UK, Ireland / If I was to move to Poland from Ireland... [92]


Yes, it always seems a strange misconception to me. People think that Polish girls are a 'soft touch'. This is very rarely the case, however. Polish women are very hard indeed and know exactly what they want in life. If you are a man and are strong emotionally, maybe? If you are like me, i.e. weak-beware!

USA, Canada / Day before Schegen:Canada finds Polish passport, US deports,cut from home [44]

I feel sorry for and what you have been through. It always seems strange to me and unfair as the whole united states is crawling with illegal workers and it is a matter of 'no questions asked'. However, it also seems to me that the Poles seem to think that E.U. memberships is a free passport to do whatever they like, whenever and however. Poland is an Eastern European country with its ties to the former Soviet Union not with the English speaking World. Sorry, but that is my view for whatever its worth!

UK, Ireland / If I was to move to Poland from Ireland... [92]

I have never been to Puławy itself but I was very near it once. I knew a Polish girl who lived in Dęblin, where, incidentally, they train, or at least did, all the Polish Air force pilots. I remember we visited one of my favorite places in Poland, Kazimierz Dolny? (if my spelling is right!) by car. Her father had died some years before of a heart attack whilst sitting on a park bench in Puławy and for some reason the name has always stuck. Yes, in the summer time when the weather is nice, it would be nice to experience a Polish warm summer again. Poland in the summer time is definitely the best time to come. I remember the barbecues and the fine Polish sausage However, I always miss Poland and wish to see it again but each and every time on my return, it is always a 'let down' and I end up thinking to think to myself, 'oh, God, why have I come back here again?'. also, I tend to come by plane so, without a car, I am limited to seeing Warsaw and the Old Town or, at best, taking a train to Czestochowa. Sadly, like in the U.K. cars are becoming ever more important to seeing and getting to places.

UK, Ireland / If I was to move to Poland from Ireland... [92]


I think that this is a very exaggerated figure and is nothing like the usual 100 pounds per month teachers get paid.

Love / My Polish guy won't tell me his feelings about me - is it usual? [15]


I think that you are the moron and in fact I found the American personality to be similar to the polish. Canadian people are quite different to Americans. When I was in Australia, again, they were more like the English would be in the early 1960's and I preferred it there compared to anywhere else. the Turks were more friendly than Greek people but then again, being more friendly is not the same thing as being necessarily more honest. Of all nations Traditionally the British hate the French but of all nationalities I have met, the French seem to be the one that will not rip you off in your change.


The Greeks certainly put all their trust in to the Anglo Saxons to end and win World War 2.

Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]

It is a fact that under communism you rarely got injections at the dentist and it was also a fact that I received no injection for my operation, until, that is, the 'surgeon', if I can call him that, realized that he had made a a mistake. This was a private hospital too.


It is interesting that you say 'stick with her answer' yet interestingly she is in England and is not in Poland at all. All these first generation Poles come on to this forum and defend their homeland so doggedly yet they are all thousands of miles overseas themselves. During the Communist period the Poles had no time for the British and it was always Churchill who sold Poland to Stalin, God how many times I heard that from the Poles. I might use old Polish forms like 'ku' and 'mię' but at least I do not slag off the British all the time and then expect to use the English education and medical facilities for free like 1.5 million Poles are doing at this moment in time! Always the same old scenario-'do as I say, not as I do'.

Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]


Is that true of all Polish patients then?

Love / My Polish guy won't tell me his feelings about me - is it usual? [15]


That is very nice of you. Of course, Greek people are always honest are they not!

Life / CAR BREAK DOWN SERVICE IN POLAND TOWING SERVICE [9]


Exactly, drink and drive-the Poles do nothing else, hence their dreadful accident rate and death rate on the roads. They never seem to have the sense to grow up and 'develop' at all.

Love / My Polish guy won't tell me his feelings about me - is it usual? [15]


You want to be very careful. The chances are he is already married back home and the ring was meant for his partner but you just found out. Now, he has to lie and think something up and what better than to say that the ring is for you. I know the Poles for a long long time and I do not trust Eastern European people at all. I would rather put my trust in the Turks!

Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]


One word of warning if you go to a Polish dentist, they do not have injections to numb the pain. I remember very well when I was in Moscow many years ago and my Polish girl friend at the time, had bad tooth ache. She explained to me that in Poland it was very unusual to get an injection against pain in a Polish dentist surgery. Maybe now they have more money but who knows...

News / The most useless things in Poland [140]


The worst thing in Poland is not so much the indicators, which they never use but the alcohol, which they never seem to be able to go without. The roads are dreadful with one of the worst road traffic death rates anywhere in the World. After drinking a bottle of vodka, you can soon see why I would never allow my children to live there.

Life / CAR BREAK DOWN SERVICE IN POLAND TOWING SERVICE [9]

No, I mean the British A.A-The Automobile Association.

UK, Ireland / Poles in Hatfield and Luton!?!?! [17]

There are lots of Poles in the Luton area because of the cheap flights that come in from Poland to Luton Airport.

Life / CAR BREAK DOWN SERVICE IN POLAND TOWING SERVICE [9]

I thought it was and that there was something like the A.A. in Poland. I used to buy motor breakdown insurance and it was a waste of time. Better to do road-side repairs yourself.

UK, Ireland / If I was to move to Poland from Ireland... [92]


How can anybody survive in Poland as a teacher of English living on £200 a month. Seems pointless to me.

News / The most useless things in Poland [140]

Cigarettes and alcohol are the wost things in Poland. They either smoke themselves to death or drink themselves to death. The roads in Poland are dreadful and Poles kill themselves every day needlessly too. Hospitals are little better, in fact I visited my Mother in Law in a Polish hospital in Czestochowa-my God-something out of the Dark Ages! Little wonder Polish hospitals are called wykonczalnia! I have not been to Czestochowa for a long time but can things in such a country improve?

UK, Ireland / If I was to move to Poland from Ireland... [92]

You talk as if I do not know how crap Polish weather is-I know Poland and its climate very well indeed-I was in Poland possibly before you were even born! I still say the same thing-if someone must leave Ireland and live in Poland they must have serious problems! Are they being hunted as former members of the I.R.A.?!! To live in a concrete block in Katowice takes some doing if you ask me.

UK, Ireland / If I was to move to Poland from Ireland... [92]

I could understand someone wanting to chose Croatia with the lovely coast line, Slovenia maybe but Poland with those freezing cold winters? God, someone must be desperate to swap Wapping for Gdansk, thats all I have to say on the topic!

Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]

The best dentists in the World that I have met have been South African. I do not know why? Maybe their education is excellent in these sciences? However, I must say that I always remember mine in Guildford and he was a young dentist but superb.

UK, Ireland / If I was to move to Poland from Ireland... [92]

If you know the language and have Polish family already established in Poland that would be a great advantage. I you are English speaking with no family in Poland a move to Poland seems idiotic to me. The weather in Poland is foul, the winters are long, people steal all your things-what is the advantage? You are going to move to Krakow because there are lots of English speaking people there. Are there no English speaking people in Ireland? If I was moving for economic reasons, I would go to somewhere like Turkey. The people are friendly, houses are cheap, nice long hot summers and if you buy now before the country joins the E.U. you may make a killing on your purchase. Until now, the prices of property was cheap in Poland but foreigners could not buy. Now people can buy but look at the prices. The Poles always want it their way unfortunately.

Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]


No that was when I rode in a Polish Syrenka!


What has this got to do with Polish dentists, which was, after all, the original question?

UK, Ireland / British Airways cancels Heathrow to Warsaw flights ! [23]

Yes, thank you and I am pleased to be of assistance. They did indeed have television in Poland at that time though, to be honest,I can not remember if it was colour or just black and white. I meant of course 1986'ish.

UK, Ireland / British Airways cancels Heathrow to Warsaw flights ! [23]

I did hear that Poland later sold all its old Russian aircraft stock to the Ukraine.

UK, Ireland / British Airways cancels Heathrow to Warsaw flights ! [23]


It was a very famous incident and anybody in Poland knows exactly what I am talking about.

Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]

It was in a dreadful place. I remember driving there in my car. It was a private clinic in Katowicach where incidentally, there were no road signs. A shame indeed that I managed to find my way to his clinic! During the operation, the nurse said to the doctor performing the operation 'do you not think that you have forgotten to give the patient a sedative against the pain as he is eating the pillow to stop the pain!!' An experience never to be forgotten or missed I suppose but I hope and pray that he is no longer practicing or alive for that matter! In fact, on the phone he even offered to repeat the experience for free as he was so sad that I was so dissatisfied, NEVER, NIGDY, NIKOGDA!!


Ponad dwadzieścia lat temu.


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Language / Ciebie <-> tobie [22]

Yes, I will be in June. Anyway, I must go now, I see on the news that the French Revolution is about to start.

Language / Ciebie <-> tobie [22]

Ty-ciebie-cię

Ja-mnie-mię

Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]

Polish dentists and doctors can be much cheaper than in the West, but my God what rubbish they can dish out too. I had an operation in a private clinic once in Poland and I will never forget the experience! Nigdy znowu w życiu!

Language / Ciebie <-> tobie [22]

There is also a style using ę too as well as mnie.