Love / Sex in Poland (Not dirty or advertising post) [27]


not true. It all depends on individual case.

News / The most useless things in Poland [140]


Don't worry. They are working on it. Some have already been relocated to UK. More to come.

History / WW2: Britain Declares War on Germany to Save Poland [290]

That article fails to mention two crucial points:

1. Poland was barely 20 years old, after 120+ years of occupation by 3 countries.

2.Chamberlain warned Poland not to modernize their forces (or the military pact between UK and Poland would be off) because that would send "the wrong signal" to Hitler. Chamberlain did that even though Poles by then had sufficient evidence that Germans would in fact attack Poland. The evidence was obtained thanks to Polish Enigma code brakers, the same Enigma that Brits would later try to claim the sole credit for breaking it.

Life / Free School Bus Services in Poland - do they exist? [12]


That may also explain some of the reasons why few Polish kids are hogs.

Life / Free School Bus Services in Poland - do they exist? [12]

If at all, that would be rather in small towns and villages where public transportation is scarce. In larger cities a school should not be further than a few blocks away.

Language / Polish Almanac [4]

A word will fly as a sparrow, it will come back as an ox.
(refers to consequences of gossip)

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

Michal,

let's set some things straight.
When you had your dental treatment in Poland it was what? 15 years ago? 20?

At that time the problem was not so much with the dentists as with the equipment and materials they had to use. Low speed boring devices, lousy filling compunds etc.

That problem was prevalent throughout Poland's entire medical system. A good dental office outfit would have cost about as much as all the dentists in a given city made in a year. A CatScan machine would have probably cost more than the entire nation's budget for health care.

I am not encouraging you to go to Poland and see how things changed, but I do know how much better it is now, and I know it from Americans and Canadians.


There is nothing wrong with Polish medical education. Check what Swedes, and Brits for that matter have to say about that. Students do come to Polish medical schools from the US and Canada, and none have any problems with getting their diplomas recognized, except when (strangely) they are Polish citizens.

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


It's got to do as much as your eating the pillow during some surgery.
Couldn't you have had something more substantial beforehand?

UK, Ireland / Are polish pupils harming native british childrens education? [280]


The sole point of this was made to the poster who claimed Brits did not emigrate by the millions. I have proven him wrong.


Are you saying Briatin lost the US because of Hitler and long before he was even born? Did India also kick the Brits out with the Help of Hitler who by then was already dead?


Must be some mutual attraction

Food / Organic Food in Poland? [14]

Not sure how things look now in Poland, but before I left there was not a whole lot of talk about organic food in Poland. Pretty much everything was organic food anyway.

Life / Arriving Gniew - Few Questions [5]


That's the size of an average houselhold in some countries.

Love / Polish ladies seem to be in high demand at the moment. [105]

I dunno. Depends on what you consider common. This certainly is not common in Poland:

Life / Pensions for immigrants [11]

sounds like a plan :)

History / Polish culture and clothing 1400ad [10]

see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Matejko

News / Is The Warsaw Voice in British or American English? [39]


Indeed, it does.

Let's revise:

Circulation (yearly) of 10500 at an average price of $106 is still a handsome $1,113,000 if all of them are sold to subscribers (I imagine the stand price is higher)

The same circulation, if entirely in zl) at 295zl is $1,264,285 (at the rate of $1=zl2.45)

To make sure the stats are not too optimistic let's use some margin of error and use a safe cooling down factor. What the heck, why cut a whopping 40% of that estimate to see what kind of income they can count on:

if sold in zloty: $667,800
if sold in dollars $758,571
(avg. of $713,185.5)

And all that in Poland where average sallary is what? $14K a year?
I'd say the magazine can easily sustain itself in Poland with this kind of budget. And I'm not even including the advertising revenues.

UK, Ireland / Are polish pupils harming native british childrens education? [280]


True. Some never survived the retirement age. Others (officers) actually had to pay to acquire their rank, although in the end they did also get material benefits (land in the Colonies or back at home, shares in big companies, and they) which were proportionally larger, depending on their rank, years of service and merit. Officers as well as regulars also received salaries.


That's life. We all have our ups and downs. That helps us tell the difference between the two ;)

Love / Gift for Polish girls - question [56]

Times change so I can't say how gifts are perceived in Poland now, but two general rules I remember were these:

- No presents that may imply hurt - no sharp objects such as knives, scissors (even the manicure stuff, weapons etc). Exceptions: presents bought for a collector and such.

- no articles that may implies deficiencies in the receiver's hygiene. Parfumes would be OK, but not deodorants, soaps etc.

UK, Ireland / Are polish pupils harming native british childrens education? [280]


In Canada, after a certain number of years in service, British soldiers were granted land. Considering that before joining the army they owned no more than what they were wearing, they ended up benefiting materially from the service.


seems like your joy is premature :)

UK, Ireland / Are polish pupils harming native british childrens education? [280]


And why did someone decide to send them there?
(Please notice that Polish government is not sending any troops to protect Polish citizens in the UK)

Life / rules and regulation for marrying a polish girl [68]


If you practice some multitasking then you could do the kissing while you're sliding the wedding band on her finger. I'd say it's a matter of seconds ;)

UK, Ireland / Are polish pupils harming native british childrens education? [280]


If you read my previous posts you would have noticed I am with you on that one.


I don't know the numbers of individuals, but I do know that major companies, whose income often exceeded the combined income of individuals (The Hudson Bay Company) sent gobs of goods (money, raw materials, food etc) back to England.


The reasons were the same (give or take a researcher or two). They always have been: improving one's living standards, sometimes pure survival.


So it's OK to ramble about bigger countries but not smaller ones? Sound like Robin Hood's ideology. You're such a romantic :)

UK, Ireland / Are polish pupils harming native british childrens education? [280]


I was never a member of any party in Poland, so I certainly wouldn't be tempted to join one in the country that sheltered the father of communism :)


They destroyed a lot of cultures in the process. And just like with Poles in Britain, nobodyh in those "new lands" asked the Brits to come and build new countries, did they? That "building of new countries" is not much different than walking into your neighbor's house and claiming that you will now live there, set the daily rules, move some of the furniture to your own house and generally tinker around the invaded household while the original owners are at work.


Where shall we start? The now iconinc "Boston tea party"? What was that about? Would you like to talk about WW1 and WW2 and how Britain did not need all those people and resource from the Colonies? Or could you explain what interest had the Gurka forces in fighting for Britain?


That was a slogan which was in protest to the actual taxation without representation. Especially for you and free of charge, a quote from Wikipedia:

The colonists complained that taxes were imposed by Parliament without the consent of the colonists, which violated the traditional Rights of Englishmen dating back from the Magna Carta.

The devil is in the detail, huh? :) You shouldn't have slept through those history classes.


I agree. The Empire collapsed because it stood no chance anymore. Britain was to weak militarily to continue the occupation. And let me ask you a question, where did the money come for this propping up of its Dominions? King of England action figures? Or Queen Victoria dolls that were in huge demand among Indians and aborigeenes of Australia?


Wow, the Salvation Army are robbers in comparison to the Colonial Britain :)

UK, Ireland / Are polish pupils harming native british childrens education? [280]


First problem I see here is your basic arithmetic skills, so let's make it simple for you:
2,285,184 means over 2.2 millions.


You're not trying to say the British soldiers went to the colonies for charity work with the natives, are you?


A technicality. The fact remains that contrary to your statement ("millions" of Brits have never left Britain to go anywhere), millions of them did leave Britain.

UK, Ireland / Are polish pupils harming native british childrens education? [280]


Even if they leached off the work of others, they still worked as administrators, soldiers and such.


Between 1825 and 1849 alone (that's only a 25 year period) the following number of Brits emigrated to the following areas:

North American Colonies (now Canada) - 808,740
USA - 1,260,247
Aus and NZ - 185,286
Others - 30,911
Total - 2,285,184

So yes, it's millions.
During that period the total population of England was under 15 mil.

UK, Ireland / Are polish pupils harming native british childrens education? [280]


If you can find the number of Brits who worked in the British colonies then this will be the number you're looking for. Likely millions.

Oh, and I didn't quite get the reason for commie twaddle mate. Is it a lack of arguments that makes you fluff up your posts with redundancies?


I don't take anu issues with the funding problems. As a matter of fact I oppose any special treatment of immigrants and their children. If someone has the guts to go to a different country then IMO they should have the guts to take care of their, and their families' language skills.

Food / Polish hard candy with fruit filling / marshmallow/nougat (ptasie mleczko)? [13]

any Polish store

Food / Polish hard candy with fruit filling / marshmallow/nougat (ptasie mleczko)? [13]

Ptasie mleczko?

Language / What is the most annoying thing about non-native Polish speakers? [90]


Unless it is justified by the meaning you need to convey :)

In general:

a/an

1. countable
2. unspecific
3. as nouns in description

the if the noun is:

1. mentioned before
2. unique in a given case
3. has ordinal number
4. following info/coversation that makes it sufficiently specific
5. has superlative adjective (or comparative, if comparing 2 things)

No article

1. uncountable
2. unspecific plural (esp. when generalizing)
3. most proper nouns
4. many names of times (if they are nouns)
5. places (if being/traveling to them requires a change in social behavior)

And there are some exceptions and differences between BE and AE.

News / Is The Warsaw Voice in British or American English? [39]

The Warsaw Voice subscription prices (numbers based on yearly subscription prices, rounded down to 2 decimal points regardless of mathematical justification to do so):

Delivery in Poland: 28.75zl or $10.41
Delivery in Europe: 20.50 zl or $7.41
Delivery outside Europe: 23.91 zl or $8.50

Average: 24.38 zl or $8.77

(source: vmarketing.pl/home_eng.php?id=10&podgrupa=17)

So Harry... as you said, "wholesale" price is above 24 zl which you claim should be the cost of the magazine to support the $2mil a year claim.

Language / Ciebie <-> tobie [22]


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