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jon357   
5 Oct 2016
Real Estate / Polish property at public auction and best exposure [21]

I'm sure you've noticed that many buildings here are relatively modern, due to the war, traditional building methods and economic factors. This means that buildings over a certain age are often under the care of the konserwator zabytków (very much like being listed in the UK) and the rules for modernising them can be strict and sometimes expensive to carry out. This is especially true in Warsaw where pre-war buildings for sale that aren't protected are often advertised as not being under the konserwator zabytków since this is a great plus for prospective buyers.

The rules may well be less strict in other places in Poland, however as @interested1 says, buildings of historic significance are generally monitored very well in Poland and any buyer would have to be good at negotiating their way through red tape.

You mention that the property has buildings from Napoleonic times and any prospective purchaser would want to know the exact status and what obligstions they may expect.
jon357   
5 Oct 2016
Language / Name Meaning Of "Polinary" in Poland [10]

Agreed, in fact it even says that if you look. It seems that whoever transcribed it online left a space after the A. It's an old-fashioned Catholic Christian name, pretty well out of use nowadays.

Google Apollonius of Tyana, a very interesting historical figure.
jon357   
5 Oct 2016
Language / Name Meaning Of "Polinary" in Poland [10]

This might be useful. I've also heard it as a sort of plural of "binary". Nothing to do with Poland - could it be a spelling mistake?

sitelinks.info/search/polinary/
jon357   
4 Oct 2016
News / Adam Michnik awarded for integrity, professionalism and high standards. Poland's No. 1 fascist? [321]

more unemployment

Normal nowadays in print media. The trashy right-wing tabloid, the Daily Mail has just laid off around 250 and the much more respectable The Guardian (Gazeta Wyborcza's sister paper under a co-operation scheme) still has a print version due to Aurotrader, a cash cow owned by the same organisation.

Poland's most respected newspaper, run by the highly regarded anti-communist dissident Pole Adam Michnik is in fact in a healthy state in comparison and long may that continue.
jon357   
4 Oct 2016
News / Adam Michnik awarded for integrity, professionalism and high standards. Poland's No. 1 fascist? [321]

Maybe he's just a better person than you, putting aside personal grievances so the country could move forward

Quite.

When as Kaczyński ever put personal grievances aside?

You don't need a degree in Psychology to figure out that everything he does is about personal grievances. As opposed to Adam Michnik the jailed dissident and respected newspaper editor, one of today's greatest Poles.
jon357   
4 Oct 2016
UK, Ireland / Transfer Money from UK to Poland [36]

This is true, however the two main ones, World First and Transfer Wise are financially backed by larger organisations who take care of their reputations. Additionally, the amount your money is with them is usually a few minutes so a customer would have to be very unlucky indeed for them to a. go bust exactly during that ten minute window and b. for the banks that own them to walk away from the situation.
jon357   
4 Oct 2016
UK, Ireland / Transfer Money from UK to Poland [36]

Sounds like an advert. Btw WorldFirst transactions are free too - and their exchange rates are good.
jon357   
2 Oct 2016
News / Adam Michnik awarded for integrity, professionalism and high standards. Poland's No. 1 fascist? [321]

example

No, Wulky, that is not an example of any malice on the part of Poland's best known journalist. It is in fact a particularly weak example of clutching at straws. That is an 'example' only of your own irrational hatred towards a highly respected public figure on the basis of his ethnicity.

So in fact you have nothing really to say about the issue.
jon357   
2 Oct 2016
Life / Cheap Laundry places in Warsaw [7]

Avoid '5 á sec', they're expensive and not in my experience very good. There are decent drycleaners on both ul. Hoża and ul. Wilcza. As a rule, for drycleaners in Poland, the oldest are the best (and cheapest), the worst are in shopping malls or ones with 'eko' in their name.

If you happen to be in Zoliborz, there's an excellent one on ul. Promyka behind the flats. They mostly do contract work (restaurant tablecloths, hotel upholstery etc) but not only. That's the one I always use and they shift stains that '5 á sec' doesn't (at less than half the price). I can strongly recommend them.
jon357   
1 Oct 2016
UK, Ireland / Memorial garden in London and Douglas Scotland [11]

Merged: New Polish war memorial in central London

A great idea and not before time

Plans for a £1million memorial for Polish war pilots in Hyde Park, London

Dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3816375/Honour-Polish-Spitfire-aces-fought-Battle-Britain-Tory-grandees-call-1million-memorial.html
jon357   
30 Sep 2016
Real Estate / How is the Rzeszow city for a single guy to live ? [14]

Do you mean a student hostel? The last time I visited one (in Warsaw, not recently) you could smoke though that may have changed. There was no curfew, however they had a mean looking old lady at the door which may cause issues with late night guests.

If you mean a tourist hostel, (assuming there are any in Rzeszów) I would doubt that smoking is permitted inside but I'd equally bet that people smoke in the bathroom. Some youth hostels (the kind specifically for the young) still have curfews (or did until recently) and you should check when booking.
jon357   
30 Sep 2016
Classifieds / Polish nurses and medical staff wanted for work in the UK [45]

could the forum logs be subpeonaed? Is that a thing in the UK?

I think it would depend where the forum logs physically were - in this case in a different jurisdiction. The English and U.S. courts do cooperate however I suspect they'd have to decide whether or not it was necessary/worth it. That might not matter since under English law she's 'broadcasting' to the UK. I actually paid for a legal opinion on this (I was considering naming 'Exaro Nick' from abroad - Google him) and the lawyer said that although the maximum fine for doing it was only 500 quid, the prosecutor would probably extradite for it and in any case if it was readable (or was intended to be readable) in England it would be an offence.

In this case, it's the NHS who would have a lot of say, since they are the 'victim' however in my (not a lawyer) opinion it's probably a civil issue about terms and conditions of the NHS email service.