News / 10 year prison sentence for Polish lorry driver who killed 4 people while driving and using his mobile phone [90]


Ask any Polish traffic cop will tell you that the biggest cause of accidents is excessive speed for the given road conditions.

I see plenty of new Audi's and BMW's on their roofs and in ditches, a new car does not save a road pirate from the inevitable.

News / 10 year prison sentence for Polish lorry driver who killed 4 people while driving and using his mobile phone [90]


The accident statistics between the two countries prove you are at almost twice the risk of being killed or injured on Polish roads as opposed to the UK

Something needs to change here for the sake of everyone's families, and in my opinion it is an addiction to speed with the disregard to the prevailing road conditions.

The Polish authorities are working hard to eliminate drunk driving, they are succeeding in making it socially unacceptable to drink and drive, the same must be done to reduce excessive speed.

So far 23 people have been killed this weekend at a time when we traditionally go to pay our respects to our dead , we need to change our attitude towards excessive speed when driving.

News / 10 year prison sentence for Polish lorry driver who killed 4 people while driving and using his mobile phone [90]


Poor road conditions do not explain the fact that the majority of these accidents are due do excessive speed for the road conditions, I see it all the time here ,apart from the road pirates that have to overtake regardless of junctions or visibility, there seems to be a significant majority who pile into corners without braking appropriately then coming off the power mid corner or even braking thus running wide and ending on wrong side of the road on the exit,

Every time I approach a corner I expect a driver to be half way into my lane, this happens more often than not.

To be honest drivers of heavy Trucks here are much better than the car drivers.

The age or condition of a car here seems to have no bearing on the levels of stupidity or the frequent accidents I see here day to day.

News / 10 year prison sentence for Polish lorry driver who killed 4 people while driving and using his mobile phone [90]

Poland among the most dangerous countries in the EU

in 2015, on Polish roads killed 2,938 people. That's 77 people per million inhabitants. It is worse in only five countries: Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia.

in the same period 1,732 were killed in the uk where the population is almost twice that of Poland

Read it here in Polish.

wiadomosci.onet.pl/tylko-w-onecie/polska-w-czolowce-wypadkow-w-ue/6yrjdc

News / 10 year prison sentence for Polish lorry driver who killed 4 people while driving and using his mobile phone [90]


No way

Scores die in road accidents around Poland
A total of 23 people have died in road accidents around Poland during a long weekend ahead of All Saints Day.
An additional 338 people were injured in 272 accidents, with 776 people detained for drunk driving, police have said.

thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/277858,Scores-die-in-road-accidents-around-Poland

The weekend is not over yet, same thing happens year upon year.

Life / Is Poland a safe country for people of color? [241]


Sometimes you need to challenge them because they can hold you back, whats the worst that can happen, you spend a few great days in wroclaw then dolno does not show up?, then I suggest you go to Krakow, see the dragon and nip down the salt mines.

" pigeon," Quite right sorry, I have them on the brain at the moment

Life / Is Poland a safe country for people of color? [241]


My wife is English and only speaks a bit of pigeon Polish, but shopping is no problem at all, so they would get on fine me thinks.

Life / Is Poland a safe country for people of color? [241]

" if my wife wished to accompany me, I'd be off like a shot."

Well try and convince her , Spend a few days in Wroclaw then spend a few days in Dolnoland , summer is good.

" less than 1% of the population, they made up 58% of the UB (Stalinist secret police)."

Yes Pol that is our history too, same as the Polish pogroms. Our children and grandchildren live in today's world, I for one will not forget the murder that be·fall my family during WWII, but I will not allow that history to stop me moving forward towards a better future, and I truly believe that modern day Poland is moving forward in the same way, well apart from a few dinosaurs who are still stuck in the old soviet/Nazi groove like an old record.

Life / Is Poland a safe country for people of color? [241]


Lyzko, maybe you are right about history, today's Poland is different, you are fluent in both written and spoken Polish you would fit in here no problems at all , do you visit at all?, are you worried when you visit/ if you visit,

Life / Is Poland a safe country for people of color? [241]


Very wise words brat

Life / Is Poland a safe country for people of color? [241]


Lyzko do you think I would bother to create a special visit for you, no we will start at the local drinking den then move on to our local vet, she is the knowledge when it comes to rural dolno land, let the people speak their minds, don't worry you would be safe with me in case of the odd random lunatic.

"anti-Semitism right here in the US,"

I think you have a good point there just look at polonious and other Polams here when it comes to Jews , they must be stuck in the 18th century when their parents left whatever Poland was called at the time, they would have a shock if they came here bleating about Jews, everyone would think they were nutters.

News / 10 year prison sentence for Polish lorry driver who killed 4 people while driving and using his mobile phone [90]


Sadly so very true, we are into all saints weekend holiday at the moment , so many people die here on their way to pay their respects to the dead, horrible situation, the Police try and do their best but sadly many will die, I will post the toll, I just hope it won't be as shocking as the last few years.

Life / Is Poland a safe country for people of color? [241]


Have you first hand experience?, do you want to come here? I will pick you up, show you round , we can both be Jewish for a week , lets see what happens, and yes I am in the deepest part of Polish countryside.

Life / Is Poland a safe country for people of color? [241]


Now I would like you to back that one up with some facts, you can choose from trawling the internet or can YOU speak from your own or your family history, did Grandpa Lyzko tell you how it was?, If so we can compare it to Grandpa Dolno..., there were problems from time to time between Jews and Catholics in Poland , without doubt the Nazis and soviets both sought to use this to drive a wedge between us two peoples, pogroms, soviet jew cats , pogroms etc, yes all this this did happen , no Lyzko the Poles did not embrace the Nazi ideology, they fought against it with all they had at their disposal.

And no never did (Catholic) Grandpa Dolno (Country farmer) speak badly of the Jews, but Lyzko after the few chats we have had here think you have a bee in your bonnet and you wish to think the majority of poles were/ are Jew hating murderers , Are you not surprised that some Poles cow towed to their Nazi masters and sung to their hymn sheets to save their own skins? , this was happening all across Europe a that time. do you see weekly demonstrations in Poland against the Jewish people ?.

Move on Lyzko, Poland has moved on from those dark days, Jewish people are welcome here even in the countryside, come here and take a look, I will show you around.

News / Hypocritical PC dictatorship bans Polish film in Berlin [26]

"German news source or it didn't happen"

No it didnt happen just security concerns, Berlin is a dangerouse place these days, with many random lunatic factions

morgenpost.de/berlin/article208614171/Kino-Premiere-in-Berlin-abgesagt-Polen-sucht-neues-Kino.html

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]

Yep they don't understand either the law or the culture in Poland, Great picture by the way, she must have used allot of bleach to remove his spittle from her hand yuk.

Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]

After years of going to mass in the UK ,Radio Maria eased my way back into church in the the Polish language.

Life / Best area to live in Lower Silesia, Poland? Property in a countryside. [33]


We and others from the uk are doing the same thing , we are not far from you , can you become a full member so that we can swap emails

News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]


Poland is well experienced in surviving economic disasters , also Invasion and foreign occupation as she has proved throughout history.

We shall see as time unfolds, I personally feel that I have made the right choice to move to Poland, I feel safer,confident and I am more self sufficient to cope times of economic turmoil. others would do well to prepare, just in case, those who can't will be helped by those who can, maybe a return to the values of the II republic.

News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]


Capital flight is not much of an issue for countries who have a low level of indebtedness, Poland is ranked 31, Poland is also capable of being self sufficient when it comes to food production which counts if credit lines were ever cut.

Times in Poland would be tough for sure, but Poles have a great deal of experience when it comes to tightening their belts.

On the other hand the UK (ranked 11 and is especially at risk due to Brexit) would have riots on the streets with people looting and killing one another for food once the financial market moves away and the inevitable capital flight follows, the US is heavily dependent on the Petro Dollar, again if this changes the US would fall into chaos.

All in all Poland is at low risk from he financial markets which gives it the freedom to set its own taxes and financial regulations, without having to bow down to foreign financiers who only have their own pockets in mind.

chartsbin.com/view/38940

News / Corporate-linked EC attacks Poland's retail tax; govt suspends collection [74]

If large corporates or banks are not happy with the taxation structure within Poland they can quite simply move their business elsewhere, not as if the government is talking about nationalization , in fact the UK opposition {labour party ) has nationalization on it's manifesto that is communism.

Travel / Where can I find a beautiful lake/forest/mountain with cabin hire in Poland? [9]

If its anywhere in Poland take a look at airbnb below

airbnb.co.uk/s/Poland?page=3&property_type_id%5B%5D=4&s_tag=t96Iq9-F&allow_override%5B%5D=

Oh and ignore the resident troll above, he has recently been jilted by his girlfriend because he had smelly feet and picked his nose.

Atch I have it on good authority that the troll is from Walsall should be Walsall,Walsall.

UK, Ireland / Why English do not like Polish? [417]

"England was bombed terribly, Poland wasn't touched:" Lol

"Poland was NOT an "occupied country" Lol.

"To be sure, Poland was NOT an "occupied country" lol

Where do these kids get their history books from these days.

"Lyzko " you need to get out more and talk to the people who were there at the time.

Look up Hans Frank for a start.

I am amazed that someone with a good grasp of the Polish language knows so little about the country or its history.

UK, Ireland / Why English do not like Polish? [417]

"And finally, why did I never get to meet my grandfather ?."

That hurts me too, sad history we have.

News / Poland -- Europe's only counterweight to Russia [271]

"Russian planes that destroyed a humanitarian convoy to war-torn Syria."
This has not been proved and is still being investigated .

Unlike the US airstrike against legitimate Syrian troops that killed 62 people see below.

washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/russia-and-syria-blame-us-led-coalition-for-deadly-strike-on-syrian-troops/2016/09/17/8dabf5d6-7d03-11e6-8064-c1ddc8a724bb_story.html

I am amazed that the Syrian government allows the overflight and random bombing of its people by a invading uninvited force.

Would the US allow the Chinese fighters to roam the skies over new york in support of the black lives matter supporters, I think not.

News / Poland -- Europe's only counterweight to Russia [271]

"recently invaded a sovereign nation,"

That would be Iraq Libya and Syria, no wonder some nations are worried about US and Nato's desire to create a new world order.

Real Estate / How is the Rzeszow city for a single guy to live ? [14]

"Yesterday some Turkish students"

Are you referring to the attack in Torun? do you have a link to the Rzeszow attack.

Any attack on foreigners in Poland is deplored by the general population , Racist attacks in Poland are taken seriously by the authorities.

Sadly there are a few random lunatics that let the rest of us down.

News / Poland -- Europe's only counterweight to Russia [271]

"Oh, come on, you know nothing about Russia and their imperial mind-set. Do you even speak Russian? "

Well yes I can speak some Russian my father learned Russian while in prison in Siberia.

"Well, USA is still the best option for an ally."

I would have agreed, the fighting spirit for freedom of the American people at large is outstanding , look at Okinawa and Omaha , their bravery and contribution to the fight against the Nazis and subsequent pseudo wars against communism is without question, but I am talking about the People of America.

American politicians of today appear to have their own agendas that do not necessarily follow the fundamental values of fair play and freedom that the American population at large hold in high esteem.

Poland is too far away for any attempt of support from the US.

"as per usual Poland have no elites."

Not sure what you meant, did you mean Allies, If so that is nothing new , Piłsudski understood this only too well, hence the push to build a strong and independent Polish state

Law / How will the Zloty be against the British Pound over the next 6-12 Months [45]

pound 6-8% return

Maybe after 5 years when things calm down.

Better to Buy and rent out UK property with a guaranteed 6-7% annual return.

News / Poland -- Europe's only counterweight to Russia [271]

peterweg " Russia's plans was nuclear annilation for Poland."

That's a no no for Russia, check out the prevailing weather systems that would blow the fallout back in their faces, in fact a smart Polish strike on the nuclear complexes within the Ukraine would turn a good part of Russia into a wasteland.

"Nuking all neutral capitial cities to destroy their 'culture'."

I agree that plan would work against most other European countries.

"Nato Russia would reoccupy its former empire."

Don't think so Poland still retains its home army spirit, and it's own independent militias, from what i see on the ground here there are plenty of people prepared to fight and follow the footsteps of Solidarity and General Piłsudski, plenty of young Russian conscripts will be returning to Russia in body bags on a daily basis, Do the mothers of Russia want another Afganistan? , As I said Russia cant nuke Poland without consequences to it's own people, they can invade anytime that's for sure, but they won't have happy times in Poland sipping vodka without the fear of being shot in the back of the head.

To add Russia has no quarrel with Poland as long as it stays neutral , Piłsudski was a great believer that Poland should stand on it's own two feet in the world without outside interference and I for one would agree.