Life / Egzamin prawo jazdy. Driving Test in Poland. Bribing the instructor? [17]


If you see the driving style of the average Warsaw driver, I would be very tempted to doubt this.

Love / Best, safe Polish dating sites? [95]

It reminds me of this "speed-dating" thing. I once watched this on TV. I do not know whether to call it funny, sad, or pathetic?

Still, dating two girls in one week's time.....

Life / Conflicting views about life in Poland? [45]


Including all these "students" from Third World countries coming to "study" at "universities" (which are in fact commercial companies, earning hugely on these kind of customers) whose degrees have practically no value at all. There lately seems to be a real invasion of this.


Marks & Sparks have a decent selection...according to my wife (I stick to coffee)


This mentality I think is typical for "Polska B"

By the way...coffee. I am living in Poland already for many years, and the coffee situation... As I see it...you have Jacobs, Tchibo etc..which are for me hardly drinkable but cheap. And then you have Lavazzo, Ily...which are in my view outrageously expensive.

I always stock up with coffee when I go back home to Belgium. Thanks God Wizzair has a 32 kg luggage allowance :)

Love / Best, safe Polish dating sites? [95]

It shows why he came to Poland, what he thinks of Polish women and of women in general. Maybe I am old-fashioned, but for me this is distasteful.

Love / Do Polish people like Scottish people (friendship or relationship with a Scot)? [56]

Exactly. That's him.

Law / Buying a custom/private Polish number/registration plate in Poland [20]


Exactly. First you need to register your car, and then go to your local Gmina, where they will issue plates.
If you are a foreigner without permanent residency, you will be directed to one central office who issue plates in such case

Love / Do Polish people like Scottish people (friendship or relationship with a Scot)? [56]


Somewhere in Warsaw Old Town, there is a plaque about a Scot who became mayor of Warsaw in 16th (?) century. I will have a look at it when I go to my pub - it's on the way :)

Work / How much to pay a housekeeper in Warsaw? [23]

I have never heard somebody paying such kind of work officially.

Life / What's the best Polish radio station? [36]

I am listening in the morning always to RadioZet, but that's mainly because I like Monika Olejnik and love her grilling that disgusting Hofmann every now and then. For the rest I like RadioPIN. Lots of good music, news about culture and in-depth interviews.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


And making a story of buying a beer before you are 80, but buying a gun over the counter, hey no prob! I remember watching a documentary on Flemish TV about boy-scout camps having gun-initiating courses...Boy....

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

This is all redneck crap to justify a society where 1. showing a nipple on TV gets you damned, filed away and shot 2. and having a semi-automatic shotgun to shoot at squirrels in your backgarden is looked upon as being manly. I do not buy any of this tea-party crap.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


No you believe in the tea party nutters. Far worse.

Life / Halloween vs All Saints' Day in Poland [48]


That is as it may be. But it just does not fit in the centuries-old traditions of the Old Continent. Here it is just...plastic, artificial, cheap and loud. In other words, American.

Life / Halloween vs All Saints' Day in Poland [48]

Halloween is a plastic American thing, completely artificial. Maybe in Ireland it is still the real thing, I don't know.
But the Americans have hijacked it and gave it a bad name, that's for sure. All Saints' Day here in Poland I find pretty moving. We always light candles on Powązki for my wife's and my deceased family, and later proceed to Plac Inwalidów where we lay flowers at the monument for the First Polish Armoured Division (General Maczek's boys). Because they liberated my Flemish village in September 1944.

When I arrived in Poland almost 10 years ago Halloween was not so big...mainly an expat thing....But when I see now in our local Lidl plastic devil's forks for sale....hopeless.

Law / Where to obtain license plate in Poland? How long it takes? [24]

Harry, when I registered my car way back in 2003, my plates were WY and ended with Y. I could only register it at Plac Starenkiewicza, not in my Gmina. These were definitely issued to foreigners.

When I changed the plates after having gotten my permanent residence, I got regular ones with no "Y" on the end.

Law / Where to obtain license plate in Poland? How long it takes? [24]

I used to have the WY plate issued to foreigners. But since I have a permanent residence card I have changed it to a regular one, issued by my gmina.

The WY plate just advertised "hey I am not from here"

Law / Where to obtain license plate in Poland? How long it takes? [24]

Actually I have a well-serviced bike, thank you very much. Private plates are plain stupid. What's wrong getting a standard plate on your car? So much cheaper, but without the possibility to show off of course.

My car has a regular Warsaw registration and that is just fine by me.

Law / Where to obtain license plate in Poland? How long it takes? [24]


I see them often here in Warsaw, and all of them 1. look egotistical 2. look nouveau-riche first class 3. look stupid 4. deserve to be fined by the police on a permanent basis

History / capitulation of Warsaw Uprising [16]

Exactly. The Poles always pretend they are snow-white as concerns WWII. The only country not collaborating with the Germans and other blabla. The truth is they did not get a chance to collaborate because the Germans did not allow them. And in the instances they could, they did. Blue Police, Brigada Świętokrzyśka, Górale...There is nothing in Polish genes preventing not to collaborate.

History / capitulation of Warsaw Uprising [16]

Maybe it is time for the Poles to look forward and not to be obsessed by the recent past. Relegate it to the history books. Put flowers once a year at some memorials. And not whenever something happens, come up with "some years ago we were fighting, the rest of Europe was not, and because of this bus tickets are expensive in Warsaw"

History / capitulation of Warsaw Uprising [16]


General Anders for example thought it was madness.

Love / Polish women are angel [30]


Translation: I am from India or Pakistan, I do not live in Poland or Ireland but I am looking for a backdoor to the EU ?

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


For somebody throwing around abuses, you are mightily involved in the topic.
For me the cases are really very bad. In my native Flemish we do not really have them - except in some old-time texts. What baffles me big time how numbers are also affected by cases.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]


Meaning stupid as if you posting without registering?

Law / Opening a Polish Bank Account by a foreigner in Poland. Recommendations. [299]

If you need your money that urgently, use Western Union.

Travel / Poles the worst-dressed tourists in the world? [25]


Anyway there are as many polls as there are sites :)

Study / Private Universities vs Public Universities in Poland [31]


Exactly. They are doing business - nothing to do with education - on the fact that these "students" are hoping to get a foothold into Europe. See all the postings here from Turks, Pakistanis, Indians, Jordanians...asking about residence and working permits...And applying for for example maritime studies in Gdynia.