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osiol   
31 Jan 2008
Australia / Just got home to Australia, but I miss Poland! [47]

I know how you feel MattW. I miss Poland as well

But it's now the hottest time of year in Australia, and about the coldest (is it actually cold now?) in Poland. I wonder if he misses Poland THAT much.
osiol   
29 Jan 2008
Love / I fancy a polish girl from my school! [139]

its been a long time since I was at school

You're too modest.

I had to try hard to get them to just chat with me

You should have met my mate Darek. If hind legs could really be talked off donkeys, I'd have been in a wheelchair for the last 8 or 9 months.

Polishness

Maybe, but I've just invented the word Polonitude.
osiol   
29 Jan 2008
Love / I fancy a polish girl from my school! [139]

Oh, I thought he just wanted to start talking to her!

That can so easily happen.
She thinks he just wants to talk.
He wants so much more!
osiol   
29 Jan 2008
Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]

because I can hear an original voice of an actor

I found that as someone who can't really understand very much Polish, especially at movie-pace, the only voices you can hear behind the narrator are the voices that are most different to that of the narrator - so usually women and children.

I like to listen out for English swearing and hear how it's completely ignored by the lektor. However, my flatmate has fallen in love with the word ''pizdzielec' which he heard in a film as a translation of 'little c u next tuesday'.

cant see any reasonable reason

It is idiosyncratically Polish. I don't know of any other place where they do this.
Dubbing looks pretty terrible, so even that must take some getting used to.
osiol   
28 Jan 2008
Love / I fancy a polish girl from my school! [139]

I think I'd opt to say something a bit cheekier than cześć, but you'd probably guessed that.

But I only have one wife

Hang on - I'll just put a hoof over one eye - oh yes just the one. I thought they looked very similar... and slightly blurred.
osiol   
28 Jan 2008
Love / I fancy a polish girl from my school! [139]

Hi is all too easy to say, but not as easy as saying nothing.
Did you get any of the pronunciation for the things you wanted to say?
If you want to keep it simple at first, she might be impressed if you just say 'Cześć' - a simplified pronunciation would be something like 'Cheshch'. To stop yourself from forgetting this word, remember it's a bit like the word 'chest'.
osiol   
25 Jan 2008
History / Unusual soldier (The bear - named Voytek) [71]

go to hell trolls

If you're unlucky I'll come back.
Apparently it's cold there, like the hearts of both British and Polish people!
osiol   
25 Jan 2008
History / Unusual soldier (The bear - named Voytek) [71]

They put him in a zoo in Scotland.
If he had to go to Scotland, they should have put him in a pub.
I think he'd have fitted in a bit better.
osiol   
25 Jan 2008
History / Unusual soldier (The bear - named Voytek) [71]

It's a shame he's not around any more - bears just don't live long enough.
It would have been nice to have had him on the forum.
Might have been a bit too old-school for all this modern internet mullarkey.
osiol   
19 Jan 2008
UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

no poles who have just come here and never paid tax are a burden, brits earning low wages have at least paid tax their whole lives.

Can't you see any balance between duration of tax payments and duration of access to the what the tax pays for.

They haven't been paying tax here all their lives, but neither have they been reaping the benefits all their lives.

very interesting comments to this article

There are more positive than negative comments about Poles on there. The negative comments seemed to focus more on the Britsh governament than on the actual Polish migrant workers themselves, unlike a certain troll we find round here.

If you criticise the government that makes the decisions, then you don't look nearly as stupid as someone who picks on a group by their nationality, religion, skin-colour and so on. Such hatred for people on such a flimsy basis only leads me to suspect noimmigration is not just polonophobic, not just xenophobic, not just racist, but also anti-human.

Noimmigration: have some respect for Homo sapiens sapiens. It was humankind that provided you and your kind with a pond within which to constitute the lower forms of life.
osiol   
19 Jan 2008
UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

£27,000 a year

So anyone earning less than this is a burden?
Indluding you.

edit: Oh look - it's the daily hate mail. You can't wipe your arse with the internet version, but it usually already looks like it has been used for this purpose.
osiol   
15 Jan 2008
UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

cheek poles calling people trolls because they are concerned about their country

I am British, not Polish and I still call you a troll because you are a troll.

concerned about their country

I'm concerned about my country, but for one thing, I am more intelligent than you, and for another thing, this doesn't lead me to being offensive about other countries and people from other countries.
osiol   
15 Jan 2008
UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

better to ban

But I want to play with the troll.
I've got a stick here for poking it. It's left over from one of my recent 'carrot & stick' sessions.

If we're supposed to ignore the troll, I shall take the time to ask how everyone is?
How is everyone? (With the exception of noimportance).
osiol   
12 Jan 2008
News / Poland - Third World Country?? [300]

Poland is easily in the 2nd world bracket

What happens within countries then? If Poland, taken as a whole is 2nd world, then I live in what could be a 2nd world neighbourhood. Down the road in the posh end of town it's 1st world and there are 3rd world areas not so far away too.

WB, is that not the same story?
osiol   
12 Jan 2008
News / Poland - Third World Country?? [300]

someone please provide examples of 2nd World countries

It used to be said that the former Soviet-bloc constituted the 2nd world.
It seems that these countries, if they were 2nd world, they have either all moved up or moved down.
osiol   
10 Jan 2008
Work / Have been offered a job in Warsaw - should I move to Poland?? [48]

I remember breakfast in Poland so very very well

I can almost see a whole loaf of bread being demolished, along with a selection of cured meats, maybe some cheese, along with various condiments.

an East German film

I thought you were there longer ago than that!

the same old poor quality coffee

Not bad the stuff I've had out there. I have stayed in two different places in Poland, so I may have just been lucky and every other house or flat in the country fits your desciption, although I doubt it.

with all the dregs in the bottom of the cup

It settles by the time you get that far.

Trying to be diplomatic

You?
Hahahahahaha!

I will travel further afield next time

Try Buda Pest

Both Buda and Pest are further away than some parts of Poland. Unless you have moved house recently by quite a long distance southeasterly.
osiol   
7 Jan 2008
Food / Polish Eating Habits [87]

still not obiese though

You should have seen the New Year dinner I had recently (in Poland). The food was piled high on the table. There was just about everything you could possibly think of. Including vodka, of course. Before starting the meal itself we were just sitting round the table, getting started on the drinks and chatting (those of us, or should I say, them, who have the ability to just chat in Polish).

So the drinks were flowing, but in anticipation of the fine meal we had ahead of us. Mr X. entered, slightly late. As soon as his arse hit the chair, food began to rapidly disappear in his direction. 'Oh!' the rest of us probably all thought. 'Better tuck in before he eats the lot on his own.'

The next evening, a bowl of snacks was strategically moved away from Mr. X. for similar reasons.

A completely different point is the presence of certain fast food chains in the country. They must have some sort of effect.