Life / Any treatment centres for homos in Poland? [455]


Not all of us are the marrying kind, Duckie. Unless we want to make a spouse's life miserable, that is.

So instead of searching


, why not just think of it as being honest with oneself and others and making the very, very best of the interesting hand nature has dealt us!

Genealogy / Kucharski Family [5]

Not much. The profession is 'kucharz' (jestem kucharzem, I'm a cook) and the surname is Kucharski/a. Polonius3 might know more, but as far as I'm aware there are a lot of people in Poland called Kucharski (I know a few) and there probably isn't any specific geographical connection.

Genealogy / Kucharski Family [5]

Cook.

Study / Considerations for US Family Moving to Poland (esp. Int'l Schools) [36]


Quite. Then they fall in love, marry, have kids and usually leave Poland.

Study / Considerations for US Family Moving to Poland (esp. Int'l Schools) [36]


Not much work in Bahrain or Jordan (old middle-east hands tend to snap up jobs there using connections), and UAE is in a bit of a mess (plus largely recruiting locally nowadays). Oman and Saudi are the best bets. Oman has plenty of truly shite jobs and a few hard to get excellent ones. Saudi is great (I love it) if you don't mind luxurious boredom and take very great care (and time) to get the right contract. Not for beginners though, and great for families.

Delphiandomine's post fairly sums up the situation in PL - the market is changing fast, and not for the better.

Fuzzywickets' post is spot on too, except private lssons are largely a no-no and 36000 USD is at the bottom end of the market.

News / People says that EU bringing many nice things to Poland. Tell me about it [104]


A big winner. Very big. Warsaw is a building site at the moment, Poland is getting infrastructure, business subsidies, millions and millions. And of course a million Poles have been able to work legally in the UK. Without the EU, none of this would be.

Law / Ease of doing business in Poland [32]


It should be, but doesn't have to be. Just an oswiadczenie o pelnomocnictwie is ok - though some office monkeys won't accept it.

Life / Fail to send mails to o2.pl or tlen.pl [4]

They both belong to a compny called onet.pl - try that.

Life / Any treatment centres for homos in Poland? [455]

No prizes for guessing who started this thread!

Life / Legal Graffiti Walls in Poland? [45]


Just the morons who use nasty cheap indelible materials to scrawl all over the built environment.


Agreed - and it takes skill too, unlike the grafitti vandals.

Life / Legal Graffiti Walls in Poland? [45]

Given pre-historic life expectancy, they were probably all youths. But that isn't grafitti, which depends on mass-produced easy to use spray paint. Grafitti vandals wouldn't have the nouse to use anything more demanding.

History / "Poland's Concentration Camp" ?? [570]

The one decent statement in this thread.

Life / Poles don't know how to celebrate the Polish Independence Day? [57]


Some of my neighbours definitely did and with gusto. The day off work was part of it though.

Life / Legal Graffiti Walls in Poland? [45]

Not sure about this one, which was in Tottenham, but it had been covered with perspex.

The grafitti wall in Warsaw does brighten things up - but all the other grafitti just makes the place look miserable and uncared for.

Life / Legal Graffiti Walls in Poland? [45]


It's authorised. Shame they started spraying on the murals on the wall of the adjacent estate.

I saw a Banksy a couple of weeks ago. It was art - which 99.999999% of grafitti is not, but the guy should still be made to scrub them all off and be fined if not jailed.

Law / Downfall of motor industry in Poland [30]


I remember hearing about the Ford Company and its benefits for workers. In the UK, that didn't really happen and there was endless conflict. The FSO company treated its staff fairly well, but their business model couldn't really cope with competition.


You can still see a few Syreny around warsaw, most heavily restored.

Life / Legal Graffiti Walls in Poland? [45]


The wordcount's rising


Most of them seem to want to be sk8ter bois, whatever that means.

Law / Downfall of motor industry in Poland [30]

More a reluctance to work for subsistence wages combined with atrocious and reactive management.

Law / Downfall of motor industry in Poland [30]

Yes. Rolls Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin etc trade on their British connection, despite being largely foreign. Polish cars had the reputation (and benefit) of being cheap and cheerful. Unfortunately Japanese, Korean, Malaysian cars are cheaper and more cheerful.

Law / Downfall of motor industry in Poland [30]


It seemed quite empty and quiet the other day.


Bad marketing and quality largely, plus the things Delphi mentioned.

A lot of cars are built in the UK for other companies - this seems to work. Maybe that's the way forward for Poland.

Life / Legal Graffiti Walls in Poland? [45]


Better to buy a wall and scrawl on it (on the inside, so the rest of us don't have to look at the puerile scribbling), otherwise it's up to 2 years in prison.

There is a long wall in Warsaw where people are allowed to do grafitti - their youthful energy is such that they've even got carried away and scribbled all over the expensive murals on the wall of the housing estate next door, put there in the hope that the vandals might have some respect and leave it alone.

What is it with Poland and grafitti anyway? Where my flat is, all the residents have paid (monthly for years, through the fundusz remontowy) for the buildings to be nicely painted, and within a couple of weeks, the aerosol 'artists' started 'expressing themselves' on the walls of our homes.

The scum should have the word vandal tattooed on their foreheads - to make the punishment fit the crime!

Life / Another horrible story involving children in Poland (children badly burned) [3]

There was a horrible and tragic incident near my home a few years ago involving a ceramic hob that had been left on while people were out shopping, a moses basket, and the parents unloading the shopping from their car for several minutes.

You can never, ever be too careful.

Life / INVISIBLE MAN in shops and offices in Poland? [70]


Perhaps at the doctors, but not at Maccy D's.

USA, Canada / Polish Food - 40 flavors of pierogies in the US [113]


I've just looked for a recipe but can't find one online. It needs to be a very dry bolognese sauce, for obvious reasons. They were a speciality of the Hotek Georges in Lwow back in the 1930s.


My ideal pizza is anchovies, capers and olives.


I think so too, but in PL it's perfectly normal and waiters are often surprised if you don't want the ketchup.

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]


Exactly. I remember Irish people suddenly appearing in Warsaw with lots of money. A real boom and bust.

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]


Argue or discuss? As an 18 year old, arguing is still fun for you. But there will come a point where debate and discussion is more rewarding.

News / Overcoming (or fostering) political hate speech in Poland? [15]


This is par for the course. Jaroslaw K has, and his equally dreadful brother had, a history of petulent behaviour.

Platforma, the party that the Polish people chose to govern, are doing a lot - I was out of PL for a few months and on return was pleasantly surprised to see the new roads and bridges they're building and hospitals being modernised. And the economic condition of Poland is a testament to their solid hard work.

Sure, they haven't done great show-stopping things like the PiS/LPR/Samoobrona coalition did. They haven't banned any freedom parades, condemned Teletubbies, prevented IVF treatment, removed Ferdydurke from school reading lists, announced that homosexuals should be hit with sticks, supported racist radio stations or claimed that humans walked the earth with dinosaurs.

So we must be thankful for small mercies and ignore the eccentic boobies of PiS.

UK, Ireland / How long would it take for an English style restaurant in Poland to go bust? [80]

Have you heard of Taybarns in England? Despite any reservations I have about those places, I think something like that would do very well in Poland. It would need huge start-up capital though.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taybarns

USA, Canada / Polish Food - 40 flavors of pierogies in the US [113]


Blueberry are good too, and very traditional in summer.

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]

My home town of Wakefield has a population of 80,000 and 22 Polish food shops, including three small supermarkets in the city centre. Also a Polish temping agency on the main street, a Polish cafe and a privately owned Polish language school to serve locals who've married Poles.

There's even an Indian takeaway with a big sign saying 'smaczne jedzenia'.