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antheads   
16 Sep 2013
News / Have You heard about legalizing 12-hour working day in Poland? [38]

great article in the guardian about the protests
theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/13/poland-union-solidarity#start-of-comments
good to see a sane perspective from england and not biased expats.

The government has abolished the eight-hour working day, lowered the minimum wage, raised the retirement age, and, as Solidarity leader Piotr Duda puts it, "neglected society". The protest is peaceful, yet the PM Donald Tusk has described it as "an attempt at overthrowing the government".

workers have replaced communists as the enemy of the state: these workers demand social rights and a welfare state, which are, in modern Poland, interpreted as a burden on our economy, associated with the communist regime.

According to the Fakty news programme, the protests are supported by 59% of Poles, which proves the unpopularity of the current government.

antheads   
3 Mar 2013
News / Dog 'saved life' of missing Polish girl [5]

Firefighters in Poland say a small dog probably saved the life of a three-year-old who went missing from her home overnight in freezing temperatures.

The child, Julia, vanished on Friday and was found lying in marshes several kilometres from her house on Saturday morning, with the dog by her side.


bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21643100
antheads   
4 Feb 2013
News / American SM-3 ballistic missile site in Poland by 2018 [86]

This
wll just increase russian efforts to get poland in their sphere of influence. Germany and Russia are pretty close now with the construction of nordstream. It won't happen in the next 10 years but surely america will become less relevant in eastern europe.
antheads   
2 Feb 2013
News / Characterizing Poland's political parties [33]

the murder of one priest does not make a police state

Got any evidence to back that up buddy? The Institute of National Rememberance would beg to differ. I've just presented two academic books and abstracts pointing to the opposite, what do u have in response? All those happy RPL joyfull couples stating it was a socialist paradise.? Or maybe your own made up forum memories of a time you know nothing about. And a country you know nothing about except the date you arrived. You are clueless. Come back when you have served your suspension Delphiadomine AKA ismellnonsense . And stop breaking the TOS
antheads   
2 Feb 2013
News / THE PARTYS OVER... NO MORE EUROS FOR POLAND'S ROADS [71]

get your facts right

@ismellnonsense AKA delphiandomine

Aren't you sopoused to be suspended? I thought it was against the Privacy, Forum Rules, TOS, to have a duplicate account.
antheads   
2 Feb 2013
News / Characterizing Poland's political parties [33]

@jkb

got any evidence to back that up buddy? i point you to this and this

Seems like a great read!

The book asks how the changes in Poland involving democratization, privatization and marketization were effected by, and effected, the party/police-state framework within which they occurred. While democracy and Soviet style secret police are inimical, the same can not be said of economic factors and secret police. The book notes the easy congruence between the police apparatus and local and global capitalism. Los and Zybertowicz argue that the privatization of the police state can not be understood without examining the machinations of the various police and security agencies.4

antheads   
2 Feb 2013
News / THE PARTYS OVER... NO MORE EUROS FOR POLAND'S ROADS [71]

How many of these new highways are private toll roads? They are building these roads with goverment money and then robbing the taxpayer again?

Instead of following the american model Poland should have invested more in the railways , like the czechs.
antheads   
30 Jan 2013
Australia / Poles invaded the wrong Anglo-Saxon country [29]

There are parts in Sydney where you cannot go or you will be in big trouble if you are white,

Stop spoutin ***** mate, there is no better sucsess story for multiculturism than aus, sure there are many probs but compared to gun violence in suburbs in the usa, and footy kids runnin around the suburbs of england its a damm safe place. For the record I feel safe in EVERY SUBURB in Melbourne and Brisbane.
antheads   
22 Jan 2013
Language / Kurwa? at end of every sentence [51]



This is a masterfull use of the word :)

Hahah love the top comment

Polish Lesson #1:
English: ****. Polish: Kurwa!
English: It's amazing! Polish: O Kurwa!
English: Excuse me, what? Polish: Co Kurwa?
English: Ohh no... Polish: Kurwa...
English: Im so angry! Polish: Kurwa Mac!
English: Are You insane?? Polish: Pokurwilo cie??
English: Ohh no, Im late again! Polish: Kurwa znowu!!

@ruski
can you give some examples ? ;)
English: It finally worked!! Polish: No,kurwa
English: ***** Polish: kurwa
English: Kim Kardashian Polish: Kurwa.
there are many more ;D
antheads   
21 Jan 2013
Life / Polish movies with English subtitles [87]

the best way is to get the polish film u want on peb.pl or bitnova.info or wherever then download the subtitles seperately from opensubtitles.org or pondnapisi.net!, for example alicia podnapisi.net/en/ppodnapisi/search?sK=+Seksmisja
antheads   
21 Jan 2013
Travel / Dreamliner for Lot Polish [27]

Latest news is that the baddreamliner could be grounded up to several months, oh and LOT will not get any compensation for the grounding... BYE BYE LOT, after the bankruptcy, airplanes and staff will be transferred to eurolot and the national carrier will continue, sans long haul flights ..

Contractually, Boeing will have to pay only for fixing the jets, and for retrofitting the fleet already built with any required changes.
That's "peanuts," said the airline executive, compared to what it's costing the airlines to cancel their 787 flights and...

seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020173453_787teethingpainsxml.html
antheads   
17 Jan 2013
Travel / Dreamliner for Lot Polish [27]

i've been told its a million zloty . Boeing are not liable if there is a grounding, LOT would have got compensation for delays but there is an upper limit to the amount which prob was reached after a year.
antheads   
17 Jan 2013
Travel / Dreamliner for Lot Polish [27]

its the end of LOT really, the 787 was sopoused to be the saviour of the airline, now with it grounded for weeks and LOT paying a million a month to lease each airplane LOT will not survice. The EU will not approve another bailout.
antheads   
15 Jan 2013
Travel / Nice restaurants in Warsaw [30]

the restaurant at the sobieski hotel does a good steak as a recall
antheads   
11 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / Living with Poles in London [16]

hence why your inbred white trash skinhead porkmarked arse was rejected!
antheads   
2 Jan 2013
Life / The unacceptable side of Polish culture [48]

@jdthebrit:
interesting thread, good on you jd for stopping a potential maiming. And of cours the circumstances and andrenaline excuse you calling polish people cowards etc.

I'm curious as to what the mechanics where to th fight being stopped, what happened after the guy punched you? did his friends try and have a go as well? are you trained in martial arts that you had the confidence to step in? Give us the gory details.
antheads   
25 Nov 2012
Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [380]

pgtx : usually it is only donw with low cost carriers or if the air bridges are used, in warsaw we have ridiculous ; air bridges not being used and all the lot planes on remote stands.
antheads   
25 Nov 2012
Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [380]

What i don't like is they don't use the air bridges at okęncie but instead pack you onto a bus. For business travelers this would be annoying when prob the competing carrier shells out to use the air bridge.
antheads   
24 Nov 2012
USA, Canada / Homeless Poles in NYC [25]

thanks sean, thats a beutifull sad song, i really like the sound of irish folk music for some reason, any other recomendations?
antheads   
7 Nov 2012
News / Platforma is stuffing public bodies with its cronies! PRL mentality clings on ... [10]

this article is a good primer for new poles and expats

"This is the widely-suspected set of links between former Communists, Soviet-era intelligence networks, business oligarchs who benefited from corrupt privatisations, and the old KGB now reviving in Putin's Russia under the acronym of FSB," O'Sullivan says.

"This shadowy 'network' is widely believed to be influential on a range of political matters, especially the all-important question of energy security, and largely outside democratic control.