UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]

Oh she's just wrong. England is so much better, that if something somewhere is not perfectly ideal, but better than in England, then it's still worse, because the betterness of England is just so much better. And if somehting somewhere is worse, then it just proves that England was better in the first place. That's why there's no need in improving anything - it's better anyway.

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]


Sorry about that, Szkotja

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]


Ah yes. They are no longer the brave seamen, but they still have this piratical attitude ;) They make good friends once you bash through this roughness on the surface.

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]

Sorry to upset you, mod. of course there are good sides. and there are bad sides as well, like someone I know who can't get and endocrinology appointment because the NHS queue is so long... since 2007. Not that we don't have queues in Poland - of course we do.

What I picked out was of particular interest to me - why i can't just go to a gyno and have to speak to a general practitioner? I do anyway, I go to Poland for my doctors (except what I would see a first contact doctor anyway), my hair, nails and teeth. Which means a bad hair day most of the time. It would just be easier if all those things were in place.

And I really don't think female health is at it's best, but that of course means that 'best' is not the same for everyone. It seems that in the UK people suffer it through and persevere with it, rather than go to the doctor and complain and get cured. That must be linked to your WW experience, the great plagues, the famines, even the fencing of the pastures. It's very brave, but in modern times shouldn't be necessary.

And midwife is a położna, they are working in Poland as well. I think they are regarded as birth nurses, not doctors, and therefore don't lead a case.

Language / Polish Language in Lates 1800's [7]


really??? I didn't realise it sounded bad to you. to us it's beautiful, it's taught in acting schools. L-epentetyczne.

News / Interactive German-Polish Map [19]


do Austrians count? I've got a Queen here that I like, Cecilia Renata

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Renata_of_Austria

Language / Polish Language in Lates 1800's [7]

Both. Before the TV, before the mass movements of WW2, there were more differences in regional Polish. Some forms evolved, too.

For example, the word kobieta used to be more like kobita - that's how Mickiewicz uses it for building rhymes.

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]


do you suggest I should sit at home??? Of course I need to do something! I'm not a wag. I'm a resident and pay taxes here. Yes.

I didn't say that our system was perfect. It is far from it.

Could you please stay on the topic that you started with your original post on page one.

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]

What a silly question. I'm running a firm, I'm self employed. Before that i was working as an Assistant Accountant. My family has never taken money from other people.

(though due to Socialism, if my family bought milk in Poland, it automatically meant using subsidies. Satanic system)

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]

Can't right now. have to wait till the champagne place investment pays off anyhow. Some immigrant, I am. My Parents have send me start up money from Poland.

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]


That's the point. I didn't. I'm living in another EU country for a while. And I'm treated like a fire escapee rowing a boat for the paradise on Earth.

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]


of please. why one word of criticism is ALWAYS, EVERY SINGLE TIME, taken by anglophones as sign of deep hatred? There are some things I hate, of course. There are many things I love, and I even made a long list once. Why would I not be able to live for a while here and there? Especially that I get to see the underbelly, like Alabama in the US

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]


ah yes. I'm feeling very drained.
and I didn't want to come or need to come, I'm only here for my boyfriend while his pumping up his CV. Why do people call us immigrants?

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]

Not, it was a British woman. That company hired only one Polka - me.

Oh, and I've found something about midwives - położne are being sucked out by the UK, of course.

(Like they suck out everyone else. Poland trains people and pays for the education, and then Britain sends their recruitment fairs here and steals our educated people. And if only they've given them proper jobs, but no. They take educated people to underpay them, while calling us job stealers!)

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]

of course, convex. but they really HAVE a good policy in place, if not good exercise of this policy. I would like to mention good things if they are true and bad things if they are true. I don't want to select credible examples easy to believe for everyone, because that creates this strange bubble of misinformation that people in the Island live in.

(for truth, I'm now adding that in Poland we also live in a bubble. English bubble is about how grand is this Island, while it's poorly housed. Polish bubble is about thinking about inferiority complexes and German/Russian politics, like there were no other countries in the world and no other problems)

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]

I love that comment, convex. How aggressive the Anglophones get when hearing that they are not 'ze bestest'. It explains a lot of things to me.

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]

I did notice a completely different attitude in England to breeding.

My Polish friends who are trying for a baby go to a przychodnia a year earlier, get toxoplasmosis and other pet influences (this one is from keeping a cat) treated, then they get vaccines, then they get vitamins and minerals, visit a doctor during pregnancy, get carefully weighed.

In England they just go ahead, grow a bump, and call a midwife.

You can see the difference in breeding rates here: Poland -0,47% last year, England +0,279%.

I prefer our way as more civillised, but I bet you prefer your as more traditional. It's just a shame that when a colleague from one company gave birth, her STD got in the baby's eyes (cured successfully later)

It's all very dreadful.

But, if you want to compare things, Russia has even higher medical and hygiene policies.

[On the side: Aligning ours with the Eastern Bloc is one of the good things (naturally, apart from all the bad things) for Poland, because it let us keep the heritage of old Polis scientists, like Jędrzej Śniadecki. That and a proper łaźnia bath and you can't go wrong]

Law / Visa Stamp if you overstay (American with a Polish Wife) [29]

But his wife is Polish... claim a spouse's right to become a citizen... It's prefectly legal. Might have to do it through a solicitor, I guess.

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]


We don't do it to check if she has an STD, we do it because in Poland doctors recommend to get a check up every six month for a sexually active person. Like checking the teeth exery six months. And guys go with the girl before her first time, to show care, because the first pelvic is always kinda scary for a young girl.

Work / English classes in Polish? (college) [3]

Hi, Sammy,
the classes are prescribed, you can't select them. There are classes from each topic: geography, chemistry, physics, math, Polish language, Polish history.

That means you would not be learning American History or English as a local language.

You can transfer the grades, a lot of people from Poland study in the US. This will require hiring a professional translator to do you grade sheet, and will be around $100.

Locations... well, if you are talking about a high school, they are everywhere. The ranking schools are mentioned in Rzeczpospolita every year, but I don't recomment them.

perspektywy.pl/pdfy/rankingi/2009/ogolnopolski_ponadgimnazjalne/Ogolnopolski_Ranking_Szkol_Ponadgimnazjalnych_2009.pdf
You would have years of Polish History backlog. And there are different programs than in the US, for example you would be taught differencials at 17yo in Poland - and in the US only if you took Math Honors.

If you are talking about a college, then we don't have many, they are mostly 5 year Universities. Warsaw Uni is good for Math and programming, Lodz is good in Polish Language, Krakow is good in History, Gliwice is good in Automation, Engineering, etc. The Unis are divided to Politechnics for engineers, and Universities for MAs. If all you want is a two year bachelors, try the Clark's, which is a Polish division of the American school.

There are dorm rooms. They are mostly at barrack standard as young people in Poland are expected to be a little Spartan and mostly preoccupied with partying anyway. But foreginers usually get the nice dorm to themselves.

In Poland the dorm is cheaper, the college is free if you pay taxes in poland. So you will probably have to pay, unless you claim citizenship quickly and register a living with your Polish relatives. Food and drink is more expensive than in the US, you can't pay $6 to eat all you can eat. but use student catneens. That's like any school food. A drink in a bar costs 8-15PLN, which would be $3-5 depending on the exchange rate. Clothes are definitely more expensive, bring them with you.

Life / Wearing "strange" things for poles and consequences, is it true? [44]

One more observation I and my friends made in my country: one guy is all right, a group of guys is regarded as potential trouble, but if the group is with girls, or it's a couple, then there is no trouble expected. People will just stop noticing you.

so after dark - wear a girlfriend.

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]


yes, she might have slept with an Islander already or sat on a pub toilet, without realising the risk.

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]


no, you book your visit in a practice, saying: I want a gynaecologist, an optician and a nurse for my blood test, and you have three visits in the same hour. Unless you go somewhere deadly crowded, but my town in Poland is small.

What are shmishmorshions?

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]

My experience is that they are good and they are available in Poland

UK, Ireland / Female health in Britain - Polish view [105]

Why, is a pelvic scaring you into sarcasm?

News / Do you think Germany will stop buying out Polish media? [15]

No, hatred is a propaganda tool to justify stupid economic decisions, Seanus. They really were good citizens. But as Soviets needed to prove a thousand years of hatred to justify brotherly love, so Americans need Polish-Russian conflict and Polish German probably.

do you think I hate someone because of their press corporations? Not really. It's financially disagreeable for me. Simples.

History / Actually, there never was any Polish-German hatred [149]

Seanus, in Silesia up until the 70s you wouldn't get served in shops if you spoke Polish. You had to pretend it was half-broken German.

Problem with Śląsk is bigger, it's a tri cultural region. Czechs influenced it greatly and people are still connected to their Czech families. So Germans could just go and visit their Polish and Czechian families. If they weren't so freaked out.

History / Actually, there never was any Polish-German hatred [149]

Seanus, thanks, you are kind to be so compassionate about the dead. I apprieciate it.

But I also see only one argument in this thread agains my point - that there was a war.

Yes, there was a terrible war and we have had huge losses. I am saying 'we', but I was not alive at the time. No chance of guessing how I would do in combat.

But it's been two generations ago. The history is distorted, my generation is taught bollocks about what happened. Bleaching the US and UK is just dumb. They have their things to answer for. And they try to put the blame of killing European Jewish Diaspora on Poles. Fraking chancers.

But anyway. Grieving has not been done properly, because the war for us was much longer, largely due to the Communism inflicted by our Slavonic brethren. So we still have strong feelings about the venerable deceased. Kaczynski is doing the good thing to hold all those sad celebrations. It was done long ago in other countries.

About the Germans: we are Poles and we do not use the group responsibility in our culture. We believe that sons are not guilty of what fathers had done. So aren't the grandsons. Also, about what happened before this war. Germans were good citizens, good neighbours, good employees and business partners. I hope that they will be all those things again.

I also want to remind that the Germans who chose the Republic rather than Imperial dreams of mr. H had been fighting on Polish side, like my half-Polish Grandmother Sprinz, or at least sat it out in an oflag, like her Father, German immigrant to Poland (well.... Lida)

So I have absolutely nothing against being friends with Germans again. I would be cautious about the politics, naturally, but not as much as the US/UK tandem. I would be cautious because even though normal people are good neighbours, politicians are not.