Language / Why 'działka'? [10]

As far as I am aware (My friends sold two plots last week) when you buy a działka there are restrictions on what you can erect on them (as Magda said). And as NMP said you own the land including all mineral rights etc and not the lease to the land which is the case in the UK.

Building permits restrict any structure to single story buildings of limited size and so on. As działkas are located outside the towns families often spend large parts of the summer there so they can tend their fruit and veg before and after work.

The restrictions allow for a degree of comfort during the summer but make them impossible to inhabit in wintertime. A year or two back there was a proposal to relax the building law allowing permanently inhabitable buildings to be constructed but I think this proposal was shelved cos my friends would not have sold if the potential for development (and increased value) was still there.

Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]


You have not, I asked you directly to post such links in this thread "End of Marriage" and you responded with this


Truth is Zimmy all you have posted is links to blogs and such there by cheapening the issue.

Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]


You were offering to post better links and couldn't, so no it's not sufficient.


I dont doubt that you have repeatedly posted the same thing;)

Now that we have a link it has proved almost useless as it's a bibliography.

Your second link is to an organisation that displays a similar bias to those that you have repeatedly accused others of.
Links from this website (I have read some) do not promote what you claim; that there is a feminist template generally adopted by society and the media. One particular author, Murray A Straus of the University of New Hampshire states this:


And this:


pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/V75-Straus-09.pdf

I chose to read Straus's work as He is quoted liberally by others in all the links you provided.

Posting these links demonstrates that you haven't read them and you rely upon someone else telling you what they say to fit a manufactured agenda. That invalidates your position and as I said above cheapens the issue.

Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]


From your link


So Straus believed in 2008 that:
"There is one important and consistently reported gender difference in PV:although women engage in both minor and severe violence as often as men, the adverse effects on victims are much greater for women."

And He believed, again in 2008, that:

"Attacks by men cause more injury (both physical and psychological), more deaths, and more fear. In addition, women are more often economically trapped in a violent relationship than men because women continue to earn less than men, and because when a marriage ends women have custodial responsibility for children at least 80% of the time. The greater adverse effect on women is an extremely important difference, and it indicates the need to

continue to provide more services for female victims of PV than for male
victims."

So stop trying to refract the authors words, after all you supplied them, though indirectly.


I read the whole paper and took nothing out of context; in fact the extreme position of others that you have adopted is in no way supported by the said paper or any of the others that I have read that your link led too. It appears that by blindly following a proscribed path your reasoning went out the window.

Again I repeat, can you provide evidence for your position that a Feminist agenda dominates society in general and the Media in particular. Any links you have posted have been to Blogs or "opinion sites" or on previous occasions to "Crank" sites.

I am interested.

Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]


It would be a surprise but something tells my you are right:)
It did fill a slow day at work.


Ah..........you are missing a lot :(

Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]

Zimmy
So you cannot produce evidence :(

Two of your random points caught my eye:


All the rest are not.


Now that was funny, and smart of you not to "genderdise"(sic) the issue.

Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]


Just bored with the constant harping about Feminist domination.

Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]


You posted an opinion ignoring the vast majority of the media. Differing views of the same image (commonly known as the male vs female gaze) is necessary for a basic understanding of any visual medium this seems beyond your myopic view.

As demonstrated above your hobbyhorse is based upon a predetermined view which does a disservice to this issue.

History / Digital reconstruction of Warszawa - Miasto Ruin - rebuilding the destroyed Warsaw [31]

Some more stills

plejada.pl/15776,1,2,miasto-ruin-kadry-z-filmu,fotogaleria.html
Click image to enlarge

Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]


I asked you to post "objective truth" several times and you failed (what you did post you hadn’t read) preferring instead to post opinion.

Calling me a liberal is not an argument but says rather more about your inability to rationally justify your stance.

Zimmy you dont know how to approach this subject in an unemotional way. For the last time I ask you again to provide solid evidence for what you claim.

This has become tedious.

Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]


Are you attempting a bit of male bashing with your "Shaming" language?


Yes.

Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]


Aphro is one of the many fine posters here.

It is pathetic that you pose in such an obvious way, no self confident person needs to pose.

Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]


Steady, get ready for links to "Under the stiletto......How Alpha Males can whine on a forum".

Love / 'Battered husbands' - still a taboo subject in Poland [387]


You have still not posted the article!


This is a real problem widely reported in the press but just not talked about.

History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]

Franz Kutschera
Was a particularly nasty individual, He joined the NSDAP in late 1930 and the SS in late 1931.


Zofia Franio

Was head of the elite Armia Krajowa DYSK unit (Women's Diversion and Sabotage), they provided the intelligence for the removal of this man. The DYSK also sourced and manufactured explosives and other armaments during the Warsaw rising. They were active in sabotaging rail lines, bridges, eliminating Gestapo and gathering intelligence.

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  Zofia Franio
  

History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]

That image has been released into the public domain ie devoid of copyright and as such became very famous. For example it's found on sites discussing child soldiers with no direct interest in Polish history.

The subjects were members of the Szare Szeregi briefly, a mutated form of scouts.


The image comes from the archives of Audiovisual Documentation Archiwum Dokumentacji Audiowizualnej and is clearly labled "Young boy and girl scouts fighting in the Warsaw uprising, Author unknown"

The young girl and two boys were about 17 years old and its almost impossible to identify the individuals (Archiwum Dokumentacji Audiowizualnej couldnt) I can say that the individual at the front looks like a young woman to me. If you have additional information I and others would be grateful for identification.

isthatu2It appears that you are correct. My apologies

Tadeusz Rajszczak is the name of the young boy (aged 15) wearing the helmet.
He fought with Batalion Miotła
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalion_Miot%C5%82a

The picture was taken on the 2nd September 1944 by Jerzy Tomaszewski.

featuring Tadeusz Rajszczak.

I posted this last night but there appears to have been a restore at some point before now.

Food / Polish Eating Habits [87]

Seriously, I would be interested.......What time do polish people eat. It's too early isnt it?

I like to eat late about 9 or 10 pm, my polish friends get home then eat immediately, it seems, most northern Europeans do that. I like to have a bite when I get in then do stuff, eating dinner later without interruptions during cooking and actual dinner.

Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]


No excuse to abuse them.


Most farmers who view their animals solely as a cash equivalent dont make good farmers either as businessmen or animal husbands.

History / Pole who burned himself to protest the 1968 Soviet invasion [81]


There is an interesting discussion Polish historical myths - to break or not to break them?about this.


Yes, the poor guy is dead and his family have to struggle to survive, what good is a Wiki page to them?

The Christian idea of blood sacrifice has been used in the west many times, after all Christ started it.


That also existed in the west.

Life / The "Rudification" Of Society - Is This Happening In Poland As Well? [146]

There is a great wee article by Nick Cohen (not someone I always agree with) that addresses this topic.
guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/sep/12/pope-benedict-atheism-secularism
nickcohen.net


for example


There is no point pasting the article here just read it if you wish.

Life / The "Rudification" Of Society - Is This Happening In Poland As Well? [146]


The idea of no big government is working well for Somalia.


And Americans offer every suffering to God as some kind of penance? no complaints about working conditions holidays or pay.

(I dont get the last bit surely you are not suggesting that militarism is some form of religious duty)


Unbridled consumerism the inevitable result of an unbridled free market.
(Keep this ideology quiet, it almost bankrupted us but we like it.)

Life / The "Rudification" Of Society - Is This Happening In Poland As Well? [146]


Big Government is used in a scatter gun approach to political debate never focused just like the word liberal.


My point is its another thing that doesnt exist yet is held dear in the hearts of many.

Life / The "Rudification" Of Society - Is This Happening In Poland As Well? [146]

That doesnt really mean anything.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Are they going to make oil?

UK, Ireland / Ed Miliband, new Labour leader, talking about Polish immigrants yesterday [62]


What about well though out Stalinist Thuggery, is it ok?

UK, Ireland / Ed Miliband, new Labour leader, talking about Polish immigrants yesterday [62]


No he didnt, He did say that (people complained to him using these words )"I'm not prejudiced against Polish but they are driving down my wages and conditions"

What he did say was that he was in favour of free movement of labour within Europe so that British people can work abroad. He went on to say that the policy of a flexible labour market which seemed(in his constituents minds) to drive down wages should be addressed, and then a load of marketing speak that meant nothing.

He never once mentioned Stalinism, used "Polish people as a scapegoat", or advocated the destruction of western society.

In this thread we have had Islam, Bangladeshi, Somali and Pakistani immigrants mentioned the Jewish-Bolshevik red herring and who knows what is to come.

Is it possible to have a nutters corner?

Life / Let`s compare prices of services and products in Poland [359]

-- packet of 20 cigarettes £6.30
-- 6-pack of local beer £6-£7 in off licence(Liquor shop) half that price in a supermarket.
-- a McDonald's cheeseburger Meat is Murder
-- the cheapest new car you can buy Dont Know
-- public transport fare (bus, tram, tube) single bus trip into the town center £1.30
-- cup of coffee at café £2.00
-- 200-litre fridge £100
-- bed-sit monthly rent £500
-- cinema ticket £3.50-£5
-- daily newspaper £1.20
-- loaf of bread £1.40 cheaper bread is available but does more harm than good
-- litre of vodka £15

average wage about £10.00 per hour

Life / Let`s compare prices of services and products in Poland [359]

I checked this morning and David is correct, about £250-£300.


That is the average price for a typical multiplex in the city or out in the sticks. They do deals during the week, weekends more expensive.


You can buy cheap vodka in supermarkets but branded stuff like Absolute/smirnoff etc is about £15. My local offie sells Zubrowka at about £18 per 500cc.


Its one of the things here Supermarket beer is very cheap its usually sold in cases of 24 and there is always something on offer.

I hear that clothes are the same price as in the west, is this true?

With cigarettes and spirits there is the black market which does a roaring trade. There was even a brand of vodka..basically a diluted grain spirit called Vodski. This illegal stuff seems to have taken over from poteen in the towns.

Life / Let`s compare prices of services and products in Poland [359]


Get the bus to Newry and save about £10 per pair.
In general the Free state is more expensive than the rest of Ireland. When we go to Donegal about 5 times a year we bring all our food and drink with us. The bar prices are crazy €4 a pint, no one can afford that. A round with crisps and coke for the kids costs the same as an Ibiza.

Life / Alcohol problems of Polish people [141]


Drink should be part of your diet.....that is important. Most Europeans understand that alcohol is part of adult life.