Genealogy / looking for Bagadinski, Bagadzinska, Berglind [17]

Bzibzioh is right - it doesn't look like anything. I thought the same about the religion bit. Did you have the passport read by one of those optical character readers? They often produce odd results.

Perhaps you could scan the original - many people here are OK with the Russian Alphabet.

Gronobicherkoe (from the last syllable) sounds like a village, though not necessarily in Poland. Oushinu could be anything.

Life / Want to watch BBC iplayer in Poland? [59]


It was a cable station - we paid for it in our cable subscribtion to the cable company who had to pay the BBC for it. Without overseas sales (a huge part of the BBC's revenue), either the license fee would be higher, the programmes worse, or they'd have to run adverts. Or all three.

Anyway, a lot of the content on BBC Prime was bought in from ITV and the BBC franchise that you get in Poland now has adverts.

Off-Topic / How would Poles react to a visit from Queen Elizabeth? [72]

RevokeNice, I suspect you were absent for most of your school history lessons. Judging by your nasty posts about Poles, you were probably absent the whole time.

Off-Topic / How would Poles react to a visit from Queen Elizabeth? [72]


A strange sort of occupation when they vote in free and fair elections every five years. Mind you, the majority elect parties who want to stay in the UK, not join with the Republic...

Off-Topic / How would Poles react to a visit from Queen Elizabeth? [72]


Undoubtedly. Some of them very heavy, but not so good in battle.


I didn't know she was bringing Cameron!

Life / 'Whites only' nightclubs in Warsaw? [51]

So knock off the 'junglebunny stuff'. Really. It's on a par with wearing a baseball cap, eating Goracy Kubek and watching Britain/America/Poland's Got Talent.

Off-Topic / How would Poles react to a visit from Queen Elizabeth? [72]

Last time she came they were lining her route along Nowy Swiat, waving. I haven't seen that for any other state visit to Poland apart from the Pope.

Life / 'Whites only' nightclubs in Warsaw? [51]


What about white men and black women?

Life / Want to watch BBC iplayer in Poland? [59]

It just seemed too much of a coincidence since it happened at exactly the time I installed expat shield, and there's a bit written on the internet about it. Expat shield is two programs in one, and it's the second of the two that causes the problem.

UK, Ireland / UK: How to create a perfect scapegoat? [54]


No.


A nice idea. Send the present to me and I'll check if it's suitable to pass on to Her Majesty. 'She' like's' 22 carat gold.


All the time, works a treat.

Life / 'Whites only' nightclubs in Warsaw? [51]


Kind of pushes all the buttons for some of those stereotypes floating around the US. Don't they use the term "dumb Polack"? Sad to see you're admitting it's true.

Life / Want to watch BBC iplayer in Poland? [59]

Trojan viruses and malware, unfortunately.

Life / 'Whites only' nightclubs in Warsaw? [51]


Only the insecure and inadequate ones.


You think so? Why don't you stick to Belgian girls then - assuming they don't run away from you like the Polish ones do. Creepy.

Life / 'Whites only' nightclubs in Warsaw? [51]


But if they were both wearing them?


Yes, often.

Life / 'Whites only' nightclubs in Warsaw? [51]


Nobody except you cares.


Or Poland for Poles? Go back to Belgium fast!

Language / Poland in different languages? [74]

ፖላንድ in Amharic.

Life / Want to watch BBC iplayer in Poland? [59]

Likewise, and I suspect it will have a limited service. UKPolska gave some good links a few weeks ago.

Life / Want to watch BBC iplayer in Poland? [59]

There was a really good one with huge bandwidth mentioned here about a year or so ago. I used it during the free trial and it worked like a dream.

Life / Want to watch BBC iplayer in Poland? [59]

Expat shield just about works but isn't great. Apparently there's going to be a non-geoblocked version of Iplayer sometime soon.

UK, Ireland / Criminal gangs luring Polish migrants to UK for benefit fraud [16]


Only when it would have been impolite not to. Good food though. To be fair, there are a few very nice expats, but there are also some tawdry gits.

A kind of mix of arrogance and desperation, sitting with overpriced beer; their only pleasure being misplaced schadenfreude and moaning about all the things they don't like in Poland.

I just deleted a long paragraph - too much of a rant, but the summary is that some of those guys (always guys) boast about what a great success they are, despite sleeping on people's sofas and not having two pennies to rub together, and look down on certain Poles because they don't speak English to them or lionise them just because they're foreign, even though the real reason is that they're a twat.

Life / Are there G U M Clinics in Poland?? [9]

A dermatologist or urologist can treat male VD, or a gynaecologist if you're female. There are English speaking ones at the centum LIM, and if you ask for a venereology consultation they'll book you an appointment with the right person.

Not free, but then again, does the clap clinic in your country offer free appointments in Polish? If you want free, use a phrasebook.

Or the free translation service here. Alternatively just whip it out and let the doc decide.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]

That's true. There are many more which are worth saving, but aren't being looked after. In a generation they'll be gone.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


Very much so. And unlike any renaissance survivors which are heavily protected and often rebuilt, a lot of the old wooden houses are neglected, especially in Mazowsze. I'd like to see them heavily protected - they are characteristic of Poland, beautiful, and under threat from people wanting shiny new bungalows.

UK, Ireland / Criminal gangs luring Polish migrants to UK for benefit fraud [16]


Very wise. Of the British I know in Warsaw, a couple are great guys, most I wouldn't **** on if they were on fire. Something changes emigrants, and not always for the best.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


Hmm. I'd like to know more about that... One issue is that Poland has dry weather and hardwood forests, so it has always been viable to build in wood. England has wet weather and softwood forests so it was always a good idea to build with brick or stone, which can't be burnt by an invader and never rots.


No! I can't stand tattoos!

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


The renaissance! Somewhat earlier.


What about the rest?


I mentioned it in my first post, and twice since. Do you want me to tattoo a picture of it on my arse?


That's exactly my point, and I'm pleased you agree. That troll David18 however seems determined to prove that all the great events of the renaissance (largely Italian) were done in Poland.

History / Poland during the Renaissance [146]


Not where I am now.


During the renaissance?


Check the thread title.


Yet only the castles, churches and a few isolated buildings survive.

Food / Longest pizza record attempt in Poland [21]

Often grim, but there's a really nice place (cheap as chips) next to the railway station in Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki. One of the best I know is a fixed price place, one type of pizza, only barszcz to drink, 10zl all in, in the old town in Toruń.

Food / Longest pizza record attempt in Poland [21]


If it's cooked through properly...

UK, Ireland / Criminal gangs luring Polish migrants to UK for benefit fraud [16]


He had to get a crime number and it's still being processed by the revenue. It looks like the cheque was cashed at some dodgy cheque cashing place.