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Barney   
17 Jul 2010
Food / Polish Preserves, any recipes? [14]

elderberry and apple

Luckily I have access to both so will give the combo a go in autumn thanks. I haven’t tried these together as the elderberries usually go into wine. Apples and pears make a better wine a lot less acidic.

powidlo

Plum Butter? I may try this in autumn with Damsons.

Thank you:)

yummy stuff

Yeah, I'm looking forward to trying it we dont have anything like that here.
I grow a lot of stuff and give lots away, its nice how a few jars of jam or chutney always makes people smile:)
Barney   
16 Jul 2010
Food / Polish Preserves, any recipes? [14]

polishmeknob
I make a lot of jam for myself and also to give when visiting. Are there any combinations that you would recommend?

squash/cordial

This sounds good.

Thank you
Barney   
16 Jul 2010
Food / Polish Preserves, any recipes? [14]

I have a lot of summer fruit at the moment and was wondering if anyone had any recipes for preserves. After eating to excess we always make jam but I'm interested in Kompot recipes or any other ways to save fruit.

Anything involving Gooseberries would be greatly welcome.

Here’s hoping and thank you.
Barney   
9 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

Not the best side you are showing, Barney.

I don’t do Merry-go-Round arguments, as I said above arguments about preferences are essentially a box ticking exercise.

Trolling up an old thread to crow over a supposed toasting doesn’t strike me as logical.
Asking the same question umpteen times is not logical its pathological.
Barney   
8 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

I think

Not the strong point of a box ticker.

There is no blocking mechanism other than the Mods who could merge those threads. If more people used the search facility then I wouldn't need to make my point again and again. It's actually a rule of the forum to check that nobody else has a thread of a highly similar nature.

You are not and never will be a mod no matter how hard you try.
Barney   
8 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

University taught me many things, the first of which was to argue critically and discuss while being open to the opinion of others.

You are not doing that, you have decided to troll up several threads about religion to force a debate and in doing so demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding of belief systems for example asking for concrete differences between two sects.

In order for you to argue critically in this area you need to understand at least one basic idea; Religious arguments need to be translated into secular terms not just for people to understand the jargon but to place them at one step remove from the belief system otherwise its an argument about preferences (I like blue you like red).

This may seem like a trainspotting point but it is critical in understanding the pointlessness of the attempted debate.

There is a certain degree of vanity attached to most posts so feel free to type away like a latter day pamphleteer but you will be indulging in a solo occupation.
Barney   
8 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

Seanus
Can you please calm down, take a deep breath, count to ten.

It's possible to disagree without attempting to be nasty or didnt you learn that at university. There has got to be an online video you could watch that could demonstrate the dangers of being overly competitive.

OK readers back to the point:)

Seanus you have wanted to discuss this "idea" of yours for a long time and as with everything you keep changing terms making it impossible to know what you want.

You cannot reduce something as beautiful as a belief system to bullet points but if that is how you comprehend the world you should become a train spotter.

"Krok za krokiem" to you too

Stay focused it will do you good.
Barney   
8 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

Barney, it was YOU that attached that quality to it.

But you typed this...

I am Catholic and not Protestant because:

1)

2)

3)

4)

5)

and this...

What does it mean in concrete terms?

and I answered as above attaching nothing to your posts.

We then had yer man effectively marking my posts with a less than satisfactory level of reading comprehension.

Strong-form empiricism is for the chartered accountants of ideas.

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words - almost as though one were inventing them.
Rupert Hart-Davis
Barney   
7 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

of course that (concrete, measurable phenomenon) is not what we're looking for.

I know, Seanus is looking for at least five empirical reasons of why one would favour one religion over another. I'm pointing out that you cannot answer in those terms. By asking for a value based answer the terms of the question changed.
Barney   
7 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

Is that really so hard?

It is hard because you are asking an impossible question. Discussing values always leads to a logical loop.
If you are looking for concrete measurable phenomenon you wont find any.
Barney   
7 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

How is quantifiability a guarantee of non-silliness

I think the question is silly.
I think the question cannot be answered in quantifiable terms as asked by the questioner.
Barney   
7 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

The first step to understanding is enquiry, true?

Correct, with this provision, all enquiry starts with a preconceived notion, after all we need a framework to hang our observations.
I still think the question is silly and unanswerable in quantifiable terms.

Edit:

So, enjoy your sticker culture and keep making those donations so that another priest can enjoy an Alfa Romeo and a marble floor. God intended no intermediaries and I can quote you many Biblical provisions as proof of that. Scripture, man, scripture. Not artificial constructs!

What do you want to do with that?
Barney   
7 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

Why do you continue to ask the same thing if you know all the answers?

Pure supposition? ROTFL. Like we are discussing facts when it comes to God's existence.

I will have to spell it out for you; your guesswork around the Scottish football thing is nothing to do with God’s existence nor is your assumption that religion cheapens the notion of free thinking. If that is not speculation I dont know what is.
Barney   
7 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

Seanus
You are missing the point, endlessly asking the same question suggests that you dont understand non-quantifiable concepts. Everything else that you have attempted to attribute to this non question (here and other threads) is pure supposition on your part.
Barney   
7 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

Pawian just offered empty messages.

No, Pawian went straight to the point in his first post. It wasn’t the answer you wanted cos it sidestepped what you wanted to discuss.
Barney   
7 Jul 2010
Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

What a toasting Pawian took above

Don't be silly.

Can you answer a similar sillinness: why are you still alive?

Barney   
22 Mar 2010
History / A rare Polish medal [14]

except for the Spanish

Espana is not a Giri, not Spanish, he is from the only part of Africa where Cro Magnon survived.

these aboriginal peoples inhabited the western and eastern Canary Islands. They were first encountered by the conquering Spaniards at the beginning of the 15th century. Both populations are thought to have been of Cro-Magnon origin, and may possibly have come from central and southern Europe via north Africa, in some distant age.

When discovered by the Spaniards, these aborigines belonged to a stone age culture, though they were advanced enough to have pottery. Their food staples consisted mainly of milk, butter, goat flesh, pork, and some fruits; and their clothing was comprised of leather tunics or vests made of plaited rushes. They left alphabet-like engravings and characters whose meanings are obscure.

So no change there.

realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/cro_magnon_Homo_sapien.htm
Barney   
16 Mar 2010
History / Which nation were the biggest pussies of WWII? [120]

Ireland supplied about 100,000 soldiers to the allies, each and every one a volunteer, from a population of about 4 million, not bad for a neutral country.
Barney   
15 Mar 2010
UK, Ireland / The Daily Mail - coverage of the Polish people [161]

why not a Gay Born?

It will be interesting to see what the Daily Mail (Ireland) make of that and the attempt to change the blasphemy law
guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/15/ireland-referendum-blasphemy-law
Barney   
15 Mar 2010
UK, Ireland / The Daily Mail - coverage of the Polish people [161]

can you really have a man again after how successful Robinson and McAleese have been?

The next Irish president will probably be David Norris an African born openly Gay senator who speaks with an English accent.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Norris_%28politician%29
Barney   
5 Mar 2010
News / Mass immigration to Poland - article and response [479]

Im just being honest

You are always honest.
I think I did mention peasant mentality, aggression and female underemployment. These are problems associated with all impoverished communities.
With regard to work permits and so on, the horse has bolted. I did say you cannot curtail our freedoms to protect them.

Overall the economic benefit of migration and the policy driving it is positive. Claiming child benefit for dependants abroad is part of the package.

I believe most Somali people in Britain are seeking asylum (One of the best things Britain invented) or have been granted permission to stay.

private pension

You gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em.....
Private pension funds are a gamble, why cant they get the money?
Barney   
5 Mar 2010
News / Mass immigration to Poland - article and response [479]

Immigrants age and require pensions too

Yes, I was referring to the demographic problem in Europe where migrants may plug the gap yet remain able to pay for themselves as well.
Barney   
4 Mar 2010
News / Mass immigration to Poland - article and response [479]

There is a hole in the Pension argument, immigration would have to increase several fold to plug the gap. Overall migration is not a drain on the host country.

Blaming the problems on the tree hugging multikult left enrichers is ignorance at its highest, it was the right wing governments (1950s+60s) which started the whole thing and Left wing Governments(mid to late1970s) that recognised the problems and tried to curtail the migration. The second wave is a direct result of Right wing economic policy of opening up markets and so on.

The social freedoms that Europeans have were hard won and its illogical to curtail our way of life in order to save it.

In most of Western Europe Political/religious forces are anathema to most people, even religious folk, save for a few individual areas (Abortion being the most obvious), however, that is what many Muslims have done. We have insular Muslim communities that refuse to integrate.

Immigration is often treated as one thing - as if New Zealand computer experts, American bankers and Polish plumbers fell into the same category as villagers from Pakistani Kashmir. Trouble in immigrant communities and between them and indigenous communities must be understood in terms of alienation and exclusion

as well as in terms of Muslim aggression. The key is recognising the peasant mentality among many poor Muslims. Women don’t work, marry young and have larger families. All this leads to a vicious circle where educational skills are not there to pass on (Exactly the same applies to some indigenous people). Many other Muslims integrate successfully.

Naturally such ghettos lead to tension.

Race hate legislation has forced a change in some, its easier to denigrate people in terms of faith rather than race. This neo con idea that Europe has lost its sense of purpose is easier to understand and promote if you categorise people by faith rather than colour. Muslim immigrants are being treated as the new red peril.

Al-Qaeda is a modern phenomenon projecting a privatised form of organised violence on the world is pure globalisation and also impossible without globalisation, the idea that self immolation can change the world is the same view as 19th century anarchists, not the medieval world. None of their leadership were at Islamic school nor were the 9/11 bombers or the7/7 bombers indeed many were western educated living a secular life.

What you now have is right wingers creating a problem in migration and providing no solution. The reason we cant reverse the situation is economic. Resurrecting massive protectionism will see much more social upheaval than that predicted by the scaremongers.
Barney   
28 Feb 2010
UK, Ireland / Time for the Poles from the UK to go home [437]

Stop pretending to be an Irish Republican you filthy brit..... stop your lies.

Somebody’s feelings were hurt, is that because you were caught lying again?

As far as republicanism goes I could give you all the lines and as usual you would mouth them without understanding what they mean.

You are a perfect argument against universal suffrage, that’s one man one vote to you. There must be something wrong with a system that gives a moron like you the same voting rights an everyone else.
Barney   
28 Feb 2010
UK, Ireland / Time for the Poles from the UK to go home [437]

PolskaDoll is correct here.
Any survey or poll has to rely upon sampling, the methodology behind how the sample is chosen has to be known to ensure that its a representative sample. So unless the data and method is peer reviewed it cannot be taken as statistically correct.

People around a water cooler may have an opinion but that is all it is. You cannot form policy on hearsay.

Try 800 years of British imperialism.

FFS Just be confident in yourself and your country. You dont have to mention that at every opportunity. You're like a brit and 1966.
Barney   
27 Feb 2010
UK, Ireland / Staying on in a 'small British paradise' [38]

They are also joining the RUC in large numbers

Lies, lies and more lies.
What else would you expect from the Talaghban.

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
Please could you provide figures for how many Polish nationality officers are serving in your force

Answer:This is to inform you that the Police Service of Northern Ireland has now completed its search for the information you requested.
The decision has been taken to disclose the located information to you in full.
Answer.Currently there are no Police (Regular, Full Time Reserve or Constable Part Time) who have a nationality recorded as Polish, serving in the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Barney   
26 Feb 2010
UK, Ireland / Britain... What the Poles did for us. [444]

Selfish?

Yes, its not insulting.
The reason Britain went to war was to protect her national interests no other reason. Collaborating with Germany would have damaged Britain’s economic future and the democratic nature of Britain. Morality had nothing to do with it.
Barney   
26 Feb 2010
UK, Ireland / Britain... What the Poles did for us. [444]

If the cause for Britain's declaration of war on Germany was so noble

There was nothing noble about it. It was done for selfish reasons to maintain Britain’s status, as I said earlier, economic and political reasons.