History / Poland and Muslims (Tatars and others). [81]


And presumably for travelling in his time machine to place a birth announcement in the local newspaper in the state of Hawaii.


Some people should take a reality check.

History / Poland and Muslims (Tatars and others). [81]


The last one certainly did.

That video is a selection of carefully edited clips to make a point that isn't there.

For the first time in 8 years, the US has got a decent president. His religion is a personal matter for him, and it wouldn't matter even if he was a muslim. But he isn't.

History / Poland and Muslims (Tatars and others). [81]

I saw that video and it's trash. On the same level as those fruitcakes who say he wasn't born in the US.

Knowing something and liking it isn't the same as being it. I know and I like Jogobella, but I'm not sitting in the chiller cabinet at Marcpol.

History / Poland and Muslims (Tatars and others). [81]


He's not a muslim.

UK, Ireland / (Polish man murdered in Belfast) RIP Piotr Michna [53]

Looking at the UTV website, it looks like the person who killed him (also a Polish man) subsequently committed suicide.

A sad story indeed.

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]

Check it out on some dodgy website :-)))

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


No.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Let religious believers do their religion among themselves. And I say good luck to them, and wish them no harm.

As long as they don't try to push their ideology down other people's throats.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

One can't indeed be atheist in one place and christian/jewish/muslim/hindu/scientologist/buddhist in another. One can however respect the principle that religion is a private matter, and the workplace is not a place for it.

The EU as an entity is neither christian or any other religion. It is secular. Its citizens are free to believe in something or not. The EU does not interfere withthat.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


It isn't supposed to be religious. Just like the USA, where the separation of church and State is part of the constitution.

The EU guarantees freedom of belief, but is not, repeat, not, religious, or allied to any one religious viewpoint.

Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]


No, and they would get pretty short shrift if they did.

To the original poster, who wants to forget he's British, it's worth remembering that the bad things that happened back home, and the things you don't like, you may well find here.

Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]


Why not? You can't change the past.

Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]

Some of us are very assimilated but still haven't lost our British identity. I almost never speak English in my home/personal life - most people around me either don't speak it at all or don't speak it with me, here in Poland, it would be hard to isolate oneself into an expat bubble.

But there's nothing wrong with holding on to your own identity and cherishing it. The British have never expected the Poles who've settled there to change their names, not eat Polish food, not observe Polish customs - why should the British who've settled in Poland behave differently?

Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]


Amen!

I know some Americans who speak foreign languages rather well.

I also think they shouldn't be criticised that much in that respect. Their country has snow-capped mountains, green forests, desert and beaches. So they don't have the same impetus to travel - they've got such a huge and varied country to discover at home.

Travel / Mosques in Krakow? [131]

Warszawa

Hi!

I live in Warsaw and I'm neither a foreign student nor a Pole.

The mosque is in Sadyba, on ul. Wiertnicza, quite near where I was living when I wrote the post. I used to see the people going ther on Friday.

Here are three links to photos I found on the web: wilanow mosque

I hope that's useful :-)

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]


Tyskie is certainly ok. I can't easily distinguish either. Królewskie in Warsaw is a bit cheaper than Tyskie and seems about the same. But 'Ciechan', which contains only water, malt and hops, is unpateurised, and costs the same, has real character.

They do a honey-flavoured and a dark beer, but the normal one with the green label is a revelation compared to the usual bland and chemical-tasting Polish fare.

Food / Home made fruit vodka from Poland [10]


That works too. And sounds good.

A few people suggested making the nalewka with fruit, letting it mature for a few weeks, straining it and then diluting it down with sugar syrup before leaving it for a couple of months. I tried it that way and the results were good.

Premixed fruit syrup could work well if there aren't any artificial ingredients, or the spirytus has been diluted first - or if it'd be drunk quite quickly after. It wouldn't be a good idea to dissolve something with food additives in 90% alcohol unless the recipe is tried and tested.

Banana sounds good - I might try some this year. A few banana nalewka recipes also include vanilla.

Life / Is Poland a safe country for people of color? [241]


So you're an EU spokesman on cultural and ethnic integration are you?

Remember a lot of Europeans are people of colour.

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


And very true.

Remember also that people in occupied countries didn't exactly have a huge range of choices.

Food / Home made fruit vodka from Poland [10]


These are a bit more Polish specific.

I made quite a lot last year. Remember that ones made with spirytus and then diluted down tend to turn out better than ones with vodka (Bimber works very well in a nalewka recipe), the fruit must be clean and dry, and do not, repeat not, use plastic bottles. That can be dangerous.

Jagoda and Wiśnia seem to work best. Coffee and (expensive) chocolate is less authentic but very good.

There are lots of recipes though and people often have their favourite.

edit:

I just saw Piorun's post, and it's very similar to one I made that really worked well, though everyone said to leave it in the dark, away from the sun. Worth trying, and I agree about the cherry stones.

Food / Wanna buy Spiritus Krakow [28]

Every supermarket and off-licence has it.

Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]


There have been a couple of cases of thet, but generally, in villages, Dog Lard is much more expensive, up to 100zł a jar.

Apparently it's prized as a folk remedy for all sorts of ailments.

I rather hope it's intended for external use only!

News / Mass immigration to Poland - article and response [479]


Could you cite a reliable reference for that?

News / Mass immigration to Poland - article and response [479]


What makes you say that?

History / Weapons of WWII (Poland and other countries) [239]


I re-read page 5 and don't see any reference to a modern-day British gov't justifying civillian deaths in Dresden.

Only a link to a wikipedia article which, inter alia, mentions the extreme unease in Britain about the bombings.


At Mai Lai? Women and children were chased, cornered, aimed at, and shot by gunmen. That was deliberate. And not unique.

History / Weapons of WWII (Poland and other countries) [239]


I think 5, in a friendly fire accident. Pales into insignificance compared to the wiomen and children deliberately burnt to death with napalm by the Amerivcans in Vietnam. Plus the other atrocities causing them to hide from the ICC.

News / Poland's Organized Crime [58]

Gazeta Wyborcza (sorry, I can't find a link) printed a map of which gang controls which part of Warsaw. Apart from the usual suspects mentioned above, there were also other Mazowsze ones, eg. Nowy Dwór, and gangs from Białystok and Gdańsk with territory here.

But if your luxury car's stolen, it's probably off-duty police.

Food / Problem to find "cream" in Poland [23]

£ukasz is right. The stuff for coffee is similar to British cream, but not really cream - some sort of substitute instead.

I remember when I first ate a cream cake here, and thought the cream had gone rancid.

Sometimes you can get the right stuff by asking for 'śmietana słodka' - that shouldn't have the sour taste preferred in Eastern Europe.

But French 'creme' is a bit harder to find. I saw it once in Leclerc (the big Leclerc near the junction of al. Jerozolimskie and ul. Popularna) and I think Mini Europa have it.

Real Estate / Renting in Krakow, Poland - the safest district? fairly close to the city centre... [25]


I agree.

I used to spend a lot of time there on business. It's pleasant enough and never any trouble, even in the bars at night.

UK, Ireland / Fish and chips - do Polish people in the UK like this? [108]

I remember being in OK (Yorks) with Polish visitors who time and time again wanted to eat pie and peas. Or Fish Butty with Curry Sauce.