News / Pole loses language discrimination case in Germany; Scandalous! [97]

This has been in this forum before. It's old news. I don't think the language is the important part in this case, but the fact that he can only see his kids supervised. This probably means there is some history, be this abuse, violence or manipulation. I think that is the main reason as to why he is not allowed to speak Polish to his daughters: because the supervisors when seeing his kids don't speak Polish.

Could be resolved though by getting a Polish speaking supervisor. But he lives in Germany, all the institutions are German, why would they get a Polish supervisor for just one guy?

Travel / Poland-My 9-day experience [239]


And who allows you, noreenb, to write YOUR opinions on a public forum?

Edit: my, my, my, aren't we all upset that sb, in this case an Australian girl, writes sth negative about PL. Immediately the moral majority jumps to their hind legs and start ripping into the poster. Guess they never heard of "don't shoot the messenger". F-Stop is right, better than simply shooting off the girl or write stupid and nonsensical stuff about Australia in a mere attempt to retalliate, point out the positive things about PL. Perhaps with a little guidance from the very same ppl killing her off now, she WOULD be able to be more positive about the Motherland.

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Travel / Poland-My 9-day experience [239]


I see Dariusz entered a tit-for-tat game?

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Food / No Vernor's ginger ale in Poland? [29]


Root beer is gross! So it's not only Poles that don't like it. I think only few Europeans like it. And besides this, it's only popular in the US and Canada, it seems.


Oh really? :)


It's actually a mixture of licorice and sweets made of coconut. We have it in NL too and we call it "Engelse Drop" (English Licorice). Personally I think it's ok, but in NL there are so many licorice varieties from sweet via salty to very very salty. My favourite is Kokindjes (untranslatable - would be sth like Co-children, which doesn't make sense), a soft and sweet licorice type. But I think there must be about 100+ licorice varieties in NL.

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Travel / Poland-My 9-day experience [239]


Well, she mentions the beautiful beaches :)

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Travel / Poland-My 9-day experience [239]


What's that Torq? Because she isn't gloryfying PL after visiting it, but instead gives a more realistic view on things? You're getting a bit strange, Torq. Seriously. Everybody is entitled to his/her opinion and if Sheila was a bit dissappointed after visiting PL and she wants to write about it, then that is her god given right to do so. That doesn't make her a troll, Torq.


Oh come on. Just because she didn't think that everything was glorious and great and the best on Earth and the most beautiful in the world, doesn't make it untrue. Oh and btw, in your quest to save Torq from the face of PF, I think you should know that Torq is in favour of effective censorship by the mods where it concerns everything not favourable for PL.

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Love / Why do Polish women prefer foreigners for boyfriends and husbands? [418]

I don't know why these guys are so obsessed with Polish women and girls. To me they are just like any other females, all with their good sides and their bad sides. I'm not much in favour of idealizing, so when I see a nice girl or talk to one of them, it really doesn't matter to me where she is from.

Guess they have to focus on sth and unfortunately for you Polish ladies, it's you guys :|

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Love / Why do Polish women prefer foreigners for boyfriends and husbands? [418]


Well, I don't have a heatwave here, 16 degrees max :)

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Love / Why do Polish women prefer foreigners for boyfriends and husbands? [418]


It's still different than the guys back home. Money may be a factor for poor girls, but from my experience (what they told me, that is) it's mainly the unknown factor. And that Russians or Ukrainians are nearly the same doesn't matter. They have a different mentality and a different approach to romantic affairs than Polish men have. Not adding a quality-label to it here. It's the same with Dutch girls dating German guys: to an outsider they may be the same, but yet they are different, unknown to those girls in matters of the heart. Although I must say that German and Dutch ppl and to basically the same extend the British and Scandinavian ppl, have a somewhat same approach to these things. But it's still from a different country and an old Dutch saying, which I think is appropriate in cases like this, goes: "Wat je van ver haalt, is lekker." (things for which you have to go far, taste better). I think same goes for these girls.

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Love / Why do Polish women prefer foreigners for boyfriends and husbands? [418]

The way España puts it is a bit rough, but there is some truth in there: many Polish girls that I know don't like Polish men. Any man is better than a Polish man to them. It's not a typical Polish thing: lots of girls from lots of countries like foreign men. Why? Because it's new, it's unknown, the excitement of sth they don't know or haven't experienced yet. They know the men back home through and through, so no surprises there anymore, hence boring.

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News / Poles and rest of us needs strong Poland [49]

That's what I said: let him write a novel that takes place in Sarmatia or Slavija. He can end it the way he wants it to end :)

Who knows, might be a best-seller as well...:)

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News / Poles and rest of us needs strong Poland [49]


I don't know if you hint at this, but Crow never lived behind the Iron Curtain. Yugoslavia was not part of the Warsaw Pact, not behind the Iron Curtain and it was relatively easy to go to Yugo on hols.

If Crow has such a romantic soul, he should go and write novels about the subject. But right now he is propagating things that aren't really realistic and probably never will be as Serbia is herself steering towards EU-membership in her efforts to ridden herself of the image of "rogue state". And she should celebrate that as it will be one of the very few times she is not completely alone. And we've seen in the history what happens when she feels left all alone with perhaps the only consolation a vague, far-away ally whom she loved dearly, but who didn't always returned the love and wasn't truly consistent in supporting her through thick and thin.

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UK, Ireland / Irish leaving Ireland again. Economy forcing them to immigrate [39]


Wishful thinking. It's my company's policy to look among the locals first and then check within the company for suitable ppl. They came to me as they couldn't find any qualified Irish to do the job. As for rocket science: it's not to build one if you have all the time in the world and your boss doesn't mind crossing over the budget, anyone with organisational talent can do that, if they have enough time. But it is rocketscience to do everything within a (usually) very short timeframe in the most cost-effective and efficient way. Plus I'm not even talking about all the effective hiring of the correct ppl (most of the agents I have are technical specialists, trained to have in-depth knowledge of the deepest cores of certain programs and got to have extensive base-knowledge when they apply - it's not just taking names and addresses; that's being done in India and the respective countries themselves) and finding them in the quickest pssbl way, the setting up of new procedures, scheduling and making it profitable. The expectancy of a new call centre is to be at a SLA of 80 per cent 3 months after start-up. It's not that they're gonna say: "oh, I understand you just started and we don't mind you being 15 pts below the initial SLA". No, if this happens (and it has never happened to me, that's why they asked me), they will start looking for at time draconian performance improvement plans and if you fail in the second 3 months to reach the bottom SLA of 80, you can pack your stuff and wave goodbye.

So, if you think you can do this within the timeframe of 4-5 months, be my guest :)

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UK, Ireland / Irish leaving Ireland again. Economy forcing them to immigrate [39]


They couldn't find any Irish person back then to do what I do. Says enough. But then again, you are not a good example of the Irish and I know that many Irish are ashamed and embarrassed by the fact that you are an Irish person. From Talifornia. Or was it Jobstown?

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UK, Ireland / Irish leaving Ireland again. Economy forcing them to immigrate [39]


Who the heck are you?


You just need to read very carefully :)


Actually, they are not. The former is based on observations I made during the last few years and the latter is in sequence to that as I wonder how come it's pssbl that I make those observations.

But to answer your post: I think you are right as to parents buying their kids' affection with stuff. Heard that a few times from Irish friends with children, basically "outsourcing them to kindergartens, nannies and when needed a new Nintendo was no prob at all. Now those same friends are complaining that the kids are unruly and don't listen to anybody.

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UK, Ireland / Irish leaving Ireland again. Economy forcing them to immigrate [39]


Sure. You have no clue, do you? Unfortunately for you I am doing much more than that and unlike you I do have an education.


It's remarkable how you think you know about these things. A trained barman like you must possess unexpected qualities. No, I don't own the company, else my name would be Bill Gates, and last time I checked, it's not. But I head the centre as such and I am end-responsible for the hiring, payments and all the rest.


Because it's true.


How many Irish do you know that speak Swedish, Slovakian, Czech, German, French, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew and Arab? For the English roles we have mainly Irish with the odd Englishman as well.


Do yourself a favour and ask your mom to take the laptop away from you and put an X-box with you in the basement, at least you do sth useful then. You idiot.

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UK, Ireland / Irish leaving Ireland again. Economy forcing them to immigrate [39]

The point is, when reading Irish history, as I have done, you could read that the only fascist movement there ever has been in Ireland, the BlueShirts, never got a following bigger than 50 to 100 ppl give or take. And that was in the 30's when Nazi- and Fascist movements were very popular throughout Europe and the US. So, one could conclude that the Irish don't like fascism, nazism or racism, based on this fact. That's why it surprises me so much that the current Irish youth (not all of them of course, but quite a part of them) are so blatantly racist.

And btw: liking a country doesn't exclude critisism on that country. Nowhere is Walhalla, you know.


For your information: it's Friday and it wasn't that busy today - last few days it was, but today it wasn't. And right now it's 20:00 hrs on a Friday night and generally I don't work at these Friday nights. I set up that call centre 6 years ago and wanted to move on within the company, setting up a new centre somewhere else, but they couldn't find a suitable person to lead it, so I stayed. I work on average 60 to 70 hrs per week, thank you.

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UK, Ireland / Irish leaving Ireland again. Economy forcing them to immigrate [39]


You believe what you want to believe, heck do I care.


Oh, I'm not angry. I do see progress here and there. All I'm saying is that they should've started this earlier, much earlier. It should've been one of the first things they did when the economy pulled up. And about Google announcing new jobs? That's a bit of a farce as Google is not creating entirely new positions, they just re-opening positions they shut down about a year ago when things looked all gloom and doom for them.


They have 1.5 mln votes gathered in the last election towards app. 9 mln votes against them. They're a disgrace for NL and most ppl hate them. They are not representative for the Dutch population. Not by far. Can't stand a little critisism on your home country? Grow up. You have to hand it to the Irish, at least they are openly racist and don't seem to be embarrassed telling ppl from abroad to fcuk off back home straight to their face. Luckily it's not the majority as it's never the majority, but it's there. Just like in NL, DE, BE, and anywhere else in Europe.


Shyte, I thought you weren't among us anymore. Well, no such luck.


I build callcentres yes. And as such I employ about 250 ppl, of whom about 80-90 Irish. That's more contribution than you have ever done. And you're native Irish, in fact you're the disgrace of Ireland. But then again, you have a mental disorder, so it doesn't surprise me at all.

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UK, Ireland / Irish leaving Ireland again. Economy forcing them to immigrate [39]


Bring it up to par with other W-European countries. For example: I always wondered how come that when I send a package of a certain weight to Turkey from NL, it costs me a tenner. However, when I send that same package to Ireland, which is much closer, that same package costs me nearly 50 Euros to sent. How come that I in the UK and continental Europe I can get an Inet connex of 10 to 20 megs down for around 10 to 20 Euros, while a connex of 4 or 5 megs down costs here 60 Euros? Small things like that could most definitively improve.

Edit: I have nothing against Ireland as such. Had a good time here, I just go on a sabbatical of at least a year in the US next year.

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UK, Ireland / Irish leaving Ireland again. Economy forcing them to immigrate [39]


Nope, just after over 6 years of working here I had enough of this country where everything which is normal in other countries is not up to par with those other countries.


What the fcuk are you talking about? I have worked as long as I have been here. In fact loads of ppl have a job thanks to me as I employ a lot of ppl. Among them a lot of Irish.


Ah, so you built a couple of roads? How does that sustain the economy? It doesn't. Infrastructure is more than building just a couple of roads. Infrastructure also means building sustainable industries, industries which can survive a crash like this. They didn't do such a thing. Yeah, building and call centre, that's what this country is built upon. Nothing else. And it's all arteficial. IBM, Xerox, part of MS, UPS, Oracle and a couple of more already have (partly) left the building.


I don't think they well, because if I leave, a lot of (Irish) ppl would lose their jobs too. I've done more for the Irish economy than the average Irish has. So shut the fcuk up with your homesick babbling.


I am sure they are more positive about Dutch women than about Irish women: never seen women be so dishonest about their intentions and playing silly games as the Irish girls.

Truth hurts, doesn't it, Irishlodz? Ireland is going down the drain and it's going there fast.

I've been loyal to this country for a long time. Comes a point where they still don't improve, one must say enough is enough; I've given this country a lot, let them figure out by themselves now. And so it will as per 2011.

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Food / No Vernor's ginger ale in Poland? [29]


Yeah, well, they only have to jump across the Detroit River to be in Ontario, eh? :)

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Food / No Vernor's ginger ale in Poland? [29]


You give the answer yourself:


I've been in the US many times and I drink Ginger Ale quite often. In Mnpls, for example, I never came across Vernor's Ginger Ale. If they don't or hardly market it outside the Detroit area, why on Earth would they market it in Poland? It's too specific, I guess. Some things don't get marketed outside the immediate surroundings of the producer. And that is normal. I never wondered why they don't sell "Herb's Barbecue Sauce" (a Bloomington MN producers) outside of Minnesota. At least, I never came across it anywhere else in the US, let alone Europe. Too bad, it's a great BBQ sauce in many varieties.

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UK, Ireland / Irish leaving Ireland again. Economy forcing them to immigrate [39]

Well, they do exist. But in Ireland girls are either very hot or very ugly. Doesn't seem a way in between here. And Irish girls are in general very bossy.

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UK, Ireland / Irish leaving Ireland again. Economy forcing them to immigrate [39]

Well, that doesn't surprise me at all. The economy is still going down here and it's going down fast. The country soon will be bancrupt and then there is nothing left at all of the Celtic Tiger, except a fossil from a past some vaguely can remember. Ireland is nearly back where it always was before the CT: at the bottom of things. And it's their own fault: if they weren't so freaking greedy and tried to rip off with just about anything, this probably wouldn't have turned out so bad as it does. But they failed to invest in structural things as the only thing they were thinking about is making money and more money. Unlike other European countries they hadn't a clue that the economy can go down again as well and they weren't prepared for it at all for the simple reason they hadn't experienced any economic boom at all before the event of the CT. It's back to normal again for the Irish and soon all the foreign workers will leave too as they too cannot find any jobs anymore and the atmosphere is increasingly racist, especially amongst the young Irish. Funny, one would expect the older generation of Irish to be more racist than the young ones. After all, the young generation should stand for renewal of ideas and concepts. But fact is that you see the older ppl being friendly towards foreigners and the young ppl displaying blatant acts of plain racism towards ppl from abroad. It doesn't matter where those foreigners come from. At first I thought it was them being scared of the hausse of Polish ppl that flooded in, but now I noticed it's just against ANY foreigners. Maybe this will work against them abroad. Who knows.

I for one will leave this country after next year. That is, if I still have a job by then. I am saving now everything I can to take a tour of the US and perhaps Canada from summer 2011 until autumn 2012. A sabbatical so to say. And after that, I'm going back to NL. Been long enough in this country.

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News / Poles and rest of us needs strong Poland [49]


I know, but I call him Charlotte, always have, sorry aphro :)

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News / Poles and rest of us needs strong Poland [49]


Maybe you should indeed, like Charlotte says, take a vacation. Get your mind off things for short while.

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News / Poles and rest of us needs strong Poland [49]

Crow, have you got nothing better to do than think of Poland, Serbia, Sarmatia and Slava? Anything other than this obsession-like thinking about Slavic brotherhood, pan-slavism, Serbia against the Moloch that is NATO, EU and who knows what else? Those are the only subjects I see you post; I never see you post anything else than about Serbia and how Serbia can save Poland and perhaps the world. If this is the only thing you can think about, I think that's pretty scary actually. Does it never strike you as boring and nearly autistic? Come on, you surely are able to write about sth else than the above mentioned topics. I'm just wondering as I would get pretty bored writing about the same thing over and over and over again, especially when you know that most don't really cares about these things.

Edit: here is sth to set your mind off things:

evony.com

It's a real-time strategic online game where you can build your own Sarmatia or Slavija and enter alliances between Serbia and Poland and God knows who else. Try it, I think you'll like it.

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News / Poland a top pot producer? Legalization? [30]

I think the Netherlands and Spain are the two sole top producers of marijuana in Europe. They produce thousands of kilos of (legal/illegal) pot.

For the ones who have trouble with maryjane, here's a link:

drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/

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News / Poland 2010 ( A bad year ) [27]


Hey, the year is not yet over. There are still 5 more months to come. Perhaps it will get better for the rest of the year.

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Life / As EuroPride visits Warsaw - is it the start of overdue social change in Poland? (homosexuality promotion) [144]


Yeah well, go fcuk yourself. Who gives a shyte what a troll like you has to say?

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