Feniks
10 Aug 2024
Life / The climate for gardening in Poland [340]
Are they black raspberries?
Do you recognise this fruit which grows on a tree??
Are they black raspberries?
Feniks
10 Aug 2024
Feniks
10 Aug 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [675]
Aha! I wanted to know what a jackyll was. I quoted maf but the quote disappeared after I posted.
Nie ma za co :)
Aha! I wanted to know what a jackyll was. I quoted maf but the quote disappeared after I posted.
thanks for your digger steps` guess. :):):)
Nie ma za co :)
Feniks
10 Aug 2024
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [629]
Pulling something out of thin air?
Than what?
What does it mean?
Pulling something out of thin air?
you should take care of your thread better than that.
Than what?
Feniks
10 Aug 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [675]
Because I don't have any riddles pending.....
As for your riddle, I can`t see anything.
Because I don't have any riddles pending.....
Feniks
10 Aug 2024
Feniks
10 Aug 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [675]
This is probably going to sound nuts but is it an aid to getting into the vehicle? It's difficult to tell how high up off the ground the door to get in is from the photo.
This is probably going to sound nuts but is it an aid to getting into the vehicle? It's difficult to tell how high up off the ground the door to get in is from the photo.
Feniks
10 Aug 2024
Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [840]
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Feniks
10 Aug 2024
Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [260]
Same here. My posts are white and don't stand out. Please give us back some colour :)
it isn`t working. No change.
Same here. My posts are white and don't stand out. Please give us back some colour :)
Feniks
10 Aug 2024
Feniks
9 Aug 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [675]
Presumably on the back?
Is it to mark out areas on the ground? Can't think why though.
it is fixed on a vehicle.
Presumably on the back?
Is it to mark out areas on the ground? Can't think why though.
Feniks
9 Aug 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [675]
I presume that is snow in the background? It doesn't look like anything for snow clearing though.
I honestly have no idea. The teeth on whatever it is reminds me of old hunting traps but no way is it anything like that.
What can you see?
I presume that is snow in the background? It doesn't look like anything for snow clearing though.
I honestly have no idea. The teeth on whatever it is reminds me of old hunting traps but no way is it anything like that.
Feniks
9 Aug 2024
Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [840]
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Feniks
7 Aug 2024
Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [840]
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Feniks
7 Aug 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [675]
@johnny reb
As you're always telling everyone, stay on topic. This thread is for Poland in photo riddles, not the US.
@johnny reb
As you're always telling everyone, stay on topic. This thread is for Poland in photo riddles, not the US.
Feniks
1 Aug 2024
Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [840]
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Feniks
1 Aug 2024
Polonia / Should I visit Portugal? [35]
I enjoyed both and they're definitely worth a trip.
Be prepared for lots of steep streets in Lisbon. About the only bit that isn't on a hill is the harbour area.
The good news is that there are elevators, trams and funicular railways to get up to the higher areas such as Bairro Alto. This area has lots of bars that play traditional Portuguese music, fado.
Sao Jorge castle is definitely worth seeing and if you have kids they'll probably be more fascinated by the many peacocks running round the grounds. They're everywhere!
Also worth seeing are Jerónimos Monastery and the Tower of Belém.
The food was good and reasonably priced. I mostly ate seafood whilst I was there and you should definitely try Pastel de Nata ( Portuguese custard tarts ). You'll see them in all the bakery windows.
I went to Sintra mainly to visit this place, the National Palace of Pena:
parquesdesintra.pt/en/parks-monuments/park-and-national-palace-of-pena/
And it didn't disappoint. It was well worth going.
Wow, that's a long drive!
How was Lisbon and Sintra?
I enjoyed both and they're definitely worth a trip.
Be prepared for lots of steep streets in Lisbon. About the only bit that isn't on a hill is the harbour area.
The good news is that there are elevators, trams and funicular railways to get up to the higher areas such as Bairro Alto. This area has lots of bars that play traditional Portuguese music, fado.
Sao Jorge castle is definitely worth seeing and if you have kids they'll probably be more fascinated by the many peacocks running round the grounds. They're everywhere!
Also worth seeing are Jerónimos Monastery and the Tower of Belém.
The food was good and reasonably priced. I mostly ate seafood whilst I was there and you should definitely try Pastel de Nata ( Portuguese custard tarts ). You'll see them in all the bakery windows.
I went to Sintra mainly to visit this place, the National Palace of Pena:
parquesdesintra.pt/en/parks-monuments/park-and-national-palace-of-pena/
And it didn't disappoint. It was well worth going.
I might start in Portugal and drive to Poland.
Wow, that's a long drive!
Feniks
31 Jul 2024
Polonia / Should I visit Portugal? [35]
I've been to Lisbon and Sintra.
Whereabouts in Portugal were you thinking of going?
I've been to Lisbon and Sintra.
Whereabouts in Portugal were you thinking of going?
Feniks
30 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [339]
Members are donating now instead. Look at the top of the main page in left hand corner.
Trolling.
buys this forum
Members are donating now instead. Look at the top of the main page in left hand corner.
I struggle to understand what the hell you are doing here?
Trolling.
Feniks
30 Jul 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]
Thinking back it might have been something to do with the time I got in there as to why I couldn't make it.....
Definitely over it 😂
and made us late
Thinking back it might have been something to do with the time I got in there as to why I couldn't make it.....
It's not like all of Toruń was in danger of running out of coffee beans
Definitely over it 😂
Feniks
30 Jul 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]
I can't remember why now but I couldn't make it on the day I visited. Was not a happy bunny :(
You can even make your own piernik at the Muzeum of Pierniki.
I can't remember why now but I couldn't make it on the day I visited. Was not a happy bunny :(
Feniks
30 Jul 2024
Travel / About cars, electric and combustion in Poland. [158]
To be honest I only ever associated them with sports cars.
You've got that right. I had a Frogeye Sprite that was equally unreliable.
MG Maestro 2.0 EFI,
To be honest I only ever associated them with sports cars.
bloody unreliable British engineering though..
You've got that right. I had a Frogeye Sprite that was equally unreliable.
Feniks
29 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [339]
Thanks Torq :)
At times I wonder why I'm still here but that's PF for you. Addictive. Sad to think that soon it could be all over :(
I remember you :) Nice to see you stick around, Pam. *high five*
Thanks Torq :)
At times I wonder why I'm still here but that's PF for you. Addictive. Sad to think that soon it could be all over :(
Feniks
29 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [339]
I had 2 previous usernames. I came here as Pam in 2011 and was a moderator here for about 18 months. Got fed up with it as you do so I left and came back as Chemikiem some time later. Got sick of all the b!tching and trolling so I left again for a couple of years and came back with my current username.......
I was also a member of ATP but I didn't post there that often.
By the way - who are you? I don't recall your username and you know about ATP, so you have been around for quite a while.
I had 2 previous usernames. I came here as Pam in 2011 and was a moderator here for about 18 months. Got fed up with it as you do so I left and came back as Chemikiem some time later. Got sick of all the b!tching and trolling so I left again for a couple of years and came back with my current username.......
I was also a member of ATP but I didn't post there that often.
Feniks
29 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [339]
It's a nice idea but it would need everyone here to contribute. There are roughly 20 regular members.
It's been done here before: polishforums.com/advertising/
That's been done before too. I think it was Torq and BB that set up All Things Polish ( ATP ) which is no longer in existence. Not sure what happened to it though.
I'd like to think so. I suppose it depends on how addicted members are to this forum...............
I would love more for this to belong to nobody and be supported by its readers/writers.
It's a nice idea but it would need everyone here to contribute. There are roughly 20 regular members.
Selling advertsing can be done,
It's been done here before: polishforums.com/advertising/
I will have my guys create one for free and everyone can go there.
That's been done before too. I think it was Torq and BB that set up All Things Polish ( ATP ) which is no longer in existence. Not sure what happened to it though.
I bet there will be 20 members willing to send a measly tenner a month
I'd like to think so. I suppose it depends on how addicted members are to this forum...............
Feniks
29 Jul 2024
Travel / About cars, electric and combustion in Poland. [158]
I know that but this thread is about cars in Poland and MG is indeed sold there:
mgmotor.pl/
I know that but this thread is about cars in Poland and MG is indeed sold there:
mgmotor.pl/
Feniks
29 Jul 2024
Travel / About cars, electric and combustion in Poland. [158]
Sacrilege! Didn't know they're available in Poland though.
I once had a 1967 MGB Roadster with wire wheels. Loved that car but it wasn't very reliable. It had overdrive and no synchromesh on 1st gear.
What model?
today's MGs are no longer sports cars, but family SUVs.
Sacrilege! Didn't know they're available in Poland though.
I once had a 1967 MGB Roadster with wire wheels. Loved that car but it wasn't very reliable. It had overdrive and no synchromesh on 1st gear.
I once had one that I liked very much.
What model?
Feniks
26 Jul 2024
Feedback / Would you favour a free and open PF where people could post under their real names? [55]
I think Deepak's had the most usernames of anyone else on this forum. Jim's had quite a few too.
Well you got Helianthus wrong. No idea who that is.
You're the one perpetually whining on here!
Like you and Deepak for example, right?
I think Deepak's had the most usernames of anyone else on this forum. Jim's had quite a few too.
I was referring to jon and Feniks.
Well you got Helianthus wrong. No idea who that is.
crybaby.
You're the one perpetually whining on here!
Feniks
25 Jul 2024
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [629]
That's what I meant. Hair splitting you are.......
Stoke means adding fuel to the furnace
That's what I meant. Hair splitting you are.......
Feniks
25 Jul 2024
Polonia / Polish bus crash in Croatia. Is there a fate? [202]
It's a terrible case and so sad to read about. No updates yet but I'm guessing dangerous driving.
In the UK a life sentence wouldn't be given. I'm undecided about that one. It could be argued that she wasn't intentionally trying to kill anyone despite the fact that it was highly likely that an accident would occur. If it had been my child killed I would want a life sentence.
Huge disparity between the two sentences though.
6 people (a couple and a family of 4) were killed.
It's a terrible case and so sad to read about. No updates yet but I'm guessing dangerous driving.
racing against another car at 180kmh where the speed limit was 70kmh
In the UK a life sentence wouldn't be given. I'm undecided about that one. It could be argued that she wasn't intentionally trying to kill anyone despite the fact that it was highly likely that an accident would occur. If it had been my child killed I would want a life sentence.
Huge disparity between the two sentences though.