osiol
26 Oct 2007
osiol
26 Oct 2007
Love / Bad experience with a Polish Guy who... had another girlfriend :( [49]
'Off' isn't usually rude enough to have to be censored.
o*
'Off' isn't usually rude enough to have to be censored.
osiol
26 Oct 2007
Language / Abecadło (The alphabet) [19]
...and at the end of a word it's just a bit nasal.
Always?
Usually?
...and at the end of a word it's just a bit nasal.
Always?
Usually?
osiol
26 Oct 2007
Love / Bad experience with a Polish Guy who... had another girlfriend :( [49]
Average Joe has the answer.
I dnt even know what to answer
arsehole
Average Joe has the answer.
osiol
26 Oct 2007
Language / Abecadło (The alphabet) [19]
I notice these letters are pronounced more like the way they are in Latin-derived languages like Spanish or Italian.
The tip of the tongue is just behind the front teeth - not further back in the mouth like in English.
When you say 'at the', the tongue for the 't' in 'at' is in Pole-position. Just stop before the 'th' bit.
For those who know a bit of French,
ą is like 'on' or 'om'.
D d : d sound in dog
T t : t sound in top
I notice these letters are pronounced more like the way they are in Latin-derived languages like Spanish or Italian.
The tip of the tongue is just behind the front teeth - not further back in the mouth like in English.
When you say 'at the', the tongue for the 't' in 'at' is in Pole-position. Just stop before the 'th' bit.
For those who know a bit of French,
ą is like 'on' or 'om'.
osiol
26 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Britain - Land of Milk and honey.. or basis for Lord of the Flies? [17]
Is that the land of milk and honey?
hope all are well in Wroclaw
Is that the land of milk and honey?
osiol
26 Oct 2007
Life / What Do the Poles Think about the Abolition of the Death Penalty? [48]
Dead people can't launch appeals to clear their names after they were wrongfully convicted.
Dead people can't launch appeals to clear their names after they were wrongfully convicted.
osiol
26 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Britain - Land of Milk and honey.. or basis for Lord of the Flies? [17]
A land of milk and honey would surely be rather geologically unstable.
I have milk and honey in my kitchen, but that doesn't make it a land of milk and honey.
Luckily, I don't have flies in my kitchen.
Not all of this country is as unpleasant as these terrible cases might suggest.
It does highlight some of the problems we face.
A land of milk and honey would surely be rather geologically unstable.
I have milk and honey in my kitchen, but that doesn't make it a land of milk and honey.
Luckily, I don't have flies in my kitchen.
Not all of this country is as unpleasant as these terrible cases might suggest.
It does highlight some of the problems we face.
osiol
26 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Britain - Land of Milk and honey.. or basis for Lord of the Flies? [17]
There's a new boy at work. He is not very intelligent.
He can't add up or multiply.
He doesn't know where Poland is. I told him it's between Germany and Russia. 'I don't know where vey are eivver.'
But apparently, it is cool to be stupid.
How many kinds of stupidity are supposed to be cool?
how can a land of such greatness, plummet to such depths?
There's a new boy at work. He is not very intelligent.
He can't add up or multiply.
He doesn't know where Poland is. I told him it's between Germany and Russia. 'I don't know where vey are eivver.'
But apparently, it is cool to be stupid.
How many kinds of stupidity are supposed to be cool?
osiol
26 Oct 2007
News / Polish Tourists wrestle and kill attacking bear! [39]
I object to bad humans being described as animals.
Animals do what they do. Bears, for example, hunt and kill their prey for food.
They do not kill just for a laugh. I don't think I'd be over-anthropomorphising if I said bears are noble creatures.
If bears ever attack people, it is because they have come to associate people whith a source of food.
That food is not the humans themselves, but the food that humans take with them when they enter the realm of bears.
When I read that this bear was so young, it shows these idiots up for the cowards they are.
Go wrestle a fully-grown lion next time... or a donkey.
I object to bad humans being described as animals.
Animals do what they do. Bears, for example, hunt and kill their prey for food.
They do not kill just for a laugh. I don't think I'd be over-anthropomorphising if I said bears are noble creatures.
If bears ever attack people, it is because they have come to associate people whith a source of food.
That food is not the humans themselves, but the food that humans take with them when they enter the realm of bears.
When I read that this bear was so young, it shows these idiots up for the cowards they are.
Go wrestle a fully-grown lion next time... or a donkey.
osiol
25 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]
No.
Controlled by market forces, whatever they are.
But why would you want to stop them? What do they take away from you by voting?
Did you want to use your local village hall or community centre one morning when lo and behold...
it has everything to do with the EU
No.
uncontrolled
Controlled by market forces, whatever they are.
not as many poles, therefore no need to open polls for so many Poles
But why would you want to stop them? What do they take away from you by voting?
Did you want to use your local village hall or community centre one morning when lo and behold...
osiol
25 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]
Libel is the term for a written defamation or inaccurate portrayal.
I, however, summarised what you had posted on the thread.
Think of it as an Omnibus-ette for those who can't be bothered to read all of your ranting.
Good. You must try it more often.
slander.
ok your guesses
ok your guesses
Libel is the term for a written defamation or inaccurate portrayal.
I, however, summarised what you had posted on the thread.
Think of it as an Omnibus-ette for those who can't be bothered to read all of your ranting.
lighten up then?
ow yes
ow yes
Good. You must try it more often.
osiol
25 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]
It's not slander.
No.
So you can lighten up then?
don't write your slander about me
It's not slander.
thats a little old don't you think
No.
that just made me laugh
So you can lighten up then?
osiol
25 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]
What the blazes are you doing moaning about the EU as well now?
We know you're a little britainer.
You are just using this as a way of trying to cover up your anti-democratic opinions.
Look, Tornado:
Round the back of this thread is a ladder for you to climb down off your high horse on.
It leads you down off the thread so you can have a little cool down talking about light-hearted websites for having fun on.
What the blazes are you doing moaning about the EU as well now?
We know you're a little britainer.
You are just using this as a way of trying to cover up your anti-democratic opinions.
Look, Tornado:
Round the back of this thread is a ladder for you to climb down off your high horse on.
It leads you down off the thread so you can have a little cool down talking about light-hearted websites for having fun on.
osiol
25 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]
So YOU have decided that because you don't want to vote for anyone, neither should anyone else, should they be working abroad.
Dog... manger.
at least then i wouldn't have to make a decision about who the next bunch of crooks i'm going to vote into government are,
So YOU have decided that because you don't want to vote for anyone, neither should anyone else, should they be working abroad.
Dog... manger.
osiol
25 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]
Just because it's from the EU?
Why shouldn't the Polish authorities provide a service for Polish citizens to vote whilst they are abroad?
If I'm not fully paying attention to what you have typed on your thread here, it's because I really don't get what you're complaining about. Complaining for complaining's sake? I can't be bothered to read it all. What's the point?
Your job in Poland is at the other end of the country, perhaps.
Can all Polish people in the UK afford to descend on the embassy on voting day?
Practical?
i yet again disagree with an EU law, right whatever you want to call it
Just because it's from the EU?
Why shouldn't the Polish authorities provide a service for Polish citizens to vote whilst they are abroad?
If I'm not fully paying attention to what you have typed on your thread here, it's because I really don't get what you're complaining about. Complaining for complaining's sake? I can't be bothered to read it all. What's the point?
go to the British Embassy
Your job in Poland is at the other end of the country, perhaps.
Can all Polish people in the UK afford to descend on the embassy on voting day?
Practical?
osiol
25 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Another girl from Poland murdered in uk [63]
It sounds like a tragic story, but without knowing what happened, all I can say is condolences to her friends and family, and I hope whoever carried out this murder gets caught and punished. May she rest in peace.
It sounds like a tragic story, but without knowing what happened, all I can say is condolences to her friends and family, and I hope whoever carried out this murder gets caught and punished. May she rest in peace.
osiol
25 Oct 2007
Life / Why the stubbornness and narrow-mindedness of some Poles? [32]
Real ale. No-one else really seems to touch it.
I think there are northern and southern European ways of drinking.
About language / culture coming across as rude or whatever, I stood behind an American tourist at a market stall selling noodles. He kept pointing and saying: "Can I get..." which to many British ears sounds rude. Maybe he was being polite in his own culture's way!
british consumption of alcohol?
Real ale. No-one else really seems to touch it.
I think there are northern and southern European ways of drinking.
About language / culture coming across as rude or whatever, I stood behind an American tourist at a market stall selling noodles. He kept pointing and saying: "Can I get..." which to many British ears sounds rude. Maybe he was being polite in his own culture's way!
osiol
25 Oct 2007
Life / Why the stubbornness and narrow-mindedness of some Poles? [32]
hic!
Who's stubborn?
brits are drunks
hic!
Who's stubborn?
osiol
25 Oct 2007
osiol
25 Oct 2007
Life / Redheads in Poland - How many? [95]
I know the Irish used to move abroad a lot in the past, like many Poles do now,
but there are gingers all over Europe, and there are even occasional traces of redness of hair in Japan (maybe that's the Ainu).
Udmurts are one of the Finno-Ugric peoples in Russia, somewhere east of the Volga.
They have a relatively high percentage of redheads, and I doubt any Irish settled there ever.
Must be descended from Irish
I know the Irish used to move abroad a lot in the past, like many Poles do now,
but there are gingers all over Europe, and there are even occasional traces of redness of hair in Japan (maybe that's the Ainu).
Udmurts are one of the Finno-Ugric peoples in Russia, somewhere east of the Volga.
They have a relatively high percentage of redheads, and I doubt any Irish settled there ever.
osiol
25 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]
and his high horse must be getting very tired.
It's been standing on rocky ground for quite a long time.
and his high horse must be getting very tired.
It's been standing on rocky ground for quite a long time.
osiol
25 Oct 2007
osiol
25 Oct 2007
osiol
24 Oct 2007
UK, Ireland / Polls for Poles in the UK [178]
Tihs is only 50% backwards.
Siht would be 100% backwards.
*Sudden (and costly) intake of breath at that comment.*
Just a couple of little questions:
If you were in Poland, would you not like to have it made easier for you to cast your vote back home?
Aren't there bad people in all corners of the globe?
Tihs is so backwards
Tihs is only 50% backwards.
Siht would be 100% backwards.
OK they were breathing air in the UK, but I thought that was free anyway
*Sudden (and costly) intake of breath at that comment.*
Just a couple of little questions:
If you were in Poland, would you not like to have it made easier for you to cast your vote back home?
Aren't there bad people in all corners of the globe?
osiol
23 Oct 2007
Life / Moving to Poland next year, want to bring my Nissan Skyline [46]
A right-hand drive car?
In a left-hand drive country?
Get a dog for the front passenger seat!
A right-hand drive car?
In a left-hand drive country?
Get a dog for the front passenger seat!
osiol
23 Oct 2007
Food / Polish Christmas table [26]
I am reading your words and almost nodding (as donkeys do).
I don't listen to what many of my fellow English have to say about food either.
Probably. My grandfather used to eat some weird stuff that no-one here would touch nowadays.
I'm one of the few who's willing to try almost anything - it doesn't mean I'd neccesarily enjoy it though.
About the CARP: my young colleague / flatmate says he'll only eat a little bit of the fish, just to be polite. Youngsters, eh?
I am donkey but you dont seem to be listening me as well
I am reading your words and almost nodding (as donkeys do).
I don't listen to what many of my fellow English have to say about food either.
brits may puke after trying flaczki
Probably. My grandfather used to eat some weird stuff that no-one here would touch nowadays.
I'm one of the few who's willing to try almost anything - it doesn't mean I'd neccesarily enjoy it though.
About the CARP: my young colleague / flatmate says he'll only eat a little bit of the fish, just to be polite. Youngsters, eh?
osiol
23 Oct 2007
osiol
23 Oct 2007
Food / Polish Christmas table [26]
We don't kill carp here. We are delicate people.
I've eviscerated my fair share of fish, but aren't carp really cute?
In any case, they are not said to be the tastiest of fish. (Blasphemy?)
We don't kill carp here. We are delicate people.
I've eviscerated my fair share of fish, but aren't carp really cute?
In any case, they are not said to be the tastiest of fish. (Blasphemy?)
osiol
23 Oct 2007
Food / Polish Christmas table [26]
I heard a story about one of my father's old colleagues.
He was the son of Polish immigrants. He had known nothing of his family in Poland until he was approaching middle age. He was spending his first Christmas with his new found family in Poland and thoroughly enjoying himself, until they told him...
It was his job to kill the carp.
I heard a story about one of my father's old colleagues.
He was the son of Polish immigrants. He had known nothing of his family in Poland until he was approaching middle age. He was spending his first Christmas with his new found family in Poland and thoroughly enjoying himself, until they told him...
It was his job to kill the carp.