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jon357   
21 Nov 2012
Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

there is a huge difference between some famous surgeon who think that cutting is good, and the surgical procedure that is seen as standard

His book popularised it among doctors.

If you are an American - is your grandfather circumcised?

I wonder how many people can answer a question like that.
jon357   
21 Nov 2012
Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Wikipedia says this:

Circumcision has only been thought of as a common medical procedure since late Victorian times. In 1870, influential orthopedic surgeon Lewis Sayre, a founder of the American Medical Association, began using circumcision as a purported cure for several cases of young boys presenting with paralysis or significant gross motor problems.

Peter Charles Remondino was active in the last couple of decades of the Nineteenth Century.
jon357   
18 Nov 2012
UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [168]

It's silly to compare the language nuances and accuse others of lack of manners.

To a point. But it's hard to imagine an Englishman saying "Zajęty" in an abrupt manner to a stranger, or a shop assistant saying a brusque "nie ma".
jon357   
18 Nov 2012
UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [168]

Why Britsh people scarcely use kind forms of refering to strangers like sir, madam. In Polish we have Pan and Pani

It's very rare in English too. Only in certain parts of the country and even then, not often.

In Britain, most people usually use the polite form 'you' even if they're speaking to only one person (Wy, vous, Sie etc) and never the familiar form 'thee' (ty, tu, du etc). This has been the case for so long that the 'ty' form is almost forgotten.

British politeness.
jon357   
18 Nov 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

abortion clinics are not in it for the buck.

Where I'm from they're either run by the state or by not-for-profit organisations.

As for 'snuffing' out a life: doctors are not in the business of murder - a foetus does not think, does not have memories, is not a person. A computer is a computer even before the software is loaded. But can it be used?
jon357   
18 Nov 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

True - but the impetus for legal termination (and for that matter euthanasia) comes squarely from within the profession. The suggestion that there's a financial incentive is bizarre - especially since many performed the operation on women from low income households for free, in the dark days before legalisation; not to mention that in the UK, Scandinavia, Holland etc many, if not most, doctors are salaried.
jon357   
18 Nov 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

no one has clearly determined when a baby is alive in the mother's womb

Obviously you're entitled to hold whatever opinion you like, but I'll stick with the opinions of the medical profession.

don't you realize that you're doing just that, you're imposing your opinion on me and people who feel like me?

Unfortunately your logic doesn't quite work here. People who are pro-choice are not forcing you to do anything or imposing any opinion. They are not stopping you doing anything; nor are they forcing you to do anything. They are merely expecting that they do not have to follow your particular set of personal rules.
jon357   
18 Nov 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Or why would you force a woman to continue a pregnancy she doesn't want, especially when doctors agree there is no reason for the procedure not to be carried out?

If people don't want to have pregnancy terminations for whatever reason, religious, cultural, whatever, they don't have to have one. Their convictions a for them - and not to be imposed on others, especially in the face of medical evidence.

And by the way, where healthcare is concerned, your country is very much one of the least developed of the richer parts of the world.
jon357   
18 Nov 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

That depends if you consider a body that doesn't think to be truly alive. By the same logic nobody's life support machine would ever be switched off nor feeding withdrawn.

By the way, healthcare in your country may be all about money. In more developed societies there is less hysteria and more rational social policy.
jon357   
17 Nov 2012
Life / Poczta Polska Is Killing ME! Transit time. [28]

I just got an important letter. 22 days from London to Warsaw! You could walk with the letter and deliver it by hand faster than that.

Poczta Polska aren't fit to be involved in deliveries within the EU unless they're administered by another countries postal service!
jon357   
14 Nov 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

A very sad story.

telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/9676626/Pregnant-woman-dies-after-being-denied-an-abortion-in-Ireland.html
jon357   
14 Nov 2012
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

abortion is always going to be a very contentious issue.

Exactly. Emotional language helps nobody and just pours oil on troubled water.

Abortion is not a 'soft option' and is not a decision to be taken likely.

+1

For myself, I think we should let the medical profession decide what procedures should or should not be legal.
jon357   
13 Nov 2012
Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

in times when there were problems with access to personal hygiene facilities, such as in the desert, or in wartime Britain ... but showers are generally freely available in the States now, I understood?

Exactly. There may have been reasons once but now (excuse the pun) there's no point.

No other nation considers this the norm - except Americans

Them and Filipinos.
jon357   
12 Nov 2012
Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

circumcision (male or female) is founded within religion?

No. Male circumcision was adopted as a health practice in times when religion played a bigger role in life that it does today, encompassing laws, medicine, science etc. and some of the religions that have survived from those times still advocate it. Some of them, for example Islam, do it only as a matter of tradition. No religion as far as I know advocates female circumcision.
jon357   
12 Nov 2012
Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Who cares. What happened thousands of years ago when medical knowledge was beyond primitive is irrelevant today. And BTW, Abraham is not 'avinu' for most people.
jon357   
11 Nov 2012
UK, Ireland / Better being female in UK or Poland? [33]

taking advantage of some of the laws in place here around domestic violence, abortion

Poland also has strong domestic violence laws and zero tolerance campaigns. Statistics show that Polish women in the UK are also taking advantage of their right to terminate pregnancies.
jon357   
10 Nov 2012
Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Well, you country right seems like it wants to be circumcised, and go to Israel to have holy temple sex

That doesn't make much sense. Or any sense.

If you actually read the bible instead of just bad mouthing it,

Read it all thanks. Several times. In English and both original languages.

t you can't just "Get off" by saying you do not care

I don't care.

TEMPLE SEX

What's that? Is it fun?

And what about the fact that EU courts are still based on European Christian Cannon Law

No they aren't.

t Ezekial had to do to all the temple sex worshippers (that is nuke the whole middle east!)

Go and take a pill. It's time for your meds.

I would like it to be so, because the war dead will never get justice under Teutinic Knights Christian Courts!

Better still, take two.
jon357   
10 Nov 2012
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

I can assure you that I am not

You are, alas, mistaken.

I usualy eat schabowy and bigos

Not a very varied diet.

I'm a beer drinker.

Not 'Central European' wines?