Travel / Polish Road Tax ViaToll , a legal rip off before Euro 2012 ? [26]

Don`t be silly. Polish buses are stopped and detained in France or Germany and when Poles protest, everybody is surprised anjd they advise to read local laws more carefully.

My advise to those French is: read local law.

Travel / Polish Road Tax ViaToll , a legal rip off before Euro 2012 ? [26]

The quote from the French link:

However, this does not surprise a representative of the National Federation of carriers (FNTR). "Taxes are popping up all over Europe. It is hard to follow and carriers must register on a tax website in each country. Poland is only as practical as Spain, the payment of fines is in cash "

And the comment of one French forumer:

For me it is the bus company that tried to save money by cheating, then using its customers as hostages.

Travel / Polish Road Tax ViaToll , a legal rip off before Euro 2012 ? [26]


Where did you read it? LInk, please.

News / Presidential elections and debates 2015 Poland [472]


Ok, I understand that PO is currently in the center of your interest for some reasons.

However, I started this thread with the news about the leaders of two conservative right-wing parties who both declared to run in presidential elections are rivals.

Do you think it is a good situation?


So they will have to eat their own words.

News / Presidential elections and debates 2015 Poland [472]


2 months ago on the evening news they reported that A2 motorway near Warsaw would not be ready for EURO .

It will be the company filed for bankruptcy Lower Silesia Raw Rock (DSS ) is responsible for the construction of the A2 motorway. The company is in arrears with the payment of several million zł one of the subcontractors. Therefore, he decided to enter the court. Thus, the chances that the A2 will be completed before Euro 2012 decreasing to almost zero .

The case concerns the "C " that DSS was completed when performers from China. Problems with payments to subcontractors stretch for some time. Several times there have even block the road in front of the company, which thus tried to pressure the DDS to pay outstanding debts . Since the measures have not yielded the expected results , the company TR Construction decided to change strategy and submission of a formal application.

Actually, experts had already warned about it 9 months ago after the infamous Chinese failure.

Yet, PO party holds strong.

Strange.

Gumishu, are you sure?

News / Presidential elections and debates 2015 Poland [472]


Jaorsław Kaczyński is a respectable, patriotic politician.

So is Zbigniew Ziobro.

It seems that the conservative right will be divided in 2015, thereby


According to the saying: divide et impera.

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


That is why I also added:


Is the word interval so closely connected with the theatre that it becomes obscure when used in political context?

Sorry, I am not a native speaker, my horribly primitive English can`t render all shades and nuances I want to transmit.


hahaha Iron, I just love it when you write about me in third person singular. Can you go on and never stop? :):):):):)

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


If you learnt history at school, you would know that Old Poland was a multiethnic/ multicultural country. And it functioned as such for centuries, though with some intervals.

The Commonwealth was an important European center for the development of modern social and political ideas. It was famous for its rare quasi-democratic political system, praised by philosophers such as Erasmus; and, during the Counter-Reformation, was known for near-unparalleled religious tolerance, with peacefully coexisting Catholic, Jewish, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant and Muslim communities. In the 18th century, the French Catholic Rulhiere wrote of 16th century Poland: "This country, which in our day we have seen divided on the pretext of religion, is the first state in Europe that exemplified tolerance. In this state, mosques arose between churches and synagogues.”

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


Those people had material wealth but no culture. Wealth attracted immigrants but culture didn`t. :)


I prefer to be naive than such a wet blanket. Man, you should definitely learn to be more optimistic!! :):


I am hired by the state school, by semi-state university and by private individuals. I work from 8.20 to 8.20 except for Sundays and holidays.

Why?


Yes, wow! :):

Travel / How much money required for 6 days stay in Warsaw ? [6]


It depends if you want to pain the town red or another colour.

History / The story about German- Polish reconciliation [194]


Very funny. Under Kaczyński we had good relations with all except Russia and Germany. Do you mean Slovakia and The Czech Republic, naturally? :):):):):)

BTW, do you know what the Polish export to Russia and Germany amounts to? :):):):) And to Slovakia?


Hahahaha very funny indeed.

Language / łania or klempa? [6]

Yes, of course, klępa relates to an animal, while klempa to a peevish woman.

History / The story about German- Polish reconciliation [194]

Reconciliation today

Two WW2 pilots, Pole and German, once deadly enemies, reconciled and became friends



German military cemeteries in Poland

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


When I said it,

I had this in mind

Poles attached to a traditional Easter
04.04.2012 14:57
With the Easter holidays fast approaching, a new survey finds that Poles still associate the holiday with traditions such as blessing food in Church and sharing eggs.

As Easter in much of the western world has been reduced to buying the kids chocolate Easter eggs, 90 percent of Poles cling to traditions associated with the Christian festivity.

The study shows that Easter continues to be a stronghold of Polish tradition, as celebrations have remained unchanged over decades.
Eighty percent of respondents cannot imagine the Christian holiday without special cakes, such as the babka or mazurek, or without śmigus-dyngus -the 'Wet Easter Monday 'tradition, which gives, mainly, the perfect excuse to drench girls, and each other, with buckets of water.

Figures have been dropping in the case of festive cards being sent ahead of the holidays, however.
While in the late 1990s the custom was prevalent across the country, it has been preserved in 70 percent of families.





Show me a child who doesn`t find painting eggs or splashing each other with water attractive? ??? :):):):):)

With mixed or different origin, the emigree kids will be true Poles one day. :):):):) Why? Because Polish culture, though based on peasant folklore in many aspects, is FUN! :):):):):

News / Poles are able to forgive their enemies - how noble. [68]

"The struggle, reconciliation and friendship" - is part of the title of the exhibition, which is 30 August 2002 opened in the Municipal Cultural Centre in Gniezno. Exhibitions devoted to the history of friendship between two pilots, who many years ago, the first day of a stormy September, met in the sky as mortal enemies.

The protagonists of the exhibition presented in Gniezno were two pilots, who on the first day of September 1939 met the sky as mortal enemies. Wladyslaw Gnys and Frank Neubert - because they Sept. 1 took part in air battle over the Malopolska - many years after the war they met again. Two former enemies joined friendship that lasted until his death. Just about this friendship, for reconciliation, but also the nightmare years of the war assembled the exhibition in Gniezno.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Władysław_Gnyś

Language / Birthday wishes / jokes in Polish? [9]


Plenty:

Nie żałuj sobie w życiu niczego: ani słodkiego, ani procentowego. Jedz, pij i popuszczaj pasa! Niech ci się wiedzie jak za króla Sasa! Olej trudności, wszelkie zmartwienia. Ode mnie przyjmij najlepsze życzenia!

prezenty-i-zyczenia.pl/Zyczenia-Dnia/100,Smieszne-zyczenia-urodzinowe

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


Wow, every day I learn sth new. :):):):)


The Western countries were flooded with large waves of immigrants in the past. Germany - about 50.000 Turkish people every year.

1961 7,116 1986 1,425,721
1962 15,300 1987 1,481,369
1963 27,100 1988 1,523,678
1964 85,200 1989 1,612,632

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_in_Germany

Poland will not receive such numbers so soon. Therefore, it will be easier for immigrants to adopt the Polish culture.

I don`t believe the following will happen in Poland during my lifetime:
Due to the geographic proximity of Germany and Turkey, cultural transfer and influence from the country of origin has remained considerable among the Turkish minority. Furthermore, the majority of second-generation Turks appear to have developed emotional and cultural ties to their parent's country and also to the country which they live in and intend to remain.[77] Most Turks live in two conflicting cultures with contrasting behaviour codes and patterns of belonging. At work or school, German culture tends to dominate, while during leisure time social networks divide along ethnic lines of the Turkish culture. In the first generation of migrants, social networks were almost exclusively Turkish, and now in the second and third generations this segregation line remains just as effective as ever.[

News / US-POLAND special relationship [20]


I am sceptic.

Travel / From Warsaw to Bialystok on a bike [12]


Road E67 is adapted for bike transport in certain areas

in other it isn`t:

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


I said somewhere else: Polish culture is attractive enough to make people integrate. I am optimistic about it. :):):):)

If your German Turks don`t want to integrate, it means the modern German culture isn`t appealing to them.


You are so wrong. They will be brought up with Turkish-Polish values, speaking both languages well.


Come on... :):):):):):):) Bringing a girl from Turkey to Poland would be like bringing coal from Manchester to Newcastle. :):):):):):)

History / The story about German- Polish reconciliation [194]


Respected farmers and craftsmen. They contributed a lot into the development of the areas they settled in.

History / The story about German- Polish reconciliation [194]


Stop dreaming. Polish elites once willingly led to the annihilation of their independent country. Remember that painting?:

Do Germans have such paintings?

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


Of course.

But you need to have some work in Poland.


If your plan A fails, you need to have plan B. Even C.


Come on, there is no need to be ashamed of your original nationality. Your children will be Polish, but born from a Turkish father and Polish mother. What is wrong with that?

History / The story about German- Polish reconciliation [194]


Wow, that is sth new to me:

[i]Unrug was born in Brandenburg an der Havel into the Germanized family of Tadeusz Unrug, a major-general in the Prussian Army. After graduating from gymnasium in Dresden, Unrug completed Navy School in 1907 and began service in the German Navy. During World War I he commanded a U-boat, earning promotion to the command of a submarine flotilla.[/quote]
There is always balance in nature.


Amen!


But this
youtube.com/watch?v=vQhqikWnQCU

is far more interesting

than this:

youtu.be/RW4DlEuBxWc

As I said, there is balance. :):):):)

History / The story about German- Polish reconciliation [194]


Very good remark. Yes, selecting truly innocent from really guilty is a hard task indeed.


I agree.

Travel / From Warsaw to Bialystok on a bike [12]


No, it is much better to choose CR88 via Zagościniec, Chrzęsne, Morzyczyn Włóki and Mystki-Rzym:

Poland cycling
Bicycle in Poland

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


If you are really determined to settle in Poland one day, there is one thing you must do now: start learning Polish. You won`t count as a valuable employee if you can`t speak Polish. Even if you are a boss of your own business, you will have to speak Polish to deal with Polish partners.

After grasping basic Polish, you will be able to read and understand what guys write about opening/running a kebab bar in Poland: biznesforum.pl/maly-lokal-z-kebabem-vt11611.html


Yes, the guy is very knowledgeable. However, I discovered traces of feeling of wanton superiority in some of his recent posts. That is a mistake - he should remain a cold analyst - killer professional who doesn`t let himself be carried away too easily. :):):):)

History / The story about German- Polish reconciliation [194]

Very interesting opinion.


Yes, indeed, they paid a horrible price.


Well, I am sorry while I discuss it with you, a cultural intelligent interlocutor who is able to explain his views in an unobtrusive way. :):):):)


If those Germans were innocent civilians who neither supported Nazis nor participated in Nazi crimes and were disgusted/horrified at Hitler`s plans to exterminate Poles or turn them into slaves, then any atrocities committed on them by Poles were inexcusable and should be viewed as criminal behaviour, for which Poles should take responsibility during the current reconciliation process.

Now, the question is: how many innocent Germans like that were oppressed by Poles? Tens? Hundreds? Thousands?

Probably not millions.... :):):):)
Let`s face the truth - most Germans were actively involved.


I seriously doubt it.

News / Controversial exhibition of Hitler's Art in Szczecin, Poland [14]


Nothing special. This poor art won`t change our perception of Hitler in any way.

Poland flush