Life / Pre Paid Visa cards [27]


And here was me thinking I was the only one that had problems with them. My work card is Maestro. I don't think I've used it once without some sort of problem. The most recent was them telling me I had to enter a security code that I had previously set up. Yet I hadn't set anything up. Rigmarole to get it fixed.

Life / Scientology in Poland [24]


Is it [freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815661/posts] this one?

News / ARE POLISH PEOPLE TAKING OUR JOBS OR DOING OUR JOBS??!! DISCUSS. [126]


It's not even entirely that. We're quite happy to let whoever wants the job have it. Employers are getting stricter here so actually living here and having a a CRO helps. Even though most want a new one on acceptance. They should be paying for it! We're just happy people are working, let's be honest. :)

News / ARE POLISH PEOPLE TAKING OUR JOBS OR DOING OUR JOBS??!! DISCUSS. [126]


I have never lived on benefits. I do subsidise someone who does though.

A family is different in spending, there's a lot more to consider. My great mate has two kids and I know her shopping bills. There are differences.


Often, like even this weekend. I'll be there again in...ooh I think I'll keep to that to myself.


Or ban this user?

Background? No. I imagine and hope that apart from you, I'm not offending anyone with my commentary on spending in the UK, or Scotland. I'm also probably not offending any ethnic group. ;)


For goodness sake. Why on Earth must you revert to insults all the time? I am not stupid. I musn't be, I'm earning 24 hours a day! When I sleep in my bed my work earns money! I live in a very expensive city but I can keep my personal costs down thanks to some savvy work. Plus the costs of living are lower here than in some English cities...please don't make me explain this again.

I live in nice 2 bed in a great area in the city. Age is unimportant. I have a great idea of living in the city. It's fab and I love it!


Aye! The veg in Aldi is probably the best to purchase. Chuck it in your fridge you'll make it last longer. I'd give you my contact for living and working on a budget but quite frankly, I don't want you contacting me or any of my associates!


A ton of great points there. Live within your means. That is what it is all about. And living within your means doesn't mean living 'without'.


Thank you.

Shopping around is the key I feel. What Aldi provides better today might be what Waitrose provides better tomorrow. Keeping your eyes open is a good bet... :)


Aww, another miscalculation then. If it goes to random it's because someone else thought it was off-topic and random nonsense.

Food / Video's showing how to make certain Polish foods. [13]


The guy in the first video? He's great. It's like cooking isn't an effort for him. So he can visit me any time. I'll keep a bed made up in the manor in case he feels like dropping by...

Ana is a great cook but sometimes her videos are hard to access. She should have popped them all full-length on YouTube.

Food / Video's showing how to make certain Polish foods. [13]


AH that's what it did for me too to start with but when I got it, just below the video box there is there is two symbols, one and f and one a Q. I use Q because I have quicktime.

Those YouTube videos are her but they're not the full length explanations.

Try going to the Revver video sharing website and typing 'Ana's Kitchen' in the search. I hope that it will come up that way.

Food / Video's showing how to make certain Polish foods. [13]


I found it properly, here it is: Ana's Kitchen - Golabki

Need to make some choice between flash player and quick time or something. Anyway, it works. She frys them in this one which is something I have never tried.

Here's Ana's tomato sauce recipe too.

I'll try to do the paczki but I'm going to have to buy something to fry them in because my biggest pan met its death recently and it was the only one suitable. :)


Yeah he makes it look so easy... :| ;)

Food / Video's showing how to make certain Polish foods. [13]

Lir I found one that was about making golabki and I watched it. It got near the end and it said for more to visit another site, so I visited the other site and the video didn't work...sigh...so I'll try finding it again.

Good idea for a thread, sometimes watching someone make something is easier than trying to follow a recipe.

I've already had a request for paczki from someone who watched that video you posted so maybe I'll try it... ;) I'll have that video on a constant loop while I do!

News / ARE POLISH PEOPLE TAKING OUR JOBS OR DOING OUR JOBS??!! DISCUSS. [126]


Very. It's a mixture in our supermarkets. Polish, Pakistani's, Scottish, whatever. No discrimination in Scotland, or at least in the area where I live, regarding jobs.


I think we can safely say yes to that one.


There's a possibilty that the cost of living is slightly lower here. I know there are differences between here and Newcastle for example. Also the fact that my work feed me five meals a week so yes I can live on £25 or lower on food per week. Having said that, when I'm not physically at work, but at home working I don't eat lunch. Maybe some cereal. We've an Aldi here and I don't have problems with their fresh produce needing to be chucked after a day. The fruit lasts a couple of days in the fridge.


Who doesn't? I keep 'good' meat in the freezer for making pastas, lasagnes, stews etc and buy nice fresh steaks etc when I want them.

News / ARE POLISH PEOPLE TAKING OUR JOBS OR DOING OUR JOBS??!! DISCUSS. [126]


Well, they're not. And they traditionally haven't been. Perhaps, yes, they have been able to speak English but it's doubtful they can speak traditionally English. Even Waitrose and Jenners aren't admitting to being so biased. Kudos to the girl who contacted me from Waitrose last week who said in Polish 'the job centre put me here and I don't have a f---ing clue'. Well we worked together now and she's got a clue.


Crap. This is based on something I don't know.
Food is fresh often in this house and come nowhere near 100 a month.
TV, land line and Internet is coming at £40 a month thanks to Virgin can be worked out for new members.
That whole tab of ShelleyS isn't right but need revamped.

Life / Polish dudes and glossy magazines. [4]


:-) I've caught a guy reading women's magazines and that's the answer I got. Followed by: 'that's an outrageous price for a handbag by the way'...

Read the letters pages though, there are more and more guys writing in saying, 'I just picked up my girlfriends magazine - what a great read!'.

UK, Ireland / "Angry swan eater" - The British media view of Polish immigrants? [63]


If you want a project for the day then use Google and pull up all the stories of animal cruelty in the UK and Ireland since 2004. You will find that a very high majority of these cruelty offenses are committed by natives.

Trouble is, the Daily Mail doesn't plaster these all over the front page (unless it is to their advantage) but a couple of swans get eaten and wooeee! Stop the press! Shocking journalism.

Feedback / How to post pictures/avatars [8]

mvefa

You didn't read your welcome message, did you? ;)

News / How do people react when you tell them you are Polish? [71]


I think overall you're right.

Most people I know socialise with know at least one Polish person. Most of the Polish people I know here who are at Uni etc are socialising with Scots plus people from various other countries.

A small section has a problem with Poles, there is no doubt about that.

When I'm out with Polish friends who are meeting some of my other friends for the first time, the reaction to finding out they are Polish is usually positive and a conversation will kick off about Polish cities or football, just whatever is on peoples minds. Or food, that's a popular one.

Life / International influence of disco polo music produced in Poland [18]


Well you need to post a few more times anyway but here is a handy guide. ;-)

Life / Why Poles don't use Facebook? [43]


Yes and thank goodness, there are so many of them and mostly worthless.


I know. ;) I was talking about the useful points of FB. :)


They actually have a good language selection. Fair play to them on that. :)


It's a bit strange to check the site the day after a night out and find posts saying "Oh was out with PD last night, wicked." blah blah.

Anyway, why don't Polish people use Facebook? Too busy socialising. ;)

Life / Why Poles don't use Facebook? [43]


I keep in touch with friends who live abroad though, and also when Polish friends visit PL they send pics, messages. Plus I caught up with a bunch of people I went to school with and this is significant because this year our school gets demolished...


Could be. Also the same reason Twitter gives the message "too many Tweets" and crashes almost daily.


Facebook has language options.

Like Pirate... ;)

Life / Why Poles don't use Facebook? [43]

There is that. ;)

It's buggy, doesn't work well and it's slow often.

Life / Why Poles don't use Facebook? [43]


Most of my UK Polish friends have Facebook accounts (as well as Nasza Klasa), probably because they have British friends now who don't speak Polish and wouldn't sign up to Nasza Klasa. Nasza Klasa is marketed better in Poland where peoples "friends" are most likely to be Polish and speak Polish.


Good idea. :)

UK, Ireland / Brits Are 'Dangerously Lazy And Idle' [53]


It will be, it's been published on paper. Just waiting for it on line. It's probably already on the Internet somewhere but not the "official" places.

UK, Ireland / Brits Are 'Dangerously Lazy And Idle' [53]

Good because I'm not red-haired.

I tried to find the report but it seems it's not published on-line yet. If it is, I can't find it.

UK, Ireland / Brits Are 'Dangerously Lazy And Idle' [53]


Haha, they didn't ask that in the survey.

Don't quite know why I keep typing "survery" either...


"Apparently" they asked a cross section of society. Or they made it up in their bedroom one night.

Still, they didn't just seek out lazy people and ask them so the results are slightly concerning.

UK, Ireland / Brits Are 'Dangerously Lazy And Idle' [53]


Haha :) but it's a true result from the survery. More worrying for me was that two thirds of the parents surveyed said they were too tired to play with their children.

UK, Ireland / Brits Are 'Dangerously Lazy And Idle' [53]


From 10 cities is hardly representative.

Still, that the results from 2000 people should be so distasterous should be a warning...

You forgot to mention that 73% of those survery said they were too tired to have sex at the end of the day. ;)

Life / Polish Radio and TV stations online? [68]


RMF FM plays music in English or Polish and the odd other language. If you use V-Tuner you can get a lot of English language stations from the UK, not sure about the USA - never looked (well, I know they're there I just never listened to them :). You don't need to download anything special if you have Windows Media Player on your computer, that'll open most stations.

UK, Ireland / Scotland encouraging immigration. [90]


That the state pension won't buy bread and milk? Are you kidding? That's a disaster!


Something that should be pointed out here is this: However many people in Scotland are unemployed they are not all Scots so your statement should read "There are quite a number of people in Scotland who are unemployed". Not all Scots.

Scotland needs foreigners because (yet again...) we are underpopulated...One more time for an encore?


You aren't paying attention, the state pension is worthless, certainly will be when I retire. It's Private Pensions here now RN.

I won't continue a debate with someone who only reads part of the posts and expects answers for things that have already been answered.

UK, Ireland / Scotland encouraging immigration. [90]


Private pension? Because the state one won't buy you bread and milk by the time I get round to retiring.

If you're referring to why we might want more immigrants - I refer you to a previous post, Scotland is way underpopulated...


Now I need to explain what benefits boosting the population will bring...no, I think you can search that one yourself, figure it out for yourself..

UK, Ireland / Scotland encouraging immigration. [90]

The point is to encourage immigrants here who want to become citizens. What will happen when anyone wants a pension in the future? Pensions are private things nowadays, if you haven't got one you're foolish.

Scotland's birth rate isn't tremendously high either, hence why we need to boost our population.

UK, Ireland / Scotland encouraging immigration. [90]


Apart from needing to increase our population we're doing alright mostly.

UK, Ireland / Scotland encouraging immigration. [90]


You stick to Ireland RN. The Scots are doing fine.