News / Ruski a slur like Pollack? [53]


A bit of that, but you get it in villages near borders everywhere, Poles or not.

News / Ruski a slur like Pollack? [53]

Sometimes in small-town east Poland it can be used perjoratively against someone, maybe orthodox by religion.

Travel / A good kebab place in Warsaw? [45]


That one used to be great, but then the owner sold it to someone else, and it isn't as good, but OK to sit down in. The old owner has one in Sopot now, near the station. People recommend the place on Marszałkowska just north of the junction with Świętokrzyszka, opposite side to PKiN. There are two next to each other, one always with a queue.


Especially in the UK where the meat usually comes ready formed from wholesalers - same in Poland nowadays. I'm just back from a month in Istanbul, where the kebabs are in a whole different league.

News / Can Russia be a good partner for Poland? [42]


That's largely how the Russians do business with other countries. Especially neighbouring ones. But a strong (and stable) Poland, especially one that is part of the EU, as well as proactive diplomatic policies on the part of the world's major countries towards Russia can only strengthen Poland's position within the relationship.


Exactly.

News / EU won't legislate on Poland's communist crimes [19]

Well, some politicians certainly have - remember Kaczor producing a ridiculous reparations bill for the Germans, including an estimate of how many bicycles were destroyed? All added up by accountants working at our expense. Now if the proposition to equate Stalinist crimes with the holocaust was passed (by whom? it isn't the EU's responsibility) that would open the door to compensation claims. Which in turn would lead further claims like those of Zimny Lech with governments being asked to pay for bicycles damaged 60 years ago. Ad infinitum.

This thread is about the proposition made to the EU. Only a tiny part of the EU was in the USSR, and a relatively small part of it in the non-USSR comecon countries. The EU has many roles, none of them concerning political pronouncements about things that are alleged to have happened to citizens of member states many years before EU accession perpetrated by people who may or may not now be citizens of the same or other members states.

News / EU won't legislate on Poland's communist crimes [19]


I entirely agree. The original proposition that equates the crimes of the Stalinist years - done when things were going badly, with the holocaust (both genocide against Jews and Roma as well as democide against homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and Masons) carried out with the intention of killing specific groups and done when things were going exactly to plan is rather disingenuous and opens the door to compensation claims against the former Soviet Union. Which some former Eastern-bloc politicians would rather like.

News / EU won't legislate on Poland's communist crimes [19]


Sounds a bit like democide, which the USSR is often accused of. I'd say that there was also genocide during the Stalin years, but the majority democide/stratocide.

Travel / A good kebab place in Warsaw? [45]

The one at Dworzec Gdański's pretty good. The one with its own door to the right of the main entrance - not the one that just has a window in the booking hall.

Language / To wear: nosić, nieść, ponieść? [10]

Or the associated noun, uniesienie. An odd word to say the least.

News / EU won't legislate on Poland's communist crimes [19]

I'll save you the trouble - they are outside the EU's remit and are the legal responsibility of individual member states. No conspiracy.

Travel / One night hour in Warsaw (with a car) - is there any "must see" places? [6]

It used to be OK, but went down very badly in quality a couple of years ago. Not at all good now.Try Arti on al Jerozolimskie or the Maharajah just up the road.

UK, Ireland / Irish Times: Irish workers warm to Poland [24]

One small article, so many untruths. I actually know a couple pof the people named in the article, and it just isn't true.

Life / Gypies/Indian-looking women with kids beg for money in Poland [143]


Then again, they don't belong anywhere else, a distinct nationality within Europe, but a nomadic one.

They've been here a long time, and whether you like it or not, they aren't going away.

Travel / How much is a cab: Warsaw airport to the bus station? [27]

It was all over the papers a while ago. A lot of people stopped using them because of it.

Life / Gypies/Indian-looking women with kids beg for money in Poland [143]


Wait for it...


You surely did.

Here we are:


There you go.


That's quite a relief, since their ethnic and cultural background (over a thousand years here and far more European in culture than anything else) makes them as European as anyone.

So it seems


is true.

Off-Topic / I thought my house had ghosts, but according to a paranormal psychic it is hovering demon [30]


The first thing you should do is remove the first word of your user name.

Life / Gypies/Indian-looking women with kids beg for money in Poland [143]


Providing they're successsful, doesn't everyone?


As you know, guy, European Gypsies are European. They belong in Europe.

Life / POLISH TEENAGERS TURN TO PROSTITUTION... [77]


With 5 to 10 euro you'll only have it with a mentally slow person behind the bus station or a particularly raddled old tranny.

News / Krystian Legierski - First openly gay Polish elected official [20]


I can name one of those twats.

News / John Godson, born in Nigeria, might become Poland Sejm's first black deputy! [313]


Weeel, that might be just a bit to do with the rabidly aggressive posts about a hard-working and community-minded Pole - an immigrant like me - solely on the basis of his skin colour and the perceived behaviour of other people with the same colour skin. One or too from you, as I remember.And the policy positions of Platforma are well enough known by those of us who live in Poland. If you want them spelling out, visit their website.


That sort of tone.

News / John Godson, born in Nigeria, might become Poland Sejm's first black deputy! [313]


What indications? He's a member of Platforma (incidentally the party I sometimes vote for) which is centre-right.

News / John Godson, born in Nigeria, might become Poland Sejm's first black deputy! [313]


Fair enough, that's how healthcare works - but don't you think Polish women are intelligent enough to choose their own partner and way up all risks?

You could just as well criticise people for eating too many pierogi, MacDonalds, Delicje, smalec etc and drinking too much non-diet coke - the rest of society will have to pay for the healthcare issues - expensive enough - that obesity necessitates.

Should fat people be allowed in the Sejm? What sort of message is that sending to the youth of Poland?

News / John Godson, born in Nigeria, might become Poland Sejm's first black deputy! [313]



The same old trash - don't you think a woman can choose who she wants to be with?


He's a Polish citizen, who's done far more for Poland than you ever have.

Work / If you were to compere Polish Unis and Unis/Colleges in your country... [75]


You did indeed. I suppose I was lucky - back in the mid 80s I had a paid internship - this was normal in the UK then, and if I'd had to do an unpaid one, I could have claimed Social Security. Thatcher eventually stopped all that.

In Poland, I notice that GW runs competitions for internships in partnership with Blue Chip companies - I think they're paid.

Work / If you were to compere Polish Unis and Unis/Colleges in your country... [75]


The big question is, why do you eat and how do you pay the rent?

Work / If you were to compere Polish Unis and Unis/Colleges in your country... [75]


Especially mathematics - Warsaw is renowned for that.

A friend of mine at Uni got a job flipping burgers in the evenings and on Saturdays; they hired her on their graduate scheme and 25 years later she's a very senior manager for them at international level.

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]

Google "CELTA Krakow" - the ones that IH and Bell do (if they still do them) are OK. Ish. Bell may do it in Warsaw. Maybe your best bet is to do it in the US or even better in the UK before coming? Much wider choice of providers and dates.

News / John Godson, born in Nigeria, might become Poland Sejm's first black deputy! [313]


You know this isn't really the sejm - just the local council in Lodz...

News / John Godson, born in Nigeria, might become Poland Sejm's first black deputy! [313]


The paranoia drips from the screen.

News / John Godson, born in Nigeria, might become Poland Sejm's first black deputy! [313]


The "average Pole of similar age" is a local politician invited to stand for the Sejm? Don't make me laugh.


You do that so well yourself.


Now you've truly flipped.
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