Life / Tips on tipping in Poland [45]

My Polish friends were annoyed at me when they saw I wasn't tipping.

I didn't know I was supposed to!

I then started to leave about 10%.

Poles are laid back about it BUT a few tips makes a big difference to a poor wage.

Language / Chodzic versus Isc. When and why? [18]


But both of these verbs have future tense forms.
Idę translates as 'I go'.

Love / Do Polish Women age well? [153]

The most important thing is to like the personality of your partner.

If you find them ugly it won't work BUT the most beautiful woman on earth would soon become annoying if her personality was not nice.

Love / Do Polish Women age well? [153]

It must be great being wealthy enough to trade in your woman for a newer model!

Love / Nigerian Girls and Polish Guys [43]

Me thinks thou protest too much.

Love / Nigerian Girls and Polish Guys [43]

I don't understand this.
gtd and myself are simply saying what we have seen or heard from Poles.
No one is calling every Pole racist. But it is a fact that racism is more open here than in more western nations.

Love / Nigerian Girls and Polish Guys [43]

I'm taking some knocks here for asking a simple question but, unfortunately, Poles have a reputation for being less politically correct than Western Europeans.

They are percieved as being about 25 years behind. Throwing banana's at black footballers. Black face paint and curly wigs for easy laughs.

AGAIN. THE MAN IN THE STORY WAS BORN AND RAISED IN AMERICA. HE WAS NOT POLISH!

Love / Nigerian Girls and Polish Guys [43]

OK it is tragic but we have lost the actual subject.

He had a Polish name but was raised in America.

How would a man born and raised in Poland feel about falling for a black girl?
How would his friends, family, neighbours view the relationship?

I witnessed a few incidents of racism in my 3 weeks in Krakow but I'd put that down to excess drink.

UK, Ireland / Britain... What the Poles did for us. [444]


I've always had great respect for the Poles....
The fact that many Polish women are gorgeous, funny and intelligent is not the point.

UK, Ireland / Britain... What the Poles did for us. [444]

I LOVE THE POLES being in my country and it makes me sad when I read angry guys who have decided on the age old strategy of 'blame the minority'.

The fact is the average Pole has 4 years more education/training than a Brit of similar age.
They have a better attitude to work.
They may not feel like the life of the party EVERY DAY but they usually do not turn into obnoxious, shouting thugs when they meet disagreement. They are mature enough to accept problems and socially motivated to not ruin the atmosphere for everyone in the same enviroment.

Why come onto this forum if your only interest in Poland and the Poles is to scapegoat them for all the problems that greedy businessmen and corrupt politicians have caused you?

History / Battle of Grunwald 1410 The biggest medieval battle. Germans smashed. [174]

It amazes me when I witness history repeating itself in current events.

Example.
When Princess Diana died and the Royal Family kept a 'dignified silence'.
This was very similar to how the population of Ancient Rome reacted towards their Royal Families 'dignified silence' over the death of Germanicus...2000 years ago!

I love history. Especially ancient to, around, 1700.

History / Battle of Grunwald 1410 The biggest medieval battle. Germans smashed. [174]


UK and France, 1939, declared war on Germany for attacking Poland (Slavs).
Post war politics was about ideology (communism/capitalism) not racial matters.

So what are you saying?

History / Battle of Grunwald 1410 The biggest medieval battle. Germans smashed. [174]

According to Giles Milton's 'Samurai William' The battles of the Japanese in the 16th and 17th Centuries eclipsed European ones in scale of amount of fighters involved.

I'm hoping to make it to the 600th anniversary celebrations of Grunwald in 2010.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

DNA would show your ancestral makeup.....but I wouldn't know to start arranging it?

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]


Very few families know their tree as far back as that.
European aristocrats may but very few others do.

Language / Pimsleur v Rosetta stone [27]

pimseurs is a good aid but useless if your using it as a primary method.
rosetta stone, again, can help but it's essentially deductive logic, not language theory or anything that leads to a person being able to compose their own dialogues.

both are available as free downloads.

Life / Is it me or do any guys in Poland not have shaved heads? [113]

Comb overs......................!
Only the most confident men dare to stray into the 'comb over'.
Julius Caesar first made this style fashionably iconic (1st century B.C) and it's never gone out of style.

SHAVED HEADS ARE EASY!
That's the point.
Straight out of bed, out of shower,after sharing a long car ride with 6 other people in a very small car...............no fuss, no bother.

You can even attend to your own hairdressing needs with an inexpensive set of clippers.
In fact all 7 in a Fiat Uno can share the clippers and save even more money.

Life / Is it me or do any guys in Poland not have shaved heads? [113]

The facial hair is more Polish than Brit!
Loads of Poles have long chin fuzz.

And Brits DO NOT have bad teeth!
It's an American myth based around our inbred (and German) royal family.

Study / Cost of Polish lessons, courses (private) [34]

skype internet connection.
£12.50 for 60, £17.50 for 90 minutes, one to one.

Material e-mailed as pdf files to be printed or listened to/mp3.

Excellent method for people living outside Poland.

IKO is a Warsaw based language school that gets good feedback.

UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

Good luck with your Ph.D thesis. Not that you'll need it you genius!

UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

I was taking the ****!

"....upholding a proud tradition of these warrior isles"!!!

UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

Let's not be too hard on football 'hooligans' of any nationality. It is an essential aspect of many yong mens lives. My generation has had no great war or depressiion and the chance to stand shoulder to shoulder with a group of guys who will kill for you and take on another group of guys, who will kill you, is a primitive experience of pure adrenalin.

I'm not a neanderthal. I love reading and trying to educate myself. I'm not racist or homophobic but I had something missing in my life. Something that the drugs, beer, women, night classes, holidays and career just didn't satisfy. It was the stoneage part of me that needed to fight and be a part of battles. To test myself in the most basic way against men of a similar mindset.

Centuries ago it would have been 'hooligans' like those Rangers fans that fought at Bannockburn or Agincourt. They are upholding a proud tradition of these warrior isles.

I know many on this site will be totally lost by this logic but I know at least a few will understand me 100%.

Study / The reputation of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow. [52]

I could not tolerate three weeks ina Frat house.
thanks for the heads up.

Life / Polish people and racism. [943]

To say a person of colour is not really French (or British or German) is pure ignorance!

If a person is born and raised in a country he is a product of that country.
Culture is learned NOT genetic.

As for Turks v Greeks.... In my experience most Turks are friendly and curious to learn.
Maybe fourth generation german Turks are just sick of not being accepted as Germans?
I know many European Muslims feel 'between' cultures.
Too western for their ancestral homelands,
too exotic (dark) for the countries they try to live in.

One race, the human race.
Stop looking for differences and start accepting the similarities.

UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

I don't believe in Karma but at least I understand the concept. Which is more than can be said for 'noimmigration'.
What is it with you BNP type people?
You actually take pride in your stupidity and ignorance.

Life / Hepatitis C in Poland...please help. [59]


I once watched a documentary filmed in L.A. A man got shot and the cops had to arrest him in order to make him get medical attention.

He really wanted to avoid the county general because he had seen how much people were hounded for payment of bills they amassed whist under its 'care'.

Sometimes I'm glad to be English. We get ripped off in the car park, the prescription charge is a minor irritant and we sometimes have to wait half of the day in the reception area but we don't have to worry about pending bankrupcy over a health problem.

Life / Hepatitis C in Poland...please help. [59]

I'm not defending BubbaWoo so much as enjoying pointing out your stupidity.
I'll do it again.

Guest. Your stupid.

That felt good.

Life / Hepatitis C in Poland...please help. [59]

I think you have missed BubbaWoo's subtle irony.
We'll contact the site admin about the possibility of drum rolls or canned laughter, similar to television sit-coms, so you'll never have to worry about missing the point of a comment completely again.

Study / The reputation of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow. [52]

If someone could instruct me how to include url's in my posts this would be much easier.

First price = Tuition, Room and Board, Tourist and Cultural Programmes.
Second price = Tuition only.
All prices include a 210 PLN non-refundable prepayment.

3 weeks = 4,444/2,390PLN
4 weeks = 5,596/2,590PLN
6 weeks = 7,349/3,430PLN

Personally I don't think these prices are bad.
Could someone post the price of a similar length/intensity course at a Western European/North American Uni with an equally prestigious reputation?

I'll bet it will be at least double the cost.