
News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]
The nature of the nation state as a legal/sociocultural entity will doubtless continue to evolve; nomads like the Roma and the Touareg as well as settled but stateless people like the Kurds may well achieve one day a different, non-territorial nation with all the rights and abilities of any other type of state.
I hope this will one day happen.
Gypsies are nomads. Or at least they were.
The nature of the nation state as a legal/sociocultural entity will doubtless continue to evolve; nomads like the Roma and the Touareg as well as settled but stateless people like the Kurds may well achieve one day a different, non-territorial nation with all the rights and abilities of any other type of state.
I hope this will one day happen.
jon357
11 May 2018
News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]
Or even completely right.
Odd you think that the DNA is so important for establishing a conn3ction to that great country, when in fact it's the family and culture and community/religious documentation that matter (and are consulted first). Most immigrants there don't need to do a DNA test. DNA is merely one way to verify that in the absence of the more usual methods.
When the Roma eventually get their own state, it's anybody's guess if they'll use that. The results of DNA tests among European traveller communities are interesting. It charts their forebears' fascinating journey from India.
Don't mistake the map for the landscape.
Wrong on all counts
Or even completely right.
Odd you think that the DNA is so important for establishing a conn3ction to that great country, when in fact it's the family and culture and community/religious documentation that matter (and are consulted first). Most immigrants there don't need to do a DNA test. DNA is merely one way to verify that in the absence of the more usual methods.
When the Roma eventually get their own state, it's anybody's guess if they'll use that. The results of DNA tests among European traveller communities are interesting. It charts their forebears' fascinating journey from India.
Don't mistake the map for the landscape.
jon357
11 May 2018
Life / The Art of Complaining by Polish people [47]
Yes. I've read it. It's worth reading for entertainment (which of course is why it's written) but yes, far from profound. Fair enough really, since it isn't meant to be deep scholarship.
Yes. I've read it. It's worth reading for entertainment (which of course is why it's written) but yes, far from profound. Fair enough really, since it isn't meant to be deep scholarship.
jon357
11 May 2018
News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]
It's science versus their opinion. The route by which the ancestors of our Roma brother's and sisters came to Europe has been analysed and confirmed by solid scientific analysis.
That's also been comprehensively debunked.
We're all the same anyway, the variance between DNA in humans is tiny.
It's your opinion versus their work.
It's science versus their opinion. The route by which the ancestors of our Roma brother's and sisters came to Europe has been analysed and confirmed by solid scientific analysis.
Khazarian Hypothesis
That's also been comprehensively debunked.
DNA
We're all the same anyway, the variance between DNA in humans is tiny.
jon357
10 May 2018
News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]
They are still wrong; reliable DNA tests have been carried out and repeated.
The ethnicity of the writers is irrelevant to Roma issues.
They are more expert on it than you or
They are still wrong; reliable DNA tests have been carried out and repeated.
The ethnicity of the writers is irrelevant to Roma issues.
jon357
8 May 2018
News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]
Their ethnicity is relevant how?
So do you; this does not mean you or they are right.
There have been plenty of DNA tests and they have been remarkably consistent. Roma are descended from a group of around a thousand people who left north-western India over a millennium ago.
The jewish authors
Their ethnicity is relevant how?
disagree
So do you; this does not mean you or they are right.
There have been plenty of DNA tests and they have been remarkably consistent. Roma are descended from a group of around a thousand people who left north-western India over a millennium ago.
jon357
8 May 2018
News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]
No.
There are certainly Gypsies in Egypt, however the English-language term does come from a time when the general populace (and even the intelectual elite) had a far weaker understanding of geography.
Are Gypsies descendants of the tribe of Simeon?
No.
Gypsy" in fact comes from the once mistaken notion that they were actually of Egyptian origin:-)
There are certainly Gypsies in Egypt, however the English-language term does come from a time when the general populace (and even the intelectual elite) had a far weaker understanding of geography.
jon357
8 May 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]
No it doesn't.
Canada has a long history of supporting Nazis.
No it doesn't.
jon357
6 May 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]
Theresienstadt?
I've never seen those films, only the one made by the British at Bergen-Belsen. A horrible thing to watch, a film about something so evil it should never have existed yet something everyone should see to prevent it ever happening again.
A lot of the visual material was documented (though not shown for a good reason) by Claude Lanzmann in Shoah. His interview with Jan Karski is especially worth watching. I was surprised recently to find that he (Lanzmann) is still alive, aged 92.
her time in the camps
Theresienstadt?
Almost all of which were made by the Soviet
I've never seen those films, only the one made by the British at Bergen-Belsen. A horrible thing to watch, a film about something so evil it should never have existed yet something everyone should see to prevent it ever happening again.
A lot of the visual material was documented (though not shown for a good reason) by Claude Lanzmann in Shoah. His interview with Jan Karski is especially worth watching. I was surprised recently to find that he (Lanzmann) is still alive, aged 92.
jon357
6 May 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]
The extensive photographic record left by the Third Reich as well as the films made after the liberation of the camps help very much with establishing the facts.
That and the fact that the overwhelming majority of independent testimony of holocaust survivors gathered both immediately at the end of the Shoah by people who had not had a chance to discuss their experiences with others as well as in the decades since are consistent in their descriptions of the horrors.
You're 'thinking' of Rafael Schächter and Victor Ullmann. Both died in the Shoah.
There is no way to know all the facts and who's telling the truth and who isn't
The extensive photographic record left by the Third Reich as well as the films made after the liberation of the camps help very much with establishing the facts.
That and the fact that the overwhelming majority of independent testimony of holocaust survivors gathered both immediately at the end of the Shoah by people who had not had a chance to discuss their experiences with others as well as in the decades since are consistent in their descriptions of the horrors.
operas
You're 'thinking' of Rafael Schächter and Victor Ullmann. Both died in the Shoah.
jon357
6 May 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]
Yes, some people here have done that (on several occasions) and sadly even described it as 'a hoax'.
Yes, some people here have done that (on several occasions) and sadly even described it as 'a hoax'.
jon357
6 May 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]
Sadly, Dolno, some would and occasionally do :-(
I think it's probably too late for that now; too much has happened since those days. Nevertheless, I'd like to see this too.
no one here would deny the terrible atrocity against the Jews during the second world war,
Sadly, Dolno, some would and occasionally do :-(
return of Jews to Poland as in those times where Poland was a haven for the Jewish people there was also great prosperity.
I think it's probably too late for that now; too much has happened since those days. Nevertheless, I'd like to see this too.
jon357
6 May 2018
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]
Exactly. I suspect there will be some complicated times ahead. BTW, it's actually a bit more than just 'knee problems', to say the least.
and people such as Morawiecki simply don't have the power base in the party
Exactly. I suspect there will be some complicated times ahead. BTW, it's actually a bit more than just 'knee problems', to say the least.
jon357
6 May 2018
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]
I gather Jarosław Kaczyński has been taken into hospital now, and it is considered to be serious.
I gather Jarosław Kaczyński has been taken into hospital now, and it is considered to be serious.
jon357
6 May 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]
A very fair comment, given the inanity and bile visible on this page.
Go back to school, before or after you have your diapers changedLOL
A very fair comment, given the inanity and bile visible on this page.
jon357
2 May 2018
Life / The Art of Complaining by Polish people [47]
Poles can sometimes be perfectionists to a fault, and complain loudly to each other if something isn't as they think it should be. It isn't in any sense a land of stoical silence.
Complaining is the only pathway to improving anything
Poles can sometimes be perfectionists to a fault, and complain loudly to each other if something isn't as they think it should be. It isn't in any sense a land of stoical silence.
jon357
1 May 2018
Travel / Travel within Schengen using Poland's Karta Pobytu &/or US Passport [9]
They do indeed, however this is merely to check ID rather than anyone's legal status.
They do indeed, however this is merely to check ID rather than anyone's legal status.
jon357
1 May 2018
Travel / Travel within Schengen using Poland's Karta Pobytu &/or US Passport [9]
If you are or if you aren't, travelling within Schengen they check your ID only. There are no restrictions concerning travel within the Schengen zone on the basis of immigration rules unless there are exceptional circumstances.
am I able to travel within the Schengen area relying only on my Karta Pobytu once it is approved?
If you are or if you aren't, travelling within Schengen they check your ID only. There are no restrictions concerning travel within the Schengen zone on the basis of immigration rules unless there are exceptional circumstances.
jon357
1 Apr 2018
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]
There are several proposals for new nuclear plants as well as development of existing ones in Europe at the moment.
No need for one of those; thre is quite a range of options, and as you know the role of Russia in supplying gas to Central Europe is decreasing, just as their role in supplying minerals to Chinese manufacturers is also decreasing.
AFAIK, there is a de-facto ban for new nuclear power plants in EC? Poland have some plans to change this?
There are several proposals for new nuclear plants as well as development of existing ones in Europe at the moment.
I ask it because there is little chance to buy a perpetuum mobile,
No need for one of those; thre is quite a range of options, and as you know the role of Russia in supplying gas to Central Europe is decreasing, just as their role in supplying minerals to Chinese manufacturers is also decreasing.
jon357
1 Apr 2018
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]
The best purchase of all would not be military; it would be investment in technology to eliminate the need for gas imports.
would be much better purchase,
The best purchase of all would not be military; it would be investment in technology to eliminate the need for gas imports.
jon357
31 Mar 2018
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]
They know very well that if they tried to use one even once, all their major cities would be ash and rubble. Mutually assured destruction.
Any country close to Russia, one of the most unpleaant and aggressive regimes on earth, needs a robust military.
Russian military doctrine includes use of nuclear weapons
They know very well that if they tried to use one even once, all their major cities would be ash and rubble. Mutually assured destruction.
Purchase of "Patriots" by Poland is o
Any country close to Russia, one of the most unpleaant and aggressive regimes on earth, needs a robust military.
jon357
29 Mar 2018
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]
In a way, Russia is its own worst enemy. There have been so many outrages, so much pushing of the boundaries by them that they have lost a lot of friends. The chemical weapons attack on civilians in Europe was evidently the last straw. 29 countries expelling over 120 dodgy 'diplomats' has sent them a message that they're finding it hard to answer.
Russia.
In a way, Russia is its own worst enemy. There have been so many outrages, so much pushing of the boundaries by them that they have lost a lot of friends. The chemical weapons attack on civilians in Europe was evidently the last straw. 29 countries expelling over 120 dodgy 'diplomats' has sent them a message that they're finding it hard to answer.
jon357
28 Mar 2018
News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]
There are certainly plenty of those employed in universities.
This is not a positive step forward; universities are meant to challenge opinions and develop critical thinking in their students.
The Czarny Piatek rally by the way, was attended by women from across the mainstream political spectrum.
try inviting a right win lecturer to a university
There are certainly plenty of those employed in universities.
and need to rush to a 'safe space
This is not a positive step forward; universities are meant to challenge opinions and develop critical thinking in their students.
The Czarny Piatek rally by the way, was attended by women from across the mainstream political spectrum.
jon357
27 Mar 2018
News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]
Exept that it certainly isn't; that is not but what a trope of the lowbrow right. At least the Polish women were able to express their views. I wish them well, though suspect that the dying yet dangerous embers of clericalism may make their struggle a hrd one.
is now
Exept that it certainly isn't; that is not but what a trope of the lowbrow right. At least the Polish women were able to express their views. I wish them well, though suspect that the dying yet dangerous embers of clericalism may make their struggle a hrd one.
jon357
27 Mar 2018
News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]
Far older.
If there's any genuine political success story of the past few hundred years, it's liberalism; the freedom of expression that has allowed those Polish women to march on Friday is part of that.
which has its philosophical roots in Marx
Far older.
If there's any genuine political success story of the past few hundred years, it's liberalism; the freedom of expression that has allowed those Polish women to march on Friday is part of that.