Language / Writing time of day and currency amounts - in Poland and in the UK [5]


Bo Paryż częstą mody odmianą sie chlubi, a co Francuz wymyśli to Polak polubi.


I've just checked the WKD (Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa) brochure with their timetables and it is... the colon (:) which is used as a separator between the hour and the minute. I will check some pre-war railways timetables later on and tell you what it was like before 1939.

News / Poland directly threatened by ISIS. Do Islamists planning terrorist attacks in Poland? [390]


Why the hell do you think that the Slavic area is monotonous? Is it because there are no Islamic attacks in Slavdom (except for Russia).

Work / Warsaw Poland - stock market investment? [8]


The trading platform on the WSE (GPW) has been very modern from its very beginning in the 1990s. Electronic trade was introduced all at once, so the WSE hadn't known any paper trade before that. The trading technology was bought from the stock exchange in Lyon (France).

I have been on the market from the very beginning and witnessed its first greatest bubble burst. The speed at which the giełda was moving upwards before that was more than breath-taking and I experienced it myself when the shares I bought (in major part on leverage) had gone up fourfold (they were probably the best performing stock on the exchange then) in just three months. If you have ever experienced such a raid, you will never forget it and in particular how difficult it is to decide when to quit the market.

Now the Warsaw Stock Exchange is totally different form what it was at that time of its childhood. There are much more companies listed on it, but the bussiness is as uncertain as usual. Are you planning to start investing on the WSE?

Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]


I could hardly call him German. He is Kurdish/Turkish bringing the culture of beating the wife with him into Germany. It is irrelevant he has a German citizenship.


Maybe Delph will come up with a similar story about a Pole dragging his wife through the streets.

Australia / Drug smuggling by Poles into Australia [4]


I haven't heard of any other except for the one you have just described.

So how many drug problems does Australia have altogether? Is it serious for Australia or are their drug problems just on the avarage level. How does Australia cope with their drug problems?

News / Poland Interior Minister awards himself a medal, then refuses to accept it [4]

That is really amusing. The truth behind it that a minister usually approves by signing any documents containing (rather) long lists of people being awarded. This is interesting from the point of view of those who made this list since they should definitely consult the minister before placing his name on it which I expect they did not.

UK, Ireland / Polish smugglers caught and jailed [10]


Not many as

USA, Canada / Online defamation law in the USA [19]


Who are you and do you have any interest in suing the PolishForums?

Language / American pancakes are not Poland's naleśniki! [45]


Wow, does that mean my comment was not helpful? Maybe it wasn't, but it was undoubtedly insightful.

Language / American pancakes are not Poland's naleśniki! [45]


No one knows and no one cares. [Nikt nie wie i nikogo to nie obchodzi.]

History / Which countries are Polands friends, which are Polands enemies? [75]


Should that be a peaceful protest against the United States?


You think we should start begging him on our knees for lifting the visa requirements?

Classifieds / Drive me around Warsaw June 1? [13]

Warsaw sight-seeing city bus will take you to top tourist attractions.
city-sightseeing.pl/en
Buses run every 60 minute all year round (there is blue line and red line). You can hop on hop off at any stop within the 24-hour or 48-hour ticket.

News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]

In the same way you are 'possessed' by the PolishForums. Be careful not to throw yourself out of the window.

UK, Ireland / Polish slave trader in the UK has sentence increased [56]


Perhaps they can first give us a source to support the claim of 180,100. The most possible source is their ceiling where the painter painted this number when re-decorating the room. But perhaps it was an amount claimed for the work he had done on the building?

UK, Ireland / Polish slave trader in the UK has sentence increased [56]


Yes, I seem to know whom you may have in mind.


There has only been only one (so far!) of this band in this thread.


This is very well said. May the Christian cross be put on you and may the Sarmatian-Slavic gods guide you for ever!

The key figure used to accuse Poland in this thread is 180,100. How have they arrived at it is a great mystery. It very much looks as if it was taken from the ceiling of that institution which published this statistics. Possibly Harry is the co-author of that figure and that other one of the band helps him diffuse it on the internet saying that the figure is terribly shocking rather than trying to reveal some of the methodology used to work out that mysterious figure.

UK, Ireland / Polish slave trader in the UK has sentence increased [56]


How would those be counted in the statistics? As people enslaved in Ireland (country of their destination) or as people enslaved in Poland (country of where they came from to Ireland)?

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

Don't get so upset, Crow. The science of genetics hasn't uttered its last word yet. Btw, some time ago I read a dissertation on how some Polish words are strangely related to some old-Iranian words. And it wasn't at all about the common PIE heritage.

UK, Ireland / Polish slave trader in the UK has sentence increased [56]


But I can assure you that 180,099 would be even more shocking.

News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]

The connection is that the British are racist like almost everyone else on this planet, but they prefer to point at the Polish to take the attention off themselves.

UK, Ireland / Polish slave trader in the UK has sentence increased [56]


They came up with a figure of 180,100 "enslaved" people and this is something which makes it far more credible than a mere 180,000..


Thus my question remains: how could they estimate or count this figure down to a hundred bearing in mind that the total is nearly 200,000.which is an awful lot? The estimation has been done rather precisely ...

UK, Ireland / Polish slave trader in the UK has sentence increased [56]



I wonder what the methodology of it is. In other words, what was the method of counting them. The numbers are rounded off to hundreds and not thousands, so fairly accurate methods should have been employed.

News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]


Agreed. Probably trying to take the attention off the British being racist themselves.


Agreed. But 'suicide' was it called in this clown's report.

News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]

This article of The Independent seems to provide a fair account of the story. The fake detective Rutkowski has long been known as a clown rather than a detective here, but even he admitted it was a suicide. The fact that he proposed to his girlfriend during a live TV discussion on the Zuk case must have been the climax of the story and a major blow to all the conspiration theorists which may partly explain why the case has suddenly evaporated from the Polish social media. The more surprising is that the PF has picked up on it, but this was a sort of hmm, latency, I should think.

News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]


What's the official story? I haven't come across it yet. The whole affair was abundantly discussed on the internet and then everything has suddently gone quiet. This is amazing that all those internet detectives went quiet on the Polish websites and shortly after that the story has re-emerged on the PolishForums.


Tha's an interesting observation, Roz. Although I have never had any mental problems, my body temperature typically increases to about 41 Celsius after I move to Italy or elsewhere in the South of Europe for a holiday and remains such for about a day. The climate may exert a serious impact on the body or on the mind.


And there are plenty of middle-aged Polish women who go for that to Egypt. But the resort of Marsa Alam has the reputation of being very calm and of being chosen by retired couples who come there for rest and not for sex tourism.

News / Opole townsfolk outraged by mayor's destruction of their song festival [137]


But that's no excuse, Gumisiuś. It is precisly what PiS was voted for by the electorate - for eliminating the practice of making false promises to the electorate just as this mischievous PO had done before!

News / Opole townsfolk outraged by mayor's destruction of their song festival [137]

At the same time when
Opole townsfolk is outraged by mayor's destruction of their song festival

I shall say I am outraged by the government decision of setting the TV licence fee for 2018 on the same level as before!

This has been a major fraud against the faithful public who were naive enough to believe in what PiS said on the TV licence before.

They said on numerous occasions the TV licence would go down to 10 or 12 ZL per month as soon as they introduce new rules obliging everyone who has a TV set to pay the TV licence.

A great number of people in Poland have not been doing it so far, so those who were paying, paid the licence fee for them.

Now the new rules have been adopted by the government, but the licence fee has remained the same at 22,70 ZL per month

Down with PiS ! We no longer believe in anything they say!

Genealogy / Kupraszewicz - Please help on my last name. [9]

Well, I know the dates now. They came in the times after the battle of Kosovo Pole in 1389 and took part in the battle of Kleck in 1506 and in the battle of Orsza in 1514 (both in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania).

It is quite likely that the Serbian name may have been transformed over ages into its Ruthenian/Polish version of Kupraszewicz. Białystok was right on the border between the Kingdom (of Poland) and the Grand Duchy (of Lithuania). If that is the case, I would suspect more people bearing such a name in modern Balarus, too.

For your info, there are currently two books available in Poland on the battle of Kosovo Pole:

Genealogy / Kupraszewicz - Please help on my last name. [9]


What are the dates approximately?

News / Opole townsfolk outraged by mayor's destruction of their song festival [137]


I always thought KOD was heading for a failure from the very beginning, even before the thruth about their leader being a crook emerged. And I still think KOD has no future before them. Whether they were involved in prostitution or sex slavery business I am completely unaware of.


Yes, they were a very possible candidate for a coalition. I've forgotten them, maybe beacuse PSL was said to have been repeating before the election: it doesn't matter which party wins, it is always PSL which comes out victorious.

News / Opole townsfolk outraged by mayor's destruction of their song festival [137]


What's that "concert for President Duda"? I've never heard of it before.