UK, Ireland / Tale of a Polish Family on Isle of Man [43]


Well said that man.

UK, Ireland / Tale of a Polish Family on Isle of Man [43]

Isle of Man isnt in the UK ,AFAIK.
In the UK we should have the same 10 year rule for economic migrants,if you come here and cant make it,tough,go home,but,there should always be room for exceptions. Guess what, "we" could easily afford those exceptions if "we" were not so profligate with benefits.

UK, Ireland / Is UK the new cradle of antipolonism? [161]

Seanus,you could swap everything you said word for word with " Brits in Spain", the ones that stick out are the ones at "English hotels" eating english breakfasts watching english football in the english bar and moaning about the locals being lazy workshy scroungers taking hours off for lunch.......people like me and you cant understand them but they are there, I spent all my time in Spain never meeting other British people,the only non Spaniard we knew was a mysterious Polish Count called Maximilian on his uppers :)

History / Do polish people know that some of them fought a war against the United States? [60]


as I made clear in the very next post I made ,FFS, do you seriously not know what rhetoric is????


A Walt, "Walter Mitty", person living in fantasy land who pretends to have been a serving soldier often to be found on anonymous internet sites claiming to have been in Vietnam( insert country apropriate war/conflict/policing action)....funny,no one ever claims to have been stuck in an office on some supply base, always either Marines or Air Cav...............not saying you are one,just asking and stating my disgust at them.


Aint wiki great, so, all gone well before 1973 ......hence my suspisions of waltness on your part. Now, of course, 1973 didnt have to be the first time you were there.

Life / Your Polish friends - why do you regard them as such? [41]

Have you ever actually met a Pole???? I suppose it was an interest in forming genuine relationships that dragged 1 million plus of them to this sceptered isle then......

History / Do polish people know that some of them fought a war against the United States? [60]


Yes, assinine comments without any back up based on one post............troll.


Nope, still rhetoric.......look it up in a dictionary if you need to..............you ignorance is not my problem...


Seriously, you are going to claim no one was jump qualified in the 1st Air cav? Bollox matey.
( FYI, the german para had been a Glider Pilot, re trained as a Chopper Pilot,well documented)


Really? Are you sure now? Because there is nothing more pathetic than a Walt.
In fact, I fcuking hate walts with having a very close friend who was there with the 101st.


So, you were there after 1973 when US combat troops had been removed from the country ...you do know when the 1st AC left Vietnam dont you?


fook off.. unorigional troll....................insult/truth... what ever.

History / Do polish people know that some of them fought a war against the United States? [60]


Advisors.......you obviously do know the difference between Advisors and combat troops dont you.
Not to mention ARVN intel is an oxymoron.
I still see no more proof than the old, " Gee sarge, I swear one of those VC was a guy I knew in High school in Peoria,went missing last year...".


Its called rhetoric my colonial chum,see next post for explanation


,Oh no, I doubt you'd bother doing that.....much rather a bit of indignation based on what, you like apocalypse now?
Anything to actually add or just trolling?

History / Do polish people know that some of them fought a war against the United States? [60]

Legend, can I ask what anti septic cream you use? Your knuckles must take some sh!t from all the dragging they do......where do you conjure up your BS Uber race crappo from bud'? Curious minds need to know......puzzled how someone claiming to be a Pole can be such a fan of race classification as you are,surely your actually an octoginerian Bavarian?

History / Do polish people know that some of them fought a war against the United States? [60]


elaborate or,you know...


Plenty. But,when I say, "chock full" I mean a handfull ;)
The US Army during that particular conflict was "full" of foreign born soldiers, if I remember rightly one of the heads of security at the WTC on 9/11 who was killed was a British veteren of the Ia Drang battles...so taking that as a starter it is more likely that plenty of Poles (born in Poland) were fighting in Vietnam, just wearing OG107 and not black pyjamas .

History / Do polish people know that some of them fought a war against the United States? [60]

Has anyone actually got any proof of Polish soldiers fighting in Vietnam????
There were certainly Poles in the UN mission ,never heard of any Poles actually fighting,would kinda have stuck out from the l'il Vietnamese dudes dont you think?

BTW, the 1st air cav was chock full of former SS and Nazi paratroopers....

Life / Flea markets in Wrocław [14]

Are Polish flea markets still full of nylon wigs and silver torah pointers?

UK, Ireland / Slough & Elsewhere UK [23]

This bollox again?
please,we all know far too many people arrived in one rush and seriously fcuked up the balance,time to move on yeah?

History / Do polish people know that some of them fought a war against the United States? [60]


Well,d'uh, they were a stone aged sociaty untill the SPANISH got to them......incidently,those non anglo saxon french and Spanish sure tried enough times and even did a couple of times. Being crap at something doesnt get you a free pass so why should being good at something produce the opposite result?


Dont forget the Irish, they invaded mainland Britain dozens of times before things went the other way. Same as some Scots( Led by a half Polish pretender on one occasion (see,on topic still) )) some Irish like to play the perpetual victim(kinda like another nation we all know) and conveniently forget their nations did as much invading and raping and pillaging as any other.

History / Do polish people know that some of them fought a war against the United States? [60]


And you obviously cant be taken seriously as you ignore the fact that every corner of the world has produced its own attrocities.


Not really,it took England/Britain hundreds of years before it started colonising anywhere(go on,someone say ireland and show how little you know....), it took the germans less than two decades after the formation of germany.

Im surprised any Poles fought for the South seeing as it had Jewish people in the government.

Genealogy / Ellis Island or something else to find about my grandparents? [4]

Many passed through Hull docks,crossed the UK and travelled on from Liverpool docks(both in England) to carry on the journey.
Records are kept somewhere...sorry if thats vague but as above working backwards can often give clues, for instance if you trace someone to Liverpool you will find which port in the US or Canada they were heading for.

Love / How do I make a Polish girl cry? [107]

Or that you have an extreme cabbage allergy...

Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]

Aha, I think they might add an "e" on the end, "artiste"........and we all know that means failed actor/dancer/singer now doing anyjob they can get with an equity card ;)

And wouldnt it be, " voice overer"? :)

Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]


Voice over artist.....its really not that complex ;)

Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]

Lols, Ive learnt that when a Pole says,"this joke probably wont be very funny to you" that they are not just being polite,9 times out of 10 they just dont translate at all :)

(Thats not a judgment on national humors etc btw :) )
I just treat it like Shakespeare, you sit in an audiance,all of a sudden a few people start laughing for no apparent reason,take time to figure out just why the dude in tights doing something with his thumb is the funniest thing these people have seen and I'll just lose the plot entirely :)

Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]


Isnt it akward when you hear the joke before the rest of the audience has read it ? :)

Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]


I saw an episode of Friends in germany one.........Ross sounded so butch it was hilarious :)

edit, I think the above post wins this weeks "Gayest sounding post by a straight guy" award hands down. ;)

Language / Correct format for dates in letters in Polish? [8]

8.XI.2011

Or is that like REALLY old fashioned?

Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]


Makes perfect sense,just replaces one dull blokes voice with another dull blokes voice :)


OMG,can you imagine 7 Samurii dubbed!!! A Gi Jin trying to do the " EEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH" grunting noises...........

Mind, Im a bit odd, I quite enjoy watching TV with the deaf sign language person stood in the bottom corner.........

Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]

or English 0.5 ;)
I cant understand how people who can understand British English cannot understand American English,after all its just another regional accent ;)
Saying that though, I can follow a Spanish movie without subs but am totally lost when it comes to mexican spanish....

Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]


That too then :) ( I always prefered High Chapperal myself ;0 )

Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]

I doubt the BBCs first TV broadcast in 1936 reached Poland TBH, even German TV which carried on during the war wouldnt have been seen in Poland....

My theory regarding the lector is....have a loud Polish voice dronning on over western TV allows complete control over the script, subtitle it and nasty capitalist ideas might have slipped through to those who understood English............again,just a theory and one that pre supposes that the Lektor fella was around pre 1989.

Life / Polish dubbing in movies; why is it so that on polish television all the films are dubbed? [135]

Both suck,it has to be subtitles for me too.
Best stuff on UK TV at the minute is some subtitled Euro Crime Dramas, Spiral from France ,Wallander Sweden and The Killing from Denmark, the US remake of the latter just seemed, and proved to be ,pointless.

The fun game with subtitles ,when translated into english is spotting when say a Frenchman says " Magnifique" and it gets translated as "Splendid" rather than "Magnificent", or a Swede says "Hallo" and thats turned into "Good morning".....that sort of thing.....

UK, Ireland / Is moving to UK now a good idea? - antipolish prejudice of the Brits [231]


I actually,hand on heart,like North Wales, but you got to have a larf now and again ;)

Life / Molly-coddling criminals in Poland's hospitals? [6]

No idea about Poland but in the UK its proportional force. You can "defend yourself" but if "defending yourself" ends up involving chasing the burglers 500 yards down the road and then beating the living crap out of them,yes,you could be charged with assault. Other times people have "got away" with killing burglers, its pot luck,but,TBH, Id still take my chance with the legal system and do what I had to do to defend home and family.

Life / Molly-coddling criminals in Poland's hospitals? [6]

Same in UK. Sometimes.
Its a bit more haphazard here, one minute you get a news blackout and no photos,the next pictures of kids not yet convicted of any crimes get plastered all over the media......

Its probably similar to the US situation where different Police Forces have different ideas and rules to play by, some of our forces regularly release pictures of known criminals in a name and shame vain,others will never do this.

I think one thing you may consider with regards the stealing of childrens toys; can it be proved beyond doubt that the man on CCTV actually took the toys out of the Hospital ( if it can,ie,the pics show him leaving with teddys and dump trucks spilling from his pockets ignore this...) because, lets say they give the imppresion this man stole the toys,he is then spotted on the street and gets a righteous kicking from a member of the public.............only it turns out later in court that the man simply moved the toys from one ward to another and it can be proven someone else,a nurse maybe, actually stole the toys......what then, massive lawsuit against the hospital and against everyone involved in releasing the footage.