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bimber94   
23 Jun 2010
Travel / Driving to Poland from England - any tips? [264]

We found taking the car on TransEuropaFerries between Ostend and Ramsgate to be a bit cheaper and pleasant. The sailing is twice as long as the Dover-Calais route, but there's less hassle, fewer passengers, and you drive a couple of hours less to London in total as you don't have to drive all the way to Calais/Boulogne. Can't stand the Tunnel!! Folkestone and Dover are the bottlenecks of Europe! That's our own personal experience: yours may be different.
bimber94   
23 Jun 2010
Travel / Indian or Mexican food in Warsaw. [60]

Just discovered this well-named place: vaginacafe.pl
OK it isn't in Warsaw but in Bielsko-Biała, but who could resist mentioning it? If anyone goes there, tell me what the coffee tastes like (salty, insipid, moaning waitress?).
bimber94   
23 Jun 2010
Law / Advice please - Getting monies from a Poland employer who refuses to pay [41]

I would take the matter to court as soon as possible.

I empathise! Be careful, though. If you do that, and your Polish isn't totally fluent, you'll have to legally hire a court interpreter. Guess how much that'll cost? I suggest you do something in their stupid office that, on the one hand, isn't serious enough to sue you, but annoying enough for them to send you a solicitor's letter. You can then reply to their solicitor in English, claiming your Polish isn't good enough (which is probably true), and that you demand a reply in fluent English for it to be legal. Write to their solicitors IN REPLY as many letters as possible by registered post, really dragging out each point in each letter and making it as long-winded as possible. Interpreters charge per word. It doesn't matter if the solicitor is an Oxford graduate; for his letters to be legally valid, they MUST bear the stamp of an official interpreter. That way those b*s*rds will have to pay through the nose. Oh and include some really long texts from "your Sri Lankan advisor", a long, long text in some obscure alphabet such as Sinhala. Additional, higher interpreter costs! Don't hire your own dollar-eyed solicitor, as you can't afford it. You haven't been paid. Good luck with those Catholics.
bimber94   
23 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Missing Polish woman found murdered in Chesterton, UK [27]

British police are not unknown to take the lazy, easy option, not allowing anything silly like common sense and evidence to get in the way. Just look at the way they handled the Colin Stagg case. They eventually had to "apologise unreservedly" on TV.
bimber94   
2 Jun 2010
News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

Thick fog? Convenient (this isn't 1930). A lack of communication between pilot and ground control in bad Russian? LOL! Even if you're a purple-skinned neanderthal pilot from the people's republic of watsituya, all pilots and ground control staff worldwide communicate in fluent English, with a minimum IQ of around 130. So the poor communication story is the purest bolloc*s ever. Thick fog my *rse! The fact that Lech Kaczyński was anti-corruption and anti-mafia was totally irrelevant, we are asked to believe.
bimber94   
7 Apr 2010
News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Even young Poles today openly cross themselves in public. Somewhat behind the times to put it politely. How big a peasant do they want to be? In UK where the church is much less prominent, they'd be "weirdos" or "Jesus nuts".
bimber94   
9 Mar 2010
Food / A recipe for hootch? Bimber taste in Poland. [42]

Famously, there's "bimber" proportions known as 'Bitwa Grunwaldska', after the Battle of Grunwald in 1410. It's 1L of water, 400gr of sugar and 10gr of yeast, totalling the year of 1410.
bimber94   
9 Mar 2010
Travel / Nice restaurants in Warsaw [30]

On this occasion, I'd say Harry's right. The Old Town is a tourist trap. And some years ago, the establishment owners in the Old Square wouldn't open shop because the mafia demanded protection money from them. The cops were in on it too and refused to arrest the mafia, who were known to the cops anyway.
bimber94   
21 Feb 2010
Work / Why is Polish workmanship so bad? [52]

frd:
because capitalism in our country started not so long ago

So how does that stop you from using those vodka-saturated Catholic brains of yours?
bimber94   
18 Feb 2010
Life / Ripped Off in Poland? - Expose here: [185]

If you travel to and from Poland by coach, NEVER travel by "Orbis" nor "Sindbad". My very recent travel experiences with them BOTH ways UK - PL - UK are: toilets out of order (is that legal?); luggage only accepted if you bribe the staff a tenner; coach smelly; windows filthy; very rude staff etc., etc. A jerk who 'works' for Orbis wouldn't take my suitcase (ONE normal-sized one) until I gave him ten pounds. He called it a "wersalka"! Now that's what I call a Polish Catholic chain-smoking lard & vodka guzzler. Everyone on the coach was complaining they were ripped off. PASS THIS ON. Orbis and Sindbad deserve to go bust!!
bimber94   
21 Dec 2009
Work / Why is Polish workmanship so bad? [52]

I said this in another thread: the Polish work ethic is "why do something right when you can always f*k it up.
bimber94   
21 Dec 2009
Life / Ripped Off in Poland? - Expose here: [185]

Magdalena:
You would still have to be able to prove it in a court of law.

Only if you're the plaintiff. Or is it that the foreigner is always wrong?

I still wake up screaming sometimes.

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Keep taking the tablets, Magda.
bimber94   
21 Dec 2009
Life / Ripped Off in Poland? - Expose here: [185]

Forget the f*g batteries, forget pencils and fans and cheap clothes. I started this thread so you guys can name and shame those who ripped you off. What crap did you buy, name the shop or shop the person who did the dirty on you. Names and addresses etc. I've been shat on in PL by MANY individuals who assume I have a hundred mansions in the USA and can afford to be ripped off. Quite simply they're jealous, church-going Catholics who steal often (except Sunday when they have to be seen going to communion). Well, that's my personal experience.
bimber94   
18 Dec 2009
Life / Ripped Off in Poland? - Expose here: [185]

...and?

OK, you bought batteries and...

Surely you know it's the principle, not the small change it cost, which is the point. Multiply that a few thousand times and you're rolling in it, mate. As for the 17.000 zl, that was for building work which was meantto be carried out. OK, call him a sucker, but he's a decent bloke who didn't deserve it. You just wait till you're ripped off.
bimber94   
18 Dec 2009
News / The "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign theft from Oswiecim, Poland [240]

The modern version of 'Arbeit Macht Frei' is "Karma Yoga Liberates You", by a big business called the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres all over the world. They make you work till you "burn out" as they call it. Whatever you do don't give those greedy so-and-so's a single groszy, unless you're happy to finance another castle for them like the one they have in Paris (they say they're a charity - yeah right!). They now have at least two places in Poland.
bimber94   
18 Dec 2009
Genealogy / The Meaning and Origin of the Last name Czekaj [9]

Some Polish surnames are straight out of Monty Python. There are a few people I met called Jajecznica (Mr Scrambled Eggs!); or Wielobłota (Mr Loads-of-mud). Can you imagine having your name called out loud in your GP's surgery? And now for something completely different.....
bimber94   
18 Dec 2009
Life / Ripped Off in Poland? - Expose here: [185]

Not only me but some of my friends have been ripped off in Poland; some big time (ie to the tune of 17.000 zl). This is in ways you wouldn't expect in, say, the UK or USA etc. In Bochnia I bought a pack of brand new DURACELL batteries from a decent-looking shop in "Pod Filarami". It's the only shop there which sells electrical stuff like calculators etc. OK that's small-time stuff, but it's still annoying and being ripped off all mounts up over a period of time.

Name and shame who ripped you off.
bimber94   
14 May 2009
Food / Polish Duck Soup [117]

Where in Detroit can you get lard and vodka?