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jonni   
21 Nov 2010
Work / Doing my course in Krakow, working in EFL in Poland (newbie questions) [43]

Check out here - it's EFL related and has the answers to your questions.

Hard to say, but i'd say not more than 3k PLN / month.

Rather more in Warsaw, even for someone new, perhaps less in Krakow where the market is saturated with young people and spouses. Poland isn't the best place to come nowadays.
jonni   
21 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / PolAm style Thanksgiving? [35]

BTW anyone heard of a clam stuffing for turkey? I think they do that in New England but have never sampled it myself.

There's a mussel stuffing for chicken.

BTW what's corn pone stuffing? I know it's American, and remember eating it at someones house many years ago - tasted good!

I prefer the polish way with apples

That's a nice way too!
jonni   
20 Nov 2010
News / Local elections in Poland, EU citizens should register to vote [57]

WTH! Sobieski?! How dare you vote in my country if you are'nt polish citizen?

Poles can vote in my country (the mayor of my city is Polish) - why shouldn't I vote in Warsaw, where I live and pay taxes. Poland isn't Albania or Belarus!

Sorry, you signed up for the EU, and now we're going to exercise our EU rights :)

Damn right.

The fact that the American Polonia get to vote is far worse

Not for long. The EU are harmonising it all at the moment.

I really start believing that Poles are a nation of idiots.

Aren't we all a ship of fools?
jonni   
20 Nov 2010
Life / Any treatment centres for homos in Poland? [455]

Gays hold their outlandish parades in order to incite and instigate.

Or to have fun and assert that never again will discrimination be tolerated or the will of others be forced upon us.

If they'd keep that sh!t in the bedroom where it belongs

Parades belong in the bedroom? Or if you mean the sex, would you say that Valentine's cards between straight couples using birth control belong in the bedroom?

shoving it in everyone's faces

Nobody's forced to attend. Perhaps you think that on Columbus Day, people are shoving their Italianness in people's faces?

faqs are not real human beings

Maybe some evidence or sources for that nonsense?

killing these scum would let us purify human species...

Who else would you kill?
jonni   
18 Nov 2010
Real Estate / Warsaw life, flat rate for rent, is it worth to live there? [10]

oferty.net/mieszkania,Warszawa

That link is OK. Also try gumtree polska (warszawa. gumtree) - I can recommend this, and be sure to check the box for private advertisers only, to filter out the agents. But be aware that rental/real estate agents are bottom-feeders with very low ethical standards, and some adverts are placed by agents pretending not to be!
jonni   
18 Nov 2010
Life / Polish gimnazjums - memoirs of a teacher [32]

Having a masters or a PHD in communist times or early 90's in Poland was truly something to be proud of.

A PhD still is, but in the last few years a lot of dodgy private institutions have opened which offer highly questionable 'masters degrees'. A kind of educational hyperinflation.
jonni   
18 Nov 2010
Travel / Bars and clubs in Warsaw and best district to stay [18]

It was my local for years - everything from prostitutes to professors. Good food too. Maybe you know some of the regulars?

Pani I is often on a final warning from the alcohol licensing authorities, due to the number of fights and other incidents - nevertheless she tried opening 24h, but it just got too drunken.

A dive bar that might suit the OP is Drink Bar on ul. Wspolna - too classy for me - Piotrus was always my favourite, and Lajkonik and Santos before they turned into posh fashion shops.
jonni   
18 Nov 2010
Travel / Bars and clubs in Warsaw and best district to stay [18]

Those sorts of places are mostly clustered in one place; the Pawiliony round the back of Nowy Swiat 23 (is it 23? I haven't been down there for ages.)

Some of them are 24 hours too.

The dıveyest of all dive bars ın Warsaw has to be Piotrus on Nowy Swıat - more or less opposite Sense and quıte near the pavillions.
jonni   
11 Nov 2010
Travel / What to do in Poznan for 3 days? [21]

There are some great places in Poznan. When I lived there, about 10 years ago, I wasn't especially happy, but love to visit now.
jonni   
11 Nov 2010
UK, Ireland / Long-term impact of returning UK Poles to Poland [21]

Edyta Gorniak was accused of breaking the law about five years ago, for giving her baby a non-Polish name, despite both parents being Polish. So when did the law change?
jonni   
11 Nov 2010
Law / Polish business haven't got a clue: Discuss. [72]

So Havok, you don't live here, you don't do business here

But he's Polish, so he must, simply must, know so much more about today's business climate in Poland than those of us who actually do live here and do business successfully! Our experience and expertise must surely be worthless - a PolAm who's granny left Malopolska in 1899 would be the real expert on today's Warsaw. Obviously.
jonni   
11 Nov 2010
Polonia / Life in Poland vs Norway - good for children, benefits, etc? [43]

I wish all Poles living abroad, especially those toiling and suffering in Britain, started coming back to Poland.

It is a matter of individual choice - evidently there are people who prefer to be in the UK.
jonni   
10 Nov 2010
Life / Poles don't know how to celebrate the Polish Independence Day? [57]

Yes. Some Zabkas will and some won't (at least that's how it was in my neighbourhood last Easter) - petrol stations should be open, and if I remember, shops in Upper Silesia are usually a bit more liberal about opening
jonni   
9 Nov 2010
News / Giant Jesus Rising in Świebodzin ( Tallest in world ) [323]

I myself honestly don't believe Jesus has ever existed

He certainly existed - there are enough references to him in different sources, though most Christians today wouldn't be able to reconcile their image with the reality of the person, nor would they like him much.
jonni   
9 Nov 2010
News / Giant Jesus Rising in Świebodzin ( Tallest in world ) [323]

Only a rabid Jesus-hater could find it offensive.

Jesus Himself probably wouldn't be best pleased...

They should build Him a giant pet llama next to Him! :D

Aren't they supposed to be doing that anyway?
jonni   
8 Nov 2010
Life / Any treatment centres for homos in Poland? [455]

Instead of jumping off the bridge, what he should have done is go sock the jerk in the nose, like most peeps would.

This has generally been my approach.

forcing straights and gays to bunk together out of some misguided Lib need to force "tolerance" and "inclusion" to the point of cohabitation

I wouldn't think it's about anything like that.
jonni   
8 Nov 2010
Life / Any treatment centres for homos in Poland? [455]

That he was gay could have been beside the point. He was obviously unstable somehow from the start.

That was my reading of it. Shame some of his ********* associates found his burgeoning sex life so interesting. Though not a hate crime - their motive wasn't a result of hatred.
jonni   
7 Nov 2010
Life / Any treatment centres for homos in Poland? [455]

That's horrible. The poor guy should maybe have been a bit more thick-skinned, but he sure as hell didn't deserve 'friends' like that.
jonni   
7 Nov 2010
UK, Ireland / The more subtle differences: Ireland/Britain v Poland [310]

... and the Black tea in Poland is, by and large, dishwater. You have to either stew it until the water goes cold or put 2 bags in.

In Poland I always buy M&S fairtrade. Polish friends love it too

Also, milk in tea is an oddity in Poland. The waitress went into giggles when my 78 year old mother asked for some.

And the worst thing is when they bring a glass of hot water and a seperate tea bag. That is not, not, tea.
jonni   
7 Nov 2010
Life / Any treatment centres for homos in Poland? [455]

But then we should not cry when we are old that there are not enough workers to pay into the pension fund. I don't think individualism is that bad. It just does not make European societies sustainable.

This is very true. Most of my friends are educated professional people and they have at most one or two children - a demographic disaster!