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


Another clear reason not to be a Polish used car methinks.

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

Take it easy Ktos. The country of your blood is in good shape. Don't listen to Kaczynski's "Poland in ruins" nonsense. It is in many ways nicer than Australia, which after all is mostly desert and bush....

And we are looking after it for you, for when you return....

Oh...wait...............LOL

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


Spoken like a true woman:) He needs to check out some human contact and chill.

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


Well tis true that the black gentleman in the senate was OK with the term.... but other immigrants I asked weren't. But I don't understand Ktos 's rant on this one.

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


Person...?

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


Now now, don't be nasty to your brethren, oh Plastic Pole.....

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


We've had this argument on PF. Ask any black, and they'll tell you to call them "black". As opposed to "white." Any specific term, including the appropriated term "Murzyn" is offensive to them. Ask any of the Nigerian community here, though I can't and wouldn't purport to speak for them.

Oh wait a minute...you're not in Poland are you? So you can't ask them. I quite forgot.......

As a special dispensation, just for you, you can call me, a caucasian male, what the hell you like :)

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


Says a Pole - who uses a derogatory term for a black person.... glass houses and all that.....

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


But your ideas aren't "Everything Polish." They mirror the attitudes of an American republican extreme Neo-Con, and are not representative of the young mobile educated Pole. Vis a vie, your views, such as they are, are anathema to the vast majority of Poles, and I know this for a fact, because I am far more Polish savvy than you will ever be. You might know the literature, and speak the vernacular, but you can't speak the same language as the people here.

Have you actually ever set foot on Polish soil? A lot of us on this board have tilled that soil and fertilised it for more years than you've been on this earth.

But you are clearly a troll so I don't know why any response is merited.

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


Yes - those are positively dangerous and banned in Germany (as they lead to irregular traffic flow) if I remember rightly.

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


Yes Roger, the roads in Tri-City are in a shocking state. To their credit the council have lashed out on public transport with the new tram and suburban train network and rolling stock, which is newly completed and on a par with the best in Europe.

But the roads are fine for the millionaires with their SUVS. Others beware!

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


Well, go to Germany and get your own. It's not difficult. If I can do it, anyone could:) Still running a beaut 4 years later, if slightly thirsty on the oil. Never on Polish roads you see....until the last 4 years that is ....:(

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


Not so. Poles buy cheap, sell high. Don't you?

I would have to be an idiot to buy a second hand car from a Pole, and I am many things but not that. Next!


Old thread.

Fair play to you Roger. My reasons against:

1. (Some) Poles race through the gearbox, and ride the clutch to spin the wheels.
2. Salt on road corrodes
3. Driven on Polish roads. A MAJOR no-no.
4. Poor economy. Not sold to "Get rid", but as a financial transaction (which is fair enough, but prices are often plain daft)
5. My general dislike of beating down a ridiculous price. If the price is stupid, I would rather go the pub.
6. Lack of clarity with the cars' history (How many owners etc)

Germany or Holland every time for me secondhand. Holland less so as the Dutch are tight wads and don't understand realities either. Thank God for the Krauts - normal people.

Food / 'Wigilia', the traditional Christmas Eve supper in Poland [77]

Thanks! I was thinking and thinking....that spelling came to my "mind" first, but I went against my better judgement. On my 2nd now, sat outside Expressowa doing the French style pavement cafe in 2 degrees with hound.

BTW...only Tyskie and Zubr taste good heated. And make sure you stir the glass, or get the nice girlie to top it up. Also, add a pinch of salt. Absolutely no additives, such as juice, or cinnamon, or cloves.

That's not beer:)

Food / 'Wigilia', the traditional Christmas Eve supper in Poland [77]


For once we are in agreement.
Excellent report Polonius. I have made my bigos and borscht already, in industrial amounts:) Can't wait for the snow and the excuse to drink even more piwo grzanie!

Agreed about the Pike. My London Thames baked pike was well popular when I used to invite my boozer friends around after a good punt up the river. The secret is in the soaking to get rid of the mud flavour.


Nah. Roll it yoursen !!!!

Life / Famous Polish people (that we have actually heard of) [231]

Life / Famous Polish people (that we have actually heard of) [231]


LOL. And this sportsman put Poland on the map. And I thought you were a patriot?

Life / Famous Polish people (that we have actually heard of) [231]

I have checked this forum, and the lack of any mention and ignorance from you Poles of your most famous sportsman is blinding.

He came from Katowice. Any guesses? Not difficult. He was acknowledged as the world's number one, bar none. By his peers, no less.

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


Dougpol in gumishu agreement shocker.

The same nonsense happens in the UK. Harry is being selective on this point. Private university or not, the distinction is not made.

It's not Jonathan Aitken at the Ritz.

Language / What computer keyboards are in use in Poland? [34]


Only people with more money than sense buy a MacBook. Why would anyone want to pay good money for such a comparatively weak processor?

Beats me.

Classifieds / Used computers/electronics market in Tri-City, Poland. [10]


Thanks kpc. Maybe people in Silesia like to go to such markets on a Sunday, because the electronic market in Sosnowiec is as big as ever...some .people go there to buy back their stolen goods......:)

PS: I never buy used electronics on Polish online sites. For obvious reasons.

Life / Poor hygiene of people in public places in Poland [46]


Noses are not subjective. We can all smell. And an unreasonably high percentage of Poles do : If, as I understand the OP is from Italy, she should know, Italian men do too.

The women are (overweight) delightful.

Classifieds / Random Classifieds Ads Poland [261]

Great website. I am extremely impressed by the set-up..

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


Amazing. A polarised nation. If an ordinary person behaved in such a way he would be shot at with plastic bullets and put in a Polish psychiatric hospital, and the key would be thrown away.

This is a country that murdered 11 innocent people on a city road, going to work on a cold 1970 January morning to a shipyard, and yet they encourage these scum? *********************. (unbe@@@@@@@believable)

This November 11th hooligan outing needs to be banned. End of.

I'm glad I pay most of my taxes in the UK because the police are not doing their job (as per usual)

It is a completely different country, and a different economic system, but the very same people still walk the streets.

They are the same people. The psychologists, who say that people change, are having a giggle. If I could prove that a neighbour shot one of those lads at Gdynia Stocznia bridge on that January morning, I would set the dog on them, and then throw them off that bridge.

These nationalists are the same scum, and it is beyond my comprehension as to why the state tolerates their behaviour.

UK, Ireland / Britain's moral collapse? [99]

I refer you all to my previous post. Major was playing away with his environment secretary for 4 years, and later on his government had the temerity to lecture the nation on moral values. And Poland thinks it has a moral society with an outmoded and ridiculous religious "ethic" in the villages, and has forgotten it's own flight to freedom of it's persecuted masses in it's attitude to immigration, and aid.

Britain wins, as Major, like Bungalow Bill, was only human, whereas it's about time Poland modernised.


Mmm...very good Polonius - I think...... :)

UK, Ireland / Britain's moral collapse? [99]


I know your comment was from 2013 Polonius... but this is from a conservative/PIS style government who can only come up with the old nonsense of "Family Values."

I suggest you do some research from other Conservative regimes with the same slogan, notably from John Major's government of 1992. He should know all about family values.... some of us made the same mistakes - but don't lecture others. There's the difference.

Do you not see? PIS in a nutshell. Right wing "orders". Left wing economy.

I haven't read the rest of the thread, but as for moral values, the UK is far ahead of Poland in this regard. Why? Because we don't hide behind an outmoded religion, and have built our position in the world over 300 years. Poland still plays the nationalist card re: the refugees and more - so this thread is inappropriate in its' comparative criticism.


Milky for president 2022. Pure sense.

Work / I'm retired teacher, age 69 - I want to teach English in Poland voluntarily, in return for Polish language [18]


Nonsense Eugene. Or should I say poppycock? I'm 58, and just getting started. Come to Gdynia; the list of students/ academic challenges/ offshore workers/ IT staff etc is as long as your arm. Why would I advertise this? Because if you can teach, come to Tri-City. The best teachers thrive. Simples.

The winter wind is a pain in the arse though... :)


BS. Good language teachers never retire.... Like priests:)

Travel / I'm so bored in Poland! [129]


Again - sorry to be down on Polish cities, but my daughter (half British, and widely travelled in the UK) studies in Krakow. 4 year ago she was crazy about it. Now, she has realised what Krakow really is - a kitsch, overblown, ridiculously expensive polluted rotting city full of highways.

It is also full of Americans ( "Oh Harry, isn't it just gorgeous!") and the UK drunk brigade.

Whenever I am down I cheer myself up by thinking that at least I don't live in Krakow. It is nothing special at all, unless you are from Krakow, and full of it. And Krakow people vote PIS. That surely tells us all we need to know.

The really beautiful Polish cities were built by the Teutonic Knights along the Vistula, or by their Kraut brothers (eg: Wroclaw)
Krakow is plastic, and not a touch on at least 5 UK cities I could mention in terms of architecture or geography. So I will.

York/Edinburgh/Oxford/Edinburgh/Bath

Here to help as always:)


Excellent. But I have day-tripped Krakow for 30 years, and it doesn't meet the hype.. Wroclaw beats it hands down IMO, as do many Polish cities. It's the same with the Czech Republic. There are 4 or 5 towns that are on a par with Prague, without the crowds.

Travel / I'm so bored in Poland! [129]


Grand. I spent 15 years in a Nottinghamshire village, and some winters we were snowed in, because we lived on a hill. It were fab! Polish village life must be nice but I couldn't stand all the people wanting to know your business, or simply staring :)

Very much horses for courses:)

And I know what you mean about university. I too worked in one (Univ of Silesia) for 9 years. I loved going there, and reading in my "office" with a cup of tea and peace and quiet................... in the summer holidays:)