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Orpheus   
11 Oct 2012
Food / Organic fruit and vegetable - delivery (Warsaw) [33]

The small sellers in the marketplace, selling from the trunk of a car, or the babcias with a bag of carrots and another one of spinach leaves.

True, although I have one cautionary tale. A friend's mother works in Biedronka. She noticed that a couple of elderly village ladies often bought large quantities of cheap horseradish in small jars when they came into town on market day. She later saw them in the market selling jars of horseradish, without labels, for a healthy price. It was, after all, straight from their own village, organic, and hand made.
Orpheus   
10 Oct 2012
Love / TRAVELLING to Poland - Girl Advice! [29]

If you wouldn't mind sharing some of your story that would be really helpful! :)

Well, I'm just off out to work now. Maybe later.
Orpheus   
10 Oct 2012
Life / Poland monthly bills costs advice [17]

My wife is looking at maybe transferring with HSBC to the office in Katowice, but I don’t think she will apply to banks in Poland as we hearing some very bad stories.

She'd be really fortunate to be able to transfer to the Honkers and Shankers in Kato. A friend's husband has been out of work for two years now. He was a bank manager, and now he can't bring himself to accept the cashier jobs he's very occasionally offered.
Orpheus   
10 Oct 2012
Love / TRAVELLING to Poland - Girl Advice! [29]

I have no idea how Polish girls act (I've never met one before)

The same ways girls from other countries act. Treat her as an individual, not a research subject. She's a human being, just like you. You have an awful lot in common!

I married one myself and I can tell you they are pretty much the same as women everywhere, i.e. wonderful, infuriating, mysterious, affectionate, etc.
Orpheus   
10 Oct 2012
News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]

What kills me is that cyclists seem to be invisible to the police. I've lost count of the times I've seen police vehicles simply overtake cyclists without lights. Someone told me yesterday that cyclists are supposed to wear a helmet by law. This can't be true, can it?
Orpheus   
10 Oct 2012
News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]

Just before the academic year started two years ago a young guy was driving his girlfriend and her friend from my town to the girls' new student accommodation in the nearest city. On the way a drunk cyclist caused the young guy to swerve in order to avoid him. An oncoming lorry got involved and the result was three dead young people. The lorry driver testified that the cyclist was all over the road (1000am). Oh, and the cyclist was never caught.

Filth? Is that how you see the Police?
Orpheus   
10 Oct 2012
Life / Poland monthly bills costs advice [17]

3800 net seems incredibly high for a small town

Yes, it does sound rather high, even if it's gross. Good luck if you can get it, but believe it when you see it.

I've seen bills of 850zl in a block that was run by a private administration company

We have friends in Białystok who pay 800PLN/month.
Orpheus   
9 Oct 2012
Genealogy / Polish genome - are you familiar with it [58]

The fact that I am personally related to every member of PF fills me with a warm, fuzzy feeling of kinship. With exceptions.
Orpheus   
9 Oct 2012
Life / Bishops defend Polish family [105]

but I didn't think you had fallen as low a scumbag as Delph who advocates murdering 160,000 Rydzyk supporters.

Bearing false witness. Number nine.
Posters should refrain from using abusive or derogatory language (unless it's necessary to explain the language's nuances). Posters who use abusive or derogatory language towards other users may be banned.

Number 2.
Orpheus   
7 Oct 2012
News / demonstration; What is Nowa Prawica? [30]

Janusz Korwin-Mikke is not an idiot.

He is not an idiot but he recently said something extremely idiotic about disabled people. In fact he sounded like a Nazi.

Don't ignore him

Good advice. People who say things like that should never be ignored. Just watched. Carefully.
Has he retracted his comments?
Orpheus   
7 Oct 2012
Life / Bishops defend Polish family [105]

And those born out of wedlock are illegitimate children aka bastards.

You are a bastard. A rotten, black enamel bastard.
Orpheus   
7 Oct 2012
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

I think that's one thing that should remain.

I sincerely hope so. I already spend over 10% of my uni pay getting there by bus, and that's with a 47% discount.

The arrangement that doctors have with the police though ought to be changed and fast.

What's that, jon?
Orpheus   
7 Oct 2012
Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]

Yes. Although I'd use the present simple rather than the continuous.

Same here. Sorry, Delph, Yes.
Orpheus   
6 Oct 2012
Life / A rant about "patriotism" in today's Poland [60]

English is going the way of Latin and within just a few generations will be another dead European language.

That's the most absurd thing I've heard in a long time. All the evidence points in the other direction.

You may be right about life in a few generations' time

No, he's as wrong as it's possible to be. It's just wishful thinking.
Orpheus   
5 Oct 2012
UK, Ireland / Another load of Insults to the British [10]

Actually i spent all morning inventing a script that creates set of asp.net pages to access and modify Oracle, SQL Servers from all the workstations in the office zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

That explains a lot. You appear to be a nerd with a morbid anti-Poland fixation. Perhaps you should get out more.
This forum has its fair share of nuts, to be sure, and you are one of them. There are people from literally hundreds of countries in the UK. You either troll other sites, in which case you really should get out more, or you troll Polish sites in particular, in which case you are not contributing anything here except abuse.

Mods, has this guy ever said anything at all which could be considered a useful contribution to this forum?

hudson, the fact that Poles insult Brits elsewhere doesn't mean that you are justified in infesting this forum with your weirdly selective racism.
Orpheus   
2 Oct 2012
Life / Is the 1st of November a work-free holiday in Poland? [12]

1st is an official holiday, 2nd will be treated as an unofficial holiday.

Another lost day. Most people will make a long weekend of it, meaning I will lose lucrative work. Poland's public holidays cost me a bundle!
Orpheus   
1 Oct 2012
History / Welcome to Lemmingrad! [59]

a tiny fringe minority of people who live on the internet instead of actually going to work or living their lives

Including the massed ranks of Polams in Shelby Township, Michigan, pop. under 4000. A man with his finger on the pulse.
Orpheus   
1 Oct 2012
News / A new AWS (Poland Solidarity Movement)? [54]

"God sent me to Warsaw today".
People like these are capable of murdering a president or a premier.

I agree. Religious fanaticism mixed with politics can be incendiary. The mood of the march seemed to be "We are singing hymns and referring to God every five minutes; therefore God must be on our side, therefore we must be right. Those who are not with us are Godless." Illogical thinking, but hey, when did the fanatics ever worry about that?
Orpheus   
30 Sep 2012
Food / Jacket potatoes - do Polish people like them? [22]

boletus. My Polish father-in-law refers to the Colorado beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) as the American beetle, and holds to an old belief that the Americans dropped the damned pest on Poland. Personally, I don't hold with this view (why would the CIA do this in Poland?), but given that they dropped Napalm on civilians in SE Asia I don't feel able to contradict him.
Orpheus   
30 Sep 2012
Food / What made in Poland produce would you recommend [110]

Well, this thread made me raid a box I got for my birthday in August. I've had five today with no unwanted results (they come later when I get on the scales).
Orpheus   
30 Sep 2012
UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]

I,m pretty certain that if a British Hitler ever came to power ,the Daily Mail would be his most loyal mouth piece.

The Mail was a great fan of fascism in the 1930s, and that vein of intolerance and bigotry is always at, or just under, the surface of that scurrilous rag.
Orpheus   
30 Sep 2012
Life / Polish vs British vs American - Clash of cultures [390]

Yes, the British feel so.

Q. What do you call a person who speaks several languages?
A. Multi-lingual. A polyglot.

Q. What do you call a person who speaks two languages?
A. Bilingual.

Q. What do you call a person who speaks one language?
A. British.

It's getting better. Slowly.