My friends upset at Brits....

I'm working on that.
On Saturday I'm having a dinner party for a few friends (Dominick and Agnieszka included) then we're going to a local pub. The type of place where loud mouthed racist idiots do not go.

Could you elaborate on this a little more? I'm genuinely curious.

Have a look at GW and Nasz Dziennik. Both have printed some pretty nasty stuff recently. The comments from readers of the GW online version would be illegal in most European countries.

Was this statements from Poles about Brits emigrating to Poland? If so, what was said?

No. Mostly about British people in general, though there was a spate of articles about a year ago making fairly wild claims about British and Irish people buying investment property in Warsaw and pricing locals out of the market. Though this wasn't true. And I remember something rather negative in the press a while ago about finding British and Americans "on every street corner".

Another, about a year ago saying that the ancient cobbles in Krakow's Maly Rynek were being destroyed by oil dripping from kebabs eaten by British tourists. That one was so ridiculous as to be funny, but intended seriously and no doubt some people believe it. It should be findable on their website still.

The online onet.pl occasionally publishes some really negative things about UK, and the comments by readers are hair raising. I stopped reading it for that reason.

Have you never read the online comments on the Sun / Star / Daily Mail / other tabloid websites? As soon as people are online and feel fairly anonymous, they let rip. I read this stuff as a sort of hobby/sociological research (English, American, Polish, you name it, I read it) ;-)

People are exactly the same the world over in this respect. So keep you hair on! ;-)))

The kebab oil actually helps preserve the ancient cobbles from the damage that can be caused to them by the urine of dogs leaking on drunken holidaymakers. Does anyone actually use the word "holidaymakers" any more? It's just that I don't like being called a tourist, mainly because it ends with -ist, and I don't believe in being racist or sexist, or anything else that ends with -ist. Except maybe pist.

Pass me the kebab - that beer's given me a hunger for greasy food.

No, nay, NIVIR !


Only when I carry my 20-stone-laptop :)


I deny drinking Buckfast

I never gave any thoughts how exactly the US/GB immigrants are depict here by the press, so thank you very much for the reply. Very interesting indeed. I wouldn't worry about the comments beneath the on-line articles. They are usually full of hate regardless of the content of the article.

Yes and This was the headline.



Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

So the Swan eating myth is not a myth after all, it seems that people do eat swans on some remote islands in Britain but they are British through and through.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4361079.stm

I found something about swans in The Sun :)) from about three years ago which may have been the origin of the story. Somewhere in London (by the River Lea, wherever that is) there was a campsite used by people from 'East Europe'. At the time of the article, there was a large influx of people from Poland and the recent wave of immigration was becoming noticeable. In the campsite (I've never heard of Poles in the UK living in campsites) there were three tents. Outside one of them was a pile of swans' wings and a cooking pot. There was also a bible in Romanian. The reporter claimed that one of the tents had two Poles in, but he/she didn't actually see them.

From such humble but bizarre beginnings, mythology starts....

Damn, I couldn't help It's not a swearword in Romanian

Btw. Bart, do you know by any chance of some place like this in French? I'm looking for something like this ivona site with French pronunciation.

No, French causes an attack of panic in me


PS. It had to be a translation of the word 'du*a'

The Greater Internet F***wad Theory, from a Penny Arcade comic. Normal person + anonymity + audience = complete f***wad.

A lot of the hate you find in the UK is from people who like to blame anyone except themselves for the fact that they're too lazy to get jobs. I imagine you get wastes of space like that in every country. I remember walking to work with some Polish colleagues at the warehouse I used to work at, and we went past a wall some idiot had written "Polish go home" on - lost for what to say I managed "most of us aren't like that" which is true, and they'd been here long enough to realise that. There's just a minority of f***wits with nothing better to do than stir up trouble. Not helped by the gutter press, of course. I'd imagine the anti-British business in Poland comes into the same category - I've certainly never had any problems over there because of my nationality, even in places like Krakow where drunks give us a bad reputation.

HEE HEE HEE :D

Yes. But lets not trivialize it.
Germany in the 1930s....and all that.

I'll ask him about the exact location/time of the swan story.

This is true, and that wasn't my intention. I have nothing but contempt for the kind of low-life scum I was referring to, but that doesn't blind me to the danger they can pose.

That must be a colossal mistake: it actually makes sense. Would be the first time on this forum. If only.

He was quoting me but the quote box cited noimmigration for some reason.

Yes. No idea why niimmigration was given credit for the quote.... I made a point of ignoring him (like usual).