Life / Will Polish people be accepting that im only half polish? [63]


Speak for yourself.


First of all his semi-literate writing.


I live in Poland, and people would recoil if he said that in polite society. Also I doubt he'd be able to 'keep it to himself'.

I come from one of the most multicultural places in the world and there's less crime than Greater Warsaw or Gorny Slask. It has its good areas and its bad ones but they aren't explicitly deliniated by ethnicity.

I suspect his real reason for wanting to escape to a country he has no real connection with is a bit more complicated.

History / Polabia back to Slavs? [113]


Not all. Some of the villages around me have names barely changed for 1200 years.

But it isn't just the names. I know at least one place in Poland where the people who moved into the village after the expulsion of the Germans ripped all the gravestones out of the cemetary and built an onion dome on the church.

Poles had perhaps a little more justification in doing that, coming at the end of a bloody war (but only a little - magnanimity in victory didn't surface much in that village) than people who are doing that now. It is also wrong to object (as certain Polish politicians have done) to the expelled Germans commemorating their personal history. It is very wrong - trying to use nomenclature to erase history.

Life / Will Polish people be accepting that im only half polish? [63]



If the cap fits, wear it.


They just wouldn't like some foreign racist coming back. Sure he might be half Polish, but the guy is obviously semi-literate, can't handle where he lives and people in Poland would be either annoyed or amused that someone who has failed so badly in the land of plenty needs to escape to a place he's never been to and has little connection with except some ancestry.

History / Polabia back to Slavs? [113]


And how many people are able to communicate in Saxon, Brythonic, Latin or Norman French, to name but four languages that have left placenames within a ten mile radius of where I am now.

News / Multi-culti (in Poland) -- roadmap to disaster? [344]


Pretty much the same thing if you're denied a place at univerity due to race rather than merit.

History / Polabia back to Slavs? [113]

Taught in all schools. Perhaps some nationalities are more generously-minded than others.

Real Estate / Foreigner buying house with 'Rolna'/Rural land in Poland - ever possible? Advice/help. [38]


It makes no difference. Depends on the ownership of the company.

History / Polabia back to Slavs? [113]


Who said it was German - the root of the word is from another non-Slavic language. Do your homework.


And many never had such a name - some are post-war creations. But you knew that anyway.


Ah. Comfort above respect for a town or village's history.


And the three examples you name are still called that by their inhabitants - now Ireland's independent very few towns have felt the need to manipulate the maps.

Law / Maintenance & Rights: Polish mother & child in Poland, Irish father in the UK [57]

So in fact nonsense. AQnd no suggestion that the OP's ex-girlfriend was on the game.

History / Polabia back to Slavs? [113]


According to some of the long-distance slavophiles here.


I don't see why not. Nobody's thought of changing the names of Theydon Bois or Ulleskelf.


Why not? They didn't change the name of Liw.

Language / Unique names of cities/town/villages in Poland [58]


Quite a long way from Cockermouth.

Language / Unique names of cities/town/villages in Poland [58]


In some ways Warsaw is like a Russian woman. On one side Ochota and Wola, on the other Bródno and Włochy.

In Poland, I always want to leave Liw.

History / Polabia back to Slavs? [113]


One of the most interesting things in some countries is the diverse origin of placenames. It was a shame Poland changed so many.

History / Polabia back to Slavs? [113]


By the same logic Calais would be English.

Being funded by EU money to make up for the decades of stagnation while under Polish rule.

Real Estate / Foreign investor, properties in Poland, walk away from mortgages? [209]


Exactly - have a look at 19dzielnica - there are possibilities.

Law / Tax in Poland - tricks to avoid PIT? [41]


Actuall I've paid more tax in Poland than you ever will - and never had any problems with the various deductions to make on the PIT. CIT is of course a different thing, which you really ought to learn about.

Law / Tax in Poland - tricks to avoid PIT? [41]

Sadly for him, accuracy and common sense are a much lower priority than being argumentative. It often surprises me how some many Poles know far less about their country and her laws and customs than people who have come from elsewhere.

Who by the way the U.S are stopping treating differently and no longer persecuting as they did a ferw years ago.

Law / Tax in Poland - tricks to avoid PIT? [41]


What a strange comment. Slightly better in English but still some way to go - remember there are some good teachers who post here - two come to mind, however the Callan Method may suit you better.

You'll find when you are old enough to start working and paying tax here in Poland that quite a lot of staff from the tax office do people's PIT for them. It's an important sideline for people working there and of course they know exactly what they're talking about.


As a Polish taxpayer I never found the deadline a problem. Only people who a) don't understand the system, b) are too cheap (or just don't earn enough) to get a professional to do it or c) have messed up their affairs have a 'pain in the backside'.


It's not just you. He is indeed clueless and is digging himself deeper into a hole. Remember he is some kid who has never paid tax, let alone run a business.

Law / Tax in Poland - tricks to avoid PIT? [41]


More stupidity from you. And not very clear English - I can recommend a couple of good teachers if you like. By the way, my last few PITs were done by a friend who is a tax inspector.


Actually there are quite big variations between the different systems operating in Europe.


Further stupidity. One day, when you are old enough to go out and get a job, you will begin to understand the system.

Right now you have no clue.

Law / Tax in Poland - tricks to avoid PIT? [41]


Suddenly? What have you been smoking? Some of here have been paying tax in Poland since you were in short trousers. And some of us have the pleasure of no longer having to ;-)

Law / Tax in Poland - tricks to avoid PIT? [41]


It seems you do not know how the tax system works. Or the difference between a spółka and personal działaność gospodarcze (or the various tax and accounting options for a działaność). If you are in a spółka, that is taxed as a seperate entity. It is not you. The company has its PIT. You have your personal PIT. If you have regestered działaność gospodarcze, that is your personal economic activity (and not a company) and you are taxed personally on the income you decalare in your personal PIT.


Odd. I've never discussed my own PIT here. Though for the record I've had a Społka z o.o. which paid tax (and I paid personal tax) and I've also legally conducted economic activity (through a registered działaność gospodarcze) on which I've paid tax personally. I've also been an employee, and paid (higher rate) tax personally on my income.

My situation now is, though highly enviable, legal and recognised in Poland and elsewhere under Interrnational Maritime Law and none of your business.

Law / Tax in Poland - tricks to avoid PIT? [41]


It seems you don't know much about the Polish tax system - and especially the concept of personal działaność gospodarcze and the way it is taxed.

The issue in this thread is Poles living elsewehere in the Union expecting to receive highly developed benefits and various Polish politicians who are criticising a politician in another EU state who is simply suggesting that his country should treat Polish citizens the way Poland treats others.

Ther concept of reciprocity has long been at the heart of Poland's international relations. It seems that some elements here only like things to be weighted unfairly in their favour.

Travel / The cheapest way to travel to Poland from UK? [6]

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The coach isn't a bargain. Dearer than the plane and not nice. Flights aren't as cheap as they used to be but you can sometimes get a bargain if you book well in advance on an unpopular day.

Marlboro are about £2.50. Warsaw is the best city to visit, in my opinion. Krakow is pretty but tourist-ridden and nothing special.

News / Poland warns against deporting its workers: hypocrisy? [35]

Henk Kamp is a fool and an extremist. But nevertheless Poland should afford others the same benefits its citizens receive elsewhere. Quickly.

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

Looks like there'll be nothing left of them by October, providing Tusk keeps wowing the audience during the EU presidency and Ziobro keeps making a fool of himself.

Life / How do Polish people in Poland respond to Polish people abroad....? [17]


Students would be welcoming. The only people who might be awkward are people you would want to avoid anyway. If you come, you'll find that student life here (especially Warsaw, Wroclaw, Krakow) is good.

News / Car theft in Warsaw (the most popular cars among car thieves in Poland) [54]


Pure comedy. Why not look at the arrest statistics rather than trolling about things you don't have any connection to.

Oops, I forgot - they're in Polish so you can't understand them.

News / Car theft in Warsaw (the most popular cars among car thieves in Poland) [54]


If you'd been here, you'd know that there have been far bigger changes - the move to free-market capitalism and the progress of a young democracy among them.

Now stop trolling and slither back into your swamp.

News / Car theft in Warsaw (the most popular cars among car thieves in Poland) [54]


And 'read' is all, since you are talking about a country you have never even bothered to visit (& probably wouldn't like if you did) and a nation you are not part of.

Off-Topic / Countries and your associations in 5 words/descriptions. [56]


It's really worth seeing - and the main road goes right past. There's a very nice (and cheap) restaurant on that road.