History / A little reminder for those Brits that ***** about Poles [143]

So, Britain is getting their arse kicked across Germany, North Africa and Asia, and they are to be blamed for not wanting to upset their most powerful ally in Europe.

Some historians believe that the Western front in WW1 would have been lost if Germany hadn't taken troops away to fight the Russians in the Mazurian lakes. Following Russia's withdrawal from WW1 it was only the arrival of the Americans which saved Britain and France. Of course, this would never have influenced any decisions 25 years on...


is that Irving's website? The guy who opens one of his books by saying the Polish cavalry attacked gGrman tanks because they thought they were made of cardboard.

Funny how all it takes to change his mind about the Holocaust is a spell in an Austrian jail. maybe we should put him in a Spanish one and he'll say the Spanish killed Sikorski to get Poland to free Gibraltar.

History / A little reminder for those Brits that ***** about Poles [143]

And Bonnie Prince Charlie was the great-great grandson of jan Sobieski 3rd... so does that mean Poland invaded Britain to fight the Germans?

History / A little reminder for those Brits that ***** about Poles [143]


Shucks, you'll be telling me Saddam had no WMD's next!

History / A little reminder for those Brits that ***** about Poles [143]


and how many colonies did Britain have in Europe at that time (not including the 6 Counties!). If Britain hadn't entered the war on Poland's behalf, is there any evidence that germany would have taken their colonies? there was more threat from Japan on that score.

History / A little reminder for those Brits that ***** about Poles [143]

They believed we entered the war for that reason. Anyway, what about "For your freedom and ours"?

History / A little reminder for those Brits that ***** about Poles [143]


The comment was not aimed at you.


Hmmm, considering Britain was almost obliterated by the Luftwaffe can you imagine how far any attempt to send military aid would have got? Maybe they should have just sailed it in through Gdansk...

History / A little reminder for those Brits that ***** about Poles [143]


You scummy litle turd!

How many thousands of British and Empire troops died attempting to honour a treaty with Poland? How many British civilians died in bombing raids on British cities because Britain entered a war which neither they nor Germany wanted?

Germany never thought Britain would make a stand on behalf of Poland and didn't want to go to war with Britain.

My mother lost family in that war and my father's brother and father were fighting in that war... for what? To be called "traitors" by someone who'd probably have been sucking Stalin's haemmorhoids of he'd been around at the time.

Good people fought and died in that war, good people who could have made a decent contribution to life if the bloody politicians had got it right. Good people who fought (and died) side by side with brave Polish service personell. Don't you dare, you whiny, turd sucking piece of scum, call those fallen and their families "traitors"!

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]


Some people say the same about The Olympics. Not sure I'd agree, considering how much road building and renovation has finally taken place in Poland due to Euro (can't stabd soccer myself, tho!)


lesbians? Please provide links......

Language / New Dialects in Western and Northern Poland [24]

Yes, just as boletus mentions


The lad in question does a lot with Mr Cyfus. I didn't realise Dorotowo was geographical centre (it's just outside of Olsztyn for those who don't know it).

Language / New Dialects in Western and Northern Poland [24]

There are still a few older people around Olsztyn who speak Warmian. I even know a young guy who has studied and speaks it rather fluently.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


Apparently the reason why French food has more sauces than British food is that some time ago the raw ingredients in Britain were a much higher quality and the food was so good it didn't need sauces to mask the taste. When the vogue for French food infected the aristocracy, the sauces appeared.

Polish cheese... do you mean the pseudo dutch stuff?

Language / Etymology of Dupa [11]


According to the Scots dictionary I was browsing, it's also possible to say "doop". Probably a regional variation.

Although, funnily, as a verb, doup can also mean to bend or to stab. So he douped and his friend douped his doup.

I was wondering if it had come from the latin/french for "dup" referring to "two" (or something like that).

However, the above post has answered that one.

Thanks everyone.

News / Amnesty to Illegal immigrants in Poland [102]

What does this amnesty mean? Does it allow Polish citizenship... therefore the right to travel to UK?

Life / Ideas for constructive Immigration methods for Poland. [30]


Funny, I heard they had a lot of filipino migrant workers.

UK, Ireland / Feedback needed from Poles confused about English [12]

articles the/a/an, because most Slavonic languages don't have them.

Language / a linguistic explanation for Polish parking. [14]


I hear in Paris they park without a handbrake so the other cars can nudge them along if they need more space.

Not sure how it works sideways.

Language / a linguistic explanation for Polish parking. [14]

lol, makes sense.

Work / Native Speakers increasingly desperate? Polish and African teacher forcing down wages.. [27]

It's not so much the Polish teachers are driving the wages down, more a case that there are a lot of teachers, less students and schools can force the wages down.

The school I work for refuses to drop wages, but it has also had to lay off a few teachers or give less hours all round.


I think there was also a change in the way language teachers were trained, a couple of years ago. As I understand it, anyone taking teacher training as a language teacher also had to undergo at least a year or two at university level (Might have just been a local thing), so the days of a history teacher with a FCE being an EL teacher are fading.

Language / a linguistic explanation for Polish parking. [14]


Even in free parking spaces?

Life / Expats/Immigrants in Poland: Needy, Greedy or contributor. Which one are you? [118]


Well, hmmm, I'm not sure here. I never owned a company in Britain, never supplied jobs etc but I worked and paid taxes... does that make a non-contributor in my own country? In Poland I am a one-man firm because the majority of employers in the ELT industry don't want to pay my ZUS etc for me. Unlike many Polish migrant-workers in UK, I am not sending my wages home, so I imagine my taxes in Poland are helping towards paying for the limitless posters for elections, and the paperwork to prevent my local roads being repaired.

Needy? Well, my Polish aint great, although I can survive OK when I need to. Likewise, the amount of people who either insist on trying to speak English to me (either they find my Polish painful or they want to practice/show off, or are just being friendly) or express gratitude for having a non-Polish speaking teacher (so they HAVE to use English) suggests there is a number of people who don't mind my linguistic disability.

True, the other half is Polish and one of the reasons for me moving here was that when we married she would have found it a lot harder to move to UK (the British embassy once told me not to tell the border officals that she was my fiance in case they thought we would marry in UK to get her residency!). I got a job which has served me well and which I've been able to develop in, whereas she would probably have ended up as a waitress, rather than the job she holds now... as director of a very successful Culture House, which is recognised nationally... and where I occasionally assist with projects etc.

I suppose my work with village schools and Special Needs groups might class as a contribution, although some of it is paid... Not sure about my theatre and music concerts, cultural activites etc

Ex-pat holes? Avoid like the plague (although I don't know if there are any where I am)

UK, Ireland / 50 babies a day born to Polish mothers in UK [81]

Ah, it's a catholic plot to repopulate the world with catholics... they've seized the Church of England already!

News / 4th Polish Republic may re-emerge [244]


Exactly, and during one of the debates with Tusk, when the matter of PiS using the police against political adversaries, Kaczyński joked about having the surveillance on Samoobrona from before they went into coalition with them. Tusk didn't pick up on it but he might have asked why, if K felt that way about them, was a PiS government prepared to allow people they thought were crooks into government and into positions of major power.

News / 4th Polish Republic may re-emerge [244]


I thought they just created coalition governments with them.

News / Are Polish newspapers causing problems for Rom? [35]

Teffle

Aha, must be those pikeys hijacking my thread and locking it in a dog kennel ;-)

No probs, it's been interesting (just surprised the mods didn't close it)... any news on the Polish guys who were freed?

News / Are Polish newspapers causing problems for Rom? [35]


Not all of them. I've met some who still travel during summer seasons etc. Don't forget there are also Welsh and Scottish Gypsies/Rom. There used to be a number of settlements along the border, particularly on the Scottish side, because of the anti-Gypsy laws in past centuries.

News / Are Polish newspapers causing problems for Rom? [35]

But in Poland there are only Rom/Gypsies (and other tribes/clans).

My point is that 2 newspapers refer to "Romów", which implies Rom, rather than anything else.

Still, maybe I'm just being way too sensitive to the matter.

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

Just tried Żubr ciemnozłoty. Not bad at all.

News / Are Polish newspapers causing problems for Rom? [35]


Yeah, but it's also because they aren't Gypsy/Rom.

Yeah, I'd heard the term 'knacker' in Ireland and a mate of mine was doing anthropology research amongst them in Northern Ireland and he explained the term 'pavee'. Also said that they didn't like it when non-pavee used it, apparently.

Pikey: apparently an old term... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikey