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Joined: 1 Jun 2008 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 20 Jun 2015
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sobieski   
28 Sep 2011
Food / Coffee in Poland: cheap and undrinkable / expensive and good [89]

Well, for me coffee is my "diesel" to get me started every day and I could not do without it...That said and done, I do not want to spend a fortune on Lavazzo & co, and neither on Jacobs.

By the way we have at home the standard coffeemaker (dripping as it is called here?). In the office it is the standard Nescafe-clones :(
I guess I will keep on stocking up whenever I go home I guess.
By the way, I think that Starbucks, Coffeeheaven & co are very expensive. Coffeeheaven service I find very slow. Maybe it is the way they are organized.
sobieski   
28 Sep 2011
Food / Coffee in Poland: cheap and undrinkable / expensive and good [89]

What is your opinion about the coffee you can buy in Polish shops?
For me it falls into two categories:
1. The cheap and absolutely undrinkable ones: Tchibo, Jacobs and the even more horrible discounter labels
2. And then we have Lavazzo & co which charge unbelievable prices for their products.

Is there a decent alternative to all this? Until now I am always stocking up coffee whenever I go home to Belgium. For very decent coffee I pay at home the same for a 500 g tin cheaper as here for 250 g Lavazzo. Freaky.
sobieski   
27 Sep 2011
History / Polish bombers over Berlin in 1939? [19]

Little-known is, I think, that the Soviets bombed Berlin August-October 1941 with the only four-engined bomber in their arsenal;, the Pe-8.
sobieski   
24 Sep 2011
History / Polish bombers over Berlin in 1939? [19]

I have read a few times about Polish bombers operating over Berlin beginning of Septemer 1939 (PZL.39 £oś). Does someone knows more about this?
sobieski   
21 Sep 2011
News / Grafitti plague in Warsaw [84]

I passed today the newly constructed viaduct at Dworzeć Gdański. Some moron had to to disgrace the new walls and fresh paint with some moronic legia graffiti. Where is the art in that? Where I come from they call that "vandalism".
sobieski   
14 Sep 2011
News / 4th Polish Republic may re-emerge [244]

Michnik was in and out of prison nonstop in commie time. Why JK was not interned...and LK only for a very short time?
You would think with a father who was in the AK during the war (so how he managed to get the Żoliborz flat?)...
sobieski   
14 Sep 2011
News / 4th Polish Republic may re-emerge [244]

Very expensive.. not sure, what about Mr Walesa

Wałęsa was a modest electrician in commie time. The K. clan were in property in an elite Warsaw suburb in commie time AND explain me how they managed to study in commie time, given the parental past? SB connections helped a great deal in that time.
sobieski   
14 Sep 2011
News / 4th Polish Republic may re-emerge [244]

I don't think Żoliborz is a elite part of Poland.

This means you do not live in Poland / Warsaw (by the way you did not comment on the commie flat). If you would live in Warsaw, you would know that having a property in Żolibórz is...very expensive. It was already elite pre-war and in commie time even more so.

Comes back the question, how the K. were able to live there in a spacious flat at a time when the average family had to wait years to get a 30 m2 cubicle - for rent?
sobieski   
14 Sep 2011
News / 4th Polish Republic may re-emerge [244]

For the first time PiS has moved ahead of PO in the polls, and among the young it is clearly favoured. Maybe slippery Don and his gang of con artists and manipulators will not be able to continue their corrupt schemes and arrangements??? Maybe it's time for PiS to resume its unfinished campaign of sweeping away scam artistis, corrupt bsuienssmen and SB hold-overs.

Tell me...how did the Kaczyński clan manage to have such a big flat in elite Żoliborz during commie time...And the sons managed to study during same commie time?

wielki pan
Funny to see all these PIS drones on the forum. They all seem to live outside of Poland :) Maybe that is why they know the mood of the country so well :)
sobieski   
11 Sep 2011
Language / Difference between bratowa and szwajgierka [10]

the wife of your brother in law would be your sister- no?

Pip, not really. My sis is my sis :). My brother-in-law's wife is not my sister.
sobieski   
11 Sep 2011
Language / Difference between bratowa and szwajgierka [10]

After all these years living in Poland, this is still not clear to me. How would one classify the wife of my brother-in-law for example?
sobieski   
5 Sep 2011
History / 15.08.1920 - without Hungarians there would be no miracle at the Vistula - Poles remember [15]

the Czechs where Panslavist delusionaries back in the first decade of the 20th century and they believed that Russians or Soviets where their allies -

The Chechs were the only ones who had a truly democratic government between the wars, and arguably the only nation in Central Europe not being antisemitic.

Poles like the Slovaks and the Hungarians, and not the Czechs. Both nations having a vicious antisemitic record.
sobieski   
4 Sep 2011
News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

He thinks he is talking about main elections while he meant local councils elections in which many people go voting but don`t know how to (complicated system)

Pawian, in which way do you find voting in local elections complicated. I have already voted several times here in Warsaw. The only problem I see is the size of the ballot papers :)
sobieski   
3 Sep 2011
Life / People living in Warsaw are rootless peasants! [41]

You are just a little immigrant who is too biased and arrogant to understand politics in Poland.

I rather think that I am a well-informed immigrant who loves this country (after all my village in Flanders was liberated by the 1st Polish Armored Dvision).

But I cannot believe how the Polska B crowd believe the duck, believe the namiotists...Believe that crazy Natanek priest.
This is not the Poland I know.
By the way, do you live in Poland? And for whom do you vote?
sobieski   
3 Sep 2011
Life / People living in Warsaw are rootless peasants! [41]

sobieski is a Flemish commie who is trying to diminish and belittle people because of their political choices.

You belittle the majority of the people, who 1. vote PO 2. Do not care about this Smolenkist nonsense 3. Do not subsidize "geothermal" rydzik.
Actually in every Belgian election I participated since I was 18, I voted ChristiaN-Democratic or Flemish-Nationalist. Not that I expect you to understand this.
Don't you miss Dmowski and the Endacja?
sobieski   
3 Sep 2011
Travel / How available is internet/wifi in Poland? [24]

In Warsaw you have free Wifi access. on the whole of the Old Town, Krakowskie Przedmieście and Nowy Świat. Or check out: polishforums.com/poland-pocket-travel-wifi/.
sobieski   
2 Sep 2011
Life / People living in Warsaw are rootless peasants! [41]

I'm sick of all the guff about "Polska A" and "Polska B" that comes from people whose roots are in "Polska B".

But "Polska A" and "Polska B" do exist. There is no sense denying that. "Polska B" is the PIS electorate. Look at the namiotists. That is the essence of Polska B.

That said and done, I do not think Varsovians are rootless. It is only that in 1945 not many of them were still in the city. If I look at all of my friends, almost nobody origins from Warsaw, meaning grandparents, and as such pre-war.

They all trace their origins from somewhere else in Poland.
The same could be said of Wrocław. The original German population was murdered, deported or fled in 1945-1947, and was replaced by Polish people from Lwów/Kresy for whom Breslau had no meaning at all. So it can be told that they also are rootless, no ?
sobieski   
31 Aug 2011
News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

Sure there isn't, but it seems as though you are perfectly happy for them to win government.......hmm I wonder why that might be?

simple,I believe them less harmful to Poland than PO.

Even with scary people as "laptop" Ziobro and Macieriewicz? And the way they exploit the Smoleńsk thing to the maximum....
sobieski   
30 Aug 2011
Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

I found out that my corner shop sells these days £omża. Great beer! Does anybody if there is a pub in Warsaw where they have it on tap? If that exists anyway...
sobieski   
29 Aug 2011
Travel / Getting from Krakow to Warsaw [99]

The Warsaw to Krakow intercity train is great and they run often- I think like 3 times a day-

IC/TLK/Express trains (journey time basically the same, comfort could differ) run about every 30/40 minutes. Keep in mind that because of track maintenance works, journey time is approx 1,5 hour longer as on the schedule. It still beats any car/bus travel though.
sobieski   
25 Aug 2011
Law / Difference between an expat and a immigrant (or permanet resident) in Poland [41]

There is another twist to this story. There are quite a few Pollacks on this forum. They do not live in Poland, maybe they come here once in a few years. They look to Poland as every ignorant Tea Party twit.

On the other had you have the "alien long-term residents" here in Poland. They live here, work here, often have Polish partners, pay taxes here...Feel at home here because they (as I do) consider this to be also their country. Yes we long-term residents were not born here. But neither were these Pollacks.
sobieski   
25 Aug 2011
Law / An Unpaid Fine For J Walking Issued By Police In 2007. Still on my record? [15]

Well, in fact I got a letter from my bank (Kredyt Bank) that they were instructed to do so on orders of our local Urząd Skarbowy.

I was also a bit mystified by this - how did they know which bank I am with - but then of course I pay my taxes each year straight from my account. Maybe that is why?
sobieski   
24 Aug 2011
Law / Difference between an expat and a immigrant (or permanet resident) in Poland [41]

I have since a long time friendly discussions with my (equally foreign) friends. What is the difference between an expat and long-term residents? Is the how well you speak Polish? If your social circle is Polish or foreign? If you have a Polish partner or not? If you stick to typical expat pubs?.

Take my example...90% of my social circle is Polish, but my best friends are Canadian, French and Polish. I speak every day at work from the morning till the evening Polish. I listen to Polish radio all day (Radio Zet and Radio PIN) but in the evening I prefer my Flemish TV programs (exception for 'Kropka nad I").

When I am in Belgium, they consider me half-Polish because in discussions when I mention "where I live" means for me Warsaw.
I avoid typical expat places but like Nowe Miasto. I take a passionate interest in Polish politics and vote whenever I can.
I came here for my Polish wife...
What does that make me?