Love / What strange/unnerving/funny things do your Polish wives do? [153]

nothing worth noting/posting apart maybe an undue (in my eyes!) devotion to JK

Love / What strange/unnerving/funny things do your Polish wives do? [153]

yes, indeed, from Warsaw..

Love / What strange/unnerving/funny things do your Polish wives do? [153]

no pbs!:)

Love / What strange/unnerving/funny things do your Polish wives do? [153]

do not take this badly, Seanus (it would upset me to upset you, you seem an eminently reasonable sort of person from your posts), but i do find strange the habit of talking about her money, my money and so on when one is married. My wife stopped working a long time ago, shortly after we married, but I still considers that what I earn is 50pc hers..it is just ours, not hers or mine.. i think this outlook does make things easier..

Love / What strange/unnerving/funny things do your Polish wives do? [153]


do I sense a growing sense of disillusionment, Seanus?

Love / What strange/unnerving/funny things do your Polish wives do? [153]

how did you know??

Love / What strange/unnerving/funny things do your Polish wives do? [153]

mine loves snails and calamari...

News / US to deploy Patriot missiles to Poland [405]


you preferred moron Bush, Seanus?


only when they are drunk!


russians logical? come on, they are slavs and slavs are instinctive not rational (just look at Poland's history!)

Love / What strange/unnerving/funny things do your Polish wives do? [153]

mine cannot see an empty plane surface without stacking it with objects...

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

The gallant attitude towards ladies.. If it happens also in Scotland, then great, they're not in the list of countries I quoted (been there only twice, once in Edinburgh the other on the Isle of Arran, must say I loved it).

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

Come on Seanus, no one is saying that is a "norm" nowadays (maybe in the past) but you can quite regularly encounter this attitude in Poland; besides, I have certainly never seen in any of the "western" countries I go to (UK, France, Switzerland, US, Italy, Germany)

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]


How long have you been living in Poland , Seanus?? And where do you live? This still happens quite regularly in Warsaw...

Love / Do Polish men make good husbands? [106]


my polish wife does


mine supervises all construction work we do


she takes car of the maintenance of our cars


She also takes car of that (has been putting together IKEA stuff for our new apartment in Zürich)..

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

Eurobank, the Greek bank, is no longer in Poland. Eurobank in Poland is not owned by them but by Socgen (French bank)

Greek Eurobank used to own Polbank but they sold it earlier this year to Raiffesen

Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]

I know I'm probably a little older than most on PF, but I see it happening quite often in Warsaw in restaurants etc.. It's true that it's more frequent among.. lets' say.. middle aged people. But I suppose you can't have it all : Wroclaw has a large student population, which is part of its attractivity (it is in fact my preferred polish city) but this means that old school good manners tend to be less practised..

Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]


Well, not sure I agree.. In fact, I found people in Poland much more educated and polite than in Britain or most western countries, especially as far as men's attitude toward women:

- help ladies put on coats
- hold car doors for ladies
- ...

It is however true that this is less and less prevalent among the younger generation

Life / Giving tips in Poland [235]


very true indeed


In this case, why don't doctors/dentists/lawyers also get paid only on a "tip" only basis? Work should be properly remunerated whether it's that of a waiter, a guide,a doctor or a lawyer..

Life / Giving tips in Poland [235]


The system in the US is just plain stupid. Service should be included in the price like in most other countries in the world. Than you can add 1, 2 maybe 5% if the service has been particularly good. Many tourists coming rom outside just don't realize that there is nothing at all included in the price you are charged for service, that's why there is confusion, it's not because they are necessarily stingy.

Same thing with the sales tax in shops. Why can't it just be added and included in the price?? The US are sometimes so parochial!!

Life / Feeling ashamed of my Polish heritage. [237]


That's called VAT in Europe

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


The structure of the Polish language mirrors that of the Polish mind: an island of rationality surrounded by an ocean of irrationality (or vice versa!)

Food / Do Polish people really love cabbage ?? [78]

Reminds me of a pre 89 Polish joke: what is 100 m long, moves slowly and reeks of cabbage? Queue of Poles buying bread..

Life / Feeling ashamed of my Polish heritage. [237]


Who is they? I fact, it's mostly Rostowski who wrote the article (remember, before being Minister, he used to write in the FT and WBJ..)

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


Not genders, cases. There are seven cases (the ones listed by SzwedwPolsce) and three genders (masculine, feminine, neutrum)

Real Estate / Apartments too expensive for Poles living in Poland [54]


No. The starting point was low, but the avarge growth paid has been growing at a much higher rate than in most western countries

Life / Fat People in Poland? [161]


?? According to the link displayed by jwojcie, there is a higher prevalence of fat men in the USA than in any country of Latin America or Africa. So it not the race that make people fat, it is the US lifestyle..


Nonsense.. Spaniards or French are thinner on average than Poles or Czechs.. And there are fewer fat people in countries such as Luxembourg, Scandinavia et al that are richer per capita than the US..

Life / Famous / Iconic Polish Women [48]


Interesting.. Ialways thought that the chief reason Marie Curie-Sklodowska went to study in France is because she could not attend university in Poland. So did she attend the underground University?

Travel / How do I go by ferry from south of England to Gdynia? [15]


I did this several years ago, and for me at the time the best was to book a cabin on the overnight from Harwich to Hoek, it arrives in Hoek at 7 am and then it's an easy drive to Gdynia (less than a day)..

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


Not even in Chicago, London or Dublin?

Life / Polish and Czechs [191]


GDP/hab in Czech republic is 30-40% higher than in Poland


As a foreigner, It seems to me that when you cross from Poland to Czech, the villages become more neat. Generally, the road and urban signage is also less shoddy than in Poland, more "in ordnung"..


Agreed. For me, Prague and Paris are the most beautiful cities in Europe


That is unlikely to happen. Remember, Czech and Slovak used to be one, now there are two of them. The most distinct characteristic of Slavic people is that they like to argue for minor issues.. In addition, Czechs don't like Poles for many reasons, one being Cieszyn (the Poles don't like being reminded of this, because it somewhat questions their "victim" status of WW2), the other being that when the Prague spring broke out, Mocow sent Warsaw pact troops to quash it and among those troops,there were many Poles- admittedly this has nothing to do with true Poland..

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

One thing I noticed time and time again is that Poles do not wait for everybody to be served before starting to eat.. On the other hand, men are much more polite/gallant with women compared to the West (they hold doors, pass coats..)