Life / Expats in Poland - would you fight for your new country? [105]

Is this the era to defend any country in wartime? Apart from the fact that modern weapons can annihilate whole cities, why bother fighting for a nation which goes to church on Sundays and nicks from you Monday to Saturday, chainsmokes, votes for lefty scumbags and gets PiSsed much of the time? I sound anti-Polish here but I'd rather see a return to the pre-WW2 integrity the Poles had for each other rather than the bunch of dickheads which abound today.

Life / Expats in Poland - would you fight for your new country? [105]

On UK TV, it was once stated that no two countries which have branches of McDonald's go to war with each other. That can't be true...can it? Nothing would surprise me these days.

UK, Ireland / The more subtle differences: Ireland/Britain v Poland [310]

Oh yes, chicken tikka masala. Official.

UK, Ireland / The more subtle differences: Ireland/Britain v Poland [310]

To those of you living in Poland, don't you just miss crumpets, thick cut marmalade, English mustard, Christmas pud, Yorkshire pud, poached eggs, Red Leicester, Wensleydale, Caerphilly.....

News / WHY IS POLAND STILL GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER? [197]


That'll be the day! I can just see it now. Poland (and the rest of the world) actually allowed to print their own debt-free currency; politicians working in harmony for the betterment of the people and the economy instead of their own pockets; and Mr Rothschild says 'sorry, here's all your countless quintillions back'.

...and here's yet another example:
informationfarm.blogspot.com/2010/04/jane-burgermeister-polish-plane-crash.html

News / WHY IS POLAND STILL GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER? [197]

Accepted, Wroclaw, though in Poland's case it seems to be a permanent snub.

News / WHY IS POLAND STILL GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER? [197]

Here is a classical example of what I mean by 'cold shoulder'. Bloody typical!
thenews.pl/international/?id=144615

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

Actually, it's more accurate to describe it as bile.

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

Has anyone heard about what is added to Polish beer? Instead of hops there seems to be a cheaper alternative - brace yourselves - the bitter gall from animals' gall bladders! It makes beer taste and look like it's made with hops, only the gall is more or less free for the beer manufacturers as the meat trade simply chucks it out as offal and is too bitter to be used in pet food. Na zdrowie and bottoms up (dupy do góry?).

Love / Polish girls fall for Indian guys ? [217]

You say that, Teffle, and that's quite true. Mind you, if you see the Islamics in East London, there's very many there that look like caricatures of the American propaganda machine.

Love / Polish girls fall for Indian guys ? [217]

@ jonni
True. Indian Muslims account for about 12% of India's population, and growing. However, having spent five years in India, I know its a general (NOT in every case!) Islamic policy for Muslims to marry a non-Muslim, thereby converting them and so doing their bit to increase their faithful. Like everyone else, Muslims come in all shades; from moderate-sounding types like Docstar on PF (most Moroccans and Tunisians are quite laid back), to those you hear about with a weird look in their eye and are oh so willing to kill and die for their religion and turn the clock back cernturies.

Love / Polish girls fall for Indian guys ? [217]

Wait a second! Is he perchance a Muslim? And how quickly does he want to convert to Roman Catholicism? :|

Polonia / Polish people in New Delhi [86]


I'm a Brit of Polish parentage. My attraction to India? My previous life, probably.

Life / What do you like about Poland? [100]

Poland is the only country I know where, when your train pulls in, families greet, kiss and hug each other at the station.

Life / What do you like about Poland? [100]

You can have a cheap beer at 8am.

Polonia / Polish people in New Delhi [86]

You aked about Polish companies in India. I'm no expert here, and have only heard of Polimex.

Life / INVISIBLE MAN in shops and offices in Poland? [70]

Bravo.

Polonia / Polish people in New Delhi [86]

As I know India as well as any tourist, am curious where you are these days. Presumably travelling around or in Puttaparti? Also, I plan to be in Delhi in 2012.

Life / INVISIBLE MAN in shops and offices in Poland? [70]

'Gentlemanly' is the word you're looking for.

Life / INVISIBLE MAN in shops and offices in Poland? [70]

We Brits are far too polite. I know exactly how you all feel, and empathise. But hey, look on the bright side. At least we don't have any more old bags with a carte blanche to queue-jump, just because they lived through the war ("don't mention the war!"). In 1979 I was waiting for a taxi at a taxi rank in Gliwice (it used to be a sad place and smelt of coal dust wherever you went) for over an hour, then an old lady came and stood in front. Like I'm going to wait for six months, yeah right.

Life / Ripped Off in Poland? - Expose here: [185]

Call me petty, but has anyone noticed the so-called 100% fruit juice in cartons tastes considerably more insipid (that's 'watery') than the equivalent in the UK where it's half the price? Yes I know it sounds small-time and unimportant, but for the drinks companies, even a 1 groszy saving per carton amounts to huge annual profits.

Life / Tricks & Dodges (The Poles are nothing if not inventive) [26]

Sometime in the 1980s or 90s, someone in London covered 10p coins with Baco Foil, giving them the shape and weight of 50p coins. Off he took them to his nearest tube station where he fed the ticket machine, then pressed the cancel button, returning him with real 50p's. Unfortunately, he was so engrossed he forgot a queue was building up behind him, and was arrested. Embarrasingly, he turned out to be Polish, according to the London news.

News / WHY IS POLAND STILL GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER? [197]

That sounds rather Muslim.

News / WHY IS POLAND STILL GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER? [197]


As an example, when you see someone drowning in a river, you turn your back on them and walk away. You haven't actually done anything, and yet you'd be responsible by default. That's precisely what at least the BBC* and other mass media bodies did to Poland in 1997. This meant that, as nobody was informed, aid in any form wasn't forthcoming. Thank you BBC*, etc.

* aka Benders Broadcasting Communism

News / WHY IS POLAND STILL GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER? [197]


It seems you missed the point. Although I'm unable to prove it here and now, every Pole I spoke to in UK in 1997 all agreed it very much seemed the Western mass media was ignoring Poland when international aid was sorely needed. And they only heard the news via the Church! Nowhere else.

If you thing I'm basking in self-pity, that's your right too.
PS: 'pity' is spelt with one T and 'phuck' with an F ;-D

News / WHY IS POLAND STILL GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER? [197]


*moans*

News / WHY IS POLAND STILL GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER? [197]


I strongly disagree with that! It's making people aware of the way Poland has and is being treated, as opposed to wallowing in self-pity (one T). It's also a small attempt in my own small way, of at least hoping for a better Poland (maybe in a hundred years) by highlighting the differences between the average English and Polish consumer's lifestyle. As one example, your attention is drawn to the end of my first post. Why on earth shouldn't Poland have international phone calls as cheap as in the UK? As though big business can't afford it!! Bah, humbug!

News / WHY IS POLAND STILL GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER? [197]


Some of my family are, but soon become ultra-together when they smell free vodka around somewhere.

Travel / Indian or Mexican food in Warsaw. [60]

Was very recently told of the existence of a good Indian in Szczecin, about a hundred yards - sorry metres - from the station. Does anybody here know it?

Life / Tricks & Dodges (The Poles are nothing if not inventive) [26]

I was there during the work. The concrete wasn't vibrated or tamped (I don't know what that is), simply poured in. And prior to that I removed several empty beer cans and a cardboard egg box from the foundation site. You've got to be on your toes and be there 25 hours a day if you want a job done more or less how you hope and expect it. Of course this happens in other countries too.