bimber94
23 Oct 2010
bimber94
28 Oct 2010
Life / Tricks & Dodges (The Poles are nothing if not inventive) [26]
Sometime in the 1980s or 90s, someone in London covered 10p coins with Baco Foil, giving them the shape and weight of 50p coins. Off he took them to his nearest tube station where he fed the ticket machine, then pressed the cancel button, returning him with real 50p's. Unfortunately, he was so engrossed he forgot a queue was building up behind him, and was arrested. Embarrasingly, he turned out to be Polish, according to the London news.
Sometime in the 1980s or 90s, someone in London covered 10p coins with Baco Foil, giving them the shape and weight of 50p coins. Off he took them to his nearest tube station where he fed the ticket machine, then pressed the cancel button, returning him with real 50p's. Unfortunately, he was so engrossed he forgot a queue was building up behind him, and was arrested. Embarrasingly, he turned out to be Polish, according to the London news.
bimber94
28 Oct 2010
Life / Ripped Off in Poland? - Expose here: [185]
Call me petty, but has anyone noticed the so-called 100% fruit juice in cartons tastes considerably more insipid (that's 'watery') than the equivalent in the UK where it's half the price? Yes I know it sounds small-time and unimportant, but for the drinks companies, even a 1 groszy saving per carton amounts to huge annual profits.
Call me petty, but has anyone noticed the so-called 100% fruit juice in cartons tastes considerably more insipid (that's 'watery') than the equivalent in the UK where it's half the price? Yes I know it sounds small-time and unimportant, but for the drinks companies, even a 1 groszy saving per carton amounts to huge annual profits.
bimber94
28 Oct 2010
Life / INVISIBLE MAN in shops and offices in Poland? [70]
We Brits are far too polite. I know exactly how you all feel, and empathise. But hey, look on the bright side. At least we don't have any more old bags with a carte blanche to queue-jump, just because they lived through the war ("don't mention the war!"). In 1979 I was waiting for a taxi at a taxi rank in Gliwice (it used to be a sad place and smelt of coal dust wherever you went) for over an hour, then an old lady came and stood in front. Like I'm going to wait for six months, yeah right.
We Brits are far too polite. I know exactly how you all feel, and empathise. But hey, look on the bright side. At least we don't have any more old bags with a carte blanche to queue-jump, just because they lived through the war ("don't mention the war!"). In 1979 I was waiting for a taxi at a taxi rank in Gliwice (it used to be a sad place and smelt of coal dust wherever you went) for over an hour, then an old lady came and stood in front. Like I'm going to wait for six months, yeah right.
bimber94
28 Oct 2010
Life / INVISIBLE MAN in shops and offices in Poland? [70]
'Gentlemanly' is the word you're looking for.
'Gentlemanly' is the word you're looking for.
bimber94
28 Oct 2010
Polonia / Polish people in New Delhi [86]
As I know India as well as any tourist, am curious where you are these days. Presumably travelling around or in Puttaparti? Also, I plan to be in Delhi in 2012.
As I know India as well as any tourist, am curious where you are these days. Presumably travelling around or in Puttaparti? Also, I plan to be in Delhi in 2012.
bimber94
28 Oct 2010
bimber94
5 Nov 2010
Polonia / Polish people in New Delhi [86]
You aked about Polish companies in India. I'm no expert here, and have only heard of Polimex.
You aked about Polish companies in India. I'm no expert here, and have only heard of Polimex.
bimber94
12 Nov 2010
bimber94
13 Nov 2010
Life / What do you like about Poland? [100]
Poland is the only country I know where, when your train pulls in, families greet, kiss and hug each other at the station.
Poland is the only country I know where, when your train pulls in, families greet, kiss and hug each other at the station.
bimber94
19 Nov 2010
Polonia / Polish people in New Delhi [86]
I'm a Brit of Polish parentage. My attraction to India? My previous life, probably.
anakanka
so where are you from /?? and what s gonna bring you to india??
so where are you from /?? and what s gonna bring you to india??
I'm a Brit of Polish parentage. My attraction to India? My previous life, probably.
bimber94
28 Nov 2010
Love / Polish girls fall for Indian guys ? [217]
Wait a second! Is he perchance a Muslim? And how quickly does he want to convert to Roman Catholicism? :|
Wait a second! Is he perchance a Muslim? And how quickly does he want to convert to Roman Catholicism? :|
bimber94
29 Nov 2010
Love / Polish girls fall for Indian guys ? [217]
@ jonni
True. Indian Muslims account for about 12% of India's population, and growing. However, having spent five years in India, I know its a general (NOT in every case!) Islamic policy for Muslims to marry a non-Muslim, thereby converting them and so doing their bit to increase their faithful. Like everyone else, Muslims come in all shades; from moderate-sounding types like Docstar on PF (most Moroccans and Tunisians are quite laid back), to those you hear about with a weird look in their eye and are oh so willing to kill and die for their religion and turn the clock back cernturies.
@ jonni
True. Indian Muslims account for about 12% of India's population, and growing. However, having spent five years in India, I know its a general (NOT in every case!) Islamic policy for Muslims to marry a non-Muslim, thereby converting them and so doing their bit to increase their faithful. Like everyone else, Muslims come in all shades; from moderate-sounding types like Docstar on PF (most Moroccans and Tunisians are quite laid back), to those you hear about with a weird look in their eye and are oh so willing to kill and die for their religion and turn the clock back cernturies.
bimber94
29 Nov 2010
Love / Polish girls fall for Indian guys ? [217]
You say that, Teffle, and that's quite true. Mind you, if you see the Islamics in East London, there's very many there that look like caricatures of the American propaganda machine.
You say that, Teffle, and that's quite true. Mind you, if you see the Islamics in East London, there's very many there that look like caricatures of the American propaganda machine.
bimber94
29 Nov 2010
Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]
Has anyone heard about what is added to Polish beer? Instead of hops there seems to be a cheaper alternative - brace yourselves - the bitter gall from animals' gall bladders! It makes beer taste and look like it's made with hops, only the gall is more or less free for the beer manufacturers as the meat trade simply chucks it out as offal and is too bitter to be used in pet food. Na zdrowie and bottoms up (dupy do góry?).
Has anyone heard about what is added to Polish beer? Instead of hops there seems to be a cheaper alternative - brace yourselves - the bitter gall from animals' gall bladders! It makes beer taste and look like it's made with hops, only the gall is more or less free for the beer manufacturers as the meat trade simply chucks it out as offal and is too bitter to be used in pet food. Na zdrowie and bottoms up (dupy do góry?).
bimber94
29 Nov 2010
bimber94
30 Nov 2010
Love / Making My Polish Girlfriend Feel Like She Is At Home At Christmas [83]
Get her a ton of lard and a few bottles of vodka. How Polish do you want to get?
Get her a ton of lard and a few bottles of vodka. How Polish do you want to get?
bimber94
30 Nov 2010
Love / Making My Polish Girlfriend Feel Like She Is At Home At Christmas [83]
No seriously Pork, brush up on some Polish Xmas carols, or at least buy a CD of them. Searching 'kolędy' is also an idea. Wesołych Świąt Bożego Narodzenia 2010 życzy bimber94.
No seriously Pork, brush up on some Polish Xmas carols, or at least buy a CD of them. Searching 'kolędy' is also an idea. Wesołych Świąt Bożego Narodzenia 2010 życzy bimber94.
bimber94
1 Dec 2010
Love / Making My Polish Girlfriend Feel Like She Is At Home At Christmas [83]
Yep, plenty of booze at Xmas here too (if it wasn't for the kids I wouldn't bother :-D)
From today December 1st, in UK, all the decorations are up; at least two weeks before Poland, so it's comparatively more miserable in Poland, and more of a joie de vivrein UK.
Also, we Brits send out our Xmas cards as from the first week of December, so here's mine to you all:
youtube.com/watch?v=IuqcK3TIrek
Yep, plenty of booze at Xmas here too (if it wasn't for the kids I wouldn't bother :-D)
From today December 1st, in UK, all the decorations are up; at least two weeks before Poland, so it's comparatively more miserable in Poland, and more of a joie de vivrein UK.
Also, we Brits send out our Xmas cards as from the first week of December, so here's mine to you all:
youtube.com/watch?v=IuqcK3TIrek
bimber94
1 Dec 2010
Love / Making My Polish Girlfriend Feel Like She Is At Home At Christmas [83]
Animals talking? Sound like the Poles OD on makowiec :-D
Animals talking? Sound like the Poles OD on makowiec :-D
bimber94
1 Dec 2010
Love / Making My Polish Girlfriend Feel Like She Is At Home At Christmas [83]
Wait a second! What do you mean by...errr... kiełbasa?
Wait a second! What do you mean by...errr... kiełbasa?
bimber94
1 Dec 2010
News / WHY IS POLAND STILL GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER? [197]
Here is a classical example of what I mean by 'cold shoulder'. Bloody typical!
thenews.pl/international/?id=144615
Here is a classical example of what I mean by 'cold shoulder'. Bloody typical!
thenews.pl/international/?id=144615
bimber94
1 Dec 2010
News / WHY IS POLAND STILL GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER? [197]
Accepted, Wroclaw, though in Poland's case it seems to be a permanent snub.
Accepted, Wroclaw, though in Poland's case it seems to be a permanent snub.
bimber94
1 Dec 2010
News / WHY IS POLAND STILL GIVEN THE COLD SHOULDER? [197]
That'll be the day! I can just see it now. Poland (and the rest of the world) actually allowed to print their own debt-free currency; politicians working in harmony for the betterment of the people and the economy instead of their own pockets; and Mr Rothschild says 'sorry, here's all your countless quintillions back'.
...and here's yet another example:
informationfarm.blogspot.com/2010/04/jane-burgermeister-polish-plane-crash.html
Wroclaw:
once we get a long term stable government
once we get a long term stable government
That'll be the day! I can just see it now. Poland (and the rest of the world) actually allowed to print their own debt-free currency; politicians working in harmony for the betterment of the people and the economy instead of their own pockets; and Mr Rothschild says 'sorry, here's all your countless quintillions back'.
...and here's yet another example:
informationfarm.blogspot.com/2010/04/jane-burgermeister-polish-plane-crash.html
bimber94
1 Dec 2010
UK, Ireland / The more subtle differences: Ireland/Britain v Poland [310]
To those of you living in Poland, don't you just miss crumpets, thick cut marmalade, English mustard, Christmas pud, Yorkshire pud, poached eggs, Red Leicester, Wensleydale, Caerphilly.....
To those of you living in Poland, don't you just miss crumpets, thick cut marmalade, English mustard, Christmas pud, Yorkshire pud, poached eggs, Red Leicester, Wensleydale, Caerphilly.....
bimber94
1 Dec 2010
UK, Ireland / The more subtle differences: Ireland/Britain v Poland [310]
Oh yes, chicken tikka masala. Official.
Oh yes, chicken tikka masala. Official.
bimber94
2 Dec 2010
Life / Expats in Poland - would you fight for your new country? [105]
On UK TV, it was once stated that no two countries which have branches of McDonald's go to war with each other. That can't be true...can it? Nothing would surprise me these days.
On UK TV, it was once stated that no two countries which have branches of McDonald's go to war with each other. That can't be true...can it? Nothing would surprise me these days.
bimber94
5 Dec 2010
Life / Expats in Poland - would you fight for your new country? [105]
Is this the era to defend any country in wartime? Apart from the fact that modern weapons can annihilate whole cities, why bother fighting for a nation which goes to church on Sundays and nicks from you Monday to Saturday, chainsmokes, votes for lefty scumbags and gets PiSsed much of the time? I sound anti-Polish here but I'd rather see a return to the pre-WW2 integrity the Poles had for each other rather than the bunch of dickheads which abound today.
Is this the era to defend any country in wartime? Apart from the fact that modern weapons can annihilate whole cities, why bother fighting for a nation which goes to church on Sundays and nicks from you Monday to Saturday, chainsmokes, votes for lefty scumbags and gets PiSsed much of the time? I sound anti-Polish here but I'd rather see a return to the pre-WW2 integrity the Poles had for each other rather than the bunch of dickheads which abound today.
bimber94
7 Dec 2010
bimber94
13 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / CULTURE SHOCK! (of my Polish finance who visited the US) [210]
And what if he runs off with it? ;-D
pgtx:
my horse never got stolen, i chain it to a pole
my horse never got stolen, i chain it to a pole
And what if he runs off with it? ;-D