Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


For those alienated by modern life and who can't fit into a religion drugs fill up some of that void....

You might not be able to believe in the resurrection but you'll sure beliieve that hit of dope drank that makes you fall asleep while standing up....

And all human activity at the margins tends to turn toward violence....

Why does this happen in the UK and not the US?

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Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


I've seen a couple of (seemingly private) people with guns in public over the years... but it's pretty.... rare.

News / The Political Circus of Poland [309]


How does cr@p like this play with voters? It makes them look ridiculous... I'm sure the polonia will defend them, but in the country?

It's really like something from Bareja....

News / The Political Circus of Poland [309]

Since there are so few posters here in (or really interested in) Poland.... we don't get enough chances to discuss insanity like this:

Police spying on opposition figures with a cherry picker in case they try to disrupt the monthly Smolensk death p0r rituals....

in (terrible) English: poland.postsen.com/local/191982/Grotesque-scenes-on-the-Smolensk-monthly-Policemen-on-the-boom-in-action-%5BWIDEO%5D.html

In Polish: with picture

tvn24.pl/tvnwarszawa/najnowsze/policjanci-na-strazackim-wysiegniku-przy-lokalu-lotnej-brygady-opozycji-wzgledy-bezpieczenstwa-6623144

Any thoughts on this latest PiS sponsored insanity?

"Better a policeman on a cherry picker...
than a commander with a granade"

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Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


For Poland I would not overestimate the role of laws (since when do Polish people follow laws they don't agree with?)

Nor would I underestimate the question of culture (since Polish people generally don't glamorize violent crime or criminals) it's the same question of why the 1990s mafias in Poland were so.... puny an ineffective compared to those further East....

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]


I wouldn't put it that way, but it does seem that paradigms (either nominal or verbal) are primarily heuristic and mostly irrelevant for native speakers who don't think in terms of paradigms at all.

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]

I woulnd't go that far..... a better president overall than Wałęsa but flawed and not.... great.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


They've been a problem since the 1980s (maybe 1970s).

It hasn't been a massive problem with epidemics like the crack cocaine epidemic that destroyed decades of African American economic and social progress or the meth epidemic that hollowed out middle America or the fentanyl epidemic that creates street zombies.... but there've been junkies in Warsaw since the 1980s and amphetamines have been widespread since the early 1990s (popular among students since the preferred Polish academic strategy is to slack off for most of the semester and then cram like crazy for a week before exams).

Polonia tends to have unrealistic and anachronistic ideas of what life in Poland is really like.....

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


Well it was Ranczo, not a documentary.

What interested me (apart from the hidden weapons) was the idea of organizing for self-defense rather than just rolling over for the mob.... different people have different ideas about how that would work out in real life (though again the idea of the mob going after some remote village is also not the most.... realistic idea out there).

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


Episode 47 (s04e08) w samo popołudnie (High AfterNoon)

can be watched here: filman.cc/serial-online/ranczo/839/odcinek-8

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


I remember many years ago an episode of Ranczo dealt with that... some kind of mafia was moving in on the village and the residents organized and defended themselves (with many retrieving carefully hidden guns). I tried to get people to talk about that then but was very unsuccessful.....

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


That's what NATO is for! NATO!!! Yahoo! Number, fkucing one, baby!

But again the US and Poland are two very different societies and thinking the gun policy of one would work in another is just..... dumb. I look for other words and and stall out.... it's just dumb.

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]


Except the pronunciation tends to be a bit more American (with r's pronounced all the time).

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


Very reasonable.

My opinion is that there's no urgent (or non-urgent) need for Polish people to buy private guns and there's no political possibility (or real need) to significantly reduce gun ownership in the US

the US and Poland are fundamentally different societies and there's no need for them to become more similar.....

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]


a pig ignorant statement.... fewer refugees in Poland now than in April-May last year.... stop listening to proven liars like RT and tune in to the real world....

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


Some certainly are... demography matters....

CW: very disturbing video of murder.... carried out by a 26 who was supposed to be under house arrest (ankle monitor malfunctioned)

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Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


So, explain Chicago, with its out-of-control gang violence problem (and strict gun control laws)?

Or....

gunfacts.info/gun-policy-info/guns-in-other-countries/

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


they do happen in Europe (more in Germany....)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:School_shootings_in_Europe

Amending the constitution is theoretically possible but practically impossible (and won't stop school shootings since those determined enough will find guns).

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


Pretty much... school shootings are mostly carried out by mentally ill people and/or psychopaths, often by people who've fallen through the cracks of systems that should be able to get them help before they become dangerous.


The right to own guns is in the constitution and that can't be just changed... Unlike Europeans Americans regard their Constitution more or less like a religious text (this is no exaggeration) and changing it is a very, very big thing (technically nothing can be taken out, only added, the amendment that made alcohol is still in the constitution, just superceded by a later amendment.

A very large percentage of Americans will never accept changing the constitution except through the amendment process and that will never succeed. And remember the overwhelming majority of gun owners are no problem whatsoever.... the prohibition mindset (very common in Europe) is rarely that effective, especially in the US.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


school shootings are not party shootings..... school shootings are a problem (and have been around since before WWI IIRC) but are based on deeper problems and not a problem of guns per se.... they are the symptom of something more profound that has gone wrong...

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


yes, gang violence.... the problem is that the gun grabbers want to take guns from urban blacks and latinos but are too embarrassed to say so, so they make a big point of talking about restricting guns among rural whites (where gun violence is extremely low)

Also, remember suicide is official counted as gun crime and suicide by gun is the most common among elderly men in the US (I personally know of an example or two).

Language / "Poles" or "Polish people" - which is better to use? [200]


I assume Jocks are Scottish? What are taffies and saffers?

I don't know of any bad words for the Welsh... maybe because there were far fewer and had a lower cultural profile than others from the British Isles....

Now that I think about it I'm not even sure about bad words for Scottish people.... English are Limeys (and maybe one or two I can't remember) and Irish are Micks or Paddies or Bog-hoppers

Getting closer to the topic of the thread.... Poles have slurs for Germans szwab maybe being the most common? and russians 'russki' is more insulting than 'rosjanin' and Czechs 'pepiki'... Italians 'makaroniarze' French żabojady and English angole.... not sure of many more...

Kind of unique to Polish is the use of non-virile forms as insults 'pany' instead of 'panowie' 'szwaby' instead of.... szwabowie? szwabi?

Language / "Poles" or "Polish people" - which is better to use? [200]


Meant to be... the US has a long history of offensive terms for people from just about every country.... name a source of immigration to the US and there will be slurs...

I remember hearing "Pollack" jokes long before I knew that Poland was a country... one theory is they were made popular by Borsht Belt Jewish comedians who'd carried stereotypes of backward and horndog Slavs with them from the Pale....

I think by the 1980s they had mostly died out.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


Yeah, one American value is that a broad variety of different viewpoints is a good thing.

Guns are a part of American identity and contrary to stereotype gun violence in the US is actually very rare given the amount of firearms around.

The great majority of gun violence is gang related and suicide (Smith and Wesson retirement plan).

In recent years party shootings have become a thing but are mostly restricted to Blacks and/or Latinos... there's a big party and someone gets upset for some stupid reason and they go out get a gun and start shooting wildly.... (also happens now at some black funerals).

But the 'gun nuts' are overwhelmingly responsible and not about to give up guns.... for anything.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


You do not understand American values....

Language / "Poles" or "Polish people" - which is better to use? [200]


It's American.... "Pollack" or maybe "Pollock" pronounced pretty closely to Polak but offensive (like Bohunk or Russkie or Mick...). It used to be more common but not so much used anymore (AFAIK)

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


A case of fvcc around and find out..... he fvkced around and he found out.....

Language / Having a really hard time with Polish cases [59]


Another way of thinking of Polish tense

imperfect future (będę robić/robił/a etc) only imperfective verbs

simple tense (robię, zrobię) for imperfective verbs this is present for perfective verbs it's future

past tense, conditional and imperative forms are the same for both classes

past e


I think now kierowca is used for both?

In general the -(cz)yni forms seem to be falling out of active usage at a moderate speed....

Language / "Poles" or "Polish people" - which is better to use? [200]


No.... Pole is pronounced exactly the same way as 'poll' or 'pole'.... which is one reason some people find it awkward in speech...

Language / Having a really hard time with Polish cases [59]


I'd say no....

aspect is part of the lexical information of the verb and not something added on to verbs as in english or spanish

imperfective verbs have three tenses (future / present / past) and perfective verbs have two (future / past)

they all have imperative and conditional forms....