News / Stiffer traffic rules in Poland? [32]


Awful attitude. You're gonna get yourself in a serious accident one of these days driving like that. Maybe you won't get killed but maybe you'll be the one that does the killing.


Prob coz they know immediately your a foreigner. Anytime I've been stopped it was when my missus was in the car. Short exchange, puppy dogs eyes, 50zl in a handshake later, we're on our way again.

Was talkin about this with a good friend last week. A Polish man, in his early 50s, been driving since he could. Never ever got a fine from a Polish man. In over 30 years of driving. He's been caught by the odd camera alright, but whenever caught by a cop it's always a bribe. Cops are bent as hell, I don't blame them. Citizens detest them, they have crappy jobs that pay SFA and nobody likes the, why wouldn't they take an extra few bob?

Have ye heard about the new traffic cameras?
They'll be installed on the highway between Wrocław & Krakow (will include Katowice etc)
Cameras over the roads will take a photo of your number plate and and at various stage of your journey. Camera will calculate the time it took you to get from A to B and if it's too fast you'll get fined. Loads of people round here complaining about it, I think it's a good idea tbh. People drive far too fast and too dangerously here, hopefully this will cut down on the amount of accidents on that road.

News / Poland pulls out of Eurovision in austerity measure. [17]


As if it was ever gonna happen. Closest they came was 2nd back in the 90s.

Life / Please help me, with deciding a good Polish name for my baby boy :) [48]

what;s wrong with Ned, short for Edward, Ed, Eddy, Eddie

:P


I guarantee, he kicks his ass handed to him every single day if you call him that name. I mean, it's basically a girls' name.

You could call him Sue, like the Johnny Cash song so he grows up to be a hardass.
For example:
Waldek, Włodzimierz, Lubomir, Żelisław, Marian (that's a girls name ain't it :P), Barabasz, Manfred, Kleofas, Kordian.

Trust me, name the kid one of the above and because of his horrible name he'll get the sh!t kicked outta him everyday, this will give him inner strength and he'll go onto great things, example: bill gates, tom cruise, tiger woods, winona ryder.... all bullied and became successful...probably coz they all have stupid names :P

Life / Please help me, with deciding a good Polish name for my baby boy :) [48]

Why give him a Polish name if you live in Canada? Won't he get bullied at school for having a weird name?
go with Ned, nobody's every met a bad person called Ned.

News / Polish newspaper websites to start charging for access in September [9]

install Adblock
it's free and you'll never see an ad again

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]


Install adblock, it's magic, I haven't seen an Internet ad in about 2 years thanks to it.


y'know they've saying he was active on many many forums......he was more than likely here...
Has anyone noticed that someone's gone missing 'round here since around Nov 11th?

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]


Oh yea, blame the Internet.

100 years ago, they were blaming radio, then 80 years ago they were blaming cinema, then 70 years ago they were blaming television, then 30 years ago they were blaming video games (some clowns still do) and now we're blaming the Internet.

The Internet, like the above are tools, only a bad carpenter will blame his saw.

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]

Harry, you're the only person with sense on this forum, I really don't know why I bother coming here anymore.

Life / British living in Poland - documentary [42]


The problem you have here lad is that you're gonna need to find someone British who was living here before the end of communism to be able to compare how things have changed. I severely doubt any 'western' person willingly moved here pre-1989.

Poland is just as globalized as britain, Ireland, France, Germany, American hiphop and crappy dance music fills the radio waves, people watch Top Gear and HBO, just like at home. Lady Gaga and beiber on the tele, along with the Kardashians. MTV here is the same as in the uk, it still doesn't play music. Kids in Poland dress pretty much the same as kids in Scotland.... y'know that fake hipster thing where they all have floppy hair and tight jeans and the tongues of their shoes are over the pull-ups of their jeans.

Poland has experienced a 'catch-up' commercialism, most people are pretty happy with it, freedom of choice, H&M, Tesco, OBI, Carrefour, Real etc etc.

The "westerization' of Poland is no different than the globalisation of the UK or indeed Europe as a whole.

If you want to do something interesting for your journalism radio things, read up on the Scottish soldiers who took park in the Silesian rebellion:

muzeumslaskie.pl/en/in-a-foreign-land-the-allies-in-silesia-at-the-time-of-the-plebiscite.php
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_Uprisings

Your teachers will lap up that sh$t, they're heard all the stuff on globalization already.

Travel / Toy shops in Poland cities [10]


No, Phone books have never existed in Poland, most people are highly dyslexic and to put words and numbers together would lead to outbreaks of wild sporadic panic. It would lead to civil unrest and could even lead on to all out civil war.

If they war ensues then it is more than likely that wantaway areas such as Sląsk and Kaszuby would gain their independence.
This would be disasterous for Poland, especially since most of the money Poland earns in taxes is robbed by Warsaw from coal- and industry-rich Sląsk.


A very dangerous question. Beware. CBS is watching you now man.....and I don't mean the news channel :P

Food / Canned pumpkin in Warsaw? [9]

Still fresh pumpkins for sale in my local fruit & veg market this morning.

Travel / Restaurant reviews in Poland. [86]

McDonalds or KFC, they're fookin everywhere :(

News / Hooligans in PRL times ... and Warsaw in 2012 [28]


I am Marouane Fellaini, so I suppose I am blue :)

News / Hooligans in PRL times ... and Warsaw in 2012 [28]

not much on imagination are they? :P

News / Hooligans in PRL times ... and Warsaw in 2012 [28]


No idea, but with a name like that I just presumed he was from the nation's capital.

News / Hooligans in PRL times ... and Warsaw in 2012 [28]


ya see that's a huge problem in Poland, you take death waaaaaay too seriously. Death is just death, it's OK to joke about it.

News / Hooligans in PRL times ... and Warsaw in 2012 [28]


Zimny Lech is in Krakow :P

Life / Driving license needed while driving in Poland? [8]

Yea, recently they changed the law where you have to have it otherwise it's a fine, but it's not a big fine, I think it's only about 100zl.

Back at home (Ireland), you don't have to have it on you but if you're stopped and you don't have it then you need to go to the local copshop with a certain number of days and produce it.

Travel / Poland Bus (Travel) Companies [6]

here ya go: pkp.pl

History / Goodbye Lenin - we don't want you in Poland! [85]


nope, we didn't learn about Lenin in school other than, there was a Russian revolution and that meant they left the first world war. I just like my RATM tshirt. I also have a USSR one (this sexy number) and a USSR army hat like this hat.

I'm certainly not a communist, I'm actually a crime-fighting Jedi trained neo-libertarian.
The bonus comes in the fact that empty symbols like these annoy flammers like Jola and Varsovians.

This is me in my Che tshirt. i41.tinypic.com/mhem3a.png]che tshirt

*

* not actually me

This is you, angry



This is both mixed together.

See, we can all get along if we just try :)
Peace and love

History / Goodbye Lenin - we don't want you in Poland! [85]

So you're saying if I wear my Rage Against the Machine t-shirt that has Che Guevara I'll be ******* off people on the streets?

Excellent *goes to allegro
¡Viva la Revolución!

Work / Looking To Move To Poland Within The Near Future. Teaching English or IT? [18]


Depends where ya live. In the cities around Katowice you can earn anything from 50-120zl per hour depending on how many people are in your class.


is grim though, awful kip, awful football team too.
But y'know chap if you ain't tied to Poland then why settle here when you can go somewhere and earn the big bucks like Korea? I've mates that did CELTA and got gigs over there and they're laughing now.

Life / What is the Cheapest way to send money FROM POLAND to INDIA ? [23]


2 days
but if the other person has a moneybookers acc then it's instant to their moneybookers acc and then they can transfer it to their credit card/bank/bet365 :P

Life / Abrupt Poles explained ! [51]


that's like something a hipster would say.

'''pfft, I knew about this (band) years ago (before they were cool)."
Good for you dude
*thumbs up


IMO?

I've gotten used to how people ask for things here now, doesn't bother me, never really did, although at first I thought it was a bit mad. But ya know, ya get used to it quick. The thing I don't like is for example, when you get to work and your colleagues asks you straight away to do something or send something or whatever. And I'm standing there, haven't even taken off my coat or turned on my computer thinking "eff off man, I just got here" And all I say is "Ah Marek, how was your weekend? Did you go out or go to the cinema?'

And every week it throws him, coz I know he's a boring so-and-so and all he does is play world or warcraft every weekend. Shuts him up for a few minutes until I'm ready to deal with him.

No foreplay at all, I suppose it's the same with Polish men and that's why Polish girls wanna get with foreigners so much (^_^)

Life / Spanish Freeview in Krakow [2]

With UPC you can hit a button and change it back to the original language but it doesn't work for loads of channels, actually none of the Polish ones, just ones like the BBC channels, most of the documentary one and thankfully Eurosport.

Ah sure feck it, Polish tele is crap, get yourself an IP proxy and watch everything on BBC player, 4OD or Irish aertv

News / Curb shack-up privileges - black MP John Goodson appealing to the labour minister [21]


Bahahahaha, you're been found out Bobbo.
Lying thru your gnashers.
Shameful display old chap.
Unlucky.

Well done Magda *hugs

News / Curb shack-up privileges - black MP John Goodson appealing to the labour minister [21]


shuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuuupppppppppppppppppp pp

.........a broken record, going round and round and round and skipping and skipping and skipping.
You make me hate this forum Polonius.

Life / What is the Cheapest way to send money FROM POLAND to INDIA ? [23]

moneybookers

Work / Advise on moving to Poland-Cracow (working for an international company in Krakow) [22]

go for it, Krakow's a pretty cool place, but with that money your missus will need to get a job too.
Plus it's Krakow :)