News / Russian air traffic controllers ignored communication protocol of Polish pilots? [194]

An animation of the accident was posted by one of Polish papers:

Detailed video-simulation of the last presidential Tupolev flight that crashed at the airport in Smolensk on Saturday morning. The aircraft landed in poor weather conditions. Killed 96 people , including the Poland's presidential couple , ministers , MPs , church dignitaries , generals .

Love / 6 months with my Polish girlfriend and I still don't understand her.. [208]


Yes. It's all very easy: with a Polish woman you can be right, or you can be happy.

History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]


Bollocks.
Property information has been traditionally available to all interested parties. I can check my neighbor, or someone on the left coast of Canada. I can see all the previous and current owners, dates of sale, sizes of rooms, and even whether their basement is finished and if they have a deck in their backyard. That info is free to me. In some countries your have to pay a small fee for the information, and the information can be even more elaborate, as it is in the case of The Netherlands.

Searches available in the Netherlands:

You can search property by address, post code, land registry code, map of the Netherlands, place map

Products available:


eulis.eu/countries/profile/netherlands

News / Poland President National Mourning in Some Countries [212]

There will be a day of mourning in Hungary on the day of the president;s funeral.

News / Russian air traffic controllers ignored communication protocol of Polish pilots? [194]


So the president of Poland is flying to Smolensk. They pick a pilot who speaks English (Fcuk the Russians. They must speak English to us. Period). The plane approaches the airport and says to the Russian traffic controller:

Pilot: Hi, do you speak English?
Controller: Nye ponimayu
Pilot: Cut the crap man!
Controller:shto?
Pilot - o kurwa! A ja myslalem ze w Rosji to po angieklsu mowia.
(oh s.h.it, I thought they spoke English in Russia)

Feedback / PF logo - color turned black today - Nice touch, Admin [29]

nah, actually I noticed that first. I just didn't make a post out of that ;)

Language / Getting the wrong ending of a word - do Polish still understand? [25]

Following AdamKadmon's, if you want to simulate what a Pole would would understand if the endings are wrong, produce a sentence in English in which the language's fundamentals are mixed up. That ought to give you an approximation of how a botched sentence would sound to a Pole:

"a do ending getting of polish stil the understand wrong word"

Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]


It's no less interesting to see how a leech living in poland for the last 15 years has little clue about the country's realities.


I didn't know he was in the process of becoming a nurse. You too?

Now show me where in this nursing school curriculum they name English as a compulsory subject?
wsmlegnica.pl/?lang=pl&content=nursing

Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]


There was no defense treaty but there was presidential election, during which Roosevelt made promises and gladly took photo-ops in front of a map with Poland's borders promised to the Polish-American voters to be the same as pre-1939


Before you said it was a job requirement. It isn't.
Now you're saying that "Polish" nurses have to pass English exams. That is not true either. In some schools English is among compulsory subjects, in others it is not.


That's kinda true. The visa requirement was imposed indeed, but the culprits are only sorta Czechs, but most not really.

Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]


It is definitely not a job requirement for a Polish nurse in Poland to speak English. This could be regional, or even vary from one hospital (or even a position) to another.

Oh, and were the nurses described in this thread hired the day the incident happened or, say, 20 year ago when all had Russian at school but few were taught English?

History / Actually, there never was any Polish-German hatred [149]


Interesting.

Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]


OK, so they punished the nurses by not speaking in Polish to them. Call it even steven.


The story is one sided and as WB said, full of holes.


The Brits complaining about someone else's selfishness? That's a good one.
So how's the view from up high on your pedestal?

Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]


From the story it doesn't appear anybody rejected their right to speak English, but the foreigners reject the nurses' right to speak Polish in their own country.

Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]


Were they really rude?
I'd say the visitors to the hospital were rude since they knew Polish and yet they chose to speak English in Poland.


You are suggesting that the likelihood is greater in Poland so the onus is on you to provide the stats.

Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]


What des that have to do with crimes on tourists?
They happen in Poland and they happen in the UK.
Or is being beaten up in UK somehow a better experience than being beaten up in Poland?

News / Official language of EU (is not Polish) [119]


Good pint. Reminds me of Berlin when I lived there many years ago. It used to be called West Berlin then.

I tossed an empty cigarette packaging to a garbage bin and one of the Gerries scolded me. I was surprised. His explanation was: someone has to clean it up, so litter the street, create a job.

Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]


Agreed.
Waiddaminute!
Is the UK a developing country?
It would seem so from the ]US official travel advisory to the UK.

Overall crime rates have decreased over the past decade; however, according to Metropolitan Police statistics, serious crime (i.e. assault, robbery, burglary, gun-enabled, and rape) in many London boroughs has increased during the past 12 months. As with any major metropolitan city, U.S. citizens are urged to be cautious and aware of their surroundings.

Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]


I guess the beating was a part of the package then.

Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]


You hit the nail on the head.
You should have used that argument in your response to the originator of this thread.

Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]


The police was there but looked the other way. They guys were beat up to the point of needing medical help but they know who was where and where they looked :)

In their genius, the victims, instead of asking cops for help, tried to get a cab. Of course it's hard to say those were even cops. Might have been another group of tourists in freaky clothes. Heck, Michael Jackson used to dress up like a dictator from a third world country.

Then, they guys, who obviously speak Polish, get to the hospital and try to speak English with the nurses.

It's easier to believe the Red Riding Hood story than this fable.

Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]

I don't get it.
A few guys go to a hospital in Poland to seek medical help and instead of speaking Polish they try to communicate in English? That is plain stupid. Why didn't they speak Polish to the nurses?

News / Official language of EU (is not Polish) [119]


Nah, all you really need to know in that language is Allahu akbar. C'mon, how hard could this be?

History / Teaching our kids about Poland's History [57]


Let's check the spelling then:

english - should be English
suck's - sould be sucks
word's - should be words

So, coward Guest, you have some work to do. Live what you preach and don't post here until you improve your spelling skills.

That's nearly a four year old post you're replying to and in those days many posters were guests.

News / Official language of EU (is not Polish) [119]

To mediate between the English and the Germans, let's look into the future of EU's main language. Babylon tells me that this is how "god save the Queen" would look: الله تنقذ ملكة

Food / How do you make PLACEK Z KRUSZONKA? [39]

A $400 mixer will do the same job well :)
But seriously, the consistency of the mixture is so light that a $20 hand mixer might do. Just make sure the butter is very soft before mixing it in.

Food / How do you make PLACEK Z KRUSZONKA? [39]

mmmm, szarlotka...
I love that, although being somewhat traditional in my kitchen exploits I tend to do things they way there are supposed to be done. No canned garbage, all fruit natural, from local farmers. Long story short, a good szarlotka (with the shortcake) takes a couple of hours to make, and only minutes to disappear.


I thought you lived in TO.


Banana bread is one of the easiest to make. About 1h25 minutes of which 1h10minutes is baking. You gotta try it one day.

Food / How do you make PLACEK Z KRUSZONKA? [39]

If I weren't married I'd squeeze your banana bread then :)
Hey, don't you have a squeeze of your own too?!

Food / How do you make PLACEK Z KRUSZONKA? [39]

That is neither mine nor hers. It is THE recipe.

In case you asked for something else - I am the baker at home. I cook too but mostly on weekends. No kruszonka cake this weekend though. Wifey wanted English tea biscuits and banana bread, so I baked 15 biscuits and 2 banana breads.

Food / Cheesecake sernik for Polish Easter? [14]

With me it was the other way around. I usually got stuffed with sernik first. Sometimes I had enough room for makowiec.