SeanBM
30 Nov 2012
UK, Ireland / Polish TV channels in the UK [95]
rte.ie/player/pl/live/8/ - Click here for the official RTE link to watch it
rte.ie/player/pl/live/8/ - Click here for the official RTE link to watch it
SeanBM
28 Nov 2012
SeanBM
28 Nov 2012
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]
I doubt if it's booked solid five/six months in advance but I get your point, people may not want to book so far in advance as nobody really knows what the future holds.
I honestly don't know, I've only stayed in a hotel once in Krakow many many moons ago.
I would guess that the most popular is the Jewish festival, then the Jazz festival and least of all May 1-3 although I am told there are usually gigs on labour-day and it's off season enough to be easy enough to get a place to stay and warm enough to enjoy.
So let's start the bids for May the 1st :)
booked solid,
I doubt if it's booked solid five/six months in advance but I get your point, people may not want to book so far in advance as nobody really knows what the future holds.
I honestly don't know, I've only stayed in a hotel once in Krakow many many moons ago.
I would guess that the most popular is the Jewish festival, then the Jazz festival and least of all May 1-3 although I am told there are usually gigs on labour-day and it's off season enough to be easy enough to get a place to stay and warm enough to enjoy.
So let's start the bids for May the 1st :)
SeanBM
27 Nov 2012
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]
I'm up for May. I recommend we do something, a concert is probably the easiest for all and if it's a free concert, well then that means nobody has an excuse :)
Events in Krakow 2013, nothing on there for the 1-3 May though.
Also here is a link to the 23rd Jewish festival 28,06 - 07,07 2013.
krakow's Jazz festival is also a great time to be here, with free concerts. July 1 - 31, 2013 Unconfirmed
I'm totally sober officer.
May long weekend could be good: 1-3 of May.
I'm up for May. I recommend we do something, a concert is probably the easiest for all and if it's a free concert, well then that means nobody has an excuse :)
Events in Krakow 2013, nothing on there for the 1-3 May though.
Also here is a link to the 23rd Jewish festival 28,06 - 07,07 2013.
krakow's Jazz festival is also a great time to be here, with free concerts. July 1 - 31, 2013 Unconfirmed
You are drunk, aren't you? lol
I'm totally sober officer.
SeanBM
27 Nov 2012
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]
Excuse me but I falutapixablnof that crediantial portcondivex.
I could do that again but only on the condition that everyone gets an invite.
I believe an activity is the best way to get us in good form and relax.
It appears that paintballing was a bit too macho for our fairer sex
So maybe tie it in with the Jewish festival in Krakow, free concert and great music but that isn't until summer.
Or if it should be sooner, skiing/snowboarding.
Edit*
Kool
I'll be back in a few hours.
Maybe it's us changing but I doubt it. The undercurrent on here is being changed by a few blinkered zealots who are incapabale of coherent argument.
Excuse me but I falutapixablnof that crediantial portcondivex.
Who's organising the good old days PF meet up in Polska then?
Someone in Poland maybe?
I could do that again but only on the condition that everyone gets an invite.
I believe an activity is the best way to get us in good form and relax.
It appears that paintballing was a bit too macho for our fairer sex
So maybe tie it in with the Jewish festival in Krakow, free concert and great music but that isn't until summer.
Or if it should be sooner, skiing/snowboarding.
Edit*
Why don't we organize it. Simples.#
Kool
I'll be back in a few hours.
SeanBM
26 Nov 2012
Life / did/does Polish TV show any British Sitcoms? [35]
Well they have launched their own search engine:
I am. I've been busy, which is a great complaint in these times.
thanks for asking.
I hope you are still enjoying the black stuff, then I know you are doing well.
Yeah but who watches BBC Entertainment? they just seem to show third rate British comedies and 'come dine with me' which as a program I just can't get my head around.
Black adder is now my favorite British comedy, this will change as the night draws in but hear, I'm like the weather.
I am certainly not the same man after watching it.
Well they have launched their own search engine:
Hope you are well by the way... it's been a while
I am. I've been busy, which is a great complaint in these times.
thanks for asking.
I hope you are still enjoying the black stuff, then I know you are doing well.
According to wikipedia Father Ted is aired in Poland since 2009 on BBC Entertainment.
Yeah but who watches BBC Entertainment? they just seem to show third rate British comedies and 'come dine with me' which as a program I just can't get my head around.
Black adder is now my favorite British comedy, this will change as the night draws in but hear, I'm like the weather.
SeanBM
26 Nov 2012
Life / did/does Polish TV show any British Sitcoms? [35]
This evening my favorite British comedy is 'only fools and horses'.
I don't know if the humour, cockney rhyme would translate well, though the circumstances would, I know a few Del-Boys in Krakow.
The real question is "did/does British TV show any Polish Sitcoms or films or anything at all?"
The people I have exposed father Ted to here will never be the same again :)
It is very well received and the mentality is the same.
I'll file that under Irish/Anglo but thank goodness British TV saw the genius, while RTE look like fools.
This evening my favorite British comedy is 'only fools and horses'.
I don't know if the humour, cockney rhyme would translate well, though the circumstances would, I know a few Del-Boys in Krakow.
The real question is "did/does British TV show any Polish Sitcoms or films or anything at all?"
Somehow I don't think they aired Father Ted in Poland;)
Shame really, it's fekkin hilarious
Shame really, it's fekkin hilarious
The people I have exposed father Ted to here will never be the same again :)
It is very well received and the mentality is the same.
I'll file that under Irish/Anglo but thank goodness British TV saw the genius, while RTE look like fools.
SeanBM
26 Nov 2012
Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]
I thought Harry meant not Public as in Private, in the English use of terms.
English people have that the wrong way round for goodness knows what reason.
Private means public and vise versa.
I'm knackered, I shouldn't post now for fear of getting everything wrong and making an ass of myself.
(how does that differ from usual I hear you ask:)
It was not a public school: it is entirely state funded
I thought Harry meant not Public as in Private, in the English use of terms.
English people have that the wrong way round for goodness knows what reason.
Private means public and vise versa.
I'm knackered, I shouldn't post now for fear of getting everything wrong and making an ass of myself.
(how does that differ from usual I hear you ask:)
SeanBM
26 Nov 2012
Travel / Modlin airport in Poland - closed again! [28]
The fog in Krakow was so bad this morning my flight was cancelled.
The fog in Krakow was so bad this morning my flight was cancelled.
SeanBM
26 Nov 2012
Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]
zetigrek, I made an error in my post.
A child not being admitted to a public school because his parent's are not wed makes me think of leaving this country.
I have thought about it several times for similar reasons.
I'd hope so.
If a Catholic weren't admitted to a school because his parents were Catholic, you'd be all over it and you'd be right to be.
You have a huge problem seeing other people's point of view, consider what I have said and tell me it isn't so.
zetigrek, I made an error in my post.
A child not being admitted to a public school because his parent's are not wed makes me think of leaving this country.
I have thought about it several times for similar reasons.
I think any atheist who resigns from RE has absolutely nothing to fear
I'd hope so.
I just wonder whether debating imaginary or potential discrimination is off-topic in this thread?
If a Catholic weren't admitted to a school because his parents were Catholic, you'd be all over it and you'd be right to be.
You have a huge problem seeing other people's point of view, consider what I have said and tell me it isn't so.
SeanBM
26 Nov 2012
Food / How common GMO Food in Poland is? [25]
Did they say why and back it up with credible evidence?
That's what every non-bias credible report I have read on it states from professionals.
The pretty pop stars or the researchers who have been examining the subject matter in depth?
Pretty popstars all the way :)
At the same time celebrities Doda and Edyta Herbuś took part in yesty's Warsaw demo saying they would never feed GMO-contaminated food to their families.
Did they say why and back it up with credible evidence?
years of research had not produced a shred of evidence that GMO is harmful to people's health of the environment.
That's what every non-bias credible report I have read on it states from professionals.
, so whom should he believe?
The pretty pop stars or the researchers who have been examining the subject matter in depth?
Pretty popstars all the way :)
SeanBM
26 Nov 2012
Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]
No.
I do not want a Catholic funeral.
Aren't you exaggerating?
No.
if you don't accept a priest coming to your home po kolędzie for several years in a row you might expect to be refused a Catholic funeral...
I do not want a Catholic funeral.
SeanBM
26 Nov 2012
Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]
I really hope you are wrong about this one Harry because it has annoyed me to no end.
And that letter you posted, really makes me think of leaving Poland.
I know you're being drilled about it not being a state school but I don't want to believe what you are saying is true, so I will ask one question.
For a state school, I am told, that you do not require several interviews, are you certain?
I really hope you are wrong about this one Harry because it has annoyed me to no end.
And that letter you posted, really makes me think of leaving Poland.
I know you're being drilled about it not being a state school but I don't want to believe what you are saying is true, so I will ask one question.
For a state school, I am told, that you do not require several interviews, are you certain?
SeanBM
26 Nov 2012
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]
Here is a great website showing the motorways and the year in which they were built, it's not exactly the painting you lads have painted.
stadiony.klszarak.org/scc_a_s.swf
Also millions of Poles left, dropping the unemployment rate, billions of Euros sent over from abroad increasing wages for those who staid.
And we are talking about infrasturcture but there is a hell of a lot of money allocated to starting up business', playgrounds and people's environment.
Where I would disagree with you PennBoy, is that NOTHING that has improved in Poland after it joined the EU could have happened if it weren't for the Polish people themselves.
All you have to do is look at the other countries that joined at the same time and why they weren't able to come close to what Polish people have managed in a relatively short time.
It just goes to show, and I don't believe anyone is doubting, that Poland would have become a stronger country inevitably but with the whole E.U. thing it has happened quicker.
Here is a great website showing the motorways and the year in which they were built, it's not exactly the painting you lads have painted.
stadiony.klszarak.org/scc_a_s.swf
Also millions of Poles left, dropping the unemployment rate, billions of Euros sent over from abroad increasing wages for those who staid.
And we are talking about infrasturcture but there is a hell of a lot of money allocated to starting up business', playgrounds and people's environment.
Where I would disagree with you PennBoy, is that NOTHING that has improved in Poland after it joined the EU could have happened if it weren't for the Polish people themselves.
All you have to do is look at the other countries that joined at the same time and why they weren't able to come close to what Polish people have managed in a relatively short time.
It just goes to show, and I don't believe anyone is doubting, that Poland would have become a stronger country inevitably but with the whole E.U. thing it has happened quicker.
SeanBM
25 Nov 2012
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]
From the customer side that's almost exactly what I want to happen.
I don't want one company monopolising the whole market, I want better, cheaper, safer etc... through competition.
I understand that the E.U. and other countries have to protect themselves from becoming nothing but consumers and buying everything from China but we aren't discussing that.
Poland builds the parts that go into them :)
At this stage it seems like all cars are made in the same factory, they just put a different emblem on'em just before they leave the factory :)
the companies go into a price war until one goes bankrupt. Pointless, painful, and detrimental to the economy.
From the customer side that's almost exactly what I want to happen.
I don't want one company monopolising the whole market, I want better, cheaper, safer etc... through competition.
I understand that the E.U. and other countries have to protect themselves from becoming nothing but consumers and buying everything from China but we aren't discussing that.
Germany builds the best cars; what's the point in a Polish company trying to make a competitor to Mercedes?
Poland builds the parts that go into them :)
At this stage it seems like all cars are made in the same factory, they just put a different emblem on'em just before they leave the factory :)
SeanBM
25 Nov 2012
SeanBM
25 Nov 2012
News / €80 billion for Poland new EU budget [166]
And now Virgin are coming too.
I don't think they would be nothing but competition is great for the public.
I got a swanky new phone for free, they halved my monthly bill and I get all kinds of offers from the other networks, it's great.
Era, Idea, Plus, were the first gsm companies in Poland. Later Idea became Orange, Era - T-mobile, Plus is Plus.
Why do you think that Poland would be nothing without foreign companies?
Why do you think that Poland would be nothing without foreign companies?
And now Virgin are coming too.
I don't think they would be nothing but competition is great for the public.
I got a swanky new phone for free, they halved my monthly bill and I get all kinds of offers from the other networks, it's great.
SeanBM
23 Nov 2012
Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]
If my taxes were not going to Catholic schools, I would agree.
But they are and to religion classes in normal schools and a whole list of other religious crap that I don't want to sign up for.
If my taxes were not going to Catholic schools, I would agree.
But they are and to religion classes in normal schools and a whole list of other religious crap that I don't want to sign up for.
SeanBM
23 Nov 2012
Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]
They were turned down by several schools only for not being baptized, their son is four years old.
It's very different in Ireland.
Most schools in Ireland are Catholic schools and the church has a very long history of doing whatever the heck they want with impunity.
Our state couldn't afford to educate the country, so the church filled that void.
It's easy to spot discrimination, all you do is swap an irrelevant detail and imagine the effect.
If a secular school was not to accept a child because he was baptised, there would be WWIII
Or was her son turned down by the school on any other formal excuse?
They were turned down by several schools only for not being baptized, their son is four years old.
Or was it a Catholic school which by law may be entitled to do that?
It's very different in Ireland.
Most schools in Ireland are Catholic schools and the church has a very long history of doing whatever the heck they want with impunity.
Our state couldn't afford to educate the country, so the church filled that void.
National schools date back to the introduction of state primary education in 1831. They are usually controlled by a board of management under diocesan patronage and often include a local clergyman.[9][10] The term "national school" has of late become partly synonymous with primary school in some parts. Recently, there have been calls from many sides for fresh thinking in the areas of funding and governance for such schools, with some wanting them to be fully secularised.
It's easy to spot discrimination, all you do is swap an irrelevant detail and imagine the effect.
If a secular school was not to accept a child because he was baptised, there would be WWIII
SeanBM
23 Nov 2012
Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]
You are kidding me, right?
We're talking about a child's right to education and being denied that right based on discrimination that does not effect anybody.
Are we still so ******* backwards?
That's it, enough annoyance for me for one morning.
Discrimination yes. Crime no, sadly.
You are kidding me, right?
We're talking about a child's right to education and being denied that right based on discrimination that does not effect anybody.
Are we still so ******* backwards?
That's it, enough annoyance for me for one morning.
SeanBM
23 Nov 2012
USA, Canada / Homeless Poles in NYC [25]
Lyrics from the song I just posted:
Rock bottom....
Lyrics from the song I just posted:
All ye young people now take my advice
Before crossing the ocean you'd better think twice
Cause you can't live without love, without love alone
The proof is round London in the nobody zone.
Where the summer is fine, but the winter's a fridge
Wrapped up in old cardboard under Charing Cross Bridge
And I'll never go home now because of the shame
Of misfit's reflection in a shop window pane.
Before crossing the ocean you'd better think twice
Cause you can't live without love, without love alone
The proof is round London in the nobody zone.
Where the summer is fine, but the winter's a fridge
Wrapped up in old cardboard under Charing Cross Bridge
And I'll never go home now because of the shame
Of misfit's reflection in a shop window pane.
SeanBM
23 Nov 2012
USA, Canada / Homeless Poles in NYC [25]
When I was a teen and in my early twenties, London was full of homeless Irish.
Wrapped up in old cardboard under Charing Cross Bridge.
Now it seems to be mainly Poles.
I always thought that this song should be translated in to Polish, as it has relevance today to Polish people.
Chicken or egg.
Could some not make it because they had metal difficulties or do some have mental difficulties because they can't make it?
Loneliness can be psychologically crippling .
Try walking around central London after about 10:00 pm you'll see hundreds of homeless Poles.
When I was a teen and in my early twenties, London was full of homeless Irish.
Wrapped up in old cardboard under Charing Cross Bridge.
Now it seems to be mainly Poles.
I always thought that this song should be translated in to Polish, as it has relevance today to Polish people.
i also have it on good authority that the UK mental institutions have seen a massive increase in Polish patients, many seem to be the ones that cant make a living in the UK and lose the plot.
Chicken or egg.
Could some not make it because they had metal difficulties or do some have mental difficulties because they can't make it?
Loneliness can be psychologically crippling .
SeanBM
23 Nov 2012
Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]
Recently my friend had to get her son baptised to get in to a school in Ireland.
Now that's a real sin.
You put it so sweetly.
Recently my friend had to get her son baptised to get in to a school in Ireland.
Now that's a real sin.
As long as they're good parents, it really shouldn't matter to others.
You put it so sweetly.
SeanBM
23 Nov 2012
Food / How common GMO Food in Poland is? [25]
This is all up to the company that produces it and the governments that allow it but not directly because of the GMO itself.
This is all up to the company that produces it and the governments that allow it but not directly because of the GMO itself.
SeanBM
23 Nov 2012
Food / How common GMO Food in Poland is? [25]
Polish president vetoes bill allowing GMO seeds reuters
But nothing about:
Except for the link you provided.
Also good to see on my google search are:
Poland imposes ban on Monsanto MON810 genetically modified maize
Poland Announces Complete Ban on Monsanto's Genetically Modified Maize
Polish president vetoes bill allowing GMO seeds reuters
But nothing about:
The country has not implemented EU laws that require GMO cultivation locations to be notified to the relevant national authorities, established in a national register and made known to the public."
Except for the link you provided.
Also good to see on my google search are:
Poland imposes ban on Monsanto MON810 genetically modified maize
Poland Announces Complete Ban on Monsanto's Genetically Modified Maize
SeanBM
22 Nov 2012
Food / How common GMO Food in Poland is? [25]
It's all genetically modified food since we've been selecting and growing the stuff ourselves.
I doubt that the E.U. could ban such a thing.
People should definitely worry, if there are no points being made, no arguments being put forward and really no logic, then people really should worry, a lot.
My major guff with GM foods are corrupt, monopolising, and immoral companies like monsanto.
GM foods were really meant to end world hunger, instead it just seems to be going towards an Orwellian nightmare.
Hi....how common is genetically modified food in Poland? It's supposed to be bad stuff.
It's all genetically modified food since we've been selecting and growing the stuff ourselves.
I just read that Poland is not complying with the agreed upon ban from the EU.
I doubt that the E.U. could ban such a thing.
What's wrong with Poland?! Should people be worried?
People should definitely worry, if there are no points being made, no arguments being put forward and really no logic, then people really should worry, a lot.
My major guff with GM foods are corrupt, monopolising, and immoral companies like monsanto.
GM foods were really meant to end world hunger, instead it just seems to be going towards an Orwellian nightmare.
SeanBM
22 Nov 2012
Love / How do I tell her how I feel? Working with a Polish woman. [24]
How do I tell her how I feel?
Singing telegram.
Or I can do it if you like? the Singing telegram bit, I mean.
How do I tell her how I feel?
Singing telegram.
Or I can do it if you like? the Singing telegram bit, I mean.
SeanBM
22 Nov 2012
News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]
"Sane" is sometimes a relevant term, my hunch is that he got involved with the Ruch Narodowy and took their antidemocratic, xenophobic views one step further.
You can't convict an insane person to 21 years in prison.
We are still very much in the dark about mental illness'.
Breivik painstakingly planned out his military style attack with full premeditation and execution..
It's difficult to prove that that loony is without some organisational skills but that don't make the guy any less of a fruit-loop in my understanding if things.
Given that the cartoon has no weblink on the tab, either the poster just really likes it and has it on his laptop and is therefore willing to defend it despite your obviously correct analyses of it or he is the creator and the same applies.
Sane but fanatically committed to his ideology?
"Sane" is sometimes a relevant term, my hunch is that he got involved with the Ruch Narodowy and took their antidemocratic, xenophobic views one step further.
NOTE: Breivik,.... was pronounced sane.
You can't convict an insane person to 21 years in prison.
We are still very much in the dark about mental illness'.
Breivik painstakingly planned out his military style attack with full premeditation and execution..
It's difficult to prove that that loony is without some organisational skills but that don't make the guy any less of a fruit-loop in my understanding if things.
Then why
Given that the cartoon has no weblink on the tab, either the poster just really likes it and has it on his laptop and is therefore willing to defend it despite your obviously correct analyses of it or he is the creator and the same applies.
SeanBM
22 Nov 2012
Life / Age chauvinism in Poland regarding young people [17]
Thanks jadis, I will read up on him now,
The internet is really amazing, have a question, get an answer.
Thanks jadis, I will read up on him now,
The internet is really amazing, have a question, get an answer.
SeanBM
22 Nov 2012
Life / Age chauvinism in Poland regarding young people [17]
Top left
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
under him
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie Sklodowska
next
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
next
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali
Under the black lady
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
next to them
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
Bottom left
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
next
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
I have no idea who that man second from the left on the bottom is??? then
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
This could be a thread on it's own.
But some real cool cats in that list and some very interesting stories too.
I don't know who or what that is but I don't watch T.V. much.
Top left
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
under him
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie Sklodowska
next
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
next
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali
Under the black lady
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
next to them
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
Bottom left
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
next
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
I have no idea who that man second from the left on the bottom is??? then
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
This could be a thread on it's own.
But some real cool cats in that list and some very interesting stories too.
I recognised Snookie... not that I watch Jersey Shore,
I don't know who or what that is but I don't watch T.V. much.