Life / Any one in need of a bulldog? A dog's life in Poland [39]


Nonsense. Never trust a man who wont take a drink, and have no truck with those who don't respect animals. Sprogs - don't like 'em.:)

Life / What are your experiences of care for your loved ones in hospitals here? [75]


OK Ironside...so what are we paying 300 zlotys plus a month for then? It's mandatory ZUS. Am I supposed to pay twice? State theft, that's just what it is.


Where did you get that from Ironside? Medical prescriptions show that the French are the biggest users of medicine. Poland is second.

Life / What are your experiences of care for your loved ones in hospitals here? [75]


Exactly Atch. Nothing short of criminal, and like I said, a total abdication of state responsibility; a frightening story, and you will both need a good rest to get over it. Glad to hear your maz is OK. Poland is alright - just don't get ill. That is probably the main reason I will be moving wifey out of here presently - there is no sympathy and respect for the aged in ole Polska. (not referring to yourselves of course!)

Ther is now a law I believe where the ambulance service (doctor/paramedic) can write out a 500 zl fine if they "decide" you have called the ambulance unnecessarily. Obvious result? The aged dying alone and unloved in their homes because they are too frightened to call an ambulance.

Scum doesn't even begin to describe some of these law-makers (all of them on private healthcare schemes).


Disgraceful thievery. As if ZUS don't earn enough from the individual. I too close down my Spolka C. sometimes in the summer. Not recently though. Stopped paying ZUS for two years but business changed and now back in the "system", which we all obviously hate, and which should have been a priority if this social governmnet had really wanted to help small business. Why the hell your husband wouldn't be covered in some form is beyond logic (couldn't he have paid the health part of ZUS, not the pension part?)

Life / Any one in need of a bulldog? A dog's life in Poland [39]


A very sensible summary of the situation, if I may say so Dirk (now where are those emojis?). I just needed it pointed out why people act as they do - it just seems a little bit medieval and barbaric in this age, as well as coming over as laziness to the person brought up in a town. When in fact the farmer might say, "Oh him - he's just a dog..." Happens in the UK too, but the farmer gets busted, and if a hill farmer is banned from keeping dogs then that's him done. I guess townsfolk and villagers will never understand each others' habits and social mores - which is why we find it so fascinating and pleasurable to visit each others' worlds from time to time.


That is just one city in China of 200,000 thousand people that eat dog Crow. The Chinese government have issued edicts for that city to cease it's dog eating festival but the authorities there refuse to comply.

A neutron bomb on their heads is what they deserve, at a height where all those "people" die, but the dogs survive:)

Life / Any one in need of a bulldog? A dog's life in Poland [39]


That's what happens in a post communist free market Dystopian nightmare like Poland. We have people not behaving fairly and keeping dogs tied up outside their outhouses - knowing full well that the authorities are not going to be called out - as their neighbours do exactly the same. And this happens on most every street in Rumia (Male Troj-Miasto) I know, because I taught there every Sunday for two years and used to walk the length of the town with my lab. There were some crazed mutts that were NEVER exercised. It's a rich town, so I really don't know why the authorities tolerate animal cruelty there.

We also have government not behaving fairly, and arguably abdicating their legal responsibilities, as you refer to with the NSZ. The huge majority of doctors are culpable too, in cahoots with the system (although there are some good eggs who respect the Hippocratic oath and will break the law to attend to you ad-hoc)

Life / What are your experiences of care for your loved ones in hospitals here? [75]


Wow. Sorry to hear that, not good. Take good care bud. It seems from your above link that they are finally going to do something about the dog abuse problem, but this love of bureaucracy is ridiculous. I remember you couldn't be admitted into A and E in the UK hospital system unless you quoted your postcode.

Madness.

Life / Any one in need of a bulldog? A dog's life in Poland [39]


Of course. The opposite obviously applies as well. City people who retire to the village rightly get short shrift for complaining about the cock crowing at daybreak. It used to drove me quackers when the animals woke in my parents village, but that's nature.

The dog had been taught to give one warning bark, and not to bark for no good reason. That's not natural. That's a sign of an ill dog. Johnny is bang on the money on this argument. Guard dogs should be trained to react, not to take over, or become so psychologically scarred by neglect that they are paranoid. Dogs have to be physically walked. WTF don't a percentage of the population ever do that?

Unfortunately in Poland noise is not considered a crime - so hypocritically I'm going to put Breakfast In America on the turntable right now and take advantage of the fact.

Life / Any one in need of a bulldog? A dog's life in Poland [39]


He also babbles on about "outsiders" doing things in our country that they would not do in theirs'". When is it going to register that this man is mentally ill?

Life / Any one in need of a bulldog? A dog's life in Poland [39]

Have you lived in a Polish village Ironside? I refer you gto Dolno (post 2). tweo weeks skiing in Istebna was enough to swear me off Polish village life for good. Because of the incessant barking - illegal in other countries; obviously not in Poland. And if that's the kind of life you want - fine :)

I supppose the locals are used to it.

Life / Any one in need of a bulldog? A dog's life in Poland [39]


Blame the government for that. Nobody would vote for them in the villages if they were not allowed to routinely abuse and neglect their animals. Whatever happened to dog cruelty laws? And there should be noise abatement door knocking. If you can't keep your dog quiet (under control) then the person needs banning from keeping a pet and the animal should be adopted or destroyed. Instead successive governments are weak and ignore the problem.

Pure Scum (the animal abusers masquerading as "homesteaders" and the local government - not the dogs)


There was a woman in Leicester who was filmed putting a neighbours' cat into a bin. She was given a new identity and police protection because she would have been lynched. Napoleon was right - the British do love animals more than their neighbours - the Poles less so. The chaining to a tree in a forest would make me wish I could catch them in the act and follow them to their home, and return with a shotgun.

Law / Money with ZUS - what happens to it when I leave Poland and come back home? [23]


Well of course it is. A job creation scheme - nothing more, nothing less. Most of the work could be done digitally, with one main office. But, like everyone has a doctor in the extended family, everyone has a relative who works for ZUS.

Probably criminal in point of fact, but of course it's public money being wasted - so it's "political largesse". If it were a PLC or S.A. the Financial Services Agency (Its Polish equivalent) would break its doors down, and quite right too.

Scum of the highest order.

Law / Money with ZUS - what happens to it when I leave Poland and come back home? [23]


This has already been answered. You have to pay into the system for 20 years before you are entitled to anything. And that ZUS pro rata contribution is only payable monthly after pension age. And yes, it is transferable, pittance though it be, to any country that has a reciprocal agreement as to pension payments.

Food / Food shop of choice in Poland for foreign nosh? [22]


Tescos in Gdynia have both. I think they are on the way out though (Tescos - not marmite...) A sad store, upstaged by Biedronka. It ain't difficult folks, but Tescos management are clueless and decided long ago their European operation was going to go downmarket and sell cheap and nasty. Get Walmart in FFS.

Love / Polish Weddings the farce and how much money to give [22]


You have never lived in Poland so you know the square root of **** all, and ignorantly think of observations of life here as being negative all the time. What have you contributed? This is everything that is wrong about Polonia. You think you somehow belong. Only in the heart.

And actually Delph is spot on about the money thing. It is a simplistic way out - probably very acceptable in the past, but here's the thing.

In communist times, when you found something wonderful - hand made for example, it was a pretty unique gift, and showed that you really cared. I still have the trenchcoat that my wife bought me as a wedding gift. Made in St Petersburg. Nothing of comparable quality around today.

And we all have married beautiful Polish women ( would anybody marry an ugly person, unless they were very unlucky like Pierre Bezuchow in "War and Peace"?) so that's nothing to brag about, and neither is the money thing.

If we had received more gifts at our Big communist Polish wedding in downtown Katowice then we would still have them. Instead we had a lot of envelopes, and we had to spend the money damn quick on Georgian champagne and smoked eel. Pity.

Love / Polish Weddings the farce and how much money to give [22]

I put in 600 and a tidy gift for the house for the wifeys cousin. Agree with you. A right royal.........

UK weddings are worse though. You get charged for the second bottle of wine, so you daren't try to be jolly.

UK, Ireland / Do British partners of Polish people in the UK speak their (Polish) language? [17]


Really Lyzko? I have invariably found that Poles have an endearing trait of significantly understating their abilities - as I have often found to my cost on the tennis court :)

More often than not, the new learner brings along their A2 course book, and within 2 minutes we move up a level. To answer the OP, I'm forever stuck at the aforementioned rough and ready functional and (wholly inadequate) social A2 level - never did like the perceived non musicality of the Polish language, as opposed to Russian for example.

Work / Will Brits working in Poland lose their jobs post Brexit? [20]


Anyway, sorry to disappoint you Dolno, but no Brit who is settled here and has paid into the system will be leaving, unless they want to of course. Why would they? All this nationalist talk from the Foreign secretary about "Hard Brexit" just shows his inbreeding. Poles wont be leaving the UK either. Their Polish quals are good enough for Britain - even if your driving test is so **** that it doesn't really prove that a Pole is a good driver, but I digress. In the same way UK quals should be good enough for anybody.

Good luck to those of working age as it's not going to be easy. I'm glad I will be comfortably retired when I go back to Blighty, but it's going to be a lowering of living standards for a lot of people, and all because the British blame it all on foreigners. The lunatics are running the asylum.

Some other poster stated the obvious - that the young voted 65 percent to stay in. They have gained an education and are not nationalist bigots unlike grandad. And all will be well in the long term.The world is a global village and that wont change for most people.

Work / Will Brits working in Poland lose their jobs post Brexit? [20]

There's still hope that Brexit in the true sense will not happen. The UK needs the single market. They can only have that with freedom of movement of course, and where stupid to think they could be a special case.

No government will give another referundum, but hopefully there will be a vote of no confidence in May and we can have have a Brexit general election, have a conservative Party insurrection, install Remainers, and let the voters rescue themselves from this economic disaster. The idea that UK quals would be not valid in Europe is ridiculous. But overall Junker and the EU are absolutely right to take a stand on most matters and opportunist Boris is clueless.

Right to move your money out if not British. No deal = tech and finance sector employment crash. That has to worry Poles with expensive UK mortgages. Dangerous times indeed.

Life / Jehova's witnesses in Poland - how to deal with them? [110]


Yep. A couple often come to Dougpol Towers for tea when on their rounds. We chat about all sorts, and only 5 minutes of the tedious stuff. I just smile politely, take The Watchtower and say how interesting some of the articles are.

Then we go back to talking about football.

UK, Ireland / Former minister admits UK messed up on immigration [78]


Take the first letter of each word and you got it. America entered both wars when it suited them. does Roosevelts, "...this European war..." speech ring any bells?

If I was American, I would have the dignity to keep it firmly shut.

UK, Ireland / Former minister admits UK messed up on immigration [78]


Foreign Office.


Not at all. You started the childishness of talking about money. We don't know each other, and I don't measure someone by how much money they have. The way that you are brown nosing our resident millionaire says that you do.

Of course that is the way...millionaires (over 5 million is it?) are allowed into the UK with no problem. The same would go for Poland - muslim or not. Please do try to deny that fact.

UK, Ireland / Former minister admits UK messed up on immigration [78]


Lots of people need English for work. They are happy when they are able to improve their skills. Probably some of them want to emigrate - to become an immigrant. Don't knock it. I don't insult engineers, and we also do a satisfying job. Otherwise, why do it?

UK, Ireland / Former minister admits UK messed up on immigration [78]


Well, if they were real kebabs (mutton) then I would be all for it. But you're right. Send them back - that pork rubbish is not a kebab. Could somebody please tell me again why Polish "kebabs" are such gash?


Sorry pal. I am likely more cash rich than you are:) Until Dougpol terraces completes in good old Britain that is....
You're welcome to places like Dubai too:) Enjoy!

UK, Ireland / Former minister admits UK messed up on immigration [78]


No. It's not my view. It's a widely held view that I subscribe to.
And yes, Poles do love being lazy and swinging the long weekend. The UK always has the Monday off. It clearly worked for you as an engineer. think of all the work it would have cost you if the rest of the UK had said, "we can't meet with you today Dolno - we are in the pub"?

Meanwhile, here in medieval Poland, those of us who work for a living and are self employed are regularly ****** from a great height because those we serve enjoy pulling a sickie. But ZUS still wants to collect.

Yes - immigrants...get them in!

UK, Ireland / Former minister admits UK messed up on immigration [78]


That's why you can't blame Arabs for coming to Europe and making a home here. Dubai is such a shi--, full of Chelsea footballers, and other illiterates, and sand and more sand, and no alcohol, so I don't begrudge them some fun in London.

Poles with more money than sense and too much time on their hands go the other way. I have lost count of the number of times I have to listen to "Dubai is amazing.." That's fine too, as they clearly bored shitless. I'm as racist as you are, but only because I don't want to go those places and endure the heat and the flies and the poverty. So I am much more at peace with that than you should be , because I can see how Europe can be a better life for those peoples.

And if you cared a jot about demographics, where Europe is severely underpopulated, and for people's lifestyles, you would know that Europe needs immigration. But of course you and your like don't want others to have a good lifestyle - you want to keep them down.

UK, Ireland / Former minister admits UK messed up on immigration [78]


Easy for you to say, living in a high GDP country. Immigration raises GDP. Why? Well, for a start. some Asians wouldn't turn Corpus Christi into an excuse to be bone idle and do **** all on the Friday, thus reducing GDP. Got it now?

Of course, in a rich country you don't need to worry about growth. Poland on the other hand should. EU money artificially inflating its' growth potential wont last for ever. One IT employer here told me they are taking on two new graduates this month, both Ukrainian. When I asked why, they answered, "because they want to work."

That's immigration for you. A fact of life.

UK, Ireland / Former minister admits UK messed up on immigration [78]


I presume you mean by non-whites. Otherwise, how could you tell at a glance? We generally get on OK with our Asian neighbours AFAIK. I certainly did as a student in London. They were decent people, and although they didn't have a lot they would sometimes invite a starving student in for supper. Eastern Europeans, on the other hand, as Roz has indicated, sometimes demand.

Of course Blair didn't expect the mass migration of new member block peoples, because he was busy playing politics. but in the end , it turned out alright, because the influx raised GDP 0.7% according to some figure I saw.

Also, as I have indicated before (your notes will tell you this) people from the new member states often seem to be under the misapprehension that they are somehow "superior" to the Asian population. It would be quite amusing, if not so disgusting in fact.


What addresses? There are none. If you call a city an address, then good luck finding someone, or in this case, avoiding them.

UK, Ireland / Former minister admits UK messed up on immigration [78]


I was talking about media reporting. Not a register. You are being obtuse as usual:)
Plus, that register doesn't tell us what the offender has done. Worse than useless, on informing the general public of the danger I would have said.

UK, Ireland / Former minister admits UK messed up on immigration [78]


Your post suggests that you think that such attacks are more prevalent in Britain than here. I reckon here that a lot of rapes are never even reported in the first place.

At least these dangerous individuals are actually reported in full in the rags and more importantly, in the local press in the UK Dolno. Here, in Poland, all we get is "Mariusz C, of Gdansk, was sent to jail for ten years today for abusing young girls..."

No names, no addresses, no justice.

Travel / Płock or Włocławek? Two-day visit by English-speaking tourists in Poland [6]


Yes, it was built up after the oil "boom" and the establishment of the chemical industry - but the pre war buildings and atmosphere of the 1800s town centre, gleaned from the exhibition of pictures, makes the industrial cities seem like a paradise in comparison. Which is why people flocked to them I suppose.

It's also rather heavy on religious orders of a sort, but that's fine. Just a very depressing place to live if one were an outsider, though I only had an hour there so may be in error.