Genealogy / Polish DNA? Poles have the most genes in a group includes Balts, Macedonians and Greeks. [264]

Proto-Slavs in the times of Alexander the great (or the short ;) lived happily in the marshes of Pinsk on the Belarus Ukraine border ;) or sorry they were not that happy after all - the humidity must have been an issue ;)

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]


it's good that you don't represent the country anywhere :) Lwów over Wrocław - OMG

Language / Is Polish amongst the best-sounding languages in the world? [123]

I don't know to many languages not even heard that many - but most of the languages I know have something special about them that makes them nice - you may be surprised but I really do like the sound of German and Russian or Ukrainian - I can only think of one single manner of speech that I dislike - and that is the new British English - that one that omitts all final and intervocal t's, all initial h's, even some final k's (loo' versus loo??) -

OK - I actually find one language that I have heard funny - and that is Arabic ;) with all this guttural h's and l's (well maybe it was just a variety of Arabic that I heard that was so funny to me:)

and man I love Swiss German ;) or listen to Garmarna - Herr Holkin on youtube - a Swedish sort of folk group - a beautiful language indeed

btw how is the English word 'hot' pronounced in the new 'modern' British English ? :P

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]


until it succumbs to their own misdeeds and inaction after the next 4 years (and their policies will finally yield some clearly visible fruit that no 'charming' on the side of the media can obscure) - at that moment PO can vanish altogether (like once Unia Wolności did) as no values or ideals keep it together (but only the drive for power and money)

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]

yeah, I noticed he's really into impressing people visually ;) - while I appreciate it when the pictures are taken by himself this thread makes him a bloody propagandist

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and the inflation is what - this year it will probably be higher than 4 per cent - then again they have been cutting the number of teachers in many schools so they haven't actually increased spendings on education

education needs a long-term strategy and a lot of rethinking - the percentages of young unemployed people give a hint that our education system prepares people badly to the challenges of modern economy including such things as setting up own business (over 50 per cent of all unemployed are people below 35)

sending six year old children to school won't help - if you think it can please explain your point of view

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]

you forgot about one very important point - corruption- and it's cost on the tax payer - I wouldn't be surprised it is as much a burden to the system as those who just don't want to work and live off the tax payer

yes. Mr Tusk pledged we won't be fighting the wars of the others that's why we withdrew from Iraq - but tell me why Polish troops are in Afghanistan (where losses are already much bigger than these from Iraq)

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]


yeah, we should only give and never demand anything in return from the government - this way we should be top notch liberals (with up to 80 per cent taxation)

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]

he does not have any views - he's only got political ambitions - (after gaining a great measure of immunity - he knows too much of Tusk's an PO's dirty things - but they know of his )

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]


ehehehhe - Palikot stands for some ideals - the guy - supposedly broke - financed his parliamentary campaign using 'pillars' (don't know a proper term in English) - students and retired people sponsored Palikots campaing presumably - with quite generous donations - naturally Polish "politically independant" prosecutors never found anything suspicious - as far as I know he transfered his capitals to somewhere in the Carribean and now lives off generous grants from some mysterious Luxembourgian financial institution - he doesn' have money simply ;) heh - and well he was not very willing to share his money (before it evaporated to the tropics) with his ex wife (to whose family he actually owes very much - he would never start a business without the money of his father-in-law

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]

One of the biggest achievements of Tusk govenrment is that it eventually scoffed and shredden Mr Tusk's plan to join the Eurozone as fast as possible as declared by Mr Tusk on September 8th of 2008 at Krynica Econimic Forum - (the plan was one bold PR stunt and garnered critisim from broad spectrum of people)

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]

Most of the population won't even react to our country being attacked in the first 2-3 days - on the first two days they will be in doubt if we have really been attacked


hahah - so we will be fighting russian tank columns with hacking attacks (hope the Russian tank servers are linux then :P)

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]

if you want to have the data in my previous post confirmed -

The job market situation in Poland is not cheerful. The unemployment rate in March was 13.1 percent . The largest group of unemployed are young people aged 25-34 - GUS.

In March of unemployed was 133.9 thousand 2 million . people. While this is less than a month earlier , but more than a year ago.

Very bad situation of young people. 29.6 per cent . total number of registered unemployed are persons aged 25-34 years , 22 per cent . - Persons under the age of 24 years . The largest group of unemployed persons ( 28.4 percent . ) Demonstrated a vocational education . Every tenth Pole without a job had completed college.

The right to unemployment benefit was in March, just 16.5 percent . unemployed. According to economists , PKO BP Sędzimir Carolina unemployment rate is now declining throughout the spring and summer until October , when it reaches about 10.5 percent .

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]

it fits another thread better (down-dumbing of Polish education) but I let's have a go at this: unemployment among the youth - 22 per cent of all unemployed are below 24 (51 per cent are below 34) - this country desperately needs education that equips young people better for the challenges of real life (which is not achieved by lowering of educational standards)

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]


yeah, sure - if you explain to me how it is possible to have tax revenues 10 per cent lower than the year befor and have a positive GDP growth then I will do some next points :)

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your average school in Poland is not a Montessori-school I'm affraid Stu - and I actually haven't heard about a single Polish Montessori-school

Life / Do you find any humour in Polish Highlanders' stories? [24]


hahhahaha that one's brilliant ;)

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]


with the help of the media hushing up inconvenient facts not asking difficult questions and trumpeting around those extraordinary succesess of the current regime,


why should six-year-olds go to school - they used to go to pre-schools and learn to read there and everything was fine - what is the point of sending them to schools

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]

you don't know Polish realities Stu - they are going to lump all those six year olds with older years (up to 12) - and in some places elemantary schools are lumped with gymnasiums - I have seen schools for little kids in England - these were well schools for little kids - not for all kinds of kids


hahah - behind - funny - very funny - if everybody else smokes you should too - this is the same logic

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]


funny how self-centered you are - Stu simply argues with one point you make - maybe he has no problems with other points

your point 9 pawian - preparations to euro 2012 - I wouldn't be surprised if accomodation and transfer of all those coming to see the championships is gonna end up a one big mess -

warszawa.radioplus.pl/Wiadomosci/Warszawa/Zabraknie-miejsc-noclegowych-na-Euro-2012

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]


and they do?? getting people better equipped for the labour market by sending them to school a year earlier - hmm interesting

six-year-olds in public school in my opinion will result in even more learning disabilities in kids and other not so nice psychological phenomena associated with education (fear of going to school anyone?)


what previous ones? dorsz for 8 złoty or Włoszczowa platform? do you know of any other?

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]


ever heard of the thing called corruption - do you think corruption increased or decreased durging the reign of Tusk (should I mentions some examples) -

I'm not familiar with how GDP (PKB) is counted but somehow it makes me wonder how it is possible that while tax revenues have fallen by more than 10 per cent in 2010 compared to 2009 positive growth have been recorded for 2010 (no taxes were lowered in the period)

and by the way - I am a voter of PiS - even if not an enthusiastic one - and what I dream of actually is a coaltion of PiS and UPR for the coming election (Mikke while often a very good observer often fails to make good judgement because blinded by ideologies - he once went into coaltion with PO before a parliamentary election (I think against his best knowledge) - they got screwed by PO big time)

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]


he promised everything to every possible person in his expose (first Sejm speech afer forming the vovernment) = he actually broke all records for such speeches - his last over 3 hours - guess it;s the same league as Fidel Castro

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]

levels of education are plummeting and the thing they spend money on is sport facilities - man not everyone is gonna play football for living - at the same time for Polish economy to grow we need more engineers

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]


what we need is first not to let the level of education degrade (especially technical education) as it does now - unless Polish people are supposed to be dishwashers around Europe

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]


Like the plain and simple truth that Tusk's government is fighting corruption (especially among its own ranks) heh :)

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]

what is supposedly so bad about it - I only can see positives

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]

he's not a an idiot - he's a liar


what do you actually mean - elaborate please

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]


and the same time (or actually even before) goverment messed with various position of the budget (removing them from the state budget - like the road construction fund) which is just a case of 'creative accountancy'


heheh lowering the cost of public administration by increasing the number of state beaurocracy by some 20 per cent???

Poland is swiftly increasing it's national debt and you mumble something about not falling into a debt trap


what do I humble peasant need an extension of an airport for?

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]


keeping Kaczyński out as a value in itself - OMG :) - you must take Kaczyński for no less than some Hitler