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VaFunkoolo   
8 Aug 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

Well done M. Wonder what happened to the pie ?

Wasn't he muttering something about another gin fizz and getting that German off his sun lounger?

good uncles are hard to come by:)

So it would seem. But eveyone needs at least an honorary uncle to sort out the ice creams
VaFunkoolo   
8 Aug 2008
Work / Are you teaching English in Poland? [120]

What can I expect?

A lot of people say it's an intensive course. Some people can't hack it. Don't plan on an overly active social life for a month

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VaFunkoolo   
8 Aug 2008
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

I had an uncle Bob from scotland. Is that you uncle Bob?
VaFunkoolo   
29 Jul 2008
Life / I'm British in Poland and I think that it's time to go back to the UK! [240]

I'm not sure if this is referring to me

LOL. Nope :)

Whether or not someone lives there is irrelevant to this forum

Perhaps. But I prefer giving credence to someone who is actually living the experience than someone who just has an opinion based on, well, not a great deal.

Just because someone moves to Poland and lives there <either long or short term> doesn't make them the only people who can comment.

Of course not. But if I want an opinion about a book then I will ask someone who has read it rather than someone who once walked passed it in a bookshop.

So who is actually trying to achieve worthwhile things in Poland and what is considered 'worthwhile'

I think in this context 'worthwhile' is getting a job, starting a business, making a family, building a life...
VaFunkoolo   
29 Jul 2008
Life / I'm British in Poland and I think that it's time to go back to the UK! [240]

The reasons you left are the reasons I wont move there permanently

Before I get a barrage of abuse

The barrage of abuse tends to come from the same people who dont actually live or try to achieve anything worthwhile in Poland. As with most people who talk loaud and say nothing, it's best ignored
VaFunkoolo   
28 Jul 2008
Life / I'm British in Poland and I think that it's time to go back to the UK! [240]

This forum allows everyone to voice their opinion but they should not have insults hurled at them.

Which of course is just your opinion. Lots of people posting on here should have insults hurled at them constantly. Which of course is just my opinion ;)
VaFunkoolo   
28 Jul 2008
Life / I'm British in Poland and I think that it's time to go back to the UK! [240]

Oh guys what a pile of rubbish .....Im sorry to sum it all this way..... I honestly think that most of the issues you touched –dnz- are totally groundless.....

You do write as if you have never actually experienced Polish bureaucracy, or have been very very lucky when doing so. It's not just non-Poles who believe the problems to be true.

Those Poles fortunate enough to have experienced life elsewhere hold the same opinions. As Mr B says, it's an outdated system run by lazy and incompetent staff
VaFunkoolo   
25 Jul 2008
Life / I'm British in Poland and I think that it's time to go back to the UK! [240]

he got voted best major in Poland a couple of months ago

Great. My local mayor got right royally caught with his hand in the cookie jar and is now taking a brief vacation whilst corruption charges are prepared.

The city he represented has undergone phenomenal development in recent years and staggering amounts of money have changed hands, especially over choice bits of local realestate, with a fat cut going his way, naturally. He was finally caught when taped discussing kickbacks from a proposed attic convertion project.
VaFunkoolo   
24 Jul 2008
Life / I'm British in Poland and I think that it's time to go back to the UK! [240]

If Polish-language forms were widely available, this business would die a quick and painless death, don't you think

Which is obviously of more concern to you than any of us.

But that said

It appears as though you have no idea just how much easier it is for Poles in the UK to wade through all the bureaucracy there than it is for Brits in Poland
VaFunkoolo   
23 Jul 2008
Life / Tattoos and Popular culture in Poland [51]

There is an overwhelming sense of negativity in what Polonius has written. Do you think he was paid to write it?
VaFunkoolo   
18 Jul 2008
Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

Polish beer is great,

Some Polish beers are very nice

But to put them on a pedal stool above all others is wrong

But with all due respect, which is actually not very much at times, if you dont clean the pipes out properly it tastes like sh!te
VaFunkoolo   
18 Jul 2008
Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

I wouldn't say Polish beer is the best in the world

Not by any stretch. And the brewers fek around with the beer too much in Poland too.
VaFunkoolo   
14 Jul 2008
Love / My boyfriend is on a Polish dating site [158]

with all due respect I am no way going to make a life changing decision based on what random online strangers say.

Lesson learnt?
VaFunkoolo   
10 Jul 2008
Love / My boyfriend is on a Polish dating site [158]

I would consider myself very fortunate, if I were in his position.

Lets hope he is not seeing it as a green light to continue taking the p!ss
VaFunkoolo   
10 Jul 2008
Law / How do you set up a company in Poland? [46]

I'm prepared to commute to poland (I have a contact there) but is this type of business viable

I think this is becoming increasingly difficult to pull any worthwhile profit from. Ive been doing this in and around the 3M for some time and whilst there are still plenty of flats that could use a good refurb, what I have been seeing for some time now is very little variation in sale price between pre-refurb and post-refurb flats. No room to make a worthwhile profit. Not worth the effort.

And as SBM says, no shortage of cowboys who will muck the job up for you and strip away any pofit you might hoped to have made. And quality expectations will not be the same as back home.
VaFunkoolo   
8 Jul 2008
Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]

there are a lot people on here that don't spell English words correctly... i'm curious how someone can teach English while they need much improvement themselves.

To which the reply is

Do I look like a fukin dictionary?
VaFunkoolo   
7 Jul 2008
Work / Are you teaching English in Poland? [120]

Callan method has appeared to dominate Poland for sometime. It seems many Polish schools are becoming disillusioned with Callan and moving to Avalon

Callan schools are not actually Callan schools if you get my drift. Just schools using their method. One of the marketing coups was that you could become a 'Callan' school just through using their materials without the financial outlays required by franchised language schools. Another coup was not requiring your teaching staff to be cert qualified

I taught in the New English School in Lublin.

Where are you teaching now?
VaFunkoolo   
7 Jul 2008
Work / Are you teaching English in Poland? [120]

I've never taught Avalon but I think, ironically enough, that I wrote some of the material for it

Im sure you mentioned that before, S. I am still trying to decide if that is something to be proud of or not ;)
VaFunkoolo   
7 Jul 2008
Work / Are you teaching English in Poland? [120]

another similar method called "avalon",

Currently recruiting a new Marketing Director as it goes.

That said, Avalon have experiences huge growth in the past 18 months or so and much of it has been in Poland