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Joined: 18 Nov 2007 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 8 Mar 2015
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Foreigner4   
7 Feb 2009
News / Poland..wake up to a multicultural world [1059]

coming from a multicultural country, i have to say it is very very over rated. There are so many things wrong with pushing that agenda that i have no idea where to start. Poland doesn't need boatloads of somalis, rwandans chinese or indonesians. It's time people within a country focus on their countrymen and women first before undergoing the multiculturalism experiment.

i felt so sorry for him i gave him 200 PLN.

you're a saint, thanks for telling us all how generous you were.
Foreigner4   
8 Feb 2009
UK, Ireland / Polish people in an english army [85]

you got to wonder about someone's motives for wanting to join another country's army. It obviously isn't a sense of loyalty or duty. It's sounds like it's more about what he can get out of the deal.

Fair enough but let's call a spade a spade here, if he joins there's a reeeeeeeally high chance that he ain't gonna stick with you once he's joined kiddo, so why worry about what he's gonna do with his life cause you won't be in it.

I know that's harsh but try to look at the situation objectively- he obviously hasn't planned you to be part of his life. If you're young then it's doubtful you'd enjoy life as a British Army Wife, you've got the signals you need. Even a monkey knows when it's time to change branches, find that other tree limb and then climb away.
Foreigner4   
8 Feb 2009
History / germany prepares for invasion of Poland [43]

but I never knew about the above
phony invasion of Germany by germans to start the war!

how could you not? I thought this was on a standard knowledge test that all Poles had to pass.
Hmm then you probably have never heard about the Gulf of Tonkin, Operation Ajax, Lavon Affair, and Operation Northwoods- you got lots of reading to do.
Foreigner4   
8 Feb 2009
UK, Ireland / ARE BRITS MEANER AND LESS HOSPITABLE THAN POLES? [79]

i like to be bought a beer as much as i like to buy the beer, but most of all i like to raise my glass, look a man in the eye and say cheers

*averts eye contact bashfully*
Foreigner4   
8 Feb 2009
UK, Ireland / Views of Poles in UK on Bulgarians/Romanians coming here? [62]

sorry i got on here late but i was laughing as of page one cause i was thinking the exact same thing when i read the above. I don't know what's on the next 2 pages but this was right on the button. Greatness ShelleyS, pure greatness!

AND SOUTHERN-WOW, you have saved this thread. Excellent work!
Foreigner4   
8 Feb 2009
Genealogy / Grandfather's village? (Katowice?) [10]

maybe the spellling was altered and the "H" should be a "ch" This might not solve the riddle but it may lead to a path.
Foreigner4   
8 Feb 2009
Genealogy / Grandfather's village? (Katowice?) [10]

yah see? that's what i was thinking of, yah see? is this town you speak of in the east (or it may not even be in Poland at this stage)?
Foreigner4   
8 Feb 2009
UK, Ireland / Polish people in an english army [85]

yeah i've heard of both canucks and kiwis in selection (don't know if they got in or not) so, i think aussie's have their own sas and i think I also heard about fijans too.

and there's one canadian guy i know of who signed up for the british military (can't remember but i think it was the royal marines)- go figure.
Foreigner4   
11 Feb 2009
News / Polish engineer beheaded in Pakistan. [347]

^^he wrote:

Stupid Talibans,

c'mon that's a pretty fair statement (i think)

now all Poles will hate Pakistani in Poland.

I think he's making a guess as to how the rank and file Pole will react (or has reacted).
Foreigner4   
14 Feb 2009
News / Poland..wake up to a multicultural world [1059]

and despite your 4 whole months in england you know nothing about the assimilation of immigrants into the uk.

Well, with all due respect, unless you have experienced being an immigrant in the uk his experiences as an immigrant there probably outweigh yours.

You are however correct, no polish person has anything in common with you, luckily.

for this, of course, i am enternally grateful

I don't get it BubbaWoo, assuming you're not being self-depricating, why would it be ok for you to slag off Polish traits but you come down on this guy for his distaste for 3rd world multiculturalism?

I admit that i'd get a little annoyed if someone spent a measly 4 months where I'm from and then started going off about what's wrong with the place but isn't that what's going on here with foreigners coming in to Poland and suddenly trying to tell Poles to be more "multicultural?"

I think that is the sentiment here and I think that's a load of b.s. If you want the multicultural experience then go back home to multi-cultural land where everyone holds hands and sings songs and enjoy your curries (to die for I admit). But If Poles decide they want to keep 3rd world immigrants or immigrants from overcrowded crap-holes out of Poland then so be it.

It seems hypocritical, ok it is hypocritical for Poles to emmigrate but not accept immigrants but it's not the fault of Poles who elect to stay within their country that other nations accept immigrants- if Stanisław Polak has been living his life in his town and doesn't want to deal with immigrants then his opinion whether we think it informed or not.
Foreigner4   
14 Feb 2009
News / Poland..wake up to a multicultural world [1059]

true but comments like yours better serve challenging the op than disparaging comments about poles and poland do.

However, as long as they can accept that multiculturalism may land on their doorstep, then that's fine.

why should they have to accept it? why is that fine? whether the indigenous population of a place accepts or rejects these notions is their choice and not ours to stamp with approval.
Foreigner4   
22 Feb 2009
News / Polish engineer beheaded in Pakistan. [347]

i think this thread is missing more "we" vs "you" or "they" along with rounds of congratulating others from the same country or culture about how superior we are as opposed to "them." Then to be topped off with claiming responsibility for all positives to come out of our respective cultures, not acknowledge the positives to come out of other cultures and then judge everyone from another culture based on the very worst examples we have been shown via popular news sources.
Foreigner4   
22 Feb 2009
News / Polish engineer beheaded in Pakistan. [347]

not only for their own selfish gains but for a better world

are you suggesting he was there for altruistic reasons or financial? I'd have bet on financial myself, but hey there are a ton of Poles in the uk for financial reasons too, i don't think beheading is the answer, or at least i really really hope it isn't.
Foreigner4   
10 Mar 2009
News / More and more jobs moving to Poland from other parts of Europe... [50]

i'm more inclined to believe those "countries" actually do as much losing out as in countries where workers enjoy representation. Now, if you mean companies win in the end by exploiting workers where ever they are able then I'd agree with those sentiments. Countries (and by countries i mean the people in them) lose out more and more globally to the whims of multi-national execs and their cronies.
Foreigner4   
10 Mar 2009
News / More and more jobs moving to Poland from other parts of Europe... [50]

yeah i see what you wrote but it reads a lot like a more detailed rendition of what i had alluded to. All countries (and by countries, i mean people) lose in the situation you've described. The only winners are the execs.

I'll make my addition to the obvious:
The poor worker in Sri Lanka isn't in any elevated social status, the wage he isn't earning as compared to what a unionized worker would get are just bigger earnings for the "company." And other than the stock holders and execs, who else is the company?

Coles notes version:
Worker abroad-exploited
Unionized work-fired
So who wins?
Foreigner4   
12 Mar 2009
News / More and more jobs moving to Poland from other parts of Europe... [50]

I explained what you asked me to.

i fail to see where i asked you to explain anything but if this was your understanding then i am now enlightened as to why we're agreeing with each other in extensive fashion. To be honest i hadn't thought about the fact that the company loses out due to a shrinking market. I wonder if the margins saved on salary outweigh the margins lost on sales.