Language / -ski/-ska, -scy/ski, -wicz - Polish surnames help [185]

That's a lot of research you've done there Boletus.

I can't comment on the accuracy of the book, I just linked to it. Perhaps the author there was referring primarily to the owicz surnames you quoted, namely -


If on the other hand the author would maintain all owicz have Jewish origins, it would be interesting to see how he arrives at that conclusion beyond that which he described on page 73 there.

Language / -ski/-ska, -scy/ski, -wicz - Polish surnames help [185]

From this link, maybe? Book extract (page 73, Jewish Cultural Tapestry...by S M Lowenstein)

"...In Eastern Europe where most Ashkenazic Jews lived, governments often used Slavic translations of the Yiddish surnames...The 'owicz' ending would have varied spellings in other Eastern European languages...German scribes [would use] 'owitz'... "

Not sure if that's my misinterpreting what it says but it seems to be in a book about Jewish people's names, so... maybe the endings/suffix "owicz" is of Jewish heritage.

Language / -ski/-ska, -scy/ski, -wicz - Polish surnames help [185]


Are you sure? This website as Boletus says suggests it is just a name meaning son of etc. [polishroots.org/Research/SurnameSearch/Surnamesendings/tabid/118/Default.aspx]

I'd be interested in any website or source that shows otherwise for the suffix " owicz "

Love / Sexually liberal ----- Is this a fact or myth for Polish women living in Poland? [61]


LMAO

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]

Just one individual, isn't it so as much point in you posting that as in me posting this:-
thejc.com/news/uk-news/50119/pensioner-gagged-and-left-die-slow-death


Oh, here is another link
hackneygazette.co.uk/news/polish_fugitive_convicted_of_killing_stamford_hill_pensioner_eveline_kelmenson_1_933274

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]


Please be aware when quoting the Daily Mail that


indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/04/495240.html

Thanks.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]

Thank you to you also for the reply. I don't have a link to the magazine, but I dare say the article is only available in print or by paid subscription.

Love / Sexually liberal ----- Is this a fact or myth for Polish women living in Poland? [61]


Can't answer that one, haven't attracted a woman since 1985

:o)

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]

Thanks for posting a reply. Although I think Jewish involvement is merely alleged. We must be careful to keep to the facts, proven facts only.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]

Historia magazine for June, page 74, some article about Jews raiding Polish villages and taking things at will. (This is the issue with Hitler in a communist uniform on the cover.)

What is the article about and why do Historia publish it? Fact or propaganda ?

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]

Historia magazine for June, page 74, some article about Jews raiding Polish villages and taking things at will. (This is the issue with Hitler in a communist uniform on the cover.)

What is the article about and why do Historia publish it? Fact or propaganda?

Love / Sexually liberal ----- Is this a fact or myth for Polish women living in Poland? [61]

That's all very well WatWat and thanks for typing that all up, but let's get to the nub of it: where can I find some of these loose women??!

;o)

Love / Sexually liberal ----- Is this a fact or myth for Polish women living in Poland? [61]

I've never understood how women can "have more sexual partners than men" unless their partner is not a man. Who are they having relations with, then? If you say women have many different men but each of those men does not have so many women, that relies on each of those high mileage women choosing different men, that would still mean a lot of men getting many partners, so the statistic should not be going down. What's more likely is women feel less stigma about owning up to it, and the men are just getting more shy about it.

Got to say I have no personal experience of this sort of opportunity, am looking at it purely from my (limited?) reasoning and maths skills.

Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]

Why do you think that they are "better than average"? The women here don't swoon at foreigners any more, if they ever did.

Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]


See post 3 unless you obviously have a large wad - in which case there is usually a much better chance (in every country)

Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]

Only if you look like Brad Pitt, Daniel Craig, George Clooney, Tobey Maguire, Jamie Foxx, Jake Gyllehall, Colin Farrell, or Josh Hartnett.

Other than that, don't hold your breath, the chances are not high.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


What an awfully nice chap you sound like.

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]


Were they not just conscripts, though? And/or of German origin?

Just sayin'. Polish conscripts to German army

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1040]

[Moved from]: I'm just looking, to a shop assistant

When in shops or at market stalls, staff often ask me what I want. I usually just say no thanks, but would prefer to know the correct phrase for saying to them "I'm just looking, thanks" or "I'm just browsing, thanks."

Is the correct phrase something like "Tylko ogla, dzięki"?

Please correct me or advise !

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


That's absolutely correct.

Pepper spray and CS gas or CS spray are not the same thing.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_spray#Europe


Stun guns???

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


In the UK you can only carry that marker spray that puts some colour on the cheeks of an attacker, but is non toxic etc. Am very surprised a person could legally carry CS here in Poland, The CS or OC in one shop (not sure exactly what that is) actually carries some Policja word on it.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


Why do market stalls in Poland sell CS or CS-like sprays, and batons etc? Why do some specialist shops sell stun guns and CS or "OC spray" (not sure what OC is) to anyone with an ID proving age?

Is it legal to carry these items in Poland? You can walk down the road with a stun gun (paralizator) or pepper spray in your bag or pocket?

In the UK, a person would I am pretty sure be arrested at the port of arrival if found to be carrying any of the above (assuming OC is CS or a pepper spray)

Just a bump in case anyone can clarify -

stun gun (not Taser) - legal to carry in Poland by Joe Publicski?

CS - ditto?

baton - ditto?

UK, Ireland / Ad from my UK newspaper today : not worth a zloty [13]

Checking Polish money is not counterfeit

Just found this on the Bank of Poland's website in English - good for visitors for Euro 2012 as gives some guidance on how to detect and avoid fake banknotes.

Downloadable PDF

nbp.pl/en/banknoty/zabezpieczenia_en.pdf

Some of the advice from the PDF:-

Life / Can no longer receive TVP Info Wrocław on digital DVBT [25]

Well, that's interesting! Where I do have a station (eg TVP Opole, TVP2 HD etc) the signal is 90-100%. I'm going to get an extension coax lead tomorrow and pop the indoor aerial outside for a test and see what I pick up. In the past I've aligned satellite dishes without a meter, so if I can do that then I'll find any signal that's out there because don't have to be anywhere near as precise with this antenna as I had to be with the sat dish in the UK when I installed it

Quick update for anyone who needs this info...

By moving the amplified aerial outside, TVP Wroclaw can again be received although it's weak compared to before, about 65%.

Can also receive intermittently TV6, Eska, Polo, TTV, etc. Not Polsat Sports News, however.

Can also manual search and see if anything is to be found because a bar on the screen gets colourful if there are signals there. Mostly there's nothing receivable, save the above.

What needs to be done is of course to fix an outdoor aerial with probably amplification, I think conventiona; aerials have a degree of gain built in but I am not sure. (With the gain/amp off, nothing is received with the indoor aerial whether in or out.)

Now I've lost TVP Opole, Historia, Kultura, TVP2 etc. A search for channels now brings up Polsat News and others but they're apparently "scrambled" and there's nothing showing on the list as free to view.

Have they turned another transmitter off, or is this a local issue? I am near Skytower.

Life / Can no longer receive TVP Info Wrocław on digital DVBT [25]

I think that some of the channels being shown as scrambled aren't in reality although most are. Where the box says scrambled the signal is under a consistent 90% which seems to be the minimum for some sort of reception. No doubt some of the channels will not display even if the signal were 100% because they are scrambled although probably the screen would show an advert for getting the station unscrambled.

If I were staying in this flat I'd buy an outdoor aerial and clip it to the balcony but I'm moving I hope so won't bother. Probably even then, I won't get TVP Wro as it's completely vanished.

Thanks again for the help and advice.

Life / Can no longer receive TVP Info Wrocław on digital DVBT [25]


Quite right, after all it is Cathedral CIty, frankly I don't want to give it up :o) (Memo to mods: I do not work for Dairy Crest!)

I'm just guessing, but for example I can get Polsat Sport News listed on the channels but not receive it - screen says "scrambled channel". PSN is not scrambled, it should be free to air. Polsat Sport Extra is scrambled but not the other one. I reckon I am getting "scrambled" for the ones that are too weak too, because it's getting just 55% quality on PSN. TVP Wro has vanished completely of course, probably for the reasons you describe.

Anyway I knew using the word scrambled would get me hungry, so the frying pan is coming out and DVB-T will have to wait for another day :o)

Life / Can no longer receive TVP Info Wrocław on digital DVBT [25]

Yes, at the back of the Polish language section of the instructions booklet, where it says Problem - tall building(s) around, I can only receive a few channels - under the Solution column it says Sir is lucky to receive anything then. Get cable, or sir is a tighfisted loser. Cut back on the mature cheddar and buy a TV package.

So, thank you TVP Wroclaw for changing how you broadcast if that is the case - causing me and probably many others in parts of Wroc to do without our local channel on DVB-T unless we fork out for cable.

Life / Can no longer receive TVP Info Wrocław on digital DVBT [25]


Thanks for all those links!

It's a quality indoor aerial, pretty much as good as they get. The block doesn't have a working roof aerial. If I turn off the amp, I get nothing, reception here is very poor due to nearby taller buildings (eg ghosting, noise, etc)

It doesn't matter where I position the aerial, it either picks up 570mhz or nothing.

Looks like I'm stuffed until I move out to Bielany or similar, where the TV reception is very easy to do.

Life / Can no longer receive TVP Info Wrocław on digital DVBT [25]

Thanks

My set top box doesn't pick anything up from there. I am using a 42dB gain high quality powered indoor aerial that was fine before - now any adjusting of its position does not bring back TVP Wroclaw. As for the other free channels, most of them were never shown on the screen list.

From your link above, which confirms Peter O's info

MHz Kan. Multipleks Lokalizacja DW NW ERP kW Pol. Kier. Kompr. Uwagi Więcej
818,00 64 MUX-1 RTCN Wrocław *G.Ślęża* WRO DNS 100,000 H MPEG-4

Zawartość: TVP 1 HD, TVP 2, TVP INFO (wersja regionalna), TTV, ATM Rozrywka, Eska TV, Polo TV
Offset: 0
Wysokość: 693 m n.p.m.
Współrzędne: 16°42'42"E, 50°51'55"N

- I confirm I have the TV1 & 2 HD and Polonia TV - but TVP Info Wroc is gone.
This happened a few days ago when the weather was sunny and is the same with the rain now.

Just checked again: I am receiving TVP Info Opole and all the others only on 570mhz bandwidth 8mhz 98-100%. No other transmitter is being received. Corresponds to this transmitter only: radiopolska.pl/wykaz/pokazdv_nadajnik.php?pid=592

I can't find a position for the aerial where it picks up any other transmitters. There are too many large buildings nearby perhaps.
Analogue reception is pretty poor so not worth bothering with here either.

Life / Can no longer receive TVP Info Wrocław on digital DVBT [25]

Thanks Peter, I will try to do that.

I should perhaps also add that maybe Polsat etc is not free on DVBT, only free on analogue terrestrial

Not successful :o(

Can't see how to switch to mux1 etc - scanned 64 (818mhz) but nothing found. No other options there.
Model is a Hyundai DVBH 331.
Spec: IF bandwidth 7mhz & 8mhz, input frequency 170 - 230mhz, 470 - 860mhz

I can't see how to make it scan 64 differently - the way it is scanning now it finds 0.

According to Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyfrowy_Polsat
these are the free ones on Polish digital TV

TVN7
Polsat Sport News
TV6
TV Biznes
Euronews
TV Puls
TVS
TTV
Mango 24
Tele5
TV5Monde
TVP1HD and TVP2HD
TVP Historia

I have I think TVP Historia and Kulturia, TVP Opole, TVP 1 & 2 HD, TVP Polonia, and used to have TVP Wroclaw.

There are quite a few others (excluding Wroclaw) but they say "scrambled" and do not play out, although their EPG does show.

I don't think I can unscramble the others as the tuner unit does not have a facility for a card or code to unlock premium channels.