History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]


Seems to be the problem in many western democracies/republics-too many laws.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]


Is it because they can't find a plausible way of expressing they made a terrible miscalculation in thinking that they were letting in workers who would meet the desperately needed labor demands?

But then again, if that was the case, then why open up the welfare coffers and disincentivize the new immigrants from working?

Did they allow the benefits to immigrants in hopes of staving off immigrant social unrest?

What is Scholz's plans to address this problem? Is the left in Germany like the left in America when it comes to immigrants: bring 'em in so they can grow the left's electoral base, as well as getting some cheap labor here and there?

Polonia / Should I visit Portugal? [35]

@mafketis

Yeah, business travel like that stinks.


You and me both.

Polonia / Should I visit Portugal? [35]

When I was in my 20's I spent a month driving cross-country. It was glorious, I returned loving America more than ever before. Now, I'm in mid-50's and still adore hitting the road. It's better now than when I was younger in some ways-my wallet is not as anorexic.

The places and sights you stumble upon when hitting the road rather than flying is worth the labor, IMO.

Polonia / Should I visit Portugal? [35]

Thanks for the info.


I'm American: I was born for the road. 🙂

Polonia / Should I visit Portugal? [35]

Admin started this thread as a spinoff from another thread where I was asking if Torq had been to Portugal. So, it's more a general question instead of a specific town.

How was Lisbon and Sintra?

I was thinking I might start in Portugal and drive to Poland.

EDIT:

Thanks for the info, Maf.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Not to hijack the photo thread and turn it into a vacation destinations thread, BUT...have you ever been to Portugal? If so, thoughts, please.

Admin: delete this please. I meant to post this elsewhere.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Probably was, if I recall correctly the last session is at or before 4 pm.


😀. Yep, here and gone like vapor on hot dry summer noon.

UK, Ireland / Moving from Ireland to Poland [39]


Hmmm...I've been to Torino and Firenze...not Genoa...and I'd make the same choice of Gdańsk over T and F.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

We had tickets and everything to make the piernik, but my slow-a$$ willful mother-in-law (I love her and all) had to order a coffee after dinner and made us late and we couldn't enter.

But, I'm over it, I swear, it's ancient history...in the past. I mean, can't you just hold off on the coffee for one hour? Is it going to kill ya? Anyway, like I said, I'm over it. Buried in the past. It's not like all of Toruń was in danger of running out of coffee beans

UK, Ireland / Moving from Ireland to Poland [39]


What about the Italians? They're pretty alright.


Having spent an aggregate of 2-2.5 years over a 20-plus years span, I'd call the taste of your friend's into question. Polish cuisine is good stuff-although the ketchup on pizza is culinary anathema.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Not to mention the Cathedral.

As yo say, a charming town.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


I can emphatically attest! You can even make your own piernik at the Muzeum of Pierniki.

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


Me too, but then it's the only place I can run into BB, Torq, Bobko Bobkovich Bobanov. Where I can see PAK go off where he reminds me of half the people I grew up with. Where else can you see cynicism turned into Jackson Pollack-esque art like you do everytime Novi brusquely types in a post? Hell it's even fun to experience wildly unadulterated feminazism that screams through this forum via Paulina and , to a degree, Lenka, which is then juxtaposed by the whisping Irish graceful femininity of Atch. And there's the others, some who you are glad are here others you wish to forget.

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


Have you seen the price of used cars nowadays?

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


Yeah, the question before us is how. No offense to the admin/owners, but I agree with PAK there's nothing business-wise about this site that presents itself as something to invest money. So, outside of owners relinquishing control gratis and a group of us agreeing on something in terms of managing site and paying operational costs, I don't see how it continues to draw breath.

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

And to keep things going you need new younger blood flowing through. Is this type of forum format viable? Is this how 30-somethings and below communicate?

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


Yes he's a Russian-born Polish-American. 😀

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


Ditto. I detest the whole premise: man united as one by nothingness.


The whole song is a study of contradiction. Lennon was a phony.

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

Yes, California.

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

Is it a CA wine?

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]


So no sauvignon blanc for you? I don't think I've ever seen a SB that had a cork-all have screw caps. I wonder why that is.

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


Hahaha.

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


They are lost and all that and their rationality has been compromised for sure, but they still have the capacity for rationality because they are human. You can't change that, just as they can't change biological sex, etc.

Regardless, they aren't the primary audience. It's those who are indifferent and ambivalent that are the audience who need to hear the truth to win over their minds. Hopefully, the residual of addressing that audience is some in the groups you listed will be converted.

Here's a good article that sort of addresses what I'm saying. You may find her nice and naive, but the data shows we're losing because our tactics don't match the situation. All the barking only assuages ourselves. And, when it's all said and sone, who really cares how pissed off anyone is.

thefederalist.com/2024/04/22/the-pro-life-movement-has-a-storytelling-problem/

News / What will Britain's Labor Coup mean for Poland? [100]


From some of the more right-leaning commentary here is the States the verdict is that it wasn't so much Labour winning as it was the Cons losing. Some of the stuff being thrown around is that this Sunak guy was a zero-he stood for nothing.

Same verdict over there?

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

@Novichok

I'm neither nice nor naive. I've been around the block more than once. It is through civility that you will more effectively teach the great unwashed masses what a woman is, etc. To bark and become uncivil only leads to becoming a caricature that is easily put on a shelf and dismissed out of hand.

As effednup as a lot folks are, they are still rational animals. I prefer to appeal to their rationality and dignity.

There are times the long knives have to come out to deal with uncivil, but once they are sliced up you must return to a civil discourse.

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

@Novichok

Cordial is what you ought to do when interacting with others civilly.

I could care less about winning an argument. In the end what matters is what is true and correct. An argument done correctly should be in the pursuit of what is true and correct.

We're humans not ducks (hat tip to maf).

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

@Barney
Could be one of those differences between brit and am English usage although jon is arguing for uprising.

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


That's the thing, maybe he is using the title to indicate a different perspective of the Warsaw uprising.


Hmmm, interesting. I guess it comes down to perspectives.

According to Webster's both are usable and correct.


Very good question. If we're looking to find the truth or accuracy seems we should be cordial.