News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


That one expression (like so many others we've seen here) says so much about you...

And it is also rather hypocritical of you in the circumstances. Mind you, every worm can turn; and only a worm would use an expression like that.

And no; I wouldn't believe a word of Theresa May's any more than I would believe a word of a PiS election promise.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Ready made Osso Bucco too. The lamb thing has long been discussed. Carrefour do sell it, but it's frankly not the best.

Turkey (and there is an EU. Connection to the growth in Turkey meat sales) is bizarrely seen here as better than chicken. Appalling factory farming methods, genuine cruelty. It may seem like a rise in living standards but it comes at a cost; basic decency.

When the UK banned the cruelest type of pig unit, the farmers just sold the equipment on eBay, mostly to Polish farmers. This is one area where strong EU wide legislation would help, though I fear some countries only would enforce it rigorously and others would discreetly flout the rules.

All this does affect immigrants in both directions; the availability of previously hard to obtain products has improved quality of life.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


They'd have to make some good changes first...


It won't change that, however more (or any) lamb in Biedronka (proving it isn't the anorexic and scrawny Polish stuff) would be good.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


You mean the 'bad change' party. And like any other right-wing politician, not one single word she says can ever be trusted.


She isn't a good leader, and so far has acted only in the interests of her career...

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


Given that she's done everything she can to further impoverish the poor, 'vice' is an appropriate word.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Quite. She became Home Secretary on a platform of reducing annual immigration however in fact it increased considerably during her term of office. The only group of people she managed to deport were students which somehow misses the point of what she promised to do.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Only a very few...

Mostly social issues like marriage equality. And she was campaigning for Remain.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


Yes, like Maggie more conserative than regressive (c.f. Andrea Leadson, Farage, the current lot in Poland). Nevertheless some of her cabinet appointments are to say the least, exotic.

Her speech about privileged elites was just politician's bluster; she and her husband are personally extremely wealthy and very little of her voting record in parliament has helped the poor in any way - in fact much of what she's supported has been damaging.

She is no friend of Poland or Poles in the UK, though on social issues she does have a few redeeming features.

Language / Polish flower that starts with T [7]

Yes, Tulipan is the best known. There's also Tuberosa, Tatarak, Trojad and Trybuła. A few more, but I can't think of any off hand.

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]



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He's this bad; and there's plenty more.

But the marionette Duda is powerless to remove him, since his boss JK has made it clear that

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]


Unique in receiving an open letter from 6 of his predecessors urging him to stand down. The guy is insane.

News / Streets closed in Warsaw during NATO summit [146]


Nonsense.


No dispute at all. Poland is a proud member of NATO and it has an extremely high approval rating among Poles. The EU too.

News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]

Isn't there a thread about this rubbish already?

News / Streets closed in Warsaw during NATO summit [146]


Very good reason.


Highly unlikely. Poland wasn't an 'open target' before NATO accession.

Travel / Pre-paid cell phone from Poland for local and international calls? [12]

Is your iPhone locked to a provider? I knows lot of American ones are.

News / Poland's President-Elect Duda leads in public trust - CBOS poll [185]

He doesn't do any job other than his master's bidding and people are just relieved that he didn't mess up as badly as LK.

Mind you, next to JK and Macierewicz a baboon would look good.

Language / Frustrated Polish Learner -- people in Poland try to speak to me in English [31]


That's all you can really do. I just pretend (with a little shake of the head and that blank look that nurses often give you if you start to use nursing terminology with them) I can't understand what they're saying in English (unless it's someone I know well who wants to practise their English. If you speak Polish all day every day for long periods, it's quite annoying if someone suddenly speaks to you in English. Rude to others present who don't speak English.


One person I know used to speak to me out of the blue in German - I had absolutely no idea what he was saying. Oddly enough he'd heard me make formal speeches, deliver academic lectures in Polish and hold long conversations.

It is actually quite rude when people do that.

News / Streets closed in Warsaw during NATO summit [146]


That's pretty conclusive

News / Streets closed in Warsaw during NATO summit [146]


Lectured?

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


They are likely to insist on that, however the treaty with Ireland is outside that.

All very messy.

News / Streets closed in Warsaw during NATO summit [146]

Indeed. And yes, NATO has a lot of support here. President Obama's speech was also well-received despite TVP attempts to censor it.

Life / The Polish people have a strange attitude to cats and dogs? [84]

Yes, very much so

News / Streets closed in Warsaw during NATO summit [146]


Sense is one thing you lack. NATO is popular in Poland.

Travel / Taxis from Gdansk airport? [65]

Yes, that's a huge price.

News / Streets closed in Warsaw during NATO summit [146]


People here support NATO

News / Streets closed in Warsaw during NATO summit [146]


Indeed, and appropriate that the leader of the free world should stand up for democracy; something seriously under threat in Poland.

News / Streets closed in Warsaw during NATO summit [146]


Hilarious wasn't it. And they really think people are daft enough not to see through it. Though to be fair their voters are mostly that daft.

News / Streets closed in Warsaw during NATO summit [146]


Very much yes, just as President Obama was right to talk about the PiS attack on democracy while in Poland.

Travel / Getting from Krakow to Warsaw [99]


This is true, however I'd add that due to dynamic ticketing systems online, even the EIP can be cheaper than the TLK. Also worth checking out both first and second class prices - sometimes the difference in price is tiny and I've even seen first class cheaper than second sometimes.

Life / Should I expect racism as a 'black' woman in Poland [149]

Yes, Lyzko, Poland has changed massively, especially the big cities. Even Katowice is OK. In my experience, African Americans are both welcome and interesting to people here.