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Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [334]

Oh, now that's lovely :) There's an interior designer called Nina Campbell who has her drinks table set up in the hall and always gives her guests a drink as soon as they arrive. Then they can make their way to the sitting-room while she deals with the rest of the arrivals. She says people find it easier to break the social ice when they already have a drink.

A bar or a table set as a bar near the entrance of your home when entertaining is a great way to make people feel at home as soon as they arrive and are offered a drink and it looks very inviting!

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Do you know a lot of women who dribble? :))

I'd say the correct thing to do when somebody visits you is simply to ask them what they'd like to drink and don't assume they want wine.

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Off-Topic / Nobel Prize and Oscars = Propaganda? [61]


Novi dear, it's mostly Americans, dear little simpletons that they are, who are taken in by the nonsense of the Oscars.

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Is that a personal observation or a statistic? And what nationality of women? I'd say it varies from nation to nation. Personally, I prefer red wine. I like different grapes depending on the time of year but I also really like blends.

I'd say you're more likely to arouse annoyance unless you're visiting a minor Royal with a well-stocked wine cellar - or contempt for your pretentiousness :))

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Food / Healthy polish food? [134]


You've got the dates wrong. You're out by about 20 years which indicates that you're fairly ignorant of the topic so it would be wise to refrain from commenting on it.

It doesn't matter. A million people dying of starvation in a country as small as Ireland, dying at the side of the road in so many cases, having been evicted from their hovels - which is what those cottages were - because the failure of the potato crop meant they couldn't pay the extortionate rents. In the words of your countryman Count Paweł Strzelecki who saved the lives of so many in Ireland during the Famine years with his humanitarian work:

"No pen can describe the distress by which I am surrounded. It has actually reached such a degree of lamentable extremes that it becomes above the power of exaggeration and misrepresentation."

He did actually witness the people literally dying of hunger before his eyes.

"numberless struggling and ragged families were observed; some crawling, some squatted on the road-side, through utter exhaustion; all bearing downcast, broken, and worn-out countenances; fearful results of starvation, sickness, and the exposure to the inclemency of the weather..."


No, my reasoning is that a foreigner, who is pretty ignorant of another country's history, should think before they speak. The diet of the Irish peasantry did not evolve as it did because of the comparatively mild climate. 'The Irish didn't have to worry about winters" indeed, only about basic survival.

Off-Topic / Let's talk about shoes [296]


Beats "Breakfast at Tiffanys" :)) there must be a movie/book in there somewhere!

Food / Best hypermarket to shop for foods in Poland? [50]


Now, that's actually funny! :)) That's the spirit Novi :) good man. G'wan, ya good thing!

Food / Best hypermarket to shop for foods in Poland? [50]


The original Old Spice and Imperial Leather for me are the scent of my grandad :) I think I remember him also having some Max Factor aftershave that my sister bought him for Christmas. It's all very Proustian, this talk of scents of the past. Amazing how scent takes one back in such a vivid way, like a time machine. You're in that moment again.

And on a more mundane note, Zelmer kettles are very good!

Food / Best hypermarket to shop for foods in Poland? [50]


Just don't buy anything manufactured in the USA - if you can find anything these days! American manufactured electrics have a terrible reputation. But if it's made in Japan, you have a fighting chance that it'll be halfway decent.

Surprisingly, De Longhi make good toasters. I say surprisingly because we all know the reputation of Italians - can't build cars, can't fight wars ;) mind you De Longhi make good convector heaters too, great old workhorses. But the Italians do tend to have a reputation for style over substance.

I'll tell you one brand of kitchen appliance that really is a joke and that's Smeg, especially their fridges. They look beautiful, and all the retro-heads want them for that vintage look BUT the gubbins of them are pretty lame and those gubbins were actually manufactured by Gorejne whose fridge costs about half the price. It's basically the same fridge but if you're an idiot, you'll pay double the price for it. Maybe that's changed now but up until quite recently Smeg and Gorejne were basically the same fridge.

What toaster did you buy in the end?

Food / Best hypermarket to shop for foods in Poland? [50]


Men buy - yes, indeed they do - whatever rubbish is currently being marketed to them. I'm afraid Novi, that shopping is yet another dying art. Old men like yourself may make sensible buying decisions, as indeed I'm sure your wife does, both of you being of a generation that understood the concepts of quality and value for money. Men under forty are mostly as daft as a brush and highly susceptible to marketing and advertising. Men between forty and sixty are even more daft, and will buy any old shite that makes them feel younger.