Love / Should I forgive my cheating Polish girlfriend? [73]

SMP. Reading your dilemma took me back several decades to a long-term relationship which was characterized by intense emotions, both positive and negative, and booze-fuelled histrionics. It was a toxic relationship and we should have ended it years before we did.

Do you know how many times you used the word love in your post? Is it love or obsession? Perhaps you need to take a complete break for a while. The fact that you have invested a lot in this relationship should not cloud your judgement. If it feels all wrong, it probably is.

Life / Blasphemy not OK in Poland! [54]

Are we going to have an RC/Protestant rumble? I do hope so.

Life / Blasphemy not OK in Poland! [54]

I teach a module on astronomy and myth at my uni. Last week I made a joke at Apollo's expense about him being sneaky and manipulative because he persuaded Gaia to set a giant scorpion on Orion because the latter had slept with Apollo's sister Eos. He also tricked his other sister Artemis into shooting Orion. Yesterday we discussed Poseidon sending a flood and a sea monster to devastate Philistia just because his wife was offended by Cassiopeia claiming that she and her daughter were more beautiful than the Nereids. Luckily Perseus saved Andromeda from being devoured by Cetus, the monster, but Poseidon came in for a bit of stick from yours truly. Should I expect the Polish inquisition to come bursting through the door next Tuesday shouting, "Blasphemy!"?

UK, Ireland / Poles living in the United Kingdom - give us a shout [11]


I doubt that.

UK, Ireland / Poles living in the United Kingdom - give us a shout [11]


What were you teaching?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Is it a little bean or a little baby?
I don't want to trawl through pages and pages of emotional breast-beating again so I may have missed the anti-choice lobby's views on IVF, a procedure in which some fertilised eggs are discarded.

Yes, the embryo has life, and I believe it's the woman's right to choose what to do with her own body, including terminating that life. Anything else puts a bundle of cells over the rights of a woman.

Language / Busha and JaJa [140]


I was going to mention that but didn't feel confident enough in my Polish!

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Who is talking about killing newborns?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

^
What's that weird video link on your profile all about? Illinois Nazis and black line dancing with ET in the middle. wtf?

Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]


I remember hearing Denis Skinner speak at the Durham Miners' Gala years ago. He launched into a withering and very funny tirade against Tony Blair. A real old English socialist who practises what he preaches.


Now I think about it, it was Neil Kinnock. I must be older than I thought.

Language / Busha and JaJa [140]

I sincerely hope so. It got boring a long time ago.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Gabi was talking about the UK.
There seems to be an unwritten consensus in the UK under which doctors are extremely unwilling to sterilise women of child-bearing age, especially healthy, sane unmarried women.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Not as far as I know, although it is entirely possible that women in Poland are, let's say, coerced into doing something they do not want to do.

The disagreement I had with p3 was that I suggested that his argument, reductio ad absurdum, would lead to a woman being effectively imprisoned and forced to complete the term of a pregnancy. The moral and legal consequences do not exist at the moment, but under p3's scenario they would.

My stance remains that a woman should ultimately have the final say in what happens to, and within, her own body.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


It is sometimes very complicated. Child abuse, rape, drunk and incapable of making an informed choice, mentally incompetent, etc.


How else would you effect delivery in a totally uncooperative woman?


Under anaesthetic? Against her will, right? Set aside the morality, do you understand the legal implications for all this?


I didn't. Obviously some women could be persuaded. I'm talking about the hard cases.


If you detain a sane person against their will, it can hardly be called freedom.


Yes, a man is entitled to his say. No, he is not entitled to sign a paper which may give him rights superior to the rights of the woman. It's her body; what goes on inside it is for her to decide. That's where I stand. I guess we'll have to agree to differ.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


It's not always as simple as that. But OK, if you're content to imprison pregnant women, and approve of invasive medical intervention against the woman's will, that's your right. I just hope, under your rules, your daughter is never taken away screaming to the prison hospital.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


This would possibly mean imprisoning the woman and forcing her to go through with the delivery, including physically restraining her in a locked room. If she were to be very uncooperative about other people's decisions concerning her own body, chemical restraints might be deemed appropriate while preparing to cut her open to effect a Caesarian section. Happy with that?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Would that be by the Zionist Occupation Government or aliens?

UK, Ireland / Advantages of living in Poland as opposed to the UK. [126]


Ah, well, if he's milking the system illegally, then the figure of 30k/annum is the fruits of fraud. Roz seems to have a more realistic handle on what's going on.

UK, Ireland / Advantages of living in Poland as opposed to the UK. [126]


Do you mean that he is paid 2500GBP/month in social security payments? How does that break down, e.g. housing benefit, unemployment benefit, etc?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Thanks for performing the service so that the rest of us evil liberals don't have to have our blood pressure raised by the misogynists.

The comments we can see above, about wishing people dead, or calling you a quasi-human show these people in their true colours. They are the type that rejoice when staff at abortion clinics are murdered.

Take it easy and have a good day.

History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [233]


Because some say she was crowned when she was 10, and married at 13.

History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [233]

Pawian. Please settle a dispute I have with students. How old was Jadwiga when she was crowned?

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1400]

I've just done 24 hours' teaching in the last three days ( and five hours' drinking in the last five hours) so forgive me if I've misunderstood. Pickled herrings with smalec? You must have the tastebuds of a bison.

I'm just jealous. I have the same problem as Falstaff ("A plague o' those pickled herring") I love pickles but they don't love me. But the makers of Rennie do.

jon. If you are the same jon that washes his hair in Ludwig, I am fully prepared to believe you eat herring with smalec.

History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [233]

In that case your thread should be about what Hungarians owe to Poles.

History / Poland's undying debt to Polonia [76]

Just out of interest, goofy, what are you studying, and what is the language medium of the course?

History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [233]

Gulyás

Love / How do guys from Poland flirt? [47]


I thought you were an American.

Love / How do guys from Poland flirt? [47]


So he obviously likes you.


Why not. Women!
He's shy, that's all. I thought you cloggies were a bit more forward. Ask him if he knows a good place to get a sandwich, something like that, then ask him to show you where it is. The cafe I mean.

News / The Political Circus of Poland [306]


Given that 40% of Americans believe that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old, that doesn't surprise me in the least.


Intriguing. Racking my brains!

News / The Political Circus of Poland [306]


A crisis in 2014? Thanks for telling me, PF Delphic Oracle. It must be amazing to be able to see into the future!


I know the feeling. I'm knackered.
Time to obey my nagging wife, "Haven't you had enough? Come to bed! Bloody forum!"