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bimber94   
22 Oct 2010
Life / Tricks & Dodges (The Poles are nothing if not inventive) [26]

Saw another trick the other day. Nasty, this one: when digging new foundations for a house, a presumably jealous 'pomocnik' stuffed a large amount of tin foil paper into the ground where the cement was to be poured later. Inside the foil was a lot of sliced cucumber. So during the winter it would freeze, expand and damage the foundations. Baaad karma for him in the future. Good job I removed it for the owner, a mate of mine.
bimber94   
22 Oct 2010
Life / Weather in Poland - some explanations [30]

As Aleksander Solszenitzyn once said: we have twelve months winter, and all the rest is summer! Yipee. Welcome to Poland.
bimber94   
22 Oct 2010
News / WHY IS POLAND STILL GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER? [197]

Polonia1
you certainly wnt here that we werent even invited to the victory parade!!

Yes. The official excuse is that Churchill did that in case Stalin disapproved.

@ Wroclaw:
I don't know where you've been or when; it seems your experiences at Dover in the 1990s on Polish coaches was entirely different from mine. I wasn't hallucinating, Wroclaw. I also once saw a Polish qualified nurse being grilled at Dover for twenty minutes at least (1992 or 3). She said she had a fully booked-up English language course, prepaid accommodation etc. The clerk at point of entry (so-called immigration 'officer'), asked her "If you're a qualified nurse in Poland why do you need to come to this country to learn English?". She was deported and in tears. When I dared to question this there and then, this receptionist waved its paw and I was stopped and grilled by a fat cop. I still have his name. Even five years ago, Polish nationals, although no longer deported just for kicks, were still subject to stupid questions by some teenager behind a desk. One spotty jerk behind a desk too big for him didn't have the brains nor the nerve to ask questions, so his attitude was to drawl a 'welcome' in a fake Oirish accent with a "hellooooooo dere...". What a dickhead!
bimber94   
21 Oct 2010
News / WHY IS POLAND STILL GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER? [197]

Looking at Poland's history, Poland has, as we know, all too often been given a bad deal. One of the most notable sad episodes was the 1997 flood, which even damaged the wonderful Ossolineum. In a tragedy where 69 people lost their lives, not a solitary news item about these floods were mentioned on British news, TV, radio or press (I don't know about other countries). The only news about it was that there were flash floods in the Czech Republic; and about six weeks later the news items were that "the flash floods in the Czech Republic have now reached Germany". Not one mention of anything that happened in between. The BBC above all, and other media bodies, deliberately ignored Poland's plight in its hour of need.

When travelling from Poland to London by coach in the 1990s, all the Czech nationals at Dover were whisked through with no problem, but all the Poles were given the third degree, and always, without fail, at least one or two from each coach were deported. There's much more I witnessed on a number of occasions at Dover, but I'd be trolling here.

Looking further back, what had Poland done to the UK, for Churchill to stab Poland in the back at Yalta? it's understandable that a red scumbag like Stalin would harm Poland, but Roosevelt and Churchill for Chrissake! The Polish people are still being badly treated, such as being kept in comparative poverty with such low wages, higher prices than in UK etc. And who in Poland can even dream of cheap international phone calls such as on Lebara (4p/min to Poland and 5p/min to India)?
bimber94   
21 Oct 2010
Life / Weather in Poland - some explanations [30]

Don't know where you are, but it was snowing here all night and this morning up to 10am. Welcome to Poland! ;-/. Great for children though.
bimber94   
21 Oct 2010
Travel / Indian or Mexican food in Warsaw. [60]

I'll try La Bono when in Warsaw next, as it looks authentic. However, the credits in their guest book all seem so similar in spelling, grammar and syntax, it seems they were all written by the same person. An Indian restaurant in Zielona Góra (Plac Pocztowy) is run by an Indian (Gujurati?), but in my experience he dishes up curried Polish nosh; his speciality seems to be paneer, which is simply curried twaróg, not paneer proper. lol!!
bimber94   
20 Oct 2010
Polonia / Polish people in New Delhi [86]

I'd recommend the Tibetan enclave, Majnu-ka-Tilla in Delhi as a really cool place to stay. Cheap too.
bimber94   
15 Oct 2010
UK, Ireland / WHAT IS SO SPECIAL LIVING IN U.K [90]

And let's not forget a........good curry (as was the secret agent's code in Kipling's 'Kim'). Oh for a Vindaloo.
bimber94   
15 Oct 2010
Life / Weather in Poland - some explanations [30]

@ Brazilii:
It's usually a case of 5 months snow from November till March. Nearly half a year of the accursed white stuff. Reincarnate as a penguin is my advice.
bimber94   
7 Oct 2010
Travel / Share Your Travel Experiences in Poland [16]

No, but I'm glad to hear it! I'm sure he can manage. I bet he hears worse descriptions of himself every f*g day of his life.
bimber94   
7 Oct 2010
Travel / Share Your Travel Experiences in Poland [16]

I'm not accustomed to driving on the wrong side of the road. So I must endure what you call 'sh*tty n*gger music, spic music, polak music, kike music, island monkey music, slope music, or raghead music'. I see you like that Eminem jerk.
bimber94   
5 Oct 2010
Travel / Share Your Travel Experiences in Poland [16]

Commuting three times a week to Kraków and back by minibus, we passengers have to endure (or at least I do), loud 'music' blasting away, as though it was some kind of disco. The worst for me is that white coon, Eminem, who uses monosyllabic filler grunts needlessly, such as the f word. Well, I guess it keeps the driver awake. Speaking of bus drivers, it's out of order there's a smoking ban on minibuses on the one hand, but drivers seem to be a special case from the amount they smoke.
bimber94   
1 Oct 2010
Life / Gypies/Indian-looking women with kids beg for money in Poland [143]

Amathyst
Maybe it wasnt just Romainia we shouldnt have allowed to join the EU

If it was up to us, they wouldn't have stood a chance of joining. We don't have any say. ALL politicians ignore our needs and never represented us EVER!! Don't bother voting, as there has never been such a thing as democracy.
bimber94   
1 Oct 2010
Life / Let`s compare prices of services and products in Poland [359]

zetigrek

How? The answer is parents and grandparents.

What do the parents and grandparents live on? It's known, also, many of them (including the dreaded 'moherowe berety') give much of their money to the Church.
bimber94   
29 Sep 2010
Life / Let`s compare prices of services and products in Poland [359]

All these posts show that Poland still has a Victorian-style 19th Century economy, with no consumer rights (except in theory, on worthless paper). It seems the old Communist system wanted to teach Poland a really good lesson in fighting for its independence twenty years ago. To the best of my memory the minister in charge of the economy at the time of the changeover was Balcerowicz (or whatever his real name is!). It seems the old reds had in mind for the new Poland: "chciałeś, to MASZ!". They could, of course, have installed a more modern economic system, but they chose to be nasty. That's probably the rat I smell.
bimber94   
29 Sep 2010
Life / Let`s compare prices of services and products in Poland [359]

It's true that some things are still cheaper in Poland than in the UK such as transport, cigarettes and booze (you can do without the last two). However, I still believe the Polish consumer gets a very raw deal. Patak's pickles are about £1.40 in UK (Tesco) and at least four times dearer in Poland. The cheapest bar of shop's own soap (Tesco) is larger and cheaper in UK than in Poland, where you pay three times more for half as much. There is no reason why prices should generally be so high in Poland than in countries where wages are much higher. I smell a rat somewhere. So what are we going to do about it, apart from moan on the internet?
bimber94   
22 Sep 2010
History / What was better in Poland under communism? [67]

You could exchange dollars for PRL money 'na czarnym rynku' and get much more money for your money, buy amber/silver jewellery and sell it in the West. Beer - standing in a queue - was about 2p in English money (say 25p today). Happy cheap days if you weren't being beaten up by some nice milicjant doing his duty and maintaining peace and harmony in his workers paradise.
bimber94   
22 Sep 2010
Travel / Share Your Travel Experiences in Poland [16]

My experiences of Polish train travel can be charitably described as varied. Mostly uneventful, though once, some dangerous-looking character tried to get some old lady to part with her purse (so I stood between him and her and looked at him severely - he got the subtle hint). Some stations can be rather dodgy! Katowice station has a number of bums bumming around, even in the daytime (wouldn't like to be there too late at night). Warszawa Zachodnia isn't that safe it seems, but what really gets my goat is Wrocław Główny. The station itself isn't at all bad, but travelling on the 'Ślązak' train which plies between Zielona Góra and Rzeszów, someone at Wrocław gets on every single time I've been on it, asking for money, claiming they've just been mugged or lost their money/ticket/other valuables they can't survive without. It seems quite a few people leave their brains behind before entering Wrocław station, and are careless with their property.
bimber94   
21 Sep 2010
Real Estate / If you own a property in Warsaw, you don't own the ground it stands on! [9]

Every country has its strange laws which have never been, but should be, repealed. One is that in a certain American town, it is still illegal to drink milk on a Thursday.

Poland is no exception! If you own property in Warsaw, the actual property is legally yours, but the ground it stands on is council property. In theory the local government can demand you shift your house elsewhere on pain of demolition. As far as I know this stems from the PRL period where property ownership was frowned upon (unless you were related to one of the bankers, if you catch my drift). Another strange Polish law today is that in the countryside, farm owners each owns bits of an access road leading to other properties running through them. So if your property is further down the road and you want to improve the state of the track so your new car doesn't fall to bits, all the farmers whose 'land' you have to traverse all have to agree; and that all at the same time! And if any one of them at any time changes his mind, you're stuck. Some farmers also have close family in local council offices, who can pull (or block) strings in his favour.

Polish law has to tackle these seemingly small local issues if it is to make life easier for the smallholder. These laws have no place in modern Polish society and hold Poland back. The time is grossly overdue for the government to nationalise all country roads/tracks.

"The law is an ass" - in Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens).