News / How hard will Poland be hit by the economic crisis? [116]

Sterling won't be included in any flight to quality this time round - too much govt debt, Brexit, too volatile over the last 5 years. There are some upsides but your average sovereign fund manager won't want to stand up and spend hours justifying to his bosses why he is taking the risk.

Yes in Bydgoszcz you might get some good value at the moment. but I wouldn't have thought there are too many furnished places on the market ?

News / How hard will Poland be hit by the economic crisis? [116]

Prices didn't fall that much in the last crash - was more like a 10 percent fall.

A 30 percent fall against the dollar is possible but unlikely. It's about 7 percent down now. Against the pound then that kind of fall is very unlikely - has not happened since the late 90s when Poland was far more unstable.

News / How hard will Poland be hit by the economic crisis? [116]

Estimated that 80 percent of Polish businesses would be unable to function with zero income for more than 3 months. Most people will be paying March wages but at the end of April it will be very tricky for some to meet payroll, so that really is the govts timeline for getting some parts of the economy up and running again.

News / How hard will Poland be hit by the economic crisis? [116]

No - they are loaded with your bs about grave diggers, crammed emergency wards and zombies in Haiti.

Have you ever set foot in Poland ?

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Totally agree - all the effort they are putting into this should be spent on testing, on getting more protective equipment and building extra emergency capacity

I have no idea why the people around Kaczynski can't convince him of this

News / How hard will Poland be hit by the economic crisis? [116]

But the rest of my post did - you never mention Poland at all because you are only interested in worthless trolling

News / How hard will Poland be hit by the economic crisis? [116]

Try and get the rent down too before you buy a restaurant - if it's a good location you could do well as more people will stay in Poland for holidays. But try and get that fixed cost low !

News / How hard will Poland be hit by the economic crisis? [116]

People you never think about - IT consultants for example as companies will cancel their projects when they are short of cash.

Same for cars and house builders, people won't have cash

It's been an employees market for about 5 years and the sudden swing will come as a shock to young people especially

Russian trolls will. be in trouble too - low oil price will bankrupt the gangster state and Putin will have to concentrate on home affairs

News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]

They probably even themselves out though I think in October the diaspora on balance voted against PiS.

But I can't see these elections going ahead - for a start the polling place is a workplace and they just introduced a bunch more restrictions.

News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]

Well I suppose that might be good news - no more voting by people who have been in Chicago and Toronto for decades

News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]

How are the Poles abroad going to vote ?

Anyway this requires disobedience from mayors etc - it's too serious to let them get away with it. Tax strike if required.

News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

Yes - this is the perfect moment to weaken our currency, end investment and take a massive economic leap in the dark

Law / Which is the best city in Poland to open a kebab shop? [56]

A delicate balance between low competition and finding enough drunk people to eat this unhealthy food - younger Polish people eat kebabs but most.y when drunk.

Warsaw and most big towns already have lots, many open 24 hours and a few of them are organized chains. Only a handful are good.

Maybe a smaller town with a university like Gorzow or Zielona Goea ?

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]

Not really. They have the same in the US - reciting the pledge, lessons about the constitution etc. But it makes sense - they had to make Americans out of all nationalities and kinds of immigrants. Certainly never got upset about it.

This and dressing up as a Frenchman are not the same as getting the Hitler Jugend to grass on their jewish neighbors.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]

It's up to the parents to complain - not old exiles sitting thousands of miles away.

My kids enjoyed those activities - are some different food, sang some songs. It might be propaganda but certainly not disgusting

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]

the indefinite school suspension has not been thought through - a couple of towns unilaterally announced their own suspensions without any indication of what happens next. The negative consequences might well outweigh the effects of the virus - certainly no analysis was made of that.

And it definitely contributed to the panic buying - if the govt can suspend travel and school with a few hours notice and close private business like cinemas and gyms then of course they might close stores so you would be stupid not to do any shopping for essentials. But that created more crowds and more transmissions.

Genealogy / I am hoping to find a woman in Warsaw but I need a little help... [18]

what's wrong with being a shop assistant?

Life / Why so many Poles use a second hands clothes? [113]

There is one on Tamka- probably a few others.

Also look out for vinyl exchange events that shopping malls are holding - they can get quite busy. Google Gielda Plyty and you will find some for sure.

Not sure why your question has been added to one about second hand clothes by the way !

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

Ha well I have just packed the spizarnia with ramen and kielbasa in jars ready for a long siege !

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

It's not a must to have a license or extra state funding because they also advertize.

Problem is that the falling number of viewers means they can charge advertisers less and in any case they start to lose advertisers when the programming doesn't fit their consumers profile. When you end up with an audience made up of the old the poor and the undereducated then obviously they have less spending power and are less interesting.

Add to that the fact that PIS has annoyed all the major advertisers with extra taxes and regulations - that is the cell phone companies, the retailers and the banks.

And then even aside from politics much of advertising has moved online in the last five years when PiS were in charge.

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

No - all of that happened in the 90s when Tusssk was still a local party hack in Gdansk and you were probably in diapers

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

The Poles do convenience meals In glass jars rather than cans - I guess stems from lack of availability of aluminium in commie times. Meatballs, tripe, golabki in jars are quite a common meal for guys who like to start the day with a kind of Warka strong.

The producers of those meals are now often owned by Weston companies - Heinz owns Pudliszki, Amino is owned by Unilever and I think Mars and Kraft also bought some commie producers.

The ready to cook chilled meals market is developing but far more slowly than it did in the US for example. It's still quite expensive relative to Polish wages and often if Poles are in a rush they would rather pick up a sandwich or a hotdog.

Work / Is it difficult to make a living modeling/singing in Poland? [8]

I don't know about singing. About modeling then if you are at an average level - e.g doing stuff for supermarkets, Malls, clothes shops or other advertisers that will be difficult and outside Warsaw almost impossible. Send your stuff to a few agents and see what their response is.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

If he is the most normal person they can find then that's a problem!

Work / Is it difficult to make a living playing Soccer (football) in Poland? [54]

google.pl/amp/s/m.sportowe

If you read Polish this is a good guide - 3 years old though so if you add a bit of inflation I guess it's 5-10k a month in the lower leagues - probably you won't get paid in the off season. Below 2 Liga most clubs are part time and to are unlikely to make much money

Good luck - you probably need to think about a back up plan but if you speak Polish there are other jobs around

Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]

Could be Biala Struga between Gniezno and Bydgoszcz. But that is a very small village

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Difference is that by being in the Euro it's not so easy for the Slovak govt to give taxpayers money away to the people who don't pay taxes.

Still hopeful however that we will see a change in Poland - Duda is just far too weak for a big country.

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

You have asked everyone if they have used a gun and the answer is yes from most people.

We are not allowed assault rifles so we don't know what we would do if a burglar came with a highly difficult to obtain gun and decided he only wanted to use it to steal a few hundred zloty and a picture of the black Madonna (because like normal people our money is in the bank)

Now you seem to be rambling about balls but you still haven't answered my question - have you ever usd your balls for their intended purpose?

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

We understand that. But this thread is about whether gun laws in Poland should be relaxed. So what the hell does the US or Russian constitution have to do with that ?

There is no public or political support among us weaels for carrying moronic guns.

Still no answer to my question BTW ?

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

Well it's 5.30 Moscow time and Rich has obviously made an early start to that half liter he was saving for the weekend