News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [413]


president is not a policy making position in Poland.... so him pushing PiS projects is not kosher

Life / Life in Poland for Indians !!! [55]


Tone down the language, no one in Poland wants to listen to purpose prose in a foreign language.

And as Lazzie Baby said, layers. You might look into long underwear (though I ended up not needing it more than a few times).

The key is to have a really good outside jacket (kurtka). Then most of the time a t-shirt under a shirt will be enough (light sweater over the shirt).

Also experiment until you find what works for you. I remember getting leather gloves but they just made my hands freeze more so I dropped them. Also something for your head, like a cap is indispensable.

By the time it gets super cold you'll be more used to the weather.

Also note: Many people find, like I did, that the cold was easier to get used to than the dark. By mid-to late November it gets really dark really early, by 17.00 or so.

News / Karol Nawrocki, the New President of Poland, Sworn In [12]


In its current form it's not flexible enough. It was created for Germany's manufacturing economy and is terrible for more service-based economies.... it's a bit like 'industrialization' in the communist period.

Have Greece and Spain recovered yet?

News / Karol Nawrocki, the New President of Poland, Sworn In [12]


He's not the weak, obliging figure that AD was for sure.

Biggest danger (given his fascination with gangster types) is that he goes into business for himself setting up a bribery pipeline...

I'm fairly sure he's going to go off the reservation at some point (as AD tried a pathetic time or two) which makes me wonder how Kaczyński thinks he's going to control him.

I am in general agreement with:

no migrants - meaning no undocumented migrants from outside the region, though it should be remembered that PiS opened the floodgates in Asia handing out work permits like candy.

no euro - terrible pseudo-currency that was already obsolete by the time it was introduced and cannot work without a common fiscal policy (which no one wants) and/or transfers (which the Germans do not want).

I'm against

no raising the retirement age - that's simply impossible, if Polish people didn't have enough kids, and they did not, they either have to work longer than they'd originally planned or agree to more non-EU migration. Bonus - not retiring is good for you! Longevity is increased by staying active

Did he say anything else of interest/importance? Did he get through the whole day in public without popping a nicotine pouch?

News / Poland Sports News - part 2 [76]


Fights between russia loving serbs and freedom loving Poles are more likely..... Poles do not like russia (neither do they like countries that give up their dignity for money from russia).

News / Poland Sports News - part 2 [76]


Red star??!?!? Komuchy!!!!

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


Germany can't even do that!

How is the current model of letting anyone and everyone into the country and never making them leave going?

How is it sustainable?

Travel / Is Poland safe to visit now (considering the war)? [15]


Yes. Exactly. The weather's not super now.... relatively chilly and wet summer but very, very safe.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


yes, any birth control that takes place after conception is seen as murder by many/most anti-abortion people, the term they use is 'abortifacient'....

see here:

studentsforlife.org/learn/contraception/

So presumably those who want rapists' babies to be born are equally opposed to IUDs, birth control pills*, 'morning after' pills and late term abortion.... which I personally think is kind of crazy....

History / 81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising [72]


yeah.... he supports that too.... don't interact, the only appropriate response is radio silence... if enough people ignore him, he'll go away

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


Still waiting for an answer to my hypothetical situation: A childless but married woman is raped and becomes pregnant. She decides to keep and raise the baby as her own....

What options should the husband have?

Is it okay for him to say "Do what you want, but I want a divorce."?

Why? (or why not?)

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


Does he?

Scenario hypothetique: A married woman with no kids is raped and wants to keep and raise the baby. Her husband does not want any part of that scenario. Should he:

Leave the woman.

Eat the humiliation he feels and support the rapist's child financially?

Something else?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


Nor should you have to.


that was exceedingly.... clueless of the ex-MIL... rather than just show up out of the blue discreet inquiries should be made first, preferably through a third party. I get that that's not always possible but it can also set off a neutron bomb in the biological mother's life....

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


Should miscarriages be subject to police investigation?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


Pretty sure the RC is against that too...


In the old US South before BC was more widely available, young women might try that with a bottle of coke.... didn't work for them either....

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


By that logic, a miscarried fetus is a separate human being but is not counted as one by..... anyone.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


I do no such thing... I simply don't think of conception as the beginning of a person in any legal or moral way. Implantation would be a better benchmark though again at least 30% of fertilized eggs fail to implant and so die and yet no one seems to think they deserve any consideration.

Around 10-20% of pregnancies then end in miscarriage before week 20. If these are human children dying then why aren't catholics calling for more medical research to bring that number down. Should a woman who just miscarried into a toilet be able to flush it or should she preserve it so that a proper death certificate can be made?

A fetus is human but lacks the moral status of a person. I don't think there's a magic dividing line from fetus to person (apart from birth). Again, I have more moral for fetuses past the viability stage than before it.

Abortion should be a last resort in cases where something has gone very wrong (including rape). If a woman wants to give birth to her rapist's baby then she should but I don't think she should be forced to.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


A fetus =/= a child


Are children who die before 24 weeks of pregnancy registered in Poland?

If not... why not?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


This just makes me merge my mental image of you with Darek from The Office PL: "Jestem niewierzący, ale praktykujacy"

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


Neither do I. My feelings about abortion tend to go back to the idea of natural viability (ability of the fetus to survive outside the mother) in other words, abortion should be more available earlier on rather than later on (roughly after 5 months or so) and in later pregnancy should be very difficult (and mostly depend on health of the mother factors).

No one really thinks of fetuses as human beings... if they did then miscarried pregnancies would require the same kind of paperwork as a live birth. Spontaneous abortion (about 10% of all pregnancies) would be considered a healthcare calamity and require medical inquiries....

Does the catholic church offer funerals for miscarriages or stillbirths? Relatives of a friend had a child that died tragically at 3... and the church were kind of awful about the funeral... refusing a ceremony in the church (only by the graveside).


All human beings think some lives are more important than others. Anyone making claims to the contrary is lying.

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


I looks like a cherry and an earlobe... cherry earring? Is that a thing?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


So you don't believe in genetics.... and you think rapists should be rewarded.


Actually... genetic predispositions have been found for all sorts of things. Nurture can move the dial a bit but the range is set by nature.

Attempts to overcome genetics fail over and over and over again. Recent example:

x.com/JonBaronforMD/status/1944783901664178531

Personally, I don't want rapists to reproduce and don't think of early (first two months esp) abortion as 'murder' (and neither do anti-abortion people unless they want to prosecute the woman and abortion provider for murder). It's not something to be taken lightly and the decision should be the woman's. If she wants to go ahead and have the baby then fine, if not, I'm not going to judge.

Food / Where would you take foreign guests for Polish food dinner in Krakow? [15]


Depends on which Americans.... lots of Americans love experimenting and trying new foods.... how do you think things like sushi or fajitas became popular.

The key is not to overwhelm them with too many weird things at once.

And lots of American tourists like bary mleczne.... Bambino in Warsaw almost always has foreigners stopping by despite the very user unfriendly approach to everything. I've heard Americans liking the food fine.

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [706]


There are some very disturbed people posting on this forum.... I'm pretty open minded but I prefer it when people keep their paraphilias to themselves.

Genealogy / English versions of Polish given names [35]


Oay Wąż looks Polish but Waz doesn't. that's why I asked how he pronounced it.

Genealogy / English versions of Polish given names [35]


Doesn't look very Polish... how did he pronounce it in Polish?

Food / Poland-Tea or coffee land? [165]


but in everyday usage people just say 'herbata'... they only specify when context isn't enough.... there's also ziółka but I don't think I've heard it in real life...

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [124]


That is effin' insane.... if you put that into a novel people wouldn't believe it.... I wonder if that's all that was involved.... an axe and burning alive suggests.... stronger and deeper feelings than mere real estate....

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]


I've actually personally liked a large majority of the muslims I've known in real life, both men and women.

I think the religion is mostly nonsense outside of its place of origin (and maybe even there) but most I've known have been lovely people.

But large scale muslim migration to Europe has been a failure in every country that's tried it (in terms of social, economic and educational outcomes) so there's no need for more than scattered individuals in any European country.