Off-Topic / Loading a photo of Poland from your mobile/cell phone takes 30 seconds, come on! [86]


I also have one of them, the screen keeps turning blue but nothing an auld whack doesn't sort out.
suffice to say, I don't watch it much.


OMG, how do you survive? there are helplines.

It's feckin hillarious talking to younger people these days,


I've Three Electron guns, no sheet, although one or two are acting up...

USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]


:)

You can have anything you want so long as it's borsch or fish with dill.

And while you were eating your fish dill and looking at the picture of the nice food, could you pretend you were eating something else? hahaha

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


Is that really possible?
I never heard of someone's brother being able to get social welfare because of the sister.


That's messed up.

What do you suggest?

It sounds like the dole is too easy to get but then you have people who are truly in need.

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


I don't know anything about the British welfare system but can a Polish person just go to England and start claiming?
Do they not have to work and collect stamps (or something) first, showing they made a contribution?

USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]


I have come across people, where I live, who don't come to terms with paying 5000zl for 100 M2 in the centre (lots of pedestrian traffic) and paying 2000zl for a 100 M2 out where there is no pedestrian traffic actually means that the 2000zl shop can actually be much more expensive than the 5000zl place because you can subtract the rent from your earnings.


I actually have many stories about this, the latest went something like this recently in a restaurant in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Me: "Hello, I'm in a hurry, could I have something quick like a soup?"

Waitress: "Mushroom soup?"

Me: "Yes, that would be fine, thinks."

Waitress: "We don't have any mushroom soup"...

I cracked up laughing and left.

Here in Poland too,
I find what I want to buy in a shop only to be told it is not for sale "for display only"...
I order a coffee (nescafe instant) in a fairly empty place with lots of staff across the road from a super market. Half an hour later a friend joins me and asks for a coffee only to be told that I drank the last one. Blaming me :)

I can't think of any more but there are many such examples, it appears that some people think the parameters of their job is not to restock or make the business money but just to do only what they have been instructed to do.

Ah, one more from Lithuania, I went to buy a glass shower curtain, they didn't have any in stock so I found one in a catalog, they said it would take two months to get.

So I went to their desk to pay and I was asked for my passport, I asked why they would need that? they said it was standard procedure. I told them I didn't have my passport and wasn't going to go home and get it. The sales guy, excused himself and went off for a meeting with his boss (no judgment calls allowed). after some time he was happy to tell me that because I am a foreigner, they would make an exception for me. Four months later my shower curtain came...


Are the sexes treated differently here than in Canada?

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


Can't defend your argument so attack the person, will you ever grow up.

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


Yes and the whole mortgage crisis.


The bankers and politicians are Irish, are you totally devoid of common sense?
If they were Polish during the catastrophe, you'd have a point but you just go on and on like a broken record, looking the other way while Ireland is crippled because of Irish people. It's really no wonder the Irish bankers and politicians get away with it because of fools like you looking for an external enemy to blame, it's a pity and real pity.

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


It's pointless talking to you, you just make up stuff in that wee head of yours.

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


No I didn't, you go back and look, look well.
The fact that you even mention this means you already looked and couldn't find anything that helps.


Correction, the Irish bankers and Irish politicians are part of what makes up the Irish people.
At least you finally listen, pity that it's far far too late.

The dole is a drop in the ocean against what Irish people have done, selliing off the national resources, no future, congratulations on looking the wrong way.

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]


You are talking codswallop, you're not even addressing what I said about the topic, just what I said about you, that much has changed.


No, there would be an inquire, we do have a criminal justice system to protect the innocent, even the very very innocent.

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


I never said that, I said that Irish people are to blame for Ireland's catastrophic economic crisis.
It really is pointless talking to you at all, you just make up stuff in that head of yours.

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


Are you that stupid that you really never understood what I wrote?

It just goes to show how pointless it is even trying to talk with you, I see you are studying Simon Mol now, get a life.


Yes, Ireland is bankrupt and it was the Irish citizens who did it, cop on would ya.

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]


You seem like you just post stuff at this stage, you used to be a better poster.

That is not what I was talking about, tonight is a good example, in the men's changing room of the swimming pool, two women were clearing the water from the floor.

They are not perverts, I think.

I think what changes a country is the "no win, no fee" suing culture, cups of coffee with "contents may be hot" on them, sexual harassment law suits.

Of course priest having been caught molesting children has taken many people's innocence away.

It will change and not because of your silly notion of Catholicism but because there are bad people in the world who do molest children and some of them are Catholic priests or are you going to say that that only happens in the "West"?

News / Children licking cream off a Polish priest's legs "inappropriate" says NGO [116]

Looks like a bad joke gone wrong to me.

Poland is very very innocent in many ways, of course people of position can do wicked things and get away with it because of this but this just looks like people doing stupid things to me.

Funny how none of the people involved, or their parents see anything wrong but on PF it's a perverted act, we simply do not know enough to draw such conclusions.

Life / Do Poles drink before noon? [95]


I was referring to the communist times.


Coffee houses offer people a sober place to meet.

Life / Do Poles drink before noon? [95]


My guess is the fall of communism.

I know people who are teetotalers because it was their form of passive-resistance against the powers that were.
Keep you drunk enough and you can't organize yourselves into groups to change the course of history.

Also, I think, the whole 100% employment thing must have left people seeing no need to better themselves.
Now you can move up a property ladder, form your own company, travel abroad, speak your mind etc...

And the introduction of coffee houses.

I left that bit out of my post.

UK, Ireland / British - Stupidest nation in Europe [127]

If you want something done right, do it yourself*
youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E9dCwwzXC4I

Don't make me post the one about U.S. citizens or I will get really upset and may pout for days.

UK, Ireland / British - Stupidest nation in Europe [127]

We're already 27 posts in and nobody has posted the youtube video of random Brits being asked question they can't answer, which is quickly to be followed by the Australian comedy that does the same thing in the U.S.A, in retaliation.

You're slipping PF, I expect more of the same, much more. It's like you all have no memory and post the same posts and topics over and over, so much so that Admin had to make an archive just so people who don't know PF and stumble upon it don't know that it has all been pretty much said before.

You are all really letting the side down by not posting the obvious replies.

It is my estimate, by the year 2020, a PF thread will be no more than this: entitled "More of the same" and the first post will read "YES! libcommie" and the next will read "NO! r-wing Nazi" and the last will read "Some r some rn't" and it will be as much effort as anyone needs make.

UK, Ireland / British - Stupidest nation in Europe [127]


You'd be surprised, as was I, how many people in London don't know about the geopolitical state of Ireland and the six counties, never mind the rest of the world.

UK, Ireland / British - Stupidest nation in Europe [127]


That's easy, Tescos obviously.

I wouldn't call Brits stupid but I was amazed in London how bad people's geography was.


the article in the first post says something like - "said the "Daily Mail" newspaper" but I know not who did this "study", it sounds like they asked ten year olds.

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


How many of those things did you do? Don't worry I know the answer.

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


Lack of health care, quality education, access to nutritious food, clean drinking water, proper housing, computers and other modern technologies.

What's the point in me posting it's not as if you're going to listen to any sense.

Travel / Bored foreigner in Warsaw, any advice? [13]

Lets find out where you are from, football or hand egg?

Travel / Bored foreigner in Warsaw, any advice? [13]

What are your interests? that'll give us a better idea on how we can help.

I want to see the copernicus science museum but I hear of terrible ques,any one know anything about that and how to avoid them?

ah, wait 18 years old... :-D

Genealogy / Poles born under Russian control - are we Russian? [29]

Did WR marry his Russian princess?

Genealogy / Poles born under Russian control - are we Russian? [29]


If you go back long enough we are all every nation, we all share the same genes.

There were 3 partitions of Poland (I think that is what you are talking about?).
Doesn't make Polish people Russia citizens.
You could also be talking about the Soviet Union, were it is my understanding that Poland was a Russian puppet state but that is arguable.

You have another thread about Russians raping Polish women, it did happen to some but there were and are still Polish/Russian consenting marriages.

If you are more specific, we can answer your question better.

History / What do nations of the world owe to Poland and Polish people? [58]


Pawian is a great guy because I agree with him on almost nothing :)

Feedback / Polish Forums Android / iPhone app? [14]


I get the feeling by the time I finish this sentence there will be a newer version.


I understand that as My "orical of delphi" phone needs a "high preistess gibbering" sales man to get the "priests of the temple " the phone guys to interpret what is wrong with me, after all the phone works perfectly, it's me who needs the upgrade.


So Mosses and God had it right the first time, I see.
Thanks!

Feedback / Polish Forums Android / iPhone app? [14]


Sam Sung my song too (cool phone), but in the "settings" menu there is no "view" option.

I got: page content settings, privacy settings,security settings,advanced settings (which is just about the search engine).

Samsung galaxy S2

History / What do nations of the world owe to Poland and Polish people? [58]


Pawian misses the U.S.S.R..
It's understandable, he's drinking whiskey instead of soviet wodka.


A nice cuppa barry's tea with milk.