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

Yeah - 25th is fine. It wigilia that I don't like - though we normally have salmon and prawns plus a few dishes of sledz and karp for the old folk if they want them.

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

But what about the all important bank holiday games ?

Easter - Poland just ahead, biala kielbasa a narrow winner over hot cross buns.
Christmas - an easy victory for the UK !

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

Of course they are naff compared to London - almost every city in the world is worse off than London for ethnic restaurants.poland is still quite a poor country and customers can not afford the best ingredients and chefs all the time.

Exception is sushi - apart from maybe Frankfurt and Düsseldorf I think Poland has the best in Europe and outside Warsaw most towns have some good sushi bar - it is becoming to Poles what curry is to English, a default option that you can take away or eat at the restaurant.

All supermarkets have plenty of ethnic food now - Piotr i Pawel, Lidl and Biedronka have pioneered that and the others followed. Poles returning from holidays have wider tastes and foreign travel has really taken off in the last 10 years.

I even disagree with what you say about strong cheese - it was never going to be a winner without organized retailers - many small shops in the 90s did not have chiller cabinets which are expensive to buy and run, there were few refrigerated trucks or warehouses. Now you can find a good range of French, Italian, Spanish cheeses in most supermarkets plus strong Austrian cheeses.

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

When was the last time you visited Milo ? In all Polish cities you will find plenty of sushi, Mexican, Indian, Chinese, Arab, Greek, Thai, vegan and many other choices

Study / School Uniforms in Poland - not required? [15]

They are not usual in most European countries (or in the US) - it's only really seen in British empire countries.

About 15 years ago the govt tried to bring them in but it didn't work - parents couldn't afford them, kids hated them and teachers couldn't be bothered arguing with the kids about enforcing the rules.

The logic behind the attempt was that kids were getting bullied for not having fashionable clothes.

Some private schools in Poland have a uniform - normally just a polo shirt or a sweatshirt with the schools logo rather than a full kit

News / First Coronavirus case in Poland? [30]

No mention of Poland from you as per usual.

Bit worried about your calls for genocide so I found this place in Illinois - a senior citizens centre where you can have a calming cup of herbal tea and do some senior citizens yoga. Might calm you down a bit

ptscc.org/

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

White West Virginia has murder rates 3x higher than all European states. The reason is poverty, lack of jobs and easy access to guns.

Being as parts of West Virginia are similar in living standards to Poland it is a fitting comparison.

This thread is bizarre - Americans trying to convince Poles to carry deadly weapons. As I said many times if it is needed then some politicians would put it in their program, which they haven't done.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

You have left out old land of Lincoln 5.8 and your neighbors in Indiana 5.6. Can't be bothered to look up any more.

Never mind - it will soon be 5pm and time For some overstewed herbata and inauthentic pierogi while listening to some out of tune Nieman hits down the Pol Am club.

News / European funds - why Poland should refuse to receive them. [36]

I will hold on to mine if it's Ok with you. It might only be 67 zloty a head but it's 330 for my five person household and it's spent on roads, airports, playgrounds, cutting pollution etc.

If you really want to complain about dependency then the Polish govts own handout policies are the place to start.

Work / A predictable "Is my salary high enough post" - Krakow 13,500PLN GROSS Month [30]

Don't know about that - I see more and more Indians, not just in Warsaw.

In any case this guy is obviously highly skilled to be getting that money so not sure you would find anyone with the same skills at a loose end on the streets of Vinnitsa or Donetsk. 20k a month is easily enough to look after a family and still save plenty.

History / MAP OF POLAND IN 1880'S [95]

Maybe Grodno - quite a big city in Belarus but near the Polish border

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

So strap on your AK and walk down Arbat with it. I don't think the Moscow police will want to engage in a long discussion of freedom and constitutional rights.

They s thread is about Poland BTW, where nobody wants looser gun law. The articles of the constitution you refer too are from an off topic country.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Well excepting that fires are started by accident, can even e started from lightening. Fire extinguishers are easy to use - takes a minute to learn and they are not dangerous. Fire extinguishers save far more lives than guns. Fire extinguishers can not be used in bank robberies or gang violence and in the wrong hands they are not deadly weapons

Not the best metaphor really.

We have a presidential election coming up - no candidate is going to suggest guns are a good idea because we see the high death rates in the US.

If you answer try and leave London and Muslims out of it and tell us what the situation is like in Bytom or Elblag.

News / Poland economy is a financially drained economy of suppliers? [33]

I don't know - if they paid 250m and that's the l8mit of their exposure then ok. If it's 250m plus pensions on top of that then it's risky.

I will give credit to PiS that they have let LOT recover and it has a nice niche as one of the best networks for Eastern Europe, not just to the capitals and with convenient times, I'm worried this might upset that recovery.

The history of Polish state owned firms investing outside Poland has been fair,y disastrous - Orlen had some big problems in Germany and Czech: KGHM a couple of horror shows too.

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

One other aim - stop us being reliant on fundamentalists and ex KGB gangsters and deal with normal people who drink beer and live in democracies.

News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

Yes electric cars are stil generate much lower emissions than ICE even after taking into account the generation of the electricity, the production of the car, spare parts etc.

There are plenty of resources on the internet with all the proof and calculations you need

Obviously not good news for expert Ice Hockey playing politicians who rely on high oil prices to keep their population happy and rely on fossil fuels to bully their neighbors.

As someone else said we need to have the debate about nuclear fuel in Poland but politically very difficult

Law / Alimony and child support - Polish wife seeking divorce [15]

No idea I'm afraid - I am not a lawyer, so your lawyers opinion is worth far more than mine.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

You can certainly get Spreewalder Gurken in Kaufland now in Germany.

Plenty of East Germany breweries have bounced back now too.

love East German watches and have a few in my collection - just need to save a few decades for an A Lange & Sohne

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

No - higher earners pay a vastly disproportionate share of the total tax that the govt collects. That is the same in all EU countries. It's not just income tax - they pay tax when they earn interest, tax when they buy and sell stocks, tax when they buy a flash car, tax when they fly for their holidays, tax when they buy a house.

The paradox is that the middle and working classes in Poland pay a far higher percentage share of their earnings but a far lower gross amount. They also are benefiting from moves like 500+ and 13th pension.

innpoland.pl/152281,panstwo-lupi-biednych-im-mniej-zarabiasz-tym-wieksze-podatki-placisz

Difficult to find a fair system, but all are fairer than your medieval idea of only using the tax for the police and the army.

In any case the EU has basically no say in tax structures in each country, except VAT, so whatever is good and bad about the system is down to Poland's politicians and voters.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

Are you serious dude ? An accounting professor from an unknown school in West Virginny.

The guy has such eccentric economic knowledge that I am amazed he is in that position - he can't even write in paragraphs, something I learned when I was about 9

But anyway I understand his solution for the old and the disabled is that we rely on charity and the church.

Is this minimal state thing your desired destination after Polexit ?

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

Once again you are speaking nonsense - the government has plenty of other sources of cash. Sale of licenses, tariffs, fines, interest And many taxes that are paid by foreigners. of course none of these will exist in your night watchman state where people would be busy clobbering each other over the head and hunting in the forest for wild mushrooms and szczaw

You are wondering why people call your theories wacky.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

Yes I am sure the Czechs (whose currency is tied to the Euro) and Slovaks (who use the Euro) would be thrilled to ditch their thriving export economy in order to please some eccentric neighboring governments. They are thriving now - in all 4 countries living standards are at record levels, why would they risk that ?

Have you ever worked in those places ? Spent any time there ?

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

So if you want to spend your own money on NGO to buy some new r shirts and hover boots for some bored Slovak teenagers then go ahead. Of courses most countries rightly have laws against foreign funding of political parties.

Im confused about your minimal state to be honest - do you mean I have to club together with my neighbors to fix the roads ? Some of them are drunk, some are kids, some are very old and none of them know about fixing roads. . Maybe a better idea is that people pay money into a big pot and hire some professionals to do it - that sounds kinda like a functioning tax system.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

But what about your night watchman state ? Minimal tax ? Now you are saying we should give Polish taxpayers money to fund Eurosceptic whack jobs and sexually repressed skinheads in other countries?

They already get plenty from Russia so god knows why they need Polish money

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

The Eurozone forecast is 1.4 percent. The total EU forecast is higher

The Uk forecast is 1.5 percent (after 4 years of lagging). That assumes a soft Brexit btw

There are many Eurozone countries with higher forecasts, including poor old Spain.

It is hardly a ringing endorsement of Brexit.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

spike I am happy with the overall rate of tax %- it's one of the lower ones in Europe and there might come a day when I need the safety net myself.

Sure some of it could be spent better and I am very uncomfortable with direct handouts that you get just for breathing, but I lived in a few countries and they all wasted money in their own particular ways.

Nothing would make me vote Konfederacja - they are total whack jobs. I met Korwin Mikke a few times and he is a loony for real - it's not just an act.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

Well refugees were one of the reasons people voted for PiS

The main reason though were that people were tired of an increasingly corrupt PO

And another reason was 500 plus (not sure if those benefits would survive In your idealized night watchman state, but if not then probably good that Konfederacja break the news now that they intend to stop them - Then we will see what presses the buttons of Polish voters who actually live here)

Honestly I don't see much difference to myself in paying tax money to refugees or paying it to some poor family in Polska B - they are both necessary and they both make me poorer but I accept that that is a part of life.

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

But in the 1000+ chapters of the Bible many subjects are discussed - homosexuality just a handful of times and I can't think of a single mention of abortion.

So what party best represents the other 50 hours worth of teaching - which includes forgiveness, sharing, caring for refugees etc ?

News / Polexit? Almost half of the Poles believe that Poland would be better off outside of the EU [548]

It is nonsense - like many Catholics I can make my own mind up about who to vote for and separate that from what I hear once a week in church or was taught when I was a kid.

Work / Minimum wage, multiple jobs and ZUS [3]

Depends on few factors - type of work, type of ZUS coverage etc - get a Polish speaker to talk you through the examples in the ZUS guide on umowa zlecenia

zus.pl/documents/10182/167567/Poradnik_umowy_cywilnoprawne/542ecb21-490d-4877-a27f-8524116f08fe

Or ask the HR dept of the second business. Or ask an accountant for clarity.