Law / Urząd Skarbowy, I paid too little on my last PIT? [26]

I am just wondering how much it costed them to make the file :)
As I know these days in my native Belgium the IRS does not bother with claims under 3 Euro - costwise I think a sound decision,

Life / Vertu (or iPhone) in Poland ?? [19]

I cannot remember how often it dropped on the kitchen flloor, and it still works.
Battery life, I think much more as a trendy I-Phone.
SMS and phoning - for that it works just fine. For me a phone is basically for that.
Apps?

Life / Vertu (or iPhone) in Poland ?? [19]

Good - people think you will have bought a copy trying to show you are rich :)
What is the use buying a phone which normally costs a fortune, when you can have an average Nokia for a fraction? My 6310 works still like a dream.

Food / I thought Polish beer couldn't compete, but I was wrong [20]

I heard £omża has to be pretty good, have not tried it yet.
The best beer I remember in Poland was from the brewery Śpiż on the Rynek in Wrocław.
I have no idea if they are still in business but the beer was truly very good.

As for Lech - I agree that it was a bit controversial advertisement. On the other side PIS was reacting in its usual paranoid fashion. Anyway for the brewery - mission accomplished :)

Food / I thought Polish beer couldn't compete, but I was wrong [20]

You might have a point there of course :)
Still if I would live in Kraków, cold Lech would be my favourite :)
That said, I think Polish beer is pretty awful :(

News / Heavy storm / tornados cause chaos and flooding in Poland [23]

Drove yesterday from Rondo ONZ back home to Bielany and at times I was thinking I was driving / sailing through a waterfall.
Rondo Babka was transformed in a lake.

News / New cross war in Warsaw [530]

I am just waiting until they start to distribute among the cross aliens the latest copy of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion".

News / New cross war in Warsaw [530]


The essential point here is that such kind of freakish opinions might and do exist in most civilized countries. But in countries where religion belongs to the private sphere this is not doing any harm. They are on the extreme-right unsavoury part of society, but neglible.

The thing is that in Poland a significant minority = PIS, seems to think that Poland is the same as "bigoted catholic". That anybody else is Russian-sponsored.

In Poland a former Speaker of the Parliament promotes this kind of cross views. It is all good and well to adore an incompetent bigoted president, I do not think there is any need to make him a saint.

News / New cross war in Warsaw [530]

nacjonalista.pl/2010/05/09/jezus-krolem-polski.html
That is a nice one to get you started.
The previous speaker of the parliament, Marek Jurek, was pushing this idea, and not only him.
it is this kind of people who are the cross fanatics
Torquemada would have loved their mentality.

News / New cross war in Warsaw [530]


I do not think the Catholic Church as a whole is a relic from the past. But the way it abuses its influence in Poland, and still is stuck in pre Vaticanum II times....

The Cross show is provocated, initiated and steered by PIS. -that is for sure. With a nice sprinkling of "Nasz Dziennik", Radio Marija and other fanatics. The still cannot cope they have lost the presidential elections so they are provoking nationalistic hatred like this.

In basically every country in the Western hemisphere your religious beliefs are your private business. Only here these berets want to make Catholicism (the Inquistition variant, that is) State Religion. Proclaiming Christ the King of Poland and that kind of idiocies.

In which century do these people live in ?

News / "Drink Hard" - Bruce Willis to endorse Polish vodka [48]

This reminds of a funny commercial for beer with French actor Jean Reno - cannot remember for which brand it was though :(

Seanus - almost all Polish beer brands are foreign-owned... That is about the same I guess :)

News / New cross war in Warsaw [530]

That is because the religious cross fanatics inn Warsaw are prone to do just everything. It just shows how much simpletons can get indoctrinated.
I agree with Harry. A democratic country has the right to defend itself against this kind of danger, even when it requires physical force.

News / New cross war in Warsaw [530]


It is the only way to deal with Radio Marija, Jankowski and assorted. They have to be defeated, to save this country from religious Catholic fanaticism.

News / New cross war in Warsaw [530]

Why is the government so cowardly. And the city?
Why do they allow the whole country to be duped by a bunch of religious fanatics?

IS - It has to do everything with your fanatical Catholic beliefs. Slogans as "Tusk is a Jew" Don't thet tell it all? I bet their grandfathers applauded the Kielce pogrom.

I think democracy is worth a painful moment. Teargas, truncheons, police dogs and general arrestations. The only way to deal with such fanatics.

History / When will you Poles give back German land and the cities which you robbed? [557]

I think it would be best to leave this Pandora box closed... How mean, how far back would you go? To the first partition of Poland? To the 30-year war?

News / New cross war in Warsaw [530]

I walked by there today afternoon. The atmosphere was frightening. I never saw so many fanatics together.
Another funny slogan was "I never knew the NKVD was so strong"
Beria is turning around in his grave.

In any civilized country the are around the parliament and residence of the head of state is completely neutral.
The police should have used tear gas and dogs and get rid of these idiots.

Travel / Passenger plane converted into restaurant near Katowice, Poland [21]

The seaside one would have to be this one:
wladek.pl/index.php?o=galeria4&k=inne_miejscowosci&k2=chlapowo&k3=samolot_restauracja

Looks like the onboard service is not so bad. Bad thing is, you are not going anywhere :)

Travel / Passenger plane converted into restaurant near Katowice, Poland [21]

This plane you can find i Kościelec, on the A1 express road from Warsaw Katowice, just before Częstochowa

Coming south route DK1 worth zawitać Kościelec (several miles before Częstochowa ) . If we want to eat , that's where we can enjoy a meal on board a real ... aircraft . This off already with air traffic ship was converted to a restaurant. The plane is a few hundred meters from the highway , on a small square , surrounded by fountains .

It is worth to watch old farm exposed in the nearby small open-air museum . Even a short stay in this place will leave a pleasant experience for the eyes and palate. Note ! The restaurant is seasonal and is open from spring to autumn.

Feedback / Polishforums on Facebook [60]

OK I saw the page on Facebook, but how to connect to it / to join?

Life / Who's Leaving Poland? [138]


The foreigners I know here in Poland overwelmingly came here for their Polish partner and that includes me :)
Not that the other reasons mentioned are not valid of course

Life / Who's Leaving Poland? [138]

When I moved to Poland in 2004, it was with the intention to stay - at least until my retirement :). But I am already coming to Poland since 1989.

I have built a fine professional career here in Logistics, our house is as good as finished...
I like to go home to my native Antwerp but I am equally glad be back here in the city-state of Warsaw.
And after all these years my social network back home has somewhat disappeared but I guess that is logical.

No as for now I do not see myself going back home.

Life / What would YOU do to make life in poland better?? [72]

It could be nice if "The Great Unwashed" would be banned from Warsaw public transport.
Why is it they always have money for cheap alcohol but not for a bar of soap :(

History / Polish aristocrats - would be better off if we had Polish magnate families? [69]


Gdansk/Danzig and Wroclaw/Breslau are only Polish for a short time in history. Each time I am there the architecture so much reminds me of my native Antwerp.

In 1945 both cities were overwhelmingly German.

History / Polish aristocrats - would be better off if we had Polish magnate families? [69]

I think the "Kresy" were always the colonial outposts of Poland.
Lwow/Lviv/Lemberg was not exactly Polish - was it? And neither it was Ukrainian/Russian...
I think it was quintessential Habsburg. Multicultural Franz-Jozef.

History / Polish aristocrats - would be better off if we had Polish magnate families? [69]


How it is that you "forget" to mention the Golden Freedom? That any of the Commonwealth "nobles" could and did block any progress? Because even the smallest pig-raising schlachta could and did block all possible progress? In the pay of the magnates who were all in the pay of the partitioning powers?

That every time the new King had to be elected (bought in reality). That the nobles vehemently opposed regular taxes and a standing army?

History / Polish aristocrats - would be better off if we had Polish magnate families? [69]

Because in Poland the "schlachta" did not depend on your income. It depended on your often mystical adherence to a clan or a coat of arms.

You could have had for example one pig and a mud floor... but if you belonged to that particular clan, you were miles elevated from a decent hardworking middle-class citizen.

The Russians would still buy your vote and your magnate landlord would still despise you.
But you were sclachta - hence the fact almost every Pole is building his house with a pillar or two in front.

USA, Canada / Are Polish women marrying for US citizenship (or green card)? [19]

Before Poland joined the EU and the economy was picking up, scores of Polish women were moving to for example the Benelux and marrying real losers - just for the passport. That is a fact.

Whole matrimonial companies were making a living like that.