UK, Ireland / A Mexican-Polish citizen is moving to UK by summer 2011 [38]


I doubt t. Even people who've paid their taxes for years have to fight to get anything back from the state nowadays.


Very sound advice. The days when someone could come from Poland, pitch up at an employment agency and get work right away are gone. Many of those here now are struggling to get anything at all.

Law / ACN direct selling telecom company in Poland [45]

Try everything once, except incest, Morris dancing and Amway.

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]

Try barłoźyć się, to canoodle. The Poles are quite good at giving nicknames. There used to be a stern barmaid in one of the city pubs called Stalowa Podpaska, meaning Steel Jamrag.

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]


£ajno means dung!

A long time ago I tried to tell a rather grand old lady, a retired Central Commitee member's wife, that I was a Northerner, and coined the word Północnik. It doesn't exist, and if it did it would mean half a chamber pot.


As funny sounding as Obciągnąć (obchongnonch), which means to give a blow job.

Life / "Letter from Poland" - very important movie to watch [51]


On a level with faked moon landings, Elvis living in Panama, aliens from Roswell in the White House and Camilla Parker Bowles cutting Lady Di's brake cables..

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]


Too obscene to translate...

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]

Puscidupa and klota can make people laugh too. Tresiportka too (one who shakes their kniockers). Also barłoźyć się. My ex used a (village slang) word once (about Renata Beger, who we met at a party) which means a woman who looks ok from a distance but a hag from close up. Wish I could remember it.

A Pole years ago told me never to say "Tea? Who you, yer bunny?" With good reason.

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]

It does! But if you vocalise the final r it doesn't. Same with the surnames Pinder and Cooper. Meaning, respectively, the same body part, and turd.

Whatever the accent, the word web sounds like łeb, a horses head, and the first name Ria sounds like ryja, meaning snout. Roy can sound a bit like the Polish word for swarm, as in bees.

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]

Sounds like cipa, which is a fairly mild word for part of the female anatomy.

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]

Chimney sounds a bit like the Polish word ciemny, meaning dark. There's also a good reason why Polish people find the English word cheaper quite funny..

Law / America takes leading investor spot in Poland [51]


Rubbish.


Also rubbish. The MacDonalds there tend to be newer and cleaner than in many places, but nobody, not even a villager with straw between their toes, thinks it's "a luxury restaurant".


Yes.

Life / "Letter from Poland" - very important movie to watch [51]


In what way? Why


?

Life / "Letter from Poland" - very important movie to watch [51]


Differently in what way? That accidents can happen, or that even if a planeload of VIPs die suddenly, things just carry on without much difference?

Life / "Letter from Poland" - very important movie to watch [51]

Not more Smolensk stuff? It did not, in any way, change the world. It didn't really change Poland either, except for some temporary hysteria.

Life / "Letter from Poland" - very important movie to watch [51]

There are two films called that. One about the Smolensk air crash and the other about the novelist who murdered someone then wrote about it. Which film do you mean?

UK, Ireland / The mystery of Ireland's worst driver "Prawo Jazdy" [37]

Must be a friend of this guy:


thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/hoover-sex-cleaner-ditched-by-polish-vacuum-20080304769

Life / Searching a 'street pharmacist' in Warsaw [12]


In PL a few places sell those ready made, to stuff with weed.


Most don't know how to - but they're somehow still the nicest.

Life / Searching a 'street pharmacist' in Warsaw [12]


Just the crap in the end of the pipe. Though given the fact he was staggering round pissed and stoned outside the Sheraton Hotel, perhaps they ought to have.


Don't use them myself - I prefer to roll a joint. But Poles almost always use them. I invite you one day to come and see.

Life / Searching a 'street pharmacist' in Warsaw [12]


Happened to my friend. They fined him for a tiny smear in the end of a broken glass pipe that he thought he'd smoked to the end :-(

Poland is a place to be very very very cautious about illegal substances.

Life / Searching a 'street pharmacist' in Warsaw [12]

You get people passing joints around at the back of 'Chinatown' (if you know where I mean). It isn't a good idea to do it openly though, and if a police patrol see, they'll analise a stubbed out roach end looking for microgrammes of the stuff to prosecute about. And of course the mandatory 48 (or is it 72?) hours in a Polish police cell while they process the arrest. Not a good idea.

USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]


Northern English do that too, but with tea leaves. It really works, if the right person does it.

USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]


Ena kafe, parakalon.

News / Which modern developments harm Poland? [83]

Wow, you like something - good that you've come up with that, even though there are a few negative things in there. Probably the nicest post of yours that I've seen here, and some lovely imagery.

The next stage is to try to like some of the things which seem to send you into apoplexy, for example modern technology, cosmopolitan lifestyles and the commercial world. How do you think you could do that?

News / Which modern developments harm Poland? [83]


Of those, it seems we only have the pot in common, and even then I only use it sparingly, but what in life actually makes you happy? You frequently post lists of things you hate, but what fills your heart with joy?

Law / WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF THE EURO CURRENCY TO POLAND? [101]


A referendum, which by law there has to be.


The UK is one of the most democratic countries in the world.


Stark raving bonkers.

Law / WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF THE EURO CURRENCY TO POLAND? [101]


Britain, not England.


90% do.


It's a currency that Britain will join if and when it is proved to be advantageous.

News / Which modern developments harm Poland? [83]


Personally I just let all that pass me by. No TV, no tabloids, ignoring adverts.
So what do you like, what makes you happy to be alive?

News / Which modern developments harm Poland? [83]


You mean companies?


Ah, you mean trade. Which has been around for thousands of years - in what way is that a "modern development" which "harms Poland"?


And again, why do you think that's a "modern development which harms Poland"?

It seems you are just tired of life.

News / Which modern developments harm Poland? [83]


Foisted by whom?


Life expectancy is steadily rising and has never been higher, which suggests you're talking rubbish as usual. I also remember you ranting on against healthy-eating not long ago.


What's new about that?


Beyond whose scrutiny?


It seems clear you prefer hysterical, reactionary and largely meaningless tabloid-style rants to plain common sense. Nothing new to us here. Stick to posting links to coprophilia sites. How any of the 'developments' you mention "harm modern Poland" is anyone's guess - and you are guessing, since you have never been there.

Change happens, it always has and always will - you can't stop it, and nobody wants to. There's always the option of moving to a desert island and ignoring the outside world.

Life / Where to get electrical parts in Warsaw? [5]


Yes. In the foot tunnel. But be careful - there are two foot tunnels that don't connect - one is mostly for computer bits, the other is more general, selling the sort of stuff you mention.

There are also a couple of places at Banacha market, but that place is a labyrinth and you could spend ages looking for them.