Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


They still do round my way, however there's a big presence in that town.

In the Leeds suburbs, if you've something metal like an old cooker that you want to get rid of but don't want to take to the tip, you just leave it at the end of your drive in the morning and they collect it for the scrap during the day.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [724]


Basically people who try to make a fast buck and have very few morals or ethics.


You can either invest or trade. If you do both, it's important to a. be very rich and able to afford losing money and b. be aware that they are very different animals.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [687]


For us it's driving with one (unless it's hands free and integrated with the vehicle). If there is a serious accident and one party is using a mobile phone, they are automatically guilty and are always jailed. It is taken very seriously. After accidents, both/all parties' mobile phones are checked to see if there was any activity immediately before the accident.

The law is strict and that is better than the situation in countries where using mo ileś while driving is entirely normal.

A few times in PL, I've been in Ubers where the driver has a video screen attached to the dashboard and is watching films/TV shows while they drive. Most recently one was watching an Uzbek soap opera. This should really be addressed since sooner or later someone will die in a crash due to this.

Classifieds / Used computers/electronics market in Tri-City, Poland. [12]


Amazon Prime exists in Poland however they don't do that in the same way; the market is different. Reconditioned MacBooks are usually a better buy, providing they don't come from China and haven't been used by a gamer.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [724]


The same. So-called 'cryptocurrency' is largely a scam. Rather like a Ponzi scheme.


Most of them have of course lost money on it.


Same here. I bought some around the time I first started posting here, pre-2010. Only a bit, though it rocketed and I still have some. Most other people who buy it don't make much and for 'cryptocurrencies' other than bitcoin, almost everybody who buys it loses their money.


That's shameless really and a scandal. In developed countries, a politician would be expected to resign if they were caught pushing fake currencies to make money on.

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Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


They always appear, and long may they do so.


Every society has that, without exception. No country has no police, courts or prosecutors.

Off-Topic / MH17 10 years later - Russia Found Guilty [8]


Do you think it was an accident? They keep finding more and more bits of the plane, some thousands of miles away, carried by ocean currents.

So many theories, some conspiracy theories.

It's worth mentioning though that there were 200kg of Lithium-ion Batteries in the cargo h9ld.

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


An incorrect one.

That statement says more about you than me. I do see what you're saying though and would add that the more developed and affluent the society, the less slack the6 can be cut. Something bad enough in a remote and hungry Amazon tribe is ten times worse if it's practised by privileged groups.


The Gypsies where I come from are very much both.


Why use that nasty word? What have people with learning disabilities ever done to hurt you. Words have power; it's best to leave the toilet talk to people lie, Novichok who can't help themselves.

As for Romany traditions, they've ensure survival against all odds and against the worst sort of persecution for centuries. Their ancestors three centuries ago were cleaner than yours and mine.


Just camps and/or winter quarters. The ones I've seen up close in Poland (specifically in Poldlasie) have characteristics of both but are closer to winter quarters.


That's what people have pushed them into. Successful subcultures are the ones able to protect themselves.

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


Counting are you?

A quiet day here in the jungle. Too hot to go out.

Great news though that there's more military aid going to Ukraine. Every little bit goes towards drinking down r*SSia.
theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jul/10/russia-ukraine-war-europe-live-latest-news-updates-putin-zelenskyy-von-der-leyen-eu

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


The question is, who decides?

One thing about Romany, is that they don't often discuss all of the traditions that make up "gypsiness". Some are almost a thousand years old and rarely discussed with outsiders.

Some are known about, like gypsy men filing rather than cutting their nails, some of the traditions regarding hygiene (until settled people gotta indoor plumbing, Romany were generally far cleaner), some of the food rules, the th8 g about phone numbers and a couple of other things. Others aren't ever discussed with outsiders.

If you've ever been given bank notes by Angloromani, you'd have noticde something special.


When writing or speaking English, it's better to say camp rather than tabor. There's an identical word in English with a different meaning and in English, gypsy camps are t called tabors.


We don't have that. Romany almost never ever claim unemployment benefit. Perhaps they have a more settled and established role in society. From the way I've seen some people in this thread talk about them, no wonder some of them don't want to engage in society.


All part of the hostility against them. A vicious circle.

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


That word is best avoided.

Snatch was a film. Fiction.


Visit and come to my town. You'll meet some. That is better than a depiction.


The soldiers that did that certainly went far too far. I've not heard about such things ever happening among the Angloromai and from what I know, they'd self-regulate very efficiently.

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


Ours aren't.

You're obviously doing something wrong.


They don't.


A good friend is a full blooded Romany and he's a credit to his family.


Like the women and little girls raped in Bucha?

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


As far as I know, that's the same for us.


Reform?

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]



Here it is.

About the question in the post before, what is the situation in your country about peripatetic Teachers for Romany and Traveller kids?

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]

A rich tradition. One worth preserving.

Do you know the famous Polish song based on the Agnieszka Osiecka poem?

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


That's r*SSians for you, and says a lot about that society.

Ours don't do that. A lot of Romany and Irish Travellers are in the scrap metal business or in construction.

What special provision is made for educating the kids there? A family friend used to work as a peripatetic Teacher, employed by the county to follow the families around as they move.

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

You don't need to reply to every thread. It is boring and makes you look a jerk.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [687]


You used to hear 'stateside'. Popular among a certain type of early/mid-1980s business executive/office monkey who'd been there once on holiday to Florida and once on a business trip to New Jersey until people started laughing at them for saying it.

Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]


Quite.

Crome Yellow is almost fun, however his contemporaries like Waugh and Woolf are a mile ahead.

I've always liked the way DH Lawrence (more or less local to me so they really pushed it at school and an elderly neighbour when I was a kid knew him when he was young and thought he was seedy) took the pĩss out of him in The Man Who Loved Islands.

Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]


A dreary writer, though his famous last words will go down in history: " LSD, 100 micrograms, intramuscular".

I wonder what Pan Ryszard's fast-approaching last words will be. Maybe "all women are b1tches and morons'.

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


Only a few surnames, as I recall.

Generally very nice people in my experience.

Genealogy / Polish and gypsy traditions [140]


We were in a hotel over Christmas with some Travellers (visiting family at a local camp who didn't have room for them in the vans, sort of the same as us).

Great people, very friendly to us, a little on the boisterous side. The women (all very young) were dressed like pop singers on stage. Those people know how to have fun.

The person I was with didn't pick up that they were Travellers and just thought they were party people. I found them to be fine.

One of them (as camp as a row of tents, btw) was telling us about how many times he'd been arrested in Hudddersfield!

In the city where we were, there have been Romany gypsies for 500 years and many have houses that they use as winter quarters. It's partly due to there being a lot of common land where they can graze horses. Plenty of Irish Travellers too; there are two council sites next to each other, one for each group, and there's never any trouble. They're part of the community, albeit a separate part.

If you want to go down a fun internet rabbit hole, have a look on YouTube for "traveler rants". Some are great fun. My favourite is Martin 'puff daddy' Ward. Camp, very openly gay and seems to love fighting.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [256]


Effectively landlocked and invaded by everyone; hence its multicultural past and future.


A great Hanseatic city.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [256]


They're much closer than you think albeit very different in some noticeable ways, however (in common with most island countries) England has a more complex and robust culture, one which outsiders think they understand but never ever do.


The Moghul Empire and its dramatically sudden fall should be compulsory learning in American schools.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [687]


And the future is AI.

I've a feeling that in the next war we'll see more than just the drones and robotic dogs that have been shown to the public. <ilitary tech is always a bit further ahead than what is put in the public domain.


On his island, nobody would be left alive due to all the executions and genocide. Who would want to go there?

Better to have an LGBTQI+ island; at least we've a never-ending supply of people willing to settle there and be fabulous.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [256]


Same same.


We all of us have that.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [256]


Or any children.

You do hear sad stories in Poland though about the way school staff, especially so-called catechicists (too early to care about spelling) treat children with one or both parents from overseas.


I've a feeling that that boat has now sailed; the numbers are too large.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [256]


Those days are gone.

Once, someone who emigrated from, say, Poland, needed a short wave radio to hear their own language, couldn't get kielbasa for love nor money and needed to save half a year's wages to visit home.

Now, people have all the TV channels they had at home, the entire internet at their fingertips and of course Ryanair Stansted-Modlin is often cheaper and always quicker than PKP Warsaw-Szczecin (and that includes airport travel/waiting).


Something to blame Yank academics seeking to impose their views on others and r*SSian and Chinese propagandists seeking to undermine the free world are very much to blame for.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [256]


As the native Australian tubylcow (those few still alive, anyway) would tell you, this has been the case for a century and a half.