News / Will the new National Stadium in Warsaw help build Poland's picture in the world? [13]

The OP has to be from Polonia to make such a statement, how can a stadium put a country on the map. It is a buildding which is laregly forgotten about when not being used.

News / PKP buys Alstrom Pendolino trains for € 665 million [60]


Unfortunately PKP didnt opt for this feature as written in the above article:

"The trainsets of 7 cars each will be based on Alstom's standard New Pendolino platform. In line with the customer's specifications, they will not integrate the tilting system".

Life / Poles and the temperatures they heat their homes [36]

I have found myself sleeping on a hammock on our terrace as the wife gets cold very easily. We have a sensor system in my home where if the temperature drops below 16 degrees the radiators come on. I cant seem to remove this function.

UK, Ireland / Advantages of living in Poland as opposed to the UK. [126]


My whole piont being is that there are too many ppl on bebnfits in the UK better off than those who work and its totally wrong. When I was in Rhodes last year I tried to avoid the Brit hotspots but ended up making a day trip to Faliraki. Got talking to a family of 3 generations, grandmother, mother and daughter (the grandmother was only 51) and none of them worked, the daughter was just waiting for a council house which she would receive as soon as she got back from her ALL INCLUSIVE holiday

UK, Ireland / Advantages of living in Poland as opposed to the UK. [126]

Firsly, this man has children at the age of 12 (he is 57, has a wife of 42 and 4 kids). Secondly, since you come from Wales you know that OAP's receive free bus transport too. Great in theory but there are so many ppl who are noat OAP's/ disabled getting accesess to this stuff. Please dont tell me that ytou have never seen a younger, healthy looking person with one of those passes and wondered how the hell they got it. It is possible to get any benefits in the UK if you know the loopholes


Didnt say it was legal, the issue is whether he can afford a Spanish holiday once a year. THe answer is easily. I hope they catch him one day but TBH in the 30 years I have been alive, I've never seen him do an honest day's work. He just seems to get away with it

UK, Ireland / Advantages of living in Poland as opposed to the UK. [126]

Orpheus

It includes incapacity benefit, child benefit, winter fuel payments (dont ask me how he gets them, they are only supposed to be for old people), and a series of other stuff. He know his way around the benefit system and knows how to use it to his full advantage.

UK, Ireland / Advantages of living in Poland as opposed to the UK. [126]


Beacuse things have changed, please don't call me a liar. It is all about decreasing discrimination by allowing children from poorer backgrounds to have acess to the privileges of richer children. I'm not saying its a nationwide thing but the school my nephew attends has a policy like this backed by a couple of trustees. He has to keep up his marks in school though to be able to qualify for it.

UK, Ireland / Advantages of living in Poland as opposed to the UK. [126]

She doesnt get petrol, she gets help with petrol through her ex which is paid for by his CSA contributions. Do you walk round with your eyes shut? Go to Merthyr Tydfil where people are on benefits and the bars will be full in the evening. 2 guys in the street where I used to live are factory workers, they cant afford sky so they have freeview, when they want to watch PPV boxing, they go to their neighbour to watch it who has all sky sports packages. He is on incapacity benefit but is also a bus driver for a local bar and receives cash in hand for it. All in all he gets around 25000 a year.

How dare you call mys sister that. She cannot work because my parents are sick and cannot look after her youngest child, her exes parents dont want to know. SHe does some work in the local supermarket but its about 4 hours a week. If she could she would like to go back to her job in Admiral insurance, it is degrading for her to rely on state benefits.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2971]


What about in the case of rape? Should a woman have to look at this child for the rest of her life knowing what it was the result of?? What about if you know your child will be a vegetable? Is it fair to bring this child into the world?

Caholics get off ur moral high ground. You are the most immoral, corrupt business on the Planet. Get your c***s out of choirboys a***s before you start to worry about abortion.

UK, Ireland / Advantages of living in Poland as opposed to the UK. [126]

Sorry but witnessed with own eyes. Don't read the Daily Mail. Either you are British but haven't been to the country for years and dont't know the real situation, or you're Polish and are don't know the realities or you are a Yank who knows nothing about the UK.

BTW, My sister, who is a single mother just came back from a 2 week holiday in Turkey, she has a council house paid for and her child's school uniform, dinners and school trips are paid for. Every year my nephew's class goes skiing to Austria, he gets the trip free. Now tell me i got all this from the Daily Mail. Oh and my sis also gets CSA money, and gets some help with petrol for her car etc. I don't approve of this but it's the way it is

UK, Ireland / Advantages of living in Poland as opposed to the UK. [126]


Absolute rubbish. Are you British? People on benefits in the UK have full sky TV oackages, drink in the pub every evening and have at least one Spanish holiday a year. I know one guy who has never worked a day in his life and gets at least 30000 quid a year.


I am not talking the lakeside holiday where they stay in a country house for a week and have a grill every day and go swim in the lake. I mean a foreign holiday. Its a fact that alot of families in POland can only afford these lakeside holidays and stack up the car with enough biedronka goods to last them a week.


I attended lots of camps when I was younger, especially witrh the Scouts and St. John's Ambulance

UK, Ireland / Advantages of living in Poland as opposed to the UK. [126]


Unfortunately, very few people in POland can afford a yearly holiday whereas in the UK even people on benefits can afford at least one foreign holiday a year.

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]


So how can 14 - 16 yr olds drive them then??? Please dont tell me they cant, my nephew here has one and he is 15

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]

The funniest thing for me is that they can take someone's driving licence for riding drunk on a bike but then they can get on a scooter and drive it without a licence. Makes no sense really

Food / Are frozen chips a cancer risk? The UK's NHS responds. [21]

Its Polish paranoia aboujt water here. I always drink from the tap and get some strange looks. People are expecting me to kmeel over and die at any moment. Ive seen poles even put bottled water in the kettle to make tea.

Language / Popular simple children's books in Polish? [11]

How is your child going to read them??? Does he/she speak Polish?

Life / Price of cigarettes in Poland? [192]

Lambert and Butler here in Gdansk cost 118 zl for 200, I can get them for cheaper so if ur ever here I can hook you up with a large amount

Love / Why are only male foreigners moving to Poland? [10]

Cos noone wants to marry Polish men

Work / Finding work in Warsaw / Poland as an English private tutor [63]




I hope you dont think that my post was nasty in any way, I just want you to know about the reality of this country. You have vised twice for 2 weeks, its not enough to see the Polish reality. You haven't battled with Polish authories etc.

Also, no matter how much Polish you think you know, you will be shocked when you come here as to how much you don't know. Ive seen many Brits come here with their Polish partners who have bigged up their Polish abilities in the UK, amongst ppl who don't speak a word of Polish but when they move here they jsut embarass themselves and make no effort to go for Polish lessons because their wife tells them their Polish is excellent, when in fact they cant't srtring a sentence together.

Its very easy to have a passion for teaching before youve actually done it.

All I'm saying is be careful when you move here and dont think itll be a walk in the park

News / What Poland can't do right [113]

DId noone understand the tone of my opening post? It was sarcastic if you didnt get it!

Language / Give me some reasons to learn Polish [126]

So why not learn Spanish to read Ruiz in the original. Seems a bit of a silly reason to learn a language really.

Language / Give me some reasons to learn Polish [126]

Maybe you misunderstood, I meant there is a wealth of English language literature for her to get through first. If she hasn't read Dickens or the Brontes, she's hardly gonna read mickiewicz

Work / Finding work in Warsaw / Poland as an English private tutor [63]

No in Sopot. There are lots of Ideas that can be started up here, especially web based ideas in which you being a foreigner would make no difference eg, a website offering graphic design services etc. Build up some money, make a good website, hire someone to sell it to customers and do some advertising et viola. It really is that easy, its what I did. I have a company that hires out chocolate fountains to weddings and corporate events, we also do sushi workshops, chocolate making workshops and body sushi (which is just taking off in POland). I'll let you into a little secret, when my very first fountain party was booked I had no fountain, I ordered it and it arrived 2 days before the wedding was to take place. GO it alone, its fun when you see it finally starting to work.

Check out my site czekoladowyraj.com.pl and give me ur honest opinion about the design :-)

Language / Give me some reasons to learn Polish [126]


Why would she want to do that? There is a wealth of the stuff in English

Work / Finding work in Warsaw / Poland as an English private tutor [63]

I started off on the teaching route, I have a degree P.G.C.E and CELTA but found that it sucks so opened my own business. Remember that counting all the holidays (especially the long summer holiday) you wont be paid for all this time, unless you are lucky enough to get as salaried job and this only happens in acredited schools usually, So many of my colleagues were literally skint during the summer. I was ok I opened a business which i did during the summer and luckily it grew big enough to quit teaching. Don't bother coming if yo have no passion/qualifications for teaching, you'll be depressed within 2 years and crying for home.

Law / British man Marrying Polish Woman in POLAND [29]


Did you know Catholics are already Christians??? And with all the bullshit in the Church, I wouldn't bother becoming certified

Travel / Ryanair travel by air - subtle scams to be wary of [98]


I've always wondered if Ryan air limits the number of these that they sell, cos theoretically everyone can buy priority boarding, then it doesnt't make sense.

Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]

The only problem is with the belief that Polish women are the most beautiful in the world is that even the vile ones believe this and they walk around like God's gift

News / British senior politician compares Poland to South Africa during apartheid [129]


What is this Polish paranoia about the Russains. They did not kill ducky and they are not out to bring Poland down. Poland is not imprtant enough on the international scene for them to make the effort

Law / Can I apply to live in Poland while actually in Poland ? [21]

What are you talking about? If you really are a UK citizen, you do not need a visa to stay in Poland