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cms neuf   
11 Jun 2018
Life / How do Polish people see homosexuality? [152]

Sure - they are proud of being themselves and not compromising their idenity by pretending to be somethIng different.

That is better than pretending to be a retired PolAm engineer in some dull suburb of Chicago for instance.
cms neuf   
11 Jun 2018
Life / How do Polish people see homosexuality? [152]

Proud of bring themselves probably - certainly beats being a paid troll in a poorly lit Moscow basement while the boss is having parties on the superyacht.
cms neuf   
11 Jun 2018
Food / Where to find cider in Warsaw [13]

Lidl had some a few months ago but it was part of some health food promo. The brand was called Octim so kaybe google that (i have it in my cupboard)
cms neuf   
11 Jun 2018
Travel / Poland - never again [593]

The kind of malls you are used to are obviously those where skinny permatanned botox models drive up top of the range SUV, have it valet parked and spend the oligarch husband money on tasteless shoes and handbags. Meanwhile the ordinary Russian punters have their noses pressed the glass watching what their thieving overlords are doing.

There aee hardly any families At this moronic 11th of November march - no responsible parent is going to let their kids anywhere near those violent and repressed thugs. I have witnessed it on a few occasions and 90% of the crowd are young males, mostly in Hoodies and solid boots and with a backpack full of mocne
cms neuf   
11 Jun 2018
UK, Ireland / Former minister admits UK messed up on immigration [78]

[moved from]

But the EU has already accepted the British letter saying they will leave and have given them a concrete date to do so and a transition period with an end date (which the British are now trying to leave as open ended).

Only problem is the British are now in chaos - they have reduced immigration alright, thanks to the collapse in the pound then its not attractive any more compared to Spain, France or Germany. However the side effects of that are disastrous and already costing British families and the British govt dear - the govt might fall this week because they still cant decide how to manage Brexit and still cant be honest with the voters about the huge clusterf**k it will cause.
cms neuf   
11 Jun 2018
Travel / Poland - never again [593]

Since you don't live here and you don't have any kids to be corrupted then I don't really see why you are so angry about that.

I'm not so sure myself about them adopting kids but if they want to have a march and argue for equal treatment then that is totally fine. Certainly rather that than 60.000 football hooligans tanked up on Warka and speed - that is one thing nobody would let their kids anywhere near.
cms neuf   
10 Jun 2018
Life / Americanization of Poland - good or bad? [43]

Apart from macs, kfc, bk and starbucks i cannot think of an American retailer that has a serious presence in Poland. None of the food, clothing, sports, DIY or drugstores are American.

Gap, Footlocker and Exxon have been and gone but i cant think of many others.

Almost all malls have polish food available - there are chains like Altana, and Chlopskie jadlo plus pubs and plenty of stoisko selling sausage, cheese etc plus you can often eat at the deli counter in the supermarket which has plenty of kapusta and schab.

Did you really visit here ?
cms neuf   
10 Jun 2018
Travel / Poland - never again [593]

There are some bizarre things in this thread but the idea of building a cement factory in a few hectares site in a residential district of Wroclaw is pretty much the weirdest.
cms neuf   
8 Jun 2018
USA, Canada / Would you live in California, USA? [240]

Yes - foreign language restaurants like the Red Apple buffet to have English only menus and no more folk dancing
cms neuf   
7 Jun 2018
Work / Is it difficult to make a living playing Soccer (football) in Poland? [54]

If you havent played semi pro in England i think that would be difficult to get amything in Poland worth more than a few hundred zloty a game.

Think my Dad played for Dunstable for a few games a long time ago ! He was in a few non league teams round there.

Why not try and get a coaching badge and get work at a summer camp for kids ? Dont know if that is feasible but its more realistic than playing pro
cms neuf   
7 Jun 2018
Law / Tax treaties between Singapore and Poland [3]

There is a double tax treaty and so you should get a reduction of your final Polish amoint next april when you file your return.

But see an accountant with the specifics of your case
cms neuf   
7 Jun 2018
News / Poles march against Mandatory poisoning by vaccines [202]

But what if someone is coming from Pakistan on holiday ?

There are some vaccines only adminstered when the kid is older - what if you need to travel in the meantime ( i had my TB jab when i was about 13 and yes i travelled before then)

What is the magic percentage below which this heard immunity does not work ? If it is 90 percent then is the 91st person ok but the 89th a child abusing murderer ? Any really clear statisitcs on herd immunity with undeniable results ?

Is state education compulsory ? Of course it is in almost every country - but some remote risks are deemed more important than that principle ?

What if a new vaccine is invented - in Poland would you retrospectively jab 6 million kids ? If not then wont this herd immunity thing be useless ?

Again - what jf major doubts are being raised about a treatment ? Should parents carry on regardless ?

There is little coherence to the mandatory vaccination argument - it seems more to come from a platform of posiions in the liberal press.

My problem is not ith vaccinations but by the insistence that the state knows better than parents and that the medical professions views are both settled and infallible.
cms neuf   
7 Jun 2018
News / Poles march against Mandatory poisoning by vaccines [202]

So would mandatory vaccinations extend to forcing it, probably with violence, onto Amish or others with genuine religious objections ?

Would you prevent unvaccinated children e.g. from Pakistan, Nigeria or Iraq entering the country?

Would you prevent children below the vaccination age from travelling to other countries where vaccination is not in force?

The black-and-white view simply cannot apply in every circumstance.

In fact before all the controversy about the MMR jab started, there were about 8% of kids in Western Europe not vaccinated - I do not remember this causing massive rates of measles, munos and whatever else it is.

Let's also consider what might happen if there was a genuinely controversial drug - like thalidomide- it was not withdrawn overnight, there was a decade-long debate about whether or not it was safe and started obviously from someone questioning the clusters of deformities. If we were in a similar position now would you insist on mandatory vaccination of a drug that was possibly seriously harmful from? Why not tell parents the risks and let them decide?

There are obviously modern diseases which are growing - autism, certain cancers, certain neurological conditions. as I said I have no idea what is causing them, but it will be something that we were previously told was safe - whether its diet, environmental, medical, radioactivity et cetera.
cms neuf   
6 Jun 2018
Travel / Poland - never again [593]

You could not buy a house in those days without Ministry of interior permission.

You could not get a work permit for any old job - only in cases where there was a need or a missing skill, teaching English would be one such skill. It is an extremely valuable skill as it is help produce a management class in Poland who have been able to absorb lessons from the west and help develop Polish businesses that can be global.

The Marriott brigades that you denigrate were also people that had missing skills - economists, accountants, bankers, lawyers et cetera. The legacy today is that Poland has probably the strongest economy in the post communist world.

You have simply no idea what it was like to try and make a living in those times.

Doug seems a pretty well adjusted guy - If you're only method of valuing people is by the money they have then that is a sad and dispiriting way to view the world

If you think it was easy to make money in those days, maybe join Crow in Serbia and double your existing millions since that is a pretty good approximation of what poland was like in 1992.
cms neuf   
6 Jun 2018
News / Poles march against Mandatory poisoning by vaccines [202]

I suppose so - though his wife did say the kids were vaccinated a few years later when she had a book to flog about her family.

Being unsure about compulsory vaccination is totally unrelated to supporting homeopathy. Its a cheap argument - I think homoeopathy is nonsense and of course it is not forced on anybody.

The argument about a small number of kids undermining supposed herd immunity is also overblown. At the risk of sounding like Dirk I bet there are probably 50,000 unvaccinated kids from Third World countries wandering around London Paris or Los Angeles. Are their parents also guilty of child abuse and wilful murder?

As IS says the argument is not simply anout vaccines, most of which work, but rather about free will and whether the states right supercedes the parents wishes.
cms neuf   
6 Jun 2018
Life / What is customer service in Warsaw like? Poland. [8]

In Romania it is not. I visit often. However I do think that Romanians responds to tipping much better and recognise regular customers much better.

In Bulgaria there aren't hardly any shops I've only been a few times but I don't remember it for outstanding service. In general however the people are extremely friendly.
cms neuf   
6 Jun 2018
Life / What is customer service in Warsaw like? Poland. [8]

Once I arrived and my luggage got lost on the way the next day I knew that if I got to the shop I could buy a set of clothes and get back to my hotel and change in time for my meetings.

It was freezing about -7 and at 925 I was camped outside the door of a store obviously waiting to spend money, But rather than let me in

the security guard just paced up and down outside the door until it was 931 and then the mgr unlocked. Just one of literally thousands of examples I would have a poor service in Poland.
cms neuf   
6 Jun 2018
Life / What is customer service in Warsaw like? Poland. [8]

Service in stores is terrible in all 3 places, Nothing to do with being Slavs and everything to do with the legacy of communism and the slow inroads made by modern retail (which only started 20 years ago and didn't really get going until 2004).
cms neuf   
5 Jun 2018
News / Poles march against Mandatory poisoning by vaccines [202]

It's obviously not a solution to send people to a desert island. If i remember a few years ago when i lived in Britain Blair himself was refusing to confirm that he vaccinated his kids

In fact relgious exemptions for Amish, Jehovahs etc have been quietly tolerated for years until compulsory vaccines became polticized (often by the same people who defend abortion rights on the basis that the state does not own peoples bodies)
cms neuf   
5 Jun 2018
News / Poles march against Mandatory poisoning by vaccines [202]

The issue to me is not whether vaccines are overall good - they are. It is instead whether parents should be forced to vaccinate their kids and the hysterical reaction of calling them criminals and murderers if they decide not to. You can listen to medical science but can someone force you to do stuff just because he wears a white coat and stayed a couple of years longer in college ?

For sure some of the existing vaccines in use will turn out to have serious side effects. That has alwas been the case and new issues will alays crop up with drugs but once billion dollar profits are involved its difficult fo doubts to get a fair hearing. Asbestos and cigarettes were once considered harmless.
cms neuf   
5 Jun 2018
News / Poles march against Mandatory poisoning by vaccines [202]

Why is it a crime to consider that just possibly there might be areas where medicines/vaccines/established science is not correct and there are risks to kids ? Does making your own decision about this really constitute child abuse ? Agree with Kondzior that while they clearly make life better they are not without flaws and potential risks.

There is of course a long history of drugs being withdrawn - even Tacitus says here that vaccines 30 years ago were a lot less safe than now. When I was born it was just after Thalidomide had been withdrawn - but science moved on, too late for the people who had been told it was harmless.

Being sceptical about compulsory vaccines and the huge vested interests that lie behind that is not the same as believing the earth is flat.

I don't know what is behind the huge rise in autism/adhd/aspergers etc but it was a valid exercise to look at all angles - pesticides, vaccines, pollution, radiation etc as such a rapid increase can not only be explained by genetics.
cms neuf   
4 Jun 2018
News / Poland, The Starbucks report. [42]

Dirk - a genuine question, not trolling, How are you able to short shares in such small quantities ? Last week you also talked about shorting Deutsche (and fair play if you did that you would have made a few bucks).

In Europe that is almost impossible unless you have serious liquidity (millions not thousands) and even then the costs are very high, with extra fees to the broker. I don't know why the US would be any different, unless you were able to trade on your margin account ?
cms neuf   
3 Jun 2018
USA, Canada / Would you live in California, USA? [240]

I thought you were a scientist and that once the UB had helped you to emigrate you got on your famous train with your science deree.

How abiut there is no better alternative to the capitalist system which has been invented and tested.

I am also generally a capitalist but if the best that mankind can come up with is are Amazon, Trump Tower, VWs dodgy emissions and Kanyes Golden toilet then that is pretty depressing.
cms neuf   
31 May 2018
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Wow - cant wait to read the rest of your book. How many pages of this insight are there ?
cms neuf   
30 May 2018
News / An article: NATO is the American occupation of Poland and Europe, by Mateusz Piskorski [233]

Yes that is how NATO works. Latvia might be an expendable country if like you you are supposedly sitting happily retired in Illinois However if you are Polish, and your family is here in Poland, then very much want to Latvia to be defended because if it is not then might be the next target?

I don't know but I want law the US in Syria, and I think they don't know themselves. That is not a NATO action.

Seems to be a free for all now - there are Iranians, Russians, turks Americans and probably a few others all testing their weapons. I guess something like the Spanish Civil War or Angola was.