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jon357   
1 Feb 2013
UK, Ireland / Polish is Britain's second language, says UK report [52]

This article is one of the better ones I've read about the Polish Deluge:

A Polish friend, who grew up in south London, laments that the recent wave of Polish migrants to Britain has played havoc with his morning commute. Not, he says, because of the sheer numbers of Poles now using public transport, but because "10 or 15 years ago, you used to be able to sit on a bus and listen in on the most intimate conversations between Polish people.

telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9840059/Why-Poles-love-coming-to-Britain.html
jon357   
31 Jan 2013
Life / Washing machine in the bathroom of Poles [78]

I think the sh1tter should be as far away as possible from kitchen and sitting room, which is very often not the case in Poland.

I've seen flats & houses with bogs leading off the living room. With holes in the bottom of the door. You can hear everything.

And what's with the bathroom window thing? There are even detached houses that don't have them.

Where do you take off your clothes?In the bathroom.It's easier to have the basket,and washing machine in the same place.

And do you have a stove in your bathroom, to boil your knickers on?
jon357   
31 Jan 2013
Life / Washing machine in the bathroom of Poles [78]

It wouldn't even cross my mind to put it there o_O Bathroom seems so much natural...

So far from the washing line in the garden.
jon357   
31 Jan 2013
Life / Washing machine in the bathroom of Poles [78]

In Poland residual-current circuit breakers are mandatory in new buldings and many people install RCDs in older houses even RCD and new cables are quite expensive.

Usually people don't use the washing machine when in the bath or shower.
jon357   
31 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]

why do you think it would be so hard to galvanize our local youth and have them do the jobs that many poles do?

Because prior to EU expansion, we didn't see the chavs queueing up for work. They were dolites then and they're dolites now.

Are you British with British parents and British grandparents?

What's that got to do with anything?

The facts say otherwise but sure feel free to repeat that BS ad nauseam.

Very true.
jon357   
31 Jan 2013
News / Polish Business Centre Club hammers another nail in Blair's coffin [35]

there is no difference whatsoever between the three major parties.

Why not read the manifesto of each party. You'll see the differences.

You boast of Iraq having one of the largest oil reserves in the world

Actually, they boast of it.

Convince yourself and believe fervently in your your pay masters that you are there for the locals benefit.

I'm not. I'm here for work. Do you believe your job is for the benefit of others? Or would you, if you could actually hold down a job?

Give them some trinkets

I hire them for jobs that are well paid even by European standards. Forget trinkets and oranges. It's interesting though, to be involved in a reconstruction of a country that's been devastated by decades of a brutal dictator, giving people new skills and new chances.

life is so good

Indeedy doody.

Ever been to the real downtrodden areas to boast of your wealth and position

You sound like a communist now.

You dare to accuse me of being a right wing fascist

Not much of a dare, since you've openly praised the BNP often enough here.

So how is your campaign of impersonating public officials going? Are the police still involved?
jon357   
31 Jan 2013
News / Polish Business Centre Club hammers another nail in Blair's coffin [35]

There is not a whiff of difference between the 3 major parties.

Actually, there's a very satisfying difference, and enough similarity to ensure a healthy continuity. If people wanted smaller parties like Respect or the Greens etc, they'd vote for them. Your favourite party lost its deposit everywhere it stood during the last election, didn't it?

so don't try the big con.

What con is that? Did I imply for one minute that I'm in a country with one of the biggest oil reserves in the world for 'philanthropic reasons'? I save the philanthropic stuff for other places.

How are the anonymous letters coming on, by the way?
jon357   
31 Jan 2013
Life / Foreigners in Poland - the identities of our native or the host country [66]

Turkey success is partially based upon it being the only Islamic democracy and secular. The fact Turkey is a part of NATO and has American troops on the ground also helps.

Indeed. And almost double the population, a vast geographical footprint, one of the biggest cities in the world and a very different economy.
jon357   
31 Jan 2013
Life / Foreigners in Poland - the identities of our native or the host country [66]

Yes, it's usually conjugated "I'm an expat, you're a foreign worker, he's an immigrant"

Spot on. I feel though that those categories are too sweeping and the boundaries are blurred. There are very few true expats in PL now.

Is it correct to consciously accept the excuse why things are not being changed

It's quite wrong, especially since Poland isn't some sort of backwater like Macedonia or Moldova.

I would catergorise in one of the two ways those that are wealthy and those who are not

Most things come down to money in th end. Language ability - especially the ability to join in a conversation as an equal has a lot to do with it too.

I used to know a lady, originally from the Czech Republic with a Polish husband and who'd lived in PL for years who got very irritated when one jerk from her workplace used to pointedly call her gosciu.
jon357   
31 Jan 2013
Life / Foreigners in Poland - the identities of our native or the host country [66]

I sometimes find myself asking the same question. I don't think it's conscious ignorance that nothing is done - more that immigration was never really thought about.

Of foreign-born people who have made their home in Poland, there seem to be several distinct groups of people - nationality is only part of that, economic circumstances and outlook are a bigegr factor. Some have assimilated more than others. How would you categorise them? I would say that there are traditional expats, who don't really assimilate, foreign-born spouses who assimilate to one degree or another, but what about the others
jon357   
31 Jan 2013
News / Polish Business Centre Club hammers another nail in Blair's coffin [35]

Ad hominem responses

Not ad hominem, but based on sound empirical evidence:

sanctimonious smugness, pseudo-religious self-righteousness and insufferable conceit whilst lying fluently at every turn, spewing hypocrisy, vomiting mendacity, distortion, omission and misrepresentation, and all with a deaths-head coprophage rictus grin

I dont like it when ppl sit at home and spout this trash

Nor me. We can't ever talk intelligently about the war in Iraq without remembering the bravery of those soldiers who served there on both sides.
jon357   
31 Jan 2013
News / Polish Business Centre Club hammers another nail in Blair's coffin [35]

SE London Health Trust,

Worth reminding you that the ConDems have been in government for 3 years now. The huge programme of hospital development started under the last government is expensive. Healthcare is expensive - and does actually require funding to see it through.

For selling honours for cash for his party, devaluing chivalric orders and miring the honours system in political sleaze

A Liberal party invention, heartily used by the Tories above all.

For leading a Parliament mired with the filth of sleaze, corruption, peculation, avarice and mendacity, to the extent that his own MPs were openly stealing public funds - for which few have still been imprisoned - earning his term of office the name of the 'Rotten Parliament'

More honest than their predecessors and successors.

For failing to remove a man with deep psychological flaws from control over the nations' finances, causing record debts and deficits that our grandchildren will still be paying off. The new Treasury minister found a note in his desk draw from his predecessor - "The money's all gone".

Rubbish.

For an illegal war that has cost the lives of many times more Iraqis than ever died under Saddam

Double rubbish.

For representing Britain with a face of sanctimonious smugness, pseudo-religious self-righteousness and insufferable conceit whilst lying fluently at every turn, spewing hypocrisy, vomiting mendacity, distortion, omission and misrepresentation, and all with a deaths-head coprophage rictus grin

Now that can be applied to almost every premier of the twentieth century. Except the 'coprophage bit' (Do you know a poster called Polonius? He posts about that sort of stuff) Excluding Prime Minister Blair, of course.

I loathe that man so very, very much.

You have so much hatred inside you. Do you ever read the Daily Mail?
jon357   
31 Jan 2013
News / Polish Business Centre Club hammers another nail in Blair's coffin [35]

Ever hear of inpatient and outpatient surgery?

Indeed. Minor surgical procedures twice and an accident & tetanus shot the other time.

In a shiny new hospital that was rebuilt by Prime Minister Blair's PFI initiative - it really works very well, as do the dental clinics, walk-in health centres etc all built and run by the private sector but part of the National Health Service. People sometimes forget all that he achieved. Let's hope that it will continue.
jon357   
30 Jan 2013
News / Polish Business Centre Club hammers another nail in Blair's coffin [35]

why don't you take a trip to Iraq

Why don't you take 3 guesses where I'm posting from, right now...

You really did ask for that one, didn't you?

And believe me, none of the people I have contact every day with would wish things to go back to how they were. Some of them were jailed, or fled for their lives, and even had their families 'decimated' by the dictator you seem to think the free world should have left to his own murderous devices. I don't think that even one person on my staff didn't lose someone in their family to him. I've never heard a good word about the old regime, or a bad word about Prime Minister Blair.

an inpatient of a hospital frequently so I assume he has mental health problems.

It's a General Hospital. Interesting how you automatically associate hospitals with psychiatry... Still getting in trouble with the police for impersonating public officials?
https://polishforums.com/uk-ireland/poles-like-british-culture-62745/#msg1319520
jon357   
30 Jan 2013
History / How Poland was losing her intelligentsia [19]

intelligentsia had to move out of Poland

Plenty of inteligentsia stayed and more grew up post-war, with the huge expansion of education in the post-war years.
jon357   
30 Jan 2013
News / Polish Business Centre Club hammers another nail in Blair's coffin [35]

Launching an invasion whose sole (and illegal) justification was regime change

So you'd prefer that the world stood by and did nothing while Saddam gassed his enemies and kept the rest in squalor?

Hiding his discussions with President Bush from the public

How many world leaders conduct all their discussions in public?

Reckless disregard for the well-being of Iraqi civilians

Doing nothing would be reckless disregard. Bringing the regime to justice was a humanitarian necessity.

Failing to fund post-war reconstruction properly

Thanks to post-war reconstruction, the country is slowly climbing out of the mire that the Ba'athists had dragged it into.

Oil production which had been run down to 10% capacity is being increased with new technology and knowhow and is set to make the people of Iraq affluent, infrastructure is being built, homes are getting electricity and people other than the Al-Tikriti's and their allies are holding positions of power.

I wonder what the Saddam apologists imagine Iraq was/is like? Some sort of Basingstoke with palm trees? Interesting how many of the people who criticise the invasion would have survived under Saddam. Criticising leaders was a one way ticket into the grinder:


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jon357   
30 Jan 2013
News / Poland is the source of horsemeat in burgers? [169]

Unless it is done, I will never believe it was Polish fault.

Be careful not to mix "Polish fault" with 'a Polish company's fault'.

Let them publish fekking invoices

I imagine that will all come out in the inevitable lawsuit.

Ha ha..so many people who have never been really hungry.

Hungry and poor, like the sort of people who buy frozen burgers.
jon357   
30 Jan 2013
News / Polish Business Centre Club hammers another nail in Blair's coffin [35]

He launched an illegal invasion of a sovereign country - Iraq - without any grounds whatsoever, other than might is right.

More to do with that country being run by a guy who fed his enemies feet first into grinding machines, dropped poison gas on villages he considered disloyal and despite massive oil reserves was keeping people in poverty and abject squalor, without even a regular electricity supply in the cities while he and his relatives were pocketing the cash.

ry looking up Pinderfields Hospital, Jon. Your home town

It isn't actually my home town, however I've been a patient there several times over the years. The new one, built by PFI is wonderful. A great improvement on the old one. Whether you like it or not, providing healthcare costs money.

BTW, your sister-in-law doesn't "have to work there". Unless of course she's been sentenced to some sort of community service.
jon357   
29 Jan 2013
News / Poland is the source of horsemeat in burgers? [169]

You have no idea who put the meat in there, I doubt it will be easy to find out - its not petfood.

The people who investigated the supply chain do. They traced it back to the supplier in Poland.

Its not the Polish 'food industry' that sold beefburgers containing horse. Somebody legally supplied horse.

Who cares that horsemeat is legal in some places. If a company pays for something, they want that product. Not something else, even if it's legal.
jon357   
29 Jan 2013
News / Poland is the source of horsemeat in burgers? [169]

They do. So does everyone on the supply chain, right up to the end user. And the contamination started with the Polish company who tried to pass off petfood as a better product.

But hey, perhaps the Polish food industry doesn't care about whether or not the words 'Made in Poland' are attractive, neutral or offputting to shoppers. Right now, it's the last of those.
jon357   
28 Jan 2013
Language / When is speaking Polish showing off and when is it ok? [46]

the respective shop owner as well as the customer has the choice which language they wish to use:-)

And it depends if the shop keeper happens to be speaking Polish when you go up to the counter. If you're used to speaking it all day every day, you use it automatically.
jon357   
28 Jan 2013
Australia / Poles invaded the wrong Anglo-Saxon country [29]

(US$15.50) per hour

That isn't actually very much.

Mind you, Australia does have good state regulation about salaries for certain sectors.

After Canada and England that would make sense for you, although im sure it wont take 5 minutes before your biatching about them as well.

Spot on.
jon357   
28 Jan 2013
News / Man taken to court for abusing Poland's president [35]

degeneracy

Who decides what is

degeneracy

and what isn't?

vile behavior

There you go again. Strike a chord deep (or perhaps not as deep as you'd like) inside, does it?

as little as fifty years ago. People would have gone ballistic

As little as 50 years ago, your country was practising segregation, Spain was garotting people andRussia had gulags. But fortuanately 50 years ago was 50 years ago.

Today, it is almost considered normal.

It is normal and legal. In Poland, it's been legal for a lot longer than 50 years.