Life / What is it with the Polish love of antibiotics? And Why do Poles get ill more? [40]

As an Englishman who has lived in Poland for five years i have to say i have never taken any antibiotics here..i have not needed to... In five years of living in this cold draughty farm house i have never been ill , apart from catching a slight sniffle from a friends kids...

I guess my old farm is too cold for any virus to survive , and the fact i won,t take any antibiotics means i have not ever developed a resistance to them...

Many viruses are becoming resistant to drugs because people take them at the first sign of a cold , its not such a great idea...

I shall be very happy to one day have a nice warm home , but i am sure this cold existance here has made me less prone to the usual ailments...

Why not try it folks...move out of your warm house , and go live in your garden shed...it will make you so much healthier..!

Law / "FART" shop in Poland - WHAT DOES THIS SHOP SELL? [55]

Overdose...? on beans...impossible...i am up to five cans a day with no ill effects at all....makes me feel great to eat lots of beans...and it takes my mind off the terrible smell that seems to hang around my farm...? i guess it comes from the pig farm down the road... Yes..it is five years i have lived alone now...???

Love / Polish Girls vs Russian Girls [813]

I have visited both Russia and Ukraine , and for sure the ladies there have a special kind of beauty...Polish girls are lovely too of course , but after living in Poland for five years...well ....... i have fallen for a Russian lady...

Love / English girl moving to Poland with my Polish boyfriend for the first time [69]

Go for it...if it does not work out you can go back home again....I have had a tough five years in Poland , but despite this...i am staying , so must be something good about the place , or am i just stubborn....?

UK, Ireland / Man on UK - Krakow flight eats 10, 000 Euros [18]


Semms to be he was a Yorkshireman ....You don.t have to be Polish to be a nutter...we Yorkshire people can have a loopy moment too you know...~

Genealogy / If your ancestors were in the "Wehrmacht"... [217]

was it the cold war....or the cod war...?

Genealogy / If your ancestors were in the "Wehrmacht"... [217]

None of us who live today in a free world have the right to judge what somebody did in order to survive...I am old enough to have been in a situation where my life was in the hands of people who cared not a bit for it , and trust me , you do not worry too much about what is right and wrong , or how people will judge you in future years...You do whatever it takes to stay alive...The human intinct to survive is very strong , and can easily overide all other thoughts... Its easy to sit in your safe home saying you would rather die than do some of the terrible things that people did in the war , but untill you find yourself in such a situation...they are just words...

Love / English girl moving to Poland with my Polish boyfriend for the first time [69]

oh dear...i am a Brit that moved to a small village...been here five years now....!

UK, Ireland / Time for the Poles from the UK to go home [437]


They would not be able to find a job...and they would all starve...thats what would happen...

Love / Polish Girls vs Russian Girls [813]


Good job you did not name this bar....i reckon it would suddenly get very busy in the near future...!

Love / Polish Girls vs Russian Girls [813]

Its about time we saw some Polish girls girls in this thread...very nice they are too...!

UK, Ireland / Staying on in a 'small British paradise' [38]


thats good...

UK, Ireland / Man on UK - Krakow flight eats 10, 000 Euros [18]

Well , it was probably better tasting than the food you get on planes...and cheaper...!

History / Weapons of WWII (Poland and other countries) [239]

No , i don,t think we covered any battleships...My uncle served as a stoker on HMS Hood , which at the time was thought to be the cream of the British navy , it came as a big shock when the ship blew up and sank after only one hit...! My uncle was not on board on the fatefull voyage , as a stoker , way below decks , he would have had no chance of escaping the sinking....

The ship with the biggest guns during ww2 i think was the Japanese battleship Yamoto , but i don,t believe it got much chance to use them , it got bombed to bits by American aircraft....

The Japanese had some pretty awesome submarines , the i class subs were way bigger than anything anyone else had , but they were not used very wisely and failed to copy the American and British tactics that brought Japan to its knees...

Law / residence visa stamp (Asian girl with a Polish husband) [9]

Oh i see.... i thought man from Poland was a Polish man...?

Law / residence visa stamp (Asian girl with a Polish husband) [9]


The correct spelling is...FOOLISH.. but we know what you mean...

Real Estate / How do you comment on "Poland real estate analysis" of the biggest property site [24]

But none of these owners are so desperate that they will sell you one eh...?

Life / Do you really have to pay for your dogs to live in Poland [15]

No..you don,t need any licence to keep a German in your house...unless its a German shepard..

Life / Do you think a smoking ban would be a good thing in Polish restaurants and Bars? [217]

No smoking in a Polish bar...crazy...! Next thing they will be making it illegal to drink and drive...?

Life / Ripped Off in Poland? - Expose here: [185]

Yeah..i can believe that...i worked at a Polish woodyard....that ran out of wood...!

Travel / BUS FROM SZCZECIN TO FRANKFURT....HOW MUCH...? [18]

For two weeks it was totally brilliant...we got on really really well , but it was soon clear that she had a very jealous streak... It was not possible to even speak to anyone of the opposite sex without a full blown row over it , and not long after i began to get accused of looking for other women the minute i switched on my computer to check my emails...

It turned out that this is the way she had been treated by her husband for twenty years , and so she thought it was normal behavour...not in my eyes its not...!

I stuck with it as long as i could , but it soon became clear she was never going to be any different , so i put her on a bus back to Latvia...!

Its such a pity , as apart from the jealous bit we got on really great , and she is a lovely person behind all that green monster , sadly i think she is too damaged ever to be able to behave any different... She still writes to me now and then asking me to visit her in Germany where she is working once again... I think i will give that a miss...?

Travel / TRAIN JOURNEY..DRAWSKO TO POZNAN...help needed... [30]

Nah..Drawsko is still pretty much the same , apart from the fact that the only life in the place , the pitza place has closed down , not sure if its just for winter refurbishment , or if its permenant..? The Vendetta , and the bar with the giant beer bottle outside were just about the only action in Drawsko , apart from the church...!

a free hot meal every second day Now theres an idea....i wonder if i could keep it going till my Russian lady gets here in the summer...?

Travel / TRAIN JOURNEY..DRAWSKO TO POZNAN...help needed... [30]

Ah , that will be one of those Ukrainian devils visiting from the Chernobyl area...! I got bitten by one in the forest just south of Chernobyl , and the lump it left on my arm is still there four years later...They have some pretty mean horseflies around Drawsko too , those things really do have a good bite...

I guess you have already discovered that the British army insect reppellent is no use whatsoever...?

Spent many a happy hour in the Vendetta pitza place in Drawsko and the nearby bar with Brit soldiers and civilian staff over here for the joint exercises...Did you manage to get to the Hotcat night club before it was posted off limits....?

Work / Moving to Krakow from London, worrying about finding a job [16]


Aha...thats what it is thats two feet deep on my farm...we don,t get stuff like this back in the UK...?

Travel / TRAIN JOURNEY..DRAWSKO TO POZNAN...help needed... [30]

Not an ex soldier are you....?

Travel / TRAIN JOURNEY..DRAWSKO TO POZNAN...help needed... [30]

Well . to complete the saga....I rode my Harley on the icey roads over to the farm where my little beasty had been left in the loving care of a Polish family , intending to change the damaged tyre , put some oil in it and drive it home.....It was dam cold on the Harley , and i went on my ass once on a patch of ice i did not spot in time , thankfully without damage to the bike , and eventually arrived at the farm in the village of Novo Laski to discover that the tyre had already been changed , the oil topped up , and the car started up to charge the battery....what nice people...! They even fed me a hot meal while i was there... can,t be bad... The Maluch made it at last all the way to my farm without any further drama , although it was losing a lot of oil from somewhere near the exhaust which is not uncommon on Maluchs and may be a missing exhaust bracket bolt , nothing serious anyways....Now i have to go again and get my Harley back from there..????

Travel / Travelling from NI to Poland [32]

Maybe a bit shorter route... Belfast to Liverpool...M62 motorway all the way to Hull...ferry to Rotterdam... E30 motorway all the way to Szczecin Poland...

Love / Polish Girls vs Russian Girls [813]

Toodle pip..!

Love / Polish Girls vs Russian Girls [813]

You will have to imagine her then....?... I lose the will to live trying over and over and over again to shrink pics down to a size that this forum will accept....

Travel / TRAIN JOURNEY..DRAWSKO TO POZNAN...help needed... [30]

The Maluch made it almost all the way to my house...! Had to stop and pump up the rear tyre twice on the way , but for some reason it stayed up the second time....Just near Walz the front tyre went flat , no problem i thought , just pump it up...errr no , the dam valve had torn out of the tyre , no matter , fit the spare tyre....No matter how i tried i could not repair the jack that was in the car , so , sod it , i drove on with the flat tyre at a very slow pace....I got about 30 kms from my farm when the front tyre decided it had suffered enough abuse and it came off the rim...! I managed to find a village farm where i could leave the beast , and called a friend to come and get me....

I now have to find a spare Maluch wheel or two and go over and get my little beasty....I was sure it was gonna make it all the way , but , not so far off....

I quite enjoyed driving the Maluch , definatly a change from Jeeps , Landrovers , and Rangerovers...can,t wait to go and get it home for a service and spruce up...I think my mobile has gone duff...not had a peep out of it since i left Poznan...!