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Speaks Polish?: Not with my mouth full

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jon357   
31 Oct 2024
USA, Canada / What Airline do you take to Poland from Chicago? [105]

LOT is a good choice

They're not bad at all, however yes, the customer service isn't what it might be. Standard for all airlines, and if they're bought out by Air France/KLM as Macron wants, it won't become better.
jon357   
30 Oct 2024
Travel / Mystical places in Poland [18]

Have you been to Reszel? It's absolutely brilliant, one of my three favourite places in Poland.

Yes. I've stayed in the castle (with T). The bar/restaurant there was interesting looking however I think we ate at a little schabowy place in town. Handy for Święta Lipka.

About places less talked about, I was referring to places with spiritual or occult or esoteric connections/history that aren't really for civilians. Some are of interest only really for people with a special interest, one (belonging to UAM Poznan) an absolute goldmine. Perhaps 'the' goldmine, however the most interesting items they hold are under lock and key for religious/cultural reasons, and several places of great peace and spirituality.
jon357   
30 Oct 2024
Travel / Mystical places in Poland [18]

but these are what they recommend these days in Poland:
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The Templar castle at Rogów is interesting. One of the few places the Templars reached in PL.

The mansion in Dobryczy (Pałac w Dobrzycy) has certain mystical and esoteric aspects of its architecture. Open to the public and very worth a visit.

Plus a few places less talked about.
jon357   
30 Oct 2024
Life / Mishmash facts about Poland and Poles [187]

Was that a streetcar named desire?

Of course in Warsaw, there is actually a tram with "Ochota" written on the destination board.
jon357   
30 Oct 2024
Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [149]

Banksy's latest.


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jon357   
29 Oct 2024
Travel / Looking for a new long-term stay in Poland [18]

Has it caught up with the rest of Poland

I quite like the old fashioned feel. It's got a nice character and its own special feel.

Perhaps Jimmy has a photo he claims is me enjoying that curry

I wonder who he thinks is actually in that photo.
jon357   
29 Oct 2024
Travel / Looking for a new long-term stay in Poland [18]

Can't decide where to go next in Poland

Bialystok is a nice city to live in. Plenty of very pleasant countryside around and the people are generally less uptight than in western Poland.

You've lived in quite a few places; how long have you been in PL?

ccess to health food stores that sell good vitamins & minerals etc

If there isn't one there, there's always mail order.
jon357   
29 Oct 2024
News / "To understand Poland you must understand Frederic Chopin" (Stratfor Friedman) [74]

Very interesting news:

"An unknown waltz by Chopin, written nearly 200 years ago, has been discovered in the vault of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.The score, on a card bearing Frédéric Chopin's hand-written name, was found by a curator in the spring, the New York Times reported on Sunday."I thought, 'What's going on here? What could this be?' I didn't recognise the music," curator Robinson McClellan told the paper."

theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/29/unknown-waltz-by-frederic-chopin-found-morgan-library-vault-new-york

"The museum believes that the music is from between 1830 and 1835, when Chopin was in his early 20s."
jon357   
29 Oct 2024
Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

from Simon Sebag Montefiore's book

It's an excellent book, both books.

A strange guy.
jon357   
29 Oct 2024
Life / Mishmash facts about Poland and Poles [187]

I love the time change, but only the autumn one

In the spring one, I once went to work 2 hours early and couldn't figure out why nobody else was there.
jon357   
29 Oct 2024
Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]

Cats have staff

They have unpaid devotees like a cult leader.
Their humans' sole purpose is bringing them food and worshiping them.

The humans' reward is being purred at and getting head bumps.
jon357   
29 Oct 2024
Food / Traditionally-Polish salads, help needed [49]

mayo brands

I never understand people who buy that ready made stuff. Shops in Poland are full of it and it's all packed with chemicals.

Anyone with an electric whisk and three minutes can make the real thing.
jon357   
28 Oct 2024
Off-Topic / Energy-free rail from North to South? [54]

@Tlum
I'm not sure scientists "tell us to believe" anything.

In fact science is more about testing hypotheses than "believing".

The existence of gravity is not a controversial thing. What are your views on quantum mechanics?
jon357   
28 Oct 2024
News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]

win lawsuits

They shouldn't.

always the ne plus ultra argument for the nanny statists

If strongly believing that we should be altruistic rather than selfish and that public health is a matter for all of us makes someone "nanny statist", whatever that's supposed to mean, then I'll happily be that.

Seatbelts however is a poor argument, since it's only the non-wearer that dies.
jon357   
28 Oct 2024
News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]

in pharmacies for not being vaccinated

So as I said, nobody was fired. provided they followed health directives.

Public health is not a matter of personal preference. Otherwise isolation hospitals wouldn't exist.

If personal preference trumped public safety, we may as well scrap speed limits, tinted windscreen regulations or driving/alcohol laws.
jon357   
28 Oct 2024
News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]

Yes, I know many healthcare workers

You don't.

Nobody was fired, providing they followed all health directives.

scam

'Scam' to what end?
jon357   
28 Oct 2024
News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]

A forced vaccination

A shared immunity. The health of a society is not a matter for individual preference.

In the EU alone

Statistically acceptable, and better than wiping out a generation of older people and anyone in poor health. Plenty more died of Covid.

lost their job or lost their home because of idiotic vaccination policy

Nobody did.
jon357   
28 Oct 2024
News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]

There are proofs now that they are not safe

They were safely administered to millions.

but studies have now directly

All medicines have side effects and the impact on vaccination programmes on society as a whole is more valuable than a relatively small number of adverse reactions.
jon357   
27 Oct 2024
Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [149]

Here's an interesting one. Opinions?


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