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Posts by spiritus  

Joined: 25 Oct 2006 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 3 Sep 2021
Threads: Total: 69 / Live: 7 / Archived: 62
Posts: Total: 643 / Live: 81 / Archived: 562 		From: UK
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spiritus   
3 Sep 2021
Travel / Krakow Christmas market 2021 [2]

Does anyone know if the Krakow Christmas market will be going ahead this year?

Are there any official websites I can check for updates?

Thanks!
spiritus   
10 Apr 2020
Life / Amazon Alexa/Google Nest in Poland [10]

Hmm Mayne not so easy. Depends on the tech level of the lady in question.

You might be able to set it up for her where you live and then ship over to her but she would need to know how to set up the wifi connectivity.

Does anyone know if Google Home can now understand basic Polish ?
spiritus   
27 Mar 2020
Life / Amazon Alexa/Google Nest in Poland [10]

@jon357
I presume instructions have to be in English though?

When you say it works fine please can you elaborate on the functionality that you specifically use for it?

Do you have Spotify etc?
spiritus   
15 Dec 2019
Life / Amazon Alexa/Google Nest in Poland [10]

Does anyone have any either of these smart devices in Poland can if so can you please confirm if it is possible to listen to Spotify on them?

I believe there may be some issues being in Poland
spiritus   
14 Aug 2018
Genealogy / Displaced Persons Camp / Work camp and concentration camp difference [86]

Does anyone know whether I and other children were given German citizenship? We lived in Germany until the end of 1955.

Good question. My brother was born in Barum, Germany (another DP camp). He was classified as "stateless" so he didn't have any nationality.
spiritus   
16 May 2018
Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [188]

Merged:

Tamara Łempicka featured on Google's home page today



Not sure I ad heard of her but quite an interesting life for this Polish born artist. Good to see that Google recognises the importance of this Pole.
spiritus   
6 Apr 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]

Poland was obviously NOT the instigator of the Holocaust, but was surely not blameless i

Correction...."some Poles were not blameless". Your careful (or clumsy) choice of wording frames most of your posts.

It is also true to say that some Jews were equally guilty of sending fellow Jews to the gas chambers.
spiritus   
31 Jan 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]

@wielkipolak Interesting article you posted there and some of that sentiment is exactly what one of the members on here said in a previous thread i.e. that Hitler built camps in Poland because he knew the Poles would cooperate with him.

It's disappointing that there is a widespread Jewish school of thought that Poles were just as bad as the Nazis. Many Poles risked their lives to save Jews during the war, many Poles LOST their lives as a result.

It irritates me that Jews seem to claim a monopoly over these dark years and only they were the victims and I also find it distasteful of the trend to walk around concentration camps with Israeli flags and banners like a crowd on their way to a football match.
spiritus   
11 Jan 2018
Work / Business ideas for Poland [63]

The number of high earners outside Warsaw is not enough to sustain designer shops yet

I don't have any stats but Gdynia seems to be doing ok with designer shops
spiritus   
31 Oct 2017
Language / Good Polish Music To Help Me Learn? [41]

How about listening to Marek Grechuta ? His music style is very much poetry based so should be easy to hear the lyrics
spiritus   
25 Oct 2017
News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

Many have forgotten as well, that the Austro-Hungarian Empire, though not multi-cultural as New York, for instance, DID represent a degree of diversity which was unique at that time

Migration has been a driving force of society throughout the 20th Century but they were nearly all legal migrants who applied through the proper channels.

What is happening today is that migrants are trying to gang rush vulnerable borders and that cannot be allowed to continue
spiritus   
19 Oct 2017
News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

Dirk

I only hope that the sentiments you express (in line with my own) will eventually trickle down to mainstream politics and all this PC liberal crap is just a "phase" we're going through.
spiritus   
17 Oct 2017
News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

The problem is there isn't a credible "moderate right" party on the political scene yet-God knows we need one and the danger is that people will attach themselves to the far right as it's closest to their own views.
spiritus   
6 Oct 2017
Life / Price of cigarettes in Poland? [192]

Ideally somebody who has also been to Poland, which counts you out spiritus.

How would you know ? My parents are Polish, grandparents and great grandparents both from maternal and paternal side. My wife is Polish also.

I've been to Poland many times although I have never lived there. If you're capable of fabricating lies about me for no other reason that I disagree with many of your posts then it doesn't take much imagination about what other lies you write about on here.
spiritus   
6 Oct 2017
Life / Price of cigarettes in Poland? [192]

Then their are those who are so sadly misinformed that they don't think LOT has a terminal in Chicago like this one. (terminal 5)

Oh dear. That's very embarrassing for Harry.
spiritus   
29 Sep 2017
UK, Ireland / Cheap calls to Poland from the UK [134]

Be careful guys.

We've used some of these cheap/free calls to Poland in the past and they have a habit of discontinuing the number after a while and changing it to one that is charged at a higher rate.
spiritus   
21 Sep 2017
Genealogy / Looking for ancestor's grave in a cementery in Warsaw [9]

Hi Diane,

I sincerely with you all the best in your search but manage your expectations as Ziemowit said there is no reason why the grave would necessarily be in Warsaw just because he was born there AND even if his grave is in the city that alone could be difficult to find.

I wish you the best of luck :)
spiritus   
20 Sep 2017
Food / Origin of the pierogi [118]

How does that differ from perohey?

Well perohey aren't Polish are they ?
spiritus   
6 Sep 2017
Travel / Why do you visit Poland? [223]

My mum is from Czestochowa and I have been there many many times. It really depends what you are into. Krakow is a train ride away and even Zakopane is doable if you have enough time.

Other than that then the small village of Olsztyn is about 25 mins from Czestochowa with it's limestone castle ruins. There are also a number of limestone castles in the area that are worth seeing.