News / Poland Sports News [1079]


Watch the replay. If Poland had thought that quickly, you would have said "Well done". Poor defending - pure and simple.

News / Poland Sports News [1079]


Yes, the oppositions' responsibility to spot him coming back onto the pitch. Poor captaincy.

News / Poland Sports News [1079]



It is you who brings politics, or rather race, into football. Disgusting. Enjoy your evening with your nationalist pals dreaming of past "glories." Congartulations to Senegal by the way. A deserved win because Poland failed to turn up.

Being English, I know how Poles feel today in losing in such an embarrassing way. But you have NO link to Poland, other than a misconception that Poles to any degree are as racist and overtly nationalistic as you are.

News / Poland Sports News [1079]


No they are not Crow.
Normal Serbians don't give a monkeys' about what is happening in Poland. Just as normal Poles couldn't give a rat's arse about what is happening in Belgrade.

Stop with your tiresome nationalistic postings or we'll send NATO back to teach you another lesson.

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]


Yes, I was a customer. They were the only bank who would pay out on international bankers' draft. The word in Katowice at the time was the bank was under capitalised and it was an aggressive takeover. Dunno; I was pretty shocked too, thinking BH w Warszawie was a big player. Wrong.

Same with a lot of the plants. Restructuring. Asset stripped. Reverse takeovers. Wholemeal closures. It was bitter, but hats off to Balcerowicz, otherwise Katowice would still be in the dark ages, instead of the viable metropolis it is today. As for the coal mines, it's a shame, but Margaret Thatcher, hated as she was, has been proved right when she realised that coal was of a bygone age. Her decision to decimate the UK coal industry, and Polands' decision to "invest" in Polish coal is political too.

And costs a lot of lives:( :(
All of the above had to go. Progress. No investment from the west, and you would still be shovelling coal into your cellars like your parents before you. Ask them if they enjoyed it.

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

Yes, it will have to wait now until next year probably and the 75th anniversary. It shouldn't be like that, but that seems to be the way of the world. Each country has it's own specific anniversaries and nobody cares about the collective anymore.....

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]


Not drunk in 10 months (it was a metaphor). And actually my voice does matter, because I have right of stay, and if I make a complaint to city hall, then they have to log it. That's all I need as a local inhabitant. After a certain period of time, Poles will come to their senses and normal service will be resumed, have no fear.

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]


Yes, I suppose we had the same controversy over Churchill. That's the way of great figures in history. I was talking with the wife tonight after the barney with Dolno. She was saying how selective my memory was. What communism was really like. She said that if you buckled down, didn't create a fuss, did as you were instructed, then in a small place like Dabowa Gornicza there was nothing to worry about.

She forgot to mention the simmering undercurrent, the curfews, the beatings, the internments (she suffered this herself, and if she could identify her captor today, I would nail him to a tree), - so I reminded her, and she said - oh yes - people didn't do anything - because after all that - they were scared.

Walesa wasn't scared, and neither were his colleagues. They had balls (of iron).
You should all be ashamed.

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]


How many more times....
People (bus drivers, cleaners, dishwashers, street buskers, even ex university employees - who admittedly were never qualified to work there in the first place) who have lived in this country for 30 years and paid taxes have more say in the way in which Poland is governed (in terms of their rights to an opinion and lobbying their representatives) than anyone of Dirk's age who has lived their whole life in America.

IMO. And that's all it is. Irrespective of whether they can be arsed to be citizens or not. Citizens don't pay more taxes than non-citizens. .or vice-versa.

I am maybe overly happy to snipe at a member of Polonia who loves his mother country so much. So much that I am sure that he cannot wait to come here and don his Doc Martens and pay taxes and join in the fun.

I also will be returning to my Alma Mater in Blighty in due course, either alive or otherwise, but will not be leaving until I am ready and have served my 65 years - if I have Dirk's kind permission?

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]


But everybody knows that SKOK was a PIS ploy - that's what brought them down. Just like in communism; finance playing politics. Or rather, politicians playing with finance.

What about the general with the sunglasses? Do keep up.I have consistently, since I came on this board, mirrored my Polish families' side of things that he should have answered for his crimes. Admittedly Harry and Delph saw things differently, but knowing what we know. old Wojciech was a wrong 'un.

Walesa on the other hand is only guilty of being not very bright and bombastic. But Poles elected him, and you keep cheering for the ballot box, so why be selective.

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]


Just asked the wife. They were local informers, party members, who took umbrage at my photographing steam trains. So no guns.

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]


No boyo. Don't do lies - not sharp enough.They went to grab my camera so it was me who manhandled one of them. Middle aged tossers against someone who boxed for Nottingham boys? Anyway, I was an outsider, so shouldn't really have got involved, but I was like Dirk at his age. Scared of nowt.

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]


Do you live in Poland Slawek? Were you here? There were no "Polish" competitors of note in the early 90s. The commies destroyed and misappropriated the lot.There was plenty of co-op tea (British) and toilet cleaner in communist supermarkets when I checked, and the only people stealing anything of note was government.

Nothing new today then on the last point.


Like SKOK you mean?
(PLease Mods - get some smileys in here! Dirk's ignorance of the facts knows no bounds)

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]


I was talking about Poles who signed up for the Party, who suddenly forgot their catholic past, and who were unable to take communion as Party members. Where does all this sit in Adrians' false world of an oh so pious Polish society?

And those of you who sneer at Walesa should remember that you would still be eating Babcia's sad perogi and eating those Polish strange shaped tomatoes, as well as ogling the girls with their hairy legs, if it weren't for the likes of him.

Were other people's parents so brave? I remember my Polish families' neighbours turning white and shaking, when I told a couple of peoples' deputies to go **** themselves. They set about telling me how those scum deserved respect, because they were "there for our benefit."

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]


That's one "get-out" clause. Any other old chesnuts that people come out with to excuse themselves? And all the while disparaging real heroes like Walesa?

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


Try reading 141 above again. They are economic migrants, as said, exactly the same as Polish migrants in Germany throughout the 20th century. Now kindly stop talking through your brainwashed backside.

Law / The Difference Between Border Guard And Municipal Police in Poland [15]

To the OP: Best not to live in the redneck areas of Poland, as Dolno has outlined. You will be safe in major cities and your civil rights will be respected. Stay clear of small Polish towns where the authorities are thugs who couldn't otherwise get a job, and who will enjoy harassing you.

Sad, but true.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Very informative Maf. Thanks for that. Sadly it makes a lot of sense, but still doesn't explain how Poles would willingly bow to a dictatorial decision such as this though - Atch having stated that nowt was spoken as a manifesto about this.

Not that the lack of a mention in the election manifesto has stopped PIS from implementing a whole raft of dumb measures...

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Yes, the best time to go shopping, other than right now, in ten minutes, is at 9.30 in the evening on a Saturday. Completely deserted,like something out of the Walking Dead - with only 2 zombies, on the tills.

People obviously prefer being herded like cattle.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

It will be interesting on Sunday to see how crowded the shopping centres are, with families playing catchup on purchases, before Easter too. Crazy times - 3 more learners today were saying that it's a good thing closing on a Sunday; really baffling (scratches head).

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

Exactly. Instead, some people clearly enjoy abdicating decision making, and prefer being dictated to.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

Happy St Patricks Day to all the Irish, including Atch, and to my Irish grandmother Eilean Buckley. Apparently she was teetotal:) :)

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Or Kaczynski famously without a bank account you mean?


I know what you mean. A certain "atmosphere." Some good deals nonetheless:) When it's actually open. :( :(

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Kaufland kapyrs. Same price. Good tucker. Here to help:) Italians don't do vodka. Poles don't do macaroni. Blatant protectionism is seeping in; somehow the supermarket buyers are being got at. I don't know if they are getting kickbacks, but why else are a lot of foreign brands being phased out?

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News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Have you heard the phrases "There's no barbed wire round the job" of "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen"? This is not communism. Nobody told the person in question they have to work in Biedronka.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

More and more people I ask are getting annoyed by this ****. Hopefully they will start class action soon, if they have any balls.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Thanks cms for a reasoned and informed reply - in sharp contrast to Ziemowits' weird post. I just feel that food shopping has been made more painful, whereas the idea in life is generally to make things easier by degrees?

Or I must be plain stupid to believe in that notion.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

So to the latest retail experience.
I don't know if it's pay-day, but I couldn't get in Biedronka at 12 today. It was packed full of dodderers and families (no idea why they weren't at work). Finally found some space in Kaufland. They have automated tills so it wasn't too bad, but still packed.

And one can guess the shops will pass on their losses to the customer? Because they have no automation, one can expect Lidl and Biedronks to lose from the panic buying (long queues, not enough staff).

And what's all this with the extra Polish goods in the shops these days? Has anybody else noticed it's getting harder to but foreign sourced goods (almost back to Pewex style days) 75 percent of pasta is Polish produced for example. They're having a tin bath - who in their right mind would buy Polish pasta over Italian? All in all, it's a worse shop than before, unless you love being with the plebs for an hour or so of course.

Well done PIS! You little fokkers.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Yes thanks:) 12 - 6? But like I said, not being a catholic country, we decided to (finally) modernise and revitalise our retail experience. Better late than never. Poland chooses to go backwards. You really couldn't make it up, and young people are even more likely to get the hell out if they have the quals to do so as Poland continues on its' catholic conservative course. Those why choose to stay are welcome to it.

Anyway, the food hypermarkets in the UK were open Sundays 8-6 or something like that last time I checked (4 weeks ago). That's deffo not 6 hours. Nice try SP:) :)

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


So that PIS could make one of their childish points more like. And it wont stand as it will likely damage growth in many analysts' views. We shall see.