News / Poland is increasingly appreciating Women and LGBTQ+ community [43]


Let's start with Poland.

Life / Using less American stuff in Poland [81]


I'm not really a fan these days. I used to really like Japanese whisky but that became too popular and prices went crazy. I used to pay £120 a bottle for Yamazaki 18 year old (admittedly 15 years ago) but now it's 6,000zl a bottle! This week I bought a bottle of Nikka Days and it's very good for the price 2kwodka.pl/whisky-/1426-whisky-nikka-days-07-40-3700597306383.html


If I'm not drinking it straight, I don't bother with anything better than Evan Williams black. Hmm, will need to find an alternative for that too.

News / Poland is increasingly appreciating Women and LGBTQ+ community [43]


You claim that South Korea, Russia, and many Arab countries are examples of strong societies that have been built by family values. But not wanting to have a family (by not having children) is not a sign of family values. And neither is wanting to break up a family (by getting a divorce).

Food / Traditional Polish Soups. [140]


Is that not just for tourists?


Yes, I mentioned that in my post.

Life / Using less American stuff in Poland [81]


Must be more than that. I remember going to one in 1995. It was sh!t then too.


I must admit to accidentally buying a bottle of Maker's Mark 46 this week. Or at least to having bought it and then remembering we're buying as little US products as possible. I just couldn't resist it at 15% off. But I have balanced it by also buying six bottles of Scotch and a bottle of Japanese whisky.

News / Poland is increasingly appreciating Women and LGBTQ+ community [43]


It is that or the other way round?


Have you seen the birth rate in South Korea?!


You mean the place with a 70% divorce rate?


You mean the places with have modern slavery? Not places I'd like to see Poland emulating.

Work / finance salaries in Poland [17]


That's a director-level salary in one of the Polish subsidiaries of an international bank here. Ask me how I know. But you're not going to get a director-level post here with a degree in maths and eight years of "experience".


Or a team quite a bit bigger if he's in one of the secondary cities.


To be fair, if he had specialised skills or knowledge, a place could be found for him.For example if he knew the IFRS inside out. Particularly IFRS Sustainability Standards, that's a real staff shortage area right now. Or if he was an expert in CSRD compliance. But if his biggest selling point is a degree in maths, it'll be a hard pass from the finance sector here.


I think his attitude might have something to do with them not offering to help him find a job here.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [674]


The number doesn't really matter. Some being there does. It's like the western allies having troops in West Berlin during the cold war. Nobody expected those troops to hold out, their life expectancy was estimated in minutes rather than hours. But their presence was a deterrent.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [972]


My WIG20 and DAX tracking ETFs are certainly doing better than my NASDAQ and S&P 500 trackers. The WIG20TR tracker is up 10.3% over the last 40 days. Before you ask, it's got a 0.58% TER, name is Beta ETF WIG20TR


You looked at any stock markets recently? DAX has grown nearly twice as much as NASDAQ in the last month.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 5 [28]


At least in English the word has only ever been used in the pejorative sense. Now even the most idiotic morons on the far right are sick of hearing the word and so have switched to "woke" instead.


Certainly hasn't failed as a concept here in Poland, every day society here gets more and more multicultural.

Food / Traditional Polish Soups. [140]


Have you ever had czernina? I tried it and loved it. Had it a few times before I found out it's made of duck blood and a broth that's made by boiling duck gizzards and duck neck. Still liked it. I later found out it was traditionally served to a young man as a sign that if he asked for permission to marry a daughter of the family, he'd be knocked back (or if he had asked, the answer was no).

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [613]


To be fair, Germany is not a safe place for criminals, lots of them get caught and locked up. And, unlike the USA, you can't buy a presidential pardon in Germany.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [674]


That would be some masterly trolling. I'm vaguely disappointed that the leadership in Tehran haven't come out with a statement promising to stop protesters in the US from being shot by government forces.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [613]


He's not alone there, lots of convicted felons want to rewrite history. For example, the felon who follows you round this forum to abuse you wants people to know nothing about his many convictions on felony charges at four separate trials in three different decades and to instead think of him as some sort of hockey guru. Unfortunately for him the opposite is happening.

Life / Poland: worst teeth in the world? [112]


Implants are only to replace teeth that had to be removed (whether due to cracked roots, shrunken bone, whatever). Any dentist willing to pull a viable tooth in order to replace it with an implant is a dentist you should avoid.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [613]


Of course Trump can deliver a balanced budget and paid down debt: all he needs to do is tax the rich, just like Poland does (although I do appreciate that those who dodge their taxes in Poland or simply don't earn enough to pay taxes won't know that Poland does indeed tax the rich).

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 28 [267]


At this point Poland should be requiring all North Nigerians who want to set foot in Poland to demonstrate that they played no role in the invasions of Ukraine.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [613]


That's actually quite good news for the world outside the GOP. The only people crazy enough to win the primaries are too crazy to win over the floating voters who decide every election.

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Work / finance salaries in Poland [17]


If you don't speak Polish and you don't have an EU passport, you'll be lucky to get 6,000zl a month after taxes. And that's if you can find anybody who will bother jumping through the hoops to get you a work permit, which will not be easy.


Yes, but some are either going (e.g. Citibank) or gone (e.g. Credit Suisse). And why would they bother getting a work permit for you when they can either hire staff from EU states or from India (people from India are viewed here as more likely to work harder for the same money as people from the US and the UK and to be less likely to leave, i.e. they're viewed as better options).


He might get work checking KYC forms or something like that but even that would be hard if he needs a work permit. And wouldn't pay much more than five grand a month.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 28 [267]


Is he? Really? Perhaps Hitler was only 99.9999999999999% wrong after all.

Food / Traditional Polish Soups. [140]


I think you mean Toan Pho. I go there sometime when I have a beer or three in Pinta.

Have you been to the vegan ramen place on Jana Pawla? It's imaginatively named Vegan Ramen Shop but serves up some of the best ramen in the country, certainly the best veggie ramen in Warsaw. As a bonus, if you go there in spring or summer after a bowl of ramen you can sit outside the Ukrainian supermarket next door and enjoy some excellent Ukrainian beer for far less than you'll pay for Zywiec swill in the city centre.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [613]


How can anybody trust a man who wears that much eyeliner?!

Food / Traditional Polish Soups. [140]


You mean Tran Tran? It's decent, but when you're in that neck of the woods Uki Uki is two minutes away and the kama-age ebi udon there is probably the best soup in Poland.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 18 [613]


The E&W crime survey data isn't broken down to a small enough scale to let you compare it with ethnicity data (which is available to a very local level thanks to the UK census). But even if it was, you'd need to adjust for economic factors before trying to compare, and that data isn't available in much detail.


Very much not a minority. But the percentage of white people in the UK is going down. And so are levels of crime in the UK, which rather shoots down the theory that white people commit less crime.

Life / Poland: worst teeth in the world? [112]


That's extremely unlikely. More probably due to either shoddy work (which I've never had from a Polish dentist) or lack of oral hygiene.


The problem with implants is that there are various different technologies and the ones most popular tend to vary by country, which means if you get work done in Poland it can be hard to find somebody to do similar work in the UK (and vice versa).

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UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [300]


I doubt it. She probably should be though.