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pawian   
29 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Trzaskowski is going to take over 70% of them, that is 1,866,900‬. And 30% for A. Duda, that is ~800 000

What makes you think Duda will get 30% from Hołownia voters? You should have read these polls:

natemat.pl/313143,wybory-2020-kogo-w-ii-turze-popra-wyborcy-szymona-holowni
So, Duda will collect from 7 to 17%.

that's not enough to make him win an election in a place like Poland.

Today, yes. But in 5 years` time, he will win. Read my lips. hahaha

so that's what they're calling 4-5% YoY GDP growth since 2015???

They only took advantage of world`s prosperity, that`s all. Nothing great on PiS` part.
pawian   
29 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

A little remark - there is one winner in the first round - Trzaskowski - he got 30% after a short campaign. He had hoped for such a result and gained it.

Duda lost coz he and his men had expected a higher result - over 50% and victory in the first round.

If we take seriously what Hołownia and Bosak had claimed before the voting, namely expecting over 20% and dreaming of the second position, we can assume they also lost with such results as we can see. .

Biedron and KK are complete disasters - they got many fewer votes than their own parties managed to collect in last year`s elections.
pawian   
29 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Trashkowski back below the 30 percent danger mark, duda 45.24 after 83 percent counted. phew back to normal programming.

ha! That`s natural. Province votes have been counted the quickest, as usual. We are still waiting for results from big cities full of intelligent patriots who don`t vote neobolsheviks. hahaha

The final result should be below 43% for Duda and over 30% for Trzaskowski.

That's why I'm not going to distort it by commenting on exit polls and not on official results.

Clever. :)
pawian   
25 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

We mostly focus on Duda and Trzaskowski. Bosak too. I remember Torq promoted Kosiniak Kamysz.

How about other candidates? Any supporters here?
Hołownia? Biedroń? I think I recall now that one of us mentioned he/she was going to vote for the Left. But I am not going to tell who it was.
pawian   
25 Jun 2020
History / Eligiusz Niewiadomski assassinated the first Polish President [23]

Narutowicz would have probably ended up failing under the pressure,

Yes, the right and nationalists would have organised brawls all the time and Piłsudski would have stepped in anyway like he did in 1926.

far - right is a word from Bolshevik propaganda

All words come from somewhere. The origin doesn`t matter, the current meaning and its perception do. Far right is far right and you won`t change it. Are you like Don Quixote fighting windmills?
pawian   
25 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

The South Koreans have developed much cheaper reactors, so shouldn't we be talking to them, as well as others?

Exactly, but they didn`t promise to promise us more troops. :)

It embarrassing to have any connection with the likes of you.

That is why you have been living abroad for nearly all your life to avoid the connection with a true Pole. buhahahaha
pawian   
25 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

but you are no doubt PO card carrying official prob the only one in your village.

Nope! Today I saw sth funny - two neighbours on the opposite sides of the country lane which leads to our house displayed their banners: one with Trzaskowski and the other with Duda. I took a photo but only of one banner coz people were coming out. On Saturday I will take a photo of two together. It looked amusing coz they directly face each other.

If they knew you would prob be tarred and feathered ;)

No, they are civilised people. And they respect teachers. buuhahahaha
pawian   
25 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

You are just making stuff up now.

No, this is YOUR role here. :):)

Facts:
1 Trzaskowski had used change in the parking metre earlier on.
2. He decided to buy some cakes at a nearby pastry shop.
3. He was accosted by an old begging woman.
4. He gave her 20 grosz claiming he didn`t have any change. He apologised for that.
5. He went into the pastry shop and bought cakes for 44 zlotys, paying with a credit/debit card.

So, where is anything made up here, darling ? It is you who is manipulating facts! Ha!

PS. Sorry, darling, you have no chance with me in such battles coz a second generation foreign Pole will never know as much about Poland and things happening here as a true local Pole. hahahaha

I got you buuuahahaha
pawian   
25 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

This "democracy" is not strong enough to withstand such games.

They have no shame about just making things up.

Yes, as a Pole, I am so embarassed that PiS is doing such things and making Poland such a third league country verging on dictatorship. People in established democracies probably wonder what those crazy Poles are up to. Like in 18th century, before and during partitions. What a shame. We will be repairing this damage for decades.

No was not meant to be abusive at all. Just like playing with words.

haha I see. I was only curious why pavlova and what exactly you had on your mind using it.

20 Grosze. I would be ashamed but some people have no shame.

Come on, in Poland card payments are more popular than cash. I can fully understand him - he used all his change to pay in the parking meter.
pawian   
25 Jun 2020
Language / Lyrics to Polish song Hoopai Shupai [3]

Which war does the song refer to?

WW1. The Polish lyrics mentions trenches and tsar (while the English lyrics mention mud). Listen to it here:

youtu.be/-wh8uEYrgbY

It's one of my favirite Polish Polkas.

Not bad. Music is OK, but these lyrics are a bit simple - the same one stanza and chorus all the time.
pawian   
25 Jun 2020
News / Tesco abandon Poland [66]

.he plans to destroy the warehouse chain,

What do you mean? Close down everything?
pawian   
25 Jun 2020
History / Eligiusz Niewiadomski assassinated the first Polish President [23]

his impact would have been huge.

Who knows? I am thinking of the next important event which happened at the time, namely May Coup d/etat by Piłsudski in 1926. Would it have taken place with Narutowicz in position or not? I have no idea.

Political violence seems to be the favourite tool of the far-right, that and outright lying which we see at the moment.

It is all true and refers to all right, not only far. They seem to imagine they have the right to use morally dubious methods in order to defend certain values, dear to them. But the methods they exploit by far outweigh the moral gains of values they strive for. In result, the rightists do more evil than good although their initial intentions are positive. Such a little paradox.
pawian   
25 Jun 2020
Genealogy / Want to find a person [770]

I am searching for a Zigman Rice, apparently Polish.

That`s not a Polish name. It was probably anglicized from Zygmunt Reis.
pawian   
25 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

pavlova

What? Why did you change my user name into pavlova in the quote? hahaha Didn`t your parents teach you it is improper to change sb`s names like that?

I suppose you meant it as offensive. But how? Why did you think it is abusive? I have very positive associations reading it. :):

Well, I don`t mind, you can do what you want but it isn`t the best way to run a discussion coz you introduce unneccessary mess into it. At first I didn`t realise you were talking to me, only later I saw it was your answer to my previous post.

If you have to do it, try to connect it with pawian - baboon then I will know immediately it is to me. What derogatory monkey words do you know? I will gladly learn. some.

hahahahahahahaha
pawian   
25 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

your sources on that?

it`s the tenth time you ask me for sources for my allegations. In previous cases I provided them and you had to swallow a bitter pill and shut up. Do you want to relive the moment one more time? That is called masochism. hahaha

When the second round comes he really only has Bosak to get a little help from.

No, he also has PiS behind him ready for anything to prevent the disaster. They will declare the state of emergency which will delay the elections till autumn or even further.
pawian   
25 Jun 2020
News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

forget about preaching to these people -

hahaha I could say the same about you to Ziem or maf.

lieve in utter nonsenses: like pawian's belief that PiS is currently leading VAT scams

Of course it`s not nonsense. But your ignorance means you must be staying away from Poland and are not in touch with latest reports on Polish media. VAT scam thrives under PiS government and people nominated by PiS are responsible for that. HA!

It hurts you, I know, this ideal perfect PiS, noble defenders of conservative Poland, turn out ordinary swindlers and thieves. hahahaha But I also know you will glady close an eye to this thievery as long as PiS contains LGBT. You will treat those ltheft osses as tax deducxtible expenses. hahahaha
pawian   
24 Jun 2020
Life / The Current Attitudes of Poles Living in Poland towards Poles Living/Working Abroad [12]

so why would they come here?!

There might be one more reason apart from travelling to a warm country which I should have mentioned in my previous post. It can also be a little fascination/curiosity with that country - somebody heard or read sth nice about it, or met some natives, and now wants to see directly what it is like on the spot. So the Polish girl you met could be like that - checking out the positive info she had acquired before.

Also most Indians who seem to want to go to Poland seem to be from troubled families

Really? I didn`t know it.

They don't seem to know or care too much about Poland,

Hmm, I doubt it. They might have heard about Poland and got a little curious, like I wrote above.

What makes you think they are wealthy?

We're not Greece so no exotic islands. I just want to know their agenda.

Come on, stop being so suspicious. I went to Bulgaria as a boy in 1970s and it was a wonderful holiday. I rode on a camel, drank Bull`s Blood wine for the first time, saw pupkins, learnt rules of street trade, saw nude females on a nudist beach, caught crabs and pipefish in the sea. And many other. If sb asks me if it is worth going and staying there for longer, I will say: of course.

In that way sb will be encouraged to check it out for themselves. :)
pawian   
24 Jun 2020
History / Poland must get back Lwow, Wilno and Brest back [345]

But it is bad coz they are harmful as they fuel old hostilities between nations

Besides, regaining the Kresy territory from Ukraine would have to be done in cooperation with Russia.

Yes, that is only right.

In this way we can see you accept the idea of partitioning Ukraine in alliance with Russia. That is pure Dmowski strategy. Putin will love you for that. :):)

That topic was already discussed on Russian TV. Did you watch or attend that discussion?


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pawian   
24 Jun 2020
History / Roman Dmowski-Patriot, Nationalist, Anti-Semite? [252]

You haven't done so. Now you dishing excuses.

You are denying everything what you aren`t able to accept like a spoilt kindergarten kid. No because no. Let it be, I don`t care. :):):)

So he wanted to ally with Russia first to take over occupied Polish lands from the Germans

He was very naive thinking that Russia would allow Poland to regain these lands and not demand anything in return. His naivety was proven later on, during WW2 when Germany and USSR partitioned Poland and after WW2, when Poland received ex-German territories and had to rely on Soviet Russian protection to keep them.

Dmowski`s dreams of alliance were worthless.

Bu he was certainly a patriot who contributed to Polish independence in 1918.