News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]

Why not? The Sejm had better act on this quickly.

A recount is clearly need3d given that 10 of the 13 recounts showed significant 'mistakes' in favour of the most corrupt party's candidate.

Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [130]


Very hard to know why. One thing see in Poland is that the customers always clear the trays into those bins. Why? It's as if they're in awe of it somehow, it's just a nasty hamburger chain and by clearing up, they're letting them get away with fewer staff. One nice thing in the U.K. is that McDonalds aren't doing well there with sites closing and rivals opening instead.


Starbucks have very low commercial ethics and often try to prevent competitors opening near them. When there is competition, they don't do well.

News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]


Behave.


So a sample recount.

Most countries just do recounts on the night.


They need to do a full recount, given that the 'mistakes' all favoured the candidate from a party with a high level of corruption at a local level.

News / The Iran war and Poland [745]


This surprises me. Although Qom is significant for very obvious reasons, striking near there is an escalation.


They aren't forced to do it.

They have to wear a headscarf in Iran. Those who wear a burka, jilbab etc, do so through choice or peer pressure.

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News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]

Looks like it's getting complicated.

There have been allegations of electoral fraud by PiS-appointed official right from the start. There are over 1000 electoral commissions and a sample recount was held in 13. Of the 13 recounts, 10 proved that the results declared by those commissions was inaccurate.the "inaccuracy" favoured Nawrocki. This begs the question whether or not there's the same level of inaccuracy across all 1000. If there is, it's likely that Nawrocki actually lost.

PiS are hugely opposed to a full countrywide recount. They would be, since it may well lead to Nawrocki being dumped and a considerable number of misconduct in public office cases.

Here's the stats for the 13.

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Travel / 3 nights in Krakow and 4 in Zakopane this June [8]


I never could either. It always seemed unadventurous and ignorant. Until someone (the philosopher Julian Baggini) pointed out that there's a difference between travellers (who are tourists but pretend they aren't), tourists and holidaymakers. He was writing about the most average post code in the U.K. in terms of metrics and balance.between black/white, urban/rural, educated/uneducated etc. It's where I spent my teens, S66.

The book is a mildly annoying but good one. He's presenting small town working class life to people who go to independent coffee shops, have investment plans, read books by writers like him and have generally never done a hard day's work in their lives.this is what he says about the difference between tourists and holidaymakers.

Tourists want to see the old cathedral, go to the wine tasting, buy some lovely ceramic pots and some vintage Le Creuset and eat the lovely home made local cuisine.

Holidaymakers live in shĩt places miles from anywhere, do soul-destroying shĩt jobs and don't have much to look forward to or that much agency in their own lives. They just want a fortnight of a better version of what they've got at home.

Not everyone who goes to big seaside resorts fits that pattern, however enough do.

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [124]


The people caught doing it told the reporters they were Polish. The article that started all this pointed out that despite saying they were Polish, the perps had a bible in Romanian in front of their tent.

I seem to remember posting that here well over a decade ago. I'm surprised you thought the perps were Polish, especially since there are clear indicators that they weren't and this was pointed out in the tabloid article that revealed that there were people poaching swans in parks.

Try harder.

News / The Iran war and Poland [745]


It's the Ayatollahs in Iran. Conservative, authoritarian and male dominated.

In most of the Islamic world there are no laws, yet different sorts of covering are worn. By both men and women.

In some places the guidelines are pretty well ignored. In most they aren't.

There is no reason to assume that European dress is in any way superior or a better option. In hot and sand6 places it generally isn't.

News / The Iran war and Poland [745]


How is it disingenuous to say that most wearers of traditional clothing do so out of choice?

Men too in some Islamic cultures wear clothes that fit those cultures, and have strict modesty rules too.

News / The Iran war and Poland [745]

Don't worry. They'll be waking up their sleeper cells where you are first.
newsweek.com/maga-warns-jihadi-sleeper-cells-us-after-israel-strikes-iran-2085324

News / The Iran war and Poland [745]


See above, Bobko.

It doesn't mean that either, The word simply means covering and can be anything from a full burka (used in sandstorms to a baseball bat and Covid mask, more popular than you think.

In parts of the Arab world, black covid masks have pretty well entirely replaced the veil since they're convenient and disposable.

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [124]


That doesn't reflect well on you. I doubt Torq lives in a basement, and I certainly don't.

So tell us,


So how do you know this forbidden information that you made up?

News / The Iran war and Poland [745]


The word hijab just means covering. It can mean a throw on a sofa, a tarpaulin on the back of a trailer or some tissue paper keeping flies off a breadboard.

For clothing, it can mean a near invisible scarf or one of those very elegant turbans you see in the posher bits of Istanbul. Most women in Persia have always worn them. It's only the most secular people who don't.

News / The Iran war and Poland [745]


Learn manners.


It is optional, and many choose to wear them. Some people 8n Europe wear hijab. Does that trigger you?


I'll write what I want. Who the hell do you think you are?


Part of their culture, and very widespread.

Travel / 3 nights in Krakow and 4 in Zakopane this June [8]


That's not a plus.

The people who go to Zakopane go for cool weather and a family atmosphere.

News / The Iran war and Poland [745]


Hijab just means a covering. Worn for centuries.

Although population in Persia is dense, it's mostly small town life. The colour photos you see online of fashion people or radical students are t exactly typical. Just like many women in Europe, they'd put a coat on to cover revealing clothing if they went outdoors.

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Most always did.

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So how do you "know" all this then?

News / The Iran war and Poland [745]


Not exactly universal in Iran. Some places there have always been among the most conservative in the world.

News / The Iran war and Poland [745]

Do you remember the "Bible Code" codswallop that some Orthodox Jewish people and some Protestant evangelicals in America were getting all worked up over.

There was a best-selling book about 30 or so years ago. It said that if you number crunch parts of the Old Testament in a really ultramodern computer like a 386 or even a pentium. You can see predictions of future events encoded within it, something to do with repetitions of characters to which the researcher had assigned arbitrary numerical values.

It didn't predict this though.

News / The Iran war and Poland [745]


Potentially yes.

It could certainly make the Kurds happy. They'd be oil rich too.

News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]


Quite.

And some countries charge a lot more for that.


£420 is a very reasonable price for short notice air travel between Iran and Poland.

News / The Iran war and Poland [745]


Definitely not among the Persians however politicians in Israel have mentioned federalising Iran.

News / The Iran war and Poland [745]


Remember that the splitting of Iran that some suggest isn't splitting Persians.

Arabistan in the south may as well be separate anyway. The risk is that states in the north may be susceptible to orc influence.

Plus of course Iraq and Arabistan would want to be together and neighbouring ethnostate countries in the north would want to annexe the parts nearest to them. There are pluses and minuses in that. The Persians would of course still have Persia. They would not however have much oil.


Putler will cling on for dear life.