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Posts by Barney  

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Barney   
20 May 2023
Off-Topic / Hollywood Films [62]

Especially the 'Hollywood = holy wood = holy genitalia" garbage.

You deserve a knighthood for reading that :)
I just wanted to see what normal people said about the tripe and you are both right
Barney   
19 May 2023
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]

a tiny public sector, low tax revenue and wild-west capitalism and can assure you that the developed societies of Europe are easier, better and safer places to live in.

This is undoubtedly true
Barney   
18 May 2023
History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [413]

Everything you have posted chimes exactly with my experience of school meals. The free milk was horrible exactly as Pavian describes. The food was probably worse than Torq describes and not as balanced. Its nothing to do with communism just the bean counters undervaluing the country's potential and future.
Barney   
1 Apr 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

I don't think anyone is advocating for more bombs in Poland. No one appears to be advocating to relax safety laws in Poland either if they are they are quite invisible.

People appear to be content with the present system, those who want a gun can apply for a permit. I don't see the problem. People who want a gun and want it now! would appear to be a bit suspect.
Barney   
1 Apr 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

@johnny reb
I live in Ireland and I can tell you that if there were more guns nothing would have changed except more dead civilians.

Now you can frame a question in many ways but its rare to frame one in such an egregiously stupid fashion.
Barney   
30 Mar 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Did I say it was a pressing need or desire? No

And I didnt say you did.

I have read the entire thread and your ( by definition unverified) upload idea is insane but I was too kind to point it out but feel perfectly free to flex your muscle.

just paranoid.

I would go with that...Not one of my US family or friends is as paranoid as some here
Barney   
30 Mar 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

@PolAmKrakow
How many political manifestos in Poland have a clause advocating wider gun ownership?

I dont think its a pressing issue for many political parties or electors. The reasons presented here by our American cousins all revolve around bad B movie scripts.

In Poland and Europe generally, there is no call to loosen safety laws
Barney   
28 Feb 2023
UK, Ireland / Is it good for Poland as Sinn Fein will win today in Northen Ireland [282]

Is there anything in the new deal that hasn't been on the table since 2018 or so?

Not really, the EU has real time access to British trading databases something promised previously but never implemented by the UK. Green and red lanes were offered by the EU over a year ago and so on. The difference is that there now appears to be grown-ups in London who have realised that a semi permanent "war" with the EU is in on ones interests.

The ball is now in the DUP's court...
Barney   
16 Feb 2023
Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [652]

Pietruszka doesn't really exist in Western Europe

This is true I made the rookie mistake of buying seed by picture... It didn't grow well still learning I suppose


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Barney   
15 Feb 2023
Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [652]

@gumishu
I do that with leeks as well. A clamp helps protect root veg from the frost there is nothing worse than loosing all your spuds.

@Feniks
I also googled clamp a few years back and was surprised to find it has Dutch roots. The reason I searched was that I always thought it was an Irish thing also discovered that scallion is not Irish either :(
Barney   
10 Feb 2023
History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [413]

What about other needs?? I hated communism.......

Walking through a small forest my mucker (there's a word) said that at school the kids had to stand up and say what their fathers did. He always felt really humiliated having to do that.
Barney   
28 Jan 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

More people have been massacred in Poland than have been in the United States

The estimated deaths during the US (native population) genocide range up to fifteen million however we will never know because you never bothered counting the dead.

Its improbable that you have any figures to back up your claim
Barney   
16 Jan 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

You just defend your uneducated position with more babble that's already been covered

That is exactly what you are doing, there is no desire as far as I can see to turn Poland into the US.

You want a gun on demand go live in the US... Poland love it or leave it
Barney   
15 Jan 2023
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

What if someone wants to take up skeet shooting?

I don't see where the application of rigid safety laws would impact upon that one bit. The other examples you gave are in fact an argument for maintaining Polish safety laws ie no hand guns no automatic/semi automatic weapons and no adaptors.

I knew a man from the bar nicknamed Pidgin who was shot on two, possibly three separate occasions so naturally he was re-nicknamed Clay. He could have been armed to the teeth and it would have made no difference.
Barney   
6 Dec 2022
History / Recommended Poland's history books [191]

It is, by and large, a theological question not a political/economic one.

I disagree, and would suggest that confessional allegiance is incidental however I dont want to drive the thread further off topic.
Barney   
6 Dec 2022
History / Recommended Poland's history books [191]

As I said, a couple of spoonfuls of honey in a barrel of tar.

Good man, its the same the world over.

Keep thinking and you will become a good socialist in time.