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


Remember that some of us are here on the ground and don't depend on the media.


What else would you call it.

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


Most of Poland.


The writers of the Constitution 'made it up'. And the L/JK regime tried to make up the rules as they went along.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

Nonsense. Provoked means the response was appropriate to the situation. Can you find anything to say that Mr Johnson's Polish colleague who held the party had 'provoked' a murder? No. Now run along, there's a good boy.

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


It was his duty and an obligation under the Constitution. What part of that don't you understand?

And no need to wait for 'confirmation' of any death. Just news that his predecessor was incapacitated.


Active only in trying to turn Poland into an international joke. We are better off without him.

Real Estate / Prices of agricultural land in Poland [39]


I remember saying at the time (in real life, not here) that it was a crazy thing to do and several people being outraged. It's true that if the exchange rate swings the way you want it to you can make a fast buck however if it swings the way you don't want it to - and it did - there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

It's also true that the mortgage salesmen were pushing this. Even more true that it is stupid, stupid, stupid to enter into any substantial debt that must be paid in a currency you don't have, earn, or can afford whatever happens.

Real Estate / Prices of agricultural land in Poland [39]

More Polish banks mortgaging in Swiss currency - an act of stupidity by anyone who got one of those mortgages.

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


Only if he wanted to break the rules according to the constitution. The gentlemen had no choice in the matter.

Anyway, good that he did his duty and good that the public confirmed him in this role.

He's probably the best person in that role. His predecessor LK was an unmitigated disaster and a disgrace to Poland and to Europe, AK was ok but the alcohol was an issue and LW started off well but became increasingly reactionary and wasn't good at standing up to the church.

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

Not so much ambition as the Constitution.

Who cares if he can spell?

Love / Rejected - Rafal thought I was ugly? [85]


No. I'd pull his beard.

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

He does what it says on the packet and first became President through duty rather than ambition. Never a bad thing.

There's a thread here about him: polishforums.com/news-politics-4/you-think-president-komorowski-best-man-job-56709/

Love / Rejected - Rafal thought I was ugly? [85]


Pretty elaborate bs, considering the lady set up a blog at least a year ago.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]


The guy stabbed was middle aged and a Teacher. We don't know about any of the other people involved. It was also mid-evening, not a late party.

No doubt it will be in the newspaper when the case comes up. There may well be something that none of us have guessed at yet.

Love / Rejected - Rafal thought I was ugly? [85]

Maybe the PT is married, dating already or a man's man?

History / Communism, was it the best form of government Poland ever had? [68]

Who said it was?

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

In the meantime, we only know this. That two people were stabbed after a group of men burst into a home and those men are now under arrest for murder. You may want to try to excuse their behaviour because of their nationality; that does not mitigate the loss to all the families involved. Shame on you.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

No suggestion of those in the media reports. The Polish courts will decide whether a group of men bursting into a flat and stabbing someone to death was ''self-defence: provocation" or not.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

Justified to stab someone to death? Hard to imagine such a situation.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]


The person who did it.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

Yes. Bad things can happen to people anywhere. Getting all hot and bothered about it being a Brit in Poland or a Pole in Britain (happens here since it's an English language site about PL and Poles abroad) is an unhelpful distraction and not really worthy of any of us.


Yes, and we should think about all concerned and their families at this time.

Life / IQ level of Poland compared to the rest of Europe [7]


They can't.

IQ testing is notoriously subjective even when carried out by experts. Within a country, there's a huge divergence between rural and urban which doesn't reflect empirically observed reality (or school exam results)

At least one of the main comparison tables is based on self-administered tests organised by TV companies. Who would you trust more to self- administer without cheating? Norway or Italy? The UK or Greece? France or Bulgaria? What about Poland?

News / SPECIAL REPORT: The Brits who left the UK for a life in Poland [28]


45 zl per 45 minutes, actually.

;-)

News / SPECIAL REPORT: The Brits who left the UK for a life in Poland [28]

It really does look like she got a cab from the plane to Bar Below, presumably a late plane since it looks like they were all half-cut by th etime she arrived and just wrote down what the worst gobshytes in the place (both you and I can certainly recognise some of them from the article) told her in their drunken fantasies.

Travel / Travelling from Rzeszów to Szczecin [7]


This is comfortable and stress-free, and the OP may be surprised how good the dining car is.


A hell of a drive and 8 hours is very, very optimistic unless you do it non-stop in a Ferrari.


Maybe worth doing that - can be cheap if you book well in advance and convenient if the flight timings are good.

News / SPECIAL REPORT: The Brits who left the UK for a life in Poland [28]

The post above and the one it's replying to are both right.

Some people in PL don't quite believe you speak Polish, and in any case their experience from learning English in classes in their own country is very differnt than yours picking it up while living somewhere - they tend to judge your skills by there own and assume less.

I had to have my windows repaired at Vision Express. For various reasons it took several visits and they kept on hauling a lady out of the back room to speak English to me - even though her English was far worse than my Polish. They were doing it with the very best intentions though. Remember also that some people have expended a lot of money, time and effort in learning English.


Expat sounds classier than immigrant, until you've spent an evening in an expat bar. Some people though (Poles in UK, Brits in PL, whatever) will never really assimilate and end up looking strangely out of place, usually reliant on their partner for everything. Others assimilate absolutely. Most are somewhere on the continuum between.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]


Rubbish.


As far as we know, it didn't.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

This is exactly how it looks. I doubt he had a flat in the middle of a forest. The poor guy. Both of them really, since someone has already died. Maybe the dead man was the householder, maybe they were both guests.

It doesn't do to assume too much, but some blokersy are not people you would want as neighbours, and I suspect alcohol may have played its part.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

Soccer 'funs'? Not that Poland has any shortage of football hooliganism. Perhaps the murderers were legia hools, perhaps not - it's an irrelevance.

No need to wait for anything, one guy has died, another is at death's door and two perps have been arrested for stabbing them. And no contradiction. Cisza nocna, assuming it was a flat, starts at 10, and in any case domestic noise issues in PL are dealt with by the police or straż mieszka

It is never a good idea to try and justify killing.
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News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

You think a Christmas party at 8.30 is provocation to burst into a flat and stab 2 people killing one of them?

Most of us would wait until the 10pm cisza nocna and call the police.

Travel / Wroclaw Fountain is Amazing - is it working in winter? [12]

At this time of year almost certainly no.

I went past the warsaw one this summer - there were crowds of people watching the water spurt about. Only really interesting if you've never seen coloured lights.

Language / What is the Polish word for "friend"? [13]


Have a great Christmas yourself! BTW, the word in this case is indeed przyaciółka.


It just sort of came gradually. A lot to do with most people in my circle not speaking English to me. First the nouns came, simply by reading/learning the names for things, then a hiatus because I had a partner who spoke some English and is very quick with languages (though we speak Polish now when we meet), then it came very quickly when I had a couple of years where I didn't speak much English. The best way to learn a language is having to, not getting stressed if you can't do it all right away, and remembering that most people use 10% of a language 90% of the time. Get that 10% right and you've a lovely framework for the rest to fall into. Rather like the way a child develops skills in their own language.

I do still make ingrained mistakes, especially with syntax and idioms and do have a slight accent always and a stronger one which comes out at times- after all, I'm not in PL for espionage, trying to pass as a Pole. If it's a toss up between not being able to say everything, but saying it beautifully or being able to say everything but sounding foreign, I'll take the latter. Poles it should be said are not as really used to this as people in the UK or US but there we go.