Food / KETO DIET - is it known in Poland? [30]

I did it for about half a year, wanted to know too what all the fuss was about...couldn't stand it longer anymore....you lose weight definitely, but you get a mean feeling in your mouth (for me the most disturbing thing)...if you don't watch your salt you get headaches and frankly all the time a quite similiar food get's boring...In time I missed my carbs and my fruits and what not horribly.

My personal opinion....do it sometimes, do it even regularly but it's not for all the time or even a longer time.

PS: But you get out of it smarter, be it even because you learn the science behind good and bad fats...

News / Tesco abandon Poland [66]

Update: For the fans of KAUFLAND here...they plan to buy about 100 former REAL markets from that russian finance tycoon...they have already asked the german federal cartel office to control this fusion. Also EDEKA plans to buy about 50 markets. But many others will be closed or, if buyed out, changed into something else.

For me personally interesting ist that the online market place "real.de" will probably live on under new KAUFLAND ownership. I liked real online...good offers to moderate prices and easy delivery. A real life saver during Corona! Of course also abit overwhelmed during the beginnings...it was hard to get delivery slots and no paper ware (wc tissues) at all :)

PS: KAUFLAND belongs to the "Schwarz Group" which also owns LIDL....

News / Tesco abandon Poland [66]

That's good!

News / Tesco abandon Poland [66]

Different rules and law for producing stuff?

What does the polish food safety inspectors say to that?

News / Tesco abandon Poland [66]

Why would they do that?

News / Tesco abandon Poland [66]


So it was to read in the news...

News / Tesco abandon Poland [66]

Update.....REAL has just been bought bei a russian investor...he plans to destroy the warehouse chain, ending thousands of jobs...

History / Roman Dmowski-Patriot, Nationalist, Anti-Semite? [252]


Do you think that could have worked?

News / Tesco abandon Poland [66]

....not my cup of tea either....maybe we are to old for such fashion!

News / Tesco abandon Poland [66]

REAL is getting broke up in Germany....the future of the staff doesn't look good...

News / As a Time Capsule From The Holocaust Was Found In Zlocieniec, Poland [34]

...yeah....and I miss that!

News / As a Time Capsule From The Holocaust Was Found In Zlocieniec, Poland [34]

Interesting polish german history of Münsterberg/Ziebice!

After the death of Henry IV in 1290, during the period of fragmentation of Poland, Bolko I the Strict inherited the towns of Münsterberg (Ziębice) and Frankenstein (Ząbkowice Śląskie). Around 1300, he finished a castle in Münsterberg. When he died in 1301, his possessions were divided among his three sons.....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_M%C3%BCnsterberg

"Bolko I the Strict" ??? Why oh why can't modern politicians not have similiar meaningful names! :):):)

Polonia / Polonia in Germany [59]

Hmmm....that doesn't sound like a future to look forward to!

There is no reason at all to correct our ways if that's what we get from it....

It would be psychologically smarter to give Germans an incentive, a reward for correcting our ways, otherwise they might cling to their wrong identity even stronger!

(The Kulturkampf reverse)


I live in Berlin as you very well know...so.... :)

Polonia / Polonia in Germany [59]


But you must have an idea how the Germans could rectify their wrong ways, otherwise it's quite useless always to lament the history....what would be your most realistic scenario?

Polonia / Polonia in Germany [59]


I try to imagine how it would work out if over 80 Million Germans (including the millions non-native Germans by now) would tomorrow see the error of their ways and declare to be Poles now...

How would Poland react? What would PiS do? We are Poles now, we can vote and work and live everywhere in Poland now....right? Okay....with the language it will take awhile but we could do it....the next generation will totally be polonized....will we all be happy then?

Polonia / Polonia in Germany [59]


...only with enough Poles innit! :)

Polonia / Polonia in Germany [59]


Why don't you end that planning for an anti-german Poland and an union of anti-german countries then?

Start embracing the new Germany! You get a totally new neighbour!!! :)

Polonia / Polonia in Germany [59]

GERPOLIA!!!! :):):)

Polonia / Polonia in Germany [59]


Because Poland got bigger after WWII...it got german lands...That's why Germans in what is now Poland deserve minority rights, they didn't move into another country. Poles in Germany did!

Minority politics is about the rights of the natives and who counts as such, immigrants are just...well...immigrants!

Polonia / Polonia in Germany [59]


Good luck with that....Poles are fantastic Germans! :)


When immigrating Poles get the minority right then Syrians could get it too...

....come to think of then East Germans in West Germany could get it too! :)

News / Poland GDP growth surprises on upside [35]


Hmm....maybe you are onto something.....in the only graph I could find there is a hefty rise of East Germany too:



...including a short, sharp dip down during the 1990's....but no numbers...

*goes searching*

News / Poland GDP growth surprises on upside [35]


Hmmm....I always said that! :)

But I would really like to know more about that numbers...Poland, East Germany, Russia...the whole ex-Soviet Empire has just broken down, their industries no longer supported by state and wholly uncompetitive and unprepared for the modern world. Many people lost their jobs as alot companies closed. The first years had been painful for all of us, you can't have forgotten about that difficult time Torq....

What are these numbers about?

News / Poland GDP growth surprises on upside [35]


Do you have a link to these stats?

Because that growth is just astounding! During that time after the wall fell East Germany would had had a hard time to show such growth during the re-structuring of it's outdated economy....and that with the help of West-Germany...

History / What is Poles opinion on Intermarium (Międzymorze)? [188]

@Torq
PS: If your dream-Intermarium is one of ethnical, religious, political and sexual oppression (only the "right" choices will be supported, everything else is "verboten") then I'm sure we will see alot more Poles and others chosing Germany to live in, preferring their freedom, packing their bags and wandering westwards...especially the young ones...

And the end of that is also already predictable!

Do you really want to repeat that sad old history?

Please stick to the topic

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


I don't hope so!

Because I want to keep living in a country where my choice of religion, political party and sexual orientation is only my own decision and nobody else's. Where I can create my life after my own wishes, undisturbed and unhindered by some governmental or clerical judgement. Where I am free to do as I please as long as I don't disturb somebody else's freedom.

That was what I longed for as I grew up behind the Iron Curtain, that was what people died for fighting the Third Reich...it would be a nightmare to go back to that.

And btw....people still make their choices with their feet. People (not only from Africa or Arabia) are storming Germany, dream to live here, because it's a good life here, with all these freedoms!

Think about that one for a minute...


Oh bin it, Spike!

You hated Germany long before that refugee-crisis! It's as I said, it's a strawmans argument now...

Germany could start shipping Muslims out tomorrow and you would still call it Nazi and how Germans can be trusted because of that. You take what you can get to feed your Germanophobia!


Well...the EU is about to shell out 1 TRILLION of support funds to Corona-suffering EU members....most other countries can only dream of such big failing! :)

History / What is Poles opinion on Intermarium (Międzymorze)? [188]

Tell me more about these differences please....what exactly are those?

Because if you are talking about...national mentality and similar language, religion down to worldview, art, music, folk traditions....then you can forget your Intermarium immediately...because ALL nations are different in that regard...that's what makes them to different nations in the first place. They are no "little Polands"...

And still, you want them to work together for a common greater good, in a union...so you believe they are able to overcome these differences...because they identify with a common greater good.

Bingo! :)

History / What is Poles opinion on Intermarium (Międzymorze)? [188]


Me too....


Of course...why shouldn't they!

It's YOU who persist on fundamental differences....but they don't exist....Poles make good Germans = Germans make good Poles....all these "irreconcilable" differences exist only in your head and in politicians greed who always like to rile up one people against another to secure their position and to make themselves indispensable!


Not as long as you want to rebuild a foggy glorious past against a past enemy with refighting past wars....you will only lose the future again!

History / What is Poles opinion on Intermarium (Międzymorze)? [188]

I always wonder where you take that from.....Poles and Germans are probably the most mixed peoples in Europe!

How can you differentiate between them so clearly when over the centuries millions of Poles and Germans have mixed....so many Poles and people of polish heritage have influenced Germany

These masses of people have assimilated and integrated so flawlessly...culturally and socially...they can't be that different...where and HOW do you draw the line? And one so clear at that?

Serious question here...


Right now it's rather you who is harking back on a long gone past...past hostilities...past glory...past energy resources! Old and sclerotic....set in old ways...unable to dream of a better future.

Against you Germany and the EU look pubescend actually! They at least have dreams and visions....

History / What is Poles opinion on Intermarium (Międzymorze)? [188]


Most others here manage quite well....how do they do that?


The horse riders of old surely thought the same as the new born automobiles stuttered and struggled over the then still non-existing streets....

But as I said, then don't complain if Poland will also in the future stay only the supplier to the future german green-tech-industry! It's not our fault if you refuse to put yourself on top of the technological chain, you only get there with visions and taking risk! (The mocking from the horse-riders on the sidelines for any failures included)

History / What is Poles opinion on Intermarium (Międzymorze)? [188]


Ooops Spikey, you are slipping....and here I started to believe you as you said that you wanted to discuss seriously...

The "Energiewende" is an extremely ambitious project, something most other countries don't even try to achieve. Poland should join it, then it will have something to be proud of, to show off and to sell of in a few years.

But you have no real visions of your own, don't you? Just some power games....