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convex   
7 Sep 2010
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Yep Henryk Sienkiewicz has tatar origins as well as the dish containing raw meat and raw egg... that's why we call it tatar or befsztyk tatarski

I didn't know he was a Tatar :)

What this bag is used for:

God lord woman, you're getting cryptic.

and what's that place:

Heavily guarded cloak room? Someone's basement?
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Food / Is Polish food still more natural than in the West? [142]

When in Warsaw, I love buying the fresh produce from markets such as Plac Szembeka which is Praga PoĊ‚udnie; it's a bit of a trek from my flat in Wilanow but having friends just round the corner makes it a good excuse to pay them a visit!

For locally grown produce, that's true. A good portion of what's for sale at markets here in Wroclaw are the same imported products that are sitting in the store shelves. Just take a look at the wooden boxes that they come in :) Spain, Morocco, and Holland seem to be common names.
convex   
7 Sep 2010
News / Huge costs of preparing for EURO 2012 in Poland [38]

It needs to be audited. The contract is between the government and the initial contractor to deliver. The company winning the tender should be 100% responsible for the product. Is anyone here involved in infrastructure projects? Would be interesting to see how that works.
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Another riddle. What connects this guy with this thing:

writers like tartar?
convex   
7 Sep 2010
News / Huge costs of preparing for EURO 2012 in Poland [38]

So a deadline is good, but the quality of road works is terrible. There's no proper QC.

No argument there. Plac Grundwaldzki in Wroclaw is a great example. Why is it so difficult to have some sort of QC clause in the contracts?
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Dunno, I use it sometimes when brewing. I know some people use it in cooking... So either booze or food?
convex   
7 Sep 2010
News / Huge costs of preparing for EURO 2012 in Poland [38]

Do you have a breakdown of the costs? I'm going to take a wild guess and say that 95% of that consists of infrastructure projects which are being funded in large part by the EU structural funds.
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

What is it made from and who made it?

Your personal chestnut figures? (I usually have some sitting around in the fall :) )

Another riddle of mine (really tricky one)

Fried 'shrooms. mmmm
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Food / Is Polish food still more natural than in the West? [142]

I depends what and where you are buying. If you go on a market place then you can buy something unprocessed straight from the butcher. If you go to Tesco or Biedronka... well no wonder that food sucks.

Which is the same the world over
convex   
7 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / PolAms -- do you regard yourselves only as 'white Americans'? [187]

He is very defensive of Russia which tells you something.

Sweet, do me next!

Also as I have told you before my interest in Polish people does not stay inside the borders of Poland.

So you don't have any first hand experience living in Poland? We foreigners living in Poland (some with Polish blood mind you), are just telling you like we see it. We are surrounded by Poles everyday. We work, live, and spend our free time with Poles. I figure that gives us a bit of insight. If we hated it, we'd move back immediately. Hell, most Poles are much rougher on their country than the little bits of criticism that we throw out every now and then.
convex   
2 Sep 2010
News / Polish leader urges EU to keep generous aid funds [32]

Unfortunately it's just superficial. Real growth comes through modernizing farms. If the Dutch do a great job growing onions, promote investment in joint ventures to make farming more efficient in Poland, and let supply and demand take care of the prices. Subsidies keeps poor communities poor and dependent on EU hand outs. They'll never be competitive.
convex   
2 Sep 2010
News / Polish leader urges EU to keep generous aid funds [32]

So, the question is not: should Poland pay more? the question is rather do you support current EU policy which is to lever up modernization of poorer regions?

Do agricultural subsidies modernize poorer regions? Is the output of that worth the money that goes into it?
convex   
2 Sep 2010
Travel / Hospitality, Scenery, Food, Clean Streets: My POSITIVE experiences in Poland (!) [39]

I love the Polish countryside. The people are awesome. Just being thrown into different situations without knowing what to expect. Standing in front of the only store for miles and having a beer because there is no where else to drink. Practicing my Polish with everyone that will listen, and finding that there are quite a few volunteers.

Fell in love with the countryside, got stuck in the city...which like any city, sucks.
convex   
1 Sep 2010
Travel / Starbucks in Wawel Castle, Krakow. Is this a joke or true? [42]

not arguing whether the one in wroclaw is busy or not, just saying it only caters to people willing to blow a lot of money on coffee. which again is totally fine, if it's full, hey hey, business is good, keep it goin', but 1 Starbucks is not going to change the coffee culture in Poland. i will still walk to work early in the morning and have nowhere to go to get something hot on the go.

Isn't that the same for any Starbucks? Expensive coffee for the middle class. Starbucks seems to have changed the coffee culture in the US.

you're not concerned about the ingredients, you just want it to taste good. when i drink a soda, i want the same.

Some of us like the taste of sugar better than HFCS. Always liked the taste of Mexican soda...
convex   
1 Sep 2010
Travel / My (short) Poland experiences - bad luck? [142]

This threat proved my experience and observations were in deed substantiated.

Yup, it's all true and those of us who live here and don't agree 100% are just too stupid to see it.

This is macho culture.

Hilarious

'Where can I go? Whom can I turn to? Nobody will believe me. He's a well-respected dentist and I'm his sweet, good-looking wife,' she said.

'So I stay with him. Thank God I can't have children, so he can't hurt them,' she said. 'But he hits me because I can't give him sons.'

convex   
1 Sep 2010
Travel / Starbucks in Wawel Castle, Krakow. Is this a joke or true? [42]

Pepsi/Coca Cola products taste COMPLETELY different in Poland than in America and they're made to more exacting standards than a cup a' joe.

That's because they use that awful high fructose corn syrup in the US vs actual sugar here. The milk is pretty much the same, I think in the states they use UHT as well. The differences shouldn't be any different to regional differences in the US.

secondly, the idea of a Starbucks is great, but the actual Starbucks......a bit expensive for Poland. having coffee/tea products on the go is simply not part of Polish culture and it's something i miss about america. it's 7:30 a.m., i'm on my way to class, where can i buy a cup of tea to go? uhhmmm.....nowhere. 8:00, 8:30, makes no difference. it drives me nuts.

The one here in Wroclaw is always full. But most of the coffee is sold there, not many people are taking it to go. Maybe if they had a drive through or something, dunno.
convex   
1 Sep 2010
History / Should HMG compensate Poland and/or Polish veterans? [90]

They wouldn't had suffered so much and not destroyed..

Assuming that Hitler would be defeated, you're correct. The question is, what if he wasn't stopped?

I'm just reacting to your "the book" issue..

Well, he pretty much followed his book to the letter...
convex   
1 Sep 2010
History / Should HMG compensate Poland and/or Polish veterans? [90]

The benelux where on the way to France.

Holland is on the way to France?

Trust??? What trust???
The Poles trusted France and Great Britain...that helped them big time!

Yeah...dealing with Hitler would had surely made things much worse for Poland....sure!

I think that Poland thought that UK and France would react, not because they wanted to help Poland, but in order to defeat Germany quickly. Yea. What if he would have been successful? You think the future held peaceful times for Poland surrounded by German territory? Like it did for the Czechs?

I rather believe he was honestly saddened as Pilsudski might have come to an agreement with him if he hadn't died.

Considering that he wasn't making those decisions at the time, it's a non issue.
convex   
1 Sep 2010
History / Should HMG compensate Poland and/or Polish veterans? [90]

Yea, it was the death of a former head of state. You can respect a man and still want to kill him. I'm guessing he just wanted peaceful relations with the benelux and Denmark too, but they did something that made war unavoidable?

Fact of the matter is, he scribbled some things down while in prison that made him untrustworthy for the Poles, and rightfully so as it turns out.

What would be if Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Belorussia were sticking together?

Miedzymorze was a great idea :)
convex   
1 Sep 2010
History / Should HMG compensate Poland and/or Polish veterans? [90]

Hitlers main beef was with Stalin from the beginning, not with Warsaw

BS...The Poles apparently read his book.

Poland did not invade Czechoslovakia it retook the lands that Czechs took from Poland in 1919, the act itself i'm OK with the timing though was definitely bad.

They most certainly did invade Czechoslovakia. The reasons for it might be somehow justifiable, but they did invade and occupy with the Nazis and Hungarians.