Genealogy / Mixed-Blood Poles in America (Do we count?) [118]


What things did you hear?


I am not Polish and I live in Poland.
I think Europeans have accepted that Americans are very mixed, in my opinion this is a very good thing.


Expect brutality not so much honesty.

Genealogy / Mixed-Blood Poles in America (Do we count?) [118]


I would imagine most count, at least to ten.

Ah, I'm just joshing you.

Hello and welcome.

News / Poland's budget problems = Polish funerals [27]


I remember a good few years ago, one Dublin gangster who had many warrants for crimes in Ireland, was caught in Amsterdam because he didn't buy a ticket for a tram, they did a background check and deported him back to Ireland.

Apart from the translation, it shouldn't cost that much to have a E.U. criminal data base and we would all reap the benefit.


It is times like this that I love not having a TV.

Are we on the right thread?

News / Poland's budget problems = Polish funerals [27]


I suppose this is kind of what the thread is about, cut backs on the budget and I suppose the voters are not too concerned with these cases.


How do they do it in the U.S.? anyone?

They have been doing this cross (state) boarder stuff for a while, I just wonder if they have a better system?

News / Poland's budget problems = Polish funerals [27]


What's the CSA?

I was amazed recently, with the English social services.
My mate in Ireland has a son with a Scottish woman in London.
She is mad and the social services in England want my friend's son to live with his father, as it is the best for the child.

I can't remember exactly but they gave my friend between 1000 and 3000 pounds to use finding a lawyer and getting custody.
A social worker flew over to Ireland and checked my friend's situation and it was clear that the child would benefit the most from living in Ireland with his father.

I am really impressed with this, as it really shows that they have the child's well being at heart.

Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]


The most "Classical English" I have ever heard from any country was in South Africa.
Those lads have been left alone for faaaaaaar too long.
They call traffic lights 'robots' for crying out loud! hahahahaha.

People use English in many languages all over the world because America is the world super power. This will change of course as super powers come and go.

News / Poland's budget problems = Polish funerals [27]


I know this is becoming off topic now but one last question, since the conversation has gone this way.

Who enforces a European Arrest Warrant? I mean say I leave my 15 children here (in Poland) and go back to Ireland.
Would it be the local gardai (Police) that I would expect knocking on my door? and if so would Polish law apply or Irish law, since I am in Ireland yet my children are in Poland? for more serious crimes would I be deported?


You'd imagine that many are legally employed and pay taxes and can be tracked?

News / Poland's budget problems = Polish funerals [27]


Just out of curiosity, do they track an absent parent if they leave for another E.U. country?
(not that I have any plans of course).

This is where I think the E.U. ought to be more like the U.S. and have state law (in our case country laws) and federal laws ( in our case Interpol).

To make sure it is easier for laws to be enforced, like that other thread with the paedophile that was caught.

Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]


I don't mind so much when they at least make some kind of sense but come on... ;)


A Pub by any other name is still a Pub.

Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]


What have you a bee in your bonnet about?
Only a complete idiot would think Poland and Ireland are the same country, are you such a person? you sound like it.



You're both in the Nile, the Irish use of the English language is the hybrid, youz are the dregs ;p

Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]



Irish usage is definitely the best because you can say weekend anyway you like and it still means the same thing, THE PUB! :)

Language / I teach English to some Polish people - how to explain them tenses? [33]


Yes I think there are about 7 cases in Polish (one is not often used) and in English there are two. I could be wrong anyway.

And they are very irregular in comparison to English but I don't think Polish has as many tenses as English.

How many tenses does Polish have?
5? It's a bit unclear.


This is the best way to teach Polish people, even though it is not in use people still know it.

News / When money dies,blame the Poles. [32]

You were just ten minutes too late replying.
See my post above, bad dog! ;)

Language / I teach English to some Polish people - how to explain them tenses? [33]


If I find out in the future that Polish has more than the twelve tenses English has, it will surprise me.


If only my present was perfect and my past perfectly simple...

News / When money dies,blame the Poles. [32]


Yes, I agree.


The Irish government were incompetent during the good years and are disastrous now.


Absolutely agreed.

Travel / Any PRACTICAL advice for a new visitor to Warsaw? [29]


You are going to have to tell us all about it :)

News / When money dies,blame the Poles. [32]

Is it really that hard to understand that the Poles who went to work legally in other countries are there because that was the government's policy of that country?

When times were good, there were 45,000 job vacant in Ireland per annum.
Face it Southern, the overwhelming majority of the Greek and Irish financial crisis rests squarely with the Greeks and the Irish.
Ireland went completely mad, there was such over valuation on the housing market that a house you could have bought for 40,000 Euro before was, ten years later, worth one million Euro. It was more expensive in Dublin (population app 1 million) than London (population app 14 million). Banks were giving loans to people left right and centre.

Ireland is € 86,692,075,835 in debt and it's growing Dept clock and there are only 4 million people in the country.

As for Greece, at least Ireland had a fantastic time and built infrastructure and modernised before it went mad and inevitably in to a recession.

Sure Ireland was the E.U's 'golden boy' but Greece?
You even lied about what was happening in your own country, how's that the immigrants fault?

I know you are just going to blame someone else for your own short comings and therefore you will never improve because you will never look at the actual problem and learn from it, so you are destined to repeat it.


Banks no?

News / Nigel Kennedy on Poland (Positive and Negative Thoughts) [25]


He is very well known in the Kraków Philharmonic.

Maybe you could elaborate on his opinions?

News / When money dies,blame the Poles. [32]


And now imagine that the banks of today were run by immigrants like back then, double trouble.


I can't imagine any time throughout history that foreign workers did not mean cheap labour.
I believe the point this gentleman is making is the foreign workers did not create the problem but the government's policy.
Personally I don't know why the banks aren't being hung drawn and quarter instead of being bailed out.


Again it has nothing to do with 'Telling the Poles' anything, it is up to your government's policies who gets in to you country.

The U.S.A. has become less attractive to Polish people recently because it is easier and cheaper to go and work legally in Europe.

There used to be a cue down the road outside the American consulate, here in Krakow, of people trying to get visas for the States.

They had to pay hundreds of non-refundable Zloty to just get the interview and most were denied, all of which is your government's policy.

So tell your government to make it attractive for Poles to go to the States, if that's what you want.

Life / What's the going (bribe) rate to avoid a speeding ticket in Poland? [24]

I asked if she got a physical ticket because then it is not a bribe.

I drive through Poland regularly and I have been stopped, fined and I too have negotiated BUT it was not a bribe.

I would not even attempt to bribe a Polish police person, I have bribed Lithuanian police on several occasions (but that's a different story).

Life / What's the going (bribe) rate to avoid a speeding ticket in Poland? [24]


Did they give you a physical ticket?

UK, Ireland / Too many Poles in UK? [52]


So now you have told your truth, you can go away, happy in the knowledge that your pearls of wisdom have been spread all over the world via the internet.

UK, Ireland / Too many Poles in UK? [52]

Noimmi, is that you?

UK, Ireland / Too many Poles in UK? [52]


Ah don't be so mean, the guy can hardly spell his name.
How is he supposed to write to his government?
No, no, no, it is much better he trolls an internet forum where his half baked ideas and barley legible complaints can fall on deaf ears.

Yet another person who thinks he is making a difference by writing on a toilet wall, after all that's what threads like this are, toilet walls.

Feedback / The image of Poland according to PolishForums [90]



If I had 38 million zloty I would get rid of the whole lot of you and change the name of 'Poland' to "Fantastic SeanBM", I would have used 'Great' but Britain have already taken that one.


Apparently it's all about packaging :)


As opposed to everyone else who constantly trolls this site? :)
It is funny :)

Feedback / The image of Poland according to PolishForums [90]


I think everything on here is just a rehash of what was on here last week and the week before?
In fact I can prove it, why else would Admin have to create a separate search by year? Because it is all the same year in year out ;)

Love / ARE POLISH WOMEN CATTY...? [75]


Geez WR, you have turned to the dark side too, NoooooooooooO!!!!

Feedback / The image of Poland according to PolishForums [90]

My point exactly about Ireland.
Poland is not lost, in fact things are improving here across the board but say that on here and you get accused of heresy.

Feedback / The image of Poland according to PolishForums [90]


Oh yes, Swan eating, hand-wash drinking, lazy good for nothing layabouts.


Did you say it could create a 'good' impression of Poland???
Typical Polish people taking about how great their own country is...
It's crap like this that really gets on my nerves, this is PF, you are only allowed to say bad things about Poland, then and only then will you be speaking the truth. (it helps of course if you are not here).


Unfortunately I came here before I ever seen this site, it warns people of the dangers of living here.
I hadn't even been aware of all of these things, thank goodness now I am posting this from the safety of underneath my bed, with the obligatory tinfoil hat and crash helmet, in full body armour.


Well i thought Poland was a great country before I found PF but now I have learned from PF that Polish people are very sly, so the great years I had before I joined PF were obviously just to trick me and now, thanks to PF I see the scum sucking Poles for what they really are.


What's pointless about talking about everything none Polish related to a bunch of people who know next to nothing about Poland but can tell me all about it???

I could discuss Muslims in England, Pakistanis in Greece, the daily mail and what tarts Polish women are all year. in fact I have!


Friendly if you bash Poland.
Neutral if they don't care.
Hostile if you disagree with anyone bashing Poland. (but come on, fair is fair).

Law / Investors/Entrepreneurs.. Steer Clear of Poland. [77]


There are millions of such threads and I agree some tact can go a long way.

But having a sticky shedding Poland?
I thought the whole forum (or most of it), due to the users and abusers, was geared towards that anyway.

The women are all slags, the men eat swans and drink hand-wash, the country is corrupt beyond repair, they steal jobs in England, the women are gold diggers, business is impossible here, the roads are the worst in the world, nobody works and still expect to get paid.

With all these extremely one sided threads and posts comes an equal and opposite reaction.

Look at any thread (which doesn't blame Muslims) that comments on the negative aspects of England and see how valiantly people jump to it's defence when under blatant attack. It's the same thing, the Polish people I know on this forum have given up trying to 'defend' it under such a constant bombardment of attacks.

I have not commented on the OP's original post because I see no reason to.
He is not asking for advice or any questions, it seems to me he just wants to tell it how he sees it.
So there is nothing much to add to that as I believe he is just venting his frustrations.

I understand that many people come on here to vent and in doing so provoke a negative response.
I do it myself sometimes but no matter which country I live in, there are always good things and bad.