We’re back with the all-male finals of our Hottest Polish Politician contest. We are looking for one guy and one gal to become the Hottest Polish Polish Politician of the year. We will send the lucky winner a bilingual diploma they can hang in their office and show off to their friends. Last week the [...]
Don’t watch the news?! – See what you’ve been missing! Polandian presents the best looking and sexiest lads and lasses in Polish politics… We are looking for one guy and one gal to become the Hottest Polish Polish Politician of the year. We will send the lucky winner a bilingual diploma they can hang in [...]
The well-known Polish journalist Konrad Niklewicz (of Gazeta Wyborcza) claims that Britain is ruled by SEX. One must admit, that such a statement goes against the popular perception of Great Britain. “Sex, sex, more sex, a bit of sex at break time, and then more bang-bang” – this is the style of life of the [...]
Here at Polandian we announced a series of posts about women in Poland and feminism. In the first episode we give the floor to an actual Polish woman and feminist. Meet Katarzyna Hejna, who agreed to talk to us, over a cup of tea. She is a political science and sociology graduate. She works as [...]
Our bi-cultural Anglo-Polish blog becomes bi-lingual! Hooray! Drodzy czytelnicy i drogie czytelniczki! Nadeszła wielkopomna chwila. Od teraz na Polandian notki także po polsku! Polandian to bez wątpienia blog dwukultorowy, funkcjonujący w przestrzeni anglosasko-polskiej . Nie powinien być zatem wyłącznie jednojęzyczny. „Między nami dobrze jest” to tytuł nowej sztuki Doroty Masłowskiej, sztuki która ukazała się właśnie [...]
A mixed bunch making the headlines today. First off, there is promising news regarding the outlook for economic growth in Poland in 2009…or is there? Poland is set to be one of the least-affected economies by the current downturn, according to a new forecast by the OECD. The organization predicts that the GDP in Poland [...]
The city bus is real democratic institution. Anyone can speak, and everyone else (who happens to be on 34 at the same time) has to listen. It’s like a people’s television. And as with tv: you cannot reply. It would not be polite to interfere in other people’s conversations, even if you’d love to disagree. [...]
Continuing this week’s general trend towards whinging and ranting about subtitles, lektors, and other things translation related we bring you my favorite badly-translated Polish website. Be More Careful is brought to you by the Ministry of [the] Interior and Administration and is described as: …a guide, which contains the information and a list of measures [...]
Whilst looking for some statistics regarding Poland’s exports, which I have yet to find, I found this rather charming rant from the GUS, National Statistics Office. It is a little old now as it dates back to April this year but it seems that a few public prosecutors were, for reasons unknown to me, being [...]