Law / Poland's Muzzle Law [22]


Very witty Lyzko - apart from the fact that living in Poland in today's political climate is no laughing matter.

Off-Topic / Random movies (not Polish) proposed by forum users [91]


Yes - that's why you'all don't rate De Niro. Sorry that I was so dumb as not to grasp that you were biased:))

Law / Poland's Muzzle Law [22]

I refer you to my earlier post. The electorate is too dumb to realise that their civil rights are being eroded, but believe the platitudes of their leaders. Like with the impending car insurance as an example, oh, this is yet another problem! So it's one less thing to worry about when the ruling party takes a controversial decision.

"Our government is taking care of business."

Off-Topic / Random movies (not Polish) proposed by forum users [91]

The Departed. 😂

Off-Topic / Random movies (not Polish) proposed by forum users [91]


Really? Amazing. Do you like Tarantino films? They are the films with the artistic licence, and grat violence, which bores me, apart from Jackie Brown of course, his masterpiece (where De Niro should have got an Oscar nom, for playing a weak petty crim).

Scorcese tells it as it was ( minus the fact that Frank in all likelihood didn't kill Hoffa)

Law / Poland's Muzzle Law [22]


No. And the majority of people here don't care about freedom.
As long as they have their monkey and their cigarettes, they are happy. Or so it seems.

Off-Topic / Random movies (not Polish) proposed by forum users [91]


Yes. Yet another Scorcese masterpiece.

Off-Topic / DALMATIA - How much Poles love Dalmatia ? [123]

Your map is incorrect Crow.
Kosovo should have a black line around its' northern border. It's a country, just like Bosnia is, and Croatia too.
Get over it, and grow up.

Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


One was parked outside my house last winter.
600,000 zl...took a photo, and it mysteriously disappeared from my phone 😂

Real Estate / Carpetying style? - question to Brits living in Poland [26]

Love carpeting. I remember those in my childhood home and being in a cocoon.I have carpeted stairs, so no chance of slipping. Love a warm home, and wouldn't go for this overdone parquet style if I had the choice. Can't have carpets in downstairs rooms though because of the cat and dog(s) :( So I flagged my sitting room with stone.

Travel / Good quality promotional videos of Poland - post them here, people :) [10]


I watched this last year Milo. A good attempt, even if the presenter is off on a couple of points. It is not a low tax economy. Business ZUS is absolutely crippling - I should know, I've been paying the fukker for 22 years now.

And the birth rate is still falling, as 500plus has palpably failed. The main reason young people are choosing "to stay" is because the UK has now been cut off to them as a destination, but there are lots of positives mentioned here, such as ongoing growth over 25 years of an average 4 percent. The video could have chosen more pristine surroundings than downtown Katowice and working class Krakow though!

Travel / Good quality promotional videos of Poland - post them here, people :) [10]

Merged:

YT programmes about Poland

With reference to YT vids about music, I thought I would start a thread on YT programmes specifically about Poland (You really need YT Premium for this, to avoid the nasty ads...)

Tonight I was watching a fascinating history of the Autosan bus and coachworks in Sanok.
This company dates from the 1880s, when a Sandomierz family bought a steam traction engine to Sanok and started an engineering workshop there producing parts and then rolling stock for trains. In the 1920s they diversified into building mass road transport, and farm machinery. A really interesting history. I didn't know that Polish automotive engineers were so successful - today the company exports buses and coaches to over 30 countries.

And Mods - could you please leave such films up - there is no copyright infringement here - I think Autosan would be very happy with the advertising.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

So where's the Polish nuclear power station then? Are you referring to the joint project with Lithuania?

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


Yes, but one is a military dictactorship infacto, and the other is limited by constraints of civility. The Gdansk comparison was only meant to show that Polish authorities generally do as Dilbert suggests when it comes to city redevelopment and infrastructure - "Avoid criticism and do nothing"

You would know Torq that there are many people in Gdansk who think that the new tunnel is a waste of public funding - there will always be those who dig their heels in at progress - which is why Poland hasn't built it's nuclear power station yet. Ergo, they could only obtain nuclear weaponry in a dictatorship, because in a democracy, millions of Poles, and me, would object - as would the 27 states - on the premise that it would be a vast waste of resources (as millions of Pakistani children would tell you)

Apologies for the nutjob remark - I wasn't paying attention and I thought for a second you were in the Ironside "I'm alright Jack" camp:)


Thanks Iron. Zarnowiec is officially abandoned. I visited the sight, just up the road from me, and it's despoiled the whole area. The secret to nuclear power is in the word "commissioned" - as in actually producing power. I had a pretty devastating flat hit forehand in my tennis game, but I can't actually use it anymore. It's decommissioned. Pretty useless to brag about it then, wouldn't you say?

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


You live in Gdansk right? It took 70 years to regenerate Granary island in the old Town, through lack of money, but you think that Poland has money for nuclear capability. She doesn't even have the finances or will to build ONE lone nuclear power station.

I made a mistake. You are not funny. You just making a bad joke out of a very serious matter and have lost this debate. Which is that if we ever listened to nut jobs like you and Poland left the European union then Russia would set about squeezing the country in every which way.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


Which Gdansk standup comedy club do you work in Torq? You're really good. One of my cousins plays Lego Survival, or some such game. Maybe at the same time we could build a Polish nuclear power plant.

Of Lego.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


Well, I presume you are one of the hypocritical immigrants, who hates foreign influx of any kind.
What do you see in the mirror?

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


The last time I checked, my IQ was 123, but it's been going down steadily ever since. But I don't need to worry to much about the onset of dementia yet, as I wager that no one else here understands the point of your post. Can we assume you didn't make your millions of roubles in corporate finance?

The whole point about enlarging the Union was to widen the consumer base. I am so sorry that Russia was excluded from accessing tarriff free British biscuits or French cheeses, but you do have your "champagne" and caviar to tide you over.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


But...but...exactly. Rich, Dirk, Spike, and Iron, already know that. They just choose to ignore it. The UK is just about to find out how much they are going to miss that access; in the meantime a Polish 47 percent poll ostensibly in favour of leaving the European Union suggests that the electorate should be required to take an IQ test to get the vote.

None of the above 4 posters would be affected much if Poland ever did leave the Union - maybe Spike, if he did indeed live half the time in Poland and the UK. If - not that it's any concern of mine. By the way Spike, Warsaw is not token of small town Poland. The real Poland where the majority of the population live - aka PISland. Which is heavily polluted by domestically generated coal smoke, and not comparable in degree of danger to health to car pollution in London.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


Yes, but let me jog your memory. You live in London, so don't have to breathe the polluted air here. Polluted air - in our streets, from people burning coal.

That shortens lives, and actually kills people. Old people. But you have the gall to say "We"?
You hypocrites make me sick to the stomach. Now run along you ignorant fool.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


Wot? If you don't see musicality in Wagner then you are not a very avid music listener. A lot of pop hits are lifted directly from his compositions. And it's nonsensical to equate the music with the man.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]


One might blame the legacy of the Thirty Years War for that. The whole of Europe went up in flames, and nationalism was to blame - a strong axis of Western powers eventually put paid to all that 300 years later through the power of coal and steel and the birth of the European Community, and that's how the political chessboard is in economic reality. Poles have always played the game above their real skill level, with a fatalistic false sense of importance; diplomats of the 1600s saw the posturing of other nations, and suggested that political strutting should be repeated in Warsaw, add in the liberum veto, and you had disaster waiting to happen, when one look at the map would have told them that prevarication was not very bright policy.

You would think with all the time wasted in Polish schools on humanist subjects during senior high school, that people would have learnt a thing or two from history, but hopefully all this populism will pass, and as they get richer people will come to realise that Germany and France are their big daddies, and the correct thing to do is to hang onto their coat tails. They can still have the nationalist babble of a proud Polish history, but that doesn't put food on the table, or guarantee Polish independence through the ages.

Life / Typical Polish house and family [46]


Because they owned strips of land behind the house. Here to help. As a previous poster says, take a look at Google maps. In 3D. You don't have to visit.

As for houses being cheaper than flats, it's all location,location,location.
It's called capitalism. Sorry for the sarcasm, but your tone comes over as not very sincere, for some reason which I can sniff - and my labrador agrees.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Correct. For some weird reason Poles don't like space in stores. Only Auchan is hanging on.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


I realise there are few posters who actually live in Poland, but on a Saturday the queues are so long on the slip roads that many give up.

A lot of us don't have free time but on a Sunday, no. The same as in the UK. I work on a Saturday. Toodle pip.

I can't see a lot of retail outlets staying in business for much longer, along with the associated employment - and that is a good thing, how?

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

The shops are open this Sunday......JIT. Lol.
Closed last Sunday - with the obvious results. Internet shopping is up, and a lot of retail space is poised to pull out of Poland in the New Year. According to my source, and he is the CEO of a top 50 company, and probably not a BS.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Sosnowiec.

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Life / Describe Polish people in few words [13]


The old ones are the best:)

Life / Describe Polish people in few words [13]


I returned to my second home of Katowice today for the weekend, and was struck by the rise in standard of living here - and how pleasant and cultured Silesia actually is today.

It's a far cry from the Poland of the past, where far too many people thieved from their neighbours and used the war and communism as an excuse for same.

"Oh sorry! We thought you wouldn't be needing that table..."

Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [239]

Thanks Joker.
I got into Return to Forever through a complete accident about 5 years ago.
Wish I'd discovered them earlier. On my phone...I guess this is Al de Meola solo?
He was here twice at my local playhouse 1 mile from Dougpol Towers, but plays like he is an old man now. Didn't go:(
Someone should have a word and ask him to plug in again.
Genious musician, especially with Stan the man and Chick.