Love / I was raised in Poland. My Family hates my wife because she's American ... [69]

Lukasz, it sound really, really strange. I don't think it has that much to do with being a goral, rather your parents are the weird ones. Just give it a time, they'll get over it.

I am from similar background (Beskidy) and while my wife is Polish, before we started to go out togather, she was never near the mountains. And I have never got any bad comment from my people. It was rather her father, who hated me. As I think of it, maybe it was because I was always considered a "black sheep"... No one was expecting anything good from me.

As I said, give it a time. And be firm (I mean "stanowczy"). Let your parents know that it is offensive to you.

News / Poland's atheist loonies have had their 5 minutes [239]

Christians = bad.
Muslims = good.

Food / Is brain-damaging vegan fad growing in Poland? [176]

To everyone his own, I guess, but strength comes only from the red meat.
If you seat at home and seep tea all the time I think you can survive on fruits alone, for a time at least. But good luck working in mines, or trying to grow some decent muscles in a gym.

News / Poland's atheist loonies have had their 5 minutes [239]

Because they are too smart to be fooled? ;-)

Life / Walking on other people's property in Poland - cultural difference? [50]

Wite Lilly, while for a Pole, not fenced garden seems a weird thing, I still would not take a shortcut through my neighbour's lawn, unless I knew him well enough to know that he do not care.

So maybe your protests were just too polite? Maybe they did not think you are serious about it. Just rise your voice a little, give them some decibeles ;-) You can add some curses and swears as well, for a good measure. :-D That should set them stright.

Travel / Where would Poles (from Poland and abroad) migrate in case of rapid coming of new Ice age? [27]

On the moon! Mare Tranquilitatis.

Anyway, tha ice age? I have thought we are supposed to get some global warming? I was looking forward to sunbathing, you know.

Travel / Where would Poles (from Poland and abroad) migrate in case of rapid coming of new Ice age? [27]

Yeah, now I got it. Thanks Crow.
Fires of Russian forrests are the cause of our heavy winter today. Now the UK residents, that are going to freeze to death, know what to blame. Or whom! If the fires were extinguished erlier, the warming woud be smaller, so the winter would be mild.

I see it clear now...

News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

I'll be damned, there actually is a subject I fully agree with Harry! I'll be damned.
And while I have given up smoking years ago, I still think that this ban borders on fascism.

News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]

Well I, for one, consider all these risks and harms caused by somking to be blown out of proportion.
Anyway, if bars, pubs and such were obliged to put out a visible signs like: "Smokers come here" or "Smoking forbiden", everyone would be free to choose what establishment to visit. So if non-smokers really constitute a majority, non-smoking pubs would prosper, and the "harmul" ones would go out of business. Right?

News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]


Maybe I am dense, but I don't see how it relates to mine proposition? You know: if bars, pubs and such were obliged to put out a visible signs like: "Smokers come here" or "Smoking forbiden", everyone would be free to choose what establishment to visit. Are you worried about smoker's health or what?


Fair enough. Can we ban homosexuality now? I mean, they are a minoroty and are harmull to propagation of a human spieces, so can the stright majority ban that harmfull behaviour? Disinfecting agent anyone?

News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]


In what a way, to be exact? At "for smokers only" pubs, I mean.

News / Smoking ban in Polish bars and restaurants (AT LAST!) [400]


No sheet? Really? My point is: there should be such. Much better solution then our today's facist ban. Somkers's pubs and non-smokers's pubs. If you go into one, you know what to expect.


So I have stated my alternative. Every one should choose what bar he wants to visit. What's wrong with that? Are you afraid that people will not know what is good for them? That their choices will be a wrong ones? So you have to do it for them? I, for one, prefere to do my own choices and then face the consequences. It may be not the most wise choice, but my own.

Sure, smoking is a minor matter. But then, you have freedom, or you don't have it. One day, you may say ;-)
First they came for the smokers and I did not speak up because I was not a smoker. (...) And when they have came for me, there was no one left to speak up.

Travel / Visiting Poland - A bit worried about social attitudes and racist inclinations.. [80]

Hi, Coffee. Opinions of some deluded Belgians notwithstanding, most Poles don't really care about your skin color or ethnicity.It can look like that to some people, because playing a racist card hardly works here. We have never had slaves, so we do not feel that so called western guilt :D As a matter of fact, some of us find a wickied pleasure in acting anti-PC in company of some holier then thou foreigners... Just do not expect that people will step back because they don't want to be seen as racist.

In other words, if some black person iritates me seriously for any unrelated reason, I'd have no qualms about using, err... nicknames... that, as I know, are extremaly offensive to people with certain skin color. Not that I have anything against said color or ethnicity. Neither I'll care about him taking me for a racist. He'll surly think that. So what? No, really, what of it?

Life / Support wanted to stop the sale of live carp in Poland [74]

Hi Britpol1, thank you for giving me a good laugh. Much obliged.

Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]

While I could not be bothered to acctually listen to Radio Maryja myself, I find it a nice counterbalance for all this PC crap in the media recently. So I am happy that Radio Maryja exists. I wish it all the best.

Besides, it converted my father in law, once hardcore commie, I used to joke he is praying to a Lenin, into a catholic fundie. I can respect RM just for this one feat.

Life / Weird names Polish parents give to their kids [42]


Well, a diminutive to Joanna is Joasia. And short for Joasia is Asia. The continent though, in Polish it is called Azja. It is also a name. But not very popular one. Azja Tuhajbejowicz... a popular anti-hero.

News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

Poland suffered under communism long enough, thank you very much. Why wolud we want to re-live a nightmare?

News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

You don't suffer under capitalism. Quite the contrary. You prosper. I know, I have lived under both systems.
Trust me, there is nothing, absolutly nothing worse then cmmunism. The most evil thing in human history.

News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

They have an opporunity to improove their lives. Even in slums, there is still hope. Contrary to communism, where everyone is stuck in the same miserable situation, with no way to get better. Hell, even to try to get up, to live better, would be a crime against "the people"

News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

@Jonny
Communism would not improove thers lives. Quite the contrary, to be sure.

@Nomadat
Of course it was real communism. As real as it gets. Hopelessness, suffering and opression, thats what communism is all about. And you are right, if someone tries to impose the communism on us again, it can get "destructive", sure it can. Because we are not going to let it happen the second time. Over my dead body.

News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

But the lives can get better in capitalism. Under communism, if you want a better life, you are a criminal. Under communism, there is no hope.

Look, I know close to nothing about Rio de Janerio, but I do know that people in USA's slums were living better lives then regular, well-to-do Poles under communism.

Love / Good looking Polish women with ugly men [416]

You don't get it. Real, alpha males are supposed to be ugly. If they are pretty, they are just fags.

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

It can help if you are able to produce marriage certificate of your previous marriage. If it shows that it was not a Catholic ceremony, it shoud clear any obstacle.

A priest cannot conduct a ceremony for already married person. Regardles of money. It is too serious an issue. If his bishop would found out, he'd end up deep into the fecal matter. It would cost him more then you can possibly pay him.

UK, Ireland / Feedback needed from Poles confused about English [12]

My favorite. Once I got confused when American person told me that she "slept on the train" For Pole, it sounds as if you have slept on the roof of the train. As in Poland, you can travel only inside of the train.

News / Poland Elections oct 2011/your feed back about RP Janusz Palikot? Poland is changing! [106]

Many of Palikot's votes have been "I dislike both PO and PiS, and Palikot is the most ridicules vote I can cast, so be it"

Language / Kurwa? at end of every sentence [51]

I would not trust a person who isn't throwing a little "kurwa" once in a while. Such a person got to think very highly about themselvs. I believe Americans call such a personas "nerd".

Life / Good books or sites for preparation for life in Poland? [7]

Read Sapkowski's The Witcher series.

Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]


Nonsense. Cyrillic was never used in Poland. Even the oldest relics of Polish writings are using Latin alphabet. Including the famous "Dać ać ja pobruczę a ty poczywaj" from XIII century - the first sentence written in Polish.

Earlier, all documents have been written in Latin, except for the names of towns, and sutch, that were written phonetically. First example so called "Geograf bawarski" from IX century, the list of Polish tribes.

The only time the Cyrillic was seriously considered to become Polish alphabet, it was during partitioning, at 1852. Back then, Russian tzar, Mikołaj I Romanow, planned to force Poles to adopt Cyrillic, in order to further russification of Kingdom of Poland.

History / Life in Poland before the fall of communism [30]

I'd guess that most of the unemployed would prefere communist times.

Law / If you lose your job in Poland is it easy to claim welfare? [36]

Not sure about foreingners.
The walefare is about 500 zl/month. There is a catch, though. After 6 month, the walefare is canceled, no matter what.
Also, you need to have been employed for 12 month during the last one and half a year (or something like that) to get the walefare in the first place.