Law / British managers superior to Polish [52]

WTF?

By the way, did you pay that EU money back yet, as you have so often said you would?

The thread is about how the British management style is so much more effective than the Polish - the example given about the huge Olympic project being such a success compared to Euro 2012 is a good one.

History / Wrocław's Train Station: Not A Happy Place. [39]


I'm not a fan at all, though he certainly had his followers - admittedly in a rather lacklustre field. Did you know that Marlene Dietrich was a passenger on the train he fell off?


Exactly. Being 'noble' and being self-destructive are poles apart.

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


I'm not. Nobody is. As much as you dislike immigration, the world is changing. You can rail against it, go on marches, break windows. You will not stop it.

Life / History of Dzień Kobiet (Women's Day) in Poland: [13]


There already is such a day.

History / Wrocław's Train Station: Not A Happy Place. [39]


You should visit Wolsztyn near Poznan. They still have steam trains running normal services.

Work / Briton teaching freelance - and the law in Poland [21]

If I might ask, what English Language qualifications do you have?


This is all true except for the bit about a company bank account - you can use your personal one provided it is a Polish account. A month is about right if you include National Insurance (ZUS) registration.


It would make sense for the school to do it on an umowa o dzielo - and avoid all that.

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

What do you think the rationale is for that?

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


One of my friend's music students was pushed off a train on the way back from a lesson. An evening one to Otwock. The people robbing him just opened the door and pushed.

Since then there are security guards on the Warsaw commuter routes, but usually they just sit in the front carriage and do nothing.

Language / Use of A/An/The ...... Articles [186]


Yes. It is largely a literary form.

News / Why are PO and PiS the most popular political parties in Poland? [15]


In many ways they did that themselves when they formed a coalition with extremists and started to give press conferences to the Rydzyk organisation.


Still the most trustworthy by far.

USA, Canada / Would like to move back to Poland from New York after living in USA for 20 years. [155]

Hopefully you'll both have a great time.

Regarding teaching English, I'd advise getting the best qualification possible and living in Warsaw. Private sector language lessons are in many ways a luxury product and out in the sticks far fewer people have money for them and since the best (only?) way to make a good living teaching is to teach in-company you'd need to be somewhere with a good concentration of large companies.


If you can't live without Dean & Deluca or Harrods then maybe, but Warsaw (provided you have some money) is a decent place to live.


Yes. Good luck if you move here.

Work / Minimum basic salary in Poland [96]


And what percentage live outside big cities?

History / Should Poland be given ANY credit for ALLOWING Jews into Poland for 1000 years? [195]

Why the capital letters?

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]

So you object somehow to their right to free speech? If you had the ability to do so, would you have banned the march?

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]

It does rather sound like a fear of change.

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]

Evidently those women feel they aren't free. Since they're doing something about out, all power to them.

Every change in womens' rights over the past hundred years or so has been positive, and all were hard won by women who went out and shouted loud until they got it.

Life / Television in Poland - embarrassingly bad? [44]

I however do speak Polish and although I don't own anything as tacky as a television I do see it from time to time and the quality here is low. Far too many political discussions and far too little original drama and all too quick to jump on the bandwagon of inane talent competitions.

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

The origin of a word odd irrelevant. The use of a word is all that matters.

By the way, who are the 'PC brigade'?
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News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]


Weird.


Nonsense.


How do you know - you hardly ever come here?

Life / Television in Poland - embarrassingly bad? [44]

Very sensible. The quality of television has declined in a lot of places. In Poland it was never very good and is unlikely ever to improve.

USA, Canada / Would like to move back to Poland from New York after living in USA for 20 years. [155]


Given the choice, I'd prefer Warsaw. A manageable size, lower cost housing, a much lower crime rate (you can walk safely down every street at any time of the day or night), fewer traffic problems and a more relaxed pace of life.


That's on the high side.


This is all true.

UK, Ireland / There's not a lot wrong with Poles in the UK. There's just too many of them. [72]

Some estimates say that it's up to a half.

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





hmmm


Something doesn't quite ring true about this whole thread.

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

Everything about this thread, from the proliferation of guest posters through the semi-literate post from and alleged English Teacher and right through to the sheer implausibility of people claiming staff at a language school weren't paid for months (but stayed there) suggest all is not as it seems.

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

That sounds pretty derogatory to me.

What isn't derogatory about associating a group of people with basic grunt work. If you disagree, why not propose that factories should henceforth refer to workers doing the most basic, repetitive unskilled jobs as 'Poles'. Would you consider that derogatory or not?

Come to think of it.......

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

Nothing sudden about it. And easier to feel decent if language works towards that not against it. Al living languages are always changing so let them change for the better rather than allow whinging about 'perfectly good words' to cloak some of the less desirable attitudes of the past.

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]


Agreed, but at least in the EU someone can just drive to a clinic across the border without even showing a passport. I read a while back that 20% of abortions in the UK are for Polish citizens - seems a lot, but plausible given that its a country of 40 million, many of who have legitimate reasons to visit a friend or relative in the UK without attracting gossip about going there.

Life / Television in Poland - embarrassingly bad? [44]


But that was on the outside, and things are different then. Its on youtube, the singer is called Lynn Hamilton.


Agreed. And when you stop watching TV, you never really go back to it.

Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [417]


Very true! Everything right away, full (and usually joyful) enthusiasm to have it all right now and offended if someone is more reserved but no sense of next month.


More passive-aggressive.

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


This is the point really. When I used to do factory work back in the eighties, the crappest job in the factory was always called the 'Irish job'. A similarity in many ways.