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Joined: 21 May 2008 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 12 Jun 2016
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Trevek   
30 Dec 2010
UK, Ireland / I worry about the Poles working in the UK [77]

Britain is a fundamentally racist society and has been for centuries.

Like most other societies.

As you can see I live in Olsztyn now and not going to relocate anywhere ;)

Well, there's a load of arab students just arrived in Olsztyn this week for the medical school .
Trevek   
30 Dec 2010
News / POLISH CHILD ABUSING A CAT.. [74]

Well yea, its not really out of malice more like for fun. Im sure cat enjoys 'playing' with their victim.

I think part of it is because the body chemicals released during this activity makes the meat more digestable and tastier (it's why dogs for eating are hanged, I believe)
Trevek   
30 Dec 2010
News / POLISH CHILD ABUSING A CAT.. [74]

Average cat abuse every animal thats smaller than him.

My cat must be above average. I'm 185 cm and 105 kilo and he enjoys abusing me, as the scars show.
Trevek   
30 Dec 2010
UK, Ireland / I worry about the Poles working in the UK [77]

Before Christmas I have tried 3 times to find a parking place in front of Media Markt

And I bet it was one SUV parked across two places in each case.

Well, if more people come home they'll be able to employ somoeone to clear the damn snow away!
Trevek   
29 Dec 2010
News / Polish twins have different fathers [67]

Unfortunately this is probably more common than most of us realize.

Here's a more colourful case!

today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30864533/ns/today-parenting/
Trevek   
27 Dec 2010
Life / Imitating old peasant-type Polish dialects - polite? [11]

If one stops at a peasant's hut and asks him: 'Gospodarzu, mata może świże jojka?' Is that regarded favourably as 'he's like one of us' or would it be seen as taking the p*ss?

As someone who has studied sociolinguistics and anthropology, I'd be wary of doing it if you didn't know the people. Others might feel insulted that you don't think they can speak 'proper' Polish.

Some people might wonder why you were trying to use their dialect, others might feel threatened (they might use it to keep outsiders 'outside'). It also depends on how well you speak the dialect, as the reply might be too much to handle.
Trevek   
22 Dec 2010
Love / WHY DO POLISH MEN LIE? [150]

One question why do Polish men lie.

Because they're men.
Trevek   
21 Dec 2010
News / US Military: The Army of Poland is crap. [124]

Very well said Nathan, i think other troops might have gotten those books also just didn't have enough respect for the Iraqis to follow what they taught.

I wonder how much of it was also that the European soldiers have experience of foreigners, whereas a large amount of US soldiers may never have been out of US before or intermingled with foreigners.

Young guys, in a tense situation, untrained for 'social' soldiering. I'm sure it accounted for a lot of the problems early on (which were hard to repair).
Trevek   
21 Dec 2010
UK, Ireland / Are there enough Polish people live in Birmingham? [5]

I don't, I'm afraid. I haven't been there for some time.

I do think that bimber may have a good point about the business problems of a Polish restaurant, tho'. I wonder if it's 'exotic' enough for non-Poles or interesting enough for Poles themselves (no disrespect to yourself).
Trevek   
20 Dec 2010
History / August Agbala - Nigerian soldier in Warsaw Uprising [23]

It was an interesting programe on Trafalgar too

I didn't see it but did see the one on 303 sqn. It was a bit of a joke because they advertised it as "the untold story" and it had all been told before.

in fact rascism really wasnt a huge issue for most people when the "others" were more of a curiosity.

Indeed. We had Indian parliamentarians in 19th C.
Trevek   
20 Dec 2010
History / August Agbala - Nigerian soldier in Warsaw Uprising [23]

I'm not an expert on uniforms, but would the boots show anything? British army officers had special boots, whereas ordinary ranks wore puttees (cloth wrapped around the ankle/leg)

the fact that europe,all of it ,has for hundreds of years had a small black population and when global war ,or atleast local wars,come calling they too get caught up in them,

Indeed. There was a TV programme on BBC during the summer about Black sailors on English ships at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Trevek   
20 Dec 2010
Life / Is Poland a place of high culture? [36]

Trevek:
Yeah, I suppose Tchaikovsky, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekov, Stanislavski, Meyerhold etc are just the Hannah Montanas of their day.

mostly XIX century name one from 18th century

well I was trying for a wide range. Stanislavski Meyerhold having made their major contributions in 20th C. (Stan used Chekov's plays while Chekov was still alive).

Gorky d. 1936, Bulgakhov d 1940. Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008, Nijinsky d 1958, Anna Pavlova d 1931, Nureyev 1938-9.
Trevek   
20 Dec 2010
Life / Is Poland a place of high culture? [36]

and I'm a man who enjoys a good lay.

Yeah, I suppose Tchaikovsky, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekov, Stanislavski, Meyerhold etc are just the Hannah Montanas of their day.
Trevek   
20 Dec 2010
Life / Is Poland a place of high culture? [36]

and superior to its eastern neighbours.

really? can you give examples. I'd say Russian literature, music, painting, theatre and film-making is at least as good as the Polish counterparts (and Poland certainly has high quality examples of literature, music, painting, theatre, film-making etc).
Trevek   
18 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

I did two years driving a transit van through some bad winters , and they are hopeless on snow , but with a bit of skill , and a handy shovel , i did not get stranded...

I learned about snow driving in the army in Germany. I remember one year in England driving down the road in my creaky old Ford Escort estate, pulling people out of ditches and snow-drifts. I ended up giving a lift to a one-legged mountaineer who was riding through the blizzard on a Honda 70 step-thru.
Trevek   
18 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

You don,t need winter tyres to drive on two inches of snow....

True, but then they don't drive on 2 inches anyway (so who needs tyres).

It's the people who leave their cars and block the snowplough, I'm thinking of.
Trevek   
18 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

Apparently it was orders from head-office.

What p1sses me off is that it's not as if these winters are a strange thing in UK anymore. When I was growing up heavy snow was not THAT common (which is why people don't know how to drive in it) but over the last few years it has become so. So why do Britain still not have winter tyres by law?
Trevek   
18 Dec 2010
Life / Why Poland is "surprised" by winter and snow every year? [192]

Poland has nothing to apologise for. My 78 year old mother's flight to Poland from Birmingham, England, was cancelled today because of snow in Brum.

It took 4 hours to get home (It's only an hour away... trains couldn't handle it!). Then when she got a taxi from the station, the taxi wouldn't take her into her housing estate because "the snow's piling up". So the driver left my mother to drag her heavy suitcase home...

The piling up snow, which a 78 year old woman with a heavy suitcase could manage, but not a so-called professional cabby, was about 2 inches (5cm) deep, according to mum.