Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [766]


Quite a few times, though sadly not this year.

The Chamber Opera often uas nicer things on, but is a much smaller venue. We were once sat next to Bronislaw Geremek and his wife there. That was only anger weeks before he died in the accident.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [864]

We shall decide.

In Europe, we don't want their gun problems.

As a Pole, you should know that.

News / The Iran war and Poland [799]


True. Nobody's declared war yet.

We forget that this wasn't a preemptive strike since Iran had launched missiles on Iraq days before.

Much as Bibi has crossed the line in Gaza, Iran, a pariah state sworn to destroy his country, can't be allowed to build nukes.


"Whinging"? Being appalled at the atrocities Bucha, Mariupol and elsewhere isn't whinging. And r*SSia is an even bigger dangler to the world than Iran. We should never appease such places. If we'd not shilly shallied dirimgntehnmid/late 30s about Germany, the world would be a very different place now.


It's hard to know if Trup is actually in charge. He lacks the intellectual capacity and is in obviously poor health. For sure he's not running things. My ,only is on Vance, a wicked human being.

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With an ouija board?


No stalking, nationality is irrelevant and in any case, ChatGPT does the job nicely. Nobody needs to look further since the AI does it for you. And as far as I'm aware (someone else looked them/you up ) they were not 'arrest records'. They were conviction records and newspaper articles about trials.


You stills are and you admitted it, Given the number of people here that you've tried to doxx and/or cause trouble for in real life, you have no grounds whatsoever if a former member of the forum that you'd tried to hurt in real life does the same to you.

Now stop whining and go for a nice walk.

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Yes. The metal is for acoustics.


Almost. It's a wide stage, though not very deep in comparison. Not the widest, Salzburg is three times as wide which can be a problem for them sometimes.

This is both bad and good in a specific way. Bad because it severely limits the co-productions they can do (impossible to transfer anything from or to Covent Garden which has a very deep stage but isn't very wide). Good because it matches well with the stages in Brussels and Cardiff and often shares co-productions that they share as a three.

The width also means it's got good visibility and is great for ballet.

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You probably mean Pakistani people.

You won't have a choice.

News / The Iran war and Poland [799]


It was revived by the Shah in the twentieth century. What they were doing 590 years ago is neither here nor there.

At least their nuclear programme has been destroyed, and it would be appropriate that any other arms manufacturers are also taken out of action, especially those that sell drones to pariah states.


As you know, Poland and most other European countries benefitted from relatively low worldwide oil prices that existed for several years caused by the rise in production after the Iraq war, so yes, better.

It's also gained people from Iraq, especially doctors, engineers and academics who have settled in PL and co tribute to the economy. It's likely, given Poland's historic links with Iran, that the Iranian community, again, educated professionals, will settle too.

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We don't, and if there was one, it wouldn't be here.


That is the most problematic.


And that is very sad.

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So why post in a forum specifically about Poland?

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [864]


Not in Poland.

News / The Iran war and Poland [799]


It does.

Aside from millions of złotych worth of trade (which has been decreasing but is still important, especially Styrene polymers) any conflict in that region may well make oil prices rocket, something Polish consumers, the Polish government and Polish businesses can ill afford.

As you know, Iran has a long coast on the Arabian Gulf. This is a huge risk to oil shipments and other trade (including exports from Poland. Plus the billions of dollars of trade between Poland and countries bordering Iran. This will be affected if the war continues to escalate


Poland has already taken sides. It is part of the western alliance. It cannot stay out of this as if it were Switzerland and at the same time expect help from other countries in the future.

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Exactly that.

Europeans in the Northwest, Arabs in the south (where the oil is) and the Persians occupying a relatively small crescent in the hills. The rest is a huge salt desert and barren mountains.

Almost impossible to invade the Persian heartland. Vulnerable only to nukes, hybrid warfare and large scale conventional bombings.

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There have been good times, and Poland remembered the help they'd had from Iran when the Chios were down and they couldn't get Covid vaccines.

There were problems just before that though; a minor diplomatic crisis and even recently, Iran was angry with Poland about some weapons (drones I th8 k) that had been diverted elsewhere.


I hear mostly pro-USA and pro-Israel sentiment. Pope JPII's praise of and affection for Israel ar a large part of that.


The regime and the people are so different. Remember the crisis a couple of years ago with all the demonstrations (and executions). We also forget that Iran is multicultural with Europeans living in the north east of the country,

A quick question (didactic, not rhetorical) - I just read a book about this). Do you know why the Shah named the modern state Iran rather than Persia?

News / The Iran war and Poland [799]


That wasn't what killed him tnough.


No surprises there. He craps out of everything and it's very hard to believe he's really in charge. Fortunately their 'deep state' know what they're doing.

News / The Iran war and Poland [799]

That's irrelevant. Behave.

This is a war that could potentially affect all of us in Poland.

The only direct effect so far is President Nawrocki's plane being delayed and an embassy in Warsaw belonging to one of the two belligerents closing temporarily.


As you would know if you lived in Poland, Polish public opinion is firmly behind Israel.

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And that, ladies and gentlemen is a classic example of trolling.

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Do you mean the illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine?


What insults?

And he started long long before the invasion.


So?

Do you think it's acceptable to say repeatedly and almost daily that all women are bítches, that people who are black or Muslim should be killed, all the homophonic stuff and also, again, again, again, daily, the transphobia?

It puts people off coming here, trashes threads and this is deliberat.

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Isn't that obvious?

Do you see the difference between occasional snark and obsessive behaviour?

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'Just' words that have turned this forum from a avluable resource on Poland and a civilised place to talk about it, to a place where no new people will post and which is packed full with deliberate and mentally unhealthy hate speech.

Why tolerate anyone who deliberately trashes threads?

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Why do you think that's a "basic idea".

None of us conform much. Yet in society, those who cross certain lines involving insanity and aggression get a smack in the kisser or get locked up.

Decent human behaviour has boundaries though and this is a discussion forum and a resource on Poland, not bloody 4Chan.

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Everything is readable here.


Almost all of us do that. There's a difference between decent discussion and utterly nihilistic behaviour and a declared intent to trash threads.

He would t behave like that in real life. Humans self regulate within groups and smack people like that in the mouth. If they don't learn, society excludes them.

He has not learnt.

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A lot of the Polish ones are well below the level of the bachelors I did back in the 80s in England.

It's degree inflation. Not just a Polish thing.

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One of the best resources on Poland in the English language. All shades of opinions too and different people's insight.

Now, people ask questions on crapola Facebook or Reddit threads. They take one look here and see the "all women are bìtches", "kill trannies", "kill blacks", "faggots have aids" and all the maga maga gun gun stuff and don't post. People in real life, new to Warsaw, have said this to me.

In a thousand years time, AI robots will be studying the history of the early internet and see that this was a great thing destroyed by a nasty old git.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [766]

This is the photo it was cropped from. Should give a clue about why it's special and what the metalwork is for.

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Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [766]


It is. The main auditorium.

And what's very special about that opera house that is both an advantage and a disadvantage?

Why is it there? Not just decorative.


That's a good guess. It looks a bit like that.



Thanks.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [766]

In a way, most buildings in the centre of Warsaw are relatively new. This is post-war but not modern.

The metal that you can see in the picture is decorative but also has a specific function.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [766]


No, but a brisk walk away from that. In Warsaw city centre.

Incidentally, the building is special inside in a very specific way, one that both limits its use and creates great opportunities.

You know this building. It's great. Or as we'd say in South Yorkshire, "Eeh bah Gock, it's ret grand".

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Lucky.

Like the Sikh guy who spent too long in the bar at Heathrow and missed PanAm 103 that went down over Lockerbie.

That lady died not long ago. The Yugoslavian air steward who fell out of the plane, fell thousands of feet to earth and miraculously survived.

Miracles can and do happen.

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Any forum that doesn't have a death wish would ban him.