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SeanBM   
11 Oct 2009
History / Matters of Propaganda...Or: how was the West portrayed in Poland? [150]

West was supposedly getting ready to invade the glorious communist

the USSR was at stage 10, Poland at stage 1.

In Vilnius, Lithuania (ex-U.S.S.R) there are many bomb shelters built to defend against when the Capitalists invade.
They even have tunnels stretching across the road from the bomb shelters.
I had a friend from Lithuania visit me recently and I was surprised, that he is pro-communist.
He is 27 years old, which is unusual, as I find the oldest generation to be the ones who miss communism the most, their whole world got turned upside-down but for a young fella to think the same, it is strange, the propaganda worked.
SeanBM   
11 Oct 2009
Food / What are the most popular drinks in Poland? [23]

The Dublin Mountains? Is that a pub somewhere? ;) ;)

That'd be the "blue light".

Ah tam, it's not as bad as you think. As I said, I drink it chilled.

Exactly and look what happened to you.
Let this be a warning to you kids <waves finger at everyone reading>
SeanBM   
11 Oct 2009
Food / What are the most popular drinks in Poland? [23]

I loved the water flowing from the rocks in the Scottish hills :) The purest of the pure almost :)

Absolutely, well... the Dublin mountains.

What, the priests and Catholic followers didn't tell you that they cross themselves with Żywiec strawberry still water?

No Catholic or God fearing man or any other for that matter, would dare put that stuff near themselves or anyone they loved, if they knew what was good for them.

It is worse than that orange drink that they mixed with milk.
SeanBM   
11 Oct 2009
Food / What are the most popular drinks in Poland? [23]

chilled still water

Is great, nothing like drinking it from a natural spring.
But you are talking about the unholy of the unholy, flavoured water.
SeanBM   
11 Oct 2009
Food / What are the most popular drinks in Poland? [23]

Despicable, if there was ever a thing to be called supernatural, unholy or just down right unnatural it is the flavoured water.
It taste of chemicals, how do I know I hear you ask?
Well i will tell you bloody how, I like many a tirsty man have gone in to a shop or petrol station to buy some refreshing water to wash my thirst away but in my haste i have, on occasion, picked up, by complete and utter accident, the perfumed chemically induced flavoured water and now I was not only left with a fierce thirst but a crapy chemical taste in my parched gob.

No, no, no, Flavoured water is the devil's holy water.
SeanBM   
10 Oct 2009
USA, Canada / USA, the nation of immigrants [30]

many 'Irish' Americans seem to have very little understanding of the situation in both the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland with regards to religion, the economy and so on.

I would say many British "English" do the very same.
SeanBM   
10 Oct 2009
History / Matters of Propaganda...Or: how was the West portrayed in Poland? [150]

Can anybody tell me more about this?

I have had very interesting and long conversations with the more seasoned generation of Poles.
Very interesting, I have not come across that generation coming on PF.

Can anybody tell me more about this?

A common example of anti-West propaganda, that was spread here, was that in the West very many people are homeless.
They would even have collections of blankets here to send to the west for the homeless people.

Also this Poland Propaganda posters might be of interest.
SeanBM   
8 Oct 2009
News / Polish converts: When did you have your revelation? [29]

To all those who have converted to praising Poland and Poland alone

In that case, I think there are a lot of atheists on here :)

I had my revelation when I first came to Krakow and fell in love with the place.

I think there should be an age minimum for these forums.

Physical or mental age limit?
People must act their age not their shoe size.
SeanBM   
6 Oct 2009
UK, Ireland / What is good about being in the UK? [140]

I'd sure like to know some Poles opinions.

I am not a Pole but I am not from the UK, so I am not entirely cheating am I?

The Museums and the Theatres.
SeanBM   
6 Oct 2009
UK, Ireland / Sad life of a Polish migrant in UK. Ch. 3 - Food [93]

So you really think I meant to call you a genius?
You really think that you are a better source than Wiki?
And you really think that Peri Peri had to have come from Portugal so that I would be wrong?
Look at yourself, take a good long look at yourself.
SeanBM   
6 Oct 2009
UK, Ireland / Sad life of a Polish migrant in UK. Ch. 3 - Food [93]

The sauce yes. But I was talking about the peppers.

I know it as being African from the chicken Piri-piri restaurants in London, well they are more like fast food places and boy oh boy are they hot!

I was checking it out, that is why I had the link to Wiki and then RN shoots off his mouth showing us all what a genious he is.

Edit*

Wiki: Not the best source of information.

Not as good as you? Hahahahahahaha
SeanBM   
6 Oct 2009
UK, Ireland / Sad life of a Polish migrant in UK. Ch. 3 - Food [93]

You should try Indonesian food - absolutely gorgeous, I'm telling ya!

I'd love to.

Lets face it, European food is very similar.
I like spices even though bland food is probably easier on my system but Piri piri or the many Asian foods just blow the foods we have in Europe out of the water.

I still like European food but not the top of my list.
SeanBM   
6 Oct 2009
UK, Ireland / Sad life of a Polish migrant in UK. Ch. 3 - Food [93]

European food is not as nice as Asian but I will probably not move there, hhhmmm why not....?
Maybe I will move there, if for nothing else the food :)
Italian and French are nothing in comparison to Nepalese, Indian, Thai or Chinese.... mmmMMMmmm...
SeanBM   
6 Oct 2009
UK, Ireland / Sad life of a Polish migrant in the UK. Ch. 4 - Language [66]

The English that they teach us at school is not the same English as is spoken.

English is the most widely spoken language in the world.
I remember two Thai people speaking English together and I could not understand a thing :)

A Polish friend had studied English and went to London years ago, London being the capital of England, where English is the main language and she was also shocked at the way they speak.

But it must be noted, due to Polish people being fairly recently moved about Poland, there are very few dialects in Poland, adding to the impact of going to a country where there are many.

this old geezer with watery eyes of an alcoholic just came to us

I think that is the problem there, not the nationality.

I enjoy your threads and topics, I think you show a balance in your views from your own experience.
SeanBM   
6 Oct 2009
Life / Haunted Homes in Poland [173]

SeanBM is an arrogant atheist, too bad for him I'm an arrogant agnostic.

:)
Can religions be arrogant?

I am not going to attempt to answer your points 1-3 as they deal with the same false logic in number 4, i.e. we can't prove it so I am unsure if Zeus exists, so I will hedge my bets and sit on the fence.

4. How can you fully prove there is no God or afterlife, just as one cannot fully prove that there is one. Which leads to Pascal's theorem, one cannot absolutely disprove something that doesn't even exist to begin with.

Pascal's theorem???

Even if he made such an argument as "one cannot absolutely disprove something that doesn't even exist to begin with."
It is a bad argument at best because there are so many gods/superstitions/made up imaginary places, animals etc that it would be silly to 'believe' them all, with no proof just because you can not prove they don't exist.

So if I say a cat the size of an elephant is hiding behind the moon, you would be sceptical but you would not disbelieve what I say.

Zues :)

As Einstein once said, "We shall never know the truth to it all, for wonder and unknown always need exist."

Einstein never said that.

Here is something he did say "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."

My friend is a ghosthunter and he has all the apparatus.

If there's something strange,
in your neighborhood,
who are you gonna call,
Your friend with all the apparatus?

What equipment does he have?
Does he shop in the Ghost humter Store?
It always impresses me that you can find anything on the net hahaha
SeanBM   
5 Oct 2009
Travel / Visiting Krakow in December, what do you think? [24]

I wanted to make sure it was not a mistake.

It is not a mistake but it is unfortunate you could not see it at mid winter or summer.

I only the Cracow marvels in summer so can't say it's equally charming in December

I would say it is equally charming in the snow, so December is not ideal but Krakow is still a great place.
SeanBM   
5 Oct 2009
Travel / Visiting Krakow in December, what do you think? [24]

It depends on what you like.
What is it that you are interested in seeing in Krakow?
It is cold, so dress warm and it can rain but not like it does in the UK, much less.
Krakow is a great city and you will have a great time provided you dress in good warm clothes.
There is no such thing as "bad weather", just the "wrong clothes" :)
SeanBM   
4 Oct 2009
Life / Poland not so cheap anymore!! [47]

But really when i was a nipper a pint was less than £1.60.

I forget how much a pint was but a ten pack of cigarettes was 92p, plus we had pound notes and halfpennies.

Hes a nasty / bitter old prick hey?

He has problems, I was almost happy that Ireland voted 'Yes' just to imagine the expression on his ugly face hahahaha.

Edit*
Cinema tickets are now 29 PLN!! in some places, shocking.
SeanBM   
4 Oct 2009
Life / Poland not so cheap anymore!! [47]

I remember when a £100 food shopping outing in the UK (2003) meant loads of food, its basically the same here now.

Fair point, as a few have said already, although the wages have risen, slowly and steadily, the prices have gone up disproportionately.

May be we are just turning in to grumpy old men, remembering "back in the day", when a shilling could have bought you a cinema ticket :)
SeanBM   
4 Oct 2009
Life / Poland not so cheap anymore!! [47]

Poland not so cheap anymore!!

Maybe it is the price of economic growth?

Beer up in price, cigarettes up in price.

I these come from a nannying E.U. ideology.
I stopped smoking a year and a half ago but I still do not mind people smoking in pubs, it is only a matter of time before it comes here.

I don't find it that cheap anymore either but then its always a shock when i go back to the UK

Spot on, people who live here get used to it and then notice rises but for me there is nothing like going to Dublin and compare.

You can live here for very cheap, I still go to the vegetable market and cook, not just because it is so cheap but it tastes better than super market food.

When I earned 1,800zl a month I used to have about as much left in some months when I earned 18,000+zl!

This is a very usual situation, as we all know it is about financial management.

It's a bad time for teachers as they tend to get less, I don't know how that happened. Other salaries went up but a lot of teachers saw theirs go down.

Supply and demand?
There are more native English teachers now, before the high wage for an English teacher was an incentive to get them and due to the lack of foreigners here, wasn't it?