Love / Different relationship... can it work with Pakistani girl and Polish guy? [129]

Only you can really answer these questions.

I know an British-Indian guy with a Polish wife. They are happy.

Travel / Weekend in Katowice [25]


Yiiiikes!! those are the kind of thing that I try to avoid, wherever I am.

Travel / Weekend in Katowice [25]


Excellent - good to hear that it's still a good one. The guy that drove us around seemed like a genuinely nice guy.

Travel / Weekend in Katowice [25]


So have you been on it yet? I remember that you said that you were going.

Travel / Weekend in Katowice [25]

Handbrake-turns in a trabi LOL!!

Seriously, the steel-works were impressive. The tour is also quite sociable, so not really for people who keep themselves to themselves. Mr LC and me being driven around Nowa Huta by a very knowledgeable young chap who knew his history. We stopped off at various interesting points, including a cafe, where he showed us photos from the communist era and talked about his own experiences of family life in the 80s.

Excellent value for money - well worth doing of an afternoon.

***edited to add - I don't work for them LOL!***

Travel / Weekend in Katowice [25]


Seconded - I've done the Nowa Huta one in Krakow.


I also echo that - go have a few meters of beer in CK Brouwar ;)

Life / "Londynczycy" - new Polish soap [62]


Hmmm...so, how does this go down in Poland?

Honestly, I think that my life and that of close friends in my neighbourhood would make a far more interesting Polish-British soap opera....

Life / "Londynczycy" - new Polish soap [62]

Ahahaha... I'm glad that there's a thread about this. I'm just back from Poland, and saw loads of posters for this TV show. Tell me more about it...

Life / Polish clothing - Polish folk costumes [28]


This sounds interesting... do you have a link?

Re national costume, I've visited Poland many times, and the only people that I've seen wearing national costume are the characters on a bottle of Zywiec :)

Life / COMBATING "POLACK" JOKES [460]


Exactly... and anyone who tells these kind of jokes just show themselves up to be a knob. There's no need to combat them or prepare any (not particularly in the cases above) come-backs.

Feedback / The image of Poland according to PolishForums [90]


That pretty much sums it up for me.

Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]


Not at all... just been out of town.... just going through threads from the past few days.

Nice work, by the way M :))

Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

How about rotating it? I don't mind contributing once in a while....

UK, Ireland / Any direct flights from Aberdeen or Inverness to Poland? [11]

What do you mean?...Cancelled or what? Give us a few clues... which airlines?

UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

Best thing about immigration in Scotland was the plethora of ice-cream parlours there when i was growing up :P

Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]


My favourite... you may have hair round your lips, but that's no reason to talk like a cun... ;D

Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]


It's kind of like the goofy kid in the playground who's got "sticks and stones..." loaded and ready if you see what I mean.

I've been the subject of loads of jokes over the years... being female, Scottish and <pulls a look of disgust> GINGER, but my best advice is to just laugh along with it.

The jokes and banter are all part of colleagues and mates feeling comfortable with you :)

Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]


Sorry, but I still think that this is a bit of a naff put-down.

Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]


Hmm... I don't know if that would really be a catty put-down. I speak five languages, though not Polish (YET ha, ha) and really am not dumb.

Then again, I would not be telling anti Polish jokes in the first place, of course :)

Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

Otherwise it might end up Lodz'd there...

Sorry guys - lame, I know.... :D

Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

Warsaw that one coming :D

Travel / Cheap places to stay in Szczecin? [12]

Excellent - I'm going to be there in October, and have still got to book somewhere to stay....

Cheers Kowalski!!

Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]


Ah yes, I forgot about this one. I'd have posted my own sweet voice, but I couldn't figure out how to record a mp3 file in the first place. You'll just have to use your imagination....

Language / I'm gonna learn Polish in a month! [86]

Good luck, Mask!!

Sorry to crash your thread, but I am seriously thinking of taking up Polish in Autumn. I'm being realistic, and just want to make a bit of an effort for my Polish friends and business contacts.

This is going to seem like a daft question, but how do you actually "learn" a language. By the time I was 20, I was fluent in a couple of languages, but don't really recall actively learning them - does that make sense? I just feel like I've always been able to speak French for instance (even though I didn't start learning until I was 11).

Now that I'm a bit older (I'll be 33 next week... woooo hoooo!!), it's going to be tougher.

Anyone got any tips and techniques for learning Polish?

I did dip my toe in Russian when I was 18, but gave up as I found it too complicated. But then again, I don't know if I really took it seriously and put the effort in at 18.

UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]


Exactly.

The main reason that there are long waiting lists for NHS dentists is fact that dentists make more money from private practice than doing NHS work.

Most Poles that I know in the UK head back to Poland for their dental treatment. As do many Brits - they get a better deal in Poland than they do at a private clinic in the UK.

Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]


Hmmm... the plot thickens.

Szarlotka, I think that it is only fair to tell you that not only has your wife not been cheating on you with skotja2007, but I too have not enjoyed a bit of a fling with her.

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

Maybe there's a "lite" version?

Gutted that I'd not seen or heard of it since. Is it available across Poland? I'd somehow imagined it to be a Czech beer.

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

Ah!!! is that a Polish beer?

I had it a while ago (a bar in Hoxton, if I remember rightly) and loved it - best of all, it was like 3% so great for a school night.

Then I never saw it again, so figured that I'd maybe imagined it.

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]


Yes, please.

Was going to hit the gym this evening, but seeing as you're at the bar....

Love / Is it possible for Filipino gay like me to have a Polish lover? [13]


Exactly - and good on them :))


Good point, although I read about some kind of visa scam in a gay magazine a few months ago. Don't know the tecnicalities of it though.