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osiol   
21 Mar 2008
Language / Polish language learning games [16]

I'd like to see something like this that doesn't only use the nominative case.
Like a choice between

na ośle
pod osłem
nie jest osły

Okay so that's not the best example, but you get the idea.

Okay, so the site is not perfect - that's why I need things like that. It associates the words to pictures which is always helpful, and although it's easy and you don't win any prizes, it's all good.
osiol   
21 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / Are the Poles in England hated? [450]

I liked the 'six sides to a square' ned best.

If you were compiling something like this, you wouldn't want to put anyone smart in there would you?
You could do this in any country and find plenty of dumb answers.
osiol   
21 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / Are the Poles in England hated? [450]

have to learn how to drive

Polish drivers - some of them drive okayish when they're here, but then turn into total lunatics the moment they cross the border returning home.

Perhaps you should be grateful they're not worse than they already are.
osiol   
21 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / Are the Poles in England hated? [450]

There is a corner in my flat that looks like a hamster has been living in it. A hamster that chews up bits of paper and plastic to make bedding when it already has a perfectly good bed right next to it. I wouldn't normally disturb someone else's stuff, but someone had to take all those bottles of Tyskie to the bottle bank. The 'hamster' is off enjoying himself for the Easter weekend. With other Polish... er... hamsters, as well as one or two English... er... hamsters?
osiol   
20 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / New British Based Points System [30]

Its Wales actually

I thought that was in Chester rather than York if Cymricide is your thing.
osiol   
19 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / Poles in UK turn to fast food [29]

he stopped, stuffed his hand down his...

I won't finish quoting that sentence.
Perhaps my own home-made bagels will do from now on.
I'm always a bit worried in that neck of the woods about bumping into someone I never wish to see again anyway.
osiol   
19 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / Poles in UK turn to fast food [29]

I live very near Brick Lane

The home of London's original bagel shop (the good one, not the dodgy one a few doors down). Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It does get busy at times, and once or twice, their bellowing at the queue made me wonder whether the splace is run by shepherdic jews. It is an example of good fast food, especially the bagels with cream cheese and salmon.

The other thing that really stands out for me is the amount of dodgy stuff my flatemate eats. Not so much the takeaway variety of fast food, but packets of chicken in breadcrumbs with frozen oven chips. Before you ask, he does cook them rather than eat them in frozen form.
osiol   
18 Mar 2008
Love / 5 ways how to pick up (cute Polish) guys? [146]

How to make any guy fall for you? Be yourself, it's the only way it can work

But the other side of the same coin is, if you want to make any girl fall for you, be a donkey instead. Unless you already are one.
osiol   
17 Mar 2008
Language / misleading differences between Polish and English languages [92]

Polish kant
English cunt

You're not really going to mistake these two either in writing or orally.

gary in Polish is saucepans or pots

To pot (verb: to put plants in pots)
Pot - Polish for sweat / perspire.

- Osiol (bringing a bit of horticulture to the forum, again and again and again and again)
osiol   
17 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / My fellow brits here - are "traitors" by not dating English girls? [103]

Does not going out with a girl of the same nationality still count as an act of treachery if it is because you're not going out with anyone at all?

Anyway, after a bit of going out, the staying in gets better. After that, there can be a whole variety of outcomes.
osiol   
16 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / Gang attack Polish man with knife [87]

Poorer areas tend to be more densely populated, thus giving anyone who happens to be there more of the whole spectrum of humanity to witness or be subjected to. It's not just in the newspapers that the bad can be seen more clearly than the good. That is in the minds of people.
osiol   
16 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / Gang attack Polish man with knife [87]

It's British media way. Death and violence comes before anything else.

Although if someone puts wheels on their garden shed and fits an engine to it, waters the pansies on its window-box then takes it for a spin around their local shops or town centre, that sort of thing gets a look-in too.
osiol   
16 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / Gang attack Polish man with knife [87]

Brits, Scots, and Irish have shown their true face lately

So any hospitality was just a lie? This is the true face?

A few months ago on a trip to the 24-hour garage, some oiks tried to start on me and my flatmate. It was only after they had started to get aggressive that they found out that one of us wasn't English. "You're not even English!" has become a bit of a catchphrase in my flat since then. If we were both English, does anyone think they might have decided they didn't want to start a fight, or were they the kind of chav scum who would try to pick a fight with anyone?

Anyway, the police were already out looking for them. The police car pulled up just ahead of us and after some questioning, me and my flatmate were told to go whilst the chavs... No, I'm not sure what happened to them.

If the victim is Polish, is it always because they are Polish?
osiol   
16 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / Gang attack Polish man with knife [87]

Isn't a chicken 'foetus' a bit small?
I'll just have to go and check the eggs in the kitchen.
osiol   
16 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / Poles and Britis - why we should hate each other? [38]

Nobody ever got attacked on the street for absolutely no reason either. They still don't - violent thugs always attack people for a specific reason. If you're Polish and someone attacks you, it may be worth asking them if it is because you are Polish. It might turn out that they don't like the look of your jacket, or you were whilstling a tune they didn't like.
osiol   
15 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / Poles and Britis - why we should hate each other? [38]

I understand that some people come here from abroad and don't have a good experience.
Having a positive frame of mind is one of the things that can really make a difference though.

If I'm giving someone a job, I'm not too bothered how much I think I'll like them, I really wouldn't give a monkeys where they were from (as long as, like Poles in the UK, they are allowed to work), but I'd much rather give a job to an optimist.
osiol   
15 Mar 2008
UK, Ireland / Poles and Britis - why we should hate each other? [38]

British mentality and attitude

There is only one.

British nation has been living on a island for hundreds of years

Cosmopolitan? Never happened here!

dont-give-a-fu*k-society

Now I'm actually getting quite concerned.

have never had to cared for any other nationalities

Some of us are very used to dealing with other nationalities in a variety of different ways on a daily basis. It is not a slave-master relationship (with a few possible kinky exceptions).

most of the British people are not willing to work hard

I work hard. My colleagues mostly work hard too. The people who turn up as customers mostly work hard as they tend to be self-employed. There are lazy people, but surely that could be any country.

For many years Polish people have been considered as a drunks, thieves, lazy worker by the British people

I'd correct that by saying the overwhelming majority never considered Polish people at all, rather like how I wouldn't expect Poles to have all that m,any opinions about the population of Belgium.

When a Britis gives you a job, he/she is not giving you that job because he/she likes you but because you will be able to generate enough income for the company that other British employees can fu*k around then doing 50% of their daily job

My boss gave my Polish flatmate a job... because he liked him!
But nobody should expect a job for being a likeable person - but it might just help.

That is why, I would never help a British person who is for example beating up on a street by some thugs

If you were being beaten up by thugs and I thought I could actually help, and even if I knew this was your mentality, I would help you. Maybe you've been picking up on this British f*** you mentality.

Do not expect that British girl will love you

Never expect! This goes for everyone. Just aim for what you want. Love knows no nationality

Tell me how many people in Poland have own houses

One family. I don't know all that many. I do know that I will be paying for my tiny flat for the next 35 years.

I would never do a business with a Brit unless there is a good opportunity for getting profit.

Never do business at all unless you're going to make a profit.

What else is there to say?
Take people as they come, not as part of a monolithic stereotype. You're already not expecting very much (any more), so you can only be pleasantly suprised, or remain in your current, fairly cynical (to some extent justifiably cynical) mindset.