News / Krystyna Pawłowicz and the 'marsz szmata' (slut walk) [52]


I suppose that's just your personal tastes, however more generally, since beauty is not only on the outside, so I think we can say yes. Very much so.

News / Adolf Hitler is still a citizen of Szczecin [15]


I gather both he and Josef Stalin are or were honorary citizens of Gdansk. Neither should be removed from the rolls - unsavoury though they both were, you can't rewrite history.

News / Krystyna Pawłowicz and the 'marsz szmata' (slut walk) [52]


I wonder if a respected news agency would be happy that one of their correspondents is expressing such sentiments online. Do their head office have any female managers?

News / Krystyna Pawłowicz and the 'marsz szmata' (slut walk) [52]


Probably proud.


Errrrr......

News / Krystyna Pawłowicz and the 'marsz szmata' (slut walk) [52]


The things she said were dreadful. A strange individual.

News / First Face Transplant in US led by Polish Surgeon [10]

Merged: Surgeons in Poland perform first life-saving face transplant

Good news for somebody!

Food / Applesauce Tarts recipe? [6]


Yorkshire slang for lady parts.

Seriously, that recipe sounds just like Apple Turnover. You get it in a lot of places, UK more than Poland.

Law / Paying tax in Poland [3]


183 days per year, or if Poland is the 'centre of your vital interests' (check the link, the bit about Residence Rules).
kpmg.com/global/en/issuesandinsights/articlespublications/taxation-international-executives/poland/pages/income-tax.aspx

History / Alexander the Great - Macedonski. Poland connection? [254]


With Slavonic language, there's more of a continuum than language walls. Within the major groups anyway.

I wonder if we can draw a comparison with Belgium. It's possible that the Flemish (almost Dutch) part will split. And the Walloon speaking part (some say a dialect of French and some say a discrete language) will go the other way.

History / Alexander the Great - Macedonski. Poland connection? [254]


Oh really yes. The origin of a language is does not make it a dialect of that language. Unless you think Polish is a dialect of proto-Sanskrit and Italian is a dialect of Latin.


The owners of an airport can call it what they like. It doesn't mean they can rewrite history by doing so.

History / Alexander the Great - Macedonski. Poland connection? [254]


Many languages are mutually intelligible without being a dialect of the other.

UK, Ireland / Best Airport to Land In the UK for a trip to Hull [23]


The lady wants to fly direct from Canada. Doncaster 'Robin Hood' serves very limited destinations, mostly on 'low cost' airlines. Also, when arriving in a different continent, it's easier to pitch up in a major international airport than a car park with a bus stop in the middle of nowhere. Would be easiest for travel to Hull though.


Believe it or not, there isn't one, either their or at Manchester Piccadilly.

Re. train travel to Hull, there are 2 comfortable options. Manchester Airport to Leeds, change, Leeds to Hull; or Manchester Airport to Manchester Picadilly, Manchester Picadilly to Hull via Sheffield (takes a bit longer on the train).

UK, Ireland / Best Airport to Land In the UK for a trip to Hull [23]


That's the best by far. Birmingham would be a nuisance of a journey.


Probably - but might be better to get a prepaid SIM if the phone doesn't have a Simlock. They sell them at WHSmith at the airport arrivals.

History / Alexander the Great - Macedonski. Poland connection? [254]


Yes and no. He was Greek. Greece was a group of kingdoms (Sparta, Athens etc) in his day. There was a Greek kingdom called Macedonia.

Fast forward into the future - to a time when there are political issues in the balkans. There is a province of modern Greece called Macedonia. There is also a very new state called Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (usually abbreviated to FYROM). The two countries are arguing over the name Macedonia. However Alexander the Great was Greek - nothing to do with the modern ex-Yugoslav state.

Real Estate / Law and tenancy contracts in Poland [31]

It's unlikely they'd bother to sue. And as you suggest, there's probably an okres wypowiedzenie in the contract, unless it's for the academic year with no leeway.

It doesn't actually sound so bad - perhaps the original poster is being a bit fussy. It's a student dorm after all.

Real Estate / Law and tenancy contracts in Poland [31]


Then you evidently never heard (or read) the original post.

It isn't 'an 'owner', or some bottom-feeding agent. His beef is with the management of the dorm.

USA, Canada / This is what I was talking about America [19]


A different sort of disco (and different sort of small town).

As if urban and rural were reversed.

USA, Canada / This is what I was talking about America [19]


They aren't, though village and small town discos can be a bit rough.

Life / Civil Register Office in Krakow, Poland; trying to contact a relative - bank account payment [4]

Do you own the place you live in? If not, the person who does will take you there (they need to go at the same time, with proof they're the owner and to give their consent). You will need to remind him/her.

Real Estate / Law and tenancy contracts in Poland [31]


Remember:


Really, tenancy contracts in PL aren't worth very much.

If the person in question (a bit fussy for a student, maybe) is unhappy, he should just leave.

Travel / Asian Stores and Food in Wroclaw? [13]

Sell many Indian products, do they.

Do you think Poles who emigrate should use only local shops and avoid ones that sell Polish products?


In Hrubieszow you won't find much. If you visit Warsaw, you have a few options. There are several good shops in Raszyn that cater for the Indian population and Samara, behind the National Library has a very good stock of Middle Eastern products.

Life / First communion - it's that time of year again in Poland! [109]


Which suggest there is a divinity.

Your deistic views have some parallels with mine, however to claim a conscious creator is to assume the unprovable.

Life / First communion - it's that time of year again in Poland! [109]


Interesting, especially since all evidence points to the most intelligent cultures not having much to do with the religion most often practised in Europe and the U.S.

Life / First communion - it's that time of year again in Poland! [109]


Other cultures have civilisation without that particular religion - indeed as a Westerner, your concept of what civilisation should or should not be like is filtered by your culture.I'd go so far as to say that if you could travel back in time to a more religious age in the West, before the secular enlightenment, you probably would not like it at all.


Mythologies like religion tend to derive from existing morality and adapt themselves to changes in the perception of morality in a running dialectic rather than the other way round.


Which one? There are so many to choose from.

Work / Salary and cost of living information - Krakow [257]


Ask half the posters here ;-)

BTW, at that salary level and with only 5 years experience I suspect the poster is very young so renting a room would probably be a better bet - that would cost only a few hundred and would stretch his salary further.

At that level though, if he wants to save much, he'd find himself walking past all the delights that Krakow can offer, but only able to press his nose against the restaurant window.

Work / Salary 'under the table' in Poland? [15]

Just be careful - the skarbowy can be proactive sometimes, especially if your employer is inspected.

BTW, I live in Warsaw, have worked for companies there and also owned two, employing quite a lot of people and I can assure you that this sort of thing is rare there in white-collar work.

About risking your job if you stand up to him - this is a real risk if you don't have an Umowa o pracy. If you do, and you plan to stay long-term in Poland, you're reducing your pension by doing this. If you have an Umowa o dzielo etc, there isn't much you can do. Grassing him up would probably rebound on you if you haven't declared the cash component of your income.

What field of work are you in? Please don't say ELT!

Genealogy / Looking for wanted person (Arkadiusz Sobota / Marzena Helena Sobota) [76]

It's a fairly common name which doesn't make it any easier. BTW, the Polish name is Arkadiusz rather than Arkadius. The best way to deal with this is to wait for the Spanish police to issue a warrant, should there be grounds.

If however you're looking yourself, Facebook suggests it might be worth looking around the town of Tychy.

Work / Salary 'under the table' in Poland? [15]


No they don't - that sort of thing usually only happens in low paid jobs where the employee is also the recipient of welfare. Even then it isn't common. It is however illegal to avoid tax and all your income, no matter how you receive it, is taxable. What sort of work do you do?

Real Estate / Landlord`s obligations regarding repairing things that belong to the house in Poland [15]

Agreed. If he gets caught for some other reason and it is discovered that you were complicit, you might have to answer some awkward questions.

History / Khrushchev & Gomułka spared [3]

His memoirs are very worth reading.