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Polson   
15 Jun 2013
Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

Another woman complained that it was "offensive".

That's extreme, of course, can't disagree with you on this. But still, I think it's more an American thing. I don't hear such things here. Lots of people have pictures of their family in their office, and it can't be taken as 'offensive'. I once read that America was very (too much) pro-feminist, the extremist version, from what you told me ;)
Polson   
15 Jun 2013
Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

female lorry drivers??

Well, that one is 'special'. It's a very manly job. If a woman wants to do that job, she has to be prepared to be mocked, and get told sexist jokes (for instance). Not as inviting if you're aware of that. But I heard more and more women become lorry drivers, so probably things are slowly changing.
Polson   
15 Jun 2013
Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

I agree, that's not acceptable. But I doubt all feminists support these things. There are extremists everywhere, that's the thing.
Polson   
15 Jun 2013
Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

Instead, their definition of "equality" is that women should be presidents, managers, CEO's, etc

No, they want the same chances, and not being discriminated for their gender, which I find legitimate, don't you?
Equal chances, that's what it is about. Remember when Black people fought for these rights.
Polson   
15 Jun 2013
Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

Who said that?

A typical Polish woman is a Catholic who believes in traditonal family values and is too bsuy raising her family

Just saying that more and more women have other aspirations than just raise kids (and take good care of their jobs, of course, which is not always easy to combine), which I find understandable.

But in a free country (and I presume you regard Tuskite Poland as such) everyone is free to discuss things.

That's very true. Strangely, you seem to forget this little detail when I and others discuss about religion and other things you 'fight' and live for, and you start calling people 'funny' names.

the know-all professors, paid agitators and idle elitists [...] You are one arrogant, snobbish elitist! [...] A certain small but loud-mouthed clique [...] all their phoney political correctness drivel, hare-brained relativism and christophobia

Yes, freedom of speech as you said, but at what price? ;)
Polson   
15 Jun 2013
Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

I care about everything that affects the family, the core of any society.

Yeah, I think you already quoted this elsewhere, or you just copied it. Anyway, it's not you to decide what people should or should not do with their lives.

Btw, I don't really see the point of quoting this here. How is it relevant to the subject? Women who want to have a life that is not just what Pam said -kitchen and church- are selfish?

The problem with you is that you always blame everyone who disagrees with you for being 'haters' and such, but you obviously 'hate' a lot too. Any reason is good.
Polson   
14 Jun 2013
Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

A typical Polish woman is a Catholic who believes in traditonal family values

That's less and less true. What is 'typical' anyway? Do you think a woman from Warsaw is the same as a woman in a little village close to the Ukrainian border?

Anyway, I think we should wait for PF (Polish) women's opinion about that.
Polson   
24 May 2013
USA, Canada / Anglo-mangling of Polish surnames in the US/Canada [22]

Changing it because of stupid people is absolutely idiotic. I have a golden rule - can't pronounce my name? I'm not doing business with you.

You're a bit harsh. It's not really about being stupid, or idiotic, or anything. You can't expect the rest of the world (non-Polish people) to pronounce such names as Błaszczykowski correctly.

As Polonius said, you either adapt, or if you're patient enough, explain people, over and over again.
Polson   
17 Apr 2013
Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

The region was simply multiethnic, both German and Polish, am I correct?

Indeed, something like that ;)
One of my mum's aunts was a Polish Silesian who married a German Silesian. Both very nice persons.
Polson   
2 Apr 2013
News / Homosexual lobby steps up infiltration in Poland [110]

So what's so hateful and narrow-minded in saying that they do what they actually do ?

Gays don't all do that, some do, as some straight people do. It's irrelevant here.
It's like saying Poles -> bigots. Some are, some aren't. Right?

Gotta go, talk to you later (if this topic is not closed by then).
Polson   
2 Apr 2013
News / Homosexual lobby steps up infiltration in Poland [110]

What you said just showed your narrow-mindedness and hate, somehow, or fear. OR your sense of humour, but in that case, you need to tell us, cuz it's not that obvious.
Polson   
2 Apr 2013
News / Homosexual lobby steps up infiltration in Poland [110]

I'd like to know more about these 'alternative households'.
I'd like to know more about this Joanna lady.
I'd like to know more about this recent Daily Rzeczpospolita report.
Polson   
29 Mar 2013
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

A taser requires me to get closer to an armed assailant or other threat than I'd like to be and tasers are not legal in all states.

Technical issue, I'm sure they'll manage to make better tasers, sniper ones, kinda ;)
Laws change.

How would we guarantee that criminals would not still get guns off a black market?

Of course we can't do that.

Your and Adolph Hitler agree on that one. Oh, and Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Mao, etc also agree with you.

I guess you wanted to add Barack Obama and Donald Tusk at the end of this list. No comment.

Oh, the anti gun people will guarantee it, otherwise what is the point of gun bans?........right? (liberals rarely take their solutions to logical conclusions)

You're a logical man, right? Then I guess we should also legalize all drugs. Cuz there's a black market for drugs too, and it's not fair than only bad junkies can get their sh!t, when good people just stay home clean and depressed.

I only kill animals that are contemplating suicide (anyway)

That's another subject, but I see guns are not just good for defending yourself. It's also a game ;)

These facts,

legal gun owners have the lowest crime rate

, are still debated I heard. You believe in which facts you want to believe. That's what you told me the last time you answered me.

Maybe those crimes are commited in states where there's a gun control because gun owners got their guns freely in a state where there's no such control, and then do their crimes in states where they have more chances to find unarmed people. We can debate on that but I'm afraid it's a never ending discussion, since it's pretty hard to prove anything.
Polson   
27 Mar 2013
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Well Poison

PoLson.

those who object to Mr. Lott's facts come from the left.

Really? Prove it. The other researchers and scientists who discredited his work are all leftists?
And left means wrong, while right means truth, that is obvious.

Your sources, "Salon" and "Media Matters" can be counted on to be counter factual. as their 'progressive' agenda trumps truth. You believe them, I don't.

Of course, as they question your conservative views, they can't be good. They seem to be pretty good, reliable sources to me, shame you don't like them.

while the calm, cool researchers stick to facts.

Probably as calm and cool as the researchers who discredited Lott's work.

You should not make judgments based on emotion. Frequently, that may be difficult to do but as evolving humans we should try to make decisions based on reason and logic.
For example, anger is an emotion. Don't make a decision when you are angry, wait until your head clears. Too many people, like the gun grabbers default to emotion to make their narrow minded points. Humans have a higher calling than that.

Having in your hand the power to take anyone else's life can't leave you emotionless, or you're not human, as evolved as you pretend you are.

The fact that you want to own a gun, wherever you go, shows another emotion. It's commonly called fear. But it may also be called fright, terror, panic, anxiety, etc.

Based on what you said, you're trying to think through the prism of your emotions. Just as 'gun grabbers'.

Btw, I tried to talk about alternative solutions (like tasers), twice, but no-one dared answering. Missed it, or guns are just cooler?
Polson   
27 Mar 2013
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Only liberal gun grabbers discredit him and they do so without considering his tremendous amount of information backed by stats and footnotes.

Not only it seems.

In the early 2000s, his work fell into controversy for employing what some academic critics termed "junk science" and for various apparently fatal methodological flaws. Later, he was unable to prove the existence of a study central to his thesis. He was also caught using a fake "sockpuppet" persona to defend his work and attack his critics online. "In most circles, this goes down as fraud," Donald Kennedy, the then-editor of the prestigious journal Science wrote in an editorial. Even Michelle Malkin said Lott had shown an "extensive willingness to deceive to protect and promote his work."

salon/2012/12/21/why_is_the_media_rehabilitating_john_lott

And there's more here:

PW [Lott's co-authors Florenz Plassmann and John Whitley] seriously miscoded their new county dataset in ways that irretrievably undermine every original regression result that they present in their response. As a result, the new PW regressions must simply be disregarded. Correcting PW's empirical mistakes once again shows that the more guns, less crime hypothesis is without credible statistical support.

mediamatters.org/research/2012/12/17/who-is-gun-advocate-john-lott/191885

use emotion and name-calling while ignoring facts given him. This is a clinic on how emotion trumps logic.

The thing is you can't dissociate logic and emotions. We would be all dead the day that happens. Of course, you can't talk ONLY with your emotions, you would sound completely irrational probably. But the rest of the time, emotions count. We are not robots.

Honestly, if the only pro argument is to be able to defend yourself, why not try something less harmful, like tasers or anything else?
I'm not an expert in this field of course, but I'd like to discuss it.
Polson   
25 Mar 2013
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

sure it is and freedom of choice should be equally acceptable for a gun ownership. Those who want to own a gun should have the right to do so and those like you who don't want them shouldn't quire them. That should be legally acceptable.
However people who don't want guns shouldn't impose their opinion on the others.

Alright, then explain me why you'd have a gun. Because it's really unsafe out there, or just because it's fun?
Those who want to own a gun, anyone?

Don't call me boy unless you are over seventy sonny.

Just teasing. Is pretty butterfly better? ;)
Polson   
25 Mar 2013
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

tell that all to your granny, who the feck are you to telling me I cannot have a gun if I want one - legally.

Easy, boy. You could also get a tank if it was legally possible. Would that make the society any safer?
Guns are made to kill and destroy, nothing else.
Now that's my opinion, but since you seem to know everything much better than me, I'll leave you with your opinion. I don't share it, that's it. Is it legally acceptable?
Polson   
25 Mar 2013
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

It's pretty clear who lives in a fantasy world. Enjoy the butterflies.

Let us enjoy the butterflies, amigo. We may not want to live in a world of fear like you do.
As Palivec said, if you're scared, get a dog. And an alarm system.
Long live to the butterflies.
Polson   
18 Mar 2013
Life / Don't Forget: Tomorrow, March 8 is Women's Day in Poland! [115]

LOL, I guess no woman ever used her sexuality on you.

I think not, unfortunately ;)

Additionally, it's not a man's world in advertising and in many other industries.

In púrn maybe ;) Anyway, I see your point, but I was more talking about how this world goes. The whole competition stuff, this is very 'masculine'.

And honestly, maybe that's how TV is in America, but I checked again here, and I don't see such male bashing ads.

People working in cubicles are not paid less for the same job if they have the same seniority, it's against several federal and state laws to do so.

Depends. There are bonuses, for competitiveness and such. And these are mostly for men. You're still talking about the US it seems tho. I'm not saying you're wrong, it's just that America is not Europe, there are differences, good and bad.

And it's true that female-male parity in the US is much more 'present', in the sense that they try to make a lot of things equal for both sexes. So much that they do male bashing ads, right? ;)

It's evident that you prefer your 'feelings' about things rather than the facts.

No, I've read facts too. Not saying you're wrong about everything, once again.

I realize that you 'don't get it'.

And I realize that you don't get humour. I was obviously joking.
Polson   
18 Mar 2013
Life / Don't Forget: Tomorrow, March 8 is Women's Day in Poland! [115]

in you so oh great and socialist France

Hey, you're a funny boy.

Respect? For someone who swallow all kinds of creative statistics from newspapers?

You don't know anything about me, so yes, respect others views, even if they don't fit yours. I mean we can discuss, right? Or will you try to insult me for each of my words?

And the creative stats from newspapers are actually from INSEE (go learn something: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSEE).
I do not 'swallow' everything I read, and this is not a women magazine.

Anyway, I read some more stuff, and it's more 10 than 30%, but it depends from a lot of stuff.