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Joined: 27 Nov 2007 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 9 Mar 2011
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jonni   
23 Feb 2011
Life / What is Poland's view on obesity? How healthy, fit are Poles? [166]

nce people in Poland will be able to afford going to a fast food joint daily

Many do.

Polish society as a whole still hasn't yet reconciled the problem of eating as much as you can get because there are supply issues and being able to buy as much as you can afford. And the long cold winters are no time for salads.
jonni   
23 Feb 2011
Life / What is Poland's view on obesity? How healthy, fit are Poles? [166]

The women are slim and the men are fat. A generalisation, but some truth in it. When I first moved there, I remember being shocked to see couples in restaurants with the man eating a huge meal and the woman just sipping bottled water.
jonni   
22 Feb 2011
Love / POLISH WOMEN ARE PROMISCUOUS? DISCUSS. [153]

but along the line the marriage did not work

This happens sometimes. Regardless of nationality.

Arabs believes that polish

99% couldn't find Poland on a map, so stop stirring problems that aren't there.
jonni   
22 Feb 2011
Love / POLISH WOMEN ARE PROMISCUOUS? DISCUSS. [153]

Bollocks is it. Why not deal with your own (evidently serious) issues before judging a billion people by obscure religious rules. Instead of trolling here. Then feck off and crawl back to whatever hate-filled sh1thole you came from. Loony.
jonni   
20 Feb 2011
Life / Price of cigarettes in Poland? [192]

do any Poles roll theri own

Not really.

Is loose tobacco even available?

Yes.

Both questions were answered in this thread, a few inches ago.
jonni   
20 Feb 2011
Life / Price of cigarettes in Poland? [192]

But they can completely legally stick probes up your arse and inspect what you have under your foreskin.

I know soooo many people who'd be well up for that.
jonni   
19 Feb 2011
Life / Price of cigarettes in Poland? [192]

I am visiting Krakow in April and my daughter wants me to bring some tobacco back for her.

Bring her some nicorette patches, if you don't want your daughter to die a painful and prolonged death from cancer. You don't say how old she is, but if she's still smoking in her 40s, she'll really begin to feel it. Do her a favour and get her a different present. There's a reason for those messages printed on the side of cig packets.

Having said that, supermarkets are usually a bit cheaper than tobacconists, but for rolling tobacco, you should go to a kiosk since many supermarkets don't stock it (ciga are so cheap that almost nobody rolls). Station kiosks are a good bet. Cutter's choice is rare but you can sometimes find it. Other brands are easier to find. There's a strict limit to what you can bring back, though personally I've never been stopped.

There's usually at least one place in each big town where you can buy tobacco in bulk.

hmrc.gov.uk/customs/arriving/arrivingeu.htm
jonni   
17 Feb 2011
Life / Best over the counter flu medicine in Poland? [24]

It's the 3-day flu. Many got it now... including my roomate ;/

Remember that isn't flu. Just some bug. Not nice, but not serious. Gripex etc is OK for that.

Yep,get checked out,dont tough it out, I did just after christmas,ended up semi consious for 3 days and was later told by a medic friend Id had all the simptoms of swine flu,should have been hospitalised ,I was lucky but it realy knocked 7 shades out of me,Im only just getting back to fitness.....:(

Same here. I got Swine Flu just after new year, and on my back for a fortnight plus a week or so of post-viral symptoms. There's an epidemic where I am now (aren't we only a few miles apart right now? I'm staying with family in Wakey) A very nasty illness to get. Over the counter stuff like Gripex or home remedies don't even touch it.

The moral of the story is to get vaccinated. Boots do it cheaply.
jonni   
16 Feb 2011
History / Was Daniel Fahrenheit a Pole? [138]

being a Pole is something related to mother language, traditions, self-identification, living space and citizenship.

And his were all decidedly German, except citizenship which didn't exist in his day . Don't start pointless arguments.
jonni   
15 Feb 2011
History / Was Daniel Fahrenheit a Pole? [138]

Guess who is right. He was from Gdansk, but his family were culturally German. Whether they had any Polish blood is anybody's guess, but if he had, we'd probably know.
jonni   
12 Feb 2011
Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

So...now I have to ask...what is a "kundel"? And can I eat it???

I always assumed the word was of German origin. It means a mongrel dog. Personally I prefer mongrels to pedigree dogs.

And yes, you can eat one. Though it might not taste so good.
jonni   
12 Feb 2011
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Ukrainian/Austrian
jonni   
12 Feb 2011
Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

When I was there 12 or 15 years ago

Wow

it was heart-breaking to see the buildings of the once flourishing tractor-maker boarded up and the grounds strewn with rubble and rusting machinery and overgrown with weeds.

I agree very strongly with this. Since industrial use wasn't going to happen I always thought it should be used for residential/commercial use. It would also be a great place for the new national stadium, instead of being so near the centre. Last thing I heard, though, there is going to be redevelopment there.

Why didn't someone think of making a low-cost, basic tractor for emerging Third World markets.

As far as I know this exists. It is a Polish/Indian joint venture.
jonni   
12 Feb 2011
Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

I don't mean FSO could ever compete with VW or BMW, but it might have found a niche for itself.

This I agree with. Those cars actually had some plus points and it's a shame that whenever I pass the factory in Żerań it looks mostly closed.

The black London taxis don't exactly win the Monte Carlo Rally, but it fills a definite niche.

And then foreign competitors started to make more affordable versions - Polish business was perhaps clever enough to anticipate this sort of thing happening. One issue in all of this is that Poland shook off communism at a time when industrial production was switching to the far east.
jonni   
12 Feb 2011
Food / Confusion over flour names in Poland [46]

Aha! It has Tortowa on it too, whats it about? is it self raising or plain....

In Poland it's almost always plain flour. Tortowa is one of the most versatile - I use it for making bread.
jonni   
12 Feb 2011
Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

they are having a go at him because he claims to be Polish

In my case having a go (and a very serious go) because of some real nastiness, repeatedly and over a long period and often highly personal - even posting links to coprophilia websites, of all weird things. And the constant nasty trolling about homosexuals raiding kindergartens with dildos in hand etc

That and totally misrepresenting Poland as a kind of Kossak painting frozen in time, spitting at the people who live their lives there, pontificating that they shouldn't get jobs in large corporations, eat foreign food (sorry guys Pol3 says you can't have a hot dog) listen to foreign music etc, whereas at the same time he runs down the things that Poles actually do like. Check the first post in this thread - he's saying that Poles should be proud of all sorts of things, some imaginary and some downright unpleasant, and in later posts that they shouldn't be proud of what they have really achieved.

What Torq has just said about people finding their home in Poland is true. I prefer it in many ways (maybe every way) to the place I came from. Moving there changed my life. For the first time I felt truly at home somewhere. My nearest and dearest there seem to have forgotten I'm foreign. It isn't perfect - nowhere is perfect, but it's doing pretty well - very well considering the obstacles that history has put in Poland's way. I don't like to hear people who've never been there coming out with hateful crap about Poland.

And of course it turns out that Pol3 never even lived here. Perhaps never visited. Ever. And probably couldn't cope if he did.
jonni   
12 Feb 2011
Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

CNN, Sky News, the Beeb, Newsweek, Spiegel, Paris Match,

Evidently your only connection with Poland is through the media. The reality, as those of us who live there know, is very different. If you look at the media, it shows Burberry as a huge global brand. For me it's just an old and dirty factory rather too near a house I used to own. Just because you don't see Polish stuff every day on CNN doesn't mean Poland isn't a thriving and dynamic place.

Have you ever been to Poland? When? How long for?

It seems the answer is no.
jonni   
12 Feb 2011
Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

devoid of any broader vision or deeper values

You have a very low opinion of Poland.

my country is such a non-innovative, uncreative and uninspiring place.

It is not your country. You have never even been there.
jonni   
12 Feb 2011
Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

I have not heard of vastly popular pierogi bars in Rio de Janeiro or Taipei, have you?

Because they're bloody awful stodge. Even in Poland they're hardly something people eat every day, unless they can't afford better or they have babcia at home all day to sit and make them.

No Polish dance, song, fad, product, symbol, logo or brand has done in that league, has it?

Yet people there are happy and get on with life. You're missing the point, anyway. Pride isn't just to do with products or fashion is it. It is much deeper.

So when did you last live in Poland or even visit? And for how long?
jonni   
12 Feb 2011
Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

ask why RPIII has not produced a single equally known thing

Probably because people have been too busy transforming a communist state into a dynamic and successful economy.

tiny Finland

Tiny? Get a better map.

Even tiny Finland has its Nokia

Which is going bust and may relocate to the US

Lapland Santaland

This was proposed for a town in Poland by the Order Usmiechu, but the PiS/LPR council vetoed it because the guy in charge at the time (a Righteous among the Nations and friend of JPII) was a mason.

industrial,

Some of the most efficient factories in the world.

cultrual

A flowering of literature and art. Not to mention world-class theatre.

medical,

Poland is a pioneer in bloodless surgery and Polish doctors are respected round the world..

culinary

How would you know about the culinary scene in Poland?

Come on then, we keep asking. When did you last live in Poland, and for how long? If at all. Have you even been there?
jonni   
11 Feb 2011
Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

Are you guys proud of Doda and Redhead Wiśniewski?

Personally, I can't abide either - but there are certainly plenty of Poles who are indeed proud of MW. His rags to riches story has impressed many.

Tusk who has presided over the funeral of Poland's ship-building industry?

Actually it was the previous administration who did a lot of that.

but not the motorways.

I don't remember them building many of those either. Except for trying to put one through the Rospuda valley, one of Poland's finest unspoilt natural areas.

So tell us, since we all keep asking - when did you last live in Poland, and for how long? The more you avoid the question, the more people will ask. Next you'll be telling us you were born in Hawaii but lost the birth certificate.