History / Poland paid off American Jewry in 1960 [162]

Would you like me to illustrate how the Catholic Church has been bad for Poland in monetary terms?

By your reasoning, Catholics are also bad for Poland.

Law / Advantages of getting Polish citizenship [24]


Certainly is - for a start, you'll be recognised as a Polish citizen when in Poland, not as a Canadian one. This can have some great benefits, and equally, some great drawbacks - the Canadian government won't help you if you get into trouble with the law, for instance.

Law / Poland headed for an accounting disaster? Imports underestimated, no Euro entry [19]


Nuts?

Do you know how much trouble is caused for importers with the Euro?

In business terms, a lot is done in Euro/Swiss Franc anyway.

USA, Canada / Where is loyalty of Polish diaspora in America? In USA or in Poland? What is priority? [63]

Really? That would be why some Polish nobles decided to sell out Poland rather than accept the May 3rd Constitution, and that would be why many Poles collaborated with the Soviet Union (even passively) for so long? Don't forget - most of the opposition to the Communist rule wasn't political, but economic.

Those "traditions" that you speak of are nothing but a myth. Heck, if "independence" and "sovereignty" were truly valued - why would Poland be Catholic? It, after all, pledges total submission to the Vatican.

And let's not forget that many Poles are very conformist - the education system shows this.

USA, Canada / Where is loyalty of Polish diaspora in America? In USA or in Poland? What is priority? [63]


They swore to do as America requires, including attacking Poland and Serbia if needs be.

We're in no doubt as to where their real loyalty lies.

Law / Polish Healthcare card for Citizen, but Non-resident? [3]

Surely they've got it all wrong? If you're paying taxes (and social insurance) in Belgium, surely you'd be making a claim under their system rather than the Polish system? It seems that they've assumed that you're not a resident of Belgium.

Anyway, you can't obtain the Polish EHIC card - you need to be paying social insurance here to qualify. They ask to see proof of social insurance payments at the time of obtaining the EHIC card - so as a non-resident of Poland, not having paid Polish social insurance - no card.

Life / Only the poor Poles are buying at Biedronka? [32]


They're not on the WSE. And certainly not on the WIG20.

History / Warsaw Uprising - The Forgotten Soldiers [117]


Alas, when you live in a country where people scream UNPATRIOTISM at the slightest criticism of Poland, it's very hard to actually teach facts in school as opposed to what the collective consciousness demands.

The fact that the Polish school programme seems more or less designed to deliberately avoid teaching about the PRL and the early 1990's says it all.

Certainly, some of those AK members were hardly innocent - we all know how they terrorised people who were on the same side.

As for the leadership - whoever sent children into a completely unnecessary battle should have been executed for war crimes.

Law / Visa Stamp if you overstay (American with a Polish Wife) [29]


What they should do is grant (as mafketis says) an extension to the 90 day period. The problem is - without this extension being officially granted, you're open for deportation at any time by the Straz Graniczna.


Every day outside the Schengen zone means one extra day inside Schengen. Places include the UK, Croatia and Ukraine that you can visit easily and visa-free while waiting for the work permit to be issued.

Still the same system is in place, as far as I know. I do know that there is a policy of strict liability applied to this.

Perhaps it's just the way that the particular UW works, but I wouldn't risk it.


The problem is not so much lack of enforcement as who is doing the enforcing. I used to teach one girl who worked for the Straz Graniczna investigating overstayers - and she made it clear that they have a policy of strict liability. On the other hand, the UW offices seem to interpret the law in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways.

Law / Visa Stamp if you overstay (American with a Polish Wife) [29]


This isn't true.

I can assure you that regardless of what the Urzad Wojewodzkie says - if the Straz Graniczna find out that you've stayed for more than 90 days without valid residency (and incidentally - the UW *can* provide this) - you'll be banned from Schengen for 1 year.

Do *not* trust what the UW says - without some sort of official permission to stay longer than the 90 days, you simply cannot overstay. Going within Schengen does not reset the clock at all, and there is nothing in Polish law to suggest that Americans are allowed to do such a thing. In fact, it would be against Schengen law to do so - short term visas are harmonised, and Poland cannot unilaterally deviate from it.

Even if the UW grant a residency permit in the end - if you've found to have overstayed, the Straz Graniczna can and will ban you upon finding out.

Work / (IT field) moving from India to Poland -Wroclaw in May '11 [46]


No, not quite - the application is made by the employer in Poland, rather than by the individual. Whether or not it's needed in advance of coming to Poland depends on the visa status of the individual - in her case, as the family member of someone residing in Poland, she doesn't need to leave the country.

Work / Any TEFL teachers in Poland out there? [28]


I'm always impressed by people that can - I can't imagine teaching a group of mixed language learners at all.

Love / The importance of Catholicism during marriage with a Polish girl [44]

Liberal view, here? Really? Did you manage to forget about all the right wing Polish Americans? Dozens of threads certainly confirm that there exists a significant amount of right wingers on here.

This forum seems to be pretty evenly split between liberal Europeans and conservative Americans.

Incidentally, most liberals don't hate the cross, but rather hate the people who use the cross as a political weapon. Many liberals (myself included) despise the use of the cross as a political weapon by *all* sides.

UK, Ireland / How ENGLISH has been affected by POLISH [73]


Sejm is unknown, and Zloty isn't particularly well known either.

The word "voivode" and "voivodeship" are in English too, although virtually everyone uses "province" for "voivodeship" and "Governor" for "voivode".

News / POLES FEEL LIKE JEWS HAVE TOO MUCH CONTROL IN POLAND - TRUE? [209]


Return of the building, plus around 20 million in compensation. The church immediately decided to charge the school (a public school!) an extraordinary amount of money for rent that the city council simply couldn't afford - and now they've got to move.


About 75 million for the Lake Malta case. Money that we need for hospitals, schools, etc.

Links? Certainly.

Exactly two weeks ago Parish of St. . John of Jerusalem Outside the Walls won a record , because more than 75 - million-dollar , received compensation for her during the communist area over Malta . This is not the only institution with the Church , which claims to these areas and the money for them.

MediaWatch, I know you're in America and don't see this stuff happening - but you'd be shocked at the extent of the RCC's property claims. Can you really blame Jews, when everyone else is doing it?

Personally, I'm of the view that Catholics, Jews, Germans and everyone else should go away and stop taking money from this country.

News / POLES FEEL LIKE JEWS HAVE TOO MUCH CONTROL IN POLAND - TRUE? [209]


Ahaha. You clearly haven't been following the claims by the Catholic Church in Poland - who have been getting awarded astronomical amounts of money. Perhaps you could start by examining the case of the VIII Liceum in Poznan?

Sadly, pushing for astronomical amounts of money is nothing new in Poland. I rather suspect that the Jewish community has seen the absolutely ridiculously large claims awarded to the Catholic Church and has decided to get in on the action. Fair play, I say.

I hope you'll also join us in fighting against the large claims awarded to the RCC?

Work / Teaching Architecture in Poland [23]

Forget about it if you want financial security. I cannot see a non-Polish speaker making enough money in the universities in order to provide financial security in Poland - I know several English speaking non-proessors, and none of them are earning enough to live without doing something else on the side.

I'm also not too convinced that there will be much demand for a non-Polish speaking architect in universities - the public universities will expect research from you, and the private ones are anything but stable.

You'd be best to try and get a job in an architecture company - Poland isn't like other countries, where a PhD automatically is seen as "over-qualfiied".

News / Polish Jesuits created a Facebook site for non-believers. Atheists not a total waste? [70]


Read it often, do we?

For someone who talks about "moral decay", "rampant homosexuality" and so on, it seems rather strange that you'd even open such a webpage. Glad to see that you're yet another convert to the Gazeta Wyborcza cause, though.

News / POLES FEEL LIKE JEWS HAVE TOO MUCH CONTROL IN POLAND - TRUE? [209]


Hahahahaha.

The only semi-credible statement there is that Komorowski has a Jewish wife, and even then, it was only her mother that was Jewish - Anna Komorowska is a practicing Polish Catholic.

Law / Returning items for Refund/Credit Note - Specifically IKEA [8]


Original packaging means just that - original packaging. I'm not surprised you had problems with IKEA furniture if you can't even figure out the phrase "original packaging".

Not used is also rather simple - it means "not used", as in "new and untouched".

UK, Ireland / Bath City offers 80% discount to Polish people [18]


Indeed, all you'd achieve would be more attacks on Poles in the UK when word got out that a Brit had been beaten up unfairly in Poland.


Quite honestly, the vast majority aren't like that.

These are just the ones who are blaming Poles for their own problems - before the Poles, it was "pakis", and before that, it was the Irish. No doubt the Romanians/Bulgarians will be getting the blame soon, too.

Funnily enough, it does seem in the UK that most attacks on Poles are by other Poles, not by Brits.

Work / Never work for Mike Mills in Warsaw [28]


youtube.com/watch?v=e6jSeeSRzkI

Same guy?

UK, Ireland / Bath City offers 80% discount to Polish people [18]

Why does it get you fired up? Are you mad that Poland doesn't have the monopoly on racist morons?

Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]


Polish Americans are Polacks, not Poles.


You might want to ask yourself why Slavs have spent so much of recent history attacking each other.


Jews couldn't care less about Poland - in fact, it's only Polacks that particularly seem to care.

Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]


Well done, you're proving my hypothesis that Polish Americans are in fact anti-semite, racist morons.

News / POLES FEEL LIKE JEWS HAVE TOO MUCH CONTROL IN POLAND - TRUE? [209]


Good side and bad side, really. The lack of universal education was a bad thing, but then again - education was really something special in those times, instead of the current system where everyone is educated and yet knows **** all.

Love / In 2009 nearly 4000 Poles married a foreigner [170]


Familiar with the penis size of black men, are we?

News / POLES FEEL LIKE JEWS HAVE TOO MUCH CONTROL IN POLAND - TRUE? [209]


I recommend you go away and look at who emigrated to North America.

The nobility stayed and built the II RP - the peasants left. Poland was a pretty rough place to be if you were a peasant in those times - poor and with a very strong system of the elite holding the rest down.


Feel free.

Suggesting that Russians are mostly the descendants of poor peasantry wouldn't be far off the truth.

News / POLES FEEL LIKE JEWS HAVE TOO MUCH CONTROL IN POLAND - TRUE? [209]

Polonia? Nobility? You must be kidding me.

To take an example, the vast majority of North American Polonia are very much of peasant origin.

As for Poles, most of the nobility is either no longer around or fled.

Law / Starting a daycare in Poland, possible? [15]

Preferably (at least) an assistant director of a similar sort of facility. They do exist, although there's not many of them around.

You definitely cannot do this alone - and I'd be inclined to say that you can't do it without a decent amount of money behind you.

It's certainly much easier to open a kindergarten (age 4+) than any sort of facility for younger children.