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.

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


Er..don't you mean over a shorter period of time?
I am firmly on the side of those who argue that retail sales are going to be hurt by this. It reminds me of Sundays in Britain in the early 80s - defeatist, grey and boring. We learnt our lesson - which is, let the free market decide.

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


Do you know how unoriginal that comment is WP? I'm sure you do. Why do 800,000 Poles live in Britain? How does Arka Gdynia win 3-1 away on the final day of the season at their "friends" stadium and there is no suspicion of match fixing? Why do people keep buying Beyonce records?

All these things are a mystery, and will doubtless remain so, but what is done is done. Don't try to understand, and I will forgive you your silly posturing of a mythical "Greater Poland" in seemingly everything you say and do.


Your society is in America. You are a misguided chap, that's plain enough. I've tried to help, but if you are too far gone to see the truth, or you seem to miss Poland so much........ (although by your own admission you were 8 when you left...)

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


I don't want your citizenship thanks Dirk:) A waste of time and effort, with sweet FA in return. As I said, back in the day it would have meant relinquishing British citizenship but you obviously prefer to gloss over that pertinent fact.

Meanwhile...... it is WE who have to put up with the inconvenience of shops being closed on a Sunday to feed some medieval idiots' egos. Not YOU.

I think that is the first and only time I have shouted on this forum:)

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


Again, it's not "Our" Dirk. It has nothing to do with you, You don't live here. Sick of repeating the fact.

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


Lol Dirk. You at it again? Not in the mood for your boorish Poland love today mate.
Ever heard of GDP? Ever heard of standard of living index? Poland is a poor country. Not to be compared with any of the above, bar one. Even then, one might argue that Greek shipping puts most of Polands' trade in the shade. Get over it. Otherwise, why aren't you back here?

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


And I saw lots of people agitating in long queues at 7.30 on Saturday morning and the supermarket staff wringing their hands in exasperation.. PIS have seen how the Germans and Austrians live and think they can emulate them:))

Clueless fools. The Polish government - not the Germans......

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


Taken a straw poll of people here. They seem to approve :( :(
Bonkers for a poor country where the economy is part driven by retail. Not that a lot of people care about their children having to sort out the foreseeable economic mess further down the road. Poland can always apply to the IMF.......................

Classifieds / Random Classifieds Ads Poland [261]

[Moved from]: Looking for German native with background in Natural Sciences to liase with clients

A research laboratory in Tri-City is seeking a Native German speaker who can liase between their management team and prospective client companies In Germany, on varied industry-based projects such as testing the chemical constituents of e-vapours.

Full time position, no real selling experience required, but a commercial background would be helpful. This is hardly the board for this sort of thing, but please PM if you are that person. It probably beats teaching for a living :) :)

Law / Polish EU Drivers Licence - can I get one the easy way (by paying for it)? [185]


Mmmm - the sheer number of signs, a lot of which are actually rarer in the wild than a bison, and what is the pass rate....? What about the lunacy of the pedestrian crossing, and when it is safe to proceed? Getting the sineage bang to rights is a lottery, if you don't happen to have a trained memory.

As for the test content, I'm only going by what we actually do day to day when driving. I've never had the need to reverse round a tight corner between two hazards, so I'm sticking to my assertion that it's a load of bull. No emergency stop? No hill start? But nonsense like avoiding tightly packed obstacles when reversing?...... :))

The idea to suss out the route is a top one - as long as the test follows a prescribed route. Mine didn't in Womble don...

Law / Polish EU Drivers Licence - can I get one the easy way (by paying for it)? [185]


Of course now you have to show your ID, so there would be no way of being registered as the test taker, unless you actually were....

Rather like other matters that have been discussed here, I would suggest that anybody who can, takes their test in another EU country. The test there can't possibly be as unfair and unnecessarily drawn out for job creation purposes as in the Polish system.

Law / Polish EU Drivers Licence - can I get one the easy way (by paying for it)? [185]


To be fair, a lot of people were at one time tempted to go down the illegal route, because passing the Polish test is so subjective and idiotic. I have driven here for more than 30 years, and never yet had to reverse round a blind bend to a starting position (in fact, anyone with any sense would realise that is a dangerous manoevre) but they insist on keeping the cone test....

Also the theory test is designed to make the learner fail (equalling more money for the system)The Polish driving test (and methodology) sucks big time. As a result I am for anything that plays the government at their own scummy game.