Life / Scars of Communism on Polish culture. [55]


your post is simply too long. I didn`t read it. Life is too short.

Next time you want bigger audience, try to write sth more concise.

News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]


Polish experts excluded the possibility of any man-made explosions on the plane. They had a full access to the wreckage and examined it with professional equipment.

Kaczyński`s American professors didn`t run such examinations. Their suppositions about explosions which tore off the wing, blew up the fuselage and scattered the debris all over the place are rubbish.

I wonder how long it took PiS to find such "experts" who would agree to support the manic thesis about the terrorist attack.

What do you think? A month? Two? Three?

The cause is and has always been one: the plane was flying too low, hit the tree and crashed. Conspiracy theories are food for thought for simpletons.

News / The Political Circus of Poland [306]


In a weekend speech at a Capuchin monastery, Macierewicz made the startling claim that Poland was in a state of war with Russia.
"What is a situation in which the whole elite dies, in which the nation's head is decapitated? It's a declaration of war. Even if the next attack is delayed by a year, two, or five, we have to be aware that this is a declaration of war," said Macierewicz.

blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/04/20/poland-russia-relations-still-strained/?catid=677

Interview:

Question: After your famous statement on the declaration of war, PO1 convened a conference, in the course of which Members of Parliament, Mr. Halicki and Mr. Olszewski, made very strong statements about PiS2, and about (former) Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczynski. They said Poland's society disqualified Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński. What, in your opinion, caused all this outrage?

Antoni Macierewicz: I wouldn't call it an outrage. It's more like a paroxysm of fear. A paroxysm of terror. These people are aware that Polish people are learning more and more about the actual course of events, and in particular about the responsibility of Mr. Donald Tusk and of other representatives of his government for their negligence of this investigation. The responsibility, associated with outrageous actions taken during preparations to that visit. For the fact that the President was deprived of any protection, that the President did not even have his diplomatic status ensured, for everything that indicated evident cooperation between the government of Mr. Tusk and the Russians, both before and after this tragedy. And this wave of outrage against the perpetrators, those guilty, the people responsible, is simply growing. Just growing. That's the source of these paroxysms of rage that we are dealing with now.

Biography: freepl.info/35-antoni-macierewicz

News / The Political Circus of Poland [306]

PiS is filing a complaint to the Media Ethics Comittee about the latest Newsweek Polska cover which presents Antoni Maciarewicz from PiS as a taliban with the title Amoc underneath.

Life / 3 reasons why winter is the best time of the year in Poland [58]

Some of my best photos were taken in winter:

Language / Foreigners speaking Polish - examples. [61]

His accent is heavy but grammar and idiomatic expressions - OK.

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1040]

Hey, you forgot about one important meaning ofdyke!!! :

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Splasher ?

Study / What classes are offered in Polish schools? [5]


Good question.

I can start with primary school subjects by taking my son`s timetable for 5th grade:

Religion
Polish
English
German
Maths
IT&C
History
Science
PE
Art
Personal Health and Social Education

High school subjects on the timetable of 1st, 2nd and 3rd years in my school:

Religion
Polish
English
German/French
History
Maths
Physics and Astronomy
Chemistry
Biology
Geography
IT&C
Culture
Society/Social Studies
Civil Defence Training
Business Basics
PE

The junior high school timetable is pretty the same.

Food / Schmaltz.. is it still used in Poland [21]

A sad constatation of mine:

The older I get, the less smalec I consume. ):):):):)

Life / LPG fuel - car conversion cost and process in POLAND [19]


I asked about it today. V6 engine, 3000 cc, 200 HP, will cost you 5000 zlotys.

News / History lessons no more in Poland (Tusk's change) [61]


Yes, it is. Italian unification of 19 century is very closely connected with times when dinosaurs walked the Earth.


Are you challenging me to a historic duel? :):):)

If so, don`t worry, I will wait till you are taken off the hook.

News / History lessons no more in Poland (Tusk's change) [61]

A few days ago i talked to my private students. They complained that history in their secondary school, year 3, age 16, drives them crazy. E.g., they had to learn about the unification of Italy in 19 century. :):):):)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_unification

This is madness. Even I, history lover, would complain. I don`t give a shyt about some fekking prehistoric Italian problems.

Come on!

It seems the reform is well grounded. :):):):)

History / The restoration of Polish cities from WW2 destruction [123]

Głogów, Poland City

The town was made into a stronghold by the Nazi government in 1945 during World War II. Glogau was besieged for six weeks by the Soviet Red Army and was 95% destroyed. After the Yalta Conference, the city, like the majority of Lower Silesia, was given to Poland and German-speaking inhabitants were expelled. In May 1945 the first Polish settlers came to the renamed city of Głogów to find only ruins; the town has not been fully rebuilt to this day. The town started to develop again only in 1967, after a copper foundry was built there.

Glogow, Poland - Before WW2



Glogow, Poland - After WW2

Communist times in Poland

Democracy in Poland:

Symbolic views in Poland:

News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]


Latest poll:

Terrorist act?:

Definitely not - 36%

Rather not - 30%

Rather yes - 11%

Definitely yes - 10%

Hard to say - 13%

55% Poles believe that Russians are trying to hide important information

Life / Do Polish names generally have a meaning to them or a particular structure?. [88]


Brzęczyszczykiewicz?

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

Some people will be interested. You mean comparing aerial images of Warsaw from 1935 and 1945 to see the scale of destruction?

Life / Lodz vs Wroclaw - difference in mentality of people? [53]


They were quite right. Krakow doesn`t need those Russians from former Russian partition. :):):):)


You got me wrong. I wasn`t annoyed by your attitude when I gave you that piece of advice. I am just worried about your mental health. I care about it as one day, under too much stress, you might snap and do sth crazy. That is all.

Study / Elementary Schools in Krakow. Foreign children acceptance. [17]

That Gordo guy isn`t from Krakow. Don`t mind her/her. :):):):)

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

A coloured documentary about the Rising mainly from Nazi and Soviet newsreel. The selection is a bit chaotic, but still impressive.

Study / Elementary Schools in Krakow. Foreign children acceptance. [17]


There might be a problem with finding a state preschool facility. There are not enough of them.

And private facilities charge a lot.

E.g., in this one you have to pay 750 zlotys basic stay cost, plus meals and additional attractions.

rainbow.krakow.pl

There are cheaper places, too, as Tanamera mentioned.

Life / Lodz vs Wroclaw - difference in mentality of people? [53]


It seems being an expat in Poland is making you bad-tempered. Why don`t you go back to your own country?


Not only 1 meter from the centre but in the very centre there are kilometers of ugly Krakow.

The only difference is that Krakow`s ugliness is historic while £odź`s not. :):):):)


So have I. :):):):):)

Study / Elementary Schools in Krakow. Foreign children acceptance. [17]


Exactly.

Life / Lodz vs Wroclaw - difference in mentality of people? [53]


Come on, I can shoot the same film about other Polish cities during one day. Probably you haven`t seen my Ugly Wrocław and Ugly Krakow photos yet. :):):):)

Each city in the world has its bright and dark sides.

Life / Lodz vs Wroclaw - difference in mentality of people? [53]


Impossible!:



Oh, I see! You probably mean this! Yes, I admit, it is horrible:

cezaryskorka.pl/lodz/pop/26.jpg

Study / Elementary Schools in Krakow. Foreign children acceptance. [17]


In Poland, kids start elementary school at 6 from 2014.

Life / Lodz vs Wroclaw - difference in mentality of people? [53]


Boxing matches?

News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]


You should have a bit bigger knowledge of the world. The treatment of the Polish plane wreckage is not worse than it happens in the world. It is the same and it seems a regular procedure. We can complain or protest but nothing can be done about it now.

The remaining wreckage of the Boeing jumbo jet is stored about a mile from Tattershall, Lincolnshire, at Roger Windley's scrapyard, pending the conclusion of the American victims' civil case. (53°7′19.35″N 0°12′58.09″W)[156] The remains include the nose section of the Boeing 747, which is largely intact but was cut into several pieces to assist in removal from Tundergarth Hill.

19 years on and Lockerbie plane debris is rotting away in a scrapyard
This mass of twisted metal is the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 ? still lying abandoned in a scrapyard.
Quite why it is there, 19 years after the atrocity, is shrouded in mystery.
The remains, hidden away in rural Lincolnshire, include the twisted nose section of the Boeing 747 that became the most haunting image of the bombing.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-490284/19-years-Lockerbie-plane-debris-rotting-away-scrapyard.html

I can say, the treatment is not so bad, compared to this:

GREEDY GHOUL OF LOCKERBIE
20 years to day after horror on Pan Am Flt 103 we nail creep flogging wreckage for £450 If there's a few hundred in it for me I'll sell cockpit gear It's a bit naughty. But I can offer you the emergency exit

Mangled wreckage from the Lockerbie outrage is being sold as sick memorabilia by one of the men who recovered it, The People can reveal.
The remains of Pan Am Flight 103 - blown out of the sky by a terrorist bomb 20 years ago today killing 270 - are being flogged off by greedy ghoul Simon Windley.

Callous Windley, 51, whose dad's scrap firm got the contract to recover the tragic debris and store it, is happy to sell sections of the shattered Boeing 747.

Boss Roger Windley, 74, who is unaware of his son's gruesome trade, is forbidden from disposing of the wreckage until the files on Britain's worst terrorist attack are closed.

But when a People undercover investigator approached Simon Windley last week he had no qualms about pocketing...
£250 for cockpit controls, a battered emergency door and a toilet.
£50 for a 4ft shard of the tailplane in blue-and-white Pan Am livery and two lifejackets.
£50 for a photo of the inside of the cockpit where the pilots died.
£100 for parts of two other nasty air crashes.
Afterwards Windley said casually: "If you want any more parts I am prepared to help you, for a fee obviously."
Relatives of the Lockerbie victims will be appalled - while police and air crash investigators will be alarmed that wreckage which could be vital in any new criminal investigation is disappearing.

Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora, 24, died in the atrocity, yesterday branded Windley as "sick".
After a tip-off, a People investigator posing as a dealer acting on behalf of a collector approached Windley on Wednesday at his father's huge scrapyard at Tattershall near Boston, Lincs.

The firm specialises in salvaging air crashes and was hired by insurance giant Lloyds to retrieve the wreckage scattered for miles around the Scottish townof Lockerbie on that horrific night in 1988.

Windley, fitting out a caravanette next to a fenced-off zone holding the 325 tons of twisted Boeing metal, beckoned our man inside his workshop and whispered: "Give me your phone number. How big a bit do you want?"

He said he could not let our man take anything away as there were cameras around the yard. Instead he arranged for us to rendezvous with him away from the yard next day. He grinned: "If there's a couple of hundred quid I will get you something. It might be one or two little things."

When our investigator asked if he could find a piece with Pan Am on it, or something to identify it as the Lockerbie jet, he said: "That would be a bit naughty."

And he warned: "And it hasn't come from me. Say you found it in woods near to the crash site."
On Thursday, he sent a text saying: "Will a toilet and something else do. If so I will want £250."

people.co.uk/archive/other/2008/12/21/greedy-ghoul-of-lockerbie-93463-20987086/

News / History lessons no more in Poland (Tusk's change) [61]

It means that instead of 6% elite who was allowed to have higher education in communist Poland, 14% have it today and the number is rising.

News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]


Russia is a civilised country which created culture known for a lot of masterpieces.

What Americans are doing with terrorists in Guantanamo or Pakistan (assassinating Osama) isn`t too civilised, either, yet many countries have good diplomatic relations with America.

Come on, gumi, stop speaking like a child.