News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Poland is proving itself to be ungovernable again, and yet you JOKE?

Are you mentally challenged?

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

The speaker of the house is a communist - restricting the flow of debate and denying points.

Censorship. I swear if he comes down my street I will set the Die-wolf on him.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

It's all kicking off in the Sejm tonight. I expect fisticuffs before the night is out. The opposition promising dire consequences for the government. Like predicted. PIS are fast becoming the laughing stock, and they are digging their heels in and carrying on their illegal work in the faith that our Chairman is untouchable.

To the streets!

Sejm za ustawa Trybulna

I smell trouble.

Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [281]


You're living in the past. If peeps want a glass or three to wash down that ugly Wigilia food what has it got to do with you?


What?

Maybe in religious households like yours' Polonius but I would never stand for that sanctimonious rubbish at my table.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


I don't agree.

Read Hansard and other documentation. Diplomats were sick of the Polish insular attitude then, as they are now.

We helped in 1919 by doing the right thing. We helped in 1939, we helped in Martial Law, we helped with EU grants.

Well time for Poland to get it's finger out of it's ( very big) arse. IMO of course.

Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [281]


Yes. It's a good thing that Christmas comes just but once a year. One would have thought Panderecki and Gorecki and that mob might have been lent on to write some proper tunes, like wot the German classical composers wrote:)

Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [281]


I was referring to first communion "celebrations" and such of that ilk, not Wigilia.....

News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]


Yes. Because like children from problem families, PIS politicians have ongoing psychological problems. Except that somebody should pull them up on the fact that they are not children.....

In terms of their age....

Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [281]


Smurf is right though Polonius. And don't Poles know it! It's medieval stuff, and they sit through it all stoically, but it doesn't mean us foreigners have to :))

Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [281]


Father in law in residence this year... he would be offended if there were any alcohol on the table. I seem to remember him de-rigeur being blitzed at 9 am the next morning though.

Where's the logic?:)

Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [281]

Lol - fair comment. Though I envy Smurf..... the suit is just another thing to get me worked up, and sneaking down to the garage for a snorter of Ballantines old :)


Ah - you didn't say it was 1961/2:)) The Great Freeze.
I was 5, and I still remember the cracking snow and skating on the lake at the back of the house. That lake never froze again in all the years I lived there.

Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [281]


Really bad luck Dolno - what with the lack of one lot of presents when you were a nipper.... as to the "three foot of snow" - poetic licence eh! More like 3 inches, as the frustrated actress grumbled to the bishop.

Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [281]


LOL. I used to drive on the morning after Wigilia to pick up a pal and regular as clockwork the police would stop me. They couldn't work out for the life of them why I was driving on an empty dual-carriageway on the 25th of December and how the alchometer registered zero:)

We would make up for the late start later though:))

Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [281]


Yep, they were giving them away in January here in Sopot. Like a berk I didn't buy any :)


Very good Polonius:)

You do leave out the bit of information (for those who don't know this) that a Polish Christmas Eve is oft horribly formal with suiting up and that bloody oplatek, the food is uneatable, and there is no boozing.

The poem was super evocative though!

Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [281]


Got mine last week from Marks and Sparks in Sopot..... ring them and ask.....?

News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]

[quote=delphiandomine]It's only critical because PiS want to tax the hell out of the "Polish" banks, and foreign banks will resist such attempts./quote]

Your whole post is very telling Delph.... PIS think they can threaten the populace.

I stand by my earlier statement though that the Polish government will never ever see another zloty in ZUS from my good self. Unless they halve the monthly payment; then I might consider it......

Law / UK driving license mess in Poland [72]


LOL. I have explained why.

Life / Moving to Poland and not drinking vodka [26]


"They" are generally Poles who have been to America, or are vodka drinkers gone sophisticated. The Poles I know in Tri-City who are whisky drinkers never ever do that, and know far more about whisky than I ever could (born of a Scottish father, and something of a whisky drinker in my own right, for my sins)

There are maybe three or four whiskys (and we are not talking the no names here ) that deserve the (separate glass of) cola treatment, Amy Winehouse style.

Those are: JW/Bells/Dewars/Grants..... the rest should all be drunk straight, no ice (another American crime), a little Highland Spring water if you must......

Law / UK driving license mess in Poland [72]


My UK paper licence is valid til 2027. Now why on earth would anyone want to swap the real deal for a Polish photocard (which costs an admin fee I presume)?

And,as before, a UK licence proves you can actually drive. For at one time, anybody could get a Polish licence.
Allegedly...

One of my learners (female) here in Tr-City fluttered her......eyelashes, 6 or 7 years ago, after many Test setbacks (she had problems with the moronic cone game) and with a little financial inducement and a boy friend in the right place - hey presto!

I wouldn't want to swap my hard earned real licence for something the UK cops would view with suspicion and distaste.


It's a total non-brainer Beeracuda. Your UK licence is what you earnt, by learning to drive the "right way" and not through the ridiculous and skewed Polish system (read up about the hilarious and subjective Test system here).

You deserve your UK licence. The Polish testing sytem is wholly inferior. Renew your UK licence. In event of accident when driving a hire car in the UK you are absolutely covered, in spite of what the earlier poster states as fact. Insurers talk some tosh and often spout ignorance to save themselves paperwork, and, depending on your tax status, the DVLC could not prove that you had not decided to return to the UK.

The UK licence all the way for me - no way would I want to be associated with the Polish department of transport in any shape or form - and I've lived here for 23 years (UK licence the whole time) NO problems - paid out in full by PZU on Comprehensive, and Third Party, on two occasions.

Life / Can someone tell me about the reason behind being gay in Poland being wrong [148]


Who cares about anybody's private life and their loves..........?

Unless they turn the water cannon on innocent party-goers that is!

Pure scum.

Life / Can someone tell me about the reason behind being gay in Poland being wrong [148]


The old adage springs to mind of "It takes one to know one."

Allegedly......

News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]


The communist Poles were "foul" and I have always agreed with Polonius that they should have faced severe punishment irrespective of what was promised at the Round Table. That included life imprisonment at the least for "people" like the last communist president and his Interior minister who died recently.

But you are Polonia at best and are far removed. And always have been, by your ignorant comments.

News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]


Have you ever visited your country Ironside? I think we should be told.How old are you anyway?

News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]


With Poland's history where so many innocents were murdered in such a way you really should be ashamed of that remark. Disgusting.

News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]


I wouldn't know Polonius. What I do know is that PIS would like to steal from me.

News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]


What PIS are trying to do is to restore the situation pre-1939. It's called a dictactorship by any other description.
They wont succeed and will be fought every step of the way by those who matter, those who live in the cities and towns, and actually get up in the morning and graft and contribute. And I'm not talking about those who prefer life in a rural idyll and expect the rest of us to live in a bygone age and not care about the economy.

Four years of this nonsense? Tri-City solidly voted no. The only area with any intelligence. But they have plenty of history of fight and I am in no doubt who will win this battle.

News / Duda invited to march in Poland's Independence Day parade [182]


They couldn't even do that right. It's always sad to see youths well past their bedtime misbehaving when away from mummy's apron strings.

Life / Moving to Poland and not drinking vodka [26]


Yes.. but had a night in with guitar pal and craft beers......

The truth is, as we all know, it depends on the circle you are in. I would have nothing in common with the shot brigade. we have all had nights out with drinkers of different habit, and if you are out of your comfort zone then the OP is not exaggerating, and he needs to steer clear.

He is right to say that you can get in all sorts of situations..... For example, some say that they can get in trouble/ wasted with Bob Hope, but that has never happened to me, but all sorts of shenanighans have sprung up with vodka, the obvious and not so much.... nothing original there. but for me it was a case of regret.

Beer or whisky - still wasted, but aware I was boozed. Vodka, a big no-no for me.

If the OP has vodka drinking pals and he wants to make a go of things, there is only one solution. His "pals" love the shots...so.....

He has to change his drinking habits. They're not going to, and why should they? Meaning, he can't go drinking with those pals. They wont get into trouble boozing.

He will.

Feedback / Is it Polish forum or foreign forum? [159]


If only politics were that simple. I would vote PO because I finish work at 10 or 11 PM, and am back on the case at 6.30 in the morning, and one Party leaves me alone to get on with it, and it ain't PIS, with all their audits and "new" regulations.

Law / Buying a USED CAR in Poland, my personal experiences and TRAPS to avoid !! [133]

Sure, apologies for that. I happen to think that second hand cars bought in Poland are poor value - or they were when I was in the marketplace. I always bought new, but I have plenty of stories to tell, and tried to buy cars a number of times. Thing is, I am an old bloke and know all the usual tricks re: cars.