Love / Dutch farmer chooses Polish woman in reality TV show [10]

Farmer Wants A Wife: Marcel is already living together with Polish Ksenia.

The farmer from Limburg (Stu: Dutch province, Maastricht) Marcel, who is searching for the love of his life in the TV-hit "Farmer Wants A Wife", it seems has already found her. The Polish Ksenia already lives on Marcel's farm in Kessel-Eik. Villagers didn't only spot her on the farmyard, but she also seems to have taken control of the farm. On the sign with a dangerously growling dog, she has already translated the sign into "Be aware, I'm guarding here" in Polish. But Marcel better take care, because he has had a Polish love already twice. And twice it failed, but Marcel thinks this is third time lucky and that Ksenia is his true love.

Marcel keeps quiet about the fact that Ksenia already moved in. He has had to sign a contract in which it is stipulated that ...

(I don't have an account and I don't intend to pay for the rest of the article, if you don't mind - I guess you get the idea).

I'm sorry about the stupid article ... it's a worthless website ... but since you wanted to have a translation.

News / Europe: Influence of Warsaw would rise, while influence of Brussels must drop? [18]

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It's rather impossible to live in WRO when I am an officer in the Dutch armed forces, now isn't it? How about I live in the Netherlands and have an apartment in WRO together with my wife and I go there every so often. Therefore, there is no question of a double salary either.

News / Europe: Influence of Warsaw would rise, while influence of Brussels must drop? [18]

Before you ask stupid questions, NomadatNet, just have a look at my profile, okay ... it's all there for everybody to see.

News / Europe: Influence of Warsaw would rise, while influence of Brussels must drop? [18]


Such as ... ?! Motorways in Poland, other infrastructural building works, school exchanges, ..., ... ? Really helps the rest of Europe, I'm sure ... :S.

News / Europe: Influence of Warsaw would rise, while influence of Brussels must drop? [18]


You conveniently forget to mention that this is due to the fact that Poland is the number 1 recipient of EU-grants.

Travel / Best way to get from Lodz to Warsaw? [48]


Okay ... you look for a journey between Warsaw (Warszawa) and Lodz (£ódź Fabryczna).

Then you will get an overview. You can show the details for the selection you have chosen. And when you click on "Fares", you'll see what it will cost you. Mind you ... Warsaw central station is NOT near the airport.

In a TLK you have a first and a second class (prices PLN 47,50 or PLN 33,30 respectively), in a IR you only have 2nd class (price PLN 26,00). Travel times don't differ that much. If I were you, I'd go for a TLK and first class.

For info about £ódź, you'll have to ask someone else. I know Wrocław ... not £ódź.

Life / $3,000-$4,000 a month - would we have enough money to live in Poland? [273]


Just send him to a Polish school. Will work out just fine. My father sent me to local schools in France, Belgium, and Germany and I've never regretted it. As long as you keep talking English to your son and your wife Polish, he'll have the best of both worlds and he'll be/stay bilingual.

Travel / Best way to get from Lodz to Warsaw? [48]


Try here ... rozklad-pkp.pl/?q=en/node/143


Take a taxi outside the airport (don't be conned by the guys inside offering you a taxi), or take the 175 bus downtown. Should set you back around PLN 40 for the taxi or PLN 2,80 for the bus. Look for a hotel before you leave. Most of the staff speak English, so no worries about that.

I'm sure others will help you with your questions regarding £ódz.

USA, Canada / Think you're Polish (and live in the USA)? [161]


And a whole lot of Germans too ... you should hear them complain (and rightly so) about our tomatoes and cucumbers, which pretty much taste the same :(

History / Polish flag over the Reichstag first? [399]


Jesus ... you are a simple mind! As if every German during that time was a Nazi. Only someone with no braincells at all can make statements like that. And don't try to comment, Mr. Dickwad. You've lost all credibility or the faintest notion of respect with a remark like that. I won't bother talking to a cvnt rag like you.

Language / cookery, word usage question [19]


Yes, you are right ... they are. But they cook like angels. So I thought it would be a shame not to mention them.

Language / cookery, word usage question [19]


You should watch English cookery programs more often. I can think of a couple of outstanding British chefs (apart from the obvious like Nigella Lawson - but who cares what she is cooking, since people just watch her, not her cooking - , Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay).

There are the likes of James Martin, Rick Stein (if you like fish), Galton Blackiston, Gino D'Acampo (for Italian), Levi Roots (for Jamaican), Marcus Wareing, Michael Caines, Paul Rankin, Richard Corrigan, Stephen Terry, Tom Kitchin, Alain Ducasse, etc ... etc ... etc ...

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]


And this "this" is what?

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]


Ender, please learn to read. Torq himself pointed to it in his #133.

Life / walk on the 1st january? ( City of Glogow) [9]

Probably it was an annual charity march, organized by Jerzy Gorski, whose aim is to raise money for the poor. Here's the article about it (miedziowe.pl/content/view/46506/189/).

News / Today's holiday ("Three Kings") - Is everything closed in Poland? [25]

I made a reservation at Oregano in WRO in an hour. So I know for sure that that one is open. And my Jabka is open from 1200 until 2000, thank goodness. After dinner I'll try to have a drink at "Schody do Nikad" (although I am not sure whether it is open yet). I hope it is less crowded.

But probably mine is not the answer you were waiting for ... ;).

Love / Visiting Polish Girlfriend at her family. How to greet her family members? [7]

Elderly women might appreciate a kiss on the hand ... you know like d'Artagnan. But don't really touch the hands with your lips, let alone leave the hand dripping with your saliver afterwards.

You might want to try to kiss your "sisters-in-law" three times. Not on the mouth or any other part "controversial" part of the body of course ... :D. But three times on the cheeks, again without leaving them dripping with saliver, is the safest (I 've asked my Polish wife and she said it'd be safest). Don't kiss your future "brothers-in-law", though. We are not in an Arab country ... :P.

Take some flowers for your mother-in-law (or Lindt chocolate), maybe some vodka for your father-in-law. Your sisters-in-law might like the Lindt chocolate as well, not the flowers. And if your bottle of vodka is big enough, your brothers-in-law and you might be able to enjoy it as well.

Try to learn some basic phrases. Thank you, your food is the best I've ever tasted, I feel really welcome, etc ... in Polish. I mastered it and I don't have such a high IQ. And look as if you mean it when you are saying it.

For the rest ... just enjoy the different cultures. You'll be having a ball. Try to start some funny interludes and have your girlfriend translate them. Don't be too controversial though ... but I guess you are a sensible guy, so you know what I mean.

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [682]


Didn't he urge them not to land? And didn't the pilot decide to go against the controller's advice (he obviously did cause he crashed the plane into the ground)? Or did I miss something? As long as there is no hard evidence to the contrary, I will continue to believe that it was a simple matter of CFIT. A phenomenon which is (unfortunately) no exception and which happens even to the best pilots (especially in fog, or at night and without the aid of "modern" instruments).

Love / Foreign Men and Polish Girls for Citizenship [59]


Then can you please explain to me why every so often I hear these awful stories about honour killings ... ? I mean, of course not all Turks are monsters, but these stories tend to stick in ones mind. And, correct me if I am wrong, but these things aren't just something that happen "once in a blue moon".

News / Poland is important in the global economy crisis? [33]


With the help of EU-money (so Germany's, Belgium's, France's, Dutch) ... a kind of -allbeit belayed- kind of Marshall-plan.

Look at Wroclaw's railway station: build by the Germans and renovated by the EU. (And still the damn railway companies say they would like to be exempt from paying compensation for delayed trains for the next 4 years - g0ddamn incompetent bunch.) Not much Polish money invested there, if you ask me. Look at all the new motorways around Wroclaw: build by the Chinese if I am not mistaken and paid for by the EU. And the list goes on and on and on.

I wouldn't beat the drum so loudly, if I were you.

Don't forget that Poland currently is the biggest recipient of EU-grants.

Jee ... and if you have to be proud of the fact that only NOW a Ferrari dealership has opened ... holy crap! Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands and a lot of other countries (even Hungary, the Chech Republic and Rumania!) had them for years and years. Wow ... what an achievement ... :-S.

Cheap, Polonius ... cheap.


So ... they were offered it and said no. Then don't complain 60-odd years later you didn't get it.

News / POLISH CHILD ABUSING A CAT.. [74]


Not only that ... but they often end up battering their wives and -what's even worse- pdophiles. According to a 1997 study done by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and Northeastern University, animal abusers are five times more likely to commit violent crimes against people and four times more likely to commit property crimes than are individuals without a history of animal abuse.

Many studies in psychology, sociology, and criminology during the last 25 years have demonstrated that violent offenders frequently have childhood and adolescent histories of serious and repeated animal cruelty. The FBI has recognized the connection since the 1970s, when its analysis of the lives of serial killers suggested that most had killed or tortured animals as children. Other research has shown consistent patterns of animal cruelty among perpetrators of more common forms of violence, including child abuse, spouse abuse, and elder abuse. In fact, the American Psychiatric Association considers animal cruelty one of the diagnostic criteria of conduct disorder.

When you look at one of the perpetrators who tortured and killed Jamie Bulger, one is inclined to think that even resocialisation doesn't work: "On 21 June 2010, Venables was charged with possession and distribution of indecent images of children. It was alleged that he downloaded 57 indecent images of children over a twelve month period to February 2010, and allowed other people to access the files through a peer-to-peer network. Venables faced two charges under the Protection of Children Act 1978. On 23 July 2010, Venables appeared at a court hearing at the Old Bailey via a video link, visible only to the judge hearing the case. He pleaded guilty to charges of downloading and distributing child prnography, and was given a sentence of two years' imprisonment. At the court hearing, it emerged that Venables had posed in online chat rooms as 35-year-old Dawn "Dawnie" Smith, a married woman from Liverpool who boasted about abusing her eight-year-old daughter, in the hope of obtaining further child prnography. Venables had contacted his probation officer in February 2010, fearing that his new official identity had been compromised. When the officer arrived at his home, Venables was attempting to remove the hard drive of his computer with a knife and a tin opener. The officer's suspicions were aroused, and the computer was taken away for examination, leading to the discovery of the child prnography, which included children as young as two being raped by adults."

Knowing this, I understand the calls of some of you on this forum to have the kids euthanised, cause it seems that whatever resocialisation or rehabilitation you throw at them, it'll never work,

Language / How can i teach my child Polish language? (I'm Russian, my wife is Polish) [35]

What others have said as well, just become bilingual. Your wife speaks Polish to your daughter and you speak Russian. And you speak Russian to your wife and your wife speaks Polish to you. I've been brought up bilingually. My mother always spoke (and speaks) German to me, and my father Dutch or French (I've lived in France and Belgium as well).

My father never spoke German to my mother and my mother never spoke French or Dutch to my father. It worked perfectly. But -what others have said as well- your wife should speak Polish to your daughter and you should speak Russian to her ALL THE TIME. It'll work out a treat.

Your daughter will soon pick up the languages, especially at the age of 5.

News / US Military: The Army of Poland is crap. [124]

Not only the media ... .

Think of the following scenario: our Polish general feels he needs extra troups/extra equipment/extra this/extra that. He's been asking for it many a times in Warsaw, but he got nothing out of there. Our general and his American counterparts have frequent meetings.

Maybe the American military leaders tell the general to increase patrols or whatever. Our general will answer that he would love to, but because of <this or that> he isn't able to. And then he gets an idea: he asks his American counterparts to produce some general, anonymous statement that the Polish soldiers aren't up to their job, because as things stand he cannot guarantee full and meaningful deployment of his troops. (The Afghan security forces say the same about all the foreign troops, so that doesn't really count).

So these American counterparts "coincidentally" run into this Times-reporter who probably is embedded and they do exactly what the Polish general wants. It not only helps the Polish general, but it helps them too.

Now this message WILL be heard in Warsaw. The general can say to his superiors "Hey, I didn't say that, but maybe we should review <this or that>, because our American allies feel that <etc>".

Quite often, rychlik, you can also USE the media.

Love / How to ask the Polish parents for her hand in Marriage? [32]


I have to agree with Olaf and aphrodisiac.

I didn't ask my mother-in-law for "permission". I asked my now wife whether she wanted to marry me ... I thought that would be more important than asking my mother-in-law whether she'd approve (since I had already noticed she kinda liked me anyway).

But after I asked my wife (in front of her mother), my mother-in-law said: "I'm glad that you asked and I approve ..." :D.

Food / Why carp for Polish Christmas? [157]


The carp is dead and my mother-in-law alive (at least that is my plan at the moment ... :D)


No, just like that ... with a nice piece of french bread. The port has completely soaked into the cheese. It's absolutely gorgeous.

Food / Why carp for Polish Christmas? [157]


Yep ... I'll be flying to Wroclaw tomorrow. Then on the 23rd, I'll put my wife, my mother-in-law and a carp (and most of the other traditional Polish meals/ingredients) in a car and drive back to the Netherlands to celebrate Christmas over here, together with my mother.

No carp for me though. This afternoon I'll go to the butcher's and order a nice piece of venison steak. I'll serve it with some nice garlic potato wedges and a red wine sauce. Infinitely better than carp, if you ask me. I particularly look forward to my dessert: a nice piece of stilton, soaked for two weeks in red port. I can't wait.

Life / During winter in Poland, does petrol in the car freezes [60]

Life / During winter in Poland, does petrol in the car freezes [60]


Yes, petrol can solidify as any fluid can. Petrol solidifies around -50 degrees C.

Diesel freezes in stages. The first stage is the so-called cloudpoint, where the paraffines in the diesel start to solidify. When the temperature drops even further, then you reach the Cold Filter Plugging Point; that doesn't mean the diesel is frozen, but it means that at these temperatures, the filter might clog up by paraffine particles.

In the winter (from mid-October) companies in Europe sell so-called winter diesel. In this diesel they use less paraffines and more so-called "light" elements, but they also add so-called "flow improvers" to guarantee a certain viscosity.. This winter diesel is "protected" until -19 degrees C.

Hope this helps a little.

Law / Zloty lifts Poland's Economy [32]

The article BB showed says something different, if you ask me. First there was a property bubble. Nowhere do I see IMF or EU bankers mentioned. I can only conclude that you are wrong in your assessment.

Polonia / The Netherlands: run-down districts happy with Polish immigrants [59]

Of course.

But that doesn't mean that if there are cases of exploitation, they should be dealt with severely.

Again ... I guess there is a difference between signing a contract in Poland and signing one in the Netherlands, since here every branch of industry has its own "Collective Labour Agreement", signed between employers and trade unions.

If the trade unions are cross about something, they will strike, as is the case now in the distribution centres of our biggest supermarket, where a lot of Polish people work (at least they do in the village where I live).