Work / Looking for accommodation & teaching job in KATOWICE [78]


I'm beginning to think that, to become a teacher of English in Poland, the main qualification required is not a CELTA, but poor grammar and spelling.

At least that's what I've gathered from the numerous "I want to teach English in Poland" posts on here :D

Love / 6 months with my Polish girlfriend and I still don't understand her.. [208]

We're two of comparatively few people on here who actually understand how Polish women are (due to lengthy experience), yet I'm the one who gets threatened with a suspension lol. Maybe I should just start asking dumb questions like "are all Polish women greedy gold-digging tramps", or trying to find out how I can get out of India and into Poland; in which case, I would have stayed "on-topic" and wouldn't risk threats from mods who can't do their jobs properly. To the OP: it will take you more than 6 months to understand, but that's the way they are. They are usually worth the effort though.

Love / 6 months with my Polish girlfriend and I still don't understand her.. [208]


That reply should receive criticism for sexism, but it's actually non-sexist and completely true if you actually understand what Seanus is really getting at.

Of all the women I've dated, the ones who have threatened to leave me are always the ones who panicked like crazy if I called their bluff and threatened to leave them. It's all a front - they can't bear to be without you, so they put on this "I don't need you, I'm so hot, so I can always get someone else if I want" act to get a response; the purpose of which, of course, is to make sure that you stay :)

News / Europeén Union will finance the 2nd Warsaw metro line. Good news. [60]


I don't know why he thinks that's a long way. It's nothing! Have you ever used Heathrow Terminal 1? I nearly missed a flight there once, and it was a five-minute run from security to the gate - not walk, but RUN - and that's after the half-mile walk from the tube station! Try that with the kind of luggage Australians always seem to have! lol.

The only way you will have everything within a few metres of a terminal is if you use an airport like Doncaster - but that's about the size of a McDonalds lol.


There's going to be a VERY large pile of snow at the back of that entrance lol!

News / Europeén Union will finance the 2nd Warsaw metro line. Good news. [60]

To be fair, that's the same as anywhere; you can't really expect them to build the terminal right next to the bag drop lol. Even HKIA isn't that efficient.

News / Europeén Union will finance the 2nd Warsaw metro line. Good news. [60]


It would become the Clapham Junction of Warsaw. It's already as depressing, it just needs to become as busy, lol :)

News / Europeén Union will finance the 2nd Warsaw metro line. Good news. [60]


heh! Missed that one! :) I think Poland is moving faster than I do these days, lol


everything, duh. lol

News / Europeén Union will finance the 2nd Warsaw metro line. Good news. [60]


Ahem...


We will never agree on anything, but this is spot on. It's a shame they can't (or won't) expand the rail line near the airport to actually serve the airport; an increasingly important city like this should consider this to be on its list of priorities. Even a tram link would be better. Manchester will soon have both, and it's not even a capital.


I think he means that there will still be a 500m walk to Centralna, which is a point.

News / Europeén Union will finance the 2nd Warsaw metro line. Good news. [60]

Indeed.

It would be interesting to find out exactly how much each nation's contribution is. Leeds had its planned tram system cancelled due to lack of funds (less than £1billion iirc), and Manchester's Metrolink has had its expansion delayed. I wonder how much of the money "saved" will actually correspond to the money spent on this new line.

That's not to say that Warsaw doesn't need it (it does), but it's becoming more and more clear that as the UK becomes poorer, Poland becomes "richer". Saying that "the EU pays" just hides who ultimately pays - other member states, who also don't really "pay" - it's actually their taxpayers who pay.

There's only one pie; if someone takes a bigger piece, someone else always gets a smaller one. Despite what banks and governments think, you just can't create another "pie" out of nothing ;)

UK, Ireland / Why do so many Polish guys in the UK have a crew cut or buzz cut? [106]


Thank you. The Greco-Turk clearly has no idea.


That shopping centre in Kingston is always full of these floppy-haired "emo" types. I doubt that many of them live on the Cambridge Gardens estate ;)


(looks in mirror) Oh dear... :D


I think there is definitely some truth in this.


hehe. Though I must add that my hair was always clean even when it was 18" long lol :)

UK, Ireland / Why do so many Polish guys in the UK have a crew cut or buzz cut? [106]

You still don't get it, do you.

As I said before, there are a lot of people in the techno party scene (which is VERY left-wing, even "anarchist") with very short/shaved hair; as many (if not more) as those with long hair/dreads. If a black or south Asian walks into a rock club, there will be comments like "what's a nigger/Paki doing liking metal", despite the fact that many people in those clubs have long hair, or are "alternative". Trust me on this - I've been involved in both scenes for decades. Many "outlaw" bikers also have long hair and/or beards - yet many have very right-wing views.

Things may be different in your part of the world, but I imagine that most people still have mullets over there anyway :p

It's just not as simple as "peace-loving, inclusive left-wing hippie = long hair" or "very short/shaved hair = right wing, racist and violent".


Good point. That south Asian "big hair" look is weird :) The latter is also spot-on.

UK, Ireland / Why do so many Polish guys in the UK have a crew cut or buzz cut? [106]

southern:


southern:


So which is it? :p

UK, Ireland / Why do so many Polish guys in the UK have a crew cut or buzz cut? [106]


The ironic thing is, those shaved heads, tight T-shirts and bomber jackets make them look just like someone off Old Compton Street.

You're probably the sort of uneducated burak **** who beats people up for looking like a Goth.


You've obviously never had anything to do with the techno party scene - which is full of shaven-headed guys (and even a few women lol) and is politically about as left-wing as you can get without joining the Communist party. Stick to making your Turkish kebabs.

UK, Ireland / Grateful Polish photographer stitches up his Welsh hosts [96]


Completely relevant. He took photos of the British at their worst, because he had an agenda. There's plenty of Polish lowlife (drunken or otherwise) as well. And similar people in every nation, in fact. I don't know why people can't accept that Poland's problems with alcohol aren't somehow "less bad" than Britain's. They may be noticed in different ways, but they can still be just as damaging. I don't know any English people with severe drink problems, yet I lost an uncle in Poland to alcohol. He didn't die of a "superior" form of alcoholism, that's for sure.

What's more, many people over here are fed up of this sort of behaviour, so it's not the behaviour of "all Britons". Coming from a Polish family and having grown up in England, I should be a bottle of vodka a day man; thankfully I'm not. Prefer Guinness anyway :)


Exactly. Not all homeless though. Trust me on this one - I heard the conversations ;)


I know one or two ;)

UK, Ireland / Grateful Polish photographer stitches up his Welsh hosts [96]


It's the smugness which really grates - that "our women aren't like this, so we're better than you" attitude.

Someone should remind him what blachary and tirówki are. Clue: they aren't English :)

UK, Ireland / Grateful Polish photographer stitches up his Welsh hosts [96]

Five years?? You could get as many drunken photos during the five-minute walk from Plac Defilad to Emilii Plater - in the daytime! lol

Work / Working Vs Private English Lessons Vs Starting a Small Business in Poland [33]


That's the problem though, isn't it. The most popular places are... well... already popular ;)

If he was, say, an Aussie, he would probably want to move to London for work. But he gets told that there's too much competition, so he would be better off moving to Bradford instead. Not much of a choice, is it? lol

Work / Working Vs Private English Lessons Vs Starting a Small Business in Poland [33]


A very important point.

I have spoken Polish all my life, as well as being able to read and write it (I've even got a GCSE lol). I also have family in Poland who could help me, and having spent a fair bit of time there, I also have an idea about how things "work" over there. Yet I still think it would be extremely difficult to make a business work over there, and I wouldn't really like to try. Optimism and commitment is to be admired, but Poland is still a long way from being an easy place to make money. Those who can, must either be extremely lucky, extremely dedicated, or just extremely well-connected.

Life / Could anyone tell me about any Polish bands that are/were popular. [17]

Some Polish death metal is great, but it's not really any good for learning pronunciation in any language lol

Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]



That's one of the worst. omg :)


Lol, the first time I saw this one I thought they meant something you use on a tin of beans lmao.

All this reminds me of a conversation I once had with my aunt in Warsaw. She was complaining about all the people around town who use all these English or English-style words like drinki/sorry/sandwicz/peelingi/casting etc all the time, and mentioned that she once tried to start a conversation in English with a particularly notable "offender", and of course they replied "sorry I don't understand" in Polish, lol.

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


There's no such thing any more. The EU banned it on "elfin safety" grounds, remember?


One of those people who object to the "re-whitening" of the UK, obviously ;)

Love / Why Poland and Indian Sub-Continent? [30]


You'll be calling his "Busha" a w***e in a minute, won't you?

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


Duh... I meant "South Asian women", typing too fast again lol.


Does it have any roots in reality, though? Is there likely to be somewhere (or someone) in Ireland who really does end every sentence with "to be sure", etc?

Like I mentioned to isthatu2 a while back, about someone I met from Doncaster who I thought had a hilarious "stereotypical" Yorkshire accent, but it turned out that some older people really do speak like that :)

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


We won't bomb your buses, fill your language with Grypsera (criminal slang), and we don't think we're "ghetto" if we live in poor areas. We don't do poppy-burning either ;)


I must have met tens of thousands of Irish people over the years, but I've still never heard anyone who speaks like that. I haven't heard anyone on TV laughing at the "Polish" way of speaking - missing out indefinite articles, mispronouncing the letter "w", etc., but I'm sure it will happen soon.

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


Fastest-growing, maybe; but from a much smaller initial number than the groups mentioned above. There were only 1/4 million of us before 2004 (which includes those of us born here, like me) and it took over 60 years to reach than number. We were here before mass immigration from the Indian sub-continent, yet look at how many people there are in the UK who descend from that region. Yet those "mass births" are never criticised by the media. So it appears to be OK to be racist to white immigrants.

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

Just like on PF, Poles are seen as an easy target yet again.

I'm surprised that no-one has noticed what is the real agenda here.

If, for example, they had written "6 babies born to Somalian women in the UK every day" or "9 babies born to Trinidadian women in the UK every day", it wouldn't have been newsworthy. But if they had written "170 babies born to Afro-Caribbean women in the UK every day" or "275 babies born to Somalian women in the UK every day", and implied that this was a bad thing, you would have been deafened by the screams of "rascism" (sic) from the usual suspects.

I do not know the exact figures, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that the figures for the aforementioned groups are indeed significantly higher than the figures for Polish births. So, yet again, it's OK to demonise Poles for the problems caused by immigration, simply because the media dare not criticise Blacks or Asians. Yet the reality is that Poles only represent a small part of the total number of immigrants.

We're not even a particularly visible minority. Few British people can't really tell who is Polish just by looking at them (unlike us, lol) - give a British person some earplugs, dump them in the Trafford Centre, and see how many Poles they can spot. OK, when you can hear the so-called "east European" accent, and you see a bleached-blonde girl in market clothes (or a shaven-headed guy with a backpack and camo pants) standing outside a Polish shop or venue, then you would probably right. But elsewhere? When they are in isolation and/or mixed with other white people; especially if they aren't dressed in that "Polish" way? Most would find it difficult to spot us.

The media hates Poles because they know they can get away with it. If Giles Coren had written what he wrote about about Poles, but had written it about "Pakis" instead, he would have been jailed.


I'm clearly flying with the wrong airlines. I never get any when I fly with Qatar Airways lol :D

News / Lithuanian reality show - lost Polish sponsorship, criticized by Lithuanian Army [20]

What's with all the Lithuanian threads all of a sudden?

It's bad enough having to read all the "Balkan" garbage on here! What's wrong with Polish threads?

Never had anything against them myself. I even dated one for a while, which probably makes me a "traitor" on here, but I can live with that; I'm the one who got some and you... didn't. lol

Love / Good looking Polish women with ugly men [416]

Threads like this always make me PMSL.

I've probably spent more time in relationships with Polish women than the average PF poster could ever imagine, yet I would never claim to understand what a Polish woman (or, indeed, any woman) "sees in a man".

Why would I? I'm a guy who is interested in women, so why would I know? If it really was about having film-star looks, being rich or incredibly cool, then I would stand no chance. Yet Polish women think I'm great! haha. And most of my girlfiends have been hot, especially recently. Which makes no sense - I should have finished with the hotties when I was in my early 20s, but now that I'm old and wrinkly, I just get sexy MILFs. What's that all about then??? lol

So just what is it about the typical Polish woman-obsessed PF poster which makes them so expert on "what women want"? If what some people on here say was true, then I would be a sad, permanently single virgin. (OK so I am a bit sad I suppose, but that's another story altogether haha).

Yet I'm nothing like that. I'm clearly just the Mr Average who gets hot women. Usually when I wasn't even trying. lol. Why is this? Well, I really have no idea. If I did, I would be rich! Which (allegedly) would get me even more of the aforementioned over-30 ladies. lmao :D

Travel / Would I have to worry about organ thieves when traveling into Poland alone? [36]

It must be true, it was in an episode of "Kryminalni".

But don't worry, you'll never get as far as having your organs stolen. They'll just gas you on the train.

;)

Travel / Is panhandling a common sight in Poland? [24]


Closer to $8.00 a gallon here (£1.33 a litre) :(