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Posts by peterweg  

Joined: 16 Feb 2007 / Male ♂
Last Post: 19 Jun 2020
Threads: Total: 37 / In This Archive: 12
Posts: Total: 2,311 / In This Archive: 268
From: London, Battersea, Krakow.
Speaks Polish?: no
Interests: Motorbikes, Skiing

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peterweg   
16 Feb 2007
Food / Pierogi (polish Dumpling) Lovers Here???? [76]

My favourite filling is fried mushroom and onion. The mushrooms have to be very slowly fried so the flavour is condensed and the onions crispy. Never found them in while in Poland.
peterweg   
18 Feb 2007
Love / I got chatting to a Polish girl in a bar - opinions please.. [77]

kutas is d**k

hahahaha

As a British-Pole its one of the few Polish words I know :)

There is a Kutas Hardresser in Wandsworth (near the Fire station).... Greeks apparently although I've never had the nerve to go in there.
peterweg   
19 Feb 2007
Genealogy / Anyone Else 1/2 Polish??? [58]

I'm half Polish, half English. My father said there was no point learning Polish, so I can't speak a word .
peterweg   
19 Feb 2007
UK, Ireland / I understand poles coming to uk [196]

I visited Krakow and the architecture is beautiful, it was not dirty and even on the drive to Zakopane Poland looked a good place to live. Now Polish food is good but nothing special, 'English' food (if such a concept exists anymore, food is now international) has similar good points and more variety. This is coming from English-Pole who was brought up on Polish food.

It was the Americans and the Russians love who betrayed you if you know anything about history!!......All the British did during the Yalta talks was to sit in!!!....Anyway i'm really glad that you all suffered during the Communist years.....Especially after reading some of your opinions of the UK........Get your facts right and sort your life out will you?

This is indeed true. Churchill was the only leader who tried to save Poland, the Russian and Americans sold us down the river.

My grandmother was welsh and all my family, on record, where born in the british isles.

Hence my reasons for being pro-British, I care about this land - unlike foreigners

Don't forget you would be speaking German if it wasn't for the Polish airmen fighting in the battle of Britain. Britain owes a massive debt to Poland. 170k died fighting in the British army in the belief they were going to be given a free Poland. Remember Arnhem? A division of Poles were flown in (even knowning that it was hopeless) and were pretty much slaughtered. The British Government knew years before that the Poles were not going to be able to return home and it allowed them to die on Britains behalf.

What sort of effect do you think it had on the Polish who were exiled in Britain? Well, they ended up committing suicide. some of them, like my father. He loved Poland and he could never set foot there again. After the War the Poles were excluded from the victory celebrations, banned for life from speaking about how they had been betrayed.
peterweg   
20 Feb 2007
History / Katyn- forgiven and forgotten? [111]

I think my Grandather was killed at one of the sites (he dissapeared on his horse to fight the Russians. Never heard of again). Other family members were sent to the camps (where 75% of the 1.75Million died).

At least eight people with my family surname are on the memorial. I don't know how they were related to me - I don't know any of my relations names. The reason overseas Poles are still concerned about it was because most of them were connected to and came from the eastern part of Poland.
peterweg   
22 Feb 2007
History / Katyn- forgiven and forgotten? [111]

They were not murdered because 'they refused to cooperate'. They were murdered because the Soviet army was humiliated by the Poles when they invaded in 1918-1919.

The Poles who were deported to Siberia from the East were primarily settlers from the Polish Army who defeated the Communists. Stalin wanted revenge (although this defeat allowed him to gain ultimate asendancy in Russia as he held back from attacking Poland with his Army).

I assumed the story of the 'Miracle on the Vistula' was common knowledge to Poles?
peterweg   
23 Feb 2007
History / Poland has paid £68 Million for helping UK in WW2 [168]

And how much did the UK pay USA for the war loan they were forced to take out....?...5 billion....so lets divide that by 68 million....comes too..???...........not a lot....!!!!.....the war was tough for all involved..........some people got screwed, millions died, Russia became a super power and occupied 10 countries..USA got rich.........spot a pattern?

The UK loan was £300million in 1945 £'s
peterweg   
23 Feb 2007
History / Katyn- forgiven and forgotten? [111]

Quoting: peterweg
I assumed the story of the 'Miracle on the Vistula' was common knowledge to Poles?

Because it is, as well as the knowledge that this term was coined by PiƂsudski's opponents in order to belittle his success.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Warsaw_(1920)

I have never seen the term 'Miracle on the Vistula' described as a belittling of Pilsudski. My main knowledge of the term comes from my grandfather (via my dad) and he was proud of it, having fought in there.

Norman Davis book 'White Eagle - Red Star' called it such, again not in a derogatory manner.
peterweg   
26 Feb 2007
UK, Ireland / The un-acceptable side of new entrant countries coming to the UK [56]

Annia,

Yes, that you don't understand economics. Personal debt is not a function of immigration.

fully agree Annia. And it is not just debt for individuals. Our current borrowing asa nation is through the roof. So much for the 'prudence' of our government. The levle of the National Debt is the highest for over 40 years. The bubble will burst for the UK economy very soon

Really?

ostrichfs.co.uk/IVA-News/National-debt-tops.html

The National Debt tops £500 billion for the first time

The scale of the national debt is probably best expressed as a percentage of national income (GDP). On this basis, the level of government debt remains much lower than it has been in past years. Indeed it is lower than the level that the Labour Government inherited when it came to power in May 1997. However, the rise in the accumulated level of unpaid government debt is a result of a run of years in which Gordon Brown has run budget deficits.

statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=206
peterweg   
27 Feb 2007
Food / Good Polish Wines [74]

Isn't Wegrzyn (Hungarian Tokay) a Polish wine?

polamjournal.com/Library/Holidays/xmasindex/Rediscover_Your _Heritage/rediscover_your_heritage.html[/url]

You will impress her with the price, its very expensive. At one time it was the most expensive wine in the world and its history goes back 1000 years. I've been intrigued by this wine as Wegrzyn is my surname (it means "kin of the Hungarian")

Read up about it, its a very strangely made wine.

wines.com/tokaj/tokaj.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaji

It was grown in the Tokaj region and taken over the Carpathian mountains to mature in cellars south of the city of Sanok, in southern Poland. Hence its latin inscription 'Born of Hungary, matured in Poland' (AFAIR)
peterweg   
27 Feb 2007
History / Are there sports invented by Poles? [16]

Yep, they are called throwing sticks. Very common hunting weapon.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwing_Stick
peterweg   
27 Feb 2007
UK, Ireland / English food - unhealthy? [52]

My opinion is that a lot of Polish food is seriously unhealthy...

I have to agree with you, Polish food is high in fat and stodge. There are no hormones in food (meat) in the UK and the EU, they are banned. I think you should consider eating more fruit and vegetables - organic if you can. The problem is that the UK makes people lazy when it come to cooking food for themselves, I cook everything from scratch and never buy processed food. Work can make people to tired to bother, and working hard is what the Poles come here to do.

Could be IBS or wheat intolerance. I never realised I was wheat intolerant for my first 30 years. Its not obvious at all.
peterweg   
27 Feb 2007
History / Are there sports invented by Poles? [16]

No idea, but I don't think that any mainstream sports were invented here...

Besides Football, cricket, Rugby, tennis (possibly), golf. Probably a few more.
peterweg   
27 Feb 2007
UK, Ireland / English food - unhealthy? [52]

Back on topic, food has a direct relationship to life expectancy, Poland has a life expectancy of 74 years versus 76 years in the UK. The fact is eating Pork is very unhealthy, and preserved meats especially so.

Yes, these are the ones I'm talking about. Unfortunately I never tried them so I can't be of any help here for you. Maybe some UK residents will care to help here?

Organic food is available in all supermarkets, Asda is cheap. Another common source is Farmers Markets farmersmarkets.net where farmers sell direct to the public.

Many companies do organic delivery's of seasonal vegetables. Search for Organic Box

google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla% 3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&hs=Zg7&q=organic+box+&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3Dcountry UK%7CcountryGB
peterweg   
27 Feb 2007
UK, Ireland / The un-acceptable side of new entrant countries coming to the UK [56]

I stand corrected. However, if you take into account the prospective funding required for an ageing popoulation in terms of pensions and services, the size of the problem continues to grow without any clear strategy for resolution. Add to that the relatively low interest costs currently needed to service the debt then this country has a problem IMHO.

Britain, unlike most countries in the world, has a fully funded pensions. Its one of the main reasons not to join the Euro, because effectively the national debt of other countries pensions will affect the euro's value/inflation.

Did you know that the UK is the greatest trading country in the world?

What that means, I'm not quite sure... :)
peterweg   
27 Feb 2007
Life / Why do Poles drink so much? [161]

On a more serious note, I don't think that Poles drink any more than a lot of other nationalities.

You star. Feigning pissedness.
Neat Vodka has a far less effect than when mixed

The skiing weather is disturbing me as well. We had a great week in Courchevel but it was spring conditions in the depths of winter.
peterweg   
28 Feb 2007
UK, Ireland / 700 are arriving every day from Eastern Europe into Britain [50]

(From the newspaper that was friends with Hitler)

The number of Eastern Europeans flooding into Britain has soared to 700 a day.

Official figures show there are 579,000 Poles and other residents of the former Soviet Bloc registered to work here.

thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23387097-details/700+are+ar riving+every+day+from+Eastern+Europe/article.do

28.02.07
peterweg   
28 Feb 2007
UK, Ireland / 700 are arriving every day from Eastern Europe into Britain [50]

As I expected my comment has not been added. Anybody else want to try?

Matyjasz, don't worry about it. I hear far more positive comments about the Poles in the UK. In fact I've never heard anyone complain about it in person. The UK government should come up with the economic benefit argument pretty soon.
peterweg   
28 Feb 2007
UK, Ireland / Irish Thoughts on Britain and the British and vice versa [53]

Being part of the EU makes a a hell of a difference. Nationalism becomes rather pointless over time when you have no borders and the laws come from the same place. The EU has done Ireland very very nicely and I think its encouraged both parties to look forward and not back.

The constant obsession with race and nationality that you see on this forum will hopefully dissapear over time.
That is why the EU was formed in the first place, as a buffer against nationalism and war.

>well try 700 years of occupation first - that'll chaange that for you

Thats where its gets a bit fuzzy. England has been under occupation for over 900 years. You still have the French in positions of Nobility today. The obvious problem is when you start talking about 35 generations of living somewhere it becomes more of a matter of religion than race.
peterweg   
1 Mar 2007
News / Dealing with constant insults against Polish [323]

eddien

Don't dare attempt to speak for the 'British' you ignorant git.
Can the mods please find out this guy's IP address and report him to the Police for racism.
peterweg   
1 Mar 2007
News / Dealing with constant insults against Polish [323]

Quoting: Arien
*Ignores Eddien*

Thats a great idea!

No it isn't. If the mods don't report him to the Police, I will. Making racist threats is a crime in the UK. He has just public done so and its logged who is, where he is by his ISP.

Befitting his stupidity he seems to believe the Internet is anonymous.
It is absolutely not.
peterweg   
1 Mar 2007
News / Dealing with constant insults against Polish [323]

mods are in the US it seems, peter... doubt they will report it...

I expect they will give the IP address to the UK Police if asked. We do have reciprocating laws after all.
peterweg   
1 Mar 2007
News / Dealing with constant insults against Polish [323]

hehehehe.. but any who.. why would he talk like that about polish ppl?

Stupidity and ignorance. Maybe also jealousy, we are not called Pole's for nothing :)