Life / Expats in small towns in Poland? [7]


They're growing in facilities etc and perhaps they will have a better future. There is still a lack of infrastructure like good train services and planning laws are weak with horrible stuccoed bungalows built on the edges of towns which just grow and grow like boring suburbs and often built individually by the owner which usually looks worse, however once that's eventually sorted, I'd say yes, they can be a very nice place to live and are improving.

Off-Topic / Nobel Prize and Oscars = Propaganda? [61]


In terms of rights, it's in the bottom 10% of countries worldwide.


Why?

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

They're showing here though I'm using a tablet.

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Life / A Muslim Arab in Poland who loves Polish KABANOS & VODKA [20]


Ours are always on the bone with a lot of fat and are fried or grilled. A lot less popular than they used to be and I'm not sure why. In PL I'd not translate it (but almost never speak a word of English there unless it's with someone from abroad who's lived there for years and doesn't need translations).


Yes, that and the fact that marginal land (think Wuthering Heights or the valley in the photo in Random Chat) is only really suitable for sheep and a small farmer there wouldn't have had much to feed many pigs or chickens with.

Life / A Muslim Arab in Poland who loves Polish KABANOS & VODKA [20]


Yes. Perhaps "breaded pork schnitzel".


I'd guess the same. That and topography, since different land is suitable for different things. Poland has always had plenty of chicken and pork since both suit the type of land and rural economy well.

Life / A Muslim Arab in Poland who loves Polish KABANOS & VODKA [20]

I suppose it's memories and fond times. I'm never really happy with the word chop as a translation of kotlet. Pork steaks is a bit better but not perfect, and you can say schnitzel in English. It's comfort food, and the first thing I eat when I come back to PL.

In the U.K., they have a tradition of doing a large joint of meat on Sundays, with the meat appearing in different forms (like pies) later in the week. Because a leg or other cut of pork (always but always with apple sauce) was always cheaper than lamb or beef, it was traditionally less favoured.

We used to have gammon joints sometimes, a sort of brined pork that's a reddish colour.

Work / 9000 gross salary in Warsaw? [18]


Don't worry, it's an online forum and we're on the net.

Life / A Muslim Arab in Poland who loves Polish KABANOS & VODKA [20]


Plus they've had it dinned into them in religious lessons that it's bad in various ways, as strongly as Mormons are told that coffee is bad and as strongly as evangelical Protestants are told that praying before religious statues is bad.


When I first arrived in PL years ago (and was missing lamb, a staple meat where I come from and entirely normal, whereas pork is seen as the poorest and least favoured choice for a Sunday dinner).

I went to dinner with a friend of a friend. Hardly unsophisticated since he worked at the Warsaw office of the BBC. He'd been to Greece on holiday and had cooked Moussaka. The first thing he said, even before his guests had taken their shoes off was: "it's lamb, but don't worry, I've cooked it for so long that you won't taste anything at all".

Life / Solar energy in Poland [22]


It's normal to inform your house insurance provider if there's any significant changes.


Ours is pretty good.

Work / 9000 gross salary in Warsaw? [18]


Who said that?

This is a discussion forum where people give opinions, make suggestions, answer questions

. You're free to agree, disagree or say something between those, just as others are free to disagree with you.

You must be a real snowflake if you can't handle people disagreeing with you.

Work / 9000 gross salary in Warsaw? [18]


Get a train.


Order it or get an Uber. Or get some exercise by walking.

We almost never use ours and I'd be happier without it. Especially since the public transport is excellent, driving standards in PL are extremely poor and because parking can be a hassle.

Life / Typical Dentist-Hygiene in Poland [41]


Weird and unnatural-looking tombstone teeth, you mean.

Work / 9000 gross salary in Warsaw? [18]


In the Powiaty which include a lot of villages and smaller towns.

In the city nobody needs one unless they live in an out of the way suburb, far from metro, rail or tram.

Off-Topic / Nobel Prize and Oscars = Propaganda? [61]

@Ron2
Are you suggesting that healthcare was free there before President Obama? Or that there isn't a significant section of the population there who favour the same sort of universal healthcare that developed countries have.


Are you suggesting that the oppression of women in Iran is a frivolous thing? She sounds a pretty strong person of she's a public figure fighting that.


That's simply untrue and hard to know why you made it up.

The Nobel Peace Prize is Norwegian and nothing to do with America. None of the Nobel Committee that deal with that prize are from outside Scandinavia.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Nobel_Committee

USA, Canada / Why indian origin woman as Miss America and never Polish origin? [40]


Communism. It's best not to mix up two different things.


The first are prestigious and the second are highly prestigious.

It's good that "beauty contests" are dying out though.

Work / 9000 gross salary in Warsaw? [18]


Nobody would need one in Warsaw.


Many succeed.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [617]


Yes, he's right. Tory misrule and now it's left to the adults in the room to pick up the pieces.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [617]


What you actually mean is that the Conservative Party wasted all the tax revenue by giving crazy tax breaks to their supporters in the Home Countoes and spent nothing on infrastructure.

Economically, the country's in a far better place than France and Germany and the currency is strong.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

If cops have a reason to have cars with blue lights on top, do civilians also?

Anyway, the police are civilian.

Food / What's more popular in Poland beer or vodka? [59]


Qutbism and Deoband? No. A bit but not entirely. It isn't a modern word; in fact it's very general and means any sort of soft covering.

The discussions about modest clothing have been around since the days of the Prophet. Cultural conservatives from Pakistan etc can say and do what they like. A certain amount of basic modesty (not that much) is recommended for both men and women however the Hadithi vary and leave a lot to choice. Unfortunately inadequate and reactionary men across the world are always paranoid that someone better will steal 'their' women.


Unfortunately, people in societies where alcohol is uncommon (regardless of that society's religion) aren't used to holding their booze and often behave like teenagers in an Amsterdam coffee shop, going for the strongest stuff they can find which they can't handle.

Food / What's more popular in Poland beer or vodka? [59]


Hijab just means a soft cover. It can be a chair cover or over a milk jug or a tarpaulin the back of a lorry.

About Muslims and alcohol, it really does depend on who you listen to. Many drink (all the Quran says about alcohol (and drugs) is that you shouldn't pray while intoxicated) and although alcohol is often seen as slightly less respectable than hashish, plenty of people in the Arab world do like a drink.

Food / What's more popular in Poland beer or vodka? [59]


According to me?????

Looks like you forgot about adultery, theft, bearing false witness and a few other things that are haram like not attending Mass on ob days.

Did you think that the word "haram" only relates to food items? Perhaps you also think that the word "hijab" is only about female outerwear.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]


Nine Swiss franc's what?

Is Swiss Franc a mate of Swiss Tony?

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]


As is every nation unless people came down from the trees with steam engines in their hands.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]


Appalling that any country which pretends to be civilised would need such a thing.

Work / 9000 gross salary in Warsaw? [18]


It's about the median wage in Warsaw in total, out of which people pay for accommodation, bills etc. After expenses, you won't be rich but you won't be poor either.


In Warsaw, nobody needs one since the public transport is excellent. I agree with you, the OP should go for it.

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


Yes, though only recently and not only here.

I use an apple phone and it's the same. I suspect it's to do with mobile phone software not really having much to do nowadays with the type of software forums use.

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


Among regular posters (most of whom are far from Generation Z or even Milennials) I'd guess no.

Some posters tend to make short posts (Lenka, Amiga500, etc) which suggests a phone however most probably don't.

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


It's still possible.

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Food / What's more popular in Poland beer or vodka? [59]


Not necessarily. It depends on your own interpretation and which "fiqh" you follow.

And of course there are many things that are haram for Polish Catholics however millions of them still do those things.