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Joined: 11 Jul 2008 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 4 Aug 2017
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Posts: Total: 971 / In This Archive: 430 		From: Kraków, Poland
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Cardno85   
24 Feb 2009
Love / Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Especially In Another Language! [46]

We are gradually getting there. I am not sure if the Polish-English translation is just coming off sounding a little brash. I don't dislike the girl, I just don't like her enough any more to warrant her coming here. I feel she is owed a decent explanation. I know I don't want to make the mistakes that my ex made with me because I know how miserable it made me. Those were a)dragging me to another country before leaving me and b)never giving me a half decent explanation as to why this was happening all she could muster was "It's just how I feel, I can't explain any more"...but left too many questions unanswered so always (and still) left me asking "Why?".

I feel this girl, as she has done no wrong, really deserves quite a full and sensitive explanation. I think that's fair don't you?

Having never been in a situation like this it's a struggle, really looking for something that explains everything without leaving any questions while not sounding too brash (sorry seanus).
Cardno85   
24 Feb 2009
Love / Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Especially In Another Language! [46]

Not helpful plk...

(oh and admin, feel free to move this to the translate forum if you feel it necessary, was in two minds which one to put it in)

That is along the right lines I will admit. However it's less the fact that I like my freedom, I would be willing to make sacrifices, it's just she seems to be changing and becoming more moany, I can understand her want to come but she is becoming very possesive and needy and the spark is gone...i doubt it would be rekindled by her coming here. So I am looking for something a bit more sensitive to tell her and maybe a bit more of an explanation.
Cardno85   
24 Feb 2009
Love / Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Especially In Another Language! [46]

Fair enough, but let's assume for the time being that I am not a cold, heartless b*st*rd.

Just the spark really seems to have died and I don't want her banking all of her plans on coming here only to be dissapointed like I was because my ex was too much of a coward to tell me that it was over before it was too late.
Cardno85   
24 Feb 2009
Love / Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Especially In Another Language! [46]

Right, quite personal, but I am struggling with the grammar to say what I need. Basically I started seeing a girl while in Krakow. She said she wanted to come here and see me and maybe work here for a while. I said that was fine because all was going well over there. But recently she has started pushing me to get tickets organised and moaning that I am going to the pub too often (as you will know Seanus, in small town Scotland, going to the pub is a perfectly acceptable part of the day to catch up with the town gossip, it's a social centre). Plus her conversation has become all about what I am not doing, instead of about things we want to do and nice things. It feels like she is trying to change me and I don't want this carrying on, because I know what it's like to come to a new country with no other friends and to lose that one person you are there for. It's a nightmare. So I feel it's time to bring things to as amicable an end as possible, and I am looking to try and sum this all up in Polish as her English is not very good.
Cardno85   
23 Feb 2009
Food / When did kebab and Vietnamese "bar" come to town? [15]

But I would like know where to get a good bowl of pho.

Viet Nam my friend. I have tried vietnamese places in the UK, Poland, Germany, Slovakia, even Singapore...and it never came close.
Cardno85   
13 Feb 2009
Love / In love with polish cleaning woman, but don't speak an OUNCE of polish :( [57]

Is "The soup is too salty" not in reference to a domestic abuse ad on the TV in Poland a wee while ago?

I remember we used to say it all the time in my work when we felt like beating the crap out of someone (not that we would, but it got the message across to the Polish waiting staff without letting the Italians we were talking about know).
Cardno85   
13 Feb 2009
Food / Cream of Tartar where to buy it in Poland? [6]

not to be mixed up with Tartar Sauce used with steak etc

Also not to be mixed up with steak tartare. Yes both have capers and gherkins...but tartar sauce is a lighter version turned into an almost mayonaise consistency to go with fish. Not steak.

Yours Sincerely
Pedant
Cardno85   
4 Feb 2009
Food / Where can I find authentic kebabs in Krakow [14]

There are about a million kebab shops in Krakow.

But the point is true for most food. Look at Chicken Vindaloo, the incarnation in the UK doesn't exist in India. But drunken louts love it because it's the only thing their drunken palates can taste so you can get it in any Indian in the UK.

And chinese food and the ubiquitous greeny yellow curry sauce that you get in the UK. Never in my travels round south east asia have i seen anything like that...ever.

It's a big contributing factor to people having dodgy stomachs when they travel to the far east. There is minimal dangerous bacteria in the food as it is cooked at such a high temperature, but your stomach and palate immediately see it as foreign and react as such.
Cardno85   
4 Feb 2009
News / Zloty goes down, good news for ex-pats in Poland [18]

That's a great rate. Is that the rate in Kantors or is that the rate on the net? Keep in mind there will always be differences there. I would personally cash in now, I can't see the UK economy (and, as such, the pound) going much higher.
Cardno85   
3 Feb 2009
Food / Where can I find authentic kebabs in Krakow [14]

The kebabs in Berlin will be made for the German market. Just like the Kebabs in the UK are made for a UK market and kebabs in Krakow are made for a Polish market. If you want authentic kebabs then go to Turkey. Just because they are made by Turks does not mean it's authentic, I know many a turkish kebab shop owner in Glasgow, but the kebabs are still nothing like kebabs in Turkey.

So you are unlikely to find Berlin style kebabs in Krakow. Learn to love the Krakow Kebab.
Cardno85   
2 Feb 2009
Love / In love with polish cleaning woman, but don't speak an OUNCE of polish :( [57]

Well I am rubbish at approaching women...never been a strong point at all! But starting off saying hello to someone in their own language (which you don't speak) makes it obvious that you are interested...you wouldn't go to the effort of learning otherwise. But yeah, roses is a good idea...i just wish i had the confidence to do something like that!
Cardno85   
2 Feb 2009
Love / In love with polish cleaning woman, but don't speak an OUNCE of polish :( [57]

In the first post they are, but if you read down a bit there is a half decent phonetic (and spelling) list of those things.

There are not many phonetic guides out there without buying yourself a phrasebook or something. I could pass on a load of sites with sentences and phrases that will come in handy...but if you can't pronounce polish words and letters then they just look like jibberish.
Cardno85   
2 Feb 2009
Love / In love with polish cleaning woman, but don't speak an OUNCE of polish :( [57]

Go for basics:

Hello - Cześć - Cheshch
How are you? - Jak sie masz - Yak shee mash
Good thanks, and you? - Dobrze dzięki, a ty? - Dobze Jenki, a ty?

That might not sweep her off her feet, but it means you can at least say hello...and that's always an important first step.
Cardno85   
2 Feb 2009
Love / Dilemma, Flight School or beautiful polish women????? [19]

If you want to be a pilot you won't see her all the time either. Especially if you want to make any real money you will be away for days at a time often.

Go for the piloting mate. Follow your own wishes, if she loves you as you love her then she'll still be here when you get back.
Cardno85   
2 Feb 2009
Law / Registering and eligibility to vote in the Poland's elections [15]

I would imagine they are the same as any other expat. They are entitled to vote in their own country by proxy or by post. If they take on citizenship in their new home then they will be entitled to vote in that country.

I think that's how it works anyway.
Cardno85   
30 Jan 2009
UK, Ireland / Here comes the Anti-Immigration marches.... [114]

I just saw on the news there that there has been a mass walkout at Grangemouth as well. I can completely sympathyse with the local workers when people are being imported from other countries to take their jobs. I have no problem with people travelling to other countries to work. I do it often, I love seeing different cultures, learning new languages and, in some cases, making more money. However specifically importing labour in order to cut wages is horrible. The owners of these companies really need to take a look at themselves and look at the big picture instead of looking to cut wages in the short term.
Cardno85   
29 Jan 2009
Love / Are Polish women "PRUDE"?!? [24]

I disagree, Seanus. But then this could go round and round for hours. I think it just depends on your own experience. I found even just walking about the streets in the afternoon seeing people cuddling and kissing to quite a cringeable degree. I would say more conservative in attirude towards sex and things, but not afraid to show who they are with.
Cardno85   
29 Jan 2009
Life / Christmas Eve - Polish Dinner name? [4]

Not a problem, little bit early though are we not?

*notices avatar*
Ah well, yes.
*runs off to change avatar with red face*
Cardno85   
29 Jan 2009
Love / Are Polish women "PRUDE"?!? [24]

1. There is hardly any PDA

I would disagree. Sitting on the tram, wandering round the rynek, sitting in pubs I have noticed loads of it, from both points of view. From it being sickening when my gf and i broke up seeing people all over each other everywhere. To meeting someone else and being almost embarrassed in the pub because she was expecting me to be almost all over her...which no-one else thought was odd.

Not particularly prudish either. I never had a one night stand while I was in Poland...but i had one girl home after dating for about a week and a half. Not prudish but not exactly slutty.
Cardno85   
28 Jan 2009
Life / Polish Police - my bad experience. [33]

I have not had much experience with the Police. However we had them in the bar every now and again after minor incidents with homeless people and drunk tourists. Found them to be quite heavy handed when dealing with people in the most part. However that is very much the, "if you don't want a baton across your napper, don't be a tit" in my opinion. When I needed help however (a taxi driver tried to overcharge me and then grabbed my phone out of my hand as payment as a friend pulled me out the car) I went to the police office with the liscence plate number of the car only to be told that without his name and the company they can't help. Luckily my friends phoned my phone enough and I payed the 70pln ransom to get my phone back. Police were of no help whatsoever.
Cardno85   
18 Jan 2009
Language / SZCZ and ŚĆ HARD TO EXPLAIN [19]

I never thought about it before. But after saying cześć 6 or 7 times to myself now, I have found that I do actually put my teeth together at the end without thinking about it.

How interesting.
Cardno85   
17 Jan 2009
Life / Home In 20 Days - My thoughts on Poland... [36]

I am yet to have a good pizza here. But I was spoiled in Inveraray working and living with a pizza chef in an Italian restaurant. Freshly made dough, fresh imported ingredients and a guy that's been making pizzas in Italy for 5 years and doesn't speak english. Pizza's just aren't gonna be the same.
Cardno85   
17 Jan 2009
Life / Home In 20 Days - My thoughts on Poland... [36]

Hahahaha! Awesome chat mate!

I have your clothes all laundered. Just need to find a time to drop them off. Some taxi driver stole my phone and is holding it at 70pln ransom so I will have it back tomorrow (short 70pln) and will give you a text. If I don't manage then I will drop them in Nic Nowego in a nice bag for you to pick up next time you are in for a pint.

Christ on a bike though...I have lost a load of weight since coming here...didn't even notice until I saw that picture!