convex
27 Jan 2010
Food / Polish Beer Recipes [39]
the pale lagers or the porters?
I brew my own beer and I would like to try a Polish recipe for brewing beer.
the pale lagers or the porters?
convex
27 Jan 2010
Food / Polish Beer Recipes [39]
Polish pale lager is the same as czech pale lagers, the breweries websites have info on the particular hops and grains that are used.
Baltic Porter is notoriously difficult to pull off correctly, I did [homebrewtalk.com/f126/polonia-porter-baltic-porter-95173/] before Christmas, but used extract instead of grain and it came out quite tasty :) If you're using ale yeast, you need to cold ferment to keep the "fruitiness" in check. Lager yeast, just follow the recipe.
Polish pale lager is the same as czech pale lagers, the breweries websites have info on the particular hops and grains that are used.
Baltic Porter is notoriously difficult to pull off correctly, I did [homebrewtalk.com/f126/polonia-porter-baltic-porter-95173/] before Christmas, but used extract instead of grain and it came out quite tasty :) If you're using ale yeast, you need to cold ferment to keep the "fruitiness" in check. Lager yeast, just follow the recipe.
convex
27 Jan 2010
Food / Polish Beer Recipes [39]
Munich LME and Pilsner LME, 5,6lbs each. You can also replace the Magnum hops with Lublin for a more Polish experience :)
Munich LME and Pilsner LME, 5,6lbs each. You can also replace the Magnum hops with Lublin for a more Polish experience :)
convex
27 Jan 2010
Life / Do Polish People steal a lot? [330]
I'm talking about Bernanke and the inflation magic that he used when he magicked up a bunch of money. Kind of like the Zimbabweans did...
Come on guys they did cap Goldman Sachs London partners all 100 of them to only a £1million this year, poor sods didnt get their usual £50 Mills, WTF.
I'm talking about Bernanke and the inflation magic that he used when he magicked up a bunch of money. Kind of like the Zimbabweans did...
convex
27 Jan 2010
Life / Do Polish People steal a lot? [330]
Fiat money made out of trust of repayment, it's evil, that's another thread though. The only problem is when you have the same amount of trust, and start playing with the money supply... you make everything more expensive, which drives up the cost of everything and makes the dollar that you earned and saved last week worth less today.
Fiat money made out of trust of repayment, it's evil, that's another thread though. The only problem is when you have the same amount of trust, and start playing with the money supply... you make everything more expensive, which drives up the cost of everything and makes the dollar that you earned and saved last week worth less today.
convex
27 Jan 2010
Law / Bring your business to Poland! [56]
Large companies go where they get the best govt. deal. Poland has cheap labor and is close to markets in Germany. That's a pretty big plus.
Universities in the Czech Republic and, to a lesser degree, Slovakia, aren't too bad. I've heard good things about Estonia too.
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I think Poland is a great place to invest depending on what your requirements are. Are you in service, manufacturing...Is it for the internal market? For export?
Is it the easiest place to make money? No. Can you make money? Absolutely.
You are being very analytical, considering mainly small companies. But why not open this discussion to medium-big companies?
Large companies go where they get the best govt. deal. Poland has cheap labor and is close to markets in Germany. That's a pretty big plus.
please name a country around poland that provide the same quality if service with better costs???
Universities in the Czech Republic and, to a lesser degree, Slovakia, aren't too bad. I've heard good things about Estonia too.
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I think Poland is a great place to invest depending on what your requirements are. Are you in service, manufacturing...Is it for the internal market? For export?
Is it the easiest place to make money? No. Can you make money? Absolutely.
convex
27 Jan 2010
Life / Electronics in Poland - what kinds are popular? [20]
Haha, I bet they'll start asking about high speed trains, dependable postal service, and a top notch health care system! hahaha... oh, wait a minute..
Do all you Americans think that the rest of the world is stuck in the middle ages!
Haha, I bet they'll start asking about high speed trains, dependable postal service, and a top notch health care system! hahaha... oh, wait a minute..
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
It doesn't matter. People don't care. We forgot the 10 million that Belgium wiped out in the Congo, we didn't really care too much about the war in the same place that killed 5.5 million a couple years ago, we sat on our asses and watch Rwanda unfold on the TV.
Horrible stuff is happening all around us. Use something a bit more recent for "Never Forget!", we have short attention spans.
These things happen because ManKind has a problem...they forget.....NEVER FORGET !!!!!
Thanks for the thread, it is important.
Thanks for the thread, it is important.
It doesn't matter. People don't care. We forgot the 10 million that Belgium wiped out in the Congo, we didn't really care too much about the war in the same place that killed 5.5 million a couple years ago, we sat on our asses and watch Rwanda unfold on the TV.
Horrible stuff is happening all around us. Use something a bit more recent for "Never Forget!", we have short attention spans.
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
The point is, there were so many people involved, and we still haven't learned our lesson.
Granted Germany enabled it, but so many people took advantage of the situation for personal gain. Outing neighbors, business rivals, most governments weren't too concerned about jews being slaughtered (Denmark being a very notable exception).
A German newspaper trying to reduce the role of Germans in the biggest crime in the history of humanity.
The point is, there were so many people involved, and we still haven't learned our lesson.
Granted Germany enabled it, but so many people took advantage of the situation for personal gain. Outing neighbors, business rivals, most governments weren't too concerned about jews being slaughtered (Denmark being a very notable exception).
convex
27 Jan 2010
Love / Polish Girls vs Russian Girls [813]
Fact, you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. Fact, you might want to rethink the people you hang around with. Correction, you're probably in the right crowd as it is.
Girls in Poland tend to have this simple "finish school-get married early-go to church-have kids" aim in life and if you're a guy with unique passions/ambitions they are hard to relate to on a deeper level.
Fact, you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. Fact, you might want to rethink the people you hang around with. Correction, you're probably in the right crowd as it is.
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
Things like Jedwabne make me think that maybe not everyone had a problem with killing jews, nor were the Germans the only people that were guilty of atrocities...
They didn't enable it. They conceived it, planned it and then made it happen.
Things like Jedwabne make me think that maybe not everyone had a problem with killing jews, nor were the Germans the only people that were guilty of atrocities...
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
Everyone who sat on their ass and did nothing is culpable. The people who actively took part in it and deny their involvement are even worse.
when you think about the Holocaust , poland comes to my mind .
poland is responsable for this too.
poland is responsable for this too.
Everyone who sat on their ass and did nothing is culpable. The people who actively took part in it and deny their involvement are even worse.
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
How about Kielce? Is that debatable?
No one is denying that Poles made huge sacrifices, and that there were countless heroes. There were also plenty of evil people, and a huge majority of apathetic people.
I'd sit on my ass and do nothing because I'm a weak willed coward. Unlike the small percentage of heroes all over Europe who made huge sacrifices, in every country, to stand up and help. I'd feel bad about it too.
A very debatable Jedwabne case
How about Kielce? Is that debatable?
No one is denying that Poles made huge sacrifices, and that there were countless heroes. There were also plenty of evil people, and a huge majority of apathetic people.
It's easy for you to say now. Would you take the risk of you and your family
being exectued by Germans for helping some Jewish person, or would you sit on your
ass and do nothing?
being exectued by Germans for helping some Jewish person, or would you sit on your
ass and do nothing?
I'd sit on my ass and do nothing because I'm a weak willed coward. Unlike the small percentage of heroes all over Europe who made huge sacrifices, in every country, to stand up and help. I'd feel bad about it too.
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
We did, just a few years back. The only difference is that this happened in our backyard. It is still happening, right now, in our lifetime. In our last decade. That is the sad part.
remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day
Rest in peace.
So much suffering, so much pain so much death.
I hope none of us ever experience anything even remotely like this.
Rest in peace.
So much suffering, so much pain so much death.
I hope none of us ever experience anything even remotely like this.
We did, just a few years back. The only difference is that this happened in our backyard. It is still happening, right now, in our lifetime. In our last decade. That is the sad part.
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
I was watching it on television and reading in the newspapers about the 5.4 million that were systematically killed in the Congo.
How did you experience it?
How did you experience the holocaust?
I was watching it on television and reading in the newspapers about the 5.4 million that were systematically killed in the Congo.
How did you experience it?
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
My mistake, I thought you meant "us" in the sense of the human race, not individuals. Not to have to experience the atrocities ever again, regardless of to whom or where...
I didn't experience it.
My mistake, I thought you meant "us" in the sense of the human race, not individuals. Not to have to experience the atrocities ever again, regardless of to whom or where...
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
lets go one further back no Versailles=no WWII=no holocaust=millions of people's lifes saved
no WWII=no holocaust=millions of people's lifes saved
lets go one further back no Versailles=no WWII=no holocaust=millions of people's lifes saved
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
thousands
hundreds of souls saved ...
thousands
convex
28 Jan 2010
Food / Polish Beer Recipes [39]
Brewing just to have beer is like buying a yacht so that you can eat fish. I'd rather experiment and have something fresh and exactly how I like it... That's the fun of brewing, getting it exactly down to what you enjoy, and trying new things that you could never get out of a store.
Brewing just to have beer is like buying a yacht so that you can eat fish. I'd rather experiment and have something fresh and exactly how I like it... That's the fun of brewing, getting it exactly down to what you enjoy, and trying new things that you could never get out of a store.
convex
28 Jan 2010
Food / Polish Beer Recipes [39]
Might want to beware, we home brewers are becoming more militant. I don't want to say firebombing campaign... but if grains keep going up in price...
Might want to beware, we home brewers are becoming more militant. I don't want to say firebombing campaign... but if grains keep going up in price...
convex
28 Jan 2010
News / Poland - Third World Country?? [300]
They don't have Walmart, I think that answers the question.
But seriously, comparing Poland to France? Poland is about like France 30 years ago, except with horrible roads.
Its like asking if France is a 3rd world country...
They don't have Walmart, I think that answers the question.
But seriously, comparing Poland to France? Poland is about like France 30 years ago, except with horrible roads.
convex
28 Jan 2010
News / Poland - Third World Country?? [300]
you got it
That's why Poland is 30 years behind. Have you seen the hospitals? The transportation system? The glorious roads? The lack of sulfur smell in the winter? The quality of food available?
It's catching up though. I think the countryside will be stuck back in time for a while though...
That was a joke right?
you got it
Poland was an occupied country for decades with no investment...as for 30 years behind..I dont think so..have you seen rural parts of France? and the slums in Paris?
That's why Poland is 30 years behind. Have you seen the hospitals? The transportation system? The glorious roads? The lack of sulfur smell in the winter? The quality of food available?
It's catching up though. I think the countryside will be stuck back in time for a while though...
convex
28 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
Yea, you don't get it. If there were more people like Witold Pilecki, that might have been a reality. My point is that apathy is dead square in the middle of resistance and collaboration. You don't think it's a little bit immoral and cowardly to watch something go on in front of your eyes and not react? There were lots of heroes, there were many, many, many more cowards.
It's a comfy couch. I already stated that I didn't do anything, and probably wouldn't have done anything because I would have been too much of a coward, much like the majority of the populace. If you'd take a second to actually read the remarks, you'd already know that.
The soviets made us kill the baby stealing jews, yea i don't know about that. so you're saying that they were just retarded, and not evil?
LOL
Usual BULLSH!T of someone who has no goddamn clue of the realities of those times.
What, say people of Oswiecim, were supposed to do? Write angry letters to Hitler? Or maybe organized a SWAT team, bite through the electric fences, kill all the Germans, rescue all the prisoners and then ..wait for it.. disappear in a mist...?
Crap like yours being spread around the net pisses me off the most.
Usual BULLSH!T of someone who has no goddamn clue of the realities of those times.
What, say people of Oswiecim, were supposed to do? Write angry letters to Hitler? Or maybe organized a SWAT team, bite through the electric fences, kill all the Germans, rescue all the prisoners and then ..wait for it.. disappear in a mist...?
Crap like yours being spread around the net pisses me off the most.
Yea, you don't get it. If there were more people like Witold Pilecki, that might have been a reality. My point is that apathy is dead square in the middle of resistance and collaboration. You don't think it's a little bit immoral and cowardly to watch something go on in front of your eyes and not react? There were lots of heroes, there were many, many, many more cowards.
What did you do to help those suppressed? Oh, you were too busy seating in your comfy chair and blaming others, weren't you?
It's a comfy couch. I already stated that I didn't do anything, and probably wouldn't have done anything because I would have been too much of a coward, much like the majority of the populace. If you'd take a second to actually read the remarks, you'd already know that.
Oh, very much so. Fact that it was a Soviet provocation tells volumes here.
The soviets made us kill the baby stealing jews, yea i don't know about that. so you're saying that they were just retarded, and not evil?
convex
28 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
Obviously.
Anyway, I probably won't get any further with someone who just ends up resorting to personal attacks because of hurt feelings.
The obviously biased and pro Russian IPN was wrong when they said that Soviets didn't play any significant role in the murders. Hey, you're out of bad guys to blame this one on. No bad Germans, no bad Russians, you want to go with bad communists on this one?
Anyway, might not want to take too much of that pride, seems really easy to OD.
No, I don't.
Obviously.
Anyway, I probably won't get any further with someone who just ends up resorting to personal attacks because of hurt feelings.
Ruskie high commandier on-site, ruskies in the crowd, milicja in the crowd, civil war in a background. Yeah, it was all about a rumor of one kid kidnapped.
The obviously biased and pro Russian IPN was wrong when they said that Soviets didn't play any significant role in the murders. Hey, you're out of bad guys to blame this one on. No bad Germans, no bad Russians, you want to go with bad communists on this one?
Anyway, might not want to take too much of that pride, seems really easy to OD.
convex
28 Jan 2010
convex
28 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
There is nothing at all more shameful than people who did so much harm pretending to be victims. It only dilutes what the actual victims, regardless of which side of the fence, had to endure.
When Spiegel revealed its discoveries Steinbach said that they have nothing to blame themselves for
There is nothing at all more shameful than people who did so much harm pretending to be victims. It only dilutes what the actual victims, regardless of which side of the fence, had to endure.
convex
28 Jan 2010
Food / Polish culinary dislikes [83]
Kvas is one of those drinks that I really want to like, I mean, it has everything that one needs to make a good drink, but I just can't make the connection. Maybe it's just been bad kvas, or maybe there is a beginner or baby kvas to start and work your way up to street vendor kvas... Kvas tour in Moscow this summer?
Grilled deer burgers is where it's at. Good lord, nothing better. A nice slab of brisket is also up there if you have the time :)
Had you tried some better before that? :) Maybe you just don't like the very taste.
Well... my bad... I rephrase it from "decent" to "acceptable" cause what one could buy in shops in early 90th had been "unacceptable".
Well... my bad... I rephrase it from "decent" to "acceptable" cause what one could buy in shops in early 90th had been "unacceptable".
Kvas is one of those drinks that I really want to like, I mean, it has everything that one needs to make a good drink, but I just can't make the connection. Maybe it's just been bad kvas, or maybe there is a beginner or baby kvas to start and work your way up to street vendor kvas... Kvas tour in Moscow this summer?
Basically if you can kill it, we can grill it!
Grilled deer burgers is where it's at. Good lord, nothing better. A nice slab of brisket is also up there if you have the time :)
convex
28 Jan 2010
Food / Polish culinary dislikes [83]
Your wastefulness was fixed. Two words with the same meaning, pfft!
grilling - flames, two beers and you have your meal
barbecuing - smoke and indirect heat, a case of beer and you have your meal (or something resembling jerky because you managed to fall asleep and leave your chunk of meat smoking over night...)
Never seen one of those American contraptions before. So the word barbecue means something different depending on where you're from. And since we invented English, the yanks must be wrong. ;) (just chain jerking)
Your wastefulness was fixed. Two words with the same meaning, pfft!
grilling - flames, two beers and you have your meal
barbecuing - smoke and indirect heat, a case of beer and you have your meal (or something resembling jerky because you managed to fall asleep and leave your chunk of meat smoking over night...)
convex
28 Jan 2010
Food / Polish culinary dislikes [83]
No reservations is hands down the best food related tv out there :) Apparently, you can skip Namibia as far as bbq goes :)
Anthony Bourdain
No reservations is hands down the best food related tv out there :) Apparently, you can skip Namibia as far as bbq goes :)
convex
28 Jan 2010
Food / Polish culinary dislikes [83]
amen, gotta love the tasty bits...he's a bit dickish every once in a while, but usually delivers.
he's an offal chap like myself
amen, gotta love the tasty bits...he's a bit dickish every once in a while, but usually delivers.