Work / What jobs pay 10,000 zlotych per month? and Where can i find one? :o) [101]

You can get a lot more than 10k. Join the world's biggest, oldest company and become a Catholic priest. Countless "moherowe berety (devout Catholic old ladies afraid of going to hell after a lifetime of petty theft, such as rifling your jacket when you use their toilet)" will fall over each other to give you their measly pensions of 3 groszies per year for a one-way entry through the pearly gates. As a bonus you'll be living in the Middle Ages, where the Church is always right and rules supreme, without the need for a time machine. Try expensive towns like Limanowa where the only attraction is the massive church right in the town centre's Rynek.

Food / Polish Duck Soup [117]

If it's good for you it's probably been made illegal, suddenly! So cook it while you can, smacznego.

Travel / Good beer stores / House of Beer in Krakow? [5]

Alma in the Galeria Kazimierska, but very expensive. Gone are the days when you could buy tons of things for 2p.

News / What's the stupidest question asked about Poland? [414]

To JohnP: So you're American with Polish background? Pleased to meet you, Mr Kowalski (pron: ko-walls-key).
Some chick asked me if people have to walk around in snowshoes.
In India, few people heard of Poland, only Holland. When I sent someone in India a letter from "Poh Land with a p, not Holland with an H", a reply (eventually) arrived with the correct address on, except the country name: Switzerland. And it's always the same in India. You are asked "what is your country name" 8 billion times a day, you say "Poh Land" to make the pronounciation clear, and they still hear "Holland".

News / What's the stupidest question asked about Poland? [414]

Pomorzanka: "it's not middle ages". Try telling that to the ruling Catholic Church (read Avro Manhattan)!

Life / The Poles - do they "bumble" through life? [29]

Was your brother fixing the bank's TV antennae?

Food / Polish Duck Soup [117]

Where in Detroit can you get lard and vodka?

USA, Canada / Where can i find Spirytus Rektyfikowany in the USA? [77]


. What did you have for breakfast, lard?

Genealogy / The Meaning and Origin of the Last name Czekaj [9]

Some Polish surnames are straight out of Monty Python. There are a few people I met called Jajecznica (Mr Scrambled Eggs!); or Wielobłota (Mr Loads-of-mud). Can you imagine having your name called out loud in your GP's surgery? And now for something completely different.....

News / The "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign theft from Oswiecim, Poland [240]

The modern version of 'Arbeit Macht Frei' is "Karma Yoga Liberates You", by a big business called the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres all over the world. They make you work till you "burn out" as they call it. Whatever you do don't give those greedy so-and-so's a single groszy, unless you're happy to finance another castle for them like the one they have in Paris (they say they're a charity - yeah right!). They now have at least two places in Poland.

Life / Ripped Off in Poland? - Expose here: [185]



Surely you know it's the principle, not the small change it cost, which is the point. Multiply that a few thousand times and you're rolling in it, mate. As for the 17.000 zl, that was for building work which was meantto be carried out. OK, call him a sucker, but he's a decent bloke who didn't deserve it. You just wait till you're ripped off.

Life / Ripped Off in Poland? - Expose here: [185]

Forget the f*g batteries, forget pencils and fans and cheap clothes. I started this thread so you guys can name and shame those who ripped you off. What crap did you buy, name the shop or shop the person who did the dirty on you. Names and addresses etc. I've been shat on in PL by MANY individuals who assume I have a hundred mansions in the USA and can afford to be ripped off. Quite simply they're jealous, church-going Catholics who steal often (except Sunday when they have to be seen going to communion). Well, that's my personal experience.

Life / Ripped Off in Poland? - Expose here: [185]


Only if you're the plaintiff. Or is it that the foreigner is always wrong?


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Keep taking the tablets, Magda.

Work / Why is Polish workmanship so bad? [52]

I said this in another thread: the Polish work ethic is "why do something right when you can always f*k it up.

Life / Ripped Off in Poland? - Expose here: [185]

If you travel to and from Poland by coach, NEVER travel by "Orbis" nor "Sindbad". My very recent travel experiences with them BOTH ways UK - PL - UK are: toilets out of order (is that legal?); luggage only accepted if you bribe the staff a tenner; coach smelly; windows filthy; very rude staff etc., etc. A jerk who 'works' for Orbis wouldn't take my suitcase (ONE normal-sized one) until I gave him ten pounds. He called it a "wersalka"! Now that's what I call a Polish Catholic chain-smoking lard & vodka guzzler. Everyone on the coach was complaining they were ripped off. PASS THIS ON. Orbis and Sindbad deserve to go bust!!

Life / Getting ripped off in Poland! Is it normal? or should it be tolerated? [97]

Of course you'll get ripped off. What else would you expect from church-going Polish Catholics? How else would they fund their chain-smoking, lard & vodka splurges?

Work / Why is Polish workmanship so bad? [52]


So how does that stop you from using those vodka-saturated Catholic brains of yours?

USA, Canada / Tracking a package through the Polish Postal system sent from US [57]


Why do they bother to go to church and holy communion on Sundays?! Holy s**t!

Travel / Nice restaurants in Warsaw [30]

On this occasion, I'd say Harry's right. The Old Town is a tourist trap. And some years ago, the establishment owners in the Old Square wouldn't open shop because the mafia demanded protection money from them. The cops were in on it too and refused to arrest the mafia, who were known to the cops anyway.

Food / A recipe for hootch? Bimber taste in Poland. [42]

Famously, there's "bimber" proportions known as 'Bitwa Grunwaldska', after the Battle of Grunwald in 1410. It's 1L of water, 400gr of sugar and 10gr of yeast, totalling the year of 1410.

Travel / Indian or Mexican food in Warsaw. [60]


Or lard and vodka!

Work / Average monthly salary in Poland is around 1000 PLN (few hundred bucks). [387]


I can just imagine all forum members having a party. We'd probably all end up killing each other in five minutes.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Even young Poles today openly cross themselves in public. Somewhat behind the times to put it politely. How big a peasant do they want to be? In UK where the church is much less prominent, they'd be "weirdos" or "Jesus nuts".

Travel / Indian or Mexican food in Warsaw. [60]

What's the nearest tube station to Arti?

Travel / Indian or Mexican food in Warsaw. [60]

Many thanks, jonni.

News / What's the stupidest question asked about Poland? [414]

They may as well ask: 'do they have oxygen?'

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

Thick fog? Convenient (this isn't 1930). A lack of communication between pilot and ground control in bad Russian? LOL! Even if you're a purple-skinned neanderthal pilot from the people's republic of watsituya, all pilots and ground control staff worldwide communicate in fluent English, with a minimum IQ of around 130. So the poor communication story is the purest bolloc*s ever. Thick fog my *rse! The fact that Lech Kaczyński was anti-corruption and anti-mafia was totally irrelevant, we are asked to believe.

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]


Because:
1: He could have won.
2: He and other top quality people were sitting ducks flying over mafia territory.

UK, Ireland / Missing Polish woman found murdered in Chesterton, UK [27]

British police are not unknown to take the lazy, easy option, not allowing anything silly like common sense and evidence to get in the way. Just look at the way they handled the Colin Stagg case. They eventually had to "apologise unreservedly" on TV.