USA, Canada / Homeless Poles in NYC [25]


When I was a teen and in my early twenties, London was full of homeless Irish.
Wrapped up in old cardboard under Charing Cross Bridge.
Now it seems to be mainly Poles.

I always thought that this song should be translated in to Polish, as it has relevance today to Polish people.


Chicken or egg.

Could some not make it because they had metal difficulties or do some have mental difficulties because they can't make it?

Loneliness can be psychologically crippling .

Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]

Recently my friend had to get her son baptised to get in to a school in Ireland.

Now that's a real sin.


You put it so sweetly.

Food / How common GMO Food in Poland is? [25]

This is all up to the company that produces it and the governments that allow it but not directly because of the GMO itself.

Food / How common GMO Food in Poland is? [25]

Polish president vetoes bill allowing GMO seeds reuters

But nothing about:


Except for the link you provided.

Also good to see on my google search are:

Poland imposes ban on Monsanto MON810 genetically modified maize
Poland Announces Complete Ban on Monsanto's Genetically Modified Maize

Food / How common GMO Food in Poland is? [25]


It's all genetically modified food since we've been selecting and growing the stuff ourselves.


I doubt that the E.U. could ban such a thing.


People should definitely worry, if there are no points being made, no arguments being put forward and really no logic, then people really should worry, a lot.

My major guff with GM foods are corrupt, monopolising, and immoral companies like monsanto.
GM foods were really meant to end world hunger, instead it just seems to be going towards an Orwellian nightmare.

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

How do I tell her how I feel?

Singing telegram.

Or I can do it if you like? the Singing telegram bit, I mean.

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]


"Sane" is sometimes a relevant term, my hunch is that he got involved with the Ruch Narodowy and took their antidemocratic, xenophobic views one step further.


You can't convict an insane person to 21 years in prison.
We are still very much in the dark about mental illness'.
Breivik painstakingly planned out his military style attack with full premeditation and execution..
It's difficult to prove that that loony is without some organisational skills but that don't make the guy any less of a fruit-loop in my understanding if things.


Given that the cartoon has no weblink on the tab, either the poster just really likes it and has it on his laptop and is therefore willing to defend it despite your obviously correct analyses of it or he is the creator and the same applies.

Life / Age chauvinism in Poland regarding young people [17]

Thanks jadis, I will read up on him now,

The internet is really amazing, have a question, get an answer.

Life / Age chauvinism in Poland regarding young people [17]

Top left
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
under him
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie Sklodowska
next
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
next
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali
Under the black lady
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
next to them
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
Bottom left
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
next
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
I have no idea who that man second from the left on the bottom is??? then
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

This could be a thread on it's own.
But some real cool cats in that list and some very interesting stories too.


I don't know who or what that is but I don't watch T.V. much.

Life / Age chauvinism in Poland regarding young people [17]


One of the biggest differences between myself and my parents is that a married couple with kids could afford everything (mortgage, car, food, bills etc...) on (usually) the husbands wage.

That isn't possible on the average wage anymore.

Then we have the Lotto and a whole host of media telling everyone what they have to have to be happy. It's perverse.
So people go round wearing expensive clothes but don't have any money.
I thought the film showed me a glimpse of a world I happily will never know.


The older I become (I am still quite young) the more I agree that I was an idiot.

But there seems to be a good way to go. When you're young you do stupid things, push boundaries, sometimes reckless and thoughtless.
Sure I think if it weren't like that you wouldn't be able to say you really lived, not really :)


Above quote attributed to Bill Gates but apparently he didn't write it, doesn't really matter but just thought I'd say.

Life / Age chauvinism in Poland regarding young people [17]


Torq deserves all the credit for

In my honest opinion, from conversations with friends from the U.S. it appears to me that old people are listened to more here in Poland than in the U.S. (or Ireland for that matter).

The reasons could be that while in many countries we have nuclear families, children leave the parents and set up their own (for the most part) independent families.

While in Poland, due to lack of money, people live in huge homes, housing four generations.

The trick about culture is that it is our ability to communicate to the next generation and each other that is our culture.
Most Polish people have daily direct contact with their grandparents (for better (babysitting) and worse (being told that they are disrespectful)).

I don't like youth worship, which seems to be all the media really do.

There is a wealth of information in the elderly, maybe we should listen more.

I suppose what I am saying at the end of the day is that, according to rumor, old people were once young :)

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]

We are talking B.S.

:)

Life / Age chauvinism in Poland regarding young people [17]

en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Youth

People have always loved to complain, they will complain about the youth, the old, the indifferent.
They will even complain about the complainers :)

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]


I suppose your point is he is innocent until proven otherwise.

It's a fair point.

UK, Ireland / Domestic arguments caused by differences between Polish and English culture [109]


OH No it didn't!



Lowest temperatures ever recorded


I asked a friend here and the reply was "The one with most holes is used for the one you use more of, so salt".

I use very little salt, everything has salt in it these days anyhow.

But I get the feeling that environment has a lot to do with cultural differences.
Here's a great big whopper of a generalization but I find Northern Europeans more serious, more cold.
And the opposite of the south.
I put this down to people dying in the harsh winters, if they had a relaxed attitude, they'd be dead.

In Thailand people die of cold in plus 12, that's summer time on the islands.

UK, Ireland / Domestic arguments caused by differences between Polish and English culture [109]


A bad winter here would be under minus 30.

So although the bricks, stone and concrete blocks may well survive, the inhabitants may well not.

If the heating was on, the insulation would be insufficient.

The water tank in the attic would freeze,



the outflow pipe for the condensate boilers,



Surprisingly Poles don't use plasterboard walls so much (except for new build apartments) and the walls feel really very cold.
I had my brick walls plasterboarded over because I don't like the feel of the cold walls.


And don't tell us you still put in two separate taps, one for hot and the other for cold? :)


The D.S. are actually very good the last few years in the U.K.

UK, Ireland / Domestic arguments caused by differences between Polish and English culture [109]


Yes but houses in England and Ireland are not meant to go through months of minus 15.

You don't see toilet outflow pipes coming down outside the walls here in Poland, in Ireland and England you do.

Similarly the summers are hotter here in Poland and it is less humid than on the islands.

It's not a question of better or worse, different technologies for different environments.

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]

They found hexogen, pentryt, TNT, gunpowder and video tapes of his test explosions.

I doubt he did that with some camping equipment and lipstick :)


Onet

So anyone care to throw wild and wonderful accusations?

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]

Most of them confirm that he had explosives, had made explosive tests, was posting stuff on forums.
Which allegations are you referring to?
Sources should be questioned, I agree.

News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]

Travel / Which countries (of the world) is a Polish drivers licence valid? [15]

I got an international driver's license, cost 30 something zloty, took a couple of days and is valid for 3 years.

It gives a list of countries where it is valid, which includes Britain and Ireland.
I'm guessing that if you have an (e.g.) U.S. driver's licence you can get this international one and drive in Ireland etc...

It's an A5 paper sized paper book with your photo glued in and stamped over.
Only in Polish, which is a little strange as you can't use it in Poland but hey, when in Rome, show them Polish...

Międzynarodowe prawo jazdy



Anyway, I probably didn't need it but the countries I need are listed and some of the countries are very very bureaucratic, so better safe than in jail.

.

News / 2014-2020 EU Cohesion funds for Poland [11]


I don't see it like that at all.

The E.U., must be the most divided place countrywise on the planet.
Put a circle over any other part of the globe and you won't see so many small countries.

It's in all of our interests to cooperate, it's a long term strategy that will keep us up there with the rest.

Germany, one of the biggest contributes, will only benefit unless we break apart and countries won't pay the bill.

And it's not as if anyone is just given money, it's lent, with a lot of changes, for the benefit of all.

UK, Ireland / Do Polish Immigrants in Great Britain hate each other? [60]

Well at least we know what he drinks.

News / 2014-2020 EU Cohesion funds for Poland [11]


It is expected to be 80 Billion Euros


I read that it was countries like France and germany that didn't want to give so much this time.

wbj.pl/article-58942-poland-to-lose-out-in-next-eu-budget.html - Not poor countries.


Most of it, yes.


I never heard that.
Post a link and I'll take a look.
Good thread!


funduszeeuropejskie.gov.pl/english/Strony/European_Funds.aspx]


I know very little about Poland's railways,

Edit*
Good man delphiandomine, have you a link to read about Polish railways?

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


ONR Ideology:





There's a lot more on this website: studioopinii.pl/artykul/3837-piotr-rachtan-dokumenty-onr- Peter Rachtan: Documents ONR (In Polish)

Ruch Narodowy - should it be banned?

In my opinion they should not be banned but the Polish general public should be made very aware of these guys, so that they know who and why they are marching along side. I think that would sort out much of the support. And of course the law still applies, if anyone brakes it they should pay the penalty.

otwarta.org/old/skazani-za-hajlowanie,405.html - ONR guys get arrested for Hitler salute (also in Polish)

UK, Ireland / Domestic arguments caused by differences between Polish and English culture [109]



That's the stuff,

UK, Ireland / Domestic arguments caused by differences between Polish and English culture [109]


I didn't get it at first but over the top. I see:

(bit slow today)



For less waste I always go under the bottom (why does that sound rude? toilet humour...)


The seat now, not the full on lid, that has always been my piece de la resistance when in a monthly argument, out of nowhere ;) why I didn't leave the toilet seat down when finished, to which I would say why don't you ever lift the seat up.

No longer an issue.
But I must agree, the lid should be down, your wife is very wise.


Polish people, for reasons I have not ascertained, seem to think tap water is poison.
There's nothing wrong with Krakow's water until you ask for it and the looks of bewilderment make you feel like this will be the last thing you ever do.


As the water is obviously poisoned ;) most homes I go to offer juice or tea lemon and sugar no milk not that it'd be strong enough for milk or coffee, which could be Turkish coffee, leaving the crap in the cup to give you something to wince about.


That's really when all these so called 'cultural differences' are just a fart in the wind :)


There's that really popular coloured salt, can't think of the name, they even colour it too look like vegetables so you think you're doing yourself a favour... :)

UK, Ireland / Domestic arguments caused by differences between Polish and English culture [109]

I thought salt went into the shaker with one hole because of it's historical value and it's not good for you.


I rarely use salt but when I do it's sea salt from a grinder, I've been led to believe it's less processed.

All that being said I remember coming back to Dublin from my travels, made it into town, spent the last of my money in a sit down fish and shipper, threw on the salt only to find out it was sugar.


People from different countries do things differently, there is no right or wrong, until you are married :)

I find the food here in Poland too salty and eating out everywhere but I don't use salt.


Sounds like there's gonna be more...

Which way does the toilet paper hang on the holder?

Toilet seat up or down?

Tap water or bottled?

Water or juice?

History / Goodbye Lenin - we don't want you in Poland! [85]


You're really clutching on to straws.
No answers, no insight, no pretending anymore, just a made up game, by you, about numbers.
And again, calling people communists because they are not Nazis has got to be the stupidest thing you have written, except for your continues support of Neo-Nazis.

On that note, I'll love you and leave you Jola.

History / Goodbye Lenin - we don't want you in Poland! [85]


Linked to the ONR by the hip.


Which blatantly shows the Neo-Nazi Symbols on their flags

Oh no... wait, these proud Polish men, in their brown shirts are actually proud Celts,
would you ever ....


My question is why do you defend these bastards?


So anyone who is not a Neo-Nazi is a Marsist... ?

I suppose what else can we expect National-Radical Camp, (translation of ONR: Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny)
No doubt you'll try and say they are boy scouts and it's that kind of "camp".

So what are your views on Empik selling Hilter stuff? care to comment?