News / PiS wants symmetry for minorites living in Poland [71]

Polonius
I respect your views but your boy's words and stance vis' a vis Poland's German minority is, to put it plainly, vulgar and inconsistent in a democracy.

Shame on him and on all who agree with him.
The Germans have lived on that soil for a long time (unlike the newly-transplanted Poles on German soil)
and their status in Poland is inherently different than the Polish immigrants'.................
Has Kaczynski brought up a similar issue with the Lithuanians?
Here the comparison is more apt.

Food / How natural is food in Poland? [25]


-bigos (you can google it)
-kotlet schabowy (pork chops, more or less)
-placki ziemniaczne po Węgersku (potato pancakes covered in a paprikasz-like sauce)

History / History and old pictures from Nowa Huta [11]


Where's that huge statue of Lenin? lol

History / History and old pictures from Nowa Huta [11]

great fotki f stop.
thanks for sharing

Love / How do I tell her how I feel? Working with a Polish woman. [24]

That's good news.
Hopefully, you'll be able to visit her...................keep us posted!

News / Krakow, Poland considers co-hosting the Winter Olympic in 2022 with Slovakia (UPDATE) [30]

Using the same logic, Poland/Slovakia stand a very high chance of being awarded the Winter Olympics, but it would mean creating easy transport crossing across the mountains. At the moment, it's more than 2 hours to travel the 50km between Zakopane and Chopok, and that's in normal traffic not Olympic traffic, and therefore these two countries have no chance.

How valid is Richfilth's point regarding mountain traffic?

News / Krakow, Poland considers co-hosting the Winter Olympic in 2022 with Slovakia (UPDATE) [30]


forgive me, then why even try? Why go through all of this if it's only a pipe dream?

News / Krakow, Poland considers co-hosting the Winter Olympic in 2022 with Slovakia (UPDATE) [30]

I completely forgot about all those existing resources like the student dorms.
Maybe it makes sense

History / An American studying medicine in the PRL 1978-1985: my story [142]

The melina
How many of you are familiar with the pain and frustration associated with running out of alcohol just when the party's gaining momentum? You know,

people are getting relaxed. The awkwardness of unfamiliarity begins to melt as the Wyborowa is being poured. Each successive "na zdrowie" loosening stiff anglophonic tongues. Just as shy Americans begin opening up to their equally reticent Polish hosts, those awful, nails-on-blackboard sounding words "nie ma wódki" are spoken. Those who have been there know how immediate the deflation can be. What made things worse back then was the fact that all the stores were closed by 6pm! (I think the Pewex closed an hour later) making a quick vodka run impossible.

The Polish solution? The melina, which translates into den, joint, was an after-hours vodka shop run by fellow-students, located in your dorm. How convenient!!
Everyone knew where their melina was. His room number was common knowledge. Should you forget and had no one to ask, you could always go to the portier, the lobby guy. He always knew who was selling.

The melina guy was the dealer of spirits when "just one more" was needed and you just had to have it.
You paid double but you didn't care...............I was so impressed by the business these guys were doing, that my roommate PT and I started our own.

BIG MISTAKE!
Most of the people who knocked at your door came after 2am, were stinking drunk, obnoxious and tried to stiff you!
Needless to say, our days as melina operators was shortlived................Chalk another one for experience.

News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]


you may be right but I don't think it has anything to do with Tusk himself. Maybe the perception of too much change too quickly has made people uneasy; what they're asking for is a breather, a break.

Life / Czas honoru (Time of honoru) TV serial [38]

I too saw it.

USA, Canada / Homeless Poles in NYC [25]


possibly but not for me.
It runs pretty deep on my father's side.

USA, Canada / Homeless Poles in NYC [25]

And I'll never go home now because of the shame
Of misfit's reflection in a shop window pane......................great line.
The song is relevant to all, who leave their homes in search of work.


Pretty much.................My wife's an ER nurse in a busy metropolitan hospital just outside New York City. I can count on her calling me at home at least twice a week to interpret for the medical staff whenever a Pole ends up being brought there. Mostly it's for being drunk. Sometimes it's for jobsite accidents. The most pathetic being this one guy from Lublin area. He was a day-worker for some Latino construction company (those of you living in the States will easily see the irony in this). He had the misfortune of falling off the roof and breaking a few ribs. He spoke no English, hence the call to me. Turns out he's been in country for 8 years alone; has no address, no insurance, nothing. No one from the jobsite accompanied him................I speak to these guys about 6-8 times a month. I ask them all why they don't go back to Poland and they all say they have nothing to go back to. It's a very sad situation.

Love / How do I tell her how I feel? Working with a Polish woman. [24]


Good for you Brumdave, good for you!

Love / How do I tell her how I feel? Working with a Polish woman. [24]

I got so frustrated with you Dave after reading your post!
I've been in that exact situation back in the day and I have my regrets.
You see, I didn't act.
Don't be a pajac (dummy)!
If anything, get her contact information!!!!
By the sound of it she wasn't turned off by you SO you have a shot.
TAKE THE SHOT DAVE...........good luck
keep us posted please

Life / Christmas in Poland - commercial, religious, family get together or what? [23]


Me too!
Back in the day during PRL I spent my first 3 Wigilias na Śląsku.
It was a serene time.
The emphasis was on family, food and Jesus' birth.
Those are among the best memories I have from that time

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]


I never realized how deep the divide is between the right wing and others.
It's frightening actually.
Who would've thought such a thing could be possible in Poland.
welcome to the modern world I guess :(

Law / How to get a private NIP number in Poland (for a foreigner) ? [28]

reading these posts gave me a headache! lol
what's a NIP?

Life / Christmas in Poland - commercial, religious, family get together or what? [23]


same here :(

Life / Czas honoru (Time of honoru) TV serial [38]


men love war stories

Life / Czas honoru (Time of honoru) TV serial [38]


I'm watching it now.
It's very interesting........I like to where all the characters arrived
good stufff.

Law / Ease of doing business in Poland [32]


things have improved in a year.
now Poland's in 55th place up from 74.

UK, Ireland / Need Polish Dentist, Polish Cakemaker, Polish Hair Saloon (UK, Manchester area) [49]

then you've never lived among Indians ;)

News / Poland's Ruch Narodowy - should it be banned? [62]


Right
I forgot about that

News / Poland's Ruch Narodowy - should it be banned? [62]

Ruch Narodowy - should it be banned?

How can you ban something in a democracy?

Life / Abrupt Poles explained ! [51]


quite possibly true.
my wife, who is Asian, sits next to me while I'm watching Polish TV on occasion.
she is constantly telling me how soft the language is.
This softness I myself do not hear.

Life / Abrupt Poles explained ! [51]


Agreed!
Polish's insistence on proper decorum when addressing strangers used to drive me nuts :)
Pan magister, Pani Profesor, Pan Kierownik,......Proszę Pana, Niech Pan pozwoli,.........

Language / Jeden hamburger / jednego hamburgera [7]

Hahaha
We used to do exactly that back in the day! lol

Language / Jeden hamburger / jednego hamburgera [7]


I get it :)
Ok then, it's jednego hamburgera from now on!