Life / British sky satellite TV in Poland [87]


I'm not really sure, but are you 100% on that? I heard somewhere that you only need to have an account created from UK. And later you can use the service from anywhere..

Life / Polish dentistry cost - 230 zl for one tooth cavity filling [99]


you'd get probably between 150-200 per tooth depending on the size of cavity.. discunts only for family : p

Life / Polish dentistry cost - 230 zl for one tooth cavity filling [99]


Are you aware of that foreigners who come to Poland don't get the national healthcare fund refunds? For example government refunds half of the price for a filling.. so you pay twice less.. I don't think you do. We need to take that into consideration that natives will always pay less because of the healthcare fund. In UK people who are registered in NHS pay less too..


Beside prices of everything everywhere are bigger in bigger cities, there not much philosophy to it..

Life / Polish dentistry cost - 230 zl for one tooth cavity filling [99]


Wow.. that spongy git of a dentist, you really were unlucky.. that's completely over the top.


I didn't mean to sound vicious.. sorry if I did. I just don't want guests from foreign countries to think that they are being ripped off just because some polish native says that he pays less (and forgets to mention that he's having a refund)

Language / Polish words difficult to translate into English [66]


You're completelly wrong, kurwa is not precisely fuck, although it might be used in a similar manner, there are few polish words beside kurwa that overlap with the word fuck. Such as jebać, pierdolić, pieprzyć and so on they all have different meaning same as fuck. Don't state something if you don't know the language well enough..

Language / Polish words difficult to translate into English [66]


Of course you can, I just pointed out that you were wrong, because you said polish is different. I'm happy you've corrected it admiting your mistake.

Language / Polish words difficult to translate into English [66]

There are many forms of word "kurwa". And there several words (which I'd qouted earlier) not one.

You later said:


It contradicts these previous things you said hence my comment. I hope it makes sense :)

Love / Scottish & Polish relationships [229]

Red hair is an obvious mark of hellish fires, spawns of lucifer, of course they are anti-christ..

Language / Polish words difficult to translate into English [66]


kurwa, wkurwiać, przykurwić, zkurwić, zakurwić, zkurwiały, wkurwiony, wykurwisty, kurwować, kurewka, kurwiki, kurwnięty, kurwnąć/przykurwnąć, kurwiszcze, wykurwiaj, zkurwiaj.

Probably many more.
As many forms as many prepositions :)

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

Come on Hobbes, what kind of a muppet are you, you write about polish stereotypes - for fun and all, and you suddenly turn hostile when somebody mentiones german ones? you're a joke.

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


Yup


Well.. I do like to draw something amusing from time to time, especially when I see the situation pictured again and again :)

Life / British sky satellite TV in Poland [87]



I vote for delphian in the quarrel!


Agree, what on earth is he talking about now n?

Life / British sky satellite TV in Poland [87]


Sorry ukpolska but it seems you're the one who's taking it very personally, haven't seen delphian mentioning your business at all, yet you suddenly feel the urge to boast about it in that weird manner.. weird ;o

Anyways, I'm happy for your well-being but you could do better than just dodging questions..

Life / How Polish are you? [74]

10% : o

I guess
atehist != Pole....

Life / How Polish are you? [74]


I doubt you could be polish vault dweller.. I don't think they would build any vaults in here..

Life / Internet / Telephone provider in Krakow [28]

UPC have added 120Mbit package to their selection. I don't know if it's available in Krakow because I've seen these leaflets in Katowice..

Life / How Polish are you? [74]


Congratulation, you're more Polish than a Pole : o

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]


I had a schoolmate whose surname was Komorski. I might be wrong but it could have also originated from words "Komorzy" or "Podkomorzy"..

Komorzy - courtier who was managing Kings rooms, furniture, tools..
Podkomorzy - a civil servant
Both of these are old polish words not really used anymore ( just in books and historical writings )

Work / Teaching English in Zakopane, is it safe? [45]


The truth is in little mountain villiges you'll find these little pubs or inns where completely drunken guys are fighting each other or any newcomers that might happen to be there. I'm visiting one such villige during every summer and there are always stories about how drunk they can get and what they can do. It's a bad idea to go to a local pub in a small villige when it's after 18:00... and that is for anyone not only foreigners, as for Zakopane, I don't think you have anything to be afraid of..

News / What's the stupidest question asked about Poland? [414]


I'd say if you were to ask random polish people about Japan you wouldn't get many sensible answers either... (although there are probably more people interested in Japan in here taking many manga and anime fans into consideration)

Work / Average salary in Poland for PhD in IT [40]

From what I heard many IT companies in Poland are afraid of hiring PhD's, mainly because they don't want to pay more and see it as overeducation...

Genealogy / Stanislaw Szczyglinski - Holocaust Victim.. [9]

have you tried calling concentration camp's museum? There's some information about exhibitions in the museum's leaflet, one of the exhibitions is called "Prisoners". They might have some more accurate info or pinpoint you in the right direction..

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

I don't like the idea of crucifixes in classrooms - maybe only in the catholic religion subject classroom. But many years will pass and many multicultural people will have to flow through Poland to make the change...

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


Firstly the presence of crucifixes in classroom is completely unsubstantiated, moreover religiously unsubstantiated. They are used marely as tools of magic. There's no much meaning to them, so why hang them in the first place. I'm actually more repulsed by the harsh Vatican's reaction to the verdict of European Court of Justice - which is stupid taking into consideration that church itself is teaching that hanging a cross or crossing oneself doesn't change anything, children are not paying more attention to what they are learning, and people are still dieing in accidents.

I've read an article by a priest that states the problem just emphasizes fears of certain atheists who are mingling tradition with religion, but I'm pretty sure most people who are against it find the whole church's fury at the slightest mention of "let's take these crosses out" off-putting.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


Where have I said anything about it not being a symbol. And it is as magical as all the other religious symbols. I understand the traditional value but come on what's with the church's anger, if it was just tradition church wouldn't be going banans over it.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

All right let there be an extra crucifix in history classroom beside the religion one. Next to it lets hang pictures of dead taborites and other "pagans" and pictures of Perun and Swiętowit. Let's even out the overview to symbolic pros and cons.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]


I think you haven't read my posts because you would have noticed that I focused my dislike on Church's approach nothing else. You've just read what you wanted and brushed the rest under the carpet. I can add that your sermon about symbols of other nations has got nothing to do with what I said, but I admire your vivid imagination.

Language / Polish slang phrases - most popular. [606]


I agree, heard that planty of times - little doddlers hair-do

History / "Poland's Concentration Camp" ?? [570]


I don't get it. What is your post about. Are you against or with 1jola on that stuff.

News / New Polish gambling law - outlawing gambling except in casinos [34]

I partially agree with what has been already said, but at the same time I have to say I really don't like all these gambling "Joker" clubs popping out around every corner, shady/drunk people usually hang around them, lots of scruffy looking fellows inside. I think that the surroundings of such places is pretty dangerous and there's lots of them. There was none like year and a half ago, now I think there's around 20 in my home town, they are virtually everywhere. I was at a petrol station yesterday, one of those with a big shop and shelfs full of "more expensive and luxurious" products. And next to them in the corner some filthy, sloppy fellow stooping over a one arm bandit machine and scowling at me. I say efff it, I don't wanna see that crap on the streets. Close all of these shanty places. The idea of a 1 or 2 big casinos per one city is a better idea than lots of these little cesspits everywhere..