Language / Simultaneous translators in Poland [5]


I do know a few translators who would certainly agree to such a test. Why pay an agency who'll take a cut when you can just go direct to the translators?

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]


And you can't vote in British ones after year years out of the country (or did they change it to ten?).

History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]


Not where most people think it did.

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]


Fine with me.

Travel / Mosques in Krakow? [131]


Yes there should be, if people who live there want one. The only people who should get out of Poland are racist bigots who besmirch the good name of Poland.

Could the mods please note that I clearly am not calling Ironside a racist bigot who should get out of Poland: he has already left Poland.

Travel / Mosques in Krakow? [131]

Muslims have been living in Poland since the 14th century. They fought with the rest of the Polish forces at the battle of Grunwald and have earned their Poland in our country. Sorry that bigotted idiots think otherwise.


No, but it certainly is run by such persons.

Travel / Mosques in Krakow? [131]


So by your logic it's OK for a man to beat his wife provided that his neighbour beats both his wife and his kids. Nice.

Life / Worlds most liveable cities (Krakow or Warsaw don't even hit the radar screens) [104]


Tut tut! Yet again you accuse people of breaking the law; it's only a matter of time before that foolish policy of yours gets you into very hot water.


Really? Is that why they claim that the net average monthly household income in Poland is 3,137zl? The Polish government tells us that the average gross wage in Poland is 3,466.33 zł. So either the Polish government is getting something rather wrong, or a British energy trading company is. I'm shocked that a Pole would ever take the word of a British energy trading company over that of their own government!

Travel / Mosques in Krakow? [131]


And your proposed solution to that is for non-muslims to take a backwards step. How eminently sensible.

Real Estate / ‘Promesa’ - do I need to use a Notariusz at the deposit stage (new flat from a developer [4]

Tell the developer that you want to use a notary now and that he will be paying for it or you'll be walking away. Right now prospective buyers really have the upper hand, so make use of that!

Travel / Mosques in Krakow? [131]

From your complete refusal to make any attempt to debate the issue and your complete reliance on ad hom insults, it is evident to us all that you very simply can not debate at all. Thanks for making it so crystal clear. Now, as you have nothing to add to this discussion, perhaps you could sit quietly while the adults talk. Thank you.

Life / Worlds most liveable cities (Krakow or Warsaw don't even hit the radar screens) [104]


Yes, uSwitch is entirely reliable. Proof of this comes from the title of their article "UK worst place to live in Europe: Quality of Life Index": in reality their own table shows that the UK is not the worst place to live in Europe and that Ireland is the worst place to live in Europe. Or at least it is of the ten EU countries which they bothered to analyse.


And of those:
net income UK 365% higher
VAT Poland 30% higher
hours of sunshine Poland 2.5% higher
holiday entitlement Poland higher but data clearly unreliable and so it's hard to make an accurate assessment
working hours Poland 11% higher
life expectancy UK 4.5% higher
Meaning that Poland wins one of the above slightly and one by more and the UK wins all the rest. But somehow uSwitch thinks Poland has the better quality of life!

And almost any idiot knows that prices mean very little unless purchasing power adjusted.

Life / Worlds most liveable cities (Krakow or Warsaw don't even hit the radar screens) [104]


Clearly you haven't. But just for a laugh, let’s have a look at the full six:

Net household income: UK 365% higher = UK huge win
VAT Poland 30% higher = UK win
Working hours: Poland 11% higher UK win
Hours of sunshine: Poland 2.5% higher = Poland slight win
Retirement age: UK higher but life expectancy also higher and pensions higher = = Poland slight win
Holiday entitlement: Poland higher but data clearly unreliable and so it's hard to make an accurate assessment = Poland win
Education spending (as percentage of GDP): Level as percentage of GDP so UK five times higher in real terms = UK huge win
Health spending: UK 30% higher in terms of percentage of GDP = UK huge win

Petrol: UK 19% higher but incomes in UK 365% higher too = UK huge win
Diesel: UK 28% higher but incomes in UK 365% higher too = UK huge win
Electricity: UK 26% higher but incomes in UK 365% higher too = UK huge win
Alcohol: UK 22% higher (is that why you like Poland so much?) = Poland win
Food prices: UK 5% higher = Poland win
Cigarettes: UK 370% higher but incomes in UK 365% higher too = Poland slight win
Life expectancy: UK 4.5% higher = UK slight win

Perhaps you’d like to tally up the wins there.


Please don’t lie: it was prepared by a UK company which specialises in energy. And one which is clever enough to say that the ninth nation out of ten is the “worst”. They must really be experts when it comes to statistics!

But interestingly, one of the sources of the information used was Mercer Human Resource Consulting. What was it you had to say about them?


Still annoyed that my knowledge of Polish law is so much better than yours that you are the one looking at a criminal record?

Genealogy / Looking for a lost friend (Katarzyna Serwin)? [9]


Just use google translate on it.

Life / Worlds most liveable cities (Krakow or Warsaw don't even hit the radar screens) [104]


Sorry Moania but I'm not a teacher. Given that you like to lie about other people's professions, I wonder if you could also be lying about yours.

I take it from the fact that your post made absolutely no attempt to deal with any of the points raised in my last message that you know you have lost yet another debate and so you just move to making personal comments. Pity, I always enjoy showing how stupid you are, nearly as much as I enjoy pointing out what a liar you are.

Travel / Mosques in Krakow? [131]

Jesus H Christ on Velocipede: I agree with absolutely every word that Des Esseintes has said in a post!!!

Life / Worlds most liveable cities (Krakow or Warsaw don't even hit the radar screens) [104]


Sorry Moania but it doesn't work like that: you want to claim that the situation of the average Pole is not so much different from the average Brit's, you prove your claim.


Which explains why you place so much faith in a study which simply looks at prices of good and makes no attempt to factor in salary levels to the real cost of those prices.

By the way, given that you are constantly telling us all how only people who are experts in specific fields should dare to express an opinion about anything, could you perhaps go into detail about your academic and professional qualifications in both statistics and economics? Thanks.

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]


Yes, you react to them with insults and with nothing else.


Apart, of course from the fact that if you had it, you will have renounced all allegiance to Poland and we all know that people who betray Poland have no right at all to have any say in how Poland is run.

Travel / Mosques in Krakow? [131]


Why should he?

Life / Worlds most liveable cities (Krakow or Warsaw don't even hit the radar screens) [104]


The 'experts' who conclude that Poland is better to live in because in the price of petrol, gas and electricity is about 20% lower in Euros but neglected to factor in that incomes in the UK are nearly five times higher. It seems that they are experts on quality of life in the same way that you are an expert on Polish law.


I haven't taught children since the mid 1990s. And the complain wasn't about undermining my position but about you trying to expose me to the loss of confidence necessary for a given position, occupation, or type of activity. Three year statute of limitation, isn't it?

Life / Worlds most liveable cities (Krakow or Warsaw don't even hit the radar screens) [104]


Rough translation: Moania just got owned yet again.


Do you mean that the fast train will pause to let people on and off at Lomianki or that the line will be built from Modlin to Lomianki and the thought will be 'You paupers who don't have a car can just get a bus from there'? Given that Warsaw still hasn't managed to connect the main airport to the city by either tram or train, despite train tracks going almost right past the airport!

Life / Worlds most liveable cities (Krakow or Warsaw don't even hit the radar screens) [104]


And with Warsaw, there is a train spur line 200 metres from the door of the terminal!

Not a lot of people know this, but there is actually a train station located underneath Terminal 2, which has been sitting idle for five years.

Study / Is polish "tytul magistra" equivalent to Masters Degree in Computer Science [3]

Good luck getting onto a PhD course in the UK with your Polishs 'Masters': a Magister is very simply not a Masters.

Travel / Mosques in Krakow? [131]


Yes, but he also said it was OK for a 50-year old man to marry a six-year old girl and then have sex with her when she was nine under the age of ten, so what he said clearly isn't worth very much by modern standards.

Travel / Mosques in Krakow? [131]


Were the prophets of any other religions paedophiles?


I am astounded that you in any way try to defend a man who had sex with a nine-year old child.


I condemn any and all paedophiles.

I also condemn liars.


Liar: the Talmud actually says that the death penalty is not imposed if the paedophile has sex with a girl below the age of three or a boy below the age of nine (but other penalties are imposed).


It does not count with regard to the status of the child as a virgin when she gets married.


Thanks for copy pasting it. Pity your list it little but lies.


I'm not the one here defending a man who had sex with a nine-year old girl and claiming that it is perfectly acceptable to have such sex.

Life / People living in Warsaw are rootless peasants! [41]

Holidays are the best times to be in Warsaw!

News / Polish Students Striking in Lithuania [80]


Thank you for providing such a perfect demonstration of why there will always be problems from Poles living in Lithuania for as long as there are Poles living in Lithuania: some Poles who live outside Poland are complete and utter dicks.

Life / Worlds most liveable cities (Krakow or Warsaw don't even hit the radar screens) [104]


Perhaps you would care to tell us where Władysław Szpilman was living at the end of 1944 if not Warsaw? He claims that he was living in Warsaw then: why are you calling him a liar? And what about Stefan Chaskielewicz? Why are you also calling him a liar? Dawid Fogelman? To you he's also a liar. And Jozef Dudzinski, just another liar to you. Henryk Beck? Roman Fiszer? Both liars to you. Alina Winawerowa: she's a liar too, is she? Witold £azowski? Jan Fetinger? Jan Gadaliński? Fania and Sewek Glazer? Basia and Mietek Chwat? Stefan Ślusarczyk? Franciszek Głowacki? Chaim Goldstein? Gabriel Cybulski? Dawid and Luba Landau? All of them are just liars to you.

All of those people said that they were living in Warsaw at the end of 1944 but you just have to call them liars. You are pathetic Moania.

Life / Worlds most liveable cities (Krakow or Warsaw don't even hit the radar screens) [104]

I know that, you know that; Moania, however, lies about that.

Life / The Blame Game (Have you ever noticed that a Polish person is never wrong!?) [205]


That's not clever: that furniture is jointly owned and by taking all of it and putting it where he can not use it is going to look more than a little bit bad when the divorce comes to court.