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JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
Food / How toxic is industrial salt? (some food factories in Poland used it for sausages) [49]

If law was broken then guilty should be punished.

That's what the thread is about. And whether or not the government will be transparent about it due to the sensitivity of exports.

I merely saying that it's a silly to panic knowing how polluted environment is and how many artificial additives, which might be proved in future to be harmful, we eat.

We should take great care about what is added to processed foods, none of which are good for you in the first place.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]

Happened to a couple I knew from Iran. They came to Britain (where they'd studied medicine) as a real emergency with days to go before being arrested back home. No time to apply for a visa though they'd certainly have got one if they had. They were well-to-do people with funds outside Iran, and they rented a big house in a decent area and put their kids in private school. They weren't by any means a drain on the state - if anything the reverse.

As asylum seekers though they weren't allowed to work - even on a voluntary basis. They offered to work at the local hospital for free, to keep their professional skills up-to-date and as a way of saying thank you. But no, they had to sit at home instead for two years waiting for their (successful) application to be processed.

Ever get the impression that his in-depth knowledge of benefit scams and the dole could be based on personal experience with him?

Something tells me he's closer to all that than many on here.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
Food / How toxic is industrial salt? (some food factories in Poland used it for sausages) [49]

All salt is poisonous, as is pretty well anything in a large enough quantity. Processed food contains plenty of salt - also refined sugar. Especially so in Poland to reflect consumer tastes. Wędliny especially contains lots of salt and also saltpetre (Postassium Nitrate). Small quantities aren't necessarily harmful however over time neither salt nor saltpetre are especially good for you.

Industrial salt however has several definitions - 'salts' might be a better word than 'salt'. It is these other substances (which vary according to the type of industrial salts used) that are the problem. All are dangerous in their own way. If it is pure salt (as Polsyr says, without iodine) there is no problem. If the salts however contain things unsuitable for food use it is a whole different matter.

The industrial salts thing might be a fuss over nothing, however it needs to be investigated immediately, products from the affected factories need to be taken of the market, the investigations need to be transparent and this could lead to huge international lawsuits.

This is particularly worrying since Poland is a major exporter of processed foods.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
Food / Cooking Polish kiszka [99]

Admittedly a nip of 50% wódka is highly recommended to promote digestion.

Never a bad thing.

Worth mentioning that it's always a good idea to wash any kind of kielbasa before eating.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
Food / Cooking Polish kiszka [99]

but it can be eaten just as it comes

If your American kiszka is anything like our Polish kaszanka, that would be a very bad idea. Even worse to eat Polish kiszka uncooked.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
Genealogy / My dad's last name was Polak - Do I look in any way Polish? [57]

Polak is not a Polish last name. It means Polish man in Polish. Pollack is a fish.

The second and third statements are right, but the first isn't. I've met a few people here in Poland whose surname is Polak.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / WHAT IS IT ABOUT POLISH PEOPLE THAT MAKES THEM THINK THAT UK WANTS THEM? [309]

maybe you are all stupid and lack a vocabulary in which case you will all more than likely be employed as you pose absolutely no threat to your masters.

Or maybe in fact some of us posting in this thread are highly intelligent and highly paid professional people with marketable skills or a business of their own. Or both...

I'm waiting for some Polish people to agree with me that the UK must get out of Europe. Will I be waiting until I breathe no more?

Possibly, though if you had a look at some of the other threads here you'd find there are quite disparate views on EU membership within Poland.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / Increasingly more Polish children born and educated in UK can't write/read! [51]

I always thought that learning of the spelling in English language countries goes like that:
A teacher is showing a cardboard with the spelling of a word. Kids, this a word "you". Kids repeat. Then this is a word "apple". Kids repeat. Pure rote learning.

No. That system doesn't work. There are several approaches, among the most controversial being phonics. Many children (usually those from educated families) can already read to an extent when they start school at 5.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
History / Poland did reasonably well in land terms out of the postwar settlement [270]

The German Danzig ceased to exist because all its inhabitants left for Germany or were killed during or shortly after the war.

There are still quite a few people of German descent in Gdansk, especially around Wrzeszcz, as well as Poles from the area who have some German heritage.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / Increasingly more Polish children born and educated in UK can't write/read! [51]

Btw. I've always wondered if the early start of education in English language countries is forced by the complicated spelling rules?

No. It starts early because that is the most effective system and educationally the best practice.

kids have many memory work to do... learn the spellling of all words of their language. Is that the case?

Not at all. Language doesn't work that way.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / WHAT IS IT ABOUT POLISH PEOPLE THAT MAKES THEM THINK THAT UK WANTS THEM? [309]

Dude, I guarantee you, if you spent HALF as much time looking for a job as you do crying about it, you'd probably be CEO of something other than Sad Sack Inc.

+1

It's obviously easier for the guy to sit at home on the internet blaming the people who got the jobs instead of him than to go out and get work.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
Food / Cooking Polish kiszka [99]

Kaszanka is most certainly not for eating raw 'like any cold cut'. It must be cooked first and can only then be eaten cold.

Kiszka (as made and eaten here in Poland) and kaszanka are very different things by the way.
JonnyM   
26 Feb 2012
Food / Cooking Polish kiszka [99]

I've never heard of raw.Try frying it with chopped apples
JonnyM   
26 Feb 2012
History / Lech Kaczynski - was he a good leader? [88]

but respect for people who are not longer alive hence are judged by the highest tribunal.

No no no. If there is a 'highest tribunal', it/He judges us on what we do when we're alive. Being no longer alive in no way confers respect.

JK is a God-fearing, red-blooded man, and his love of pusssies should be ample evedence of that.

One day, I'll tell the whole story. It's a sad but general fact that people who are pestering you in the bushes at Błota tend look like JK rather than Ronaldo, and a young (and devastatingly handsome) foreigner might easily remember if he's told that the most bothersome pest is a former child actor whose twin brother wants to run for mayor. I wonder what he gets up to now he's much more recognisable.

I reckon most of them if they actually knew anything about him would run a mile - especially once they discovered just how socialist his views are.

Indeed.
JonnyM   
25 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / WHAT IS IT ABOUT POLISH PEOPLE THAT MAKES THEM THINK THAT UK WANTS THEM? [309]

What ever you say Blair removed, he was the leader of the socialist party born of the trade union movement after WW2. I will repeat that...he was the leader of the recognized socialist party of the UK and he poisoned the country. Your right though, he was never a socialist.

In his youth he was, however the party stopped describing themselves as socialist before he stood for election as prime-minister. If people wanted socialism they had ample chance during the previous 17 years to vote for Old Labour.

They are different to Brits and Aussies

Brits and Aussies are different too.

You will get Poles with MBA's willing to lick their floors clean but they are only biding their time until their families arrive and they will turn suburbs into ghettoes.

Somehow I doubt that.
JonnyM   
25 Feb 2012
History / Lech Kaczynski - was he a good leader? [88]

Don't better ask me.

Exactly the same, not one iota more or less than someone did when they were still living and breathibg - after all we judge someone by what they do/did rather than the fact that they are no longer doing it. Lenin for example was a foul individual - should we respect him more now that he's on a slab being gawped at by tourists?
JonnyM   
25 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / WHAT IS IT ABOUT POLISH PEOPLE THAT MAKES THEM THINK THAT UK WANTS THEM? [309]

Blair masquerading as a socialist

Actually it was Tony Blair who removed Clause Four from the party's constitution and didn't ever use the word 'socialist' abut himself while he was party leader. But don't let facts get in the way of your emotions.

There were 2 million Poles alone here at one stage. Believe me.

I don't. There were never 2 million Poles in the UK.

Becuse they have over 200,000 Polish people there :D

Great answer, but being a cultural melting pot with great weather, a high level of personal freedom, relatively high wages in relation to real estate prices has a lot to do with it. Nothing to do with 'oxon's premise that he is hinting at...