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delphiandomine   
19 Sep 2012
Life / Poland and every aspect..... Please help me learn and understand the realities? [108]

Gross is not a graduate historian, he's got his degree in sociology. All in all, he is one Gross mistake!

Gross is a professor of history - what more do you need?

Davies on the other hand is...who, exactly?

I would rather live with a firm-but-fair mod with poor punctuation, than put up with yet another rude, threatening mod who knows how to use the space bar

Indeed, he's a good guy. Who cares if he doesn't know what a space bar is? It's meaningless.
delphiandomine   
19 Sep 2012
Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]

Those who left Poland in the 80s (like my family), sent money and care packages to their families back in Poland to help them make ends meet.

And? We should be made to feel forever in the debt to a few morons across the pond because of a few parcels that mostly contained junk anyway?

I don't speak Polish? Strange... I just had a meeting in Polish with someone that doesn't speak English. What language was I using, if it wasn't Polish?

The fact that you, in your typically arrogant Polonia fashion, claim all Poles to be "racist and prejudiced" marks you out as one of them. You're no better than Poles in Poland, no matter how hard you try.

The only explanation I can think of is that those angry ones (delph, for sure!) are not happy living in Poland, and are jealous at those who still feel the connection but don't have to live there.

Or we're sick of seeing our adopted country abused by a bunch of racist North Americans who haven't got a clue - and who do it endless harm with the braindead racist statements?

Only Delphdope and maybe "sobieski" come to mind. At least when it comes to hatred of Polonia.

Oh, look, bellend is making observations again! Nurse!

Its usually "visitors" (WASP or some other minority) to Poland like Delp who are screaming "evil evil PolAms" at every turn.

I can happily introduce you to many Poles who despise the attitude of the Polonia too. Would you like to meet some?

I'm talking about English speaking people, living in Poland, who will not admit that they're not sitting on top of the world.

None of us on here are sitting on top of the world, but I'm doing just fine.

How come they are typically affiliated with the Democratic party?

I don't understand it - how can someone vote PiS and yet Democratic?

It is mostly Am Poles who are constantly trying to tell Poland Poles how to live, who to vote etc. and are not afraid to show their anger, even fury, when we make other choices.

We can read what Polonius says - he routinely ridicules Poles for making "the wrong choice".
delphiandomine   
19 Sep 2012
Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]

Admin, for God's sake, it's not really funny anymore...

If you don't like it, don't open the thread.

Or are you here to defend your Dear Leader?
delphiandomine   
19 Sep 2012
Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]

I know for a fact that the Polish American Congress shipped many, many containers FULL of medicines, xray film, bandages, IV poles, tubing, etc.

Shame that the whole organisation exists to pursue a dubious right wing agenda.
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]

I've met plenty of others, including some Southern Bapists who were lovely people and who were doing a really ****** volunteer job (teaching English to some really dreadful kids in bad schools).
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]

Sorry, delph, you just don`t know about all campaigns that Am Polonia organised for Poland during post war period. Polonius wrote about it in his closed thread.

Did they push the US Government to tell all about what they knew? Did they take part in acts of civil disobedience in Poland? Did they - really - actually do a damn thing that mattered?
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]

But when bad times come, they will again rush to Poland`s defence, like in the past.

You mean like how they rushed to Poland post-WW2, pre-September 1st 1939, mid 1989 and all those other times?
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]

They are patriotic only about a country which doesn't exist.

And to further an agenda which has nothing to do with modern Poland and is actually contrary to the good relations that the previous President had with Israel.

It's quite scary how certain elements of American society have hijacked Poland as a platform to launch their racism from.
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]

Complete indifference - it can't hurt Poland. No-one ever writes about the "complete indifference" of people, but they can write pages about warped racist patriotism that masquerades as being genuinely Polish.

We on here might know that people who use words like "Busia" are Grade A certifiable morons, but most people don't.
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
Food / The great British teabag hunt thread [66]

That's not tea, it's milky water! You might as well not bother with the tea bag at all!

But it's nice! There's no horrid taste of...tea in it.

I used to work with someone who drank tea like that, they also loved trashy take away sandwiches.

How did you know that I like take away sandwiches too?

(only ones made from scratch, mind you - not petrol station ones!)
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
Life / Polish vs British vs American - Clash of cultures [390]

So much so that I've walked out of shops a hundred times because of it. Hudders lives, so he says, in a nice seaside town where everyone is pink and life is peachy. Why, then does he... you know the rest.

Me too. My local meat shop is particularly awful for it, with the 'banter' often going to ridiculous levels. My golden rule is - more than 3 retired people in the shop and I'm off. It doesn't help that one of the women working there has a particularly weird face, but still.

As for Hudders, life is fine for everyone else. But when you're on the dole and spend entire days watching everyone else spend money...well.

I think he has never been to Poland in his entire life. This he shares with some of polonialandists on this forum.

He's been to Poland on internet websites!
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
Life / Polish vs British vs American - Clash of cultures [390]

Go to a shop in Poland and the atmosphere between you and the shop assistant would be erie, quiet and work-centric.

Right. That's why I got stuck talking to the toy shop owner today when trying to leave, because they're just so so quiet.

Oh Hudders... if you actually had ever been to Poland, you'd know that the 'banter' here is far more natural and prolonged than in the UK.

When i worked in customer service years ago

You worked? Ah, years ago.
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
Food / The great British teabag hunt thread [66]

Delph, you should read The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo. We haven't given up on you yet.

It's not going to happen, I'm just not a huge fan...

(I won't even mention the fact that Lipton's is sitting in the cupboard)
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
Food / The great British teabag hunt thread [66]

Hahahaha :D

Yet the wife drinks it abnormally strong, the teabag is often left in the cup for 10-15 minutes, disgusting :(

I can't stand tea if the teabag has been sitting in there for more than 30 seconds or so. Undrinkable for me and my fragile stomach!
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]

They long back for the Kresy, where "everybody knew his place".

Especially the Jews. Every good member of the North American Polonia lusts for the days between the wars when Jews really did know their place.

And by 'good member', I mean 'racist clueless morons'.
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
Food / The great British teabag hunt thread [66]

Bleugh! Don't tell me you put UHT milk in tea. I stopped putting any dairy products in my cup decades ago, and now, when I'm back in blighty, I take my tea as nature intended there, too. Once you go black, you never go back. Or something like that.

I do! But it's because fresh milk makes me sick, black tea (especially in the morning) makes me projectile vomit - and well, I can drink UHT milk as much as I want without throwing up ;)

The first thing British tea drinkers want is strength.

Not me. I barely use the things - water goes in, milk goes in, tea is dipped in/out to turn it a nice cup-of-tea colour, teabag is thrown in the bin.

If the brand is one I'd have heard of but has Polish text/blurb printed on the actual box, it's already a no no in my experience.

I like Tetley here :(
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
Food / The great British teabag hunt thread [66]

Sorry but I can't help (always stock up on Twinings when I'm back in the UK).

Isn't that made near Poznan these days?
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
History / Surveillance in Poland during communism [29]

I think Poland handled the opening the of the SB files very clumsily. It would have been better to follow the German example.

Either the German or the Russian example would have been fine. The current situation benefits no-one, as no-one believes a word that's in those files.

But this for sure suited the Catholic Church which was infiltrated into the higher levels, and have no interest whatsoever to disclose old sins. 1. Who was corrupted between the men of the frock 2. And what made them do it.

It certainly suited them, for they were anything but blameless. Look at what happened in the former East Germany - many people discovered that the priests were actually collaborating - and the RCC was far too savvy to risk a similar thing happening in Poland. I suspect we'll never know the full truth, but then again - anyone with half a brain knows that the links between the RCC and the PZPR were far stronger than they'd like to admit. The wonderboy himself, Davies, openly refers to a village near Wroclaw being divided between the Party boss and the main priest, both of them doing well for themselves.

And conveniently overlook for example one of the prime commie collabos, the ducks' father.

Daddy Kaczynski was certainly one of the worst guys - former AK member turned Communist manager in a few short years. How on earth could that happen under Stalinism, especially considering the fate of many of his comrades?
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
Law / Retail chain pricing in Poland? [10]

just an off-hand comment

So you made a comment that wasn't based on any factual reality at all?

Nothing new there, then. Move on, move on.
delphiandomine   
18 Sep 2012
History / Surveillance in Poland during communism [29]

rybnik,I think that it may not have been direct,but I'm sure they had their informants and kept tabs,even if to a small degree.

Almost certainly, although probably not in any majorly obsessive way. It's quite likely that for instance, the security in their dormitories would have been agents (or informers).

I've read somewhere that those 'money changer' guys were usually actually agents.

I'm just assuming since none of us were summoned anywhere to answer questions, that we weren't spied on.

Generally speaking, they wouldn't have unless you did something to provoke them. The hard currency was in such demand by that time that they wouldn't wanted to have upset you ;)
delphiandomine   
16 Sep 2012
UK, Ireland / British - Stupidest nation in Europe [127]

but a "corner shop" owner

I would like to protest - Hudders clearly has never worked a day in his life!
delphiandomine   
15 Sep 2012
Work / Can an English person work in Poland without speaking the language? [13]

I have considered that but I have no qualifications and am not sure how easy they are to get, any ideas?

If you want to do things "by the book", you need the CELTA (4 week course, about 1000 pounds) and a degree - any degree.

But Poznan, if you have a place to stay, you can pick up work quite easily. There is a huge demand for English teachers of children, and it's fashionable to have a native speaker - but they frequently don't trust men to do the job. I know one girl in Krakow who absolutely cleans up moneywise - parents bring the children to her flat, she charges between 50-100PLN an hour depending on the time - all because she's female and not threatening. There's far less female natives here than in Krakow, too!

Best thing to do is to come over and see for yourself - I can show you the city, explain how it works and so on - and you can go from there.
delphiandomine   
15 Sep 2012
UK, Ireland / British - Stupidest nation in Europe [127]

There was a protest not so long ago about this - they were demanding good jobs and so on, but not one of them had a credible reason as to why they should get good jobs straight away. It's particularly funny hearing about graduates of worthless rubbish like pedagogics demanding a well paid job with responsibility.
delphiandomine   
15 Sep 2012
News / There's still hope for Poland! [19]

The goods news is PO down to 28%. Poles seem to be wisening up and seeing through the Tuskite oldboy 'układ': tinhorn politicans, shady business, servile jmedia and gangsters.

The real news is that despite this, PiS have slipped further, proving that voters don't want to vote for the 4th Republic or Kaczynski. No matter how hard you try, all the current evidence shows a clear rejection of PiS.

A consrtuctive vote of no-confidence is just round the corenr.

Who is the candidate, Polonius? WHO IS THE CANDIDATE?

Oh, that's right...they don't actually have a candidate. Remember under Polish law, they need to appoint a successor to Tusk to win - it's not enough to simply vote against him, but they need to have someone to replace him.
delphiandomine   
15 Sep 2012
News / There's still hope for Poland! [19]

But we'll make sure it doesn't happen, right? ;)

Does anyone really believe for one second that PiS are capable of finding a nonpartisan person to lead a technocratic government?