Genealogy / Polish genome - are you familiar with it [58]

If they're true ethnic Poles, maybe they should prostrate themselves and pay fealty. Do you know anywhere in Warsaw that sells crowns?

Genealogy / Polish genome - are you familiar with it [58]

Indeed.

I was lucky when tracing my family tree to find what genealogists call a 'gateway ancestor' - a person I can trace my line from directly, a. whose unusual name means she can't be mistaken for anyone else, and b. was posh enough to have her ancestry well recorded over the centuries. Quite fun to go back via the Earls of wherever, to King thingy, via the early medieval Polish monarchy, to much much further back, even unto mythology. Great fun, but does it actually mean anything?

For every ancestor that wore a crown, there were a thousand with dirty fingernails. And yes, they probably married their cousins.

Genealogy / Polish genome - are you familiar with it [58]


Sort of. Not to imply incest or anything, but the exact number would be far, far lower because if a detailed family tree could ever be constructed going that far back, the same individuals would reoccur many times. I'm not even sure the population of humans was anything like that until much later.

Real Estate / Polish Nieruchomości (real estate) commission madness! [25]


Yes. You can check the box to exclude agents.

Though some of them still pretend to be private sellers/letters - they are bottom feeders after all.

Life / Bishops defend Polish family [105]

No longer. Common sense, equality, freedom and laicity are more sensible benchmarks.

Food / Problem to find "cream" in Poland [23]

You can find something like the UK type, sometimes sold as 'sweet cream'

Life / Bishops defend Polish family [105]

Fortunatly legislation is no longer predicated by unprovable ideas espoused by a religion.

Life / Bishops defend Polish family [105]


I wish someone had told Jimmy Savile, a Papal Knight, those pearls of wisdom.

Study / Times Higher Education rankings 2012 Poland's top universities at end! [93]

Wow. Mine's in the top 150 ;-)
Does europe have its own "Higher Education rankings"?
Yes.


Yes. There's a problem though with University Rankings. they tend to exclude Liberal Arts Colleges. Even though the teaching may be excellent they don't always conduct research and therefore are bypasses by the ranking system.

Life / Bishops defend Polish family [105]

On here it sometimes seems that way. In real life I know Americans who are staunch Republicans, very religious and usually very well mannered - people who wouldn't ever dream of saying anything like that.

News / Failures of Poland and Tusk`s government [191]

That sort of fanatical rhetoric is quite common among groups who actually have nothing to real to say and nothing actually going for them.

News / Failures of Poland and Tusk`s government [191]

And RP would never, ever, touch the PiSuarzy.

News / demonstration; What is Nowa Prawica? [30]


Why not? The voters do.

UK, Ireland / Polish in Uk are some of the hardest working and nice people [37]


That doesn't actually say much about the thread - or the digression.

Life / Bishops defend Polish family [105]



Is there no end to the bile?

Life / Life as a African American man in Poland [8]


It's a great place to live. One word of caution - plenty of people have come to Poland planning just to pass through - then ending up liking it so much they stay for ever!

Good luck - I think you'll enjoy it. Especially Warsaw, fast becoming one of the great European cities but still on a human scale.

News / Failures of Poland and Tusk`s government [191]


I wouldn't think a PiSuarzy/PSL coalition would have that much appeal.

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News / Failures of Poland and Tusk`s government [191]

A bit of a dog bites man story. It would be worth commenting on only if jarek praised the guy.


Somebody's got taste then.

Seriously Mods, can't all this party political nonsense be swept into one thread where Polonius can dribble and quibble to his heart's content - it is after all, always on the same subject.

Life / Bishops defend Polish family [105]


+1


Or more probably just pretending for whatever unknown reason.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

I wouldn't think so - it's probably just the type of offence that they give fixed penalty ticket for.

News / demonstration; What is Nowa Prawica? [30]


Crikey. Can these bones live?

UK, Ireland / Polish in Uk are some of the hardest working and nice people [37]

Yes. and to bring the thread closer to topic (but still allude to the digression), if you ask a Pole in the UK whose company theyre easier in, an Austrian from Mitteleuropa or a Ukrainian from Dniepopetrovsk, I wonder what they would be more likely to say.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

For minor offences (like drinking beer in a public place, jaywalking etc) they don't arrest them - they just inform the director of their hospital department. I'm not sure how widely known this is - I only found out because two friends and I were pulled for one of the above things between Gdansk and Sopot a few years ago just after the ducks' regime had banned one of those things. The police didn't even give us a ticket because one of us was a doctor so they just asked for his bosses details as per procedure (and did nothing) another was a tax inspector (who they tend to go easy on) and the third was a foreign citizen which involves too much paperwork.

Incidentally both of those guys get discounts on PKP - I think they have to pay a flat fee to get the discount card though.

The system probably needs changing though.

Life / Bishops defend Polish family [105]

No children are ever illegitimate. All are of equal worth.

Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]

That's pretty well it. The only problem is never having clothes to suit the weather on arrival!

Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]

Work - 28 days working 12 hrs a day 7 days a week in the middle of a desert near Iran (usually) wearing a kamizelka and feeling hot and bothered then 28 days off putting my feet up in Warsaw (usually). A life punctuated by airport lounges.

Then again, I wouldn't be the first resident of Poland to have to travel abroad for work ;-)

Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]

Yes. I live in PL. But commute to work elsewhere ;-)

UK, Ireland / Polish in Uk are some of the hardest working and nice people [37]


I think you'd recognise them. Common across all of Eastern Europe including Poland.


Now you don't really think those are from the Polish variant of the easten European language family?


Trust me, you know it. Eaten from Poznan to Vladovostok.

Genealogy / Polish genome - are you familiar with it [58]


What 'influence' is that? DNA is just biology, nothing to do with the person.

Travel / How can I get to Zlote tarasy - Warsaw? [14]

158, from across the road in the bus terminus on the estate. Or walk to Grochowska and get a tram.