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teflcat   
15 Jul 2011
Food / Are there any Polish wines worth purchasing? [65]

There is some half decent Polish wine

Can you give us any information on that Harry. I'd love to try good Polish wine. The only stuff I see is the chateaux park bench @ 4zł/l.
teflcat   
14 Jul 2011
Life / Polish equivalent of Maplins or Radio Shack in Łódź [12]

Why not just buy it on Allegro and save yourself a trip? I recently went all over looking for a large diaphragm condenser mic but there was nothing available in shops selling electronics. Allegro is good for specialist stuff.
teflcat   
14 Jul 2011
Language / Unique names of cities/town/villages in Poland [58]

Low comedy is much underated. I might just start a thread on the best toilet humour onscreen. The dinner table in Nutty Professor, or Dumb and Dumber when the laxatives take effect. Puerile? I'm fine with that.
teflcat   
14 Jul 2011
Language / Unique names of cities/town/villages in Poland [58]

you're making them up!!

Absolutely not. The London street was, as you can imagine, a red light area. Apparently, there are other places which had streets of the same name.
teflcat   
14 Jul 2011
Language / Unique names of cities/town/villages in Poland [58]

At last an inoffensive (and interesting!) thread!!

Strange indeed on PF.
From UK
Batchelor's Bump, Sussex
Beer, Devon
Booze, Yorkshire
Bottom Flash, Cheshire
Buttock, Lancashire
Cockup Bottom, Cumbria
Dancing Dicks, Essex
Great Cockup, Cumbria
Great Snoring, Norfolk
Nasty, Hertfordshire
Pisser Clough, Yorkshire
Rest and Be Thankfull, Argyll and Bute
Shagg, Dorset
Shitlington Crags, Northumberland
Spunkie, Ayrshire
Titty Ho, Northamptonshire
Twatt, Orkney
teflcat   
13 Jul 2011
Language / Unique names of cities/town/villages in Poland [58]

Who'd A thought it, Alabama
Eek, Alaska
Greasy Corner, Toad Suck, Turkey Scratch Arkansas
Zyzx Springs, California
Two Egg, Florida
What Cheer, Iowa
Rabbit Hash, Bug, OK, Kentucky
Tightwad, Missouri
Hot Coffee, Mississippi
Wynot, Nebraska
Stifflknee Knob, North Carolina
Lickskillet, Ohio
Lick Fork, Virginia
Embarrass, Wisconsin
Coldass Creek, North Carolina
Sugar Tit, Kentucky
Fuc**ing Creek, Tickle Cu*t Branch, Virginia

These places exist or existed according to Bill Bryson, Made in America.
teflcat   
12 Jul 2011
Life / Drinking before clubbing in Poland? [25]

but wouldn't it be nicer to have a drink once you get to the bar/club?

I'm sure that's also going to happen. Nothing wrong with a heart starter to get you in the mood. Have fun.
teflcat   
11 Jul 2011
UK, Ireland / Is UK the new cradle of antipolonism? [161]

It would IF someone was being paid £100 per day (how many hours does one have to do for that kind of money btw?)..

As I said, it's been a long time since I did it, but 11 or 12 hours a day, five days a week.

I also doubt they're getitng £100 per day either..

Why do you doubt it? It's possible. I'm not really concerned whether you believe me or not. I have no axe to grind. I'd tell you what the best rose budder earned in my day, but you definitely wouldn't believe me!
teflcat   
11 Jul 2011
UK, Ireland / Is UK the new cradle of antipolonism? [161]

PennBoy. I'm way out of touch with the UK benefits system, but I'd be interested to know myself. Perhaps some lazy b@stard can tell us!
teflcat   
11 Jul 2011
UK, Ireland / Is UK the new cradle of antipolonism? [161]

Amathyst. Years ago benefits were not as generous as they are now, and people were more willing to get their backs bent. Agencies (usually "gangmasters") used to exploit farmhands disgracefully but since the Morecombe Bay incident a few years ago, when illegal Chinese workers drowned when cut off by the tide, a body called the Gangmasters Licensing Authority has come into being. This body regulates gangmasters and has successfully prosecuted many shady guys.

guess who. Yes. You probably know that working all day in hot sun on an exposed field is extremely hard. At the risk of sounding more like an old fart than I actually am, a lot of young British people would rather take welfare benefits than work. btw 100 a day is only possible for the fastest, most skillful workers, but 50-70 pounds is entirely possible.
teflcat   
11 Jul 2011
UK, Ireland / Is UK the new cradle of antipolonism? [161]

Incredible though it may seem, you really can earn this kind of money on farms in the UK. I used to do it myself in my student days. I'm going back to the beginning of the 90's but even then I earned between 100 and 120 a day grafting roses. OK, it was a specialist job, but some crops also paid well, as I'm sure they still do, e.g. brocolli. I had a student at my university several years ago who went to England and earned 60 quid a day picking strawberries. If you don't believe me, just do a little research.
teflcat   
11 Jul 2011
UK, Ireland / Is UK the new cradle of antipolonism? [161]

The mantra "Brits are lazy" is just pure and simply propaganda!

I agree in general but it is undeniable that farmers have problems finding British workers to harvest crops. A few days ago there was a report on BBC Radio 4's Farming Today programme on seasonal workers from eastern Europe. According to an interviewed farmer, the best worker on the farm earned 100GBP/day, with the average being 60 pounds. The Lithuanian and Polish workers were delighted to be earning that kind of money, but the farmer said that he simply couldn't find British people willing to work hard for good money.
teflcat   
11 Jul 2011
Real Estate / Building a house in Poland need advice from anyone that has built [100]

I'd like to hear what the average seems to be, and just how rip-off the rip-off merchants around me are

My favourite p1ss-take when building was when the internal plasterers wanted the electricians to cut grooves in the walls for the cables to sit in.They told us the cables would show proud after plastering if that wasn't done. Our electician laughed his head off and said it was the oldest one in the book. He claimed the plasterers just wanted to put less plaster on the walls and "disappear" the bags of unused plaster when we weren't looking. We looked and measured all the time to make sure we got the right coverage.
teflcat   
9 Jul 2011
Real Estate / Building a house in Poland need advice from anyone that has built [100]

Depends a lot on where you want to build, of course. The cost of land can be extremely high. You should always agree on a total price for building the basic structure and roof. We were lucky to find a good builder who built our little place for 33k.
teflcat   
9 Jul 2011
Real Estate / Building a house in Poland need advice from anyone that has built [100]

Can anyone update me with costs on building houses

We built a couple of years ago. 105m2, block, concrete ceiling. We had internet-bought house plans modified by an architect so we got what we wanted. We spent about 200k on the house.
teflcat   
8 Jul 2011
Language / Why is the Polish language so difficult? [246]

Anyway, I am driving myself crazy with this Polish language. It is going to be the death of me.

Polish drove me crazy years ago. Why do you think they did so well at Bletchly Park? Seriously though, try not to fight it. I'm a long way from being fluent or accurate in Polish but when I made the decision to stop banging my head against the wall about it I seemed to feel an inner peace radiating through me. Polish + zen is how to approach it.
teflcat   
8 Jul 2011
Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [240]

Not only forest areas. We regularly find ticks on our cat. Gardens have them too. As you say, denatura or something like that does the trick. It gets the tick drunk so it loosens its grip (as we all know). When we come back from mushrooming in the forest we check each other carefully. A friend of mine is a biologist who works in Białowieża, and he got a tick bite which made him ill for weeks. He had to have a series of injections in his belly. Not at all pleasant. Tourists beware.
teflcat   
5 Jul 2011
Travel / Which bus from Poland to London via the Eurotunnel? [27]

Yes, 31 hours. We stopped a few times of course. btw Eurolines is a company I would never use. As you know it's not one company but has hundreds (thousands?) of partners all over the place. Once when I was going from London to Prague the bus hung a left and took a two-hour detour into Holland to pick up two guys in some one-horse town. Then another two hours to get back to the place where we'd turned off. The boys finished about a dozen tinnies between them and then snored and farted away the rest of the journey. I'd rather walk.
teflcat   
5 Jul 2011
Travel / Which bus from Poland to London via the Eurotunnel? [27]

I know it's off topic but as we're remembering nightmare journeys I went from Białstok to London once (never again). 31 hours with no toilet. The drivers claimed it was out of order. It was worse than the Madrid to Edinburgh epic I did years ago, and about as awful as Prague to Moscow with no buffet on the train (two nights). Istanbul to Batman (yes Batman) was in a league of its own. Now I bite the bullet and fly everywhere.
teflcat   
29 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

Because before they left they rearranged the furniture, changed the curtains and put a quiche in the oven.
teflcat   
29 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

I'm as tolerant as the next guy but I think there shouldn't be special treatment for people based on their sexual proclivites.
My elderly aunt was recently burgled by gays. They were never caught and there's no hope of the police ever finding the culprits.