Off-Topic / A VERY CHRISTMASSY FORUM - IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS THREADS [156]


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 :)


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' :))

Off-Topic / A VERY CHRISTMASSY FORUM - IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS THREADS [156]

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Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [222]

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.

News / Will Poles be 'fleeing' Poland to America ? [37]


If you're that Irish, then why do you insult us all the time?

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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Law / Classic car registration in Poland [12]


Everything in Poland is a long and complex procedure!

Off-Topic / A VERY CHRISTMASSY FORUM - IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS THREADS [156]


And we have our Irish coffee :)


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.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [687]


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.


Oh, let's mind. Give me the sentence again please.

Off-Topic / A VERY CHRISTMASSY FORUM - IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS THREADS [156]

Ale, co pan mówi?? How very dare you? ☺️

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [687]


No idea what you're on about. What was the issue? We can discuss it again. Whatever it is, I'll be right and you won't.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [687]


On the ground, not on a person. Sorry dear, but that's how English works.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [687]

Not as a single word, but the term 'boot prints' can be used. However you'll see it written as a noun, 'bootprint' even though it's not strictly correct, unlike footprint.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [687]


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.

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [851]

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Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [380]

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!

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [380]


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.

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.

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [380]


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 :))

Food / Healthy polish food? [143]


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 [333]


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.

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


There is or should be, an underlying scent of sandalwood. Sandalwood is a fabulous fragrance for men. I often buy it for Mr Atch. I was just looking now and I found this stuff from India which is very much the real deal. I'd give it a go if I were you :)

allegro.pl/oferta/mydlo-sandalowe-mysore-soap-sandalwood-150g-15450950685

amazon.co.uk/Mysore-Natural-Sandalwood-Ayurvedic-Soap/dp/B00BMR071W

Gets great reviews on Amazon. I've used Indian products in the past, their pure natural stuff like Henna from India and they are really good in my experience.

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

I just checked and some people are complaining that the Imperial Leather soap no longer smells the same. If you can get the older bars (NOT made in Thailand!) you might get the original formula.

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


If you like those vintage British scents, have you ever tried Imperial Leather by Cussons? The soap smells delicious. It's a very old scent for men. The scent was originally commissioned by a Russian nobleman from a London perfumier back in the 18th century, hence the 'imperial' title. A bit hard to get in Poland but you can buy it on the net. You can also get a shower gel and a few other things but they discontinued their shaving products and colognes years ago as far as I'm aware.

You can still get Yardley fragrances for men though.

USA, Canada / Will Americans flee from the US to Poland? [186]

Maybe if they have Polish roots. Where did the last lot of emigrants go? But mostly it seems to be fairly conservative, right-wing types who see Poland as some kind of land of milk and honey. They're probably the ones who voted for Trump in the first place so I don't see them emigrating to avoid his policies.

Food / Healthy polish food? [143]


You should never, ever make jokes about the Irish diet in olden times. It's just one of those things you don't do for very obvious reasons.

Whose bangers and mash? I'm not English. Incidentally sausage eaten with mashed potatoes is quite common in Poland especially in low income households. A huge pot of spuds, a few boiled sausages and some bottled veg is not at all a strange thing to see on the table for obiad.