USA, Canada / DO AMERICANS/CANADIANS TRAVEL TO POLAND???? [57]


Hey, you pay for it - you advertise anything you want on the air. No such thing as not letting you to do it (unless it is cigarettes, drugs or porn) lol. Alcohol is OK.

USA, Canada / DO AMERICANS/CANADIANS TRAVEL TO POLAND???? [57]


Lukasz, is that you?
I know Poland is quite changed and beautiful, but take it easy, dude. It is not the center of the world. Poland needs to be advertised on a large scale before people will believe you. You know, you can sell a piece of sh*t any time you serve it on a silver platter. That's the power of advertising.

I'm not saying that Poland is "sh*t". It wonderful...it's just that nobody knows about her.

Life / HEAT IN POLAND (with no air-condition) [26]

After a very cold and snowy winter, we have a somewhat cool and rainy summer in Chicago.
The A/C is pretty much resting in this household, with an exception of a few days.

USA, Canada / DO AMERICANS/CANADIANS TRAVEL TO POLAND???? [57]

There are no adds in the papers or on TV promoting Poland as a tourist destination at this time. I think, it is up to polish travel agencies to do that. Americans will go and visit places, which are heavily advertised.

Travel / WE ARE BACK FROM POLAND AND HERE IS OUR REPORT [96]


I second that. I was there last may and recommend greatly.

USA, Canada / Young male American Poles [34]

OK, if you insist.

USA, Canada / Young male American Poles [34]

BW, age is very relative. To a 17 year old somebody at 30 is old, to a 30 year old -45 is old..etc.
Based on PF experience, only the tossers and trolls get old - quite quickly too. They show up, stir things up and split.
It does not matter which side of the pond the reside on.

USA, Canada / Young male American Poles [34]



Oh, C'mon now VaFunk, you are not getting any younger either. More respect please.
And, if the young American boys are getting on your nerve, too bad. They have the right to speak, instigate, be abrasive, homophobic and racists.

So far, the privilege belonged to some deranged trolls of British origin. We can have our own too, ya'know.

Life / What nation Poles like the most? [56]

heya Mr. H
I don't think the RSPB knows, where the "Ptasie Mleczko" comes from - yet...
A box of chocolates - just for you. :)

Life / What nation Poles like the most? [56]


We're bigger and we have more tits to suck. :)

Life / Polish Shelf Toilets [32]

Shelf Toilets...

must be a slow season on PF. Ahmm, there is plenty of other sh** to discuss about...

Life / The Polish Flag Is White, with red tape! [32]

Geez, reading the above about a bureaucracy in Poland makes me think, it is just like it was .... in the 'good, old times'.

USA, Canada / Why aren't Polish people immigrating to Canada instead of the UK? [148]

Foreigner4, I have a cousin who lives in Winnipeg and i visited them a couple of years ago. We drove to Grimly and through Ontario, very beautiful. I got to see what 'logging" looks like and what it is, we got to chat with truck drivers at truck stops in Ontario...

You took the words right out of my cousin's mouth. He/they spent over 20 years in Canada, but he said if they we younger, they'd leave for America or Europe. Their oldest daughter spends a lot of time in NY and considers moving there.

It is a great, beautiful country, but way tooooo much government. It reminds me the commy Poland i left long time ago. I shiver thinking that my 'merica is moving slowly that way. Hopefully, it will not to that extend.

(Please don't let Z_Darius to see your post....lol.)

Life / Polish Radio and TV stations online? [68]

PD vTuner is cool. It has my favorite stations from radiostacje.com and then some!

News / Poland: the 51st state of America [119]


I just visited my family in France in May. I met my sister-in-law's aunt in her late eighties (left Poland after the war and there are four generations living in France now). She fell ill and was taken to the hospital. She was brought back the next day and left almost on the doorstep and the ambulance left. Well, they figured she was to old to be treated...Luckily, she is fine. The family did not have the best things to say about the national health care in France. Most goes privately, if they need to...

Apparently z_darius got his butt kicked in America so he is grumpy. :)
having 'titles" in this country helps, but what really counts is your head on your shoulders. That's all you need to make it.

Love / Polish songs for a wedding [23]

I think you mean this one. You can listen to the melody as well.

ewa.bicom.pl/wesele/weselna-38.htm

Life / Taking gifts to Poland [21]

Cosmetics are plenty available, but quite expensive in Poland. I had a couple of cheesy purse mirrors with me, variety of lip gloss, lipstick holders w/mirror - the teen girls and young women loved it. (it's easy on the space in a suitcase too)

News / Poland: the 51st state of America [119]

I just read some more of the thread. Poland can't be the 51st state because the place is taken by Puerto Rico already. lol

Also, paying out of a packet for health insurance would not work in Poland. People took their free care, however good or bad it is, for granted.

Unlike Poland, France, Canada or UK, the USA does not ration care. You get what you pay for. My niece in Poland had to spend lots of money to take her little boy to a specialist(s) privately to have him properly diagnosed.

So, I would totally agree with a two tier health care system. Most people need basic care only anyway. Picking and choosing to pay for the 2nd tier would be like having a car insurance. We pay for it hoping, we'll never have to use it, but it's there when needed it most.

Stopping to dig our way to a grave with a fork and a spoon would help too.
Many diseases are related to what you put on your plate.

UK, Ireland / Poles and Poles in the UK = animosity [42]

Some people can be nasty, especially the one who struggled themselves at the beginning, luckily not too many. Most will help each other. Polish small businesses employ mostly polish workers. There was an issue in the past that some contractors would not pay their employees for weeks, or give "rubber" checks until it got in the papers and it turned out that even illegals had rights and could call and complain to The Labor dept about a particular business/business owner.

I think it worked. I don't hear this type of stories any more.

News / Poland: the 51st state of America [119]

There is a push toward a national insurance in the USA, many people oppose, because they don't want the government to decide who gets the care and who does not (the young or the old). Besides, who wants to wait for a specialist for two or three months?

The last time I read, it is estimated that about 48 millions of Americans do not have a health insurance, mostly illegal immigrants. Yet, nobody is rejected from any hospital's doorsteps. The rest of us pay for it, the state, the counties. That's why it is so expensive. We also get a lot of unnecessary, expensive tests as "screening' measures. No doctor will not diagnose a disease without them, fearing to be sued.

News / What American Foreign Polices towards Poland would you Change? [11]

His days (Bush's) are counted already. Somehow, a lot of people think (always) that the next one will just wave a magic wand and solve all today's problems. It's not going to happen magically and overnight. America needs to work on it as the long free ride became somewhat bumpy. It is a wake up call and I believe, we will get back to our lovely, smooth ride again. I just don't know if the two choices we've got will do.

News / Poland: the 51st state of America [119]

Awww, where is Waldo? :)
Do not let yourself being quarantined. Ever.

News / Poland: the 51st state of America [119]

I don't blame them.
Business is business and even the darn shield/missile bases are simply a business.
Some lose, some benefit, both benefit or both lose.

News / Poland: the 51st state of America [119]


Not any more and proudly so. We've been Soviet puppets for way toooooo long to fall for it again. This time is more like "what's in it for me?"

News / Poland: the 51st state of America [119]


Hey, we all want more..here or there. Why should I be satisfied with a pinkie when i can push and have the whole hand? :)

News / Poland: the 51st state of America [119]

Yeah, everybody would like to be a part of the USA...I'm sure Poland would.
Polish people love America. There are towns and villages in Poland where every home has a family in the USA (Limanowa, Tarnow, Bialystok), is going to have one or the whole family is here already...the few young hotheads who get on the "bash 'merica wagon" don't really count.

News / Online polish phone book ,does it exist? [27]

Worked for me too.

USA, Canada / US wants Poles to visit, spend lots of money :) [28]

Interesting.
Why not give them visas then? People want electronic devices and they are out of reach to a lot of Poles in Poland, but they could surely clean up the shelves in "Best Buy" and "Circuit City" here..as well as Walmart. :)

Food / Polish Milk, Just not the same [54]

There are variety of churning devices. I remember a wooden one, like a thin, covered barrel. You pour the cream in it and churn it with a kind of flat, little wheel on a stick. I have no idea how it is called...

Lots of work, but the result - priceless!

Food / Polish Milk, Just not the same [54]


There is no better butter than that. Even better when churned at home. I wonder if anybody still does it! Wow.