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I just had a car delivered back to me from a lovely mechanic who failed to fix the coolant leak, he filled it with distilled water which has promptly frozen in the subzero weather we have here at the moment. Fucker.
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I missed this earlier but here's some stuff about Poland and Gdansk: You can safely speed up to 10kph over the limit without getting into trouble with the police. That said, you can't get your license revoked for speeding on motorways (and the fine isn't particularly severe for Westerners/people with well-paying jobs) so you will frequently see people hauling rear end at autobahn speeds, so be aware if you're in the left lane that it's possible someone will come screaming up behind you at waaayyyy over the speed limit. There's also an app called Yanosik (which can be set to English) that allows people to mark where they see speed traps, police, traffic accidents etc. - keep it running while you're driving and it will alert you to any of those things coming up on your route. It's obviously not infallible but it does work pretty well. Also be aware that they don't gently caress around when it comes to drinking and driving - unless you're a big guy, one drink will put you in pretty serious trouble and two is pretty much an automatic prison sentence. I've heard of a fair few foreigners who go to Poland thinking they can bribe their way out of stuff or that they'll get a pass in the otherwise pretty pro-alcohol country but they really have a zero tolerance policy on this. Don't be tempted! As for Gdansk, it's a pretty cool city that has some fairly profound historic and cultural significance for Poland and eastern Europe as a whole. The Solidarity movement started there that eventually broke the Russian stranglehold on the Eastern Bloc and contributed significantly to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union in general. There's a museum about it called the European Solidarity Centre that is supposedly worth a visit, though I haven't been personally. I have however been to the Gdansk WWII museum which is great, I highly recommend it. Another fun museum to visit is the amber museum which is housed in the old city's torture chamber building. It's a weird combo, you can see lots of cool amber-related stuff like prehistoric animals trapped in amber, or a Fender Stratocaster made from the stuff, as well as lots of elaborate torture equipment. It's a small place but pretty cool. Lastly, as someone already said, go check out the main square of the old town and get a picture by the fountain, otherwise you haven't officially touristed the place  Sopot is another city that's close enough to be basically considered a part of Gdansk, it's more of a leisure beach and party town, in the summer it's like a Polish Ibiza. Loads of great bars, clubs and strip clubs. It has a big pier. Here are some of my favourite places to eat: https://www.gdanskibowke.com/en/ my favourite restaurant in Gdansk, really good Polish and German-style food in a traditional setting. http://goldwasser.pl/en/restaurant/ on the riverfront, if you like your food hoity-toity or the company is paying for dinner then this is the place for you. https://pierogarnia-mandu.pl/en/about-us/ Polish dumplings are goooood, and this place knows how to make 'em. http://zafishowani.pl/en/ Another high end place but specialising in freshly-caught local fish. There's also a pirate ship that is a bar where a live band sings sea shanties. Fun place but closed over the winter. Hope some of this was useful. Have fun! Grakkus fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jan 13, 2019 |
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Safety Dance posted:Thanks for all this! I'm meeting up with a German colleague there, and he's threatening to take me to what he described as a traditional diner run out of someone's home. I think he called it a "shashinki", but I can't understand him over the phone at the best of times. In my experience most Polish words sound like "shashinki" to an English speakers ear, it sort of sounds like everything and nothing in the language so it could really be anything I'm curious as to what it turns out to be!
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Phones too. It feels like a purely anti-consumer move. I remember being baffled by my friend's mac in the mid-2000s and how if it froze, he had to wait until the batteries died because there was no way to pull the battery. Now everything is headed in that direction..
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Jan 21, 2019 18:42
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opengl128 posted:This will indeed work on all Macs, built in battery or not. From what I recall, this did not work 
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Jan 21, 2019 19:44
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I barely have the time and energy to keep one lady happy, two would probably kill me  If you're up to it though and everything is above board, more power to you.
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Lightbulb Out posted:My car wouldn't start yesterday at -25, but would start today at -25. The world is truly a mystery. My car started happily for a month sitting out in -10, and then refused to start in the +10 garage Cars are weird.
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