Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]


Ah come on, that's not fair it doesn't explain the few years that they didn't have a major war ;p

Life / Age chauvinism in Poland regarding young people [17]


One of the biggest differences between myself and my parents is that a married couple with kids could afford everything (mortgage, car, food, bills etc...) on (usually) the husbands wage.

That isn't possible on the average wage anymore.

Then we have the Lotto and a whole host of media telling everyone what they have to have to be happy. It's perverse.
So people go round wearing expensive clothes but don't have any money.
I thought the film showed me a glimpse of a world I happily will never know.


The older I become (I am still quite young) the more I agree that I was an idiot.

But there seems to be a good way to go. When you're young you do stupid things, push boundaries, sometimes reckless and thoughtless.
Sure I think if it weren't like that you wouldn't be able to say you really lived, not really :)


Above quote attributed to Bill Gates but apparently he didn't write it, doesn't really matter but just thought I'd say.

Life / Age chauvinism in Poland regarding young people [17]


Torq deserves all the credit for

In my honest opinion, from conversations with friends from the U.S. it appears to me that old people are listened to more here in Poland than in the U.S. (or Ireland for that matter).

The reasons could be that while in many countries we have nuclear families, children leave the parents and set up their own (for the most part) independent families.

While in Poland, due to lack of money, people live in huge homes, housing four generations.

The trick about culture is that it is our ability to communicate to the next generation and each other that is our culture.
Most Polish people have daily direct contact with their grandparents (for better (babysitting) and worse (being told that they are disrespectful)).

I don't like youth worship, which seems to be all the media really do.

There is a wealth of information in the elderly, maybe we should listen more.

I suppose what I am saying at the end of the day is that, according to rumor, old people were once young :)

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]

We are talking B.S.

:)

Life / Age chauvinism in Poland regarding young people [17]

en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Youth

People have always loved to complain, they will complain about the youth, the old, the indifferent.
They will even complain about the complainers :)

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]


I suppose your point is he is innocent until proven otherwise.

It's a fair point.

UK, Ireland / Domestic arguments caused by differences between Polish and English culture [109]


OH No it didn't!



Lowest temperatures ever recorded


I asked a friend here and the reply was "The one with most holes is used for the one you use more of, so salt".

I use very little salt, everything has salt in it these days anyhow.

But I get the feeling that environment has a lot to do with cultural differences.
Here's a great big whopper of a generalization but I find Northern Europeans more serious, more cold.
And the opposite of the south.
I put this down to people dying in the harsh winters, if they had a relaxed attitude, they'd be dead.

In Thailand people die of cold in plus 12, that's summer time on the islands.

UK, Ireland / Domestic arguments caused by differences between Polish and English culture [109]


A bad winter here would be under minus 30.

So although the bricks, stone and concrete blocks may well survive, the inhabitants may well not.

If the heating was on, the insulation would be insufficient.

The water tank in the attic would freeze,



the outflow pipe for the condensate boilers,



Surprisingly Poles don't use plasterboard walls so much (except for new build apartments) and the walls feel really very cold.
I had my brick walls plasterboarded over because I don't like the feel of the cold walls.


And don't tell us you still put in two separate taps, one for hot and the other for cold? :)


The D.S. are actually very good the last few years in the U.K.

UK, Ireland / Domestic arguments caused by differences between Polish and English culture [109]


Yes but houses in England and Ireland are not meant to go through months of minus 15.

You don't see toilet outflow pipes coming down outside the walls here in Poland, in Ireland and England you do.

Similarly the summers are hotter here in Poland and it is less humid than on the islands.

It's not a question of better or worse, different technologies for different environments.

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]

They found hexogen, pentryt, TNT, gunpowder and video tapes of his test explosions.

I doubt he did that with some camping equipment and lipstick :)


Onet

So anyone care to throw wild and wonderful accusations?

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]

Most of them confirm that he had explosives, had made explosive tests, was posting stuff on forums.
Which allegations are you referring to?
Sources should be questioned, I agree.

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]

Travel / Which countries (of the world) is a Polish drivers licence valid? [15]

I got an international driver's license, cost 30 something zloty, took a couple of days and is valid for 3 years.

It gives a list of countries where it is valid, which includes Britain and Ireland.
I'm guessing that if you have an (e.g.) U.S. driver's licence you can get this international one and drive in Ireland etc...

It's an A5 paper sized paper book with your photo glued in and stamped over.
Only in Polish, which is a little strange as you can't use it in Poland but hey, when in Rome, show them Polish...

Międzynarodowe prawo jazdy



Anyway, I probably didn't need it but the countries I need are listed and some of the countries are very very bureaucratic, so better safe than in jail.

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News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2971]


If you force someone to do something against their will because you believe they should pay the penalty for their actions, that is a punishment.

Sperm is also "alive", the goal posts change position with our understanding.

Food / Goose meat anyone in Poland? [20]


They probably sell it for relatively exorbitant prices and buy many of the really great pork, turkey or chicken meats.

And why wouldn't they?

News / 2014-2020 EU Cohesion funds for Poland [11]


I don't see it like that at all.

The E.U., must be the most divided place countrywise on the planet.
Put a circle over any other part of the globe and you won't see so many small countries.

It's in all of our interests to cooperate, it's a long term strategy that will keep us up there with the rest.

Germany, one of the biggest contributes, will only benefit unless we break apart and countries won't pay the bill.

And it's not as if anyone is just given money, it's lent, with a lot of changes, for the benefit of all.

UK, Ireland / Do Polish Immigrants in Great Britain hate each other? [60]

Well at least we know what he drinks.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2971]


WHO

There are more but well links saying the same thing but I'm really just repeating myself now.

I try not to post unless I have something new to say but since it has been brought up again.

Why? which numbers are you talking about?

In the U.S.:
Number of abortions per year: Approximately 42 Million
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 115,000


Are you talking about 'IF' the father wants the child?
I don't know how orphans are in the U.S. but here in Poland, it's very difficult to adopt.
I know a few couples who have been on the waiting list for years.


This sounds like you want to punish some people. You can't say some can have abortions because they say their contraception didn't work and punish others who were stupid.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2971]

I know and he has a very good point.
Banning things does nothing except put more people's lives at risk and drives it underground in to the hands of organised criminals.
It's been posted already, but just because countries make it ilegal does not change the amount of abortions taking place, either illegally or in neighbouring countries.

It applies to all countries not just the U.S.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2971]


/wiki/Abortion

News / 2014-2020 EU Cohesion funds for Poland [11]


It is expected to be 80 Billion Euros


I read that it was countries like France and germany that didn't want to give so much this time.

wbj.pl/article-58942-poland-to-lose-out-in-next-eu-budget.html - Not poor countries.


Most of it, yes.


I never heard that.
Post a link and I'll take a look.
Good thread!


funduszeeuropejskie.gov.pl/english/Strony/European_Funds.aspx]


I know very little about Poland's railways,

Edit*
Good man delphiandomine, have you a link to read about Polish railways?

News / Poland's Ruch Narodowy - should it be banned? [62]


ONR Ideology:





There's a lot more on this website: studioopinii.pl/artykul/3837-piotr-rachtan-dokumenty-onr- Peter Rachtan: Documents ONR (In Polish)

Ruch Narodowy - should it be banned?

In my opinion they should not be banned but the Polish general public should be made very aware of these guys, so that they know who and why they are marching along side. I think that would sort out much of the support. And of course the law still applies, if anyone brakes it they should pay the penalty.

otwarta.org/old/skazani-za-hajlowanie,405.html - ONR guys get arrested for Hitler salute (also in Polish)

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2971]

So although she had a miscarriage, the fetus still had a heartbeat,
Irish law allows abortions if it threatens the mother's life, this was not even an abortion as she already had the miscarriage.

I don't want to jump to conclusions, maybe I already have? but we should really wait for the results of the investigation.

Life / The "I am never wrong" phenom - is it the Polish thing? [63]


Yeah same in Ireland not here though:


I too see this often, it's really very nice.

UK, Ireland / Domestic arguments caused by differences between Polish and English culture [109]



That's the stuff,

UK, Ireland / Domestic arguments caused by differences between Polish and English culture [109]


I didn't get it at first but over the top. I see:

(bit slow today)



For less waste I always go under the bottom (why does that sound rude? toilet humour...)


The seat now, not the full on lid, that has always been my piece de la resistance when in a monthly argument, out of nowhere ;) why I didn't leave the toilet seat down when finished, to which I would say why don't you ever lift the seat up.

No longer an issue.
But I must agree, the lid should be down, your wife is very wise.


Polish people, for reasons I have not ascertained, seem to think tap water is poison.
There's nothing wrong with Krakow's water until you ask for it and the looks of bewilderment make you feel like this will be the last thing you ever do.


As the water is obviously poisoned ;) most homes I go to offer juice or tea lemon and sugar no milk not that it'd be strong enough for milk or coffee, which could be Turkish coffee, leaving the crap in the cup to give you something to wince about.


That's really when all these so called 'cultural differences' are just a fart in the wind :)


There's that really popular coloured salt, can't think of the name, they even colour it too look like vegetables so you think you're doing yourself a favour... :)

UK, Ireland / Domestic arguments caused by differences between Polish and English culture [109]

I thought salt went into the shaker with one hole because of it's historical value and it's not good for you.


I rarely use salt but when I do it's sea salt from a grinder, I've been led to believe it's less processed.

All that being said I remember coming back to Dublin from my travels, made it into town, spent the last of my money in a sit down fish and shipper, threw on the salt only to find out it was sugar.


People from different countries do things differently, there is no right or wrong, until you are married :)

I find the food here in Poland too salty and eating out everywhere but I don't use salt.


Sounds like there's gonna be more...

Which way does the toilet paper hang on the holder?

Toilet seat up or down?

Tap water or bottled?

Water or juice?

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Will they do the fandango?
Thunderbolts of lightning.... very very frightening.

I'm neither Latino or from the Americas and I have to beat the chicks off with my stick.

So eh yeah, circumcision... cutting a piece of skin off a baby boy's penis.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

You know I like to provoke (thoughts I hope) but if you thought the skin cream thing was a bit much... ever eat Kellogg cornflakes?


hypervocal/news/2012/corn-flakes-inventor-john-kellogg-wanted-to-sew-your-foreskin-with-silver-wire


/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg+John+Harvey+Kellogg+foreskin+wiki

The best thing I have seen on this topic are the great Penn & Teller on Circumcision:

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

That's almost but not quite as horrifying as the answer Yahoo has:


literally rub it in their faces.

I thought they did it for free but just kept the tips:)