News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

Polonius is right. He was. He now refers to himself as a person of strong faith. He is for separation of Church and state but he has not said anything in his campaign about being anti Catholic or against the Church.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


You know most people in your situation would be about to sat things like this and then stop and think 'ah, wait, people from PO have done far worse things, so perhaps it's not a good idea to throw stones.' Yet you still manage to bring up anything you can find on president Duda and PiS and completely ignore any PO wrong doings.

News / The shame of Duda making late night visits to Kaczyński [79]


So perhaps he made the visit to a friend late at night so nobody would see as he knew what a needless storm the anti Duda anti PiS media would kick up.


You're saying that Andrzej Duda is not allowed to visit anyone ever, even as a friend just visiting a friend? This was a non official visit. He was not visiting officially as the president of Poland.

News / The shame of Duda making late night visits to Kaczyński [79]


He wouldn't. He only comments on negative things to do with PiS. It's called having an agenda.

News / The shame of Duda making late night visits to Kaczyński [79]


Well I'm glad you're harping on about this. Of course Tusk's meeting on a peer with Putin, not long before the 'mysterious' plane crash, that Tusk and his cronies were not on and both of the Kaczyński brothers were expected to be on, probably doesn't bother you as much.

News / The shame of Duda making late night visits to Kaczyński [79]

You make a fair point Crow, that I find surprising given your positive attitudes to Russia (from what I have seen of your posts on here).

It is laughable how much people cried foul out how president Komorowski received no respect as president, and yet these same people try to tarnish president Duda almost from the gates. He hasn't even been president 2 months yet for crying out loud.

News / The shame of Duda making late night visits to Kaczyński [79]

I think the funniest part of this, given that delph is a PO supporter and very anti PiS and Duda who he considers part of PiS, is how he tries to act like this is the most scandalous thing to every happen in Polish politics.

Given that you and your media think that Duda is in cahoots with PiS anyway, this shouldn't surprise you, so why are you harping on about it.

News / The shame of Duda making late night visits to Kaczyński [79]

Yeah because Komorowski had no connection to PO whatsoever and Kopacz doesn't base any of her decisions on what Tusk says. Come on delph, try harder. You want scandals, you don't have to look any further than PO, once you've delt with the dozens of scandals and corruption there, then you can nit pick the two or three dodgy things going on around PiS or the president.

Law / Electronic signature for my Polish citizenship? [40]

Not sure. Either Polish passport or might have been a British one by then. It was so long ago.

Law / Electronic signature for my Polish citizenship? [40]

I'm more inclined to believe dolnyslask on this one. I've been to Poland many times and never has anyone looked at my passport funny, in so far as that I have a Polish name but it is a British passport. Even back in the day when there were border checks going from Germany to Poland and my passport was shown, nobody questioned me or any member of my family about it.

Anyway delph I'm surprised Poles are being so 'petty' about it nowdays, I thought things were amazing under PO and they didn't cause problems.

Law / Electronic signature for my Polish citizenship? [40]

Let me spell it out for you because it seems you can't grasp the idea.

How am I a Polish citizen IF I WAS BORN AND HAVE LIVED IN THE UK MY ENTIRE LIFE, AND HAVE A BRITISH PASSPORT, NOT A POLISH ONE?

You're not making any sense. So if my mother had not been speaking to me in Polish, I did not even know the language, did not have a Polish sounding name and went to Poland for a few days on holiday, I could get in to some serious trouble. It makes no sense whatsoever.

Or let me put this a different one

What you're effectively saying, Harry, is that if a Polish woman goes to England, marries a Brit, has a child there, calls him David, surname Johnson, does not teach him Polish, the child lives in the UK his whole life as a British citizen and then when an adult in his 20's, decides to go to Poland for a couple of days on a holiday with his friends, he could be in trouble for not having a Polish passport. Sounds like utter BS.

Law / Electronic signature for my Polish citizenship? [40]

But I am outside Poland for now. I don't live there, only go there once or twice per year. I have thought about living there and want to get my official citizenship in the event that I do. I still don't see how I can get in to trouble for turning up to Poland for a few weeks, having never lived there, with a British passport. It sounds like a load of nonsense. I think you're confused.

Law / Electronic signature for my Polish citizenship? [40]

Yeah it's something I've wanted to do for a while but not got around to. People often told me they think I should just have the citizenship because of what I was born in to, as did the lady at the consulate, but I don't have any papers to prove it. This is effectively what I am applying for.

Law / Electronic signature for my Polish citizenship? [40]

I do indeed yes because my grandfather from that side was Polish and married a British wife (grandmother).

Law / Electronic signature for my Polish citizenship? [40]

Ah so that's the mistake. At the time of the issue of my British Citizenship only my mother had a Polish passport. I don't know when she got her British passport but she has had one for a very long time now.

Anyway I thought when you were born in a country to parents who live there legally you are a citizen of that country.

Law / Electronic signature for my Polish citizenship? [40]

Yeah it makes no sense. I have a British passport as I was born there and was given one. I am also Polish and applying for a Polish passport. I thought it would be easier to do but I still have to fill out a lot of paperwork.

Law / Electronic signature for my Polish citizenship? [40]

Okay thanks for that. It sounds complicated either way. I have a family member who is in Poland right now that I have given written and signed permission to go to the local 'gmina' for me (the gmina said it was fine). They handed over my British birth certificate that they needed and picked up a form that they have put in the post for me. I will fill it out when it arrives, pop in a photo and send it back so my family member can go once again with the filled out form. If I need to show up to collect the passport and PESEL I will.

I've already been to the London consulat who sent some forms I filled out to Warsaw to confirm my Polish identity. It's funny when I spoke to the lady and filled out my family background, she basically told me that I am a Polish citizen, I just need to make it official on paper.

News / Russia threatens Poland over monument [33]


Yeah because asking Russia is going to make a difference. They're really going to agree.

The Russians don't need to have it there. The Polish population of the town did not want it. It's not like the town had a large Russian inhabitants that would visit the monument that meant a lot to them. The Russians only wanted it kept there to act like tools.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


There is no hard news over in Poland, unless you sign up to PAP and only read their website. You either follow the Polsat/TVN/Gazeta Wyborcza spin of what is happening, or the Gazeta Polska/Republika/Niezalezna.pl spin. To be honest I have not heard anything about Duda defrauding Poland. Are you talking about Piotr Duda? I heard about that but he has defended himself from those accusations.


Oh that's right. Don't talk to those who say something different to what you believe. I speak to random Polish people I have met for the first time. I had no idea about their political views when I spoke to them about the situation in Poland. They didn't all support PiS, but they were all very much against PO. I suppose they must all be stupid and from the same area though right, because how can anyone possibly have anything against PO?


How do you know what PiS would and would not touch?


I know many young people here w are set to go back if PO is no longer in power in October.


No I think this is where you are delusional. What you say simply is not true. Go out in to the street and ask 50 random people if they are proud of what Tusk has done and is doing now. I expect the response you get will not be positive.


In other words, he's prepared to kiss ass and do what he's told. You're saying what I'm saying, just sprucing it up a bit with some glitter.


Funny that is pretty much how PO have been for years. Scare people with PiS and they will vote PO. The rest, doesn't matter, people are too afriad to vote for PiS.


About only idiots voting PO. let's face it, that's exactly what you think of those who vote for PiS, and you've made it clear on numerous occasions.


Are you suggesting Kwasniewski was a right winger?

By the way you seem convinced you know my and many other people's life stories. You seem very reluctant to tell us about yourself though. You still won't even say where you are from. By the way you write on here I would think British, but you've not confirmed that.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]


PO stopped being hope a long time ago. That's why Polish people are evacuating in drones. PO = corruption. I've spoken to many Polish people in the UK who moved recently, and the soul reason they left was PO and the way they run things, so I don't know what hope and improvements you're seeing, but a lot of actual Polish people, not expats, obviously aren't looking through the same rose tinted sunglasses you are. If things are so great, why are people still running away? They don't see a future for themselves in Poland. The economy has done well thanks to all the money they send back from the UK and other countries.


That's arguable. Komorowski vs Duda was basically PO vs Pis, and many Komorowski (and therefore PO supporters) shifted to Kukiz.


Not when while asked if he was going as the prime minister of Poland, he said he wouldn't. You can say it's an achievements for Poland, but it's not. It's Tusk leaving a sinking ship and the only reason they elected him in the EU was because he smiles and keeps his mouth shut. He does whatever they want him to.


I'd say there are a couple of parties PiS could form a coalition with.


I don't remember you asking me this question.

'Evacuating in droves' sorry, not drones. Typo. That would be interesting though.

News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

To be honest Roger a PO victory in this election would mean there is no hope for Poland. The bottom line is that PiS scare monegering doesn't work anymore and that's why the drop in PO votes is happening, at least in the polls. Some are going to PiS, some to Kukiz, perhaps a few to some other parties.

The amount of crap people have seen out of PO, topped off nicely by Mr Tusk running off to Europe, even though he said he wouldn't, means PO simply cannot win. It would be a tragedy. Is PiS going to be great in their place and everything right? Unlikely, but one thing is for sure, there are a lot of people in that party right now, whether some want to call them right wing extremists or whatever, who really love their country, and their decisions will always be made in the interest of it, whether they are good decisions or not. A lot of people will hopefully vote PiS as a vote against PO, just like they used to vote PO as a vote against PiS.

Language / Applying for a Polish football website - translation question? [6]

That's what I assumed. Thanks for confirming.

Language / Applying for a Polish football website - translation question? [6]

I understand the sentence itself but I don't know what it's getting at.

Even if it was written in English I wouldn't understand it. 'If you don't understand any of the 3 languages, feel free to support yourself with a translation in to English.' What do they mean? I can take one of the texts, translate them in to English and then in to Polish?

Thanks for being critical rather than helping by the way.

Life / A rant on customer service in Poland [42]

I didn't realise any of this. So it's not that they are nasty and unkind just because they are (although they can be too), it's just that this is how it is in Poland and they are used to it. It's the customers duty to have the exact money.

This is totally alien to somebody in the UK or USA where if you give more than the amount of the item, it's totally natural to expect change, even if it is a silly amount in coins. Nobody makes a big deal over it. Obviously in Poland they still do.

Life / A rant on customer service in Poland [42]

Merged: Bad customer service experience with Poland

Okay so I love Poland but there is no denying that Polish people aren't always the best when it comes to customer service.

How about we all give some examples of when he didn't get the customer service we expected. Here is mine.

I was in a little Polish shop today, buying a few things. I get to the till and the lady tells me it's £4.15, I hand over my £10. She looks bemused and says she won't be able to give me change for that. Now I look confused. She asks if I have 15p. I say I don't, the £10 is all I have. She asks if I can pay by card. I say the note is all I have on me. She looks frustrated. I stand there and say 'so what now?' I tell her I did not realise she would have such problems. She thinks for bit and looks even more frustrated. Shen then takes what seems to be the last of the coins in her till out, along with a £5 note and hands me my £5.85. I thank her, she doesn't say anything and walks away from the till.

I had so many thoughts of what I could say to her, but I'm just too nice when it comes to these transactions and didn't do it.

How is it my problem if they have enough money to give back in the till? It's not the first time this has happened either. They treat you like you are at fault and should be more considerate, as a customer. It's incredible. This is why I don't like going in to Polish shops much. I'm not saying it's just Polish folks, there might be people from other countries who are similar, perhaps slavic ones, but I know that so far I have only had this crappy attitude from people in Polish shops.

News / Is Kinga Duda of Poland the most beautiful first-daughter of the world? [50]

Depends on the day and the photo taken of her.

You want rough, I'll give you rough



and the infamous photo that will probably never go away

News / Is Kinga Duda of Poland the most beautiful first-daughter of the world? [50]

I agree with the opinion on here that if Kinga Duda was not the president's daughter we wouldn't be thinking too much about it. She's a nice looking girl but let's not go overboard. Most beautiful first-daughter? Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. I personally think Marta Kaczynska is quite pretty, but again, others would disagree I think I am out of my mind. It's about personal taste.

USA, Canada / Is there any chance that I can go right now to the US and start a life over there? [19]


Sounds like most places then.