Real Estate / What do you think of my house in Poland? Pictures and description. [66]


That's interesting Yosemite. In the UK that barn would be protected by law and you couldn't demolish it. And I agree with that stance if it's an integral part of the property........ but, in Poland obviously that would be a millstone round the investors neck, and at that a non-starter.

How would the buyer heat that place with it's high ceilings? Underfloor heating? Which presumably would be prohibitive if not impossible with wooden flooring. Large Scandinavian fireplaces?

Grand place. It's a pity about the location as in: It will take a generation or two for Poles to appreciate Lower Silesia's German past and let that slip, and then real investment can flood in. Just an obo, from visiting the area.


Ah:) That reminds me of the old chesnut....

Friend: { To George Bernard Shaw - who is on his death-bed} Are they making you comfortable Shaw?
GBS: No, not really.
Friend: But Shaw - Mary's been with you a long time and she's a great girl, and she looks after you really well....

GBS: { Who only discovered ladies when he was 44} Yes, but she's 50, and I would prefer two 25 year old's.

I can imagine myself in Yosemite's castle when I'm properly old - but only with proper heating - and the two 25 year olds of course!


Yes, that's the problem where I live. Large old houses going for filthy money. Except they're not going to anything but ruin, unless a small business steps in to commercialise them.

For sale signs used to be up in English, but why would Polish Americans want to buy a crumbling mansion on the Polish Riviera, with a season of 4 months and abject misery for the other 8?

Life / Cost of living in Katowice, Poland [53]

1. Brynow/Ligota

2. As above

3. We have a dog (small Yorkshire)....

Not a problem with such a dog. DO NOT put your phone number on the dog's collar. The Yorkshire terrier is number one for dog thieves (no idea why!)

4. A car in Katowice is a must - your life will be a misery on public transport (conurbation very spread out)

5. How is the security of city in general? Some areas I should be avoided or is it not necessary this kind of worry in Katowice?

Zero problems, if you're a hard dude like me:)

6. How easy/difficult is it to live in Katowice without being able to speak Polish?
Ah.... depends..... Bureaucrats in Katowice do not (or refuse to) speak English. Make a start on Polish for business now.

7. Medicover is your friend

Genealogy / Looking for info on Romani name Goman and Siejanka Goman from a gravesite in one of Poland's cemeteries [33]


Righto. A 20 minute trip:) I will see if I can chat to somebody who speaks Polish and not po Slasku. It's not that easy in Bytom:)

Genealogy / Looking for info on Romani name Goman and Siejanka Goman from a gravesite in one of Poland's cemeteries [33]


Right - that's it. Ta. City centre.

Genealogy / Looking for info on Romani name Goman and Siejanka Goman from a gravesite in one of Poland's cemeteries [33]


You do mean the cemetery on the hill by the cathedral? Bytom city centre?

Genealogy / Looking for info on Romani name Goman and Siejanka Goman from a gravesite in one of Poland's cemeteries [33]


Right, I will go and have a ganders next week and take a pic, and ask the locals.....

News / Crash of Tu-154 at Smolensk-North--could it have been a bomb in the Polish plane? [233]

What has the proven catastrophic pilot error in this case have do with "Anglos" Crow?

Genealogy / Looking for info on Romani name Goman and Siejanka Goman from a gravesite in one of Poland's cemeteries [33]


Don't know what you're on about - you're obviously looking for a fight so I'll leave you to get on with it:)

The gravestone said a five year old girl died heroically. I say there is nothing heroic about a tragic death at such a young age. "Tragic" would be the word that Poles employ in such cases.

British headstones most often say nowt.

Kasia - is that the cemetery by the old Opole- Katowice E40 or the one in town?

News / Crash of Tu-154 at Smolensk-North--could it have been a bomb in the Polish plane? [233]


Stop it Crow. You are making yourself look stupid. There were three factors responsible, and we all know what they were:
1. An interfering ill fated executive, who should not have been anywhere near the cockpit, and his air force general (who also had no right to be there) viz a vie pilot error

2 The conditions. So you are saying that the Russians indulged in some James Bond double bluff, while all the time they insisted that the plane must not land there because of the fog and there being no airport technology for large planes to land on instruments?

3. The type of plane. A 737 could dance on a sixpence and take off away from danger. That plane was doomed once a certain low altitude was reached.

You seem a nice chap, so I'll let it go. The fact is that the cinemas here are going to be full of muted laughter when Krause's latest masterpiece opens.

We all should be asking about point 1, and the many millions of Euros in damages which the Polish state should be paying to the victims for criminal negligence.

Genealogy / Looking for info on Romani name Goman and Siejanka Goman from a gravesite in one of Poland's cemeteries [33]


Yes Kasia - but if they were Roma, different rules apply. I mean, what might be considered to be "glorious" for Roma, with their big families, night not be so for Slavs? If she were Roma of course......

Surely there is some local historical society that can shed some light on this? There is a fantastic ethnographic museum in Swietochlowice for example....

Genealogy / Looking for info on Romani name Goman and Siejanka Goman from a gravesite in one of Poland's cemeteries [33]


She was 5 years old. That's a case of "zmarł tragicznie", not a "heroic death." Maybe she did save somebody, but at that age her mother should have been looking out for her I would say, instead of letting her out to play on the streets of communist Bytom. Nowt heroic about that - have you been there Atch? Godawful place that God forgot.

News / Crash of Tu-154 at Smolensk-North--could it have been a bomb in the Polish plane? [233]


I'll give my personal opinion.

The Polish defence minister is mentally ill and needs sectioning.

Genealogy / Looking for info on Romani name Goman and Siejanka Goman from a gravesite in one of Poland's cemeteries [33]


Mmm - How can a 6 year old die a heroic death? She saved the family pet rat from a horses' hooves and threw herself in front of the cart when she pushed said rat out of the way?

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

Fantastic! Keep up the great work! :)

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


But you took the EC Euros? And Poland worked hard to qualify, and now true to form is doing everything to retreat into it's insular Neo-Con shell. Not if any of us normal people have anything to do with it.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


No it's not is it. Time for PIS to come clean and honour the true patriots who fought for the freedom you have now.

Of course, you (Poles) are too dumb to see the truth of the matter.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


That's not the point Johnny. Many a patriotic Pole was crushed mentally by Jarelzelski's betrayal in bringing the conscripts into the street in Martial Law, and would have gladly fought to retain their dignity - but of course the scum was too clever for that, and manned the tanks and armoured cars with the citizens' own children, young men barely out of their teens.

Scum, and history will reward those who were brave enough to go on the streets, while the population as a whole didn't try to turn the military, as Yeltsin was to do years later.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


We were talking about Kijowski and whether or not he is a good citizen.

I am saying that he is - upholding democracy and helping to bring the facts of this government's disdain for democratic law to world attention, as an individual needs to.

For Poles have a history of doing precisely nothing in such cases, as they expect others to do their dirty washing for them.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


Ask Poles then.

Oh, of course you can't - because you're not here. I'll tell you then.

There are plenty of Poles, who have never lived anywhere else but in Poland, who wanted to go out on the streets after Martial Law was declared and persuade the young conscripts to change sides and fight along them, and fight the Soviet garrison on the streets.

But of course the overriding majority were cowed by their own criminal police and armoured cars on every street.
We British wouldn't have tolerated the scum and would have smashed them.

Next?

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


You lost me there. If that nationalist clown Kaczynski says KOD are so, then we know they are in fact the opposite:)


Yeah, and most of your population let the ZOMO and Polish Army subjugate you in Martial Law.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


You are joking, surely? We had Civil War a few generations ago. When we are up against the wall, we fight.
You cower, and in later years mutter "Oh, communism wasn't so bad."

Lol.


The Americans see things differently. So differently, that Orban and his gang are banned from entry.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


If you are talking about Kijoswski, the man deserves a medal.

Poles are generally apathetic and need others to fight their battles for them.

The term "spineless" comes to mind........

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


His business - and do we know the whole story?
Are you saying that Ziobro and his gang are saints? **** me.

Law / File complaint against Poland's police [97]


Tut tut Dolno. Poland would still be living in post-communist ruin in that case.

I would go further. People should be forced to repair their property, by way of grants, or enforced building work, instead of speculation. That will sort out the serious investor.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


And has earned EU censorship into the bargain.

As I said, decent people everywhere deplore his racist bile.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


What one individual does is his business.

What Orban is doing will be judged by a higher authority. And you're saying that the EU are wrong to censor Hungary? I prefer the scenario where there are safeguards to restrain fascists like Orban.

Thanks anyway.


What does that mean Dolno? Do you have figures that Brits statistically speaking are more likely to avoid their parental responsibilities? Eating bread and water here :))

Travel / Taxis from Gdansk airport? [65]

TaxiGdansk - has the local goverment given you any grants for your loss of earnings?

The new Metropolitan train has absolutely destroyed the taxi service I would have thought. It's a world class transport link to both urban centres of Gdynia and Gdansk and I never need to pay for a taxi ever again.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


I was referring to their figurehead president, who is leading the country into disrepute. All decent Poles want nothing whatsoever to do with his policies.

Thank you:)

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


Please don't compare Poland with those racists in the Hungarian parliament. The two have nothing in common. If they did, I wouldn't live here.

Law / File complaint against Poland's police [97]

Strange story Adrian.

If they came unto my land I would have my team there with weapons to get them off.

Legal, and very simple. No need for the police ( who - in certain cities such as Krakow, are the mafia)