Travel / Bus or Street Car in Warsaw [12]


Yes, together with my OH and our neighbour who is a local councillor.


Why?

Travel / Bus or Street Car in Warsaw [12]


I like the trams but don't like the accidents. There was one I saw the aftermath of, at the junction by Kino Femina. People in the tram stop had to stay there as witnesses and a couple were vomiting at what they'd seen.

There was another one which I'd thankfully forgotten until seeing this thread. That was on al. Waszyngtona next to park Skaryszewski. We were in a taxi to the airport and went past where it had happened. The kid's bike was mangled under the wheels of the tram. The kid's body had been moved by then.


Fairly recently (post-lockdown) I was on a bus which sailed past the stop I wanted to get off at. It was going fast. After getting off I looked at the driver, to flip him the bird, and noticed that he was talking on his mobile while driving, was sweating cobs, and had eyes like saucers. The same thing happened to my OH on the same route.

A couple of weeks later, it came on the TV news that a bus on that route had gone down an embankment with two passengers killed and several injured. The driver had tested positive for amphetamines. Probably the same bloke.

Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]

But we have to do it, and history has been moving in that direction for a long time.

In 1830 we didn't have maximum working hours yet we got it. In 1860 we didn't have compulsory free education and it was opposed by capitalists but we achieved it. In 1870 we didn't have two days a week off, yet we made that happen, in 1890 we only had a fortnight's paid holiday from work, yet we achieved more than double that in a fairly short time, in 1919 we didn't have state pensions or sick pay yet we fought for and got both within a decade, in 1947 we didn't even have universal healthcare yet nobody sane could imagine life without it now, and in 1960 women were paid less than men for the same job In 1975 there was no statutory maternity leave and in 1995/there was no statutory paternity leave.

All of these things were opposed by greedy capitalists and their deluded lackeys, yet all are entirely normal now and could never be taken away.

Ideals are important, they can be achieved.

Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]


Not in countries with proper unions and regulated wages.


Something that society should never allow.

News / Polish immigrants contribute to the world [42]


To a lot of nations.

People rarely look at their own country objectively. Also, if they go to a place where there are a lot of migrants from their country, they shudder at the scuzziest ones and feel envious of the ones who they perceive as having achieved the most.

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [283]


You'd need to ask the newspaper in question. Perhaps it's a new term.


Quite. Very naughty to say that it's acceptable in Poland. Partly because it isn't and alcohol levels for driving are strict and partly because it's irrelevant what is or isn't allowed elsewhere.

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [283]

Is it normal in Poland to have 135mg of alcohol in your blood while driving a vehicle around children?

This guy claimed in court that it is!

" A Polish drink driver has defended himself for being nearly four times over the legal limit by saying that alcohol is "quite usual" in his home country. Radoslaw Jaroszek, 45, was selling ice creams from a van on the seafront in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, in August when customers reported him to police for appearing "intoxicated".

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/19/polish-drink-driver-saying-drinking-normal-home/

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [650]


Same. I've started again. It doesn't help that I spend my working life in a place where everyone smokes (ashtrays on the office desks like it was in the 80s!!) and cigs cost 20p a packet.

People recommend that anti-smoking medication (not the UK one - I had that and it worked for me however the side effects are heavy and its expensive) that is used in Poland.

Life / West-East life in Poland? [45]


Easier to go on the S-Bahn.

I don't think any of the Warsaw trains leave after public transport ends, plus of course if it leaves from Hauptbahnhof you have to get there too, plus drag your luggae through a very big station right up to the top level.

In many ways, it's a shame they built the place; it was better to use either Ostbahn or Zoo.

Life / West-East life in Poland? [45]


It's to do with maintainance on the line. Right now, it's going from Frankfurt though it's no great burden to get a regional train there and change.

Even Berlin Lichtenberg is more or less as easy to get to from most of Berlin as Hauptbahnhof and pretty well any station in Europe is nicer to use than Hauptbahnhof anyway.

I'd always use the train by preference. It's faster than the road, doesn't cost much and is more relaxing.

Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]

Don't be silly. You are proof that there's stupid everywhere and in any case, there are no 'races'...

Life / West-East life in Poland? [45]


Cheaper and nicer by train.

For a toll road, that price in the Polish 'market' is so high it would put many people off using those roads.

Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]


So what?


That happened a long time ago. There are a few of them here. There views are however untypical of the poipulation as a whole.

Being 'white' doesn't make anybody special. Why would skin colour matter?

I saw a video of a gammon guy being interviewed outside a pub in Croydon about immigration. He was complainng that people from abroad were taking all the places at medical school and he had no chance of becoming a doctor. Thing is, he was 50+, unemployed for a decade and had left school at 15 without any qualifications. But recent migrants were somehow preventing him from being a doctor. Go figure...

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [650]


They both belong to their members. I'm in a Credit Union too. There's a problem though. You shouldn't deposit much in them since that can cause them problems with the loans they make; something to do with regulations and ratios.

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]


It isn't now and wasn't then.

If Poland had had proper left wing governments (as it will one day) hopefully there will be better flood defences.

Having said that, after the floods of the 1950s in Poznan, the PRL did well creating flood prevention measures.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]


The bargain of the century when you consider the return. Plus, proper pensions are something my forebears fought for in the strikes of the nineteenth century, the General Strike and every time they voted (when they eventually got the vote).


Not sure about Barney, however I've mentioned Sheffield Mutual and also may put some money in a 10 year deposit at Unity Mutual (belongs to the Oddies of which I'm a member). Not quite the crazy returns that 'CryptoBros' pretend to get, or the one penny share that makes so much 'profit' that it almost cancels out all the ones that day traders lose on.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]


I'm all for mass share ownership; it's a form of Socialism when done properly. Unfortunately though, no government is ever fast or effective enough in preventing capitalists for abusing it and buying up shares, often to delist the company.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

@Paulina, I found the picture of the man with a pipe because of the "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" reference however unwittingly I've found a Polish artist I'd barely heard of and hadn't really looked at.

Mojżesz (Moise) Kisling was born in Kraków in 1891 but moved to Paris when he was a student and never returned. He specialised in female portraiture, however he did self portraits too, like the one above. Likes red, doesn't he...

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Language / Older Polish Exclamations/Swears [14]


"Broń boże!" (God defend us/me!) is something that older friends (younger than your story, born mid-1930s) sometimes say.

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]


That is apparently about the marine fuel thing. When the dirty type was banned, the difference was so big that it caused an 'adjustment'. Apparently we have 6 more years of that.


The more the better.

Some things (minor recycling of soft plastics for example ) are p1ssing in the wind, however there;s stuff we can do to slow global warming.


Indeed. And if the gulf stream goes, all bets are off.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

Remember.Paulina, this is not a thread.

Just as this is not a pipe.

Moise Kisling 1891-1953
L'homme A La Pipe, 1916

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Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]


I'm sure that given a very stiff upper lip, years of counselling, an iron will and fortitude, a Xanax prescription and an emotional support dog, they will eventually get over the sheer trauma of seeing art applied to canvas, board and paper by a whole variety of media, even; projected on to it rather than traced on by a wizened old man using a camera obscura or perspective machine.

If they do really well at the counselling they may be able to progress to gouache and ink.

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]

Global warming is as good a name as any, and yes, temperatures are rising long term everywhere. The 7 year trough (due to forcing ships to use less polluting fuel) barely makes a difference.

And the rise in global temperatures is accelerating.


And almost wiped out our species, Before mammals as we know them came, before dinosaurs even, extreme temperatures wiped out whole other species as is beginning to happen now. The difference is that those were mass extinction events that we're looking back on whereas the growing numbers of extinctions due to changing habitat is merely so far just growing rapidly and heading towards one.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]


Is posting art 'spamming'?

There are a couple of photographs already in this thread; it's surprising you didn't go off on one when they were posted.

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]


It's both. Like the price of gold, there are peaks and troughs in temperature, especially since global warming can cause harsh winters as well as heatwaves, however the gold price always goes up long term.

The harm caused to the earth since the days of large scale industrialisation and especially the automobile has barely started.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]


And Gluchołazy isn't in Serbia either, however the thread on it is all about Racowie and Svetovid.

There are so many ways of getting an image onto a flat background.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]


That's what he does, and has a growing reputation.

Not all artworks hung in galleries use paint; Gilbert and George (better than any of the artists n this thread though not relevant to it) hardly use a physical brush at all and haven't for years.

One striking things about Berłowski is how he uses the camera to create images that could easily be paintings from a century or so ago,. Some of them would be a bit kitsch to have on the wall, however the level of skill is high.

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]


It's certainly a very serious problem, and will get worse.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


Bush meat is supposed to be quite nice.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

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