Yes, by all means - please tell us your tales of Poland. As SB said, we would welcome something other than the horrible news stories we've been dealing with for the past few days.

So, bring it on!


Signor V.

Well folks here goes!

Krakow is a beautiful city, very nice buildings, beautiful square. The people might come across as a bit blunt but they are very polite and pleasant and all speak English. They have all types of food (the three nights we were there we went to an American style diner, an Italian place and a local Polish joint) and it was all nicely priced. The night life was amazing, loads of bars and people out. The average price of our round, 2 pints of beer and 2 vodkas, was not much more than £5!!!!

We visited the salt mines which were awesome and we also went to Aushwitz which was heart rending.

The only down point was the weather. Pouring rain the first 2 days and blizzards of snow the next 2!!!

All in all, a superb jaunt!!

Sounds like a great trip. I've never been to Poland, but it does sound like it has a great deal to offer! Any place with good food and cheap booze is a Paradise! LOL

I can't imagine being in Auschwitz. I saw the footage from Elie Wiesel's trip back, and it was terribly sad. "Moving" is a gross understatement.

Yogi,

Thanks for the info on Poland. It sounds like you did a lot, ate a lot and had a good time.


Glad you had a superb jaunt.


TIS

Glad you had a great time, Yogi.

Loads of Americans in Poland as well....and drunken Norwegians. Everywhere i ever go i always meet Norwegians, and they are always nice people but bonafide alcoholics....i like em

Don't forget to turn back your clocks tomorrow!

And replace the batteries in your smoke detectors!

And wash your underpants!!

Again!?

Got my power back tonight, but it's kinda funny how meaningless that is when you don't. Over 5 days, I've been up (or not) at all hours of the day/night, because time doesn't mean anything when you're stuck like that. Very weird situation.

But I hate Standard Time! Guess it doesn't matter much in the long run, but I hated (when I did) waking up in the dark, and getting home in the dark. Soooo depressing!

Same here. I could've sworn that I remembered, years ago, that we stopped changing the clocks for awhile. Now, after reading a Wikipedia article, I'm not sure my memory matches up with the facts. Of course, it was quite a long time ago and I probably can't remember anything from those years...

Anyway, for those who want a convoluted and sometimes illogical history of the strange thing we call Daylight Savings Time, just click here.

Some people like reading about this sorta stuff. Actually, I, on occasion, like reading about this sorta stuff.

I mean, why doesn't Arizona observe it? The Hopi Reservation, which lies entirely within that state does not observe it, but the Navajo Reservation, which also extends into two adjacent states, does.

Perhaps Turnbull can explain. Deep down, I suspect he knows all that can be known. (And I know the rest.)


Signor V.

If I remember correctly, we didn't go back to Standard Time during the oil embargo in the 70's. It was suppose to save on lighting or some other nonsense. I remember kids waiting for the school bus in the dark.

My grandfather was a coal miner, and in the Fall and Winter he would go down in the mines in the darkness of morning, and usually not come up until after dusk. The only time he would see sunshine was once a week.

I wasn't a coal miner -- not even close. But even in the 2000's... I commuted to NYC for 3 years, and half the year it was dark at 7am grabbing the bus, and also dark again at 8pm+ getting home. You really want to kill yourself at that point, day after day, month after month!

I vote for getting rid of STANDARD time! What difference would it really make??

My uncle was a coal miner....back in the days when the UK had miners

Whilst continuing to recapture my lost youth, last night i took myself off to see the mighty Motorhead for the umpteenth time. Still rocking after all these years, they did what they always have done. Completely blow my hearing for the next 4 days

How come Disability people can't seem to park between the lines; where the blue stripes are
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carry On, MC

^^ I want what he's drinking.

You Brits have created some of the greatest music known to man within the last fifty years. I'm just sorry you all have to up with One Direction

I have to cancel my email settings for change dot org. It used to be a good site to keep track of social injustices and whatnot, but I just got one from a guy who's disgruntled because he has to work at Target on Thanksgiving. So he's taken to the Internet to protest.

That's an injustice?

If the guy wanted holidays off he should have stayed in school .

Unless he's a Pilgrim, his ass better be in Target on turkey night. Nonetheless, it's kind of disappointing that the ugly tentacles of Black Friday have finally extended into the Thanksgiving holiday.

That's an unfair statement, pb.

The ugly almighty dollar has taken over common decency. I've worked at WalMart and when old man Walton was alive something like this would NEVER be allowed. Walton, and his company prided themselves on family values. They've dropped that and now lead the charge to dupe customers from their money. It's sickening to me. Dunno who is worse, though .... the customers who will knock down and step over each other in an attempt to buy a HD tv for $150 or the corporate wholesalers who allow this stampede to intrude on family time during the big holiday.

You can't trust that internet. It does some strange things.

Really? So, everyone who has a retail job is an underachieving drop-out? My nephew lives in Virginia and graduated from James Madison University with a bachelor's in business. He was offered a well-paying job in asset protection with Target when he graduated a few years ago. He took the job because it was a poor economy. Thanks to the fact that he lives five hours away and works like an ungodly number of hours at this time of year (and doesn't make overtime because he's "management"), he has been unable to have a Thanksgiving or a Christmas with his family. Thank God he got a new job a few years ago, and for the first time since he graduated college, he's going to be with us for Thanksgiving.

I am disgusted by the demands that the stores put on their employees over the holidays. These workers deserve to be with their families and enjoy their time. The stores open earlier and earlier every year. I heard that one of them (WalMart?) is opening at 8:00 on Thanksgiving night!

I remember once I went shopping on Thanksgiving afternoon in K mart. Are they still in business? The last I heard they were closing many branches. I remember the daughter of the family I was spending the Thanksgiving day with, was really sorry for the those working that shift. And I was like why even go shopping after all we have eaten?

AMEN!!!



AMEN!!!

Awful band. Manafactured crap. Very popular with teenage girls though apparently....unlike Motorhead

I saw the guy from a new show called "Catfish" on Leno last night, all about people who go online pretending to be someone else. The guy who makes the show actually had an online relationship with a woman who was pretending to be 14 different people. This guy is a professional photographer, and he was contacted by a "young woman" who was painting some of his work. He then started a friendship with her, then began an online romantic relationship with her "older sister". He also chatted online with her parents, friends and other family members. Turned out, it was one woman pretending to be all of them. He started with his own, but also does episodes about other people being taken in by their online relationships.

Completely unfair of me, SC. I was having a bad day Sunday and I'm embarrassed by it in hindsight. My 17 year old son was driving me crazy about his car; the Giants were getting embarrassed by the Bengals; and my 83 year old father was over and acting like he was 17 himself. Eldercare is especially difficult when the elder is as healthy as a horse, yet irascible socially. So I'm sorry if you were offended. I really am. I forgot that you worked at WalMart. And even if I didn't know it, it was still obnoxious of me .

You guys know that I was a Teamster for 25 years; a steward, and then later a delegate for many of those years. So the idea of management making people work on holidays against their will is anathema to me. But sadly, unions are dying.

Now I don't want to get political here because the Democrats have been responsible for plenty of mishaps in this country, But the decline of unions in America is due in no small part to the Republicans and their war on organized labor. It's revolting. Take away a fair wage, take away the middle class. It's simple math, really.

And don't get me started on "Black Friday." But in all fairness to the stores, the idiotic consumers who run away from their Thanksgiving tables at 8 o'clock to save a hundred bucks on a PlayStation are just as much to blame. Fuckin idiots .