Law / Healthcare for British Citizens living in Poland [30]

Hi,
If you are working in Poland then you have to pay for, among other, health insurance (a "public fee"). Then you are treated like any citizen in Poland who has basic healthcare. The question is: are your medicines and treatment refunded also in Poland? - That could be checked if you call or email NFZ - National Health Fund in Poland. If NFZ does not refund this treatment fully of in some % then I guess only some additional healthcare would work, but it'd cost additionally and since you are already in treatment it may be more expensive.

USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]


Not so much Turkish style, nor it is the Arabic way. It can only be Polish then and if you do it badly it can be terrible.

Work / Some cold, hard facts about teaching in Poland for newbies [101]

Come on! Real men have steel bladder tanks! You p1ss whan you want to, not when you need to. You tell that bladder of yours the nex tim... <went to restroom>

USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]


Certainly! I also have two: one bigger and one small just for meself:). French press is very nice but this italian pot is class of its own.

USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]

Well, you are in Szczecin, but in Krakow it is me who probably makes the best coffee in town:). I use moka pot, not french press.

Food / Typical lunch in Poland? [50]


typically there was no lunch tradition in Poland. It's foreign to Poland so anything you usually eat for lunch can be eaten in Poland too.

Life / Winter in Poland? [160]



Still, people who come from warmer regions must remember to protect their "royal Rastafarian nay-nays" from freezing (Cool runnings movie).
Anyone knows what's it for?

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News / Lech Kaczyński statue in Warsaw? [66]


Nope. For giggling I'd write hihihihiand for LOLing I write hahahah. And for Christmas and hookers I call: hohoho!


Nice to meet ya! Howdy!


This was logical actually. You are a taliban, ortodox, no sense of humor and threatening to behead people. Well, we can just hope you are the kind that does suicide bombing:D

Ironside, maybe you should just remove ironfrom your diet as it obviously does you wrong.

Life / Winter in Poland? [160]


:D very accurate - my feeling was -6. I didn't eat proper breakfast so I was feeling more cold. That was my rouh guess then.

+1 - that's what the politicians are trying to tell you... :D

News / Lech Kaczyński statue in Warsaw? [66]


As far as I read many of the notable figures that are now at Wawel were initially buried elsewhere, and at least several years later were deicided to be put there.


Ok. But tell me please what was the rush in Kaczynski's case if the investigations hadn't even been finished and it could/can as well turn out that he was pressuring the pilots which contributed to the crash. If it is truth - which we cannot say by now - then putting him already at Wawel is a bit hasty, isn't it? Mickiewicz is just one example among many.


Did I or anyone suggest anywhere not to bury him at all?! :D His family tomb is in Powązki I guess, which is second most honourable place for eternal rest. Why not there, with his family? Also he comes from Gdańsk - why not his hometown? Krakow - he never had anything to do with this city so this idea is even more weird. He was not king either.


True. But unfortunately the Church administers the chapel [or church, whatever] there and the tombs and the sneaky weasel Dziwisz waas caught lying two times about the case of whose idea it was. Nice example...


Hahahahah:)

Life / Winter in Poland? [160]

Dude, this is not Syberia. It can get cold, but in the cities mentioned (not some outskirts) it can usually be down to -20 C degree. Right now in Krakow it's around -6 I think. Just get some warm socks, some woolen sweaters and a flanel shirt maybe and jeans and you'll be all right.

News / Lech Kaczyński statue in Warsaw? [66]


You know, there is a huge plain around the Giant Geesus in Swiebodzin - plenty of space to erect statues, even giant ones...
There's this weird rush to put the late president to Wawel, to make statues, soon he'll be claimed for beatification ( - who wants to bet it's going to happen sooner or later?). And if it turns out that there was some fault for the plane crass on his side too - would president Kaczynski be removed in infamation from Wawel? I don't think so and I don't think this ever happened before. And as I mentioned, people of much greater positive input to the history waited at least a few years before they were moved to Wawel (Adam Mickiewicz for instance). Same is with statues.

News / Lech Kaczyński statue in Warsaw? [66]


Yes, I meant the hyphen as it should be when someone in Poland decides to have double name. Just checked it - it has been corrected. What a shame it was.


Yes, he already has his name given to school and other things I mentioned...

News / Lech Kaczyński statue in Warsaw? [66]

Obviously she's biased. But she can have an opinion of course. Best if she founded the statue and placed it in her own garden; anyone has such a right. In meantime, there are 8 (eight) movies made or being made at the moment about the plane accident. They can be of little factual value since not all the facts and aspects are yet known about the reasons of this plane crash.

Personally I am rather for statues of significant people in history that have been confirmed by history and time that they were worthy of a statue and bigger commemoration. Speaking bluntly, dying in a plane crash - as tragic as it is of course - is not enough to get a statue of your own. And Kaczynski's deeds before as the president and earlier are too controversial and don't carry that "factor" which I would expect from a real statesman and historical figure. Maybe it is enough that he is buried at the Wawel Castle, among kings and other great people of Poland in a nice marble tomb [which by the way has incorrect inscription]. So what's a man gotta do to get numerous streets and roundabouts and schools named by his name, memorial plaques and burial in the most prestigious place in the country and prospective monument?


Among those 96 victims there were people who deserved a statue a bit more I think. He should wait in line for a statue, there is no rush whatsoever with statues, isn't it right?

Study / A female Asian student considers studying in Poland [21]


- That is true, vast majority is white, just as there's vast majority of Asians in e.g. China...


I guess not more than enywhere else.


Dude, wanna live? - Get a shiv! :D
- just joking of course

Life / Mobile phones for Expats in Poland - without any pesel number [6]

There is no problem, just pick an operator, their demands are similar: Passport or other ID, Karta pobytu (for non-EU citizens) or registration of stay (EU citizens), some require work permit, some require to show them some paid invoices (e.g. monthly utilities). In all cases you need also a registered address in Poland.

Here's how it is roughly:
Play:
1. Passport or other ID,
2. Residence Card/Registration of stay
3. Address in Poland (zameldowanie)
Orange:
-same as above plus:
4. Work Permit or work contract or
5. Last invoice(s) for utilities, phone bill, tv, electricity, etc. or
6. Deposit: 500 PLN with blocked abroad or 2000 PLN no foreign calls blocked
Era
1. Residence card (non-EU)/Registration of stay (EU)
2. Credit card
3. ID
Plus
1. Residence card (non-EU)/Registration of stay (EU)
2. ID
3. Address in Poland (zameldowanie)

Language / Are the languages of Russian and Polish similar at all? [94]

Да, они похожи, но не так много:)

Australia / Polska Balanga! New Polish Party in Sydney [31]

Guys, does this balanga have anything similar to Berlusconi's bunga bunga?

Genealogy / Anything about the Mikolajczyks [6]

Hi,
It is hard to say without more details. there are about 25 thousand people of this name. Most of them, however, are located in central Poland, that's all I know.

cheers

Love / Appropriate Wedding Gift for a Polish girlfriend of several months? [37]




If you do otherwise you may be considered as "the friend of the family" :D

Love / Appropriate Wedding Gift for a Polish girlfriend of several months? [37]

5 * ? - My first choice: The Grand Hotel and my favourite Hotel Gródek - on their website check also Hotel Kosciuszko, also a ***** and you can eat lunch on a beautiful terrace with the panorama of the best part of Krakow!

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and the Sheraton too - very nice service too.


Wow! Never seen that! They must've looked like peacocks! What kind of weddings have YOU been going to? Hahahahahah;)

Love / Appropriate Wedding Gift for a Polish girlfriend of several months? [37]

Yes it is very good. To find some institution or person in need and let the wedding guests chip in for this person (needing a wheelchair or something). It is quite common for the newly-weds to ask not to buy flowers but devote this money to buy some toys for a particular orphanage. A very good trend. However, it's good to contact the chosen place first as my friends did - they were told that the orpahnage has enough toys but they are lacking other stuff like school equipment (notebooks, crayons, pencils etc.)

Love / Appropriate Wedding Gift for a Polish girlfriend of several months? [37]


He doesn't live in Africa.

Love / Appropriate Wedding Gift for a Polish girlfriend of several months? [37]


I'd agree, but after giving it a second thought I am for the list. If you don't make a list (some aunts and grannies will not stick to it anyway!) then you'll end up with a couple ugly bed linnens that don't even suit your bed dimensions, 2 or 3 electric kettles (not the ones that suit your kitchen, 1 toster (not going with the kettles), 1 cheap pressure coffee machine, several sets of towels or something similar, at least 2 vases or punch bowls that you want to throw down a window and you'll be most happy to the ones that actually did give you just money. Don't you think?

USFriend: I'd send a very chic card together with a very good champane or wine (best if you know her favourite). This won't be offending, too generous and most likely it will be very well recieved.

Law / From UK to Krakow with my GF and daughter - registration to live/see a doctor? [10]

That's right, private doctors (Luxmed/CM LIM, Medicover) are more efficient, I can only add that EHIC is still useful in case of hospitalization (which most private can't cover) where you'd still go to public hospital.

Law / From UK to Krakow with my GF and daughter - registration to live/see a doctor? [10]

Oh, yes, maybe I skipped it. Definitely he needs to pay somewhere the health insurance, wheteher in his home country or Poland. And he can get the EHIC in the country where the insurance is paid.

Law / From UK to Krakow with my GF and daughter - registration to live/see a doctor? [10]


or he can just apply here! Same thing, only it says on the card that it was issued in PL not the UK - it does not matter. Mine is from the UK for instance and I used it in Sweden and Norway too, and now in Poland. Just go to Polish national health fund website - the NFZ

News / New Polish Light Tank - Anders [74]

Naming a tank Anders sounds like a very good idea, general Anders was one of the greatest generals in Poland.

USA, Canada / Polish citizens getting a passport and actually making it in US ? [14]


What bad things and how your girlfriend plans to go to US and make herself a passport there? You mean during her stay it is going to expire and she'll need a new one or what?

History / In a German encyclopedia Poland is represented as: [30]

What a big bunch of silly lies! Is this "encyclopaedia" for real or just as Nonsensopedia? Oh, and what great number of relevant sources used, hahahah.