UK, Ireland / The secret Polish gay men in the U.K [133]


Ohhhh ... you ARE naughty, aren't you ... ;)!? ROTFL.

UK, Ireland / The secret Polish gay men in the U.K [133]


And, unfortunately, it is mainly those among us who claim to be Catholics/Christians and should therefore be preaching tolerance. But what can one expect, when the Vatican has said last week that the ordination of women priests is on the same par as paedophiles in the Church (see The Independent newspaper) ... :(

History / The Untold Battle of Britain [205]

I have to agree with enkidu here ... .

Or try Numbers chapter 31 ... not really a nice bedtime story to read to the kids just before they go to bed ... :-S

News / Unbelievable but, its truth. Poland is finally happy to share border with Russia [57]



You convinced the Slovaks and the Czechs ... :O :D?! Hmm hmm, yeah, RIGHT ... ROTFLMAO. Come on man, don't be such a megalomaniac! A little bit of humbleness would suit you.


Suppose, Crow, that everybody says the sun is yellow. And you are the only one who says it is blue ... guess whom I will believe when I want to know the colour of the sun?

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]


In that case there IS someone (even two) at the wheel, Patrycja. They just choose to land on autopilot. It happened to me last Monday; the pilot of my plane decided to land on autopilot on EHEH. Not a very comfortable landing, I must say.

But it wasn't that the pilot and co-pilot were sitting in the back with the passengers having a cupper.


And I am going to land there today around 1525 ... thanks for the "comforting words" ... ;).

News / UK might have anti-Polish socialist Prime Minister [29]


Not that I am in favour of them very much, but are Ed and David to blame for what some faraway forefathers did 90 years ago?

I'll tell you something about my family, father is Dutch, mother is German. My greatgrandfather on father's side was a Dutch collaborator with the Nazis, his son (so my grandfather) was in the resistance, lived the best part of WWII on the run in the woods and did some very nasty things to the Nazis.

My greatuncle from mother's side flew bombing raids for the Luftwaffe over the former Soviet Union, was shot down 4 times and was captured the last time. He was sent to Siberia and only came back home in 1957. My grandfather on mother's side on the other hand was someone high up in SPD-ranks, sent to a concentration camp and perished there.

Am I responsible in any way for what my greatgrandfather or greatuncle did? Or for any of my grandfathers?

Come on ... this thread is really far fetched. If that's all what you worry about ... .

History / The Two Saddest Nations on Earth... Poles and Jews [171]

Seanus, I am very sad to hear about your loss. I wish you and your family all possible strength and wisdom to be able to deal with the death of your grandmother.

Kind regards,

Stu.

News / Majority of Poland's kids physically unfit, claims PPA. [41]


Well ... that makes sense. He went to Wroclaw ... that's obvious.

News / Majority of Poland's kids physically unfit, claims PPA. [41]

Zetigrek, I am very sorry to hear that and I do hope you don't have too many problems with your back. No, you are right. Scoliosis has nothing to do with lack of PE, but has most likely to do with genetic factors.

Maybe your assertion explains the high percentage ... it does make very good sense.

News / Majority of Poland's kids physically unfit, claims PPA. [41]


I guess you are right. People mostly eat processed foods (look at the colour on the average dinner table - if people take the trouble to sit down and eat together at all - it's all light brown ... can't be right). People say it's quick, and cheaper than healthy food, but I guess it's just "penny wise, pound foolish". In the long run, you just have higher medical bills. And if we as parents give the wrong example to our children, then I think nothing will change.

You can buy 2 hamburgers at the McDonalds for 2 euros. And what can you buy in the supermarket for 2 euros? Nothing that makes us feel "satisfied", i.e. which gives us the feeling we've had enough to eat.

Don't get me wrong ... I'm not some health guru gnawing on salad leaves all day like some deranged rabbit ... there is nothing wrong with some "comfort food" once in a while.

But the scary thing is, that we are in fact killing our kids with a bad diet. Everybody is outraged when they see videos of 4 or even 2-yr olds smoking cigarettes and we question the "parenting skills" <ahum> of these parents. But if we keep feeding all this processed stuff to our kids, which in fact makes them live shorter than us, aren't we in a way just as culpable?

Just a question ... . Any thoughts ... ?

Love / Ten things to remember when you have a Polish girlfriend [79]


That's why I have always called my girlfriends Darling, Sweetheart, Angel ... ;). So even "in the heat of battle" you're sure you don't get it wrong. I don't want to shout out "Ooooo Magda" during my orgasm when in fact my wife is called Anita ... :P.

Great post, MacDuff!

News / Majority of Poland's kids physically unfit, claims PPA. [41]


Well ... I am not in the UK, I am sorry. Maybe cause it's a forum about "POLAND AND POLISH NEWS LIVE" (see the white letters in the red bar at the top of the homepage)? Just an idea ... .

News / Majority of Poland's kids physically unfit, claims PPA. [41]


I dunno ... I just copied it from the article


Would that account for the huge number of ads on Polish tele for medicins? There is always some guy with a headache, or some woman with bowel problems ... :-S

News / Majority of Poland's kids physically unfit, claims PPA. [41]

I've heard that the current generation in the US is the first generation that will live shorter than the generation before ... I do hope Poland won't follow that example. But if it is true what the Polish Paediatric Association says, then it doesn't look well.

Life / Anyone else suffering from mosquito bites in Poland? [52]


What ... you fart them to death ... ;)?


Not only them, I'm afraid ... :-S

But I guess if you combine garlic AND beans, then you might have a recipe for success (or for a life in eternal solitude ... :-S)

History / The Pogrom on Jews at Eishyshok (Ejszyszki) in Poland [68]


So what do you want to do, huh?


Please, don't think Polish history is your history. Polish people have guts, have honour, something which can't be said of you.

Exaclty what M-G says, one Jewish person does something wrong and then all Jews are bad. You wanna know how many Polish people do things wrong in the Netherlands? Or how many drunken a$$holes I encounter every weekend in Wroclaw? So according to the theories of these simple-minds it means that EVERY Pole is a drunken, stealing, cheating, swan eating, fish poaching Neanderthal. It's not me who is saying this ... it's the logical conclusion one has to draw when listening to these suckers like Jolanda.

And Jolanda, please stop pretending you are Polish. It just sounds stupid. It's like I would say I am Polish because I am married to one. You better don't use "us", "our(s)" and "we" ... it's pathetic.

Life / Anyone else suffering from mosquito bites in Poland? [52]


Absolutely ... !! I live off Grabiszynska in Wroclaw (with no pools or puddles or rivers anywhere) and before I go to sleep I have to do some serious hunting. If it goes on like this, we'll have to paint the walls after the summer is over so the smudges are covered ... :(.

News / Father Popiełuszko beatified in Warsaw [28]

Says Mr Simple Mind himself. You go on with your conspiracy theories, Jolanda. And keep believe in them, sucker.

News / Father Popiełuszko beatified in Warsaw [28]

... which exactly proves delphiandomine's point. There's always some conspiracy behind everything. Jee, I guess even the Russians are behind the fact the sun is setting every evening or the grass grows during summer.

Travel / Driving lights in Poland [25]


And I've heard that it uses about 10% more fuel as well. The new LED-daylights don't. There are big differences per car (the more the car consumes, the less the extra fuel consumption), but I still think the law should go along with modern techniques. It's like the light laws for cyclists, isn't it? The police shouldn't be bothered with what kind of light, but only with the fact that the cyclist has light.

It's about safety, it's about being visible to other people ... so nagging people with using LED-lighting on modern cars, is simply stupid and doesn't reflect the meaning behind the law. These police officers are just frustrated little twurts who want to assert their power. They are too stupid to even talk about.

News / Father Popiełuszko beatified in Warsaw [28]


This point.

News / Father Popiełuszko beatified in Warsaw [28]


... which exactly proves delphiandomine's point.

Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]


I have to agree there. In those countries were TV-shows aren't being dubbed, people are exposed to other languages and therefore, these people find it much easier to communicate in another language.

Even those of us who watch "The Bold and the Beautiful" on a daily basis and thus (at the peril of being slaughtered here), aren't the most intelligent under us, are still exposed to English every day and therefore, something is bound to "linger" in their brains.

In practically every country where they dub television shows or movies or where they have a lektor, the general knowledge of languages is poor, to say the least.

Travel / Driving lights in Poland [25]


Oooo come on, who are you kidding? Well, let's put it this way: maybe they aren't jealous (but I seem to remember a lot of threads about stealing women, etc ... :-S), but they grudge eachother the light in their eyes.

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [301]


So what was the task of the Blue Police? Are you absolutely sure that PL-people at that time didn't rat on their Jewish neighbours, maybe because they were scared to death that the Nazis would kill THEIR family? Can you give me a link? I wouldn't be so sure, you know.

All in all, I feel this is just about semantics.

The wife whose husband (resistance fighter) was shot in the street or the wife whose husband was shot in a jail: in these cases, there is no such thing as "I suffered more than you".

Sorry ... now I have to continue working again.

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [301]

"Depending on a definition of collaboration (and of a Polish citizen, based on ethnicity and minority status), scholars estimate number of "Polish collaborators" at around several thousand in a population of about 35 million (that number is supported by the Israeli War Crimes Commission).[46] The estimate is based primarily on the number of death sentences for treason by the Special Courts of the Polish Underground State. Some estimates are higher, counting in all members of the German minority in Poland and any former Polish citizens declaring their German ethnicity (Volksdeutsche), as well as conscripted members of the Blue Police, low-ranking Polish bureaucrats employed in German occupational administration, and even workers in forced labor camps (ex. Zivilarbeiter and Baudienst)."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboration_with_the_Axis_Powers_during_World_War_II

Ironside: just like you are trying to show that there are "relatively" few collaborators in Poland (in absolute terms one could argue that "several thousand" is quite a lot), M-G is trying to show that in relative terms there were quite a lot of Dutch people who got themselves on the Yad Vashem-list.

Why is it that difficult to accept?

And okay, PL-resistance fighters were shot in the streets, Dutch resistance fighters were shot in jails, the woods or send to labour camps or KZ-lager. In all cases we have the same result, haven't we: they died.

And allow me to disagree with you about a collaborating government as well: there was no Dutch government which collaborated with the Nazis. Like the Polish government in exile, they fled to London.

Travel / WHAT TO WEAR END OF JUNE FIRST WEEKS OF JULY IN WARSAW [25]

Dale,

I know it's a Dutch website, but you can also visit weerplaza.nl (no www).

Typ "wars" in the line under "Zoek naar het weer in een plaats:" (Look for the weather in a city) on the top left of the page, just above the little map of the Netherlands and select "Warschau" from the list of three.

Go to the bottom of the results page and there you will find a 14-day forecast for the weather in Warsaw.

"Neerslag" means precipitation. The rest you'll understand.

Long-time forecasts are of course not 100% accurate, but it gives you a good idea what to take with you.

When you arrive at Wwa-airport and go through the doors after having picked up your luggage, turn left and walk to the end of the Terminal 1-building. On your left, just behind a bar on your left, the staircase on your right and near the toilets, you will find two ATM's where you can withdraw money from your account. Much simpler and safer than the hassle of the "Kantors".

Here (lotnisko-chopina.pl/files/content/arrival/maps/terminal_pl an_arrival.pdf) is a plan of the airport.

The good thing about that, is that you also avoid irritating people wanting you to get into their taxis. They are a rip-off! Don't be tempted! Take the official taxis just outside the terminal or take the 175-bus.

Good luck.

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]


And that was where, M-G?


"Die zien we nooit meer terug!!" Translation: "we won't ever see her back again".