JonnyM
8 Nov 2011
JonnyM
6 Nov 2011
Language / Funny/strange/deviant words in the Polish language [35]
Trust me, it does.
Ask anyone who's worked in an asylum.
Trust me, it does.
Ask anyone who's worked in an asylum.
JonnyM
5 Nov 2011
Food / What exactly is Polish Bread? [91]
Unfortunately 90% of 'bread' sold here is factory-made stuff like 'Chleb' Baltonowski, barely edible.
'Polish Rye' from the local German bakery. It is so good I almost spritzed in my pantaloons.
Unfortunately 90% of 'bread' sold here is factory-made stuff like 'Chleb' Baltonowski, barely edible.
JonnyM
3 Nov 2011
News / Poles start to feel arrogant and superior to Southern Europeans [182]
Why would any person feel superior to someone because of an irrelevance like nationality? Maybe that person has nothing else to offer.
Why would any person feel superior to someone because of an irrelevance like nationality? Maybe that person has nothing else to offer.
JonnyM
31 Oct 2011
Life / Polish comedies created by Bareja, are they understandable for non Polish people ? [12]
Yes but they're still tenth rate...
are they understandable for non Polish people ?
Yes but they're still tenth rate...
JonnyM
26 Oct 2011
Life / Thread dedicated to Polish and other Slavic children [53]
Very much so. And the more we travel, the more our human race will mix ethnicities. The future is a melting pot.
Crow, the human race is a global community. Mixing is good and it is inevitable so stop looking at people as Slavs and what not.
Very much so. And the more we travel, the more our human race will mix ethnicities. The future is a melting pot.
JonnyM
25 Oct 2011
USA, Canada / Polish-American criminals [70]
So people should only write posts about the good guys? Plenty of those already.
So people should only write posts about the good guys? Plenty of those already.
JonnyM
24 Oct 2011
USA, Canada / Polish-American criminals [70]
Not American, but there was that Polish guy in Wales who fed his business partner to the pigs a few years ago. He always maintained his innocence, despite the trail of human blood from the farmhouse door to the pigsty.
Not American, but there was that Polish guy in Wales who fed his business partner to the pigs a few years ago. He always maintained his innocence, despite the trail of human blood from the farmhouse door to the pigsty.
JonnyM
23 Oct 2011
News / Bad news for beer-lovers in Poland (beer prices going up) [22]
Not usually.
I pretty sure a small 0.33ml Heineken still cost much more than a 0.5ml Warka or Zywiec.
Not usually.
JonnyM
21 Oct 2011
Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]
Probably quite a few of them. Certainly there have been plenty of French-speakers among them.
Just a question: How well presidents of USA can speak Spanish?
Probably quite a few of them. Certainly there have been plenty of French-speakers among them.
JonnyM
13 Oct 2011
Life / What is Poland's fastest growing ethnic group? [57]
The ones your people napalmed could be excused for thinking otherwise.
The "Vietnamese" as a people were never our enemies.
The ones your people napalmed could be excused for thinking otherwise.
JonnyM
13 Oct 2011
Life / What is Poland's fastest growing ethnic group? [57]
Probably the British.
What is Poland's fastest growing ethnic group?
German?Ukrainian?belarussian?Vietnamese?
German?Ukrainian?belarussian?Vietnamese?
Probably the British.
JonnyM
1 Oct 2011
History / What proportion of the Polish population collaborated with the Nazis? [125]
I don't think the Norwegian Premier Vidkun Quisling would have agreed with you.
The Nazis were very unpopular in Norway, have you not seen the heroes of Telemark?
I don't think the Norwegian Premier Vidkun Quisling would have agreed with you.
JonnyM
1 Oct 2011
History / Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 [341]
The little old ladies who turn out for the May Day parades are still communists. Not sure about the 'bastard' bit though - why not ask them?
as long as there is one communist bastard left in the country.
The little old ladies who turn out for the May Day parades are still communists. Not sure about the 'bastard' bit though - why not ask them?
JonnyM
1 Oct 2011
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]
So again, what is your interest in Poland?
What an offensive thing to say.
So again, what is your interest in Poland?
JonnyM
1 Oct 2011
History / Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 [341]
The country was in ruins and the population exhausted, decimated and hungry. What sort of rebellion did you have in mind?
Now stop trolling and write something nice!
clearly the Soviet troops in your country were not Nazis or else there would have been a rebellion.
The country was in ruins and the population exhausted, decimated and hungry. What sort of rebellion did you have in mind?
Now stop trolling and write something nice!
JonnyM
1 Oct 2011
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]
Quite. On the street. Have you ever actually been to Poland? What is your particular interest in the country and/or its people?
people on the street
Quite. On the street. Have you ever actually been to Poland? What is your particular interest in the country and/or its people?
JonnyM
1 Oct 2011
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]
I wouldn't call it either of those things, but what it isn't is obsessed with immigration.
Is she called Crow? Anyway, Serbia isn't Poland.
pc left wing guardian
I wouldn't call it either of those things, but what it isn't is obsessed with immigration.
PS my wife is from Serbia and she says she is from Eastern Europe.
Is she called Crow? Anyway, Serbia isn't Poland.
JonnyM
29 Sep 2011
Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [128]
Much the same. Humour can be universal. Polish humour isn't often political however I liked this one:
Q. What's the difference between the Second Republic in Exile and Kaczynski's Fourth Republic?
A. In the Second Republic the people were in Poland and the government escaped to London, in the Fourth Republic the government are in Poland but the people have escaped to London.
Much the same. Humour can be universal. Polish humour isn't often political however I liked this one:
Q. What's the difference between the Second Republic in Exile and Kaczynski's Fourth Republic?
A. In the Second Republic the people were in Poland and the government escaped to London, in the Fourth Republic the government are in Poland but the people have escaped to London.
JonnyM
27 Sep 2011
Real Estate / Residential real estate values go down in Poland [455]
If you had to pay for it yourself, I suspect it would be much smaller, Mark.
My bedroom is bigger than this.
If you had to pay for it yourself, I suspect it would be much smaller, Mark.
JonnyM
27 Sep 2011
Life / Mishmash facts about Poland and Poles [187]
I don't know but he/she is surrounded by a herd of Shetland ponies so could be a zoophile.
Hard to know if they make the elephant look bigger or the elephant makes the ponies look smaller...
Is he/she gay or hetero?
I don't know but he/she is surrounded by a herd of Shetland ponies so could be a zoophile.
Hard to know if they make the elephant look bigger or the elephant makes the ponies look smaller...
JonnyM
27 Sep 2011
Life / Mishmash facts about Poland and Poles [187]
This isn't the original photo that I took a few years ago (can't find it) but if you go to Błonie just west of Warsaw and look in a field (on the Grodzisk road, just up from the old Hala Mera factory) standing in a field you will see something very like this. It was a present to the government from a foreign prince which for some reason can't be put with the other ones in the zoo. It looks incongruous but happy enough.
This isn't the original photo that I took a few years ago (can't find it) but if you go to Błonie just west of Warsaw and look in a field (on the Grodzisk road, just up from the old Hala Mera factory) standing in a field you will see something very like this. It was a present to the government from a foreign prince which for some reason can't be put with the other ones in the zoo. It looks incongruous but happy enough.
JonnyM
23 Sep 2011
Real Estate / Cost to build in Eastern Poland - Ideally per m2 [71]
This is exactly what I mean. That and leaving unfinished breezeblock outer walls etc for years without putting tynk on. It shows a lack of respect for the surroundings.
Having said that, it is true that the country is littered with half-finished projects
This is exactly what I mean. That and leaving unfinished breezeblock outer walls etc for years without putting tynk on. It shows a lack of respect for the surroundings.
JonnyM
23 Sep 2011
Real Estate / Cost to build in Eastern Poland - Ideally per m2 [71]
The tax system doesn't help that. There should be an incentive to build houses in one go rather than over time. Also a planning law to prevent people inhabiting the ground floor and leaving the first floor (or even worse, the external surface of the house) unfinished for years.
I agree, its annoying to see crappy built, half finished houses.
The tax system doesn't help that. There should be an incentive to build houses in one go rather than over time. Also a planning law to prevent people inhabiting the ground floor and leaving the first floor (or even worse, the external surface of the house) unfinished for years.
JonnyM
23 Sep 2011
Food / Bary mleczne/milk bars in Poland [31]
That's the exact opposite of my experience there. We waited for about 20 mins with no sign of a waitress and were just about to get up and leave when we were given menus. When the waitress finally came back we ordered. We waited for 40 (yes 40!) minutes until another waitress came and brought another menu. When we said we'd ordered already and had been waiting a long time she explained (without a word of apology) that the previous waitress had gone home and not given our order to the kitchen. She seemed almost offended when we put on our coats and left. This was a few months after it opened.
An especially irritating thing was that both Amatorska and Piotrus sell excellent pierogi (home-made in the latter), are within 50 yards or so and are half the price.
The old-style Bary Mleczny can be a bit chaotic but at least you actually get the food!
Though to expand - I wouldn't really call Zapieczek a Bar Mleczny, not with the giant Margaritas (Bary Mleczny don't serve alcohol at all - it would breach their licence and they'd lose their tax-free status) and the table reservations etc, more a medium priced restaurant.
If you like traditional food at a good price, try Lotos opposite the Hyatt - an intriguing place more or less unchanged since it was built in the 1930's.
Likewise, the small "Zapiecek" restaurant chain, which has a branch at Al. Jerozolimskie, is great (lovely staff, nice food)
That's the exact opposite of my experience there. We waited for about 20 mins with no sign of a waitress and were just about to get up and leave when we were given menus. When the waitress finally came back we ordered. We waited for 40 (yes 40!) minutes until another waitress came and brought another menu. When we said we'd ordered already and had been waiting a long time she explained (without a word of apology) that the previous waitress had gone home and not given our order to the kitchen. She seemed almost offended when we put on our coats and left. This was a few months after it opened.
An especially irritating thing was that both Amatorska and Piotrus sell excellent pierogi (home-made in the latter), are within 50 yards or so and are half the price.
The old-style Bary Mleczny can be a bit chaotic but at least you actually get the food!
Though to expand - I wouldn't really call Zapieczek a Bar Mleczny, not with the giant Margaritas (Bary Mleczny don't serve alcohol at all - it would breach their licence and they'd lose their tax-free status) and the table reservations etc, more a medium priced restaurant.
If you like traditional food at a good price, try Lotos opposite the Hyatt - an intriguing place more or less unchanged since it was built in the 1930's.
JonnyM
22 Sep 2011
Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]
The native English are much more than a group of people who lived centuries ago and spoke a different language. Some of us are even black, others are Jewish; others too have Polish ancestry. But all are part of the nation.
By whom?
The native English are essentially the Anglo Saxons
The native English are much more than a group of people who lived centuries ago and spoke a different language. Some of us are even black, others are Jewish; others too have Polish ancestry. But all are part of the nation.
Yet native english culture is deemed racist.
By whom?
JonnyM
22 Sep 2011
Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]
Who lived where and how people identified themselves 1500 years ago has precious little to do with anything today.
I am not an Anglo- Saxon as my mother is from West Devon and is probably an Anglicised Celt
Who lived where and how people identified themselves 1500 years ago has precious little to do with anything today.
JonnyM
22 Sep 2011
Food / Bary mleczne/milk bars in Poland [31]
There are a couple within walking distance but none particularly close.
If you like Bary Mleczny, try the one on Krucza, newly renovated and probably the best of them - though there can be long queues. Also try Mleczarnia on al. Jerozolimskie a modern take on them. But avoid Prasowy on Marszalkowska and the one near the barbakan - they are both bad.
There are a couple within walking distance but none particularly close.
If you like Bary Mleczny, try the one on Krucza, newly renovated and probably the best of them - though there can be long queues. Also try Mleczarnia on al. Jerozolimskie a modern take on them. But avoid Prasowy on Marszalkowska and the one near the barbakan - they are both bad.
JonnyM
16 Aug 2011
Real Estate / Building a house in Poland need advice from anyone that has built [100]
Makes a lot of sense.
Never ask a Polish company their fees, they ll rip you off. Just calculate your budget and ask them ( in the manner of take it or leave it) to stick to your budget.
If you don( find anyone , get a quote from a Chinese builder ( they are doing the highways aren(t they) or a British one.
If you don( find anyone , get a quote from a Chinese builder ( they are doing the highways aren(t they) or a British one.
Makes a lot of sense.
JonnyM
10 Aug 2011
Law / Poland on its way to Greece? [64]
Exactly. A whole lot of factors skew the reults. But Poland is still an upper-middle-income country and is in reasonably good shape economically. It does however have an ezcessively large middle-class.
Ignoring the fact that GDP calculations are ridiculous, it is meant to capture all goods and services produced. Turkmenistan is still a dump.
Exactly. A whole lot of factors skew the reults. But Poland is still an upper-middle-income country and is in reasonably good shape economically. It does however have an ezcessively large middle-class.