UK, Ireland / What's So Great About The UK? [416]


I was not aware that we have any of these now. Certainly not Rover anymore.

UK, Ireland / What's So Great About The UK? [416]


We have no motor industry, coal, shipping, steel or industrial base left. Times change, I know that but selling insurance and other such service industries will not replace in the long term, what has been lost.

UK, Ireland / What's So Great About The UK? [416]

If you can, try Sydney Australia. I went there a year ago and really liked it. It reminded me very much of an old gone by England of the early sixties. nice country, nice people and plenty of space. If you want to go traveling, you have japan and South Korea as well as other places nearer to hand. Just an idea. Incidentley, what is it about Poland that you do not like most? I find Poland a bit too 'pedestrian' for my liking. I suppose it is the same everywhere and it all depends on your ability to be somewhere different and develop relationships. You could be sad and lost on your own in New York City as well as a small Polish village.

UK, Ireland / POLISH ADMIRATION FOR THE IRISH GENIUS JAMES JOYCE [63]

I think it is escapism. In Russia they loved Burns and even celebrated a special Burns night in Moscow each year. I am not sure if they still remember him now though. I am delighted that Poland at last admits to liking literature written in the English Language. When I was in Moscow I met many Poles and they never had a single good word to say for the English. My God, how times change!

UK, Ireland / Many British have inferiority complex [131]


Rubbish, I thought that the British pound was doing very well on the World stage. Probably and more likely, your Polish Magistr is not recognized outside of Poland. I do not really believe that the British have inferior complexes but I hate the social engineering that takes place. The British deliberately have poor quality schools because they know they are going to need a future generation of low paid working class. I believe the British are certainly nationalistic, certainly much more than the French are.

UK, Ireland / Polish kids in UK education system [57]

Parrot fashion education where you get the pupil to cram facts from an early age was always the Russian way of doing things. There are advantages and disadvantages to this. In England the primary education system tried to get away from all this and would not even teach the times tables. Now, some of this former rote learning has come back in to fashion. Learning off by heart is one reason why Poles and Russians are not very good at the post graduate level because they are not taught to think for themselves and are therefore unable to create self though, simply a must in Msc and especially Phd study areas.

UK, Ireland / What's it really like being a Polish worker in the UK? [25]


Is that why are you here, then?

UK, Ireland / Polish kids in UK education system [57]


For a start, you are not American, you are Polish. Your bad grammar gives you away. I am certainly not your 'dude', you do not even know what the word means. If you continue to be rude and personal you may get another ban. Teraz koniec.

UK, Ireland / What's it really like being a Polish worker in the UK? [25]

There are two totally different types of Pole working in the United Kingdom. Those which came in the 1980's came with sponsors and work permits due to the high level of their education. Now, they own their own homes and have a good standard of living. The new generation of Poles are mainly young and uneducated. They work anywhere where they can find agency work and sleep together in rented rooms. Many are university entrance failures or deserters who can not face two years national service. Some are nice, many are not so. I ignore all of them.

UK, Ireland / Polish kids in UK education system [57]

This topic has been discussed to death-wystarczy!

UK, Ireland / Polish kids in UK education system [57]


How do you know? Who says that I am even married? What do you know?

UK, Ireland / Polish kids in UK education system [57]

I know of quite a lot of dumb English school children but even so, I can not think of any English school kids dumb enough to live in Poland.

UK, Ireland / Polish kids in UK education system [57]

I know one or two Polish school children and in fact they are very lazy. They waited as long as possible to start school in the first place and have made no attempt at all to learn the language.

UK, Ireland / BBC Prime going Polish [17]


The B.B.C. World Service is funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth office.

Genealogy / Lesko and surrounding areas [8]


I have visited the Bieszczady in winter. It was very pretty but very cold. It was in the middle of winter when I was there with snow and ice. I would think it would be even nicer in the summer when you could go for walks in the warm evenings. I expect it has changed a bit since I was there. There were few lorries, everything was carried by horse and cart when I was there. Everything changes in time.

Life / Polish Songs related to Hope [29]


Yes, I agree, you are right. He too, liked the bottle.

Life / Polish Songs related to Hope [29]


He sung drunk not poetry.

UK, Ireland / TRUTH AND DELUSION ABOUT POLES IN UK [65]


Why do you think that the British Establishment is so pro the Polish workers. They are cheap, you can use them and then spit them out and just fill the positions with other 'guest workers'. The English give little away, nor do the Poles, for that matter. I am against all these Poles as it is a back door to allowing in cheap hourly paid workers with almost no legal rights.

Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]

I had a British dentist once and I was not at all pleased with his work.

Life / Polish Songs related to Hope [29]

Marek Grechuta was a Polish version of John Denver in America singing country style music. Not really 'my cup of tea'! There was a very good singer, a Russian singer called Vysotski, also now dead but of a much higher caliber than either of the other two.

Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]

Some Polish dentists are good, as they would be in almost any country. South African dentists have been good in my experience, to others maybe not so. If you are stuck in Poland, then you will have to rely on a Polish dentist but then you chose to live abroad in such a country so you have to take those sort of risks. It seems strange to me, people chose Poland to live in, they can not find a doctor, can not speak a word of the language. Do people simply not think at all before they take the plunge? Getting back to Polish dentists, I did have a dentist when I was last in Częstochowa and the fillings were dreadful. So bad were they, that I had to wait in the end and come home with a hole in one of my teeth and I got it fixed on my return to England. A good South African dentist did in minutes what a Pole could not do on so many subsequent trials. I have not been back to a Polish dentist or Częstochowa for that matter for a few years now.

Life / Polish dentists - good and cheap? [84]

In my experience, South African dentists are very good. Poland can be cheaper but the quality of work is much more variable than in other countries.

Life / Polish man finds wife working at brothel [43]

I do not know if anybody has been watching the B.B.C. television series Casualty on a Saturday evening but there was a very similar circumstance where the manager visits a brothel and when he sits on the bed waiting for his 'service' the prostitute turned out to be one of the nurses from a ward at the very same hospital! It all goers to show that sometimes in real life, it can be as strange as fiction.

Language / Share Perfective and Imperfective Polish verbs [105]


Why on God's name have simple points of Polish grammar got to be made so complicated? How does this help beginners who want to come to terms with the language making look like a Phd in chemistry?

Love / How can I conquer a Polish woman? [84]


It is kurwa mać, another dirty Polish word among many others. Polish women can be very strange and you want to make sure that she has feelings for you before you make a fool of yourself. On the whole, Polish women prefer other Polish men speaking their own language unless you have a very healthy bank balance, do I need to say more?

Life / Polish Songs related to Hope [29]


Its a shame you did not have such courage in 1941 when you left it to the Red Army to come to your rescue. All Poles have big mouths at a distance.

Feedback / Gowno, Sh.it etc. -- auto-censoring bad words on forums [20]


Because, it is mainly only the Polish who swear and use this sort of language.

UK, Ireland / Rules on Car Tax on Polish vehicle in UK [20]

Sometimes, I do not know how anybody can prove if you have paid for tax or not. In Germany the registration number is your tax and if you do not pay they came and took your plates away. If the car is in England, it could be here for years and not pay anything. How would anybody know it was not just a tourist visitor?

Life / Polish Songs related to Hope [29]

I have heard he is dead anyway. He was also a drunk when he was alive. We have some of his cd's at home and sometimes even listen to them though very rarely these days. We do not like polish music at home very much.

UK, Ireland / Rules on Car Tax on Polish vehicle in UK [20]

Many years ago, in the 1970's, a lot of Australians used to drive around Europe in old Dutch registered vehicles and then sell them in London to buy their return air tickets. It was a real head ache as very often these cars were not legally insured or taxed.