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

Good news: PiS backed logging in Białowieża Forest has been banned with immediate effect.

"To stop illegal logging in Białowieża Forest, the Court has imposed 'interim measures'. This extraordinary legal tool halts the actions that are the subject of a legal fight, with immediate effect. The Court uses it very rarely - only in cases where there is a serious risk that these activities could cause significant and irreparable damage."

clientearth.org/eu-court-imposes-emergency-ban-logging-bialowieza-forest/

Everything the PiS junta tries to do fails in the end.

Language / Good Polish Music To Help Me Learn? [44]


All three of those points are absolutely inaccurate, however to stay on the topic, here are some beautiful Polish lyrics from the song Ludzie Wschodu:

Czy tu się głowy ścina?
Czy zdjeli tu murzyna?
Czy leży tu Madonna?
Czy tu jest jazda konna?

Czy w nocy dobrze śpicie?
Czy śmierci się boicie?
Czy zabił ktoś tokarza?
Czy często się to zdarza?

Language / Good Polish Music To Help Me Learn? [44]

They have some good songs with excellent and straightforward lyrics. Great for learners, and easy to understand.


They're a very popular Polish band with a different worldview to the stuff you suggest which is on the ultra kitsch side of kitsch and contains religious proselytising. Behemoth however seek to convert nobody to the band members' personal views and they have a very educated and erudite frontman. By all accounts a very decent guy too. Their lyrics are clear, excellent, and make very subtle yet attainable cultural references.


Proselytising via language learning. A bit like the Mormons and their 'free English lessons'.


Very open-minded of you.

93/93

posts about Mormonism moved there:
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Language / Good Polish Music To Help Me Learn? [44]


Of course. It would be rude otherwise. If you want to learn Polish through the medium of song, you could do a lot worse than reading the lyrics of anything by Behemoth and their frontman Nergal. It has fresh contemporary vocabulary, he's very erudite, well read and highly intelligent and the emotions and ideas expressed are truly beautiful. Very spiritual too.

Karcer is also interesting.

Language / Good Polish Music To Help Me Learn? [44]

Come on, some people even like Marilyn Manson, it doesn't make it good music. And Rubik's slush isn't good music. Just kitsch. If people want lowbrow music, I'd recommend some of Doda's songs. They're pleasant, full of good vocabulary that you can actually use, and the message is good. Edyta Górniak too. For heavier music, Behemoth is very good, and led by a decent frontman.

The vast majority of people aren't particularly interested in all that religious vocabulary and sentiment anyway.

Language / Good Polish Music To Help Me Learn? [44]


The lyrics are relatively easy to understand (if you like the more gushing sort of religiosity) however the music is so sentimental and saccharine that it far and away crosses the line of slush. Musically weak, rather like Mantovani or Klaus Wünderlich but without the talent. He's also a particularly banal and dreary closet case.

I found some of the songs by Maryland Rodowicz and Lady Pank to be helpful with the language.

UK, Ireland / Why Poles will never belong in England [283]


He was better than Maugham, not as good as Hardy or Dickens. A remarkable writer, not least due to his use of non-linear narrative. Nevertheless, behind every great man there's a great woman, and his wife' role in proofing his literature is on,y now being fully appreciated. She was a competent writer herself, who dedicated her life (which involved a great deal of poverty before the books started to sell) in supporting him in his endeavours.

History / Lusatian-Sarmatic obsession of Poles [153]


Interesting...

Advice, not 'advices'. From Germany?

Travel / Pot in Poland for tourists [285]


I don't think they're doing the fancy super strong kinds, just the stuff that used to be around years ago before indoor growing took off. Mind you, with good seeds, kinds intended for outdoor growing in Northern Europe, the results are ok. My neighbour's twentysomethings grew some in a hidden away place close to Warsaw (they used northern lights seeds) and it was very acceptable indeed, in fact twenty years ago it would have been considered exceptional.

History / Lusatian-Sarmatic obsession of Poles [153]


Yet another one who can't handle views that are not his own. By the way, Sobieski won't be reading this. If you want to contact him, buy an ouija board.

Classifieds / Random Classifieds Ads Poland [261]

Merged: Looking for a guide to Suwalki and Becejly

These people are the national organisation that organise guides. This website is for their office in Suwalki. You'll need to put the website through google translate or bing translate. Somebody there will certainly speak English.

suwalki.pttk.pl

Travel / Pot in Poland for tourists [285]

Some people make e-cigarette liquid from it. Gets you stoned but not busted.

Travel / Pot in Poland for tourists [285]

If the poster who asked about Kraków is interested, there is a bit of town where you can sometimes find people selling on a summer evening, on the banks of the river, near the bridge. He should be very careful indeed, Kraków isn't Prague or Berlin.

Travel / Pot in Poland for tourists [285]

@Dirk diggler
Indeed, though a narcotic effect is numbness and stupor. You're thinking of an analgesic effect, i.e. pain relief which weed does have to a certain extent. It helps with joint pain and back pain, in my experience.

There are plenty of therapeutic uses of it. People with MS in particular find it valuable as do people with nausea and some eating disorders. it's also good preventative medicine, helping people avoid glaucoma.

The human brain has specific receptors for THC and CBD, meaning that not only can humans benefit from it, but we in fact should benefit from it. And it's certainly very pleasant to use.

People always remember their first time using it. Mine was in the back of a car on a Tuesday evening (I remember this because the Radio One chart show was always on a Tuesday). It was the week that "Like a Virgin" went to number 1.

A shame it's not more common in Poland really. There would certainly be fewer fights than with vodka and beer.

Travel / Pot in Poland for tourists [285]

So why comment on the thread. The OP is asking for information, not your opinion.

Travel / Pot in Poland for tourists [285]



Looks like someone's smoking jimson-weed

Travel / Pot in Poland for tourists [285]


I wonder why you think pot is a narcotic, especially when it doesn't have any narcotic effect. It's a very different plant.

Travel / Pot in Poland for tourists [285]

I heard it's legal there now. When I last visited a couple of years ago, the stuff was everywhere. Decent smoke too, strong but subtle :-)

Travel / Pot in Poland for tourists [285]


Zakopane really isn't like that. More families or groups of families, interested in beer, pork, boasting about cars and finding stuff for the kids to do.


I'll have to open an account again!

Travel / Pot in Poland for tourists [285]


Student places are always a maybe, however it's now outside term time.


Some of these things are ok, and the police don't as far as I know do entrapment - it isn't worth their time and effort. Probably a fly by night person. Most likely whoever put the email address on the site you saw it on no longer checks the mail. Maybe worth trying though.

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


Yes!

What can we expect from a party led by a former student of Communist law, who got the highest mark possible in Marxist Philosophy, quoting Marx and Lenin in his dissertation, being employed by the Communist Instytut Polityki Naukowej (Institute of Political Science), and was since childhood a Communist mascot: a child star of Communist cinema, living in a villa given to his family by Communists in the worst Stalinist era?

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


Maybe in your house. Others would point to Poland's centuries old liberal tradition, and to the liberal outlook of Pilsudski himself.


Of course. Remember however that this is exactly what they want, that and one Party rule. When they're voted out eventually and that self same law is used against them, there will be an almighty "waaaaah" from those PiS functionaries who find themselves on the other side of a system of their own making.

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

You certainly should feel beaten, as usual. And at the same time take note of the waves of protest at the current attack on democracy. When reverting from a tried and tested method of public administration and judicial independence that people struggled for, people will react, as we've seen with the Polish pro-democracy rallies and the international response that's only just started..

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


No sudden politically motivated midnight rule change, no vindictiveness, no dark machinations. They aren't PiS...


A phrase of someone who picked an argument and lost abjectly, totally and completely, if ever there was one.

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


Actually, no. It's a simple majority for next week's decision.


Don't handle disagreement well, do you...

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


Discussed early next week and the matter is likely to go to the UN.


No, you don't.


Is that really the best you can do, Gumishu...

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


The only coup is, as commentators and political figure including former regime supporters have said, is the one Kaczynski is trying to do, right now.


Yes, since you don't really have any coherent political arguments, except a blind devotion to an authoritarian party whose ruler openly praises 1930s fascists, screams "you murdered my brother" in the parliament chamber in the middle of the night, and which is trying to take over absolute patronage of the judiciary for their own, clearly stated political ends. Like "going after journalists"...


Yes, Po, thousands sold nightly. You'd better stock up for when your back tax bill comes and you can't afford the leccy.

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


It means a hell of a lot, when thousands of ordinary people, most of whom being old enough to remember the last time Poland had totalitarian rule, are out night after night with candles in front of the presidential palace.

And of course the 87% who have said that Poland's democracy is currently seriously threatened.

PiS have got it wrong, and not for the first time.


So you suggest there will be violence if the Party are voted out. Interesting...

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


No, you really don't get it do you. So desperate to argue that black is white and white is black, and meanwhile thousands of people attend candlelit vigils in front of the presidential palace and the international community discuss sanctions.

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


Employment rights exist precisely so that doesn't happen.


That sounds pure Bolshevik. A touch of Mao's Cultural Revolution too.

So transparent....