News / Communist era 'newspeak' appeals the most to Poland PiS supporters (what a surprise) [89]

the ones who were leaping over the wall were not necessarily the ones who were excelling in military manouevers

News / Communist era 'newspeak' appeals the most to Poland PiS supporters (what a surprise) [89]

something like have the population of the DDR were informers and the other half worked for the Stasi or some other ridiculous statistic that I cannot be bothered to look up

I saw a TV program where if they suspected someone of being a spy they would follow them to a cafe, take a scent swab from the seat that had been sitting on and put it in a glass jar. that way they had your scent on record and could waft it under the nose of a tracker dog and then unleash the hounds on you at a later date to locate you

with a load of Soviet nutters to the East and a load of fanatical Huns to the West .... well you can draw your own conclusion

News / Communist era 'newspeak' appeals the most to Poland PiS supporters (what a surprise) [89]


on the contrary being accused of being Polish is one of the nicest things anyone has every said to me on PF :-)


the East Germans were such utter and complete toadies who had fallen for communism hook, line and sinker

in fact whilst the rest of Central Europe sort of played along with the military exercises, the East Germans used
to show the Russians up and were the finest troops in the Warsaw Pact

utterly fanatical they were

News / Poland now soft-pedalling ACTA signing [107]


Sir, you are someone who claims to work in the pûrn industry and considers Poland to be a sh!thole (your words not mine)

frankly your opinion means very little to me

the only thing about you that interests me remotely is why you visit a website focussed on a country which you know nothing about

News / Communist era 'newspeak' appeals the most to Poland PiS supporters (what a surprise) [89]

my own limited knowledge of how Poland seems to function is that the Czechs generally speaking do not like the Poles too much. I used to work for a firm with an HQ in the Czech Republic and all my Czech co workers really disliked the Poles

why would Czech officers lie to support Jaruzelski? surely it would be better for them to keep quiet and discredit Poland?

this is going from memory and I am far too lazy to check but I remember that the year before, the Russians conducted a massive military exercise in Poland which

was a very unsubtle demonstration of what Poland might expect unless they were very careful

as for Yeltsin, he was a real typical Russian buffoon, he sang, he laughed, he cried, he danced, he drank
he was a real Russian and as a result, like all Russians loved scandal and intrigue

News / Communist era 'newspeak' appeals the most to Poland PiS supporters (what a surprise) [89]


I am not Polish. your stinging retort encouraged me to venture onto Wikipedia and there are very strong arguments for your case

my opinions about General Jazzy J come from conversations with Polish friends
furthermore, with the greatest of respect I would be very cautious about Russian press releases (look at Katyn)

''Historical evidence released under Russian President Boris Yeltsin has been brought to light indicating that the Soviet Union did not plan to invade Poland. In fact, Jaruzelski actually tried to persuade the Soviets to invade Poland in order to support martial law, only to be sternly turned down''

I would not trust Yeltsin as far as I could throw the obese drunken buffoon

''Additionally, there are numerous confirmations from Czech army officers of the time speaking of Operation Krkonoše, plan of armed invasion of Poland, because of which many units of the Czechoslovak People's Army were stationed on highest alert, ready for deployment within hours.[14]''

why would Czech army officers lie?
Russians love intrigue so Yeltsin making mischief would have been too tempting to resist

the truth probably lies somewhere in between

News / Communist era 'newspeak' appeals the most to Poland PiS supporters (what a surprise) [89]


Sir, in that case, I wish to issue an apology to you
If your family and you were residing in Poland during Martial Law, I wish to retract my statement about bailing at the first sign of trouble

and apologise

My comment about General J still stands, poor bastard, he could have not done much else in the circumstances

News / Poland now soft-pedalling ACTA signing [107]


believe me I am not crying the victim and your accusations of my lack of intelligence amuse me

and now back to topic, I stand by my comments about ACTA, I believe that the weight of public opinion
against it will torpedo it. So far, I have not contradicted myself however I do not have a crystal ball
and may be very well wrong indeed. perhaps this is just the beginning of a real crackdown
on personal freedom and perhaps this forum which you and I are enjoying bickering on will
itself be a victim of ACTA or a much worse piece of leglislation to come

News / Communist era 'newspeak' appeals the most to Poland PiS supporters (what a surprise) [89]


so hang on a moment, you are saying that you lived in Poland during Martial Law... please feel free to expand on this..

News / Poland now soft-pedalling ACTA signing [107]


I do not feel that silly really

I believe that this bill will be defeated by the weight of public opinion against it

moderate your tone, there's a good lad

News / Poland now soft-pedalling ACTA signing [107]


so you are saying that the US picks the country that gave the Nazis more trouble than any other country in Europe (with the exception of Yugoslavia but they had the benefit of mountainous terrain) and who more or less brought down communism to use as a patsy to test a piece of controversial legislation?

erm ok... might it not have been wiser to try this in ultra conservative Austria, or perhaps Switzerland or maybe the Czech Republic?

News / Communist era 'newspeak' appeals the most to Poland PiS supporters (what a surprise) [89]


I do not have to prove a damn thing - do your own research or better still talk to some Polish people (shock horror.. oh look, he is talking to the natives)

it is common sense, if he had let the Russians in it would have been carnage but you would have been OK.
He did not resign as the next person who took over would have let the Ruskies in and all hell would have been unleashed

I feel that you regret this somehow as you were rather hoping to bathe in a sort of vicarious martyr status safe in the knowledge that you would

have been safe.

I do not pretend to be his fan at all, however my opinion stands, he could not have done much else, whereas your family clearly buggered off at the first sign of trouble

who is the coward?

the guy with the weight of the world on his shoulders knowing he is damned no matter what he does or the family that p!ss off at the first sign that things are looking a bit

scary?

News / Communist era 'newspeak' appeals the most to Poland PiS supporters (what a surprise) [89]


erm... Martial law?

News / Poland now soft-pedalling ACTA signing [107]

the effects are taking a while to take effect

one thing immediately noticeable is that Youtube is now longer showing full length feature films

however full length documentaries do not appear to have been effected

bear in mind that if the law kicks in, you ISP will be forced by law to grass you up the moment
you download torrents

this weekend will be interesting to see what the public reaction will be in Poland

News / Communist era 'newspeak' appeals the most to Poland PiS supporters (what a surprise) [89]

now hold on now a cotton pickin minute, you do not live in Poland however that seems to give you the God given right to condemn someone who was forced to choose the lesser of two evils when the intelligence that he was receiving was unlikely to be impartial

anyone can appear to be wise in hindsight

ironically, you could argue that he was a great patriot for not letting the Ruskies in

one thing is for sure, if the Russians had invaded you would not have been hurt

News / Communist era 'newspeak' appeals the most to Poland PiS supporters (what a surprise) [89]

with regards to Jaruzelski I have always been of the belief that the poor bastard could not have done much else

it was either a case of declare martial law and result in a few thousand protestors getting a good kicking or
do nothing and have the Russians wade in and indulge in a spot of bayonet practice using the local populace as a target

It is all well and good now to sit in the comfort of one's armchair and criticise Jaruzelski however I am sure that
at the time, he genuinely believed that Poland was going to be invaded by the Russian army and had to choose
the lesser of two evils

Study / Shocking! Test standards in Polish schools. [165]

funny how Russian people come to Poland to study and a year later they are rabbitting away in Polish at a very high standard

A Hungarian friend learned Russian at school and at an integration meeting in Prague she kept saying that all the Czech
people were speaking a funny kind of Russian dialect


sorry, no sale

A reminder: "Shocking! school test standards"

Study / Shocking! Test standards in Polish schools. [165]

I worked with Dutch people for years and never understood a word

.....then again, I am borderline retarded

News / Poland now soft-pedalling ACTA signing [107]


thanks for the clarification

a Polish friend of mine went on some pro anarchy marches in Poland and felt that the Poles were extremely well behaved
and met quite a few non-Polish political agitators who were most distressed by the lack of mayhem being caused

I feel that Polish people are very pragmatic but mildly apathetic at the same time. the whole concept of protesting just for the sake of protesting

is quite alien for them

News / Poland now soft-pedalling ACTA signing [107]


you don't feel that the Poles being instrumental in the fall of communism through their protests in the 1980s counted for anything then?

UK, Ireland / Obtaining driving License in UK or Poland ..which is easier [8]

good lords

this is completely at odds to what I have seen

don't get me wrong, I am not doubting you

for example you are happily driving along some leafy suburb when a driving instructor decides it would be a good time for his charge to

execute a three point turn and pulls out right in front of you causing you to slam on the brakes

I have not done the test in Poland but I did take driving lessons when moving to Warsaw as I really felt I needed professional help

before taking to the unforgiving streets of Warsaw. My driving instructor was an ex taxi driver and he was cool and he
taught me some new expletives at no additional cost

UK, Ireland / Obtaining driving License in UK or Poland ..which is easier [8]

you used to be able to buy your Polish driving licence

it was enough to give the examiner a bung and he would pass you

however as far as I know it is more or less impossible to buy a driving licence in Poland now
the driving test itself is recorded on film and you simply cannot cheat anymore

you need to weigh up the cost of the test and any additional lessons in the two countries and
make a decision which is the best option

I believe that the Polish driving instructors are the scum of the earth
they are mostly taxi drivers and allow their students to do the most stupid things including crashing
into kerbs at speed. I have never once seen them apply the dual control brakes.

anyone care to comment?

Law / Do foreign students graduated from Polish university need work permit before finding job? [24]

you seem to be ducking the question about your country of origin and your first post contained some absolute grammatical whoppers

good luck

Law / Do foreign students graduated from Polish university need work permit before finding job? [24]

there is a big difference between an expat and a recent graduate. The foreign expats working in big business over in Poland have been sent here by their firms and many work at senior management level. You are looking for an entry level position. there is a world of difference.

please answer some basic questions then I might be able to help more

1 city you are in at the moment?
2 what course did you do?
3 home country?
4 do you speak Polish?

that way I might be able to give you some practical advice

Law / Do foreign students graduated from Polish university need work permit before finding job? [24]

I am not being mean at all

I am telling you the reality of applying for a work permit in Poland with no job secured

if someone was mean, they would lie and tell you that you are guaranteed to find a job and that it is really easy to find work in the Polish city which

you neglected to tell us that you are living in, That way you would blow all your money chasing after a job that you could not possibly

hope to get as no one is going to sponsor your work permit. Sad, broke and dejected you would then have no other option but to return to

your home country

rather than do that, I chose to tell you the reality of the situation and you then have the adacity to call me mean

I was in fact trying to help but you do not seem to realise that

Law / Do foreign students graduated from Polish university need work permit before finding job? [24]

I take it that you studied the course in English?

your sentence construction is utterly bonkers

you are not going to be able to get a work permit unless you have a job offer.

it is very unlikely that you are going to find an employer willing to jump through hoops in order to obtain a work permit for you

did your university promise you a job at the end of your course?
this seems to be standard operating practice with many Polish universities in order to 'sucker in' overseas students

where is home by the way?

History / Cult Poland PRL TV Ads and Cars [12]

the poor bastard who took part in the Maluch ad is probably still being treated for whiplash

Food / Kaszanka and haggis? [34]


you have left yourself wide open to a stinging retort

luckily I am feeling magnaminous

Food / Kaszanka and haggis? [34]

here is a recipe for vegetarian haggis which I found on The Guardian

guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/jan/25/burns-night-supper-vegetarian-haggis

it looks half decent but more importantly it incorporates ingredients which are readily available in Poland

I am going to give it a bash and will let you know how I get on

News / Controlling the internet ACTA in Poland (Like SOPA) [34]


I was speaking to some IT dweebs and the law kicks in tomorrow apparently

it will be interesting to see if the torrent sites will still be up and running and accessible from Poland

however it could be an end to downloading films and music

how in practice, the authorities are going to enforce all this downloading is anyone's guess
however blocking access to the torrent source sites would be a good place to start