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Speaks Polish?: Not with my mouth full

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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.
jon357   
19 Jun 2016
Study / Studying in Poznan for an Arab student. [25]

Plenty of foreign students who follow that particular religion too.

It's a few years since I lived in Poznan but there were certainly people thee attending the university who come from many places in the world from diverse backgrounds.
jon357   
19 Jun 2016
Study / Studying in Poznan for an Arab student. [25]

No, not at all. There are plenty of overseas students in Poznan, including one guy from Syria who I think is Catholic that posts here.

And plenty of people from all around the world, Africa, Asia, wherever who come to Poland to study. Poznan is a big city and much more broad-minded than an isolated rural community where people aren't used to seeing people who look different.
jon357   
18 Jun 2016
Travel / Photos from Poland [258]

Someone's made this garden just outside Wadowice.


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jon357   
18 Jun 2016
Life / Consumer Rights & Returns in Poland [22]

Hard to disagree with that.

One of many positive things about the EU is that consumer policies are likely to be standardised Europe-wide and well advertised.
jon357   
18 Jun 2016
Life / Consumer Rights & Returns in Poland [22]

He simply didn't like the mouse and wanted something better.

Maybe. I bought a mouse from media Saturn, hated it but didn't ask for a refund. If it had actually been broken, that is a different matter.

Polski Canuck from his user name probably comes from somewhere that has a very different retail environment.

Personally, if I buy something expensive, I always look at product reviews first however the shop who sold him it may well have lost a valuable lifelong customer all for the sake of a 5 or 10 zl profit on one sale.

The tax office here don't help - in Poland the shop can't easily write-off returned products as a tax loss and that doesn't help the retail environment. Same with broken glasses in bars - they don't get an annual allowance for that; it's as if the tax office expect the glasses to last forever.