Love / Incels in Poland [299]

On the contrary, we're discussing our lovely homemade dresses which by an amazing coincidence are in coordinating cotton prints! You can imagine the tinkling of our silvery girlish laughter when we realized that we'd all had the same idea for dresses :)

Love / Incels in Poland [299]


Here is one of me and my beloved. This was taken in 1963, if memory serves me correctly. I'm wearing a snazzy outfit called 'Dream Date'.

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Love / Incels in Poland [299]


So, basically you can't.

Now, you see, I on the other hand have provided you with two images of my dainty, feminine lady ways including an example of my ability to cook, sew and entertain.

Love / Incels in Poland [299]

And here is a picture of me on my way to mass, one Sunday, last summer. I made the dress myself, even the lace trimmings are my own work. I also made the hat and the parasol. I need them to protect my delicate fair, Irish lady skin.

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Love / Incels in Poland [299]


Carry me out and bury me decently - charts and graphs!!

Meanwhile here is a picture of me and my feminist friends enjoying a delicious dinner which I prepared single-handedly with limited kitchen facilities, using my feminine/feminist ingenuity.

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Love / Incels in Poland [299]


Do I now, Pollyanna? Expand on that.

Sorry for the delay in responding btw. I was making raisin bread and then went for a walk in the last of the snow. I know, it's shocking. The depraved antics of us feminists. What a way to spend Saturday. Btw I also made kartoflak today. Husband grated the spuds, he says that's a man's job and I did the dainty bits as befits a lady like myself :)

Love / Incels in Poland [299]


Oh dear, you really are very American aren't you? All this 'woke' nonsense and what do they call themselves, radical feminists, is it? It's an American cult and has very little impact on Irish culture, as proved by the recent Shelbourne Hotel statues controversy of which you, of course, will know nothing.

Ignorant, American hotel owners tried to bring their Woke rubbish to Ireland and got a nice legal action slapped on them by the city council, following a public outcry. We won't have our history messed with.

irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/dublin-city-council-begins-action-against-shelbourne-hotel-for-removing-statues-1.4323697

And I'm happy to say that the statues are back in their place.

Love / Incels in Poland [299]

Pollyanna! That sounds almost like a feeble attempt at humour - now, it might surprise you to learn that if you want more people to listen to your message, you have a better chance of engaging with them, if you write from a satirical point of view. Think of all the stand-up comedians who make very pertinent observations about life and its absurdities and people actually listen to them. Maybe you should try cultivating a sense of humour, tempered with a little compassion, and you might be on to something.

Love / Incels in Poland [299]

Well, I'm a great believer in the healing power of humour - laugher is the best medicine for us all :)

Love / Incels in Poland [299]


I didn't watch it at all teacher - the dog ate my homework.


Very true, true and thrice true.


Well if it's good enough for Shakespeare, thou scurvy knave, it'll do for me ;)

Love / Incels in Poland [299]


More speechifying from Pollyanna .......what a pompous little oaf you are :) but it's great entertainment. You should go to Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park.

Love / Incels in Poland [299]


There are only a few of us women on this forum and I'm sure at this stage we're all fed up of the women-hating vibe on here from a few posters. It's bad enough when you see it in Random Chat but it literally pollutes almost every thread to some degree and at times it borders on quite sick and demented. Sometimes, I do actually feel uncomfortable remaining a member of the Polish Forums but I enjoy the chat with a handful of posters and it's nice to drop in and have a bit of a chinwag with them from time to time. I do feel though, that the Mods are seriously lame in not removing all the filthy, porno-inspired posts of one member in particular. They're completely inappropriate.


Ah, come on now, Grunny :) 'operate', that's a bit much. If you've had a few bad experiences, it's a pity but I wouldn't shut myself off completely if I were you. Remain open to the possibility that there might be a soul-mate out there for you. There are plenty of happy marriages you know! And there are plenty of attractive and good women with kind hearts. I have a cousin whose life has been dedicated to teaching blind and deaf children - and she's not bad lookin' as we say in Ireland :)

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]


Looks very influenced by Van Gogh, a bit too much so in my opinion, a bit of an element of 'after Van Gogh' if you get my drift. But the Turner-esque work is much more successful, I think.

Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]


I think it's because I was a teacher for many years, I tend to remember faces. I once taught a little girl who was the naughtiest child in the school. She was about six years old at the time. Years later I was walking down a quiet residential road and across the street I saw a face I remembered :) She was now about fourteen years old and had exactly the same expression on her face 'Woops! There's 'teacher'! I'm in trouble again.....' :))

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]


Poles associate pastry with sweet dishes, not savoury. Have you ever noticed that they put sugar in their pastry?? Even the frozen pastry (and of course they don't have short crust, only puff) has sugar in it. Pastry shouldn't have anything added to it, just flour, fat and water. I love all pastry based foods! Very partial to vol-au-vents - so 1970s dinner party chic :)

The other thing I find weird is that there's no word for pastry in the Polish language. It's 'French cake'!! Excuse me missus, but pastry is every bit as British as it is French and it isn't cake!

Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]


As an Irish person, I would say that your hair is redder than you think! If you have red in your facial hair, there will be an underlying red tint to your brown hair. Try bleaching it and I can guarantee it will turn orange or yellow, not silvery blonde. As for your features, you look far more German than Polish. I remember you asking this question here a few months ago and you don't look any more Polish now than you did then :)

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]



Absolutely. Pies were one of the earliest take-away foods in the UK. Wasn't it a blaze in Mrs Miggin's pie shop that caused the Great Fire of London in 1666? Many people were without adeqaute cooking facilities in their homes and if they could afford it, they bought a hot dinner in the form of a pie. So yes, the pastry casing was a way of carrying home the meat and the gravy! As Delph says, it's a very tasty serving dish :) Possibly inspired by the old trencher loaf which served as a plate, do you think?

Life / Pączki Day--do Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kreme count? [39]


I doubt it :) but you might meet them if you're sent on peace-keeping duties. Some Polish soldiers are serving with the Irish out there at the moment. You'll be under Irish command there though, so you'd best start practising your Irish dancing :))

Life / Pączki Day--do Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kreme count? [39]

Ah, bless you :) If you're going to join the army, then you might as well treat yourself and eat what you want just for a day anyway. You should have had a doughnut yesterday. However, there's still plenty of time before Lent, which doesn't start until next week. You could do it the Irish way and have pancakes on Tuesday next week. We don't have Fat Thursday. We do Shrove Tuesday, day before Ash Wednesday and have pancakes, not those spongey American things, but proper French crepes. Here's an easy peasy recipe for you, the one I use, and they're yummy!

110g white flour (use tortowa or type 460, a light flour for cakes)
2 eggs
200ml milk
75ml water (you mix it with the milk so the batter isn't too heavy)
50g butter

Whisk the eggs. Put the flour in a large bowl and make a hole in the centre of it (the flour that is, not the bowl!).

Gradually stir in the eggs with a wooden spoon, pulling the flour down from the sides.
Gradually add the milk, constantly stirring so it doesn't go lumpy.
Ideally you should leave the batter to stand in the fridge with the bowl covered overnight. But you can just use the batter straight away if you like.

Before you fry them, add the 50g of butter, melted, into the batter.
Fry them in butter, just a teeny weeny bit for each pancake.

Then serve them with sprinkled with lemon and sugar for a classic Irish style Shrove Tuesday pancake :) or spread them with jam, or Nutella or whatever you like.

If you want to have them the Polish way, fill them with twarog sweetened with vanilla sugar. Return them to the pan for a couple of mintues to warm through and smacznego.

Now, write down my pancake recipe on a little piece of paper, fold it up, put it somewhere and carry it with you for luck. It will save you from certain death :-)) Seriously though, best of luck with your army life. Hope it works out for you.

Life / Pączki Day--do Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kreme count? [39]


Why don't you have a go at making them? They're not that difficult to make and you only use about 50g of sugar to half a kilo of flour so they're not sugary. The issue is with the deep frying! However there are recipes for baked ones. Go on, have a go! :)

Study / School meals in Poland [145]

What bothers me about that article is the bit about the vegetarian family who were told by the director of the pre-school that their child could just 'not eat' - ?? seriously?? and their older daughter at primary school simply doesn't eat the school lunch. Are these two children going without food all day??

Law / Taxes working remotely B2B, Poland [8]

If you're resident in Poland you pay your tax in Poland, regardless of where the income comes from (unless you've already been taxed on it in the other country, which in your case you won't be. Also Poland has taxation treaties with many countries to avoid double taxation).

Basically to go B2B, you need to register as self-employed and then you will have to invoice anybody you work for, for your agreed salary plus VAT. You will have to pay PIT (personal income tax) and VAT (I would do that monthly if I were you, it's easier to keep track of) and you have ZUS to pay each month also. You'll get a preferential rate on that for the first two years, I think, then after that it'll be about 2,500 a month out of your salary.

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]


That'll make your pastry very heavy. Pastry dough needs very little kneading, and don't put too much weight behind it. That's a problem for men, as they tend to have stronger arms so you need to try and give it a light touch.

When my granny made a meat pie she would basically cook it completely in the from a stew on the hob and then simply let it go cold and put into the pastry case, pop on the pastry 'lid' and put in the oven for 40 mins or so. The pastry was always really light and crispy, but she made rough-puff/flaky pastry, not shortcrust. It has a higher fat content. She used half marg and half lard. It's really quick to make.

@Maf, lol, lol and thrice lol!!!

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]

Oh yes, another thing I just remembered about pastry is that you should only roll it one direction, never back and forth. It helps to keep it light. Also don't overdo the kneading as it makes the pastry heavy and dense. Just a little bit and be careful about how much extra flour you're adding when working with pastry. It's easy to use too much when you're trying to stop it sticking.

As for gravy, that's another story entirely. Meat juices and Bisto, say I :)

Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]

Hi, LostSoul :) ok, I understand. I'm sure as other posters say, there must be a bit of a mix in many people. And when you look at Polish people, you see that there are certain types, some fair, some quite dark etc. There must be a few influences there. As for what people would think, I don't think most people wouldn't be bothered at all. The truth is they just don't really care. The thing is though that you are young, early twenties isn't it? And if you have Aspergers, your peer group (not close friends, but casual acquaintances) can often sense that you're a bit different and take a slightly malicious pleasure in winding you up, so they may make comments about Jews or whatever if they think you're sensitive about it. Also remember when you go online, there are sad/weird people whose hobby is haunting chat forums just to be cruel or nasty for the sake of it. As the song says, 'don't worry, be happy' :)

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]


That's true, full of fibre, and the most nutritious part of the spud is right under the skin. When I was a child, we'd sometimes ask my mother 'can we have the potatoes all burnt, please' :) and my mother would turn the heat up really high on the cast iron pot and deliberately burn the skins, they were yummy! There was an art though in prising them off the base of the pot without breaking them to bits. Spuds were served in their jackets and peeled at the table according to individual preference.

I think there are certain similarities between the north of England approach to cooking and the Irish way.


In Victorian times, didn't they prepare the pastry on a marble slab? Also my granny used a ceramic roller, not a wooden one. So temperature is definitely a significant factor in preparing pastry.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


Unless she wasn't Polish :)

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]


Boil them in their jackets. That's the traditional Irish way, and we are the land of the floury potato :)


Here's a few tips, if you haven't already tried them.
Use a glass dish/plate. It conducts the heat differently and avoids a soggy base.
Oven temp around 170 degrees, middle shelf, longer slower cooking is better.
Make sure the pastry is really cold when it goes in the oven. Make the pie/tart or whatever a couple of hours ahead, pop in the fridge and then it'll be nice and cold going into the oven.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]


This is what I mean about inexperienced or inadequately trained teachers.....people think teaching is just about delivering a curriculum but it's really all about relationships and handling people. As a teacher you have to balance the children, their parents, your colleagues, support staff - including getting along with dinner ladies, school caretaker, cleaners (who can be quite prickly) and your principal.

A reminder that the title is "school meals in Poland"
The query by Lenka and the advice given, could apply as easily in Poland, perhaps even more so. School menus here contain a lot of desserts, but even worse, sugary drinks and compotes which are hugely damaging to teeth, With no healthy eating policy, parents who are concerned about their children's diet might well have to approach a class teacher of school management about it.


Yup, that's the bottom line. The difference between the UK and Poland, is accountability. In the UK, the mother would have a legal case against the school if her child's teeth are being damaged and it would be an easy enough matter to pursue it and get it resolved in her favour. In Poland, that right might exist on paper but good luck with spending years trying to sort it out. The child would probably be in college by the time it came to court and schools know most parents won't bother. In Poland, the 'confrontation' method, where you rant and rave at the principal and she responds with an outraged 'prosze Pani, blah, blah' before backing down is the best approach, coupled with letter from 'person of authority' ie dentist, saying the child is not to have sweeties.

Study / School meals in Poland [145]

So am I - it sounds as if the class teacher is either young and inexperienced or not very well trained or a combination of both. Is she a fully qualified teacher, I wonder? Sometimes when schools are short-staffed, they take on people who have a degree but are not properly trained primary school teachers.