Law / What are the bike laws in Poland? [30]

Supposedly you are not allowed to ride your bike on the sidewalk at all. Most of the cops turn a blind eye to that. What they are rather strict about is as someone mentioned riding your bike through the pedestrian passage ( from one sidewalk to the other one )....

As for drunk bike riding, if you're the passanger and not the driver of the bike you won't have any problems. Tested.

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]


Rzeczpospolita is straight right wing, so however you wanna see it, it is biased.

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]


You say that like you don't know politics and people. All over the world people will always add their 2 pence to every event, making it more mysterious than it is, especially people who would like it to be as it is in their delusions. All you can do is ignore them.

Love / Are the Polish the most suspicious people in Europe? [73]


Sorry it was supposed to sound more like a question than a statement, I was wondering if you had similar feelings about people in general and if it might relate to polish people behaving as they are..

Love / Are the Polish the most suspicious people in Europe? [73]


I always though that it's not a matter of nationality, rather a matter of education, people after technical courses tend to prefer dry facts, clearly stated coherent input data. And it's usually the opposite for people who finished any humanism related studies, history, languages and so on, for them there's always room for buts and ifs.

Love / Are the Polish the most suspicious people in Europe? [73]

shady lot I tell ye

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


Yes I do. Cops are only enemies for no reason of stupid uneducated underage punks of the jp100% and hwdp kind who with age hopefully will understand certain things about society. As for law abiding citizens, they are exactly using their liberties to call cops or city guards whenever they can - if they can do some misconduct. I can't believe you haven't met or at least heard about those older ladies who live by themselves, on the pension, and do everything they can to spoil life of their neighbours - calling various services workers being one of them. : o

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


However ridiciolous it sounds I've seen and heard of countless situation when a nosy, old neighbour ( who isn't working hence has got too much free time ) can seriously disturb ones life, and calling the police or city guards for no reason is just a mild case of the extreme such people might head for. So whether you like it or not it is good to ask neighbours beforehand.

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


Read this thread again. It's about having a bbq on your balcony. Try doing that, with smoke and smell moving to your neighbours balcony/window area and you'll have Police in your place in no time. It's good to have your neighbours consent if grilling could disturb them in any way - it's a decent thing to do, and it's always good to be on good terms with the other tenants.

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

Well if you have good neighbours you could ask them if it's alright - they could close their balcony doors for the time of grilling and it'd be all ok and friendly ; o

But I dunno if you're talking about those posh expensive apartament buildings or - post-soviet good - old polish panel blocks?

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]


I've got no idea.. there's a number of Tu planes used by polish gov and most or all of them are from the late 60's. They had failed on a number of occasions.

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]

Guys - pilots errors and landing in mist - you're over exaggerating, they said in the news that the plane was circling around that old Russian airport for sometime before trying to land to loose all it's fuel, so when they were landing they knew something is wrong with the plane hence dropping the fuel.

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]

Those Tu's were brought to the public eye on numerous occasions.. each gov swept buying them under the carpet to avoid supposed public critique of them spending tax money on luxuries. It seems a real blow was needed.. and there we go. If it was a good modern plane thing could have been different - the major damage the plane received has torn it apart.

Food / The name of a Polish pastry? Chrust? [60]

"chruscziki"? sounds Russian, chrust or chruściki or faworki.

Work / Qualifications - Mgr Title on my business card? [17]

https://polishforums.com/study/magister-masters-degree-same-41804/

There's probably more but I'm not gonna bother looking for you. This one says exactly the same thing those guys said above and much more. Using a search function should be a piece a cake for an MSc.

Work / Qualifications - Mgr Title on my business card? [17]


Try to skim through similar threads. There were a lot of them on these forums...

Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]


bollocks. Fullstop.


You're surely talking about the word "pollack". Hence don't get your knickers in a twist laddie.

Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]


The only meaning I know is this one for "parch":

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parch

and probably most people who use it perceive it as such... Has the new meaning originated from the derogatory word? Parch can be derogatory as it is a sign of an illness maybe that's way it was used as a derogatory word?

Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]


You haven't read my previous comments it seems where I'd stated that Polak might be derogatory only in certain situations and uttered in a certain tone of voice. But beside that it's just a normal Polish word for the word Pole. Angol on the other hand is a Polish derogatory word in EVERY situation - this word was created with the aim of being derogatory.

It's exactly if you were saying that "Englishman" is derogatory if being pronounced by a Pole, and of course it is not. You can make it sound derogatory when you'll say "Ty głupi ingliszmenie" but the word as it is won't be an insult.

You can't put the word Polak next to Limey, Pommy and so on because it's doesn't belong to the same bracket.

Having said that, I really don't know what you're on about. Comparing 2 words that have nothing to do with each other is just pursuing some kind of a delusion.

Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]

You haven't answred my question, moreover you're trying to add some insults too. Go get a cold beer and read the above several times.

Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]

And what do these words have to do with the word polak?

Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]


Dunno what are you driveling about, what does word angol have to do with word polak? Go get a cup a tea, relax, think it over and then come back..

Life / What gifts to take? Presents customs in Poland. [173]

Many people I know are suckers for foreign food, or just brands that are not accessible in Poland.. I used to dream about Vanilla Coke when I was younger.. mhmm.. Vanilla Coke...mhmmmmhm

Language / Spelling / pronunciation of Polish words and phrases [30]

"życie i śmierć"

Remember that depending on the context these words might be subjected to case declension and other stuff ; )

Life / What do Polish people do for Holy Thursday? [6]

Every holy day is like any other day for me. I'll code, drink coffee, play some computer games and sob over my sad nerdy life.

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [96]

Some do, some don't... at least a point we're not both agreeing with. ;)

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [96]


Alrite then to answer your questions: They are rude, because they are rude, because there are rude people everywhere, there are vicious people EVERYWHERE, and any person who's missing this point is missing a valuable lesson on life. We could create as many such threads as there are nations in the world. The reason would be the same.


Well I've just countered that with my previous post. I haven't seen anything that hard, and no faul language will go anywhere near...

You can't discuss one topic without a reference point, without referencing you can only agree with the general truth that "People are rude" if you want to discuss it further then you need examples and examples are nothing if you can say that there are rude people somewhere else beside Poland - and there's no point of that because someone somewhere along the line will say "Yes but they are more rude than"..

It's like saying let's talk about WW2 and how Poles were backstabbed by their allies without some expats argueing that they weren't, and how everything went lovely jobly, without the whole thread changing into a clustereff of spam in 10 posts.

Youtube videos comments are hardly a proof of anything, they are rather the easiest way to get biased, each video touches a different layer of society and I won't believe anyone who says he has seen all of them. I was once like that I've seen some comments under a polish hip hop video, comments were just hidious, oozing with hatered between fans of different rappers, but it's a matter of the content of the video and nothing more, I've later noticed that there are same people who think exactly like these enraged polish 14yolds in other parts of the world I just haven't stumbled upon their comments that time.. So I can assure you there are actually videos that are not made by Poles that are pretty much along the same lines...

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [96]


Sadly. You haven't read enough it seems.
Haven't seen Polish version of anything like that:

tv.gawker.com/5506453/trolling-the-today-show-explores-the-dark-side-of-the-internet

encyclopediadramatica.com/Nikki_Catsouras

And that's not even the worst thing you can find..

I agree that Poles are not angels, but some people out there in the world have taken it to the whole new level. We here in Poland are still too far behind everyone to understand the idea of internet anonymity..

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [96]


Well if you want to talk about someones rudeness you need to have a reference point. I took Americans because imho they are "the most rude" on the internet right now. It's a simple fact and there are many proofs... sorry but you're just wrong. It might be that it is because of lack of language knowledge we can't join the global bashing and trolling in the way we could... we still need some more time...

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [96]

Poles are not more Rude than Americans are, and probably others on that matter.. so many examples.