Real Estate / What do you think of my house in Poland? Pictures and description. [66]


Ay, ay, ay, I thought you were blaming Atch for spoiling it, but now you are blaming me. In short, I'd say you have no proper distance to yourself and you get irritated easily. This remark of 17,000 sq m vs. 40 sq m has obviously struck a cord in you, so you are reacting somewhat too histerically.. Grow up, WB! This is still a very nice house despite being so large. But there are larger ones in this world, so don't be so upset, mate!

Real Estate / What do you think of my house in Poland? Pictures and description. [66]


Why should this most interesting thread be deleted? Is there a law that can be applied to this bizzare request? Whose intellectual property the messages on the PF is? Are they the poster's or the PF's property (in physical sense)?

Real Estate / What do you think of my house in Poland? Pictures and description. [66]


This is a very unfair accusation towards Atch. But if it made you respond in this rather nasty way, it must have certainly hit a cord within you. Nevertheless, Atch's comparison between a 17,000 sq metre house and a 40 sq metre flat is worth quoting here again...


Finally, Atch's comments stopped me from my intention to buy this vast villa ...

Real Estate / What do you think of my house in Poland? Pictures and description. [66]


Thank you very much Atch for your quick and apt analysis of the business and "cultural" factors surrounding the prospects of buying such a house. The interesting question is what the OP originally had in mind buying this property and then renovating it.

Real Estate / What do you think of my house in Poland? Pictures and description. [66]


Or it could make an ideal stronghold for the Brit bullies tag team living in Poand...

Damn it! It looks even better than that famous villa of former president Yanukovytch in Ukraine. The one who escaped to Russia and left everything he had behind him.

Tell me, WB, what made you escape from Poland leaving behind such a nice villa. Two million isn't that much for it. if only I lived nearer, I might truly consider buying that villa...

Genealogy / Looking for info on Romani name Goman and Siejanka Goman from a gravesite in one of Poland's cemeteries [33]


Why? Gypsies of Poland are typically Roman Catholic.

You should perhaps try to contact some Roma people nearby or in Katowice.

Genealogy / Looking for info on Romani name Goman and Siejanka Goman from a gravesite in one of Poland's cemeteries [33]


Well said, porky pok.

Po polsku / Czy Polskie liceum by przyjelo mnie do 1 klasy liceum jak wroce z Ameryki po szescioletnim pobycie w Ameryce? [7]

Są tu na pewno jakieś standardowe procedury określone przepisami (jak w każdym innym kraju). Najlepiej zapytać ich na piśmie (drogą elektroniczną na przykład).

News / How would Poland change for the better (or worse) under a PiS government? [257]

You can buy very good quality bananas in Biedronka stores at slightly less than 5,00 zloty per kg.


No, you are not important. You are funny. And that's why you attract people's attention on this forum (or anywhere else, I should think).


Never ever has anyone written such utter bollocks so far on the PF.

Love / Polish traditions and customs in a relationship - payments [39]


Man, you are in a trap and the three quotes of yours above tell it all. I don't think you are able to crawl out of this trap by yourself or through the help of any internet forum. You wife entirely has you under control and she knows very well how to control you. It is you who need professional advice first before any counselling goes on (if it ever goes on). You realize already that she is a far stronger part in the marriage and you just dance to the music she plays, but you really need someone, an external "human force", to help you get out of the mess you're in.

You should realize that you are afraid to live without her and you are indeed afraid to take a risk of going away. That where professional help should step in.

Language / Polish vs Russian: Which language sounds cooler? [21]

Russian sounds really cool when spoken by Mr Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin ...

Feedback / Warning for posters who have been changing the names of famous Polish politicians, celebrities, etc. [90]


Why? Everyone in Poland either think that Wałęsa is Bolek or think otherwise. That means that everyone, including Wałęsa himself, associate him to Bolek in one way or another. When Wałęsa says: "I am not Bolek", he is also referring to himself as Bolek. So you are wrong saying that calling Wałęsa Bolek breaks any rule on the PF.


Oh, I like itI Never heard it before, but I do like it. Reading the PF is not always a waste of time ...

Life / Polish culture versus rotten West [279]



Now, what an unprecedented personal attack on Atch coming down from the French forces on the PolishForums!

Off-Topic / Russian or French? Learning another language besides Polish [12]


If not in France, there is still a good chance that it will survive in Québec.

Feedback / What made you join Polish Forums & whats attractive here? [29]

Now I get it. InPolska seems to suggest that she may not be welcome in the PF "circles" simply because she is French.

By the way, there exists such a term in Polish, too. It is "obraza majestatu" or "przestępstwo obrazy majestatu".

What made me join the PF? I don't remember exactly. One of the best features of PF is - technically speaking - an excellent writing board.

Feedback / What made you join Polish Forums & whats attractive here? [29]


So, claiming that being French is a crime de lèse majesté, what does InPolska want to say? I guess there is some figurative meaning in her claim, but I'm lost as to what meaning this could be.

Feedback / What made you join Polish Forums & whats attractive here? [29]


What the hell is "crime de lèse majesté"?

Polonia / Poland and France cultures are similar [112]


InPolska, si vous aviez lu les messages de Moolighting en entier, vous n'auriez lui jamais appelé un "troll".

Here's another quote of Moonlighting, this one comparing French and Polish cuisine:


And another one comparing French and Polish women:


Hélas, the Belgians prefer "the Polish" to "the French"! C'est la vie, ma chère ...

Off-Topic / Since (stupid) stereotypes (about other countries) galore... [10]


... Italian.

Life / What don't you like about Poland or Polish People? [117]


Ktosiu, wearing socks with sandals is extremely silly because sandals are intended for covering your feet by hot weather, so putting socks as well does not make any sense.

It should be said that only Polish men do this. I have never seen a Polish woman wearing socks with sandals.

Polonia / Poland and France cultures are similar [112]

My personal experience is that Polish culture is closer to the French culture than the English one, for example. My wife who doesn't speak English or French felt much more at home in France than in England. I myself who speak both languages would also say that France seems to be a less "different" country for us, Poles, than is Britain.

Polonia / Poland and France cultures are similar [112]

It is perhaps good to remind the participants of this discussion what this native Belgian said about the French vs. Polish people (page 1 of this thread):


Not surprisingly, this view is often held by the people of Poland.

Life / What don't you like about Poland or Polish People? [117]


That is true. All this originates from the communist time when the dollar or any other "hard currency" (twarda waluta) used to be exchanged at an oxorbitant rate on the black market. Anyone from Poland working and earning money in the so-called West was automatically a millionaire when they came back to Poland after a relatively short period (one year could do) bringing their savings with them. You could easily buy yourself a flat or a house with that money and I personally know a number of people who did.

To this very day I myself tend to judge a hundred-dollar note as an exceptionally enormous amount of money and it is only when I calculate its face value to zloties that I realize it is worth much less than I originally thought.


Atch, this seems to be one of your fairest observation on the PF regarding our charming French lady.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

Kajetan Poznański has been caught in Malta says the police.

History / Why is the Diary of Saint Sister Faustina Kowalska still unknown to Polonia and other countries? [29]

I've been to Medjugorje, too. At that time (1990s) the town was pretty well developed in the economic sense. I could even say it was slightly over-invested as there were several unfinished huge buildings on the outskirts of town. For someone searching religious experiences it was a good place to be in. For others, wine served to the meals at the small hotels was a pretty nice experience, too.

It was unwise to use the word "yougoslavian' in Medjugorje at that time. One shop-keeper whom we asked about something of that kind got really angry and started to shout Ne ma Yougoslavije! We left the shop in a hurry.

My wife who happened to briefly visit Medjugorje before that time when the place was nearly empty with no pilgrims going around swears she experienced one of the miracles of the place, she was watching the so-called "dancing Sun". The Sun was visibly and pretty quickly moving up and down to the utmost astonishment of her friends and herself. This was rather unusual as the Sun "moves" ("moving" is not necessarily true here since the time when our great compatriot Nicolaus Copernicus wstrzymał Słońce, ruszył Ziemię; polskie go wydało plemię) in the eclipse which is more of a horizontal than vertical nature. When I asked her if she drunk any wine before she saw that miracle, she swore she had not.

History / Why is the Diary of Saint Sister Faustina Kowalska still unknown to Polonia and other countries? [29]


No, that's an exaggeration on the part of Mr Atch. He tries to impress you telling you how brave he was living in a country full of agents at every corner, whereas you could only watch James Bond on TV sitting comfortably on your sofa in the UK or anywhere else in the "rotten" West. The real problem of Poland at that time was that you could see very little pork or sausages in the shops with significant number of customers cruising the town and being ready to buy as much as they can carry if the shop was prepared to sell something to them.

A cartoon in an Austrian newspaper of 1981 nicely depicted those various kinds of imbalances of the time in Eastern and Central Europe. Crowds of Polish people leaving the country get out of the Warsaw-Vienna express train arriving in the Austrian capital. On seeing this one Austrian railway worker says to another: there must have occured some terrible mistake - we had asked for more coal, not people, to be brought in from Poland!

News / Radek Sikorski, Polish Foreign Minister, tries to annihilate Polish Slavic identity [19]


It would be a major success for Serbia if Vuk Jeremic was chosen the UN secretary-general. Are there any other candidates for this top position, Crow?

Language / Instrumental and byc - Polish grammar issue [46]



It is not easy to explain. I think your example is a very tricky one.

In your first sentence, it is the expression "to (jest)" that causes trouble. If you translate both sentences into English, you'll get the same stuff "Someone is my someone" for both. But for the first one the literal translation is closer to: Leonid - this/that is my uncle. In Polish you always use the nominative after "This/That is ... (To jest ...)". If the subject is a noun ("to" is not a noun) followed by the verb "jest", that verb "jest" requires the direct object of the sentence to be put in the instrumental case: Leonid jest moim wujkiem.

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]


Why do you think so? I can assure you that everyone in the beauty parlours of Warsaw were talking about this and nothing else yesterday.


Don't blame the mods. Teacher is a teacher; are they not?

News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

C'mon InPolska! The headline of your thread is misleading. It is precisely teaching Italian that might be a very dangerous job in Poland...