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jon357   
18 Jul 2016
Life / Being a Jew in modern-day Poland; Israeli Jew who is of Polish descent [279]

The Chief Rabbi of Warsaw, Schudrich,

Michael Schudrich. Because of who he is, the police really went to town and for once the street cameras were actually able to trace the assailant who was locked up.

Yep old gits who live in the past.

I remember one older guy just standing there and shouting at a group of lady tourists in pl. Grzybowska.

Poland as some kind of hateful place that it is not

Yes, despite the sentiments that people express, on the whole Poles are quite reserved and polite with strangers.
jon357   
18 Jul 2016
Life / Being a Jew in modern-day Poland; Israeli Jew who is of Polish descent [279]

Hehe, certainly some Labour events, especially in Islington.

It could cause problems if someone was walking alone through some of the cities here; the Chief Rabbi was beaten up in the street in Warsaw a while ago and I've heard people (usually older people) ranting out loud about particular ethnic groups here. Most are fortunately too polite.
jon357   
13 Jul 2016
News / Nazi gold train 'found in Poland' [90]

Regarding zloty pociag,

A great story though, even if it was a tourist scam. Everybody likes lost treasure. Today, the golden train, tomorrow the Amber Room, next JK's girlfriends...

Thus, Poland cannot keep the belongings stolen from people.

Of course all Jewish-owned houses and apartments were returned to the owners' heirs, weren't they...
jon357   
11 Jul 2016
Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

Remember, Poleboy765, that there have been huge movements of population in the last few years. First as part of the post-war border changes and then there was industrialisation. That means there isn't such a regional 'look' as there once was.
jon357   
7 Jul 2016
News / Religious extremists advocate murdering gay Polish politician [42]

Should be, but isn't, apparently. Last year the same publication called for a prominent award-winning author to be murdered and nothing happened to them

Maybe there'll be some progress this time.

Respect to the Mayor for naming the roundabout after a historical figure who deserves to be better remembered.
jon357   
4 Jul 2016
News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [332]

Many here jump down the through of a holocaust denier (Rightly so) but are in denial themselves when it come to the Soviets,

I don't think anyone here (I hope not, anyway) would try to excuse the behaviour of the Soviets in any way.

This isn't about the Soviets. As Lenka says:

simple monuments for fallen soldiers who quite often didn't even want to be there

jon357   
4 Jul 2016
News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [332]

They were just soldiers that died far away from home

Very true. War memorials are to the soldiers, not to their politicians. Otherwise pretty well all war memorials round the world would need removing.
jon357   
4 Jul 2016
News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [332]

I mean, look at PiS, they learned loads from the Reds, so much that they're repeating their style of ruling

Indeed. It's absolutely who they are.

these memorials will be housed in a new open air museum

Which will doubtless be very respectful, especially since these are memorials to fallen soldiers.
jon357   
4 Jul 2016
Life / Television in Poland - embarrassingly bad? [44]

I don't see mass firings or mass resignations at the BBC. Nor do I see a 20% drop in their news viewing figures in favour of anti-PiS stations.
jon357   
4 Jul 2016
Life / Television in Poland - embarrassingly bad? [44]

Merged: Poland state TV loses viewers

Polish viewers are passing their own judgment - with the channel changer.

It looks like the public prefer TVN and Polsat to the heavily manipulated state TV service...

Its flagship news program, "Wiadomosci," has lost 750,000 viewers and is now watched by fewer than three million people, a historic low

nytimes.com/2016/07/04/world/europe/polands-conservative-government-puts-curbs-on-state-tv-news.html?mwrsm=Facebook&_r=0

The article says that people are increasingly turning to online news sources, free fm government interference.
jon357   
2 Jul 2016
Language / The "end piece" of a loaf of bread in Polish [80]

If made from just wheat flour it is called a bułka

All of them types of bread when push comes to shove. What would you call a large spelt loaf? Bread or roll? Rather popular here now.

(Baltonowski is typical)

Can't abide the stuff - so many nicer types.

BTW, I wonder why flat bread was never part of the cuisine here. I sometimes serve it and people really like it. Also easy to make and suits a traditional Polish kitchen better than oven-baked.
jon357   
2 Jul 2016
Language / The "end piece" of a loaf of bread in Polish [80]

But it doesn't contain rye flour, it's made of wheat flour only, that's why it's not bread,

I've always found that interesting and a little odd here, that some people don't consider it bread if it doesn't have certain types of flour, especially as there are so many types.
jon357   
26 Jun 2016
Life / Where to buy cosmetic items such as razor and pumice in Poland? [39]

Exactly. One of the joys of being in other countries is looking in different shops. Especially chemists shops/drugstores. When I visit Arab countries I come back loaded with products you don't see here and female friends give me orders for stuff!
jon357   
26 Jun 2016
Life / Where to buy cosmetic items such as razor and pumice in Poland? [39]

That they sell razors (blades) in their shops in Germany, it doesn't mean automatically, that do the same in their shops in Poland :)

They sell a wide range of razors of all types (including ladies' ones) as well as pumice stones and anything else you'd expect to find.