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JonnyM   
4 Mar 2012
Work / English native speaker without a teaching experience moved to Poland and got a job [66]

Attack me all you want- what I say is true. Blokersi is a way of thinking- just because somebody has made a success for themselves doesn't change their way of thinking.

Very much so. If anything, success reinforces someone's way of thinking.

Actually it isn't. However, Warsaw is full of the snobbiest most obnoxious people who think the world revolves around them because they have money.

Yes, though the richest people often keep quiet about it. The ones flashing their money around on ul. Senatorska etc are the same tacky people you get everywhere from the Rhine to the Volga.

We work hard for our money- and most importantly we don't flaunt it- I am already a target because I am foreign.

Same here - yet people sometimes assume you have a hidden advantage if you come from somewhere else.
JonnyM   
4 Mar 2012
Work / BEWARE of K&S Krakowska Szkoła Języków Obcych!! [41]

Happens all the time.

The nurses in Lodz who weren't paid for months are a good an example as any. However they were in a very different situation to EFL teachers.

What puzzles me about this thread is that if it's true, why is anyone still working there?
JonnyM   
4 Mar 2012
News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]

My interpretation of the term is irrelevant.

Indeed it is

the outlandish "multiculturalism always enriches" claim

Not outlandish at all.

Now, once again, can you back that claim up using your interpretation of multiculturalism?

Better still, can you deny that multiculturalism always enriches.

Remembering of course that the thread is about Poland rather than your racial prejudice ;-)
JonnyM   
4 Mar 2012
News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]

If multiculturalism is so great, why do the natives always leave a particular area when sufficient amount of foreigners move in(white flight)?

So again, you're deliberately fudging the issue to reflect your prejudices.
JonnyM   
4 Mar 2012
News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

polish railway never release final conclusion of causes or even compensations for family

The only true part of that is that most accidents are caused by human error. Train accidents can and do happen anywhere and Poland doesn't have a particularly bad record in this respect.

I understand that one of the trains was on the wrong track which suggests the fault was with the signalling.

there was no head on collision - that one of the trains derailed before the collision is obvious from what they are showing

Here's the latest report in English.

Two trains have collided head-on in southern Poland, killing a reported 15 people and injuring at least 54, officials have said.

Both trains had been travelling on the same track towards each other and collided head-on, Andrzej Pawlowski, a member of the board of the state railway company PKP

guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/04/poland-train-crash-dead-injured

More and more it looks like a signalling issue.
JonnyM   
4 Mar 2012
News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]

Give me an agreed upon definition of "multiculturalism" and I can answer that.

You could do a quick internet search.

The key thing here is that multiculturalism isn't the same as immigration by a long chalk.
JonnyM   
4 Mar 2012
News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]

you simply have to find one example in which multiculturalism has worsened a relationship, neighborhood, community or nation.

Now you wouldn't be confusing multiculturalism with anything else, would you...
JonnyM   
4 Mar 2012
Life / Miss Polonia 2012 [15]

If she wins, she can clean up from sponsoring.
JonnyM   
3 Mar 2012
Language / Perfective vs Imperfective - grammar [150]

Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong here please? I have 2 perfectives and only one imperfective.

The perfective/imperfective rules don't really fit verbs of motion - the grammar is different.
JonnyM   
2 Mar 2012
Travel / Money Exchange Offices with good prices in Poland? [13]

Just take it out the ATM as this works out cheaper,

Usually it doesn't. Though it pays to choose a good kantor.

One trap is when cash machines offer to pay out either at (your bank's) market rate or a fixed rate. Never choose the fixed rate, it is a scam.
JonnyM   
2 Mar 2012
News / What is the population of Poland's non-european minority? [142]

Poland definitely needs more multiculturalism from non-European nations.

Multiculturalism always enriches and Poland has a long history of it - the current cultural homogeneity is a recent thing.
JonnyM   
2 Mar 2012
Language / Need Advice On Polish-English language barrier (my Polish boyfriend and his family) [59]

Never heard of it, and I live in what you call Poland B.

It's unusual nowadays but can still occasionally happen. If you actually are giving all the change as a tip it would be clear though from the tone of voice and hand gesture. Some tourist trap restaurants in Warsaw used to be notorious for this.