Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]

I suppose you would typically use "łazienka" in Poland when both the man and the horse are in the same room which is still the case in many flats in Poland. When the man and the horse are in separate rooms, one would be called 'łazienka' and for the other both ubikacja [less elegant] or toaleta [more elegant] should be fine, I think.

The very colloqial form which nobody has mentioned so far, but which is frequently used is 'kibel'. 'Muszę iść do kibla' is the phrase, but honestly I have never heard anyone asking: 'Przepraszam, gdzie tutaj jest kibel?' in a more formal situation.

History / When will you Poles give back German land and the cities which you robbed? [557]


Can you tell in more detail what they were, these 'germanizatation' phases of yours, please?


I have recently come across an article saying the the Oder-Neisse line is a vey old distinct genetic border in Europe. And it not only the result of post-war movement of people, but it would have existed well before 1945. I'll let you know about it as soon as I finish reading it.

Are there any seriouis scientific or science-based popular literature on the Polabian Slavs available in the Serbian language, Crow? And I don't mean blogs or texts full of conspiracy theories on the internet of which there are plenty in Polish.

Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]


I am amazed why people bother so much!

Work / 13000 zloty salary enough to save 9000 zloty with normal living in Poland? [37]

There's plenty of information on salary in Poland in this section and if you only bothered to look for it, you wouldn't have to start a new thread.

Life / Millennials even worse than baby-boomers? [60]


Millenials in Russia are tough people, it seems to me. A Russian lady (later married a Pole) once told me that her family in Moscow had to rely on the stuff they grew on their small farm in Siberia during the Yeltsin era when food supply was really scarce. So Russian millenials can hardly be compared to those born in the so-called 'rotten West'.

Travel / Poland's PKP Intercity ticket booking not working? [6]


It is.

Language / Difficult verb pairs in the Polish Language; iść-chodzić, jechać-jeździć [34]


This seems to be an exact explanation. A couple of examples which may perhaps make it more clear:

1.Chodzę w tych butach już dwa miesiące i nadal nie czuję się w nich wygodnie.
2. Kilkakrotne o różnych porach dnia chodził pod szkołę w nadziei, że ją spotka.

Both are neither a habit/routine nor a single one-time occurence.

News / Polish journalist punched on Russian TV [32]

wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1356,title,Polak-pobity-w-rosyjskiej-telewizji-Tomasz-Maciejczuk-dla-WP-wiedzialem-ze-nie-moge-spuscic-glowy-i-ustapic,wid,18606930,wiadomosc.html

An interesting interview with Tomasz Maciejczuk in which he explains what he was punched in the face for. The Moscow Echo daily asked its readers later on if Maciejczuk was right saying that the Russian people live in ****. 79% of them said 'yes' and only 11% said 'no'.


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Law / I am half Polish person who would like to have Polish passport. My grandfather's family lived in Warsaw. [4]

Welcome to the PF, Tamir!
I've found this website for you: How to obtain Polish citizenship.

History / The ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis and the Holocaust adds to Poland's Responsibility [124]

Correction : Russian for Jew is Еврей (Jewriej - Polish spelling).

News / Jesus Christ is Now Officially the King of Poland [164]


This time it is very well said, Iron. Notice how those worshipers of the Devil immedietely followed the example of their Supreme Priest who set the tone for turning Jesus into a "jewish guy".


You forget to tell that although this "jewish guy" was dead, he was resurrected, so still alive and alive for ever.

News / Jesus Christ is Now Officially the King of Poland [164]



This time you got it wrong. It is the other way round as HB was kind enough to explain.

Life / Millennials even worse than baby-boomers? [60]

Also, this act of enthronement reveals that Poland secretly or subconsciously cherishes the wish to re-introduce monarchy. I have always said that France and Russia are hidden monarchies whereas the UK contrary to its name is a (hidden) republic. The monarchy serves the UK as a practical device for avoiding an election of the president, who will be a much more controversial figure, as well as is an important factor for the tourist industry. In Poland a monarch is desired as a symbol of the past and the glory and also as a symbol of creating a state out of nothing as its first ruler Mieszko I seems to be a political genius judging from today's perspective. On top of that, our monarchy was abruptly and ruthlessly stopped by foreign powers which fact destroyed the continous tradition lasting more than 800 years.

The monarch in Poland was never so strong as a monarch in France. In Poland monarchs were controlled by variuos circles of influential groups and forced to sign the pacta conventa that restricted them in many ways from the very beginning of their reign. Thus, a symbolic figure in the position of a king would be better than a real one. And a spiritual figure such as Christ would possibly be the best candidate one could have ever dreamed of.

Thus, enthroning Christ as King of Poland may be seen as a sign of various psychological, historical and - last, but not the least - religious needs of the nation.

News / Jesus Christ is Now Officially the King of Poland [164]

The problem with Poland is that this country loves symbols. Bearing in mind that Jesus is King of the Universe, the enthronement of Christ as King of Poland is simply a petty act.

This enthronement leaves one with the impression that it is Poland which somehow wants to promote herself to the center of the Universe.

News / Poland And the Pope: Not Happening, Apparently [58]


So the priest should pay his fine without ever claiming that he doesn't earn enough to pay it, stupid!


The court didn't ask the priest how much he earned, it was the priest who said he didn't earn enough. Capisci or non capisci inglese, Iron Boy !?

News / Poland And the Pope: Not Happening, Apparently [58]



That, in my view, sums up the difference between Polish Catholicism and Pope Francis in a very apt way. It has to be noted that the RCC clergy of Poland and the older generation of believers (Polonius3 of the PF included, so to speak) particularly cherish the notion of "the angry God".

One recent example of the RCC clergy doubtful "practices" is a story told by the Rzeczpospolita daily. A child who instinctively leant forward and tried to pick up Holy Communion which slipped from the priest's hands and dropped onto the church floor when serving it was suddenly slapped in the face by the priest who was delivering it. As a result the child ran out of the church crying. The parents then decided to take the priest to the court which pleaded him guilty and ruled the priest should pay a 5,000 zloty fine for his deed.

In the next step, the defence made an appeal in which they claimed that while taking into account the priest's monthy income of about 2,500 zloty (whether after or before taxation was not disclosed, however) the fine was too high and should be annuled.

I'm not sure if the court would eventually consent to this 'poor priest' argument, had it been not brought to the court's attention that the priest recently bought a new car worth 120,000 zloty, so he could easily afford to pay the fine. Thus, the original sentence was upheld in the court of appeal.

The conclusions that come out of this story may be the following:
1. Priests in Poland still tend to have the mentality of "the angry God";
2. Priests in Poland tend to be too rich in terms of being "one of us";
3. Priests in Poland tend to commit sins of not telling the truth in courts!

History / German history of my new home in Poland [30]


A - 345 years; Silesia is Polish since 990 until 1335 when Casimir III Great was forced to relinquish his claims to Silesia in the Treaty of Trentschin.

B - 191 years; Silesia is Czech since 1335 until 1526.
C - 215 years; Silesia is Austrian since1526 until 1741
D - 204 years; Silesia is Prussian and German since 1741 until 1945



Schade, wirklich schade, mein lieber Smurf!
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Poland (red) at the end of the reign of Kazimierz III (1370); Silesia (yellow) had been lost, but the Kingdom was expanding to the east

Po polsku / Dlaczego uczysz się Polskiego? [101]


--> wspaniale


--> nie


--> wcześniej
Poza tym wspaniale!

History / German history of my new home in Poland [30]


Perhaps. I wonder why the OP wrote "owner of a house on Polish Pomerania". Do they say "owner of a house on California" in the US?


Silesia is not the German name. The German name is "Schlesien".


Only for slightly more than two hundred years (1741-1945), Mr I Know What You Don't Know.

History / German history of my new home in Poland [30]

The term 'Polish Pomerania' is amiguous. In Germany the terms they used for 'Pomerania' were "Vorpommern" and "Hinterpommern". What is now 'Województwo pomorskie" in Poland which may be what you have referred to as 'Polish Pomerania' was for major part "Westpreussen" for the Germans. The term 'Polish Pomerania' was never really used in history. The Poles simply called it "Pomorze" between 1920 and 1939.

News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]

Trump is wonderful for America and Russia is wonderful for Russians. What's wrong with it?

News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]


This is complete nonsense pertaining to trolling. Even the Statue of Liberty feels sorry for you.

News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]

So basically you say that Kaczyński is better than Trump and it is a great pity that Kaczyński hasn't been elected President of the US instead?

News / What impact will Donald Trump's election have on Poland? [331]


An article in the guardian explains very well explains why Hillary was actually the worst candidate chosen by the Democrats in the run for American presidency ...

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/09/donald-trump-white-house-hillary-clinton-liberals

Law / Poland student visa refusal - 'intention to leave' [51]

The person is probably Ukrainian and she was denied a visa because the proposed wages were too low. Ukrainias in Poland may receive one of the two types of work permit.

UK, Ireland / Are Polish people moving back home from the UK? [68]

Thanks Roz. People are different and one shouldn't take everything too personally. I am quite sure that a foreigner in Poland (a Ukrainian, for example) may quite often be confronted with attitudes that are not nice to them.

UK, Ireland / Are Polish people moving back home from the UK? [68]


I didn't say that precisely, but I only meant part of the "small island" which was England and Wales. So both Northen Ireland and Scotland (as well as Gibraltar) were excluded from my reasoning. The "crowded island" theme plus "they are going to outnumber us one day" have been underlying, often subconscious reasons for the Brexit result.

The thinking of the ordinary or common people, so to speak, is what matters most. Neither the British are racist nor they are as innocent as they would like to portray themselves with regard to the "race" (term used in a broader sence than only the colour of the skin ). I remember my short stay in England during which we went to visit the Museum of Royal Worcester. A couple of my British friends who took us there asked the guide to speak more slowly so that I could translate some exerpts to my wife who was the only person in the group who didn't understand English. The lady guide did that, of course, but at the same time she got to know we were Polish. From that moment her aversion to us as Polish people among a British group became so evident that I remember it to this very day equally well as the gorgeous exibits of royal worcester. Not that she was impolite to us, not at all, she was simply displaying this very characteristic British "cold" politeness of which other nations are incapable of.

Maybe she just thought we came to the UK to find a job as she didn't know we were only tourist staying with our (British) friends. If so, I can well understand her aversion to me and my wife. Maybe she also thought we wanted to take her or her cousin's job at the Royal Worcester? Who knows? When I came up to her at the end of the tour which was at a small workshop where people decorated porcelain "live" and told her my mother had been hand-decorating porcelain stuff all her life in Poland, she became as cold as the North Pole, but managed to utter "how nice" with an absolutely icy smile on her face. Maybe she had some unpleasant experiences with the Polish people already working in Britain and she passed it onto the people of Poland in general. I don't know, but I can understand that.

So, I have experienced myself the dislike of the British people for prospective "immigrants". And I tell you: these are the common people who decide. The "common" ones usually outnumber the "elites" of the nation whoever those elites may be. If I were British, I'd probably be a remainer, but I can understand the feelings of the Brexiters quite well.

UK, Ireland / Are Polish people moving back home from the UK? [68]


I think we should look at Brexit through its most archetypal message and that message was precisely: "There are too many of us on our small island". You may divagate ad infinitum if the Brexit result could be attributed to the elder or to the less educated or to anyone else, but it was the question of immigration, not the EU, which turned out to be predominant in that referendum. People feel that this small island of theirs has too few resources to feed (in a broad sense) the increasing number of newcomers. A self-regulating mechanism has been switched on and such mechanisms are visible across the nature all the time.

In a way England (and I am saying 'England', not 'Britain') has become the victim of its own success: the empire had once grown too big, the language has become too much overspread across the planet, the industrial revolution was too industrious. As a result, too many people now want to settle on the island, so a way to repel them fom doing so had to be invented. That way was Brexit even if it formally had nothing to do with the immigration.

Law / Pros and cons of giving birth in poland compared to India [3]

Merged: Woman in Poland gives birth to child on the hospital floor

On the 2nd of November a woman was admitted to a hospital in Starachowice because she claimed she stopped feeling the movements of her baby. Upon taking an ultrasonographic examination the woman was told the baby had already died in her uterus.

She says she was left to her own soon after the medical examination only to find out she had no bed to lie on and as she started to feel contraction, she just lied on the floor and gave birth to her stillborn child.

The Health Ministry have promised to launch an enquiry.

wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1342,title,Jest-sledztwo-ws-szokujacego-porodu-w-Starachowicach-Rodzilam-na-podlodze,wid,18573516,wiadomosc.html

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


Indeed. If Parliament passed a bill to behead the Queen in the Tower of London in a desperate attempt to enable her heir to ascend the throne before the latter dies, the Queen would have no other choice than to sign such a bill.

That is how constitutional monarchy works. God save the Queen!