Michal
20 Oct 2007
Michal
20 Oct 2007
News / My view on Poland's Future [22]
I think that if Poland had found its new found freedom in the early 1970's then Poland may have had a better chance. However, as the Arabs put up fuel prices in the mid 1970's everything economically in Europe was turned upside down and all economic activity was sent out to the Far East. Poland today has a difficult time as they want a new Marshal Plan from the other Western countries but our economic power and World influence is in decline. Simply, the Poles have waited too late.
I think that if Poland had found its new found freedom in the early 1970's then Poland may have had a better chance. However, as the Arabs put up fuel prices in the mid 1970's everything economically in Europe was turned upside down and all economic activity was sent out to the Far East. Poland today has a difficult time as they want a new Marshal Plan from the other Western countries but our economic power and World influence is in decline. Simply, the Poles have waited too late.
Michal
20 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Polish Thoughts on Britain and the British [273]
Very often these 'pass certificates' are passed without any visual inspection at all. I am certainly never hard upon myself and am not to start to either.
o when the building inspector arrives on site - and issues pass certificates etc...that means nothing or are they cowboys also?
Very often these 'pass certificates' are passed without any visual inspection at all. I am certainly never hard upon myself and am not to start to either.
Michal
19 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Polish Thoughts on Britain and the British [273]
Allowing all these Poles in to the U.K will no doubt bring general wage levels down and quality of building work will suffer too. A lot of these Poles pretend they know everything and can turn their hands to anything, rather like a lot on this forum! However, in general, their work can even be dangerous! The future working class in this country is going to have serious problems.
olish immigrants and others are without doubt dragging pay rates down and building companies are obviously using the "hard workers" statement as an excuse to pay less
Allowing all these Poles in to the U.K will no doubt bring general wage levels down and quality of building work will suffer too. A lot of these Poles pretend they know everything and can turn their hands to anything, rather like a lot on this forum! However, in general, their work can even be dangerous! The future working class in this country is going to have serious problems.
Michal
19 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Do polish people honestly think its a better life in the uk? [17]
Yes, you are right. In some of the better parts of the town, you could not buy a three bedroomed flat for so little. However, the point is, the rising house prices.
Just seems cheap to me.
Yes, you are right. In some of the better parts of the town, you could not buy a three bedroomed flat for so little. However, the point is, the rising house prices.
Michal
19 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Do polish people honestly think its a better life in the uk? [17]
No, the British are in turn being exploited bacause the Poles are coming and taking the lower paid jobs from the unemployed and vulnerable English workers. New contracts mean lower wages and less rights for everyone. It is time for Britain to pull out from the E.U. and I, for one, was always against our membership for this very reason.
No ones being exploited. Its a mutual contract. Both sides gain.
No, the British are in turn being exploited bacause the Poles are coming and taking the lower paid jobs from the unemployed and vulnerable English workers. New contracts mean lower wages and less rights for everyone. It is time for Britain to pull out from the E.U. and I, for one, was always against our membership for this very reason.
Michal
19 Oct 2007
Travel / What are Your Best Poland Travel Tips? [64]
Anybody can just go to modern day Poland and see things around them but I knew Poland of old and know the people very well indeed. There are good things about Poland in just the same way that there are good and bad things about everyone and everything, but Poland is not a safe country in which to live and my family will not be returning to Poland to live. In Poland, in a railway carriage, they will steal all your thing and then just throw your body out through a window on to the tracks below. Human life has almost no meaning whatsoever to the Poles.
Anybody can just go to modern day Poland and see things around them but I knew Poland of old and know the people very well indeed. There are good things about Poland in just the same way that there are good and bad things about everyone and everything, but Poland is not a safe country in which to live and my family will not be returning to Poland to live. In Poland, in a railway carriage, they will steal all your thing and then just throw your body out through a window on to the tracks below. Human life has almost no meaning whatsoever to the Poles.
Michal
19 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Is violence in the UK vs Poland natural? [19]
It is probably caused by economic frustration. When the iron Curtain was still and working, the future for the Poles was limited to having kids! Who wants a family when you earn £100 per month? Also, of course, the Poles have a loving for the 'strong stuff' and it gives them that all important 'Dutch courage'. Sober, the Poles are mediocre but with a little booz, they love to rise to the challenge.
It is probably caused by economic frustration. When the iron Curtain was still and working, the future for the Poles was limited to having kids! Who wants a family when you earn £100 per month? Also, of course, the Poles have a loving for the 'strong stuff' and it gives them that all important 'Dutch courage'. Sober, the Poles are mediocre but with a little booz, they love to rise to the challenge.
Michal
19 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Do polish people honestly think its a better life in the uk? [17]
I suppose that the saving grace is the high cost of housing now in England. I bought my present house six years ago for £150,000 and it has been valued a few weaks ago at £365,000. If housing was much cheaper, there would be nothing to stop these people coming in to the United Kingdom permanently. I would like to see a return to the old fashioned visa system but in this case, the right to work being included but for a maximum of six months without the right to renewal. No small country like England can afford to be exploited in this way.
I suppose that the saving grace is the high cost of housing now in England. I bought my present house six years ago for £150,000 and it has been valued a few weaks ago at £365,000. If housing was much cheaper, there would be nothing to stop these people coming in to the United Kingdom permanently. I would like to see a return to the old fashioned visa system but in this case, the right to work being included but for a maximum of six months without the right to renewal. No small country like England can afford to be exploited in this way.
Michal
18 Oct 2007
Travel / What are Your Best Poland Travel Tips? [64]
With respect, you do not know Poland as well as I do.
no but my third arms is smaller than the other 2;)
With respect, you do not know Poland as well as I do.
Michal
18 Oct 2007
Travel / What are Your Best Poland Travel Tips? [64]
The trouble is in Poland it will be the one person who wants to befriend you who will be most likely to stab you in the back! In Poland, I would trust nobody at all.
Try to make at least one friend there (its easy, we are friendly people) - it will make ur traveling a lot easier
The trouble is in Poland it will be the one person who wants to befriend you who will be most likely to stab you in the back! In Poland, I would trust nobody at all.
Michal
18 Oct 2007
Language / wysyłać, is this the right word? [16]
I would have thought it should have a proper beginning to make this a prpoper sentence. Something like 'czy ja mam wyslac ci te ksiazke...' to me, at least, sounds more natural. Przynosic is also correct in the sense of someone carrying something to someone so on meeting someone it could well be the verb przyniesc.
I have never heard of that before.
I would have thought it should have a proper beginning to make this a prpoper sentence. Something like 'czy ja mam wyslac ci te ksiazke...' to me, at least, sounds more natural. Przynosic is also correct in the sense of someone carrying something to someone so on meeting someone it could well be the verb przyniesc.
ci is the sloppy-informal version of "Tobie"
I have never heard of that before.
Michal
17 Oct 2007
Work / The qualifications for teachers in Poland? [101]
We are just going round and round in circles. Good night!
We are just going round and round in circles. Good night!
Michal
17 Oct 2007
Work / The qualifications for teachers in Poland? [101]
No, I was not. I too happily have never been a TESOL teacher either.
Hope you aren't referring to me 'cos I've never been a teacher......lol.
No, I was not. I too happily have never been a TESOL teacher either.
Michal
17 Oct 2007
Work / The qualifications for teachers in Poland? [101]
And I have said that I am not interested in the words of an English TESOL teacher.
He meant to write 'all' not 'old'...the point he was making still stand
And I have said that I am not interested in the words of an English TESOL teacher.
Michal
17 Oct 2007
Work / The qualifications for teachers in Poland? [101]
When I was last in Poland, a teacher earned a hundred pounds a month. What of it? It seems strange that in Poland of all places where they lack the money to buy medicines and the unemployed get nothing at all they can afford to pay a thousand odd pounds a month for silly English Language lessons.
Why bother to write it at all then?
When I was last in Poland, a teacher earned a hundred pounds a month. What of it? It seems strange that in Poland of all places where they lack the money to buy medicines and the unemployed get nothing at all they can afford to pay a thousand odd pounds a month for silly English Language lessons.
ould read "remove all doubt" too bad i didnt proof it and edit doesn't work after 12 hours
Why bother to write it at all then?
Michal
16 Oct 2007
Work / The qualifications for teachers in Poland? [101]
I do not know about todays rates but it was always a bit of a joke how much teachers earned in Poland.
I do not know about todays rates but it was always a bit of a joke how much teachers earned in Poland.
Michal
16 Oct 2007
Work / The qualifications for teachers in Poland? [101]
As far as I am aware, teaching English in Poland is an unskilled job and requires limited training. I was in Krasnik many years ago and the demand for teachers was so high that they were even recruiting young Ukrainian girls to fill places in the states schools.
There have never been any good old days in the TESOL World regarding teaching in Poland. Teachers earn a hundred pounds a month and this detracts almost everybody from applying in the first place.
does any of you know what are the qualifications for teachers in Poland?
As far as I am aware, teaching English in Poland is an unskilled job and requires limited training. I was in Krasnik many years ago and the demand for teachers was so high that they were even recruiting young Ukrainian girls to fill places in the states schools.
The good old days when anybody with a
There have never been any good old days in the TESOL World regarding teaching in Poland. Teachers earn a hundred pounds a month and this detracts almost everybody from applying in the first place.
Michal
16 Oct 2007
USA, Canada / Any Polish from the Philadelphia Area [8]
I have family in Philadelphia and have been there on a few occasions. Besides from English immigrants there are a lot of Germans in Lancaster County.
I have family in Philadelphia and have been there on a few occasions. Besides from English immigrants there are a lot of Germans in Lancaster County.
Michal
16 Oct 2007
Life / Why are the Poles picked on there is no reason to do this to them [108]
yes but you live in Chicago where there are 1.8 million other Poles. If that is true, you have as many Poles in Chicago as there is in Warsaw. It is easy to fit in!
m Polish and I was never made fun of. Quite to the contrary.
yes but you live in Chicago where there are 1.8 million other Poles. If that is true, you have as many Poles in Chicago as there is in Warsaw. It is easy to fit in!
Michal
16 Oct 2007
Love / Racism and Religion in Polish relationships [209]
Yes, you may be right but materialism is a very strong vice and when Polish people 'come West' and see those 'better things in life' you try stopping them-they want everything. They become very very greedy.
Yes, you may be right but materialism is a very strong vice and when Polish people 'come West' and see those 'better things in life' you try stopping them-they want everything. They become very very greedy.
Michal
16 Oct 2007
Language / The word KOLEGA [11]
kolegi also exists, na przyklad, prezent od mojego kolegi, therefore kolegi would be the genitive masculine singular case. You can not say widze innego kolegi but I suppose you could say nie widze innego kolegi in the negative or mam tylko jednego kolegi.
male and KOLEGI general ?
kolegi also exists, na przyklad, prezent od mojego kolegi, therefore kolegi would be the genitive masculine singular case. You can not say widze innego kolegi but I suppose you could say nie widze innego kolegi in the negative or mam tylko jednego kolegi.
Michal
16 Oct 2007
Love / Racism and Religion in Polish relationships [209]
I find Polish people to be very materialistic. Maybe, if Polish people are poor and live among other poor people it is not such a problem but when Polish people go overseas and see what is available and see for themselves 'how the other side lives', then that human element of 'competition' comes in to force and that is when the problems really start.
I find Polish people to be very materialistic. Maybe, if Polish people are poor and live among other poor people it is not such a problem but when Polish people go overseas and see what is available and see for themselves 'how the other side lives', then that human element of 'competition' comes in to force and that is when the problems really start.
Michal
15 Oct 2007
History / Ross kemp on Polish Gangs/Nazis - Untermenschen Nazis..?? [69]
It all goes to show how little you know and understand about World politics. I was in South Africa during the apartheid years. There was considerable sanction applied to the Smith Regime by the then Wilson Government. The British know nothing of World affairs or the problems concerning Southern Africa. Everybody was taught to hate the Smith regime but take a look at the country now! I am not saying that I support apartheid but there are blacks who would give anything for a return to the stability that at least Southern Africa had compared to today. The British Government advertised people to sell up and go out and make a new life in the then Rhodesia and then they were stabbed in the back with economic sanctions.
n South Africa worshipping Hendrik Verwoerd, the "Architect of Apartheid"...!!
It all goes to show how little you know and understand about World politics. I was in South Africa during the apartheid years. There was considerable sanction applied to the Smith Regime by the then Wilson Government. The British know nothing of World affairs or the problems concerning Southern Africa. Everybody was taught to hate the Smith regime but take a look at the country now! I am not saying that I support apartheid but there are blacks who would give anything for a return to the stability that at least Southern Africa had compared to today. The British Government advertised people to sell up and go out and make a new life in the then Rhodesia and then they were stabbed in the back with economic sanctions.
Michal
14 Oct 2007
Travel / What are Your Best Poland Travel Tips? [64]
The water in Krakow is not safe to drink at all. You must buy bottled water, becoming ill on holiday is not worth while, especially if you are 84 years old.
The water in Krakow is not safe to drink at all. You must buy bottled water, becoming ill on holiday is not worth while, especially if you are 84 years old.
Michal
14 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / POLISH RECRUITMENT AGENCIES IN LONDON??? [11]
I was not 'stirring the pot' as you put it. It was this Pole by the name of Andrzej, who was an electitian for twenty years who has not been paid for a lot of his work and I am simply relaying these concerns to others so that they list down carefully their worked hours so as not to fall in to the same trap.
I was not 'stirring the pot' as you put it. It was this Pole by the name of Andrzej, who was an electitian for twenty years who has not been paid for a lot of his work and I am simply relaying these concerns to others so that they list down carefully their worked hours so as not to fall in to the same trap.
Michal
14 Oct 2007
Travel / What are Your Best Poland Travel Tips? [64]
The train is always a nice way to the the Polish countryside. Mind you, never leave your things in a compartment without the things being tampered wit. NEVER leave opened drinks in your compartment and go out side for a while. They spike your drinks and then when you are asleep they will steal all your things. I have known for someone to wake up and find himself stripped down to his underpants!
Hitching rides is definitely NOT on the agenda, unless we break down someplace.
Thanks again!
Thanks again!
The train is always a nice way to the the Polish countryside. Mind you, never leave your things in a compartment without the things being tampered wit. NEVER leave opened drinks in your compartment and go out side for a while. They spike your drinks and then when you are asleep they will steal all your things. I have known for someone to wake up and find himself stripped down to his underpants!
Michal
14 Oct 2007
Life / Wroclaw KFC their shafting us [27]
It is all rather a shame as there used to be fine cheap places to eat in Poland and Poland did not have to resort to McDonalds food chains. Now that so many of these little traditional food places have gone McDonalds has a monopoly. Just another sign of the international way things are going. I think that I saw the best days of Poland.
It is all rather a shame as there used to be fine cheap places to eat in Poland and Poland did not have to resort to McDonalds food chains. Now that so many of these little traditional food places have gone McDonalds has a monopoly. Just another sign of the international way things are going. I think that I saw the best days of Poland.
Michal
14 Oct 2007
Real Estate / Buying an apartment in Kazimierz / Krakow? [6]
I have been there myself. I nice place in the summer time, almost like being somewhere else, in Italy or somewhere, not really a Polish feel to the place at all.
u mean Kazimierz Dolny
I have been there myself. I nice place in the summer time, almost like being somewhere else, in Italy or somewhere, not really a Polish feel to the place at all.
Michal
14 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / POLISH RECRUITMENT AGENCIES IN LONDON??? [11]
Any worker working for an agency who is not guaranteed hours or stability of employment is open to exploitation. This is especially true for the new wave of unskilled workers with very limited language skills. It was not my problem as such but it was this Pole who told me how he was not being paid for his work and was given a long list of broken promises and petrol allowances that never arrived. If he did two weeks work in June, it is reasonable to expect payment by now-it is now mid October!
Any worker working for an agency who is not guaranteed hours or stability of employment is open to exploitation. This is especially true for the new wave of unskilled workers with very limited language skills. It was not my problem as such but it was this Pole who told me how he was not being paid for his work and was given a long list of broken promises and petrol allowances that never arrived. If he did two weeks work in June, it is reasonable to expect payment by now-it is now mid October!