Life / Do Poles drink before noon? [95]

Aha, here you have a point.
I still do not see why a Polonia visit should be treated as a Papal one?
The rich relatives coming back to the old Polska B and showering it with gifts? How patronizing is this. Buying a car for the poor cousin....

Polonius, in which Skansen are you living?

News / Amber Gold and other Poland's suspicious institutions [139]


Indeed so. Still I do not understand why anybody with a normal IQ could have believed their advertisements promising 13% on a "lokata", when all the banks offered less than half of it?

When I saw their billboards last year, I smelt a rat immediately. But yes, greed makes people blind.

Life / Do Poles drink before noon? [95]


Most Poles I know are still at work late afternoon, and quite a few later on as well. At least in my office they are. I do not think they are in for a drink at that time.

USA, Canada / Poland not far behind the USA? [20]

Ah for sure my imagination is stretched to the max with my 22-year old daughter :)

USA, Canada / Poland not far behind the USA? [20]


Maybe you could rock the boat? And tell where you stand?

USA, Canada / Poland not far behind the USA? [20]


In which century are you living? Not in the one where 70% of the Polish voters are living.

History / Poles embraced Communism at the end of WW2 [8]


The Polish church was never a supporter of this, for obvious reasons.

History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]


You mean out of charity from the PRL state?

History / An American studying medicine in the PRL 1978-1985: my story [142]

I remember in Wałbrzych meeting up with an old guy who was during the war a Typhoon pilot.

History / Polish Officer in NATO, Col. Ryszard Kukliński. [145]


Such as the ducks' father?

Travel / So where are Warsaw's slums? [30]

And because some streets are gentrified, it does not mean they are safe.
Here in Bielany Przy Agorze is a good example. Even if the area in general looks OK. Some of the back streets are notoriously unsafe at night. Next to the Start Meta library are tower blocks (Wrzeciono) which come close the "slum" level.

Life / Do Poles drink before noon? [95]


You make it sound as the second coming of Christ. Someting like the Mayflower arriving in America.
I am going home twice / three times per year, and in between my family is coming over. It always is a nice time. But nobody treats this as a pilgrimage.

Travel / So where are Warsaw's slums? [30]

You mean the plan which would cost the country 52 billion (milliard) PLN?

Life / Do Poles drink before noon? [95]

When I go back home, my sister picks me up from the airport, but the next day life goes on. She and her husband to work, kids to school...Life as it is.

Genealogy / Coats of arms of Polish cities [51]

I still have no idea how it works,but for sure it is impressive :)

Genealogy / Coats of arms of Polish cities [51]

In Konstąncin there is also one. But I still do not understand how it works.
Something to do with vaporizing the saline water from below and therefore creating a microclimate?

Life / Do Poles drink before noon? [95]

Well they most probably did. Nearby was the central sorting office of the national mail.

Life / Do Poles drink before noon? [95]

I could never drink alcohol before 12:00. There is some psychological barrier in between that. I remember when I still lived in Belgium, I went to work to Antwerp by bus. And around Antwerp Central Station there were a lot of pubs where at 08:00 in the morning people were having their beers....

And I thought...what is the joy into that...downing a few in the morning? I prefer coffee at that time.

History / An American studying medicine in the PRL 1978-1985: my story [142]

Very good post.

Genealogy / Coats of arms of Polish cities [51]


It represents a saline graduation tower. .Ciechochinek is unique in the world min this matter.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciechocinek

History / An American studying medicine in the PRL 1978-1985: my story [142]


It is no secret that just after the war a lot of miners in Belgium were Polish. And ironically their fellow workmen were German POW.

Quite a few of the Polish miners in Belgium/France came from a socialist background - Gierek being a good example -
I think the majority regretted their emigration to Poland.

Life / Do Poles drink before noon? [95]


This has to be another aspect of your Polonianist sect.

Life / Do Poles drink before noon? [95]

In Belgium we also think that you should not drink alcohol before noon. I do not know why.

News / Who controls Gazeta Wyborcza?? [216]


70% do not .

UK, Ireland / Poles becoming British subjects [39]


I have to agree with that one. On the very rare occasions I have to be at Długa 5, I always enjoy the spectacle of the Polonianists having to wait ages to get documents together with a million Vietnamese - sorry exaggerating here - and getting indignant , while I sail through the EU section in let's say 15 minutes?

Schadenfreude big time :)

News / Who controls Gazeta Wyborcza?? [216]


You mean all the Polska B babcias who funded rydzyk's Maybach from their meagre pensions?

History / An American studying medicine in the PRL 1978-1985: my story [142]


I wonder if this is true. French...that is logical, given the fact he worked in the north of France and in Wallonia....But Dutch? I will ask around :)

UK, Ireland / Poles becoming British subjects [39]


Why do you that is the case? I never felt the need to get a UK passport.

Life / My first impressions of Poland, long time ago [37]

Merged: First impressions of Poland

When did you come to Poland for the first time, and what were your impressions?
I came first time to Poland in September 1989 (although I was already involved as a boy-scout with humanitarian convoys to Poland in the first half of the eighties).

I remember until this day the distinctive smell of brown coal, used for heating at that time.
At the border in Cieszyn I had to buy fuel coupons for my car in the Orbis shack, payable with DM. Almost no cars on the road. Got fined in Kraków, because at that time I did not speak Polish and had no idea about the parking regulations :)

Genealogy / Coats of arms of Polish cities [51]

Ciechocinek. Lovely spa town, but the coat of arms could have been more inspiring :)

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