Travel / Transport adventures in Poland [99]


I'd be delighted if (not only in Poland) it was illegal to own a private vehicle unless you have somewhere off the road to park it.

News / How will Trump's trade tariffs affect Poland? [74]


Thet're not great at critical thinking.

And meanwhile, living standards elsewhere rise whereas theirs is falling.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]


r*SSians lie as others breathe.


They don't realise that Ukraine is always a step ahead.

They'd also be shocked and horrified at how many people, at senior levels and in certain very specific other roles in their armed forces and also in their intelligence services and in their 'duma' etc are in fact Ukrainian assets.

Some people will risk anything for money.

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [366]


It's pretty what they spend part of all those billions on.

And it hasn't worked.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [634]


What chaos? A handful of small petrol stations in a local area with plenty of others.


Say you know nothing about receivership without saying you know nothing about receivership.

Jim probably thinks there's nowhere else to buy petrol in the area. This is Lincolnshire (the most populated Lindsey part) not Wyoming or North Dakota.

This is just a company operating in part of one county that had problems, supplied a handful of local petrol stations, and has now been taken over by the government

Stick to things you know about like breaking women's noses.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [634]


Looks like Jim doesn't realise that this is a handful of small petrol stations in a semi-zrural area that has plenty of other petrol stations belonging to other chains.

There's no petrol shortage at all.


Really?

Look like he missed the bit two lines before:

He probably thinks it's closed down rather than had a week of chaos that's now been sorted.

News / How will Trump's trade tariffs affect Poland? [74]

Chickenfeed and (if any customer agrees to buy it at all) will probably end up as dog food and prison meals since most supermarkets and restaurants won't sell hormone-treated beef which has to be labelled as such, whether sold as beef or as a component of a frozen ready meal.

There's also a non-binding promise to buy a small amount of biofuel, something which was going to be imported anyway under worse terms!

The MAGATs are in complete denial at how destructive this is for their county.

News / How will Trump's trade tariffs affect Poland? [74]


The few here seem to be in denial about how disastrous this is for them.

In a couple of weeks, I guarantee that the usual suspects will be saying how wonderful it is for bank profits there, without actually realising that the banks' profits are temporary ones due to major customers frantically trying to adjust their investment portfolios to mitigate the damage.


They can't suddenly produce their own cars in large volume again from scratch and don't hold the patents for most life-saving or otherwise important medicines so they have a binary choice of either crapping out of their silly tariff demands or doing without those products.

For the world's main pharmaceutical manufacturers, there's no shortage of markets for their products worldwide and the same goes for car manufacturers.

The Yanks can't pick and choose what they want to put tariffs on. If they want the medicine, they can't get away with tariffs on other products from those countries.

Even the tiny handful of deals that have been signed are with countries that they need things badly from, and those deals ar advantageous for the other party, not them.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]


What's it saying?

A summary or screenshot would be helpful. Many people don't use twitter nowadays if they ever had.

News / How will Trump's trade tariffs affect Poland? [74]


They've made zero progress with his silly tariff thing.

Meanwhile, other countries are look8ng at more reliable export markets and sources for materials.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]


r*SSia all over,

They even jailed a schoolteacher for telling her class that the considers the current illegal invasion of a neighbouring country to be wrong.

They even poisoned the opposition figure, Navalny.

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


Most Jewish people very much do not.


Some, though by no means most, Eastern European Roma have a system where they memorise phone numbers.


Something that pretty well all affluent people do if they're decent. Flaunting wealth is not good.

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


More about self-interest.

It's common across the whole subcontinent and in any society where resources are at a premium and chances in life are scarce.

Fear/mistrust of outsiders is generally a bad thing though; it's the insiders you need to worry about more.


They should have learned really that it's better to help a group than try to force them into a model that isn't theirs.


Yes. This happens. Have you seen any of the gypsy palaces in Poland? They're impressive in a delightfully garish way. Often the best houses in the town and a contrast to the nasty-ass houses that the locals build.

In the U.K. planning laws are crazy strict, so the Angloromani tend to express their taste inside rather than outside. A lot of gold leaf on the ceilings and porcelain ornaments everywhere. Some of their caravans are beautiful both inside and out too; the modern ones, ot the older ones which gypsies tend to restore as hobbies and only use on special occasions like the Appleby Fairl

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]


Most Europeans don't share that opinion (or yours), and there are of course many millions of Yanks who strongly favour gun control

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [684]

People disagreeing g with policies isn't a reason to declare martial law. If that regime tried to do so, it would rebound on them.

They're discovering already through the tariff debacle that the rest of the world doesn't actually need to trade with them as much as they'd thought. Add the international reaction to martial law, travel bans, sanctions, dumping currency reserves, asset seizures etc, and it would basically be a big step in their current terminal decline and a big step in China's rise to being the sole superpower.

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


That's more about keeping property and land in the family.

Among Romany, it's more about a limited choice of suitors.

Not that inbreeding is inherently a bad thing unless there are inherited illnesses present. Something that affects the settled population too, in parts of Wales and parts of the southern USA there are rural communities who have this problem.


Where I'm from, gypsies do not do this, however there is a long history in parts of Europe of Romany adopting abandoned and unwanted children and raising them as their own.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]


Probably due to repressive censorship.


And bad diet plus environmental factors like extremely dirty factories and badly handled toxic materials plus extremely poor personal hygiene.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [684]


Much the same.

I woke up as usual at 5.30, started getting ready for work, then realised it's Saturday. Not only that, I forgot which of the three countries I work in that I'm in right now and in fact do t have to get up early in this one. I'll be in two more countries this coming week and in a third early in the week after. And can't remember which work shirts and smart trousers are currently in which laundry in which country. Welcome to my world.

To declare martial law, there would have to be very serious grounds. In the history of your country (post civil war) there have never been such grounds.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]


You hate America.


As a Polish closet queen, he presumably trusts other Polish closet queens like Jaro, Rubik etc.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [684]


Who's he?

Does he work at Marshall and Snelgrove?

Did you mean martial law?

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


That's basically a community.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [684]


Their last one was 82, this one is 79. It's a gerontocracy.


They don't have third terms there.

Off-Topic / What is a woman? [404]


You mean a woman is like an electric lift (winda in your language).

Press the button and the door opens.

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


Many do still travel in vans so the hygiene rule are still practical.


The men never cut their nails. They only use nail files. Seems to work for them.


Like capitalist 'investors'. Others work, they profit. Like monks and nuns. They pray, others feed them.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]


Ironic really since r*SSia has a pathetically low life expectancy and in any case, most r*SSian 50 year olds look 70.

Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [976]

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Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


Gadgers round my way. The word (like charver/chavs and a few others) have come into English now. Irish Travellers tend to use the term "country people".

Yes, you're right about Romania perception of non-gypsies. Romany (at least the Angloromani ones I'm used to) have retained some religious purity rules that derive from H8mduism and possibly with influence from Judaism. As mentioned before, gypsies 300 years ago were probably far cleaner than most of either your or my ancestors. The same with Jewish people; the fact that they were ore likely to survive fever epidemics was another of the things that made peasants suspicious of them.


They generally have good cause to be wary of it. Some do well at school though.


No bad thing in some ways, however the ones near me tend to be very well behaved as far as I can see.

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


Fairground people are a subset of Romany (at least in the U.K.) with some Romany traditions and some of their own. I went out with one briefly years ago, born in a caravan.


Did you know that Charlie Chaplin had Romany roots?

Rita Hayworth and Elvis Presley too, which is well enough known, and also according to Google, Yul Brynner.

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]

Another long one.

I'll not read it; life's too short and too full of joy to argue with strangers who want to bicker online.

We're talking about Romany and other Traveller groups, not your neuroses.

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


Why the hell would I? I spent 3 months there around 15 years ago and wasn't much bothered for the place. There's plenty of people more interested in the internal affairs of KSA.


Every bit as bad. It really is better not to use terms that diminish people with disabilities.


So people can't criticise something without criticising everything else?

It looks like you're just trying to pick an argument.

Go out and get some fresh air and exercise. You're spoiling an interesting discussion with your overly long and deliberately argumentative posts full of quotes.