Food / Could you recommend me a fresh Polish juice from fruit? [18]

Pomegranate juice.
There are various brands on the market, and I have tried most of them. Grante is the best - tastes the closest to freshly-squeezed pomegranate juice. Yes, we have a juicer. It tastes rather like dry red wine. Its properties are strange - it dilates the veins and acts as a mild aphrodisiac. At least it does on me. It's also exceptionally good for your heart and prostate.

Life / Warsaw Philharmonia - keeping the smelly plebs out! [8]

All well and good about loyalty, except the season tickets are VERY CHEAP. Everyone would buy season tickets if they could, but only nomenklatura can have them!!

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

I know researchers and they say biofuel is essentially a waste of time, but seeing as the authorities are paying ... and this sort of makes you think about all the public money going into global warmist research

Life / Warsaw Philharmonia - keeping the smelly plebs out! [8]

The season ticket holders in Warsaw - here's my beef - have a stranglehold on ticket sales because season tickets simply aren't on sale. You see, current ticket holders have the option to extend their ticket at the end of every year. That way, the Commie elite keeps all the season tickets. All the general/colonel/diplomat types sticking together. Truly snobbish.

Language / Polish language grammar books [59]

benefited - correct spelling :)

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

Right at the heart of the debate is the precautionary principle. This states that even if anthropogenic global warming isn't happening, or if it is happening and its effects are not bad, we must adopt the stance that we have to bankrupt everyone in a vain attempt to stop it, whatever "it" is. Robespierre used similar logic - until his head parted company from his neck.

Language / Polish language grammar books [59]

I like the spelling mistake in the acknowledgements: "The entire manuscript benefitted from the careful reading ... "

Ha ha ha! You couldn't make it up!

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

Carbon sequestration is astonishingly difficult on a technical level.

UK, Ireland / Writing an article about homeschooling education in Poland and in the UK [2]

I would be amazed if any Pole homeschools their child in England. Not that I'm against it per se, although it is very difficult indeed. On a legal level, I don't think Polish people generally have the extensive support groups required to meet the legal requirements regarding homeschooling. They could of course do it illegally, but that would be very unlikely. Good luck with your article!

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

Huge increases in installed capacity can be achieved through efficiency upgrades at existing power stations. Clean coal is not a joke, by the way, although clean nuclear obviously is.

Life / Jerzy Kosinski - Polish author and liar [127]

The holocaust industry has evil aspects to it. Jerzy Kosinski was a very successful part of it, lying very profitably to an audience that paid handsomely.

History / Should Poland be given ANY credit for ALLOWING Jews into Poland for 1000 years? [195]

No, I mean you should read about Christianity. Try "Jesus of Nazareth" by Paula Fredriksen. I don't agree with everything she says, but it's a start.

History / Should Poland be given ANY credit for ALLOWING Jews into Poland for 1000 years? [195]

Plastic Pole.

Catholics don't like to study the development of Christianity. As a Christian, it interests me. You should learn more about it - it really is fascinating stuff.

History / Should Poland be given ANY credit for ALLOWING Jews into Poland for 1000 years? [195]

The Romans disliked the Christians because they viewed them as insulting to people of other faiths. The Romans were very inclusive, because they had to be.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Try the Jerzy Kosiński thread.

History / Should Poland be given ANY credit for ALLOWING Jews into Poland for 1000 years? [195]

Jesus was dimissive of Romans and, according to one account, told his disciples not to spread the word among the Gentiles. Not very inclusive.

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]

My daughter's class tutor (home room teacher) talked in class today about the feminists' march in Warsaw and how they were fighting for women's rights etc etc. My daughter then proudly said that, fine, great advances were made in the past but that recently the only advance made was in England, where they successfully achieved a rise in the women's retirement age. 2 cheers for the femorons!

Off-topic somewhat, but I never quite worked out what abortion had to do with women's rights. Pregnancy isn't an illness that needs treating.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

My family's history of dealings with Jews:

Solec - little town on the Vistula. Pre-war, grandad + ggd had a cobblers business which was put out of business by a cabal of Jewish rivals which successfully managed to pressurize local leather sellers NOT to sell to him. When the bad times came, one of his erstwhile rivals offered him money to take in his daughter as his own, for safekeeping. He agreed, but the girl's mother changed her mind. The girl was brought round later when the Germans were rounding up Jews, but ggd was too scared to take her in at that stage, regardless of the money.

A little town, that shall remain nameless, near Radom. "Wujek M. ", who was active in Bataliony, hid Jews in his potato bunker, not telling anyone about it until the 1990s. Two of them became central to his later life, since they acted as his "protectors" during Stalinism. They were both in the security apparatus, one being Bierut's ADC. M's son went on to have a career in the military and through working his contacts got his sons good jobs, one in a big state concern.

My wife's headmaster was Jewish, hidden by Catholics during the war (as was his wife to be). An excellent teacher and organiser, he enjoyed high standing in Zwolen, a little town in the back of beyond which had once had a large Jewish community.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

The thing is that if Pole A does something wrong Pole B will call him a bad person. If Jewish Pole (Polish Jew) A does something wrong, then his ethnic group is involved too.

Jews didn't mix, for whatever reason. Coming from a town with a large, Muslim ghetto, I can tell you that this always goes down like a lead balloon. And "my" ghetto spawned suicide bombers.

Add to this: (i) the Jewish-led Bolshevik Revolution (read Volkogonov - chief KGB archivist) and the shock waves this sent through Poland, (ii) the heavy Jewish presence in the security "services" post WWII and you get a heady mix. And let's not forget the Jewish clique that lost out in the Party in-fighting in 1968 and then came back in the form of Adam Michnik, arguing for a better form of reformed Communism.

And if that weren't enough, you get Jewish campaign groups stirring matters up for their own ends. Perhaps someone has heard a Jew proclaim what a great place Poland was for Jews for centuries (who were there by choice, remember) before it all went bad thanks to the Germans. I haven't.

Haven't we seen echoes of this in the British attitudes to Muslims in recent years - and for far less cause? 50 dead at the hands of terror bombers, granted, but they always posed a lesser threat to the existence of the British state than the evil (yes, Communists were evil) Jewish-led Red Horde that made it to the gates of Warsaw in 1920. A touch more understanding, please. And less hypocrisy. In light of the circumstances and the times, Poles between the wars were fairly OK. In contrast, Hitler's rabidly anti-semitic politics were formed at the time Jewish Communists tried to take over by revolution in Germany.

UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

Errm - should I have been eligible for Polish NHS care, which saved my life? And should one of my children have received expensive treatment? I pay my contributions ...

Food / Comparison of supermarkets in Poland. Which one is the cheapest? [30]

The farmers I know (am related to) have two sections to their farm. They don't use chemicals on produce they are going to eat themselves.

News / EU Predicts Poland's Economy Will Expand at Bloc's Fastest Pace This Year [37]

Ah - you've missed the boat! The zloty was very weak just a few weeks ago due to fear in the currency markets.

Anyway, economic strength has very little to do with currency movements.

News / EU Predicts Poland's Economy Will Expand at Bloc's Fastest Pace This Year [37]

Well that's nice to know.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]

Slavia - running a farm can be a very ambitious thing indeed, involving lots of high level thinking, financial ability and physical skill. I presume you eat - so you should be thankful for farmers! My point is that people can get left behind and forgotten, and can suffer poverty away from any publicity, or in your case, sympathy. Change has always happened, and it's always tough - but you shouldn't be heartless.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]

The villages are experiencing depopulation, which means some old people especially simply get left behind and can't manage the farm. In some areas (like my wife's home village for example) you get vulnerable people without electricity. Benefits aren't great and if you can't work the farm through mental or physical infirmity - or alcohol abuse - it's really tough. Girls don't want to marry farmers, so sex also acts as a motivator - and when the young men don't stay round to run the place it quickly deteriorates - roofs fall in on the barn for example. That's poverty. Not the sort of poverty you see in Croydon, S. London, which is a poverty of expectations.