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

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

Real one :) even killed a few birds

Still waiting for an answer to my question BTW

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

Yes - I already told you I have fired a gun

Did you ever make love to a woman ?

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

Rather guard duty in a warm room than troll duty in a cold basement.

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

Yes I have. Many of the PF Euros have done military service and would probably be more useful in a fire fight than a drunk Russian conscript Who has been fed on rations of sprats and boot polish

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

LOL - the closest you ever got to a trigger was stripping down some bent and rusty AKs at a pioneer summer camp while getting bitten by mosquitoes next to some polluted lake

There is no way Putin is going to allow Russians to carry guns unless they are his bodyguards

News / How Poland bought German Airline Condor and might lose massive from it [34]

Why didn't LOT and Lufthansa make a joint venture to take over Condor ?

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

Poland has higher levels of literacy, math and language skills than the US.

Thought you as a trained engineer would know that

So people are quite able to make up their own minds about dumb guns