UK, Ireland / My Views Of Poles Working in the UK [169]


i`m not sure if i can be a british citizen after 4 years but i am sure working on it :)


i don`t know but he sure must have a big ol` a$$ :P


it`s not so easy to go back if you have a british partner (almost a husband) and a british child, innit chap?


i think as long as intergrating is concerned, people like myself who speak english and will probably live here for a looooooong time find it easier to intergrate. but it has to go both ways cuz i know some british people are not so keen themselves with intergrating.

UK, Ireland / My Views Of Poles Working in the UK [169]


so much that you decided to leave your country lol


lol, from this sentence i just found out that there are no british people in the british government.


and who did you vote for in the last elections? if at all?

UK, Ireland / My Views Of Poles Working in the UK [169]


you don`t like the polish, so - this may come as enlightenment to you - don`t post of polishforums!

UK, Ireland / My Views Of Poles Working in the UK [169]


i agree on that, some sort of english tests should be arranged for immigrants and those that dont pass should not be let in but encouraged to study english a bit more and then try again.

i think it`s the employer`s fault though if they decide to hire people whose english isn`t even basic. when i first came to london 3 years ago, i worked in a restaurant and my mananger was a bit of a casanova so to say. he liked to hire good looking ladies so that later he could flirt with them and so he hired this korean girl, she was absolutely beautiful but didn`t speak english at all. it was difficult to work with her and probably frustrating for the customers as well. so it`s not just the polish that`s don`t speak the language :)


i agree with that as well, but just as with your first point, it does not only apply to the polish. if you look at the muslims or hindus, they don`t seem to want to intergrate either. personally, i noticed that a lot of english girls seem to be reserved towards me for whatever reason (maybe i look scary lol) so i can`t make friends with them but my parter`s friends who are english, are nice and i enjoy the time i spent around them (that is when we get to meet up cuz with a 1 year old it`s not so easy hehe)


by complaining we`re just trying to intergrate with the english :P i`m kidding. i think it`s not fair to complain all the time and on a large scale as it can spread (meaning more people will complain if they see others doing it). living in a different country is not always easy and you`ll always find something to complain about. funnily enough, these people are the first to complain about things that go wrong in poland as well.


some people just don`t want to work. those jobs were available in the uk before 2004, nobody made lazy a$$es do them so the eastern europeans had to come here and do them.


which benefits do you mean? i`m getting child benefit and child tax credit, currently seeking work (we just moved house + coming back from maternity leave) so claiming JSA, i also received maternity allowance and sick pay. i never worked in poland, have lived in the uk for 4 years (1 yr on the isle of wight and 3 yrs in london). so do you think i should not be getting this? i think some people are commiting benefit fraud and that should be monitored better.


your welcome :)

UK, Ireland / My Views Of Poles Working in the UK [169]


that sentence made my day! classic

commonsense, moaning about eastern european immigrants on this forum won`t change anything. maybe you should complain to your goverment who let us in here in the first place.

UK, Ireland / Polish citizen worked in the UK for 1 year - eligible for an UK pension? [23]

sorry to hear that. if i`m ever pregnant it is almost 100% that i`ll go through the sam if not worse :) hyperemesis has a tendency of repeating itself.

UK, Ireland / Polish doctors fly over just to work in the UK [15]

well lucky you if you were or will be the flourishing one.

hyperemesis.org.uk/

i didn`t exactly sefl-diagnose myself, my gp wrote on my sick leave that i had hyperemesis but didn`t bother to explain it to me saying it was normal morning sickness. well it was far from normal morning sickness, it was far more intense and lasted much much longer than morning sickness. you don`t even have to be a doctor to be able to diagnose that! once you`ve gone throught it, you know it wasn`t average.

UK, Ireland / Are the Poles in England hated? [450]


ok, i wonder what is the reason behind such medieval thinking then. *scratches head*

UK, Ireland / Polish citizen worked in the UK for 1 year - eligible for an UK pension? [23]


lol, didn`t get laid last night, did you?


one of the GPs i was seeing when i was pregnant wrote on the sick note that the reason for me not being able to return to work is `hyperemesis gravidarum` but back then i didn`t know what it was and none of my doctors was able to tell me, help and understand me. the only help i got was from my mother who had to come over to cook for me cuz i wasn`t even able to do that. i was throwing up average 5 times a day and was on the way to dehydration and if that happened i`d have had to be treated in hospital so more of your bloody tax money would go towards me! i know what i went through and just becuz the doctors didn`t tell me that doesn`t mean i didn`t go through it but means they need to educate themselves a bit more so that next time they see a pregnant woman who suffers from it, gets proper treatment and advice.

UK, Ireland / Are the Poles in England hated? [450]


they don`t necessarily go around the streets and call women k*** and cause riots but in private if they know a girl like that, they`ll do it. i experienced that back in 2005 from my flat`mates`, they found out i had a nigerian friend (wasn`t even my boyfriend, i never slept with him but in their eyes i slept with him and all his nigerian friends) so they kicked me out of the flat. i had to find another place to live within 2 days, and those last two days living with this bunch of idiots were not nice at all.


lol, i live in an area with mostly english people mow but when i visit london next time, who knows? :)


i didn`t know that. it must be some of the white guys` insecurities and jealousy or whatever it is, it`s sad

UK, Ireland / Are the Poles in England hated? [450]

they walk around calling all white women with black/asian guys kur**a. sometimes i wish i had the amount of muscles they have so that i could beat the shite out of them :P

UK, Ireland / Polish citizen worked in the UK for 1 year - eligible for an UK pension? [23]


that`s becuz if they work here, they have to pay taxes here but also in poland. so pay twice as much tax. it`s going to get abolished soon, the polish government says. so probably won`t be able to claim tax back in the uk.


i got my hospital treatment and i got maternity allowance, have been getting child benefit and child tax credit. mind you my partner is british, so is my baby.

as of my time off sick, i didn`t want it but was physically unable to work. i suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum, only 1% of pregnant women suffer from it and i would not wish that to my worst enemy as it is unexplainable how terribly sick i felt throughout my pregnancy. since you are a woman, it might happen to you or maybe you already have children but luckily never went throught that but it`s worth reading about on the internet and the awareness of it has to be raised.


i`ll do some research on the net mate, thanx :)

UK, Ireland / Are the Poles in England hated? [450]

yuk, usually those guys have big muscles, small brains, shaved heads and all they ever think of is `whose a$$ can i kick next?`, they`re racist little scums. stay away from them :)

UK, Ireland / Polish citizen worked in the UK for 1 year - eligible for an UK pension? [23]

i`ve been here for 4 years, since i was 20. so next year i could apply for british citizenship, is that correct?

UK, Ireland / Are the Poles in England hated? [450]


well, after all they learned from the best.


they probably didn`t like the way those canadians looked. unfortunately, you get a lot of that kind of jealousy and hatred in poland. you get this in england too.

UK, Ireland / Polish citizen worked in the UK for 1 year - eligible for an UK pension? [23]

what if you never worked in your country of birth? i don`t want to claim two pensions but which one am i intitled to if i only ever worked in the uk?

UK, Ireland / Polish citizen worked in the UK for 1 year - eligible for an UK pension? [23]

ok then, at least they can claim their tax back after a year.

personally, i` ve never worked in poland and don`t think i ever will so probably i wouldn`t be entitled to both pensions.

UK, Ireland / Are the Poles in England hated? [450]

lol, those guys are just trying their best to intergrate with the british and impress you :) the fact is that such behaviour is not accepted in poland so polish guys back home do feel a bit limited so when they come here and find out it`s ok to party hard, they do so.

UK, Ireland / Polish citizen worked in the UK for 1 year - eligible for an UK pension? [23]

and who do you think you are to be saying these things? if we work here even for one year, we should be getting something in return, don`t you think? you`d be expecting the same if you were in our situation. i`d like people like yourself to stop thinking that we are here only to contribute to your contry without asking for what we should get in return. we are not as dumb as you might think.

UK, Ireland / Poles top of UK class [41]


i thought it gone up to over 3000 quid :)

UK, Ireland / Are the Poles in England hated? [450]


most of us have learned the basic before coming here.


i see a lot more english people with no sense of fashion, like wearing pink tracksuit bottoms and jumpsuit, or big bellies hanging out cuz the t-shirts are 3 sizes too small.

hard faces? maybe they give you hard faces cuz they don`t like you?


LOL


what culture? we are not attacking your culture. have you ever seen a polish person getting drunk in a pub and then start fights with people? don`t worry, that`s your culture and we don`t want it :)


it`s not our fault either.


vast majority of us come here to work, not claim tax money.

if you have a problem with the polish, go complain to your MP or something. whining on this forum won`t change anything.

UK, Ireland / Polish doctors fly over just to work in the UK [15]


i feel sorry for your friend :( i can`t imagine that happening to me.

i only just recently found out what was wrong with me when i was pregnant. i couln`t understand why i was having such a severe morning sickness while other pregnant women would have gone through it months ago and i was still feeling awful and the doctors here didn`t tell me anything, didn`t want to help me saying it was normal (?), were not happy that i was on sick leave encouraging me to go back to work while all i was able to do was throw up all the time and sleep. a few days ago i did some research on the internet and found that i suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum which is a pregnancy illness affecting only about 1% of pregnant women and is far worse than normal morning sickness. the doctors know only little about it and it pains me cuz i know how hard it is and i know there are women who had to terminate their pregnancies becuz they could not take the severe nausea and vomiting anymore, they were dehydrated in hospital and not being understood! i really just wanted to die myself but i bet if it was men that had to be pregnant and go through this, the cure for it would have been found two centuries ago! so all in all the bloody health system (all around the world) is seriously messed up.

i`m also not particularly happy about the fact that i can`t see a specialist doctor so easily. my baby has had a rash for over a month and i went to see a gp (immigrant gp from somewhere in asia, i couldn`t even understand what he was saying lol) 2 times and last time he told me that it`s viral and is gonna go away in a few days (ok not sure if viral rashes stay for as long as a month but he didn`t even know the rash was there for this long cuz he bloody didnt let me finish my sentence as i was explaning what`s wrong with my son!). well that was a week ago and every day joshie is getting more spots. next time i go with him to the gp, i`ll ask to be referred to a dermatologist.

ok i got a bit pissed off right now lol *goes to the kitchen to get some rice pudding to calm her down*

UK, Ireland / Migrants' advice packs proposed - from BBC on Poles in the UK [15]

hehe

i think those `advice packs` should be sent to every household as the british should also be remembered how to `behave` sometimes :)

UK, Ireland / Migrants' advice packs proposed - from BBC on Poles in the UK [15]

i would like to propose advice packs for the british and include:

1. don`t throw rubbish on the streets, use the provided bins and if you don`t see a bin, carry the rubbish with yourself until you see one.

2. when in pub/bar, drink moderately so that after leaving the pub/bar you don`t go around arguing loudly with everyone you see.

3. when using public transport, offer your seat to an elderly person or pregnant woman.

UK, Ireland / where are the poles in london [9]

stockwell :)

UK, Ireland / FREE PART TIME COURSES IN ENGLISH! (LONDON) [24]


i would,if i really needed it and had the time. not all english are ignorant. cheer up shells :)

UK, Ireland / FREE PART TIME COURSES IN ENGLISH! (LONDON) [24]


eeerr you asked me a question:


i answered by saying:


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if you want to complain about free language courses offered to foreigners, about the amount of immigrantsetc, go complain to your MP. it`s easy to blame immigrants but think hard: would you turn your back away from something positive that was being given to you for free?

UK, Ireland / FREE PART TIME COURSES IN ENGLISH! (LONDON) [24]

erm, just thought you`d like to know that those cheap drinks are paid by tax payers.

UK, Ireland / FREE PART TIME COURSES IN ENGLISH! (LONDON) [24]


we have FREE vocational courses offered by our jobcentre in my hometown of gliwice, those are offered even to people who never paid taxes before. that`s how my best friend got a good job in administration in the city`s court.

btw, the members of your government like to drink a lot in the houses of parliament so you can`t be surprised of the decisions they make since they`re drunk most of the time :)

Life / The strangest things in Poland [468]

hehe i got mine when i was 10 years old. gosh, was i proud of myself! :)