Life / LAST JEW IN POLAND - comedy play [5]


I don't know. LPR people seemed to mention it a fair bit!

I do get your point tho'. Interestingly I was in Oswiecim (where Auschwitz/Birkenu museum is for anyone who doesn't know) and saw the grave of the last Jew in Oswiecim who died in 2002 (I think). There is also a working synagogue and Jewish cultural centre. Interesting to wonder how such an allegedly anti-semitic nation allowed that to be founded, isn't it?

Life / Polish city streets - why do trucks go around spraying water on them ? [28]

Might be to do with pollen too. Have you ever noticed how much yellow dust there can be after a rainfall?

UK, Ireland / What is in Poland that England doesn't have? [142]

It has been a while since I drove on a UK motorway (maybe it is just written) and I might be thinking of autobahns in Germany.

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UK, Ireland / Poles flee N. Irleand homes after World Cup riots [70]


Good point. It's worth considering neither NI or RoI had a significant immigrant population until recently.

As for them being catholic, a (catholic) friend from Newry suggested, "They'd be let off a bit because they're foreigners and don't know any better!"

UK, Ireland / What is in Poland that England doesn't have? [142]


Maybe my memory is playing tricks on me and we don't have them anymore.

Life / How to behave in Poland? General etiquette questions. [30]


Isn't that the mother-in-law?

UK, Ireland / What is in Poland that England doesn't have? [142]


We have them in Britain too.

Out door privvies. It was funny when I visited a heritage museum in Shropshire and people were laughing at the privvy saying, "I bet Grandma remembers them". I'd been using one a week before in Suwalki.

Having seen the summer adverts...

Ticks and Rabies

Life / What should be done to make life in Poland better and more enjoyable? [94]

It used to be that if you walked into a shop a member of the old-fat-ugly security service followed you around watching to make sure you felt uncomfortable. Now the young assistant shows you the top of her head, whilst talking to her friend behind her, totally ignoring you and just stretching her hand out for the money.

History / Territories of eastern Germany should rightfully belong to Poland? [161]


Why not? They've already joined up with Croatia!

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Law / Documentation required to get married in Poland [13]

My own experience in UK was a nightmare, because I was living in Scotland but born in England, so my documents had to go between two sets of admin (Scottish and English) and also 2 Polish embassies/consulates.

When I mentioned it to British Embassy in Warsaw they said if I'd gone to them then they'd have been able to do it all and by-pass the hassle.

History / Poland and Ukraine [240]


If such a thing happened, one might assume in the same way Poles oppressed Poles (by working for someone else).

At the German war cemetery in Cannock Chase, England, there is a special section "in memory of our Ukrainian comrades".

Law / Documentation required to get married in Poland [13]

I remember having to sign a letter saying I was free to marry (for the church) and then get my mother and sister to go and sign such a letter as well. Obviously cos I'm not catholic so I'm not trustworthy enough!

My wife had to attend marriage classes (on her own, as I was out of the country).

I'd suggest contacting Irish embassy in Poland and see if they can help you with the paperwork.

Life / Is drinking water in Poland good? [96]


No, I have drunk. Present perfect. drink, drank, drunk


Then why do half of the city have to go to special water points outside their homes?

In Warmia-Mazury the water is sometimes declared unfit to drink, I believe due to algae (or I could be being wound up).

History / Poland and Ukraine [240]


Well, the Polish had Russian cookers, why shouldn't the Ukrainians have Polish pans?


So would a Russian pan be a Peter Pan?

UK, Ireland / POLES SUPERIOR TO BRITS? [260]


cartoons and animated films about plasticine men being chased by skyscrapers etc.

UK, Ireland / POLES SUPERIOR TO BRITS? [260]


I know, but she was the only one I could think of at the time.

We missed out another section... nobody makes weird animation like the Polish.

Life / What is the fastest/cheapest/easiest way out of the schengen zone from Warsaw? [3]

We have an American colleague up here in Olsztyn, he went to Ukraine. Maybe a flight to Turkey could be fun. Depends on the visa requirements for Ozzies.

UK, Ireland / POLES SUPERIOR TO BRITS? [260]


Marie Curie was Polish, she contributed a fair bit...

UK, Ireland / POLES SUPERIOR TO BRITS? [260]

Ah, I see. But they did come some of the way...

UK, Ireland / POLES SUPERIOR TO BRITS? [260]


Errm, might one say "unclear conscience on the part of Winnie and his chappies". Exactly how many of the British citizenry knew what was going on or was consulted about it. Many British service-personell and officers were outraged when they saw what had been done to their brothers-in-arms. Just couldn't say or do much about it. The fact that it is a little known piece of history amongst many of today's Brits suggests not many folk knew about it then, either.


Strange, Operation Market Garden took place in 1944. Battle of Arnhem, Bridge Too Far and all that. Methinks we came (with a few jolly Polish chappies too), just didn't quite liberate the old Netherlands. what-o!

Life / DO AWAY WITH COMMIE MAYDAY IN POLAND? [3]

In some parts of Europe May 1st is the first day of summer. It is also the feast day of several saints.

May Day, Labour Day, International Workers' Day, Day of the International Solidarity of Workers.
Czech Republic – "National Love Day" – couples tend to flock to the memorial of the poet Karel Hynek Mácha in Prague and kiss.

Lei Day – Hawaiian holiday for the Lei.
Beltane, Lá Bealtaine, the first day of Summer in modern Ireland was celebrated by the Celts, and is now also celebrated by Neopagans and Wiccans.

Kazakhstan - Unity Day.
Maharashtra Day (Maharashtra Divas) – Maharastra, India.
Marshall Islands - Constitution Day.
Northern Europe – Walpurgis Night.
Roman Empire – all-female festival in honour of Bona Dea.
Roman Empire – fourth and last day of the Floralia in honour of Flora.
United States – Law Day, U.S.A., Loyalty Day.
Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker
Saint James the Less.
Saint Philip the Apostle.
Saint Andeol.
Saint Asaph
Saint Brieuc.
Saint Sigismund of Burgundy.
Saint Theodulf.
Saint Augustin Schoeffer
Global Love Day

News / Poland to ban Che Guevara image [55]


A lot of the places I've seen it in in Poland were actually catering for the locals. There are calendars of old commy posters and videos of PRL propaganda films available in EMPIK, hardly a predominantly tourist outlet.

Funny thing about the West is it's OK to say you were a commie in your youth and have a picture/bust of Stalin but not to say you were a member of the Facist Party and have one of Hitler.

News / Poland to ban Che Guevara image [55]


But there are such shirts already. There's the ironic Commie-chic which has been going on for a while. A local restuarant has pictures of Bierut and Gomulka on the wall and one place used to be all decked out in Commie regalia.


Well Giertych tried that with school literature a couple of years ago.

UK, Ireland / Polish chef jailed for double rape in Leeds. [42]


I think the problem is that often these stories are given some kind of priority because it makes them different to the huge number of non-foreign stories. To be honest, sometimes when I look in a local paper, like The Shropshire Star, it is full of rapes, muggings and murders but they are seem commonplace they hardly get more than a couple of paragraphs.

This case is disgusting, so it's sensational. I think the fact a foreigner commited the crime is just a bit of extra spice to it.

History / Polish Jews we are (Poles) proud of [30]


He converted to Catholicism (if that matters).

How Zamenhof, about the guy who invented Esperanto? He was from Bialystok.

Does Roman Polanski count? His father was a Polish Jew.

History / Polish Jews we are (Poles) proud of [30]

Apparently his mother's family (I think) were Jewish (or had been).

History / Polish Jews we are (Poles) proud of [30]

Adam Mickiewicz.

Life / Wonderful Poland.......but the attitude of Polish people [150]


But some of the people who died in those camps also had dark skin. It doesn't justify racial intolerance... in fact it makes it worse.

News / Poland to ban Che Guevara image [55]


Damn, there goes my Kaczynski T-shirt.

UK, Ireland / What is in Poland that England doesn't have? [142]


It is sad, however, on the other hand, it suggests farmers are now rich enough to have motor vehicles (or poor enough not to have horses!).

We still have a few in our villages in warmia. In fact, when the school bus didn't show up one day the local farmer picked all the kids up in his cart. The local paper had a field day.