Love / Any particular Polish customs or traditions that I should know about in my relationship? [45]

How People Usually Dress at the day by day there? On the summer, it is usual to use shorts?

Thanks!

Travel / Any interesting things in Lodz? [10]

Attractions in Lodz

Hello Guys!

I Will be in Lodz at July and August, doing volunteer work for a poor children institution.

But i wanna know what is a must-see in Lodz and Nearby cities?

Do you all have any hints?

Thank You All!

Cheers from Brazil!

Life / Is Eletronic Music in Poland popular? [5]

I Love Jean Michell Jarre!

But i Like Clubbing music like Above and Beyond too =)

Unfortunately i never met another polish here in Brazil that likes electronic music =(

News / Military power (Poland #21 in the world) [97]

I Dont Believe this Ranking.

I am from Brazil and Brazil DONT HAVE a so Powerful Army.

I Really cant believe that our Army is strongest then the German one, for example.

News / Military power (Poland #21 in the world) [97]


Yeah, most of them moved to Brazil and Argentina...

Classifieds / Audioriver in Plock [7]

Nice! I will visit it on Sunday after the festival =)

Travel / Site with Times of departures of Trains and Buses in Poland [6]

And for bus?

Travel / Site with Times of departures of Trains and Buses in Poland [6]

Because bus have more options of time =)

Travel / After 7 Weeks, why i loved Poland =) [22]

Yeah, there is a lot of polish people here in Brazil, in the state of Paraná.

One of my friends is from Polish family (His family name is Ribatski). He is catholic and he is a very nice person, despite the fact that he is a little very conservative.

Travel / After 7 Weeks, why i loved Poland =) [22]


I Define "Good English" as the english perfectly understandable.

And in that way, a lot of young people in Poland speak good english. Every time that i needed help, i ever searched for a young person and in most of the times they understood me and i could understand them =)

Study / India citizen in Poland - want to study in Wroclaw [18]

With all respect but....

Why most of the indian people internet write on that difficult way of understanding english?

It is a really ugly way to write.

Life / Why are Polish so conservative and religious? [240]

"So were the North Africans that went on a rampage in French cities a few years ago rampaging for Islam or for their ethnic difference? "

Great point. That is what, in my opinion, makes the polish society so much stronger today than most western societies (maybe just comparable to the south of USA).

A immigrant can riot and beat people that doesnt share his religion in the streets of Paris or London because those societies doesnt have any belief, so they feel that this rioter is not disrespecting their culture (despite burn everything). Meanwhile the polish society HAVE their religion and their beliefs so will not accept imposition of Islam or any other religion.

That is why Britain or France are drowning in Chaos with illegal immigrants destroying churches while the "backwards" Catholic Poland is a peaceful land.

Life / Why are Polish so conservative and religious? [240]

"Poland is conservative and religious because it is the right thing to be to stay strong. "

Exactly!!!

Anyone knows how the Armenians resisted for thousa ds of years even being constantly under attack of the Ottomans and, Azeris, Turkish and other muslims?

Anyone knows how the Israelis survived for a entire century being attack by virtually ALL arab countries 3 TIMES?

Anyone knows how the Polish Culture survived until today even with Poland being invaded more than 40 times in the last 500 years?

The reason is simple: All those countries have a common religion that bond the society together. Destroy that and you will destroy the country and make another failed society just like Marseille or Birmingham.

Love / Polish girlfriend told me we cant have sex because I'm not religious [40]

I dont understand... if you are an asian guy, why would you expect a polish woman to have sex so easily with you?

Yeah, Poland is a religious country. And hopefully will stay that way. In Asia there are many places were pick a girl and go to bed is extremelly easy (Indonesia, Malaysia, etc). But Poland is not like that.

So deal with it or look for another one. She is not obligated to have sex with you. In Poland woman are free.

Love / Polish girlfriend told me we cant have sex because I'm not religious [40]

" It's a modern European country in most respects, and it's changing in those that aren't."

Depends of what is a modern European country for you. If by modern Europe you mean places like Marseille or Birmingham were immigrants from north Africa burn cars, rape native woman and burn catholic churches and no one can do nothing because they are a minority and the atheist left-wing politicians count with their votes to keep in power...

Them Poland is not modern Europe.

But if by modern Europe you mean an educated population and a well established democracy, then it is.

Please stick to the topic.

News / Presidential elections and debates 2015 Poland [472]

Polonius, you made a good summary of the results. In fact, when i saw that the Poles rejected all the left-wing idiots that destroyed France and turned it into the European Baghdad, a tear of joy almost dropped from my eyes.

I just disagree that Braun is a bad candidate. He appeared extremely wise and i think that he would be a great leader...

If in my country we had at least one politician as good as him, we would be the global power that we were supposed to be.

News / Presidential elections and debates 2015 Poland [472]

"Has to be stressed that 51% of Poles did not bother to vote and this shows that the majority of people don't care and don't believe in politicians. "

Extremely false argument. People dont vote for a lot of reasons, not because they dont care about politics.

My girlfriend lives in Warsaw and she votes in Lodz. She could not vote because she couldn't leave Warsaw.
I also never vote on my elections because i am 6THOUSAND kilometers far away. The same for all the Poles that work here at the same company (probably the biggest amount of Europeans here are poles).

ANd there the list goes.... so dont invent stuff just to justify your opinion.

News / Presidential elections and debates 2015 Poland [472]

"Your girlfriend is ONE among close to 39 millions people and among millions of voters. Trust me, most Poles are fed up with politicians "

So i should not trust the word of my girlfriend because she is just 1 among 39 million, but i should trust you and your left-wing agenda?

Give up. Magdalena Ogorek was the last fall of the socialists in Poland.

Different than the French that screw their own country voting for socialists, Poles are much smarter than that. They learned with the past.

News / Warsaw no longer the most congested city in Europe! [16]

It is easy to understand why Krakow is one of the less congested cities :)

It is really something praisable the quality of the public transport in most polish cities. Even more developed countries like USA or Australia could learn a lot with the poles.

Also i think that one of the reasons for that is that most poles doesnt have this stupidity of spend ********* in a car just to impress people and look with a supposed prestige, like in virtually all other countries that i had been.

For me, this think of "i will buy a brand new Bmw so everyone will admire it" is typical of slow brain people that have loan debits behind their back.

News / Poland have the 3rd best Education System of Europe [49]

"Interesting that you consider an educational system which can't get any of its universities into the top 300 "

It is so obvious that we are talking about elementary and high school, that this comparison that you made is ridiculous.

By the way, yeah, britain have two universities in the top 5 but those that study there are not from the failed public education system of english. They are from Eaton and alikes.

Same thing applies for my country. Brazil have 2 universities in the top 200. Poland have none. But in those 2 universities just ultra rich people or extremelly gifted ones (like me) study. The normal student from the public system will never enter there. Same applies to england.

Meanwhile the public student from Poland is much above in terms of quality compared to the public school student from the english system.

News / Presidential elections and debates 2015 Poland [472]

Her chances are zero. She is a hard linr communist from thr communist party (SLD). After sixty years slaughtering merciless the polish population, it is even RIDICULOUS the Communists think that Poles with give them another chance for they put in power their dictatorship plans again.

She had less than 3% of the votes. One of the small votations ever for the left.

Differently than France or entire Latin America (my country included) were a dumb youth doesnt know what means socialism/communism and them vote for them, the Poles have their mind fresh about the horrors caused by the reds.

One of the most shocking experiences that i had in my life was when visited KGB headquarters in Vilnius. It is almost as sad as Auschwitz, and even a adult men will be with his eyes tearful when see what happened there.

Life / Reaction regarding Pakistanis respected in Poland [54]

Jon, since i live in a city with around 200 thousand Pakistanis (and it is not even in Pakistan!) I hope you will allow me to express my opinion and not delete my commentary summarily like you do. And if you read it until the end you will see that this is not off topic, so hold your fingers instead of delete everything.

My ex driver was from Pakistan. One day when he was driving me to work we heard the news about an acid attack made by a Pakistani husband against his wife.

Then the following dialogue happened:
Driver: Oh the media ever portraits Pakistan in a bad bad way criticizing. Woman have lots of rights there. We even had female prime-minister.

Me: You mean Benazir Bhutto? The one that was assassinated? I dont think that a murdered female prime minister is a good example of woman's rights.

Driver: But she provocated to be murderer. If she behaved, nothing would happen.

And that is what i think is the main problem in the views that Poles (and most western societies) have with Pakistanis. They are probably one of the most brutal and violent societies of the world when we talk about woman and non-Muslim rights.

In the head of my ex driver, a woman misbehave is a justification to kill her. And this is not an exception, just google "Woman stoning Pakistan" and you will see how frequent this is.

In a country like Poland, were woman are strong, independent and they CONQUERED their right to freedom fighting alongside with men on the horrors of war, it is just UNTHINKABLE a man subjugate and treat a woman in that way. One of the small gestures that make me see how strong are Polish woman is that my girlfriend EVER splits the bill with me when we go out. EVER. This is something that i just saw before in the south of Brazil (which have a strong Slavic influence btw).

So yeah, maybe a Pakistani can adapt to Poland. But all this traditional, sexist and violent mindset that woman needs to be disciplined by man needs to go to the garbage even before he pass imigration. Or he will have a bad time in Poland.

Life / Reaction regarding Pakistanis respected in Poland [54]

Dont reduce intentionously my text to a driver experience.

And in the last 4 paragraphs i explained about how this experience (among many others) showed to me why pakistanis usually clash culturally with the free modern civilization in terms of respect to woman.

It is all written there, in the last 4 paragraphs of my text. So dont come with your empty and overused accusations that i am off topic. For everyone here this is becoming lame.

Work / Salary in Gdansk (multinational IT based company) [11]

As Dominic alreary stated, to move as an expatriate your analysis should be completely different than the analysis of a Pole. A Pole doesnt need to be really concerned with savings since probably he will live and die in Poland.

But as an expat, you should think about save in your bank account something, and with that salary is very unlikely that you will save something.

Life / Reaction regarding Pakistanis respected in Poland [54]

"In terms of Pakistanis, I know a few as well, and every one of them is in either engineering or IT, and they are all tax paying "

Have you EVER stepped in Baklarska?

By the way, there is in fact not a lot of government wellfare-taking illegal immigrants in Poland for a single reason:
Most of them go to Britain,France and Germany. But with Cameron finally closing the UE doors and Holland being kicked out from the Elysee very soon, Poland will become a destination for them.

"In terms of Pakistanis, I know a few as well"

You tried to invalidate my opinion (remembering that i live in a city with something around 300 thousand pakistanis) while yourself know only "few" of them.

Coherence said goodbye.

News / Presidential elections and debates 2015 Poland [472]

Very well said Polonius, most of the SLD members are ex-communist party intelligentsia.