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JonnyM   
8 Mar 2012
Law / British managers superior to Polish [52]

Well, maybe they could start dealing with the London Underground, then follow on with the trains (make them arrive on time, build a few more high speed lines) and finish with rebuilding Heathrow

Given the complexity of all that, they do it very well indeed.
JonnyM   
8 Mar 2012
News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]

However, you are simply advocating throwing out the baby with the bath water.

Really.

Go on, tell me how that money is spent. It never gets to where tax payers are told it goes,

Now that is a disingenuous question if ever there was one. Though anyone who says:

Educate yourself man.

and

THere should be incentives for non-white immigrants to not become immigrants at all

is necessarily skewed.
JonnyM   
8 Mar 2012
News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]

Actions tell a different story.

And all the infrastructure aid doesn't.

I can find many videos online of people (who had nothing to gain) claiming completely the opposite of what mainstream talking heads have claimed.

Mostly trash

Are you actually typing, or are you just banging your face against the keyboard? This is the stupidest thing I've read on PF in some days, and that is truly saying something. Just because you don't understand a culture, or more likely, tried in the least to observe one, doesn't mean it isn't there, or is less of a culture than your own. You are offensive in your ignorance.

+1
JonnyM   
8 Mar 2012
Law / British managers superior to Polish [52]

1. London is one city

The area rebuilt for the Olympics is bigger than central Warsaw.

did they need to build new highways for the Olimpics?

Did Poland need to build them?

Actually I wonder what was needed to prepare London for Olimpics? Build some sport facilities? What else?

A huge regeneration - all on time and under budget.

Ok taking this into consideration, there are now a number of British companies with the experience of having worked on the olympics, that are ready for the next challenge. These project management companies could do great things for Poland.

Yes.

The Poles are conditioned to under deliver and over promise.

Double yes. Foreign supermarkets who import from PL are very used to suppliers doing this.
JonnyM   
8 Mar 2012
History / Wrocław's Train Station: Not A Happy Place. [39]

he very sore subject of the border shifts

Talking about railway stations and border changes, Ostrow Wielkopolska is a little town with a huge railway station - presumably it was the frontier until 1915.

I really do hope that the rumours I hear about Warsaw station being demolished are untrue. Firstly I like the building, and secondly I utterly fail to see the point of spending two years and a shedload of cash renovating a building only to pull it down a year or two later.

Have those rumours started again?
JonnyM   
7 Mar 2012
History / Wrocław's Train Station: Not A Happy Place. [39]

Most of them were ordinary people, including children, none of whom could have done anything to stop the behaviour of their dictatorship.

Thinking about it, that area round the back of Zachodnia Station in Warsaw. (a part of town that has seen more than its fair share of human misery and has the plaques to show it) especially the bit between the bikers' club and the park by the old tram sheds is quite an atmospheric place
JonnyM   
7 Mar 2012
History / Wrocław's Train Station: Not A Happy Place. [39]

Wschodnia in Warsaw is renovated after a fashion, Centralna looks clean now, but Zachodnia still has the same eighties feelinh. By far the coldest and creepiest is Kielce. Wroclaw station is atmospheric, but somehow Katowice is more so.
JonnyM   
6 Mar 2012
Genealogy / Where is the orthodox cemetery in Podlasie? [12]

No disrespect. I was talking about Russian Orthodox.

There should be a Polish Orthodox cemetery there - there's a pretty big Orthodox church and monastery.
JonnyM   
6 Mar 2012
Genealogy / Searching for info on my Grandfather, Kolata [17]

Confused on Jembrzyec and Lembrzyce......which is correct?

Probably different places, unless someone got the handwriting very wrong. Try googling them.

edit

Zembrzyce is a village near Krakow (then in Galicia). Jembrzyec doesn't show up. You don't mention if your grandparents were particularly literate (which many perfectly normal people weren't in those days). Could it be a misspelling of Zembrzyce?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zembrzyce
JonnyM   
5 Mar 2012
Life / If a Pole says something it must be wrong - a prejudice? [25]

Damn right especially since the thing he brought wasn't what I'd ordered anyway.

A shame really because if anything I generally overtip. It was Sphinx on Nowy Swiat - on the one hand not exactly classy, on the other hand supposedly quite hot on staff training.

Twice in restaurants here I've had food brought that is absolutely clap cold - they just forgot to heat it. On neither occasion did anyone apologise.

It's part of the culture here - they'd rather cut their own heads off than admit they're wrong.
JonnyM   
5 Mar 2012
Life / If a Pole says something it must be wrong - a prejudice? [25]

Some Poles will simply never admit to a non-Pole that any Pole has ever done anything in the slightest bit wrong.

This is true. I once heard a neighbour blaming the parking problems on our street on a particular ethnic minority (despite the street having been built after they all had to leave). Anything but blame another Pole.

A small but telling symptom of the denial culture here is a meal I had in a restaurant a few days ago. We waited ages for the starters and when the waiter finally brought them, he brought the main cause less than 3 minutes later. When I reminded him that we'd only just got the starter, he said it wasn't his fault; the kitchen had sent it. Easier to say that than either do his job properly and tell the kitchen to do it again at the appropriate time or at the very least apologise profusely.
JonnyM   
4 Mar 2012
News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

Many foreign media has incorrect informations

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Twisting and turning to try to evade the issue that this, like most other transport disasters in Poland, is somebody's fault. Sad, when so many died.
JonnyM   
4 Mar 2012
News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

No Monia. The usual line was closed as part of the scheduled A154 modernisation programme. Though human error (as in most other Polish transport accidents) seems likely at the moment, as Boletus suggests, there could be several reasons.
JonnyM   
4 Mar 2012
News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

completely modernised last year

Why lie? The track was being modernised at the time.

It does look more and more like human error. The last time anything like that happened the woman whose job it was to operate the level crossing in question was jailed. But before jumping to conclusions we should wait for the inquiry. Let's hope the media don't let them sweep it all under the carpet.
JonnyM   
4 Mar 2012
News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

In Britain they privatised it years ago with huge disagreement though the overall effect (except for ticket prices) has been positive.

Poland has some way to go here and PKP is still an unaccountable behemoth. Do you really expect full transparency in any investigation here or much less an admission of institutionall guilt in PL should that be appropriate?
JonnyM   
4 Mar 2012
News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]

What sums it up is that we see increasingly frustrated sniping by people with a track record on here of opposing immigration. People looking for an argument but not getting one because all has been said already.

While immigration steadily grows here without negative effect.
JonnyM   
4 Mar 2012
News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

One problem is that PKP is still a state-owned dinosaur with all sorts of vested interests in play to keep it that way. Another problem is that Poles can't blame the problems on outsiders so transparency is unlikely.
JonnyM   
4 Mar 2012
News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

Look at the record for rail safety in, say, the last 50 years in the UK.

Though one difference is that in the UK, you can trust the findings of investigators and know that at least everything will be transparent.