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Posts by johan123  

Joined: 5 Jun 2007 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 8 Nov 2007
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Posts: Total: 228 / In This Archive: 214 		From: Warsaw
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johan123   
30 Sep 2007
News / Why so many bad candidates for Poland Prime Minister? [261]

PO will ultimately seek to form a coalition with L i D if they have the chance. LiD being full of old corrupt commies that will seek to destroy any of PO's policies. Communism needs to be absolutely destroyed before the country can move forward. The only party willing to do this is PiS.

Why when we are against PiS, you think we are communist ?? That doesn't make sense! I don't like communism and PiS either ! No problem :p

You must come from a different country! Your cognative abilities inable you to understand the complicated issues at hand. It may be because of your age or the fact that you have be brought up in a society that is secretly corrupt in it's upper spheres
johan123   
30 Sep 2007
News / Why so many bad candidates for Poland Prime Minister? [261]

People voting on PiS are mostly losers: poor ,unemplyed, without education, alkoholics, old people, psychopats, fasists. and they think they lost because somebody F*** them, and the true is that they are just losers ...

Are you the child of a former communist party member?
johan123   
30 Sep 2007
News / Why so many bad candidates for Poland Prime Minister? [261]

I'm ashamed of some of their reactions in Europe, always against everyone, sometimes it's okay, bu not always.

Europe's cowardly politics against Russia concerning the gas pipeline we changed after Warsaw's strong response. It took time but Europe has finally come to understand that Gazprom is nothing more than a KGB mafia run company!
johan123   
30 Sep 2007
News / Why so many bad candidates for Poland Prime Minister? [261]

I don't want to be ashamed of what Polish government do anymore, so, yeah, i hope things are going to change !

What exactly are you ashamed about? This government will go down as one of the best in history!
johan123   
30 Sep 2007
Life / My neighbours in Poland are stealing all my things [180]

hi..just to clear up a few things...

Lock up the farmhouse! Rent the land to farmers until you sell your house in the UK! Move to a bigger city! Get a job teaching English! Learn Polish in exchange for some free English lesson! When all the above are completed move back to the farm and carry on with the original conception

Besides it seems to me that you are Irish and not English!
johan123   
30 Sep 2007
Work / Thinking of spending time teaching in Poland! [38]

Really depends on the skill of a given teacher. I was taught as a child and because we couldn't speak Polish we were on the whole more focused on what the teacher was saying in English.
johan123   
29 Sep 2007
Work / Thinking of spending time teaching in Poland! [38]

I would have thought so. I have never been a teacher but how can you explain grammar and vocabulary otherwise?

My teacher started with the verb " to be" and went on to Simple Present and then Simple Past all the time staying in English. It was difficult at first but later on it became natural.
johan123   
29 Sep 2007
Work / Thinking of spending time teaching in Poland! [38]

How can you stand in a classroom teaching English if you can not explain everything from first principles in English?

I understood from your post that native speakers would need to have knowledge of Polish in order to teach English.
johan123   
29 Sep 2007
Work / Thinking of spending time teaching in Poland! [38]

That is your fault and nobody els's. How can you stand in a classroom teaching English if you can not explain everything from first principles in English? I simply can not understand it at all.

I am Polish! What would I need to learn my own language for?

My English teacher never spoke Polish in the classroom!
johan123   
29 Sep 2007
Work / Thinking of spending time teaching in Poland! [38]

In addition if you have someone who can barely construct grammatical sentences that what on earth is that of use to anyone!!!

Hardly any native speakers manage to learn Polish well! It could be the fact that their walking conversational classes for other nationalities
johan123   
25 Sep 2007
News / English vs. Polish hostility [323]

Quoting: Nigel
It wont matter what the papers write. If I know the English mentality, and I certainly do, the vast majority of them will vindicate their views with their bad behaviour. We dont need any help to look bad, we can do it very well for ourselves.My wife is Polish-she agrees with me totally and is very embarassed by some of the things she witnesses me doing

Nigel stop changing your mind!
johan123   
25 Sep 2007
Life / How much do you HATE POLISH PEOPLE and POLAND [1260]

Some Polish retard may very well attempt to break my skull, but would have to scoop his own brains up off the pavement before he can try.

Phillybob fighting his shadow!
johan123   
24 Sep 2007
News / English vs. Polish hostility [323]

There is a person on this thread using my exact words in his/her text.

This was part of a conversation we had together a while back. It is a mixture our posts and am sorry for not mentioning that. It didn't occur to me that you might be offended.
johan123   
24 Sep 2007
News / English vs. Polish hostility [323]

Dear johan123, I'd love to share your optimism, but I can't, unfortunately. Simply speaking, it appears to me that the Powers have decided not to let the Poles succeed in the UK, only the thirdworlders. The media hate propaganda is a symptom and evidence of this. The Poles in UK feel this instinctually, and many of them are leaving now, and many more will leave in near future. By the way, I saw a very similar political mechanism in the 1990s Canada, where the political-media elites decided to take in the Asians instead of 'East Europeans.'

The Irish were attacked for years and many took it to heart at first. It's a fact that you'll always be attacked when you are making an impact. It's a sign you are making progress and being noticed.
johan123   
24 Sep 2007
News / English vs. Polish hostility [323]

- I'm dreadfully sorry, johan. I should've read your post more carefully. What an idiotic misunderstanding on my part. Sorry, man. :(

No offence taken it happens to all of us! Now for what I really think about the issue:

Thirty years ago or so there was a boom in building industry in the UK. The Irish came and filled the gaps that the British didn't want to do. They exploited the fact that there was so much work. A large number of them moved into carpentry or bricklaying while the rest worked as labourers, paviours or in excavation. It is a fact that many of them were unskilled, but because they had organized themselves into teams they were able to help each other out. The Irish had had a foothold going back to the days of the navvies in the 1950s and were able to expand and build those ties to secure lucrative work which ultimately made many of them wealthy and paved the way for massive investment in Ireland. They worked extremely hard and looked after their kids' education. They invested in housing and built second homes in Ireland. Some were later instrumental in the growth of the celtic tiger. Their kids have now fought their way up the ladder and to some extent have spoilt the next generation. There is a marked difference between the work ethic and values of their parents and the spoilt nature of their children. What do I mean?

I mean the fact that the Poles are the same, but better educated. They are hungry for success and at the same time humble. Humble enough to do jobs that the new Irish / English generation disregards . These qualities will ultimately ensure their success. We don't have to look far to find Irish multi millionaires that started their careers on building sites and it won't be long before we'll have Poles joining them.
johan123   
24 Sep 2007
News / English vs. Polish hostility [323]

Hm, it's fascinating - this hatred and cowardice, and stupidity, of all those various nigels and jameses haunting this board.

Interesting that I am placed in the same boat as Nigel by Puzzler the Great ! My post clearly ridicules Nigel and am lost as to why we are deemed to be the same person.

Interesting that I am placed in the same boat as Nigel by Puzzler the Great ! My post clearly ridicules Nigel and am lost as to why we are deemed to be the same person.

This is clearly the question James must be asking if you bothered to read his posts clearly!
johan123   
21 Sep 2007
Travel / My opinion on Gdansk and Poland after 11 days [45]

How very rude of you. Anyway, I am sure that if I went back to Krakow today, there would be very little change.

Krakow is currently one of the most exciting cities in Europe for long term investment. The changes have been dramatic and cover almost all aspects of life in the city.

It was also voted 5th best city for week end breaks worldwide by American Express as recently as 9 months ago.
johan123   
20 Sep 2007
Work / Thinking of spending time teaching in Poland! [38]

Totally 100% agree with you where state children education is concerned, but as to language teaching in a private school a native English teacher plays more of a supportive role to the Polish teachers until maybe he/she has enough experience to build lesson plans and such like. Sorry its short I will explain more when I have more time :O)

Native speakers can also motivate and encourage students to learn and don't have to be experts in English grammar to do so. Many, with little or no formal training, go on to become excellent teachers. It's even the case that those with more formal education sometimes find it more difficult to communicate with the students.
johan123   
19 Sep 2007
UK, Ireland / English people attitude towards Poles? [761]

Additional expenditure of all Social Services are now being felt, Cambridgeshire reports in the news today that they have had a 17 fold rise in drink-drive figures from Eastern Europeans. Economic factors are ultimately set by supply and demand, and this is not beneficial to the economy. This thread is going off on a tangent anyhow. It should actually be renamed "Polish peoples attitude to the British" a 17 fold increase in drink driving is disgusting and only fuels the arguments of the far right.

Nobody is the slightest bit interested on whether or not you think Polish people have the right to live and work in the UK. They have the right as members of the European union and were invited by the British government. Most of the information you post is loaded with "BNP right wing" undertones and lacks any real intellectual understanding of economics. The example given above is absolutely rubbish with regard to the negative impact it has on the British economy.

Many Eastern Europeans are causing trouble and it goes to show that criminal records should now be scanned before allowing people into this country.

Many Brits are causing trouble on stag nights in Krakow and Warsaw. What do you suggest we do with them!
johan123   
19 Sep 2007
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Why should I pay attention to the opinion of states that give me permition to visit them if there are lots of states I can travel without visa and that don't express their opinion on Russian policy?

Because Russia is a former KGB criminal state that continues to murder those in opposition. Russia has no place on the international stage until real political freedom exists.