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Joined: 23 Nov 2006 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 22 Feb 2016
Threads: Total: 91 / Live: 11 / Archived: 80
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Varsovian   
22 Jun 2010
Food / Bees - honey in Poland [13]

Polish honey can be fantastic!

I have my own supplier, who I trust completely. He's never let me down - always supplies honey from his own hives. I simply love his "aphid ****" honey (spadziowy) - brown and syrupy.

Anyway, I've noticed a distinct lack of bees this year, especially earlier on - my cherry trees didn't get pollinated as well as usual. The weather didn't help much either. The problem is spreading from the west. Bee parasites and illness are coming.
Varsovian   
27 May 2010
News / SCHOOL GAMES END IN PREGNANCY IN A POLISH TOWN [49]

The story was it all happened in a post-exam orgy. Like sure! Some of the girls have already given birth!!

Mind you, you'd only expect one or two girls a year to get pregnant, not 5.
Varsovian   
6 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Getting a population sample like that would be difficult. Like trying to get a population sample of leading commies who lived thru Stalin's purges of the 1930s.
Varsovian   
28 Apr 2010
News / Nuclear Power in Poland? Yes, please! Absolutely nobody disagrees! [73]

Why are Poles such mugs?

I am against nuclear power precisely because I have a brain and am on occasion willing to use it. Greens are now IN FAVOUR of nuclear for precisely the opposite reason. Err - CO2. "Greens" like to blather on about the environment just to gain some sort of caped crusader kudos - the sort Commies could get in 1960s West Germany or Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1980s Britain. And they're just as sincere.

Four legs good, two legs better.

Human civilizations rise and fall - currently we've managed in total 8,000 years and that's the whole of mankind - but the atomic lobby reckons we'll happily continue war-free and at a high level of uninterrupted technological prowess for 500,000 years! Moron Greens agree.

No war for half a million years - they've passed a regulation banning it. Phew!

Of course in Poland all the parties have agreed to going nuclear and they've all agreed not to talk about it either. So that's OK then.
Varsovian   
19 Apr 2010
Love / Polish Pet Names For Girls. [156]

If I called my wife that I think that would be the end of my sex life permanently, with anyone.
Varsovian   
30 Mar 2010
Love / Are Polish mothers-in-law monsters? [91]

[Moved from]: I have to call my mother-in-law "Mama"

This takes the biscuit! I mean, MIL and I got on really well when I couldn't speak Polish and my wife edited out all the truisms I was coming out with.

Now, I can handle myself linguistically and culturally I have to call her MUM! Not fair!!
Varsovian   
30 Mar 2010
Love / 20% of adult Poles are single and live with Mummy! [241]

This is truly sad!

Why can't Poles get their own place? Is it because they don't want to get married young and tap finance from the extended family? Do young Poles lack the guts to leave the nest?
Varsovian   
28 Feb 2010
UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

My Polish wife got called a gold digger by my English family (but not by my English friends).
This helped us decide to emigrate to Poland, where we both got better jobs, have a better house and intend to build some houses on the building plots we bought a few years back as investments.

I can't remember what it's like living with a mortgage!

Emigrating away from underachieving dumbos was the bravest and best thing we ever did - certainly better than staying foreign language schoolteachers in England (even though my school was fantastic and hers was decent).
Varsovian   
27 Feb 2010
UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

Weird thread.

I've not particularly noticed any disrespect towards the English. Actually, I feel I get higher status treatment in Poland precisely because I am English - in the workplace too.

Moreover, the English are generally a bunch of chumps when it comes to treating ANYBODY with respect. They treat each other with disrespect - taking the mickey is a national sport - especially so if you're a foreigner. My Polish wife got a very mixed reception in England, despite the fact she was a top student at a prestigious Polish university (Warsaw). Some respectful, too many not.
Varsovian   
4 Mar 2008
Life / nasza-klasa.pl - If you looking for your classmates or friends in Poland [95]

Ben - don't kick yourself for not setting up earlier. It might well have failed.

I, too, looked into the possibilities of setting up - 4 years ago. I contacted 2 IT people, talked over the idea but pulled out due to my fear of a new, big boy appearing on the scene.

I think these two went ahead with my idea and will now be in the process of being wiped out due to a lack of capital to push their baby.
Varsovian   
23 Mar 2007
Life / Hip Replacements in Poland [3]

You may check szymonmanduk.pl

Interestingly, hip problems are more common in countries where the intake of dairy products is higher.
Milk especially, is a major cause of osteoporosis.
Varsovian   
21 Mar 2007
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

I had problems understanding that until I realised "Purple" was a person!
I mean - how can you make a point purple except with felt tip pen?
Varsovian   
20 Mar 2007
Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

But don't forget that Y chromosome reflects historical times, whereas I referred to rather deeper things. /sigh/
I thought better of you than to merely cut and paste from the internet without showing too much understanding.
Mind you, Y chromosome studies do at least show that Poles have scarcely found a single German sexually attractive over the last 1500 years.
Which isn't surprising, really!
Varsovian   
20 Mar 2007
Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

The tortoise?
Hah ha ha!

She doesn't take any pills, my wife that is. Strictly Catholic.

(Soorrry, couldn't resist that one!)
Seriously, she just needs lots of sunshine early in the year and late in the year and she's OK.
Fears osteoporosis though - that's linked too. And, despite the propaganda, increased milk consumption clearly puts you at greater risk of osteoporosis.
Varsovian   
20 Mar 2007
Genealogy / Do Polish people have big noses? [450]

MtDNA haplotype EU18 places you Poles in kinship with all sorts of non-Europeans, including Georgians, Syrians and Udmurts (central Russia). You're also distantly related to Native American populations (they mixed with ancestors of Poles 30,000 years and headed east as fast as they could, perhaps Grandpappy Lech was on their tail!!).

Racial purity ain't nothing but a sick joke, my friend.
Varsovian   
20 Mar 2007
Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

It often results in liver and pancreas problems, apparently.
It's all to do with the darker skin being less able to produce vitamin D3 from exposure to sunlight.
D3 is 2000 times more bio-active than dietary vitamin D so you have to get a source of UVB light from somewhere. Solaria usually tan you with 95% UVA, which is pretty much useless for D3 production and exposes you to an increased risk of skin cancer. However, it is theoretically possible to get them to regulate their sunbeds to give you greater UVB. Unfortunately, UVB burns quite quickly so they can't get the same amount of money from you that way - hence they will probably turn your request down!

Oh, by the way, my pet tortoise basks under a UVB light bulb ... but I haven't the heart to deprive my little dinosaur of his sunshine!
Varsovian   
20 Mar 2007
Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

My Polish wife is pretty, and pretty dark too.
Jet black hair, dark skin, suffers in the Polish winter from a lack of sunshine (a vitamin D thing).
Based on mtDNA testing of the EU 18 haplotype, Poles are generally fairly similar gentically to Albanians, Croatians, Georgians, Syrians and Udmurts (whoever they are - sorry any Udmurts who might be reading!)

I thought I'd blind you with a smidgin of science :)
Varsovian   
16 Mar 2007
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Northern England, but quite happy to leave - people where I lived were very anti-education (typical for the English working class) so I always felt an outsider anyway.

I ended up being a French teacher in a fantastic private school just outside London before moving to Poland.
Varsovian   
16 Mar 2007
Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [450]

There's a strong element of east Asians in the "typical" Pole - invasions in history and pre-history. Science tends to debunk racial myths.
Varsovian   
16 Mar 2007
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

I don't love Poland, but I live here because I can earn a good living and have a good lifestyle. That's better than all these emotional protestations.