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SeanBM   
16 Mar 2011
Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

Under a bridge where all trolls are from.
It matters not where he is from and we give him far too much time by even remarking about him.

Get ready for a few enjoyable pints tomorrow :)
SeanBM   
13 Mar 2011
Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

The Mbassy in Krakow is a good one, Irish owned by a fella who's been here for donkey's years.

For a start, any bar that takes money (cash only, no receipt) for a St Patrick's night is quite clearly taking the ****.

I don't even know what you are talking about?

Do you mean not putting the money through the books? What has that got to do with St. Paddy's?
SeanBM   
26 Feb 2011
News / Polish PM Tusk- dictator or not? What Poles think? [421]

not much roads build

There have never been so many roads built at the same time in Poland said head of the directorate Lech Witecki

poland-road-building-speeds-up - From 2010 from thenews.

You can also see what roads have been built by year at [stadiony.klszarak.org/scc_a_s.swf] - this site, really a phenomenal amount, more than ever before in Polish history.
SeanBM   
24 Feb 2011
News / Polish PM Tusk- dictator or not? What Poles think? [421]

that is clearly just propaganda

I am more surprised that I found "Tusk" in a dictionary than anything on PF.
I should have started that last post with the thigh slapping line "By definition...".
SeanBM   
24 Feb 2011
News / Polish PM Tusk- dictator or not? What Poles think? [421]

Polish PM Tusk- dictator or not? What Poles think?

In the 2007 parliamentary elections, he (Tusk) got more than 534,000 votes, which is the best individual result in the electoral history of the Third Polish Republic. His Civic Platform won the elections with 41% of the votes.

Webster's Online Dictionary
SeanBM   
22 Feb 2011
Food / Eat goulash from a cat and a steak from a dog in Poland! [114]

So it is a cultural thing in the end?

I really do think so, a dog or a cow, a whale or a dolphin.
Some countries have the cow as a sacred animal and you can go to prison for killiing one, while others....Bratwurst :)

It's the last-link-of-the-food-chain effect. They cumulate all toxic elements.

Dolpins are not the last link in a food chain.
Edit*
I found something Human health risks

The chief of the NIMD, Koji Okamoto, said, "We presume that the high mercury concentrations are due to the intake of dolphin and whale meat...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_drive_hunting#Human_health_risks

I'm not trying to convince you.

I mean that I don't think you are correct about dolphins, it appears to be an environmental issue effecting fish and whales in the area not just dolphins.
SeanBM   
22 Feb 2011
Food / Eat goulash from a cat and a steak from a dog in Poland! [114]

Now that genetics with intercrossing is at its limit we just reproduce in the lab.

We have been playing with genetics for thousands of years.
Bananas are small and have seeds in them but we don't like that, so we cross bred the bigger ones with the freaks that didn't have seeds.

This is just one example of most of the foods we eat today having been modified to meet our needs, if the lab is inside or out, it's still the same.

The amazing thing of course is that bananas have seeds in them to reproduce but the seedless ones are obviously being grown more by humans, making the seedless ones the evolutionary winner.

The dogs wolfs it all down and then the rice expands after absorbing the dog's gastric juices eventually causing the dogs stomach to burst killing it.

Nasty way to go.
I remember people stopped throwing rice at weddings for fear of doing something similar to pigeons.
SeanBM   
22 Feb 2011
Food / Eat goulash from a cat and a steak from a dog in Poland! [114]

I read the other day that we now have the ability to synthesise any taste.
You could be eating broccoli that tastes exactly like chocolate chipped icecream :)

Truth is, we have always "designed" food,.
For thousands of years everything we grow has been chosen by us and bred/cross bred and interfered with by man, for the qualities we want, size, strength against disease, yield potential, taste etc...
SeanBM   
22 Feb 2011
Food / Eat goulash from a cat and a steak from a dog in Poland! [114]

The earth just can't keep up with feeding the many billions of people anymore..

I don't believe that is true, there is enough food for everyone the problem is not amount but is.

dolphin meat is toxic.

Are you sure?

the way of hunting dolphins is unethical

As oppose to the way they hunt whales?

Your argument doesn't have me convinced.

The moment one convinces me that my daily meat has self awareness and that they give each other names I will rethink my behavior.

Have a listen to this podcast from
WNYC's radiolab, it's very interesting.
radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2010/oct/18/wild-talk
SeanBM   
22 Feb 2011
Food / Eat goulash from a cat and a steak from a dog in Poland! [114]

So who would eat e.g. dog or cat?

Again for me it is not about eating a dead animal but how the animal lived that is important.

I have chickens in my garden, they have good chicken lives (I think) when they are dead (or me for that matter) it doesn't really matter, we won't feel anything or think anything, the important bit for me is life.

they were actually shocked to hear that the whale meat they buy in shops it's actually a dolphins meat

What is the difference in value between a whale and a dolphin that would make it ok to eat one but not the other?
SeanBM   
22 Feb 2011
Food / Eat goulash from a cat and a steak from a dog in Poland! [114]

really?

Yes, I was looking for it on google but can't find it.

Norwegians have been whaling for thousands of years, it did get completely out of hand in the 70's and certain whales were put on an endangered list and illegal to hunt but what I didn't know is that there are many different types of whales, most of which are not endangered at all (some argue they eat too many fish but meh)

Again it's a cultural thing.

Rabbit is a good example - widely eaten but widely cuddled.

ah but there seem to be two kinds of rabbit, those you cuddle and those you eat.
The cuddly ones are fluffier :)

And again, I would say for many, it is got to do with our detachment from the meat on our plate to the animal in the field.
SeanBM   
22 Feb 2011
Food / Eat goulash from a cat and a steak from a dog in Poland! [114]

you can not really cuddle a pig, can't you?

Many would say you can and go on about how intelligent the pig is.

In Norway they were selling t-shirts saying "intelligent people eat intelligent food" and petitions for killing the whale, which was a tad different from the "save the whale" petitions you get in Ireland.

So does this mean that stupid animals are somehow less and therefore edible?
SeanBM   
22 Feb 2011
Food / Eat goulash from a cat and a steak from a dog in Poland! [114]

I could never be a farmer.

This is an interesting point, as I think a chicken is so far removed from what some buys in KFC that a real chicken does not even enter their mind.

I think it is fair to kill the animal yourself, you known what you have done and why but the 180 degrees of separation from a chicken to a burger is, in a sense, cowardice.
SeanBM   
22 Feb 2011
Food / Eat goulash from a cat and a steak from a dog in Poland! [114]

We cuddle with them?

I guess.
So when a culture doesn't cuddle them, then they eat them, like in Vietnam.
And there seem to be a lot of whale teddy bears :)

My neighbor back in the US has a pet pig. Like a cross between a really big dog and a cat, but smarter.

Does she eat pork?
SeanBM   
22 Feb 2011
Food / Eat goulash from a cat and a steak from a dog in Poland! [114]

I have a question, it's a bit obvious but nonetheless:

What puts a dog's or cat's meat above a cow's or a chicken's?

Is it personality? more of us have cats and dogs as pets, whereas few people have pet chickens and therefore don't relate to or personalise the animal and find it generally easier to eat?

Size is another thing that seems to matter when we talk about death, save the whale but swat a fly.

It just all seems so arbitrary, fuelled by cultural values.

I would not be against eating any dead animal per se but I would be more concerned about the animal's life than when it's dead.

Have you seen how factory hens live? now that is cruel.
SeanBM   
11 Feb 2011
Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

Things Poles/Polonians can be proud of:

There are a multitude of things Polish people could/should be proud of P3.
I just don't get you, why do you have to start off with xenophobic slurs, were you just trying to be provocative to stimulate your thread or are you just a douche, what gives man?
SeanBM   
10 Feb 2011
Life / Weird names Polish parents give to their kids [43]

As a foreigner in Poland, I always thought it was odd that Asia (not the continent) was short for Joanna.
And I once made the horrendous mistake of calling out Barabara for Barbra, (when I first arrived in my best Polish accent) during role call.
SeanBM   
9 Feb 2011
Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

I noticed something similar in England, when I worked there.
Some Good English people try to celebrate St. Georges day, only to have the BNP crowd turn it into a racial xenophobic hate fest, which is exactly what good people want to avoid.

A bit different in this case as the OP is living it up in the U.S. but still the concept is similar.

It's nicer than when he calls you bog hoppers

I don't know, 'bog hopper' has a nice ring to it ;)
SeanBM   
5 Feb 2011
Law / Zloty lifts Poland's Economy [43]

I could only find from 1993 to present.

nbp.pl/homen.aspx?c=/ascx/archen.ascx

(here) NBP

Fourth złoty

The new Polish złoty (PLN) is the unofficial name of the current currency of Poland, introduced on 1 January 1995 as a result of the redenomination of the old currency.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_z%C5%82oty#Fourth_z.C5.82oty
SeanBM   
29 Jan 2011
Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

In Norway we probably have one of the highest number of women in managing or senior positions in the world

In fairness now that is because of a ridiculously sexiest law which has bankrupt some companies for not having a mandatory 40% Corporate Board Seats which Must be Female.

(I am not Polish).

How should I approach this with them? (I could of course blame it on my managing skills, but I have been doing this job very successfully for six years now. So I don't think that's the problem.)

You sound reasonable and trying to find an answer is in itself a skill, you are showing your managerial skills by asking, so I would not worry too much about that.

Just tell them you don,t want a dam debate about it....they can do as you tell them , or go look for a job elsewhere...

I think you have been very understanding with them...now its time to kick somebodies ass...

i think maybe you have been a bit too easy on them in the past and now they see you as a soft touch....

Treat them fairly.....but don,t take any crap from them...

Of all the responses, from personal experience, I think this is the best.

You can only explain yourself so much but the work needs to be done and you still should be fair and professional.

Firm but fair :)
SeanBM   
27 Jan 2011
News / Poland's trafficking problem and prostitution [33]

Polish prostitute fined 2.4 million zloty for evading tax.

That's interesting.

Prostitution in Poland Wiki

In Poland prostitution is legal, but operating brothels or other forms of pimping are prohibited. Prostitution is present in various forms in the country and experts estimated that 18,000 to 20,000 women worked as prostitutes, many of them employed in "massage parlors" and "escort services" that functioned as brothels.[75]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Europe#Prostitution_in_Poland

Don,t you just hate people who run off without paying...

:) :) :)
SeanBM   
27 Jan 2011
News / Poland's trafficking problem and prostitution [33]

Anyway polish pros have the fame in Germany that they are the best.And in Germany we are talking about first class international competition.

I should have but didn't realise your thread was a competition.
SeanBM   
27 Jan 2011
News / Poland's trafficking problem and prostitution [33]

strictly illegal and the client gets punished as well.

i think to deny the facts or to think that making something illegal will stop it, is nonsense.

As my father says, "Banking is the second oldest business in the world and less honourable than the first."
SeanBM   
27 Jan 2011
News / Poland's trafficking problem and prostitution [33]

In the Netherlands

I lived in the Netherlands when I left school and it opened my eyes to many very good things, coming from "good auld Catholic Ireland" I certainly needed some eye opening.

I thought it was amazing that prostitutes were on the national health service.
Correct me if I get the details wrong but in the NL, if you have a severe illness, you can get a prostitute to visit you at home, paid for by the government.

I think that is brilliant, there is no point in denying that prostitution exists and that everyone, even the sick, want sex.

So ... what to do about this illegal circuit? It obviously still pays to traffick these women otherwise this circuit would have died out automatically.

I don't know, I would assume that legalising it would certainly get rid of a lot of the illegal trafficking?

In Poland, prostitution IS legal.

Is it really?
SeanBM   
27 Jan 2011
News / Poland's trafficking problem and prostitution [33]

You choose it carefully?

I have never paid a prostitute for sex.

About a week ago I saw a truck driver, who must have got distracted by the prostitutes because exactly where the prostitutes stand in an opening in forest, he crashed off road, what an idiot.