PF - The Omnibus Edition

Thank you Sausage for your Solidarity, although this means we have to grow dodgy moustaches I suppose.

I favour handlebar, or I may go Freddy Mercury.

I'm leaning towards the handlebars.

Jeez that was bad. Boredom does funny things to you. I think I'll start a fight on a thread or two.

don't pun-ish yourself. (or us for that matter)

OK. You have my word as an officer and a gentleman.

Recession Bites

It looks like I will be spending more time in our virtual bar as my real life local has closed its doors. The owner cannot get credit from the corpulent, greedy and incompetent financial services wallahs so a slice of English history is no more. I am distraught.

A very short omnibus edition this week!


Where will you go to mourn the loss of Woolies now?

I've found a good new drinking place already. Woolies is a distant memory already

A Change of Ownership

We would like to inform you that the Omnibus Edition has been bought by the same Russian oligarch who recently purchased the London Evening Standard. Sadly both the editor and myself have been replaced by ex KGB staff and so this is the last Omnibus Edition. No doubt there will be a replacement along soon. So long all. It has been fun whilst it lasted.

To all of you on here who have made me laugh and increased my knowledge and appreciation of Poland I would like to say thanks for the all the fish. Take care all.

Nooo..

Polonium, anyone ?

Leave, and there will be a bounty placed upon your głowa.

youtube.com/watch?v=owzU9_J5Iuw

Why have you left the Omnibus ? Does that mean you are leaving PF cos you have better things to do or are you going to be the new Moderator on PF ?

Just cos I like to know these things :)

p.s thanks for the omnibus editions you have posted in the past though, I've really enjoyed reading them and am sorry there won't be any more.

Your głowa is safe, for now :-)

Phew....

I'm not leaving just acknowledging the fact that I have very limited time on the internet so the Omnibus is shall we say 'parked' for now. With such limited time I have to balance my priorities and PF comes behind the quantum physics forum and russian brides 4u

Have you looked at outsourcing to a third world country? It was all the rage a few years ago.

If I believe some on here I am in a third world country... Is there a fourth world?

Apparently so... The Scottish may be a part of the fourth world according to some
worldproutassembly.org/archives/2007/03/fourth_world_na.html

Regression, not progression, LOL. Here's to the thrust for fifth world status :)

Breaking News

The global war on misinformation has taken a serious turn for the worse today writes our trivia correspondent, Life O’Riley. The conflict levels here on PF have reached the level where the officials have instigated a complete curfew on the streets between the hours of 20:00 and 06:00. At these times all off you must stay within your firewalls and all trips to Bar Above are off limits. (Ed – wasn’t that blown up a few weeks ago anyway?)

A full briefing will be issued once I have sobered up, but for now all of you need to be aware of the main areas of conflict out there:

• Avoid all threads where Brits and Yanks are known to be on concurrently, time zones permitting.
• Avoid the thread concerning the so called ‘Paradise’ if you are an Aussie or Brit. If you’re neither then avoid it anyway because Osiol is talking about Eskimos.

• Do not mention anything about Poland when Puzzler is on. The red mist is back.

Under no circumstances should you attempt to enter into reasoned debate, just to be on the safe side.

Is that why everything went funny there?
Nothing worked, I contemplated doing something else...

How do we trust that this O'Riley person is feeding us the truth about the misinformation?


Puzzy has left the building
polishforums.com/puzzler_says_goodbye_long_time-47_32168_0.html


With the beating my investments have taken lately, I think it is time to double down, and go big or go home. How does one start a Ponzi scheme, anyways?

No that was Admin upgrading our servers I suspect. Hence the MySQL script references and the like.

Come on SeanBM I thought you were getiing this IT stuff:)

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
(Oscar)


By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
(Oscar)


I thought I had IT, until I broke wind.

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No prizes for guessing who I was looking up, while Admin was eeehhh... changing the oil.

Damn - I had posted a deeply insightful comment that has not made it through the upgrade.

Good old Oscar. He was a wit.

The Outro and the Intro (with apologies to Vivian Stanshaw)

I was just musing on posters that have left PF or turned into lurkers. As I started to jot down some names I suddenly realised how much I miss their contribution. Yes I know its nostalgia and that ain’t what it used to be but for what it’s worth here is my list of the dear departed:

• Fisz (aka Z the mod)
• Krysia (an infrequent visitor these days and the resident PF cartoonist)
• Sledz (pops by to have a pop at us limeys but always with good humour)
• Ranj (who has yet to forgive me for the Rumours thing)
• Miranda (ain’t no more philosophy any more)
• Pingwin (sometimes you can spot a genuinely nice person even over the internet)
• Daisy (laughs galore and a heap of common sense)
• Patrcyja19 (pops by less and less frequently)
• Mufasa (remember the investigative reporting on smilies – MI6 would have been proud of her)
• The various wolves that lurked around on here, male and female
• Smoothjazz
• Puzzler
• Giles……

There are many, many more I could name (but hey it’s OK I can’t offend them by their omission since they aren’t here any more). The quality of the discussion in the good old days was pretty darned good. Informative always. Funny most often. Often edgy but always with respect.

Now the place is bigger and that of course brings less intimacy. Questions are repeated as more and more people develop an interest in Poland and are attracted here. The information exchange is just as effective but the feel of the place is different now. Some of the ‘replacements’ for the above and others that I failed to name just piss me off if I’m honest. Closed minds and big mouths never go down well with me and never will. Self opinionated twats. Of course this is a very small minority of our members.

This is not a pop at PF. Any growing organisation brings change, some of it good some of it bad. There is huge value here and I’m sure all the new members who are here not just to have a fight would agree. The law of diminishing returns has kicked in for me as I am sure it has for others.

So let this just be my way of acknowledging the contribution of all the early crew in making this forum a success and a nice cyberhome (not forgetting the contribution of Admin and our mods over the years). Gone but not forgotten.

Bad day, szarlotka?.

I've had better but there again I've had far worse too:)

Mid winter does make people think of loss.
I look at the trees, they all look dead, the animals are no more but be safe in the knowledge that spring will come and the trees are not really dead and the animals (wolves male and female) will be out once more.

I hope this cheers you up, if only a little.

I am, as it may seem, a twat sometimes. I had no intention of really arguing with anybody on this forum things just kind of went that way...

I will try to behave myself more often.

I do however try to make a positive contribution to the forum, maybe I am just walking over ground that has been walked over before?

I am not unfortunately an intellectual and never have I claimed to be, if I do not know about a topic I will not enter into it. There are many threads on this forum which I will not debate on for this reason.

Anyways... If I piss any of the decent members off such as yourselves, please just tell me to check myself and I will do so.

:)

It's only a handful of people that are getting to me and believe me you're not in that category cjjc. The nature of a forum that grows is that old ground is gone over. I wasn't aiming for a personal Utopia! I still think this is a great Forum. Like SeanBM has said, I'm having a bad one

Ok.


Cheer up bud.

:)