Mikel2 Posted August 15, 2021 Posted August 15, 2021 5 hours ago, bojan said: Substitute Poles for Scots: Where are the angry mobs demanding the heads of the creators of a character so full of ethnic stereotypes? Maybe Scots have a sense of humor and better things to do.
DB Posted August 15, 2021 Posted August 15, 2021 They're proud of being what they are, and the stereotype nailed it...
urbanoid Posted August 18, 2023 Posted August 18, 2023 French journalist: I am currently in #Pologne and it is an untold happiness to be able to take public transport without putting away your laptop, to be able to walk around without any fear at night or even to see no incivility. Compared to Poland, France is hell on earth!
sunday Posted August 18, 2023 Posted August 18, 2023 32 minutes ago, urbanoid said: French journalist: I am currently in #Pologne and it is an untold happiness to be able to take public transport without putting away your laptop, to be able to walk around without any fear at night or even to see no incivility. Compared to Poland, France is hell on earth! If I did not tell that to both of you, then I told my folk once at home.
urbanoid Posted August 29, 2023 Posted August 29, 2023 Too many variables, even in this super optimistic scenario those figures are PPP-adjusted and that also means a disadvantage in some cases. A lot of stuff you buy on the international market isn't PPP-adjusted, so... Overall I think it might be too optimistic, I'd be happy if we reach the 'high income status' before we hit the wall and manage to stay there - sort of like Japan. What is going to be the wall? Low birth rates and the society getting older and older, which means that the pension system will be an ever greater burden. So... like Japan. Also I hope we'll stay rather unenthusiastic about third world immigration, even at the cost of gradual decline (yeah, like Japan again, possibly also Worst Korea™).
urbanoid Posted August 29, 2023 Posted August 29, 2023 Guys, please don't tell anyone, but pierogi are not cooked, they're actually harvested.
sunday Posted August 29, 2023 Posted August 29, 2023 Someone needs to flee his homeland before the Commission for Pierogi Secrecy comes to his home in red and white choppers...
Ivanhoe Posted August 29, 2023 Posted August 29, 2023 Those farmers may be in violation of EU pierogi curvature regulations.
Stuart Galbraith Posted August 30, 2023 Author Posted August 30, 2023 No, EU regulations only apply to the Spaghetti harvest.
sunday Posted September 1, 2023 Posted September 1, 2023 (edited) This could go pretty well in a "Because Europe" thread: Quote Dutch family threatened with losing their children finds asylum in Poland A Dutch doctor and his wife who believe they have been victims of malicious rumors of child neglect have found safe harbor in Poland after Dutch and Belgian authorities threatened to take four of their children away. A Polish court revoked the European Arrest Warrant issued against Dr. Leonard Hermans by Belgian police. Unlike officials in the Netherlands and Belgium, Poland did not see any grounds for handing the children over to Dutch authorities and arresting their father. (...) Quote Leonard Hermans is an optician, and his wife is a lawyer. They run a real estate business and have four children aged from 7 to 15. The sister of Dr. Herman has become engaged in a conflict with her siblings over a family inheritance, and in retaliation, she informed on Dr. Herman’s wife to the Veilig Thuis organization, the Dutch equivalent of Germany’s child welfare agency, Jugendamt, alleging child neglect. The parents were not able to access the files of the case, but the authorities took a decision to place the children into foster care. Surely this is going to be more fuel to the "Authoritarian trends in Poland" bonfire. In the meanwhile, the European Arrest Warrant against regional ex-PM Puigdemont is not enforced by the Belgian or the German judiciary. Edited September 1, 2023 by sunday
urbanoid Posted September 3, 2023 Posted September 3, 2023 (edited) On 9/1/2023 at 5:15 PM, sunday said: This could go pretty well in a "Because Europe" thread: (...) Surely this is going to be more fuel to the "Authoritarian trends in Poland" bonfire. In the meanwhile, the European Arrest Warrant against regional ex-PM Puigdemont is not enforced by the Belgian or the German judiciary. In 2019 there was a case of a Russian father who fled from Sweden with his daughters, he 'kindapped' them after they were taken away from him by the state and put in a muslim immigrant foster family, after their mother fell seriously ill. At first they were apprehended in Poland due to Swedish claims of 'kidnapping, but in the end the Polish court refused to hand them over back to Sweden, despite the European Arrest Warrant. They went back to Russia. https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2019-07-10/polska-nie-wyda-szwecji-lisowa-ktory-uciekl-z-corkami-zabranymi-z-muzulmanskiej-rodziny-zastepczej/ Edited September 3, 2023 by urbanoid
urbanoid Posted September 3, 2023 Posted September 3, 2023 Hah, by seeking info about the previous thing I found this as well: Quote Swedes want asylum in Poland: "It's hard to live in cities where you can't safely leave the house after dark" According to the data of the Office for Foreigners, 2.5 thousand foreigners have already registered their stay in Poland. Swedish citizens. Hundreds of them come every year. More and more Swedes consider Poland a safe and friendly country, they are looking for their place in the world here. About Swedes who seek asylum in Poland - writes "Nasz Dziennik". Two years ago, political journalist Peter Imanuelsen asked Swedes on Twitter which country would be best to flee to in order to experience peace and normalcy. He conducted a poll in which more than 9,500 votes were cast. 67 percent people pointed to Poland – describes "Our Journal". What attracts Swedes to our country? They mention the safety of themselves and their families as the main reason for escaping from their homeland. Surprisingly and puzzlingly, the Swedes in their homeland feel forgotten and marginalized by the state, which has accustomed everyone to the term "protective". The country is also sinking under the weight of immigrants. Sweden is more and more often referred to not as a country of prosperity or happy tolerance, but as a country consumed by brutality and crimes committed by Muslim migrants with impunity! This is what the musician Jerzy Grunwald said many times on television wPolsce.pl and in an interview with the portal wPolityce.pl . As he said already in 2018, there were more and more signals that there would be a huge migration of Swedes who are tired of limiting their rights in favor of refugees. Citing various comments, he pointed out that Poland was mentioned in the first place as the destination country of this kind of escape. I will not hide that I wonder if it will not also be related to visiting our country by those Muslims who already have Swedish passports and are also able to destabilize the situation in Poland. The threat comes not only from the West, but also from the North he noted. I say this with full responsibility. I would like the Polish government to analyze the form of introducing visas, or at least controlling the Schengen area, who will actually come to us via the Baltic Sea. We have to blow it cold! he observed. This may sound demagogic. But I am a practitioner. I lived in Sweden for many years and I am aware of the words I speak -added. According to "Nasz Dziennik", it is estimated that in nearly 80 cities there are districts practically taken over by Islamists, where Sharia is in force, and the Swedish authorities have no say. The largest is Rinkeby in Stockholm. The police don't show up, the ambulance doesn't come, it's chaos. It's hard to live in cities where it's not safe to go out after dark, children can't play outside and it looks like the country is on the brink of civil war. I'm tired of it. He is also planning a trip to Poland — says Patrik Lundin, one of the participants of the online group "Swedes in Poland". Here the situation is getting worse all the time, it's a complete disaster and the government is not doing anything about it added Bjorn Hansen. For the time being, Swedes prefer Pomerania. Many also decide to settle in Krakow or Warsaw. https://wpolityce.pl/spoleczenstwo/457897-szwedzi-ubiegaja-sie-o-azyl-w-polsce Let's hope they're not 'Californians'
sunday Posted September 4, 2023 Posted September 4, 2023 To think our hotel in Warsaw had warnings about going out after dark, and we never saw a soul, dangerous or not...
Ivanhoe Posted September 4, 2023 Posted September 4, 2023 Generally when Sweedes show up in northern Europe, bad things happen.
urbanoid Posted September 8, 2023 Posted September 8, 2023 Poland will extend the ban on sales of Ukrainian grain beyond Sep 15, with or without the EU (not the transit though, obviously). Quote "Regardless of the EC's decision." Important declaration by Prime Minister Morawiecki regarding grain imports from Ukraine - We say unequivocally "no" to all Ukrainian oligarchs who want to destabilize the Polish agricultural market - said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Dołhobyczów on Friday. He repeated that Poland will maintain the ban on grain imports from Ukraine, regardless of the EC's decision. - We say unequivocally and clearly "no" to all Ukrainian oligarchs who want to destabilize the Polish agricultural market. We say "yes" to exports through Polish territory, which have been growing in recent months, Morawiecki said during a press conference at the border crossing in Dołhobyczów in the Lublin Voivodeship. Morawiecki repeated that Poland will maintain the ban on the import of four grains from Ukraine after September 15, regardless of the decision of the European Commission, which may not extend the ban. - The interest of the Polish farmer is the most important for us. Either on Wednesday, the Commission will adopt a further ban on grain imports, or we will extend it ourselves, he said. Ukraine did not lose due to the import ban The EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, said yesterday at the European Commission meeting that Ukraine has not lost due to the ban on imports to five EU countries, including Poland, on the contrary, its exports to other countries in the Community and beyond have increased. Ukraine is against it and demands the lifting of the blockade. The Commissioner for Agriculture believes that this is a mistake, because from May to July last year, when there was no ban, Ukrainian exports to the EU amounted to 7 million 300 thousand tons. After the restrictions were introduced, from May to July this year, Ukraine exported 9 million 600 thousand tons through the EU solidarity corridors, which is much more. - The ban allowed Ukraine to regain its market. This ban brought order to trade, there were no imports, but transit improved. This grain passed through and Ukraine exported more than when there was no import ban. If Ukraine objects, it is making a political and economic mistake, said the Commissioner for Agriculture, adding that if the EU ban is not extended, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia have already announced that they will introduce unilateral blockades and the market will be destabilized. https://polskieradio24.pl/5/1222/artykul/3238337,niezaleznie-od-decyzji-ke-wazna-deklaracja-premiera-morawieckiego-ws-importu-zboz-z-ukrainy
sunday Posted September 8, 2023 Posted September 8, 2023 The EU Commission needs to be remembered of the powers of the individual countries from time to time.
urbanoid Posted September 8, 2023 Posted September 8, 2023 The Ukrainians are talking about suing Poland, Romania... even the EU as a whole. The EU protects the agricultural market for a reason, unlimited amounts of Ukrainian grain (which by the way often isn't 'up to standards') would ruin the carefully balanced structure and a lot of individual farmers.
sunday Posted September 8, 2023 Posted September 8, 2023 Indeed, we have something of that problem with Morocco.
urbanoid Posted September 8, 2023 Posted September 8, 2023 6 minutes ago, sunday said: Indeed, we have something of that problem with Morocco. During peacetime Ukrainian wheat exports were close to half of the EU exports IIRC. What about Morocco? I found the info that they import 10 million tons of grain a year, half of it wheat, Poland is even selling to them.
sunday Posted September 8, 2023 Posted September 8, 2023 37 minutes ago, urbanoid said: During peacetime Ukrainian wheat exports were close to half of the EU exports IIRC. What about Morocco? I found the info that they import 10 million tons of grain a year, half of it wheat, Poland is even selling to them. Not grain, other produce that needs high temperatures to grow.
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