Law / Can I take the Polish written test and obtain a Polish driving licence? [28]


It used to be like this cos the offices here used to get scared when someone didnt have a PESEL, they simply didnt know what to do. Now people are finally realising that stuff can be done without this pesel and most places will accept just a passpoet or id card number. If you called the office they would indeed say you need a PESEL cos its protocol but if it was pushed they would have to accept the application without the PESEL - thats the beauty of the EU

Love / I want to meet and date a Polish man [77]


He probably cries when he thinks of his Polish wife and kids at home in Poland

News / "Drink Hard" - Bruce Willis to endorse Polish vodka [48]

Even a supposedly Polish vodka is owned by france, is there anything Polish left?

Classifieds / English cuisine week in Lidl shops in Poland [203]

Cant wait for monday yummmmmm


Whats the joke about?? If you wanna eat cheaply in any country the food is ****. In Poland, if u want to you can live off pizza and Kebab. Tell me what is so **** about English food? Everytime I ask this to Poles who make fun of Eng food they cannot answer, they just say that theyve heard about it.

Bear in ming that Delia Smith, Nigella Lawson, Gary Rhodes, Rick Stein, Grdon Ramsey etc all come from the UK and are world famous.

Poland has that wannabe Polae form france and that fat guy who cooks on the streets of the world. Hardly world famous.

Law / People who have their businesses in Poland must update or face a fine [19]

The thing im griping about is that they didnt announce it, they havent written to anybody and are hoping to fine lots of ppl cos they werent informed about it

Classifieds / Where do you guys meet in Gdynia or Sopot? [20]

Hi agatka
There is of course the language pub in sopot but its tiny and rather over-rated in my opinion. A good pub ijn gdynia is the Drovers arms in the Gemini centre. On thursdays they do an English quiz night for prizes etc. LEt me know whaen ur going and ill join u there

Law / Wish to start an Indian Store in Poland [34]

There is a market here for Indian spices, curries etc.

USA, Canada / Differences in How Polish People Raise a Child and How Americans Raise a Child [149]

The situation Elmhurst tom described is exactly what goes on at my house.

By all my neighbours and my wifes family I am considered a very bad father. Basically my child fell over the other day and cut his knee. He came crying to me and I put a small plaster on it and gave him a sweet and he was right as rain and continued playing. Thewife got on the phone to her mum and they were cursing me rotten that I didnt do sth more.

Also, I would not allow the child in bed with us after the age of 6 mths nad now when he sleeps over babcias he even requests his own room (when u see the in law, I wouldnt want to be in bed with her either). They curse me and ask me what I have turned this child into and I just tell them 'a healthy, young man', not a snivelling litlle brat like his cousin.

My child got into the habit of biting. His babcia and mum would just tell him to stop it and give huim a hug so biting became associated with the pleasure of a hug. Only onec he bit me and itwas the last time because I bit him back, not too hard but just enough to teach him a lesson. If he starts pullin hair I will do the same too. I am a monster for doing this apparently.

Polish parents are certainly too overprotective. They will use the dotor for the slightest splutter. My wife's sisters' kid has lost most of his toddlerhood cos he was in and out of the doctor for the slightest ail. They paid for a preschool for him and he has been twice cos he always comes back ill. Babaies dont need to be wrapped up in cotton wool, they need to explore the world and all its perils

Love / What to Get my Polish Guy for Valentines Day. [77]

Set him up in a 3sum with ur best friend or even ur sister. He'll love u for life

Love / What to Get my Polish Guy for Valentines Day. [77]


And of course they would be the best agony aunts in the world, being Polish n'all

Work / City and Guilds Pitman examinations [3]

Ok but i Heard that htese City and Guilds are the new Black so to speak. I just wanted others' opionions on it

Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]

TBH i would prefer the maldives, South of France or Cuba, to name but a few.

UK, Ireland / WHAT IS SO SPECIAL LIVING IN U.K [90]

Like Poland is so damn exciting

Life / If I move to a big city in Poland will I come across a lot of English speakers? [32]

Stay where u are. Bringing ur child up here is like crucifying the poor dab. He will never forgive u in later life.

UK, Ireland / CAN'T ACCESS THE LLOYDS TSB WEBSITE FROM POLAND [8]

Doesnt work on BBC iplayer though unfortunately :-(

Law / Any good business ideas - what Poland needs? [114]

I have received an offer form an English copmpany to import party poppers and xmas crackers to Poland, im not really interested in it. If interested pls PM me and ill give u the contact dets to the company

Law / On the spot payment with Police (ticket) in Poland? [25]


Sorry but there is such a thing, a Karta pobytu and it is recognised as ID and I can travel with it too. Just came back from UK using it

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]

Fools!! For someone to be assasinated they need to be important
, Ducky was far from it. In fact he was rather considered a joke by most other countries. I am enraged that he os bring buried at Wawel, that should be reserved for peopel who have actually made Poland wht it is today. Why is Obamam coming to the funeral? I suspect he was invited by the Polish government to make ducky look a lil more significant

Life / Body hair-depilatories - do Polish women and men use them? [43]

All the Polish ladies I've ever seen are partial to a beardless clam. We were in Rowy during the long weekend and even though it was cold there were a lot of naked ppl on the beach - men and women and tbh there werent many hairs to share between them

Off-Topic / I need Polish nationals. Who wants to be a millionaire? [54]

WB would never entertain the idea of a pyramid scheme I'm sure. Most of the ppl on this page who criticise him are prob teachers and will remain that all their lives, and resent this fact. When I realised I was in a sinking ship I got out of teaching and opened my own biz.

Pls keep ur opinions to yourselves

Off-Topic / I need Polish nationals. Who wants to be a millionaire? [54]


I would too and have worked many ****** jobs in my life but teaching simply didnt make me happy, neither does it make most of my friends in the industry happy, they do it cos they havent the motivation to get out of the rut.

Language teaching has had its day, I got out in time

News / Polish Policeman shoots down a foreigner in Warsaw [300]


I seem to remember the stink that was created by Poles not so long ago when a Polish guy who was acting agressive in a Canadian airport got tazered by the police. Why were the officers condemned thaen but in this case were perfectly within thier rites? Antoher case of POles finding someone else to blame it seems

News / Polish Policeman shoots down a foreigner in Warsaw [300]


We dont know any facts and we were also presented conflicting facts with the canadian story, some articals said thr man was agressive and some say he wasnt.

If it was an accident then there should be no repurcussions for the officer but if the officer shot after he retrieved the gun from the assailant then he should be charged as polise are supposed to issue two warning shots before they fire a weapon unless a firearms unit (my wifes bro is a cop).

Life / English channels on Poland's Cyfra+ [13]


Sorry, not on Cyfra +. I have cyfra and there are none of the BBC channels except for BBC world which is 24 hr news. The univesal channel, scifi channel, fox life, animal planet, national gfeoagraphic are the channels in which u can turn off that annoying lektor. A very limited selection unfotunately.

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

It doesnt matter if this is a factual report or not, the facts can be seen in everyday life in poland. Poles are always late, I service many weddings with my company and they cant turn up on time even for that. Secondly Poles do have the strange notion that they are invincible and nothing can touch them. They also have passing the buck down to a tee. If we consider all this then it is pretty feasible that all these factors combined to put an end to all the lives on board that plane.

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

TBH, Kaczynski wasnt important enough to world politics to be assasinated so no conspiracy here. Who gives a **** what was said at the end of the transcript, people died on that plane and it is likely to have been caused by the pilots or a pilot/kaczynski combination.

It is a hard pill to swallow, especially because of the fact that kaczynski was buried in wawel and if it is found that he actually caused this then its a big middle finger to all the heroes buried there

9/11 was clearly a conspiracy

News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]


So too was the death of princess Diana

Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]

Wyborowa is noiw not made by a Polish company, not sure who bought it but it isnt polish anymore