Food / What Polish foods and brands do you miss when you go to other countries? [216]


different taste of strawberries in various places (like supermarkets vs market stalls) comes from differences in strawberry varieties to a large extent - those that are sweet and have a distinct taste decay sooner than those that are bland -

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


KRS is not social insurance number - KRS (Krajowy Rejestr Sądowy) is an official register of - among others - all companies/firms - don't ask me why is it necessary but it is obligatory

social insurance office for farmers is KRUS not KRS

History / Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 [341]

civil wars are bad for your health

btw I considered voting for Kukiz as a protest vote because of new social policies of PiS (but ended up not going to vote for reasons I would like not to mention here)

I still don't know if I will vote for PiS in the autumn election but I certainly will not vote for PO, SLD, PSL or Wiosna, Korwin is out of question as well for various reasons - I don't have much to choose from

History / Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 [341]


so you believe Kiszczak's archive is a fake yes - and guess what Wałęsa never dismantled anything? sam tymy rencamy obalyłem komunę? - maybe he prevented a civil war but that's about it

Life / How do Polish people treat their animals? [33]


you answered yourself catfish - there are records of giant catfish from Oder going back to 15th century - Vistula is probably better suited for big catfish now than the Oder

History / Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 [341]


maybe according to you Wałęsa was not agent Bolek and Kiszczak archives are a fake - maybe he doesn't lie now about his past - maybe he kept his promise of 100 000 PLZ for every Pole - maybe he was not attempting to gather support among the military to make a virtual putsch and gain all the power - yeah the history was ever so simple for Poland

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


this goes back much further back in history (at least to the times of the partitions, but I guess even to the middle of the 18th century)

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

praca nie zając :P

Life / How much money to comfortably retire in Poland (a married couple)? [57]

because of stupid regulations on CO2 emissions the EU imposed

History / Why do Polish people hate to be called Eastern European? [120]

you know , Jesus told us to love our enemies and so on

Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [402]

Becela (written with this Czech hacek thing over the C) is just Czech for the same thing as Beczała

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

@familytree

could you try posting a photo of the birth certificate - I can't infer anything from the spelling you suggested (but it may be because the place is so small I have never heard of it)

Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]


checking the content of sugar in sugar :)

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

varovat means to warn in Czech as far as I can recall

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]


do prdele - jsem ted' spadky - pomyslel jsem co ne budu dneska sprchovat

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]


well i'm not fluent but I can hold a basic conversation even though I haven't practiced in years and it's been long since I watched Czech TV now -we bought a satelite Polsat subsciption and there are no Czech channels in the package - anyway I can understand much more than I can actively would be use in a conversation - but it is similar in all languages I know to some extent including English

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

Vlad I must admit I very much like the Russian language especially it's melodiousness - but I like quite a number of languages for their sound including German

to my embarassment though when I met Russian people in England in the early 2000's most of words that came to my mind while trying to speak Russian were Czech - to my justification after my school years i had almost none contact with your language and instead I watched a lot Czech TV which I preffered to Polish TV stations - I live near the border with the Czech Republic

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]


hmm it's not that I knew every single Russian word you posted to be honest - more like about half of them - but I am not surprised with similarities between the two languages

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]


hmm maybe I put too much trust in my fellow Poles - I personally learned Russian in elementary school and was ever since aware of things our languages share (but also in notable differences) - well we should bear in mind that there are now generations of Poles who barely had ever contact with Russian (but my 10-year-old nephew knows cyka-blyat from web-based games :P

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]


it's ok Vlad, we all know that Russian and Polish have similar vocabulary in their cores - then didn't stop both nations to fight wars though - hopefully we won't see any more of these

News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]


Rich - gays are indeed born gay - buuuut - gays were not created gay - being gay is a matter of a choice made many incarnations before - a choice that was further reinforced through subsequent decisions - the choice was made because the soul in question held females or a female element responsible for the fall in consciousness instead of accepting the soul's sole responsibility - it is similar with lesbians - the picture is further complicated by the fact that many souls in present were forced to inhabit the bodies of the sex that is not preferred by the soul - that's why you have effeminate gays and butches on the opposite side of the spectrum

News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]


what I find unacceptable and horrendous is gay couples adopting children - there should be an absolute ban on it

News / Poland's News sources [59]


hahah technocrats decent - you are funny

News / Poland's News sources [59]


everyone knows populism is evil - especially those who benefit from 500+

and well we all know that VAT mafias were fairy tales - and that there is no money to cover for 500+ expenses - and that budget deficit is exorbitant as of november 2018 - a staggering minus 6 billion PLN - I hope you know what deficit in negative numbers means


you must have read the notesfrompoland.com website - the Notes from Poland facebook profile is much more lively but there is an obvious bias to it

News / Poland's News sources [59]


I couldn't put it any better than that

News / Poland's News sources [59]

sure jon - we just have different feeling of what is neutral and what is not

News / Poland's News sources [59]


heh Notes from Poland neutral heh

Work / Living in Poland with income from the US. [44]


it is doable - we as a family of four live for not much more than 4000 Zloty but our rent is quite cheap cause we live in the countryside

Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [402]


yes indeed

the place name (a village most probably-never heard of such a town) could have been Jew or Jewo - the name has nothing to do with Jews or Jewishness - a Jew in Polish is "żyd" - Jew or Jewo are probably old forms or derivates of 'jaw' which means sort of visible, uncovered

Language / Harmless old-fashioned Polish swear words/phrases [159]


kiedy wejdziesz między wrony, musisz krakać tak jak one