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:)

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


With respect Franklin, have a look at Google street view.

Opole is a dump. I used to sell to shops there. It was a dump, and until Poland levels some of its tenement slums, it will remain so. Thanks.

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

Depends where you live, and the company you keep.

Roger and others live in quiet places. But I would do a Kurt Cobain in a couple of months. It's boring enough here in Gdynia, the so called number one place to live in Poland. I hear you Carly. But Poles don't get bored because:

1. They have expensive new toys to play with, that didn't exist for daddy in communist times.
2. They go to bed early because they insist on getting up at 6 in the morning for a pow-wow.
3. Some drink themselves stupid in small groups to show that Poles "are the best."
4. Some move around like snails, touching all the fruit at the market, self satisfied types dressed in their tracksuits....
5. Some are obsessed by fitness, and die young....
6. Others are driven by material gain - the old "Build a house, plant a tree, have a son, an. other......"

Nowt wrong with all that - but they are not bored.

However the UK has far more going on in all facets of life - why do we think Poles love it so much there?

Just my obs you understand.

Language / Information on Polish textbook Hurra Po Polsku [33]


There must be something better available in the US surely for teenagers of Polish extraction there?

Both these books (Hurra and Krok na kroku) are average at best. Where is the role playing and the pronunciation exercises such as in the English File series for TEFL? Hopeless methodology really and culture bound in that way (no discussion points - only reading and writing, with very limited listening exercises).

Poor stuff.

News / Polish President vetoes PO's dingbat gender law [173]

We will know in four weeks wont we? And this typical interference does no harm at all to the right wing party of the two choices for government. The one that enabled a majority of 100; it's called democracy.

Your president is laughable, or "chucklesome" if you prefer.

News / Polish President vetoes PO's dingbat gender law [173]

The president is not supposed to actually use his power of veto at whim

The fact that he has the "the power," and can emphasise such, as a warning or a guide, is supposed to be the whole point of the power of veto. But to actually employ it, after just two months in office, shows what a prize wally this man is.

Sad for Poland.

News / Nuclear Power in Poland? Yes, please! Absolutely nobody disagrees! [73]


The industry has problems with the correct grammar. They haven't mastered the use of the comparative adjective, as in "cleaner." As Polsyr pointed out, and he didn't need to, as you already knew this, coal is the worst option. But sadly, the cheapest option for the taxpayer - minus the small matter of the high carbon footprint, premature deaths, environmental damage, cost to the country of extracting the stuff, etc....

But anything that wins a few votes from the unwashed proletariat, right?

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


Yep :)


Says one who doesn't live here, and who as a Pole should be very ashamed of that ridiculous theory. Maybe the poster has never even been to Poland? Daily life here was extremely hard before the building of modern infrastructure.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]

Much needed infrastructure, for Poland's first container port. This amazingly expensive (short) stretch of highway would not have been built without EU money, and neither would the rest of Poland.

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News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]

Poland would have built NOTHING without the EU. Ingrates who would still be struggling to get to their 1000 zl a month backward state-owned company "jobs."

Amazing that we are even having this moronic "debate."

The photograph is of the highway from Poland biggest container port of Gdynia, which links to the A2 motorway. It was built across moraine hills, has a distance of 4 km, and cost 235 million zlotys, of which the Polish government contributed a pathetic 60 million zl, obviously because they didn't agree that it was really necessary............

It is only the Polonia that don't have to live here, and idiotic visitors who haven't got an education, who don't want to see what the EU has done for Poland, or have forgotten what a hell-hole it was before accession.

Dangerous idiots

Life / News on driving in Poland [57]

Old news, but excellent news all the same Pawian.

Of course, rick kids driving through Gdynia in their sports cars/on works motorbikes are clearly exempt :(

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]


I don't usually call you up for being negative all the time on this Dom. The fact is that the only times I feel that my earning potential is denied me is on these ridiculous "religious holidays" that often fall in the middle of the week.

The establishment that decides that Three Kings aka 12th night, will be a Bank Holiday are all comfortable, and getting paid anyway. The rest of us, who are self-employed, are denied the right to work, because the Banks are closed............

I haven't even had a summer holiday, but Poles take so many of these long weekends (as most of them are owed days off etc etc...) leading from the middle of the week "Swieto" that I feel rested.

Could you explain where you get the 22 weeks figure from? You took it out of the air. Because you can't help but look down on teachers for some weird reason. I work long hours all year round, and so do others I know.

As to the continued discussion on "sad loser English teachers", some of the salaries that learners are on almost makes me want to waive my fees.

I wouldn't leave my bed for some of the silly money they are prepared to, or have to, work for. No amount of pension contributions, luncheon vouchers, or free fitness club membership would persuade me to take up some of the silly offers bandied around. And that's before taxes and that laughable extortion known as ZUS.

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]


That's very good:) I hadn't noticed your sharp sense of humour before. Did you study English at college? You have a cultured turn of phrase; I couldn't write as eloquently as you do.

And no, I'm not being my usual sarcastic self:)

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]


Crow, that's a weird premise.There is good money to be earnt. But we teachers have to work hard. I started at 7 this morning, and in between times, finished at 8.30, and I haven't done all the form filling and emailing that goes with the job.... the pub won, as it should.

Before hitting the battle cruiser I just spent two hours with a chap who has an interview in 3 weeks, where he is a dead cert to get the job...if he doesn't give the sales director the false impression that he doesn't have an ounce of Anglo-Saxon humour in his body.........

Only he is culture-bound (too modest) and needs to learn the American style enthusiasm of "I am very good at what I do etc etc etc......." And he has no concept of the shock-jock interview from the sales director, after the nice initial chat, and then the HR interview.......

He has to write out the stock answers and paraphrase and learn them to fit his personality, and freely practice them - something that is VERY hard for an adult to do as a self-starter if they are taking the step from the public to the private sector.

That's where people like me come in, and I get well paid for it. It's hard work, and long hours, but he's a shoe-in, and it's bloody satisfying when he gets a result, because it's my result too.

Failed missionaries my foot :)

Work / English teachers in Poland - why are they so unhappy? [89]


The British have a good nose for the disgusting professions:

1. Estate agents/developers
2. Lawyers
3. Financial "experts"
4. Politicians
5. Police.

Teachers are well respected, and properly paid.

If you want a scum society, which historically has paid its' hospital staff and teachers shockingly, we know where to come. Amazing that the government haven't smashed the unions and the scum laws that reward doctors for 100 percent unnecessary hospital stays for example, and the awful pay of university lecturers.

Us English teachers do very well in comparison. Especially when we finally see the light and refuse to pay a zloty in ZUS payments:) I am loving it myself.

All totally legal:)