Life / Drugs in Warsaw [111]


He wants ching - in Warsaw, it's a few specific venues, and in those places it's quite overt.

Life / Drugs in Warsaw [111]


Who said anything about "where it is legal"


Yet plenty still use it.


Indeed. Alcohol is a bad thing.

If the OP wants to find ching in Warsaw, he'll find it.

Life / Drugs in Warsaw [111]


Yet cocaine is frquently used in many 'civilised' societies. The countries with the most repressive legal situations often have the highest levels of use. Criminalising it just doesn't work.


That too causes increased tolerance - for some people there is never enough.

Life / Drugs in Warsaw [111]


Yes it is. The high cost is because of the legal status.


Now grow up yourself, and actually think about the situation.

Making particular substances illegal hasn't worked, hasn't stopped anything - in fact it's done nothing except increase law-enforcement costs and made organised criminals rich.

Life / Drugs in Warsaw [111]


That sounds like something from the Daily Mail.


The intrinsic value of most intoxicating substances is a few pennies per gram. The high cost is due to scarcity caused by illegality and greed.


"Again"??? Who said anything about "enriches". Don't put words into people's mouths.

Life / Drugs in Warsaw [111]


If everything was legal, there'd be no crime.


Historically, alcohol has been more likely to lead people to that, though the causes are complex.

Life / Drugs in Warsaw [111]


Always useful to know. There's quite a scene in Warsaw, for those who like nightlife. One key thing though, the poorer people cant afford much of any quality, so the dealers tend to be in the more expensive places.

Life / Drugs in Warsaw [111]


Any expensive nightclub (N.B. not the cheap ones).

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [871]



Dangerous to say 'we', as if 38 million people all hold the same opinion. Some certainly do hate one country or another, some are ambivalent, some like (even love) one or other of those two cultures, some are simply not haters.

Real Estate / Selling property in Poland [30]


These are good, there's also domiporta.pl and one or two others

Food / Poles prefer pizza & kebab? [73]


Agreed. They're not cheap, the tastes of people who can afford to get fidh and chips for the family have changes, people are more health conscious and the poorest among us can't afford it.

I like fish and chips still, others may want a chicken tikka masala or a beef and black bean.

The chippy near my home in the UK serves an area with a very large Polish and Baltic population. I've never seen any Poles in there. In the pizza shop across the road, there's a sign in Polish.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]


That doesn't actually make much sense.

The thing is, Greggs, it's very thoroughly documented. Everything. The Nazis (with their German efficiency) took thousands of photographs and kept exhaustive records. Deutschesbahn kept their full records of transportation to the Death camps. Even the SS members after the war gave complete testimony to what was done and how it was done. And there are survivors accounts, not just written down decades later, but straight after the events. Plus of course the aerial photographs taken by Allied reconnaisance planes.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]


The truth about the sheer scale and visceral evil of the Holocaust is very clear. So many witnesses, so many confessions from guards, so many contemporary photographs, so much physical evidence.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]


No, Greggs. There are no 'winners' where the Holocaust is concerned. Nothing good to say about it, nothing good about its immense scale or its horrors.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]


No. There is overwhelming evidence from survivors of different Death Camps, from former German soldiers who operated them, and from contemporary photographs.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

There are many 'major witnesses' Greggs. And it isn't a 'theory'. It is fact.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]


Nothing fun about Ghettos and Death Marches, Greggs. Nothing at all.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]


No Greggs, nothing 'exaggerated', everything thoroughly documented by living witnesses and corroborated beyond any doubt.

The only 'grotesque' thing is that pond-life such as yourself feebly attempt to detract from the full horror of that period, from the sheer scale of the crime.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]


That makes all the difference. Officially, eh, Greggs...


Only whipping children to death, conducting horrific experiments on live subjects, arbitrary executions and gassing people to death on a huge scale.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]


Thank you for backing up what I said.


The investigation was caused when the 86 Soviet POWs escaped. Some of Koch' other deeds at Majdanek (which existed to murder people in vast numbers) and which were primarily concerned with financial embezzlement, came out during the investigation. He was executed "for disgracing both himself and the SS".


Who dicovered that Koch had murdered the camp medics, so they couldn't tell anyone about his syphilis.

Stop lying, Greggs, stop trying to detract from the enormity and horror of the Holocaust.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]


Yes, Catholic. He was a Righteous among the Nations.


He was executed for for disgracing both himself and the SS, by personally enriching himself with murdered people's assets that were meant to be stolen by the German state.

News / Tusk turning his back to idea about Intermarium (New Commonwealth), seeing only EU as future for Poland [124]


There's no 'old alliance', no 'intermarium', except in your head.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]


Professor Bartoszewski was from a Catholic family, not Jewish at all, and was released from Auschwitz due to actions by the Polish Red Cross.


Koch was the commandant of Buchenwald and later set up the Death Camp at Majdanek. He was moved to Majdanek after personally looting large amounts of valuables that the German state wanted for themselves. He was fired from Majdanek for criminal negligence after 86 Soviet POWs escaped. The subsequent investigation revealed that he had been personally enriching himself there too, and was executed for disgracing both himself and the SS.

His wife was Ilsa Koch, the B1tch of Buchenwald, notorious for her cruelty. She was the one who had prisoners skinned for their tattoos.

So don't lie, Gregy, don't lie.

Real Estate / Can foreigners buy land, house, or apartment in Poland? [60]


Is she Minister of Transport there? No. She's an ordinary citizen looking for somewhere to live. She's asking about regulations. There are none, unless she wants to take up farmin or forestry.


Says a long yet expat elsewhere in Europe.


In some cases that would mean she gets it cheaper. Have you checked the cost of a building plot in a good part of Warsaw lately?

Real Estate / Can foreigners buy land, house, or apartment in Poland? [60]

Anyway, if you look, you'll see that Marina is a French Citizen, so unless she wants to buy a farm or a forest there are no issues that differ from a Polish Citizen buying.

Real Estate / Can foreigners buy land, house, or apartment in Poland? [60]

If a person has residence in PL, the Ministry of National Defence are never now involved - this was a PRL hang over. The Minisrty of Agriculture relates to land classified for farmlend and forestry. To buy a house in Warsaw - you just buy it.

Real Estate / Can foreigners buy land, house, or apartment in Poland? [60]


Farmland and/or forestry.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


And respected too.

Law / Is it possible to convert my Pakistani driving licence to a Polish one? [46]


By travelling to Poland and doing a driving test. That is the only way it's possible.