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MrBubbles   
27 Mar 2009
Food / Bison Grass [7]

Just out of interest, does anyone know another use for bison grass other than vodka?
MrBubbles   
27 Mar 2009
Life / 800 thousand Polish women are victims of domestic abuse yearly [180]

They probably meant that a third of women in Poland have been abused at some point.

""...The 'rule of thumb' story is an example of revisionist history that feminists happily fell into believing. It reinforces their perspective on society, and they tell it as a way of winning converts to their angry creed..."

Well, when even the English wedding ceremony asks the wife to love honour and obey her husband, the feminista have a lot to work with...
MrBubbles   
27 Mar 2009
News / Poland..wake up to a multicultural world [1059]

Yeah, But they sure were good cotton pickers.

How do you know that? Or do you feel an affinity to slaves? Could Poles really be the niggers of Europe?
MrBubbles   
27 Mar 2009
Love / Polish women are more inhibited in bed? [51]

I'm just trying to figure out how you could even come up with that analogy. lol!

That was his words not mine, presume it means flat, lifeless and a total waste of time!!

Or that it is something you have to do to make sure your clothes are cleaned.
MrBubbles   
26 Mar 2009
Life / 800 thousand Polish women are victims of domestic abuse yearly [180]

US/UK is different since the law concerning domestic abuse is well put in place. The law has been implemented because there was a NEED for such a regulations.

Indeed. It's a shame that such an intimate area of people's lives have needed such regulation but it's a sign of the times I suppose. People are more isolated in today's society than ever before and family and friends are often not available to turn to.

Two married friends fell foul of the system in the UK. they were going through a divorce when one friday they had a drunken row and it turned into a (minor!!) tussle. The wife called the police and they took over. We still speculate about why she called the police but with hindsight I think it was simply because she was drunk. Anyway, from then on, the husband was more or less certain of being found guilty - even his defence said so. No jury in the country would support his claim that the two of them were fighting and in the end he pleaded guilty and was bound over for a year.

I don't mean to detract from the real need for a safety net for abused partners though. If the problem is recognised by society then there is every chance that the couple can get help before the police have to get involved. The sooner Poland realises the holy family unit is not so solid, men are not boorish morons who pay the bills and women are not there to produce citizens to defend the motherland then the happier we'll all be.
MrBubbles   
26 Mar 2009
Language / Iterative and semelfactive verbs [37]

jęknąć - to groan
krzyknąć - to cry out

Are you sure? These semelfactive verbs sound a bit like 'punctive' verbs - where the start and the end of the action occur almost simultaneously and cannot be separated. Kick and flash would fit as punctive but I'm not sure about groan...
MrBubbles   
25 Mar 2009
Life / 800 thousand Polish women are victims of domestic abuse yearly [180]

NO, I don't want to see anymore links from you. Use real life examples form your life, not some unbelievable stories from the net.

Yes he does this, doesn't he? He doesn't really contribute much other than the bare minimum and then (1) tries to change the topic, (2) calls you stupid (3) hammers away at google. Sigh, the days of intelligent debates seem to be a thing of the past.
MrBubbles   
25 Mar 2009
Life / 800 thousand Polish women are victims of domestic abuse yearly [180]

an article in Polish language stating that around 800 thousand Polish women are victims of domestic abuse.

Thanks for posting this Miranda. I have seen two examples of girlfriend battering in my time in Poland and while I can accept that couple fall out and sometimes they fight, the factor that sets Poland apart from many other countries is the official attitude toward it. One of these victims was hospitalised with concussion when her boyfriend bahed her backwards into a wall during an argument. The police refused to get involved unless the injury warranted more than 7 days in hospital - it's entirely possible for a relationship to include chronic and persistent 'low level' battery and still be legal in the eyes of the state,

True, women do batter men as well and I would like to see statistics on this, although given Poland's strongly fixed gender roles, I doubt many men would be presenting themselves at a safe house after their wife threatens them with a knife. The feeling of failure would be crushing considering the emphasis placed in the sanctity of "The Family" as a cornerstone of Polish society.

I don't want to go too far off topic here but it's funny how all the concerned people who flock to the Jordanian-bashing thread on the basis of a murder are also disputing the facts about the institutionally-accepted violence going on on their own doorstep.
MrBubbles   
24 Mar 2009
Love / Chatting up Polish girls in the street. [60]

met a very good looking polish girl at a bar and she was very friendly and lovely!

She was serving you - it was her job.
MrBubbles   
24 Mar 2009
Work / Interview at a Callan School [204]

These people are professional schysters, worth the watching!

Yep. They are not above drawing you in with something along the lines of "We don't need any contract - you trust me eh?" and then they just don't pay you. It happens all the time. Another scam is to get you to sign a contract for let's say 700 zloty but they promise to pay you more (2000 possibly). Would you sign that?

Of course not, but the problem is that Polish teachers and naive foreigners will and the owner gets away with it. The attitude is endemic throughout the sector from "beefeater london house OK cool English" private schools all the way up to, I'm sorry to say, universities and polytechnics. The teachers are generally idiots who willingly put up with it and employers are generally bastards who willingly exploit them. But that's Poland in a nutshell.
MrBubbles   
24 Mar 2009
Work / Interview at a Callan School [204]

You will be paid in cash, with no tax, trust me thats a good thing

Well, it depends if you want to stay in Poland for any length of time. If you find you want to stay for a few more years you should look for proper contracts, Hell, you shouldn't really work for crooks who want to avoid their responsibilities by dodging tax (viz school owners). If they'll do this, what other dodgy business will they be up to?

Remember, if you accept cash in hand for your services, you are complicit in tax evasion.

The school sector in Poland is fundamentally shifty. Nearly all the people who work in the are pathological liars who will use other people for their own ends. I don't know whether the job makes them this way or whether it takes a certain kind of person to be successful
MrBubbles   
22 Mar 2009
Love / Discussion about Polish Men's Tempers [103]

You do know that the state doesn't prosecute wife beaters unless the wife spends more than 7 days in hospital? Poland tends to accept a lot of domestic abuse.
MrBubbles   
22 Mar 2009
Language / Polish etymology [8]

the roots of this word can be found in proto Indo-European “kailo”

Although it must be remembered that PIE is a reconstructed language - the roots of more or less any European word will be found there because it is extrapolated backwards from more recent European language change.

powiedzieć is a derivative of wiedzieć

I would hazard a guess that it repsonds to the cognitive metaphor of giving knowledge to someone or, rather, placing the knowledge in the person? po - wiedzieć

welcome among etymology freaks osiol ;)

indeed!
MrBubbles   
20 Mar 2009
Work / Interview at a Callan School [204]

I insist my Polish teacher does not have an accent. I also prefer them to be virgins due to my personal religious beliefs.
MrBubbles   
19 Mar 2009
Work / Interview at a Callan School [204]

Teaching should never be based on accent, if a student only has lessons with one standard accent, then they will never be able to understand anything anyone says in any English speaking country.

But most students will not live or work in an English speaking country so why should they be forcibly acquianted with obscure English accents? Indeed, considering that a lot of English natives have trouble understanding some of the more obscure accents I don't see how the student can be trained up without simply living in the that particular discourse community.

FC(E?) isn't a very high level by the way.

teaching English is not the same as teaching linguistic skills

Hmm. Could you elaborate on that a bit?
MrBubbles   
18 Mar 2009
Life / Homosexuals in Poland / Hands off (PETITION) [797]

People like you ...

Ahem .... from earlier ...

Thank you for your attention, I have nothing to add.

Let's leave it at that before you start ranting again. My God, you really think a couple of gay awareness lessons are the first steps on the road to a new Reich? Do you think the children will have to bum each other as part of the assessment?

your freedom to swing your fists ends where other person face begins

Is that a Polish saying? No, don't bother...
MrBubbles   
18 Mar 2009
Work / Interview at a Callan School [204]

What is a standardised accent?

Well, ideally the teacher should speak clearly, and this would usually involve them not using any obvious regional accent. In this case, a standardised accent would be unaccented clear speech. If anything, it would be language that approximates the written form, with spaces between the words and the speakr trying not to drop any phonemes.
MrBubbles   
18 Mar 2009
Life / Homosexuals in Poland / Hands off (PETITION) [797]

I think that I'm capable to explain your socialist/communist/fascist (Please underline correct answer) agenda better. I will just post two quotes of famous "Animal Farm" by George Orwell.

Well done Lesser - quoting Animal farm when discussing indoctrination was a stroke of genius. I see it now. The puppies (our children) are adopted by Napoleon (the state) and indoctrinated with the gay agenda. After they have grown up, they belong to Napoleon. I can see there's much food for thought in that statement.

The natural extension of this is frightening, no? Our children become vehement butch gay police enforcing the gay aganda on helpless straight citizens. Dressed in their pink uniforms with matching handbags, the botter division become a symbol of the terror of the state. Nobody knows whether a manicured hand in a pink velvet glove might pat on their door in the early hours and take them away for a gay reeducation course and some biscuits.

A sobering warning indeed. Good luck with your Matura exam by the way!
MrBubbles   
17 Mar 2009
Love / Chatting up Polish girls in the street. [60]

they can't resist my friendly and soft Latino approach, with a nice smile and sexy Spanish accent

Have you tried shouting from your moped? Chicks like that sort of thing. Especially when you follow it with a friendly pat on their backside to show them they are beautiful.
MrBubbles   
17 Mar 2009
Love / Whose Life is it? Polish girlfriend under family "house arrest" [224]

I also got 22 calls from her ex on friday night, none of which I answered. also got 2 threatening texts........

They're all loonies. Boot her to the kerb and get on with your life. If she won't help herself then there's nothing you can do for her.
MrBubbles   
16 Mar 2009
Love / Do Poles ignore domestic abuse? [54]

Oh stop. A little yelling during an argument is hardly "emotional abuse"

Sorry PGTX, in this case the Redneck is correct. Relationships are not always plain sialing and a little shouting at one another can often clear the air and actually be beneficial. Women who play the emotional abuse card durng an argument often give as good as they get the rest of the time

I am just interested to hear what you Polish guys/girls (and anyone else with experience of this) think about the Polish take on abuse in the home ...

Well, one of the reasons my parents divorced was because my (Polish) father was a loud mouthed boorish crybaby who would often humiliate my mum in front of his mates (shouting, swearing, sweeping stuff off the table for her to clean up etc.) and by the time Mum left she was, by all accounts, a nervous wreck. They never sorted their relationship out and even now 30 years later she doesn't want to be in any way associated with him. They couldn't even bury the hatchet for my wedding.

You can only take shit for so long before you start believing it. Think about it.
MrBubbles   
16 Mar 2009
Food / where does Wodka originate from ? Poland or Russia or somewhere else??? [17]

vodka was invented by some Arab, presumably before the advent of Islam.

Maybe. The word alcohol comes from the Arabic and it might well have been an adventurous Arab homebrew enthusiast who first isolated it.

in India they make hooch from rubber tyres

Jeezis. I bet that hurts. Apparently men in prison make alcoholic drinks from orange juice kept under a radiator
MrBubbles   
16 Mar 2009
Food / History of the Polish potato (what did Polish people eat before?) [17]

Family: Solanaceae.

Not only nightshade, tomato, tobacco, but also aubergine (eggplant), capsicum (peppers), mandrake and the attractive flowering climbing garden plant Solanum....

There's not a lot you don't know about potatoes, Osiol. I love them. I'd pretty much live on them if I were a vegetarian, but then again, I'll stop eating animals when they stop making them out of meat!

In fact I heard it was possible to survive on a diet of solely potatoes and milk
MrBubbles   
15 Mar 2009
Work / Interview at a Callan School [204]

Sometimes when I'm bored I do an entire lesson in a Jamaican accent or maybe a Welsh / Pakistani accent. The students never notice though, even when I put on my kilt and red hair and do a Scottish accent (like Russ Abbot's 'Jimmy').

They are taught Queens English, which no one speaks. Do you hear that in London or Manchester? cos if you do, i doubt you use ur ears.

But most non natives will be using English to communicate with other non-natives. Why should they be concerned with sounding good in Manchester?

The fact is that The Queen's / BBC English is the most widely-accepted British English accent because, right or wrong, it does carry some sort of prestige value. Even in the UK, just about everyone can understand BBC English but local dialects cannot understand each other - a thick Glasgow accent is just as impenetrable to someone from Cornwall, Newcastle or London. BBC English on the other hand is understood all over the world because it is a standard.

Hiring a Native and asking them to drill students in their own dialect or accent is a waste of time. What are the students meant to do when they go on to another teacher with a completely different accent? No, even though Polish teachers have a lot of faults, I can't count their pronunciation among them - sure, they might sound artificial but most are clear and most importantly, 'accent neutral' if I may be so bold.

The point of mid atlantic is to help the student fit in... wherever they go.

Good idea, but you run the risk of old Radio 1 DJ jokes


MrBubbles   
14 Mar 2009
Life / Homosexuals in Poland / Hands off (PETITION) [797]

Or that Libs caused by forcing all this "Gay is great!" BS on unsuspecting school children.

Accept it. People indulge in homosexual behaviour. The Liberals did not invent it. Children have to be introduced to it at some stage, if only for their own safety. Schools fill the gap caused by incapable parenting.

Now I'm going to lie down for a while while you try to think of an answer to that. You will see that the logic is quite solid and based on sound principles. You may try to refute it but I assure you your efforts will be pointless.