Life / Have any of you ever been to any of the Pijalnia bars in Warsaw [19]


There are, however people don't tend to go to that particular dump for soft drinks.

Life / Have any of you ever been to any of the Pijalnia bars in Warsaw [19]


Called by people who live nearby 'mordownia'.

Re. the one on Nowy Swiat people are as likely to be attacked by one of the staff or by one of the many drunk 19 year olds that go there to fight as have a pleasant evening.

Oddly enough the police like it because it concentrates the trash in one place.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Depends where. Within the EU, some police forces are quite open to citizens of other member states joining. It largely depends on how easy or not they're finding recruitment.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


Easily, though the pay wouldn't appeal to all. I don't see an issue with it.

A thug is a thug regardless of nationality, and a police officer is a police officer regardless of nationality. The law is (or should be) blind.

In the U.K. there are both Poles and Germans serving in the police, and this has not led to any particular problems.

Travel / So I went to Warsaw - my thoughts after visiting Poland [88]

That's very true.

I find customer service varies from place to place in any given country. Warm and friendly in Northern England, more formal but still ok in London, cordial (if you're lucky) in a few parts of Poland, but still rude and abrasive very often in Warsaw.

There's nothing fake about someone in a customer-facing job smiling and being friendly; they actually enjoy their job more when they do that. One thing that a lot of people haven't quite worked out in Poland is that there's a lot of competition now. If someone in a shop is rude to a customer (and sometimes they are downright rude, even argumentative) the customers will go elsewhere.

Good, polite, friendly customer service costs nothing and does increase revenue.

News / Poland's PIS party and the UK Tories [25]


Both blinkered and utterly unprincipled. They main difference is thatr the Tories can get away with more actual damage whereas PIS can gat away with more actual lies.

News / Poland's PIS party and the UK Tories [25]

If you've got one already, that's fine, people are used to the system, and in most places it works well. If you haven't got one, there has to be a damn good reason for getting one, and ambitious politicians rarely want to give way to people who do the job because of a sense of duty rather than personal ambition.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]


No worries; you're obviously very passionate about the classics and love ancient history, as do I.

I see the Sarmation revival in Poland as mirroring things elsewhere in Europe at the time, a revival in Arthurian mythology (incidentally there's an unproven theory that the person the Arthur legends were based on was a Sarmatian mercernary who was in Britain as a post-Roman 'Dux'), a resurgence of the Grail Legend in France, a renewed interest in German legends, and of course the beginnings of an interest in Egypt. All these were happening at the same time and all part of enlightenment, a search for knowledge and ideas that were considered lost.

UK, Ireland / Overweight gay Polish gender fluid crossdresser in Big Brother house [12]

I just googled him and yes, he does seem quite a character; Big Brother chooses people who are quite extreme. I suspect he'd be quite like that even if he was straight.

There are certainly people more extreme in appearance etc in Poland; and yes there's television work for them there too.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]


Exactly. Ńothing. One or two here are confusing archaeology and dead primitive civilisations with revivalism.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]


This is the point. Little is known about the Sarmatians; they do not have cultural heirs.


And this isn't relevant.

The notion of any group having cultural remnants of them is a fiction of the Romantic movement and it's predecessor; a pretty tale, and no more.

UK, Ireland / Overweight gay Polish gender fluid crossdresser in Big Brother house [12]

I didn't know that Big Brother was even on TV nowadays.


Perhaps, and it suggests he's from out in the sticks; Warsaw is quite a big city.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]


It was all part of the Romantic movement, whether you 'see' it or don't. And the Sarmatians are all long dead, with little trace of their culture.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]


That's certainly not true. D :-D Serbs are Serbs, Sarmatians were Sarmatians, Poles are Poles, and not all Europeans were/are any of these.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]


About as authentic as FLW calling his house Taliesin.


Probably a very wide spread of people.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]


It doesn't actually, since every last strand of Sarmatian culture is dead buried and long forgotten. Only a Romantic-era revival brought them back into anyone's conscious.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

If archaelogists need to analyse graves to try and find a 'connection'; it shows there's no defined cultural link. So a Romantic myth. QED.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]


It's all part of the romantic ideal of the early Nineteenth Century, a beautiful myth in its time, a beautiful myth now, but still largely a myth and sometimes a way of looking at things in a Romantic light. God knows, the English cooked up enough romantic legends around then. I won't even mention tartan and druids.

Love / Do Polish girls like a guy to kiss them on the first date? [13]

Only if they like them.

Classifieds / Polish Film Posters wanted [3]

These people might be useful for you: postermuseum.pl

A source for genuine ones is Allegro, rather like eBay but specific to Poland.

This one is a museum of caricatures rather than posters, however I did go to a poster exhibition there a while ago: muzeumkarykatury.pl/joomla/

These people: polskiplakat.link2.pl sell posters, and are also connected with the old film posters on display in the pedestrian crossing under pl. na Rozdrożu mentioned here: culture.pl/pl/miejsce/galeria-plakatu-plac-na-rozdrozu-w-warszawie

News / German traveller attacked in Radom. "They tugged, they pulled him on the ground" [42]


Not that good Crowie, however the courts will decide

News / German traveller attacked in Radom. "They tugged, they pulled him on the ground" [42]


Just some guy who'll get a bit of compensation under Polish law as a victim of an attack, and if he's any sense claim a lot more in a civil action in Germany if possible.

If the attackers have any past form, they could be looking at a stretch.

Law / Archives said there are no records that confirm my ancestor's citizenship, is a petition my only option? [37]


It's also crystal clear on these matters.


Poland's interpretation of citizenship and repatriation laws are precise due to the risk of many thousands of people with tenuous links to Poland claiming citizenship and turning up there, becoming a potential drain on the state. There is barely enough employment, affordable housing and public healthcare for real Polish citizens. That is why the law is interpreted as it is. Poland is far from unique in this respect.

News / German traveller attacked in Radom. "They tugged, they pulled him on the ground" [42]

That's actually a complete irrelevance to the issue, Crowie. The most egregious issues of that conflict have been dealt with in court in The Hague already. Even if you think the victim of the attack in Radom was involved in the peacekeeping missions personally, it is still an irrelevance.

News / German traveller attacked in Radom. "They tugged, they pulled him on the ground" [42]


The person survived, people have heart. And the rule of law.


Yes, I'm sure they would. The few I've met have been fine people and entirely normal. I fear we aren't dealing with normal here though...

News / German traveller attacked in Radom. "They tugged, they pulled him on the ground" [42]

It's something. Something serious. It's somebody who is as far as we know innocent of any crime (and even if he had personally done something bad in Radom, it isn't for members of the public to punish him; Poland is not lawless) who was attacked and injured for no good reason at all.


Those who delight in hatred will receive it back sevenfold.

News / German traveller attacked in Radom. "They tugged, they pulled him on the ground" [42]

It just looks like a banal story about a foreign visitor being attacked by drunks in a smallish town. Nothing unusual here, and not much being made of it by the media, just unsensational reports.

Law / Inheritance tax - from UK to Poland [8]

For this, you really do need a tax specialist. Remember that interpretation of tax regulations change and there are often subtle details that make a difference. This means that one person's experience may not relate exactly to yours.

News / German traveller attacked in Radom. "They tugged, they pulled him on the ground" [42]


Plenty of information given, certainly seems a reasonable media report. I suspect the court case will be reported too. A shame something like this happens, however at least it's dealt with. Radom (I visit sometimes) usually seems a safe enough place.


Really?

There's at least one whose

News / German traveller attacked in Radom. "They tugged, they pulled him on the ground" [42]


Why would they burn him?


You think the history of Germany is a reason to attack a German citizen?

If that were the case, Serbs would never be able to travel.