News / Will Poland become green? [122]


It is such a backward attitude to take, to think that doing things "green" is somehow less efficient, more of a burden and somehow detrimental to economic progress. It is full of opportunities and may be an important key to bringing a better, more prosperous, healthier future.

Language / Numbers in Polish - two different ways? [44]


I've been here 2 long (4 crying out loud)!

I fought the law and the law 1.

Life / Bisons of Poland - your thoughts? [90]

They are simultaneously beautiful and ugly, powerful and fragile.

Language / Numbers in Polish - two different ways? [44]

I inherited a Welsh-English dictionary from my grandfather. One of its appendices consists of a list of numbers in both masculine and feminine. How useful is that? I have a Polish-English dictionary that doesn't have anything about numbers, and gives no indication of the grammatical gender of nouns or anything about how verbs are declined.


That is the way it seems sometimes.

Love / English Girls according to Polish Guys....... [68]


It's not only Polish women then?


You have limited experience of different kinds of people you've seen in this country. The loudest people are always the most noticeable, even if they aren't the greatest in number.

Language / Numbers in Polish - two different ways? [44]


I totally agree.
Why?

Because nowhere does anywhere seem to have the slightest niclination to teach anyone anything about counting in any way other than:
jeden, dwa, trzy...


Why do people fear just putting a simple link to a webpage? Surely it doesn't break any laws!

Life / Bisons of Poland - your thoughts? [90]

I always put the scientific name of plants when I talk about them, so why should animals be any different?

This is the amazing Bison bonasus, reintroduced to the wild after near extinction - only a few remained in captivity in the first half of the 20th century.

- Equus asinus ssp. intelligentissimus

Food / Help with pudding directions: 0,5 minuty = 5 minutes or half a minute? [9]

0,59 minuty later...

UK, Ireland / Working as an au-pair in UK and leaving the host family. Is it legal? [60]

You have to really get to know a country first. That means seeing different sides of it and meeting different kinds of people.

UK, Ireland / What exactly is the process to get into the UK? [44]

Some of us are pretty much unemployable and at the mercy of our benevolent employers.

News / Dealing with constant insults against Polish [323]

RE: The last four posts.

What got you in that mood, sheepie? To be perfectly honest, I have never directly heard anyone say anything specifically anti-Polish. I have heard a small number of people grumbling about foreigners in general. Most of the anti-Polish stuff that comes to my attention is here or in links to Daily Mail articles. Much anti-foreigner sentiment is directed to those with a greater perceptible difference to white Britishness - anti-Muslim, anti-Black, even (good Lord!) anti-American, anti-French (the auld un-alliance!)

I'm not blinkered. I just don't read the daily rags. I work with a curious cross-section of society and despite spending a lot of time at home playing on PF, I do speak to people and meet people. My friends tend to be of the liberal persuasion, but I meet all kinds of people. Mass polonophobia is a myth. I can't remember the name of the poster, but one particular member of PF sums things up quite well in his posts about how immigration to the UK should be controlled, how benefits and language resources should be controlled better, but also how Poles and other EU citizens are more often than not, a benefit to this country of ours, and that racism should play no part in how we run this country.

When I meet a "polonophobe" in real life, I will let you know.

Love / English Girls according to Polish Guys....... [68]

Polish bloke at work, on the subject of an English lady working at the same place:
"She is beautiful, a very beautiful woman. But I am old and I am not handsome. Today and tomorrow are for her. Yesterday was for me..."

He has a habit of talking like that - too much Szekspir and poetry methinks.

Feedback / Text that is unsuccessfully posted is too easily lost. [54]

Really, the only thing that changed recently was that I started using Firefox. I had the problem with this new software and the old software. I had always had that problem with the old software, but it took until yesterday for me to think about saying something about it.

No new software has been installed on this computer for a couple of months and the only change was when my old browser program went wrong and started closing itself down each time I opened it. This happened recently, but doesn's seem to be connected with all this.

It's strange that I'm not the only one to have noticed the problem.

I'm not a particularly computer literate person, so I don't understand much of this stuff, but my lack of computer knowledge stops me from adjusting settings (playing wirth fire) and messing about with software.

Feedback / Text that is unsuccessfully posted is too easily lost. [54]

Can I say "thanks for nothing" but still sound grateful?

Only the day before yesterday, I tried to PM someone, rather than presenting me with what I shall from now on call "The Zgubiony message", it let me type and type and type, click on send, and only then tell me that it couldn't be sent. Today, I am being presented with "The Zgubiony message" the moment I click on the little envelope symbol.

Likewise, clicking on the return button seems to be different now.

I used to use a web browser provided by my service provider that wasn't any of programs usually listed (like Opera, Firefox, IE, etc.) so I don't know what that one was really.


Um... It was nothing!

Wszyscy szczęśliwy?

Feedback / Text that is unsuccessfully posted is too easily lost. [54]

Umm... I don't understand.

I did have problems. That's why I started the thread. Others had had the same problem.

I have since tried sending PMs and following up posts too soon, and it all seems to be fine now.

Then I said thankyou. What more do you want?

Feedback / Text that is unsuccessfully posted is too easily lost. [54]


That's news to me!

It did what you said it would do. Curious. No, not curious, I mean:

thanks Admin.

Feedback / Text that is unsuccessfully posted is too easily lost. [54]

Just to complete the test, I need loads of people to PM me, preferably saying nice things.

Feedback / Text that is unsuccessfully posted is too easily lost. [54]


Potting some big heavy plants today at work. I suggested to Zbyszek that if he put the pot on the ground, it would be easier to lift the plant up and drop it into the pot. Oh no! He wanted to put it up on a workbench about a metre up from ground level. Why? Because he's Polish and will do it his way even if it's more difficult! I'm sure it's not only Poles.


Other parts of the forum are just as busy, if not just as busy. This can (could) happen anywhere.


It has always let me type messages to people whether their inbox is full or not.


I use Firefox these days.


My text never comes back after clicking back to the previously viewed page.


I'm going to test it now, even though I don't use Microsoft IE.

If I don't say thankyou straight away, either I still have the same problem and I don't have any reason to say thankyou, or it had worked and I won't be able to say anything for a little while.

UK, Ireland / What exactly is the process to get into the UK? [44]


If you think this is a recession, you must be a child.

News / Captain of hijacked tanker is Polish [71]

Somalia is not the only part of the world with problems with piracy. I've heard that Southeast Asia can be pretty rough too.

Somalia has many problems. In fact, there are more problems with Somalia than most places these days. If you want problems, go to Somalia. Actually, it's worse than that - if you want complete lawlessness, violence, rape, murder, religious extremists and pirates, then Somalia is the place to go. I wouldn't recommend it, but it seems that there would have to be quite an unlikely bunch of countries working together to be able to do anything about this highly troubled region.

UK, Ireland / Working as an au-pair in UK and leaving the host family. Is it legal? [60]


It's probably one of the easiest jobs to walk away from, considering that it is based on a "friendly agreement" rather than a proper contract.

I've seen plenty of people just walk away from their jobs without handing in their required notice (usually a month or so). There are no problems with you working and living in the UK as you are an EU citizen and we all love Poles in Britain!

The only probelm I can think of would be obtaining a reference if you wanted to continue au-pair work in the future. However, many people use au-pair work as a way of visiting another country and getting a bit of experience of life abroad, not as a serious career option. I think you're too intelligent for this line of work (just as I am too intelligent for the job that I do!)

So my advice would be to give them notice that you wish to move on. If they pay you weekly, then I would say you should probably give them at least a week's notice.

Feedback / Text that is unsuccessfully posted is too easily lost. [54]


Not always. Read my first post again.


This is a user-unfriendly suggestion.


I know that you mean well. I need to feel as though I have raised the point and brought to attention just how annoying it can be, and that ways around the problem aren't as good as actually solving it. This problem has got my goat a few times. As problems go, it is a goat-getter. Goats have been gotten.


There seem to be experts on just about every subject on PF. I wonder if there are any real experts! Any real experts who know about the mechanics of forum-posting.

Hooves crossed.

Feedback / Text that is unsuccessfully posted is too easily lost. [54]


I don't always know what I'm about to type, and sometimes I do type quite a lot all in one go.


So I keep reading. How about this idea: find more ways to make this forum slightly more tricky to use.
Then think about this idea: find a few ways to make it a little bit easier to use.


So you know that I know how to get around this problem. Getting around the problem is not the issue. Solving it is the issue.

I look forward to seeing what Admin has to say on the matter, although I'm not always an optimist.

Feedback / Text that is unsuccessfully posted is too easily lost. [54]


My clipboard has something on it already. If I copy this, I have to paste what is already there somewhere or I lose it. Edit: okay, so you've got that bit, but the point I am raising still stands.

Why should it be necessary? It is just more hassle. You seem to be trying to tell me that there is nothing wrong with the current system. What I would like is to find out whether something can be done to make the forum just a little bit more user-friendly.

Is it not worth looking at?

Feedback / Text that is unsuccessfully posted is too easily lost. [54]


With the repeat posting, yes you are right. However, if rather than bring up a whole new page, maybe a message could appear whilst the original page remains, or the error message page could contain a box with the text it it. I'm no expert, so maybe someone familiar with other busy fora might be able to explain how this works elsewhere.

With PMs it is particularly annoying. I once wrote someone a huge long message, all of which I lost due to her inbox being full. Since then, I have always remembered to copy long PMs, but I don't always remember. I think copying every post and every messge is just a little too much to demand.

Copy? Nah! I've got an important web address on my clipboard and I'm not opening another Word document just to temporarily paste it.

Feedback / Text that is unsuccessfully posted is too easily lost. [54]


Some people are using their clipboards for other things at the same time. It is not practical. Posting should be simple. Why should it be made more difficult or complicated than it needs to be?

Feedback / Text that is unsuccessfully posted is too easily lost. [54]


Tornado understands completely!


It is just not practical to do this every time. I use my clipboard a lot and I can't copy everything I ever type? Have you seen how much I spam this forum... I mean contribute to this forum?


Maybe joking is the answer. Damn! I've lost a novel but I can laugh...
tears of a clown!

There must be a better way. Maybe Admin could have fun installing some new feature that solves all these problems. He might not want to, but a bet he'd enjoy a bit of tinkering!

Okay, next step - copy...

Feedback / Text that is unsuccessfully posted is too easily lost. [54]


It's not about losing the connection.

Let's say you type something to post on Random Chat.
As you type, one of your previous posts is moved to Random Chat, where is becomes the last post on the thread.
You can't repeat post on the same thread until something like an hour has passed.
You don't yet know that your post is the last one on the thread.
You click "Post Message"

An error page appears, giving you the option of editing your last post or returning to the thread.
Anything you had typed has gone.


Alright, what are you doing right?

News / Captain of hijacked tanker is Polish [71]

"We believe this to be the work of thieves."