Food / Do Polish restaurants use dead dogs fat as a delicacy for you to eat? [41]


Ah I see where the confusion lies here.

You see in Polish, "pies" means ''dog'', so when the tourist demanded "pies"... well...

Food / Do Polish restaurants use dead dogs fat as a delicacy for you to eat? [41]


Poland is already mentioned in your Wiki link too.

Food / Do Polish restaurants use dead dogs fat as a delicacy for you to eat? [41]

Is it just me or does anyone else think this is Mark? trying to boost his site.

I would like some confirmation on this accusation, as the site provided is amateur and looks like it is supposed to provoke rather than inform or warn.

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]

I tell you what I find funny, this thread started out pointing the finger at Poland.
Saying it was one of the most violent places in the world and that crime here is some of the worst in the world.
Now that that is understood as BS people are continuing to look for the "evil" people and as Jarnowa is incapable of talking about anything else except for his hatred of other people, it has followed that we have gone from prejudice to prejudice hahaha

News / The Economist: time to rethink old notions about Poland [67]


That is it exactly.

And as far as I am concerned bureaucracy in this country is very very slowly changing for the better.
I have lived and worked in Lithuania and I find it easier here in Poland to deal with offices and administration and less corrupt.


WWII is over, that is at least one problem solved, eh? :)


There are many countries with cheap labour in the enlarged E.U. all of whom have gone in to recession.


What do you mean by second longest working? you work more hours or something?

There are many contributing factors to why Poland did not go in to recession, the fall in the strength of the Zloty (increase exports and internal consumption), the banks lending policies, Billions of Zloty coming back from Polish people working abroad, the money being pumped in to Polish infrastructure (increase in jobs) etc

News / Recent Polish Scientific Discoveries... (Scientific News) [19]

Do you mean Germans are primitive, unenlightened, culturally and intellectually backward, ignorant people; barbarians and people with very old-fashioned ideas.

OR ;)

Origin:
1860-65; after Neanderthal, valley in Germany, near Düsseldorf, where evidence of Neanderthal man was first found.



I do see a resemblance but without the helmet it is difficult to tell for sure :)

Neanderthal vs woolly rhino - BBC
youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=169KILOoY24

News / The Economist: time to rethink old notions about Poland [67]

Over the last about two years, as many countries have fallen deep in to recession, huge unemployment and repossessions.
Poland has done comparatively well with plus GDP growth, a steady increase in wages and still lots of motorways being built.
Just looking at the unemployment Eurostates comparing Ireland to Poland here
epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&language=en&pcode=teilm020&tableSelection=1&plugin=1

I think it may be interesting to have a thread comparing Poland's economy and standard of living to 1) Poland 2) other E.U. ex-communist countries 3) Nonex-communist E.U. countries.

I think it would show that Poland is continuing to grow and is getting better.
And note to the person who quotes me to tell me I am completely wrong, I say 'better' not 'excellent' not better only for the ''BIG BOYS'', I mean better than what it was.

Convex had a good observation about Poland's low PPS though, on the other thread.

News / The Economist: time to rethink old notions about Poland [67]


I just thought it would be someone else, that's all.


That is complete rubbish, I want more than an ounce of steak and I don't mind if it comes directly from the working class themselves, it is all they are good for after all.

If you can not read what I have written, why bother commenting?

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


86% of statistics are made up and only 32% of people know it ;)

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


I don't think the people who made this site can count ;)

Perhaps we could compare it to another site?

List of countries by intentional homicide rate Wiki

Ahhhhhh this one looks much more accurate:)

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]

What about Afghanistan, The Congo, Columbia, South Africa, Brazil etc...?

Who made this site?

News / The Economist: time to rethink old notions about Poland [67]

I am surprised it was you who said it but it was going to be said eventually.

I think it is weird that all criticisms of Poland on this site are regarded as "Fact" or "The way it is" and all positive feed back is regarded as ''propaganda''.

The truth is they are both propaganda and both "true" .

So as for my "truth" :) Poland has done well during the 'world credit crunch' and has not fallen in to recession.

Life / Can foreigners really understand Poles? [136]


You are making a huge assumption here, I was not saying that "my system" has no problems because an ex-communist country is *very wrong and bad system*.

It is not the topic to point out problems we have, although I did anyway here as an example of how long it takes for my people (Irish) to get over some of the problems we have faced and still face.


You make it sound like there is no difference between communist times and now.
And I never mentioned the law, that is something else, I said communism as a social structure.


Again you are comparing apples and oranges, you are talking about law systems I was talking about communism, how governments are run.


Good point, I find that this has everything to do with being a product of our upbringing and environment. The "right" way to fry an egg is only relative to what you are used to and like.

From the opposite side, I had a friend come here from Ireland, we went to galeria-krakowska.pl a new modern shopping mall.
He said he forgot he was in Poland because in most other European countries the same shops, the same adds, the same styles etc could be found.

Europe is being homogenised more and more, this of course has pros and cons depending on what is being changed.

News / The Economist: time to rethink old notions about Poland [67]

I didn't understand what you were trying to say, could you expand upon it, please?

Life / Can foreigners really understand Poles? [136]


Jeeez, isn't that what graveyards are in the first place??


Hhhhmmm.... Is it normal to dig up the dead and drive somewhere into town and dump them there?
I may be confused but this is not normal today and it wasn't normal four years ago hahahahaha

I was 'impressed' how the Lithuanian's handled it, just as if it were just things. I thought that was quite mad, that people see their own dead as nothing at all, "welcome to Lithuania, it is normal"....

Edit*


Coolabula :)

Life / Can foreigners really understand Poles? [136]


Honestly and this during peace time in Vilnius, Lithuania only four years ago.


To say the least and all the knacker wanted was a poxy cigarette.

But the dead bodies were different.
I went for one month here to Krakow and when I got back someone had dumped about 15 dead bodies in mounds of soil on the plot I was developing.

There were bones all over the place, now I can't tell a human's bone from a cow's bone or a sheep's bone but when you see the human (possibly ape:) jaw bone, there is not much else to say.

I have photographs of the skeletons and do you know what was the response in Lithuania?, "It's normal, this is Lithuania".
The bones started going missing, as this was in the city and kids walked to school this way, people walked their dogs this way....
I couldn't believe that it was taken so lightly.....
Ah HA, you see I have to be careful not to go on a rant.... but to put a long story short, I thought it was the mafia "telling" the foreigner (me) to leave. I was wrong, it was someone who dug up a cemetery and dumped it on the plot I was developing.

One of the many strange things about it was that the archaeologist told me (he thought I was lying the whole time and that it was me who did it) that it was from outside of the city and brought in and dumped on the plot.

The police conducted an "investigation" in which they found no crime had been commited after 6 months and no notification.
I burst, I flew into the police office shouting and roaring about no crime had been commited and dead bodies were dumped! and if no crime had been committed I could take it all and dump it on someone else's plot???????? well they said they couldn't answer that......

GGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...... my blood is up just thinking about it.

As I said a rant, perhaps we will have a beer someday and I will be all animated about it hahahaha

Anyway.

Edit*
Three live mines, one of those canon trailer vehicles that you mount a cannon on (without canon) loads of shells both huge and small were all later found actually burred on the plot.

Life / Can foreigners really understand Poles? [136]


But in fairness to you, you'd understand Poles better than most living here and being a socialite ( I presume you are good in a crowd because of your posts on here).

But lets face it, communism is even madder (in a way) to the media circus these days.
I like to find out about communist times, the same way I like to find out about the Japanese
In some ways it feels distant (iron curtain) and in other ways it's just pure madness which these days is in the shape of bureaucracy and general nonsensical paper work where the director with the stamp is king.

I lived and worked in Lithuania and the bureaucracy here in Poland is '''easy '' in comparison to what I had to put up with.
Someday I will go on a rant about the mafia, dead bodies being dumped on the land, guns held to my penis etc...
But all of that is for another time possibly another Seanbm :)

Life / Can foreigners really understand Poles? [136]


I meant in the Baltic states.
There is a few generation gaps between people under 30 and over 30.
I honestly don't know how they communicate, parent to child, on most levels it is that different.

And that is part of the big difference between Poland and other ex-commie states.
Tusk for a good example, he looks great to other E.U. members, non threatening, isn't going to go on too many commie hunts... a fresh face.

The Lithuanian's have got a female president newly elected but the president has about as much power as the president of Ireland, basically a diplomat and the ability to veto for a while.

They are constantly pushing against change, as many of the over 30s see no difference (which is very wrong) between the Soviet and European Unions.




Why does everyone think that it is so so easy to change, even for Poland which only came out of communism 20 years ago?

Life / Hepatitis C in Poland...please help. [59]

Google doesn't bite

Here you make free and anonymous HIV test


poradnikzdrowie.pl/sprawdz-sie/badania/tu-bezpatnie-i-anonimowo-zrobisz-test-hiv_34685.html


Anywhere official palace you go in Krakow for such a blood test will be safe and clean.

If you would like a translation for what you should say just let us know, as I personally don't know if they speak English but they should understand with a few basic words.

News / Poland's supreme administrative court rules against RHD cars [57]


Yep, that's it.
I had an automatic with cruse control and it was good for long distances in the sun but I find the control of the manual better for up hill (where I live) and when going too fast it offers more than just the break.

Although in fairness I am more used to a manual.


Splash? Shards of ice more like, although we are had a heatwave today, 0 in Krakow and about minus 5 today :)

Life / Can foreigners really understand Poles? [136]


Yep, sorry for changing your post but you know, Friday night and all.


The Baltic states have a huge problem now.

Since I first travelled in the Baltics 11 years ago, Estonia was the most forward thinking, wanted to computerise everything, had ambition. I believe that Finland helped Estonia (mentally), whereas Latvia and Lithuania were isolated (or at least felt it).

Also Latvian and Lithuanian languages are not completely different from one another like Estonian is.

But just look at the populations, Latvia has very few people all living in Riga, Estonia has the same amount of people as some towns in Poland and Lithuania had the same population as Ireland (before the E.U. Immigration policy).

Sorry for continuously editing my posts, friday night and all :)

Life / Can foreigners really understand Poles? [136]


Give a guy a little power and BOOM!!! straight to their heads.

I will never forget years ago the bastard Irishman in the Irish Embassy in London, a little little man.


Of course but it also has to be necessary, most people won't change anywhere in the world unless it is necessary and they want to change.


I think Poland because of Catholicism is and was not so nostalgic.


I agree with what you say to a certain extent about young people but the young are not in the offices, they don't run the country.

Life / Can foreigners really understand Poles? [136]



I don't mean to answer for Dtalyor but I am of a similar opinion based on my experience, it should be noted that I have only driven through East Germany and I have never been to Czech.

But I compare Poland to ex-commie countries I have spent some time in:

- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in fairness they were part of the U.S.S.R and Poland to them during communism was thought of as freedom in comparison to what they were being subjected to.

- Slovakia, although they have some better options for setting up businesses for tax and dividends purposes, it is still way behind Poland, perhaps because of it's size but I have seen statues of the communist liberators with young girls offering flowers there that old people still go to and pray.

- I was surprised in Hungary, how difficult buying a poxy sandwich was, everything had to be weighed individually, everything weighed had to have it's own little sticker, every sticker had to be added up at the end..... banging my head against the wall.... and that was in Pest.

- And when Croatia was communist Yugoslavia, it was very poor and people were more concerned about independence from Yugoslavia than just communism.

News / Poland's supreme administrative court rules against RHD cars [57]


Also on icy roads, I am of the opinion that manual is a must and every winter it snows here.
You have better control for stopping and accelerating (gearing down and up).


Maluchs are a fraction of the weight of Mercedes.
On the other hand small cars are probably better for cities as they tend not to go so fast as those buggers in the BMWs or Audis (yeah you know who :op

News / Poland's supreme administrative court rules against RHD cars [57]


Nobody will disagree with you on that one.


This is the main problem here, like it was in Ireland.


I think the law against RHD has only to do with this, there are so many deaths on the roads here the authorities have to be seen to do everything within their power to stop any potential fatalities.

Definitely. Best post so far on this thread. 2008 = 5,4000 died on the roads in 2009 4,5000 people died on the roads. And I think Ireland and Britain should change to what everyone else in our Europe are doing :p

Off-Topic / Europe according to Poles and other European nations [44]


Don't forget paranoid, rude and insecure :)


I am glad you think so :):):)

Have a great day :)

News / Poland's supreme administrative court rules against RHD cars [57]

That explains why I thought you didn't drive.

I would be interested in reading any information about RHD being safer than LHDs that you can get.
I think it should work out about the same, like inches and centimetres.

Off-Topic / Europe according to Poles and other European nations [44]


Probably the same as all the other nations on this thread, nothing.


You need to relax big time, your insecurity is unfounded but I suppose being a rude, paranoid, bipolar you have a lot to deal with.

My advice, if you can't take a joke, don't read threads that are meant to entertain.

Off-Topic / Europe according to Poles and other European nations [44]

Well... :)

Off-Topic / Europe according to Poles and other European nations [44]


I don't think Americans are dumb.
I also don't think that Poland is a nation of plumbers or that all Finnish people do is make phones.


You are too insecure to joke about America.