History / Good enough for British - Joseph Conrad? Poland-born novelist. [30]


Compared to Lady Ottoline Morrell, almost everyone was unsophisticated and of modest intellect. Mrs Conrad was evidently of such modest intellect that she could only write and publish one book herself...

Anyway, it's Joseph Conrad's 160th birthday today - a fine author!

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]


It's actually a tiny fringe group who struggle to get 100 people to show up at their 'mass rallies'.


Actually I do...


The courts in Poland certainly agree that Rybak should be locked up for hate crimes (he's behind bars now) and that Międlar should also be prosecuted (he's waiting to go to court right now, and it doesn't look good for him).

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]


You can come out with whatever stuff you've tried to sit and trawl the internet for, yet interestingly none of it is about the neo-nazi Międlar.


It certainly caused harm, not only to community relations but also to the terrified elderly people who were inside at the time. It isn't just about the bacon (not that you care), it's about the effect of drunken and aggressive skinheads invading a place of worship and deliberately threatening those there.

People don't like that - which is why pondlife like Britain First only get 300 votes when they stand for election, and why scum like Międlar is rightly excluded from the country. At least Poland is now making Międlar's racist chum Rybak serve his full sentence now.

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]


Seems fair enough.

In every case, various factors (like previous conduct, degree of contrition and impact on victims) are always taken into account.

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]


That's not going to happen.

Interestingly the vocal lowlifes at 'Britain First' etc don't get prosecuted for hate speech - this is very rare - and are rightly prosecuted for breaking injunctions against them because of things they do rather than say.

There was a guy on here a while ago talking about an obscure legal case in Britain (though he was not from there), claiming that two guys were some sort of martyrs for free speech. What had they done? They'd broken an injunction against them telling them to desist from mailing concentration camp pictures to 90 year old holocaust survivors. That's what laws are for, to stop people from hurting others.

Międlar does his feeble stuff not out of any sense of 'free speech', but to promote hatred and evil.

Language / Harmless old-fashioned Polish swear words/phrases [159]

I like that, Kaprys, and will use it :-)

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]


Nobody can be jailed for saying 'mean' things - it isn't illegal to be 'mean'.. People can be rightly jailed for hate speech, though this is rare.

These pathetic exhibitionists have however been jailed for other more serious things.


Are you?

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]


And not only. He has quite a criminal history.


Exactly. They just make noise and try to shock people, mostly online. In real life you never see or hear them - no bad thing at all. Międlar is much the same, all noise and stunts, intended to offend.

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]


They don't have much of a message or many supporters. When they tried to organise a rally in Liverpool, one of Britain's largest cities, fewer than 20 people showed up.


They get the support, the votes. The two fringe groups you mentioned above do not. The 'Britain First' fascists stand for election and never get above 300 votes.

When the racist Międlar (the topic of this thread) was expected to address a 'mass rally' they organised, the number who attended was only in double figures.


All 300 of their voters?

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]


Worth reading up about him. He's a neo-nazi ex-priest, given to tweeting pictures of people doing fascist salutes, comes across as absolutely unhinged.

As do the loons from 'Britain First'.


The roots of their hatred long predate mass immigration.

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


It is indeed. Odd that a handful of people here would wish to see US-style gun laws in PL, especially since such laws are a failure there.

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

Don't be daft JR.

Anyway, there's no appetite either there or in PL for gun ownership.

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


Something, not guns - it simply isn't a political issue over there.

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


Or may not, since it isn't an issue there.

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

What 'brainwashing' is that? People rarely mention guns; they aren't an issue.


That just isn't going to happen. The overwhelming majority there are happy with the current laws.

Language / Harmless old-fashioned Polish swear words/phrases [159]


Guzik means button. It can also mean something like nub, however I haven't ever heard it used as a swear word.

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


We're talking about Poland, not America.


Most do. Want some stats?

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


We'd write to you in prison.


They don't.

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]


I don't bother watching stuff like that either. Conservatively minded people often like to watch rich people on TV, hence the huge amounts that networks pay to shoiw stuff like that.

Better to concentrate efforts to fight individuals like Miedlar and his little friend Jayda, the one that Trump retweeted in order to distract public attention from his crimes.

Law / Which is the best city in Poland to open a kebab shop? [56]


Yes, plenty. Kebabs are popular in PL.


Don't troll. You already know the answer to that.

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


Very well said.

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]


They're actually footing the bill themselves. The revenues from TV networks worldwide (especially American ones) for using the live feed from the wedding will bring in millions - the family who pay for the wedding don't keep that.

Hard to see how the forthcoming Royal Wedding relates to the racist Międlar, especially since a wedding is a thing of joy, and Międlar is a stain on humanity.

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


How about you add the fact that the US 'provides' defence largely for their own interests - right now the Pentagon are saying that they want to try and maintain access to regions in what they call a 'post-hegemony world'.

Fortunately, here in Europe we don't have the problems associated with easy availability of guns, and there is little appetite for that.

UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]


He's fortunately been sent back to prison for breaching the terms of his house arrest. Good news.

wroclawuncut.com/2017/11/16/piotr-rybak-bound-for-prison-after-breaking-house-arrest-terms/

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

The 43 billion given in foreign aid wouldn't even touch that.

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


Mass shootings, an astronomically high gun crime rate and the highest poverty levels in the developed world?

Life / Hanging out with Polish Banda street people in Berlin [9]

When life is saying a great big 'no', it's hard to blame someone for jumping at the temporary 'yes' that drugs bring.

Life / Hanging out with Polish Banda street people in Berlin [9]


Unmistakable


Yes. Homeless people have a very low life expectancy (in England 47 and in Scotland 39) and very few people survive sleeping rough for more than a few years. Berlin is bitterly cold in winter.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


They don't. The march was about the morning after pill, and cases where women have been forced to carry a dead and sometimes calcified foetus to full term and give birth to a dead baby.

Food / Origin of the pierogi [127]

Exactly, they come from the whole region. Most of which is Russia.