Work / I Want to offer a Telesales Job to 5 Brit Expats however... [19]

I'd add that there are a lot of people who see the forum but never post and from time to time people ask here about work for English speakers who aren't qualified to teach but have a commercial background.

Love / Living with a Polish man, but he has a drinking problem? [60]


An acquaintance (also called Anita) was married to a heavy drinker who used to get nasty. She strangled him in self-defence one night. The case was thrown out of court but not until she'd been on remand for several months waiting for a murder trial. Problem drinking affects everyone around the drinker and is usually too big a problem for their partner to endure alone. You admit there's a pretty big problem (after all, you're asking about it from an internet fora) and sadly such problems usually get worse.

You obviously still love him, but standing between you is alcohol, a toxic chemical. You need to give yourself some space. If he sobers upo, fine. There are Polish language AA meetings in the UK, but if not, this problem will not get better.

Polonia / Poles once again racially abused in the Netherlands [8]

It looks like Slavia has given a link to an older story about the same country.

Love / Living with a Polish man, but he has a drinking problem? [60]


'With the girl' is the important part of that phrase. Don't be a doormat, walk away from the situation and you'll slowly but surely start to feel better.

Real Estate / Good places to live in Krakow [20]

It's actually not that dangerous and has superb architecture, nice wide streets and cheap places to eat.

Love / Living with a Polish man, but he has a drinking problem? [60]


Get away and stay away, As soon as possible. This situation will not get better, only worse. It is only partly a cultural problem in that toe-rags of different cultures express their worthlessness in different ways. Move on, you will find better.

Genealogy / What ethnicity would you say a person would be if someone came from kresy Poland [41]

North Korea is quite pretty too, but I don't see many people taking holidays there.

Genealogy / What ethnicity would you say a person would be if someone came from kresy Poland [41]



Some would beg to differ.

History / Lwów, Wilno ... kresy - Poland have lost enormoust part of our heritage... [389]


Yes, however so many borders have changed and so many people moved and irredentism has become so discredited that the only sense of a territory in Europe 'belonging' somewhere is a matter for current residents' wishes, regardless of any nationality or historical issues.


Nonsense and trolling.

History / A 1999 Document, "Warning to the Polish Nation" [9]

A waste of bytes.

Deeply unsavoury too.

Genealogy / What ethnicity would you say a person would be if someone came from kresy Poland [41]


That's obvious from the context.. Unusual to have to ask. Perhaps he's confusing ethnicity with ancestry.

Genealogy / What ethnicity would you say a person would be if someone came from kresy Poland [41]


Often without any ethnicity. Their great-great-great-great-great grandfather may have been the last to have had any contact with Germany - everyone else being from elsewhere. English people with Norman surnames may have had no contact with France for 15 generations.

Ethnicity is nothing anyway. Who you are, what you achieve and what you're like as a person is all that matters.

Life / Can most people in Poland speak Russian? [43]

In my view they don't.

Genealogy / What ethnicity would you say a person would be if someone came from kresy Poland [41]


Remember a surname (unless there's inbreeding) only comes from one side of a family.

Life / Can most people in Poland speak Russian? [43]

Spend time in both places and it's easy to see.

Genealogy / What ethnicity would you say a person would be if someone came from kresy Poland [41]


Because there isn't a 'one-fits-all' answer. It depends on the person in question.

Life / Can most people in Poland speak Russian? [43]

Not really - there are definite differences.

Life / The major religion of Poland? [33]


There are Polish Orthodox, Anglicans, various types of Protestant, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, a very long-standing Muslim community, Jews, Bahai's and plenty of Atheists.

History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]

Actually 'drawn up' to prevent a civil war.

The PRL wasn't an occupation for reasons well established in this thread.

History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]


Sinn Fein standing in free and fair elections doesn't fit any known definition of occupation.


There were certainly always plenty of Polish socialists, then and now.

Work / Warsaw or Krakow - what is the better place to work in? [19]



Agreed. It's a great place, looks nice with the cliffs and hills and has everything.

News / Wisława Szymborska died. [30]

It doesn't need to be uplifting to be poetry - or to rhyme. She (and Milosz) were the two greats of late 20th Century poetry in Poland.

Travel / Any Halal Restaurants in Krakow? [34]


There are some Turkish and Arab places - mostly kebabs, and in Kazimierz there are some kosher restaurants.

Law / Is there a legal requirement for us to support aging parents in Poland? [26]

The usual way - they issue a warrant which means the OP would be arrested should they return. Prior to this there would need to be a court case which might be stressful and perhaps costly for the OP's father and which the OP could contest.

History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]


Read the whole thread very carefully.


Look at the thread title.


Why would the 'innocent Polish taxpayers' (of which, by the way, I am one and you are not) be 'on the hook' in the matter of returning property to a community?


That is a whole different issue, though you may want to check out the ziemia odzyskana.


And nobody is suggesting otherwise. There will be restitution.

Law / Is there a legal requirement for us to support aging parents in Poland? [26]


Yes. There have been some well publicised cases over the years. Including one about a woman living in a small flat with teenage kids who had to send money to her mother who lived in a 300sqm house.

History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]


Not in the slightest.


Who?


Check out the meaning of that phrase.


Why not check out the meaning of occupation. We've already established that compromised though the PRL was, it most definitely wasn't an occupation.


How many Poles were "dismembered at the behest of his majesty's government".

Now stop trolling and run along.


Plus schools, hospitals, all the stuff they hadn't been good at before or since when profit reared it's ugly head.


A sound point and very much at the heart of it.

History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]


I cannot believe you are so naive that in a thread about WW2 in a forum about Poland you have to ask that question.


I imagine that could be deducted from a notional back rent.


Again, extreme naivete if you imagine (or something worse if you only pretend to imagine) that made the slightest difference to someone's WW2 fate.

UK, Ireland / Are Polish people importing a new wave of ancient racism into the UK? [402]


The Poles in the UK haven't caused it - but the type of bigot who might vote for BNP etc will seize on anything to justify their inadequacies.

Work / Warsaw or Krakow - what is the better place to work in? [19]

There are certainly people like that, however there's at least as many with a bit more free time, disposable income (usually) and joie de vivre. The people you mention are often from outside Warsaw, really feel they've arrived because they have a job there and buy the most expensive flat they can afford. There are plenty with a less frenetic attitude to life.