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SeanBM   
22 Mar 2010
History / MAP OF POLAND IN 1880'S [95]

MAP OF POLAND IN 1880S

This should be of interest to you:

Polska Poland Borders 990 - 2008

youtu.be/eAVVWlUywO0
SeanBM   
13 Mar 2010
Polonia / Which country is better SPAIN or POLAND [113]

You have never been to Poland, so how the feck would you know.
Stop spewing crap and crawl back under the rock you came from.
SeanBM   
13 Mar 2010
Off-Topic / To ALL IMMIGRANTS ("expats") to Poland on this forum... [124]

The way my bleeding heart sees it,

So you don't see that he behaved like a bully.
Okay, what if it were yet another countryman who demanded that all Poles have to leave his country, would your heart bleed then?

the wave of Muslims poised to occupy his ojszczyzna

What on earth are you talking about? You are just making up stuff now because you have decided to take his side for goodness knows what reasons but I really and truly do not care.

We could have make a point so many different ways,

You mean you could have debated or communicated without lying, bullying and being a complete hypocrite? jeez is it asking too much of you?

Anyway you want to discuss this further, fine, just don't expect me to.

Oh and I have noticed you said nothing about the poster who posted another person's name for no good reason on the other thread but you have chosen to fight your battle, well good luck with that and all.
SeanBM   
13 Mar 2010
Off-Topic / To ALL IMMIGRANTS ("expats") to Poland on this forum... [124]

Should I feel bad about that deception?

Deception takes many forms, you were not bullying people, lying in a very direct way that disproved everything you said and being a complete hypocrite.

F stop, you can go on about this as much as you like, I think his behaviour was that of a bully and he got a slap on the wrist.

it just didn't seem like a clean fight after the outing.

It wasn't a clean fight because he was lying, bullying and being a complete hypocrite, so you can forget about ever having a "clean fight".
SeanBM   
13 Mar 2010
Off-Topic / To ALL IMMIGRANTS ("expats") to Poland on this forum... [124]

I just googled that...i was amazed to learn the Yorkshire moors are a place....I always thoiught they were a tribe...?

I thought it was a state of mind :)

Where we post from is not one of them, is it?

Either is lying, bullying, trolling or hypocrisy.
It is not as if we know his address or personal details.
I think he got exactly what he deserved, you act like a bully you get treated like one.
SeanBM   
13 Mar 2010
Off-Topic / To ALL IMMIGRANTS ("expats") to Poland on this forum... [124]

is anyone besides me feeling a little uncomfortable with the fact that the admin outed grubas?
Couldn't we have dealt with his rant on it's own merits?

No.

aren't they are privy to knowledge when we post from our corporate jobs computers? Would I be outed if I ranted about others work performance?

No.

I hope the admin does not reveal which planet i am on...!

The Yorkshire moors are more mysterious than any planet :)
SeanBM   
12 Mar 2010
Off-Topic / To ALL IMMIGRANTS ("expats") to Poland on this forum... [124]

Oh no, are you that desperate for attention, you're like Revokenice there.

You are in America, you big bullying troll, you told all foreign nationals to leave Poland to leave "here" but you are in America. So you have been caught lying and are lonely enough or stupid enough to continue to post.

You even have the gall to tell Polish people to go home from other countries, like a true hypocritical lying gobsheen .
SeanBM   
12 Mar 2010
Off-Topic / To ALL IMMIGRANTS ("expats") to Poland on this forum... [124]

grubas

Are you not embarrassed to be caught red handed talking such hypocritical rubbish and lying while you are in fact in America.
I mean anything you say from here on out will be taken as pure Horse manure.
SeanBM   
12 Mar 2010
Off-Topic / To ALL IMMIGRANTS ("expats") to Poland on this forum... [124]

we

You know for someone who pretends to speak for the Irish public you have a very ironic name, I see you were also wrong about Lisbon, ah well why break the habit of a lifetime of failures.

Your as full of it as the OP of this thread.

SeanBM

I know you're a lonely looner but could you stop obsessing about me, please.
It's well disturbing.
SeanBM   
12 Mar 2010
Life / Free online Polish Television (TVN). [17]

I thought some of you may be interested to know that Onet.pl is showing new Polish shows on-line [vod.onet.pl].

Some are free while others cost little money to watch.

I like "Usta Usta" (mouth to mouth).

I looked for an appropriate thread but could not find one.
SeanBM   
12 Mar 2010
Off-Topic / To ALL IMMIGRANTS ("expats") to Poland on this forum... [124]

A Polish guy living in the USA is telling anyone in Poland who is not Polish to get out of Poland...?

I see no confirmation on his being Polish.
but you are of course correct in your assessment, he is an idiot.
SeanBM   
2 Mar 2010
Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [243]

Isn't lynx bigger then the domestic cat?

Yes but my friend was convinced that this was a lynx.
I thought it looked like a normal cat because of the ears.
Lynx have those distinguished triangular ears and yes, the small tail is an indicator and then there is the well fed domestic cat.

Lynx have short tails and characteristic tufts of black hair on the tip of their ears.

sdvzsd
SeanBM   
2 Mar 2010
Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [243]

The first two photos are of a pheasant and the third one is of a cat.
There has been some debate about what kind of cat it is, I think it is a domestic (if a cat can ever be called domestic) tom cat but my friend was convinced it was a lynx but I will let you decide for yourselves.


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SeanBM   
15 Feb 2010
Real Estate / Apartments too expensive for Poles living in Poland [54]

unless you really need a huge f'ing house

The sizes of the houses are ginormous in comparison to Ireland. When i go back and see the bungalows it is most obvious.
But you don't have to buy a huge house.

an illusion of peace and quiet

I have peace and quite where I live, beside a huge forest, up the Beskidy mountains.
Too much actually, I am a city boy, the country life is not for me full time, I am planning on moving.

the daily traffic grind which is brutal, absolutely brutal,

I have yet to talk to people who do not complain about traffic anywhere.

the lack of ANY nearby amenities and everything requires a long ass drive

Again, I don't have this problem at all, everything is near where I live 35km south of Krakow. And there are many other places like the town I live in around Krakow.

Thats why I see gated communities are becoming really popular nowadays.

I think this is where we differ, I was talking about living in towns 35Km around Krakow (I should have said).
These estates with gates are growing up all over the place, with little to no infrastructure and amenities.
I would not call them ''gated communities'' even though you have a point because it reminds me of south Africa or Jamica, where this term means something very different.

It does seem low, but growing rapidly.

Any more recent figures? that's 2007 and things have changed. I have been looking for it myself but can't find anything up to date.

But it does show the past trend and the new one.

Edit*

traditional Polish 'take a year of doing it on saturdays and really **** the neighbours off' routine.

This annoys the hell out of me.

So you have just bought a flat, you finish but other people haven't. For the next year, the hallways, lifts and all common areas get destroyed from all builders banging everything off all the walls (I believe it is mandatory), the constant sound of drilling, hammering, dragging, the chaos is enough to drive you up the wall.
SeanBM   
15 Feb 2010
Real Estate / Apartments too expensive for Poles living in Poland [54]

Young people yes, but established working middle class?

The trend seems to be to obtain a plot of land, after 5 years put in foundations to a mansion, after another 5 years put up the walls and roof on this building the size of a hotel, after another 3 years window doors and finish 25% for usable space and let your grandchildren insulate the building.

All the meantime renting or living with family.

It is the same with apartments and finishing them yourself. It is a common practice in ex-commie countries.
For those that don't know: when you buy a new apartment in most ex-commie countries, they don't finish them.
So you get the title deeds, but it is wall to wall concrete, no doors, no toilet, no tiles, no flooring no paint on the walls...nic

People here think it is cheaper if they do it themselves, an uncle who is a plumber, a friend who is "kind of" an electrician and they buy all the materials themselves.

It is cheaper for a developer to buy and install 100 toilets than for 100 individuals to buy and install their own.
I have heard justification for this mentality, that you can have it the way "you want", so we all go down to Castarama and see what choice we have :)

The trend here is for people not to take mortgages but do it all themselves, so after many years you get a half finished house or apartment in many cases. A work in progress.

As long as the planning is done with common sense, it shouldn't be a problem. For some reason I see huge housing estates with inadequate connections to the cities..

Yes, general plans are a general pain.
And I have seen houses up mud driveways with silage tanks and dodgy looking electrics (his friend again;) and I wonder how you are supposed to do this midwinter.

It is changing though, the workforce coming from the country and working in the cities have left their families homes and take mortgages.

On the note of Polish mortgages, isn't Poland one of the lowest mortgage takers in Europe? it may have changed but I doubt it.
SeanBM   
15 Feb 2010
Real Estate / Apartments too expensive for Poles living in Poland [54]

I suppose we can gleam from the article is that some Poles are not able to enter the Real Estate market as it is priced beyond their means, this is happening everywhere not only in Poland.

I also think this is normal for young people at most times.
It is difficult to get a leg up in the real estate market but there are alternatives to living in the centre of cities.
Something that we rarely talk about on PF are the suburbs.
And with the new E.U. funded roads and motorways you can live out of the centre of Krakow for a fraction of the price and have good infrastructure to the centre.

Of course petrol money comes in to this scenario but I am quite happy taking the local private buses that are 4.50PLN for 35 Km in to Krakow from where I am living.

If you look at Krakow and go up to 35Km, from the market square, along the international motorways or newly reconstructed roads like the A1 you can find housing for a fraction of the price.

I think that people here are still not used to having this option yet.
SeanBM   
14 Feb 2010
Real Estate / Apartments too expensive for Poles living in Poland [54]

Go on maternal leave where the company pays your full salary

Is that not "Sick leave", the first two weeks of which are paid by the company then ZUS pay the rest?

after giving birth, you can extend it for 2 years with ZUS paying what, 80% of your salary.

Isn't maternity leave 5 months?
I have not heard of any 2 year paid extensions.

Apparently in the six years she'd been with the company she had worked a total of eleven months. Meaning that for most of that time she'd been milking ZUS for more than ten grand a month!

Is that really possible?

Actually it should like this:

Good point.

Edit*

According to this
Parental leave - maluchy.pl/artykul/45
you can get an extension but you do not get paid for it.

And they say if the income of the family per person (add all incomes and divide by number of family members) exceeds 548 zł per month, the claimant is not eligible.