News / Talks on re-polonising Pekao bank under way [58]


FFS, do you live in Napoleonic times?

Governments sell bonds to investors all over the world in an auction. The interest rate is related to the risk of a government not paying it back. Poland has no trouble selling its bonds.

They do not got to a bank and ask for a ******* Chest of Gold to buy muskets and gunpowder.


What country do you live in? Have you ever lived and worked in Poland?

A foreign back in Poland is under the control of the Polish regulator, its could no more 'demand a loan' from a foreign bank than it could a Polish owned bank.

All Poland needs to do is ask the central bank to print money.. manufacture it out of paper, which is the cause of inflation and the destruction of an ecomony. Hyperinflation already destroyed the Polish economy once.

News / Talks on re-polonising Pekao bank under way [58]


You continue to display a bizzare view of the world. The banks do not call the shots, the Polish regulator does. Polish banks have to do whatever the Polish government tell them too, becuase Poland is the guarantor and controls the currency.

The money lent to Polish customers comes from capital held by the banks, so Poles are benifiting from foreign money (and to a far lessor amount Polish bank deposits).

Anyone can setup a bank, as long as they are honest and have the policiies, procedures and financial backing.

There is nothing stopping the Polish governement setting up a bank, the problem is Poland already owns the biggest bank but customer CHOOSE not to use it BECAUSE its owned by the Polish government and therefore, by definition, CRAP.

News / Talks on re-polonising Pekao bank under way [58]

Poland is a farming country, unsurprisingly its image as an engineering country is garbage.

But farmers don't get it do they?

Food / How would someone get some Hostess twinkies in Poland? [5]

Whats the normal price?

Tesco in Poland don't seem to stock them. But if your friend knows anyone in the Uk they could post them over

tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=281612923
amazon.co.uk/Hostess-Twinkies-385-pack-10/dp/B00BBAHG3W
sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/gb/groceries/hostess-twinkies-x10?langId=44&storeId=10151

Real Estate / Can you take credit/mortgage in a Polish bank to buy land in Poland? [11]

how much land, what type, where is it (region and town/villiage) what do want to do with it, are you a farmer- and where.

News / How would Poland change for the better (or worse) under a PiS government? [257]


They are the thinnest children in Europe, but there you go again thinking America is Poland.

Work / My experience leaving Canada and going to Poland to find a job [19]

Thanks for the update, thats an encouraging and enlightening story.

Genealogy / How many Jews lived in Poland and did they ever convert to catholicism, if so when? [62]


We were taught that fact in our Catholic school in the UK

News / An article: NATO is the American occupation of Poland and Europe, by Mateusz Piskorski [233]


Well said :)

In our defense, the Russians want to do the same to us,

Language / Learn Polish or Russian [86]

Yes. I was aware.

Language / Learn Polish or Russian [86]

Straight from the Russian talking points, thanks Putin.

News / An article: NATO is the American occupation of Poland and Europe, by Mateusz Piskorski [233]

Your lack of basic knowledge of Polands history is f***ing insulting.

Language / Learn Polish or Russian [86]


You seem to be completely unaware of Russia's policy of claiming ownership of Russian speakers and the countries that they reside. This was the justification of the invasion of Ukraine, Georgia and the threats made against Belorussian, Kazakhstan and the Baltic states.

Russia will 'protect' Russian speakers by invading their host countries, that is Russia's often stated policy and it matches the claims made by Hitler to justify the invasion of Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland.

Why do you think Nato has beefed-up security in the East?

Language / Learn Polish or Russian [86]


Russians in Russia should speak Russian, other nations should stick to their national language unless they want to be invaded. Belorussian, Ukraine and Kazakhstan are moving away from Russian because of the threat.


The point is that English is the second language of choice for young Poles and those emigrated. Not Russian.

News / An article: NATO is the American occupation of Poland and Europe, by Mateusz Piskorski [233]

Ruski no like that?

Language / Learn Polish or Russian [86]


Its a language not an ethnic group. Thats why the language should be eradicated, because a fascist state have used the Russian language to claim ownership of Russian speakers.


Most are in the UK and Ireland and most speak pretty good English

Language / Learn Polish or Russian [86]



Hating a language is justified when that language is used as a justification on invasion by a fascist dictatorship.Which is why both countries are moving away from Russian due to the threat to their security from the Russian empire. And yes it can be eradicated the same way it was imposed - by force.

UK, Ireland / Baby father doesn't know English but wants to go for the British citizenship [76]

Unless you get him to learn English, your, his and your child's life is destroyed.

Withdrawn everything because otherwise he will F**k off and abandon you

Language / Learn Polish or Russian [86]


Russian is being eradicated in both countries due to the filthy association of the Russian threat to those countries.


What wrong with having a hatred of Russian? there is NOTHING good about the country. Its a wasteland and will never improve.

UK, Ireland / Baby father doesn't know English but wants to go for the British citizenship [76]

Don't speak to him in Polish, let his father do that. That way the baby will be bi-lingual.

UK, Ireland / Baby father doesn't know English but wants to go for the British citizenship [76]


Who said you will be allowed in Poland? As a non-EU citizen you won't have any rights. Maybe Poland would give you a one month holiday visa, nobody knows.

You would have to learn Polish if you wanted to live and work in Poland.

You would have to, as an unskilled builder he would return along with several hundred thousand other Poles and there will be no work. Either go to another EU country (you would have to learn that language) or sit at home in his village drinking vodka from your 500pln a child.

Have another baby, 1000pln vodka money and he is sorted.

Language / Learn Polish or Russian [86]

Poland shares a border with Russia, yet its trade ties are tiny and falling all the time. Russia is not important or geopolitically relevant outside its small mind..

UK, Ireland / Baby father doesn't know English but wants to go for the British citizenship [76]

Damn right he has to, he's unworthy of Poland if he gets deported and leaves his child behind.

UK, Ireland / Baby father doesn't know English but wants to go for the British citizenship [76]

Yes, even then.

Language / Learn Polish or Russian [86]

Nope, is a useless language unless you want to visit a impoverished dictatorship.

And its a disappearing language, the population who speak it is shrinking by 10million per decade.

UK, Ireland / Baby father doesn't know English but wants to go for the British citizenship [76]

He has to PROVE he has lived here for 5 years, with restrictions on when he was out of the UK. a record of dates in and out is required.

Has to have good character (referees required), no criminal record and paid all taxes etc.
Has to pass the English test unless he is over 65 or brain damaged.

Then he can get citizenship. Being the father of your child isn't relevant as you aren't even married. After Brexit, I expect we would leave/dump the EHR (European Human Rights) so any rights would entirely up to the UK government.

And the one thing that will block citizenship and the right to stay is not speaking English - because it stops you taking part in and contributing to British society.

UK, Ireland / Baby father doesn't know English but wants to go for the British citizenship [76]


No, your child gets citizenship. Once the UK leaves the EU they will remove abuses of system, because thats what half of the population voted for. A requirement to speak English was added quite recently- its a red line.

UK, Ireland / Baby father doesn't know English but wants to go for the British citizenship [76]

Yes. He needs to read and write in English.


No, they didn't.

Language / Learn Polish or Russian [86]

There is no future in Russia, the population is shrinking and its an economic disaster.

Real Estate / Astounded by the poor value of residential property here in Wroclaw [92]

It would be good enough anywhere.