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[sharter]

What is it with this forum?

A nice little debate about the Polish currency turns into a 'who's a better teacher boxing match'

C'mon y'all. Everyone makes mistakes bumbling out their thoughts on a blog/forum. Harry, you're not perfect....you don't put a gap between can and not. And Mr Lund, commodities traded on the futures market do have to fit qualitative standards. I know, I worked on the L.I.F.F.E. market between 93 and 95 in Canon Street, London hedging options trades with futures in the Bund and Gilt markets. We traded volatility. It bored me to death and as a friend of mine kept sending me postcards from Mexico, where he taught EFL, waxing lyrical about his partying and womanising, I thought I'd give this joke a go. !3 years later, I teach ESL/EFL (whatever) for an oil company, am well paid and get lots of holidays.

Point is, re the op, everything all of us have said is conjecture. Economics is overrated.We never used 'economic theory' to influence trading decisions. We used a pricing model and looked at prices in real time. Economics, like grammar has rules to which there are lots of exceptions and special cases. If economics was the science it claims to be, it could predict stuff. I got a 2:1...biggest waste of time ever. Never used it and have forgotten most of it.

And re the OP: The Zloty is strong against Sterling if you look at the last ten years or so. Against the Dollar it has weakened. recently.

When I first went to Poland back in 96, there were just over 4 Zl to a pound and we were paid 900 Zl a month. A beer cost not more than 3 Zl, a meal in a restaurant as little as 3 or 4 , a pizza about 10 and monthly rent, if you had to pay it, not more than 400Zl. If you spent 50-60 Zl on a night out, you had a stupendous time. In 95 in the Czech Republic, 5 quid was impossible to spend in one night. But sadly, those times have gone and with them many of the things that made Poland and the CR such charming places.

I lived in Bydgoszcz in 95, Poznan between 96 and 99 and again in 2006 and Warsaw in 2005. I go to Poland often. Still in my 30s. I don't much like the post communist generation that has evolved. It's a harsher place, a place where people are too skint to worry about others. A place where the American approach to economics and self-interest has replaced more social thinking.

Going to are all the cool little bars that you used to find. Marketing has homogenised every rynek. All the bars look the same. All the restaurants sell the same Krap. It's actually hard to find decent Polish grub now. You've gotta wander around the Sphinxs, Tivolis and then past the Irish bars and strip joints.

Some of you guys haven't been in Poland long enough to have any kind of real perspective. Some of you have. And, some of those who've been there ages have also clearly forgotten what a decent hotel or meal are.

I'll be there in a few weeks seeing my son.

It'll cost me a bomb as usual. I'll get sozzled a plenty, have some intimate experiences with the local totty, someone will steal my mobile phone and I'll moan like *beep* about the price of everything.

[Harry from NWE]

[lundjstuart]

So Harry, You should be ashamed for having no life! I speak how I was taught in America not like a British person! Should I say more? You obviously haven't realized that your grammar books have been written by American authors! You have just taken what I have written and changed the meaning of it completely! What are you? French or English? �migr�s?

[Harry from NWE]

[sparks]

You both should be ashamed... using Dave's to quote and requote messages in order to criticise your cyber-enemies. Hey, I think if you quote a quote you get maximum hit points, unless your enemy uses the Shield of Defiance. You guys should both make an "L" sign with your pointer finger and thumb then place them directly over your foreheads.

[sharter]

Hi Harry,

I guess the place I know most about is the rynek in Poznan, where an average meal for one person is now in the 45-50Zl range. Beer is anywhere upto 18 depending on the brand. Hotels cost an average of 200/night. Housing has had some of the highest hikes in Poland if Mamdom is to be believed. As I'm a dad I also know something about my kid's stuff. Same quality in the UK costs less. Same for clothes and electricals.

I'm an 18 week a year tourist in Poland these days...so I don't exactly live on a budget.

Anyhow, rise above this petty point scoring on Dave's. Yes, his English is awful and yes, veterans like you and me have met plenty of American people in Poland who claim to be teachers. Look at it this way; we Brits get business repairing the linguistic damage they've done. In my view, Americans should be encouraged to teach in Poland:)

[dynow]

[sharter]

I forgot to mention how we 'spread the glory' by letting you guys in at the end of WW 2.

Seriously though, as long as my son's ok and Portsmouth finish in the top 10 of the Premier league....all this brain fuzz.

Here's my thought for the day:

There once was a Yank from New York,

Who in Poland many women he did pork,
He spent all his Zloty on Whisky and totty,

Couldn't teach but could certainly talk..

Anyone used a limerick in class? (Link).

[scotv]

[simon_porter00]

seems to be a fair amount of yo-yoing going on with the pound
up to 4.86 (23/10) from early Oct to 4.60 (30/10) to 4.49 (today). All NBP figures. Could have made a bit of cash there.....

[sharter]

I thought everyone was trying to stop short selling right now.

Options traders will be making a mint with all this volatility. Increased volatility increases premium on options. By keeping delta neutral you can trade the volatility.

That ain't tosh either.

[nocturnalme]

Possibly the funniest thread I've read in years! Shame on you, Harry, for throwing in a word like 'emigres' when poor Stuart has only a fundamental grasp of English!

[sharter]

Is Stuart in hiding or what?

I can hear the Fratton End chanting,'You don't know what you're doing'............followed by a chorus of,'It's all gone quiet over there'.

If the current exchange between Harry and Stuart was a footy match, it would be like Pompey v Man City this season, when the Fratton faithful were subjected to a 6-0 drubbing.

Play up Pompey.

Stuart, the words 'fish', 'out of' and 'water' spring to mind. Poor Poland. I hear they need people in Maccy Ds.

Harry, you should have, or as Stu would say, 'should of' been a lawyer.

Clinical in your destruction of someone's teaching knowledge and English usage.

[nocturnalme]

Stu is going back to college to study English - I've seen his application form.

Deer Sur and madam,
Im writting to .....

Your's sinceerly,

Stu

[Harry from NWE]