Genealogy / Searching for info on my Grandfather, Kolata [17]


Probably different places, unless someone got the handwriting very wrong. Try googling them.

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Zembrzyce is a village near Krakow (then in Galicia). Jembrzyec doesn't show up. You don't mention if your grandparents were particularly literate (which many perfectly normal people weren't in those days). Could it be a misspelling of Zembrzyce?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zembrzyce

Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]


It does make it an interesting part of our history here in Warsaw.

Did you know that in the 18th Century, rich young European men used to go through Warsaw on the Grand Tour on their way to Moscow but never actually get there because of how good Warsaw was and how pretty (and accommodating) the girls were?

Genealogy / Popular Polish First Names? [152]


Is she a friend of tania Tanya z Astrakhanie?

Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]


I didn't quote him - somebody else did, and having read his diaries he just seems like some sort of sexual compulsive. But at least he lived in Warsaw, which is interesting slightly.

Life / If a Pole says something it must be wrong - a prejudice? [25]

A neologism but a lovely word.

Loaded with meaning though...

Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]

Casanova. Who of course lived in Warsaw, more or less on the site of the building where Heaven Sauna and Folk Gospoda are now. Maybe @goldenliberty, you know the site? Another famous (and near contemporary) libertine (Cagliostro) who expressed a very different view of Polish women lived not far away.

Life / If a Pole says something it must be wrong - a prejudice? [25]


Have you noticed this here in Poland?

Thought not.

Life / If a Pole says something it must be wrong - a prejudice? [25]

Or perhaps you'd prefer to expand on what you're saying.

Life / If a Pole says something it must be wrong - a prejudice? [25]

Damn right especially since the thing he brought wasn't what I'd ordered anyway.

A shame really because if anything I generally overtip. It was Sphinx on Nowy Swiat - on the one hand not exactly classy, on the other hand supposedly quite hot on staff training.

Twice in restaurants here I've had food brought that is absolutely clap cold - they just forgot to heat it. On neither occasion did anyone apologise.

It's part of the culture here - they'd rather cut their own heads off than admit they're wrong.

Life / If a Pole says something it must be wrong - a prejudice? [25]


This is true. I once heard a neighbour blaming the parking problems on our street on a particular ethnic minority (despite the street having been built after they all had to leave). Anything but blame another Pole.

A small but telling symptom of the denial culture here is a meal I had in a restaurant a few days ago. We waited ages for the starters and when the waiter finally brought them, he brought the main cause less than 3 minutes later. When I reminded him that we'd only just got the starter, he said it wasn't his fault; the kitchen had sent it. Easier to say that than either do his job properly and tell the kitchen to do it again at the appropriate time or at the very least apologise profusely.

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]


Yeah, yeah, yeah. Twisting and turning to try to evade the issue that this, like most other transport disasters in Poland, is somebody's fault. Sad, when so many died.

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

No Monia. The usual line was closed as part of the scheduled A154 modernisation programme. Though human error (as in most other Polish transport accidents) seems likely at the moment, as Boletus suggests, there could be several reasons.

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]


Why lie? The track was being modernised at the time.

It does look more and more like human error. The last time anything like that happened the woman whose job it was to operate the level crossing in question was jailed. But before jumping to conclusions we should wait for the inquiry. Let's hope the media don't let them sweep it all under the carpet.

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

In Britain they privatised it years ago with huge disagreement though the overall effect (except for ticket prices) has been positive.

Poland has some way to go here and PKP is still an unaccountable behemoth. Do you really expect full transparency in any investigation here or much less an admission of institutionall guilt in PL should that be appropriate?

News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]

What sums it up is that we see increasingly frustrated sniping by people with a track record on here of opposing immigration. People looking for an argument but not getting one because all has been said already.

While immigration steadily grows here without negative effect.

News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]

No. I'm having too much fun reading the sub Daily Mail comments which as ever come down to fear of that which is different.

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

One problem is that PKP is still a state-owned dinosaur with all sorts of vested interests in play to keep it that way. Another problem is that Poles can't blame the problems on outsiders so transparency is unlikely.

News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]

Yes. None of that rant has to do with multiculturalism. And the level of debate for the wikipedia page you cite isn't much better than some of RN's posts here.

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

Look at the record for rail safety in, say, the last 50 years in the UK.

Though one difference is that in the UK, you can trust the findings of investigators and know that at least everything will be transparent.

News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

If you look over a longer period and especially at the number of fatalities over the years, the record here isn't so bad.

News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]


Neither of those fit the classic definition.


Interesting that you approach the issue as 'a problem'.

News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]


But how would you define multiculturalism?

News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]

No no no. If someone actively disagrees with a simple statement, they have at least to say why.

Work / English native speaker without a teaching experience moved to Poland and got a job [66]


Very much so. If anything, success reinforces someone's way of thinking.


Yes, though the richest people often keep quiet about it. The ones flashing their money around on ul. Senatorska etc are the same tacky people you get everywhere from the Rhine to the Volga.


Same here - yet people sometimes assume you have a hidden advantage if you come from somewhere else.

News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]

In Warsaw the changes are noticeable now. A better place for it.

Work / BEWARE of K&S Krakowska Szkoła Języków Obcych!! [41]


The nurses in Lodz who weren't paid for months are a good an example as any. However they were in a very different situation to EFL teachers.

What puzzles me about this thread is that if it's true, why is anyone still working there?

News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]

Because the statement speaks for itself, really. Look at today's Warsaw for plenty of examples.

News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]

And which you can't (or won't) refute.

History / Poland did reasonably well in land terms out of the postwar settlement [270]


The last border shift was a painful one. But even if it could be done any other way, I still think people are happy with the status quo.

News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]


Indeed it is


Not outlandish at all.


Better still, can you deny that multiculturalism always enriches.

Remembering of course that the thread is about Poland rather than your racial prejudice ;-)