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


noone said automatic :)

Law / Poland - Temporary Residence card - Karta pobytu - required documents [142]

Yes, safe choice if you missed the deadline is to go e.g. to Ukraine or the UK get a stamp and come back.

Life / nasza-klasa.pl - If you looking for your classmates or friends in Poland [95]

It is not possible to send to multiple recipients at one time.

Food / Buying alcohol, wine in Poland. It's very difficult. [85]

That's mainly your own mistake. Did you talk to this "expert" before about wines as an intro to what you were planning to serve? Why?

But I also understand the frustration, however this can happen everywhere not just Poland.


-BUT if you write such a thing and still think that, then F your flabby backside;)

Food / Panga Fish (available in Polish stores); I'll never eat it again. Alternative? [49]



- worst shops you can go to. Tesco is not the same here as in the UK, though both are c#r#a#p. Carrefour is one of the cheapest and rather qood quality, Auchan has much better service (maybe it depends on a particular place) and the best prices.

Panga fish in fact is not good as it's grown in bad conditions and artificially fed with hormones. Can you expect it to be healthy then? I wouldn't eat it just as the butterfish species. It's almost GMO.


- hey what's wrong with D-cups? Take it as an opportunity or a challenge, not a threat and you'll be fine! ;)

I suggest an alternative: try a... pollock. No no, not a Pollack but a pollack (or pollock) which is a fish that does not have as much parasites and is one of the best options, as well as trouts and salmons. Also all the local, sweet water fish if you can buy them: pike, perch, whitefish etc.

Law / Opening a Polish Bank Account by a foreigner in Poland. Recommendations. [299]

What about Alior Bank? It has some financial connections from Poland, but I guess it's located in Italy (or the majority of shares held by an Italian-Pole or something).

I definitely will not recommend Deutsche Bank and Raiffeisen - the latter had good service till the point where they screwed me big time when I was leasing a new car. Because of lack of professionalism and tremendous stupidity I lost money, so I say no to those two.

Law / Opening a Polish Bank Account by a foreigner in Poland. Recommendations. [299]

For an expat you say? - HSBC does the best expat-connected services. Also I can recommend BZ WBK, which for me has the best and flexible attitude.

Law / HELP: ALLEGRO... Do most Polish buyers at allegro.pl use PayPal? [33]

It is perfectly ok, you can use Allegro payments, Paypal or similar called PayU. I buy there occasionally and never had problems with it, same as E-bay. It is much more popular in Poland than E-bay though.

Travel / Hard Candy - Krakow, Poland - reviews? [131]

I wonder if that place has any regular customers.

History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [196]

A number of battles where Poles won despite being outnumbered etc.

Life / Do you collect mushrooms in your country? Poles in Poland do. [79]

I've never understand this craze over picking mushrooms. Makes no sense to me. But you kno, you've gotta have some pasion in your life they say :)

Real Estate / Documents requested from foreigners to rent a flat long term in Poland? Invoicing / Contract. [16]

Exactly - The contract needs t osecure both sides. You must have the owner's statement that s/he is really the owner etc. and have his/her copy of id too

Life / Barking Dogs in Poland [64]


well, there is! But the police would come too late and they rather don't have anything to measure the noise except their own ears;). But reporting it repeatedly can help if talking to the neighbour doesn't.

Language / Do Poles prefer US American or UK English language? [147]

smurf
- exactly. It's just like saying Holy Bible;). You know it is the Bible and that it's holy. ;)

Classifieds / Teaching Arabic school in Warsaw? [22]

Maybe swearing not the best idea, but being very assertive - yes :)
I would help you out myself, but I am actually looking for someone to practise my Arabic in Kraków...

Food / Buying alcohol, wine in Poland. It's very difficult. [85]


- plus thay most often contain sulphites


- oh, come on! That is for girls! ;)

Food / Buying alcohol, wine in Poland. It's very difficult. [85]

Casillero del Diablo is


, all three are from the New World if I recall correctly.
But you prefer softer rather than "bloody dry" ones? Than Carlo Rossi fits. I am always looking for dry, maybehere's the difference in choice...


- maybe go to a proper wine shop, you can touch the bottles and get expertise on most of them. After you create your fav. selection, it'l be easier to pick up the ones you want in a supermarket.

Food / Buying alcohol, wine in Poland. It's very difficult. [85]

Seanus, I'd say that buying Carlo Rossi you know what to expect, the wine is worth the price and safe choice; but it is at the same time nothing you canbe surprised of and why not try somethig thrilling;)

I'd take responsibility over these:
Casillero del Diablo
Trapiche
Gato /Gato nero

Study / 90% of Poles have university degree? [57]

Torq, I think that's not true at all if you mean that they were less educated. Forgetting is another thing...

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]

One of the ultimate, almost forbidden and worse swear words are: motyla noga and kurcze pioro. Most vulgar you cannot be. Used by enlighted people too.

News / Do Poles in Poland really feel betrayed because there won't be any US Shield? [288]

Who knows [Putin does;)]? Right now I guess there are little or no missiles and there'll be a hundred if the shield stands. But I assume they will not be used - what I mean is that together with the missiles the politics will change and talks with Russia will be different i.e. worse.

Off-Topic / To ALL IMMIGRANTS ("expats") to Poland on this forum... [124]


There. I'm packed. But flights have been cancelled.

News / Do Poles in Poland really feel betrayed because there won't be any US Shield? [288]

Having this system installed in Poland would give this country nothing but trouble: this would instantly cause Russia to direct a some of their missiles to Poland. Also it will not protect Polish teritory nor their neighbours so why the heck get into prospective trouble with Russia and tighten the relationships (language of diplomacy calls this actually butt-kissing) with the US instead with some European countries. For now it seems that Polish foreign politics are aspiring to make Poland the 51st state, regardless of the relationships in the rest of Europe.

I share the rather sceptic views of prof. Roman Kuźniar on that, he's an expert in this field

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

... and following Spimo's thought maybe s/he speaks a language even harder than Polish and even more of his/her IQ was consumed for processing the language and less for thinking.

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


I am familiar with the concept;). more truely I am usually full of it. You might want to practise being more understandable with your sarcasm or you''ll be getting close to being misunderstood more often, Miss Magdalena the Linguist.

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Again like I wrote long before: Have you all read this article about the hardest language? It's rubbish and contains false data. If someone makes such judgements based on poor quality research and (I guess) no comparative linguistics skills then... what value has such a statement?

My brief thought is: Polish is hard but rather not the hardest, Hungarian, Finnish or Czech are also hard to master; complexity of language forms is an advantage to the users not a handicap, English native speakers who don't know at least 1 or 2 other languages (with preferably one non-indoeuropean and one from other language family than Germanic) are not the best in comparing language and their qualities (unless they have aptitude towards studying grammar of languages etc.)


that's the famous L.Wittgenstein's thought and it is true especially when comparing languages. The more of them you know (learn at least) the more world you understand.

Magdalena: Can you explain this to me please: "Because no other Slavonic language has inflections, genders, or tenses. And no other language has them either..."

Life / Giving tips in Poland [235]

Yes, I think we can make this generalisation. But still there's quite to learn for some - even in restaurants in the very centre.

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]


Not quite on the first.
You must learn to distinguish dysorthorgaphia from misspelled words on keyboard or even haste. Thanks for a smart-ass comment.

Pofficer: I admit that that my post you took excerpts from was written lousy, due to haste. Try to focus on the message then;)

Life / Giving tips in Poland [235]


That's probably the issue. But I know a few exceptions that may keep the balance :)


I'd put it for his lack of awareness and no knowledge of intercultural differences. He probably intended it to mean: "oh, so you must already know a lot by now" - without meaning anything wrong. What he didn't know was that it could've sounded exactly like you recieved it. And (I'm almost afraid to ask)... did you leave him any tip? :))))

Life / Giving tips in Poland [235]


I see it was nice but it surely happens in Poland also. But not so often, that's true. Most common reason: not well qualified bartenders (or should I rather write "drink pourers").