Cardno85
26 Jun 2009
Love / WHY DO POLISH MEN LIE? [150]
Same reason as any other guy, to get their hole.
One question why do Polish men lie.
Same reason as any other guy, to get their hole.
Cardno85
28 Jun 2009
Food / BREAD IN POLAND IS DETERIORATING [90]
You will find this mostly with supermarket bread. People just often don't have time to do all their shopping in independant bakers, grocers and fishmongers. Plus they don't have time to go shopping every day for a loaf of bread they are likely to have to throw out. It's not a good state of affairs but that's just how it is. People are more likely to go shopping once/twice a week and so need bread that will last, even at the expense of flavour/nutrition.
use of polepszacze (bread improvers), packets of chemcials ensurign high yields at the expesne of flavour and nutrition;
You will find this mostly with supermarket bread. People just often don't have time to do all their shopping in independant bakers, grocers and fishmongers. Plus they don't have time to go shopping every day for a loaf of bread they are likely to have to throw out. It's not a good state of affairs but that's just how it is. People are more likely to go shopping once/twice a week and so need bread that will last, even at the expense of flavour/nutrition.
Cardno85
28 Jun 2009
Food / BREAD IN POLAND IS DETERIORATING [90]
Glasgow, you don't even get them in Argyll. Glasgow is the only place for decent morning rolls.
where are the decent bread rolls?
Glasgow, you don't even get them in Argyll. Glasgow is the only place for decent morning rolls.
Cardno85
28 Jun 2009
Food / BREAD IN POLAND IS DETERIORATING [90]
Big difference between butteries and morning rolls. But butteries are brilliant as well!
butteries
Big difference between butteries and morning rolls. But butteries are brilliant as well!
Cardno85
28 Jun 2009
Food / BREAD IN POLAND IS DETERIORATING [90]
The ones that are proper crispy round the outside but soft on the inside.
I might make some for the Paintball tournament.
Morning rolls, I think I know what you mean. Soft and good for ham with mayo?
The ones that are proper crispy round the outside but soft on the inside.
Tattie scones are legendary
I might make some for the Paintball tournament.
Cardno85
10 Jul 2009
News / Polish Mom claims daughter got pregnant from swimming in pool! [162]
Really worrying infact. This is why people who campaign against decent sex education are idiots.
It's unbelievable some people really don't have elementary knowledge about their own physiology.
Really worrying infact. This is why people who campaign against decent sex education are idiots.
Cardno85
11 Jul 2009
News / Polish Mom claims daughter got pregnant from swimming in pool! [162]
I really hope that the court throws it out and the judge says, "you mother, you are a tool...and you daughter *shakes head and tuts* you trollop"
I really hope that the court throws it out and the judge says, "you mother, you are a tool...and you daughter *shakes head and tuts* you trollop"
Cardno85
11 Jul 2009
Cardno85
13 Jul 2009
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]
Hmmm...dunno where you look like you're from...but i would :P
here's the pics...
Hmmm...dunno where you look like you're from...but i would :P
Cardno85
21 Jul 2009
Food / Your all time favourite Polish Dishes! [108]
Not a bread roll!!!
It is minced meat rolled in a cabbage leaf and then cooked, often with either mushroom or tomato sauce...it's well tasty!
how could that be a (favourite Polish dish), if i wanted leaves in a sandwhich
Not a bread roll!!!
It is minced meat rolled in a cabbage leaf and then cooked, often with either mushroom or tomato sauce...it's well tasty!
Cardno85
26 Jul 2009
Food / PIZZA & KETCHUP served only in Poland? [159]
I have often noticed that too.
In traditional italian pizzas they use a tomato based sauce in their pizzas...and it is made from peeled tomatoes, basil, olive oil and salt...and i prefer that to the ketchup like stuff most pizzerias use here.
I have often noticed that too.
In traditional italian pizzas they use a tomato based sauce in their pizzas...and it is made from peeled tomatoes, basil, olive oil and salt...and i prefer that to the ketchup like stuff most pizzerias use here.
Cardno85
4 Aug 2009
Food / PIZZA & KETCHUP served only in Poland? [159]
I'm not a fan to be honest...but then I don't like ketchup at the best of times. Mayo is where it's at!
I'm not a fan to be honest...but then I don't like ketchup at the best of times. Mayo is where it's at!
Cardno85
4 Aug 2009
Food / PIZZA & KETCHUP served only in Poland? [159]
To be fair it is beaten only by Hollandaise...which I swear there is nothing you can't put it on. That heart clogging goodness!
A good mayo can be where it's at, but only on certain foods.
To be fair it is beaten only by Hollandaise...which I swear there is nothing you can't put it on. That heart clogging goodness!
Cardno85
2 Nov 2009
Real Estate / Renting in Krakow, Poland - the safest district? fairly close to the city centre... [25]
Kazimierz is definately more prestigious and the flats there are brilliant. But, if you don't know the place, you will more than likely end up paying through the nose for a flat there. It's extorsionate!
As for Krowodrza, I quite liked living there...it was a nice area, but I wouldnt say it was walking distance from the main square. I mean you could walk it, but it would be quite a long walk. However the trams/buses are frequent, the only problem is that late at night the night bus is only once an hour which can be a bit of a nightmare.
I'd recommend rather Kazimierz district or Krowodrza, both are walking distance from the Main Market Sq. and much more prestigeous too.
Kazimierz is definately more prestigious and the flats there are brilliant. But, if you don't know the place, you will more than likely end up paying through the nose for a flat there. It's extorsionate!
As for Krowodrza, I quite liked living there...it was a nice area, but I wouldnt say it was walking distance from the main square. I mean you could walk it, but it would be quite a long walk. However the trams/buses are frequent, the only problem is that late at night the night bus is only once an hour which can be a bit of a nightmare.
Cardno85
2 Nov 2009
Food / Polish Pizza !! The best in the world? [329]
In the way you were meaning it, we are wizards at making something out of nothing. Stovies, Tattie Scones, Haggis, Mealy Pudding, Black Pudding...the list goes on of food basically made from leftovers and non-prime cuts. And M-G, you were missing out by not trying haggis, it's delicious (and deep fried mars bars are a running joke to most people in Scotland).
But back to Pizza. I love pizza! I love Italian style pizza, cooked in no time at all with a thin crust and a wee bit of fresh mozarella, garlic and oregano. I love polish pizza with the sweeter tomato sauce and mountains of toppings. I love my deep fried pizza out the chippy. I love my cheap spicy chicken and sweetcorn pizza out the late night pizza shop that is only half cooked and so delicious. I love chain pizzas, greasy pizzas, doughy pizzas, thin pizzas...
...are we getting the point?
Personally my favourite pizzas are the traditional Italian pizzas with minimal toppings. However I would love to go to Chicago and get a full on deep dish bad boy. To follow on from an earlier post...let's arrange a world pizza and beer tour...now THAT would be awesome.
M-G, I was talking specifically about soups. Go to the Baxters of Speyside website as an example. Generally, I don't rate Scottish food so highly (fish and soup being the exception).
In the way you were meaning it, we are wizards at making something out of nothing. Stovies, Tattie Scones, Haggis, Mealy Pudding, Black Pudding...the list goes on of food basically made from leftovers and non-prime cuts. And M-G, you were missing out by not trying haggis, it's delicious (and deep fried mars bars are a running joke to most people in Scotland).
But back to Pizza. I love pizza! I love Italian style pizza, cooked in no time at all with a thin crust and a wee bit of fresh mozarella, garlic and oregano. I love polish pizza with the sweeter tomato sauce and mountains of toppings. I love my deep fried pizza out the chippy. I love my cheap spicy chicken and sweetcorn pizza out the late night pizza shop that is only half cooked and so delicious. I love chain pizzas, greasy pizzas, doughy pizzas, thin pizzas...
...are we getting the point?
Personally my favourite pizzas are the traditional Italian pizzas with minimal toppings. However I would love to go to Chicago and get a full on deep dish bad boy. To follow on from an earlier post...let's arrange a world pizza and beer tour...now THAT would be awesome.
Cardno85
13 Nov 2009
Life / Which Polish product you can easily do without? [51]
hahaha, that made me laugh
We know the entire workforce at British leyland were workshy incompentent idiots but at least they had the decency to stand around outside the factory until the company went bust thus not producing any more terrible contraptions. (polish manufacturers take note)
hahaha, that made me laugh
Cardno85
13 Nov 2009
Life / You are Polish if... [433]
So what is the singular form out of curiosity?
you don't feel the need to add an "s" to Pierogi because you already know the word is plural and it annoys you when others do.
So what is the singular form out of curiosity?
Cardno85
14 Nov 2009
Life / You are Polish if... [433]
I think there are lots of problems like that I have found with my students. Not helped by the various different accents around. The way something is pronounced in London will be different to Liverpool, which again will be different to Glasgow, which will be different to New York, which will be different to Los Angeles.
There was an article on Scottish TV about a speeding sign we have which says:
Twenty's Plenty
and the fact that it doesn't rhyme...which was the point. Twenty and plenty rhyme, but twenty's is pronounced more like twentees which would only rhyme with Plenty in parts of liverpool where the accent makes plenty sound like plentee.
Yeah, sorry, i have rambled off course...do carry on.
I think there are lots of problems like that I have found with my students. Not helped by the various different accents around. The way something is pronounced in London will be different to Liverpool, which again will be different to Glasgow, which will be different to New York, which will be different to Los Angeles.
There was an article on Scottish TV about a speeding sign we have which says:
Twenty's Plenty
and the fact that it doesn't rhyme...which was the point. Twenty and plenty rhyme, but twenty's is pronounced more like twentees which would only rhyme with Plenty in parts of liverpool where the accent makes plenty sound like plentee.
Yeah, sorry, i have rambled off course...do carry on.
Cardno85
15 Nov 2009
Life / Which Polish product you can easily do without? [51]
Actually quoted half my favourite Polish foods right there. It's all about the organ meat...mmmm. And bizarrely there are a lot of things on that list (minus żurek) that you can get in Scotland under different names and quite traditional!
any other organ meat, galareta (jelly) made out of pigs feet, potato pancakes, szmalec and żurek.
how about kaszanka? buckwheat+pig's blood ..delicious:P
Actually quoted half my favourite Polish foods right there. It's all about the organ meat...mmmm. And bizarrely there are a lot of things on that list (minus żurek) that you can get in Scotland under different names and quite traditional!
Cardno85
15 Nov 2009
News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]
I personally don't see a problem with crosses in schools as long as children are not being forced to believe that it's anything more than a decoration. If there is religion classes based around purely Christian teaching then fair enough too, but only if the children are allowed to opt out of such things.
I must say on this thread I can see both points of view. From the European perspective, yes, schools should be a place of education and not religion. But we cannot discount the traditions and values of a country which has been staunchly Catholic for so long.
The European Parliament's just a joke anyway, bunch of overpaid folk sitting about trying to find ways to make everyone's life that little bit less enjoyable.
I personally don't see a problem with crosses in schools as long as children are not being forced to believe that it's anything more than a decoration. If there is religion classes based around purely Christian teaching then fair enough too, but only if the children are allowed to opt out of such things.
I must say on this thread I can see both points of view. From the European perspective, yes, schools should be a place of education and not religion. But we cannot discount the traditions and values of a country which has been staunchly Catholic for so long.
The European Parliament's just a joke anyway, bunch of overpaid folk sitting about trying to find ways to make everyone's life that little bit less enjoyable.
Cardno85
15 Nov 2009
Life / Which Polish product you can easily do without? [51]
I think this is universally agreed on the site. I actually have never met a person here who likes Flacki and I have never met a person in the UK who likes tripe. Infact we had a chicken dish in my restaurant back home that had tripe on the plate and it was never eaten...ever!
tripe
I think this is universally agreed on the site. I actually have never met a person here who likes Flacki and I have never met a person in the UK who likes tripe. Infact we had a chicken dish in my restaurant back home that had tripe on the plate and it was never eaten...ever!
Cardno85
15 Nov 2009
News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]
Where did you come from? That is the most sense I've read in a long time!
Where did you come from? That is the most sense I've read in a long time!
Cardno85
16 Nov 2009
Food / Wanna buy Spiritus Krakow [28]
If you are drinking in Aloha then all you need to do is go out of the door, turn left and go into the wee 24 shop there and they have it. Many a night i've been tempted by it, but after the one night of Spyritus and Red Bull my liver just says no!
Yeah yeah, and I know for a fact they have it in Aloha Cafe on ul. Miodowa 28A for a reasonable price (better than rynek glowny area anyway)
If you are drinking in Aloha then all you need to do is go out of the door, turn left and go into the wee 24 shop there and they have it. Many a night i've been tempted by it, but after the one night of Spyritus and Red Bull my liver just says no!
Cardno85
16 Nov 2009
Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]
And quite a good one it is too. Autobahn is the way forward!
WB just wants the Autobahn (it rocks!), I assume is his main argument here.
And quite a good one it is too. Autobahn is the way forward!
Cardno85
21 Nov 2009
USA, Canada / Getting a VISA to USA by a Polish person nowadays [339]
Is it really that easy? Do they not have border checks when you travel from Canada to the US?
Are you guys still not allowed to go on holiday in Cuba? That sucks.
Go to Canada and pass the border to USA - up those governmental asses
Is it really that easy? Do they not have border checks when you travel from Canada to the US?
Yes, that will work as well. We have to use the same thought process if we want to go to Havana.
Are you guys still not allowed to go on holiday in Cuba? That sucks.
Cardno85
22 Nov 2009
Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]
To be fair it can make you feel more part of a group. It means you don't feel left out, or feel that you are forcing other people into talking a language they don't feel comfortable. Most of all though, the more Polish I learn, the easier my life becomes. Everything from meeting new people to various contracts...right to everyday life just gets easier the more of the language you know. I am still only gradually learning, but it's a little every day and so life gets easier every day.
In answer to the thread topic, I don't speak Polish, but I am keen to learn and hope to one day.
Knowing the language can make you feel like more of an insider, allowing you to further cement ties in different ways. It makes bar talks much easier too :)
To be fair it can make you feel more part of a group. It means you don't feel left out, or feel that you are forcing other people into talking a language they don't feel comfortable. Most of all though, the more Polish I learn, the easier my life becomes. Everything from meeting new people to various contracts...right to everyday life just gets easier the more of the language you know. I am still only gradually learning, but it's a little every day and so life gets easier every day.
In answer to the thread topic, I don't speak Polish, but I am keen to learn and hope to one day.
Cardno85
23 Nov 2009
Life / Do expats living in Poland speak Polish? [233]
Yeah, there's good and bad in all countries. I can't see what is possibly so terrible about the UK that would make someone want to cut all ties with it and deny their country of birth.
But hey, each to their own.
To the original poster, who wants to forget he's British, it's worth remembering that the bad things that happened back home, and the things you don't like, you may well find here.
Yeah, there's good and bad in all countries. I can't see what is possibly so terrible about the UK that would make someone want to cut all ties with it and deny their country of birth.
But hey, each to their own.
Cardno85
23 Nov 2009
Work / Teaching English in Zakopane, is it safe? [45]
Do you have a bigger version of that picture, looks quite fascinating.
Sects and evil auras
Do you have a bigger version of that picture, looks quite fascinating.
Cardno85
24 Nov 2009
Work / Teaching English in Zakopane, is it safe? [45]
Really quite worryingly popular. There is a really popular one that meets on a Sunday morning all around the country and they burn things and chant and talk to dead people and deities...
But seriously, I think they will probably be like most other places, minorities mainly with a good mix of rebellious teenagers just for good measure.
Really quite worryingly popular. There is a really popular one that meets on a Sunday morning all around the country and they burn things and chant and talk to dead people and deities...
But seriously, I think they will probably be like most other places, minorities mainly with a good mix of rebellious teenagers just for good measure.
Cardno85
13 Dec 2009
Genealogy / Why Polish aren't white?? [272]
Henrik Larsson would have been the first one to come to my mind.
Ever heard of Martin Dahlin, the Swedish football player of 15-20 years ago?
Henrik Larsson would have been the first one to come to my mind.