Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]


It's that Polish inferiority complex again ;)


It's pronounced something like "ka-fei" or "ka-fej" though ;)


Anyone else remember the coffee-related arguments on this thread? :D

News / Warsaw Modlin Airport is finally moving [29]

Hehe, no i dobrze, that will mean fewer chavs/Poland B cluttering up Okęcie, excellent :)

Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]


Indeed ;)


All true.

But what's wrong with just "Szymon Majewski"? "Kuba Wojewódzki" is the name of the programme, and the presenter. ;)

It's sad that Polish TV has such a low opinion of its own language, that it constantly feels the need to use English words in scripts and in titles.

Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]


Can you imagine the fun if Polish media was popular amongst English people :)

"Kryminalni" could go down OK with the average English speaker, but imagine if it was set elsewhere, and called "Szczecińskie Krajmfajterzy" lol

As for English words in Polish, Szymon Majewski Show really annoys me though. Actually, come to think of it, TVN are responsible for a lot of this sort of thing.

I remember once watching Sędzia Anna Maria Wesołowska ( a "court show" - TVN again, ffs) and some chavvy szmula was phoning her dodgy bloke up, and going "o nie, f*ck! odbierz f*cking telefon!" down the phone, or something similar, and I just PMSL, haha :)

Travel / Visa to Poland for a person from India [52]

The dog's probably full of filled condoms, so it's probably not worth a holiday tbf :D

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

Well, they've certainly improved their website since the last time I booked directly with them (a few years ago).

They even beat Expedia on price now, which was rarely the case before.

Cheaper tickets, seat selection at the time of booking, online check-in... and pilots who can land without wheels... what more could you want? :) If you don't like it, you could always use an American airline instead :p

Study / Shocking! Test standards in Polish schools. [165]

Beat me to it :D lol

Study / Shocking! Test standards in Polish schools. [165]


There was a compulsory basic curriculum which everyone had to take (Mathematics, English Language, etc), but some subject groups (e.g. languages) were optional.


If you apply straight from school, then they are essential. However, there are many non-school qualifications which (if I remember correctly) are equivalent to at least one or two "A" Levels each - I have three such qualifications, and they got me into university later on. I can easily meet any university entry requirements.


Things may have changed since then. And, as I mentioned before, I was in the highest and toughest group for three years. The kids in the bottom group probably never even learned how to spell "differentials", never mind how to use them ;)

Study / Shocking! Test standards in Polish schools. [165]


Well, I was in the top class throughout my time at that school, and we were worked much harder than the lowest groups, so it's a possibility.


Spot on. I suspect that a few of the respondents on this thread simply can't believe that the British educational system had such high standards at one time. Latin and Greek were optional subjects at my school (I took them, but didn't sit the exam in the end).


How am I supposed to provide evidence from textbooks I haven't owned for over 25 years?


Wrong. I left school at 16, so I did not take any "A" levels; I went into higher education later on, after gaining other qualifications after leaving school. I learned most of my mathematics at "O" Level (the exam was taken at 16).


No. Well under 50 but over 40. We're not all a few years out of school on here. You clearly did not go to school in the UK, so don't try and claim that I'm lying - I know what I was taught, and when.

Study / Shocking! Test standards in Polish schools. [165]


I know exactly what I meant, and what they are used for, thank you very much!


What would I achieve by lying? I suspect that I'm quite a bit older than Wroclaw anyway ;)

I left school a long time ago, so I took "O" Levels and not GCSEs - everyone knows that standards have fallen since those were introduced. In my first year of Grammar school (actually a comprehensive by this point, but they kept the title, lol), I was 13-14, and we were introduced to both differential and integral calculus.

My last Polish girlfriend's son was approaching 15, and I was asked to help with his homework, because he was struggling with basic geometry (things we learned before we were 13 back in those days). I asked her about Poland's allegedly "better" educational system, and it appeared from their responses that Poland isn't quite as superior to our system as some may claim. I thought it was laughable that a lad who was less than 18 months from leaving school was still unable to do basic geometry and algebra, but that's the way it was!

Study / Shocking! Test standards in Polish schools. [165]

I think that many people seem to get confused by the difference between the complexity of a language, and the complexity of a language for non-native learners. However, some languages aren't even that easy to learn for native speakers, at least in the written form. Why do you think Simplified Chinese was developed?

Study / Shocking! Test standards in Polish schools. [165]


We were doing this at the age of 13 over here; however, this was a long time ago. Based upon recent experience of helping Polish children of a similar age with their maths homework, Polish standards definitely appear to be falling, not just UK standards.

Perhaps a more practical approach is what is required:

"Sławek has just returned from Katowice via Amsterdam on a Wizz Air flight. His hand baggage allowance is overloaded by 1.75 kg, because he has taken delivery of 122 3/4 ozs of high grade on the way back to the UK. Customs have managed to seize 71 1/4 ozs. What do you get?"

And no, the answer isn't "a police caution for a first offence" hehe :)

Law / IT department (computer programming) - Opening up an Office/Business in Poland [53]


Which bigger planes? Wrocław can already take 747s (and therefore, one would assume, capable of handling A330s). Although there is significant East Asian business in the area, I think the city is a still a very long way from being a destination for A380s.


I'm sure that promoting a "Committee for the Insulting of Polish-Americans" (CIPA) would get us banned, but it's kind of overdue :)


One day these cowardly guest posters will think of more original insults, rather than turning everything into an anti-Jewish rant.

News / Poland now soft-pedalling ACTA signing [107]


He's the ultimate hypocrite.

Don't forget that this American-South African-Jewish-Germanic-Polish (or whatever he considers himself today) pûrnographer has called for:

(a) white women to be REQUIRED to marry blacks (therefore supporting the enforced consummation of those marriages, i.e., supporting the rape of white women) and

(b) looks forward to, and encourages, a future when everyone will be mixed-race, i.e., a future without whites.

That's far more racist than saying that you do not want non-white immigration to white countries.

Of course there are racists on here, but few have ever called for the eradication of any race, or that another race's women should be required to marry/have sex with whites against their will.

Back on topic: as others have discussed, the ACTA is clearly about controlling freedom of speech, and ensuring that multinationals retain control of everyone and everything, from music downloads to generic drugs.

It particularly angers me when I hear music companies whining about the money they lose. Funny how few of them seem to worry about offering contracts which ensure that musicians make hardly any money, even if they sell hundreds of thousands of records, because all the money goes to some fat suit-wearing comb-over-wearing "A&R man" - the history of popular music is full of such rip-offs, yet all they do is complain about how little money they earn. independedt/digital releases threaten these cartels, so they get upset and call for anything which affects their business to be banned.

For years, music fans have had to put up with changes in format - shellac, tapes, vinyl, CDs, Minidiscs, then digital downloads. The real issue here is that once you have an MP3 copy of a record, you probably won't have to buy it again. Now, wouldn't it be convenient if they could make MP3s and conversion software illegal, to prevent us from keeping our music in this format forever (and therefore have no need to ever buy it again)? That's the sort of thing this act really aims to do - to control what we think, and how we spend our money, to make sure that vested interests keep on getting the cash, and keep us on a leash.

We should be proud of the protestors, especially as over here, everyone will just sit on their fat arses watching Jeremy Kyle until it's too late!

UK, Ireland / Are Polish people importing a new wave of ancient racism into the UK? [402]


There were around 250000 of us before 2004. That's quite a big "minority".


If you had read this forum properly before trolling, you would think that Polish women only date blacks or Asians. So which is it - racists, or race mixers? You can't be both.


Rubbish. Poland has a long history of non-Catholic Christianity, and these denominations are able to practice their religions without persecution. How's the synagogue-building programme in Mecca going, by the way?

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


There's nothing wrong with a decent pie, is there? A pie is really just a bigger, baked version of a pieróg (note the spelling, Pol-Ams :p ), to be fair. Yet many Poles will say "pierogi are great" but English pies are "English muck", lol.

Why do so many people have such a problem with pies?? They rule! I had a Balti pie in Birmingham once, so I decided to make some keema masala pierogi. Very nice they were, too. The average Pole would naturally complain about the absence of that "wyjątkowy Polski smak", but it's my gaff, so my rules! I bet the French can't be so imaginative! haha

Besides, I'm sure that sascha can kindly tell us about that world-beating Serbian cuisine which everyone raves about. I don't think I'll be rushing out to buy a "Serbian Cookbook" any time soon. :)

I can't think of anything more overrated than French food, though. They do excellent cheese, but that's about it, imo. That's one way in which Poland ought to become more like France, though - Polish cheese isn't that great.

UK, Ireland / Are Polish people importing a new wave of ancient racism into the UK? [402]


We were here before Bangladeshis or Pakistanis were, believe it or not, so we're going nowhere.

Try stopping some of your own people from distributing anti-British, anti-gay, pro-Sharia leaflets in the East End, before you tar the rest of us with our alleged attitude to race or religion.


Spot on. While the white chavs were robbing Poundland and Lidl (so classy, lol), Sikhs were defending the whole community. Good on them.

Travel / Trip from Boston, USA to Poland - cost of stay / places to visit? [14]


Find a travel website online. It's not difficult.


I can think of at least three places in Warsaw alone. I've stayed in one of them myself. Nothing special, but clean and definitely adequate for a few nights.

It's even easier to find cheap accommodation if you can read Polish, which means that you can use Polish booking sites instead of the international ones.

USA, Canada / Starsky Food store opening in Hamilton, Ontario [17]

All that because someone complained about unhygienic toothpicks? lmao!

It's obvious that you aren't really a customer, and the statement above demonstrates your real agenda on here.


Exactly!

From food shopping to Hitler in 11 posts! lol

Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]


haha! pwnage! :)


Doesn't stop those "Taste Of Polonia" types from supporting PiS though! lol :D


Spot on.

Despite the fact that I'm one of those "immoral heathens" which Mr Polish Surnames despises so much, I'm even able to forgive my wife for cheating - which is actually quite a Xtian attitude in many ways! More proof that living by a set of man-made dogma doesn't necessarily make you a better person, and that it's possible to have morals even if you don't pray to a wooden cross, etc. That's one thing I do actually respect about Islam - at least they don't agree with praying to man-made images of gods! But if that's what you want to do, feel free, it's your choice. Just don't judge the rest of us who don't share your beliefs!

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


There's one positive aspect to this, though: they will no longer be able to blame Whitey! lol ;)

Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]


Only if you practice or believe in a religion. There are no such things as "holy sacraments" for non-believers.

Anyone with a reasonable level of intelligence and a questioning intellect can detect that religion is mostly about social control.

What people do in their bedrooms should never be of any concern to any government. In case you hadn't noticed, humans were breeding long before any organised religion decided that sex and childbirth was only acceptable within marriage. Human sexual intercourse didn't begin 7000 years ago, believe it or not.


Rubbish. I'm divorced, but I did not initiate the divorce, and I'm not the one who cheated. So how on earth does that make me guilty of any crime? My only "crimes" are that I worked unsocial hours, didn't earn as much as another man, and had different interests to my wife.

Faithless? Well, I have no problem with someone who is "faithless". If you wish to believe fairy tales about some imaginary being, and you wish to have your life controlled by a book of rules with with dubious and unproveable legitimacy, then feel free.

Do not insult those who disagree. For all you know, they may even be better and more moral people than you are. Considering the level of violence and human rights atrocities committed in the name of "religion" by "believers" around the world, you will understand why I am sceptical about any suggestion that religion in any way demonstrates a "higher" morality.

And divorce is not a crime, so it's not possible to become a perjurer through divorce, unless you lie in court during the application process.

I'd save your moher-style preaching for your Sunday services, and stick to the Polish surnames book on here, if I were you.

Life / A Polish comedy programme (swiat wedlug kiepskich?) [16]

Święta Wojna owns ŚWK any time; wish it was out on DVD! :)

Work / Is it true that foreigners in Poland can teach English without any teaching certificate? [30]


Just wait until Poland becomes more (ahem) "multicultural", and kids start saying London-influenced stuff like

oj krewny, Ty idziesz Junction z mandemami? :D

If they don't already, that is :D


This from someone who uses "U.S. English"?? lol

Life / Multiracial Poles [154]


A typical Polish Forum response. Say something positive about a country for a change, and you get attacked for it!

Next time I say that I had chopped liver and chicken soup for dinner, I expect I'll be called an anti-Semite! It's all par for the course on this crazy forum, lol.

Read what I wrote again - I was stating a fact, not an opinion!

A lot of people in this country do not want Turkey to join the EU - that is a fact, whether you like it or not. Whether I agree with this statement or not is not the issue here.

And I'll refrain from praising Turkish women in future.

Genealogy / I'm half Polish American, but I'm very Patriotic about my ancestry [47]


Kind of, but not quite.

The correct analogy would be what you said, but only if your mum and dad played for the team ;)


lol. thanks for that, I had no idea either!

That sort of thing p*sses me off, too - when I'm driving on the M60 and it says "Delays - M56 J5" on the warning sign, I'm like "where the **** is that", but if the sign said "Delays - M56 Hale/Wilmslow exit" I'd know whether it affects me or not lol :D

Genealogy / I'm half Polish American, but I'm very Patriotic about my ancestry [47]


How can you be patriotic about ancestry? I think you mean you are patriotic towards the nation of some of your ancestors.


lol :) I bet he looks like Andy Sipowicz :D


Well, I was brought up to speak the language in a family of Polish immigrants, I married a British-born Polish woman, and I maintain contact with Poland and its culture. But I work and pay taxes over here, and my entire daily life revolves around the UK, so I have no reason to claim that I should defend Poland. I have much more reason to defend the UK, if it became necessary to do so.

Poland (and Polish-born people) couldn't care less about people like me anyway - we're just "Angole" to them. It's sad that Poles feel this way, as not all nations consider their descendants like this; but that's the way it is, and I don't lose sleep over it.

So I'd say that I'm patriotic towards the UK, not Poland. Claiming to be a Polish patriot would effectively be like joining the Foreign Legion and claiming to be patriotic towards France. I may be of Polish origin, but Poland's not my country.

Language / Give me some reasons to learn Polish [126]


Absolutely.

I used to think Polish was a pretty useless language when I was in my early teens, and I even stopped speaking it for a while.

How wrong I was! Not only did it eventually help me to learn French, Italian and Czech, but it's been increasingly useful at work - and long before 2004, may I add.

I also learned some Cantonese, when clearly Mandarin would appear to be far more "useful"; but I'm far more interested in HK than in mainland China, and there are more Cantonese than Mandarin speakers over here anyway, so it made sense to me.

Life / Ephiphany - Święto Trzech Króli [12]


Why would us "heathens" care about your definition of sin, if it doesn't apply to us? We might have been at the shul on Friday anyway lol.

Life / What is wrong with Poznan? [197]


Strictly speaking, it's a list of the university rankings, rather than a list of medical school rankings - the Poznan medical school may well be much better than it appears. Then again... it could be even worse - especially if it's full of Americans who can't even cross the road safely yet! Maybe he's scared of the dark like Canadians are, eh? lol.

Besides, if you look on the UK list, it lists the "Royal College Of Nursing" - which is a union, and not really a place to study in the traditional "university" sense. And they list some pretty dodgy former polytechnics as being "superior" to well-regarded proper universities, so I find that list a little dubious to say the least ;)