Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]

They do already and have done for decades. From age 7 at the school I went to which was an ordinary state primary school. And a second foreign language from age 11.

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


Eloquent as ever.


Some scientists certainly suspect that


And how many innocent people in your country (or just Chicago) have been shot dead? No accident that the murder rate is so high.

Fortunately, in Poland we don't want easily available guns and there is no significant lobby for that.

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

If anything it's conservatives who are ruled by their emotions and the rest of us by what is sensible:
telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8228192/Political-views-hard-wired-into-your-brain.html

Interesting though that you use the phrase 'do gooders' disparagingly. One would hope you don't prefer 'do badders'.

Life / The Polish Dream - move out from Poland as fast as possible [73]


It's a net exporter.

But i don't suppose you'd know what Poland does or doesn't do.

Love / Questions about Polish Men - flirting, cheating, liking? [44]

Cheating seems to be a bit less unacceptable in PL than it is in the UK. Flirting is normal; not unusual for married people to do it. The third question is anybody's guess however Polish men (hard to generalise and as Ironside says, not everyone is the same) have quite fragile egos and for many, how things look is as important as how things are.

Genealogy / Bernatowicz surname? (I am starting to wonder if anyone in my family was American?) [85]


Bernat is French, though I have known Hungarian Jewish people with that name.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


Not that far at all and plenty of movement between the two places over the centuries. But nevertheless, spellings change and there's certainly a surname Zirwen. Not Polish though.

There's also a Polish word


, to break off, split, renounce etc and it could have come from that.

Law / Study in Poland with family on my student visa? [8]

You would need a separate visa.

Life / Public Masturbation now allowed in Sweden, Would this work in Poland? [43]

No need. Jarosław Kaczynski and the rest of that party do it every time they open their mouths in the vicinity of a microphone.

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


Ah, the tea party reactionaries love to avoid the truth. Fortunately we don't have so many in Europe.

Easy availability of guns does nothing at all to protect and does everything to increase the murder rate.

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


Hardly.

Despite all your homeowners being able to protect themselves, crime rates are higher where you are.

And gun crimes are very, very, common.

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]


I'm not sure. People can be very abrupt with strangers and bonhomie is certainly lacking.

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]


Seems pretty sef-explanatory, I-S.


What, all of them?

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

We don't live in a "Mad Max world'.

Nor are crime rates in your country where guns are relatively easily available any lower than those in Poland where they are not.

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

Presumably, exactly what he says.

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

But only guns are made to cause such damage, come in so many varieties and are available in your country in those gun fairs to whatever nut wants to do a mass shooting.

Fortunately in Poland, there's no significant gun lobby.

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


So are bows and arrows for that matter - yet the gun shops in countries where they exist - tend to stock the most lethal.

Fortunately in Poland, people just don't want them.

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


Is bleach made to be as effective as possible to blow holes in people? I always assumed it was for disinfecting the bog.

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

I enjoy target practice and used to enjoy occasional hunting too.

What I don't like, is when I look at the newspaper and there's a sad item - very often from your fine country. I don't think it's a 'big government' thing. Just common sense to make sure that some of these nuts don't get guns.

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

None of those things are made with the intention of blowing a hole in someone from a distance, are they?

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


And what about all those steps in between? Starts with a revolver, then why not a semi-automatic, then what comes next?

No reason for the public to buy offensive weapons and fortunately no great will to do that here in PL.

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


It very much is. If you allow access one sort of deadly weapon, where do you stop.


Far from exited. More bored.

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


Every right, given that a gun is a dangerous weapon. Hej, who's to deny me having a nuclear bomb?


Who's talking about the police? Only you. Why not have a monologue in front of a mirror and spare us your red herrings.

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


And they need guns for that?

Plenty of other ways - most of the world, including Poland, manage it.

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

At least she didn't shoot schoolkids or kill someone who rang her doorbell. Unlike a few well publicised others.

History / Poland must get back Lwow, Wilno and Brest back [345]

That's just paranoid.

Life / Babcia or Busha - any social class difference? [359]

Yes. And that generation have a habit of dying on you. And when they're gone, they don't come back.

And if they do, get a priest.

Travel / Places open in Poland on national holidays [24]

Yes. It's a bit of a pain in PL. The bigger petrol stations do have plenty of stuff, and I guarantee there's a long queue outside. Anyway, Dany, عيد ميلاد سعيد وسنة جديدة سعيدة

Merry Christmas, and let's hope 2014 is 100 times better for you me and us all, than 2013.

Travel / Places open in Poland on national holidays [24]

Is anyone here in Wroclaw who can invite Dany?

Sorry, otherwise it's pot noodles from petrol stations, perhaps a few places. A bit like where I am now during Eid. Tomorrow more will be open.

History / Poland must get back Lwow, Wilno and Brest back [345]


Sounds bloody awful - Sczedrzik is much better and just as easy to pronounce. Your lake translation is more accurate than ocean though.

BTW, the poster I was replying to was just naming people who beat him in the arguments he starts. At least that's what it looks like.