News / Lech Walesa vs Immigration: Brits humiliated him at London Heathrow Airport [105]

This blog post from the Daily Telegraph is a bit of a kneejerk conservative thing and says perhaps more about journalists' techniques and attitudes than Polish immigration to the UK, however it is still very worth reading.

Language / Polish regional accents? [141]

Why? Nothing wrong with a Silesian accent - they sound really nice!

Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]


Makes no difference, does it. Your time in Poland was under that system too.


Everybody else says I'm a capitalist.


Poland's centuries old liberal; tradition means it's far from stifling.


You mean royalties? She films something popular and you criticise her getting paid for it?

Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]

An opinion based on fact. It's where she's from.

I applaud her comments. Better than blind praise that nobody really believes.

Language / Polish regional accents? [141]

Really? Try here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_vowel

Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]

It's certainly her home. Even though she left during the PRL. Unlike some who had it good and had to leave afterwards.

Language / Polish regional accents? [141]

Exactly what it suggests.

Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]

It's her home. No question about that. Of course she emigrated, but so did you.

Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]

Why should she? She was talking about her home, Poland.

Language / Polish regional accents? [141]

When people from some parts of Silesia speak English at a good level, their accent can be bit like a Colorado one - think South Park.

Law / Pepper Spray Legality in Poland [9]


Tazers maybe legal - shocking 'twats' may not be so legal.


Very true.

But be careful - police are often similarly badly endowed (some say that's why people join) and the OP should be careful not to play with fire.

Language / Polish regional accents? [141]


Yes. Apparently I have a bit of a Mazowsze accent.

Poznan, Podlasie, Krakow and Slask are fairly easily recognisable.

Law / Cash register till 20.000 zł - online webshop in Poland? [3]

The fruit and veg guys have a special arrangement about it. One of several they have.

Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]

Agreed. Most countries have public holidays based on religions. Nothing wrong with it.

A shame that there are restrictions on doing business though. It hurts people doing crap jobs in the service industries and retail.

Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]

Nobody needs to constantly praise somewhere - if they do, people cease to believe them.

And her interview has certainly got people in PL talking.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

The problem is that neither is exhaustive. One seeme to be an interview with one of the victims' brother and the other ones are just the same press statement.

The courts in Poland move very slowly indeed so there may not be anything else for a while.

Life / Christmas carol singers - is this a Polish Christmas tradition? [13]

It has become one, certainly. It used to mean (in my region anyway) something like the American word 'carney' but now it's mostly used to mean travellers or other people considered by the person using it to have a certain set of morals and lifestyle and is usually considered offensive.

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

That or there's no reason to use his presidential veto.

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

No - by a regular poster who doesn't support President Komorowski.


Do you think that's his function?

Law / Is there much demand in Poland for real ale? [38]


A small independent brewery - often attached to a pub.


Some are very good.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]


Not in PL. There the rules are different.


Your mentioning it does not make it accurate.


We do however know who has been arrested.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]


Why? The YEP is a provincial newspaper in the UK. It doesn't routinely cover crime stories from the suburbs of foreign cities.


Now that's just silliness. You haven't a clue what this mid-evening Christmas party attended by middle aged teachers was like.


Biased how? By mentioning where the crime took place?


The colour doesn't suit.

And looking again at the two different articles (shorthairthug posting links to several probably didn't notice or want to notice that they were all from the same press release!) it looks like two very different events.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

I don't know why you think there's anything funny about it. If it had happened in Thailand, France, Alaska they would have said so too.

Being away from home adds extra poignancy from the headline writer's point of view. Do you think they should have pretended it wasn't in Poland?

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

@Paulina, I don't recall ever seeing a work Christmas supper. Hang on! Once, in mid December organised by a British company. I've been to company parties for the holidays from early December onwards, organised by a Polish company. Over the years in private homes and in hired restaurants. If it was a language school, earlier rather than later is a strong possibility with people being at home in their own country as soon as they can get away after the last lessons before Christmas.

A seasonal party? For Christmas!

Unfortunately this one seems to have been in a very wrong place.

Looking again at the YEP article and those Polish ones, I really do think they could be about different incidents.

Only one glimmer of hope in all this - the stabbed teacher is still alive, which is a good sign. Sad though about the person who died. Sad for the families of those arrested too.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]


Life rarely checks the dictionary. Somebody about to burst into a flat and kill someone might, but it would be a first.


Perhaps in your experience. I've been to a seasonal party before then. A work one, for Christmas. In Poland.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]


Exactly.

Nothing about any provocation to be murdered.


Seasonal parties aren't only the night before Christmas. And it does specifically mention colleagues.

Btw, we don't know that those Polish articles even refer to the same crime. Oś. Ostrobramska is not exactly free from violent crime.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

From these weird posts, I think any lack of understanding is very much on your part. A Christmas celebration among colleagues does not provoke a third party to stab someone to death.

What part of that don't you understand?

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

Anyone who can see the big picture - and let's face it, people in PL are used to having to do that, is happy with the present guy. He may not be charismatic, he may not attract crowds of flag waving fans, but he is doing his job very well indeed.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

They don't really fit with the original article at all, do they.

Especially the stuff about location.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

It looks from the DDTV article that the killers did it outside the building.

Hard to imagine middle-aged teachers being as rowdy as someone who stabs people.