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Dreadnought   
25 Feb 2013
Life / Polish pretense - what's the deal? [72]

I think the real reason that people in UK don,t bother washing their cars that often is that they don,t expect them to last that long, usually because they fail the UK version of the yearly safety test. rsavy may I ask is running for fitness and fun a done thing in your area? I have been in this area for almost 3 years now and have not seen a single person out runnning for fitness or fun. Some mountain bikers in all the right clothes sometimes although still rare, (but maybe all that spandex is just to look good? I don,t feel the need for it when I,m on my mountain bike) where I came from you couldn,t move for runners of all ages.
Dreadnought   
24 Feb 2013
Life / Polish pretense - what's the deal? [72]

I came simply for 'The good life'...which I do live here, No job, don,t need one have plenty enough money, could have done it elsewhere in the world, but my wife is actually Polish, (though more from Silesia than hereabouts) it looked good here and it is.....I have to admit that I thought Poles might simply be like Germans.....(whom I knew from serving there for 6 years) boy how wrong I got that one!! We looked at land in the North of Poland and the West of Poland....this area was just prettier....we like hills, we got them. We got a bonus with these long hot Podkarpacie summers. Flabby?? Flabby? I will exercise more this year I promise!!! I,ll saw more wood, cut more grass, cultivate more land and plant more crops and go for a good 5km run every morning, hey maybe that will impress people more.....I,ll let you know if it does.....maybe it will, running for fun is just not done around here...not seen a single runner these past 3 years?
Dreadnought   
24 Feb 2013
Life / Polish pretense - what's the deal? [72]

Yep lets say envyme is being very straightforward and to the point......and of course people are jumping all over him.....but it is sometimes as he says......around this area especially, back in London we had a saying that covers it.... 'All Flash and Front' it means all flashy but with no substance.....like peole around here look at my dirty (fully restored at great expense Russian Jeep) and say why do you never wash it? they wash their cars all the time regardless that the engine is a piece of trash, I tell them that people in UK with £50,000 Range Rovers leave them half a year without washing and they gasp and say 'shock'!!!!! But this in no way detracts from the people here they are what they are, trying to be what they aspire to......so long as they are nice people and friendly with it like they are hereabouts I dont see that it matters much at all. As for all the girls unmarried.....it goes well into the thirties and beyond in this area. I have started a different thread asking why this is so.....I have realised since I started that thread, that maybe in UK people do live together more, rather than get married and maybe stay together for a few years then move on and here they aspire to a proper marriage or not at all, so the upshot is many spinsters and unmarried men all over the place?
Dreadnought   
24 Feb 2013
Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

Ironside, you know what gets me kudos around here? the locals say I am kind and brave, because not only I but my wife too, when it is hot in summer we will buy a round of beers and take them round the back of the shop and sit with the guys and ask "whats new" (nothing ever is new of course this is a small village) but no I don,t squat and its not because my backside is too fat (you obviously never worked a farm? it does keep the fat off if you put your heart into it) it,s my poor old knees (15 years of running and lugging huge backpacks and a rifle have not treated my knees well.... so I lean against the wall) I am a man of the people, I mix with professors and businessmen and teachers and doctors and I also find time for the derelicts......there is method to this....whenever I need a ditch digging I can always find a good cheap worker.
Dreadnought   
24 Feb 2013
Genealogy / Any Polish Tatars here? [95]

What I know about Tatars could be written on a small fingernail......but in the area I live Nr Rszesow in the Podkarpacie, I have seen several very dark skinned people living in the villages, one friend of our has slightly mongoloid features, but it does not make her un-pretty in fact I think it makes her more mysterious and desirable. Another girl who was obviously of Tatar stock somewhere in her genetic history worked in a local shop...but she dissappeared... (I hope she got a better job)....in UK that girl could have been a model...she was one of the most beautiful featured girls I have ever seen, but she was so very dark skinned, dark hair and eyes so beautiful.......The first person of Tatar stock we saw was a guy, sometimes still see him walking, peasant farmer type, but so very dark skinned I had him pinned as an Indian guy so dark was he and so thin featured...it makes him look so sinister....but I wave to him and smile and he waves and smiles back, as we drive by probably a nice guy. They are about, but I wonder if on a cencus form they would admit to being of Tartar stock?
Dreadnought   
24 Feb 2013
Classifieds / Meeting / English Club in Rzeszów [21]

Sorry Wozzy it,s a good hours drive for us on the road......but will consider it in the future when the snow has all gone, hope someone in the town reads this and meets up with you. regards Steve (out in the wild hills where the snow is still deep)
Dreadnought   
24 Feb 2013
Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

I suspect that a deep vein of embarrassement runs through you all, I am deeply embarrassed by the 'chav' society that UK has produced, we have Jeremy Kyle and you have that parade of grotesques called Sprawy dla reportera? who never seem to get the right help when it happens that the mother has gone away to work and has signed the family farm over to her 'idiot boy' eldest son who promptly sells the whole farm for a crate of piwo! Boze moj!!! But I digress (mostly to press my point) I am not that far from Jaslo by the way so I can claim to be in 'The Pod' and this squatting.....some of you seem to misunderstand (maybe on purpose?) I am definitely sitting on a chair not squatting....squatting is bending of the knees.......why am I describing this?? just think of an Afghan peasant......So you adjudge that this behaviour is not Asian.....so how did it come about....people do have chairs here and have had for a long time!!! Asians often in history have not used chairs and favour large cushions and either a squat or a cross legged sitting position. I make a cultural point now, I have seen this in the Arab world and again a similarity arises, because the people that I saw squatting around a low table in an Arab country were all men, they did not allow the women to eat with them and here when the men are squatting they do not allow women to squat with them!!! (even squatting teen males do not allow girls to squat wwith them, I have seen a group of teens waiting for a bus....the boys were sqautting in a circle talking...the girls were stood away to one side talking) so how did this parallel culture arise when European sized tables and chairs were also available. Back to the deep vein of embarrassement which you cover with light hearted remarks about the guys behind the Straz being connoisseurs of cheap wine...of course they are, but my deeper question is why the penchant for hanging out behind every shop and every Straz.....I have never encountered this anywhere else...of course the rest of Western Europe has its share of hopeless dregs of society....but they don,t do it in the same way as they do here?? I was hoping for an explanantion that it is a hangover from the days of communism when people hung around the shops hoping for something to come in other than osset and brown paper.
Dreadnought   
23 Feb 2013
Love / How many Polish girls are married to foreigners? / How many Polish boys to foreign girls? [104]

Wow! somebody else who has seen the future, look also to UK and see how these savages have destroyed society there too (good thing though is that Black people and Pakistanis mostly kill each other in gang wars), but they do also prey upon young girls and use their religion/culture to get away with it...Police dare not proceed against them for fear of being called Racist Nazis. So don,t let them in, they will form ghettos and then spread out and push local people from their homes eventually taking over whole suburbs which then become no-go areas for police etc..in effect they make a little part of their own savage lands within other countries. Or they will simply marry Polish girls imregnate them then make a run for the rest of the EU tightly clutching their passport to leech off the state. Now in temperance I will add that they are not all bad and some are intelligent and cultured......but they are few, such a small percentage of them and these good ones are most times, the 'foot in the door' for the savages and Poles will understand this when I say that they do stick together family wise.....if a good intelligent Pakistani is asked by his family to 'engineer' a passport for some waste of skin, illiterate cousin...he will do it....regardless of the consuequences (one time when the family system is not a good thing). I am an Englishman married to a nice Polish woman (look to an old film Ptaki Ptakom, she is the girl at the beginning of the film who shoots the German) she is the best woman I have found in all my travels all over the world. We live in the Podkarpacie region....poor but beautiful.

I,m not sure I understand your point, but in UK Pakistani people (along with Indians) have made a big contribution in that many of them have used the UK school system and university system to acheive highly, thereby making a good contribution to society and to their own wellbeing by gaining good jobs......but if you look at it in another way not all of a family of 6 or 8 can become chemists and doctors and not everyone can be a high achiever, In Pakistani culture it is very normal to marry a first cousin and of course this happens over generations, some UK doctors did make a case a couple of years ago that the health services in certain areas (Pakistani ghettos) were being overwhelmed in the pediatrics departments by babies born with many defects due to this form of marriage. They are also more likely to marry someone from their own village thereby bringing more people in from outside and again having more babies. Where a UK family or Polish family might have 2/3 children a Pakistani woman will churn out 6/8 babies. Once they get in they will eventually overwhelm certain areas and eventually a whole Western country simply by outbreeding them. Pakistanis are also liable to send much of their wealth back to their village/town rather than put it into the country whose facilities they are using to better themselves (they do of course pay their taxes)(This particular argument has been used by some against Poles working in the UK?) Pakistanis in particular rarely mix with other cultures and create ghettos of their own population thereby slowly but surely forcing people who have lived there all their lives to move because they feel uncomfortable surrounded by people who do not share their local culture, dress very differently and speak another language. Indeed in some towns in Northern England there are actually no-go areas where it is known that the 'elders' Police their own people under 'Sharia' law and the UK Police just do not go there.......indeed it has gotten so bad in some areas that how could they change things? the only way to reclaim would be with bombs and bullets and that will not happen in a so-called civilised country. The English made their own downfall in these areas, by expecting all these Asian/African cultures to 'Play Cricket'.....some of them do actually play cricket but in the game as in life... they seem to invent their own rules as they go along....the degree of rules changing just gradually overwhelmed UK, it would be a shame to see it happen in Poland. The Australians have a system that is much better, if you want to come to Australia you have to have a job that needs you and only you, you cannot put a native Australian out of work, you must learn the language and fit in and if you behave badly you will be sent back to your own country. You cannot bring Grandma and Grandad and several cousin 'hangers on' with you as Pakistanis do in UK. I think the Germans and the Turks had a simlar deal as it was explained to me way back in the 70,s when I lived there......A German told me "we allow Turks to live and work here and use the health service etc...but we give them no power to vote or change things....if one of them is bad the whole family is sent back to Turkey" "In effect they Police themselves for if for instance a young boy seems to be going bad, then he is sent back to Turkey by his family, perhaps to live with relatives? they would not want the better lifestyle of the whole family to be jeopardiesd by this one bad boy" I thought it sounded like a very good system and I wished we English had used this kind of system in dealing with all of the commonwealth and African natives that we let in to swamp our culture...if so UK would be a much better place in my opinion. NOTE: I seem to be answering a post that has been removed??? or was I seeing things?
Dreadnought   
23 Feb 2013
Life / Are Polish people open to others? [20]

I was going to say this but got beat to it...but I,m here anyway: Yes Poles (I speak only with experience of the deepest Podkarpacie) are open and friendly to foreigners like me. But they hate with a simmering will their neighbours and most of their family and any other strangers who are Poles??? Love to know why? but I am glad that they have always been good to me.
Dreadnought   
23 Feb 2013
Love / My reaction to a thread against foreigners marrying Polish girls [37]

Easy way to stop all these savages trying for an EU passport...make it compulsory for the girl to live in Paki land/wherever... for 10 years before her husband would benefit from right to stay in EU. All this nonsense would soon stop......it is easy to spot because the husband always wants to come and live in EU. Where he dumps the stupid girl + babies and legs it to UK or Germany with his EU passport in tight grasp...apparently there is even one of these stupid girls in the local village. Sucker Sucker Sucker!!!!
Dreadnought   
23 Feb 2013
Law / Registration of right hand drive cars in Poland - possible? [82]

I could say dream on....but that would be uninformative and abrupt.....so I,ll give my view on it......not going to happen for as long as Poland can hold it off....and it looks like they will get their way for a long time. Poland is a good EU country and sings the praises of the EU up, down, left and right, even unto the heavens..... so that means that a little lee way is given to Poland throughout this time of crisis.....wait until all is good and rosy with the Euro and the EU in general, then they will get back to pushing Poland to allow RHD cars. I won,t go into the details of why it would be bad for Poland to allow RHD here because its been discussed before..although that ugly demon that resides inside 90% of Poles who get behind the wheel and its reason for being so has never really been looked into...for shame!.
Dreadnought   
21 Feb 2013
Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

No these few dark people are not Romani......this is a very 'closed up area' I don,t think Romani would be welcome here, but these people who have the Tartar look have been around for generations........I wonder if maybe they just 'happen' in the population here, you know, genes from the past coming to the front after many generations......if you had a baby with these traits you would love it just the same as if it were white 'aryan'. But that still doesn,t help with the squatting in circles like Asians??? these are white guys squatting, they must have seen this tradition carried on from ancient Tartar times in this area.......and like I said teen boys still do it......in the West if a group of teen boys are waiting for a bus etc...they will stand around......here they will squat in a circle by the roadside (any girls with them will stand)......it is a different and special culture. (I,m not saying it is a good thing.....People in the West of Poland may be embarrassed by these people? see their actions as maybe not the Poland of the future that is hoped for) But they are here and these old Asian ways are still part of Poland and looking at the young guys now they will be for a long time to come, beause if teens do it now they will pass it to their children in not too many years.
Dreadnought   
21 Feb 2013
Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

There are a few people here who do have that Tartar look, ie very dark skin, eyes that look slightly asian and dark straight hair.....some of the girls who have this look can be so beautiful....and some of the guys who have the look, can look so sinister (probably nice guys just unlucky in the way they look) But there are so few of them that it makes me wonder how these Tartar ways could have survived so long with only few of the people to carry them on.
Dreadnought   
21 Feb 2013
Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

So maybe these very Asian traits are left over from the turks and the tartars? but that seems a very long time for these traits to have survived? This place must have been really closed off from the rest of Poland...like some kind of 'Lost World'
Dreadnought   
20 Feb 2013
Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

Ha ha all this talk about Police......I think we have one or two Policemen for this huge area! now the old Police Captain has retired (they seem to retire young here) the new Captain (three stars on his shoulder?) does not like to drive the old ARO 244 4x4, he likes the comfort of a car so does not venture out onto the dirt tracks unless he has to. There have been rumours that they will close our local Police station and Police cover will come from the next town appx 15kms away. I have to say that this is a pretty safe area, (lots of death and maiming by crazy driving) but very little theft or violence....the guys round the back of the Straz always have cuts and bruises where they fight each other or fall over but they never bother other people or passers by.
Dreadnought   
20 Feb 2013
Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

Nope see my post about lumberjacks above......definitely not lumberjacks.....and my wife has just reminded me that these groups of men also occur along dirt tracks, not always in the forest, they can as easily be at the side of a field......and no they are not farmers....I,m a farmer so I should know. I,m almost willing to go along with the theory that they are escaping from nagging wives? but why here? why not the same in germany they have nagging wives also......is it just a 'Podkarpacie' way of escaping from a nagging wife and how do they convince 10 or more of their friends to come with them......they do sometimes light a fire with wood, but they don't seem to be cooking anything on it??? which again confuses? and they may or may not have a few cans of beer with them. Aha there you go....Tommy G nows says that they are not Polish.......which is exactly what the Polish guy back in UK told me.......so when did this area get added on to Poland? and to whom did it belong before?
Dreadnought   
20 Feb 2013
Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

I,m beginning to think that I am the only one on this forum who actually lives in the 'Podkarpacie'. You know the locals call this place Coniec swiata????? maybe I do really live at the 'end of the world'? Edit: not lumberjacks.......in fact the lumberjacks in these parts seem very well versed in health and safety standards wear some really good padded/waterproof/insulated coveralls and can be spotted from miles away due to bright colours and nice Stihl chainsaws like mine. (MS 650...... I recommend it......see I,m already thinking like a local)
Dreadnought   
20 Feb 2013
Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

I,ll try to answer questions first. My wife cannot tell me why the men gather in the forest, she is from Silesia and says she is sure they do not do it there. She is also sure that she cannot ever remember guys squatting in circles in Silesia or Krakow or any other major city she has visited....they just do it here. As for the guys having these 'get togethers' in the forest, now I have spent many years in most of the other European countries including some Northern ones that get cold like Poland (Sweden/Denmark) and in none of them have I witnessed this guys in the forest thing.....so it must be an Eastern Polish thing....not a Western thing? Miners squatting, have you ever been in a mine??? not much room to do anything but squat!!!! Not a job I would like to do. Somebody also mentions that Asian women squat....yes they do, but seperately from the men. Here just the men and boys squat...the women are always excluded from this squatting and even working in the fields in summer, I see men squatting and the girls and women reclining seperately away from the men. Pictures.....do you really want pictures, it really is no problem to do that, but I cannot see why you do not believe what I report, why on earth would anyone make up a spurious report about men gathering in the forest and or squatting on their haunches!!!....oh and they do it in summer or winter, doesn,t seem to bother them. My point really is that I have never seen this anywhere else in Europe and would like someone to tell me why it happens here and not in Germany, not in Belgium, not in Denmark, not in America...just in the 'Pod' or does it happen where you are?? do they squat in circles in towns nearer to the German border? or is it an Asian trait that has come down through the ages in just this little corner of Poland? and why is it still here?? it wasn,t exactly last week that Ghengis and his pals were having a pillaging party in this village???
Dreadnought   
20 Feb 2013
Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

As usual there are those of you who are rightly embarrassed and those of you who have tried to explain. I had hoped that you could explain the social reasons for these gatherings of guys in the forest? Of course I realise that they are not gay (or not likely to be). (my wife laughed at some of your comments!!) I had also hoped that someone could come up with a sensible explanation about the guys squatting in circles and not all of them are drunk or drinking...just conversing, (you will note that I also told you that young male children/teens do it.....not girls... just boys...thats what makes it so peculiar looking to me...it is a purely male province just as it is in Asian countries) so it must be something that they saw father and grandfather do and must therefore think that way is correct. I,m sure that when Poles from this area visit America they do not squat around in circles on the pavements? they see people acting differently and do the same......so I conclude that these Asian style actions (in this area...you will note that I asked if they do the same in other areas?) are something from the history of this area and may even be unique to it......We all think of Poland as a Western country, but the actions of these guys show that there is some Asian influence, perhaps passed down through the ages....I hoped that one of you would have been versed enough in history to give an explanation? Sopot Kamionka gave most sensible explanation...... thanks, but it must go deeper as I said, to me an outsider it all seems very Asian.....it didn,t just happen, they do know what chairs are..so it must be some kind of tradition? how has it survived all this time??
Dreadnought   
20 Feb 2013
Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

Well yes I do live in the Podkarpacie and although a poor area it is very beautiful (if only the people would not dump their rubbish at the roadside and in the forests??) The people are very friendly and welcoming to foreigners although they do not seem to trust any Poles outside their immediate family and believe everyone else is out to cheat them. Children here do not have 'sleepovers' or other children at their houses (except cousins and immediate family) Birthday parties may include an old grandma but exclude a childs best friend from school because they are not 'family'. When I asked why this was...? a man looked at me strangely and said "we do not have other peoples children in our house because they will steal from us"!!!! Families keep very much together (perhaps too much so in the long term, if you follow my meaning?) Another strange thing that I have noted here is the fact that a group of men gathered together will squat down in a circle, like Afghan peasants??? why is this? even young men do it? There are never any girls in these squatting groups and girls/women do not do it. It reminds me of the way men act in Asia and North Africa. Perhaps I need to study the History of this part of Poland in more depth. I think I expected it to be a bit like Germany, my wife is from Silesia and tells me that these people are nothing like Silesians in their culture.....before I came to Poland to live, a Polish guy I worked with asked me where I was going to live and when I said 'Podkarpacie' he laughed and said that is not Poland!! it was just added on at some time in our history, he was from one of the big cities. Is there some strange Asian sub-culture here? is it known among other Poles that these people are different.......do men squat together in a circle in Gdansk??? or is it just here?

I see that you have learnt from your mistake. Well done.
Dreadnought   
19 Feb 2013
Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

As a foreigner living in Poland I have long wondered why so many gatherings of men in the 'picnic areas' in forests? in my home country there would be guys and girls......but here it is just men always just the men??? never any women?? do men here have an aversion to girls at picnics? While I am here I would like to also ask, why are there always, most days morning until evening, gatherings of men behind the local Straz and behind the local village shops??? in my home country (and so many others I have visited) you just don,t have guys hanging around the local firestation or around the back of the locals shops.....I think the Police would move them on. Is this peculiar behaviour just something I am missing? perhaps these men are proud war veterans? or members of the local chamber of commerce perhaps who meet together because of their sense of cameraderie or to discuss important things? many of them do seem too young for that, but maybe someone can enlighten me, especially about the meetings of guys in the forest?? a secret society perhaps that exclude women (like some golf glubs used to)!.....I am intrigued? I know I would take a girlfriend with me, I wonder why they do not??
Dreadnought   
19 Feb 2013
History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [900]

Whenever I read a thread like this (and I didn,t read all of it) I always think of poor old General Patton, now there was a man with vision, he hated the Soviets and could see what a threat they would be, he and Churchill argued that while the West had such a huge and co-hesive Armed Force they should push through Germany and the Eastern countries of Europe, inevitably destroying the Soviets and pushing them back into Russia. Think of a Europe with all those Warsaw Pact countries free to develop democracy (and not feed Soviet greed) there would have been American money to help as well, like they did with Germany, they would have needed a strong border with the Soviets and would have helped these countries to build their industries and wealth, almost as importantly there would have been NATO style bases in all of the Warsaw Pact countries and inter-action with Westerners. Poland would certainly be a different place now. But as we know, nobody else agreed to the plan and Patton was sent to 'rest' in an insane asylum. How he must have laughed when he was proved so right. (he did say publicily that if we dont stop the Soviets they will be "knocking on our door within 5 years" that one he was wrong about...it took them much less than 5 years. (Berlin Blockade). I forgot to add that Poland would also be a much bigger country as it would get back all those territories that are even now part of other countries.
Dreadnought   
15 Feb 2013
Classifieds / Meeting / English Club in Rzeszów [21]

Several of us live out Czudec way. Regards Steve....been here almost 3 yrs........then theres Eddy from Yorkshire, and a few more dotted around.
Dreadnought   
12 Feb 2013
News / New uniforms for Polish Army [30]

Pull up a sandbag young officer, lets set the old lamp swinging and I,ll tell a couple of old Army stories......way back in the 70,s when I was a young NCO and had the pleasure of hauling around an old Signals truck, well, we gets to this Exercise location (one of the 'Reforger' manoeuvres) and I being two days early get all set up nice and warm in this big old barn. (set up means an hour or more of wiring and powering up) Two days later along comes the American truck that was alocated to be parked in the barn also. The driver comes and finds me and says "sorry but you,ll have to move over 4 feet or so closer to the wall" "what??? why do you guys need so much room between the trucks"?? at this point the guy decides to demonstrate rather than speak, he presses a button on the side of the truck and the whole side moves out another half a width!!!!!!! I had never seen this type of expanding body truck before and gained some respect for other people,s equipment!!! obviously had a bigger cheque book than we did, but also...we had 2 telprinters in my truck, they must have had 10 or 15 in that behemoth. Yes I did move my truck, I could see a good reason why.....and they made good coffee in the back of that American truck and I was made welcome too. At one point one of the American guys asked if he could examine my rifle ( 7.62mm L1A1SLR.....UK made FN FAL) "Wow this thing is as heavy as a section Machine gun" I replied "yes it is heavy but very high velocity and it can easily kill at over a mile, if a round hits even at that distance it might take an arm off, either way whoever it hits won,t be getting up again for a long time" He looked at me and said can you see a target at a mile or more? Hmmm I had to think about that one........No I said......you are right it is useless at that range......but trust me when a round from this goes by close you get down and stay under cover" His rifle seemed like a plastic toy to me, but I assumed it was a fairly good killing machine and wished that mine only weighed that much. (The only American Unit I ever served with was 3 years at COM6ATAF way back in the late 70,s)
Dreadnought   
12 Feb 2013
Law / Possible to convert to Turkish driver's license to Polish driver's license? [17]

When I arrived here in Poland I wondered why so many Turkish students even in the 'Hick town' where I live (depths of the Podkarpacie) then I remembered, Turkey is not going to get EU membership, mainly due to the fact that there are so many of them and they would 'swamp' us even if a small proportion of them decided to move here. So they need things like 'study' in an EU country, and a paper trail of things like 'driving licences' then manybe even marry some dumb village girl.....get an EU passport and Europe is theirs. Pakistanis have been doing it in UK for ages.
Dreadnought   
11 Feb 2013
News / New uniforms for Polish Army [30]

My point about the new Brit Army uiforms is that although they do have parade uniforms they are most seen in towns in the new scruffy combats that do look like a 'bag of shiite tied in the middle' The Americans on the other hand do not and never have liked their soldiers to be seen in fatigues in town, they would be expected to put on a tidy uniform, at least way back when I was in 'barrack and working dress' was considered tidy enough to be seen in towns and it was. Hmmmm a 'Walt' ?? I suppose there always has to be a time when some upstart calls you that, perhaps you would like to go back to your buddies at ARRSE and report me to the Walt finders??? My little Red Books says I was on Op Corporate.........but I,m sure the walt finders would be able to put your mind at rest from the previous posts I have made on ARRSE. I brought some lovely souvenirs home from Op Corporate, one of which was a beautifully made trench knife forged by Weyersberg Kirschbaum and Bayer....mine is the modello 1909 trench Knife, not the bayonet........I doubt if there were any of those left for the 'come lately,s'? It hangs on the wall here on my farm and visitors always like to hear the story. You know, "pull up a mess tin, there I was surrounded by hundreds of enemy and all I had was my old brass button stick" (yep still had them when I was in). Oops almost forgot, yes my Combat jacket is the one I had as 'best' in 82, Ok it,s seen a lot of action in wardrobes and such since then, but I checked it and its the one, just shows they were quality then, even had linings. Oh and I do keep fit, I still have one pair of Lightweight trousers which I can get into no problem and as I got out in 88, not bad going eh?.......... for a 'Walt' of course.
Dreadnought   
10 Feb 2013
News / New uniforms for Polish Army [30]

Wellllll.......I have been retired a long time now........the new helmet has got to be better than the one I was wearing in the Falklands war.
Dreadnought   
10 Feb 2013
News / Polish people's criticism of European Union [104]

Only this area gets free internet as far as I know.....there may be other areas that have applied for the money and got it. But I give a hearty round of applause to a guy in our Gmina (town council) who took the trouble to look through the interminable EU documents, find out what was available and apply for the money, then install the equipment etc. (It did get him a promotion to a much higher position and well deserved I say.) I must be getting weak or lazy!!!! last year I would have jumped at the chance to go 4 wheeling in the snow?
Dreadnought   
10 Feb 2013
News / Polish people's criticism of European Union [104]

Hmmm I,m looking out of my window and here in the Podkarpacie it is snowing, so I think Pawian can call me what he likes (it costs me not one grosz, even my internet is free (deprived area so EU pays!!!)) I could jump into my UAZ and find one of these Nice EU notices I know where there is one in a village called Bystrzyce and there are too many to count out Jaslo way.....but I will stay in the warm and be a liar ha ha ha ha ha.
Dreadnought   
10 Feb 2013
News / New uniforms for Polish Army [30]

The new camouflage is a horse with two heads, yes it is considered better than the old DPM, but it is also a money saver, one uniform does the work for many different terrains, Temperate, jungle and desert. So saving the government money. I just wish that some of the money saved would be spent on quality.....the people look to their soldiers to seem smart and efficient, if the uniform is made so that no matter how hard you try you will still look 'scruffy' then the people can lose trust. Same for the new helmet, it seems to be pretty good at stopping 7.62 rounds and has saved several lives so far.....maybe some of the money has been wisely spent? I just remember what one guy who was in Northern Ireland (one place I missed) told me.......nothing but nothing, no body armour ever made is going to stop a sniper with a Barratt Light 50...so good camouflage is the thing eh? so that damn sniper can,t see you.