PF - The Omnibus Edition

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.

:) Szarlotka :)

I suggest that the next Omnibus Edition ought to be called.

Dr. Strangepost or: How I Learned to Stop hating Poland and Love the Bomb.

Interesting suggestion. I'll leave you to write that one!

I'm toying with two themes for my next contribution:

1) An official report from HM Inspector of Web Forums
2) A spoof script for the resurrection of The Young Ones with certain members as Neil, Vyvyan, Rick and Mike - not forgetting Jerzei Balowski (Polish connection).

I'll decide after a few beers tonight

Definitely, I used to love the young ones :)


You know it will just degrade into some waffle that won't make any sence and you will all see how little I understand of the little I read on here ;)

I defy anyone to make sense of some of the stuff on here.

Wow, almost 2 months have passed and i didn't know i was nominated...and awarded!! Wow :)) Thanks! Even if i have to say that what i've done is slightly different from what Admin and PolskaDoll have done so far. The forum couldn't 'live' without them :)

As to your French, Szarlotka, it's good, very good, no mistake, and very nice ^^ Merci beaucoup ;)

Polson! I thought you saw this before now...

Admin and I have a tough job sorting out posts and things like that but those footie predictions you do...it's a wonderful job (and probably tougher ;). You're a PF star. :D

I wish i had... ;)


Thanks PD, but predictions are every two weeks or more. You have to moderate everyday ;) You're a bigger star, lol.
Now i'd better wave goodnight and go to bed.
:)

Hmm. No time to write an Edition as there are just too many parties going on. Instead I shall limit myself to posting a simple message to you all.

Życze Wam wszystkiego najlepszego z okazji Świąt Bożegonarodzenia. Aby spełniły się Wam wszystkie marzenia Nowy Rok. I nie pijcie za dużo w trakcie Świąt!

Rough translation - have a blast


I missed that bit. You are very welcome Polson and thank you one more time for the predictions games.

Back in the yard again from a wonderful time in Egypt also known as Russia by most locals. I had no idea so many Russians spent time there. The Red sea wa s awesome. Mt Sinai was a good climb, And the Russian women were outstanding in looks and personality. I very much enjoyed there company.It is amazing the relationship one can have with only a translator book. From the read on PF . It looks like it was on holliday too!

Glad you enjoyed your visit to Egypt Outintheyard. The Red Sea is indeed awesome.

It has been a bit quiet on here over the festive season. It would appear that the season of goodwill to all men has ended now.

A choice of words best representing the situation. mAybe I will become a Bedouin?

A Happy New Year to all our reader. Yes, that was meant to be in the singular. I was tempted to write a review of 2008 but quickly came to the conclusion that it would be a) time consuming, b) depressing and c) far too difficult. So instead I have decided to pretend that 2008 didn’t happen. Obviously, it goes without saying that 2009 will be a different kettle of fish altogether. (Ed – if anybody from Poland understands that expression I’ll buy you a beer or two). Accordingly I am delighted to bring you a quick review of the proceedings on PF in the early part of the year.

Strategic Rebranding exercise.

Names are important. We’ve been Polishforums for a while now. In that time the world has changed dramatically. People continue to dream up new and innovative ways of killing each other, the world has entered into economic recession and my golf handicap has depressingly gone up. We therefore need a new name for our forum. I would respectfully suggest that we change it to polonius3forums.com in recognition of the fact that roughly 70% of all new threads are started by P3 as he is affectionately known. If I was clever enough I could work out a way of calling him C3P3O. Single handedly he now has more threads to his name than a sweat shop Taiwanese seamstress. I leave it to others to judge whether this approach is good or bad.

Economic indicators

There has been a vigorous debate about whether property prices will hold up well or otherwise in Poland. The extremes of optimism, pessimism, indifference and ignorance have all been on show. The only common thread appears to be that access to up to date market and economic data is a crucial requirement. The old days of relying upon information that is three months out of date is not going to work in these turbulent times. What is needed is an accurate, almost real time set of indicators. I think I have the answer. I proudly introduce the new Bubbawoo/Vafunkaloo/Vindaloo economic indicator (Ed – is he called Vindaloo as well then?). The indicator is based upon the physical location of the Bubba. If he is in Poland then it is a safe bet that the market there is bearing up. Sadly for those of you who have just bought two thirds of Krakow it would appear that Vafunk has been in, of all places, Vietnam. Time to bale out of the Polish market and head for Ho Chi Min City folks. As an aside I bet he looked great in one of those cute conical hats peddling around on his pre-war Raleigh bicycle.

Love’s Labours Lost

Maybe it was the festive season but the number of relationships that have been under pressure seems to have increased of late. It could be exposure to loved ones parents over Christmas has resulted in friction. Maybe the value of the gifts was not high enough. Opinions on the true nature of Polish princesses have been sharply divided (again). As a quick reference guide there are three broad categorisation of the Polish Princesses on offer:

• They are money grabbing golddiggers who are unfaithful, unreliable, devious and manipulative.
• They are the sweetest women on God’s Earth who are loyal, attentive, magnificent lovers, brilliant cooks and who don’t mind at all if the man in their lives pops out down the pub with his mates.

• They are just women with good ones and bad ones who just happen to speak an unintelligible language.

I think I shall start a poll. Not really I shall instead suggest that all future Polish princess threads are automatically referred to the common sense response given by JustysiaS’ on some thread that I can’t be bothered to find again.

All things in moderation.

The two new moderators, Wroclaw and PolishgirlTX, have been in place for a while now. I have been reflecting upon their performance to date. A number of conclusions have arisen from this deep contemplation of my navel, which unlike that of my good friend the Editor, I can still see without doing contortions. Firstly, it proves just how much work PolskaDoll had to do before the new appointments. Well done PD. Three gold stars to you. Secondly, I can conclude that the rules of the Forum regarding keeping on topic are being more vigorously enforced which is very good. Wildrover found this out too as he started a thread bemoaning the fact that all his posts were being instantaneously dispatched to the Random Thoughts bucket (aka Trashcan). Welcome to Random Land Wildrover. You will learn to love it here. I had to laugh at the image of P3 beating himself up at missing the chance to start this new thread. “I wish I’d thought of that Wildrover”. “You will P3, you will”. As good as the performance of the new mods has been I would like to suggest that we have a quantitative measurement regime in place. We should have real targets for each mod that we can measure and review on a regular basis. Things like 25% of all posts to have a red line comment/warning or 100% of my posts to be in the trashcan within 3 minutes. This sort of approach has done wonders for the National Health Service in the UK. (Ed – you are joking right?) The added benefit would be that anybody losing their current job in these troubled times could be employed to dream up, capture and report upon new moderator performance indicators (Ed – you’re right , it is just like the NHS).

Insightful Comment of the Week

This goes to noimmigration, who demanded to know how he could become a Gold Member. Obviously the big link at the top right hander corner of the screen was a little too difficult for him. Incidentally, ever since his latest banning and the fuss made about him at the time, noimmi has had a new resurgence on here. Somehow we have created a literary version of Viagra. Now if we could figure out how we did that we could make a killing.

That will do for now. I need to get some lunch. For the first time in ten days it will not contain either turkey or boiled ham. Ta Ta for now.

Thanks again szarlotka, an enjoyable read.

A refreshing start to a new year. Let us all hope the PF grows with dignity.

Yeah, riveting post Szarly

What? Sorry I missed that. I must have nodded off.....

I find self-adhesive envelopes to be far easier and suprisingly secure.

Ever the joker, Osioł :)

Some people call me the space cowboy,
Some call me the gangster of love,
People who call me Maurice
Are crushed by a mighty hoof from above.

Yes, I quite enjoy Sz's omnibus posts.

Classy, Osioł, classy. I've noticed that people are slipping in comments about the thread right at the end, just so that it doesn't get swept off to random chat.

Oh, Bison ;) (we were told to include bison in our posts).

I wonder what the Mods do if half the post is relevant and half isn't. Surely sth for Szarly to write about in his next update.

summed up nicely as usual Szarl (Czarls?) :)

Oh please, give the man some respect. He does have dignity, you know? ;)

Hmm. That would imply that I am capable of determining relevance. On the face of it a simple task but on some threads it may be more challenging. Crow's for example.


That disappeared many moons ago. I'm sitting here in an undignified heap wondering how I could have got 350 e-mails over the holiday period, none of which promised me money, love or a bigger thingy. I blame blackberries.

Blackberries, LOL. People don't often follow through on their promises. As for biggier thingies, no comment ;)

It's the cheapest. Cheaper than South of Russia in summer. Considering crisis travel agencies have to reduce prices.

Sasha? Why so many more women than men there? Not that I am complaining at all
They were beautiful

Maybe you didn't notice their husbands under the veil of their charm. :)

Or the hubbies were out scuba diving at the time....

Definitely no hubbies. It was more like pick the best of the lot and spend the day with one and then another and so on