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SeanBM   
13 Apr 2011
News / Could Poland be self-sustainable in energy? [56]

Personally I'd have been happy if they'd done it, but the Polish government were expected to underwrite the project

Is it not going ahead?
That'd be a pity if it were because of bureaucracy, any further information on the criteria?
SeanBM   
13 Apr 2011
News / Could Poland be self-sustainable in energy? [56]

Geothermal energy is a good bet too, and Poland has untapped hydroelectric potential.

Isn't that what Father Director is always on about?

Radio Mary HATE the E.U. unless they are getting 15 mln zloty from them :)

The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management is giving the controversial priest Tadeusz Rydzyk another 15 mln zloty for a geothermal-energy project for the university he founded.

Father Rydzyk said on his radio station, Radio Maryja, that the geothermal water will be used to heat his College of Social and Media Studies in Torun, which he established in 2001. The man who is heading the project, Professor Ryszard Kozlowski of the Krakow University of Technology, told the daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza that the geothermal water will also be used to create electricity and will be piped into swimming pools on the campus.

"The electrical energy - even though it will be only 2 megawatts - will be worth 7 mln zloty" a year, he said. As for the water's use in swimming pools, it contains minerals so it will have healing properties, he said.

Fair play!

Krakow Post
SeanBM   
13 Apr 2011
News / Could Poland be self-sustainable in energy? [56]

The issue in hand is what Poland can do to develop sustainable energy.

What about E.U. Energy subsidies?

There are some vague ideas about solar panels, when installed being reimbursed to the home owner but I have yet to talk to anyone who has actually done this.

There are two types, one for electricity and another for hot water.
My brother did it in Ireland and got 75% of his cost back.

There are also domestic Geothermal heat pump. which keeps the water warm (most of the energy used heats the water from 0 to 10 or something).
A friend has this installed and is very happy with it.

The problem with these are the costs, it is an investment and they pay off for themselves after about 4 years after which you have very cheap bills. But the initial costs and lack of information is off putting.

I like passive houses, they are cool :)
SeanBM   
10 Apr 2011
News / Who is "the enemy within" in Poland? [88]

Isn't it a bit disturbing to 'celebrate' a tragedy in which mothers, fathers, friends, sons etc lost their lives?

It certainly can not be described as healthy.
SeanBM   
10 Apr 2011
News / Who is "the enemy within" in Poland? [88]

Who is "the enemy within" in Poland?

Your cunning use of reverse psychological probing has worked.

I admit it! it's me.
SeanBM   
9 Apr 2011
Life / Which cities in Poland have the most expats, and why? [34]

Why are there so many Irish in Krakow, SeanBM?

I don't honestly know, I am here because I was offered a job here which paid for my plane ticket and I stay because it is a beautiful city.

I met many Scandinavians in Poznan, studying to be doctors there because it is very expensive in Norway.

Another thing that attracts certain nations is transportation. The airlines ''Norwegian'' have dropped there prices dramatically to Krakow, the effectbeing now Krakow is full of Norwegian tourists.

When I came to Poland first there were no cheap flights flying here and when Ryan air started, there was a massive influx of tourists, who would not have come here otherwise. They go home and tell other people and the domino effect begins.

it attracts those who want a cheap medical degree

Yeah! poor people shouldn't be allowed to study :x

unlikely to be failed

That's a fair point but not wanting to be in huge debt is a natural thing.
SeanBM   
9 Apr 2011
Life / Which cities in Poland have the most expats, and why? [34]

Warsaw- Diplomatic corp, Real estate,Banking Finance, Media
Krakow - Outsource centers, Students
Wroclaw- IT

That's an interesting observation, I was wondering how you came to a nationalist attraction to certain cities.
SeanBM   
9 Apr 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

According to that the S7 Krakow to Warsaw is never going to be built and neither is a single motorway going from north to south of the country.

Yep, that's the case.

Check out air flights they'll tell you the same thing over the past ten years.

Call me cynical

I'll call you misinformed instead.

The S7 isn't desperately needed - there's already a link via the DK8/DK1/A4.

It is stupid that Krakow does not and will not (for the foreseeable future) have a motorway linking it to the nation's capital.
But not having won the euro 2012 championship rights, it is the same level of disappointment.

I think that's because the existing road is good enoug

It goes through many small towns, and as quaint as that is, it's a pain in the arse.
SeanBM   
7 Apr 2011
Travel / The British YOBs are back in Polish towns [68]

All I'm saying is that this whole "British barbarian hordes in Cracow" thing is getting blown out of proportion by the media.

You sound like you know krakow, so you also know that, yes the media love to point this type of thing out and that Polish people find loudness and vomiting on the streets offensive in their historical old city and would rather have a pleasant evening rather than put up with it.

They should just drive the stags to a red light district in Nowa Huta, it's a win win
SeanBM   
7 Apr 2011
Travel / The British YOBs are back in Polish towns [68]

Or unless you are claiming Cracow does not have a problem with football hooligans.

The "machete-wielding fanatics that kill each other" had nothing to do with hooliganism.

So you are saying that it's ok for ''vomiting in the street'' because there are other issues and people should look away?

Anyway, it irritates people, that's all.
SeanBM   
7 Apr 2011
Travel / The British YOBs are back in Polish towns [68]

the same is with Americans, Canadians, Russians, Brits, Jews, Muslims, and any other grup you can think of...

Yep.

stop playing some kind of saint or something

I don't think atheists can become saints :)

we could discuss fixing it, but it's pointless and off topic...

I spent the whole evening fixing my printer and now covered in ink and having reset the thingy to 0, I am able to print in any colour I want so long as it isn't black.

Now that's off topic.

I'm not bashing Poland.

So what is it that you are doing?

I thought the "British Council" becoming involved was the funniest point made :)
SeanBM   
7 Apr 2011
Travel / The British YOBs are back in Polish towns [68]

Typical PF, if someone points out something they don't like about a certain group of people i.e. Stag parties, it automatically becomes a Poland bashing thread in some kind of silly defense mechanism.

Many think that stag parties need to be toned down, what's the fuss? get over yourselves.
SeanBM   
7 Apr 2011
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

And how long is it going to take to fix the roads. They are pitiful and it will take decades.

Why don't you have a look instead of just jumping to false assumptions?
stadiony.klszarak.org/scc_a_s.swf
SeanBM   
6 Apr 2011
Travel / Best method of transport to get from Warsaw to Kaunas? [14]

was turned back in B.R because I did not have a visa.

I was travelling around Lithuania the first time 12 years ago and thought it'd be nice to pop into BR while I was in the neighbourhood.

Well that just isn't the way things work round that neck of the woods :x

Visa, invitation, etc.... the unfriendly scary looking military guys at the Embassy wanted an incredible amount of USDs.

It is too tedious to make such a big thing about going to a country.
SeanBM   
6 Apr 2011
News / Sex is patriotic: Poland's birth rate rises [34]

From artical:

2003-2009

That's soooo last decade.

According to experts, this is due to a growing trend among women over the age of 30 to sacrifice their careers and raise a family instead.

I am just glad they are not praying mantises where the male's head is sacrificed after intercourse.
SeanBM   
4 Apr 2011
News / Zloty exchange rates - is this just speculation? [87]

GBP 4,5625

I have Pounds to exchange again and thought I'd throw it up here, hmm.. I could use a better expression...

Anyways, any predictions? The Zloty has been strong for a while now.

And with the soaring prices for petrol if the Zloty drops again (which it will I think to 5) are petrol prices to go up even further? (I feckin hope not or else I am going to get one of those plug in cars or something)
SeanBM   
2 Apr 2011
Off-Topic / So...which of you are actually IN Poland? [41]

I love living here too. I live in the south, up the mountains surrounded by miles and miles of forest but near to a beautiful market square and not too far from Krakow. I have tried, not very successfully, to post threads about what I love about here, please feel free to add to any of them (in no particular order):

polishforums.com/travel-tourism-5/recommendations-krakow-myslenice-27618/ - Recommendations for Krakow

polishforums.com/travel-tourism-5/polish-wildlife-similar-wild-life-live-31221/ - Poland wildlife

polishforums.com/travel-tourism-5/polish-architecture-31323/ - Poland Architecture

polishforums.com/news-politics-4/polish-plantlife-similar-flora-live-35880/ - Poland plantlife

polishforums.com/archives/2009/travel-tourism-5/recommendations-zakopane-30691/ - Recommendations for Zakopane

polishforums.com/archives/2009/travel-tourism-5/walks-up-beskids-mountains-27420/ - Walks up the Beskids mountains in Poland
SeanBM   
1 Apr 2011
Life / "Whiskification" of Poland? [32]

Maybe youz are smart enough to export it because apparently even the homeless folk in Scotland drink better :)
SeanBM   
1 Apr 2011
Life / "Whiskification" of Poland? [32]

Aye, bi ye cannae beet a bo'le ae MD 20/20 tae tap the nicht aff wae :)

The worst whisky I have ever drank from Scotland was VAT69.

sdafasdf

When I was at University it was 10 Euros for a litre with two litre of coke for FREE (just to prove how bad it is).

Half a glass and you've a hangover custom designed by satan herself.
Even the thought of it brings back traumatic memories...

I'm guessing the exact same way the Irish do :)

drunk?
SeanBM   
1 Apr 2011
Life / "Whiskification" of Poland? [32]

That's what the homeless folk in Scotland drink :D

Then they have fine taste!
I think I read somewhere that it is the most popular scotch in the world or most drunk... maybe I just fell for the advert?

Drinking it now as a matter of fact, fine shtuff.

People should be happy something like Buckfast hasn't managed to cross the water from the UK!!!

Ah auld Bucky, made by monks innit?
Used to always be pulled out at the end of a drinking party when I was a younger lad.

P.S. I just gotta use neologisms to annoy P3 :)

uisge beatha

I'd love to hear the way you pronounce that :)
SeanBM   
1 Apr 2011
Life / "Whiskification" of Poland? [32]

Nothing wrong with some Glenmorangie in my coffee.

I love a tip in my top too :)

Did you know that in Ireland we don't call them "Irish coffees" but just coffee? :D

Johnny Walker, White Horse, Haig, Black & White, Jack Daniels,

I like whiskey and don't drink any of the aforementioned, least of all jack D because it comes from a dry state.
These days Jamesons and the Famous Grouse (you get free glasses with them:) dance on my palate... where did I... oh here it is :)

Polonius3, you will probably be delighted to know that due to the Polish vodka shooting culture, it is difficult to get people here to sip, yes sip and enjoy a whiskey, instead it's WHAM! down the hatch in one shot.

I have seen 12 years go in a split second without hitting any taste buds on it's final journey.
what a damn waste.... :)

which has that unpleasant 'krople żołądkowe' after-taste.

Part of the problem here (in Poland) is that whiskey is expensive, so people buy the cheapest (which is still expensive) shoot it down and are left unimpressed for obvious reasons e.g. bad hangover.

Get someone who like whiskey to introduce you to it and you'll be on the pig's back :)

What? Regardless whichever part of the UK it comes from, it's still a traditional British drink.

The word Whiskey comes from Gaelic "uisce beatha" literally translates to "water of life".
SeanBM   
29 Mar 2011
Law / Does Poland have the most prehistorical and strictest banking system in the world? [57]

Cashing a back check in Poland is a nightmare.

Yes and not just in Poland but all ex-communist countries (well the 6 I have been to).

What is your opinion?

When the iron curtain fell, and these countries modernised, they went straight to credit cards and jumped the whole check book thing.

Find another way to get your money, do not use checkbooks and you'll be fine.
SeanBM   
26 Mar 2011
Feedback / Why PolishForums? Give us your stories! [60]

I got pretty addicted after a while. I like PF :)

:)
I totally agree, there is a morbid fascination that keeps us here, like looking a loonies in a zoo :)