Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]


I've not known cats to eat their prey but I know they will definitely kill it if they can. My last cat was such a good hunter I had to put a collar on her with lots of bells attached. She kept bringing birds that she'd killed into the house. She also decimated the slow worm population in my garden :(


You can do it with others too but I notice that you will ask the posters you have fallen out with to summarise their posts.

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]


Very likely. Modern rat poisons are anti-coagulants and as such the rats will bleed to death. It is a slow death too. The poison can stay in the body for months and will get higher up the food chain as rat predators such as foxes and birds etc will get secondary poisoning from ingestion.

I didn't want to use poison but the final straw was finding one in the kitchen. Came back from serving dinner and it was there looking at me before it bolted and ran.


Mine has been months now. To start with rats are neophobic. They don't like new things and your cage trap is the equivalent of a big red flag for the rat. Secondly, they are very good at detecting human scent. You should have used gloves when setting the cage up, preferably rubbed in soil too.


They might just prefer your compost. There is no food whatsoever in my garden but I still had a problem. I learned years ago that I couldn't have bird feeders and now the pond has gone so they don't have a water supply. It got so bad at one point that what I thought were frolicking squirrels in my flower beds turned out to be rats :(

Had to remove all plant pots as they were using them to hide behind in their exploration of the garden. Now my garden just looks dead but the sewer repairs and pond removal seems to have done the trick.

Best of luck!

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


Now you're being childish. I said what I had to say about this in post 116. If maf is right then he should take the credit.

I would just like the insults to stop and carry on with what is an interesting thread. At this rate I will be the only one participating :(:(

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I'm sure they would Atch. Knock yourself out.

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


Maf has said in his post 152 that it means 'get lost' and it's convoluted because you can't fall upwards onto a tree.

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


Given that the idiom is about the word boot, what else did you think that I'd leave an imprint with?

Hair splitting at its finest :):)

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]


Rats are clever and might not take the bait. I had a problem with rats in the garden a while back. They had dug up around the manhole cover where the sewer is.
I put traps out but they ignored them completely. Six months later the bait is still untouched.

In the end someone come in to repair around the sewer and also take out the pond. Haven't seen any since but behind where I live is lots of undergrowth from being beside a railway line so rats and other wildlife are common. I've had badgers and foxes in the garden too.


Remove all food if possible.

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


That's what I meant in post 137 but I took it for granted that you would know I meant that.


We got there in the end by going round in circles :)

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


Exactly. If you leave an imprint it's because you've kicked/hit someone hard.
I can't think of anything else.

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


Something you wear on your feet. When I said leaving my imprint in post 137 I meant boot imprint. If it's not that I have no idea.

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

Leaving my imprint on their backside...

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

Forcibly remove/expel someone?

Maybe not physically, but by giving someone the cold shoulder?

Love / Polish - Pakistani relationship. How it works in reality? Are Pakistanis a good men? [85]


It had been reported but I found reading about the whole case very distressing:

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66723962

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj7pm98j94o

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

To throw someone out?

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

To fire them?

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [984]

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


Jak powiedzieć po Polsku? Somehow I don't think city slicker will translate too well.


Vulnerabilities.

Life / Polish Music. [303]


Why do you keep saying this? Just because it's not posted in every day doesn't mean there's no interest.

A couple from Artur Rojek who used to be the vocalist and guitarist in Polish band Myslovitz.

Artur Rojek - Bez końca



Artur Rojek - Odrobinę więcej

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


That's from a song ' Love is all around' by the Troggs. It's been covered many times. The saying 'I feel it in my bones' is an English one as far as I'm aware.


Not much idea about this one.

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


All I know is that it means to have a strong feeling about something. Intuition if you like. You haven't given any context as to what.

The saying comes from the notion that people with arthritis. rheumatism etc could feel pain in their bones before the onset of cold and rain, a predictor of a change in the weather.

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [984]

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News / Polish military contingent in Lebanon. [184]


Because he's been proved wrong and he doesn't like it.

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


If he guesses correctly I can't do that or I'll be taking the credit for his answers which wouldn't be right.


Really? I'm surprised. To be honest I've lost track of who is and isn't ignoring each other. Novi periodically bores us to death with his ignore list and at the rate he's going he'll be in an echo chamber before long.


From early in the morning till late at night? Dawn to dusk so to speak.

Life / Mishmash facts about Poland and Poles [187]


I'm not surprised coming from somewhere hot. I've never really adapted to either. I feel like I was born in the wrong country. The clocks only went back last weekend but it feels forever ago. Still getting used to cooking the evening meal with it being dark outside :(

Give me Florida!!!


I have visions of it being extremely tidy with everything in its place with lots of little personal items on your desk. Chocolate in your desk drawer and nice stationery :)
Did you ever play the piano?

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


Now I do like this :) Saves so much time searching if a thread hasn't been posted in for a while. :)

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


I presumed you'd looked at maf's post #103.

Death.

Life / Mishmash facts about Poland and Poles [187]


I'm guessing that you're more of a winter person Atch. I find the darkness very gloomy almost makes me feel claustrophobic. I could happily go to bed in October and wake up in April. Like a dormouse :)

I actually feel better after December 21st because I know the days are getting longer.


Now I do like lights at Christmas time. I'm sure your classroom looked lovely.

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [150]


The fantasy style and colours appeals to me.


Hilarious and true!


He's a very good artist, I would go to see his work.


I find some of the his more intimate paintings make me feel slightly uncomfortable. They're so realistic that looking at them almost makes me feel like I'm intruding.

Life / Mishmash facts about Poland and Poles [187]


I am the opposite. When it gets dark so early makes me feel like the walls are closing in. I really don't like the lack of light, it's depressing. Give me long summer evenings every time.