News / New "Polish memorial" in Berlin [316]


There's no possibility of that ever happening. Germany and Poland signed a treaty on the issue decades ago; hysterical politicians can skwawk as loudly as they like about the events of 75 years ago in order to try and distract from their present failures, however such 'calls' are intended to raise emotion solely in their home market rather than be taken seriously elsewhere.


That's fair enough; it's taken them long enough to rebuild (and reunite) their capital.

History / What have the Germans hidden in Poland? [28]


They'll get a few crates of desiccated amber blobs. It had deteriorated badly enough by the time the war started. Being wallpapered over or painted or whatever won't have helped much and then it was packed up, crated away and abandoned for 70 years. Now most of the bits will only be good for making amber nalewka with.

History / What Poland expected from western Europe? [78]


Plenty enough home-grown ones in Poland. Lots. Back in the late 90s, Poland held the European record for operations performed.

Polonia / How Belarus counts the visa-free days? [13]

Yes. They have usable internet in hotels and they have hotspots and cages.

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]

More similar than black pudding and kaszanka however there are big differences.

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


Totally different. Black pudding is a bit like kaszanka (except you can slice it before or after cooking since it's not full of kasza that expands).

Haggis is made from lamb offal with spices and a bit of pearl barley that makes it expand a little when cooking. I've got a tin ready for Burns Night. Just a shame neeps are so hard to get here. Allegro sells them, however they look like varieties grown for animal feed so not like the tastier varieties grown as food.

History / Polish nobility - what is the status of princes and aristocrats in modern Poland? [33]

And it has to be regulated somehow, in a registry or by the courts.

There's an informal association (even more than one) in Poland that someone organised however they have no legal force at all and are giggled at by people they've approached.

Classifieds / Track BMW 525d [11]


Probably scrapped by now or shipped to Burundi as a taxi.

News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]


Yet another silly claim he backed down on.

His grandstanding is comical. I wonder if he still has the briefcase and wet laptop.

Genealogy / Ludno Poland? - looking for a city, town or village by that name [4]


There's a village called Ładna in the south of Poland.

Could that be it? It's very near Tarnów and about 50 miles from Kraków.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Arab, Russian, Chinese.

If the fearful brexit voters were so terrified of a few nice Poles that they went all anti-immigration, how will they react to this?

Language / Polish Proverbs (American style?) [21]


They were for us. Because American TV had a lot of ad breaks and the BBC had none, the TV shows were edited to make British versions by adding stuff from the cutting room floor. The government had to step in and restrict the amount of nasty cheap American TV shows.

We preferred Koziołek Matołek...

Law / My Great GrandMother was born in Poland sometime before 1915 - any chance for Polish citizenship? [37]


He has never even been here.


Exactly.

Language / Polish Proverbs (American style?) [21]


You mean on 70s TV. We had the same sh1tty foreign TV shows in our capitalist paradise.

News / Why Poland has no problem with terrorism [64]


It would be an eye-opener for some of them. The problem is that there's so much 'helicopter parenting' nowadays and people who approach their kids' teachers and try to tell them what they can and can't teach (becoming normalised in some countries now) that it would start a whole new set of problems.


A (non-streaming) CCTV in every classroom would be a positive step; it would cover teachers' backs when kids falsely claim they got a clip round the earhole.

News / Why Poland has no problem with terrorism [64]


With online radicalisation we'll see more and more domestic terrorism like this unfortunately.

Genealogy / Polish equivalent of "Jessie"? [48]


It's hard to imagine many Americans pronouncing Zdzisiek easiiy.

They have enough trouble with schedule, tomato and patent.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

The writing on the back says (I think) Volga. There was certainly a (coveted) brand of car in the Soviet Union called Volga.

I've never seen one in Poland, however there used to be an old Soviet limousine (a Chaika or ZIL) that was always parked just off the top end of Pulawska.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


Jagiellonian University For You, probably.

Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [140]


I can think of a few restaurants that do that, with our without paszteciki.

Life / How's life in Mielec? [8]


A shame he hasn't commented. I used to enjoy his stories about the street culture there.

Life / How's life in Mielec? [8]

I thought the same. We have some 'local colour' here...

Life / How's life in Mielec? [8]


It's not too bad apart from a faint buzz some nights when they're casting iron. We're very close to one and pollution levels are relatively low here.


Dąbrowa Górnicza? It's a bit of a dump however it's very handy to travel into Kato etc, and there's some nice countryside round there. Cheap living costs too.


There are a few bars however I've only been on business and therefore more interested in places to eat (there are a few though not many). It didn't strike me as a big place for going out, however there are pubs near the rynek and at least one had music.

Life / How's life in Mielec? [8]


A huge airline factory there. It's a pleasant enough town centre. Not that much happening but a few bars/restaurants/hotels. The cost of living is reasonable there.

Food / The great British baked bean in Poland [26]


Some families maybe; most want to relax on Sunday mornings.

It's not the kind of thing that people bother making at home; most cooked breakfasts happen in cafes and rarely at breakfast time.

Baked beans are often eaten with heavily buttered toast or as part of kids' meals.

Food / The great British baked bean in Poland [26]


Vile things really.

Though I notice more and more places here in Poland selling them.


Very few people eat that in the morning. Maybe people doing heavy work and needing the protein and carbs. Nowadays they call it an "All-day breakfast".

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


Have you seen the special kind for marrow?

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Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]

Very nice roasted, however it helps if you've got one of those really long spoons to get it out.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Does it?


To China or India, for example?

Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [140]

That's what I felt when I last had one like that. The place advertised it as a speciality too.

It's fine to use a bit of liver, however this was just liver soup; it hadn't sen even a corpuscle of duck's blood.

No dried fruit in it either...