Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]


You're wrong, as usual. Most water in Warsaw is fine to use in cooking, water in most countries is fine to use when boiled.


Read the bit about mineral water from oligocene wells before commenting.

Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]


It's OK for tea or coffee (unless you're in one certain part of town, and in any case they're changing the system there at the moment and the problematic source doesn't supply any hotels, so not relevant to the OP). Most people use bottled for drinking (or go to the public oligocene wells) and tap water for cooking.

We live on the outskirts of town and have our own oligocene well - it's basically a private supply of mineral water. Very hard water, high in calcium, but clean.

Law / Help regarding Poland's National 'D' Visa Appointment at Mumbai Consulate! [719]


Great news, and good luck with the interview.

Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]

You can drink it, it won't make you ill, however the pipes are sometimes rusty and most people prefer to drink bottled water. As Roger says, it is very cheap.

Travel / Why most taxis in Warsaw cheat foreigners to get more money? [38]


Not a good choice of word.

It should be 50zl, maybe 70zl at night.

The airport police would have helped - probably arrested the driver.

In Warsaw, if you have it, always use Uber.

UK, Ireland / Racist who hurled abuse at Eastern Europeans shouting 'This is England' [17]


It is.


It's your home, and you're part of the majority.


There's still a way to go...

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


Very thorough research that you've done there.

What is 'cheaked'?

UK, Ireland / Racist who hurled abuse at Eastern Europeans shouting 'This is England' [17]

Like all xenophobes, racists and fascists.

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

I wrote 200 years and meant 2000. There are still some similarities between some Poles and people from there in terms of looks, complexion etc. The Khanti-Mansi and the Mari El people are far more isolated in terms of DNA. Poland is a melting pot compared to them and there's much more diversity of appearance.

UK, Ireland / Racist who hurled abuse at Eastern Europeans shouting 'This is England' [17]


Not so much.


This is true.

At least he's being dealt with in the courts.

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

Here's some pictures of Mari people, far further east in Europe than Poland, with a language closer to Hungarian. They are the only nation in Europe never to have fully embraced Christianity or any other sort of Monotheism.

Some of the faces would not look out of place in Poland or Hungary
theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/dec/21/europes-oldest-pagans-mari-people-ikuru-kuwajima

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]


Khanty. Western Siberia.


They split apart around 200 years ago so are very distant today. Mansi is the closest, Khanty a little less so (people are now using 'Finno-Khantic' as a description. There's also Permian, Ostyak and the Samoyedic languages which split away earlier. Scholars disagree on the exact classifications. Speakers of these languages tend to have high cheekbones, fair complexions and dark hair.

Law / Visa for Work in Poland [29]


Really? No. Not really.

In fact, not at all...

Life / What is Poland's view on obesity? How healthy, fit are Poles? [166]

The latest WOBASZ II study shows that not only is obesity increasing compared with the previous study a decade ago, it is increasing disproportionately in males, especially schoolkids and very young men. It also shows a disparity between self-reported cases and ones referred by doctors.

Basically a generation of Cartmans.

Some interesting results from another study, about female obesity, too:


obs-gyn.ox.ac.uk/publications/511290

Law / Visa for Work in Poland [29]

He wrote today. He did not ask for your opinion on whether or not a Polish business should give him, rather than a Polish citizen, a job.

If you had ever visited Poland, you would know that companies in PL do occasionally recruit from India, and this is gtowing.

To Satbir, I suggest he uses either LinkedIn or pracuj.pl - a friend in Poland from a country close to India found a very good job in Warsaw with a multinational through one of those.


There you go again.

Law / Visa for Work in Poland [29]


No. He did not say he 'expects' work in Poland.

He said he is looking for work.

And did not ask for your dreary trolling.

Law / Visa for Work in Poland [29]


He says 'expect'?

Who knew...

News / Polish lorry driver attacked by migrants in Belgium [21]

@ TicTacToe

Do expand on how you would hope to achieve that aim.

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


Nor have you. Just weird opinions about the Nazis.

What is 'cheaked'?

News / Polish lorry driver attacked by migrants in Belgium [21]

I suspect he is.


So you're suggesting mass murder. Repeat what?

News / Polish lorry driver attacked by migrants in Belgium [21]


Mass murder?


Do tell...

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


Is that an Egyptian guy?

Maybe a friend of this guy:

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


Being gassed?

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


An area with particularly high support for EU membership - it's been good for Poznan. A lot of real changes since accession.

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

In Warsaw, he's still loved. Someone (a Poznaniak actually) recently said to me that she thinks Poland needs a Pilsudski now.

He was very much an internationalist, always looking West. If you aren't familiar with his brother (an even more staunch internationalist), he is worth reading about. Very much a Francophile, and pro-German (in the era before the rise of nationalism there) too.

Work / Amway Poland - work - salary [18]

Fortunately, most people (certainly mway suckers) do it so badly. Milton Ericksson they are not.

Work / Amway Poland - work - salary [18]


Some of it is basically (cack-handed in the case of Amway bots) NLP - usually very transparent. Plus the repeating of buzzwords in the hope that they will sink in.

I once had someone (in Warsaw) try really heavily to suck me in. He was even paying for (expensive) English lessons to do this - he just talked and talked about 'Network 21', cionstantly, and gave me a pile of cassettes to listen to. I think he was both trying to suck me in, and to practice his pitch. He showed me a website where people buy expensive groceries online, with a prioportion of the price going to the people on the 'upline' who've sucked others in - kind of the opposite of the 'trickle down' economy.

After 3 or 4 sessions, I decided not to see him again. He phoned up a month later with a half hearted message about paying for the awful cassettes (he apparently had to pay for them). I ignored him.

The words 'independent business owner' (he must have used that phrase several hundred times to me) still make me shudder

Work / Amway Poland - work - salary [18]


Various people connected to Amway have been accused of funding some very controversial causes.


Basically networking opportunities. Some large companies have a rule (sometimes unwritten, sometimes more formal) about their staff discussimg MLM during work hours. I've seen this happen, people trying to hassle you constantly with a pitch for Amway or one of its various pseudonims.


I wouldn't put it past them to pressure their staff to get involved in their pyramid schemes.

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


And still revered in Poland.

Law / Help regarding Poland's National 'D' Visa Appointment at Mumbai Consulate! [719]

Hi Abhishek, this is all you can really do, wait for your appointment to come through. They are always stretched for resources. Your letter may help, however you shouldn't count on that.