Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]


That's absolutely wrong, and I suspect the notary didn't know his arse from his elbow in this respect. I didn't show any residency documents when purchasing property here.


What's interesting is that he appears to be in Poland illegally.

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]


Sadly, they aren't. There are far too many cases of CFIT that show otherwise.

What happened in Smolensk was a direct consequence of the culture within the Polish Air Force, nothing more, nothing less. Miroslawiec sadly showed this too.


Hahahaha ;)

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]


ntsb.gov/doclib/recletters/1992/A92_45_48.pdf

Old, but relevant.

No cases? Five incidents right there, as reported by the NTSB of the United States.


Except they aren't.

The thing is antheads, you believe what "journalists" write instead of doing your own research.

Tell you what though - why don't you go to a simulator and fly a plane at 230km/h in foggy conditions without an ILS.

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unrecovered_flight_recorders

Try harder, antheads.

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]


When dealing with a state like Russia, you want the best you have.


They aren't indestructable. May I remind you that the plane crashed with forces of up to 100g?


Try reading the official Polish report.


It's always more fun dealing with people who snipe from thousands of miles away, especially "patriots" who do nothing for Poland.

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]

Yes, someone who had close ties to Moscow and Russia is actually a perfect person to deal with Russians.

One thing you forget is that it's certainly far better sending an ex-very senior diplomat with significant understanding of how the Russian mentality works (and we all know that the Polish mentality is different) to deal with such a thing than sending some graduate of Russian philology who has little real world experience, especially when it comes to a President visiting who had...difficult relations with Russia.


How strange, because all of those parameters were recorded and published anyway. The presence or otherwise of one box is pretty much meaningless.


Irrelevant, because if you know anything about the crash, you know about the special Polish piece of equipment that had to be decoded in Poland.

Keep going, PO needs people like you.

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]

That doesn't show us how he was "one of the most dangerous spies" for Poland.

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]


Why didn't he present this evidence to the Military commission investigating? Could it be that he is actually not an expert on aerodynamics at all? Ah, that's right - he's not actually an expert on anything other than aviation materials.

I'm sorry, but those of us who understand academia know that a professor in materials used on the surface of aeroplanes has no business discussing aerodynamics.


Why wasn't this data provided to the Military Commission if there were indeed two jolts?


Nor should it - if there is any proof at all, he should have stood up in front of the Military Commission and presented the evidence.


You do realise that was facing his military career ending in utter disgrace due to the events of the Yak-40?


Source?

The problem with everything that you and others state is that none of the evidence has been credibly peer reviewed, nor has it been presented to a public prosecutor or the Military Commission investigating the crash.

Keep going, however - us PO supporters love to point at foreigners interfering with Polish affairs as a reason why PiS stands for treason.

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]

Indeed, he's doing a splendid job of reminding people why to vote PO.


Oh dear WP, you really ought to keep up with Polish news if you want to comment on it.

We can start with this : newpolandexpress.pl/polish_news_story-5905-smolensk_te stimony_questioned.php
And follow up with this : newpolandexpress.pl/polish_news_story-6003-macierwicz_expert_resigns_over_gaff_.php


I'm surprised you missed it, given that the normal media had a field day with the news. Perhaps you should question why your media (Gazeta Polska et al) didn't mention it?


The thing you're missing is that not a single one of those "experts" presented any credible evidence to the Military commission investigating the crash. Why?

Could it be that their 'evidence' doesn't actually stand up to scrutiny?

Genealogy / Help needed about my Polish surname, Dobbert. [73]


They may not have known any better.

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]


Except they didn't prove it. They were offered the chance to go up in front of the military commission investigating the accident at Smolensk, and not one could provide any reasonable theory. Those experts included people who were "experts" because they "made paper planes" and "watched the wings when flying".


Exactly. Gazeta Wyborcza et al aren't going to waste their time on people who claim to be experts because they made paper planes as a child.

Gazeta Wyborcza did report the facts - not one of those "experts" (by the way, none of them were actually experts in relevant fields) could produce a single credible theory. Haven't you read about the one who claimed to be an expert because parowki explode the same way?


Because WP, it's very obvious that they aren't experts in the actual matter. Why couldn't anyone of them give a single reasonable theory to the military commission?


So why don't they go to the military commission with their evidence?

Remember, one of your experts even admitted to making nonsense up just for the TV cameras.

Law / Complete car nut and bolt refurb (OC/AC) - registration in Poland [4]


As far as I know, you can just hand back the plates to the office that issued them.

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]


From the looks of things, he's being refused because as an non-EU citizen, he has to apply on the basis of being married to an EU citizen. The EU citizen in this question is potentially Polish, therefore they won't issue him a karta pobytu unless he applies using her Polish ID.

Absolutely no other explanation for this situation, unless of course, his application was rejected for not having health insurance/stable employment/etc.

Feedback / Sold my laptop but the buyer cannot have access to Polish Forums from it [8]

Maybe you shouldn't have got yourself banned from PF then.

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]


There is no interview for EU citizens except the police coming to check that you live at the address you give. The fact you're talking about an interview tells us that you aren't an EU citizen - why have you kept that quiet?

It wouldn't even be legal to interview EU citizens - as others have told you, if you are an EU citizen, your wife has nothing to do with your residency status.

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]


That part is dodgy, I agree - why would they know or care about who he's married to?

I suspect he hasn't even tried to obtain it - either that, or he's not entitled to it.

Genealogy / Help needed about my Polish surname, Dobbert. [73]


It's by no means certain that they were Polish. If you don't have clear proof of it, then it's best to assume that they lived in Pomerania and nothing else.

Even well into the 20th century, many citizens of Poland had little concept of associating to a specific ethnic group.

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]


No, I think this is actually the problem - remember the law that requires you to use Polish documents to identify yourself to the Poles if you can be claimed as such? As I recall, it's your obligation to prove that you aren't entitled to it rather than the other way round. They won't accept a foreign identity document - they'll demand that she gets a Polish ID.

The simple answer to this is to find out when he obtained British citizenship and go from there.

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]


They can, actually - there is a very little used clause within EU law that allows them to reject an application based on a danger to the public. I seem to recall that the Roma deported from France were deported using that provision.

But actually - maybe he isn't explaining himself properly. If he has a Polish father, then perhaps there's a problem in that the Polish authorities won't issue residency documents to someone perceived as a Polish citizen?

Life / Living in Poland since 2010 and I still don't have ID. Advice needed please. [50]

No, you don't.

You need to have a certificate of residency, issued by the relevant Foreigners Office in Rzeszow and a valid zameldowanie issued by the local Urzad Miasta.

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]

And Gazeta Polska pushes the line of a wanted Nazi, doesn't it? Or let's not forget the Lux Veritas foundation that attempts to push hard right-wing views, too? Or what about Republika TV and the links to PiS?

Why aren't you criticising them for being biased?


Teachers don't generally claim to be a moral authority, nor do school directors tend to cover up abuse.


Perhaps WP would like to comment as to why Gazeta Polska ignores the news when it suits them.

Travel / A traditional Thanksgiving Dinner in Wroclaw? [16]


What is this? I remember watching an episode of Family Guy and it was mentioned, but...what is it?

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]

But as long as the usual suspects do, we will keep on pointing out the Stalinist roots of Kaczynski Sr.

News / Poland to (temporarily) restore internal Schengen borders [15]

What's not often mentioned is that when the checks were abandoned at the border, very few people were actually made redundant - what mostly happened was that they were redeployed in different areas, and they have plenty of "placówki" still operational. For instance - joint patrols are common with the Germans, and as far as I'm aware, plenty of staff are trained in both passport control and patrolling. If I remember rightly, at the same time as controls were abolished on the southern/western borders, they beefed up numbers on the eastern/northern borders.

You'll often see the Straz Graniczna lurking near the German border, and it's quite common to see them patrolling in places like Szczecin and Kostrzyn train stations. Mobile checks don't take much in the way of manpower - usually just one man to flag down cars and another to do the checks.

But - of course resources are limited, which is why Schengen won't be suspended totally. I forget the exact number, but before Schengen, there were something like 90 active border crossings with Slovakia/Czech Republic/Germany - and many more have been opened since then. A total closure is impossible - they will simply focus on the most likely places for troublemakers.

I suspect the only time we will see any significant presence on the border will be next weekend and on Tuesday.

News / Poland to (temporarily) restore internal Schengen borders [15]

I can speak fairly authoritatively on this subject, as the issue of Schengen and borders is a personal interest of mine.

What will happen in practice is that Schengen is suspended, but they will not control everyone. There will likely be a visible presence at key points (for instance, the escalator exit from the Schengen zone in Okęcie) - and that presence will likely be semi-permanent, but there's no way that everyone will be controlled. On the land borders, you'll almost certainly see areas set up for border control at the main crossings (Swiecko, Kudowa-Slone, etc) - but again, these won't be systematic and it's likely that they will pull people into areas specifically for the purpose rather than checking everyone.

This picture (although a bit small) shows it well -

It's highly unlikely that there will be even a visible control at the vast majority of border crossings. I'm going up to the border this weekend, so I'll check the situation on the ground and report back. These controls aren't uncommon - I've been stopped several times on the German-Polish border.


According to Schengen law, it's allowed to suspend Schengen for up to 30 days based on a risk to security - in practice, no-one (not even the Danes) have ever suspended Schengen completely to the point of outlawing border crossings anywhere except at approved points.

News / Anybody watch Adam Michnik on Lis this evening? [50]


As he should be. While people like you were enjoying freedom, Michnik was getting imprisoned - repeatedly.


Why would they be treated with respect? Gazeta Polska is well known to be funded by a guy with connections to Nazism (and who is wanted) for a start.


Indeed.

But we mustn't forget that a certain leading Opposition politican in Poland has benefited hugely from his father's connection to Stalinism.

Perhaps antheads would, in the interests of fairness, care to analyse opposition figures and their parents?

Life / Advice needed on Dental implant in Poland [119]

These are very true words. Anyone posting as a guest on PF on a thread like this is likely to be spamming their own business - which is pathetic.

One reason I can recommend Dentpolis in Poznan is that they were quick to advise me on preventative care - which was very nice.

News / What is wrong with Poland that Poles emigrate? [167]


They are still the best we've got.

At least with the difference between Poland and the UK, one big difference is that England keeps meddling with their education system, whereas the Finnish and Polish systems have decided upon one system and more or less stuck to it regardless of criticism.

Poland is undeniably weaker in "soft" skills - for instance, in art & design, but it can't be denied that Polish education is superior in core subjects that England in particular allowed to deteriorate badly.

PISA isn't fantastic, but it still shows the reality of the situation - that England in particular allowed soft skills to dominate over the core ones.

UK, Ireland / English courses in London [26]


Quite a few schools were busted for this, weren't they?

Now, if someone opened a language school in Poland with the specific purpose of getting people into the Schengen zone...

News / What is wrong with Poland that Poles emigrate? [167]


Certainly according to the PISA scores, Poland is ahead of the UK. Those scores are about the only really valid method of comparison internationally.

UK schools may be far superior when it comes to soft skills, but it's no secret that UK schools are severely lagging when it comes to hard skills.