Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


That's the point. If you're carrying a gun and it isn't loaded, all you can do is aim. Sounds a bit pointless.


Personally I do neither.


Carrying weapons in Poland is not usual. Imagine being invited to someone's home and they find out you have a gun.

News / Is there anything Poland won't do for money? "Wolf's Lair" - up for rent" [59]


Ugh.


If anything money goes into rather than comes out of museums.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


Why would anyone do that?


Am I alone in thinking this sounds rather unhealthy?

News / Is there anything Poland won't do for money? "Wolf's Lair" - up for rent" [59]

Same place as everyone else's really.

News / Is there anything Poland won't do for money? "Wolf's Lair" - up for rent" [59]


That would make a lot of sense.

Stopping pointlessly moaning would be a good place to start.

News / Is there anything Poland won't do for money? "Wolf's Lair" - up for rent" [59]


I remember dropping off a tender bid to the Polish Army (back in T*rg*t days) and being surprised to learn that it was a bid for work that had already been done. With the k*ckb*ck already having been divvied out among the appropriate 'officers'.

News / Is there anything Poland won't do for money? "Wolf's Lair" - up for rent" [59]


Bloody Nora. I gathered that the proposal was about paying for maintainance and conservation. Now it looks increasingly like the typical Poland B public sector story. Announce a tender and bidding process because there has to be one, but in fact the person who will win has already been decided and the 'profit share' already agreed.

News / Some say modern Poland is split into A and B; The "Old", and the "New". [14]

That is a staggering statement.

News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]

In fact Jesus came from a society where there were far fewer hang-ups about sexuality than most catholics have today.

News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]


Frequently in the minds (and terminology) of those who do it. That's why the hammer of the law exists.


;-)

News / Is there anything Poland won't do for money? "Wolf's Lair" - up for rent" [59]


Indeed and we both know (unlike some posters from further afield) that those two places are near towns, main roads and (sadly) railway lines. whereas the Wolfschanze is deep in the forest in a deliberately inaccessible place, and doesn't have the poignancy of those other places

and therefore less likely to attract funding. Kętrzyn/Rastenberg is an important military site (from the Napoleonic wars too) but to keep the crumbling bunker complex open needs money that is not being generated from the few visitors who go there now.


It is open to the public already, however the cost of conserving the ruins as any kind of workable (and safe) museum is beyond the resources of the local forestry commission. Hence the search for an organisation to run it.

News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]


In theory. The same as in England except there it's behaviour liable to cause a breach of the peace and in Poland it's either insulting behaviour or using vulgarisms in the street. As with any 'on the spot' penalty, you can refuse to accept guilt and then it turns into a long-winded legal process.

News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]


It's the first hearing in a Polish law court - there doesn't need to be a rationale; the documents just need to be presented correctly. Justifying it all and arguing happens later.

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]


The same with 'piwny'. Why beer-coloured and not brown?

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]


This is after all a discussion forum, and it is good when people share their experiences. Sad though when the trolling starts.


It could be the 'ciemny blondyn' thing again. I know people in PL with black hair, who have 'ciemny blondyn' written on their Identity Card.

Real Estate / Residential real estate values go down in Poland [455]

Right to buy gave a fairly hefty discount, but in PL, a lot of those flats were sold for the princely sum of 1 zloty. Plus solicitors' fees.


It depends where you are - in some parts of Poland the prices are very low and in Warsaw they aren't that high.


There isn't much of that.

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]


Read it carefully and you'll see that it isn't. Do you even know what the phrase 'ciemny blondyn' means?


From you that could be a compliment - it's clearly a phrase you have heard often.

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]


I did - and your 'big think website' doesn't concur with my or anyone else's experience of that region (in which the population is most decidedly not 'indigenous'). Perhaps you'd like to tell us what you noticed on your last visit to that part of Poland?

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]


Though there isn't any special preponderance of blond people along the Baltic Coast - do you know why?

News / Is there anything Poland won't do for money? "Wolf's Lair" - up for rent" [59]


In fact what they want to do is to lease it to a suitable organisation who will preserve the site and develop it as a museum, which the local forest authority in Ketrzyn doesn't have the money to do. It isn't as if they're renting it out as a wedding venue, or to nationalistic groups.

Food / Black pudding & kaszanka [36]


Heaven. Try frying it up with green apples like the french do.

History / Polish inventors - what have they ever given to the world? [101]

I think the local anaesthetic gel smeared on catheters was invented by a British doctor who was born in Poland.

History / Polish inventors - what have they ever given to the world? [101]


A few things: oil wells, Esperanto, radiotherapy.


This much is true. Britain has consistently punched above its weight in technology - especially the industrial North of England and Scotland.

News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]


Don't confuse the beauty of the 17th century British translation with the disturbing 3rd Century BC original!

The right to free speech is one that was hard won. If Doda has been prosecuted under a law (of questionable legality in the European Courts) that was brought in by the Ducks/Giertych coalition the question is how far can this be carried. Almost everything can be construed as offending someone's religious feeling. So the next step will be someone being prosecuted for telling a Jehovah's Witness to F*ck Off when they come knocking.

News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]


It isn't anyone's parents. It is a book. Would you also prosecute Sir Salman Rushdie?


Certainly alcohol was popular in that time and place, but some of the books of the bible (Jeremiah, Ecclesiastes, Revelation) seem more the product of serious and untreated mental illness.

Real Estate / Residential real estate values go down in Poland [455]


That's only part of the story. Flats built and paid for by the people, for the people were obtained virtually free by private individuals and inherited by relatives who often let them for profit.


Millennium bank were giving credit to kids on minimum wage. Sometimes for second flats. And the credit was in foreign currency - a recipe for disaster.


Very fair. But when it was built as social housing with public money, it should remain social housing for the next person who has worked all their life, rather than going to a nephew or niece.

News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]


A false comparison. She was giving her opinion on a book.

News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]

That's only the first stage. The Polish legal process is long and inefficient. They tend to do the sabre rattling first then back down. And even if she doesn't have it overturned (although she will) for Doda this is an inexpensive piece of PR.

Real Estate / Residential real estate values go down in Poland [455]


Very 'not perfect'. Nor do we have a strict capitalist system in Europe.

Real Estate / Residential real estate values go down in Poland [455]


Unfortunately it doesn't, given the number of empty flats and the low wage level in relation to prices.


Or joined-up housing policy.


Evidently more so and better than wherever you oozed from.