History / Walesa says without meeting Mrs Thatcher in Gdansk Solidarnosc wouldn't have won [51]


Don't be silly. No 'snitchery' and he has discussed the matter fully. People believe him, not the hysteria of the Smolenskist Macierewicz etc.


A perfect description for it.

History / Walesa says without meeting Mrs Thatcher in Gdansk Solidarnosc wouldn't have won [51]


I'll remember your words next time far-right nationalists try a counter demonstration against one of the various events they dislike.

History / Walesa says without meeting Mrs Thatcher in Gdansk Solidarnosc wouldn't have won [51]


Let's hope he gets well soon; he's important still for Poland


The 87th monthly PiS parade, this time one where protesters far outnumbered the Smolensk conspiracy theorists

UK, Ireland / Mobile phone - where to buy it in the UK? [5]

Plenty of places. Try PC World or Argos.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


Don't worry. If Trump had his way, most people in Europe wouldn't be able to afford cars anyway.


Perhaps something happened in their history to make them wary of authoritarianism. I wonder what...

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]

The aim of the visit is clear. So the US tv networks show him arriving in Europe to a well-behaved crowd, rather than to massive protests like the ones at the meeting he was actually attending.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]

I liked the pictures of those protestors dressed like characters from The Handmaid's Tale.

Life / Polish tattoo ideas [13]

That's good news.

Re. A Korczak tattoo, the main thing is that he's very recognisable. About being liked, I've met someone who knew him well and was rather dismissive of him, without saying why's a given the person's age, I didn't want to push it.

General Michał Tokarzewski-Karasiewicz would also make a good subject. A great Pole and much loved.

Pilsudzki too. An instantly recognisable iconic figure. Or perhaps the Czarna Madonna.

Life / Polish tattoo ideas [13]

Or maybe a tattoo of Violetta Villas, one that wiggles her hair when muscles are flexed.

News / Trump will hold Poland up as an example for other nations to follow [106]

@mafketis
That's not very nice!

Life / Polish tattoo ideas [13]

@delphiandomine
Not just Poland, but almost every school in Europe except places like Summerhill and Scotty Road (both now closed) haven't taken on board his philosophy in full. Quite a few children's homes round the world have adopted his Children's Republic idea and that in many ways is his legacy.

He's always remembered for the circumstances of his death. People forget that he was once Poland's most popular radio broadcaster and one of the world's first television broadcasters.

And he's recognisable enough to make a good tattoo.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


More that Poles always give a good welcome to foreign leaders regardless of who they are, or whether they're liked our not, whereas Trump lacks support in Europe as a whole.

Life / Polish tattoo ideas [13]

Or perhaps one of Janusz Korczak, the Stary Wiktor, a true Polish hero and a very special person.

Study / How hard is it to get accepted to Wroclaw University of Technology? / Unis in general? [37]

It's a good school and worth studying there. Have you contacted the admissions tutor? He or she would be best placed to advise on this

Classifieds / House cleaner job - Chichester, West Sussex [12]

Remember that pretending people are self employed means that their employer can dodge any responsibilities connected with the new workplace pension.

News / Trump will hold Poland up as an example for other nations to follow [106]

Good for her

News / Trump will hold Poland up as an example for other nations to follow [106]


I doubt he intellectually grasps the speeches he reads out.

Classifieds / House cleaner job - Chichester, West Sussex [12]


Nothing 'cushy' about the dole.


That's pretty well about the 'living wage'.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


I don't think people do. Some will come and wave at any foreign leader, however he isn't really taken seriously there, nor is he liked.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


What sort of person would do that! Though I've heard people in Poland talk like that...

Life / Best typical Polish city to live in ??!! [3]


It's a bit crap there. Maybe typical for marketing purposes. Sieradz is a fairly typical place, Siewierz too. Skierniewice is an ok example however more and more it's becoming the edge of Warsaw commuter land.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


Yes. They were evil. Nobody is either untermensch or herrenvolk, not the most basic African nor the most advanced Jap or European. People are people. Donald Trump's visit to Poland justifies nothing. Poland is not nor will ever be anyone's patsy. Not the Russians, not the Yanks, not anybody's.

Classifieds / FOR SALE lovely apartment on Grzegórzecka, 53m², 5min from the center, 5min from the shore of Wisła River [20]

It's usually either an adapted attic or an extra story that's been built onto an apartment building.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]

An odd thing to say since it's our home. At least Trump's only in Warsaw and not spreading his hate elsewhere in Europe.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


That had to be bussed in.

Classifieds / FOR SALE lovely apartment on Grzegórzecka, 53m², 5min from the center, 5min from the shore of Wisła River [20]


Yes. It's still very much a buyers' market.

And of course the asking price is never the actual price of the flat, just a starting point for negotiating down to the real price which is around a quarter or more lower.

Still a very high asking price though, especially for a (cold in winter, hot in summer) nadbudówka.

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]

Anyway, he's come for the G20, which happens to be hosted in PL. He'd have gone to it wherever it was held.

I doubt he knows the difference between Warsaw and Yamoussoukrou.

News / Poland - Ukraine. Młodzież Wszechpolska against Ukrainians. [180]

No. There is a diversity of opinion there, just as there is in Poland. You can't say "Ukrainians think ..." any more than you can say "Poles think ...".

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


I suspect most of Europe is actually quite relieved that Poland are having to put up with him. There's real concern in the UK that he may try to visit.

News / Poland - Ukraine. Młodzież Wszechpolska against Ukrainians. [180]


In fact there are a variety of opinions within Ukraine on Bandera.

Worth remembering too that there's a difference between Bandera and the Banderists.