British taxpayers pay homeless Polish to go home.

re: but the scottish all drink too much and wear dirty vests and live in horrid high rise housing

- My kind of folks !
;)

Puzzy, the English and the Scots have a lot of history but we love each other really :))

Can't beat tatty n neeps and a man in kilt:))))

absolutely! Why I picked PolskaDoll as a nick and not Ms Rabsee Nesbit, I'll never know!!! lol :-)


Not sure what the difference is, I live, work in Scotland. Are you saying you wouldn't have warned me about anti-Scottish things if you'd known I was Scottish???

re: Puzzy, the English and the Scots have a lot of history but we love each other really :))

- Is that right? That's good then. I've got the impression of some resentment (I don't mean between you and PolskaDoll), but perhaps it's just superficial stuff, like the seeming adversity between Poles and Silesians?

You're both great nations, complementing each other.
:)

re: Are you saying you wouldn't have warned me about anti-Scottish things if you'd known I was Scottish???

- Well, if you made some anti-Scottish remarks, and I knew you were Scottish, maybe I wouldn't react as in case when the remarks were made by a Polish person? I would at first just respect your intimate native experience and thought that as a native Scot you may have the right to make those remarks.

Then if you continued being anti-Scottish and I sensed strong bitterness behind the remarks, I might object to them presenting facts contradicting your statements.

But I don't know much about Scotland from personal experience. I'm going to visit your country, just as I'm visiting Ireland right now.

All the (real) Scottish people I've met were fantastic. Very friendly towards us Polish folks - I mean very friendly.

One of them gave me a little gift, with a Scottish national emblem on it, and I carry it on me all the time.
:)

Glasgow kiss?

re: Glasgow kiss?

- Shawn, as usual you want to know too much, man.
;)

There was a Scottish foreman at our factory, he often told me about the Glasgow Kiss - basically a head butt (head to head smash) when the victim was not expecting it....

re: so its not just Europe in the UK....

- And that's a real tragedy, I think.

Sorry, but I really think so, and am sure my conviction isn't groundless.

The Beatles lyrics come to mind: Boy, you're going to carry that weight....

re: the Glasgow Kiss - basically a head butt (head to head smash)

- Did it leave the Scottish national emblem on the head?
:)
Shawn, you're not angry with me for my anti-Canadian remarks, are you? I really went through a trauma there. I got so f... ill I almost died. I don't have bitter feelings towards all Canadians - not towards sweet people like you. And when I heal up, I'll find a more balanced way of speaking about Canada, I'm sure about it. Sorry, I am unable to cough up more. All the best to you, and other great Canadian friends of Poland like you.

No Puzz, no problem here. I firmly believe we are all a product of what happens in our life. I would not cast doubts about your experiences here - they are your experiences, and yours alone. As a pure-breed (? wtf) canadian, I can't imagine what could have happened - never experienced any real hate here in my short life in this part of the world.


Hope my Polish friends and family take good care of moj dzieci for the next trzy tygodnia..... sorry about butchering your language! :-)
ps. Na Zdrowie - I raise my glass to you.

Shawn, I'm sure they will take good care of them. Polish people still care a lot about children. My wife was Polish, so I know. So they're visiting Poland?

Aren't you going with your wife and kids to Poland? Or, you joining them later?
(I think, you said, you did)

Polish parents tend to send their kids to grama and grnpa in Poland every summer. My friends do it all the time. The kids love it.


I don't and never did. For some reason you try hard to send me to therapy today! :)

They are approaching the tip of Greenland as we read (speak?). Dziadek and Wujek are picking them up.... Were there in 3 weeks!!!!!!

re: They are approaching the tip of Greenland as we read (speak

- God bless them.

And I'm off to bed now; it's ca 3:30 am where I am.

All the best.
:)

It's gonna be very empty in the house for 3 weeks.

You'll like Scotland a lot, especially if you are going to be able to travel around a bit. You'll also find that the Scottish generally are friendly towards Polish people.

And if you haven't tried it before make you sure eat Macsween's Haggis, its the absolute Bees Knees! lol.
macsween.co.uk
:-)

I do

re: the Scottish generally are friendly towards Polish people

- But is the attitude towards Poles such as teashoggy's also pretty common in Scotland? I don't expect it is, but please tell me honestly.

I'll be very glad to visit. I'll eat Macsweens Haggis and all the other Scottish dishes. And I'll read Robert Burns's divine poetry, such as Tom O'Shanter, and Walter Scott's The Wandering Willie's Tale (from 'Redgautlet') - one of the greatest pieces of story-telling ever.

All the best, darling.
:)

Its just the strangest thing. My German teacher at school was actually from Germany but I never worked with, or known another German! I find that odd.


I've never come across anyone with such an aggressively negative attitude towards Polish people as that of teashoci. However, I won't lie and say they aren't out there because, of course they are. I hope that you don't meet anyone like that though.

And bring a big umbrella because its raining, raining, raining all the time!!!

:-)

The Polish/German relationship is kinda similar to the French/English one. Before you jump on the band wagon about what the germans did in the war i will say i'm not including all the details of who did what and when or the reasons for it that could take all night!!.

However, apparently the English and the French don't like each other, this is true in some respects but it does not mean every French person and Enlgish person meets is he stereotype Frenchman/woman. This is the same for the Polish/German relationship, yes there is history there and some Polish may have a right to be bitter because of what happend 60's and rightly so. However there has been a new generation of Germans and Poles since then.

In my experience the polish may not have warm kisses ready for the Germans but they do not go out of there way to avoid or dis-like them, as i said before similar to the Enlgish/French relationship.

I could name many more nations who are in exactly the same position. Its just a fact of life. people do not get along with one another all the time, whether the English, Polish, German, French or wherever there will always be disharmony between members of the human race

I work with a German girl now, I've worked with other German people in the past and I know German people I don't work with


Here as well...it's driving me mad..I swear I'm growing flippers :(:(:(

lol
I'm starting to have a new appreciation for ducks!

Its so annoying though, I had a day off today and spent the morning in the garden - thinking I might have a few friends around this evening for some drinks in the garden. Glad I never text anyone (or bothered watering the garden for that matter!). :-)

your not the only ones under water!!! LOL!!!!

It better end soon, it makes me so bad tempered :(


even the ducks are fed up with it....

I've already had my temper tantrum, went out this morning it was nice didn't take a coat, or even a jumper and when i started to walk home this evening the heavens opened!!!! i was soaked to the skin, I've never been so wet.

Just goes to show you can never ever predict British weather, if you do so then its at your own peril!!! LOL :)

I'm going to commit sucide by laying in the garden and drowning myself :(

re: The Polish/German relationship is kinda similar [etc]

- Tornado, there's much truth in what you've written.

But I still think that the English and French like each other way more than Poles and Germans like each other.

For example, the English and French admire each other's culture, and consider themselves fellow Europeans.

But many Germans, including leading German politicians, do not seem even to regard us as Europeans....

I call it deep-embedded racism.

By the way, it's interesting, isn't it, that it's the Germans who should define who is European and who isn't?

lol

I just bought a new bike but I'm thinking of returning it and swapping for a canoe!


me too! I'm really grumpy at the moment!


yeah I heard that, the fish told me as they swam past my window!


Well, you should have learned by now, you're a big boy! ;-)

it's not a canoe you want..it's a bloody submarine you'll be needing if this sodding rain doesn't stop

this is true! Must have a look at Argos online and see if they're selling them yet! :-)

Polskadoll: Hay even big boys make mistakes, hehe

Puzzler: Yes i agree with all that you have said, and i find it astonishing that the Germans do not see the Polish as Europeans, in fact the Polish Geographically and historically are more European than say the Russians who are really a state of Asia but call themselves European because it suites them.

Anyway personally i'd rather spend a day with a Pole than a German if i had the choice :)