News / Kaczyński wants a people-friendly Poland [64]


Well Kaczynscy bros were always bad mouthing SLD, they often referred to them in sarcastic ways that covered their anti-communist emotions towards SLD. They tried to back out of it a bit and smile to the left-wing voters in the presidential election, when Kaczynski called Olksy "left-wing mid-old generation politician" which was a joke taking into consideration how they though of him as traitors and commie hard-hat.

What do you need examples for? If you lived in this country for the last year, this is all general knowledge for anyone...

News / Kaczyński wants a people-friendly Poland [64]


Seeing as he grabs everything ( for instance the last football game ban mentioned by Tusk ), he will use everything he's got. I think the Smolensk plot is the pylon for his most conservative and old electorate, the one that will hang on with PIS whatever happens. He'll never draw the line between them. And they don't care about the social policies. He'll probably try to compromise.

News / Kaczyński wants a people-friendly Poland [64]

people-friendly -> social
Social sells well as an election phrase, especially when they stay silent about where from the money comes and how it will impact future generations.

people-friendly -> no difficult reforms
At least until the "social" parts of the policy requires more money... as is PO doing right now with OFE.

It's all garbage and we will never have meaningful reforms because of politicians and because of the poor and undereducated who think about now instead of later.

Life / Uptight Poles [262]


Saying "Backed up by others" is just a huge generalization, by mentioning some unmeasureable, imagined amounts as an example. There are as many uptight people in Poland as there are anywhere else. Same with control freaks. It's easy to label people and omit those who act against said idiosynrasy

Love / Poland wow wife [52]

World of Warcraft... that's what I though at first, eh I'm seriously damaged. Anyways I'm happy for the op.

Life / Uptight Poles [262]

Basing your opinions about Poles on behaviour of one of your friends. Right.

History / Civilian life in Poland (Krakow) during the WW2. [30]

My grandma was living in Cracov during german occupiation of the city and its liberation by russians. From what she said she and her family got fake work permissions from some AK friends. They were living in a flat along with 3 older sisters, these sisters were building bombs and granades for the AK and at one time there was a wounded AK soldier living with them there. From what I remember about things regarding civilian life, it was all going to work and coming back home, there were constant checks and inspections on the streets... I could probably ask more...

Life / How do you celebrate Easter in Poland? [29]

Easter breakfast, and the easter egg sharing along with wishing well and all that.

Life / How could things have gone so wrong (Poland church dress code) [195]

No problems with shorts in churches around my place ; o
It's actually quite weird to me. Church ain't a night club to have some kind of fency dress code, ppl from all walks of life can enter and pray.

I'd say it could have been individual thing of these older ladies you mentioned.

News / The best Poland ever? [125]



Right, good one, uneducated people vote for pis, uneducated people follow the voice of populism.
Some of the people who refrain from voting are really lazy therefore probably uneducated and stupid.
Some of them are educated and take a conscious choice not to vote.


Just because there was a tendency of getting high education which for 60% of these people is just a cheap piece of paper, you can't say that is actually means anything. It doesn't, there are morons getting management degrees from shady schools, from schools which will allow anyone to study and get the degree, going through courses on weekends.

Language / Having difficulties to speak in Polish... how to improve my speaking? [19]

If you have pronunciation problems and don't have anyone to ask you can always try ivona.com

Just enter whatever you need into the textbox and hit play. If it's more about the conversation try finding someone, on skype or language exchange sites, who can chat with you every now and then.

Love / Torments me my boyfriend had a relationship with a pole-how do I get over this [28]

She hasn't posted again since the last post, of course she was trolling

UK, Ireland / Are you Poles proud of your country? Then why do you keep coming to Britain? [100]

I'm not proud of my country and I'm not comig to Britain. Up yours.

Study / Completing a Master's thesis / praca magisterska in Poland [4]

Wouldn't it be easier to look it up on Polish sites, and area of reasearch specific sites?
Besides it all depends a) on your uni b) on your advisor and so on and so forth.. I'd suggest asking people who were having their dissertation with said adviser and board ; o

UK, Ireland / Business process outsourcing in the UK. [14]

I know of several Silesia based IT companies that are working over outsourced projects UK projects, programmers and project managers with 2-3 year experience earn around 5-6k zlotys. ( these are all small - medium sized companies )

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

I'd so prefer a catholic church with big breasted priestesses... and all

Language / "nazywam sie" to introduce yourself. [8]

Hi, you can use ivona.com to check the pronunciation, enter whatever you wanna hear into the textbox on the right and hit play..

Life / Polish dentistry cost - 230 zl for one tooth cavity filling [99]

doubt that, private dentists take 100 - 200zł for a filling, it could have been worst it seems. I'd say it was not very expensive to be honest..

Life / An example of what is wrong with Poland (fatal traffic accident and a tram) [55]

horrible, horrible, horrible, he's right, give him something to drink, damn trams destroying the traffic

Life / Anybody from Sanok? Good, bads, uglies? [10]

My gf has got family there, says it's a place from which youngsters are rather moving out than staying. She says it is a place attractive to live in but not to work. You know fresh air, nice sights. But all her cousins from Sanok went for work to Cracov or outside of Europe.. so I'd rethink this choice if I were you.

Life / Some Poles have fine houses [68]

This thread is rubbish, there are people who have fine and not fine houses everywhere in the world...

UK, Ireland / POLISH CITIZENS FOUND DEAD IN UK... [36]

My first thoughts, nasty but still, would be that he killed her for some reason and killed himself after.
Many of the murders commited on Poles in UK turn out to have Poles as perpetrators. Sad Truth..

Travel / Pot holes on Polish roads - to swerve or not to swerve [26]


Yeah, especially, if you see the road crumbling in places then you can be sure, after what you've mentioned, there's gonna be a carnage later on.

Travel / Pot holes on Polish roads - to swerve or not to swerve [26]

Depending on the traffic, I usually drive onto the opposite side of the road. If it's not possible I do swerve. But, I live in small city after one or two drives I know all the locations and where to be careful ;)

Travel / Foreign beers in Krakow [18]

You might try Bomi, ul. Zakopiańska 105, 30-418 Kraków.

I never been to the one in Kraków but I did visit the one in Katowice several times at it has got a wide range of foreign goods ( in comparison to other supermarkets)

News / Far-right party organizes 'pro-Polish' march in Silesia [20]


You forgot "masonic".

Language / How to express that you want something. [6]

Or "Poproszę herbatę"

News / Poland's atheist loonies have had their 5 minutes [239]

The church is whipping up the anti-catholic hysteria by itself. There's no need for any direct action against it.

UK, Ireland / I'm going to a Polish New Years Eve Party in England, help?! [12]


Decent people know that if there is a foreign guest they should use the language which the guest knows best. , Knowing that you will feel like an outsider. they should have a friendly chat with you and try to entertain you. That's how me and my friends act if there's someone who doesn't speak polish among us... Hope you're gonna meet the right people and some boors.

Love / WHY DO POLISH MEN LIE? [150]

Well, politicians lie because they have to so do lawyers. Priests lie too. I hope it fills some of your gaps.