Life / Warsaw restaurant for Wigilia [14]


Traditional is the thing really. The church relaxed the rule about avoiding meat a few years ago, but traditions, especially Christmas ones, don't change easily.

Life / Where one can take HIV Test in Warsaw? [6]


I can recommend this one.


How do you know it's a woman?

Life / Where one can take HIV Test in Warsaw? [6]

On ul. Nowogrodzka (the pl. Zawiszy end), also on ul. Zelazna. It is free and anonymous, with results in 24 hours.

UK, Ireland / Its strange that there arent many Poles who live in the UK on this Forum [102]


Either that, or they're busy posting on a Polish language thing called britishforum.co.uk or similar, having mirror image discussions ;-)

Genealogy / I Gotta Ask: Who Else Is a Jewish-Polish Person With an Interesting Testimony? [48]


Testimony of what - a court case?

UK, Ireland / Poles working and living in the UK [25]


I'm an immigrant. I live here. My friend who's been sent to UK for a year by her company is an expat.

Travel / train @ bus from warsaw to budapest? [17]

There are buses from Warsaw to Budapest. I checked the price and it's between 70 and 169 zloty one way, depending when you go.

Here's a link: biletyautobusowe.net.pl/orbis/autokary-wegry.html

These are often cheaper: eurolinespolska.pl/et_en/start.php?profile=el_en_html&cnt=cts and the site is in English.

Or you might prefer a cheap flight.

Life / Can someone explain the military service laws? [7]

Barney

Quite, If the call-up papers are thirty years old, they'll certainly be in paper form, not on any computer database, and if there was ever an issue it will be long forgotten.

Food / Polish Restaurant Prices [20]


Dearer than a Bar Mleczny (some of which are OK, others very, very, scruffy).

Similar prices to a cheap-ish restaurant here in Warsaw.

Life / Can someone explain the military service laws? [7]


True. And a 50 year old wouldn't have had to worry even before that.

Food / HALAL food in krakow and warsaw [10]


That was my first thought, but I'm not sure of the owners' religion, since they're Lebanese. They've got a website samira.pl so could probably advise. The Turkish place on ul. Zgoda has a small shop section, not much more than a shelf, but might be worth looking at.

There's always vegetarian...

Work / Job Opportunity for Non Polish speakers in Warsaw [27]


Don't worry. She's a BNP supporter. They tend not to get it.


They are not 'HR vacancies'. How many times do people have to explain this to you.


I'm doing it now.

Food / HALAL food in krakow and warsaw [10]

The halal shop by the mosque is your best bet. Here's a link to a website with their details.

islamicfinder.org/getitWorld.php?id=37872&&lang=english

Work / Job Opportunity for Non Polish speakers in Warsaw [27]


Ahem, we're in the EU. It can be done anywhere. As we speak I'm doing some work for a Spanish company without setting foot there. I doubt their staff know which country I'm in.


Where job vacancies languish unfilled for months.

Work / Job Opportunity for Non Polish speakers in Warsaw [27]

Exactly.

And if 'native' British people got off their lazy asses, turned off the Jeremy Kyle show, or X factor or whatever else the great unwashed watch on their ever-present television sets, stopped stuffing theirpsty faces with oven 'chips' and frozen 'dinners', stepped out of their subsidised public housing, stopped signing on for god knows how much in benefits (paid for by the taxes of working people including Poles), stopped breeding like yeast while they're still kids themselves and letting their kids finish school without saleable skills, learned an honest trade and looked for a job, employers wouldn't have to go as far as Poland to find decent skilled staff.

If chavs want to waste the opportunities they have been given in one of the richest countries the world has ever known, there are plenty of other people, often from PL, who are not so stupid, venal and lazy...

Law / Starting a distribution business in Poland [11]

There's a guy who posts here who has a business helping people with precisely this sort of thing. I think he's based in Poznań.

I imagine he'll reply to the post when he sees it, but in the meantime, I think his website is called something like lindenia.

I did it all myself a few years ago, and would really have appreciated something like that to save time and money.

This is probably the best option by far.

News / British ambassador to Poland accused of "ignorance" for supporting gay rights [70]

f stop

There's something in that! Gays do it too but in reverse.

News / British ambassador to Poland accused of "ignorance" for supporting gay rights [70]

f stop

A certain type of heterosexual often has strong views on homosexuality. Those of us who are gay just get on with life.

There is a political issue though, within the gay community, about fellow homosexuals like Jarosław Kaczyński, who are in politics, are gay (according to sources including Wałęsa), but actively work against the rest of us. In his case, certain of his alleged personal habits before he became premier might have led him to be arrested under laws he upheld while in office.

It isn't so much about the sexuality. More about ensuring equal treatment under the law for all human beings.

News / British ambassador to Poland accused of "ignorance" for supporting gay rights [70]


His twin brother. And a certain Zbigniew Z.

News / British ambassador to Poland accused of "ignorance" for supporting gay rights [70]


Exactly. A troll.


You are lying.

This is a discussion that nobody forced you to take part in. If you don't like it, don't click on it.

News / British ambassador to Poland accused of "ignorance" for supporting gay rights [70]

happycamper

There's something in that.

But at least gay men look after themselves!

News / British ambassador to Poland accused of "ignorance" for supporting gay rights [70]

On the minus side, really loud clubs, a lot of rent, no quiet bars. On the plus side, plenty of places, a good non-commercial scene, easy to find sex quickly.

News / British ambassador to Poland accused of "ignorance" for supporting gay rights [70]

I've heard some mixed things about the Moscow scene. Here in Warsaw there's plenty of places (5 or so sauni) a few clubs and bars but nothing much new for the past couple of years.

News / British ambassador to Poland accused of "ignorance" for supporting gay rights [70]


You really think that they aren't?


Hundreds? Must be a busy sauna. Which one do you go to? And why?

News / British ambassador to Poland accused of "ignorance" for supporting gay rights [70]


It's the basic right not to be treated any differently under the law as anyone else.

The right not to be jailed for being in love, the right not to be thrown out of your home when your partner of fifty years dies, the right to be left alone, the right not to be the victim of discrimination.

News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

And in the meantime, the zloty seems to be collapsing. Banks are selling now at 4.73 to the GBP, and the rate has steadily worsened throughout the day.

Bad things happening.

waluty.onet.pl/notowania-walut-on-line-forex,18906,notowania-online

edit My bank is now selling at 4.8 zl to the pound. Horror.

News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]


Large companies are making budget cuts, smaller companies have empty order books, new apartment buildings in my neighbourhood are half-empty, restaurants are going bust, banks are less flexible about company overdrafts, and wages seem to be frozen.

News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]


Exactly. Poland has had a lot of catching-up to do and that economic activity has helped growth.

The crisis has already come here and people are feeling it.

Life / THE BRITISH ARE COMING!!! [30]


Very true.

Poles occasionally grumble to me about British stag parties in Kraków, as if it's somehow my fault.

They sometimes become silent and sulky when I tell them that the companies who advertise these weekends, on websites with pictures of vodka, tarts and partying are all Polish-run.

Genealogy / Family Secret - Piaski, Lublin --- Help Needed. [16]


Certainly a lot of terrible things happened in that area during the war (and just before and after). One possibility is that they were originally called Danko but were using the name Zając for a short time. From the 1920s onwards many families adopted surnames that sounded more Polish. There were, as a poster mentioned, sometimes changes in people's religion too.

If the 'secret' is more prosaic, like someone in the family committing a crime, there probably won't be any way to find out - court records didn't always survive the war.

The local history society in Lublin would be a useful resource.