History / Why do schools teach "The battle of Warsaw" but not "the history of communist Poland?" [16]


Sure - but they are not capable of academic thought and reasoned debate - to possibly influence the decisions of the leaders of tomorrow

History / Why do schools teach "The battle of Warsaw" but not "the history of communist Poland?" [16]


Yes, yes - we all know that one Pawian - Wujek coalmine in Brynow. I was in a cycling club with miners from that colliery (we did more drinking than cycling....). I'm talking about a kitchen drama like Westerplatte or similar - where people can see the horrors of what Martial Law involved for the average citizen day to day.

As to the school curriculum, I am talking about teaching and discussion at Liceum level (History or Social studies Matura)

Life / Why are young Poles turning away from Church and religion? [25]


And humanism has taken over. Not that you would think it..........

Law / Caught speeding - Do points go against PESEL in Poland? [7]

First of all, I doubt very much that Brexit is going to happen at all. Even if there were No Deal, UK licences would be respected here. If they weren't, you'd simply have tit for tat and many hundreds of thousands of Poles would have the same problem.

As for the PESEL thing, why worry? Points on your license? Poles collect points like green shield stamps, and nobody cares here, even the insurer. The car is insured, not the driver - ridiculous though that be.

Law / Caught speeding - Do points go against PESEL in Poland? [7]

UK licence - no connection to PESEL or anything really, apart from the obvious DUI. As regarding a Polish licence, I was forced to change to that to rent a car in the UK, but don't do do unless forced to.

There are various reasons not to change. Your situation being just one.

Genealogy / Polish blood only makes up 1% of your "Polishness" [77]


Polonia are people of Polish extraction who live abroad (mostly they have never set foot in Poland - but they still have citizenship inferred on them because the communists were desperate for foreign currency)

You could have found this out for yourself by googling. Dirk is of course Polish, having been born here, and so is entitled to be enfranchised to some extent. But others were born in the USA, and their grandparents were Polish, but they babble on about "their" country, which is in fact the US, not Poland.

Genealogy / Polish blood only makes up 1% of your "Polishness" [77]


Sorry - I don't understand your post. My argument is with Polonia - not with Polish citizens who live here for the majority of the year, pay earnings taxes here, and spend money here.

I don't care if they (Polish citizens/residents) be Poles, Jews, Somalis, English etc, but scum Polonia are the worst of the lot.

Genealogy / Polish blood only makes up 1% of your "Polishness" [77]


You don't live here, and have no voice. Get over it. Nobody cares about scum Polonia here.

Love / Attraction from a Polish man? [22]


At least he didn't lick his own balls in front of you. My labrador has ruined many a dinner party in that way. Also, why on earth would a woman be interested in an ape like "your" foreman?

If Meryl Streep as the "French Lieutenant's Woman" had openly scratched herself, men wouldn't have thought of the character as an intriguingly wanton individual. I detect bullshit.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Jas i Malgosia?

Travel / Gdynia for a day while on a cruise ship [10]


The Ladies are here in Tri City for one day. Perhaps they wouyld like to chat to some Polish gentlemen - not to kiddies at the bloody aquarium:):) they could always go down to the Bulwar, but if they don't want to hang drinking beer, what else is on offer? They could visit the Emigration museum just by their cruise ship (it's amazing) but they will be hungry and thirsty and eager to test their land legs.

I don't like Gdansk much. It's dirty and noisy and just another rebuilt 18th century merchant town (Konisberg was by all acounts much prettier). But the OPs will have much better adventures there, than in tedious small town Gdynia I would have said. Unless - as the person states, family was from Gdynia - in which case the OP can head up to Kamienna Gora on the funicular railway and grab a view of the port, walk along the beach to Redlowo, then walk back to the port, go along the Skwer Kościuszki ( where the aquarium is..) and visit the bars, with glorious sea views - and have a fish supper. It's all very staid for young people though.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


I wonder which story came first?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


At first I thought it was a version of the Wages of Fear - but that's French....
Is that Klaus Kinski in one of the pics? Obviosly not, as he didn't speak Polish...

Travel / Gdynia for a day while on a cruise ship [10]


Passengers from the cruise ships go straight to the shuttle coaches 100 metres from the gangplank, which take them to Gdansk. Nothing to see in Gdynia.

Law / Are the benefits of 500+ available for the children born outside of Poland? [6]


Incorrect, if you are saying that registration with the town hall or staly pobyt is necessary... My pal (EU origin) has three children and he is not registered as resident. His wife is Polish, and they live full time in Poland. They receive full benefits.

Too many people here think that Poland still has a communist bureaucracy. Any European citizen who chooses to live here does not have to register with any state authority of any sort if he doesn't wish to (although of course any career employer would requires a PESEL)

Life / Why are Poles in other countries called "Plastic Poles"? [168]


Heritage is a wonderful thing, and to be cherished. My granparents were Scotttish, Irish/English. But that doesn't make me Scottish. In fact, my father was Scottish, but I was born in England of an English mother. When I was a boy I liked to think of myself as Scottish, but then I grew up, and realised I could never be so.

Therefore I am English. Try telling the logic of where you were born to polonia, who were given all these credits, including a Polish passport , simply to buy their allegiance. Now that Poland is part of the EU, polonia is superfluous and they should be cut loose. For their own psychological well being, as well as that of real Poles.

Please observe reader: I capitalise "Pole", but polonia is a certain word which I used before ( but can't now due to censorship)

Life / Why are Poles in other countries called "Plastic Poles"? [168]


Do catch up. I have lived here in Poland for 30 years now.
So unlike you in Norway/ America/wherever, I have paid into the system here, and am fully entitled to have a voice. I have nothing against you, as you state you are Polish born.

As to others, I wouldn't sneer, only Polonia who are as Polish as I am Irish force me to it.
Pathetic, as Roz said

Life / Why are Poles in other countries called "Plastic Poles"? [168]


I was referring to Polish small cities, as you well know.
In interesting places, nice places, like the mountains, or Tri City, the prices are so stupid for property I could find similar in UK seaside towns for a small premium.

You said Poland is cheap as to wages. I say you are wrong
Whole Polish families who have upped sticks for the UK and sold up do NOT return. Only those who went over on a wing and a prayer or to earn for their family return.

You get your "news" from the nationalist PIS machine.

Life / Why are Poles in other countries called "Plastic Poles"? [168]


Depends what you mean by cost of living. Property here is much cheaper in the small cities. Services too, such as mechanics etc. Apart from that? Let's take food for example. We need food to live don't we? Food here is generally 70/80 percent of UK cost. Clothes are cheaper in the UK. Yet wages are 2.5 to 3 times higher in the UK.

Keep on talking nonsense bud.

Life / Why are Poles in other countries called "Plastic Poles"? [168]


Who have NEVER been to Poland. Grandad was Polish.

Life / Why are Poles in other countries called "Plastic Poles"? [168]


Statistics? Pure PIS propaganda. Once Polish families move to to the UK they stay there.
About there being more Poles in the US than the UK - you are of course referring to "plastic" Poles, who for the most part have a name ending in -ski, but have never stepped foot on Polish soil.

Language / Myśląc "Polska" - Does new PiS motto.... really mean anything? [20]

Very good. I was under the impression that the 13 States spoke better English than the British ( initially)
We all know the story of McDonalds from one of the princes of storytelling, Mark Knopfler ("Boom - just like that") and, like PIS's "slogan", theirs' is culture bound and a blatant language mistake imo. To draw attention to themselves - and in that way, it is brilliant advertising.

PIS are in no way as tasty as a Big Mac albeit Burger King is superior, and their new image building is disturbing ( as Crow said on another thread).

Never thought I would agree with the geezer about squat, know what I mean?

Language / Myśląc "Polska" - Does new PiS motto.... really mean anything? [20]


If you prefer to think of it as a present simple form, please do. I was referring to the base form of the infinitive ( not to split hairs).

An Americanism, sure. Still dumb though of McDonalds to misuse the Queen's English 😂

Language / Myśląc "Polska" - Does new PiS motto.... really mean anything? [20]

A little like "McDonalds - I'm loving it" as opposed to the correct infinitive form in "I love it."
Slogans have no grammatical sense. After all, they are patronisingly aimed at the dumb masses, "who wouldn't know the difference anyway."

Life / Everything this guy says I feel about Poland [69]


You're not a very good judge of the Polish psyche then are you? A Pole will often come and stand right next to you on an empty train platform, or a couple will come and sit right nex to me and the wife in an almost empty cinema.

Tell me that isn't a fact, or I claim my 5 pounds.

Life / Everything this guy says I feel about Poland [69]

I don't know what that means mafketis. If you have cracked the B1 barrier, then good for you. Have a cigar. For myself, I reached A2 level Polish after the first year here and have never improved my language skills apart from vocabulary, because I don't write in Polish. That would have required study and effort for a reading and writing learner, and I'm as lazy as Boris Johnson allegedly is in that category. Why would anyone be proud of being lazy? That's just the way they are in some respects.

USA, Canada / Thoughts on moving to Poland from USA [62]


Ah, but other countries that have Sunday closing (Germany/Spain) have shorter working weeks and a GDP more than twice that of Poland.

USA, Canada / Thoughts on moving to Poland from USA [62]


People here complain about losing Sunday wages Pawian. But I guess Tri-City is the real world, and not little town Poland?
Plus: prices increase due to loss of Sunday earnings. Are you happy with that (catholic) tax? Do you really think parents spend more time with their digital driven kids?

USA, Canada / Thoughts on moving to Poland from USA [62]


Are the markets open on a Sunday where you live? I call it restraint of trade and it should be illegal to deny people the right. If you don't want to pull your cock or stroke your pussy, then dont. Your choice.


As opposed to Trump and his sickoes with their nonsensical hate speech, this government and their catholic cohorts enable
Sunday closing here to make a poor society poorer. And that is an indisputable fact. Everybody loses. Employees and customers.