History / Is Jozef Pilsudski the king of modern Poles? [138]


Hardly 'we' since you're a citizen of another country and were born in the 1990s!


Israelis?


Germany's defeat in the Soviet Union was so decisive that it would have taken more than 'Poland's help'.


Or Normandy.


What sort of 'jobs' would they have had in a Reich that regarded them as racially inferior?

Study / Information about MBA Study in Poland - Polish Academy of Sciences? [8]

Merged: MBA - Polska Akademia Nauk - does anyone have any experience?

Does anyone have any experience of the 1 year MBA programme offered by the Polish Academy of Sciences? Either the Executive MBA or the English language alternative?

It seems very flexible, and certainly a lot cheaper than the SGH one - but is it any good?

History / Is Jozef Pilsudski the king of modern Poles? [138]


That doesn't make any sense unless you make a morally obscene distinction between citizens.


You would have lost.

Travel / CHEAPEST WAY TO GET TO WARSAW FROM GDANSK [8]

What sort of info? It's just a coach line. You can book over the internet.

History / 1939-1945 British war medal awarded to Polish Soldiers.Waiting to be delivered!! [32]


As Harry just pointed out, they wanted to be treated differently to the other Allies. Allies like France and the US. As for being the 'only representation of Poland', please remind us if all this happened before or after they split into two competing governments-in-exile.


We can only deal with the facts. In this case that the medal was requested by Polish ex-servicemen's organisations and none are on record as having objected.

History / 1939-1945 British war medal awarded to Polish Soldiers.Waiting to be delivered!! [32]

Actually, the remnant of the government in exile very much did want to, Ironside. In any case, this is about a medal, not a parade. A medal that you think nobody would want, despite Polish ex-servicemen's organisations specifically requesting it be struck. I think we can safely assume that those who requested it do in fact want it.

Odd that you're using 2 different names in the space of an hour - which do you prefer to be addressed by?

History / 1939-1945 British war medal awarded to Polish Soldiers.Waiting to be delivered!! [32]

That's a shame - I'm sure they wanted to take part. Strange that their remnant former government should want them to have something different to America and France and have the same as Fiji and Burma.

Life / Help with icons, signs on washing machine (from Poland) :P [17]

It should be ok - the temperature is the only thing you need to be really careful with - if in doubt choose lower rather than higher.


If not, they're almost certainly available online ;-)

History / 1939-1945 British war medal awarded to Polish Soldiers.Waiting to be delivered!! [32]

I doubt that, Ironside.

Even though their own former government-in-exile instructed them not to participate in the victory parade due to disagreements between themselves and the Polish government, many were very keen to and of the hundreds of thousands (around half of those involved) who chose to remain in the UK there have always been many keen to celebrate the bravery of their fallen comrades and remembering public their own service.

Life / Help with icons, signs on washing machine (from Poland) :P [17]

Crikey - looks like a complicated washing machine. If in doubt, the one that looks a bit like a triangle at 10 o'clock is for synthetics. Nothing will be damaged if you mostly use that one.

Study / My experience in Poland (Poznan) as a student who recently moved from Syria [117]

Round One - On the road - the car
Round Two - In the court - the pedestrian or his heirs

History / 1939-1945 British war medal awarded to Polish Soldiers.Waiting to be delivered!! [32]

I suspect of those who are still alive and compos mentis there are many who care very much about that stolen part of their youth.

Study / My experience in Poland (Poznan) as a student who recently moved from Syria [117]

Agreed 100%


Let's hope they're well maintained in his building - I've lived in places where the system hasn't been flushed out for decades and the heat never reaches above the second floor!

Life / Why foreigners in Poland do not respect Poland's culture and traditions? [68]


So in fact you disapprove of people assimilating and becoming part of the nation?

History / 1939-1945 British war medal awarded to Polish Soldiers.Waiting to be delivered!! [32]

Most likely that very few are still alive.

Life / Why foreigners in Poland do not respect Poland's culture and traditions? [68]

By having a different outlook to the guy who started the thread.

Life / Golden Wedding in Poland, the protocol for giving gift for a wedding? [58]


That's a lovely idea.

Work / 3500 PLN gross - not happy with my salary (working in Warsaw for an international company) [55]


Yes


Yes.

You don't say how old you are. If it's an entry level job then it's a very different waggonload of monkeys to being further down your career. It doesn't look like they're going to give you more (and a 'permanent contract' is not as important for you as it would be for some) so you should start looking for other jobs.

Law / problems with registration a company in poland [12]


Home at 3pm max, many of them. A friend at the tax office has sometimes not even shown up for work and nobody even noticed or cared.

Life / Golden Wedding in Poland, the protocol for giving gift for a wedding? [58]


They don't use Amazon gift cards there at all however dollars are changeable in every town in Poland.

Law / problems with registration a company in poland [12]

I'd say a much wider range of company people do, though I doubt the OP would have much or any contact with any of those people while she registers her business. Trust me, I've done it several times and the whole process is in Polish and with low-level civil servants.

Law / problems with registration a company in poland [12]

You don't see many of those when queueing at the desk in the tax office to file your registration forms. Or any managers at all. If only.

Law / problems with registration a company in poland [12]


Not the bods you deal with when registering a business at the tax office (though in Warsaw they do get a discount for Callan Method lessons if they want - most don't take up the offer), nor the people at the town hall, GUS, ZUS and KRS - I think there's about a 20% chance that they'd have basic conversational English.

Large private companies tend to be a different matter.

Study / My experience in Poland (Poznan) as a student who recently moved from Syria [117]


Did you see the British and Russian War Cemeteries (by the steps up to the Cytadela from the city centre side)?. The difference between the two cemeteries really stands out.


Remember it's hundreds of years old - it was probably a technological miracle when it was new.


Normal for Poland.

You have to (really have to) get the bus out to Swarzędz to see the Outdoor Beekeeping Museum.

This is the place: muzeum-szreniawa.pl/?q=pl/node/80

Travel / 24 hour food order in Poland? [5]

None of these deliver and places like telepizza stop at 10.

Best to go out to somewhere and collect it.

Law / problems with registration a company in poland [12]

Not the ones you have to deal with when registering a company.

There are dozens of threads here on how to do this - the search function is am excellent tool.

The OP does say 'company'. Is she sure she means company and not just a business with an owner but not a board of directors and shareholders?

UK, Ireland / Pakis VS Poles in the UK [62]

In Iran non-Muslims can drink legally, and even the Muslims there very often drink illegally.

Study / My experience in Poland (Poznan) as a student who recently moved from Syria [117]

Remember that Poland has a much lower birthrate than your home country, so crowds in the street will seem older than you're used to. I notice the opposite when I'm in the Middle East - everyone looks young.

Study / My experience in Poland (Poznan) as a student who recently moved from Syria [117]


No. Aramaic is still spoken by hundreds of thousands of people, albeit in a different form to the language that Jesus spoke.

Work / American with E.U. Passport Seeks Poland English Teaching Job Advice [6]


Legal English is an extremely small market, however it's difficult to find people who can teach it well. You would need to be in Warsaw. You would also (generally true in Poland) need to be familiar with British rather than American English, since that is what is used most in Europe.