Law / Child Alimony in Poland - 1700 PLN? [74]


It's really not when a decent nursery can set you back half that a month.

UK, Ireland / Can you drive from London to Poland in a UK hire car ? - [6]


Can be. Depends on the hire company, but some of them certainly don't allow it.


As long as you have permission, sure.


They sometimes don't cover Poland, but it seems to be mainly German car hire companies that have an issue with it.

News / 70% of Poles like Komorowski. Do you? [120]


And how do you propose a figurehead President does that?

Then again, did Kaczynski do that? No? Well then.

Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]

Don't read it, we all know that typical PiS voters won't read anything that they don't understand anyway ;) Fakt is more than enough for your brain.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


But how can he? He would only be in that position should the coalition fall apart.


No big deal. Early elections are highly unlikely, so they've got plenty of time to win votes.

Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]


It's only garbage because it doesn't agree with what you think Poland should be. It's worth pointing out that you think Poland should either be run by a mentally ill dwarf or a disabled-hater - depending on whether you were asked before or after the last election ;) Either way, you're hardly an expert.


I would dare to suggest that both Jon and Harry have forgotten more about Poland than the average Polonia will ever learn. As for "ganging up" - isn't that exactly what you and some others used to do on this forum with impunity towards anyone who wasn't white/was Jewish? In fact, you only really stopped when you started to taste your own medicine.


A sane administration would ban every single poster who went on about Jews, who ranted about "blacks and pakis" and all the other racist crap on this forum. You'd be gone as well, so I fail to see what your point is.


Best posters? Name them.


That's mainly because we actually have a clue about the subjects at hand. If you don't like it, well...there's ATP to discuss these things with yourself and yourself.

Anyway, weren't you supposed to be banned indefinitely?

Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]


It's a word used by particularly dumb Polish-Americans who insist that it's a Polish word for grandmother, despite not one of them managing to prove its existence in any Polish dictionary. The closest we came was discovering the use in Kashubian, which isn't Polish. You'll find lots of examples of PF of the word being used.


Worth pointing out though P3 that perhaps I want to be insulting towards them, especially the more racist and vile ones?

I see no reason to be civilised and nice towards people who post thinly-veiled racist statements, such as the chap above who revels in the use of "paki" and other such phrases. Actually - I quite liked the use of "dumb Polack" towards them - the more they got offended by racism, the funnier it got!

Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]


Lying again. You really ought to stop such behaviour.


It's very dumb when you try and paint yourself as 100% PURE POLISH like a typical Polish-American dumbass without actually realising how difficult it is for anyone in Poland to actually claim this. It's even dumber when you use words that aren't Polish yet you think they are because you're too stupid to open a dictionary.


The problem is p3 that attacking individual posters isn't allowed, so making blanket statements about the stupidity and racism of Polonia is the only way forward.

(you must admit - anyone using the word "Busia" or similar is worthy of being called dumb)

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]


I don't think there's a place for it - it just leads to bullying and coercion.

I've always thought that initiation rites are just an excuse to force people into doing humiliating things for some sort of sick pleasure. I remember Paul Newman quoting someone - "behind every practical joke is an element of malice".

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]


Perhaps so in Lublin, but Catholic schools here suck in terms of educational achievement. Only one of them actually has anything approaching modern, decent teaching methods and facilities as well - the others are rather poor.


I'm about to propose banning them in my school, although we don't actually have any. I don't like them and don't believe that children have free will where they're concerned - so a formal ban on them should deal with that ;)

Real Estate / Księga Wieczysta (no entry) [16]


How can I put this in the best possible way...?

I know. If you don't understand what you're buying and the documents you need, what are you doing buying property in the first place?

I wouldn't touch a property without a KW with a bargepole.

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


The "right to reside" is the crucial thing - it is not based on citizenship, but rather based on a concept known as "exercising your Treaty rights". Basically - unless you can prove that you're serious about staying in the UK, you don't have the right to reside. It's all rather complicated, but it stops people from claiming benefits straight off the plane.


And the benefit centres won't help them unless they pass both the habitual residence tests and the right of residence tests. In fact - if they're getting benefits straight off the plane, then the relevant authorities are breaking the law.


The Poles certainly took over much of the crap properties in Aberdeen - and were commended for making them far nicer places to live.


Actually, if they're destitute, they can be thrown out after 3 months without giving them a penny. It's exactly the same law that France used against the Roma.

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]


I am absolutely amazed that he was stupid enough to give such ammunition to those that oppose Church interference in schooling.

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]


Innocent horseplay?

I don't call children being degraded by a responsible adult as "innocent horseplay".


It's the usual PiS voting stuff - instead of admitting there's a problem, attack the person and try and silence the debate.

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]

These are still subject to the three month rule - the general idea is that you need to have made the UK your main home - so you need to show evidence of this. You won't get a penny if you aren't either in work (or self employed), or if you haven't been registered as looking for work for at least 3 months.

Despite what the papers would have you believe, you can't just step off the plane and get a package of benefits instantly. You can get the dole - but that's only if you 'transfer' it from Poland (and Poland will pay for it, not the UK).

Interestingly, the same rules apply to UK citizens too - if I went back, I couldn't go on the dole as I'd fail the habitual residence test.

Child benefit and child tax credit isn't subject to these rules, but they are applied under the "right to reside" rules instead - which mean that you need to either be working or registered as looking for work.

adviceguide.org.uk/england/benefits_e/benefits_coming_from_abroad_and_claiming_benefits_hrt/benefits_the_habitual_residence_test_introduction/what_is_the_habitual_residence_test.htm

As for foreigners getting council properties - at least in Scotland, what happened was that foreigners took up all the properties in 'bad' areas that no-one local wanted.

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


Not quite - you need to be working 3 months first.

The whole system is screaming for a German style reform where benefits only last for a certain amount of time and are subject to your own work history - if you do the minimum to qualify, you get the minimum.

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]


Even if he was subjected to immense peer pressure and encouraged to do it by people in a position of authority?

It's easy to say "oh, what kind of stupid children would do this?" - but teenagers are incredibly stupid at times.

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]

I'm sorry, but wasn't it you that claimed first to be a supporter of Kaczynski, then followed it up by claiming to be a Korwin-Mikke supporter? Yes, the same Korwin-Mikke who attacked disabled people.

And *you* are calling others "freak show"?

Sorry, but the only freak show here is you and your band of politically desperate types who will never, ever gain power in this country.

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]

It's worth pointing out that while Ruch Palikota are assumed to be a young, urban party - they actually managed to win seats from almost every single constituency, including some very rural areas.

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]

Just thought I'd link to some more pictures in case people haven't seen them - please, don't try and defend this. Ugh.

Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]


It's why they seem to think that we've failed - they couldn't hack it in Poland (no doubt partially because they discovered that their family didn't welcome them with feasts and alcohol before 12pm) and so they're pushing it on to us.

In fact, among the regular posters actually living in Poland, are there any failures here? I'm thinking of people like warszawski, sobieski, pip, etc - all successes.

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]


It is absolutely frightening that he wasn't suspended immediately as soon as the word got out, and it's even more frightening that people are defending it.

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]


They were 13 year olds, believe it or not.

Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]


Not allowed to :)

Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]

Well, can you blame us when you see self proclaimed members of the Polonia posting all manner of hateful racist stuff on this site?

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]


The thing is - I'm not sure that it's actually a crime anywhere. He would certainly be suspended immediately, and it's unlikely that he would keep his job - but I'm not so sure that it was actually a crime.

Of course, because he's a priest in Polska B, he'll be untouchable.

Looking at those pictures makes me want to go and throttle him.

Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]

The racism, the narrow minded thinking and the simple reality that people of means wouldn't have emigrated, especially in the early days of the 2nd Republic.

Their language, too. Are you familiar with the word "Busia" by any chance?

But actually, what makes them stand out the most is this belief that they are somehow better than ordinary Poles. Look at the posters on this thread - you can see a very nasty superiority complex running through them. BBman is a great example - he thinks that he's better than the rest of them because his Polish family are racist backwater village morons. Yet - in the very same post - he goes on to attack us.

Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]


Your tiresome assumption that we can't speak Polish is nothing but the usual blind Polonia arrogance. Mine might not be perfect, but I can handle my own in meetings without needing an interpreter. Then again, the fact that your Polish family displays such prejudice tells us all we need to know about what kind of family you come from - the worst kind. Mine doesn't have such feelings, but then again, we aren't racist village dwellers too.


Haven't you read the garbage that the Polonia are publishing and saying in North America?


I stand by what I said - most of what you sent was unwanted junk. The fact that you've got so defensive about it says the same thing - that you were sending your poor stupid cousins whatever cheap garbage you could find there, mainly because they would have no way of finding out. And Polish stores weren't largely empty during the 1980's - Jaruzelski solved that problem. A little heavy handed, perhaps, but the problem was solved.


Jealous of what, a bunch of morons with an identity crisis in North America?


So you like to think. Except that it's you getting all upset on here while we're laughing at the amount of stupidity that the Polonia produce. I was laughing tonight with some Polish friends about the Polonia - and they have the same attitude, that the North American ones are nothing but peasant emigrants.

Let's be honest - you're the one that thinks that Poland is inferior.

USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]


Oh yes. It's great fun to watch what people open - then they make such basic mistakes such as not selling tram tickets.


Wedding dresses, perhaps?

What are you selling anyway, pip?

Travel / Lublin ruined by arrival of Ryanair [33]


It could actually help Lublin considerably in the long run - although the Old Town is charming, you only need to take a look at the suburbs to see a city that is desperate for any sort of inward investment. I took a walk from the centre to the train station, and well - you can see that tourist cash is needed.

Then again, Polonia do know best. Best when it comes to looking down on Poland, that is.