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Posts by sobieski  

Joined: 1 Jun 2008 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 6 Jan 2016
Threads: Total: 106 / Live: 95 / Archived: 11
Posts: Total: 2,118 / Live: 1,951 / Archived: 167 		From: Poland, Warsaw
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Interests: Polish culture and history, cooking

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sobieski   
8 Aug 2010
Law / Urząd Skarbowy, I paid too little on my last PIT? [26]

I am just wondering how much it costed them to make the file :)
As I know these days in my native Belgium the IRS does not bother with claims under 3 Euro - costwise I think a sound decision,
sobieski   
8 Aug 2010
History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

The Marshal was all in favour of the old Commonwealth...the emancipation of the minorities.

Yeah! Within the borders from 1772.

The Old Marshal was very much in favour of a representative government. He promoted the emancipation of the Jewish people. Does not that hurt a rabid antisemite as you?

Aha by the way - Your adored Polish Blue Police was selling their Jewish compatriots to the Germans wholesale, and making a profit out of it as well.

In Brussels the roundup of Jewish people failed because the police refused to cooperate.
Commies no doiubt, all of them :)))
sobieski   
9 Aug 2010
Law / Car plate numbers in Warsaw [7]

My private car has a registration starting with WY and ending with Y. I recently heard that all foreigners registering their car here get that kind of plate numbers. The other odd thing is of course is - I realised this recently - that I had to register it in the city office on Pl. Starynkiewicz, whereas I live in Bielany.

And that of course the police knows perfectly you are a driving bankomat :)
sobieski   
9 Aug 2010
Law / Car plate numbers in Warsaw [7]

Thanks. I think I will go to apply for normal Bielany plates as well in this case.
sobieski   
10 Aug 2010
News / New cross war in Warsaw [530]

I am praying for temps -25C and heavy snowfall on Krakowskie
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Law / How to register a new business in Poland [129]

sobieski, does your accountant have time for one more? I'm in Warsaw, need to open a business and could use a friendly accountant myself.

Hi, I will ask her and send you her contact data by PM. She is on holidays now but reads her mail from time to time.
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
News / New cross war in Warsaw [530]

I saw one action where a guy kicked another guy off of a pole. TVN has edited the violence as Kommie wants to paint a calm picture. This is absurd and he shouldn't be allowed to have that done. It's a bit like Israel and their finely selected cuts when they went onto the MM in international waters.

There is no need for that. It has to be easy to cordon off this part of Krakowskie. Water cannons and police dogs as backup and get on with the job. It just takes some guts.
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

When I came first time to Poland in 1989, I remembering people buying milk (actually white water) in plastic bags.
And me on the border having to change per day of my visa 36 DM in (then) worthless zlotys.
And having to buy coupons to get diesel :)
And the Pewex & Balaton shops (Was there actually a difference between them?). I remember buying in Sanok Belgian meat pie in a Pewex shop. If you look back at it - pure Monty Python.
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
News / Polish, language of future - Post-apocalyptic [45]

I do not think that people in the EU would be happy to being obliged mastering the nightmare called Polish Grammar :). Recipe for a continental revolt :)

Yes, Serb... how is your Polish actually?
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

I remember some beers which I think are not around anymore.... Heweliusz (from Gdańsk I think) and Leżajsk (hope I spell it correctly).
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

Paulina:
And I loved "serek homogenizowany" ;D

it's still in stores :)

I know. My cat adores it :) Won't eat any other type of cheese :)
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

I agree. It was a great beer.
I also remember a beer which used the image of rabbi on their cans? Could have been Leżajsk, I am not sure.
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

When I came first time to Poland in 1989, I remembering people buying milk (actually white water) in plastic bags.

and still you can buy it ;)

Now that you mention it - I did see it in the supermarket lately. Cannot really see people buying it.
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
History / Pewex and Balaton - do you rememer these Poland shops? [13]

I remember when I came to Poland first time in 1989, Pewex and Balaton were around.
For me it was sooo strange to buy Belgian meat pies in Wałbrzych or Sanok and paying in hard currency for them.
I was a first-timer in Poland then so had no idea about society and economics....
But what do you Polish remember from them? And in which way they differed, these two stores?
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

Now that you mention it - I did see it in the supermarket lately. Cannot really see people buying it.

It is a milk niepasteryzowane so you have to boil it first.

OK but in which way is it different to the "swieże mleko" I buy in bottles (and which stays good for like max. 2 weeks) ?
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

Ah yes the "bony" . I remember that one. My father-in-law used to work in Lybia and was paid in this way.
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

I remember when you went to a restaurant, all dishes were mentioned on the menu with their weigth - for example "pstrąg - 200 gr"

I was always wondering how they measured that :)
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
History / Pewex and Balaton - do you rememer these Poland shops? [13]

sobieski:
Actually they are still around in the transit zones of Polish airports.

Seriously? I didn't know that. I thought they are gone together with Pewexes.

In Okęcie for sure there is one still.
sobieski   
11 Aug 2010
Life / Things we enjoyed as kids in Poland [140]

I do not think Commodore was typical Polish :) In Belgium we also used to have them...
What about the mobile stalls where you could buy soda drinks... well before my time...
Was it "drinkable" ?
sobieski   
12 Aug 2010
Life / My first impressions of Poland, long time ago [37]

They always say that your first impressions of a country stay with you forever.
Some things I remember from my first few trips to Poland in 1989-1990: (to the Wałbrzych area)
- The peculiar smell of browncoals used for heating
- Had to change at the border per day in my visa 36 DM into (then) pretty worthless zlotys
- The currency - the banknotes of 1 million zloty printed on that cheap paper
- Had to exchange again DM for "diesel coupons" at Orbis - to fill up my tank. Later my enterprising (as all Poles that era) future father-in-law "arranged" me diesel from another source :)

- The bookshops where you were obliged to take a plastic basket even when you just wanted to browse. And browsing was in any case not possible because all books were kept under lock and you had to ask for them - from these formidable shop ladies :)

- The restaurants, where all items also mentioned their weight. Did they actually check this in the kitchen?
- And at wedding parties (including ours) that cheap sweet Russian bubbly wine - Ikryztoje or something like that?
- The CPN gas stations

Just a few impressions from a long time ago :)
sobieski   
12 Aug 2010
History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [192]

I think 1920 is something definitely to be proud of for the Poles. Although I think the Marshal almost overplayed his hand with his invasion of the Ukraine (although his motives were understandable).

Vienna 1683 - Also. Of course the Poles were part of a bigger coalition, but nevertheless without the Polish cavalry thundering down from Kahlenberg, Europe I think would have been a different place now. Too bad Sobieski was a bad administrator on the domestic front.

Chocim, 1673. I think it is a battle often overlooked in the West but nevertheless essential instemming the advance of the Islam hordes.
sobieski   
12 Aug 2010
History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [192]

So tell me why Poland is so slavishly connected to the US? Iraq, Afganistan, Missile Shield, CIA secret flights... Everything to please the guys across the ocean?

And what do you get in return? Mothballed C-130's "upgraded"? F-16's which have continuous malfunctions (you could have bought first-rate Swedish Gripen planes, but oh - they are European)

LOT having to buying Boeing planes at any cost - ah yes they are American so they have to be super.
Visa restrictions canceled? Nope. You are still treated as illegal immigrants at the border.
What are you doing it for?
sobieski   
12 Aug 2010
History / Polish history is 100% glorious [297]

Like Communists?

Like MG was rightly writing. The commies are gone for more than 20 years. Why moan about them? Buy a book about them in DSH.
The antisemitic gits are staying forever in this country.
sobieski   
12 Aug 2010
History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [192]

Harry, as much as I side with you against the Polish reactionaries here...You have to admit that if would have been Chamberlain's and Halifax' choice, Britain would have stayed out if the war. Remember Leon Amery shouting at Arthur Greenwood "Speak for England" ?

Norman Davies is not objective. He seems to to think Poles were the greatest benefactors of the Jewish people ever existed.
sobieski   
12 Aug 2010
History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [192]

You could always buy Swedish - they are doing a good job at building great fighter planes.

True, but if you ask me Poland should build their own .

I think this country has more sensible things to spend money on. One good move was for example to lease from LOT Embraer planes for government use.

I think it is simply stupid to blame the Brits for Yalta. For starters Yalta was a confirmation of Teheran 1943. What could Britain do? Declare war on the Soviets? Perhaps with the remains of the SS? (that was a dream of Himmler).

How could Churchill have helped the foolish 44 Uprising? Sending Sosabowski on Dakota's to Warsaw?
If anybody is to be blamed, it is Roosevelt - and rather his cronies Alger Hiss and Dexter White. He thought Uncle Joe was a guy you could do business with.

George Orwell knew better.