History / 'Battle of Britain' won thanks to Polish aces !! [158]

No, not at all. The Bf 109 was supposed to use a Junkers engine but there were problems with it and so the RR was used until those were ironed out. The Bf 109 had a better engine than either the Spitfire or the Hurricane (at least until Tilly's orifice was fitted to partly solve the negative G problems the RR had).

However the MiG 15 and MiG 17 most certainly did use an engine which was a direct copy of a Rolls Royce jet engine (the Nene I think).

Life / Buying or selling a laptop in Warsaw? [26]

How many? What type? New or used?

Life / Buying or selling a laptop in Warsaw? [26]


Best place to look at the two underground passages on the corner of Aleja Niepodleglosci and Aleja Armii Ludowej (1km south of the central station). All the shops in Zloty Tarasy (the mall attached to Warsaw station) will be much more expensive.

History / 'Battle of Britain' won thanks to Polish aces !! [158]


I wonder why you didn't finish the quote. Could it be because you know that the full statement was that the best AND worst pilots under his command during the BofB were the two Polish Squadrons? I wonder.

And let's not forget that according to Bader the pilots of 302 squadron were gay.

Life / Buying or selling a laptop in Warsaw? [26]

I've never been ripped off there.


Yes I'm sure you can and yes it is very walkable (ten minutes or so I guess), plus it is easy to get to (straight down one street).

Here's a link to the website of the market
wge.com.pl/
It's in Polish but you can use google translate on it.

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]


Even in Warsaw 2000zl per month gets you a decent flat in the city centre. If you are stupid enough to spend £106 (i.e. 500zl) on a B&B in London when four-star hotels can be had for half that much, your advice about buying property might not be too valuable.

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]


Check Hotwire, they almost always have four-star hotels in London for under £50 per night.

Work / Tri-city area - Companies that offer Jobs for English speakers? [23]


Yet again you are showing how little you know about Poland: none of the Polish companies which have employed me ever expected me to speak Polish.

Perhaps it might be best if you Americans stuck to talking about your own country and didn't try to lecture us about Poland.

Work / Tri-city area - Companies that offer Jobs for English speakers? [23]

Indeed it does: most of the jobs I've found in Poland were not teaching English. But hey, thanks for giving us your expert American view on what our country is like.

News / Polish Students Striking in Lithuania [80]


Not allowing Lithuanians to use any Lithuanian surnames and first names which require Lithuanian characters would be the most obvious example. That and refusing to approve text books in Lithuanian for most subjects taught at the 'Lithuanian' schools in Poland.

Work / Tri-city area - Companies that offer Jobs for English speakers? [23]

No, Boy, I am right and that fact is proven by the experiences of people who do actually live in Poland and do have experience of getting jobs here without speaking much Polish. Of course, given that you do not live here and have never got any kind of a job here, it's not really surprising that you are completely wrong about getting jobs in Poland and what Polish companies expect.

Study / School of Polish for Foreigners at the University of Lodz [43]


And I know that there are far better schools than yours (especially schools which don't assume that prospective clients are complete cretins).

Study / School of Polish for Foreigners at the University of Lodz [43]

Neither is spamming this website. You get what you give.

Law / Getting Married in Poland without a visa? [23]

a) If one is in Poland illegal, one can try to get married but one should expect to get caught while trying.
b) The fact that you don't know that marriages are registered on the gmina level but residency permits are applied for on the wojewodztwo level very much suggests that you have no idea what the hell you are talking about.

UK, Ireland / Is moving to UK now a good idea? - antipolish prejudice of the Brits [231]


Good God! What did he do?! Getting banged up for motoring offences takes some real work these days. My cousin's paramour was recently up before the beak for dangerous driving while drunk and while disqualified (having been disqualified firstly for driving drunk and then having the disqualification extended for driving while disqualified). He got the disqualification extended again and 120 hours of community service.

UK, Ireland / Is moving to UK now a good idea? - antipolish prejudice of the Brits [231]


It might be if they were going more than four miles per hour.

Law / Is there some way to extend the residence permit here in Poland? I have a tourist visa. [50]


I do wish that people who know nothing wouldn't give advice which gets other people into trouble.

No it is not legal to take a train ride to the Ukraine in order to get another 90 day-visa. Once you have been inside the Schengen Zone for 90 days in any 180 day period, you must either have a valid residency permit or leave the zone and stay out for 90 days.

If anything, leaving Poland is worse than staying here: all you do is twice expose yourself to people who will take an interest in your passport.

More and more Americans are learning this the hard way every month.


If you get caught, you'll be deported. When you try to leave Poland, you may be fined and banned from the Schengen zone for a number of years.


Not legally you can't. If you are not in Poland legally (which you are not if you have been in the Schengen zone for more than 90 days in any 180-day period and you do not have a residency permit), you can not do anything legally and nothing you do will make you legal in Poland: you must leave and stay out for 90 days. Of course, if you overstay and then are not lucky at the border, you will need to stay out for a lot longer than 90 days.

News / Polish Students Striking in Lithuania [80]


Also barred are all the names which require use of Lithuanian characters.

Life / British working communities in Poland [12]


Not really. There are a couple of bars in Warsaw which attract the British expats but that's about it. There's nothing like the Irish community's St Patrick's day ball or the Burns Society's Burns night dinner.


No, not even close. For a start it is far far smaller.


In the 16 years I have been here, I have never noticed any problems at work which could be attributed to British/Polish clashes.

Life / British working communities in Poland [12]


This of course explains what those of us in Poland have noticed since Poland joined the EU: it is virtually impossible to find a doctor but it is very easy to find a plumber, a painter or an electrician.

Work / Planning a move to Wroclaw (a company offers me a Gross salary of 4000 Polish Zloty) [23]


No. And most certainly none that you will be able to afford on 4,000zl per month gross.

Work / Planning a move to Wroclaw (a company offers me a Gross salary of 4000 Polish Zloty) [23]


Plus gas, electricity, cable TV and telephone. Makes about 1900 minimum.

Law / Is there some way to extend the residence permit here in Poland? I have a tourist visa. [50]


No. Most certainly not.


Nothing that would work. You could try claiming asylum but they'd probably just laugh at you.

Work / Average monthly salary in Poland is around 1000 PLN (few hundred bucks). [387]

Do you have the right to live and work in Poland? If the answer is no, you will not make any money in Warsaw because nobody here will give you a job.

Law / Is there some way to extend the residence permit here in Poland? I have a tourist visa. [50]

Why would you want to do that? Even if you do manage to cross what is now one of the most tightly guarded land borders in Europe, you'll still be in Poland illegally. You'd be better off just not leaving Poland (you'll be here illegally either way but at least if you don't leave, you won't need to explain why you have no Polish entry stamp in your passport).

Law / Is there some way to extend the residence permit here in Poland? I have a tourist visa. [50]


Sounds totally foolproof. What could possibly go wrong? All you need to do is to twice cross one of Europe's most heavily protected land borders and avoid any situations in which you might need to show your passport for the three months that you are illegally in Poland.

Personally, the last time I even went near Poland's border with Ukraine, my passport was checked more than once, and I didn't even leave Poland.

On the plus side, the average IQ in Poland will certainly go up after you get caught and banned from the Schengen zone for a good number of years.

Work / Average monthly salary in Poland is around 1000 PLN (few hundred bucks). [387]


Yes it does give you the right. But is your Polish fluent? If not, you're not going to get much work.


About 12zl per hour in Warsaw.

News / Polish Students Striking in Lithuania [80]


No they can not, which is why nobody in Poland would be allowed to name their son Lê Văn Duyệt. And heaven forbid that anybody thinks Triệu Thị Trinh is a suitable name for their daughter!

Love / Was the strict Polish family the reason for our break-up? [20]


Some Poles find it far more acceptable for their son to have a black wife than they would for their daughter to have a black husband.

News / Prime Minister in Krynica on European integration [53]


Don't be sad: Poland isn't in a situation which is at all bad, despite what certain ultra-nationalist morons think.

And no matter how bad things get for Poland, at least Poles will also be able to justifiably look down on the pariahs of Europe, the murderous rapist scum that inhabit Serbia.