News / Europeén Union will finance the 2nd Warsaw metro line. Good news. [60]


About 11 months ago, and i have a whole crew of polish expats in aus here to tell me how life is like for the polish working class.

@piłduski

As we can see, apart from the nowyt swiat station, tis a total duplication of existing pkp railway and stations. For the most expensive metro in europe per km it sure is a waste of money when u consider the other pressing public transport projects the EU funds could have been spent on.

Law / Benefit entitlement in Poland for foreigners [37]

Reread what gumishu wrote again.

News / A Polish man has woken up from a 19-year coma [8]

haha , thank you for bringing that to my attention :)

News / Europeén Union will finance the 2nd Warsaw metro line. Good news. [60]

You do not spend billions of dollars duplicating infrastructure in case of an accident. when there are other pressing projects to be built. You keep harping on about paralasis if the cross river link gets shut down has this happened to you ever? didin't think so. Have a look here to have your arguements demolished. The fact that none of the metro lines go to centralna station is ridiculous as is building a metro line to shadow an existing rail line!

Law / Benefit entitlement in Poland for foreigners [37]

Having a Brittish Passport has nothing to do with wether australia is a republic or not.

Life / Expats/Immigrants in Poland: Needy, Greedy or contributor. Which one are you? [118]

well please explain for me then, i'm curious.

and if you believe that modern histororical has an impact on the psyche and personality then feel free to include that in your explanation.

sorry that meant to read modern historical events.

History / 1920 Battle of Warsaw - English trailer and film [55]

check the last comment "pliku nie mozna otworzyc. Ten idiota zapakowal "Disney film" dla dzieci!!!!!"

Have you actually downloaded this thing? :) I would wait till its released in the cinemas, very little chance of dl a copy now, and if so only a screener.

Life / Expats/Immigrants in Poland: Needy, Greedy or contributor. Which one are you? [118]

Before the goverment provided access to sport and cultural activities , with the fall of communisim this has not yet been replaced by a community or goverment area.

There were whole floors of the palace of culture dedicated to sporting and cultural activities for poles, all provided for free by the gov. When communism collapsed and the chicago school of economics dictated a top down free market approach, all these things were eliminated.

Life / Expats/Immigrants in Poland: Needy, Greedy or contributor. Which one are you? [118]

yes cms but my point is that in western europe social democracies it is the goverment role to provide these sporting facilities to their citizens, and it is subsidised by the taxpayers. Because poland pretty much adobted a american free market model various goverment departments did not fufill that role, and no money was spent on sporting facilities. Schools have no ideological or community motivation to provide cheap facilities to the community. Hence the position we find ourselves in.

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

Palikot has a lot to offer to secular, young poles who want to radically change the course of the country. A polish ron paul if you will.

Australia / Teaching my friend english, no experience [8]

thanks this is good, is there any books anyone can recomend? Or different learning methods that are better for busy people?

History / 1920 Battle of Warsaw - English trailer and film [55]

what good films has hoffman made?

History / 1920 Battle of Warsaw - English trailer and film [55]


I hope that was a joke.

Life / Polish Hip Hop [47]

draco like your style to this i have to add

youtu.be/I_YyySggojk

youtu.be/21hZY_2l574

youtu.be/pd4u2neioCg

youtu.be/9Ck7va-OdHg

Travel / NOT COMING TO KRAKOW- KEEP IT! [30]

@op

yes expats.cz is the gold standard of expat sites, pf does not hold a candle to it. But it does reflect the chaotic and spontaneous and stubborn nature of poland :)

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [380]

Well as you know ironside, many of the areobridges are unused and they still buses to ship people out to the planes. Therefore if you were late to boarding it might have been more of an effort than at an aero bridge, but yes you are right to an extent, it actually takes another 10 or so minutes to find the passengers bag and offload so sop is to delay the flight slightly for the passenger who has checked in but not yet boardedl.

Now i feel this may have been an individual staff problem and not an indictment of lot in general. They have made some good strides lately, and considering their ceo is only on 200k or so, are playing it smart. Their new long haul route to vietnam has been a sucsess and the only reason their long haul planes appear old is that they are waiting for the massively delayed 787s, like everyone else.

Work / Internships in Polish mass media [23]


TVN24!

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [380]

no but i know my airlines :) plus they have cool ads lately

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [380]

at least the vodka flows freely on lot :)

new lot livery.. looks pretty swish!

Work / Internships in Polish mass media [23]

oh the christian mafia as opposed to the russian? :) i don't listen or watch to any pis rubbish. Polsat news is a nice middle ground for me, even if it has a pro big business bias.

Life / Free online Polish Television (TVN). [15]

search is your friend: Polish TV Online on CMS website.

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [380]

To be fair, you don't know that.

Ironside, how many minutes before departure did you arrive at the gate? was it an iternational or domestic flight?

Did they put you on the next flight? How much extra did you have to pay?

Work / Internships in Polish mass media [23]

bakreno yes very entertaining, like watching drunk donkeys in mexico. i suggest you peruse this forum for finding that sort of work: goldenline.pl/grupy/katalog/Media_i_dziennikarstwo. By the way your english is pretty good, and if you work on your polish and you know russian you have many opportunities in russia and poland. Good luck!

News / Tusk wants to privatize PKP Cargo. [38]

The price is ridiculous , and the goverment should hold on to its assets, at least to subsidize the passenger side of things.

News / Tusk wants to privatize PKP Cargo. [38]


This. And the fact the the goverment will be constantly subsidising pkp cargo through investments in rail infrastracture. Privatised Pkp Cargo will pay ridiculously low rates for usage of tracks as is the case now when owned by the goverment. This is good when both are owned by the goverment but not if one area is privatised. I will do some research on the polish rail forums and see what general mood is.

News / The excessive use of EU fund in Poland [6]

luckily the coal seam gas is coming online, and if taxed properly will make poland a wealtheir country.

News / Tusk wants to privatize PKP Cargo. [38]

Indeed if the germans are afraid to privatise DB, why should poland go first with a much more inmature market economy?

@nahummer
nice blog post. A lot of effort when into it.
yes for the money they are spending to build 3 new high speed rail lines that go 250kph they could spend the money to get a multitude more tracks up to 150 or even 100kph. In a country where many regional trains travel at 40kph the hsr is 2 steps too far.

Travel / NOT COMING TO KRAKOW- KEEP IT! [30]

adamlyshit, shut your mouth, wypierdalaj stąd, wruc do wody i jakies comix, you give polish people a bad name, both in the country you left in bitterness and in england.


Unfortunately you are not an example for that. you are only good for painting englishmen houses, and then you can lick their boots for an extra 10 pounds, so in your frustration you come on this forum and have a impotent *****.. (yawn)

Wroclaw, don't hold what i wrote a long time ago, after first coming to this forum and experiencing harry and delphia instantly against me :_)

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

Exit poles say that palikot party got 10% ! This is amazing.. Good stuff. !