Love / What do Polish girls think about dating Asian guys? [134]


Not all Vietnamese are shoe sellers.
Not all shoe sellers are creepy.
Not all Poles are hansdome.
Some are weird.

Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]


I agree. Living in a country where you don't speak the language is a bit like having one hand tied behind your back, or deliberately making yourself partially sighte.

Cut off from so many things.

Life / Indian Stores In Warsaw [139]


There's a few shops here. My friend has an office in Katowice. That's near you isn't it? I could send a jar down, and you could collect it next time you're in K.

News / New Polish gambling law - outlawing gambling except in casinos [34]

Sleazy indeed, and those places are always empty. The money they actually take surely doesn't cover the rent for the premises.

A real scam, and good that the governments finally going to do something.

A logical next step would be unannounced tax inspections of the owners.

Life / Indian Stores In Warsaw [139]


The topic was Indian stores, for the last week it seems to be about Indian Restaurants.

And the nice Indian restaurant on the corner of Nowogrodzka and Krucza is as much a store as a restaurant. Perhaps more of a store. Only three tables, so hard to get a seat.

A few of the ethnic restaurants here also have shop sections. Samara is a great example.


But still a good shop - I buy quite a few products there, and know many others who do. The restaurant meals are great too.

You mentioned reviews of Namaste. I googled it 'Namaste Warsaw' and found the following:

inyourpocket.com/poland/warsaw/restaurants-cafes/indian/Namaste-India_19463v

I notice that the most recent is from 'Martha Jones' (who presumably travelled there in a police box). She spells the name of her home town incorrectly :-)) and has the same eccentric capitalisation as in your posts.

Which moniker do you prefer, Carl or Martha?

carl marx

But plenty of people like it, it has a very loyal clientele, and they also sell a big range of retail products, spices, teas, etc, which your restaurant probably does not, Martha.

Life / Indian Stores In Warsaw [139]


I went to IndiaCurry and was very disappointed with the quality, friends speak badly of IndiaExpress, feeling ill afterwards, etc, and Arti is unpredictable. Not to mention the supermarket poppadoms they serve, and getting the orders wrong.

Namaste is still probably the best.

The topic is: Indian Stores In Warsaw

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


I didn't mention muslims. The thread is about whether schools should be secular or diosplay symbols of a specific religion.

Remember there have been Polish muslims for hundreds of years, there are mosques in Gdańsk, Warsaw and Krakow, not to mention the historic mosques in Podlasie. They haven't turned Poland into a second Saudi (or even a second Turkey) yet and don't seem about to.

Not that the rest of the world is Islamicising either.


Another is a long secular tradition.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


No. Read the post carefully before jerking your knee.

I said some people believe in aliens, just as you believe in an invisible deity.


All? Where d'ya get that from then?


Quite. Faith (or lack thereof) is a personal thing. Not for state offices, celebrations, schools, etc.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


Not in my opinion, but millions believe they have.


Dr Susan Blackmore
Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis?
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 22.3, May / June 1998


Absolutely none. And no issue either with Buddhists, or for that matter with Hindus who often believe in many gods.

Do you?

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


Says it all.


Millions of others say they have seen aliens. They have revealed Themselves to them.
Millions of others believe that Mohammed is the prophet of Allah, millions believe in a pantheon of deities, millions of others believe Kim-Il-Jong is the leader of the free world.

It doesn't make any of them right. (Or if something doesn't need proving, as you say, it doesn't make them wrong either.)


Perhaps you could work on a less religious and more rational worldview? You try atheism for a while, and I'll maybe have a look at Christianity.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


Seems to be more your problem than mine :-))


Do you really think patriotism is indoctrination? Gosh!

Of course if encouraging patriotism crossed a particular line (as in some totalitarian states) it probably would be. But here in Europe at least it generally stays positive.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


This:


was your original question. You seem to be having difficulties following the thread.


It bothers me enormously. Schools and other places where people work with children have to ensure the highest professional standards.


For the 85% whose parents do not withdraw heir kids, religious apologetics lessons often take the form of a catechism. The children are taught that the catechism responses are the truth, and other answers are not. This is a form of indoctrination.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


I didn't say that or anything like it.

I said I disapprove of apologetics lessons in state schools, conducted by clergy of any type.

I said I know a few satanists.

I said that all (at least the few I know) are married and either have kids or work with them. Nothing, nothing at all, about satanists teaching their religion in school :-)))

Please actually read a post before commenting on it. It would help you potentially avoid being accused of stupidity.

For information, I would have the same problem with a minister of religion indoctrinating children in state schools, whether christian, occult, hindu, whatever. The private beliefs of someone who works with kids, whether in a school or elsewhere is a matter for them.

News / New Polish gambling law - outlawing gambling except in casinos [34]


The same here in Warsaw. Five in a two hundred yard stretch of the main road near my home. Most permanently empty - something to do with money laundering.

They are an eyesore and it will be great if they're closed down.

Law / Stała Karta Pobytu and how to protect it in Poland [11]


I've been stopped plenty of times, and don't carry ID with me. Never a problem.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Great cities all of them.

Madrid, Stockholm, Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Dublin, New York, Sydney, Tokyo would do just as well.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


Where do you get that from then? Did the founder of your religion try to impose it?

Love / I`m Polish bloke lookin`for an English girl. Is it gonna work out? [51]


Trust me, he's not a good example of a Yorkshireman. I however am. :-)

Sounds indeed like the women there don't want to date him. Wonder why he thinks Polish women will be any different? Maybe he hopes their knowledge of the English language will ensure they don't understand the crap he talks.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


Not all Poles are catholic. Not all catholics go to church (much less than 50% in some parts of Warsaw). Not all catholics are extremists. Some like Radio Maryja, some hate it. Some shout their religion from the rooftops, some practise it in their hearts.


The number of people attending mass suggests that that could be far from true.


Many Poles have done just that, and are enjoying the freedoms of London, Paris, Amsterdam not setting foot in a church from one month to the next. And they have the freedom to do that.

Interesting how the posts here supporting a so-called religion of peace are often filled with bile and hatred. If that's what christianity's like, then thank you, but no thanks!

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


One can be professional at work. If that compromises christian (or any other) beliefs, then it's time for a career change.


Can you point out the relevant clause in the Treaty of Nice that spells that out?


So you prefer an invisible, unprovable authority?


How would you know? Not everyone shouts about their personal beliefs.

Work / Teaching English/CELTA at the IH, Krakow [13]

lowfunk99

Wrocław, Katowice, B. Biało are considered among the better ones.

Here in Warsaw it went down the pan about 5 years ago due to serious money problems.

Food / Confusion over flour names in Poland [46]

I've used the Polish 'proszek do pieczenia' stuff. It isn't the same. If you use those sachets and don't adjust the amounts, you can get a nasty surprise. Or at best a leaden cake.

To do with the amount of Cream of Tartar.

Work / Teaching English/CELTA at the IH, Krakow [13]


Hmm, Topas is writing quite sensibly.

IH schools are only as good as the franchisee, half of who haven't paid for the inspections/support etc. IH is falling to bits a bit in Europe - its main markets are now further afield. The Śląsk franchise has kept the name - they've marketed it and it is known there, in other places, some IH schools are cancelling the franchise and rebranding.

Food / Confusion over flour names in Poland [46]


Yes. Polish flour is all plain.

They sell baking soda in most food shops, but soda is all it usually is, in sachets rather than tins, and works reasonably well as long as you don't use too much. If you want baking powder, Kuchnie Świata stock it (Złoty Taras branch), in the British foods section, otherwise check the ingredients on the sachet carefully.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Most are surprisingly normal. Except for the lawyers of course!

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


I know a few satanists (I move in very eclectic social circles), and all of them (at least the ones I know) are married and either have kids or work with them. Here in Europe there seems to be a fair few working in healthcare and the media, over in the US, a surprising proportion of adherents in law enforcement.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


I wish I could find the statistic, from a more or less recent study of reported child abuse cases in English-speaking countries, that even taking into account the disparity in numbers of adherents betwen christianity and the other groups studied, children are 90% more likely to be sexually abused by a christian priest or minister than by any sort of occultist, pagan, wiccan, thelemite, satanist or new ager.

It would evidently be much safer for childrens' rectal wellbeing if we banned from schools, the ministers of J. Christ, and brought in the ministers of A. Crowley.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Hmm, plently of posts from people believing in invisible entities... :-(

About the crucifixes, 1Jola's post makes a bit of sense, leave them, there isn't a huge strong feeling against them, but don't have compulsory religion lessons.

Eventually, belief in supernatural religion will wither away here, but for the moment, taking down crucifixes would just provoke a difficult response.

Keeping priests out of the (state school) classroom and stopping them indoctrinating kids would be the logical first step.

Work / Teaching English in Zakopane, is it safe? [45]


Their leaders dress in robes, and the encourage other men and women to join them, work for them, wearing robes with hoods, and give all their money to them. Obsessed with sex too.

Seriously, Zakopane, particularly in summer, is cosmopolitan enough not to be too backward.

Jammed full of tourists though, and accommodation is always ar a real premium.

History / Poland and Muslims (Tatars and others). [81]


You mean conspiracy theories dreamed up by nutters?


He was born in Hawaii. He was born in Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961. His birth was registered. It was announced in the local newspapers. The 'birther' fruitcakes have never produces one scrap of evidence to the contrary. Because there ain't any.