History / German history of my new home in Poland [30]


Actually:



From here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesia#History

It's it funny that after a democratic referendum where the people decided to remain part of Germany it was instead awarded to Poland. Funny that eh?

Oh those pesky League of Nations guys and their meddalling in world affairs. Just imagine a successful Silesia powering Germany in modern times, instead we have sh!tholes like Ruda Slask and Bytom, Chorzow and Myslowice

So, anyway from 1741 to 1921 it was German; 180 years.
It's been Polish since 1921; 95 years.
Pretty easy to see that it was German for longer, let's not bother counting pre-1741 becasue Poland wasn't a republic then and freedom wasn't really afforded to the common people.

Now, let's go back to ignoring each other, I think you're a flaming galah and you think I'm one too so please let's never speak again, it was so much better that way

History / German history of my new home in Poland [30]


Really?

But sure Atch with that logic you'd never call Dublin Dublin, it's be Atha Cliath and Wexford would be Loch Garman etc.

I call it Silesia and any Silesians I speak to about Silesia call it Silesia too...there's even sports teams down here that use Silesia instead of Slask, I don't think it's a big deal for Poles to use the different versions...anyway Sileisa is more likey the German name that then English one and Silesia was German for a long, long time

News / Facebook censors nationalists and their planned 11 Nov. march in Poland [50]


They weren't within their rights, they lost the case :D :D :D

theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/24/born-again-christian-ashers-bakery-lose-court-appeal-in-gay-cake-row


Yous are all still missing the point, the far-right groups weren't banned for being far-right, they were banned becasue they were raising money illegally on Facebook; that's why Facebook banned them

Just a strange coincidence that most, not all though, Polish media outlets aren't reporting that fact

News / Facebook censors nationalists and their planned 11 Nov. march in Poland [50]


come back to me when you learn to spell ya mess


Hahahah :)

What all you idiots seem to leave out is that they were banned for breaking the rules as they were using their pages to collect money for their pathetic marches, that's against the rules; you break the rules you pay the price, touch sh!t

News / Facebook censors nationalists and their planned 11 Nov. march in Poland [50]


Hahahaha, what a bellend

He's going to sue an American company from a Polish court regarding freedom of expression. Sure.....
Nope, ain't gonna happen. Even if the case was held in Europe it would have to be in Ireland (FB's Europeans HQ) and they've gotta bigger fish to fry than the whims of a jumped-up Polish psychopath

He's not just looking for headlines for his knuckle-dragging, follically-challenged hooligan henchmen
Obviously yesterday was a slow news day in Poland

News / 10 year prison sentence for Polish lorry driver who killed 4 people while driving and using his mobile phone [90]


Fair enough

You're right, speed and rink driving are just the worst here, it just comes from people having little or no respect for their fellow man; it's a shameful characteristic of Poland; each to their own and f!ck everyone else

News / Poland - exhuming Smolensk victims [30]

They're just prolonging the conspiracy theory myth, while PiS are in govt they can't back down from their belief that the Ruskies or the Krauts were involved, we've had enough enquiries showing that it was pilot error & bad weather that was the cause and it's just really, really shameful that they're going to such lengths to 'save face'

If they had any proof of a conspiracy it'd come out long ago, that ghastly movie should've been the end of the discussion once and for all

But to lighten the mood.....
Who has the nicest legs in Wawel?
The air-stewardess' in Maria Kaczynski's grave

News / 10 year prison sentence for Polish lorry driver who killed 4 people while driving and using his mobile phone [90]


Yea, and that's simply not good enough in 2016


Trust me, it's very easy to get a stamp; I know two mechanics in Katowice; I've reported both to police years ago and they're still in business


True, but they don't, these people have such crappy, old cars that they only have the basic insurance, so to them it's worth the risk, it's awful


I'd like to see some proof of that because what I've read says the opposite

Travel / Border crossing Poland into Ukraine at Medyka & Korczowa [18]


A little bribery gets you very far at the Ukrainian border....but only with the Ukranians, you try to bribe a Polish border guard and you're going to jail.

But, and I've driven in Ukraine, the best thing you could do would be leave your car in Poland take a busto Lviv. Ukraine is dangerous, worse roads and drivers than Poland.

Lviv is OK, it's pretty but nobody speaks English, it's not exactly friendly and it's far to travel by bus....tbh I wouldn't bother if I wasn't flying there

News / 10 year prison sentence for Polish lorry driver who killed 4 people while driving and using his mobile phone [90]


The blantant disregard for drink driving; from FRiday to Sunday there was 776 caught drink driver, which is obviously the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the actual scumbag, low-life pondscum that are doing it.

I'm sure by the end of tonight it'll be well over 2000, maybe 2300, we will see.

But I think peoples' attitudes won't change because politicians and the media are doing nothing in an attempt to bring down the numbers, they simply do not care about road safety, too busy lining their pockets and living on fat cheques in Warsaw......and the reason they do't care is because their voters don't make an issue of it. I guarantee you that if a massive social movement came together to challenge the politicians on road safety and told them we'll only vote for politicians who want to lower the death rates and drink driving they would change their tune. The massive white elephant here though is that Poles are, probably, the most apathetic electorate in Europe now; people don't vote and people don't care about social issues because they are too self-involved in their march towards consumerism Valhalla


Same in Poland, at least you guys have orange lights, in fact, the govt change the law to say that car have the right of way at pedestrian crossing in Poland. This truly is a country run by bellend lunatic

News / 10 year prison sentence for Polish lorry driver who killed 4 people while driving and using his mobile phone [90]


Ah, I see why you're confused, I meant that your a liar becasue if you've never been shouted at in Poland then you've never driven in Poland :D :D :D


It's still possible to bribe the man that gives your car its yearly service stamp.... Polish equivalent of MOT
Polish people drive older crappier cars, thus more accidents..but it is changing thankfully
Polish men in particular are pea-brained macho idiots on the road, thus more accidents.

The problem is that the attitude of people on the roads here is 'me first' instead of it being 'we all share responsibility'
Look at Germany and it's no-speed-limit highways....peoples' attitude is 'drive safe and fast and with the proper distance', in Poland, it's 'drive fast and fúck everyone else'

Poland is far and away more dangerous than the UK to drive; the stats don't lie, it's your problem if you cannot accept them

News / 10 year prison sentence for Polish lorry driver who killed 4 people while driving and using his mobile phone [90]


liar

News / 10 year prison sentence for Polish lorry driver who killed 4 people while driving and using his mobile phone [90]

merged:Polish Lorry Driver Killed 4 only given 10 years

Disgraceful; he should be locked up for life and never let see the light of day again.

irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/lorry-driver-who-killed-family-while-using-phone-gets-10-years-1.2849455

Travel / In Poland, Can I cash an American Check? [14]

I've cashed cheques from Ireland; just left it in the bank, took a week to clear.

News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]


Naw, not in my case anyway. Thing is I earn the vast majority of my money abroad and depending on where the buyer lives I either pay tax in America and tax in Poland or no tax in American and tax in Poland

If it does go to 40% the wife and I are really boned and one of us (me) will need to leave the business and get a 9-5 office gig and I'm not willing to work in a job I hate, lose money in our business (coz we'd be a man down) to stay living in a country that's going backwards

News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]


wasn't the bank and supermarket tax brought in for that?

I actually think the 500+ is a good thing, I don't have two kids btw, most other EU countries have a child benefit system, it's about time Poland had one too.

500zl is feckin pittance anyway


So we're not going to see a rise from 19 to 40%?

She's says we're outta here if that's the case, I'm easy, I've no roots here other than a few mates but sure it's pretty easy to make friends anywhere so I'm OK if she wants to leg it

News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]

Did I read something about changin the tax.....missus told me this morning we're going to be going from 19% tax to 40%

That can't be right, but I can't really find anything about it.
She says PiS are working on it, but nobody's talking about it

News / Petru wants Tadeusz Mazowiecki monument in Warsaw [25]


Dresden

The allies levelled the place purely to kill civilians, a war crime in truth
Nagasaki & Hiroshima too, the fact that America was let off with that scot-free just goes to show how cowardly we are as a species


Of course not, having a dictator puppet master is great for the country

#fail

UK, Ireland / POLISH MAN 25 MURDERED IN LEEDS UK [19]

Merged: Racist Abuse towards Poles in Leeds

Channel 4 last night had a report about hate crime and the upturn in racism since the disastrous Brexit referendum



Scary stuff, as the interview was going on a car load of yobs gave the interviewee a bit of abuse.

These one off incidents don't of course show the full story but they are happening more and more.
And as they continue to happen they will also continue to happen here against foreigners.

Thankfully the Poles have nothing against us Irish and wearing a green Irish football/rugby jersey goes a long way, of course speaking the lingo helps a great deal too and I can hold my own in a conversation

If I was that young lady in Leeds, I'd be upping sticks and moving to a nicer neighbour or indeed city; Edinburgh or Belfast or Liverpool

Travel / Help: Travelling from Gliwice to Zilina (Slovakia) [7]


You can take a bus from Katowice to Bohumín and change to another bus to Zilina
rome2rio.com/s/Katowice/%C5%BDilina

Problem is they don't give the name of the bus company

You could try blablacar.pl
If someone's going you can get a lift in their car, try Gliwice, Katowice etc.

Work / Senior system administrator in Wroclaw - is 7500 OK? [29]


Your partner is gonna need to get a job as well

I wouldn't really agree with Dom on this:


1) depends on the job
2) food and drink are cheap in Poland, so is going out to restaurants/pubs. Event tickets are certainly affordable.
3) Public transport in Poland is cheap. Petrol is the same price, more or less, all over Europe, car insurance is cheap if you drive.
4) in Wroclaw that's just simply not true, there are 1000s of foreigners living in Wroclaw

Also, a tidbit of information regarding Wroclaw: it has the highest proportion of far-right nazis in Poland.
It's a nice city centre, but other than that it's a bit meh

Real Estate / Is Osiedle Tysiąclecia a good area to live in Katowice? [2]


Well, I wouldn't say it's the nicest, but it's got loads of advantages; huge park beside it....some say it's the biggest city park in Europe, but I don't know if that's true, it has a zoo, loads of pubs and restaurants and cycle paths, there's even a gondola, massive stadium (unfinished) too

Biggest shopping centre in southern Poland on your doorstep too and loads of public transport at your disposal
Tysiąclecia itself has loads of shops, a few supermarkets and small businesses too, things like chemists, hairdressers, the usual local stuff

Koszutka is fine too, you're closer to the city and can take buses/trams to Chorzow every day easily. I used to do that, takes about 30mins to Chorzow on tram, buses can be tricky depending on time of day, they can take 20 minutes or up to an hour depending on traffic; not as many conveniences as Tysiąclecia, but you're closer to town so there's that.

If I was working in Chrozow, I'd go for Tysiąclecia, it's still pretty close to Kato, and if you wanna stay in Kato later for a few pints at night it's serviced by late trams and buses too, or just get a bicycle, cold weather doesn't really hit until January (for the last few years anyway)

Life / Cost of living in Katowice, Poland [53]


I agree, it'as crap money

Law / Car Insurance in Poland (A/C) [32]


rankomat.pl

Insurance comparison site

News / How would Poland change for the better (or worse) under a PiS government? [257]


Hahahahah!

Praise the gods for internet TV :)

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]


LOL
:D :D :D


This guy is not impressed
youtube.com/watch?v=VVxYOQS6ggk

Food / Polish Drink Vs Irish People [20]


Yea that's certainly true, there sure is a lot of really, really crappy beers in the pubs in Ireland

It's finally changing a bit now, it's absolute marketing though, you're certainly correct there, it's shameful really that so many people drink crap like Bud/Miller/Carlsberg/Heineken etc.

Everytime I go home I usually buy some Polish or GErman beer from Lidl and stick to Guinness in the local pub :)

Food / Polish Drink Vs Irish People [20]


don't know many people other than older men that drink whiskey


Tastes nice, that's all that matters


It's sh!te


It's far much better than Zywiec

Different tastes mate, makes the world a wonderful place

Food / Polish Drink Vs Irish People [20]


Absolutely :)

Food / Polish Drink Vs Irish People [20]


Ah, if you're used to drinking vodka without a mixer maybe, but in Ireland only alcoholics drink straight vodka :D
So, y'know the Irish ain't used to drinking vodka without any coke/7up/tonic

I hated zubrowka my first time too, loved krupnik and wisniowka though, still do. Zywiec is crap though, gotta be the worst of the mass market beers here