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jonni   
27 Jan 2010
Law / Bring your business to Poland! [56]

dnz

But plenty of companies have already relocated to Poland, and the beaurocracy isn't in fact that difficult to manage.
jonni   
26 Jan 2010
News / Freezing weather in Poland, 42 people dead in winter freeze... and no-one cares? [140]

It was just on the news that the council in Warsaw have got coke-fired braziers ready in case they need to use them in bus or tram stops, for people to stand round.

I've only seen this once, and it was a good idea, but due to the cost of setting them up in the stops and keeping them stoked with coke they've decided not to use them unless the daytime temperature really falls.

Instead, they're making express buses stop at intermediate stops and laying a few extra buses and trams on, so people don't have to wait that long.
jonni   
26 Jan 2010
News / Poland - Third World Country?? [300]

it's exactly like in the 18th century.

Sometimes in a nice way. The C18 wasn't so bad...
jonni   
26 Jan 2010
News / The Internet totally uncontrolled in Poland? [19]

mean, does anyone believe that Alderney seriously has more than one bloke dealing with gambling issues?

No, but he surely gambles a lot.

Some sites were licenced as bookmakers shops during the last few months of the DDR - non-tote gambling had previously been forbidden there, but was allowed just before reunification. The few licences that were given are transferable and worth a small fortune now, since they are valid accross the EU due to grandfather rights and can only be revoked with some difficulty.

PiS have roundly attacked gambling sites licenced in this way, but they can't do anything. The Polish government don't have any powers to block access under EU rules.
jonni   
25 Jan 2010
News / The Internet totally uncontrolled in Poland? [19]

run out of Israel, anyway...Especially the e-gambling

Most of it run out of Germany and the UK, very popular here in PL. I use Bwin and Unibet.
jonni   
25 Jan 2010
Life / Horribly cold in Krakow at the moment , how do you cope with such temperatures ? [124]

This was from Polish Radio's website. It seems things are getting colder:

As temperatures plunge to minus 30 C in some places in Poland, the winter claimed more lives, the Government Security Center (GSC) has announced.
"Sixteen people have died from hypothermia over the weekend, eleven of them within the last 24 hours," GSC's Bozena Wysocka told Polskie Radio.
The statistics do not only concern the homeless, as some people have frozen to death in their homes. The dead also includes a 13-year old boy found on Saturday, who died on his way home.
The extreme weather conditions caused power outages due to network failures, with entire provinces deprived of electricity in southern Poland. The military has for several days now been assisting the efforts to remove ice from electricity lines. About 8,000 households remain without power in the country.

thenews.pl/national/artykul124345_poland-sinks-further-into-deep-freeze.html
jonni   
25 Jan 2010
UK, Ireland / Poles living in the UK returning home or not? [63]

There was an interesting piece on this morning's Today Programme about whether Poles in the UK have been going back home or not - my feeling is that they haven't.

This is from the programme's website:

Are Poles returning home?
By Sanchia Berg
Today programme

A leading Polish expert on migration has told the BBC that it is simply not true that half the Polish migrants in the UK have returned home.

A recent report estimated that at least half the 1.5 million eastern European migrants who have come to the UK since 2004 have returned home.
Most migrants - one million - are estimated to be Polish.
"We do not see them here," says Prof Krystyna Iglicka, of the Centre for International Affairs in Warsaw

news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8472000/8472980.stm
jonni   
25 Jan 2010
Law / Polish Cop Took My Car Registration :S [143]

eveyrone in Poland

Everyone?

For many years, tax, council, educational information, etc has been available in the UK in Polish. For non-English speakers.

It would be good to see that reflected here.
jonni   
25 Jan 2010
News / The Internet totally uncontrolled in Poland? [19]

Something pejorative appeared on a Polish website about someone I know (and by the way dislike). I mentioned it to a mutual friend who likes this person and is very well connected. He said that something would have to be be done about it right away, and within a couple of days the offending item wasn't showing up on search engines here in PL.

How do they do that?
jonni   
25 Jan 2010
Law / Polish Cop Took My Car Registration :S [143]

Ive not come across any..

Check out post #57, it's amazing!

I heard that in Middlesborough there are a few signs in Japanese, due to the Nissan plant.
jonni   
24 Jan 2010
Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]

Krakowska

Hi Mark!

Some of us here for ten years, plenty of people liking their life here. The cold weather doesn't last long, and thousands of foreigners speak Polish without undue problem.

Strange that you made an almost identical post yesterday, same style, same bold letters, same topic; but different username.

If you dislike living in Poland so much, the world is your oyster!
jonni   
23 Jan 2010
UK, Ireland / Posting from UK to Poland....not good! [53]

dont have the polish post site could anyone send it to me thanks frank

poczta-polska.pl/Uslugi/?U=DlaCiebie&DC=PaczkiZagr&PZ=Sledzenie
jonni   
23 Jan 2010
News / Poland's Economy Is No Joke [63]

paskuda

A couple of years ago some of the nurses in the £ódż region didn't get paid for four months, just before Christmas. Hospitals there had collection boxes so they could get money for food.
jonni   
22 Jan 2010
Real Estate / How do you comment on "Poland real estate analysis" of the biggest property site [24]

And minus 24 degrees in the next days.

Nights actually. In fact one night, a few days away. Are you saying that people who live here shouldn't buy a flat because it's cold at night in January?

Or that buy-to-let is a bad idea because the entire renting population will emigrate to the equator like swallows?

Come off it!
jonni   
22 Jan 2010
Real Estate / How do you comment on "Poland real estate analysis" of the biggest property site [24]

can you talk specifics and prove against the fact that the real estate prices ar collapsing throughout all poland?

Check out the Gazeta Wyborcza website. I can't be bothered to fish out a link, and anyway I'm getting ready to go out. This week, on Wednesday they published the average prices per sqm based on sales over the last 12 months, city by city. Prices are stable. Unfortunately, because it would be good for me if you were right. But you're not.
jonni   
22 Jan 2010
Real Estate / How do you comment on "Poland real estate analysis" of the biggest property site [24]

Nope. It is the hard truth, and you cannot take the hard truth:

Minus 18c here in Warsaw - a very different kettle of fish to -30.

BBC Weather - Warsaw

Only insane people and developers can brainwash you into throwing your money out the frozen window to buy in the POLAR COUNTRY..

Some of us live here. And for those who don't, Spring, Summer and Autumn are great!
jonni   
22 Jan 2010
Life / Lack of Spacial Acuity in Poland [69]

Magdalena

There was a scientific study done a couple of years ago about long train journeys. The result was that sitting with your back to the engine reduces stress levels and is ore relaxing.
jonni   
21 Jan 2010
Life / Lack of Spacial Acuity in Poland [69]

e window idly. Yet again, she keeps shaking my arm - and then someone gave her a seat. I can o

Today I was on a half-empty tram. An old bat in a fur coat walked right past a dozen empty seats and insisted that one of the few passengers who was sitting down should give up his seat.

Weird.
jonni   
21 Jan 2010
Language / iec conjugation [47]

active passive

Dunno what "active passive" might mean, except in classical Greek, but the present passive is: 'am invited' or 'is being cooked'.
jonni   
21 Jan 2010
Life / Lack of Spacial Acuity in Poland [69]

People actively home in on me,

It does seem that way here. If you've ever seen somebody middle-aged, who's just bought a new bicycle and hasn't ridden for years, you'll know what I mean. As they're wobbling along, they look at you ahead of the, keep looking at you because they're afraid to hit you, and of course ride istraight nto you.

I've noticed that with people here in PL, not riding but walking. Whether it's because I look foreign, or maybe I'm so beautiful they make a beeline towards me, who knows.
jonni   
21 Jan 2010
Work / Poland is headhunting seriously in IT, Finance and HR. [41]

u tell me what school is paying u so much netto,

The more professional teachers here don't tend to work full-time for one school - in Warsaw that's for either the young and exploitable or people with a lack of aspiration, career teachers here tend to do a few hours each at several in-company schools. Providing they can actually teach and are able to manage a freelance career they will earn more than that. Have a look at other threads for a mathematical breakdown of teaching income. The 4000 mentioned is very modest really.
jonni   
21 Jan 2010
News / What do we think about the plans for parity in Polish politics. [11]

I guess it's like in Orwell's 'Animal Farm', where everyone was equal, but some were more equal than others.

Don't forget the huge nubers of women in lower paid jobs than men - the three Cs, cooking, cleaning and care, come to mind, plus the hundreds of thousands of female shopworkers.

Parity in parliament and public life won't stop this overnight, but it will slowly change both young women's aspirations and the political culture as a whole.
jonni   
21 Jan 2010
Life / Do you think a smoking ban would be a good thing in Polish restaurants and Bars? [217]

(slightly off topic) The pub trade in the UK are about to to be hit again, the goverment are stopping all the 2 4 1 deals and happy hours in a bid to stop bing drinking...They're not stopping the supermarkets though!

Entirely on topic. Governments tend to dislike people getting together with strangers, having a smoke and a drink and discussing things freely - they'd rather people sit at home in isolated family units having their minds sucked out by the television.

PL is something of a stay-at-home culture anyway, a smoking ban will increase this. In the UK it's happened already and makes my heart break to see traditional pubs that used to be the focus of a community either boarded up of being turned into flats.
jonni   
20 Jan 2010
Classifieds / Where to find English - speaking community in Warsaw? [15]

Have you heard of the International Womens Group? They have an office in the LIM Centers at the back of the Marriott. People say it's a really good way to eet English speakers. Most (but not all) members are in PL due to their partners' jobs.