Law / Polish car insurance and how it compares to England [29]

Just renting a room doesn't usually give a registered address and of course there's all the other paperwork.

Better to buy an old Nissan Micra or something else you can afford the insurance on.

Real Estate / Polish Property - should I keep renting it out? [17]

Unfortunately they are very good at getting round that.

Life / Schizophrenia treatment in Poland [19]

Who's straying? The language skills of mental health staff are pretty important since the OP is thinking of coming here but doesn't speak Polish well.

Life / Schizophrenia treatment in Poland [19]

Possibly. Even in Warsaw you cant expect someone to speak English.

Life / Schizophrenia treatment in Poland [19]


Weird. My dentist doesn't speak a word of English, nor does my doctor and nor did my partner who was a psychy nurse. Of the doctors and dentists I know socially, only one speaks English and badly at that.

Life / Schizophrenia treatment in Poland [19]


Not really. It's needs led rather than resource led as far as possible and provided by the state, however the way the system is set up here means that inpatient care in rather old-fashioned institutions is very common and community care is a very stretched service. Paying for medication is an issue here - sometimes people have to either be admitted to hospital so they can get it.

I agree with Strzyga about the potential language barrier. The OP in his profile says that he only speaks a little Polish and this might be a problem. There are psychiatrists and psychy nurses who speak English but he can't rely on finding one in the right place at the right time.

Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

I think my Auntie Mavis could do with a drink as well.

Life / Schizophrenia treatment in Poland [19]

The budgets are different, affecting the treatments offered as well as hospital facilities and outpatient support. There are differences as well surrounding some concepts like patients' rights. The health services try their best here, but are very limited in what they are able to achieve.

Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]


Which is fine until your Aunty Mavis sees your profile on the animal farm swingers' club.

Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Indeed. Having the same name as several moderately well known business people does provide a degree of Internet anonymity.

The Internet is a dangerous thing. Always worth covering your tracks a little. Identity theft is only part of the risk.

Life / Schizophrenia treatment in Poland [19]

The government health service obviously works with people who have schizophrenia. You would however find the services here to be rather different than you are used to.

Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

It's amazing what three minutes on google can do.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]

I suspect that by going on and on about it and introducing red herrings about roundabouts (was he even near one?) people will forget how badly the jerk behaved.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]

Roundabouts exist all over Europe and an international lorry driver with 20 years experience should know what to do with them.


To make damn sure he doesn't do anything like that again and as a warning to others who might.

Interesting to find the guy's name.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


Lorries in Europe are fitted with tachographs to prevent drivers from driving so long that they're too tired to be safe. If he absolutely couldn't drive for some other reason then that would be a medical issue. The hard shoulder is designed for emergencies and if a driver takes ill or has a mechanical fault the police can help him. There was no such issue. He was instead trying to abuse the rules of the road (of which he and any other international lorry driver is well aware) and got caught for it. And then behaved very badly indeed.

Is there any way of finding out his name? He deserves a bit more negative publicity for his appalling behaviour.

Love / Indian national is seeking help to get my Polish wife back! [30]

Get a lawyer if you want to have access to your child. Your Poish wife may be the woman you love but her family are sound like lowlife village white trash. And will probably sink to all sorts of depths to get money out of you.

If the marks from the physical abuse are fresh, go to a doctor for an obdukcja. If they do it again, get an obdukcja right away (within 24 hours ideally) and file a complaint with the police. Don't hesitate to do this - it's genuine, whereas they may well make false complaints about you - I note they have already started with the false accusations. Unfortunately they are playing hardball with you - your only option is to play hardball back. Get a good lawyer, and fast.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]

There a plenty of truck stops. By his own admission he's been an international lorry driver for 20 years. He knows where he can park. He also knows why it's an absolute no-no to park on the hard shoulder of a motorway.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


Indeed there are, however you are just moaning, Monia. Moaning when there is no need to. The issue of the guy's citizenship is irrelevant. The fact that he was acting like some sort of jerk and waving a knife at the police in the presence of cameras is not. If he was less of a cretin he wouldn't have got in that situation in the first place, much less have behaved in the bizarre way he did.

An obsession with how other people judge your nationality as a whole is bizarre and suggests an inferiority complex. And of course others with the same sort of feeble mindset might judge your nationality on the basis of morons like that Polish driver; not a great ambassador for his country.

Be careful what you wish for...

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


Do you really mean that? And do you think the officers ''went hysterical''?

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


Only slightly?

I hadn't seen the one describing him as manly or talking about 'agitated defiance' whatever that is.

Amazing really that some people can spring to the defence of a total jerk of a truck driver who was behaving dangerously and was very very lucky indeed. Scary that that particular guy is in charge of 20 tons of metal with an engine...

News / 23 Shale Wells Drilled This Year Alone in Poland - 41 More to Go... [50]


Same here. And yes, fracking is always bad - there's no way to do it safely or cleanly.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


This rings true.

The rules of the road are there for safety. The hard shoulder is there to save lives, not to boil potatoes or park up on. A lorry driver with 20 years of experience certainly knows this well.

And frankly the guy's display was pathetic. Did he really think they wouldn't give him the ticket because of crocodile tears? Given that he waved a knife at them he was very lucky indeed.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]

What puzzles me is how someone can claim that their 'approach to reality' can be based on roots. If there's any basis for that there's probably a Nobel Prize for biology in the offing.

Love / Polish wife is threatening me to pay child support 1000zl per month. [40]

I suspect you'll have to google it. After all, you're making a pretty radical assertion here.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


Exactly. It does nobody any favours and ultimately presents Poland in a bad light to outsiders who reading that trash might thing that we are all like that.

And yes, the lorry driver was a jerk and there is no valid excuse for his behaviour. He got off extremely lightly!

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


Monica, quit moaning and admit that if you still stand by the above statement then you also think Poles a wrong for having a similar show about cops and lorry drivers.

Or forever hold your peace.

Food / Is Polish food still more natural than in the West? [142]


No. The fallout blew over Belarus. Not Poland. Fruit and veg are safe here.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]

Either it's legal or not. He knew the law - after 20 years as a driver probably very well, broke it, then waved a knife at the police.

An arsehole in fact. He deserved a much bigger fine and a driving ban.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]

So Dave, what would the police in your country do to a truck driver who parked up on an interstate highway and waved a knife at the cops?

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]

By the guy's own admission he'd been an international lorry driver for for twenty years. He ought to know the job, where he can and cannot park his lorry etc, and he ought to know how to behave when the police stop him.