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jon357   
29 Jun 2015
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

margaret sanger

A remarkable woman. Very conservative by todays standards, especially her views on ethnicity but still a pioneer.

manufactured disease (AIDS/MRSA/EBOLA

None of these are 'manufactured diseases'.

population control

Abortion is about women deciding whether or not she wants to continue with a pregnancy. In Poland, people just go to a doctor who's brave enough to defy the law. That or hop on Ryanair.
jon357   
28 Jun 2015
Real Estate / Dzialki - allotment gardens regulations in Poland [27]

a dzialka

Is it the type on an estate of similar dzialki, administered by a club or society? If so, the club should be your first call since they often know of people who want one. Or PM me, since I'm looking for one near the city.

If it's the type of dzialka that's independent of any club, basically a plot of land maybe with a building on, try any local estate agent or an ad in Gazeta Wyborcza.

For both types, you can advertise on Gumtree Warsaw.
jon357   
25 Jun 2015
News / Poland is being robbed - Kukiz [37]

He's actually come up with some sort of a 'manifesto':

2000zl more per month for everyone
Retirement at 50 for women, 55 for men
3 years maternity leave for women

You couldn't make it up!
jon357   
24 Jun 2015
Language / Polish Language Exchange Thread [145]

My principle problem is the need for constant practice! I always communicate with Polish native speakers in Polish, as it's easier for both of us.

That's always the best way.

I DO appreciate correction.

Certainly when it's constructive. One tip from a very competent Polyglot is to aim to make 100 mistakes a day. Doubtless I do (and don't much care) however worth remembering that Poles are generally less used than you and I to hearing their language spoken by a foreigner - they don't often appreciate sequential learning.

This can be a big problem with Language Exchange; it generally becomes very one sided and the meta-language of the 'lesson' is almost always English.
jon357   
23 Jun 2015
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

"In the overwhelming majority of cases not"

Nope - health stats are carefully compiled, especially in a contentious area like this. Google them.

At least by the evidence of polish forums, with the Turkish Guy

That's not a great statistical sample. As I say, women will terminate pregnancies and have done since time immemorial, very often without the knowledge of the person who impregnated them, so very sad that you prefer women to undergo the risks of illegal terminations rather than get it sorted legally.
jon357   
23 Jun 2015
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

In many cases the woman is forced to abort because of pressure of the man

In the overwhelming majority of cases not. That is in part why the movement for safer terminations is led by womens' organisations and not mens'.

Evidently you prefer women to undergo the risks of illegal terminations.
jon357   
23 Jun 2015
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Not much of an argument is it, since a person is sentient, with hopes, fears, experiences, a personality and a sense of self, whereas an embryo is not.

Evidently, since you seem to favour backstreet abortions, you presumably don't care much about the poor woman who can't get a proper one.
jon357   
23 Jun 2015
History / Is there a list of those in the Polish Army during WWII? [195]

Where did the poster see the name written that way? Did he copy it properly?

Quite. Just a leftfield idea, but would a handwritten record have been in Cyrillic (think Vagvaga Riskegipt in Marina Lewycka's wonderful novel 'Two Caravans', a book with a few Polish characters). Probably not, but worth thinking about if it's a written record in the Russian Zone of occupation...

And is it even Jelinski? I know the name exists, but so does Zielinski, and if the lady only heard rather than read the name and is now no longer alive so there's Chinese whispers....

Kazik Zielinski?
jon357   
23 Jun 2015
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

the aborted child

You mean the cluster of non-sentient cells.

Anyway, a woman will get one if she wants one, so the current legislation merely encourages abortions under poor conditions.
jon357   
20 Jun 2015
News / Poland is being robbed - Kukiz [37]

For me he is another Tyminski, too bad he cannot be deported to Canada.

Or can't vanish so easily when the inevitable scandal comes.

But for sure he eats into the PIS electorate, the same brainless, education-less

Exactly. This could of course be a cunning plan on the part of Kukiz - but I doubt it. Just another Lepper/Bubel.

You have described perfectly majority of Anglophone posters based in Poland and contributing to this site, including yourself.

Not very articulate or intelligent of you, so par for the course for yourself and most of the (fortunately dwindling) extremists in PL.
jon357   
20 Jun 2015
News / Poland is being robbed - Kukiz [37]

May he continue so people see what kind of jerk he is!

I think people already have, but in a land where people have voted for Lepper, Giertych, Macierewcz, Bubel etc, do some of the voters actually care?

THE POLISH BABCIA!

No different from any other poorly educated, post-menopausal, socially-inhibited member of the less fortunate classes.

Don for the insensitive, power-hungry bastard he really is.

Aside from that description of him being untrue, you do realise that phrase was being used by

Millions of Poles

long before he ever said it.

Yes, it is hilarious that he declared himself to be with the berety.

More comedy. That phrase came about as a term of derision during the short-lived PiSuarz coalition. Kukiz is going to be one to watch for more of the same in the months ahead.

Yes, he seems to be lurching more and more to the right.

He always was really, if you look at issues he's supported in the past. Certainly no man of the people. A shame he went to a Ciechan factory and associated with Zawisza, however if it aligns him with the right and takes votes from the PiSuarzy all the better.
jon357   
20 Jun 2015
News / Poland is being robbed - Kukiz [37]

He always was a joke candidate - now he's confirming it.

Poland isn't Catholic, as is shown by the fact that the vast majority of Poles don't do the very minimum required by the Catholic church from Catholics. The small minority that do do the minimum are solidly behind PIS, so by appealing to them, all the clown is doing is trying to take votes from PIS and actually driving away the voters he could attract from middle parties. All excellent stuff.

Exactly. The more he appeals to Poland B the better.
jon357   
19 Jun 2015
History / What are Poland's pagan roots? [62]

If I remember correctly, you live quite close. Handy for the station.

Remember though that they do value their privacy.

There's also the other one, also outside Warsaw but on the other side of town.
jon357   
16 Jun 2015
News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]

I keep telling you, Lodz has probably the smallest problem with racism in Poland. Go to Radom or Bialystok and tell the knuckle-draggers there that you are superior to their fellow Slavs because you have enough money to apply for a residency permit. Your views about Poland's problem with racism and xenophobia might well change very quickly, almost as quickly as you'd be running.

Quite. As a coloured person, Levi would be very much in a difficult position. Even more so if he'd come here 'legally' by marrying a Polish woman.

Unlike you I actually have lived in a neighbourhood of the UK where Muslims made up more than 95% of the population. I very much liked living there. I felt safer there than in the non-Muslim parts of the city and I almost certainly was safer there too, most probably safer than I am in Warsaw too.

Me too. I lived and worked in an area that was majority Muslim, with both British Pakistanis as well as people who've reverted to Islam (and work in a majority Muslim country now). Never any problems at all. I didn't however feel any less safe than here in Warsaw - it's a very safe city for all its residents, wherever they come from.
jon357   
16 Jun 2015
News / URGENT: Chechens refugees found a Islamic State in Poland [37]

She backed down and we heard nothing more from her.

Sometimes people who revert to Islam are much more picky about things than those who have been part of it for their whole lives.

No 'Islamic State' in Poland, which is a liberal democracy and trying hard enough to shrug off the effects of the wrong sort of religious people. I don't believe for a minute that the refugee centre is a hellhole of any sort. I do however believe that anywhere that people have had such turbulent lives that they have to flee their home may experience tensions not normally found elsewhere.