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jon357   
3 Dec 2012
News / Goodbye Rzeczpospolita, Goodbye Uwazam Rze! Killed by Tusk. [25]

One wonders if The Guardian might not be bought in a similar manner to The Independent and be used as one's vehicle of protection.

As far as I know it can't be sold by the Scott Trust - all they could do is go web only.

One wonders why the listeners/readers tolerate the financing of their media outlet by known Nazis.

That's nationalism for you - they'll get into bed with anybody as long as it suits their purpose, like the SNP back in the Thirties.
jon357   
3 Dec 2012
News / Goodbye Rzeczpospolita, Goodbye Uwazam Rze! Killed by Tusk. [25]

Nothing unusual. In the UK, the Daily Express and The Guardian are both running at a huge loss and likely to lose their print editions within the next year or so. Both formerly popular and so politically different that only a fool would suspect political interference.

In PL, nobody would bother interfering with Rz, whose readers are well able to make their own minds up, or Uwazam Rze which is one of many (too many) news magazines and has an expensive glossy format and tiny print sales.

There's no political interference and to suggest so is trivial and vexatious trolling.

Worth mentioning though that Nasz Dziennik doesn't make much on cover price or advertising revenue and Gazeta Polska only exists because it is bankrolled by very shady sources outside Poland.
jon357   
29 Nov 2012
News / Grzegorz Braun's firing squad? [39]

the famous liberal compassion and inclusion

What a bizarre thing to say. Evidently you can't handle the truth.

I also notice that you have that homo sovieticus trait in you Polonius. When faced with facts which compromise PIS and cannot be defended, you dig up some old story which in your mind outweighs the former. Typical soviet approach.

Absolutely spot on.
jon357   
29 Nov 2012
News / Grzegorz Braun's firing squad? [39]

I'd like to know who are 'we'.

If you need to ask that question, you're on the margins of our society anyway. I quite liked Wajda's comment - better than Braun's.
jon357   
28 Nov 2012
News / Grzegorz Braun's firing squad? [39]

Is that yet another example of today's 'five minutes of fame syndrome'? It has certainly created a buzz round a none-too-prominent film-maker. Some say he should be reported to the prosecutor.

A bit of both. It's a dramatic expression of feeling and more droll than anything else, but at least we still have prosecutors that people can report things to, should they be so minded.
jon357   
24 Nov 2012
History / Pokłosie (film on Jedwabne) [36]

You mean you disagree with it. Would you rather the only viewpoint presented was yours?
jon357   
23 Nov 2012
UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [168]

I really don't think one can say that there is a familiar or singular form of 'thee/thou' in Modern English - that is just misleading

My point entirely. We only use the polite form.

BTW, some of us are from the North.
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.