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ShelleyS   
24 Jul 2008
UK, Ireland / Polish homeless in the UK [42]

How many british people sleep among dirt and rats in poland or any other country for that matter.

Plenty are already doing it here on the streets in the UK.

The poles really hae no problem degrading themselves

People end up on the streets for all sorts of reasons, it's not what I would consider "degrading themselves"

Would you say these men who fort for Queen and country are degrading themselves?

britishlegion.org.uk/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsdetail&asset_id=518812

Or how about these people who the system failed?

bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/162/3/314

NoImmy I would suggest you do a soup run on Christmas eve and thank your lucky stars you are not the one on the other side of the counter!
ShelleyS   
23 Jul 2008
UK, Ireland / Sad or stupid - a Polish teacher killed whilst urinating on live rail [88]

think along the lines of dropping a hair dryer in the bath whilst youre sitting in it :)

Not quite the same really - Mr V I worked for the Ops division at Network Rail and hold my PTS card and know a little about the voltage and dangers of tracks, so I find it really hard to believe that a man standing on the platform and pissing on the track could get electricuted to death...

Oh well...let that be a warning to those who feel the need to urinate in public...
ShelleyS   
23 Jul 2008
UK, Ireland / Sad or stupid - a Polish teacher killed whilst urinating on live rail [88]

I still dont get how him standing on a platform and pissing on the tracks caused the electricution...or did he actually walk on the tracks in which case he was rather stupid and dangerous to not only him but passengers on trains passing through.
ShelleyS   
22 Jul 2008
News / Thank you Ireland... EUCCP [81]

People should start to educate themselves, at least those of them with some intellectual abilities.

That was my point...
ShelleyS   
22 Jul 2008
UK, Ireland / Poles and Poles in the UK = animosity [42]

I don’t care about that stock whatsoever
I don’t want to deal with any kind of chavs; Polish ones, Irish, Ulster Scots, British or whatever their nationality is

Good for you, I hope things have changed for the better and the scum have moved to pastures new and left you to get on with things.
ShelleyS   
22 Jul 2008
News / Thank you Ireland... EUCCP [81]

There is a very fine line here...

Where is the fine line?

Is this a matter of education or indoctrination?

Surely an educated person is far better at making an "informed" judgement as opposed to an ill educated person who follows the pack and votes simply because everyone else did?

The problem who should vote is not new one, actually the whole world history is based on it or is better democracy or autocracy? If u just check out only last couple hundred years in Europe and US all is about that. Does everybody have right to vote without any exemptions? That question has been asked by many most famous thinkers before, during or after European revolutions. So education may have to be solution but for how many, have you ever seen guest from Jerry Kyle show? Do they have to have right to vote? Are they credential voters ?Ask yourself these questions, answers are not easy

I was merely trying to point out that there are a lot of people who don't fully understand the the mechanics of the EU and how their country is affected by being a member, who from their country is protecting their country's rights and what is to be gained and what is to be lost by being a member.
ShelleyS   
22 Jul 2008
News / Thank you Ireland... EUCCP [81]

When political elites refuse to recognize the results of three referendums in a row, this is complete lack of democracy per se.

You would think, but in general a large proportion of people have very limited understanding of what the EU is all about, if you are in favour you see the benefits, if you are against you see the negatives...I think people need to be educated and made to understand.
ShelleyS   
21 Jul 2008
News / Simon Moleke Njie. [36]

However, it is certain that he has been imprisoned for the last year and a half and held in conditions worse than those in which convicted criminals are held.

How so, surely remand facilities are the same as prison facilities? or is it different in Poland...
ShelleyS   
21 Jul 2008
Life / Metal Detecting in Poland [18]

You've obviously not been to Formy Point recently. blimy, it's like Mecca for them :)
ShelleyS   
21 Jul 2008
UK, Ireland / Polish parents hang themselves at their Lincoln, UK home [66]

I think until you have lost someone you know to suicide it's hard to understand
, for me suicide is a desparate act commited by a desparate person and even the strongest person has their breaking point. I really do hope that those of you who think that it's a cowardly act or the act of a weak minded person never have to lose someone this way.
ShelleyS   
18 Jul 2008
News / Simon Moleke Njie. [36]

good post

I agree to a certain point.

But...

Africa, due to colonialism, was stripped of the possibility to follow its natural path of evolution, then suddenly left alone.

The above I dont agree with. It's easy to blame the problems of developing countries on colonialism..
ShelleyS   
18 Jul 2008
News / Simon Moleke Njie. [36]

I completely understand your point....but by asylum seekers, I didn't just mean Africans, not too many years ago we had a fair few Bosnians come to the UK and a few Croatians and Serbs after that...i think Asylum has become an excuse for those who want to escape poverty...
ShelleyS   
18 Jul 2008
News / Simon Moleke Njie. [36]

shelley doesn't HIV spread from one person to another? Aren't plenty of white people also infected with aids? Are you sying that THEY don't also pass it on to other white people? You'll probably say the only the gay ones do...

That's not what I have said, what I did say was that people from certain parts of the world have a higher chance of having it.

you can't deny asylum to everybody so what do you suggest other then hating on foreigners?

I dont think I mentioned that asylum should be denied, to those who actually deserve it.

perhaps there should be a screening process in place

Yes of course that would work! the Human Rights activists would have a field day, Im sure you read my previous post, you must have noticed the paragraph about the guy who will not be deported:

A failed asylum-seeker jailed on the 2nd December 2003 for raping a mother of three is trying to avoid deportation because he is HIV-positive. Linkoy Muhuri, 35, claims he should stay in Britain on compassionate grounds after serving his sentence

Weather you like it or not the majority of immigrants in the UK that have HIV are from Africa. As for the white indiginous population that is another matter for us to deal with and yes Im certain there have been cases of white people infecting other white people, AIDS does not discrimate...

Mr cyg had a valid point that it is a cultural and educational thing.

masks, Simon Moleke made this a racist thing by accusing Polish girls of being racist because they would not sleep with him without a condom... and maybe through ignorance he thought he could rid himself of AIDS by sleeping with a couple of virgins...what he did was evil.

Why ?

Doggie there are people out there who do need and deserve shelter...it's just a shame that there are those out there that abuse it.
ShelleyS   
18 Jul 2008
News / Simon Moleke Njie. [36]

it seems very obvious that this is an exceptoinal case.

Masks, my post above yours quite clearly shows it not an exceptional case in the slightest, it is in fact almost common place.

But really, the stigma lays on him, not all Africans, and especially not all blacks

It shouldn't but unfortunately it is, quite like gay men being singled out too. The problem is that people coming from certain parts of the world have a higher chance of having HIV than those coming from other parts of the world, it's a fact.

Roman wants life in prison for him but dude should be killed.

I think a few weeks in a Polish prison, he will be wishing he was dead!
ShelleyS   
18 Jul 2008
News / Simon Moleke Njie. [36]

Im shocked he will only be looking at 3 years! - here is a case from the UK a few years back.

A man diagnosed with HIV has been found guilty of "callously" infecting two women with the virus in a landmark legal case.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3190626.stm
ShelleyS   
17 Jul 2008
Life / Smokers in Poland..... price rise. [47]

I'll never know the reason behind the boxes of 16

It used to be 18 and then they reduced them to 16...just another way of the vending machine companies to make more money...plus they cost about a £1 more I paid nearly £7 for a pack of sodding Lucky Strike the other week!...

Smoking is just a pleasure

Not for those poor bar stewards that tend the tobacco plants ;-) You see Mr WP smoking creates jobs too in a variety of industries if people didn't smoke what would happen to all those people in the factory where they make the boxes for the fags, what would the supplyer of card do if they stopped making the boxes, what about the printing company that print the logo on boxes? So it's far from being just a pleasure, it creates jobs for a considerable amount of people around the world.

As for the situation in Poland with prices rises, it's just a sign of the times, but I would say the increase of 1.50zl is quite steep it's a way to deter younger people from starting, it's working in the UK, aparently there are less people taking up the habbit and more giving it up.
ShelleyS   
16 Jul 2008
Travel / Most Amazing places in Poland. What does it for you? [90]

I enjoyed Krakow, most of what Miranda says it all really, but I did enjoy sitting in the park watching the world go by, it's quite strange how you can be on a crowded street and then have some peace and quiet only 2 minutes walk away...remarkable place..

I did enjoy the salt mines and I do think what they have done is quite wonderful but I suppose the tour lasted a little bit too long for my liking and I got a bit bored towards the end...nonetheless, it's well worth a visit if you are in that neck of the woods.

I also enjoyed Wraclaw, lovely churches and architecture with friendly people.
ShelleyS   
15 Jul 2008
UK, Ireland / Polish Immigrants in England - and their Cultural Impressions [36]

I do not need to back up any of my comments, I lived in London and those are my opinions of the yobs that I saw litter the streets.

Can you substantiate your claim that we have no morals or family values?
ShelleyS   
15 Jul 2008
UK, Ireland / Polish Immigrants in England - and their Cultural Impressions [36]

ShelleyS - why are you so offended about my comments regarding the yobs?

Abosolutely not, since you lived in London you probably only ever saw the foreign scum that live there roaming the streets...:-)
ShelleyS   
15 Jul 2008
Travel / GBP Exchange rate at Polish cash machines? [15]

The rate fluctuates so there is no way of knowing - if you have a mate with a Nationwide (just a bog standard account) account, the put some money in his account, the withdrawals abroad are free and the rate is usually quite good...
ShelleyS   
15 Jul 2008
Travel / GBP Exchange rate at Polish cash machines? [15]

Does anyone know what the exchange rate is in Poland when you draw money out of a cash machine?

It's your bank that determines the rates.....