UK, Ireland / A new mayor in London: opinion of Polish people in the UK? [317]


Excellent InPolska!

1-0 to the French after 90 minutes plus lengthy injury time:))

Game over. Let the racists go and live in Eastern Europe. Its called Russia, Hungary, and Serbia:)))

They are welcome to it.

UK, Ireland / A new mayor in London: opinion of Polish people in the UK? [317]


One million Poles seem to like the freedom that the UK affords - a land where Asian MPs and ministers are common and do damn fine jobs.

The UK - a normal European state.
And Poland? What sort of country do you want? A country that is universally depised and branded?

Or are we going to suffer your tiresome diatribes again about coloureds having smaller brains?
And we all know of the sanctions against Professor James Watson - because there is no scientific proof for the claims that he made. Simply racism, sadly......lauded researcher and a hero for every British 1960s schoolkid that he might have been.

UK, Ireland / A new mayor in London: opinion of Polish people in the UK? [317]

Sadiq Khan wins the London mayor election. Gasp! He's a muslim!!!!

All the racist London Poles (of which there are FAR too many - including that eccentric Polish born candidate) will be tearing their hair out tonight and crying " But we don't want a terrorist as our Mayor".

There is no worse animal than immigrant racists.

I wish I was there to join in the merriment.

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UK, Ireland / A new mayor in London: opinion of Polish people in the UK? [317]


That bunch of crooks who didn't lift a finger in the war and enriched themselves instead you mean?
I have no time for the Swiss.

News / Tesco out of Poland? Żabka and Biedronka opportunity. [73]


Tesco in Northampton was alright 6 weeks ago. Has it burnt down since then? A large selection of whatever brands and Tesco own that takes your fancy, including what I would call a decent Polish section (not as good as Asda's though...)

Cheap stuff AND expensive - but a fully stocked supermarket. The Polish version makes me think we must be living in some sort of banana republic - shelves and shelves of toilet cleaner and UHT milk.

Very, very poor.
Poland is going back to the days of the awful choice of perogi or pig escallope for dinner at this rate:(

News / Tesco out of Poland? Żabka and Biedronka opportunity. [73]

Why does Tesco in Poland sell such rubbish products as opposed to Tesco in the UK?

Answer: Because only Poles will buy them.

You wouldn't know - because you don't live here. So don't interfere in our reality.

Travel / Poland trip in September - Zamosc, maybe Krakow, Gdansk, Warsaw, Wroclaw... need recommendations [15]


Now we're talking :)) Cracking place.

Travel / Poland trip in September - Zamosc, maybe Krakow, Gdansk, Warsaw, Wroclaw... need recommendations [15]


The OP doesn't like hiking Delph - and I was in that area 15 years ago - people reliably inform me that Ustryzki has been commercialised.

My message to the OP is to avoid like the plague. There is nothing on this earth worse than Polish commercialisation, with its fake Skansen restaurants and garlic butter with every plate of processed food.

The ideas about Lublin (and the salt mine) are sound as a pound:)


Yes Chemikiem - but the OP is in the wrong part of Poland for gallivanting up to Malbork. There are amazing castles everywhere in the South, and please excuse the pun, but when you've seen one pair........castles don't usually go in pairs of course.......but if the OP wanted to see Malbork they would have flown into Gdansk.

All that way to see Malbork........ They will marvel at the modernised factory in the town, at the communist blocks, at the town itself (a slum of a town today sadly after war destruction), and probably wish they hadn't made the long journey.

Gdansk and Krakow are kind of of the the same ilk, so culture vulture though they may be, the double -header doesn't make sense. If they went to Malbork, they might as well go the whole hog and visit Gdansk. And what for? As Delph says, they would be cream-knackered by excess travel. They've already seen remnants of medieval Europe in Krakow and out East (and "better", as you quite rightly intimate)..

PS. If the OP is American she might think Poland end to end is like a trip to the next County........ Here to help:)

Travel / Poland trip in September - Zamosc, maybe Krakow, Gdansk, Warsaw, Wroclaw... need recommendations [15]


Yep. Gdansk is overhyped. Largely burnt to the ground by the Soviets, still a ruin 71 years after the event.

Life / Poland is safe to visit - "Daily Mail" [100]


Ah - the Guardian.... Self righteous?

Like with Wikileaks you mean? Investigating the Edward Snowden whistleblowing and persuading him that he must go public? Investigating the Hillsborough cover-up . The Guardian followed this needless tragedy incessantly - and one of their top journos is personally responsible for helping to defeat the establishment of the day and the police perjury of the last 27 years - and you call it self-righteous?

In the meantime the Mail "exposes" 19 year old Bradford muslims as being drunk on the street....

Pray do tell us which is more of social import?

You are obviously clueless.

PS The point being - we do not need Katie whoever, to tell us that Poland is safe to visit. Most of us have a brain cell in our bodies (though obviously not Mail readers.....)

Life / Poland is safe to visit - "Daily Mail" [100]


I was referring to the publication, it's "journalists" and its' editorial. Everybody knows what to expect from the Mail - and it panders to the worst in all of us.

In my opinion - shared by countless millions.

Life / Poland is safe to visit - "Daily Mail" [100]


Don't waste your breath Delph. When I was 21 and didn't know better, I used to buy the Mail, and the two posters are clearly immature themselves for believing in this tabloid racist bile.

Real Estate / Where can I find a nice area to rent a studio or one-bedroom apartment in or near Katowice? [48]


No they're not. If you are referring to Silesia centre. Awful over-priced plastic gash.


Yes, generally. The latter has the cop-shop...... Up and coming area, as they say:) Good pubs and restaurants too!

Study / British Council CELTA in Krakow, how would you rate it? [60]


WOW! More chance of getting a cup final ticket than a trainee getting on that then. Top lad:)

Work / Tri-city area - Companies that offer Jobs for English speakers? [23]


IBM. Low entry salary.

Life / Number of church attendees in Poland [54]

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Why do you think the churches are emptying? The only attendees in any number are:

!. Those closer to God (Literally)
2. The under 18s (because babcia checks on them)
3. PIS voters

News / The only three normal cities with any respect for humanity in Poland [99]


No connection with the Christian values I was taught by my parents pal. Poland's catholic Neo-Cons are not Christs' true followers, no way, no how.

A Christian is taught to love his fellow human being. The Polish catholic establishment hates.

News / The only three normal cities with any respect for humanity in Poland [99]


Yep. And Poland was part of the EU last time I checked. Vis a vie, Poland is obliged to do something to help (eg. donate).

Of course scummy governments who exist on nationalism alone pretend that they actually care (solely) about their own population, as an excuse for neglecting their humanitarian responsibilities as a sovereign nation. The nations' status requires upholding through mutual respect with its counterparts, and not ridiculing refugees "from a failed primitive system."

We know from 20th century history where that obsessive "care" for self can lead.

Off-Topic / Did anyone see Prince in Warsaw? [8]


Multi-instrumentalist. Originally predominantly keyboards on early records. Check out his "Tubular Bells" first album, where he played every instrument including tree bell:)

News / The only three normal cities with any respect for humanity in Poland [99]


And right there is the one big fault of the Poles.

It's called "Always complaining, never admit wrong, and never show any gratitude to those from foreign soil who declared war on Germany and who laid down their lives for a free Poland".

Brainwashed by the communist system.

News / The only three normal cities with any respect for humanity in Poland [99]


That is not true though, as you will know. Poland refused to contribute to the upkeep of the camps when asked to make a donation, and declined to send any aid workers.

Not to mention the ridiculously obtuse parade in the European parliament and the many unhelpful and clearly racist remarks from government ministers, and further embarrassment from off-the cuff remarks by Kaczynski, Duda, that woman masquerading as prime minister, Walesa et al.

Nobody was ever asking Poland to take 50,000 refugees. The point is mute. The facts are that the Poles obstructed and slowed the humanitarian process from the very beginning, when they should have been helping, in some small way, just as some of us might do when we might take hot soup and a corned beef sandwich (and a bottle of beer...) to the guy who is standing on the corner down my street most evenings....

Polish aid agencies, unions, corporations and individuals who have given, are to be applauded, but ANY help at all from the Polish government would have been appreciated. Instead all we get is bleating about " Not our problem mate..."

If ever 1939 and 1981 come round again, Poles had better hope that people have short memories.

News / The only three normal cities with any respect for humanity in Poland [99]


You are on the wrong forum Gibonka. Most of the people here of Polish birth might accept the body of Christ on a Sunday morning, but they definitely don't spread God's love, and instead do verily follow the xenophobic clown Kaczynski into the realms of hate and despair, for which the good people of Poland shall repent of at their leisure (The Book Of Dougpol:Ch 1: verse 1)

Or the words "Shameless hypocrites" simply fit here.

News / Jurisprudence III RP style -- triumph of lawlessness in Poland [33]

Got to agree with Polonius on this one. I was here in the 80s, and saw my in-laws' revulsion and the rush to turn off the television whenever the criminal interior minister general and the one with the idiot sunglasses were on screen.

Still, if there is a hell........ ........ So cheer up Polonius!

News / The only three normal cities with any respect for humanity in Poland [99]


Nonsense. I never attack Poland. It's the establishment who collects my taxes who are not fulfilling their humanitarian responsibilities. And some Poles who cant think beyond their own front gates support that xenophobic view, while more than happy to accept anything that comes into their laps.

News / The only three normal cities with any respect for humanity in Poland [99]


I was referring to the refusal to contribute to anything at all actually, and that included government donation to the camps in Macedonia at that time (2015) I think it was Unicef who appealed for government donations, and Poland refused point-blank.

And we are talking about Syrians from certain locations (Homs/Aleppo etc) primarily here. As much as Cameron and the rest bluster about sending them back to Turkey, we all know that the Geneva convention of 1951 states that refugees can't be sent back to a war zone, or anywhere in fact, once they have landed on continental soil - pity though it be in some cases , those are the facts of the matter.

Poland doesn't have to take any refugees above the 7,000 - but should be paying the agreed percentage of its' GDP in foreign aid. Last time I checked, it wasn't.

It's all schoolboy stuff anyway. "We were going to make a donation - but know that you are rubbishing our "good standing" in the international community, we wont. So there!"

The three presidents of the aforementioned cities are making their citizens extra proud to be Polish - and they should receive salutations for their stance, and for the shaming of others.

News / The only three normal cities with any respect for humanity in Poland [99]


That's a Non sequitur though, while the government maintains it's non-humanitarian stance.
Never thought I see myself agreeing with Bono on anything either:)

Others don't get it.

The UK didn't take any real numbers either, but is the highest donater of aid funds outside of the USA. And what has Poland done to help?

As John says - zilch. And that is bad for the rep. And I feel desperately sorry for the millions of decent Poles, whose rpuutation is damaged again by their idiot government acting in "their name"

The moronic Neo-Cons here can bleat all they want. Truth hurts.

News / Jurisprudence III RP style -- triumph of lawlessness in Poland [33]


Smells of Nazism. Beware the knock on the door Grzegorz. They are coming for you too.

News / The only three normal cities with any respect for humanity in Poland [99]


I have lived here for 23 years WP and have a lot invested. I thought that Poles had more humanity. We all make mistakes.


And what about 1939. As others have said, the world helped Poland then. The refugees were taken in. Now you refuse to contribute, and the situation is exactly the same. The inference is very clear to anybody with any conscience.

Your "Prime" minister said that there was now no question of allowing 7,000 refugees into Poland. It would be amazing to get in a time machine, and for the Romanians to say in September 1939 )There is no question of allowing 7000 Poles in, let alone 300,000.

And let us not refer to the thousands of Poles in Syria in the 1940s.

I use the word scum where deserved, and for Poland at the present day it is very welldeserved. IMO.


WP. Please outline what contribution Poland has made to the refugee effort.

I believe it is as close to zero as to be negligible. You do realise that Poles are looked down on in Europe for this? Maybe you wouldn't care if you were ignorant , but if you are a normal educated person, who expects to be treated as such - well, you won't be:)))

News / The only three normal cities with any respect for humanity in Poland [99]


Care to expand?

I think Poles are the scum for contributing nothing in aid to the refugee crisis. Apparently, according to a threat from the local Straz Miejska, to call Poland scum is an offence.

To reiterate - Poland - as in the government of the day (PIS) - is Scum.