News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

@jon357
I am not a fan of Putin or his invasion, I think the twin towers attack was unforgivable. The point is that there is clearly an a la cart attitude to this. Israel is allowed to do anything it wishes with impunity and I find that disturbing. Israel is a nuclear state and we all know how they became so, they then went on to helpApartheid South Africa develop wmds with no consequences. I have guesses but really don't understand why their abhorrent behaviour is tolerated by countries who pretend they are not facilitating genocide.

The usual hackneyed arguments are trotted out about Iran mainly about hair covering and skirt length as though they cared. Israel does much worse to Palestinian women.

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

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Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

@johnny reb
You must have a fantastic picture of yourself somewhere because your whining self portrait doesn't do you justice.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Everything except legality.

Whatever happens the big takeaway is the so called free world doesn't give a fcuk about the rules they wrote. No more whinging about Ukraine and no more whinging about the twin towers in America.

Trump does what all us presidents do and their puppies trot along beside them.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


Brilliant.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


Good luck but don't worry.

I had a similar thing investigated last summer, after spending a lot of time living in Spanish speaking countries I was worried but all good no problem

News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [495]


Is it an idioms?

News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [495]


The Michigan Mystic is all knowing

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]


When Egypt had free elections the border was opened then there was a coup. Since then Israel has full control of the Egypt/Gaza border in breach of their treaty with Egypt. Most people in Gaza are from families ethnically cleansed from what became Israel. They do not have a right to return but some Americans and Russians with no connection to the place can go there as a right. Moral purity is to uphold the rules written by the "rules based order" they dont do that. Ukraine can also be called a lost cause and Putin does what he does because he is following the script written by NATO countries. PS I dont approve of what Putin is doing.

I understand there is a thread about the Levant but these things are intertwined.


Most I have ever won was £40 about 15 years ago but I do have a Euromillions for tonight so looks like I'll be a man of leisure from Wednesday on.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]

@jon357
Its not easy to find ethical investment opportunities with pension funds etc entwined in the chain. I would argue however that the bare minimum would be for countries to enforce court rulings. The ICJ found Israel responsible for the crime of apartheid meaning that there should be sanctions imposed by those countries that claim to abide by the so called rules based order. There have been 40,000 refugees created in the west bank in the past year and where do those people go? A lot will try to reach Europe and North America. Both places have differing degrees of responsibility for the creation of these refugees.

European defence industries would then be a great place to invest. I do feel uncomfortable with private institutions profiting from tax payer money so favour the nationalised model for essential industries. Have all the competition you want between toothpaste and vacuum companies but public utilities should be run for the benefit of the electorate. Privatisation has been a disaster exposing the competition argument for the nonsense it is. Ending large investors ability to unduly profit from government contracts is a must. Small, private investors wouldnt make much difference and I see no harm in allowing them to gamble after all we have bingo and the lottery.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]


The same company that happily supplied apartheid South Africa and is currently facilitating genocide in Palestine?

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Its not a dig at you but at the morality free bollox that passes for modern economics

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]


The architecture or the ivory tower the so called rules based order uses depends upon it. I do agree that no one anywhere gives a fcuk about international law if it impinges upon their interests. That is the only comparison I would make with the Ukraine situation.

People have their horses and they will back them.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]


Situations are never the same just like genocides are never identical. I'm talking about international law, you either support it or you dont. Its dissonant to support its application for one and not the other.


Then they (Israel) would negotiate in good faith as equals and not dictate.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]


No one has a solution and one wont emerge until Israel stops breaking international law, ends the current genocide and dismantles the apartheid state they have created with the help of the so called rules based international order.

The interesting thing is that all those who get hot under the collar about Ukraine dont give a fcuk about international law when it comes to Palestine. Where is the outcry about herding Palestinians into cattle pens to give them some food because Israel has weaponised aid.

Fact is Israel originally served two purposes, it solved the so called Jewish problem and partially salved the conscience of European and US countries.

The Palestinian partition plan was contrary to the founding principals of the UN, a kind of original sin. But we are where we are. Perhaps the Israelis in general and the IDF in particular could give Hamas pointers in how to transition from an ethnocentric terrorist organisation into the most moral army in the world? I would ask the IDF for pointers but they have yet to transition.

News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]

@Bratwurst Boy
It wasnt a bunch of Marxists that devised The Project for the New American Century.

News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]

@Bratwurst Boy
Looking at Europe it wouldn't be an over generalisation to say that migration increased after the fall of the wall. The question is what caused it, I think there are two causes firstly the movement of capital and people are always intertwined so globalisation contributed. The second is the creation of refugees with the crazy middle east wars. Both these things are a result of an unfettered right leaning economic agenda.

Nationalists play on the nostalgia we all have but tend to follow economic policies which are contrary to their main selling point. Thankfully they all hate each other and are certain to fail as they cant square their internal contradictions.

News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]


In Britain 14 years of eccentric right wing governments led to a huge rise in unchecked migration, a hollowing out of public services, huge public debt and empty coffers. The British army is a shadow of its former self thanks to the right wing. the crazies erected trade barriers with their nearest neighbours and failed to strike any trade deals.

The Conservatives were rightly thrown out of government replaced with a slightly right of centre party who have been handed a poisoned chalice. The fiction that any party that is not from the traditional right must be socialist is clearly a symptom of mental illness. I have seen Starmer described as a Marxist which is the most ridiculous description since the IDF being described as the most moral army in the world.

History / Poles should apologise to Ukrainians first [487]


That is quality trolling, much better than the sad but determined attempts of others.

If you are going to troll you may as well be funny, angry doesnt do it.

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That's about the height of the Zionist cult. To quote the name of a recently published book

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.

Including the great moralists who get overexcited about people with blue hair.

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Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]

He needs Gosplan:)

I agree that we all need to consume less and live within our means.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]


Well done Mr Trump, backing down again with an about face on lots of electronic stuff from China. Is this the third or fourth climbdown since retard day just 10 days ago. I suppose this was part of the plan all along. Only fully fledged members of the cult believe anything he says.

My tip for the day is avoid capricious leaders and buy Christmas decorations made by children somewhere other than China. Trump probably will back down again so China may be a goer. I wonder if China will ever buy American again.

Off-Topic / USA and The Middle East. [27]


What you mean is that Trump is doing exactly the same think as Biden.

Trump had demonstrated to the world that the US is not a partner in anything so why the hell do most European countries continually suck his d1ck. Its well past the point where Europeans need to grow a back bone and stand for the things they claim to support. The US is a hopeless case that can not be reformed, its people are either spineless or coerced into silence on its appalling human rights record. Russia is equally guilty in sucking up to Israel even and especially after the Zionists used their air force as human shields. Russia doesnt seem to realise or care that Israel is a US puppet state.

Its not just Israel rampaging across the middle east stealing territory, its NATO countries who continually invade and otherwise destablise the entire region. There is nowhere else on earth that demonstrates the bloody hypocrisy of the US and its poodles even when these poodles, including Poland, are insulted by big brother on a daily basis.

Off-Topic / What's your hobby? [191]

@Paulina
I'm one of those guys that can do things, make things and repair things.

Last year I decided to put a new floor all through the downstairs of my house so it would flow from one room to the next and be splendid. When I decide to do something I spend a lot of time thinking of exactly how to go about it. A friend from the allotments lays floors for a living and I tortured him. The basic choice was what kind of floor. I decided on solid hard wood. Next I decided to install a few additional electrical sockets and to insulate the heating pipes before putting the floor down. That mutated into totally rewiring the house which I did, every electrical cable, socket, light fitting and consumer unit (fuse box) was replaced. When I was doing that I discovered a major problem with insect infestation in the roof. I then had to replace the back half of the roof reusing the existing tiles. The front half will be done this spring/summer. The net result of that additional work was that my solid wood floor was downgraded to engineered wood. Engineered wood is softwood with a 7mm layer of hard wood on top, it goes together like click flooring but supposedly looks and feels like hard wood, it doesn't, It looks grand though but...

I used to restore those old VW camper vans which involved learning how to weld which I became competent at but never to an expert level. All my mates used to bring their cars to me or get me to fix stuff in their houses from central heating to plastering, putting new doors on a the like. It helped that My Da was a roofer and I worked on building sites and did homers from I was about 11 or 12. My job used to be to carry roofing tiles up to my Da while he did his stuff. I just like working with my hands and using a bit of brain power to do a safe and reasonable job.

I spend 8 hours a day in front of a computer and almost hate every second of it. I really enjoy working on the allotment, my shed is plumed into the mains water. I discovered that welding is a skill you need to practice when I decided to make a wood burning stove from an old gas cylinder. The stove works but looks really amateurish.

Travel / About cars, electric and combustion in Poland. [162]


Who uses a manual to change a tyre/wheel?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

@Feniks
It was easy for me as gardening, after home improvement, is my main hobby.

Thats a good thing to do, hope you planted them. If you dont have space you can grow wild flowers in containers but have to support them as they can be quite "leggy".

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

@Paulina
Wild flowers or sometimes called meadow flowers. I love calendula, they self seed every year on my plot. I often give these seeds to neighbours but allow a good few to bloom every year.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

Picture A looks like a calendula seed