Life / Struggling young Polish couple - try to solve their problem [176]

They're not in a position to buy a house and shouldn't be given a loan under any circumstance. They're obviously having problems finding decent work. If they're highly educated, they could move to any of the larger cities and pick up an entry level job earning twice what they're making. Renting gives them the flexibility to move to where the jobs are instead of waiting for jobs to come to them. Like Harry mentioned earlier, maybe they should get jobs at McDonalds to increase their income?

BTW, I hired a guy for entry level installation work in Krakow. He's 22, I'm paying for his initial certification, and he makes almost as much as much as both of them combined.

Here's some food for thought, it's in Polish but I think it's pretty self explanatory.

Real salaries from up north of Wroclaw.

bit.ly/jHFBbu

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News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


Broken social system. Get rid of all the social welfare programs that worthless Germans have been abusing for years and you'll only get immigrants that want to work and integrate. Not that hard.

Polonia / Anyone travelling from Warsaw to New Delhi willing to take some of my belongings (photos)? [30]


That's what I mean. Just have them scanned and then ship it over. It's not very expensive.


I just edited it. Try to make the subject very clear to avoid confusion. Having someone "carry some of your stuffs" sounds a bit... peculiar. Asking someone to transport photos that you'd rather not have lost in the mail sounds a bit more legit.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


That's a hijab, not a niqab. Hijabs are perfectly legal.

PS, the Muslim graves from your article desecrated with a swastika seems a bit ironic, don't you thing?

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


Because they need them to support the broken welfare system. Check please! The migrants that don't work are very public, the ones that have integrated and are our shopkeepers, teachers, mechanics, LKW drivers, construction workers, those are the ones that we look over...

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

They're becoming more and more diluted everyday because people are happy not having to be burden with the task of making decisions, and following through with actions.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

The government reacts when enough people sound the alarm...as can be seen with:


Again, one of the major problems with the EU. Governing further and further away from the will of the people. With any luck, they'll end the broken experiment that governs so far away from the citizens that it's hopelessly out of touch.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


The answer isn't nationalism and hatred though. I think the answer is smack dab in the middle. There is no reason that a society should be forced to accept something that it doesn't want in the name of multiculturalism. Immigration shouldn't be allowed without integration.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


So you don't think there's any truth in what he's saying? None at all? You'll just discount it with that? Seems a bit simple, or?

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


Which explains why so many go to Egypt and Turkey....

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


Mozhaysky's plane required a ramp a get airborne, at which point it came back down 30m later. The flat "wing" acted as a parachute, it did not create lift. Still gotta hand it to him for having that spirit. Pearse on the other hand might have a valid claim...


Baran was in charge of managing the DARPA project, Kleinrock is the one who came up with the concept of switching. No one took credit for the whole shebang, because all those guys were above it and knew how much work everyone put in (including their predecessors). Palo Alto must have been an awesome place back then.

Back to the topic, I think it's ridiculous to take self-pride of people that you've never met. You often hear terms like "we" when referring to achievements by fellow countrymen...when the truth is that "we" didn't do anything at all.

USA, Canada / US citizenship via US Army [50]


So the stipulation is that you have to be involved in combat? If you're stationed stateside and don't see combat, you're ok...and if you're deployed, you're in violation?

USA, Canada / US citizenship via US Army [50]


It's completely enforceable. I'm guessing it would be used in conjunction with some other charge as opposed to on its own.

There is an easy way to make it legal, tell the ministry of interior your intentions. I'm guessing most people don't...

USA, Canada / US citizenship via US Army [50]


Polish law apparently calls for sentences of up to 5 years in prison if a Polish citizen willingly joins a foreign military without permission.

History / Why did Russia attack Poland in WW2? [178]


Most people think of the Wehrmacht at the time as being some steel and diesel killing machine... People seem to forget that it was literally horsepower, not diesel engines, that moved the army.


Didn't Jodl make that comment after the war?

USA, Canada / US citizenship via US Army [50]

That last part on that link is very interesting...

"Polscy eksperci przypominają, że obywatele Polski nie mogą służyć w armiach innych państw bez zgody MSWiA. Walka w obcym mundurze bez zezwoleniato przestępstwo zagrożone karą 5 lat więzienia."

5 years in the pokey for Poles that join a foreign military?

Travel / Polish Lot - Serving Alcohol [14]

Don't get wasted on the flight back.

Travel / Polish Lot - Serving Alcohol [14]

It's based on the laws of the country in which the plane is registered. If you're flying LOT, it's no problem. In all honesty, the chances of you being ID'd are basically nil.

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


They are good, save for some moaning and whining every once in a while.

News / US air base to be in Poland [193]


In that case the referendum will come in October. Poles can vote in representatives who will express their will.

I think that you grossly underestimate the desire of quite a few Poles to have allies willing to defend them. There isn't exactly a huge "get out of NATO" movement.

And again, it's simply not of concern for most Poles in Poland. F16s, Patriots, ABM... the man on the street doesn't care.

News / US air base to be in Poland [193]

Not according to the Constitution. The Polish government requesting F16s in Poland is a "major issue"? No change of the Constitution, no referendum needed. If the people are displeased, they'd vote their representatives out of power. Truth is, most people don't care.

News / US air base to be in Poland [193]

So uh, who did you guys vote for? Are you discrediting the idea of representative democracy as a whole? What's your alternative?

News / US air base to be in Poland [193]


Poland is a representative democracy, not a direct democracy. No referendum needed seanus.


By you, but not by the democratically elected leaders of Poland.

News / US air base to be in Poland [193]

No, it's not barging in. When one government requests it....how is that barging in? Why don't the people in Poland vote leaders into power that don't request a US presence in Poland?

Those F16's could be based at an effective FOB, not Poland.

News / US air base to be in Poland [193]


No one is barging in. Here's the problem...No F16's, and NATO isn't living up to it's obligations in protecting "us" from the Russians....F16's, and the US is trying to build an empire... It's lose-lose... I suppose that's why the whiners are tuned out.

You watch the news, look at what happened with the missile base. It went from "you're trying to colonize us !@!@!" to "you're abandoning us!!@!@".

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


And again, those people consider themselves Cheeeerrrman. Otherwise, why wouldn't they acknowledge that they're Poles?


Goodbye fascist-statist whiner! Man, whatever happened to that Polish sense of pride? Sad...Sad...

Say hi to the family :)

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


Hard facts are that the Polish minority areas are now called "Poland". Was it wrong to take it away at the time? Of course. Was it wrong not to reinstate them after the minority areas became part of Poland? Puhlease...

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


Statist! It probably would have been reinstated had the areas in which the Polish minority were living were still part of Germany...


Why? What do Poles achieve by being declared a minority? And, for bonus points, how are Poles being discriminated against?

Didn't care much for the Kempka comment eh? I quite liked it :) A "Pole" in the SS drove Hitler around... and a Pole (Gerda Daranowski) was Hitler's personal secretary surely typing up all kinds of terrible things against her fellow countrymen...

See, I think they were Germans, despite their ancestors. You think they were Poles. Bizarre world oh oracle of the North.

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


Which law AGAINST Poles? You want a law enacted to grant minority status, not vice versa.

News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]


Again, this is coming from a starry-eyed (handsome at the time) kid that was loving all things Polish, and made no attempt to hide it.


Which is really interesting because the only people that I came across that spoke Polish were immigrants. Again, not a scientific study, but interesting nonetheless. Some of the folks were close family friends, no Polish to be heard...


In my opinion, a gross mistake, despite the fact that they've lived in Germany for the last 600 years. There should be no minority groups, neither in Germany nor in Poland.