News / Pawel Adamowicz, Gdansk mayor, dies after stabbing [353]


I honestly thought that the absolute minimum pension is 1,200 zl a month.......that's the fault of central government obviously....
I agree with your comments about fairness and public decency - there is little of that to be found anywhere in a post communist society.

News / Pawel Adamowicz, Gdansk mayor, dies after stabbing [353]


Yes. Poland is behind France in amount of medicines bought. Both nations are hypochondriacs. As I understand it, both husband and wife had a pension. So what was the problem with paying rent on a communal flat? And why didn't they accept housing in Nowy Port when offered?

You don't know much about Gdansk do you Gregy? All the defaulters are placed in two areas - Nowy Port and Orunia. I don't agree with this "solution" myself,; both places are depressing, and whole families are left to rot. But they are not homeless.

Having said that, medicines that have been prescribed should be free in retirement. Would that be OK for you Gregy? Of course the Polish exchequer would have to drop some of the silly things our taxes do pay for, to pay for all the drugs that old people seem to think will keep them alive. Here's two money wasters for starters - the huge territorial "army" playing soldiers at weekends. And large swathes of the coal industry................

News / Pawel Adamowicz, Gdansk mayor, dies after stabbing [353]


Yeah, sure. no, what should be examined is the Polish right wing. It should have been dealt with in the 1920s after the Narutowicz outrage, and in today's world there should be no place for it.

I'm done with Poland and PIS defending the illiterate mob. The government can fukk right off as soon as I extricate myself from my responsibilities. I suggest that young people with talent do the same.

News / Pawel Adamowicz, Gdansk mayor, dies after stabbing [353]


This is a thread dedicated to the mayor of Gdansk. I suggest you go and do one.

News / WOSP in Poland [161]

Thanks for that jon. Great community spirit. There has to be some message of hope in all of this. It's all very well for Gregy to state the possible mindset of an individual, but the mayor of Gdansk was so hated by the PIS establishment that it's going to be no simple matter for public figures to put that to one side, especially if incitement is found to have been a factor in this premeditated act.


Er...no. They found after extensive audit that he was liable for 40,000 zl. Most Poles will have underpaid their tax etc by more than this figure over the years.

Must do better.

News / WOSP in Poland [161]

RIP indeed. Adamowicz was one of the good guys, who knew exactly what was required to reinvigorate a failing shipbuilding port in a post communist despoiled metropolis, who helped Gdansk to secure its reputation as one of the most tolerant places to live - where people are empowered to show respect for their fellow citizen, and the spirit of solidarity still lives.

Condolences to everyone who respected and who loved him.

News / WOSP in Poland [161]


Because it allocates a laughable 9 percent of GDP to healthcare. A political decision. Glad to explain if for you Dominic.

Law / Is it safe and legal to use torrents / downloads in Poland? [29]


Sorry. How old are you? Isn't it obvious? Use a VPN or get busted.


That info is out of date jon......

News / Poland's News sources [59]


Are there any Brit expats here (paid from multis/UK firms)? Maybe jon....
Funny about us knowing nothing about Poland. I know the truth seems to hurt the nationalists here - though why it would I have absolutely no idea. Quite a few Poles have told me that I know more about Polish history than they have forgotten, seeing as they had to suffer the usual history lessons of lectures with the maps of changing Poland and a long lecture every time from the over-enthusiastic graduate teacher.

News / Poland's News sources [59]


Which of course cannot be accessed in whole swathes of Poland, leaving the way open for more of that ole PIS sponsored TV brainwashing which people are so susceptible to, sparing the population the necessity of working out the truth for themselves.

Life / Which animals are native to Poland? [77]


Alright johnny. Road kill? I like children, but I couldn't eat a whole one.

Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [239]

Yes, and yes.
Apart from George's club NJ, most Hendrix pre-Experience is not very memorable, because he only got the odd solo, in fact being fined by the likes of Little Richard for being too flash.

As for is there any more music? Just one example. There are 42 takes of Gypsy Eyes:) :) Unless they lost the tapes.....
There is something called Black Gold, a tape of Hendrix on acoustic guitar from the last two months of his life, which was supposed to be a rough sketch for his 1971 album.....disappeared via Mitch Mitchell into the Experience vaults. By the way Miloslaw I prefer Hendrix 1969/70 to his earlier period. He was maturing brilliantly as an artist, as was the case with most musical geniuses (Wagner springs to mind here..)

Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [239]

No processions and crowds or marches for me.
Marking the glorious independence of my second home with bigos, gołąbki, and the greatest living exponent of Chopins's works. Krystian Zimerman.

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Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [239]


Ha. Rock bands (those who could actually play their instruments) have an extensive library and dead innovators like Hendrix are used as the cash cow. McFly, to take one absurd comparison, are actually good musicians, but didn't have the same popularity:) Nobody will be protecting their legacy.

Rock music is a corp. Nobody will give a monkeys about Beyonce in 30 years, good singer/performer though she be, but real icons will always be a commodity; zero chance of their music being allowed to pass into the public domain:( :(

Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [239]


Ah, right. So the bare bones of the story are these. Janie (Hendrix's step-sister - no relation) shafted Leon (Jimi's kid brother) in the courts and has run the company since the 90s.

She is spoon feeding Hendrix fans with a teaspoon. The result being that you will only get to hear official releases of many outtakes (plus the holy grail - Albert Hall film 1969) if you live to be 200 years old.

Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [239]


Well yes. Hendrix stole one of Elmore James' compositions (Peoples, peoples) and..er....electrified it. Literally:)

Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [239]


Lol Miloslaw. The Mods joined them. Chat about nothing is banned by the thought police on this board. I was simply chatting with Atch - but any social niceties are clearly reviled here.

Which in my view is a pity. You're right though, there is no connection between eye colour, and who was probably the greatest ever rhythm guitarist, unless some anthropological study is going to prove otherwise! Do you have any views on the Experience corporation Miloslaw? I happen to think they are doing a **** poor job on the Jimi legacy.

Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [239]

The Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland 50th edition was released today. My favourite album. According to our friends at SteveHoffman.com. the remastering is appalling. Hendrix fandom in meltdown, and the anger in the music community could yet lead to World War.

Brickwalling/loudness wars (digital clipping of sound) is here to stay. Another reason, other than cost, why vintage 70s and 80s pressings are best.


Me too Atch. And my daughter. She is very beautiful, like her mother (my daughters' blue eyes come from her grandmother - the Irish Buckley I told you about). My grandmother also had blue eyes.

I used to get the usual comments from the Nottingham girls along the lines of "gorgeous eyes...shame about the face!"

History / Occupation of Eastern Poland in 1939 [97]


Yeah. Right. 6 million times worse? No.It was the Nazis who murdered all jews, of which there were many, and all Poles of university age and their teachers, in the eastern towns of what is now the conglomerate of Dabrowa Gornica, by deporting them all to Auschwitz. Which is why - unfortunately - after the war, that area was initially inured in part to the concept of communism.....

theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/09/holocaust-diary-renia-spiegel

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


That's it, in a nutshell. You forgot the bit about cancelling or postponing infrastructure projects (the A6 motorway for example) to pay for the 500.That's got people hopping in my neck of the woods.

Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]


Exactly Atch. My mother was:
An (amateur) concert pianist
Librarian at Britain's largest textile institute.
Sadly, I didn't inherit her brains:( And my father was supremely gifted in the brains department, gaining a scholarship to an academy from a railway family background, way before unions decreed that the industry should be paid a living wage.. No. What we call "intelligence" is to some degree down to nurturing and skills development. That's why Margaret Thatcher was full of **** in her theories that environment has no effect on achievement.

Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]


Exactly. I can't solve jumbled up words in an English intermediate coursebook Roz. Does that necessarily make me appear even thicker to you than I am already? Don't think so - just a form of dyslexia, which everybody has. Automatically, if I was black, Dirk would knock another 10 points off my average.

And an average it is - how many times have we done the test under lab conditions? Me - 3. First I scored 108 as a youngster (of course that scarred me as all my pals scored higher!) Then 118, as a uni grad, then 126 or thereabouts when I was working at uni.

Therefore I am getting cleverer everyday. QED it's a load of old baloney and definitely more a question of employing the old brain cells on a regular basis and eating plenty of fish:)

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


You're wasting your time Delph. Spike has been listening to his grandad's stories. Most likely, his grand-dad doesn't have to suffer this nonsense that is PIS anymore either, and comments from afar.

And we know that once Poles leave Poland, they don't really give a stuff for their country, money and it's accoutrements becoming far more important to them.

Law / Opening a Polish Bank Account by a foreigner in Poland. Recommendations. [299]


Seconded.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

That's alright Delph. We don't know what undercover does for a living. That's why he's "undercover"
Otherwise known as the man with no voice. He only cares about his historical or mythical view of Poland - while the government **** themselves laughing that they are exploiting people just like him. Poland, the glorious, mythical country of Sobieski et al. He doesn't have to put food on the family table I would wager. His politics are so far removed from reality as to prove that he is not really living.

Sorry Undercover - but like the rest of us, you can get a life you know. It just takes a little effort.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


I was teaching a grade A student - parents both lawyers and doctors respectively. Activists for Kukiz. When I asked for his manifesto and they gave me a few lines, they were taken aback when I started laughing. Well I was laughing in a demented John Cleese kind of way.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Yes. I hated SLD and Miller when they were elected. They did a good job for a while.


It removed the presidential veto, and pre EU pOland was born. Now we are seeing the fruits of that (and PO projects - especially in Silesia). Who knows what the legacy of PIS will be, but I can take an educated guess....

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


But give out handouts to Poles to take away their incentive to work. Which means the rest of us have to pay for them.


Sorry Spike it isn't. Google Michael Foot. These jokers have that type of unsustainable economic policy.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Right wing governments through the ages were quite happy for immigrants to come in and do their dirty work, raising GDP in the process. Jamaicans practically ran the London transport system. Left wingers are not "happy" to see a multi-cultural society, but they don't necessarily go crying to mamma when they see a black face.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


So you're saying that people who live in the cities are poor. So poor people can afford city housing prices? And the average rich family want to live in a village? Or in the country? You're off your face pal.

We all know why most live in the country - it's cheaper, and land is inherited. No one other than the moneyed and retired would actually choose to live in the Polish countryside if they could afford not to. Of course there is the paradox that people can lord it outside of the cities, but with families that gets rather tedious, trapped in some backwater.

Meanwhile the educated (and richer) people in the cities go on fighting against PIS because they are unhappy at subsidising PIS voters in the countryside.

That should be simple enough even for you thickhead.