News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]


I think PiS would survive this kind of sanctions. As I said before - they have only 2 more years to rule - this should be settled without outside intervention. We are an independent country.


But the media laws PiS is proposing are not anti-democratic. They are exactly the same as the ones implemented by Germany or France.

News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]


I don't know, I never was much of a mind reader. :) Tell me.


Outside intervention. I abhor that. Polish matters should be settled by Poles only (and PiS has only 2 more years to ruse, so...).

News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]


I agree, it's a matter of taste but no more than that.


That's a bit too dramatic imo.


I hope neither Americans nor Russians (nor Guatemalans, Filipinos etc.) have power or audacity to meddle in Poland's internal affairs.


Sanctions against PiS means sanctions against Poland. I'm not sure if it's entirely wise to call for such measures.

News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]


It is perhaps a question of greater degree of subtlety but yes, they do.

News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

This is, frankly, ridiculous. PiS is merely trying to adjust Polish media market to EU norms regarding majority shareholders from outside the EU in the media sector. Germany and France have much harsher laws in this area, so I don't see what the problem is. Foreign owned media, like Sputnik or TVN, have to be regulated as they are in the "old EU" countries.

One can't help but notice the hypocrisy of PO who are trying to enforce a bill to delegalize TVP Info, but they would defend TVN with their bare breast :)


You put it very mildly. They are openly hostile towards the government and their policies (often to the point of losing objectivity and journalist integrity).

The problem in general is that we have very few independent media in Poland. Most of them are either blatantly pro-government (e.g. TVP, Gazeta Polska) or openly hostile towards it (e.g. TVN, Wyborcza). There are some objective (or semi-objective) weeklies, like Tygodnik Powszechny or Do Rzeczy, but major media clearly stand either on the side of the government or the opposition.

In any case, adjusting media market laws to the EU standards is a must.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

That is absolutely correct.

Politics, internal and external, can change but national character remains basically the same throughout centuries.

Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [211]


Well, I suppose it's possible... if one really feels the urge. ;)


I like Kashubian lakes indeed. Szarlota (near Kościerzyna) is a nice place.

Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [211]

It happens recently, true.

Luckily it is only tourist who ever attempt to have a bath in the Baltic Sea - we, the locals, only look at them with barely concealed feeling of superiority. ;)

Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [211]

Tricity is probably the best place to live in Poland (and it's not just my local patriotism) - agglomeration with over 1.2 million people but spread over a large area, so it's not really crowded - a lot of parks, hills and recreational areas, great municipal greenery all over the place, relatively clean air, a plethora of cultural, educational and economic possibilities. Unrivaled.

Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [211]

My wife is from Masovia and when I visited her in her parents' house in the summer I remember that it was always 4-5 degrees more than by the sea (and no sea breeze). It felt like visiting Africa :)

Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [211]

Not too hot here in Gdańsk - nice 26 degrees with lovely gentle breeze from the sea. The best weather ever :)

Travel / Photos from Poland [258]


Black is for people who like doing it with lights out and brown... well, brown is... figure it out yourself.


How dare you - you homophobe, transphobe, patriarchal racist!!!


:D

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]

I was just kidding. :) English has great potential to turn from an ugly and vulgar tongue into something very aesthetically pleasing and elegant when the writer/speaker is skillful with his style and choice of words. I am definitely not a keen admirer of this common language, but even I have to admit that when it is used by writers like P.G. Wodehouse, Kingsley Amis, John Mortimer or Hector Hugh Munro it can give one a certain measure of linguistic satisfaction.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]


Exactly. Language is, first and foremost, a communication tool, as I have -- on this very board -- on multitudinous occasions expatiated. :D

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]

The board is infested with trolls today. Trolls and reprobates.

*praying...*

Oh, Lord, please make Oathbreaker and James123 - two staunch paedophile defenders and reprobates dead in their sins - see your eternal light and come to faith in Jesus Christ. Please save them by your mercy, Lord. AMEN.

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]

You keep claiming that protecting child rapists from just punishment is "commendable". That tells me that you are everything but redeemed by Christ. You are dead in your sins and God turns His face away from you in disgust.

Life / Polish patriotic tattoos [45]

Not to mention that it's strictly forbidden in the Bible ("You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the LORD.", Leviticus 19:28), and most of those "patriots" probably consider themselves Christian. :)

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]

Who's talking about "lynching for sins"?

I am talking about punishing for crimes commited on children. You are saying that protecting the rapist monsters was commendable which leads me to an obvious conclusion - you are either:

a) a troll, just trying to annoy people
or
b) a complete and utter sickf*ck

In both cases, there's no point arguing with you.

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]


Which allowed the criminals to continue raping children, again and again.

Are you sure "commendable" is the word you wanted to use?

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]

Raping a child is one of the most despicable crimes one can commit. Children have been raped all over the world by the catholic clergy, and all over the world, according to the very same procedures implemented by dioceses and ecclesiastical courts, the rapist beasts were protected.

It was not a single diocese, a single bishop or a single parish, but the church on every continent, acting in an organised mafia-like style, protecting the monsters.

Those who fail to acknowledge that, or even try to defend the perpetrators, are no better than the rapists themselves. They make me sick. The only consolation is that they will have to, one day, stand in front of Our Lord Jesus Christ and answer for this monstrosity.

Travel / Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists [82]


Good point. :)

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]

@photo above:

11 goals for our national team in exchange for a moderately attractive blonde? That's a bargain! We have throngs of blondes and not nearly enough NT goals. :)

However, I don't see the connection with the EU here (Olisadebe was from Nigeria, as far as I can remember).

News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


True.

Although a lot depends on how the UK will fare outside the EU. If they end up better off being outside, then the eurosceptic forces throughout the Union will be strenghtened immensely.

Life / The Pole, as an example of a perfect Russophobe, in a spherical vacuum [42]

Alosha is a legend! :) I like it when he mixes Polish and Russian in his songs...

youtu.be/a2MA1PG24U4

Life / The Pole, as an example of a perfect Russophobe, in a spherical vacuum [42]


There is also a cabaret in Słupsk (DKD) who sing love songs in Russian because they claim that's the best language to sing about love. :)

Life / The Pole, as an example of a perfect Russophobe, in a spherical vacuum [42]

Thanks, Pawian. Just saying it like it is. :)

Life / The Pole, as an example of a perfect Russophobe, in a spherical vacuum [42]


A knee-jerk defensive reaction, after the trauma of partitions, uprisings and 45 years of forced "friendship". The reaction towards Russian state is quite understandable.

When it comes to attitude towards Russian people, you won't see much hostility or dismissiveness. Russian people are indeed Slavic, like we are, but they belong to a different civilisation (Byzantine with elements of Turanic, in contrast to Latin civilisation in Poland), so we are simply closer socially and culturally not only to Czechs or Slovaks (obviously) but also to Italians or the French - the same civilisation. So, what you see as dismissiveness is simply a realistic reception of a nation that is culturally, socially and politically very different from ours.

Mafketis is also quite right in his remarks about countries that tasted Russian "friendship" and don't really want to have anything more to do with the Russian state. It's not dismisiveness or hostility, but merely a political realism acquired during the long history of mutual contacts.

Surely, there is much to be admired about Russia - beautiful nature, great literature, brave and resilient people to name just a few things. But we prefer to admire these things from a safe distance.

Work / What Jobs are there in Poland for an Englishman besides teaching english? [70]


If you play football, Ekstraklasa clubs are hiring. High wages, zero expectations for success - great job! :)

Life / Do Russians and Poles get along? [53]


It may be true, but it doesn't mean that they can't get along.

Life / Do Russians and Poles get along? [53]


Well, he is an expert on pretty much everything in the entire Universe, isn't he? :)