Travel / Poland or Philippines? Which is better for a vacation? (sex tourism) [39]


Yep, nothing's changed then. Stayed in that place during communism. The attraction in the desert that was Warsaw, was that the Victoria Continental had Czech beer:) Wondered what all the Arab gentlemen were doing hanging around!


Strange guy. Does he think he's the voice of every long-stay on these shores? Why doesn't he get a job? And anyway, we all know internet dating is for losers, so nothing new there. The OP might as well stay in the USA if dating sites are all he can manage, if he can't actually chat to a woman.

Travel / Poland or Philippines? Which is better for a vacation? (sex tourism) [39]

There's a country in Asia called Thailand. I hear that it's very good for such as you desire. Here to help. Polish women will kick you where it hurts, and the sex clubs will likely take that 4 grand off you in one night.

Or so I am led to believe by the conservative press.

News / Poland is being robbed - Kukiz [37]


That's not a manifesto. That's the ramblings of a previously unheard of "rock" singer, who doesn't know diddly-squat about basic economics.

So it's a two horse race then. Good. A straight choice between market forces and centralised interference in the economy.

Let's have it!

News / British schoolboys very sensibly dealt with by the Poland's authorities after theft in Auschwitz [45]

PS: I apologise for the Obamaesque " their concentration camps." Please edit MODS. No offence intended.

News / British schoolboys very sensibly dealt with by the Poland's authorities after theft in Auschwitz [45]


Mmmm. Less said.............. I wonder if they respect the concentration camps and other holocaust sites in the same way as Poland does.

The British press though, as usual, forget to mention the enormous numbers of Polish catholics who were murdered in Auschwitz, my wife's grandfather being just one.

These public schoolboys probably didn't engage brain. That horrible place does strange things to your mind.

Life / Vandalism in Poland: Has it always been this way? [80]


I caught a yoof spraying graffiti on a block wall in Katowice Tysiaclecia. I boxed his ears and had him crying out in vain for his dad. These clowns are scum.

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]

Que? I don't follow your line of argument.

Let quotas of refugees settle, study and work, and they will become consumers. What is difficult to understand in that?

In the meantime, The Guardian newspaper reports that the European Commission is to table a deal with Poland where it drops opposition to re-settlement of 60,000 refugees EU wide, in return for support v Russia.

All who have studied political history know how ungrateful Polish diplomats through the ages have been for any past aid, so I for one wont be holding my breath that the Polish establishment has one breath of humanity in its' body and will do the right thing.

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]

So do tell us Wulkan what your reaction would be if the UK populace had the same ignorant and xenophobic attitude as you do, but about Poles?

Do you think you are somehow "better" because of the colour of your skin?

Before you bang on about muslims and how they offend you; quite a few Silesian pious catholics offend me too, geneflucting in the church on a Sunday while being too vodka addled and lazy to provide properly for their families - something you will never see in muslim communities in the UK.

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]


And refugees are de facto not law abiding? Admitedly they are not citizens, but what would you do with them? Shoot them like your police shoot street urchins? Or have you washed your hands of Brazil?

It is always immigrants who have a holier than thou attitude, along with a feeling of entitlement, and **** everybody else who is less fortunate than themselves.

Disgusting.

And mods, this is on topic, because I think that Poland should be doing more to accept its' full quota of these refugees.

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]


What the **** are you talking about Johnny? Are you suggesting that gays, or any others who may be there to be derided by the non-secular catholic right, are not christian? I think we should be told.

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]


Not here in Gdynia :( People are always telling you "You can't do that.............." without the proper forms of address as well :(

I always end up telling them to **** off and mind their own business.

Also most of my students remark about all the black faces in the shops and the bars. Fact. Never heard any homophobic nonsense here though.

News / Kukiz and Petru - newly emerging political stage in Poland [57]


Changed it for you. PIS are out of date and clueless about European society as a whole. Poland is in Europe, right? Did Poland or did she not accept the billions in grants, that state that she is now part of theEU and has to grant equal rights to all her citizens and those residing here?

I am sure you will agree Poland is in fact in Europe.
Vis a vis she has to be dragged screaming into the 21st century. But PIS would put her back in the time of Henry the Eighth.

News / Kukiz and Petru - newly emerging political stage in Poland [57]


Good post gregy. You are talking sense here, if I may so say, and I know I too don't always do that either :) This singer bloke is simply another Tyminski, a total non-entity. Send him to Peru.

News / Kukiz and Petru - newly emerging political stage in Poland [57]


Right. But that connotation is consigned by academics to the waste bin of history.
British politicians always branded Poles as "belligerent." Look in the Oxford concise dictionary if you have to see which of the two terms is the more positive.

News / Kukiz and Petru - newly emerging political stage in Poland [57]


There is every reason to "copy" another country. I know you wont understand this analogy because your education system doesn't encourage the student at school to learn by kinesthetic means. But.........

In the UK, if you are in an organic practical chemistry class, and are unsure what to do, and you are carrying out an experiment, but have 9 or 10 pieces of apparatus - what do you do?

You look to see what all the other students are doing, that's what, and you set up your apparatus as they are doing. It's called conforming to society. Something that Poles are generally still absolutely clueless about. It's exactly the same as in that TV quiz, where the contestant doesn't know the answer and asks the audience, and 98% of them answer "B".

You would have to be a moron to go against them.

In exactly the same way, Poland should be copying a lot of the laws and acceptable social conditions of other countries. For they make a whole lot of sense. In the meantime, we have a socially reprehensible president who promises more of the same old hate nonsense.

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]


Yes - after the election tonight, Poland is moving back to eastern Europe :(

Classifieds / Wedding reception in Katowice, Poland [14]

Smurf will be along soon to advise. In the meantime, don't do it :)

Affordable hotel food in Kato sucks BIG time.

Seriously though, the best value is still to rent out a hall and get some caterers (older ladies who know how to cook proper Polish nosh, 8 courses, and do it yourself.

400 bottles of vodka for around 70 guests, over 2 days, and a third day for farewells, should seal the deal :)
Why not rent out a Straz Pozarna in a village location?

Work / What is a good monthly salary for an English teacher in Poland? [124]


CMC - DB is only trying to help, and having forbid that you stop posting Dom, but he (Dominik) is technically minded. He expects everyone to have the same aptitude, which is ridiculous.

I am a fan of his, but he is a one of those who can do - according to GBS - and the rest of us have to teach. And you, CMC, already know that one can still make a good living from teaching so don't listen to Dominics' patronising posts per se. I promise you I make as much money today in real terms as I did ten years ago - not more, 'tis true - so Dom is right there; things change - but if I don't like a certain scene, I decline, or in particular situations, I milk it. That for me is success. My freedom, my quality of life. Of course others need a greater challenge and may be more materialistic as well.

If you come to the Tri-city I would be happy to give you a few pointers and to learn new strategies from you at the same time. Better still, listen to experienced professionals like Jon and Harry, and the champion from Poznan, wherever he is lurking.

Time to bring back the last named back Mods. This forum needs him.


Mmm - and what happened to authentic texts? Contemporary work of course. But functional language is to be found everywhere. I have some of my learners watching UK TV via FilmOn - if they enjoy Polish soaps, why not watch Eastenders?

What if the learner doesn't read literature in their own language? And what is literature anyway? Bukowski? Agatha Christie?

Horses........

Sorry - I don't get why newspapers don't "count" - they are wonderful sources of language with purpose. Ask Tim Grundy.

Work / What is a good monthly salary for an English teacher in Poland? [124]


Good lad. My learners often think I am Michael Swan because I am always referencing Practical English Usage - he is the man :) And when he guest lectured at the university of Silesia back in the 90s I was in the pub instead on a three dayer :((

To get to the point of the OP's question - the answer is 8000 zl after tax for an experienced hard-working bod - but I am too busy walking the labrador to obtain that.

So 8000 before stoppages of a kind is the go. Plus nice little earners Del-Boy style.

Work / What is a good monthly salary for an English teacher in Poland? [124]


Biblical :)

Work / What is a good monthly salary for an English teacher in Poland? [124]


Funnily enough, there are some who "get their foot in the door" as opposed to Spud in 'Trainspotting' simply by looking the part. I know a young teacher in Katowice who has never ever been asked for his (non-existent) CELTA or any other piece of paper, and he consistently walks into jobs. I on the other hand was the most senior teacher around that circle (who didn't hold the DELTA) and the girls at the desk would always ask to see my Cambridge certificate before they would call a DOS:)

Summary - some people still fall for smooth presentation and flannel :)

Life / What is the best city in Poland to live in? Relocating to Poznan? [41]


Very good - German architechture too :)

I was amazed to see that Gdansk was voted Poland's prettiest town. It needs 100 years - the Soviets made sure of that by blitzing the place.

Work / Language Teachers - do you feel respected in Poland? [86]


Mmm - negotiate all that before you start. I have one rich client who makes feeble excuse at the start of every month - and I have to forcibly remind him of our verbal agreement - which doesn't bother me in the slightest. It's my job, and I want to be paid for doing it.

If in doubt, negotiate discounted rates, but in advance. As for schools and late payment - if you are inexperienced or show desperation, then, yes, you will be exploited - a lot of schools do pay on the 20th of next month - Empik for one.

When you've been teaching for a while you can generally afford to kiss such employers off. But as you say, building your rep does take effort. I don't know where the "luck" thing comes in though. Some people offer trial lessons for example - I would rather watch grass grow myself - but everybody has their own marketing strategies to get bums on seats....

If you care, and try really hard to meet the needs of the learner, and help them to learn faster, then you are "respected" - as they return time after time, as you progress together....

Simples really.

Life / What is the best city in Poland to live in? Relocating to Poznan? [41]


Deffo Katowice from that list :) IMHO of course!

News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [859]

There was only one man guilty of causing that crash. And only Poland would have been so stupid as to bury him in it's holiest of crypts.

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [554]

Where exactly? And speak properly - Polish women are cultured and don't do it large.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


Yep


Do you live in Poland? Were you here in 1989? I was and you are talking anti-semitic tripe. Where were those billions of dollars you talk about? Any misappropriation would have been carried out by the nomenclature.

Innit?

Law / Penalty points on driving licences in Poland [26]

Que?

I know it's Sunday night and we are all mentally challenged but what are you on about Pigsy? Harry laid it out in black and white. Show the pigs the one documentation, not several licences or whatever....... don't give them ammunition for their brains to tick over.

And your fine, whatever it is, is automatically removed from your bank account in fullness of time by the tax police.

Travel / Storks - the Symbol of Poland [59]

Already here on the bay in Puck :) Not as elegant as the heron maybe, but nice to see them, to see them nice :)