Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

Irish culture I suppose really.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]


Why wouldn't they? There are plenty of links between the two nations and while the average Pole wouldn't know the historic connections, Poles generally like Irish people and Irish culture.

Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhaoibh go léir to anyone who is celebrating today, wherever you may be, Irish roots or not.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

A Thiarna, dein trócaire orainn ............... ach go raibh maith agat :)

And no, they never sold Irish Spring in Ireland!

Off-Topic / Feeling tired all the time [75]

Robin, are you on any meds for psychological/mental health issues? If so, are you taking them? You shouldn't go off them without medical supervision.

Travel / How to get Polish entry/exit stamps in passport when entering the Schengen area in a country other than Poland [12]


If you're staying in a hotel, you'd have proof. Otherwise you could use any bank statements that show credit/debit card use for the period of your stay. You could also get a mobile/cell phone sim card. You need to show ID/Passport when you register your mobile number. It would prove you were in Poland at that time. You could even set up a doctor's appointment at a private medical service for something simple like a blood pressure check. Then you'd have a record of that. There are lots of ways you can document a visit.

As others have said you can keep tickets etc. If they're e-bookings you can print off the bookings and keep the. A stamp in the passport is not a thing anymore.

Travel / How to get Polish entry/exit stamps in passport when entering the Schengen area in a country other than Poland [12]


If you're staying for more than a month you can register with the local authority:

welcome.uw.edu.pl/during-your-stay/registration-of-address/

Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [91]


I know and that's a bone of contention for some of us :)

These images might interest you. One is of a letter typed on a very rare thing, an old typewriter with the cló gaelach font and the other a child's school exercise book from around 1920. The writing is so beautiful.

• 
  
  
• 
  
  

Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [91]


Not just a font in my opinion as it existed centuries before printing and spread from Ireland to England. It was developed by the Irish monks to transcribe Latin into Irish so they created the diacritics they needed to render the Gaelic eg. the dot over the b to represent the v sound. Also the monks created the spaces between words system that renders text more readable. They started it around the 7th century and it spread to the rest of Europe later.

News / European News and Poland Thread 3 [1013]

Remind me again, when did you last visit Ireland? And Tucker Carlsson - really? He describes Ireland as off the coast of Great Britain and seems to think we're part of the UK. The usual laughable American ignorance about 'Yurp'. Tucker Carlsson knows precisely nothing about Ireland or Irish society.


America is where all this nonsense started in the first place and a good deal of it is from the west coast. Worry about your own problems.

Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [91]


Yes, I do. It also meant the end of the lovely old Irish script in which people used to read and write the Irish language.

• 
  
  

Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [91]


You do if you're properly literate. The etymology of words should be respected, not simplified. The dumbing down of everything ........... make things simple and people become simpletons.

Life / Womans day in Poland? [242]


Like my maternal great-grandmother who died in childbirth, at the age of 38 after eleven pregnancies? Eleven children in sixteen years of marriage. The poor woman. If you really think that she or countless other women like her had those children for 'gratification' you are beyond help.

Life / Womans day in Poland? [242]


And I'm delighted. I myself would have voted No to both proposed changes in the Referendums. People voted 'no' for an assortment of reasons. A lot of people, including myself, felt that the replacement clauses were far too vague in their wording and as Irish people have a lot of experience in voting in referendums we won't vote yes for something we're not sure about.

However, more importantly I would also have voted No because I agree with the present wording:

1. In particular, the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives
to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved.

I absolutely agree with this point. Women do invaluable work within the home. The constitution was written in 1932 and nowadays though most women are working outside the home too, they continue to be the central figure in the home. I like seeing that respected and acknowledged.

2. The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged
by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the
home.

Point 2 may seem outdated by modern standards but it is still a model to which we should aspire. I would like to see the wording altered slightly to reflect the times we live in but the bottom line is that women should be given all the supports needed to make it possible for them to remain at home with their children if they wish to do so, especially in the crucial early years. It would be nice to see the government actually act on the promise made in the Constitution instead of simply paying lip-service to the idea.

News / European News and Poland Thread 3 [1013]


Well he was born there. And he is one of the Establishment. Went to an old and distinguished public school, (that's a private school, I know it's confusing), Oxford, then Stanford in the USA. Pity there aren't a few more Brits like him. The more educated, cultured people a nation can produce, the better.

Life / Womans day in Poland? [242]

@Bobko, quoting Lenin and Marx on women, seriously? A pair of self-indulgent lay-abouts who never did an honest day's graft in their lives. It's always the intellectuals who couldn't find their own arse with both hands, who seem to be the experts on 'the worker'. As for men theorizing about what's best for women, here's a radical idea - ask the women.


It's called guising. In Ireland going door to door dressed up is not unique to Hallowe'en but most of the other occasions are specific to particular regions eg. in Kerry they still celebrate the festival of Imbolc. There are four ancient Irish festivals, Imbolc, Lughnasa, Bealtaine and Samhain (Hallowe'en) which carried on and were woven into Christian festivals. At Imbolc a straw doll, the Brideog is made. She represents St Brigid. A group of men carry her from house to house and they come in and have to perform a song or dance, they usually have musical instruments with them and then they get something in return, in the old days some money, but now a bit of cake or a sip of whiskey or something like that or maybe a donation for a charity or local community project.

"They came over the threshold,
the Biddy Boys, with a straw doll
almost as big as myself, looking for money.
One had a mask with the face of the devil.
A melodeon started up. I was pulled
from my chair at the table and twirled."

"Away with youse now, and your Brideog,
my father said, giving them a handful
of coins. God bless you and may St. Brigid protect
you and yours, they sang from the door.
When the devil blew me a kiss
a wind raised the rushes from the floor."

Incidentally my granny played the melodeon!

News / European News and Poland Thread 3 [1013]

To let what happen?

Food / Taste of food in Poland vs other countries [186]


They're a cheap and quick source of protein. As Jon says they're for kids - or students. They're actually an American invention. I think a lot of adults continue to eat them as a kind of comfort food/nostalgia thing remembered from childhood. They're no worse than the tins of paprykasz or rather revolting pasztet you find by the thousand on Polish supermarket shelves.

Life / Womans day in Poland? [242]

Of course it is! Surely you knew that?

nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/inside-irelands-gate-to-hell-that-birthed-halloween

Life / Womans day in Poland? [242]


No reason why it should. It's not part of your culture. It's the ancient Irish Harvest festival with strong connections to our spiritual pre-Christian past and our mythology. Why on earth would you be celebrating it in Germany?

@ Bobko, sadly, I don't have time to address your nonsense now. I might find a moment over the weekend. Have a lovely evening everybody!

Life / Womans day in Poland? [242]

This Women's Day lark is a Commie thing but as I'm not only a woman, but a lady, I smile and say 'thank you' when wished the happiness of the day by poor, deluded foreigners.

We don't take any notice of it in Ireland :))

Life / Womans day in Poland? [242]

How kind :)

• 
  
  

Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]


Well, I have - even here in Warsaw. My elderly neighbour cried when we brought him and his wife a small Christmas gift, and he kissed my hand. His wife was stony faced though.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [167]


No. I didn't.


Don't be silly. You're not twelve years old. An adult understands that without the collective achievements of past generations, none of what we have today would exist. But I must say, I'm not sure what we've achieved exactly in the last 50 years that is worth celebrating. Perhaps you'd care to share what, in your opinion, those achievements are.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [167]


I wasn't trying to disprove it. I just was sharing some interesting information. It's called having a conversation.


Well now, we have run the gamut there, haven't we? From ancient times to present day. Up till a few hundred years ago there was little difference. In fact many non-white cultures were more advanced in several of those areas long before we were. I find it very hard to believe that you could be that ignorant. If you really are, then you're disproving your own point about supposed white superiority. If you're not, then why are you pretending to be? Ah, yes, attention-seeking.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [167]

I'm quite sure plenty of people got there first - but very wisely abandoned it ;)

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [167]


Quite possibly by an Irish monk, St Brendan the Navigator back in sixth century. Maps of Christopher Columbus' time often included an island denominated Saint Brendan's Isle that was placed in the western Atlantic Ocean. You should check out the documentary The Brendan Voyage. A British explorer undertook the journey across the Atlantic using the type of boat Brendan is likely to have had.

"Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. The vessel comprised forty-nine ox hides stitched together in a patchwork and stretched over a wooden frame. This leather skin was only a quarter of an inch thick. Yet Severin and his crew sailed Brendan from Brandon Creek in Dingle to Newfoundland, surviving storms and a puncture from pack ice."

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]


I think the pace of Polish speech has got much quicker over the last few years. Anybody agree?

Food / Polish Potato Varieties [24]


I'm really no expert - as Jon says there is a fair amount of overlap especially between the northern part of Ireland and Scotland. I would associate farls more with Northern Ireland. You do see them for sale in the Republic but they're not that popular, more of a thing for tourists. But I do remember my granny making something from leftover mashed potato and flour and frying it on the pan. The real 'Irish' potato cake type thing is boxty.

boxtyhouse.ie/

But again, very few Irish people make it at home these days.

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]


Yes, and although Poland doesn't have much in the way of dialects, there is slang and idioms which can be hard to pick up.

Travel / Visiting Lodz, I have few questions? [5]

The used car market is a minefield in Poland. Just be careful. There are lots of crashed cars brought in from Germany, given a quick fix and sold on as 'perfect'. You'll see that many cars have recently been registered in Poland and you can't check their German history. Try to get a car that has always been registered in Poland from its first registration. With the reg and VIN numbers you can check its history online, see how many owners it's had and find out if it's ever been in an accident.

historiapojazdu.gov.pl/