Genealogy / Looking for Robert Jureczko Bielsko Biala [22]

He isn't on any of the missing persons lists which means that nobody in hs family has reported him missing.

Here's the link to the databas, if you're interested. zaginieni.pl/baza-danych-osob-zaginionych

Work / How is the living standard in Poznan? Does 5200 PLN enough for a decent living? [32]


There is only one way of doing Callan. It is scripted. Period.



Doesn't leave much time for preperation, making materials, testing etc, does it?

Work / How is the living standard in Poznan? Does 5200 PLN enough for a decent living? [32]


Doha actually, and managing not teaching.

However I've been in EFL long enough to know thay 25 hours is the maximum. Above that, standards drop to the level of some Japanese 'ticket school' or some place churning out Callan or spooling out Headway to the undemanding..

And I assume you're paying tax and ZUS.

Work / How is the living standard in Poznan? Does 5200 PLN enough for a decent living? [32]


And this is where your 'argument' falls into thousands of tiny pieces. Try multiplying that by 20 - 25 at a pinch and then subtracting tax and ZUS.

News / Would Poland Be Stronger Without "The West"? [10]

No
YES
No
No

And the people already voted for what they want. No crackpot can change that.

Work / How is the living standard in Poznan? Does 5200 PLN enough for a decent living? [32]

Agreed 100%. There are all to many, especially in the provinces, getting by on half that.

Work / 7000 PLN net per month in Krakow. How much i can save? [21]


The Polish state health services are generally very good compared to most places, and since social insurance is compulsory, you'll have access. Having said that, the type of job that gives you 7000pln net usually includes private health insurance too so whatever happens you shouldn't worry about healthcare.

The temperature will be cold and depressing. You will certainly need warm clothes and good boots.

Work / Chemistry degree - what are my chances of finding work in Poland? [29]


I'm comparing now with ten years ago. When I moved to PL, I worked for an in-company training provider and at any one time they had 150 hours per week waiting in a queue because they couldn't get teachers fast enough. And most of the lessons were pre-Int or Elementary groups.

Now I hear from an ex-colleague that her company has just lost a very big contract to a language school who claim to provde native speakers (plus coursebooks etc) for 30zl per hour. God knows what miserable amount they pay the teacher out of that. In Warsaw too.


Do you mean native speakers or non-natives?

Language / Is this proper Polish grammar? If it is, can you explain how it is? [32]


The name was deliberately made up in the late Nineteenth Century as a tourist attraction. It's meant to be difficult!


A piece of piss really.

Work / Chemistry degree - what are my chances of finding work in Poland? [29]

There is competition at the bottom end of the market, but most EFL teachers in poland are male, so a woman can usually find work more easily.

Having said that, the market in Poland has been declining for some time.

History / Do any Poles miss the Communist era? [35]


Where life is circumscribed, paradoxically freedom flourishes. Saudi Arabia is a good example of that today. Also organised socialism with its clubs, associations, co-operatives fostered cameraderie. Then suddenly it was every man for himself.


That hasn't much changed - if anything people are becoming less cynical.

USA, Canada / Polish-American Musicians [45]

Now, now, BBMan/GuessWho/Guess Who's 'father', you're getting off the point as usual which is whether or not Marilyn Manson considers himself (as the thead title says) a Polish-American musician.

Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

Real tatare is great - and should be prepared under sterile conditions. But this turned out to be raw pork. I'm sure that's illegal to sell. Mind you, I once knew a guy (not in Poland) who used to pay a butcher to let him stand outside the shop and eat raw chicken. I don't know ehy, but he was more than a bit weird.

USA, Canada / Polish-American Musicians [45]


It's very relevant to the discussion, if a particular ethnicity is being attributed to a musician who is not part of that community.

And it is in the title of the thread, after all.

Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

No - completely free of that, but after years of wedliny, my immune system is strong enough to fight anything off. Which is good, since I ordered steak tartare in a Warsaw restaurant (on Nowy Swiat, no less) and had actually eaten some before I realised it wasn't beef tatare - the old hag of a waitress had brought me raw pork...

Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]


As long as you've got a cast-iron stomach and a strong immune system.

Life / How many ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN POLISH in Poland? [40]

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Largely true, but I was referring to a spiritual similarity. Spiritually and theologically, there is a huge commonality between Orthodoxy and Anglicanism (who proclaim in their liturgy that they are part of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, as do the Orthodox). Administratively there are also excellent relations between the two communion, in many cases sharing buildings.

USA, Canada / Polish-American Musicians [45]


And are you forcing their great-grandchildren to be ethnically Chinese especially if they can't hold a conversation in the language and have never been there? And did Marilyn Manson's Polish ancestor marry someone of what you quaintly call the same 'lineage'?

More pertinently, Does Marilym actually identify as Pol-Am or is someone just clutching at straws...

USA, Canada / Polish-American Musicians [45]

An ancestor doesn't make an ethnicity. Has Mr Manson ever discussed how he identifies?

Life / How many ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN POLISH in Poland? [40]

Spiritually somewhere between the two.

USA, Canada / Polish-American Musicians [45]


That means nothing. Does he identify as Pol-Am and speak the language?

Life / How many ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN POLISH in Poland? [40]


Churches.


There are millions already and as you well know, Turkey is a candidate.

UK, Ireland / Why do so many Polish guys in the UK have a crew cut or buzz cut? [106]


Even though most right-wingers don't have anything long enough to wave. It's why they think the way they do. Same as policemen.

USA, Canada / Polish-American Musicians [45]

No. He's American.

Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]


Which are not met.

Life / Why are Polish people so obsessed with race? [160]


Really? What pedestal and who are the 'others'?

News / How Polish diaspora see future of Poland? as ethnic Polish state or just Polish in origin? [120]


If the cap fits...


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History / Lt. John Ward - a Pommy hero of the Poland's AK [8]

It's in Park Skaryszewski, near the lake. The pilots were dropping supplies but were shot down by the Germans.

Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

The worst think is putting uncovered food on or next to the counter in shops, just at the right height for bronchial old people to cough over.

Life / Cellphone plan with Data, with contract in Poland [16]

I use Play Online. When you buy the sim card (most kiosks have them) make sure you ask for an internet one. They work with any (unlocked) dongle and there are instructions and details of the tariff (if I remember 3 GB for 30zl, 8GB for 50 if you go for the special offer, but still the cheapest even if you don't) on the packet. It works out cheaper if you get their own dongle, but you'll have to go to the Play shop for that.