Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]


I'm always wary of cross currency stuff. Plus, like you, I'm sorting out the NI gaps. I've also got a Polish state pension (probably not much) and the private add on they introduced ed about 20 years ago.

The other day, I found out something interesting. I pay money to an a/c at a credit union in the U.K. for rainy days but apparently you shouldn't. If you're a member, they can't refuse your deposit or advise you not to for legal reasons but having too many people keeping decent savings in them but not borrowing really screws things up due to deposit/loan ratios.

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [970]

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Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]


It's bonds rather than units that are the reason people use them. Minimum 1000 GBP investment, quite a decent maximum and covered (I think up to 70,000 GBP) by the FSCS scheme. They do quite a few different investments however it's one particular one that attracts people and it's a 5 years plus one if you want to get all the benefit and not compromise it by early withdrawal.

I strongly reccommend having a look at their website; you'll need to scroll down a bit to find the product in question (there's a lot of demand for it however it was only ever intended to back up their main products which are for very small investors and which they want to promote).

News / Dirty deeds of foreign guys in Poland [128]


Indeed.

Very nice people in my direct experience.

News / Dirty deeds of foreign guys in Poland [128]


If anyone is going to insult 'Slavic tribes', they'd need a time machine.

Anyway, according to Crowie, everyone except 'Shiftars', 'Mujahideen', Turkey and the Vatican is somehow Slavic.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]


If you're interested in medium/long term safe investments, you can do a lot worse than Sheffield Mutual. No shareholders or whizz kids creaming off 'profits' from it and the sort of term deposit they specialise in consistently outperforms most other similar investments.

I suspect you need a UK address however I doubt they check if you live there. And it's FSCS protected.

sheffieldmutual.com

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]


In part because it was a hothouse before. Expecting permanent growth is as dangerous as getting in an orc tank.

The UK doesn't import any r*SSian hydrocarbons however its economy is doing well compared to other European countries. It was never 'the sick man of Europe'; that was wishful thinking by the French and Germans.


Me and all other members of that political party.

I was in Berlin three weeks ago. Seemed pretty prosperous to me. And now a couple of countries are going from development to production stage for crude, Libya is extracting and exporting at full capacity again (including joint ventures with Germany), and Lavroll has finally been told his fortune by Algeria (plus the North Sea is preparing to be maxxed out), I suspect Germany will survive.

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]

If you think the oil sales to Germany will resume this decade, you are labouring under a misconceptiion.

And Germany isn't 'massively poorer'. In any case, stupidity should always be punished and buying all their hydrocarbons from a pariah state was an act of sheer stupidity.

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]


No.

r*SSia did it by making war in Europe.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]


That is true. Otherwise I'd be living in Monaco rather than Warsaw.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

What a meltdown.

Some of those on the far right of politics across the Atlantic don't grasp that we don't want their problems and that there's no significant 'gun lobby' in the developed world.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]


They're just Unit Trusts, for small time and inexperienced investors. I used to have some and they're actually OK for safe-ish moderate returns. A very traditional investment in the UK. My granny had some too.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]


So too many then.

In developed societies firearms aren't available to steal.

Stop trying to spread your stupid mistakes to more peaceful societies.


They do it using guns.

Don't insult us by trying such facile 'arguments'.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]


He lives in a tarpaper shack in a field where he probably buries dead hitchikers and plays duelling banjos.


What's left of his wife spends all day on the online slots so I suppose pretending to play the stock market with one of those dummy trial accounts is his equivalent. Not that he understands a word of what he says about the markets. He's not so much a stockmarket wizard as a cut and paste wizard.

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Food / Help with Polish recipe - Żurek soup? [25]


There's something in Scotland called "brose" which is a bit similar. They drink it for health there however you can add whisky and also use it to make a desert with cream and oatmeal.

Food / Help with Polish recipe - Żurek soup? [25]


I've had it in bary mleczne a few times. Nothing special.

Travel / Fishing in Poland - where to go, what to catch? [81]


One of my favourites. Quite expensive sometimes but nice for a treat.

Food / Help with Polish recipe - Żurek soup? [25]

The tetrapak Żurek from Hortex is pretty good if you dilute it down.

Not very Polish, but sometimes I make żurek with mushrooms (pieczarki not grzyby). They're a good match.

Work / Popular Food Delivery Apps in Poland? [4]


I've used both and they're much the same.

It's better to order direct from a place you know and trust.

Food / Polish mustards [134]

I'd guess that after a few months or even weeks it's not as fresh as when the jar was first opened. And it probably contains preservatives which fresh mustard doesn't.

Polonia / Polish bus crash in Croatia. Is there a fate? [229]


These awful tragedies happen. There was a similar case where a tractor driver in the U.K. was jailed for a long time due to causing a crash because he was using a mobile while driving (in Britain if you're in a crash and were using your mobile - they always check - you'll be locked up even if the accident wasn't solely your fault) and there's been an arrest this week of a guy in a fancy BMW who caused a crash on a main road I know very very well where 6 people (a couple and a family of 4) were killed.

A life sentence seems harsh however it's not possible to decide without knowing the facts of the case.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


I remember staying near Place Pigalle in Paris and seeing lots of signs advertising "poupees gonflables". I thought it sounded rather nice until I looked it up in my dictionary.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [295]


Seeing all the frozen doner blocks in Makro is depressing, especially due to the big difference in price. The cheapest ones can't be good. Also, the traditional dislike of lamb in Poland means that they miss out on a lot of flavour.


The best ones I've had in my life are either from a suburban kebab shop in Kuwait City or the old Greek Cypriot ones (all lamb with fresh thyme) in the U.K. years ago.

There was quite a nice one in the old station buffet at Dw. Gdański in Warsaw however I think it's gone now.

Food / Polish mustards [134]

All ready made mustard has a relatively short lifespan. The 'kick' (and the flavour) goes very quickly. That's one reason (perhaps the main one) that people in Britain tend to favour making it freshly as in the photo in post 35.


Not so much sacrilege as normal. Mustard is essentially a type of flour and hot water makes the grains swell, You can also use (mild) vinegar.

Real Estate / Housing crisis in Poland. [26]

Looks like it. The article explains more.

There's a company in Britain that makes houses of a similar size shaped like igloos and made of recycled rubber from car tyres. A small one is fine for one person, a two storey one is ok for a small family and you can connect them with others as your family grows.

I'd feel claustrophobic however in a lot of the world, people live in homes smaller than that.

And they're easy to demolish. Since 2000, there have been too many suburban looking bungalows in Poland with no architectural merit but unfortunately well built and therefore a hassle to replace with something better.

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [749]


That depends on whether or not they want access to those markets for their industries or access to any resources those countries have.

It also depends on whether or not their Pentagon believe there are strategic reasons to cooperate with the country involved.