Life / Only the poor Poles are buying at Biedronka? [32]


So how did you hear about it then? Smoke signals? You were maybe an eyewitness?

Life / Only the poor Poles are buying at Biedronka? [32]

For staple foods it's ok - anything processed and it's better to shop elsewhere. For families on a very tight budget it's often the best, even the only, option, and the duck should be a little more respectful of the electorate.

Interestingly the premier also spoke about it...

Life / The term: "camp aesthetic." Popular in Poland yet? [27]


Not all "blatantly effiminately" homosexuals are camp - seen many camp lesbians lately? and not all "blatantly, effeminately" homosexual men are camp. However the camp in literature, music and art is derived from the immense cultural influence of people who are homosexual.

Why blatant? Check out the definition.

Life / The term: "camp aesthetic." Popular in Poland yet? [27]


Read Susan Sontag's Notes on Camp. There's no great difference - the subculture is international. One could also draw a parallel with the Japanese concept of 'iki'.

Life / The term: "camp aesthetic." Popular in Poland yet? [27]

Stephen Tennant and Ronald Firbank were good examples of camp, whereas Liberace (incidentally half Polish) was camping - he was a showman and different in reality.

There must have been people in Poland who were like that.

Life / The term: "camp aesthetic." Popular in Poland yet? [27]

Reminds me rather of the late Quentin Crisp who made an artform out of his life. He certainly fitted Sontag;s definition of camp. Although he touched the mainstream, he was never really part of it - he had that detatchment that true camp must have. Do you think there's anything camp about Fredro? He's too early to be an aesthete and far from kitsch but some of the sensibilities are there.

Life / The term: "camp aesthetic." Popular in Poland yet? [27]

I'd forgotten about that wall - the biggest part was opposite.

Sontag was certainly a rising star, and felt more at home in Paris than the Anglosphere. About Polish artists it's hard to think of anyone who comes to mind - there must be somebody.

Life / The term: "camp aesthetic." Popular in Poland yet? [27]


Not being openly lesbian (or bi) at that stage in her life. It was before she and Annie Leibowitz got together and they became a high profile couple.


I trawled the internet for pictures a while ago and couldn't find any. The murals were huge, obviously done in parts by different artists and covered two large walls and the ceiling. Słonimski used to go - certainly some of his coterie did part of them.

Life / The term: "camp aesthetic." Popular in Poland yet? [27]


Now that's interesting! Do you think the Swiatynia Opatrznosci, essentially a modern folly, could be camp.

As for the homosexual thing, Sontag (who wasn't 'out' when she wrote On Camp), does mention the roots of camp; its essential otherness which at the same time integrates and creates a role in society for homosexuals.

I miss Lajkonik. Piotruś is perhaps the nearest thing that is still left, Though sadly one of the most faithful clients, one of the very campest too as well as an extremely good friend, has recently died. He wasn't just 'camping', he was the real thing, absolutely authentic.

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News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]


Can you honestly put your hand on your heart and say there is no danger or harm to the environment, no risk, no environmental cost from shale fracking?

Which company do you work for, by the way?

Life / The term: "camp aesthetic." Popular in Poland yet? [27]

Plac Trzech Krzyzy. Where the Escada shop is now.

After reading your post, I reread 'On Camp' - I'd forgotten about it. She gets it just about right - especially the distinction between camp and camping. There is certainly both in Poland. Violetta Villas is the former, Rodowicz the latter.

Language / Are the languages of Russian and Polish similar at all? [94]

Nobody's saying Finnish is easy, but the world has an awful lot of languages.

As, one might say: ǃqháa̰ kū ǂnûm ǁɢˤûlitê ǀè dtxóʔlu ǀnàe ǂʼá sˤàa̰.

Or even, on a good day, Na-Dené Bizaadjí tʼáá ałʼąą átʼéego saad dah náánáshjaaʼígíí éí Athabaskan dóó Eyak dóó Tlingit daolyé..

Life / The term: "camp aesthetic." Popular in Poland yet? [27]


Around much longer - she just wrote about it for the US mainstream.


Thriving among subcultures. Drag is especially popular, and rather more stylised than in the 'west'. The old 1950s Lajkonik murals (camp as a row of tents) in Warsaw are protected by the government, even though the expensive shop who use the premises prefer to keep them hidden.

UK, Ireland / Poles in Ireland by Peadar de Burca. They "turned their backs on a country that gave them" [195]


Does that make a difference?


Dragged in?Was there a queue of Irish citizens banging on the door for jobs?


Are you surprised at that?


Not that there was any lack of that in the first place.

Travel / Katowice Airport to Katowice centre-whats best way to get there ? [10]

There's also a bus. Very regular - goes fom the doors of the airport straight to the station.

UK, Ireland / Poles in Ireland by Peadar de Burca. They "turned their backs on a country that gave them" [195]


It's a two way process.


Recruited by Irish employers, very often with agents in Poland.


Since you're obviously unhappy, you should therefore leave.

UK, Ireland / Poles in Ireland by Peadar de Burca. They "turned their backs on a country that gave them" [195]

What have you done to help them integrate?

News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]


More likely to be ConocoPhillips. They do a lot of 'internet PR'.

Whoever it is, they're certainly trying hard. All these sites and many more with similar names have exactly the same phrases, word for word.

naturalgasforeurope.com
naturalgasforamerica.com
energytomorrow.org
energyandourfuture.org
chinadecisionmakers.com
gas-shales.org
eyeforenergy.com
theenergyexchange.co.uk

Real Estate / Breaking Poland Property Rental Contracts [10]

Maybe try a lawyer. If the contract goes against the civil code that could get you out of it - though not easy to do alone. Alex's advice about finding a replacement (maybe by a discreet advert) is a way out. Which city are you in?

UK, Ireland / Poles in Ireland by Peadar de Burca. They "turned their backs on a country that gave them" [195]

It seems you hate everybody and want to blame others for Ireland's woes. I suspect you'd be just as misanthropic if the good times were still here.

Real Estate / Breaking Poland Property Rental Contracts [10]

Times like this and we miss Harry. But hey, let's ask Southern or trener.

@HomeSick Brit, check your contract. Is there a 'okres wypowiedzi', a notice period? Most contracts have them. If so, give notice. If there isn't, you're stuck.

If there isn't, you may well end up on the Polish bad debt register. that might not sound so bad, but if they're standardised Europe-wide it could cause you problems.

The good news is that it's expensive to sue somebody in Poland. The bad news is that suing for unpaid debts is getting easier, and you could be very easily chased for the money in the UK.

As @alexw68 says, why do you want to leave?

News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]

Even if it's left down there, as most of it will be, it improves the country's balance sheet. Worth googling 'c ladd shale gas' for a whole host of hits. Or even search a bit further ;-)

News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]


Perhaps whoever 'Cladd' was spamming this forum for. Who knows? He does say that his first visit to Poland was last month. And talking about making "Poland really great", and "Poland to really take off as a country", as if there's something wrong with it at the moment.

Looks entirely like a corporate PR job. The people who run a website called naturalgasforeurope.com are a good starting point. Who are they?

In their words: "Natural Gas for Europe was conceptualized by a group of social media, publications and communication specialists." And don't forget the "reduced dependence on Russian sources of energy"!

Or even the people who run the website called shalegasforeurope.com with articles by one 'C_Ladd'. Which seems to be a subsite of the other website. Obviously no relation to 'Cladd'.

Clear as oil shale.

News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]

Creating artificial fractures to extract shale gas, to be precise. Using a method known to be damaging. But for whom, and why the sudden spate of posts from him and the mysterious Cladd, who posts only on this topic?

News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]


So what is your connection with Poland?

You've been strongly advocating shale fracking in Poland which is known to be extremely harmful to the environment (check out the study referred to in post #3), despite the huge environmental cost...


My email is here too.

UK, Ireland / How ENGLISH has been affected by POLISH [73]

Perhaps, though you may find this interesting,


etymonline.com/index.php?term=pogrom

UK, Ireland / How ENGLISH has been affected by POLISH [73]

There's quite a few words like that. The question is: from which language did they come into English?

UK, Ireland / How ENGLISH has been affected by POLISH [73]

I was surprised when I first came across 'pogromca' in Polish, however I understand pogrom is from a Russian word.

UK, Ireland / How ENGLISH has been affected by POLISH [73]


Exactly. Shorthairthug might mean the Yiddish noun 'a nudge' that none of the OP's audience would be familiar with. Britzka isn't exactly in day to day use. But the OP has a few. To spruce up is a good one, and it has a story behind it that can fill a bit of the presentation, and tell them something about historic links between the UK and Poland.

edit @Alex68, you beat me to the send button! I only came across that word too when I checked it.

UK, Ireland / How ENGLISH has been affected by POLISH [73]


Archaic but interesting.


From Turkish via French


A good one!


From Norwegian 'nugge', to jostle.