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SeanBM   
6 Dec 2009
Life / Polish plantlife and similar flora where you live. [81]

The orange/rust looks like Trentepohlia Algae
The Green looks like Pleurococcus

Excellent, thank you for that.

The Green looks like Pleurococcus

Pleurococcus is a genus of algae, in the family Chaetophoraceae.[1] Purported to be the most abundant creature on the planet at ten trillion trillion.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurococcus
SeanBM   
6 Dec 2009
Life / Polish plantlife and similar flora where you live. [81]

wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen growing on trees is a great indicator of how fresh the air is.

I love the colours on the trunk of the trees.
Would I be correct in assuming that the (bleach?) brown on the left, which is more or less south facing, is from the sun? and the green on the right side is from the cool moist mossy forest side?


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SeanBM   
4 Dec 2009
Travel / Ski and Snowboard - Poland 09/10 season (updated: 10/11 season) [84]

How can I stop smoothly?

I am not try to. be funny here but just sit down, it worked for me at the beginning.
Or turn until you are perpendicular to the slope and remember to dig the back of the snowboard into the snow causing the most friction, if you don't you'll flip face first in to the snow :)

I control my speed by zig-zaging down the slope.

But maybe someone else has another way or a better way.

broke his wrist

broke his hip

The first time I ever went down No. 12 (black line???) a girl broke her leg behind me.
It was sooo steep I had no choice but to jump on my belly, with arms and legs in skies up in the air and slide down.
SeanBM   
4 Dec 2009
Travel / Ski and Snowboard - Poland 09/10 season (updated: 10/11 season) [84]

Its common to think the foot youre leading with is wrong

That's it exactly, I had not snowboarded for a few years, living in another country.
And when I went back to it, it felt wrong, so after a while I changed it and now it is definitely wrong. Back to the drawing board.

It's rather painful to learn snowboarding

Yep, it attacks your calf muscle if it is on the wrong way.

absolute beginner to learn how to snowboard

I agree with WB on the hill.
I think you can get basic tips and tricks of youtube and the like.
I find snowboarding less 'dangerous' than skiing, with skies, especially in the beginning, if they are flat and not parallel you do the splits or criss-cross and if you travel at speed and your ski weight adjustment isn't right, you can break a leg.

Whereas with snowboarding you have both feet rigidly strapped to one board.
And also you can turn the snowboard around while moving with much more ease.

But after beginner level, skiing is easier.

We need some inspiration in the shape of an awesome youtube vid.
SeanBM   
4 Dec 2009
Travel / Ski and Snowboard - Poland 09/10 season (updated: 10/11 season) [84]

Dear Wroclaw Boy,

I am right footed, which foot ought to go first on a snowboard?

If youve got size 12's or above and a wide board is not wide enough try a duck feet set up.

I am a size 13 or 14 depending, what is a duck feet set up?

I will :)

Cool :)
SeanBM   
4 Dec 2009
Travel / Ski and Snowboard - Poland 09/10 season (updated: 10/11 season) [84]

edit videos

Thanks :)
Will give you the program next time I see you, if you have your laptop.
"Zoombrowser" from Canon, very easy to use, very difficult to get off the net, strange thing about that is, it comes free with the camera (I know I know, I paid for it but not reallllllly)

i thought you were a snowboarder but the shadow is that of a skier!!

I messed up last year, I thought my feet were not at the right angle, so I changed it and now it is mash up. I will try to get it right this season.

I never went for lessons in snowboarding either, probably know only bad habits at this stage.
It was almost the first thing I did when I came here 8/9 years ago, bought a second hand snowboard and waited for the snow.
They give lessons in Białka Tatrzańska (in English) but I am far too stubborn to do that at this stage :p

great sound track BTW.

Edith Piaf.

I always find myself pretty depressed this time of year

Me too and I am with you, the snow is something to look forward to, well the sliding down it part anyway :)
SeanBM   
4 Dec 2009
Travel / Ski and Snowboard - Poland 09/10 season (updated: 10/11 season) [84]

Is the capacity still low in Zakopane?

To be honest I don't know, I don't go to Zakopane for that exact reason.
The place I go is usually fine.
You must let me know if you are around this neck of the woods :)

As a Scandinavian in Poland I must check the skiing opportunities.

I learned how to ski in Scandinavia, no instructor, no small slop, "So I start down here and figure out what to do?" "Nie, du must go top and figure out on the way down" hahahaha that was a crash course

:)

To be honest I really want to check out Slovakia this winter but perhaps that can wait for a different thread.
SeanBM   
4 Dec 2009
Travel / Ski and Snowboard - Poland 09/10 season (updated: 10/11 season) [84]

I usually go skiing/snowboarding in the south of Poland in Białka Tatrzańska.
It is towards Zakopane from Krakow. Here is a video I took at the beginning of this year: youtu.be/d3mKwYJorv0

Skiing/snowboarding is the best fun you can have with your clothes on :)
SeanBM   
25 Nov 2009
Real Estate / Is there a Real Estate bubble in Krakow? [60]

Both of these links are the same PDF file from Jacek £aszek, Marta Widłak from NBP.

So you have come from

More and more real estate market reports appear each week

and

Getting started... this can never end... there are just too many:

to just one link.

Post more and I will read those too.

(Wikipedia is also full of this, but Wikipedia is user generated,
so giving you the link it will allow all kind of real estate agents to modify the pageandsay that no there is no real estate bubble in poland)

And them same goes for people who profit from a downturn in the market and other disgruntled people.
SeanBM   
22 Nov 2009
History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]

According to newspapers we bombed their nuclear facility before it became operable.

Did you or didn't you?
SeanBM   
16 Nov 2009
News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

a bunch of bare-assed worshippers of thunder and grain

Actually we were fine before those bloody grain worshippers turned up.
SeanBM   
15 Nov 2009
News / Mass immigration to Poland - article and response [479]

Its the latest report on asylum seekers, I wonder why!

It can't be, they make reports every month and every year.

Yes, BM , 1.4% percent of the population. Can you not see the difference? If Poles made up 1.4% of the Irish population, I wouldnt bat an eyelid.

There has been significant Irish migration, with 25% of English people having Irish ancestry

England total Area
- Total 130,395 km2
50,346 sq mi

Rep. of Ireland Area
-Total 70,273 km2 (120th)
27,133 sq mi

200,000 Poles in Rep of Ireland 27,133 sq mi

674,786 People born in Ireland living in England (should I include the 12800,000 persons of Irish ancestry?)in 50,346 sq mi

So there are over three times more Irish people living in England than Poles in Ireland but England is not even twice the size of Ireland.
SeanBM   
15 Nov 2009
News / Mass immigration to Poland - article and response [479]

They claim there are 200,000 Polish in Ireland.

In 2001, there were 674,786 people in England (1.4 per cent of the population) who had been born in Ireland. This is the greatest concentration of Irish-born-as distinct from persons of Irish ancestry

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_migration_to_Great_Britain#Irish_in_England

Cen fath?

It's half a decade old.
SeanBM   
15 Nov 2009
News / Mass immigration to Poland - article and response [479]

Bollocks. There are more Poles here than Brits.

The single largest group of immigrants comes from the United Kingdom (112,548) followed by Poland (63,267), Lithuania (24,628), Nigeria (16,300), Latvia (13,319), the United States (12,475), China (11,161), and Germany (10,289).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland#Recent_population_growth

Those figures don't look right...

Do your own homework.

Oh, I thought you had all that learned by heart.
SeanBM   
15 Nov 2009
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]

Those images are what I have been looking for (names,dates and places)

Description of the image: photographic portrait.
Date of the event: 1930 - 1950
Keywords: the resistance movement, women,

Lovely eyes :)

Danuta Siedzikowna

There's more on her

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Wanda Gertz codename: Lena, Kazik

In 1942-1944 she organised and was commander of the "DYSK" (an initialism for "Dywersja i Sabotaż Kobiet" or "Women's sabotage unit").

Awards

* Virtuti Militari, V class
* Polonia Restituta
* Krzyż Walecznych, five times
* Krzyż Niepodległości, with Swords
* Krzyż Zasługi z Mieczami, Golden with Swords

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Gertz

Maria Wittek codename: Mira, Pani Maria

Awards

* Virtuti Militari, V class - twice
* Krzyż Walecznych,
* Krzyż Niepodległości, with Swords

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Wittek
SeanBM   
15 Nov 2009
History / Maria Wittekówna and other Polish Women in The AK [25]

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Description of the image: Col Stanisław Koszutski is getting the report back from the cf. from Maria Milewska.
Date of the event: 1945 / 04 / 12
Place: Oberlangen
People in the photo: Stanisław Koszutski, Maria Milewska,
of objects Passwords: prisoners of war, women, armour, camps prisoner of war,
Other proper names: 1 armoured division, the Home Army,

click here for photo
audiovis.nac.gov.pl/obraz/126998:1

Description of the image: freed Poles.
Date of the event: 1945 / 04
Place: Oberlangen
of objects Passwords: camps prisoner of war, prisoners of war, women, Other proper names: the Home Army
From here
audiovis.nac.gov.pl/obraz/126997/&usg=__aCEmHP--vcKTZ5O82aHXARQPjNE=&h=558&w=800&sz=67&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=og_ss2ZXw2DqiM:&tbnh=100&tbnw =143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dkobiet%2B%25C5%25BCo%25C5%2582nierzy%2Bak%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

After the war she was arrested and imprisoned by the communists working the rest of her days in a newspaper kiosk.

I'll never look at a woman in a kiosk the same way.

Really great Thread Barney.
SeanBM   
15 Nov 2009
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

The PF house hold is heating up, with yet another member evicted.

Earlier this week we saw another member OsiedleRuda leave but there is a new Gunslinger in town and with the bible in one hand and a caliber 44 in the other, he has made himself almost impossible to deal with but he don't give a damn about the emasculated cowardly fools because if he doesn't get you with the right hand the left hand's gonna.

The inmates of PF are also wondering if they should still hold a grudge against the Germans but it seems they are trying to draw attention away from themselves by pointing fingers, a common tactic in this dog eat dog house.

The attitude of the Polish PF household inmates are impolite and withdrawn, not getting many points there.

The English and one deluded paddy wants everyone out of 'their' house.
They are all lounging around and calling everyone else lazy moaning scroungers.

Another member thinks he can buy the PF house hold for 250,000 zl but the overwhelming response is NO but some are saying wait for the house to crash.

The Jews have not cleaned the dishes.... again and people are telling them to clean up their act.

The Texan from Poland asked everyone to ask her a personal question but when people replied and offered suggestions she broke into and emptied the drinks cabinet.

And our main sponsor 'Taco Bells' have pulled out due to poisoning and bad hygiene.
The houses hold members deny the accusations.

Wroclaw boy is convinced the PF house is haunted and Seanus thought he saw something on his K2 meter and they want to call in the 'Ghost Busters' or at least get everyone to hold hands in a circle and sing the theme tune to the film.

The PF house is just too much for some inmates as Joepilsudski is becoming increasingly paranoid and is arguing with Crow, that all the cameras are part of an elaborate Jewish atheist plot while Crow is adamant that it is not the Jews but the Mujahedin, Islamic league, EU, NATO IN USA and Germany Union or better known, but only to him, as the MILENIUG.

A recent outbreak of vampirism or at least the rumour of it, has made some inmates put crucifixes in each room. Jesus left the PF household muttering that he never wants to see another crucifix again.

Romance is always in the air in the house but the PF lads just don't seem to have the bottle to even talk to the girl and seek advise and conciliation from other members who promptly make fun of them.

Most of the house mates are getting sick of having Polish products and are happy enough that everything they use is made in some sweatshop, oh I mean sweetshop in the people's republic of China.

Delphiandomine is trying to convince all the other house mates that the stink in the washing closet can't be his because his doesn't smell.

And southern has not been seen since the beginning of the show, ever since he locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.

And last but by no means least we have the double Dutch with their advanced futuristic thinking, wondering when the rest of us apes are going to evolve into something resembling sentient beings but unfortunately none of the lesser life forms can understand that inconceivable language. So the Dutch just end up throwing clogs in a last ditch attempt at communication.

This is SeanBM signing off from another PF household omnibus.
And remember folks "Stay tuned....Stay on Topic."
SeanBM   
15 Nov 2009
News / Mass immigration to Poland - article and response [479]

Link? or just your racist opinion?

And none of your distractions, I want to see proof of 99.4% Nigerian bogus asylum seekers.

Ireland was ill prepared for immigrants and letting anyone who had a baby on Irish soil does NOT count as asylum seekers, obviously.

Another thing RN, you know full well that the biggest minority of immigrants in Ireland are British but you go on and on about the Polish (the second biggest minority), what's that all about?

And have you any links stating how many Polish and British there are in Ireland?
SeanBM   
14 Nov 2009
News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools

Has this something to do with all the recent vampire activity?

I say vampires have rights too!
SeanBM   
14 Nov 2009
News / Mass immigration to Poland - article and response [479]

Well sort of, he is Jewish in Germany telling Poland (which I believe he knows very little about) of the evils of Islam.
It just seems like history repeating to me.
I get reminded I (as an Irish man) going to England these days, I look at the most/all the Arabs and the one blonde (so they are not racist you understand) for 'random' spot checks.

If I am not making much sense right now I will clarify in the morrow.
SeanBM   
14 Nov 2009
News / Mass immigration to Poland - article and response [479]

he's most likely not a German

I also think he is not a German.
That was also my point.
So here we have a Jewish (religious?) immigrant in Germany warning Poland of the dangers of another religion Islam, not Muslim but Islam.
Then he goes on to 'inform' us that (79 Tamil, who are mainly Hindu) Muslims refugees will destroy Poland.
You figure it out, I can't.
SeanBM   
13 Nov 2009
News / Mass immigration to Poland - article and response [479]

SeanBM

You idiot, I was talking about muslim immigrants who are a problem here in Germany.

You addressed Aussie Sheila, for her comment about 79 Tmail refugees.
Anyway didn't Germany have problems with another religion in the past? Jews I think?
I thought I heard something about that somewhere...
Come to think of it you're a Jew aren't you?
My how the times have changed and yet at the same time have stayed exactly the same.

Me thinks they should be evaluated carefully.

As should all people claiming refugee status.
I am just sick to death of people telling me about Fing good for nothing refugees.
Most people who are refugees have been through hell and back only to be met by ignorant muppets when they're in relative safety.
SeanBM   
13 Nov 2009
News / Mass immigration to Poland - article and response [479]

So Poland should turn into a half-Muslim state, like Germany or Sweden or Holland or England?

Tamil people are mostly Hindu.
You really are an ignorant little man BrutalButcher.

You should also probably read what a Refugee is (wiki).
SeanBM   
13 Nov 2009
Life / How Polish are you? [74]

You lost 24% because Polish people do not generally start so many threads ;)

But cheer up, I still think your Polish :)