Work / Salary for Teaching EFL in Krakow [120]

I thought I might sort of resuscitate this thread, if I spelt that correctly!

Although networking goes against the grain, I got offereed two business contracts of 180 minutes each just by attending a party yesterday and my lady, the hostess, giving me the nod and telling her business friends about my 20 years of experience.

She then went on to ruin it a tad by telling them how I really needed the money.....

It's Silesia folks and after 20 years I'm pretty well as established as I'm going to be. And come on down all ye others, I can stand the comepetition and we can always replay some of the shenanighans from the early 90s, even if I have to be in bed by two these days.

Dougpol aka jdthebrit

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]

Delph -I didn,t have you down as an idiot sir - but that is what you are :)

Dear oh dear.

Now creep back into your superior world.

And anyway - people who nearly hit cyclists in villages are driving how fast?

The speed limit is 40 km an hour? my car can stop dead in 10 feet at that speed.

I've lasted 20 years by the way successfully running businesses - and surviving day to day as well ta very much - and I still fight injustice wherever I see it.

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]


Que? I don't follow you? Oh sorry - of course you have never been under the influence when you get in your car in the morning?

What does driving have to do with cycling and having a beer in a woodland pub?

I think we should be told.

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]


Yes - the average Pole seems at a loss for words too Barney.

In the meantime - none cyclists like Delph. believe it below their moral radar to react to an unjust law. Unbelievable.

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]


If you're driving like a madman and not according to the situation - viz - it's a village - and there is a local bloke who's well over the eight - then you deserve to be treated in the same way as him.

I know how to drive - and expect the unexpected in Poland.

It's drivers here who are barking mad. Watch the BBC report.

Poles - the worst drivers in Europe. QED

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]


A sane and sensible post - thanks :)

However - this law was promulgated 20 years ago - and the times they are a changing. But try telling that to Polish politicians - and in the meantime everyday people are spending time behind bars and we are paying for it. I have been lucky - ducking and diving - or just directly laughing in the cops face and darting off through the bush, but others are intimidated and lie down before this archaic law.

I repeat - time to press home the BBC condemnation and to write to your MP.

Wiser minds than mine have stated the same.

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]


So you dont drink then Bacon?

A lot of people are caught over the limit in the morning at 6 after 3 or so beers the night before. There but for the grace of God go I. And others here I should think. But not you, the high and mighty eh?

Do you actually know what you are talking about? You sound like one of those young squirts straight out of Longmans. training camp in Blighty, which mummy paid for, who thinks he's an authority on all things Polish. Am I close to the mark?

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]

Delph - you live your life, and I'll live mine - but seeing as you support this law I have you down as a unlikeable bigoted conservative - and you have me down as a drunk ill-educated leftie - and we'll leave it at that.

I've lived here for 20 years - and feel very happy to do whatever I can to support the enlightened population who realise the ridiculousness of this law. Being a person of some education you should appreciate the misquote of "the law being an ass" and so forth :)

I will happily ignore the barb of "little man" - far too much beer and pizza I fear:)

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]

On your last post Delph you are making yourself look a berk. Give it up mate - you're killing me. You actually go to the police and genefluct before them? You must have one sore hole there my friend.

Please - I'm wetting myself laughing here in old Kato - I didn't have you down as a fool. You are the type I left Britain to get away from :))

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]

Great - now we're having a debate I'll cut out the childish and needless insults :)

Er......

Yes - drunken fools should keep off 90 km roads - but by the same token when the hell are we going to get cycle lanes? Things are improving, but here in Katowice the cycle route marking between cities is pis- poor at best.

It was actually the Beeb who said it was a 20 year old law - I believe you are 100 per cent correct in the 2000 date and the SLD being the legislator.

Because I am a democrat, I am incensed when the wishes and rights of recreational cyclists are ridden over roughshod in such a way (no pun intended)

And as for the penalties - even that of losing your driving licence,is severe and morally indefensible on the side of the legislature IMO. I personally had the dubious pleasure (which was mutual I am certain) of exchanging pleasantries with Mr Miller in the town hall car park in Jastrzebrie Zdroj in the distant past when he was PM, and had great pleasure in my best Polish at telling him what a prize communist clown he is/was.

As a taxpayer, you understand.

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]

I must add however the simple point that:

For 10 years this law HAS infringed on peoples' freedoms.

And in a democratic European state - where I am a citizen and pay my taxes - and am hard working enough to be an employer myself - I feel entitled to fight it.

And I shall :))

Thanks BBC for adding your voice, even though you were a tad slow off the mark, 10 years late. :(

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]

Are you suggesting that the BBC should not comment on international affairs? British archaic laws, whether they be bye-laws or whatever - or rarely enforced.

For example - when was someone last imprisioned for publicly ridiculing the monarchy?

UK, Ireland / Is it possible to watch live UK tv BBC, ITV in Poland ? [7]

filmon.com

expatshield.com

A myriad of others............

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]

So we're clear then?

People on this board are happy to have their right to a happy jaunt continually threatened by the Polish filth.

You couldn't make it up.

UK, Ireland / Polish Beer In The UK [98]


sorry Matyjasz. But when you compare other beers, like women, the mediocre compare badly.

Poland for vodka. Czech for beer.

Simple as that. There are no good beers in Poland. Zilch. I have researched this for 20 years :(

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]


Sorry - I forgot that English must be your second language.

Or are you being dumb and pedantic/North American :)

It's one of the two, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. The filth=the police. A jaunt is a pleasant trip.

OK now? :)

On second thoughts - just checked your profile. It's clear now - it's the patronising American syndrome again. Tut tut.

News / Beer and cycling - it's time for Poles to act [46]


Nope - not hammered. I just want and employ the right to 3 or 4 beers over the period of a summer afternoon, with a bicycle picnic or whatever. Still - why not blow that out of all proportion?

As the Poles do................. :(

UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]

Magdalena is talking gash in my opinion.
It is the Poles who are prepared to lie down and take it up the ass IMO after living in Poland for 20 years.

Brits would never stand for the sort of s hite that the average Pole will resignedly put up with.

Some examples? Police harassment - I always demand their name and badge number. Appalling service at that UK Jewish supermarket chain (it's top notch in the UK but ****ite here), aggressive tailgating and cutting into traffic (which Poles grudgingly accept), bad language in front of women in pubs and restaurants, drunken behaviour going unchallenged in public areas, men urinating and spitting in the street...

And Magda thinks Brits are soft?

LOFL

Sorry I will edit this as the American Polonia are at work again, the tiresome fools....

UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]

PS Magda:

I can assure you without a word of a lie that if Jaruzelski was British and had ****** us over as he did your country he would have been cut into little pieces by the mob.

That's our (rather more pro-active) culture.

UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]

The thing is though Delph - you and I know there is community spirit in the uK - oK so communism ruined that in Poland and it's quickly coming back and normalising - but magda got my back up. I'm not saying one culture is "better" than the other - I'm saying that Poles stereotypically analyse (and prevaricate) and reach a logical conclusion, and Brits act, and sometimes balls it up :)

UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]

I'm not having that - the Ireland thing - their country being occupied by a foreign power is not the same as a Pole betraying his country while "president" and being applauded by 50 per cent of the population, and even his enemies buying his autobiography.

That illustrates that the Poles get the leaders they deserve, and will lie down and take it.

Any Polish amateur could have outed the old general at his place of abode in France. Yet Poles are soft and resigned to taking it up the ass as I said. And as you said, they refuse to get involved.

That is why Magda's assumption of the Brits is all wrong. A traitor like the General would have been dead many many years ago, and you and me know it.

Those murderous criminals like Peter Robinson on the other hand are and were protected by a professional state security.

UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]

Sorry but you have a selective memory.
In a recent referendum, 50 per cent of Poles said Juruzelski was correct to call Martial Law and "saved" Poland.
You couldn't make it up :))

UK, Ireland / Do the poles like British culture [127]


No idea - Gazeta Wyborcza reported it about 5 years ago. It was a government sponsored referundum to check the state of the nation - by whoever was in power at the time - PIS I believe - could have been SLD.....

And Magda - you are prevaricating with the facts. Which are that a great many (poorly educated) Poles still hanker after the old times when they did not have to think for themselves, and that in itself is an utter disgrace against decent folk everywhere who suffered shocking indignities, injuries to life and limb, and loss of human rights and liberty.

24 years after the event of the Round Table, I still take pleasure in supporting my wife's relatives and sneering in the face of anyone, anyone, who supported that criminal mob and who lined their pockets by signing up to Party membership.

That would include Geremek, by the way, but not Walesa, who was one of the few who actually had a pair of balls.

It doesn't matter whether that referundum was 25 years after Martial law. Jurelzelski instigated it - real Poles wanted the Russians to come, and wanted war - instead of the shameful, illegal, humiliating fate they had to suffer from that sunglass wearing buffoon and his criminal gang.

As per the original thread, where you stated that Brits are "relaxed" and go with the flow, and don't react, my countrymen would never have stood for that and would have outed the ****** kinter. Civil war.

Life / The unacceptable side of Polish culture [48]

I am British and i am calling a relatively large percentage of Poles out as cowards. Is that clear enough for you?

Having had 20 years in Silesia, I can form an opinion, right?

Life / The unacceptable side of Polish culture [48]

I stopped the fight. Other, younger, men than me, were masturbating themselves watching. the fight.

Hilarious - and pathetic.

Life / The unacceptable side of Polish culture [48]


Tongue in cheek Pawian. And I love Being a guest in your wonderful country - even after more than 20 years.

Cowardice I have no time for though.

Life / The unacceptable side of Polish culture [48]


So you are suggesting I am gay? That is resulting to the old Polish stereotype, and why are we not surprised?

Do only gay people stop fights? :))

Life / The unacceptable side of Polish culture [48]


Point taken. It's not my country - but after 20 years of being ****** from a great height by ZUS and the socialist system I feel I have some say :)

There is always the legacy of Dzem and SBB to enjoy so I never said it's all bad :)


Oh, we have a tough cycbernet warrior boys! I must invite you to Mariacka in Katowice - what colour sweater will you be wearing? :)