Life / West-East life in Poland? [45]


It's to do with maintainance on the line. Right now, it's going from Frankfurt though it's no great burden to get a regional train there and change.

Even Berlin Lichtenberg is more or less as easy to get to from most of Berlin as Hauptbahnhof and pretty well any station in Europe is nicer to use than Hauptbahnhof anyway.

I'd always use the train by preference. It's faster than the road, doesn't cost much and is more relaxing.

Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]

Don't be silly. You are proof that there's stupid everywhere and in any case, there are no 'races'...

Life / West-East life in Poland? [45]


Cheaper and nicer by train.

For a toll road, that price in the Polish 'market' is so high it would put many people off using those roads.

Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]


So what?


That happened a long time ago. There are a few of them here. There views are however untypical of the poipulation as a whole.

Being 'white' doesn't make anybody special. Why would skin colour matter?

I saw a video of a gammon guy being interviewed outside a pub in Croydon about immigration. He was complainng that people from abroad were taking all the places at medical school and he had no chance of becoming a doctor. Thing is, he was 50+, unemployed for a decade and had left school at 15 without any qualifications. But recent migrants were somehow preventing him from being a doctor. Go figure...

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]


They both belong to their members. I'm in a Credit Union too. There's a problem though. You shouldn't deposit much in them since that can cause them problems with the loans they make; something to do with regulations and ratios.

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]


It isn't now and wasn't then.

If Poland had had proper left wing governments (as it will one day) hopefully there will be better flood defences.

Having said that, after the floods of the 1950s in Poznan, the PRL did well creating flood prevention measures.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]


The bargain of the century when you consider the return. Plus, proper pensions are something my forebears fought for in the strikes of the nineteenth century, the General Strike and every time they voted (when they eventually got the vote).


Not sure about Barney, however I've mentioned Sheffield Mutual and also may put some money in a 10 year deposit at Unity Mutual (belongs to the Oddies of which I'm a member). Not quite the crazy returns that 'CryptoBros' pretend to get, or the one penny share that makes so much 'profit' that it almost cancels out all the ones that day traders lose on.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]


I'm all for mass share ownership; it's a form of Socialism when done properly. Unfortunately though, no government is ever fast or effective enough in preventing capitalists for abusing it and buying up shares, often to delist the company.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

@Paulina, I found the picture of the man with a pipe because of the "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" reference however unwittingly I've found a Polish artist I'd barely heard of and hadn't really looked at.

Mojżesz (Moise) Kisling was born in Kraków in 1891 but moved to Paris when he was a student and never returned. He specialised in female portraiture, however he did self portraits too, like the one above. Likes red, doesn't he...

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Language / Older Polish Exclamations/Swears [14]


"Broń boże!" (God defend us/me!) is something that older friends (younger than your story, born mid-1930s) sometimes say.

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]


That is apparently about the marine fuel thing. When the dirty type was banned, the difference was so big that it caused an 'adjustment'. Apparently we have 6 more years of that.


The more the better.

Some things (minor recycling of soft plastics for example ) are p1ssing in the wind, however there;s stuff we can do to slow global warming.


Indeed. And if the gulf stream goes, all bets are off.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

Remember.Paulina, this is not a thread.

Just as this is not a pipe.

Moise Kisling 1891-1953
L'homme A La Pipe, 1916

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Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]


I'm sure that given a very stiff upper lip, years of counselling, an iron will and fortitude, a Xanax prescription and an emotional support dog, they will eventually get over the sheer trauma of seeing art applied to canvas, board and paper by a whole variety of media, even; projected on to it rather than traced on by a wizened old man using a camera obscura or perspective machine.

If they do really well at the counselling they may be able to progress to gouache and ink.

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]

Global warming is as good a name as any, and yes, temperatures are rising long term everywhere. The 7 year trough (due to forcing ships to use less polluting fuel) barely makes a difference.

And the rise in global temperatures is accelerating.


And almost wiped out our species, Before mammals as we know them came, before dinosaurs even, extreme temperatures wiped out whole other species as is beginning to happen now. The difference is that those were mass extinction events that we're looking back on whereas the growing numbers of extinctions due to changing habitat is merely so far just growing rapidly and heading towards one.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]


Is posting art 'spamming'?

There are a couple of photographs already in this thread; it's surprising you didn't go off on one when they were posted.

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]


It's both. Like the price of gold, there are peaks and troughs in temperature, especially since global warming can cause harsh winters as well as heatwaves, however the gold price always goes up long term.

The harm caused to the earth since the days of large scale industrialisation and especially the automobile has barely started.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]


And Gluchołazy isn't in Serbia either, however the thread on it is all about Racowie and Svetovid.

There are so many ways of getting an image onto a flat background.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]


That's what he does, and has a growing reputation.

Not all artworks hung in galleries use paint; Gilbert and George (better than any of the artists n this thread though not relevant to it) hardly use a physical brush at all and haven't for years.

One striking things about Berłowski is how he uses the camera to create images that could easily be paintings from a century or so ago,. Some of them would be a bit kitsch to have on the wall, however the level of skill is high.

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]


It's certainly a very serious problem, and will get worse.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


Bush meat is supposed to be quite nice.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

By Andrzej Berkowski

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History / Why American military aid to Europe and Poland is important to America itself? [227]


He is bad. A truly appalling individual.

What do you think of the fascistic Agenda 25?

History / Why American military aid to Europe and Poland is important to America itself? [227]


Or a summary of how her appalling rival wouldn't.

President Biden has done pretty well, and President Obama before him.

What do you think about Agenda 25? Do you not agree that it's pure fascistic evil?

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [970]

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History / Why American military aid to Europe and Poland is important to America itself? [227]


She's clever.

Welcome President Harris!

Life / Why is women-hatred and stereotyping so popular in Poland? [181]

Apparently the neighbours only live 4 metres away from the outbuilding however a Polish language news site suggested that there may have been soundproofing and that the walls were thick anyway.

Law / Custody Issue and Travel Abroad of my Girlfriend from Poland [31]


The situation was before, and it's hard to know why the EU would be relevant here.


An 'agenda' is irrelevant. If there's joint custody, both parents share custody and joint custody only happens if both parents agree and where there is no suggestion of cruelty etc.

If one of them subsequently abducts the child, takes them abroad illegally and refuses access to the other parent, it is a criminal offence and if the abductor is arrested, they Weill be automatically extradited and jailed for child abduction. Rightly so.

Life / Why is women-hatred and stereotyping so popular in Poland? [181]


Indeed.. It's hard to imagine that they didn't know a woman was being kept prisoner there for several years.

I remember when, years ago, someone in PL said to me "ooh, aren't there a lot of serial killers in England". In fact, he'd been watching a British TV documentary about them on Discovery Channel, dubbed into Polish. I asked about Polish serial killers and the daft reply was: "it isn't a Polish tradition". Nor of course are mobile phones, hamburgers or air fryers yet there are plenty enough in PL.

Plus, the police in the U.K. are fairly good with major crimes and that can't be said about the police in Poland. And of course the U.K. is far more urban which makes it harder to get away with things.

Then, a few years later, there was an exhibition at the tram stop by DW Centralny in Warsaw of photos of missing persons. So manymof the, were blonde teenage girls from the same parts of the countryside who went missing on their way home from school. I wonder if anyone in the police joined the dots or just filed it away and did nothing. When a close friend went missing, Fundacja Itaka put posters on the metro however it turned out he'd been lying in a morgue for months after being run over and despite being reported missing right away in the same town as he was found, he'd just been left there.

The FBI once estimated that there were 40 serial killers operating in the U.S. at any one time. If you math that down by population size, that suggests Poland has 4 or 5 who are killing people right now.

Law / Custody Issue and Travel Abroad of my Girlfriend from Poland [31]

It seems the Polish government is aiding people who abduct children to Poland in breach of legally binding custody agreements.

Poland has adopted a nationalistic agenda toward retaining children with Polish heritage," claims Michael. He and the other fathers accuse Poland of interfering in court proceedings and placing political pressure on judges to overturn rulings that could bring their children back

They allege that Polish officials are leaking information to their former spouses and partners, giving them time to disappear with the children whenever the fathers arrive in the country.

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/brexit-stopped-us-getting-our-abducted-children-back/

Classifieds / Conversational Polish lessons (face to face) - West Midlands, UK [3]

@Shoulders
Your best bet would be to try a site specifically for Poles in your area. Most people here are in Poland, Germany or places further away. There's a Facebook page called "Poles in Birmingham" and there may be others local to you.