Food / What is this? Dark whisky Scottish or Polish? [58]


That's not at all bad. Better than the rum from Polmos Warszawa which is more of a rum flavoured vodka.

You'll notice some shops, especially supermarkets, only have the Dark with Scotch on the label, and some smaller shops still have stock from when they used to make it in Poland.

A bargain really, because it's quite drinkable.

Food / What is this? Dark whisky Scottish or Polish? [58]

:-))

I once drank some home-made whisky here. Bimber really, from Podlasie, but the old guy who made it used to put it in old whisky bottles and some people didn't notice. Actually rather passable.

Life / UK expat recently moved to Warsaw - lots of ongoing questions :) [27]

Those water filters really work.

Study / What is your opinion of Nicolaus Copernicus University? [10]


Using a map he got from a British man.

News / Poland. Sold for nothing. [341]


The same Dostoevsky who.....

Some things are just too....

UK, Ireland / Sad life of a Polish migrant in the UK. Ch. 4 - Language [66]

smarrerweeim?

UK, Ireland / Legally changing my Polish name [28]

I'm used to Polish people mispronouncing my surname. In ten years here, only two or three people have got it right. I once had an old cow at Poczta Polska tell me I pronounce my own name incorrectly. The ignorant old b**ch would be fired if she was in the UK and said that to a Polish person. Even friends I've known for years get it wrong, though the pronounciation should be obvious to anyone with intermediate level English.

I wouldn't change it though.

Mr H made a good suggestion.

One possible solution is to follow the example of someone I used to know. She was a psychiatrist. Her surname was Nutter. So for obvious reasons, she usd a pseudonim (I think her maiden name) for work, and her own name outside work.

So keep your surname, by all means, but consider adopting a professional name while at work. After all, lots of actors and singers do, and certainly some doctors.

Life / ITV/C4 can't get these channels in Konstancin [12]

How do you get BBC Iplayer outside UK?

Life / Questions about Lublin [39]


I don't know the guy in question, but I know a few foreign people in Lublin, who all love the place.

It's a bit provincial (fair enough, it's in the provinces!), but the thousand plus university staff mean that there's plenty happenning.

Prices (at least when I was last there) are quite a bit lower than Warsaw, the nightlife is OK unless you expect capital city stuff, the countryside around is pleasant. A good city.

History / Ross kemp on Polish Gangs/Nazis - Untermenschen Nazis..?? [69]


fascism has historivcally shown itself to be both murderously anti-semitic and anti-intelectual.

That pondlife Griffin in the UK has said openly that the majority of his ridiculous "party's" members are poorly educated, and fascists (real ones, not the toytown kind in the bnp) today, as we can see from some of the more deranged people who post here, seem to have an obsession with Jewish people.

For no reason except their own inadequacy.

History / Ross kemp on Polish Gangs/Nazis - Untermenschen Nazis..?? [69]


Check out Theodore Adorno's study of the 'fascist personality'. He found that people holding extreme right wing and racist political opinions harboured deep feelings of inadequacy, powerlessness and inferiority. It makes good reading.

News / BNP far right in Poland [116]


He isn't a Roman Catholic. He's a Sedevacantist.

News / BNP far right in Poland [116]


Most definitely not. Rafał Trytek was a member of SSPX, who (since I think last year) are accepted, but he left because they weren't extreme enough for him. He's now a member of a US-based fringe religion.

News / BNP far right in Poland [116]


SSPX are part of the Church, but he isn't. He left. He's under the authority of 'bishop' Donald Sanborn, who is not in any way part of the Catholic Church.

And even in Poland, sedevacantists aren't part of the Church. After all, they believe there's no Pope, which precludes them from membership in any form.

News / BNP far right in Poland [116]


Or perhaps a sexuality.

Unless you can cite even one iota of hard evidence that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice.

News / BNP far right in Poland [116]


Check out the American Psychiatric Association. Or from the same country, the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Both are quite clear that human sexuality is not a matter of choice.

Life / Where can i get a real good piece of juicy steak in Warsaw....? [15]


I agree. A lot of 'meat shops' here are exactly that. Shops that sell pre-butchered meat. There's a good one on ul. Czerniakowska (called, I think, 'John') and shops in the '£uków' chain often have a trained butcher present.

One bargain here is beef heart. People don't buy it much, which keeps the price down, and if you cook it right, it can be wonderful.

News / BNP far right in Poland [116]

I doubt you'd find any more impartial authorities than the abovementioned.

News / BNP far right in Poland [116]

Hmm. The Conservative lobby in the US is both wealthy and organised.

And the two organisations (along with many others of the same opinion) are entirely independent and respected.

Life / Where can i get a real good piece of juicy steak in Warsaw....? [15]


Something like Spam, only not usually as good.

Genealogy / Where is Brazazowa or Brazazowka? [24]


See the thread about this. It's sometning like "Pussies".

Life / Social networking sites used by teens in Poland? [13]

Facebook is indeed growing, and Nasza Klasa still popular.

One very big one in Poland is grono.net - a homegrown Polish site that's been going for a few years now, with a lot of users, most, but not all, young.

Genealogy / Where is Brazazowa or Brazazowka? [24]


Excuse my vulgarity, (twice in one day, because there are two threads about this), but "pinda" is a soft(ish) slang word for vagina. "Ty pindo" is a slightly amusing light insult.

You can check this out on Google Images. If you dare.

Genealogy / Where is Brazazowa or Brazazowka? [24]

I think the posts anbout it have been moved to the other thread or deleted. Perhaps the moderators might do the same with these last few?

Travel / Gdansk - need some information about it [21]


Indeed.

Gdańsk is a fairly friendly place. It doesn't seem to have any real centre though. The Old Town is first and foremost a tourist place, ul. Grundwaldska stretches on for ever, and people seem to pop between Gdańsk and the rest of the Tri-city on the SKM all the time. If there's a real heart of Gdańsk, maybe it's in Wrzeszcz.

News / BNP far right in Poland [116]


That's exactly what Leszek Bubel is. He's also facing trial for publishing racist material.

News / BNP far right in Poland [116]

Oh yes!

News / BNP far right in Poland [116]

Hilter was an ex-Catholic

Benedict was indeed a member of the Hitlerjugend, because it was compulsory, and he showed no enthusiasm for it.

He received Bishop Williamson into the Church who had been an outspoken holocaust denier

The Vatican did not help hundreds of Nazis escape. The Church (or various priests therein) helped thousands of Nazis escape.

Food / Warsaw: where to find DECENT chickens and marzipan! [12]

Hala Mirowska does indeed have good chicken. So does the Bomi supermarket in the Klif Centre on okopowa.

When I've needed marzipan, I've had to make it.

News / BNP far right in Poland [116]


Bishop Williamson, loathesome though he is, isn't a Nazi, just a fool.