Barney
27 Apr 2025
Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [970]
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Barney
13 Apr 2025
Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]
He needs Gosplan:)
I agree that we all need to consume less and live within our means.
He needs Gosplan:)
I agree that we all need to consume less and live within our means.
Barney
12 Apr 2025
Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]
Well done Mr Trump, backing down again with an about face on lots of electronic stuff from China. Is this the third or fourth climbdown since retard day just 10 days ago. I suppose this was part of the plan all along. Only fully fledged members of the cult believe anything he says.
My tip for the day is avoid capricious leaders and buy Christmas decorations made by children somewhere other than China. Trump probably will back down again so China may be a goer. I wonder if China will ever buy American again.
that is what Trump is trying to fix
Well done Mr Trump, backing down again with an about face on lots of electronic stuff from China. Is this the third or fourth climbdown since retard day just 10 days ago. I suppose this was part of the plan all along. Only fully fledged members of the cult believe anything he says.
My tip for the day is avoid capricious leaders and buy Christmas decorations made by children somewhere other than China. Trump probably will back down again so China may be a goer. I wonder if China will ever buy American again.
Barney
7 Apr 2025
Off-Topic / USA and The Middle East. [27]
What you mean is that Trump is doing exactly the same think as Biden.
Trump had demonstrated to the world that the US is not a partner in anything so why the hell do most European countries continually suck his d1ck. Its well past the point where Europeans need to grow a back bone and stand for the things they claim to support. The US is a hopeless case that can not be reformed, its people are either spineless or coerced into silence on its appalling human rights record. Russia is equally guilty in sucking up to Israel even and especially after the Zionists used their air force as human shields. Russia doesnt seem to realise or care that Israel is a US puppet state.
Its not just Israel rampaging across the middle east stealing territory, its NATO countries who continually invade and otherwise destablise the entire region. There is nowhere else on earth that demonstrates the bloody hypocrisy of the US and its poodles even when these poodles, including Poland, are insulted by big brother on a daily basis.
Trump is doing exactly the right thing
What you mean is that Trump is doing exactly the same think as Biden.
Trump had demonstrated to the world that the US is not a partner in anything so why the hell do most European countries continually suck his d1ck. Its well past the point where Europeans need to grow a back bone and stand for the things they claim to support. The US is a hopeless case that can not be reformed, its people are either spineless or coerced into silence on its appalling human rights record. Russia is equally guilty in sucking up to Israel even and especially after the Zionists used their air force as human shields. Russia doesnt seem to realise or care that Israel is a US puppet state.
Its not just Israel rampaging across the middle east stealing territory, its NATO countries who continually invade and otherwise destablise the entire region. There is nowhere else on earth that demonstrates the bloody hypocrisy of the US and its poodles even when these poodles, including Poland, are insulted by big brother on a daily basis.
Barney
31 Mar 2025
Off-Topic / What's your hobby? [191]
@Paulina
I'm one of those guys that can do things, make things and repair things.
Last year I decided to put a new floor all through the downstairs of my house so it would flow from one room to the next and be splendid. When I decide to do something I spend a lot of time thinking of exactly how to go about it. A friend from the allotments lays floors for a living and I tortured him. The basic choice was what kind of floor. I decided on solid hard wood. Next I decided to install a few additional electrical sockets and to insulate the heating pipes before putting the floor down. That mutated into totally rewiring the house which I did, every electrical cable, socket, light fitting and consumer unit (fuse box) was replaced. When I was doing that I discovered a major problem with insect infestation in the roof. I then had to replace the back half of the roof reusing the existing tiles. The front half will be done this spring/summer. The net result of that additional work was that my solid wood floor was downgraded to engineered wood. Engineered wood is softwood with a 7mm layer of hard wood on top, it goes together like click flooring but supposedly looks and feels like hard wood, it doesn't, It looks grand though but...
I used to restore those old VW camper vans which involved learning how to weld which I became competent at but never to an expert level. All my mates used to bring their cars to me or get me to fix stuff in their houses from central heating to plastering, putting new doors on a the like. It helped that My Da was a roofer and I worked on building sites and did homers from I was about 11 or 12. My job used to be to carry roofing tiles up to my Da while he did his stuff. I just like working with my hands and using a bit of brain power to do a safe and reasonable job.
I spend 8 hours a day in front of a computer and almost hate every second of it. I really enjoy working on the allotment, my shed is plumed into the mains water. I discovered that welding is a skill you need to practice when I decided to make a wood burning stove from an old gas cylinder. The stove works but looks really amateurish.
@Paulina
I'm one of those guys that can do things, make things and repair things.
Last year I decided to put a new floor all through the downstairs of my house so it would flow from one room to the next and be splendid. When I decide to do something I spend a lot of time thinking of exactly how to go about it. A friend from the allotments lays floors for a living and I tortured him. The basic choice was what kind of floor. I decided on solid hard wood. Next I decided to install a few additional electrical sockets and to insulate the heating pipes before putting the floor down. That mutated into totally rewiring the house which I did, every electrical cable, socket, light fitting and consumer unit (fuse box) was replaced. When I was doing that I discovered a major problem with insect infestation in the roof. I then had to replace the back half of the roof reusing the existing tiles. The front half will be done this spring/summer. The net result of that additional work was that my solid wood floor was downgraded to engineered wood. Engineered wood is softwood with a 7mm layer of hard wood on top, it goes together like click flooring but supposedly looks and feels like hard wood, it doesn't, It looks grand though but...
I used to restore those old VW camper vans which involved learning how to weld which I became competent at but never to an expert level. All my mates used to bring their cars to me or get me to fix stuff in their houses from central heating to plastering, putting new doors on a the like. It helped that My Da was a roofer and I worked on building sites and did homers from I was about 11 or 12. My job used to be to carry roofing tiles up to my Da while he did his stuff. I just like working with my hands and using a bit of brain power to do a safe and reasonable job.
I spend 8 hours a day in front of a computer and almost hate every second of it. I really enjoy working on the allotment, my shed is plumed into the mains water. I discovered that welding is a skill you need to practice when I decided to make a wood burning stove from an old gas cylinder. The stove works but looks really amateurish.
Barney
28 Mar 2025
Travel / About cars, electric and combustion in Poland. [162]
Who uses a manual to change a tyre/wheel?
. Recently, my friend and I were trying to change the tires on his daughter Volkvagen, and the manual was
Who uses a manual to change a tyre/wheel?
Barney
26 Mar 2025
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]
@Feniks
It was easy for me as gardening, after home improvement, is my main hobby.
Thats a good thing to do, hope you planted them. If you dont have space you can grow wild flowers in containers but have to support them as they can be quite "leggy".
@Feniks
It was easy for me as gardening, after home improvement, is my main hobby.
apiarian shop in my city was giving such bags with wild flowers seeds for free
Thats a good thing to do, hope you planted them. If you dont have space you can grow wild flowers in containers but have to support them as they can be quite "leggy".
Barney
25 Mar 2025
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]
@Paulina
Wild flowers or sometimes called meadow flowers. I love calendula, they self seed every year on my plot. I often give these seeds to neighbours but allow a good few to bloom every year.
@Paulina
Wild flowers or sometimes called meadow flowers. I love calendula, they self seed every year on my plot. I often give these seeds to neighbours but allow a good few to bloom every year.
Barney
25 Mar 2025
Barney
16 Mar 2025
History / Why Poland is not Russia [260]
If by liberal you mean centrist and left of centre parties and their backers well they picked up the baton late in the race. Globalisation was primarily driven by right wing parties to such an extent it became the orthodoxy then the other crowd joined the **** show. The reason they (left leaning) sold their souls was for electoral reasons. It's impossible to change anything in opposition and difficult to get elected on a mandate to stop job flight for example when people are living on credit with the lure of affordable consumer durables.
With Trump, the AfD or Reform in the UK Their chickens have come home to roost, right wing parties sold people a pup while doing their mates favours. Reagan economics who started the decline, was and is based on the quick endorphin rush of credit. Centre and supposed left leaning parties trotted (no pun intended) along behind them. The net result is that most persuadable people no longer trust established parties.
There does appear to be a paradigm shift under way on the globe. The so called rules based order has been revealed to be a sham, turbocharged for example by the onslaught on Palestine not just Gaza and the outrage over the ICC charging Netanyahu et al. Signatures of the ICC stating they wouldn't up hold its warrants is, I believe it's death knell, It fell at the first hurdle. Old alliances have been fractured and new ones forged especially the shift of attitude in the global south. I suppose the Communist bogey man can't be used to keep the kleptocracies on side.
The most supposedly interesting thing is the arguments used, front and centre are the usual wedge issues which are as old as politics, nothing new there. Secondly, attempts to absolve what may be called traditional voices from any responsibility are laughable. The herd of "independent thinkers" all wading in the same shallow pool will be funny in about 20 years but today they are as useful as cannon fodder for billionaires. Finally, big media platforms and their ideas of free speech are so clearly compromised they will be regulated to death.
What path Poland takes is crucial it should throw its weight behind Europe. I know you don't like the EU and believe it's a German centric operation. I have problems with the EU in that I think it's too economically right wing but at the end of the day it's better being in fighting for reform than out howling at the moon.
domination and globalisation led by the liberal fraction
If by liberal you mean centrist and left of centre parties and their backers well they picked up the baton late in the race. Globalisation was primarily driven by right wing parties to such an extent it became the orthodoxy then the other crowd joined the **** show. The reason they (left leaning) sold their souls was for electoral reasons. It's impossible to change anything in opposition and difficult to get elected on a mandate to stop job flight for example when people are living on credit with the lure of affordable consumer durables.
With Trump, the AfD or Reform in the UK Their chickens have come home to roost, right wing parties sold people a pup while doing their mates favours. Reagan economics who started the decline, was and is based on the quick endorphin rush of credit. Centre and supposed left leaning parties trotted (no pun intended) along behind them. The net result is that most persuadable people no longer trust established parties.
There does appear to be a paradigm shift under way on the globe. The so called rules based order has been revealed to be a sham, turbocharged for example by the onslaught on Palestine not just Gaza and the outrage over the ICC charging Netanyahu et al. Signatures of the ICC stating they wouldn't up hold its warrants is, I believe it's death knell, It fell at the first hurdle. Old alliances have been fractured and new ones forged especially the shift of attitude in the global south. I suppose the Communist bogey man can't be used to keep the kleptocracies on side.
The most supposedly interesting thing is the arguments used, front and centre are the usual wedge issues which are as old as politics, nothing new there. Secondly, attempts to absolve what may be called traditional voices from any responsibility are laughable. The herd of "independent thinkers" all wading in the same shallow pool will be funny in about 20 years but today they are as useful as cannon fodder for billionaires. Finally, big media platforms and their ideas of free speech are so clearly compromised they will be regulated to death.
What path Poland takes is crucial it should throw its weight behind Europe. I know you don't like the EU and believe it's a German centric operation. I have problems with the EU in that I think it's too economically right wing but at the end of the day it's better being in fighting for reform than out howling at the moon.
Barney
12 Mar 2025
History / Where did Poles spend summer vacations in the PRL era? [63]
@johnny reb
For the slow...johnny reb threatened a woman on this board after cyber stalking her. johnny reb has made many sexualised comments to women on this forum.
@johnny reb
For the slow...johnny reb threatened a woman on this board after cyber stalking her. johnny reb has made many sexualised comments to women on this forum.
Barney
12 Mar 2025
History / Where did Poles spend summer vacations in the PRL era? [63]
It is not so strange as all the cult followers have posted salacious comments about women and girls.
This particular individual threatened a woman here after cyber stalking her.
Strange you mentioned one.
It is not so strange as all the cult followers have posted salacious comments about women and girls.
This particular individual threatened a woman here after cyber stalking her.
Barney
6 Mar 2025
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [553]
After repeatedly advocating ethnic cleansing and theft, Trump has now directly threatened Palestinian civilians with death unless they do as he says.
Looks like genocide Joe wasn't the worst US Taoiseach.
After repeatedly advocating ethnic cleansing and theft, Trump has now directly threatened Palestinian civilians with death unless they do as he says.
Looks like genocide Joe wasn't the worst US Taoiseach.
Barney
5 Mar 2025
Feedback / Getting logged out of PF [26]
Basic rule of thumb...never ever use free "software".
Occasionally clearing the cache is required but removing browsing data does nothing to stop targeted adds. The big advertising platforms like facebook etc (and others) gather info as soon as you visit a site sending data until you leave the site.
the best part, it is free.
Basic rule of thumb...never ever use free "software".
Occasionally clearing the cache is required but removing browsing data does nothing to stop targeted adds. The big advertising platforms like facebook etc (and others) gather info as soon as you visit a site sending data until you leave the site.
Barney
4 Mar 2025
Barney
3 Mar 2025
Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]
Everyone but trump who is busy pumping shitcoin at the moment.
crypto fools will blame it on everyone else
Everyone but trump who is busy pumping shitcoin at the moment.
Barney
28 Feb 2025
Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [970]
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Barney
28 Feb 2025
Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [970]
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Barney
25 Feb 2025
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]
@jon357
This is a brand new pro and all is good now. I'll edit with Firefox on Android but pretty sure Safari have addressed the issue as Admin removed the fix.
Edit on firefox on a really old android and no issues at all. There are other browsers to test but I dont think there is any need
@jon357
This is a brand new pro and all is good now. I'll edit with Firefox on Android but pretty sure Safari have addressed the issue as Admin removed the fix.
Edit on firefox on a really old android and no issues at all. There are other browsers to test but I dont think there is any need
Barney
25 Feb 2025
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]
No need, the "fix" has been removed and we are good again.
No need, the "fix" has been removed and we are good again.
Barney
25 Feb 2025
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]
Thats weird...
I've never had any problem with a PC/laptop/imac ever(this is a windows 10 machine on Chrome) . I posted with an ipad for years with no issues.
When typing on a portable device keep typing and ignore the" jumpiness"or repeatedly swipe the text box to the top again
Sounds reasonable...
Windows PC too!
Thats weird...
I've never had any problem with a PC/laptop/imac ever(this is a windows 10 machine on Chrome) . I posted with an ipad for years with no issues.
When typing on a portable device keep typing and ignore the" jumpiness"or repeatedly swipe the text box to the top again
We added some "hack" to browsers that don't support the modern native feature
Sounds reasonable...
Barney
25 Feb 2025
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]
Don't like that.
Note this is older iPad and the jumping problem happens when typing a post but no issues when typing in edit mode
@BB
It seems to move down with each character typed.
avatars, user titles, reaction score, points and smileys
Don't like that.
Note this is older iPad and the jumping problem happens when typing a post but no issues when typing in edit mode
@BB
It seems to move down with each character typed.
Barney
25 Feb 2025
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]
Posting this from an iPad Pro. The screen moves down a single row when typing each character.
Edit on older iPad (9th gen) both using safari no issues on this older iPad.
My android phone jumps around when typing on Firefox.
Posting this from an iPad Pro. The screen moves down a single row when typing each character.
Edit on older iPad (9th gen) both using safari no issues on this older iPad.
My android phone jumps around when typing on Firefox.
Barney
5 Feb 2025
History / Recommended Poland's history books [257]
Thank you.
People move for a better life individuality has nothing to do with it. For example the people who go to the Gulf dictatorships do so for money not because they can criticise the rulers.
nice mentality! :)
Thank you.
People move for a better life individuality has nothing to do with it. For example the people who go to the Gulf dictatorships do so for money not because they can criticise the rulers.
Barney
5 Feb 2025
Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [970]
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Barney
5 Feb 2025
History / Recommended Poland's history books [257]
@Bratwurst Boy
I am content living where I do I like Europe. If I had been born in either place I would on balance, probably be just as content as I am now.
The question of which system is better for the individual is irrelevant. The discussion is about the historical record of both systems. I don't believe that either Stalinism or unfettered capitalism tinged with evangelical religious overtones work for most people.
@mafketis
I don't think so, both systems fcuked people over in pursuit of their respective ideologies.
@Bratwurst Boy
I am content living where I do I like Europe. If I had been born in either place I would on balance, probably be just as content as I am now.
The question of which system is better for the individual is irrelevant. The discussion is about the historical record of both systems. I don't believe that either Stalinism or unfettered capitalism tinged with evangelical religious overtones work for most people.
@mafketis
I don't think so, both systems fcuked people over in pursuit of their respective ideologies.
Barney
5 Feb 2025
History / Recommended Poland's history books [257]
@mafketis
I have a different view. I know us crimes are as bad as soviet crimes if not worse. Soviet intention was economic and political reform. US crimes were crimes of eradication
@mafketis
I have a different view. I know us crimes are as bad as soviet crimes if not worse. Soviet intention was economic and political reform. US crimes were crimes of eradication
Barney
5 Feb 2025
History / Recommended Poland's history books [257]
I did indeed without realising that for Americans citizenship is important with respect to murder specifically who does it and who dies.
You made the statement, not me...
I did indeed without realising that for Americans citizenship is important with respect to murder specifically who does it and who dies.
Barney
5 Feb 2025
History / Recommended Poland's history books [257]
I didnt realise that the people killed dont count as they were not worthy of US citizenship.
So I should have said that unlike Stalin the office of president of the United states didnt kill its own citizens it simply oversaw the seizure of indigenous land and murdered the people who had lived there. All to make America great.
Thats grand, nothing to complain about, US good rest of world bad.
You claimed that US presidents killed
I didnt realise that the people killed dont count as they were not worthy of US citizenship.
So I should have said that unlike Stalin the office of president of the United states didnt kill its own citizens it simply oversaw the seizure of indigenous land and murdered the people who had lived there. All to make America great.
Thats grand, nothing to complain about, US good rest of world bad.
Barney
5 Feb 2025
History / Recommended Poland's history books [257]
No need, the genocides happened to MAG and the perpetrators are still lauded just like Stalin in Russia.
Wanna try again?
No need, the genocides happened to MAG and the perpetrators are still lauded just like Stalin in Russia.