Food / The great British teabag hunt thread [66]

Harry - do you know of any potential customs charges or anything on the "banned list"?

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]

Kerrygold is plastic rubbish if ever you tried trad British cheddar. I would say it's better than nowt, but I wont. Processed muck.

Life / Famous Polish music and musicians [48]

It's ridiculous that nobody has mentioned the two greatest Polish musical performers of the 20th century.

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]

Maybe like Polmos vodka from Poznan or Bielsko et al, Kerrygold is sourced from all over? Meaning, it' s not always the same although the brand is homogenous.

Food / Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland? [289]


I use the word "processed" to opinionate that it ain't no good....

Everybody to their own and all that :)

Classifieds / Language exchange group, Tricity [60]

I would gladly come along. Late evening only though! :)

Classifieds / Language exchange group, Tricity [60]

I would gladly come if you were still there at midnight :( Do you drive the Go carts after a few sherberts? :)
PS do they admit canines?

Classifieds / Language exchange group, Tricity [60]


Go- cart centre, beer, dog.......... as if you didn't follow the lingo :)

The other factor is 12 at night, when I am free :)

Classifieds / Language exchange group, Tricity [60]

Hello Dot,

Please PM me if you are interested in teaching me and my lab Polish - we are both hopeless A2 cases but would do our homework!

PS My family was originally from Perth :)

Work / Job offer from Accent group in Kraków-opinions please [4]

Klo - a little bird tells me they are an excellent team to work with - if you like teamwork...

PM me if you require more info.

Law / Registration of right hand drive cars in Poland - possible? [82]

Poland won't accept it - they will simply opt out and the pay the European Commission fines for doing so. Just as the French break European law by refusing our English sausage :))

Law / Registration of right hand drive cars in Poland - possible? [82]


Simples

curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014-03/cp140037en.pdf

Or jargon translated - Poland is breaking European import laws, so will have to pay penalties. Which they will - just to save the "car" industry in Poland - where people pay 15 thousand zlotys for an old wreck at a car lot - you really couldn't make it up.

Law / Registration of right hand drive cars in Poland - possible? [82]


According to the European Commission the refusal of Poland to accept RHD has nothing to do with safety concerns.

I happen to agree with the Commission - as Poland has had only 20 odd years to play with driving without fuel restrictions and with access to all vehicles - and consequently Polish safety "experts" now sweet fukk all in terms of how RHD would affect the statistics.

It;s Polish protectionism rearing it's ugly head again. what would the mechanic cottage industries do if people could import cheaper high range British cars for those who can afford the relatively high fuel costs.

And changing RHD to left hand is potentially hazardous in quite a few cars - ask any mechanic. Car fires are not uncommon.

Subarumad - your vids are over the top mate :) but wait until you see your first dead body. I've lived here for 21 years and I've seen 7 or 8 separate incidents - ranging from people strangely lying immobile on the road with their eyes open and seemingly just a bruise , to the full works with decapitated mish mash.

You're right about one thing - some Poles are the worst egotistical drivers, out-doing the supposedly mad Italians.
But don't bother yourself - you will get used to it. These people will never drive sensibly until they are banned - which simply does not happen here.

To get to 24 points you would need to kill somebody. As to dangerous drivers - If you were to challenge them further down the road they would have absolutely no clue as to why you are threatening them with violence :)

Law / Registration of right hand drive cars in Poland - possible? [82]

You don't understand how European law works.

Poland will opt out of this ruling and refuse to accept the ruling. And pay the penalties.

Law / Registration of right hand drive cars in Poland - possible? [82]


Wroclaw Boy - the Warsaw Voice used to be a useful source of news. Now it is just Reuters' news. I still don't think, unfortunately, that the stubborn Polish government will listen to sense on this subject :(

Work / NO JOBS IN POLAND FOR ENGLISH PEOPLE EXCEPT TEACHING? [44]

Interesting stuff from InWroclaw about 30 zl an hour for teaching being the norm in Wroclaw. Not boasting - but the facts are that if you can actually teach, then three times that figure per hour is achievable. Here in Tri-City at any rate.

Work / NO JOBS IN POLAND FOR ENGLISH PEOPLE EXCEPT TEACHING? [44]

Lol - I've done that in my time, and learnt quickly - Poles love to exploit. I might offer a trial at 70 per cent of fixed price - but free? Too busy for time wasters, especially any schools.

Real Estate / Question - Rent websites (Specifically in Katowice) [3]

Katowice Tysiaclecia. Get smashed in the pubs in what used to be Europe's biggest inner city park :)

Smurf will put you right though.

Life / Amazon stops super saver delivery on orders to Poland [40]

Yep - great while it lasted. They just lost little old me too. Anyway, some of the stuff is cheaper shipped from Dutch wholesalers.

Life / Amazon stops super saver delivery on orders to Poland [40]

I wonder about their business model.. I thought their major selling point was the free shipping? Time will tell.
Their prices are not particulary cheap and it's not like you ever get to finger the goods before you buy.
Strange - and a gamble shirley?

They must be confident that they've done a McDonalds and outstayed the competition.

Travel / List your dog friendly pubs in Poland - if any :( [8]


Because I like going for long walks with him, instead of leaving him at home? And me and him get thirsty, and hungry - in that order.

Ask a stupid question...... sorry Snowflake - but the whole point of owning a dog is to have it with you, and to enjoy seeing it develop - not to keep it chained up and *****t*** in the back yard.

Just my opinion.

In the meantime I will continue giving cheek to Gdynia "pub" owners who think they are too grand for my pup. :))

GDYNIA

Czerwone Piec Starowiejska 40
czerwonypiec.pl

Donegal pub
Zgoda 10
facebook.com/Pub-Donegal-281657425235116/

Kontrast
Bulwar Nadmorski

F.Minga
Bulwar Nadmorski

AVOID:

Kandelabry
Bulwar Nadmorski

GDANSK

Tawerna Dominikanska

Targ Rybny 9
tawernadominikanska.pl/

Work / Job offer from IT Giant in Katowice, Poland (UNIX specialist). Information on tax and rental costs needed. [65]


I was enjoying your (exhaustive) Dominik. Stop what you're doing and start a 'recipe style' travel service :)

Let me correct you if I may....

Gdynia (my experience), Warsaw, Poznan, and tens of minor cities are very depressing in the winter. And Gdansk has bitter wind chill which results in one of three things:

1. Non stop bedroom action
2. Drinking
3. Gaming consoles

The first two could be considered fun.

Katowice on the other hand has real winter, excellent infrastructure, and happy ski resorts an hour's drive away - I commend it the OP and urge him that you don't need to go to boringly snobbish Krakow every weekend just because it's there :)

PS Because this silly forum doesn't allow instant edit.....

I have finished your treatise now, and I have to say, that's a damning indictment of the Polish economy and society, which would get us all reaching for the noose, if only hanging quality rope wasn't so expensive in Poland.

Don't you ever think of anything else but money Dominik? :))

Work / Job offer from IT Giant in Katowice, Poland (UNIX specialist). Information on tax and rental costs needed. [65]


Excellent! :)

No, I found an extra 10 zloty note I didn't know i had.

And Dominik, those were class posts. You are easily the most erudite pathologist I have ever come across - though I must confess I have never met a pathologist in the professional sense, and when I finally do, I will not be in a position to comment on their prose, will I?

Very entertaining stuff - are you published? :) I always fancied myself as a writer, but I am disillusioned to the point of despair after your posts - in much the same vein as Clapton and Townesend considering dumping their guitars in the nearest skip, on hearing Hendrix at the Bag o'Nails club in '66, I am tempted to put away my gold tipped quill for good.

Orlowo is a hoot, but there is nowhere for me and the labrador to wet our whistle :( Katowice wins out there - but if the OP doesn't drink then that fact is admittedly a moot point.

Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]

Wot do you want to know? A subsidary of Empik - not as well thought of in the bis.

Travel / Gdansk at night - where do I go for nightlife? [10]

Get the suburban train Rosco - it's called SKM - get out at Sopot - follow the youths down the hill to the beach - there only is one road - but it is VERY important to exit the station at the end next to the driver.

There is only one real happening street - Monte-Cassino - and you will find it by following the mob.
The real teenage hot spots are down near the pier.
I couldn't tell you anything else - I am old enough to be a grandfather and I hate that sort of **** music and scene anyway :)

PS It doesn't kick off until 10 PM.

PPS smurf is incorrect - the SKM runs every 30 minutes after 8 PM so check those schedules. Waiting 30 mins in the wind is no joke. Believe me - I know - FFS :(

News / Jaruzelski dead / his legacy in Poland [116]


I wouldn't play poker with you Harry, as I have no idea if you're bluffing or not - apart from your and Delphs' ignorant posts on this subject from time to time..

Let's just say that if the aforementioned gentleman had been British and had done what he did, to the Poles, turning the tanks and armoured cars on the populace - then on the "return to normality" aka post Round table - he would have been kicked to death in the street.

The Midlands boyz would have doled that out, If he had visited my neck of the woods at any rate.

To misqoute Wilde, the old geezer is an unspeakable apology for a human being who should have been executed.

News / Jaruzelski dead / his legacy in Poland [116]

Adam, I don't get the point of your cut and paste.

If you look into the archives, you can find film of Adolf recieving a British delegation in a snappy suit and being a charming chancellor statesman; 1936 I believe. All very prim and proper and correct to the British diplomatic rose -tinted vision.

Now - just because Jaruzelski did his duty early in his career doesn't negate from his crimes against the populace later on.
Maybe for you of course, but try asking Poles who were there and had to live with it.

Law / Registration of right hand drive cars in Poland - possible? [82]

No point in doing that for us Brits (or Poles living in Poland) All of the above means that driving back to Blighty every year to fix MOT and road tax is more expensive than buying a car in Germany, for instance.

News / Jaruzelski dead / his legacy in Poland [116]


The difference being of course, that those two were acting at the behest of the Establishment, with an electoral mandate. There is no ethical comparison between the (archaic) action of a British government in a pre-war world where populations had no social rights, and a totalitarian state where 3 million out of a population of 35 odd million attempted and succeeded for 40 years to cowe the masses, and murdered 40 plus civilians in the food riots of 1970, where of course your hero is also cited as being involved.

Your support of Jarelzelski does baffle me a little Harry but of course opinions are there to be argued over.

I would like to argue however, or opinion, that the crime of turning the guns on your own people is worse when,as we now know, that action is defended over the years and never apologised for.

Instead Jarelzelski unerringly acts the fantasist and is exposed as a liar when he says the Soviets were about to invade. We know it was he who solicited Soviet interference -the words of dissidents and historians back this up unequivocally - though no doubt you will dig up some obscure quote that Mother Russia was about to obliterate Poland from the map.

All I know is that there are plenty of people out there who I have spoken to, university professors, playboys, allotment retirees, train drivers, you name it, who would have preferred the Russians to come - so that they could have seen the supposed real enemy.

But instead the Poles were faced by their own "people". And it is to Poland's shame that they didn't clear out the old guard, as in East Germany and the old Czechoslowakia.

Jurelzelski - traitor, always will be, for millions. There is no deeper insult and if he is a believer he will know that he faces the ultimate sanction.