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Joined: 24 Nov 2011 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 22 Feb 2015
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Posts: Total: 108 / In This Archive: 70 		From: Poland, Gdansk (Liverpool)
Speaks Polish?: so so
Interests: Music - singing, playing, recording. Football - Liverpool Football Club

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croggers   
24 Nov 2011
Work / Finding a Job in a Game Development Studio around Krakow [3]

Levantine

Hi, try this mate, they may have an office in Krakow but not sure

CD Projekt Localisation Centre Sp. z o.o.
ul. Jagiellońska 74 - Budynek E
03-301 Warsaw, POLAND

tel. +48 664.455.212 or 213
fax. +48 225.196.949
e-mail: guillaume.rambourg@cdprojekt.com
croggers   
24 Nov 2011
Food / Are there any real kebab shops in Gdansk? [20]

scoooottttiiieeeeee its Craig There is a Turkish restaurant along the motława, sakaryarestaurant.pl it sells lamb and many other traditional Turkish dishes:)
croggers   
26 Nov 2011
Work / Teaching English in Krakow for graduates? [7]

Hi Buddy, I'm from Liverpool working in Gdansk and I've got to say it feels like quite the opposite up here, I mean, I'm currently working for 5 schools and I'm still turning down a lot of work............... If you play an instrument you can find work in nursery's too. I've got quite a few hours playing children's songs to the kids ( writing quite a few originals too,, )... You can get around 100 zl p/h for something like that as there are very few people doing it, especially natives and especially natives from Beatle pool lol, and if you've got a Beatle do like me haha.
croggers   
27 Nov 2011
Work / Teaching English in Krakow for graduates? [7]

You must spend an awful lot of time running around town teaching

Not as much as you'd think mate. I divide my time between them all, so on certain days in one place and on other days in others etc........

Saying that though, I have been here for 5 years and it was quite different at the beginning, even travelling outside the city for work. I guess it's easier as time goes by as you have more of a luxury of picking and choosing what you want to do and where you want to travel.........

I wonder how it is in Krakow? It's a bigger city than Gdansk so more travelling...............
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Life / Cellphone plan with Data, with contract in Poland [16]

I've come on here to actually give you a reply to your question, which is quite rare on this forum...............
I have an orange pay and go sim with the option called "internet free". You can get just over 1gig of internet when you top up 25zl (more if you top up more less if less etc) This should be more than enough unless you plan on downloading stuff, but just for searching the net,emails,skype, facebook etc it will be fine and of course you'll have the 25zl for calls or texts.

Hope this helped
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

Don't get me wrong I love my new home here in Poland but I feel that in some places food hygiene could be a bit/lot better. I'm not talking about restaurants, but in some shops/cake shops. I could give many examples but I'll only give a couple. There is cake/meat shop in Galeria Baltycka in Gdansk which sells really good sandwiches with great fillings, only problem is you have to be lucky to not be given the ones which sit right under the hot lamp making the cheese and ham sweat/change colour. Probably just being a bit picky on this one, in smaller corner shop types, dried out meats in the fridge and dairy cakes left out of fridge all day. Maybe this doesn't bother people and maybe it's because I'm fussy but just wanted to ask the question.

P.S I'm not having a go, I love the cakes here especially from Sowa (They are refrigerated mind) and cold meats in Poland are second to none.

Dzięks
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

Nobody's asking YOU to do anything. I was asking the question on food hygiene standards in Poland not whether you would write a letter of complaint for me. Thought that was quite clear, maybe not......
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

This is EU food hygene standards, didn't you know???

I highly doubt that. as johnny said

The worst think is putting uncovered food on or next to the counter in shops, just at the right height for bronchial old people to cough over.

I've never seen this in UK. Just sitting there in front of people coughing/sneezing on the food.
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

Are you claiming they should be washed or dry cleaned or something

Funny. No, I'm claiming that something that should normally be kept in a fridge not be sitting under a hot lamp for hours................Jeez I thought this was a no brainer????
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

and you think we have standards for that??

Clearly not
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

Whats there to be positive about ??? Where does ignorance come into it?
croggers   
28 Nov 2011
Food / Food hygiene in Poland [60]

I think you'll find you're wrong AGAIN. I never once gave an example of ANY restaurants. I gave 2 examples, 1 of a cake/meat shop and one of local corner shops. Anything else you wanna have corrected?
croggers   
2 Dec 2011
Work / How is the living standard in Poznan? Does 5200 PLN enough for a decent living? [32]

i wouldn't be so sure of that.

Why? You do the math. A native speaker can on average earn 50zl ( this is an average based on personal experience. In some cases 40zl in others 60 + ) per teaching hour. Times that by a 30-40 hour week. I personally would not take a job for less than 40 zl p/h unless hours were guaranteed, then I'd except 35 zl p/h.

Just saying............
croggers   
2 Dec 2011
Work / How is the living standard in Poznan? Does 5200 PLN enough for a decent living? [32]

Teach hardly any Callan and if I do it's quite relaxed and not at all like the ROBOT way of doing Callan. I teach mostly at companies between 8-16.00 and schools in the evenings.100 % legit, everything paid. I can understand only getting 25 hours max if working at only one school but why limit yourself? I get around 25/26 hours from 1 school and in the evenings work at a second school which is another 12 hours give or take, and a guaranteed 6 hours on Saturdays with another school. I have a friend who has hardly any hours but I know that's because he's lazy and won't get off his arse to ask around the many schools around here. Maybe it's a "right place at the right time" kind of thing. Got another friend who's got 50 hours plus a week, but a lot of those are private students who come to his home.
croggers   
5 Dec 2011
Life / Graffiti problem in Poland [38]

Hi, this is a question mainly directed to our Polish friends. I was just wondering what you thought about the graffiti problem here in Poland. I'm not taking about the graffiti you can find on railway walls/ subways etc displaying artistic skills, but the kind of graffiti you can find on almost EVERY city building, the name tag. "John was here" "Lechia Gdansk" Etc....... There were/are a lot of buildings in Gdansk being re-painted, from the old grey concrete to light and bright colours, only to be vandalized a few days later. Before making an argument against this first check, the next time you travel through your city have a look at how many buildings actually have graffiti on. When I first mentioned this to my wife she got a bit annoyed, thinking I'm only saying bad things about Poland, the thing is it's not something she's looked for before. She now agrees with me.

Do you know anyone who does this type of thing? Any reasons to why they would want to vandalize peoples property ?

I'm sure the first few replies with be something along the lines of " well in England, US, Ireland........" I'm asking the question of Poland and what you think of it, nothing else.

THANKS :)
croggers   
7 Dec 2011
Polonia / How would an American Pole be treated while studying in Germany? [25]

You're American I assume so your question should be How would an American be treated while studying in Germany? How would they have any idea that you have Polish ancestry? Unless you walk around (like most Americans I know) telling people that you're Polish (in your thick American accent) before telling them that you're American......?

I always wondered why Americans do that (I'm Irish, born in Boston.............). Nothing against Americans, I've got quite a few American friends here in Poland but always wondered about that.

I'm English, my grandfather was Irish, I would never for a second tell people that I'm Irish...........

Jeez it sounds like I'm having a go at you but I'm not :)

I once read a book which had a list of Irish/American famous people in, Eddie Murphy was on the list.

P.S You wont have a problem. It's Europe, not the middle east lol
croggers   
8 Dec 2011
Life / You are Polish if... [433]

if......you blame all traffic accidents on the quality of the roads rather than the idiotic driving.
croggers   
8 Dec 2011
Life / You are Polish if... [433]

you were born to Polish parents

This too ;)

... If you're a man and you own a pair of corduroy trousers

... If you work at Urząd Miejski at the "information" desk and when someone comes for "information" you say to them "do you think I'm here to help you or something?"

... If you think it's normal when standing in a queue for a mans penis to be pressing up against your ass

... You work in a shop and huff when the customer doesn't give you the exact change even tough your till is full of change

... You're completely gobsmacked when someones says that they don't like Polish food

... You think it's OK to ballroom/jive/waltz dance with your partner when out at a busy Disco knocking into everyone, but the're the ones who should move out of the way for you

... You think UHT milk is great

... you think Britain has no traditional food only fish & chips and puddings
croggers   
8 Dec 2011
Life / You are Polish if... [433]

... you're a girl and you have a FAKE Versace bag
croggers   
9 Dec 2011
Life / You are Polish if... [433]

have you ever seen a Polish guy with a fake versace bag ?

... when using public transport you sit on the seat closest to the isle

... when using public transport you put your bag on the empty seat next to you and huff n puff if someone wants to sit next to you
croggers   
9 Dec 2011
Travel / Whats your favourite Polish city and why? [132]

The question is which city has more chavs? Manchester or Birmingham?

It depends if you really do mean chav or maybe scally? There is a difference.

In Liverpool ( my home town ) there are plenty of scally's but no chavs.

But to answer you're question, I'd say that Manchester has more scally's and Birmingham has more chavs.

oh, and my favorite city is Gdansk, followed by Torun.

Gdansk because of the old town/beaches/forests/lakes close by and Torun cause it's small and has a nice old town/city centre.