History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]

Interesting that you should claim that, Moania. I provide data which back up what I say, you provide only insults.

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]


I would imagine that there are a few million Chinese who might have something to say about that. And a million plus Yugoslavs. And more than a million Canadians. And three quarters of a million Aussies. And half a million French (there were more than a million Canadians in their armed forces, 724,000 Aussie troops and 550,000 French troops at the end of the war and only 428,000 Polish). And But for some reason members of those nations don't see the need to lie about what they did during the war.


No: it was the highest claiming. Its pilots had the habit of claiming to have shot down more planes than they actually did, as demonstrated by the day they claimed to have shot down more German planes than the entire allied airforces managed in reality.

Real Estate / Demand for apartments low in Poland's main cities [89]


So you are offering one to ten (i.e. my hundred wins me ten) that average residential sale prices will go down by more than 20% in at least six of Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk, Lodz, Katowice, Poznan and Wroclaw? Assuming that:

a) you mean inside city limits only;
b) we are talking only about multi-appartment properties;
c) we are talking sale prices, not asking prices;
d) we are talking PLN prices only;
e) your data is from a reliable source,
I'll put a hundred zloty down on that bet (and would love to lose it too).

Two questions: what source are you proposing to use and is it Gdansk or Tri-City?

Law / Medical Malpractice in Poland - seeking accountability? [146]


Long Island Iced Tea can be good when done well.
A coffee martini can be taught to any barman anywhere.
A proper Bloody Mary works wonders with hangovers!


Sure thing Sanrise, of course you did. And that's why you used a different username there than either of your ones here.

Law / Medical Malpractice in Poland - seeking accountability? [146]


Can I borrow the ones which you slip into the drinks of your victims while they aren't looking?

Real Estate / Demand for apartments low in Poland's main cities [89]


He said "Prices will go down +20% this year, is my bet." But when given the opportunity to place his bet and do so at very favourable odds, suddenly he gets all shy.

Which cities are those? And how are you planning to adjust for the fact that the focus has switched to lower cost developments (which will obviously drive the average selling price down).

Law / Medical Malpractice in Poland - seeking accountability? [146]


Yes, but he lives in a place called the 'real world'.


Who says we can't? Jonny certainly can. I can often muddle through texts.


According to the PMs she sends me, she is incapable of being faithful to her husband (hence those highly amusing photos on that website).

Real Estate / Demand for apartments low in Poland's main cities [89]


You are the one claiming that prices will go down "+20% this year". You claim that that is your bet: so make the bet.

Seeing as you won't take odds of ten to one, I'll now give you twenty to one (i.e. if you win you get 1,000zl but if I win I get only 50zl) that not even one city in Poland will see falls of more than 20% in all price per sq. m bands and all flat size bands this year. Come on, money where your mouth is.


Demand is still high. The problem is that people can't borrow the money that they need to buy the properties they want.


You mean that it is usually possible to negotiate prices when buying property? Well who 'da thunk it?!


You're assuming that he lives where the average prices are and not in one of the nicer bits or in the city centre. I wish that prices in the neighbourhood I want to buy in were the Warsaw average!

Real Estate / Demand for apartments low in Poland's main cities [89]


Would you mind holding the money if Mark does decide to accept my offer of a ten to one bet?

Real Estate / Demand for apartments low in Poland's main cities [89]

Look Mark, you've made you prediction and I've offered you odds of ten to one against your prediction coming true. Now put your money where your mouth is. Put up or shut up.

Real Estate / Demand for apartments low in Poland's main cities [89]


From what I'm seeing and hearing, prices out there are very stable or actually going up (in large part because city centre and outer centre stuff has become unaffordable for many people).

Law / What are chances for Poland to join in Eurasian Economic Community? [100]


Is that what you call the verdicts of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia? Statements from Human Rights Watch? Statements from Amnesty International?

The only sick propaganda being spread here is from Serbs who claim that not only did they not commit genocide but that they were actually the victims of it. But that is actually helpful: as long as they claim it Serbia will remain the pariah state it deserves to be.


Given up denying your Nazi collaborationist ways I note.

Law / What are chances for Poland to join in Eurasian Economic Community? [100]


A deranged statements even by the standards of a genocide denier.


Yes but you also like Russians and Nazis, which makes two rather big minus points for you in the minds of Poles.

Life / Am I crazy wanting to buy an FSO Warszawa (in Warsaw) Garbus! [11]


Either that or getting AA five-star Europe and then putting a tap in the fuel line, works out a fair bit cheaper.

Real Estate / Demand for apartments low in Poland's main cities [89]


Which by definition means that it is not a bubble.

Real Estate / Demand for apartments low in Poland's main cities [89]


Because:
a) they do not know what a bubble is; and/or
b) they believe that by talking down the market prices will go down and they will thus be able to afford the properties which are currently out of their reach.

Law / Medical Malpractice in Poland - seeking accountability? [146]


Reminds me of an English guy whose wife was giving birth in Warsaw (a few years back now). The wife was getting virtually no attention at all from nurses and when she asked what drugs would be available for the pain or whether there could be a private room she was told that there were none. The English guy spoke in his best Polish to head nurse and was told that nothing would improve unless he paid her off. He called his Polish business partner who pointed out to the nurse that for less than half what she was asking two large gentlemen who provided security services to him and English bloke could be waiting outside when she finished a shift sometime in the next month and that would result in her walking with a limp for the rest of her life. Suddenly nothing was too much trouble and mother to be got anything she asked for.

Make the moral of this what you will.

News / Radical right organizations in Poland [23]


a) Majdanek was not a death camp.
b) If you say "around 56,000 murders of Jews", you're not far off the mark (current estimate from the director of the Research Department of the State Museum at Majdanek is approximately 59,000 Jews, plus 19,000 gentiles). With the exception of 18,000 shot dead in November 1943 as part of Aktion Erntefest and small-scale gassing (compared to the death camps) at the main camp and the airfield subcamp, Majdanek was pretty much a concentration camp.

Language / Intensive English Language Courses in Poland? [44]


Which brings us back to one of the many major drawbacks of Berlitz.

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]


Which of course would simply never happen to the site of a plane crash in Poland....

Real Estate / Demand for apartments low in Poland's main cities [89]

No major city is going to see falls in all price per sq. metre and size bands. Most will see falls in some band and rises in others. A select few will see rises in almost all bands, perhaps even in all. However, I have very little idea which will be which or where.

Language / Intensive English Language Courses in Poland? [44]


a) Berlitz noted for giving refunds to students who find the Berlitz method doesn't work, are they?
b) A 'traditional' approach is to use whatever method(s) work with the individual student.

Real Estate / Demand for apartments low in Poland's main cities [89]


Come on, place the bet you want to make! You have the odds now and the details.


I am talking about three specific developments in Warsaw offering flats of about 80 to 90 metres in which prices have gone down by 20%.

Language / Intensive English Language Courses in Poland? [44]


Which is one of the many reasons why Berlitz should be avoided.

Language / Intensive English Language Courses in Poland? [44]

Berlitz pay pathetic wages and when you consider the stupidly high prices they charge, those wages are simply a rip off.


Discredited in the eyes of anybody other than greedy lazy school owners. Next you'll be telling us that Callan is a good method!

I know Poles who used to teach at Berlitz who were instructed to tell clients that they were not Polish.


Wow: they have knowledge of English and lived in an English speaking country?! Stunning. I note, however, that you haven't got a word to say about their knowledge of how to teach, how to explain the language or any tiny little things like that.

Language / Intensive English Language Courses in Poland? [44]

Utter rubbish. Anybody who has ever been involved in any way with language teaching knows that:
Berlitz charge stupid prices;
Berlitz pay pathetic wages;
Berlitz use completely discredited methodology;
Berlitz schools in Poland pass off Poles as native speakers (and charge the extra a native costs).

I know one guy who used to work at Berlitz who was only fired after being so drunk that he fell of his desk and couldn't get up again because it was the second time he'd done it that week!

Language / Intensive English Language Courses in Poland? [44]


No they don't.

Real Estate / Demand for apartments low in Poland's main cities [89]


Money where your mouth is!
Specify:
city (or cities) in which prices will go down by more than 20%;
price per sq. m bands in which prices will go down by more than 20%;
flat size bands in which prices will go down by more than 20%;
the period which you refer to by "this year".

I'm willing to bet you 100zl at odds of ten to one (i.e. if you win you get 1,000zl but if I win I get only 100zl) that not even one city in Poland will see falls of more than 20% in all price per sq. m bands and all flat size bands this year and I'll bet you 500zl at even money that no city in Poland will see falls of even 10% in all price per sq. m bands and all flat size bands this year.

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]


You might wish to note that in reality, in addition to the 100,000+ Polish troops who were serving in Italy or Germany when the war ended, more than 80,000 Poles were brought to the UK after the end of the war (21,000 liberated Polish POWs, 31,800 dependants of PRC members, 29,400 Polish "European Volunteer Workers).

When one knows nothing about a subject, it is not wise to try and talk about it.

Life / The Blame Game (Have you ever noticed that a Polish person is never wrong!?) [205]


That IS doesn't have kids is very much a racing certainty.