Love / Feminism effects both sexes in a different way - opinions? [115]


I thought it was your turn with the communal blouse tonight mate? It's mine every other wednesday. :)

Love / Feminism effects both sexes in a different way - opinions? [115]


I just moved my pc down to the bomb shelter! :) Still feeling nervous...

a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle etc...goodnight :)

Love / I'm upset - you encourage foreigners to take the Polish women away [94]


We sure have, and they were brits... (and sadly the quality of their spelling matched the content of their posts!)

Wish my Polish was as good!

Genealogy / Is Rafal a Polish Name? [56]

currently praying to god to see if he can fix it so that it will rain in Brisbane! :)

Genealogy / Is Rafal a Polish Name? [56]

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Love / I'm upset - you encourage foreigners to take the Polish women away [94]

Looking forward to hearing from you! Though i can't promise i won't get itchy fingers and beat you to it! :) (Be warned I can bore the hind legs off a donkey!) hehe

scurries off to read Syrena's intro....

Love / I'm upset - you encourage foreigners to take the Polish women away [94]


ahh :( Know the feeling.
Must be the time of year. Hey, to paraphrase robbie williams...once the heart's broken, there is nothing left to break. (I think there is a message in there somewhere!)

I'd offer to sing, but that might just add to your troubles! hehe

No seriously, if you would like to talk, send me an email, i'll tell you mine, if you tell me yours and all that! But you have to go first! :)

Love / I'm upset - you encourage foreigners to take the Polish women away [94]


I wouldn't boldly go that far, but that's just me splitting infinitives! :)


Not bad actually. It's a really safe place to live, the weather in the summer is fantastic (If you like the heat) and it's GREAT in the winter (if you like the cold!) It's a bit on the expensive side, but that's thanks to the €uro, but overall, i'll be sad to leave. (Though i really do hate vienna!) My advice, avoid like the plaque! :)

The Austrians themselves are a singularly xenophobic lot though, has to be said. Still, they're quite simple in their tastes and usually placated by small amounts of sausage...that didn't come out right! :) hehe

So, how you doing anyway, things still seem to be getting you down? :(

Language / Polish verbs are conjugated with a separate ending for all six persons: I, you, he, she, it, we, you [29]

Nice one Achilles, very useful post! Thanks.

Love / I'm upset - you encourage foreigners to take the Polish women away [94]

Really??...i dunno i go away for a few days and look what happens! :) I've not really read all the old posts, i could sense the hostility as i was logging in :)

Ah, don't take a break. says he, having just returned from a mini sabbatical we'd miss you and that great avatar!

It is interesting, the only welsh i know is what i picked up off the the streetsigns. The usual like Araf (slow) Ysgol (school) and my favourite Plastig (Bet ya can't guess that one!) :)

It's a great language, my driving licence is in Welsh, the looks on the faces of the Polizei when they see that is priceless! :)

Love / I'm upset - you encourage foreigners to take the Polish women away [94]

No too bad thanks Miranda, how's yourself?

It's Welcome to Wales in welsh yep....afaik it's pronounced Cross-o e Gum-re but don't believe this Sais (Englishman) I just lived there for a few years, so am no where near qualified enough to know for sure. hehe :)

edit: Answer to your other question: It's Both (Grammatical thing i think) :)

Love / I'm upset - you encourage foreigners to take the Polish women away [94]


It's the Welsh for Wales. Croeso y Gymru

UK, Ireland / I understand poles coming to uk [196]


See mate, once you're not being so angry, you don't sound so bad...
I'm pro British as well, hell it's my country too but, I just think that the whole point about the UK is, that we are tolerant and we absorb other things from other cultures into ours, in order to make ourselves better in the long run.

When we start yelling, F off back to Poland <Insert country of choice here> we forget what it is to be British. Tolerance, fair play, mindless violence on a friday night... :)

Look on the bright side.
In a twisted way, the fact so many poles came to the uk, will actually help prevent a repeat of such a thing in the future. The government were caught with their trousers around their ankles; no one expected it and now, when it is the Romanian turn, there will be a system in place to prevent it happening again. That's something positive right? :)

Besides, the majority of the poles in the uk won't stay forever and when they leave, i hope that leave with fond memories of the uk.

UK, Ireland / I understand poles coming to uk [196]

because the only indigenous Brits are to be found in wales.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2076470.stm Have a read. :)

UK, Ireland / I understand poles coming to uk [196]


So you're welsh then?

UK, Ireland / I understand poles coming to uk [196]


Yep and it would be called Amazing Britain if it wasn't for tits like you pulling the average down. -Al Murray.

Life / What is your favourite comedy (also Polish)? [63]




Yup :)

UK, Ireland / I understand poles coming to uk [196]

Think of them like missionaries Chris; they're in the uk to spread the good news that their country is great! :)
Or maybe they just like pissing you off... :) Your mileage may vary...

UK, Ireland / BEWARE when coming over UK [363]

No offence shelley, as I know that you and I see eye to eye on a lot of things, but I think the whole point about Britain is, that there isn't one thing that can define it. (Other than maybe lousy weather and breakfast being served 7-9) imho the second you can put a label onto it, then it's time to worry.

We always seem to take the best ideas from other cultures and assimilate, i guess we're a bit like the borg (shameless Trekkie moment) in that respect..but, i don't think that is a totally bad thing.

You're right though about one thing. On the scale we're seeing this influx now, it is getting to a lot of people and therein lies the problem. I don't think we mind other cultures coming here, but we do mind when we start to feel (or perceive) that what we hold dear is being threatened.

UK, Ireland / Documentary Project on Polish community in UK [11]


[tongue_firmly_in_cheek]...and they say we're (England) being swamped by 'em. Guess they're all too busy stealing our jobs and taking away our women to be bothered posting on an internet site eh??[/tongue_firmly_in_cheek]

USA, Canada / How 9 11 affected me as a Pole. [12]

What's Sam's Club, some kind of loyalty card/nectar points jobbie? Either way, one hell of a tale there Kryzs... thanks for sharing.

UK, Ireland / BEWARE when coming over UK [363]


What a complete idiot.

Yeah, what has the EU ever done for us?
Enter Monty Python:

FRANCIS: We're gettin' in through the underground trian tunnel system here, up through into the main continental shelf here, into Brussels and the EU commisioner's wife's bedroom. Having grabbed his wife, we inform the EU that she is in our custody and forthwith issue our demands. Any questions?

COMMANDO XERXES: What exactly are the demands?
REG: We're giving the EU two days to dismantle the entire apparatus of the European Federalist State, and if they don't agree immediately, we execute her.

MATTHIAS: Cut her head off?
FRANCIS: Cut all her bits off. Send 'em back on the hour every hour. Show them we're not to be trifled with.
REG: And of course, we point out that they bear full responsibility when we chop her up, and that we shall not submit to blackmail!

COMMANDOS: No blackmail!
REG: They've bled us white, the bastards. They've let all these foreigners in and let them take everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.

LORETTA: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.
REG: Yeah.
LORETTA: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.
REG: Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!
XERXES: The Free Trade Area?
REG: What?
XERXES: The Free Trade Area.
REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
COMMANDO #3: And the Peace.
LORETTA: Oh, yeah, the Peace, Reg. Remember what Europe used to be like? All that fighting and killing each other.
REG: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the Free Trade and the Peace are two things that the EU has done.
MATTHIAS: And the Urban Regeneration.
REG: Well, yeah. Obviously the Urban Regeneration. I mean, the Urban Generation goes without saying, doesn't it? But apart from the Free Trade, the 50 years of Peace and Stability, and the Urban Regeneration--

COMMANDO: Agricultural Rebate.
XERXES: Free Health Care in all EU countries.
COMMANDOS: Huh? Heh? Huh...
COMMANDO #2: Education, recognition of our qualifications abroad.
COMMANDOS: Ohh...
REG: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
COMMANDO #1: And the duty free wine.
COMMANDOS: Oh, yes. Yeah...
FRANCIS: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if we left the EU. Huh.
COMMANDO: The European Court.
REG: All right, but apart from the Free trade, the Health Care, Education, Duty Free Wine, Court of Human Rights, Urban Regeneration, an Agricultural Rebate to help protect out farmers, a paneuropean governmental system, and 50 years of peace and prosperity, what has the EU ever done for us?

ALL: Nothing!!!

Language / Polish Conditionals (okresy warunkowe or zdania warunkowe) [23]

If I thought about conditionals, i would get a headache! :) Thanks Ivonka, great as usual. :)

Food / Christmas Dinner in Poland [33]


Yup...out of a packet=heresy. :)

Food / Christmas Dinner in Poland [33]


Oooppss!!!
What are you buying her for xmas this year? A fire extinguisher? :) :)

Really, you have an English style xmas on the 26th in Poland too? Ahh ok (background needed) We all live in Austria, so I just assumed they were having an Austrian (English) style xmas afterwards to not seem rude or whatever...

Oh ok, thanks for the info you two! Very interesting... Actually, question: Is there any one dish that no Polish xmas would be complete without?

Food / Christmas Dinner in Poland [33]

hehe that's made me all christmassy and also made my mouth water...thanks Amethyst :) What's that rumbling? A train? A far off avalance? Nope, just my stomach

I was really shocked by the fact poles eat fish on xmas eve, I think i just automatically assumed a British xmas was a universal xmas but, I guess it actually makes a lot of sense from a religious pov...though that said my lass much prefers the English version of christmas...as she said last year; it's a lot tastier! :)

btw do you set fire to your xmas pud? (I never got that, why pour lots of alcohol over a cake, just to burn it all off again!) Of course, followed up by lashings and lashings of brandy sauce...? (Sensing an alcoholic theme to my household...but we're all T total, promise!)

UK, Ireland / polish girls outnumbers polish men interms of relationships with native from uk or ie [178]


Thanks DG...that made me laugh! Needed it. :)

Language / genders in Nouns/ VERBAL NOUNS/ PRONOUNS/ DIMINUITIVES/ CONJUNCTIONS - A brief Polish Grammar lesson [32]

^^ They're having hosting issues here you know mate...have a shower not a bath type thing...

Hey Fisz, that really is a great read...have you got any more goodies up your virtual sleeve or is that our lot?

Language / genders in Nouns/ VERBAL NOUNS/ PRONOUNS/ DIMINUITIVES/ CONJUNCTIONS - A brief Polish Grammar lesson [32]

Holy smoke FISZ. That's the kind of thing I've been hoping a teach yourself book would provide, and it never has...you want to write a bit more down, send it of to a publisher then move a tropical island with the money you make!

Brilliant. Thanks man, copied to the Hard Drive. :)

Study / Entering college in Poland. [23]


:) haha My ex did a bsc in Pysch...always wondered what became of her! :) Good to know she'll be putting all that knowledge to good use!