Life / Americanization of Poland - good or bad? [49]


Judging by linguistic transference into English, I'd guess it's a country with a South Slavonic language. Perhaps Bulgaria.

We could take bets on it ;-)

he does make some good points about large organisations though; they can be toxic. Smaller businesses are better than creeping corporatism.

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]


I managed a bit of one and disliked it for the same reason. I gave the rest to the dog; he didn't complain.

Here's a fairly decent leg of lamb; they can be larger even.

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Life / Why so many Poles use a second hands clothes? [113]

They are an interesting phenomenon here. There was a second hand clothes shop in Warsaw that had an inflatable sex doll for sale in the window. A male one...


There is/was one tucked round the back of the old Kino Relax building. The cinema's now something else, however the grotty passageway behind was unchanged when I was last there.

Life / Gdynia, Lodz, Lublin, Rzeszow for expats? [13]


Łódż has its own atmosphere; a late C19th planned city on a grid pattern.

Also very popular with filmmakers; David Lynch has talked about its unique and special feeling, plus of course there's the famous film school and studios. Good theatre there too.

Gdynia is at least handy for Gdańsk. The other two are country towns; may as well be in Lincolnshire in terms of attitude and much more...

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]


No wonder women avoid him.

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]


Probably the wrong pla e to go on the pull.

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]


Pretty well. While here, the world continues to move on without them.

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]


It's delicious.

The lamb sold here in PL tends to be closer to the French style; perhaps from lambs that look more like anorexic giraffes than anything else.


The steaks tend to be much better than the sausage or the tins of horsemeat.

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]


Indeed. It's the fragile ones who can't handle women being assertive..

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]


Very much so. The rallies are also strongly supported.

Travel / Palm trees in Poland [19]


Funny you should say that... ;-)

We gave up on banana trees too (though a friend in Poznań has giant ones indoors). The olive trees are doing nicely.

With palms, they are not at all easy to grow. Even in the Arab world, their natural home, they're highly prized. The fine in Saudi if you crash into one is huge.

Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]

Essentially money talks much louder than the prejudices of the uneducated.

Language / -ski/-ska, -scy/ski, -wicz - Polish surnames help [185]

Perhaps a variant of Janulewicz. Translates roughly as Johmson.

Life / Americanization of Poland - good or bad? [49]


Good, since not many speak it here.

Life / Americanization of Poland - good or bad? [49]


Indeed; People here are more likely to use it to speak to people from nearby countries etc.

Life / Americanization of Poland - good or bad? [49]


Poland isn't Americanised; Poles don't learn English so they can speak to Americans; most have probably never met one.

Travel / Palm trees in Poland [19]


We bring them indoors for the winter.

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]


Things in aspic aren't as popular now as they used to be. Konina doesn't sell much either...

Life / Smoking vs. Grilling on Balconies / High Rises in Poland [66]

Unless (as you sometimes see in new apartments in Poland) there's a proper channel to a ventilation duct, designed so people can do this.

News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]


This is true. There are several longstanding Roma groups here.

Polonia / Which country is better SPAIN or POLAND [118]


Very much so, and getting hotter. People say that 'green Spain' in the North-west is nice.

UK, Ireland / Warning to British people visiting Poland!! Don't get drunk and smash the place up! [453]

That can be true. The bottom end of Nowy Świat in Warsaw has become a bit of a zoo over the past couple of years; the 'pijalnia' (mordownia even) bars have contributed to that.

In the UK, I've heard that it's mainly small towns that have problems, rather than large cities. Here it's usually the other way round, due to demographics and income levels.

UK, Ireland / Warning to British people visiting Poland!! Don't get drunk and smash the place up! [453]


I once saw someone doing that in the centre of Wrocław. It caused quite a stir. Not a foreign visitor though; a local.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


They have adverts and must get revenue from that. I wonder what their viewing figures are compared with Polsat and TVN. That would affect the amount they can charge for an advertising slot.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

We've certainly not heard the last of him.

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]


Hence the amount of instant ramen sold (and often made) here in PL. Cheap, filling, undemanding on the tastebuds and unfortunately not very nutritious.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

With an elderly and/or poor voter base, mucking about with cancer treatment is far from being a vote-winner.

I wonder what Kurski will do next...

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]

There are plenty of Polish brands of processed foods, and increasingly more frozen stuff. Quite popular here. Not much canned soup; in Poland however there are a lot of dried packet soups.

In Europe, we don't generally get the American brands as much; plenty of home grown ones.

Work / Is it difficult to make a living modeling/singing in Poland? [8]


You have to turn up to all the castings and get known by the casting agents. My friend got into it through film extra work; he does ok in it as a sideline. Now he doesn't do castings; they approach him.

Life / Can someone tell me about the reason behind being gay in Poland being wrong [148]


Basically they fancy men and wish they didn't. Very common.

Plus it's unlikely they're are getting any sex of any sort these days, hence what's left of their testosterone is fermenting in their withered goolies.