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Posts by rybnik  

Joined: 16 Jan 2011 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 2 Nov 2013
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rybnik   
4 Jul 2012
Food / What's more popular in Poland beer or vodka? [59]

what's more popular in Poland beer or vodka?

Depends on the occasion........I gotta say I'm disapponted with Polish beer thus far..........I loved Okochim and Zywiec back in the day but now they are bland at best. :(
rybnik   
4 Jul 2012
Food / What's more popular in Poland beer or vodka? [59]

Omg have I ever had Zytnia?! P3 that's an entire thread of pol-am zytnia lore. Yes I did and to excess I'm ashamed to admit not just once.....Do you like it p3?
rybnik   
4 Jul 2012
Food / What's more popular in Poland beer or vodka? [59]

I shotgunned half a fifth,but I did like it lol.

Are you sure we weren't in school together back in the day? Then it was the best you could do. CHEAP. Well at least for us Yanks. $1 a bottle at the Pewex. During martial law we used to trade in it. For me p3, it's much, much more than booze. Hmmm maybe an idea for a thread perhaps?
rybnik   
4 Jul 2012
Food / What's more popular in Poland beer or vodka? [59]

How is drinking an American beer similar to sitting in a canoe?It is too fecking close to water.

so true

Polish micro breweries have wonderful beer and so do Czech and Slovakia

Zloty Bazant! Delicious
rybnik   
5 Jul 2012
Travel / What can Poland do to attract more tourists? Llamas farm? [71]

To summarize, Poland would be amazing for tourism if:

so how does Poland achieve this change. Where did this "nie mam takiej mozliwosci" thing come from?
It can't be a hold-over from the PRL days can it?
rybnik   
6 Jul 2012
Travel / What can Poland do to attract more tourists? Llamas farm? [71]

Wow. I love your passion and vision. Government needs people like you!
Start with your immediate neighborhood. Form a block association. Tackle all those problems in your immediate area. Maybe your passion will be contagious.
I wish I was your neighbor .
rybnik   
7 Jul 2012
Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

And often the allegiances changed at a drop of a hat, because the intermarriage and cultural mixing allowed that.

my father's oldest brother was named Herbert, then came my father Reinhold, then after 1918 there came Jadzia, Henryk and Jurek :)
rybnik   
18 Jul 2012
History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

In all the above cases the Polish literature wouldn`t be so rich as it is.

Right on!
rybnik   
18 Aug 2012
Life / Vandalism in Poland: Has it always been this way? [80]

Over the past 6 months I've been reading a lot of disturbing stories about Polish vandals breaking into zoos, destroying public playgrounds, bus-stops, etc. It's all very disturbing. Why is this happening?....... I began to reminisce how rare it was to see such acts of vandalism back in the PRL days. Why was that? Was it because there was nothing to vandalize? Did that society raise their children differently? Or maybe the press didn't report these acts as they are now?...........I'm not sure why but all this destruction at the hands of the young has gotten me all worked up(maybe I should lay off the Polish TV and internet news sites - there's enough sad new here in the US).
rybnik   
26 Aug 2012
Language / Polish baby talk [20]

we used to say that to my oldest
amać
rybnik   
31 Aug 2012
History / Communist memorials in Poland [50]

Lenin in Krakow was virtually hanged in 1989

Was that the one in Nowa Huta? If so, it was a huge statue!
rybnik   
8 Sep 2012
Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

So what happened with that segment of A1 that some Irsh company was supposed to build? Did they go bankrupt?
What's the reason for the delays in the other highways?
rybnik   
8 Sep 2012
Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

Thanks Delph but what about this Irish company? I keep hearing references to this firm on TV but they never explain the details. Did this company promise too much? Did they run out of funds? Were they caught embezzling funds? I'm hearing about this section almost daily. Now it's got my curiosity going.
rybnik   
1 Oct 2012
History / Recommended Poland's history books [257]

Here's a book , "The Eagle Unbowed", about Poland during WW2 written by a Brit, in English.
Promises to be a good read.

economist/node/21563693
hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674068148&content=reviews
rybnik   
1 Oct 2012
News / The Political Circus of Poland [309]

Question: I was watching an interview on Polish TV last night and one of the pundits made reference to Kaczynski's "political miscalculation" back in 2007. What was that error?
rybnik   
1 Oct 2012
News / The Political Circus of Poland [309]

Having a minority government (in coalition with Giertych's party and Lepper's Samoobrona) he pushed towards earlier elections, thinking that PiS would be able to get the parliamentary majority, and lost.

Thank you Strzyga
rybnik   
3 Oct 2012
Work / How much to pay a housekeeper in Warsaw? [23]

Today, I would never think of hiring a maid like that for us. I would be simply ashamed to let her/him clean up our mess/dirt.

I'm like you. Just can't do it.