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sobieski   
13 Aug 2010
News / Polish, language of future - Post-apocalyptic [45]

Yes, Serb... how is your Polish actually?

Serbian or Polish is all the same. Sounds me as two dialects of same language

Polish is a West Slavonian language, as Sorbian, Czech and Slovak.
Serb is a South Slavonian language mixed with Turkish.

It is like saying Danish is the same as Dutch.
Or Portuguese being the same as Romanian.
sobieski   
13 Aug 2010
Travel / Fish and Chips in Warsaw [53]

Speaking as a Belgian you Brits can never equal our Belgian fries :)

I can see you've never been to the Belgian chip shop in Warsaw. As for Jazz Bistro, I've certainly never managed to stuff myself there for 23zł.

Do you mean that place on Foksal?
Actually in Jazz Bistro in the 25-30 PLN range you can eat decently, they have never let me down in all these years.

By the way why to deep fry Mars bars, where I come from you eat them straight from the shop?

Still I was planning since some time to head for the Brit place. I heard from other people as well it is really good.
sobieski   
13 Aug 2010
Travel / Fish and Chips in Warsaw [53]

Jazz Bistro - my favourite place in the city - has a good offer around that price, and nor hearty Polish fare I would say :)
sobieski   
13 Aug 2010
Travel / Fish and Chips in Warsaw [53]

For me 25 PLN is expensive for Polish standards. I am sure for the Brits here this is good value for money. But you can get good food in Warsaw for the same price.

Still I will give it a try. Speaking as a Belgian you Brits can never equal our Belgian fries :)
sobieski   
13 Aug 2010
News / New cross war in Warsaw [530]

All the cross loonies are voting PIS.
I did not say all Polish catholics are voting PIS - but the fanatic "Polska B" kind for sure are.

What surprises me is the absence of Rydzyk here. You would think that if anybody would represent the loonies in would be him. Although compared to them he is slowly moving to the centre I would say :). Or perhaps he is on holidays?
sobieski   
13 Aug 2010
News / New cross war in Warsaw [530]

The cross will be gone when the government gets it act together. It only needs 15 minutes of decisive action. The cross loonies are now telling that the Polish episcopate are traitors.

Nice evolution :)

Oh, yes, the cross. I dislike the fact that all manner of undesirables seeped through the cracks and came out of hibernation. They are not true Christians at all. As said above, they are the Taliban that use religion as an excuse yet DO NOT represent the word of the Gospel.

They represent a sizeable part of Polish catholicism = PIS electorate.
sobieski   
12 Aug 2010
Travel / Nice restaurants in Warsaw [30]

Arsenał at Plac Bankowy has a playground inside and outside. It is Italian.
sobieski   
12 Aug 2010
Travel / US visa free "extension" while on a Poland travel visit? [6]

You mean like any European citizen (including the visa-free ones like we Belgian) treated like *** by the Gestapos at any given US border crossing?
You mean you Yanks deserve a red-carpet treatment?

You know each time I am at Długa 5,heading for the hassle-free EU section, and I see some Americans between all these Vietnamese..waiting...and waiting...and waiting... I later have a cold beer on that and it makes my day.
sobieski   
12 Aug 2010
Life / My first impressions of Poland, long time ago [37]

They always say that your first impressions of a country stay with you forever.
Some things I remember from my first few trips to Poland in 1989-1990: (to the Wałbrzych area)
- The peculiar smell of browncoals used for heating
- Had to change at the border per day in my visa 36 DM into (then) pretty worthless zlotys
- The currency - the banknotes of 1 million zloty printed on that cheap paper
- Had to exchange again DM for "diesel coupons" at Orbis - to fill up my tank. Later my enterprising (as all Poles that era) future father-in-law "arranged" me diesel from another source :)

- The bookshops where you were obliged to take a plastic basket even when you just wanted to browse. And browsing was in any case not possible because all books were kept under lock and you had to ask for them - from these formidable shop ladies :)

- The restaurants, where all items also mentioned their weight. Did they actually check this in the kitchen?
- And at wedding parties (including ours) that cheap sweet Russian bubbly wine - Ikryztoje or something like that?
- The CPN gas stations

Just a few impressions from a long time ago :)
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

I do not think Commodore was typical Polish :) In Belgium we also used to have them...
What about the mobile stalls where you could buy soda drinks... well before my time...
Was it "drinkable" ?
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
History / Pewex and Balaton - do you rememer these Poland shops? [13]

sobieski:
Actually they are still around in the transit zones of Polish airports.

Seriously? I didn't know that. I thought they are gone together with Pewexes.

In Okęcie for sure there is one still.
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

I remember when you went to a restaurant, all dishes were mentioned on the menu with their weigth - for example "pstrąg - 200 gr"

I was always wondering how they measured that :)
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

Ah yes the "bony" . I remember that one. My father-in-law used to work in Lybia and was paid in this way.
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

Now that you mention it - I did see it in the supermarket lately. Cannot really see people buying it.

It is a milk niepasteryzowane so you have to boil it first.

OK but in which way is it different to the "swieże mleko" I buy in bottles (and which stays good for like max. 2 weeks) ?
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
History / Pewex and Balaton - do you rememer these Poland shops? [13]

I remember when I came to Poland first time in 1989, Pewex and Balaton were around.
For me it was sooo strange to buy Belgian meat pies in Wałbrzych or Sanok and paying in hard currency for them.
I was a first-timer in Poland then so had no idea about society and economics....
But what do you Polish remember from them? And in which way they differed, these two stores?
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

When I came first time to Poland in 1989, I remembering people buying milk (actually white water) in plastic bags.

and still you can buy it ;)

Now that you mention it - I did see it in the supermarket lately. Cannot really see people buying it.
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

I agree. It was a great beer.
I also remember a beer which used the image of rabbi on their cans? Could have been Leżajsk, I am not sure.
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

Paulina:
And I loved "serek homogenizowany" ;D

it's still in stores :)

I know. My cat adores it :) Won't eat any other type of cheese :)
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

I remember some beers which I think are not around anymore.... Heweliusz (from Gdańsk I think) and Leżajsk (hope I spell it correctly).
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
News / Polish, language of future - Post-apocalyptic [45]

I do not think that people in the EU would be happy to being obliged mastering the nightmare called Polish Grammar :). Recipe for a continental revolt :)

Yes, Serb... how is your Polish actually?
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

When I came first time to Poland in 1989, I remembering people buying milk (actually white water) in plastic bags.
And me on the border having to change per day of my visa 36 DM in (then) worthless zlotys.
And having to buy coupons to get diesel :)
And the Pewex & Balaton shops (Was there actually a difference between them?). I remember buying in Sanok Belgian meat pie in a Pewex shop. If you look back at it - pure Monty Python.
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
News / New cross war in Warsaw [530]

I saw one action where a guy kicked another guy off of a pole. TVN has edited the violence as Kommie wants to paint a calm picture. This is absurd and he shouldn't be allowed to have that done. It's a bit like Israel and their finely selected cuts when they went onto the MM in international waters.

There is no need for that. It has to be easy to cordon off this part of Krakowskie. Water cannons and police dogs as backup and get on with the job. It just takes some guts.
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Law / How to register a new business in Poland [129]

sobieski, does your accountant have time for one more? I'm in Warsaw, need to open a business and could use a friendly accountant myself.

Hi, I will ask her and send you her contact data by PM. She is on holidays now but reads her mail from time to time.
sobieski   
10 Aug 2010
News / New cross war in Warsaw [530]

I am praying for temps -25C and heavy snowfall on Krakowskie
sobieski   
9 Aug 2010
Law / Car plate numbers in Warsaw [7]

Thanks. I think I will go to apply for normal Bielany plates as well in this case.
sobieski   
9 Aug 2010
Law / Car plate numbers in Warsaw [7]

My private car has a registration starting with WY and ending with Y. I recently heard that all foreigners registering their car here get that kind of plate numbers. The other odd thing is of course is - I realised this recently - that I had to register it in the city office on Pl. Starynkiewicz, whereas I live in Bielany.

And that of course the police knows perfectly you are a driving bankomat :)