Travel / Best place to exchange money in Poland? [98]


The rates obviously fluctuate however 15 years ago the difference between the kantors' rates and the rates the better cards offer wasn't that different.

In general avoid Visa since MasterCard tend to give a better exchange rate and use a card (like the one I mentioned above) which doesn't charge extra for overseas or a foreign currency.

For any Americans reading who are planning to visit, forget those travellers' cheques that people use over there; in Europe we stopped using them and I'd be surprised if many Polish bank clerks have ever seen one.

Love / Don't get a child but adopt one? What Polish men think about women who don't want to get children? [34]


Given the shortage of kids available for adoption, you would get very little choice indeed. Btw, fostering is currently expanding in Poland. To get a brand new baby is less likely than to get an older kid.


Very few people on this earth would express such a nasty view, much less defend them.

Travel / Best place to exchange money in Poland? [98]


That depends a lot on the card you are using; some are better than others (Halifax MasterCard for example) and some are best avoided outside the country of issue.

Love / Don't get a child but adopt one? What Polish men think about women who don't want to get children? [34]


Most people however would not be so nastily small-minded about a child, let alone spew that fact out onto an Internet forum.

And yes, there are people here who choose to adopt.

Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]

Probably more the way some people used it, and why. Most people who used the term back then wouldn't have intended to offend, however doubtless some used it to denigrate and hard to blame anyone being touchy after hearing it about them, often from lowlife - just as Pol-Ams can be over Pollack and both terms often part and parcel of a judgement about intelligence, sophistication etc..

Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]


Exactly. All about context. At home nobody would think about the London slang meaning or even care, but in, say, a comedy about Brixton and said in an ironic way it's different.

Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]


They were and it did! Still goes on though.


I think so. Those jokes are all old and only half were funny when they were fresh anyway. Plus TV has to be a bit more careful these days about being inclusive about specific groups and not offending. Having said that, some people take offence at almost anything.

Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]


They don't really. The jokes in question are about other Americans, ones with Polish roots rather than anyone in or from modern Poland and in any case the jokes are exactly the same ones that you used to here in Britain about the Irish, in Spain about the Portugese, in France about the Belgians and which I sometimes hear in Poland about a certain group.

Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]


Just an American thing - and about other Americans of Polish descent rather than Poles. Ironically in 'All in the family' (their adaptation of 'til death us do part') the most sympathetic and down-to-earth character was of Polish descent; the partner of Archie Bunker's daughter (a copy of the role played by Tony Booth) was a Polish American and just as in 'til death us do part the joke was on the old bigot Alf Garnett/Archie Bunker.

News / URGENT: Chechens refugees found a Islamic State in Poland [37]


So what? we all know you're afraid of Muslims; you rarely post about anything else. Knowing very little about Poland, it looks like you don't know much about the long-standing and settled Chechen community in Warsaw...

Law / Statistics of crime rates in Poland [44]


They'd have to admit they've been getting it wrong since 1920 - and have you often heard Poles admit they're wrong?

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Basically, they're getting desperate - the opposition against them at every level is so large.


In fact, slowly becoming a pariah state.

Law / Statistics of crime rates in Poland [44]


It does not result in a


- in fact if the person is just a bit over the limit, they don't even lose their licence.


Getting more and more popular here at the moment - there are shops in Warsaw openly selling seed and doing a roaring trade,


Both very ineffective, corrupt and incompetent.

Law / How do I verify a Polish company's existence? [249]

The website's ok, just different ways of writing the same address.

Law / How do I verify a Polish company's existence? [249]

That's the same address. If they're dodgy (they don't seem to be) then the address has nothing to do with that.

Law / How do I verify a Polish company's existence? [249]

That web address is in various directories so has certainly existed for a little while at least. The other address that ends with .eu is a bit odd - it seems to be selling nasty shoes in German.

Might be worth asking them about that and ever in business, don't pay upfront for goods and insist that any contract is under the legal jurisdiction of your country and not theirs.

Law / How do I verify a Polish company's existence? [249]

It was registered as a company in 2008 and advertises extensively online as a food wholesaler. The owners are Jakob and Marek Scholz.
krs-online.com.pl/kms-food-sp-z-o-o-krs-1369486.html
infoveriti.pl/firma-krs/Kms,Food,Krakow,Raport,biznesowy,KRS,0000522406.html?language=en

UK, Ireland / Any Polish Muslims in London? [30]


That's actually the opposite of the truth. Most are Polish. Worth remembering that this thread is about London, not Warsaw, anyway. Plenty of reverts in both places.

Interesting that this is a very old thread resurrected by a known racist troll.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Yes, very much more respected than him; Macierewicz is a figure of contempt and a laughing stock.


Only the 'crowd' that you yourself come from; the urban, educated, established.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


More an unofficial motto for football hooligans and assorted extreme-right misfits. The expression doesn't ever cross most people's lips

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


What fallacy - politicians far more distinguished and respected than him (not very hard since he is neither) who have held that role before him have said to him publicly "enough is enough". His approval ratings aren't great either. He should go.


Something all decent people must fight against, not just in the ballot box.

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [580]

We do however know the facts of Polish emigration on the telephone vote in years past, and no reason to think that millions of Poles around Europe have suddenly stopped voting for Poland.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

And when six former defence ministers sign an open letter to the PiS incumbent (yes,the same nutcase that had keys cut for the NATO office in the middle of the night) to quit his post the alarm bells that have been ringing since PiS crept into office suddenly become louder...

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


We aren't exactly talking about the top of the gene pool here, nor even anyone remotely emotionally stable.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


You fail to get the point of course. And also fail to address the fact that religion in Poland is declining at a massive rate.


18% voted for them, and most people in Poland aren't 'bog, honor, ojczyzna' clowns and never have been.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Strange you've mentioned that issue. It is only one of many areas in which PiS are getting things wrong. The collapsing economy, the interference with the constitutional system and worsening relations with friendly states are more significant.

And people both old and young are staying away from religion in Poland in droves - it seems the conservative, traditionalist and nationalistic paradigm in Poland appeals less and less.

History / Current Polish-Russian relations.. What do the Poles think? [60]


Basically yes. Russia as a state is loathed here throughout society.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


And when this is repeated thousands of times it explains why religious atttendance has haemorrhaged over tha past decade or so = a whole generation who feel hostile to the church and cynical of Polish politicians who attempt to use tht for their own ends.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


An Xtian construct, however since you mention it, it's very worth pointing out that so far every single thing they've done is aginst the basic precepts of the religion they shout so loudly about.

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [580]


Looks like you much don't read the Polish media or listen to music radio stations - there was a big push here to encourage people living abroad to vote, printing the numbers to vote in various countries, asking people to remind their friends and relatives abroad, etc.


It was a dire song.