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jon357   
8 Apr 2012
Travel / Any Anglican churches in Poland? [35]

Many Brits worship only self-indulgence: me, myself and I!

You can say the same about 'many' Poles, or your nationality, Americans.

And most any deity is better than that innit?!

Only if that deity actually exists.
jon357   
7 Apr 2012
Travel / Any Anglican churches in Poland? [35]

You won't find that in the Anglican Church in Warsaw, although Father Felix is a nice guy. They use an RC chapel on Krakowskie Przedmiescie and also have something in Gdansk.

Before the war there were thousands of Anglicans in Poland, especially in Warsaw and Bialystok.
jon357   
6 Apr 2012
Life / Moving to Poland Part-Time (probably Katowice) [56]

Have to agree with Smurf - Katowice is a massively under-rated city.

+1

That district behind and above the station, going up to the tennis club is an architectural gem and should be heavily protected.

Nice people round Katowice too.
jon357   
6 Apr 2012
Food / Easter meal on a typical Polish table? [16]

White sausage has to be boiled a good half hour to be fully cooked all teh way through

No it doesn't - perhaps the stuff sold in the country you live in is different.

Pork tartare???? What bottle have you been hitting?

Stone cold sober - and I was offered pork po tatarsku (raw pork!!) in Poland not long ago. Needless to say I didn't touch it, though the Poles I was with had no such scruples.
jon357   
6 Apr 2012
Food / Easter meal on a typical Polish table? [16]

Boiling raw white sausage for a few mintues is great for trichinosis fans. Pork is never eaten 'rare' by anyone in his right mind!!!

After being boiled for a few minutes it wouldn't be rare!

BTW, the only place I have ever seen pork being eaten rare is in Poland, including once raw: po tatarsku - they couldn't understand why I wouldn't go near it!
jon357   
6 Apr 2012
Food / Easter meal on a typical Polish table? [16]

Most Polish sausages aren't for cooking. Kielbasa Biala (white sausage) is the only one that needs it, and it is usually boiled for just a few mins.
jon357   
29 Mar 2012
Travel / Hard Candy - Krakow, Poland - reviews? [131]

Someone is definitely getting their palms greased.

As well as Hard Candy in Krakow, Patrick's Bar in Warsaw has a reputation for spiked drinks etc despite numerous complaints to the police.
jon357   
28 Mar 2012
News / The spiritual heirs of the Polish Communist Party [91]

Freedom of speech depends on good manners and clear parameters to be effective. It's an age-old paradox that to have true freedom there have to be boundaries. One of the clearest of those boundaries is accusing someone of a crime without offering concrete proof. In this case that boundary was crossed.
jon357   
27 Mar 2012
News / The spiritual heirs of the Polish Communist Party [91]

It's frightening that there is still an opinion in Poland that if you are patriotic you are some sort of right wing racist

I don't think there is such an opinion. There is however no shortage of right-wing racists, especially out in the sticks.
jon357   
25 Mar 2012
News / The spiritual heirs of the Polish Communist Party [91]

Hey Ironside, I do remember you applauding the court for giving a fine to Doda, just because she had an opinion about the Bible. Dobule standards anyone?

That's what I thought. If the Polish far-right want communist symbols and songs banned as offensive under the law, they also need to understand that accusations are similarly offensive under the law.
jon357   
23 Mar 2012
News / The spiritual heirs of the Polish Communist Party [91]

Well he was right, wasn't he?

No, he wasn't.

Slander/libel are crimes in democratic countries.

Quite, and if the right wing want to ban communist symbols, songs etc as hate objects they have to understand that the law applies to them too.
jon357   
20 Mar 2012
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [870]

conspired to divert the presidents plane, by defenition thats a conspiracy.

No conspiracy, no reason for a conspiracy, no mystery - just pilot error.

In any case - why on earth would the Russians want to assassinate an unpopular one-term Polish Head of State?
jon357   
15 Mar 2012
News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

if sea levels would be rising noticeably it will be easily observed on various pier

Do you realise how silly that sounds? Why not stand on the end of the pier in Sopot and stare at the tides? The rise in sea level has been observed and is not seriously doubted.

ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch9s9-es.html
books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12782&page=245

secondly it wouldn't affect even the likes of Kiribati and Maledives

It not only would, but is.

Poland as a developed country has its role to play. Why not be at the forefront rather than lagging behind?

So. Do you deny the reality of man-made climate change?
jon357   
15 Mar 2012
News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

I am not sure there has ever been any fresh ground water on Kiribati in living memory pal

That has nothing to do with it. And also untrue - Kiribati has groundwater. The sea levels are rising. This is a known fact. Unless you know something The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change doesnt ;-)

Are you denying the reality of man-made climate change and its threat to the ecosystem?
jon357   
15 Mar 2012
News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

heh - you've seen it or just repeat whatever you hear on the TV? - for one thing Kiribati and Maledives experience the least of tides on the ocean so the rising ocean levels would be prette obvious there (unless the islands are sinking because of geological processes)

I don't have anything as trashy as a TV but I do keep up to date on current events. Here's one of thousands of reports on the effect man-made climate change is having on Kiribati. I'm not sure what you think tides have to do with it, but rising sea levels are all to visible there.

globalpost.com/dispatch/news/green/global-warming/120308/rising-sea-levels-forcing-entire-nation-kiribati-relocate

Man-made climate change and its dangers are an established fact. Poland needs to respond to that as much as any other developed nation.
jon357   
15 Mar 2012
News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

where?

The population of Kiribati have to leave soon and the Maldives are threatened. Next could be lowland Bangladesh.

i don't claim Earth self-regulates perfectly - I say we don't know enough to be able to judge

Very good that you don't claim that, because you would be wrong. What has been established beyond reasonable doubt is that man-made climate change is a huge threat to life on our planet.
jon357   
15 Mar 2012
News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

And GDP's are rising, production increasing, the worlld's population is increasing at a horrific rate and the Chinese are now making and producing cars. Sea levels are rising, species are becoming extinct, the world's climate is changing and we have a ticking time bomb.
jon357   
15 Mar 2012
News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

Actually there wasn't. The notion that the earth orbits the sun was being talked about since the 3rd Century AD, if not earlier and was known to scientists.

Ya see the thing is man, that there is no climate change debate, you guys lost, it's over, now just do everyone a favour and separate your trash, burn less coal, walk to the shops instead of driving and help the earth out a bit, it all helps if everyone just does their bit and stops dragging their heels

Very true. The worst offender over the past 100 years has been ethyl lead used in cars and various industrial processes. That and the vastly expanding human population.
jon357   
15 Mar 2012
News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

I hardly think her politicians knocking the science of global warming is a plus for Poland.

It isn't

I'm not going to rehash the global warming debate, and neither should Poland. The established science makes anyone who does look archaic and contrary.

Exactly.

Shale gas

Environmentally dreadful.