Love / Recommendations for live wedding bands in different cities in Poland. [36]

Bloody nonsense - there are two "lads" who play in Gdynia on the beach bars, and often busk in the subway (for good money) who play as a duo, one on electric acoustic and the other an ace guitarist.

You could get them for 1000 zl and they have any tune you like nailed. Like Hendrix could, you whistle the tune, they'll pick it up instantly, and render it. They are even prepared to play wedding crap, if you're paying, and sing perfectly in role too. And damned better than any of that Mellotron Polski wedding rubbish which sadly, in communist times, me and Mrs Dougpol had to suffer.

I'm sure you have the same talent as the above where you live, and I ain't talking about the dreaded Mellotron :)

Classifieds / Random Classifieds Ads Poland [261]

Hello Boo Blue - what's wrong with the festival site?

Katowice is nice these days but there is NOWHERE to pitch a tent - I love a bit of the old wild camping and outside of town there are the lakes of Nakklo Chechlo near Tarnowskie Gory and Pogoria near Dabrowa Gornicza - and that is it.

Do NOT entertain the "campsite" near the A4 - it's modernised but is just.................... a turd.

Law / UK driving license mess in Poland [72]


Of course your insurer would suggest you play the white man MIPK. But I suit myself and don't act according to the wishes of the person whose services I am using, the insurer. With PZU I have never had a problem, all legal and above board, and my licence runs out in 2027.

Will the Polish state agree to renew my licence for free til that date?

You are kidding right? Why would I want to throw money away? Can I just send you some instead of sending it to the Polish government - who only ever steals, through the good auspices of ZUS, and have never granted me a single zloty in grants for my businesses but took delight in harassing by repeated audit.

Next.

Law / UK driving license mess in Poland [72]


OK Fatman - so you really want to know why?

British people generally know the Highway code and don't pull out in front of oncoming traffic - just to cite one example. A Polish licence is tainted by association - that is - the holder may well have been taught by a Polish instructor.

Why are there so many bad Polish drivers? Because the instructors and the driving test itself are working in the wrong way.

Polish examples that spring to my ageing mind:

1. The cone "system" where the learner has to reverse along a circular line of cones. I've never had to do that on the road under real conditions - so why invent it? If it wasn't for real I would think the Monty Python team had been at work again.

2. Learners driving on busy roads in rush hour when they are absolute beginners. Driving experience needs to be graded to build correct driving procedure.

3. Instructors need to enforce the rule that you NEVER pull out from a standing start - causing other road users to brake hard. Never. In the UK driving test that is an instant fail.

4. Mirror-signal-manoevre. instructors here have no clue about that simple concept.

5. Could be wrong but the hand signal to turn is outlawed here. Why?

6.Flashing of lights to let others go is illegal. Why?

7.If you signal to change lane the driver behind deliberately speeds up to cut you out of the lane. Why?. Why didn't the instructor teach him good ettiquette?

8. Learn the Highway code. Right of way to pedestrians, then cyclists and pedestrians.

9. Drive according to the conditions and keep up with the traffic flow, and don't hop from lane to lane FFS!!!

10. Pedestrian crossings. foot on road - driver should stop, if safe to do so.

Polish drivers generally have NO clue - due solely to poor instruction, based on outmoded testing -which does not move with the times - and I for one don't want their licence, as I have a UK one - which engenders some confidence and respect - as I was properly tested and should know how to drive

Also road layouts are nonsense and I was talking to a group of Gdansk civil engineers who are actually proud that they installed 26 sets of traffic lights between Gdynia and Gdansk - without a roundabout or traffic contraflow in sight.

Idiots - so what hope is there?

Law / UK driving license mess in Poland [72]

I don't think so Fatman (great name BTW - I was thinking of ways to lose the tag). Please quote ref to this law. Even if there were such, it's unenforceable and not adhered to by insurance companies.

Law / UK driving license mess in Poland [72]


Sorry Roger - Poles do brilliant soups, vodka and breed fine fillies - but no way am I am going to be connected with a Polish licence or to Polish drivers by association. I earnt my UK licence and wouldn't swap it for a document which I deem to be inferior. Plenty here feel the same - I believe Delph and others had the same view.

I hold the establishment of Polish driving in contempt and always will.

I stand by my opinion - but thanks for your politically correct view :)


Happy to correect you OP - If you have been here a stipulated period of time (settled) then that is the "law".

But, I have been here 22 years on a Uk licence - never a problem - paid OC - even claimed for a couple of bashes,

No way can they ( the licensing authority or the psy) prove whether I am domiciled here or trot off to Blighty on a regular basis.

The other way around would be a problem - as in the UK the driver is insured - here the car is insured - therein lies the difference.

Sorry OP - read the whole Fred now - deffo number 5. Man up and grow some. :)

Law / UK driving license mess in Poland [72]

LOL - and double LOL - and then some.

If anybody seriously thinks that a Brit - who has learnt to drive properly, in the number one country in Europe for diving - or Freudian slip, I meant to say driving - and can prove the same by proffering a UK licence, is going to give it up for an inferior Polish one - which suggests to the car rental agency that the user has learnt to drive from a Polish instructor... then they really are having a laugh! :)

Never in a month of Sundays would I hand in my UK licence (no photo) for a poxy Polish one.

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

One new woman didn't turn up - called her. She had "forgotten." Strike One and Two.

Not a big deal. If she is a joker the I'm happy with the real learners. Give and take. And the dog was glad to get out to the forest for an hour. Always have a plan B :)

Law / Can somebody explain ZUS to me? [40]

Umowa o dzieło - bill for a specific task......

Law / Can somebody explain ZUS to me? [40]

Depends what you are billing for.

Law / Can somebody explain ZUS to me? [40]


I issue bills on my wife's S.C. All above board. No extra ZUS for her to pay, as she can issue bills for one other.

I have paid ZUS for 20 years, and unlike NIS it is an unfair tax - so I have removed my favour. As simple as that. Carry on paying 799 Zl Harry if you have no option - but those bandits will never see another zloty of mine.

Law / Can somebody explain ZUS to me? [40]


But do the people do anything about it - by a programme of civil disobedience?

Do they 'eck. Obviously ZUS only burns a relatively small percentage. Badly

Work it out for yourself - if you are running a C.S. you pay 1,300 zl a month (at the last count) no matter what your income.

If you don't earn, you still pay.

You were saying something about logic?

Law / Can somebody explain ZUS to me? [40]

If it's PAYE - ie You are paid a salary - you can't. AFAIK I am self employed so am ignorant of all else.

Ask Harry et al who are above me in intellect and knowledge.

If it's the unjust tax against private enterprise - like in my situation - then your partner - who also runs private enterprise under the same type of business - can "employ" one entity - you.

Of course - Poles don't know the meaning of civil disobedience anymore and the majority are busy getting on and don't give a **** about anybody else.

So I kindly suggest you try to do the same.

Law / Can somebody explain ZUS to me? [40]


Wrong. No you don't. It's not like NIS at all.

For a start, as Harry rightly states on another thread, it is there solely to provide work for thousands of housewives in middle Poland towns, which ceased to function as economies when the Jewish populations were butchered.

Next, you don't pay a percentage of your earnings, if for example, you run a Spolka C.

Instead the communist bastards rob you blind.

Of course it's all immaterial to me because those n'er do wells won't ever again be seeing another zloty of my hard earned. And that is a fact.

Life / Moving to Poland Part-Time (probably Katowice) [56]

Hey Smurf! Kosovan Tony runs the little bar at 218 Gliwice in Zaleze and I always look in on him when I hit Kato. Top bloke.

Zaleze is not so bad because they don't dirty their own doorstep :)

Although I did have to punch my way out of the night shop opposite so maybe you have a point!

Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [331]


Really? Do you want photos? Are you a parent? Walk into any school.

There are horseshoe table arrangements, yes. That's about as far as it goes. Teamwork is de rigeur in UK schools and has been for years. Poles don't grasp this as a rule.

Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [331]

McDouche is making a valid generalism about the Polish educational system. But anybody who has taught in it and doesn't have their head buried in the sand will concur.

Of course people are stifled creatively because of the traditional way of teaching in schools. It's called control, with desks set in lines, of two desks together, as in the 1960's in Britain.

This is just so wrong :((

If it wasn't ao laughable I would give it :))

Life / Polish people are the most ignorant people in the world! [331]


There are exceptions to the rule Tamarisk. A garage mechanic once interrupted his family Sunday lunch to tow my car to his garage in Tychy and spend 3 hours labouring over it, to finally concede defeat and do a temp botch job to get me en famille back to Kato in 40 degrees of heat.

The Brits in the typical village today would have called the police or come out with a shotgun if you knocked on their door asking for help on a Sunday afternoon.


Mcdouche - I concur. We have to appreciate though that the good people of this country, in their fight against communism and totalarinism, (edit lol I hate it so much I can't even spell it) and I include Pilsudski in that, have been brainwashed by this nasty nationalistic belief that some diocese have that masquerades as catholicism. IMO

I have lost track of the number of times I have engaged with academics and even a couple of renowned southern Poland practioners of the 500 strong medical council, as well as members of the chamber of commerce, who have readily come out with bile which in a normal society would get them on incitement to stir up racial hatred.

They have been brainwashed by their clergy sadly, spitting forth that filth.

Life / Anything like netflix in Poland? [27]

Vodly.,to

Anything at all you want to watch really..

Life / Public Masturbation now allowed in Sweden, Would this work in Poland? [43]

I Ihave to report that a couple of weeks back, before the woman in Tommy Hilfigger gear incident, dog caught some bod who was taking rather long if all he was doing was ******* in the forest in full view of moraine valley houses. I gave the geezer the benefit of the doubt, but as Warsawski pointed out on another thread, dog knows a willy wonker when he spots one.

I kid you not, he nipped him on the wonger - the dog did the biting, not the man. He was clearly a plonker, because he retreated up the hill still adminstering to his front end.

Three showers and carbolic soap in the muzzle later, I let the dog back into the living room. For a couple of nights I slept with the bedroom door locked just in case he had got a taste for it.


Hang on - that must have been a very small bush - a bird in the hand and all that. I wasn't able to find any bushes on the Southbank back in the eighties. But I hear other bushes are back in vogue.

Law / Laws on walking a dog in Polska [67]

I'm from Nottingham mate :))

Law / Laws on walking a dog in Polska [67]


Nah - married a Polish woman. I wouldn't be seen dead with an ugly Brit :)

Law / Laws on walking a dog in Polska [67]

warszawski

I was right! You are a merchant banker Warsawski! I am an expert at assessing people! :)) But I wonder what you do for a living - we can only conjecture.

Law / Laws on walking a dog in Polska [67]

That's all very interesting Slawek - I would have thought the law can be interpreted as:

Dogs are not allowed to be taken into the forest for non licensed hunting purposes - aka - they are hunting breeds and trained as such.

Dogs must not be encouraged or permitted to freely hunt aggressively as their breed inclines them to do.

Both the above are obvious to anybody with half a brain-lobe.

I do not include some bint in this who has gone shopping in the Klif in Sopot and decided to go walking in the forest in 3,000 zlotys of sports wear. That's her choice - but she can't complain when a sociable lab puppy plants his grubby paws on her legs when she approaches us when we are playing catch and retrieve.

If foresters went around will-nilly shooting old ladies' dauchshounds for going down fox holes or young city boys' Spaniels for plunging into forest lakes full of (non-existent) wildlife then we would have social civil war on our hands.

The report you post is useful, but the public need some CLEAR direction as to the law - posted at the edge of the forest - and then cows like this woman I met can know that they don't own the forest by spouting rightfully outmoded law and threatening my dog with gas.

Thank you ;))

Law / Laws on walking a dog in Polska [67]

Yes, but try telling that to the Kings and Queens of England. Wasn't it that BBC documentary series on the dynasties that brought the publics' attention to the fact that the nobilty in the Middle Ages were dying in their thirties through liver failure, through eating too much game?

I wish the same on those viilagers I mentioned, who think nothing of trapping these beasts, over-bred pests though they be. (the villagers and the deer)

Law / Laws on walking a dog in Polska [67]

It's too late Harry - the dog is stuffed and mounted, and I suggest that Peterweg goes and gets the same :)

Law / Laws on walking a dog in Polska [67]

I don't think he suffered much, and I can always look at him up there behind the fire. It's not all bad. Thank you Peterweg for helping me to see the light!

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Law / Laws on walking a dog in Polska [67]

So I decided to stuff and mount my dog to avoid having to meet any more gas wielding nutters :))

Photo to come to satisfy Peterweg - and hopefully he will call the internet police off. Peterweg, I'm sorry!