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jon357   
3 Dec 2015
Travel / Taxis from Gdansk airport? [65]

Tosh. You're advertising it.

Anyway, Uber is cheaper and reliable, plus payment is automatic.
jon357   
3 Dec 2015
Love / What should I do against racist family from Poland? (I am Turkish) [23]

I will meet with her one last time to ask that. If she is thinking in your way. It's really time to move on.

I think this is the best thing to do. What sort of people are her parents?

As in so much, you should expect the worst but hope for the best.
jon357   
3 Dec 2015
News / Poland to end state funding for IVF treatment [102]

Very sad for people who are trying to start families and can't afford to go private.

Let's hope the decision is reversed at the earliest opportunity.
jon357   
2 Dec 2015
Law / Possible prospects of gaining Polish Citizenship (grandfather heritage)? [11]

No, you are getting confused. It depends entirely on the basis of citizenship. In the P112's case, the possible grounds are restricted. I note that he/she does not say how long they have lived in Poland or under what basis.

Binaca, it's worth checking out some of the previous threads here on this subject (as well as listening to those of us who have actually done this).
jon357   
2 Dec 2015
Life / Welcome to Poland ! (Stay away for your own sake) [239]

I know. Quite funny to be called 'western' by someone from further west than I've wanted to go! And the bizarre thing is that this thread is all about someone's real life experiences in Poland. It really looks like some of these clowns think that just because the same problems can happen elsewhere they shouldn't be talked about!
jon357   
1 Dec 2015
Life / Welcome to Poland ! (Stay away for your own sake) [239]

Racists are uneducated, stupid, ugly, frustrated and have no balls

Spot on. Total inadequates.

I happen to go to school with

Under 18s aren't usually the best judges of what goes on in the world.

people are ashamed of their origin

Most people don't dwell on their origins unless they are very unhappy with their reality.
jon357   
1 Dec 2015
News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]

There's really no need for anyone to sponsor articles - PiS are behaving like idiots and it's showing.

Absolutely. Just small mindedness about people expressing opposing views. Must be 'sponsored'...
jon357   
1 Dec 2015
News / Adam Michnik awarded for integrity, professionalism and high standards. Poland's No. 1 fascist? [321]

Because it is grating privileges and money by the state to only one newspapers

Nope. State institutions can subscribe to whatever they like.

The only true there is that that paper have been acting against interest of the nation.

Again, nonsense. People have different opinions about the 'interest of the nation'. Would you ban any publication that contradicts yours?
jon357   
1 Dec 2015
Life / Welcome to Poland ! (Stay away for your own sake) [239]

Which is "Poland for the Poles". You don't even live here, so what does it have to do with you

Quite. It's rank hypocrisy. Someone taking advantage of something and wishing to deny others the same.

And tacitly justifying violence against visitors.

Disturbing.
jon357   
1 Dec 2015
Life / Welcome to Poland ! (Stay away for your own sake) [239]

in Poland those attacks are really only exceptions, you statistically you have a better chance to be attacked for wearing a scarf in color of a football team some have issues with or by being mugged.

This I largely agree with. I'd say though that this forum (being about Poland and being in English not Polish especially relating to foreign people there) is an appropriate place to discuss things that happen in Poland, including public safety.

if you are seriously about practicing your religion, building Mosques and such, find yourself another country, Poland is a Christian country and if you don't understand what that means it is your problem, got it?

This I don't agree with. Poland is one of the larger European countries and isn't shut off from the world. Having mosques here (and the oldest Polish mosques are 400 years old) doesn't make Poland any less Christian (or secular with Christian roots) any more than the new Catholic cathedral in Jebel Ali makes Dubai any less Muslim.

full white blooded

Who cares what skin colour or so-called 'race' anybody is? Except people so inadequate that all they can define themselves by is their ancestry.
jon357   
30 Nov 2015
Life / Welcome to Poland ! (Stay away for your own sake) [239]

So the whole of Poland should be punished

Whoever suggested that?

but attacks happen everywhere and not every attack is necessarily racist.

Indeed, and that certainly doesn't mean we should ignore them, does it? BTW, two of the three attacks I mentioned were certainly racist. Sad but true. Yes it can happen anywhere. No we should not pretend Poland (the topic of this forum, after all) is immune.
jon357   
30 Nov 2015
Life / Welcome to Poland ! (Stay away for your own sake) [239]

such accounts never happen in Warsaw or Poznan; which are both 'used' to tourists.

Nonsense. It's happened to two people I know well who live in Poland; both people of colour. And to a white person who happened to be walking home alone.