Life / Expat, immigrant, foreigner. Not all foreigners in Poland are expats. [84]


More stuck with a horrendous commute into London, to be fair.

I know one guy who is a sales manager for a huge shipping company in London - he has the huge house, the nice car and so on - yet he still takes the train because the traffic is just so horrendous.


Suppose it depends on how you measure it, but for me, the 5 minute walk to work versus 2 hours on the train says it all.

Work / Corporate integration or blackmail in Poland's companies? [30]


I'd assume that the integration party idea comes straight from Communism?

Whatever anyone says, I'm convinced that there exists a section of society that enjoyed their employer-funded jaunts.

Life / Expat, immigrant, foreigner. Not all foreigners in Poland are expats. [84]


It must be said - judging by the fates of friends from university, I'm convinced that I got the better deal.

News / Restoring the Port of Elbląg? [113]


Indeed, and decent road/rail access too.

Then again, in the world of PiS-economics, large vanity projects are more important than economic sense/paying nurses properly!

Life / Expat, immigrant, foreigner. Not all foreigners in Poland are expats. [84]


That's what I keep saying too. Poland is a land of opportunity if you're willing to work at it - but I guess most native speakers just don't want the hassle.

I met one moaning bastard a few years ago who was whining and crying about how he couldn't make a living here. It turned out that he would turn up, teach his classes and bugger off home straight away - and that he'd never even asked his boss about the possibility of taking on more responsibility. He didn't want to sit in an office doing admin things, nor did he want to stay in work more than he had to.

Study / Vistula University in Poland. Any experience? Any student? [57]


Don't worry, the public universities are doing a great job of that themselves.

Work / Corporate integration or blackmail in Poland's companies? [30]

I can't recall any interrogation or otherwise at our integration parties.

I recall playing ridiculous games and shooting shotguns in the dark, but...

Life / Expat, immigrant, foreigner. Not all foreigners in Poland are expats. [84]


Certainly if you want to make a go of teaching in Poland, you have to be able to think outside the box. Anyone content to just be a "native speaker" will always, always struggle.

News / Restoring the Port of Elbląg? [113]


What answers this question is the following :



In other words, PiS, facing a loss in the local elections - came up with a fantasy idea that would get him votes there. The idea is dead.

But as per usual with Kaczynski, he didn't do his homework -


230 million Euro is totally unrealistic - there's no need for a port there, and the Natura 2000 problems guarantee that such a thing will never be built.

In short : Polonius is just bringing up some pie in the sky rubbish that was mentioned as an electoral bribe at the time.

Perhaps Polonius or Greggy can outline the point in spending 230 million Euro when there exist perfectly good ports as it is?

News / Restoring the Port of Elbląg? [113]


If it would pay for itself in no time, then private business would already have paid for it. The fact that they haven't tells you all you need to know about the viability of the port in question.

Study / I want to move Poland from Chicago area and study.. Job prospects, cost of food, healthcare, other expenses [24]


A programme that costs only 3650 Euro a year for non-EU citizens isn't likely to be very good.

News / Professor Zygmund Bauman, Commie-Jew, shouted down [79]


So a more accurate thread would be "Self proclaimed nationalists backed up by football supporters of Slask Wroclaw disturb lecture given by Polish professor in Wroclaw".

I think you're a disgusting racist Polonius, and I think you're going to be held to account for your words sooner rather than later.


Polonius' warped version of Catholicism seems to involve handing out justice to anyone that he thinks deserves it. It's frightening, and bears no relation to the Catholicism that I come in contact with on a daily basis.

As for your last, highly racist post - I'd love to see some real evidence, not rubbish posted from a dodgy website.

A quick look on the website in question reveals this gem -


Ah, just yet another racist Polonia rag. What a surprise, not.

News / Professor Zygmund Bauman, Commie-Jew, shouted down [79]

Or perhaps you could just write something more factual, such as "Polish professor's lecture interrupted by supporters of Slask Wroclaw"?

News / Professor Zygmund Bauman, Commie-Jew, shouted down [79]


It's absolutely offensive. It's worth pointing out that "patriotic" Polonius has never obtained Polish citizenship.

Study / SWPS university Warsaw - questions [43]

I got an eyeopener a few days ago.

Those part time joke degrees often have ridiculously low entry requirements - it's difficult to explain in writing, but I've seen UAM in Poznan accept people who barely (and I mean barely) scraped a pass in their matura. What an utter, complete joke.

News / Professor Zygmund Bauman, Commie-Jew, shouted down [79]


How many elderly people in Poland don't have some skeletons in their closets

News / Professor Zygmund Bauman, Commie-Jew, shouted down [79]

No, it must have been a very difficult transition for many of them - to go from a situation where you have a privileged position despite not being very good to suddenly having to scrabble for money in the free market. No wonder many of them turned to PiS - it's certainly the only option if you want to get money for being incompetent!

History / Kaczynski's Legacy [88]

I'm convinced that much of the trouble is deliberately started by hooligans who just want to smash up Warsaw. Does anyone genuinely believe that Lech Poznan or Cracovia Krakow fans are going to Warsaw to protest peacefully?

News / Professor Zygmund Bauman, Commie-Jew, shouted down [79]


The protest was nothing but a bunch of Slask Wroclaw fans disrupting a lecture.


What big "snafu"? All has gone fine here.

News / Professor Zygmund Bauman, Commie-Jew, shouted down [79]


It really isn't. For what it's worth, are we to start describing baptized Catholic Communists as "Catholic Communists"?

News / Professor Zygmund Bauman, Commie-Jew, shouted down [79]


It has everything to do with the matter.

What I'm saying is that sitting there quietly does nothing - they should have (at a minimum) shouted them down in return. Calling the police is pretty pointless - we all know that such thugs will get fined a few hundred zloty for breaching the peace, nothing more. Or they should have made a few phone calls, filled the room with people and isolated said thugs. I'm sure most of them would cease to be such tough guys had several hundred people showed up with a clear intent to break some skulls.

This sort of thing will keep on happening unless a stop is put to it - it's obvious that these "patriots" have realised that they can cause a lot of trouble this way. As I keep saying, the only way to deal with such morons in light of a poor justice system is to outnumber them.

For what it's worth, I hope the courts throw the book at them.

News / Professor Zygmund Bauman, Commie-Jew, shouted down [79]

Unfortunately, I don't think such people have much respect for the police. They only understand one language, after all.

For what it's worth, this whole trend of disrupting lectures is entirely childish.

News / Professor Zygmund Bauman, Commie-Jew, shouted down [79]

What does his ethnicity have to do with anything?

However, shame on the people at the lecture for not dealing with thugs in the correct manner.

News / Poland's Nationalists hold congress [132]

Except, sadly, those fools have openly talked about gassing people too.

Comparisons with Nazism are valid.

History / Kaczynski's Legacy [88]


I couldn't find it, I could have sworn that it existed already :(

News / Poland's Nationalists hold congress [132]


It's actually much more complicated, because there are almost certainly hooligans that went to Warsaw with the sole reason of smashing up Warsaw. Then you've got photographers being attacked and having to hide from the "nationalists" for fear of having their equipment destroyed - and add to it a police force that isn't known for being particularly good in these situations and for being armed to the teeth.

I suspect that we're going to see a particularly violent march in 2013.

News / Poland's Nationalists hold congress [132]

In all fairness, the "nationalists" came to fight and the police were ready for them. You can see in the Vice article that the police were not going to **** around.

News / Poland's Nationalists hold congress [132]


If they were a serious force, why was Jaroslaw Kaczynski very careful to not support them last time round?

News / Poland's Nationalists hold congress [132]


I'm trying to tell you that if they can only muster 20,000 on a public holiday, then it seems unlikely that they'll do well in elections.

As was already seen in previous years, they can't stop fighting among themselves too. Remember, there's no way you're going to bind (for instance) Lech Poznan supporters with Legia Warszawa supporters, hence the movement is doomed to fail.

Anyone interested in what really went on would be advised to read this :
vice.com/en_uk/read/polish-independence-day

Attacking photographers with hammers, indeed!

News / Poland's Nationalists hold congress [132]


Shall we ask the PKW, shall we? In the election in 2011, we saw :

wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl/wsw/pl/000000.html


Number of voters : 30,762,931.

That means that to achieve the 5% threshold required for parliamentary representation, you need 1,538,147 votes from the eligible electorate. But of course, turnout is never 100% - so going by the 2011 election :

wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl/att/pl/000000.html#tabs-1


Number of votes : 15,050,027. 5% of this would be 752501 votes.

Now, as you say, they got 20,000 on the streets. That's what, around 2.5% of the number needed to gain parliamentary representation?

Haha.