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Speaks Polish?: Not with my mouth full

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jon357   
21 Jun 2015
Food / Food shop of choice in Poland for foreign nosh? [22]

I suppose different people have different tastes. Some miss Marmite or whatever, others don't.

There's a newish shop in Warsaw that specialises in British foods - great if you miss Crunchies or ready-made mustard and don't mind paying over the odds for stuff like that. Not so interesting if you don't.

Carrefour (the bigger ones in Warsaw, anyway) sell pretty well everything one needs.
jon357   
21 Jun 2015
Travel / Warsaw to Prague Trains [21]

Just seems illogical that 'In theory' you can book it but not in practice.....

Welcome to Poland, world leader in paradox.

Might well prove cheaper to fly and a lot faster than the 8 hr train trip, although to be honest I quite like train travel.

I did it once on the slower local train from Warsaw to Prague. It wasn't in any sense comfortable, but it was cheap - and we bought the tickets minutes before the train started.
jon357   
21 Jun 2015
Travel / Warsaw to Prague Trains [21]

I already tried Intercity.pl and using the link you supplied, there appears to be no change.

Not unknown in PL for an organisation to announce something whereas the reality is different. You just have to be content with "available in theory" sometimes :-)

Flights are a good bet. 1.5 hours only and not expensive if you book in advance (I really recommend Momondo) plus comfortable - especially if you have some flexibility about times/dates.

If you do want to buy the tickets at short notice at the station, it shouldn't be too much of a problem though. There are also buses from Polskibus however they take a very long time...
jon357   
21 Jun 2015
Travel / Warsaw to Prague Trains [21]

This has changed:
intercity.pl/pl/site/o-nas/dzial-prasowy/utrudnienia/dostepnosc-sprzedazy-na-pociagi-miedzynarodowe.html

You can now buy tickets to Prague on the intercity.pl website

If I have to book a ticket when I arrive it's likely to be far more expensive and possibly the trains might be full ( no idea how popular the route is ).

There shouldn't be a problem.

Does anyone know where resellers get their tickets from? How is it possible that they can buy tickets for a journey with an end destination outside Poland, but members of the public can't?

They have a contract with the rail company - but see my first comment.

Am starting to wonder if it might not be easier to just fly from Warsaw.

Very cheap if you book in advance - I just did this. Use Momondo.
jon357   
21 Jun 2015
Food / Food shop of choice in Poland for foreign nosh? [22]

If you use Facebook, there's a page called Brytyjska Wyspa Smaków about it. Basically it was a test project where Auchan stocked some UK foods for 3 months and would do it permanently if it was a success. It finished last week. Presumably they'll post if it was a success and hopefully say what's happening next.

Pataks and puppodoms

It does mention Indian food too :-) Presumably not off-topic, since it's British food as well now.
jon357   
20 Jun 2015
Food / Food shop of choice in Poland for foreign nosh? [22]

Biedronka has a good range of foreign stuff - but only in their shops in posher areas. In other parts of town (I'm thinking of Warsaw here) you will find a different range.

Carrefour has some surprisingly exotic foods, and a very good range of French foods. My local Auchan also stocks things from Kuchnie Swiata, including British food - they are allegedly rolling this out around the country.
jon357   
20 Jun 2015
News / Pope Francis' anti-Polish encyclical? Criticism of coal burning in Poland. [67]

Sorry jon I have to correct you. They cost more to buy but less to use and last longer. Not quite the same.

I meant the new ones! But yes.

It is a scientific problem.

Yes. Backed by solid research. There are still deniers though. One poster on here called Zimmy even tried to argue that oil wasn't a fossil fuel, that it was something that was being spontaneously and infinitely created!
jon357   
20 Jun 2015
News / Pope Francis' anti-Polish encyclical? Criticism of coal burning in Poland. [67]

But you'd want my to pay for your "green energy"

Why I cannot buy normal lightbulb anymore?

They do cost more to use, for the reason Marsupial has given.

We have green technology at home (heat exchangers, underfloor heating, off-grid water, led lighting, solar panels). It costs you nothing, saves us money, is kinder to the world, is sustainable, fits everything the Pope has just said and relies less on fossil fuels like coal.
jon357   
20 Jun 2015
News / Regain banking assets - new Polish finance minister supports privatisation in Poland. Corruption? [33]

If there's any 'secret' its probably the same one as to why so many Asians in the UK do well.

Almost all migrant groups push their kids to do well, are self-reliant and network. Banking is a lucrative field to be in. End of.

Except that most of the banks discussed in this thread are publicly tradable - anyone with a couple of spare quid can buy into them and the shareholders appoint the board. Certainly no reason for the state to get involved in operating banks, though nothing wrong with them holding some shares as a sound investment.

The original post in this thread is nonsense. The text even conflicts with the title.
jon357   
20 Jun 2015
News / Pope Francis' anti-Polish encyclical? Criticism of coal burning in Poland. [67]

Excessive manufacturing and the recycling of growing mountains of discarded packaging, assorted plastics, throw-away e-gadgetry, etc. are energy-consuming and are robbing the planet no matter how you slice it

This is a symptom not the cause - nevertheless sustainability needs to be the future. That does not rule out consumption (generally higher by the way in traditional, conservative, religious cultures - look at Dubai, the US, etc) - it does however mean adopting renewable energy, abandoning the slavish adherence to the nuclear family in favour of more communal living, reduction in use of private cars, turfing reallocating larger houses to those who need them most and basically following the maxim: from each according to their ability, to each according to their need.
jon357   
20 Jun 2015
News / Pope Francis' anti-Polish encyclical? Criticism of coal burning in Poland. [67]

That depends whether the person is a Christian, (or a Jew, a Muslim, a Wiccan, a Buddhist, a Satanist, a Hindu, a Thelemite, an Atheist, a Taoist) or just trumpets about it and then contradicts himself constantly:

Jews....they are devious bastards

But this is in danger of going off-topic. A favourite tactic of yours when you start arguments and then lose them.
yes, it's off-topic
jon357   
20 Jun 2015
News / Pope Francis' anti-Polish encyclical? Criticism of coal burning in Poland. [67]

Anyone know why we aren't hearring about that anymoro. Are the costs prohibitive or what?

Extraction isn't that clean and it is still a non-renewable fossil fuel.

Jon 357 there is a lot uses.for.crude. plastics for example, medicine so on i agree.The problem with.crude is that its being used.to.power all the.cars. The writing is on the wall for this

Spot on.

People also forget all the other environmental costs of oil extraction - like the vast amounts of steel used.

Poland has to join the brave new world or suffer the.same nightmare.

In Poland, it's happening already - over the past 5 years I've seen a huge increase in renewables.
jon357   
20 Jun 2015
News / Pope Francis' anti-Polish encyclical? Criticism of coal burning in Poland. [67]

Coal is obsolete trash and the pope is right.

Yes.

Ditto for oil trash.

Remember all the other uses for crude other than energy. We should concentrate on using it for that and continue to develop renewable technology.

Yes, a Christian is optimistic by nature

Nothing in your posts suggests you are either of those things.
jon357   
20 Jun 2015
News / Does democratic Poland guarantee it's LGBT citizens respect for human and civil rights? [1169]

Being gay or no was irrelevant.

There was a very specific police action including recording names. Plus a very interesting rail strike in Warsaw in the
80s connected to LGBT issues - I won't give details since certain people are still alive and it is best not discussed yet.

Even in medieval times there was no state punishment for LGBT in Poland,

The key laws that shaped today's were from the post-Napoleon legal code in the German zabór.

Common people's approach to LGBT is different story, but like I said before it depends on place. In bigger cities there are gay-clubs and you can easlu find gay-escort service. Sure it's not so flashy like in Berlin, but it's not Russia either.

Spot on. Escort services are not my field (popular though they are in PL judging by the number of leaflets tucked under windscreen wipers) but yes, the bar/club scene is fairly healthy.
jon357   
20 Jun 2015
News / Does democratic Poland guarantee it's LGBT citizens respect for human and civil rights? [1169]

Like I said , there is no same-sex mariages, but samesex couples have a wayaround that problem. They sign a set of papers, testimonies and contracts in notary. Anybody can do that. Only problem is obtaining medical data in case of SUDDEN accident.

Sort of yes. State institutions (including prisons) have guidelines which accommodate the fact that someone's significant other can be the same gender.

AND LIKE I MENTIONED: THERE WAS AND IS NO DISCRIMINATION OF LGBT BY LAW EVER in Poland. In contrary to Germany, USA or England.

Again, sort of. It depended on which county's flag was flying at the time, and during the PRL the law was abused.
jon357   
20 Jun 2015
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

And they always do far better in the elections than in the opinion polls - their voters are well under the radar.

Just being for single-mandate districts and calling himself anti-systemic (anti-establishment?) is hardly enough.

He has no programme.