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jon357   
13 Jul 2013
Language / Uniquely Polish Historic Script? [10]

Hello,

The nicest clearest example I know is on the wall of Warsaw University Library (put tekst staropolski BUW into google images to have a look).

This might be useful though:

szwabacha
jon357   
10 Jul 2013
Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

Generations of conditioning led (past tense) girls and women to believe certain things that I'm not going to pretend I know.

This is spot on. To generalise in the way he was about a gender as a whole is inadequate. It also ignores those who fall outside the gender binary.
jon357   
6 Jul 2013
News / Poland will have a queen again [75]

I see you are as properly informed about European royals as about how to behave properly to a girl

Perhaps it's because so many European monarchies have a woman in charge ;-)
jon357   
6 Jul 2013
News / Poland will have a queen again [75]

They are not her personal property.

Actually they are hers to use as she sees fit as long as she is monarch - and there is no will to end the monarchy except from cranks.

Does she or any other members of her family work more hours than a bus driver or surgeon? Does she or any other members of her family work more hours or harder than a democratically elected person like the British PM?

Probably yes.

her family are lavished with money from the state

They are not. She receives expenses from the civil list. Far outweighed by the economic benefit to the whole of the UK.

She is not the "Queen of England", and has never been recognised as such. The Scottish Parliament chose to recognise her in a dual capacity, but the UK Parliament has never recognised her as the "Queen of England".

Indeed. Elizabeth the Second and First.

Nothing to do with Ireland (yet again)

Yet they lined the streets when she visited.
jon357   
6 Jul 2013
News / Poland will have a queen again [75]

The English queen takes money from the state

Not a penny. She makes over revenue from the Crown Estates and is entitled to expenses for the arduous schedule she carries out.

Royalists believe that all children are equal except certain royal children who are more equal

Who said that?
jon357   
6 Jul 2013
News / Poland will have a queen again [75]

I think you will find that they do get money from the state

Deriving from the income from the Crown Estates. The state keep most of it.

At last you agree they do get state money.

Would you do your job without claiming expenses?

I know we'll find you're lying

It seems so.

Perhaps some find it a paradox, but some of the most stable and healthy democracies in the world (even most of them) have a monarch, whereas most of the worst places to live have a constitution and a president. You don't find many Canadians or Dutch dreaming of the democratic ideals in the republic of Russia.
jon357   
5 Jul 2013
News / Poland will have a queen again [75]

The royalty (in the UK, at any rate) don't get state money. They have plenty of their own and only get expenses.

Btw, nationalism is always wrong as a political philosophy. Much of a muchness, regardless of where the deluded person comes from.
jon357   
5 Jul 2013
News / Poland will have a queen again [75]

I have yet to hear the argument for some children being better than others

All children are equal; some (the ones this thread pertains to) however end up with certain duties which they can choose to renounce or perform. In the UK and Belgium, the majority are very happy indeed that they carry out their task instead of sloping off for a better life elsewhere.

Ironically the British Nationalists are the only ones who claim they are not nationalist

All nationalists are morons, regardless of the adjective with the capital letter.
jon357   
5 Jul 2013
News / Poland will have a queen again [75]

lie if there's even the slimmest chance that he'll get away with it and it'll make the English look bad

Except people don't get away with it, not on here, anyway and anyone with half a brain can see precisely who it makes look bad.

Yes, but they're British and successful and thus Barney has two reasons to hate them.

Nail, head, thwack.
jon357   
5 Jul 2013
News / Poland will have a queen again [75]

She uses it quite a lot to block bills

No she doesn't. What makes you think that?

If you like paying for undemocratic institutions its great but why not pay another more frugal family to do the job?

They bring far more into the economy than they cost.
jon357   
5 Jul 2013
News / Poland will have a queen again [75]

She and others in her family are asked and ask to review legislation, they have a veto.

Excellent.

She can also declare a state of emergency and twice has had to choose a Prime Minister. On both occasions she against political advice advice - most recently when the 1974 general election had an inconclusive result and she had to decide whether to maintain the Conservative status quo or ask the Labour leader Harold Wilson to form a government. The decision was a sound one.
jon357   
2 Jul 2013
News / Poland to reject Snowden asylum bid [59]

Snowden is a trained operative he is a complex character. The first question to ask yourself is do you believe he acted within the public interest, whistle-blowing?

He seems earnest, and I could easily believe he thought he was doing the right thing. Even national security organisations recruit the wrong people. Remember David Shayler?
jon357   
2 Jul 2013
News / Poland to reject Snowden asylum bid [59]

I doubt that anywhere in the EU would seriously consider it.

Perhaps he should buy a North Korean phrase book. Then again, the weather's better in Cuba.
jon357   
27 Jun 2013
History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

No it isn't. That's just his manifesto. Nothing about the constitution of his 'fourth republic', how that constitution would differ from the current one, how he would conduct the necessary referendum or how he would manage the transition.

And by the way - no language issues on my part. The only issue is that JK is avoiding stating his true intentions.
jon357   
27 Jun 2013
History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

The PiS website contains nothing of the sort. We can therefore conclude that they don't have any detailed programme for a new constitution and as usual are just trumpeting nonsense. Clowns.
jon357   
27 Jun 2013
Food / Bigos Recipe [183]

Lard would be more traditional. Dripping would give a better flavour. But yes - it is often greasy.
jon357   
27 Jun 2013
History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

the glorious Fourth Republic

You still fail to describe the specifics of the project, despite being asked in another thread.
jon357   
27 Jun 2013
History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

They were very far from that - they didn't get out of economic recession at all. And post- Pilsudski the political situation deteriorated radically.
jon357   
27 Jun 2013
History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

Looks like it was a complete and utter failure.

Hyperinflation, mass unemployment, political repression, endemic corruption, a coup d'état and the president assassinated.