Travel / Fishing in Poland - where to go, what to catch? [79]

I teach a young girl English here in the Podkarpacie.....one day her pet goldfish died.....I said no problem we,ll clean the tank and get some minnows and other small wild fish to put in it. (I used to keep wild species in UK, they don,t need heaters etc) But she said, we won,t be able to as it is against the law!!! Don,t be silly we are talking netting minnows!!! but we checked as I could not believe it and it is apparently the law, children here are banned by law from the childhood joys of netting minnows on the riverbank.....I despair sometimes...kids around here have been arrested and taken home for their parents to pay a fine for them catching minnows???? Poland is striving for civilisation...this is one black mark against them ever achieving it for sure.

Travel / Fishing in Poland - where to go, what to catch? [79]

I have to ask why such fish as minnows are protected......OK OK I know all of the watercourses are poisoned (round here all of the overflows from shambos run into the streams which run in to the rivers and I certainly wouldn,t entertain eating a fish caught here) but even so, not enough to kill off all the sticklebacks and minnows. If you think about it, young boys in UK have been catching small fish with nets since before records began and we have huge amounts of them. Is it just this strange Polish thing about regulating everything so that the 'river warden can have his little bit of power like in the communist times?

Life / Do young Polish people believe in their religion and God? [155]

Well, I live in the 'Podkarpacie' and yes I consider that all young people are brainwashed from an early age......But I don,t mind, it,s your poor idiots they are brainwashing and it makes my village a safer place.....once you get to know the local priest everyone is 'kowtowing' to you and priests are generally intelligent enough and interested enough to be friendly to foreigners who are not Catholics, hell last year I was even driving the priest around when he went on his (brown envelope - not compulsory to give..but you,ll go straight to hell if you don,t!!!) in the snow in my 4x4. Why does it make the village a safer place???.....I,ll explain for those who are not brainwashed already.....In Uk if you saw a group of 7-8 young men walking towards you along a dark street at night, you might start to prepare yourself for at best losing your phone, or maybe a good beating (if they are black/asian) several stab wounds of possible life threatening intensity!!!! But here, they will all want to shake your hand and will all to a man be polite and say good evening (equiv.) thats the church for you. even drunk they still fear the church and retribution to their very bones!!!! woe betide any of them who are abusive etc and it gets back to the priest and their family name is bandied about on Sunday!! that young man who gave the abuse or was not polite should prepare himself for ostracism and at least a good bashing at the hands of male relatives for bringing the family name into dis-repute. (personally I think telling lies to small children is not a good thing and I wouldn,t allow it with my children) But I don,t mind the church spouting it to locals, it makes me feel like a Medieval Lord who knows the truth, but the locals are all kept in Line for me by fear of God!!!

Life / Do young Polish people believe in their religion and God? [155]

Damn!!! that,s the first time I have been called white trash??? I got called 'posh boy' and middle class in UK. I,ll get my complex,s seen to, I promise.

Life / Do young Polish people believe in their religion and God? [155]

Thanks gumishu I enjoy the Banter here, and for Pawian back in UK I was very embarrassed by and outspoken against those very 'white trash' you referred to.

Food / Where can I buy lamb in Poland? [89]

I live in the 'Podkarpacie' and we had trouble finding lamb.....the solution was to raise a couple of lambs and have them slaughtered then freeze them...still eating some now. Locals here will not touch the stuff they say it is poisonous???? as they say...go figure. Really interesting watching the local farmer slaughter the lambs (look away now squeamish person) short axe to the head, then swift knife to the throat...it only took a few minutes for them to die in agony...One took three good whacks to make it stay down!!!! But he did skin them in quick time....and we saved the guts for our dogs who lived the 'fat life' for a time. Nothing but nothing was wasted...one of my dogs was even carrying a little 'hoof' around with her months later. This is life on a farm..... raw and brutal. (but farmers here are all fat)

Life / Do young Polish people believe in their religion and God? [155]

I have no problems here and I have met 2 priests socially, you will find that they are realistic and not willing to try and convert you, they know full well that they are going to have their work cut out hanging onto the ones who have already been brainwashed. (Oh and this is the 'Pod' where they go to church sometimes 3 times a day and several times a week.) Your big problem might be with your Polish family who would feel that their 'position' in the community is diminished if you don,t attend services. Position is very important....even more so in the villages.

Life / Do young Polish people believe in their religion and God? [155]

Do bear in mind what I said about it being more important in the villages......you may have relatives in the big towns to whom the church is not important at all and social standing is based on how you dress, car you drive etc etc.

Life / Do young Polish people believe in their religion and God? [155]

Well Peakus, remember that I only live in this part of Poland.....but for spying and to look like an ordinary guy, you need, a cheap leather jacket, bad shirt/loud or blatantly American T shirt, jeans from one of the 'second hand charity given' clothes shops and a pair of fake label trainers...you need to drive an old but good condition Audi 80 or to go rellally upmarket an older A4. You do realise that (in this part of Poland) once you have a successful established business you will be looked on as some kind of 'Lord' yes I like that it upsets people...so Lord it is. You will be able to exploit the peasants and employ them for as little as £1 an hour (like my wife does).......you may only get drunks and idiots.....but hey all the good people have gone to UK, Germany etc etc, where 'the streets are paved with Gold'. I wish you well, if your product is good and your sales methods suit the area then I hope you make a good few bucks and put some back into the local economy. Ps. once you have money and employees you won,t need to go to church.....you will control them by their employment and as they are all related, what happens to one happens to them all.

Language / POLISH 18 - 30 years old know MUCH BETTER ENGLISH language than their own native language! [102]

I have not lived here long enough (3 yrs almost - arrived that day of the falling Tupolev) to make a judgement on the original statement, but I have found that in Polish schools there is too much emphasis on a form of grammar that has not been in common usage since the days of Queen Victoria. Subsequently they the schools also have no time left to spend in class on conversation.....which is why I get so many people asking me to converse with them in English. In essence Polish schools try to train their children to write very well and pass writen exams, but most people who want to travel and work in English speaking countries, have more of a need to converse with people than write to them. Oh and don,t worry about the English minding people mangling their language, remember we have had since the 1950,s great influxes of people from our 'Commonwealth' all speaking English but with hugely differing accents and Patois.....we are used to having to listen to what people may be saying more carefully due to a strong accent. I hope we are more tolerant than a lot of places.

Language / POLISH 18 - 30 years old know MUCH BETTER ENGLISH language than their own native language! [102]

One example that I always give to Poles who ask me to teach them to converse in English......."there are two English languages".....one spoken by 'the common people' and one spoken by the 'middle and upper classes', essentialy they are the same language, but the middle class would use virtually no swear words, their manners would in most cases be a world away from the manners of say a 'warehouse or factory' worker. The factory worker would in most cases have limited interests and conversation. So I tell them if you are visiting two different cousins in UK one of which is a factory worker and the other is a lawyer, be prepared what is essentially two different languages, two different sets of life skills and two completely different sets of manners and levels of cultivation. I have noted that Poles who do go to UK to work often find themselves in jobs below the station of their level of education and so they learn bad english from lower class people and come back to Poland thinking that it is common place to use swearing for emphasis every third or fourth word. It is the equivalent of learning English in America from 'White Trash' and not a good thing at all.

Life / Exam for Drivers License in Poland; English? [99]

I,m sure it can be exchanged legally......but in the mean time as an Englishman I am going to send off for a replacement UK licence (I,ll say the wife washed it on a very hot wash!!!) I,ll pay the £10 and get a duplicate licence, I will then use one of them to exchange for a Polish Licence and I,ll have the best of both worlds...maybe it can work for you?

Life / Exam for Drivers License in Poland; English? [99]

Tell me what the law is? My UK licence is an EU licence designed to be used across Europe and looks exactly the same as a Polish licence...so that a Policeman in any EU country can look at it and see what I am qualified to drive, when it was issued, is it currently valid. So what if I have a UK licence and a Polish licence.....how would that be complex? I,m taking a leaf out of Jason Bourne,s book, maybe I,ll get 6 passports next.

Thankyou for that document Warsaski, But I do live here, I have lived here for almost three years continuously....I own a nice farm in the Podarpacie region (a very beautiful area)...My UK licence is valid until I am 70 years old. But like I said, it didn,t do Jason Bourne any harm to 'hedge his bets' Yes I do know that Bourne is a fantasy character.

Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]

I thought that even the dumb village girls were catching on now that all these non-EU nationals who are enquiring about Polish girls are simply after a passport and the right to leech off some EU country? One thing Poland doesn,t need is (like UK) thousands and thousands of girls with Black/half black/Turkish/Asian babies leeching off society because once the guy gets his passport, he is off like a hare to germany or UK leaving them and their offspring (who are never going to do very well with their dubious heritage) to be brought up by the girls family or the state or both...Poland just can,t afford to let them in...once it starts it is like an aggressive cancer.

Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]

Mr Bucknall your point is well taken.....but these are Doctors are already well established and may their deep love continue......I think the point of this thread is about all the dregs of human life from Nigeria, parts of Asia etc etc etc, who are seeing the opportunities for getting into Europe by the back door, in other countries, start to dry up (be more tightly enforced)....so they are looking to places like Poland and other Ex Communist countries where they can find an easy meat girl who will marry them and get them that 'Golden Prize' of an EU passport.....in many cases the poor (I did not say uneducated...I find that if you are willing the Polish education system is a very good one) girl who just wants a better life will fall for the flowery words of one of these people of dubious heritage who will promtly he gets the passport, dump her and her halfling baby and leg it for the West,(one like it in this very village). I find it most interesting looking at some of the posts by these Asians etc....culturally they are brutally honest and it shines through in their words....in their fly blown hell holes it is not unmanly to use a girl from Europe as a passport to better things, indeed they would be feted as a hero for having succeeded. We must look at it through the eyes of people who have visited their countries, it is like the oft given argument by politicians about the flood of Roma/Bulgars that will come to overwhelm UK soon!!! the politicians ask why should they come??? Well..... If you live on a pile of poo picking through the remnants of someone elses dung for your meals, then a nasty dirty cellar in Southall would seem like heaven especially when given free money to boot. Now we look at the motives of a poor Polish village girl for marrying one of these people from Africa/Asia......I live in a particularly beautiful part of Poland, but so many of my local friends just do not see the beauty and there is a reason for that.....when you have from a very young age had to get up at 5am and let the chickens out and feed them and then milk the cow and bring in wood for the cooking fire, and then get your school clothes on and tramp 3kms over the hill to catch a bus to ride an hour to school, and then start all over again before you do your homework!!! (it doesn,t relent and becomes more intense at harvest time) then the sheer beauty of the countryside tends to pass you by and you begin to see why to them a pokey flat shared with several others in some admittedly dank grey northern English town starts to look like the promised land.....If you talk to almost anyone around here and say what do you hope for? they will honestly say 'an apartment in Rszesow' for apartment read pokey flat!!! (Rszesow = the big city)

Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]

Minuteman that is my point...why the hell do you think these guys from outside the EU are trying to marry Polish/Czech/Latvian etc etc girls, they are purely after the EU passport just so that they can travel to where the work/better life is: I will be honest now, I like Poland and I am going to live here for the rest of my life, but that is because I have so much money I don,t need to work ever again!! if I were looking for a country to get a job in or build a new working life, I would not have 'The Podkarpacie, Poland' as No1 on my 'good places to find work list'. Stop fooling yourself that a Pakistani etc likes the look of Poland......he likes the Passport that is all. Almost every week in UK there is a news article about some Polish/Czech/Latvian girl who marries some Nigerian for £500 just to get him the right to stay in UK.....quick money for her, nobody will ever know when she goes back to Eastern Europe (some of them marry several different guys!!!!) and she only has to suffer him for an hour before the 'wedding' and 5 minutes afterward for photographs to prove that he did get married......Its a good business, even clergymen in UK have been found out to have been marrying non EU people to EU girls for money (no not money for the church £££££ in their own pocket...cash). Hope that this craziness does not come to Poland or the big embarrassement will be not that the foreign guys married these girls and left them pregnant.....but that none of the guys ever wanted to stay in Poland in the first place....what does that say for Poland?

Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]

I will again ignore the venom and bile, which achieves nothing. I do welcome wealth bringers, I don,t welcome scroungers.....I brought wealth to Poland in that all (every cent) that I have spent here has been generated in another country. Yes we are here for our own benefit, we can afford to live very well here as I said we take nothing and bring much....we do not need to work, Do you? have fun every day in the rat race? I made all my money ages ago, I took early retirement 5 years ago. Note we are both very old, teminally disfigured and gay...Oh god we are so gay!!!!!! and have ugly diseases and disabilites......but only my wife is a Pole (she is not ashamed of it all of the time....just most of the time, she consoles herself with her German roots).....are you happy now?? (see how I am starting to write like a Pole? I came for the good life, to lounge around playing at being a farmer!!! I doubt I,ll ever get all the jealousy, venom and bile that some of you have though....It would not be.....'British' somehow.





My wife tells me not to be so soft on you, look at the way he writes more carefully? she said bad things about your education, but I was taught to carry the 'white mans burden' from a young age.....I do not poke fun, I accept that they are what they are: And so she dissected your post........ Luxmi?? not a slip of the finger.........birds? pure 1960s, chicks? again Amercana circa 1960s, mate!!!!??? that word makes you sound like some Jamaican yardie!!! speaking in 'Patois'...... just what are you using as a translator? I got so into the argument that I couldn,t see the wood for the trees.

Law / Polish EU Drivers Licence - can I get one the easy way (by paying for it)? [185]

Driving licence, university course etc etc = paper trail, necesssary to help non EU persons to get an EU passport.....maybe one of those perhaps?

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]

Bad examples.......Dutch people flying anywhere even in Polish airports will see signs in English they won,t even look for signs in Dutch and won,t expect them (because English is the international language of Flight/The Sea etc) and their brains will just click into English mode, same for any French person Under 50. I don,t see Polish becoming an international language soon just because they are good at hanging onto the shirt tails of the EU and waving the silly blue flag.......more likely the young people of Poland as they come up through the ranks will see to it that English will be seen in Poland more and more on TV in adverts in signage and more.....everyday I see examples of this where the English word is used over the Polish (hard to spell or pronounce) word.....I think young people just go the easy route. Who knows even in England....English is decoming diluted.....maybe one day we will use the American 'tressle' instead of the English 'trestle' and tire instead of the true English tyre.......understanding is the key and if we understand each other no matter how we spell it, we will not resort to violence.

Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [309]

I see what you mean Ziemowit I stand corrected and admit I misunderstood....but my wife brought up a daughter in UK and the similarity to what fuzzywickets said is that to encourage her daughter to learn Polish, she told her it would be a secret language that only they could speak and so they would be able to say things that people around them wouldn,t understand......this was almost 20 years ago of course. We use the same encouragement on a couple of village children we teach...(they are still young and their classmates do not know English very well yet)

Law / Visa for Work in Poland [29]

Two of the biggest ways for people from india to get into UK and stay, have been Indian companies in UK sponsoring way too many people, just to get them in. The other way has been some very dodgy 'language schools', 'business schools', etc and 'anything schools' that seem to have hundreds of people registered in them.....but nobody turns up for classes?(many of these have been closed down now, hence many more trying it on here in Poland) they are all working flipping horse burgers and waiting long enough to claim a right to stay in the EU and eventually get a passport.....thats how it works in UK? seems to be coming to Poland slowly but surely as companies get a foot in the door who will not employ Poles they will bring in many Indians etc. Cheap courses at universities will also bring many more. (Don,t worry they will not be looking to live next door to grandma..their eyes are turned towards the West. (trouble is they may displace a Pole on a course, who would be more likely to benefit Poland?)

USA, Canada / To move back to Poland from the USA or not to move back....that is the question [119]

I am English living here in the Podkarpacie region and I can,t help on many things but when my wife and I came to live here we were the same as you will be with our monies coming into our Polish bank from UK government ex employers etc etc......the bank were very helpful and asked us where we would like to declare that our money is taxed? (they politely informed us that it is cheaper to have it taxed in UK) we signed the declaration forms and saved ourselves from double taxation. I hope you will be able to do the same. I noticed an earlier poster said something about age,retirement and still teaching. I,m not sure it has any bearing but might be helpful. I know you are older than I am but one thing.....I,ve always had trouble getting people here in Poland to understand that I am 56 and have been retired since I was 49.......they have no concept of early retirement...indeed I have been drawing one 'War Pension' since I was 30...if only it had been enough £££ I would have retired then. My Dentist retired at 43!!!! (private pension...no such thing hereabouts)......good luck hope it all goes well for you. Ps...paying doctors cash under the table....it still goes on shhhhhhh!!!

Law / Polish EU Drivers Licence - can I get one the easy way (by paying for it)? [185]

Lowkey32.......I think I get it.......yes you used to be able to buy a licence here by bribing the tester with cash.....the cars are now all rigged up with cams and mikes to stop this.....so unless you have a hot line into the people above that level and few have!!! then you are out of luck. It has been said that Ukraine is still as corrupt as ever and a genuine licence can be bought and then exchanged for a Polish licence due to some obscure European agreement that they have between these two countries. Does that answer your question?

Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]

I think most of these third world outsiders can and do fall in Love.......with and EU or US passport. Passport Love....may it flower in their minds but not in reality.

Life / Don't Forget: Tomorrow, March 8 is Women's Day in Poland! [115]

Better world would be if every day was womens day!!!

Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]


All of the above is the best reason ever to not let them in...if we can possibly help it.....vote for governments who will keep them out!!! All they want is the passport and a way out of the place they live which is not as good as the place they aspire to live. We have enough of us without more of them.