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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: 2,309 / In This Archive: 268
From: London, Battersea, Krakow.
Speaks Polish?: no
Interests: Motorbikes, Skiing

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peterweg   
20 Jun 2007
News / The legal definition of Vodka in EU - Poland not happy [16]

Because these places are full of tourists and they like to be served what they are used to, which is the crap they find in their native countries, the mediocre products invented for their own national markets according to their taste. Be it vodka or any other typical product from just any country, it's a common phenomenon.

Bollocks. Tourists want to try local drinks. The problem is trendy bars are trendy bars, which is snobby and expensive, basically. They can charge more for 'imported' because its unusual.
peterweg   
21 Jun 2007
USA, Canada / Gas prices in America [127]

When you read the list, bear in mind that unlike the US, Norway is a net exporter of oil products!

So, just about, is the UK.

The prices are to keep consumption down and efficiency up. The US ignored the oil shock of 1973 and allowed sprawling urbanisation. The UK aimed for oil efficiency and has built a tax buffer to absorb future price rises. Its taxation as a defensive weapon and driver of social change

All vehicles in the US are equiped with emission control catalytic converters, not seen much in Europe.

Bollocks, all EU cars have Cats and have done for many years.
peterweg   
26 Jun 2007
UK, Ireland / Manchester - Question - living standard for Polish migrants. [29]

heard some thing like that "oh look. next polish bloke here - ha ha ha". Because I was stright from the plane and I was holding a bags. So natives thought that I just came here to steal their maintenance job.

I think they were joking a about another Pole just got off the plane, in the context that there are suddenly Polish everywhere, which is funny. I don't think someone scared to 'lose their maintenance job' would be laughing about it.
peterweg   
2 Jul 2007
UK, Ireland / Housing problem in England [13]

Great. Im telling you my plan to win the next general election and you are laughing ;)

You ain't going to win..
peterweg   
12 Jul 2007
UK, Ireland / British taxpayers pay homeless Polish to go home. [184]

we british avaed the poles from the nazis, now we have to pay them money through the eu. what do they contribute to the uk ..... nothing.

Among all your other stupid statements I have to take issue with this one. Tell me how many British Soldiers fought in Poland to remove the Nazi? Put this against the 400K Poles who fought for the British Army in Africa, Italy, France and Germany and they were told they could even go back to Poland as Roosevelt handed Poland to an even worse regime in the form of the Communists.

Poles fought to save Britain from the Nazi's not the other way round.
peterweg   
12 Jul 2007
UK, Ireland / British taxpayers pay homeless Polish to go home. [184]

there are more english speakers in china alone than all the english speakers put together outside china. same goes for india.

LOL, Classic!!

Did you actual pass a single GCSE, my mentally impaired friend?
peterweg   
12 Jul 2007
UK, Ireland / British taxpayers pay homeless Polish to go home. [184]

there are more english speakers in china alone than all the english speakers put together outside china. same goes for india.

Ok I'll explain it to you slowly. If there are more english speakers in China than the rest of the world put together how can the same be true in India?

Find a piece of paper and write it down in numbers. Try and add it up, or get a grown up to help.

Idiot. You can't spell, write or add-up, never mind produce a logical argument. I find it unlikely you managed to get to University.
peterweg   
15 Jul 2007
Life / Polish hooliganism in sport [141]

Looking at the picture, it seems they are more interested in men.

You were the worst hooligans in Germany last year. Yo were fighting on the streets but that is an untold story keeping in secret.

Untold because its not true. I saw none of it when I was there.
peterweg   
16 Jul 2007
Life / Polish hooliganism in sport [141]

Yes it was 50 years ago but it lasted for 50 years!!! We are free country only for 17 years!!!!!! You cannot just deny that wahat happened and live like the west becaouse our economy has no chance to be like the west yet. We were occupated for too long. While they were richer and richer we had to work for Russia for 50 years. Ask yourself how nuch damage it made for our cuontry. It was not possible to rebuild the country that for the last 50 years and before that another 50 years of wars. Look at the whole history not at the recent 5 years and you maybe will understand what Im talking about. Bubba dont be so cocky because history is tricky and meybe you will understand one day polish people, although it is the last thing I would like to see :(.

For this you blame a bankrupt little country, not Russia and the USA who allowed this to happen at Yalta? Give him his due, Churchill tried to keep Poland free at Yalta but the US and Russia didn't care what he said. The only thing that would have freed Poland was a war against Russia and the dangers of that left us in the Cold War for 50 years.

Poland was simply in the wrong place, tough luck, live with it.

Why is thread in the sports section?

I didn't think Homo-erotic posturing by inadequate young men was a sport.?
peterweg   
16 Jul 2007
Love / The Polish girl i love has gone back to Poland . [65]

19 year old barely out of school, just a child - 40 year old adult should know better, hardly a level playing field

It takes two to Tango.

Sometimes women don't just get involved but start it and demand it.
peterweg   
20 Jul 2007
Real Estate / Don't buy a house in Poland if you are British!!! Corruption!!! [67]

So a guy, who bought a flat here 2 years ago to sell It now for twice as much is making us richer ? Wow.

To explain it another way, tell foreigners not to buy Polish goods at all. Why sell Polish food to distributors who are going to make money on it when they resell it?

BTW, welcome to capitalism.
peterweg   
23 Jul 2007
News / Polish religious pilgrims crashed coming back from a pilgrimage [62]

I agree this is such an awful tragedy, and we will never understand why it happened.

It happened because the vehicle was using the road illegally and wasn't equipped to deal with mountains. It didn't have the permit to use the very dangerous descent.

news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2793099.ece

Forty-three pilgrims died in a crash on the same road in 1973, while 29 people died in a crash in 1975. Buses are prohibited from using the five-mile road without a special permit.

``We can't manage to make this descent safe,'' Jean-Jacques Defaite, the mayor of the neighboring town of Laffrey, told LCI television.

Some said the bus' speed could have been a factor in the crash. Grenoble state prosecutor Serge Samuel told France Info that four motorcyclists following the bus said it was traveling about 44 miles per hour before it crashed. Experts would verify the bus' speed, he said.

peterweg   
23 Jul 2007
News / Polish religious pilgrims crashed coming back from a pilgrimage [62]

Yes, how unfortunate that the non-religious are uncomfortable offering such valuable and consoling cliches as "I'll keep them in my thoughts and prayers."

Uncomfortable? Why should they be uncomfortable about not doing something that is meaningless?

I not going to offer something that is worthless to the bereaved.
peterweg   
24 Jul 2007
UK, Ireland / 713,000 new foreign workers in UK [44]

The UK issued National Insurance numbers to 713,000 overseas nationals in the year to April 2007.

That number - which includes those who may be in the UK for a short time - is more than twice the amount issued to non-UK nationals four years earlier.

The figures include self-employed people as well as the employed workers who are counted in other surveys.

The number from new EU counties working in the UK for the first time rose to 321,000 from 277,000 a year earlier.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6913296.stm

COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN
Poland: 222,000
India: 49,000
peterweg   
24 Jul 2007
UK, Ireland / 713,000 new foreign workers in UK [44]

I've got it Tivo'ed. I'll watch it.

I suspect a very large number of these NI numbers are students coming over for summer, I've help two get jobs and they say all their friends are doing it.
peterweg   
24 Jul 2007
News / How Poles truly feel about their situation in Poland and being in EU? [76]

Being part of the EU can have other advantages

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6912965.stm

Six Bulgarian medical workers who were imprisoned in Libya for deliberately infecting children with HIV have arrived in Bulgaria after being freed.

The five nurses and a Palestinian-born doctor, who served eight years of the life sentences they received, had always maintained they were innocent.

peterweg   
24 Jul 2007
UK, Ireland / 713,000 new foreign workers in UK [44]

We have no way of knowing how many immigrants we have in the UK, but I would guestimate - about a 1/4 of the population of the UK are immigrants.

Its actually less than 10%. If you live in London you have no idea what Britain is like, the population is complety different.

news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=16&id=995222007
peterweg   
25 Jul 2007
Law / Foreign direct investments in Poland are on the rise [4]

A total of 11 billion euros in foreign direct investment (FDI) flowed into Poland last year, and at least as much is expected to arrive this year as the country continues to rank high internationally in terms of investment appeal.

warsawvoice.pl/view/15337
peterweg   
25 Jul 2007
Law / Foreign direct investments in Poland are on the rise [4]

Reason why they open their companies in Poland is very clear: very cheap workers and EU.

And Growth potential. Educated workforce.

Property investment isn't bad. Going from 100% Polish ownership results in Poles getting paid more for any property they own. You obviously don't own property, otherwise you would be crowing about how your property was increasing in value. I don't either, so I know your pain.
peterweg   
27 Jul 2007
Love / I've met a Polish girl, and have feelings for her... [44]

I agree with you Jambo that men have feelings too and that the novelty wears off.. but he is 20 years old and is being offered sex on a plate with a sexy older woman who is leaving the country in a couple of months... I think most young guys would find that perfect... just my opinion of course ;)

Seems like a good idea, but infact it can end up as a painful disaster.