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jonni   
6 Oct 2010
News / Tusk cracks down on designer drugs ("dopalacze") in Poland [171]

I remember when I was at university back in the mid eighties, cannabis was very rare (at least in my circles) and other drugs were unknown, but consuming toxic amounts of alcohol was quite normal, and for a lot of 18 year olds, it's still a rite of passage. There was a university club, with a lot of members, whose joining requirement was to drink something like 20 pints of beer in one session. Sometimes I wonder if any of those people became alcoholic later in life.

I also remember young people inhaling various household solvents. They were available, cheap, strong and highly dangerous. In Saudi, where I spend a lot of time at the moment, young people can't conveniently get much alcohol, but hashish is everywhere and discreetly tolerated and those wanting a bigger kick sniff petrol.

You're right - if someone's searching for escape, they'll find it.
jonni   
6 Oct 2010
News / Tusk cracks down on designer drugs ("dopalacze") in Poland [171]

There aren't too many psyllocybin mushroom in PL due to land use - it prefers flat, damp cool meadows to forest (there are plenty of dangerous fly agarics though) - and the poppies here are the wrong type for narcotic production. Opium poppies are illegal in PL (though not in UK, due to being too mild in summer to make growing them worthwhile), but Poland is ideal for wild marijuana, and it seems to be spreading. Poles have discovered Salvia Divinorum (check out szałwia wiesza on youtube) too, which can have quite dramatic effects and can be both unpleasant and disturbing in large quantities.

A few people in Poland have told me about a drug that homeless people sometimes make out of highly concentrated tea. Radoslaw Sikorski's wife, in her book about the Gulag system mentions it. I wonder if anyone knows anything about that?
jonni   
5 Oct 2010
Travel / Which is the most trustworthy taxi company in Warsaw? (child seats too) [10]

Amathyst is right - the bus is the best way, just remember to buy your ticket first and to cancel it on the bus in order to make it valid.

As for taxis, MPT, are OK, and the largest firm, ELE (+48 22 811 1111) are reliable and honest and since there are so many of them, you don't have to wait long. They have English-speaking operators. gowarsaw.eu/en/car-rentals-limo-taxi/warsaw-taxi/ele-taxi
jonni   
5 Oct 2010
News / Palikot - too liberal/modern for Poland? [197]

Murder is murder

And murder is killing a person. A foetus is not a person. Furthermore, your information on the legality of termination in Poland is incorrect. It is allowed only in the most exceptional of situations and even then not widely available. Remember the case of the lady who went blind having been prevented from terminating a pregnancy, or the teenage girl who was raped and couldn't get rid of it? Both discussed on this forum.
jonni   
4 Oct 2010
Food / Where to buy seafood in Warsaw? [8]

There's a shop close to the bottom end of ul. Poznanska, on the west side of the street. They sell frozen mussels and other seafood..
jonni   
4 Oct 2010
USA, Canada / Want to move to Poland from Canada, Need breakdown of opportunities with my skills [7]

If you have a bunch of experience then it is likely you may be able to find a job

This is true. If you have substantial experience within Europe you should be able to find something. If you don't have much experience, you'd be competing with recent graduates from Polish Universities whose training is a known quantity to those hiring and who may well already have done internships in the organisations they want to work for.
jonni   
3 Oct 2010
History / Give back Lwow to Poland and Kaliningrad to Germany - is it possible? [198]

ust look at the Germans, the invested billions of euros in reunification

Poland would love to be able to spend billions of Euros on regeneration, but there are projects (like a decent motorway network) that would come first. And the majority of Lwow residents are quite happy with Lwow remaining in their own country.

Also, Poland regaining their old Eastern territories would open the door to Germany claiming their old Eastern territories too - and Poland would probably rather keep that than gain Lwow.
jonni   
3 Oct 2010
News / Palikot - too liberal/modern for Poland? [197]

the state is bankrolling the Church.

In a sense it is. They get money from any taxpayer who doesn't opt out, and if you opt out, that proportion of your tax money goes on building that tasteless monstrosity on ul. Powsinska, also a religious thing.
jonni   
3 Oct 2010
Life / Bugs in Polish houses and apartments [78]

What about fat fleas in British houses?

Apparently there's a bit of an epidemic of them at the moment. I got bitten while staying at a friend's in London not long ago. The household was a Polish one, and they were all bitten too.

On the subject of bugs in Poland, I remember a dezinsekcja company knocked on my door in Warsaw offering their services. I refused, because I didn't have any cockroaches. About half an hour later, I saw the lady who knocked putting cockroaches under my neighbour's door!
jonni   
3 Oct 2010
UK, Ireland / English Films..What Do Poles Think of Them? [33]

I'll lend you my copy of Bernard Manning live at the Embassy Club lol :D

A genius of comedy! I'll swap you for Chubby Bown Live in Blackpool.
jonni   
3 Oct 2010
USA, Canada / Born in Canada, Polish parents. Am I still a citizen of Poland? [14]

I read that the government can't revoke someone's citizenship.

They can, but Poland only do it when they're angry. The thing for children of Polish parents is different though - the Consulate will be able to advise, but I suspect you'll need plenty of documents and a fair bit of time.
jonni   
3 Oct 2010
News / Poles DO return to the UK [39]

boob..bust..fourth rate cretin

Who millions voted for!
Your peculiar tone combined with your user name and previous odd statements highlight your bias and prejudice. At least we've only got four more years of the ConDems, assuming they last a full term.

Fair enough, I was't saying that they should have

It certainly came accross that way.

its the guy who tells the guy and writes instruction manuals for the person doing the caring that will though.

And there aren't many of those. Hardly any, in the cash-strapped public sector. In any case, the previous Tory administration increased the ratio of manager to front line staff, and nothing about the ConDems suggests they'll be able to do otherwise.

Out of interest, if your ConDems do indeed fire the person who

writes instruction manuals

, who will do it? Or should Nurses etc just make it all up as they go along?
jonni   
2 Oct 2010
Food / Any czernina fans on PF? [23]

I've never had it with the dumplings, but find dried fruit (or even fresh redcurrants) really lift it. Though if you fancy a girl and her parents serve it to you - well, better look elsewhere!
jonni   
2 Oct 2010
Work / English teacher from Turkey, have any chance to work in Poland? [71]

Yes I guess it is very difficult to find a teaching position unless you are native in English.

You'd be surprised! Though for non-native non-Poles the main possibilities (in Warsaw anyway) are either doing the Callan Method or being very lucky and finding a real language school who are looking for teachers but can't find enough (often due to all their clients wanting lessons at the same time of day).

If you're also looking at places other than Poland, why not Saudi Arabia? The work usually pays quite well and female teachers are always in demand due to the large number of female students - there are plenty of Turkish people teaching English there, and if you are Muslim, this is a definite advantage too.
jonni   
2 Oct 2010
Food / Any czernina fans on PF? [23]

Not only - czernina's great, but one of those things normally made in restaurants, even in PL.
jonni   
2 Oct 2010
News / Poles DO return to the UK [39]

So if you work in the public service, don't necessarily have much business aptitude and are not particularity interested or capable of doing anything other then an office job, you will feel the pinch.

Do you really think that people who work in the public sector should have "business aptitude". Should a typical public-sector worker, for example someone who cares for the profoundly disabled, or examines people for driving licences or issues planning permission for new houses have "business aptitude"?

Of course not - otherwise they'd be business people instead and Britain would be like India, with an excess of small shopkeepers and a shortage of Nurses.

The UK already has a surfeit of corporate office-monkeys, slaving away to make investors rich and too cowardly to join a union or strike for better pay. There are also too many privately-owned factories running on minimum-wage agency labour that nobody except foreigners wants to do, and only then if they can't get anything better.
jonni   
2 Oct 2010
News / Poles DO return to the UK [39]

Bad move losing monetary control of your economy.

Exactly. Britain didn't thanks to Gordon Brown, a lacklustre Premier but one of the world's greatest economists, Ireland did accept the Euro, and can't now get out of a severe crisis and are now a minnow within the Eurozone, whose fiscal policy is dictated by the interests of Germany, France and Italy.

Poland should keep the zloty.

They can't. When the Poles voted yes to joining the EU, accepting the Euro was a non-negotiable part of the package.