Love / What to expect at a bachelor party in Poland? [15]

I have been to a few and it's normally in a bar somewhere, plenty to drink and possibly a stripper or something like that arranged. If you can't keep up then ask that your shot glass is only half filled. Drink plenty of liquid and put some lemon in if possible., eat gherkins, oily fish and greasy food and if it's vodka then stick to vodka.

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

There is genuine support for this - about 45 percent, and it was in PiS election manifesto, so fair enough. Yesterday was sunny so I did see lots of people walking, cycling and jogging.

Problem is that the 45 percent includes many pensioners and unemployed who don't pay tax and have the rest of the week to go shopping anyway.

Law / Road to home impassable, what are the Gmina's responsiblities in Poland? [2]

Those are all sensible excuses from the gmina - they do have to fix it but it can take years and they obviously can't cheaply stabilise a mud track when it's wet and icy.

Do you have neighbors or just you ? When I had a similar issue I went with 4 neighbors and discussed first with the Soltys who then hassled the Gmina about it. We got it done eventually.

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

They don't get junk wages - in fact supermarket cashier's wages are quite high even when compared with junior doctors, teachers, local officials et cetera - Something which is attracting a lot of comments in the press recently. In big towns they get about 3000 sometimes up to 4000.

They are also not forced to work every Sunday, people who have serious religious reservations are normally given exemptions - in fact since Sunday is a higher sales day and commissions are higher they often volunteer for those shifts.

This is not about workers rights, it's about the church. Personally I can survive without Sunday trading, but to me it's a matter of freedom - people should be able to open the shop whenever they feel like it and go shopping whenever they feel like it.

News / EU confirms it will take action against Poland over court reforms [554]

Not sure what retarded licenses you mean but if you are referring to a TV licence, then yes you need one. You will go to court if you do not have one. The money is used to fund public broadcasting. Poland has exactly the same system - With the difference being that the BBC at least pretends to be impartial and doesn't fire all of its journalist whenever there is an election.

History / Great people of Poland and Slavdom - please, only name of your favorite great person, without any explanation [3]

If they have to be Slavs ?

TG Masaryk - politician
Tesla - scientist
Turgrnev - literature

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

This will not give small business a leg up - in Hungary it had the precise opposite effect as customers switched to doing a huge shop on Saturday - only foreign owned hypers had the number of tills, staff and parking space to cope.

Not everyone has a family - why cant people who are single do what they want on Sunday ?

Also stop spamming every thread. What have migrants and thd EU got to dio with this ?

News / EU confirms it will take action against Poland over court reforms [554]

It it's not coming from a politician - rather it is from an Irish judge. The Polish government can defend their position in court if they wish to.

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

Well we could do - but so long as we also agree that this thread is about the effect of Sunday trading laws on customers, workers, retailers, churchgoers and it is not about migrants, muslims, cucks, ducks, the EU or Hillary.

News / EU confirms it will take action against Poland over court reforms [554]

Is having a separate judiciary and executive a far left agenda ?

Love / Well.. I got a Polish girl pregnant.. [88]

Well you dont have to marry her and she cant be forced to gave an abortion - in fact its illegal in Poland. You will need to pay alimony - possibly until the kid is 24 abd finishes college.

You will get a letter saying how much - its possible to contest the amount but there are minimums. Think of he kid however before you act like a jerk and challenge every 50 zloty

It takes two to tango so if she didnt suggest protection she also shares the blame.

Condoms are about 10 zloty a pack in Zabka you know ? Not sure what you are studying but it sure aint maths or biology

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [934]

I think their reasoning is that the poison was made in Russia at a secure govt facility. I don't know if that's true but it's a good starting point for her reasoning.

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

Dirk are you able to buy a soda or pay a parking ticket without mentioning migrants ? - cant you keep your bigoted comments to one thread.

Doug you are in a perfect storm - most supermarkets go live with their promo offers on Thursday- knowing this is a weekend when sunday is open there will be many good food offers. Might also be the day when 500 plus is paid - it is on 12th in my town.

In tricity most people are probably paid last friday of the month but a good portion of hourly paud workers on the 10th

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

All big towns are close to full employment and there are plenty of other options for workers in other industries. The ironic thing is that conditions in retail are better than in many other industries.

The effect of this law is that hundreds of thousands of people who had stable work patterns now will have to change them as hours are extended on the other 6 days. A tiny proportion of retail employees belong to 5e trade unions who initiated this change

History / How come Poles like Russians but not Germans? [216]

This ranting about the Frankfurt school is something I encountered in Andrew Breitbarts ridiculous and thin book. So I guess I has spread to other Alt Right insecure people.

Of course feminist theories in the US developed separately from the Frankfurt school - amazingly most of the early work on that was done by women not by refugee Jewish guys.

News / Hungary Veto on Poland Sanctions may not happen [108]

The sentence should read it is necessary to prevent the use of public collections for terrorist organisations.

Nobody would have a problem with that. Soros is not a terrorist - in fact he is someone who has donated millions to worthy causes in Poland.

As Maf says, this is about their need to control everything.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [934]

Extract Poland from NATO and we will be safe - just like Georgia and Ukraine were

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [934]

Only Serbia was a NATO action - taken after many warnings were ignored. The rest were either US agressiion or interventions that went wrong.

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

Last week was OK because it was warm and lots of people were outside in the garden or doing sports. This weekend it's terrible weather so I think it's going to be more of a challenge to keep the kids occupied tomorrow.

News / Hungary Veto on Poland Sanctions may not happen [108]

Poland does plenty for the EU - it is the Easternmost democracy (at least for the moment) and under a normal govt it would be the leader of the former Warsaw Pact countries. It is a large market for EU companies, a major manufacturer, a source if labor both skilled and unskilled, and generally a loyal and troubled free ally that was the first to warn against putin and does not cause unnecessary problems like arguing about the name of Macedonia.

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

Sometimes yes, and especially in winter when many other attractions (zoo, park, kolejka) are either closed or forlorn looking - it gets them out the house, there are plenty of kids activities in big malls (even if open now they will be unviable) , it's warm, clean, there are toilets and plenty of place to park and if we want to buy a small toy for good behaviour then we can do so. By the way teenagers like malls - they can shop and meet girls there.

Yesterday I took one for a swim and one for a freezing walk in the forest - hope that satisfies your good parenting criteria

You don't need to visit Ikea every weekend unless you happen to be building or buying a place - like millions of young hard working Polish families are at the he moment. Then you will probably visit a lot - people don't have cash to do a years furtnuture shopping at one stroke.

For me it's about freedom to do what you want with your spare time - we pay taxes and work hard, why can't we spend weekends how we feel like it ?

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

Er..... they might go every month, you know when they get paid. Radical idea

Its not just Ikea by the way - sone of the biggest businesses in this sector are Polish owned, Agata, BRW, Bodzio

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

There were other possibilities that most people would accept - limited hours or a higher minimum wage for Sundays - but they went for a "complete" ban except for a bunch of PiS voting interests like florists, small shop owners etc.

I know that 45 percent of Poles arw in favor but if you only asked the 6m that work in the private sector they are overwhelmingly afainst this

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]

The President, supposedly a lawyer, should be someone able to judge The situation its own merits and consult where required - he failed to do that and he has 100 percent responsibility for this daft law.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]

Nobody would waste 4 minutes watching your conspiracy video, let alone 4 hours.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]

Of course sir ! I respect you too and we need to be civil to each other

Law / Payment of ZUS/ Income Tax - 'sole trading' business in Poland [27]

Dirk you have a bit of a
weird understanding of tax in Poland and as you seem to have a serious business going then get your accountant to sign off your not paying ZUS. I have farmland myself which is actively farmed and profitable but it doesnt het the rest of my interests ZUS free. Ditto the point about reinvestment - it can reduce incone tax under certain difficult to meet conditions but it wont get you off capital gains taces.

Law / Payment of ZUS/ Income Tax - 'sole trading' business in Poland [27]

My strong advice is to get your accountant to sign his name under that specific advice. Im not a tax specialist but im an experienced accountant and as I said in 2013 i was told using krus for non farming activities was no longer possible - its not only the law but the way its interpreted in local zus offices.

Certainly not intending to use the zus in future does not ger you off the hook.

Ryczalt is quite different- - its perfectly legal and a rarity in Polsnd as its a simole user friendly mechanism

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

What is the best way to diffuse an argument at home ? Tell the wife to call some friends and go shopping. Or alternatively go out yourself to Media Markt and try some new gadgets.

Of course the priests that this law is intended to please no nothing about wives and kids.

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

Can you find any writing by Adorno or Horkeimer or Leopold that mentions abortion ? It was several decades ago that i studied that and it was dull but i dont remember any of it discussing abortion.

In fact i had not thought about it for years until i read Andrew Breitbarts half baked book last year, and on googling "Frankfurt school abortion" then the first few pages are by anti semitic whackjobs, mostly in the US. But I am sure you can put me right.

There were I am sure a good number of PiS voters in those crowds yesterday - PiS did very well among working class mums in 2015 but a lot were on the streets.