News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]


I don't find it unfair, they bought such ads on youtube, they have right to do so. It's only annoying to close those commercials while I am going to youtube all the time. They want to appeal to younger voters, but because of what they did over last few years, how bad they were in making their promises realized, constant refering to Smoleńsk...they won't get young people to vote for them.

I know I will vote for PO on 9.10, I hate when governments switch every few years. PO have long-term plans to develop Poland and I am satisfied from them being in charge of our country :) None of my friends vote for PiS, they choose either PO or SLD.

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

Well, I only heard that PiS it trying to look "cool and jazzy" (exact quote here ;) ), but people asked on the streets said "no way, they are not" :D What annoys me about them is that they promise, but don't give exact ways to realize their promises. I will give you this, this or this is their typical campaign.

I am 25, and actually I never voted for them and I never will. They have discredited themselves many times in the past. I am pretty sure that they will get a good result (probably polls are right here and they will be no.2), but it is because young people are not voting, instead of using their possibility to change something. I am also sure that once again, in my region, PiS will win because of "old" voters which is majority.

Also I think that the reason of possible voting for PiS by younger people is that Polish people are generally not satisfied with their level of life. So "empty promises" would work for them. We'll see on October 9th, I can't wait to see what would happen.

Language / Polish regional accents? [141]

It's very, very, very rare. But in my region (North-East, Suwalszczyzna) some older people use something which could be called in the past "artistic language". They don't use normal "ł" like in modern language but they use something between "l" and "ł". But it is probably the only thing that has been left from pre-war times. My grandma used it for her whole life and she died just 2 years ago. She was taught this way, but she was 89 years old, so when modern times came, she was already a very mature woman. You can mostly hear this from people who are in their 80s now and were living in Suwalszczyzna or Podlasie for their whole life.

Language / Polish regional accents? [141]


It's very hard to say, but I think this could change right after WWII. My parents were born in 1960 and 1959 respectivelly and I am pretty sure they were taught modern Polish (of course not as modern as now) since they were in primary school. I will visit them tommorow, so if I don't forget, I will ask them :)

Language / Polish regional accents? [141]

What my dad told me today was that they have never been taught to use this "old" language at schools, however they had teachers who used that version of languages (older teachers, born at the beginning of 20th century). So in 1960s - it surely wasn't existing as normal language.

News / Lithuanian reality show - lost Polish sponsorship, criticized by Lithuanian Army [20]

Could you please tell me - do you have laws saying that there cannot be other language signs in any place when some majority is from one minority? I am not saying only about Polish minority here, but also about the others.

In Poland we have laws appreciating minorities and their national beliefs and that is why we have Puńsk/Punskas not only Puńsk for example :)

Food / Moving to Poland - Culinary Concerns and Food Markets Availability? [15]

First of all nice you chose Poland :)

For Italian food herbs would be no problem. For Indian or Mexican, you should bring as much of spices as you can from US. You could find spices in specialised stores (I don't live in Warsaw but many big cities would have such shops), I am not sure about their quality though.

For milk - in every middle supermarket you will find Soya Milk in "healthy food" alley. You can also try to search for Rice Milk. I saw it in Carrefour market once, but I am not sure if it is also available in other big markets (like Tesco or Real).

News / Lithuanian reality show - lost Polish sponsorship, criticized by Lithuanian Army [20]


Really not true here. I live 20 km from them so I know what is here (I was there last weekend...).

Lithuanian signs are there, as they were before. Secondary school with Lithuanian language of teaching exists, noone wants to close it - Polish governors can close only these schools which are unattended (in Puńsk there are over 100 students there). This is the only secondary school with Lithuanian language of teaching in whole Poland. Lithuanian people teach there. Also gimnasium is in Puńsk as well. Books which are used are confirmed by local authorities and Ministry of Education. They are all in Lithuanian language.

People in Puńsk organise a lot of events to show Lithuanian Culture, they have Lithuanian Culture House etc. Noone forbids them to show their Lithuanian origin. Also just today they were all together to clean what has been ruined by vandals. They are not scared - they are just disgusted of what happened (the same goes with people in Eisiskes in Lithuania). I am disgusted as well (both for these in Puńsk and these in Eisiskes).

If media in Lithuania say what you wrote, believe me - this is really not true.

News / Let us save Poland. Suggestions [40]

I have a feeling that someone still thinks that Polish people are ones who are living in wooden houses with no electricity and these who have it much be veeeery rich ;)

Of course, poverty exists, but show me at least one country with no single family living in poor conditions. It is impossible to find one.

I strongly support our EU accession, because without that we would never develop so fast. We have a lot of money from EU.
I don't support NATO that much, but NATO itself is not a problem for me ;)

About journalism - media in Poland are controlled by media groups mostly, Polish people are informed very well (if we don't want to use one channel we can switch to another one, every "general" channel has its own news services). We also have plenty of daily newspapers and magazines.

I am proud of my country, I think we are modern Europeans, we have a lot of people with higher education and they want to learn more (like me, with higher education, but working and studying for another degree) :) Younger people are really Western, older - more Eastern European. We have our own values, our traditions, but every country has them.

To sum up, let us stay as we are now :)

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

Predictions? Well...

PO - 39%
PiS - 31%
SLD - 15%
PSL - 9%

PSL will get many votes because they are no Samoobrona anymore who would steal their votes from village area. PO-PSL again is highly possible, I would prefer PO-SLD though. PiS will unfortunately gain a lot of votes from fanatics and these who believe them. RPP (Ruch Poparcia Palikota) has few percent in polls, but I doubt if they get more than 2%.

Law / 1 euro = 4,46637049 złotego polskiego [21]

NBP shows average prices between buy and sell.

I think EUR could go up to 5 PLN soon, but if it reaches such level, will fall down. Honestly I am not sad, I am paid in EUR :P

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]


Conservative socialists you mean? ;)

SLD is left-sided socialism, which is much more up-to-date than PiS's one. SLD have much more of ideas that are actually possible to make. PiS have some idoeas too, but I treat them as science fictin. They already promissed they will build 3 millions of new flats...

PO is the most popular probably because it has something from PiS and PO together, plus they don't make a lot of things that would put voters off them :)

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

I am happy, but I hope that it would few few % more for PO and few % less for PiS and RP. I would be happy if PO could have majority alone, but PSL would not be that bad too (I found it ok over the last 4 years).

I voted PO and now I keep my fingers crossed for my candidate, no. 4 in the list in my voting region :)

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

Btw - PKW states we would have partial results (30% of votes counted) right after midnight so in 1-2 hours. I think I will have sleepless night today ;)

We will see how reliable are exit polls this year ;)