Law / A Complicated Child Support Question (Polish citizen / UK) [24]


It sounds like both his parents sound like cr@p on a stick to be horribly honest. Grown kids from that kind of environment learn to lash out as a defense mechanism.


He should try, but I'm doubtful how easy it will be or how much he will get (see my link)

Law / A Complicated Child Support Question (Polish citizen / UK) [24]


Atch is a woman.....

Inform your father you need his help and are prepared to go to court to get it. If he's not a complete POS then he'll step up and volunteer. If not, you're going to have to go through the Polish court system.

You'll probably need to start at the level of Sąd Okręgowy where your father lives.... Poland is notorious for local interpretations of laws and you'll need to do what they say rather than follow instructions by some randos on the internet.

Meanwhile I did find this FAQ (one question seems very vaguely related to your situation)

profinfo.pl/blog/alimenty-40-najczestszych-pytan-i-odpowiedzi/

"Sądy często podchodzą do młodych ludzi w sposób wychowawczy, wychodząc z założenia, że skoro młody człowiek prowadzi dorosłe życie, powinien również, przynajmniej w części, brać odpowiedzialność za swoje finanse. W takich przypadkach, jeżeli dziecko nadal się uczy, sądy z reguły zasądzają niewielkie alimenty. "

And you need to understand they'll probably use Polish economic standards not Britihs....

So... not looking great but you don't know until you try.

Powodzenia!

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]


Yeah, you like to fantasize about killing people..... we know that and thank providence for the thousands of kilometers between us.....

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]


Yes he is..... wiping out the language and ethnicity of Ukraine and killing Ukrainians who don't want to pretend to be russians are frequent points on russian state media....

twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1579820810751324160

twitter.com/den_kazansky/status/1709823704241246305

Are you even paying attention?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


When you don't like something and/or are angry?

example (taken randomly from google)

" Pieprzony chodnik!- krzyknęła przewracając się o wystającą płytę."

"Effin' sidewalk!" she yelled stumbling over a slab that was sticking out"

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Neoliberals....

Law / A Complicated Child Support Question (Polish citizen / UK) [24]


Do you know his financial situation at all? Not trying to get child support does not sound very much in character for a Polish woman unless there's more going on....


Yes, take those words to heart.

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]


distraction.... the Munich Security Seminar ended up being about dead Navalny rather Ukraine.... and the kremlinites are said to be involved in all kinds of weird occult activities (putin is known for consulting with shamans and 'starets (mystic orthodox monks) so there might be something there too....

Food / Taste of food in Poland vs other countries [188]


You should go to Korea or Japan where people pluck things right out of boiling hot pots and into their mouths... an American I knew who had lived in Japan was nicknamed nekojita (cat tongue) because she didn't enjoy scalding her mouth....

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]


So? The three questions are completely unrelated....

was he a hero? no

was he a threat to putain? not really

did putain have him killed? almost certainly (see russian history and see putain's history)

And kudos for overcoming your homophobia and magnifying Greenwald (useless on russia but he has been good on some issues in the past)

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


I think when many people think of Łódź they automatically think of Ziemia obiecana.... that remained my mental picture of the city until I visited a summer or two ago. Now I have a different mental picture that's much nicer (and leafier!)

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]

Sometimes I am dumb and don't notice things in a timely manner.

The difference between me and some others here.... is that I'm able to recognize that.

Isn't it a weird coincidence that Navalny died during the Munich Security Conference which was then derailed into discussions of Navalny instead of Ukraine?

That's on top of the weird coincidence that he died on Lithuanian independence day....

Anyone got any other weird coincidences?

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]


It's not about how ideologically appropriate you or I think the policy is. The relevant part is

-it didn't work when tried in Scotland

-a large percentage/majority of her constituents DID NOT WANT IT!!!!!

When the citizenry dislikes or absolutely rejects a policy favored by the government there are a few options

-pull it off the shelf

-give it up

-tinker with it and retool it

-try to convince them over time

Thatcher did none of these. In very typical (neo)liberal fashion she just decided to double down and do it anyway and was the end of her political career.

Gray also says that Thatcher relentlessly pursued policies that made the type of society she wanted impossible to achieve (doesn't go into details).

The main point is that when in office too long, leaders lose touch with reality and do stupider and stupider things (like double down on unpopular policies).

Circling back around to the topic of this thread....

-putain's career began in the KGB

-the KGB killed people

-putain has killed / had people killed to further his policies and/or to remove troublesome figures (I don't know any serious person that would argue this point)

-putain has been in power too long

-putain having Navalny killed is a classic example of a petrified ruler doubling down when it wasn't necessary

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]


Been listening to a lot of John Gray* lately describing the problems in the modern liberal order (short story liberal democracy is dead and not coming back and worse things are on therise).

Anyhoo... he mentions (as I do sometimes) the problem of people who are in office too long. As they become cocooned in their political bubble they become alienated fromm the public they are supposed to represent or serve and when they've been around too long they lose the ability to recognize mistakes.... so when a policy doesn't work they double down and quadruple down instead of trying something else....

He gives the example of Margaret Thatcher who was weirdly obsessed with the idea of a poll tax. After it failed in Scotland she was undeterred and tried to introduce it in England which led to her ouster from power.

This also explains putain's reluctance to use any of the many exit ramps available to him before... no one around can tell him the truth.

And once you get ahead by killing enemies (which I don't think any supporter of his can deny he's done) you lose the ability to discern if killing a particular enemy is a good idea.

but the broken russian system of government means he stays in power until he's dead (if you think that guy hopping around with completely differen body language and weird bumps on his cheeks is really putain) or there's some kind of coup.... there are literally no other ways of changing a head of state now.

*not the 'men are from mars' guy, he's someone completely different:

youtube.com/watch?v=6rsGkfngA5M

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]


On that we can agree.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

Polish "farmer" is actually..... a russian agent.... imagine my surprise!!!!!!! Who could have ever predicted such a thing?

twitter.com/United24media/status/1760260771471036627

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


Harvard (and Yale) have never primarily been about education or scholarship. Their primary purpose is elite networking. That's why ambitious people want to get their not-so-brilliant kids in.

There was a great scene in the second season of the Gilded Age where the new-money industrialist wants to know why his social-climbing wife is so dead set on having a 'box' at the Academy and if she can't get it why she's backing the projected Metropolitan Opera, after all she doesn't even like opera.

She explains it's not about music at all, but before and during intermissions the elite mingle visiting each other in their boxes and that's where social events are planned and how eligible young rich people meet....

Same prinicple.

Genealogy / Polish looks? - part 2 [81]


I dunno.... there's a peasant market in town I go to sometimes and 5 and 6 look more like customers than sellers... I think 1 and 4 could be either....

Polish (and in general European) farmers have a lot to be angry about especially daft green policy that wants to cut production (who needs food?) but I don't think any of them are especially motivated by ideology, more by practical day to day paying-the-bills problems.

And now a bad combination of PiS's failure to keep Ukrainian wheat off the market, stupid EU anti-agriculture policies and (probably foreign) moneyed interests wanting to turn Ukraine into a massive agricultural collective (a la Almeria, Spain) is driving current protests and not any kind of pro-russia ideas....

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]

I think most Polish people don't much care. They couldn't a worse opinion about russians anyway so one more political killing....

The demented tiny minority of Polish people that supports russia doesn't care either because they hate Poles who aren't like them far more than they hate russians and/or they long to implement a similar system in Poland to do away with their enemies.

A certain percentage has no particular feeling because they don't know who he was

Some media are trying to make people care.... but mostly they don't care.

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


Not as moronic as "Donbas and Luhansk"... from a russia supporter no less.....

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


Depends on the language

english - Warsaw
Polish - Warszawa
Hungarian - Varsó
German - Warschau
Spanish - Varsovia

What's the capital of Ukraine?

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


...and?

at least you're using the Ukrainian approved spelling.....

sooooo misinformed and yet you expect to be taken seriously?

what a fool.....

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]


says the guy who's a sworn enemy of both....

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


It's you and everything you stand for.

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


Better than russians mired in dreams of violent conquest.....

UK, Ireland / Corned beef & Cabbage are typically Irish? [98]


How many are still around? I seem to remember lots of articles about pub closures in the UK....

The Czech hospoda seems closer to pubs than anything in Poland... I wonder if Krakow (also part of the Austro-Hungarian cultural space) has something closer than the rest of Poland...

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]


Then why did so many public figures say it would stop infection and spread?

I don't buy all the crazier theories but as vaccines go the mrna crap was/is pretty crappy and probably no one under 50 (to be on the safe side) should take it.

History / Have skirts or kilts ever been important for men to wear in Polands past? [7]

Maybe the OP is thinking of żupan, which in some pictures resembles a skirt (which it isn't of course)?

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Travel / What are the best countries to live in? [161]


Burns you up that you don't know how..... you'll never be a king..... ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


A year or so ago a friend was looking to buy a place to live. One offering seemed interesting but he couldn't find that number on the map or the street. Eventually it turned out it was in a familok type building that had belonged to a factory built in the 19th or early 20th century (and was set behind the buildings on the street). He said it didn't look bad from the outside (bunch of money had been put in to gentrify them) but it was no longer available by the time he round it.

Technically it was more like domy szeregowe but had a similar brick exterior look.