Real Estate / Landlord in Poland sent us an 7.000 zl bill after moving out. Advice please. [5]

It seems he has decided to refurbish his property at your cost. I think he would lose his case in court. Maybe he tries to scare you with the threat of taking the matter to court? I think the contract would be decisive in this case.

Work / Why are salaries in Poland lower than ones in Bulgaria? [5]

It may be so if the demand/supply ratio for such positions is higher in Bulgaria than it is Poland. Prices or salaries are basically shaped by supply and demand on the market.

Genealogy / Ochmann: Curious about my Family History.... [29]


This is the most plausible expalnation, Definitely. the surname Ochman is not of Slavic origin.


How do you know this? The OP did not indicate the place of his birth. The fact that he came from the Opole region was only a speculation based on the highest frequency of that name in Poland. In fact, the name is concentrated in southern Poland (altogether 1,800: Bytom 829; Bielsko-Biała 291; Katowice 191) but is scattered across the whole country (for example, Warsaw 385).

Anyway, I strongly doubt if Marek was a first name given to children in the Polish-speaking Silesian families in either part of the Upper Silesia before 1945.

Life / Is there any other native English people living in Poland [8]


Be careful with this as your alcohol consumption has increased tenfold since the time you arrived in Poland !


That must be really annoying. If I went to live in England and everyone preferred to speak in Polish to me, I would feel frustrated, too. Try to talk to people who don't speak English at all (typically 50+). Or, alternatively, try to introduce yourself as someone who speaks very little English.

Life / TIL Rzeszow got an airport decades before larger Lublin [13]

What's the amount of EU funding that Rzeszów has received so far?

I've never been to Rzeszów, but I would like to visit and see this most original monument.



A monument dedicated to Tadeusz Nalepa in The Third of May Street.

Language / Old Polish Vs New Polish [29]

@Lyzko
I think you are right here. Thanks to this clue of yours I can now read the phrase now: swoją dobrą myśl położyć.

Law / UK Citizen - Getting Poland's temporary residence prior to Brexit [10]


Marmite? Not any better than mould tbh ...

Law / Court punishment Poland - work for punishment instead of jail [36]


The article is pretty appalling. It seems that the times when life was harsh in Poland and was easy in the so-called "rotten" West are gone now [please, read that article carefully, Ms. Atch!]. Reading about the situation of that mum in France has been really depressing. And that guy in Italy says one important thing: bureaucracy and certifications that overwhelm us with work. Never in my life have I experienced the level of buraucracy as we are having in Poland right now and it is still growing! Needles to say that the overwhelming part of is being imported to Poland from the "rotten" West through the regulations of the European Union. In the UK, an interesting case of a woman whose faith in the welfare state had been total but collapsed completely overnight.

And last, but not least, the article points out to the growing inequality in Europe: the average income of the richest 1% of Europeans has grown twice as fast as that of the bottom 50%.

Love / Had a big problem in Poland - a guy lied to me [33]


He may indeed have a tiny dick and perhaps that's why she's grown so upset thereafter. Didn't she say she arranged the tête-à-tête herself or I just understand it in a wrong way?

Love / Had a big problem in Poland - a guy lied to me [33]


I thought it was a female-male relationship. The nick indicates a male indeed, but if you look into that peson's profile, you will see "Gender: Female". So it's either a "Rainwoman2" or some third gender.

Anyway. the character of the person's complaints made me feel it was a woman. A gay guy woudn't be so weepy, I should think. I'm sure he would be quite happy upon receiving a good fvck, whereas this person seems to be in a totally lamentable state.

Love / Had a big problem in Poland - a guy lied to me [33]


You left before or after? If before, nothing happened, if after, you say you stayed one more week, so what was the shock?

Something doesn't add up here at all. Another thing is: has your distress arisen because he raped you (if he ever did) or because he said you are ugly?

Love / Had a big problem in Poland - a guy lied to me [33]


What street in Opole does he live in?


Please, attach your picture to the next message of yours, so we'll be able to tell if you are ugly or not.


That's a case for a psychoanalyst rather than for a third-grade (so they say) forum.

Law / Voting guide for the Sejm and Senat Oct 13 2019 [4]

You pick up one list and and then on that list you pick up one name. Your voice goes for that candidate and for that list even if the canditate loses. The list matters as the number of seats in the Sejm is calculated according to the d'Hondt pattern.

Po polsku / Malgorzata Kidawa Blonska [8]


Te kobiety na pewno były trochę durnowate, jak wszyscy poloniści, dlatego


Skoro pogłoski mogą się pojawiać,


to i słuchy mogą chodzić :-))

A jak te polonistki objaśniłyby poprawność wyrażenia takiego jak "chodzi o to, że ..", albo "zegar chodzi dobrze"? Przecież zegar nie chodzi, tylko wskazówki zegara mogą ewentualnie "chodzić" ...

Po polsku / Malgorzata Kidawa Blonska [8]

"Chodzą słuchy" to jest jak najbardziej po polsku. Na pewno tak się nie wyrażają w gazetach, zaś prezenterzy nie powiedzą tak w telewizji, ale już polityk zaproszony do studia to może tak powiedzieć w ferworze dyskusji.

A "ciemny lud", który nie płaci abonamentu RTV, to mówi tak na co dzień ...

Po polsku / Malgorzata Kidawa Blonska [8]

Do najwyższego (prezydent) to nie, ale do wysokiego (premier) to tak. To prawnuczka Władysława Grabskiego (premiera) i Stanisława Wojciechowskiego (prezydenta).

Travel / Royal palace from before Poland's partitions in the Tri-city area near the sea [7]

If you saw the terrible state this palace (nowy pałac opacki) was in immediately after the end of the war, you'd be shocked.

polskiezabytki.pl/m/obiekt/8094/Gdansk_Oliwa_-_Nowy_palac_opacki/

Food / Oils and fats in Polish foods [34]


People should avoid eating margarine for many various reasons. For example, I can sense margarine at once if it was delivered in place of butter and I feel sick after consuming margarine. Margarine is an artificial product which will not be found in nature.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


Looks like Zamość to me.

Law / I have a spouse visa to Poland (Schengen), can I travel without my spouse? [5]

I doubt if there is such thing as "spouse visa" in Polish law.


is the thing.

As I understand the law, members of your family cannot enter on that visa without you, but you can enter without them.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

The temperatue of the oceans rises at present at the rate as if generated by the energy of the atomic bomb of Hiroshima exploding inside them every four seconds. So much heat is taken in by the oceans now. We live in a glasshouse, but because the glasshouse is so big, we don't feel this too much yet. But our descendants certainly will.

Après nous, le déluge ...

Life / Why do gays dislike Wojciech Cejrowski, travel writer? [18]


As there is possibly a predominance of paedophiles amongst the gay priests community in Poland.

Life / Is the palace in Warsaw going to be rebuilt? [29]


No one is going to call the place with this most absurd name as you propose. The Saxom Palace will be Saxon Palace and the surviving part will still be the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The Saxon Palace is an important part of national heritage in Warsaw. It should be rebuilt and will be rebuilt despite of what the rednecks of Zielona Góra and other regions of the country may think of it. The Palace may eventually take a different architectural shape than before 1939 as has been the case with the Royal Castle in Warsaw which was rebuilt in an older shape than that from before the WW II.


The ceremonies take place on what was once the cour d'honneur of the Palace. A re-built Palace will not take over any part of the place they are held on.

Travel / Which cities in Poland are nice to visit [80]


I have never heard of anything like this. There are bunkers in the city built in the commie times against the aftermath of an atomic explosion and one group of German bunkrrs on the outskirts of Warsaw. But no tunnels unfortunately.


Why do you take the podium when you have nothing interesting to say?

Life / Importance of Religion in Poland [187]

PiS has nothing to do either with he Church or with religon. They use Catholic Church solely for their political purposes. If the Church in Poland is blind enough not to see it, that's their problem ...

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Wow, I am impressed. Wymiatasz!

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


Actually, a very fine picture of the Kościół Mariacki in Kraków you've taken.

Recently an inscription of the year date has been discovered in its main altar by Wit Stwosz. Does anyone know what that inscribed year was?

News / What the Polish government do to bring back home Polish immigrants? [116]


Don't worry. Despite what we said, we've always believed Rich is a true American troll


One of the many electoral tricks of theirs.


I've recently read an interesting story about a woman who was born in Poland of a Polish mother and a Nigerian father and who emmigrated from Poland to the US as a teenager. At Polish school she was frequently abused racially by kids (she looks black) and had no support against that abuse from her mother; at home she was sexually abused in a regular way by her step-father (her father left for Nigeria soon after she was born). And yet she has now decided to return to Poland as a grown-up woman with child. Amazing, isn't it ?

News / What the Polish government do to bring back home Polish immigrants? [116]

There has been some research conducted which says the majority intends to stay in the UK after Brexit. If I find this research, I will tell you the estimated percentage of those who want to come back.

News / What the Polish government do to bring back home Polish immigrants? [116]


What is more to it is that most of them do not have the intention of returning to Poland