News / Lech Kaczyński statue in Warsaw? [66]


We are talking about the statue here. I'ma against all sorts of bureaucracy, also against sending our soldiers to Afghanistan. Parties should found themselves. But the topic of the thread was "should we fund a statue for the late president?".

My answer is "no, we shouldn't". If Marta wants to, she can pay for it herself.

News / Lech Kaczyński statue in Warsaw? [66]


Obviously. Not that I will ever agree with this.
If PO votes in favour of this, I will truly consider voting Palikot next time!

History / "I was more afraid of fellow Poles than Nazi German Officers", says Bartoszewski [130]


I think he has the right to feel this way, whether it's true or not - he was alive back then.
And I think Marta Kaczyńska has no right to accuse him of lying because a) she's faaar to young and b) he's done much more for the country that she and her criminal husband will ever do

Life / Top-up Poland mobile phones [11]


Depends on the network, but in general, the more you top up, the longer you can make outgoing calls. What happens is that when you buy (for instance) - 50zl of credit, you get 50zl of credit and the ability to make outgoing calls for 180 days.

If you aren't worried about what network you use, get a Play sim card - one top up will give you a year's worth of "ability". Even if you go over the year, you can still receive calls/texts/etc, you just can't do anything "chargable".

Study / Swedish folks in Poland! (I want to apply for university and live in Poland) [21]


"Historically" being the key word here. It was very long time ago, now our universities unfortunately aren't anywhere near the best ones in Europe.

I've studied both in Poland and in the UK and I can see where the problem lies - widespread cheating (no one dared even try in the UK!), lots of useless subjects, very old and incoherent teaching programs, professors being the almighty ones, too much theory and not enough practice.

Maybe in the UK they don't get such wide knowledge as we do here, but they are far far better in their one, chosen field.

I would never chose a Polish uni over a Western one.

Study / The worst of Polish education. No wonder Polish universities are bottom of the list. [142]


Sorry, but it's not. The Polish education system is riddled with cheating, grades are commonly awarded on the basis of being known to the professor and not on academic merit, many teachers only become teachers because they weren't good enough to become anything else - the list is endless.

There's also a stigma against non-public education - even though in many cases, the private education is superior to the public one. Of course, part of the problem is that in many other cases - the private education sucks.

Study / The worst of Polish education. No wonder Polish universities are bottom of the list. [142]


I studied at one of the best public Polish unis - UAM, then on UP. I also studied in the UK and I can tell you, the stuff they were teaching on the 2nd year in the UK was more advanced then on the UP on the 5th year... Polish courses are full of theory, there's more to learn by heart. British ones are far more connected to the real life. We finish pur degrees with heads full of facts that we cannot use. They finish with the knowledge where to look for the facts, but they know how to implement this knowledge. You might think Polish unis are better because there's more sitting and studying from the books involved. I can compare and unfortunately, 2/3 of my subjects at UP were absoultely useless. Not so bad at UAM though, only maybe 10% subjects were useless.

And you're not telling me that people are not cheating in Poland? Of course they do. I don't know anyone who hasn't!

They are better educated in terms of general knowledge, but the British are better prepared to their professional life.

Law / Does Poland have the most prehistorical and strictest banking system in the world? [57]

What is the point in using cheques anyway? The most inconvenient and useless way of paying! We moved away from them a long time ago.

Travel / What's good to do in Wroclaw Poland? [34]

Don't forget the zoo!

(to the Admin - I can't log in on Firefox, can you fix it?)

I can..

Food / Do you call it kiszka or kaszanka? [55]

Definitely "kaszanka". My family from Lublin area called it "kaszanka" as well. "Kiszka" must be Kresy version? Never heard of it!

Polonia use it because most of them came from what is now Ukraine...

Love / American marrying Polish woman in Poland - Church problems [79]


Not necessarly so, I'm pretty sure the Catholic church sees people married in a protestant church as married... but it doesn't accept the divorce. It might be that the person who started the thread is a deep trouble if he was married in any Christian church. He should get his wife to call the kuria and ask there.

Love / American marrying Polish woman in Poland - Church problems [79]

And Sokrates here is absolutely right.

Just wanted to add, there's nothing such as "Catholic divorce". It's an anullement, the church court states that the marriage has never existed - only if the marriage was illegal from the start, for example one person was already married or was forced into it by someone. If the marriage was legal, there is no way to break it or reverse it. That's it, you're married for life.

Love / American marrying Polish woman in Poland - Church problems [79]


Argue about it. The marriage between Catholic and non-baptised person is possible in the Catholic Church.

Canon 1086.1 A marriage is invalid when one of the two persons was baptised in the catholic Church or received into it and has not by a formal act defected from it, and the other was not baptised.

Canon 1086.2 This impediment is not to be dispensed unless the conditions mentioned in cann. 1125 and 1126 have been fulfilled.

Canon 1125.3 both parties are to be instructed about the purposes and essential properties of marriage, which are not to be excluded by either contractant.

Canon 1126 It is for the Episcopal Conference to prescribe the manner in which these declarations and promises, which are always required, are to be made, and to determine how they are to be established in the external forum, and how the non-catholic party is to be informed of them.

So it can be done, a bishop's agreement is needed though.

Love / American marrying Polish woman in Poland - Church problems [79]

Then it will be seen as not legal and annulled.

Life / The day Poland ran out of artists. [40]

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korczak_Zi%C3%B3%C5%82kowski

"Korczak Ziółkowski (ur. 6 września 1908 w Bostonie, zm. 20 października 1982 w Crazy Horse w Dakocie Południowej[1]) - amerykański rzeźbiarz polskiego pochodzenia."

Doesn't look very Polish to me :D

I'm Polish, living in Poland and all my family is Polish and I don't consider Polonia Polish. sorry, Polska Moc :P Also, darling, I'd like to tell you that most Poles like the British. I certainly like them lots, I will quite happily mix my Polish DNA with theirs :P

From what you're posting I can see you have no idea of how life is in modern Poland. It's all your sick imagination, honey.

Also, why are you using capital letters so much? Is it a kind of OCD?

Travel / Attractions in Wrocław: a Must-See List [117]


It's definitely not the biggest, although possibly now the best in Poland.
The veending machines sell what's safe for the animals. Feeding them anything else is harmful for them and, quite rightfully, forbidden.
Seals feeding is great.

Travel / Attractions in Wrocław: a Must-See List [117]

pawian

Of course I meant size-wise. The biggest is actually the one in Gdansk, then Poznan Nowe Zoo.
Wrocław had 4533 animal specimen in 833 species at the end of 2010
Wrocław has more species then the other zoos in Poland - at least so says the data I found (from 2009).
Wrocław - 813
Warszawa - 547
Poznań (both zoos) - 421

USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

Dear Polish-Americans! I'm begging all of you here, remember: kiełbasa is NOT a Polish kind of sausage, it's just a sausage. ANY sausage. In addition to that, please remember that pierogi is a name of a dish and it's plural! No need to add an "s" at the end of the word or to use a capital letter at the beginning! Please remember about it, cause Polish people cringe seeing such terrible mistakes.

And just to make sure I',m on topic :P - I just don't think Polish cuisine is attractive enough for a restaurant. I mean, it's lovely at home, I love my mum's pierogi or homemade bigos, but to be honest, I rarely find the ones made in a restaurant good enough. Also, it's quite time consuming - compare preparing pierogi to cooking in wok, for example! And it's rather heavy, so not really suitable for a light lunch, more like a proper, full on dinner.

Life / Babcia or Busha - any social class difference? [359]


Bucia?? Oh dear... Again, no such word in Polish.

Tell me, how do you count this 7/8? :D

UK, Ireland / Why Poles will never belong in England [283]


And thank God for that! At least there is no danger of Polish girls resembling horses!

Seriously, Englishman, you're a moron. You country is full of people from all over the world, look at the streets of London. Why are you so bothered about the Poles? And maybe reas a bit about the history of your own country?

So what about the Scottish? Are they okay to come to england or maybe also not "white" enough? You would be funny if you weren't scary.

News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [853]


Do you actually live in Poland?? I keep seeing fathers driving with their whole families in the car speeding, oivertaking dangerously, jumping red light and taking all the risk there is. I also see mothers running to the tram on the red light - with their children. People take risk every day, because they think their goal somehow makes it okay. Or that they will be lucky today. Or they simply have no imagination.

The pilots made a mistake, they went too low - they were not supposed to believe anyone else, they were supposed to look at the right instruments in the cabin. They failed to do that. They thought they were higher - due to their own mistake. And anyway, they were not supposed to go that low, they just didn't have the papers for that! If they didn't break the law, they wouldn't have been so low -> they wouldn't have crashed. Apparently, such law breaking was common in our airforce... And that's really scary.

Convex is explaining it all in very simple words - I wonder why people still don't seem to understand?

USA, Canada / US Polonia 70% for Kaczyński [343]


You know what? **** off from our country. It's none of your business who we choose. You don't live here, you have no idea what's going on here and you don't have to bear the consequences of your stupid choices! Why the hell are you treating Poles in Poland like some silly children who can't choose for themselves??

Come here and live here, and then you'll have the moral right to decide. I just hate this tone of superiority in Polonia's voice :/ Yeah right, who are you to know better?


But it's NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS! If we want we can sell evbery little bit (not that it's true, but...), because it's our country! Not yours! You've got nothing to do with it, get your nose out of the matters that don't concern you! Real Poles despise stuck up Americans like you!

USA, Canada / US Polonia 70% for Kaczyński [343]


I'm a patriot, I work and pay taxes here, I look after the environment, I vote in the elections. I speak nice, clear Polish and so will my children. I'm contributing to society. I would never vote PiS. They are not my choice They are either power hungry politicians or deluded poor, old people. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you don't have to vote PiS to be a patriot. The only PiS voter who I know well is spending his life scrounging money from the state and is making horrific ortographic mistakes in his native language. Yes, so very patriotic.

USA, Canada / US Polonia 70% for Kaczyński [343]


Being called an idiot by you is a compliment.
Yes, we lost our elite and sad, disorientated people are following the ones who are screaimng about hatred and conspiracy theories - namely PiS.
If you want to know, I come from a line of educated people, Polish army officers (pre-war) and AK soldiers among them. I am an intelectual elite of this country, without much money or power for now, but with a right to vote that I use.

In time of peace, it is enough to be a good, honest, tax paying citizen. It's harmful for a country to run around causing havoc and abusing our neighbours. So, tell me what are you doing that's so valuable for Poland?

And no, I'm not a huge fan of PO, but PiS is the worst of them all.
I have nothing in common with SLD, nor with PSL. I agree with economical views of Palikot, but his to harsh on the church - not that the church is so perfect these days, sadly. But I'd rather have Palikot, then PiS.

USA, Canada / US Polonia 70% for Kaczyński [343]


That's because they think they know better what's good for us, and it's just infuriating!
Polonia is cute when they think they are cultivating Polish tradition by dancing czech dances (polka :P).
It is mildly amusing, when it thinks that "busia" is an existing Polish word.
But it's maddening, when it's trying to interfere in matters that influance our real lives and treat real Poles with superiority and contempt.

History / Lwów, Wilno ... kresy - Poland have lost enormoust part of our heritage... [389]


If you directly ask me if I'm Slavic I will obviously say yes, but to be honest it doesn't mean much to me and I never think of myself "oh, I'm Slavic". I'm Polish, and then I'm European. And really, most Polish people think that way. I really don't have much in commmon with Russians or with Serbs.

Life / Which services is Poland still waiting for? [218]


Why didn't you buy the bug screens, as are standard in many flats?

Not one thing you've mentioned on this thread are unavailable in Poland. As for them not being standard - they are.

I'm frankly amazed that you would lie around being bitten to death when something so cheap and universally available is on offer.

UK, Ireland / British - Stupidest nation in Europe [127]


Let's clarify a few things:
- "dyplom" consist of two parts: a little booklet with a photo, a degree and an overall grade, and a "suplement" which contains all the grades, ECTS points and info about the systerm of education

- I have never been asked to present my Indeks to anyone (meaning the small, green booklet) - if anyone wants to see my grades, they are in the "suplement". In fact, I seem to have lost one Indeks of mine. I've never seen anyone hunting for a job with their Indeks in hand!

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

Tesco Online is selling "udziec jagnięcy" (lamb's leg) for 49,99zł per kg.

Law / Poland economy is slowing down - how does it affect you? [117]


I imagine 95% of them would be straight to the bin, too?

I've noticed one distinct trend - youth unemployment among graduates of private universities must be incredibly high. Like you, I advertised for a simple entry level job and got almost 200 replies. 90% of them went straight in the bin, though. I think it doesn't help that there's such incredible stigma against private universities, even if the course is actually good - I know for instance Allegro won't hire anyone who graduated from one, irrespective of experience/qualifications.