Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


then why on earth are you still here? (nb that's a hint that you should leave)

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


I have and might use it myself if I'm talking about a group having... their legs pulled.

"I'm just pulling your legs". or "She was just pulling their legs" (referring to a group of people)

jr has yet to contribute anything about poland to these forums it's all interpersonal drahma

Real Estate / TBS real estate in Poland [9]


the czynsz is high because it helps to go toward the price of building new TBS buildings (IIRC)

again, my knowledge might be out of date so don't take it for gospel and do check with other sources...

Real Estate / TBS real estate in Poland [9]

nb I haven't kept up with them, so this might be dates.

I don't know if foreigners are eligible for TBS, but at least one big down side is that you can't sell it, you're essentially purchasing lifelong residency for the price of a down payment. And the czynsz tends to be high.

They served a purpose for a time but I'm not sure how attractive they are now...

Genealogy / Which Polish first names are considered unpopular / obsolete in Poland? [124]

And for a certain generation it represented.... the voice of the devil!

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


A variant is a person who hires incompetent people (who know they owe their position to their connections and loyalty and are not a threat)

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

@pawian

hangers on? horse holders? crew? posse?

(I've never heard monkling before, it sounds more like an apprentice monk than a small money....)

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


ólól

is a dimunitive of król? little king? a big fish in a small pond?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


I'm thinking maybe the rabbit is the groom....


Small 100 or 200 ml (both or just 200?) bottle of any alcohol...

Life / Proper way to format a Polish mailing address when sending to Poland? [24]

Just the street address number and apartment number are needed
for example:

Jan Szarokowalski
ul. niejaka 7/26*
01-234 Zadupie
Poland

the first number is the street number (or osiedle [housing development] name and the second is the apartment number and use a slash between them. The postal code is two numbers a dash and three numbers. Not necessarily completely needed it does make things faster and easier

Write Poland in the language you're sending the letter from, not in Polish.

Genealogy / Which Polish first names are considered unpopular / obsolete in Poland? [124]


I've heard as a lower class name (see post about underclass going in for English names a few years ago)

Genealogy / Which Polish first names are considered unpopular / obsolete in Poland? [124]


the 500 plus crowd was going heavy for English names a few years ago... which meant that anyone who aspired to more for their children didn't dare give their children names like Samant(h)a or Dżesika or Brajan...

Dżesika cleans Aleksandra's house is how one friend put it...

But there aren't many young Danutas or Jowitas (more's the pity).

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


doug just keeps yammering on about how thousands upon thousands of people in Silesia need to be made homeless.... sounds pretty revolutionary to me.


is that a british thing? harry (rip?) always used to drone on and on about people's 'reading comprehension'... if people don't understand you then you're not writing clearly enough.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


Polish people are well aware that there are problems with housing, but the solution is not to turn the country into an imitation of the UK with English crackerboxes... next your're going to complain about the electric outlets and mixed hot-cold water faucets...

Things are also far, far, far better than 20 years ago (I see improvements unlike some old misery addicts who just like to moan and complain) and there's no reason to believe the problems won't be addressed as living standards rise. But it will never resemble the UK in terms of housing because people's priorities are different. It will probably be more like Germany...

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


Brawo! I've long since stopped expecting leftists to care about the human wreckage their policies cause... at least you're honest about it!

To the streets with all of them! Better homelessness than housing that doug disapproves of!


Again, points for honesty! The left sides with capital over the working class now, every. single. time.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


the shabby cheap construction was about the buildings in the UK (it was obvious in documentary, probably far worse quality than in Poland at the same time). The first time I travelled through part of London I was stunned at how.... narrow the houses were.... do people still live like that?

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


and where is the housing for these people going to come from? who's going to pay for it? you b!tch and whine about 500 plus and then demand the government take on far more expensive actions...

some years ago I saw a documentary on the large apartment buildings that arose after WWII in the UK (basically in England) and a major failing was that people that had been embedded in communities and extended families were suddenly uprooted and the human networks that had been a real source of support were destroyed (with bad results).

Of course the construction was shabby and done on the cheap which didn't help... but grand pronouncements about getting rid of buildings you dislike with no consideration of the human beings living there.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


Where I live a few thousand people used to live in 'baraki' (supposedly built by Germans in WWII) the conditions were spartan but many did not take up opportunities to leave and there was much drama when some of them were to be torn down and the residents were to be relocated.

People aren't potatoes you can throw in a bag and move around with no consequence. The baraki (despite the shortcomings) were communities and unless you can move the people together you're ripping networks of relationships apart which makes vulnerable people more vulnerable and social ills are liable to increase.

The wholesale demolition of whole areas you want wouldn't be just the demolition of housing that you dislike but of people.

That type of change has to be slow and carried out with care and concern for the people involved.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


Complaining about a new country is normal, I've done my share of it but most people grow out of it as they become integrated and have a better idea of what the real problems are and what realistic solutions are.

The thing with doug's complaints is that they sound like a person who's been here for less than a year (in 1993) and they're delivered with no slightest hint of humor or self-awareness that could make them less irritating... (unless it's some kind of weird british humor that I don't get)

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


Oh familoki! Why didn't you say so? Or are you talking about baraki? Or something else?

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


No.... you do. Fine for you but stop projecting your very British tastes on a non-British population with very different priorities

more proof that Polonia =/= People in Poland

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


how could you possibly know?


it sounds like you've never been in one...

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

the experience I was talking about was in the mid to late 90s... I lived for just under a year in a commie built osiedle and it wasn't terrible, not great but not terrible (except for occasional drama from neighbors who were something like 5 people in 40 square meters...

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


I remember a friend (Australian but over 10 years resident in the UK) was living in an old commie built osiedle, he thought that finding government housing (which is what osiedla were/are) that had been built as well and that had been as well taken care of in the UK would be utterly impossible.

He also constantly maintained that PKP was superior to any train service in the UK "It's grubby but it goes" he said. I asked a number of other Brits resident in Poland and after thinking a moment or so they all agreed...

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]

What about Falenta? Does he have a dead man switch?

He's been hinting he has damaging info on PiS...

Surprised more people aren't interested in the case? It's almost as if most readers here don't really know what's going on in Poland...

Travel / What is the weather like in Poland where you are now? [211]


Because not enough people here follow what's actually happening in Poland (rather than listen to the voices screaming in their heads)

I wouldn't mind discussing the Falenta affair but I'm not going to start a thread just ot see it attached to something else with a misleading name...

in terms of the question - awful, hot and not enough wind

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

no

now I'm thinking this is more limited that I thought (or dated or regional). I used to hear the term zając often used for what might be called a phony candidate for a position. When rules required there be more than one candidate (and there wasn't) somebody had to be found to be a candidate on paper so the position could be legally filled.

Occasionally the zając might not realize that their candidacy is welcome just for that reason while sometimes a person would step into the role knowing what it was.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


Almost the exact opposite actually....

History / Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 [341]


said the person who wanted a civil war....

History / Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 [341]


yes, it's blatant PRL style rewriting of history... despicable!!!!

JK wasn't even detained during martial law... he wasn't a player in the resistance, he was part of what they were resisting against! No wonder he's fine with a PRL prosecutor of dissidents in his government.