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Atch   
3 Dec 2024
Off-Topic / A VERY CHRISTMASSY FORUM - IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS THREADS [156]

Do you have anything like Wassailing in Ireland

The nearest thing would be the Wren Boys who come out on St Stephen's Day. It's all but died out in most of Ireland but they still have Wren Day in a few places around the country, particularly in Kerry.

It's really an old pagan custom with a rather dark side.

It was believed that the wren representing the spirit of the old year was slain to allow for the coming of the new year.This ritual was enacted by groups of youths known as 'wren boys' who hunted for the wren while beating animal skin tambourines.

fingal.ie/christmas-traditions-fingal


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Atch   
3 Dec 2024
Law / Polish Permanent Residence (want to start a life in Poland) [13]

hand over power of attorney to them.

If you're living in Poland there is no need to give them power of attorney. Just use their services in the normal way.

A lot of the questions you have can be answered just by looking at the official information portals which are available in English.

mos.cudzoziemcy.gov.pl/en/potrzebuje-informacji/na-temat
Atch   
3 Dec 2024
Off-Topic / A VERY CHRISTMASSY FORUM - IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS THREADS [156]

The Irish went to church and met their neighbours

In small towns and villages people often visited each other in the week before Christmas dropping off a Christmas card and a tin of sweeties or biscuits :) There was usually also a small gift tag which would read 'for all the family' or something like that. These would often be elderly or retired people, many with little money to spare for such gifts.

These were impromptu visits, people just dropping in randomly. Out would come the teapot and the sherry bottle, regardless of what you might have been busy with and all would gather around the kitchen table for an hour or so. It was a lovely, cosy time.

I still have some of the little gift tags and take them out each year and put them near the crib, nice memories of good people who are long gone.
Atch   
3 Dec 2024
Off-Topic / A VERY CHRISTMASSY FORUM - IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS THREADS [156]

From a show with a mostly female cast.

Prisoner Cell Block H!! Never liked it. The women were way too rough! I enjoyed Tenko though.

Before WW2 cards had been very popular.

I found a really interesting article about Polish Christmas cards here:

tygodnik.interia.pl/news-historia-zapisana-na-swiatecznych-kartkach,nId,5723898
Atch   
2 Dec 2024
Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [968]

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Atch   
2 Dec 2024
Off-Topic / A VERY CHRISTMASSY FORUM - IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS THREADS [156]

Shane's funeral...gig of the century.

Absolutely, Irish culture at its best, giving one of our Bards a true Gaelic send off. When they carried him out of the church shoulder high,to the singing of Mo Ghile Mear. what a beautiful moment.
Atch   
1 Dec 2024
Off-Topic / A VERY CHRISTMASSY FORUM - IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS THREADS [156]

No, in my own.

Was the milkman on his rounds at the time? He delivered more than the milk that day .......... where would we be without a bit of Carry On humour. Btw if it was during his rounds, I hope you reported him afterwards :)

Is it too early for this?

Never too early for good music :) Did you see this btw?


Atch   
30 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / Let's talk about shoes [341]

Oh, I see, thank you for explaining. It's more important to be comfortable in such a situation so the old 'smart casual' is definitely the way to go. How useful do you find these congresses? Do you learn anything new?
the carbon dioxide slowly increases

Why don't they open the windows? Reminds me of a nun we had in school who wouldn't allow us to open the classroom windows during her lessons and we nicknamed her Smog 🤣
Atch   
30 Nov 2024
Life / Polish Music. [303]

How did you get google translator to work on a video?

YouTube has a subtitle/translation feature in settings.
Atch   
30 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / Let's talk about shoes [341]

a congress

What do you mean by a congress? Do you mean a business meeting??
Atch   
28 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / A VERY CHRISTMASSY FORUM - IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS THREADS [156]

sending a card to a person living next door would be considered mild madness here.

It's normal in Ireland. You don't post it though. You drop it in through the letterbox. Very often people drop the card in on Christmas Eve. I think it's lovely :)

having it off with the milkman

I hope this wasn't in your mother's house ;) The Swiss Roll may have been intended as a post-coital snack - just thought of something: a Swiss Roll to follow your 'milkshake' :))
Atch   
23 Nov 2024
Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [295]

I read the article linked and decided to research the district where the school is located. It's a densely populated inner city area with a lot of homeless people in the poorest city in Germany so I think it's quite a specific case. But generally, inner city areas are always going to be more challenging to teach in, everywhere in the world.

In this particular school, the problems started when the Principal retired a couple of years ago and the new one is obviously not up to the job. The previous guy was apparently known as one of the strictest headmasters in Berlin. Anyway, somebody from the government is trotting along there on Monday so it'll get sorted out. The former Principal is willing to lend a hand.
Atch   
23 Nov 2024
News / Will Poles be 'fleeing' Poland to America ? [37]

Im more Irish than Polish

If you're that Irish, then why do you insult us all the time?
Thats bc they act tough but actually chicken $hit during WWII?
They didnt help

We were neutral but that didn't stop tens of thousands of Irish men volunteering and joining the British Army and the RAF.

Brendan Finucane from Dublin, whose father fought in the Easter Rising in 1916, was the youngest squadron commander of WWII and brought down one of the highest number of enemy aircraft before his death at age 21.


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Atch   
22 Nov 2024
Law / Classic car registration in Poland [12]

registering an antique car in Poland is a long and complex procedure.

Everything in Poland is a long and complex procedure!
Atch   
22 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / A VERY CHRISTMASSY FORUM - IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS THREADS [156]

The Swiss have their schnaps coffee.

And we have our Irish coffee :)

on Christmas.

At Christmas, Alien. On Christmas Eve, on Christmas Day, but at Christmas. Btw how did you get so good at English?? And do you speak it as well as you write it? I only wish my Polish were as good as your English.
Atch   
22 Nov 2024
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]

Another bs. Ha!!!

It's absolutely true. I wonder what sort of rubbish you teach your students. You don't leave footprints on a person. You can only leave 'a footprint' on a person in the abstract sense, not literally. In an assault you leave the imprint of your footwear. Take the shame.

Never mind.

Oh, let's mind. Give me the sentence again please.
Atch   
21 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / A VERY CHRISTMASSY FORUM - IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS THREADS [156]

Right, we're nearly at advent and I can contain my festive joy no longer. I have ideas for a few Christmas threads. Here goes:

Perfect gifts for each other: we post links to what we would put under the tree for each other. I've already found the perfect gift for Novi, just stumbled across it by chance and thought 'oh that's just what I'd give Novi' :))

Send each other a card: post an image of a Christmas greeting for another member.

Christmas trees: what kind of tree would we have and what we choose for other members.

Favourite Christmas songs and music.

Best Christmas memories - no worst memories please, we all have those, we won't include them unless they're funny.

The Polish Forums Christmas party - where would it take place, what food would we have, what music, would we need the St John's Ambulance or Red Cross on standby 🤣

The Polish Forums Christmas play or pantomime: what would it be, who would play which roles?

If I started these threads in December would anybody post in them?

Love you all!

And no, I've been drinking only tea, before you ask.
Atch   
20 Nov 2024
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]

Hair splitting at its finest :):)

And he's wrong to boot - if you'll excuse the pun! You don't leave a footprint on a person with your boot. You leave the print of your boot. If it were a court case for assault and somebody had been kicked that hard, the prosecution would be saying that imprints of the attacker's boot were to be seen, not the attacker's footprints.
Atch   
19 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [968]

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18 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [968]

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Atch   
15 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

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!
Atch   
15 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

do not leave red stains on clothes.

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.
Atch   
14 Nov 2024
Off-Topic / Nobel Prize and Oscars = Propaganda? [61]

Oscars

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