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szczecinianin   
15 Oct 2013
News / Lech Walesa vs Immigration: Brits humiliated him at London Heathrow Airport [105]

well, if its not about British tourism then Poland`s loyalty to NATO has been compromised.

It's the most significant event in 21st century history. We can soon expect an announcement that Poland will leave the EU, join the CIS and help Serbia to retake Kosovo. And all because of a customs official.
szczecinianin   
12 Oct 2013
UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

Youre misrepresening my point to make it easier to attack in a biased manner.

No, I am not. You claimed that 'the programme itself' is 'wrong', when it clearly is not.

Pink flamingos lay green eggs. Did you expect me to write that?

Out of courtesy, I won't write what your posting skills are.
szczecinianin   
12 Oct 2013
UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

szczecinianin:
you are stating that the video is irrelevant

Thats not what i said

Was.

whether any body watched the entire video or not is largely irrelivant

szczecinianin:
You can only see that the media is doing the latter by watching the programme itself.

That doesnt make sense

Obviously, we only know whether anyone is being quoted out of context by looking at the context. I'm sorry if you find this concept difficult to grasp.
szczecinianin   
12 Oct 2013
UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

On the one hand, you are stating that the video is irrelevant, on the other hand you are accusing the media of 'nit-picking' and 'not letting the truth get in the way of a good story'. You can only see that the media is doing the latter by watching the programme itself.

szczecinianin:
Sol Campbell's statement only makes sense in the context of the documentary.

perhaps, problem is though only about 2% would have actually seen that, so as i said the damage was done.

The criticism of Sol Campbell was unfair. He was quoted out of context.

What I wrote was reasonable. It is 'strange' to see someone who describes themselves as 'anti-fascist' sharing the same opinion as a racist poster.
szczecinianin   
12 Oct 2013
UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

I lost a significant amount of respect for BBC after that circus before the Euro Tournament. Didn't Sol warn about returning from Poland/Ukraine in a coffin?

Odd to see yourself and 'anti- fascist' Barney sharing the same viewpoint here.

Consider this a warning. Stop baiting other posters please.
szczecinianin   
11 Oct 2013
UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

Is there any chance of you picking one username and sticking to it?
Rant away, there Is nothing more any reasonable person can add that will progress this pointless exchange

The site won't let me post under I.B..

I'm not ranting, by the way. I am simply stating that you have made a series of statements you can find no evidence for. What makes this exchange 'pointless' is your consistently making untrue statements, and not my pointing out that the statements you are making are untrue.
szczecinianin   
11 Oct 2013
UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

No, he was talking about Euro 2012, not the countries generally. Most likely you have not watched the documentary.

It was broadcast just before the Euros began and claimed to tell the truth of what people visiting Poland and Ukraine could expect.
That was not true as we now know

How do we know it was not true? Very few ethnic minorities travelled.

his opinion was given prominence by the BBC which added weight to his words. Now when he claims that Britain is racist his opinion has suddenly become meaningless

Strawman argument. Who, other than yourself, is claiming it is 'meaningless'?

So we are left with a situation where the program contained material from someone the BBC effectively said was unreliable yet you still think that it painted a realistic picture, I find that particularly odd.

Who, Sol Campbell? But isn't it the BBC itself who have broadcast Campbell's opinion that 'Britain is racist'?

Anyone reasonable would watch a programme before coming to sweeping conclusions about the content of the programme.
szczecinianin   
4 Oct 2013
UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

This broadcast was a disgrace painting Polish people as racist, how it came to be broadcast is a mystery to me.

It didn't 'paint the Polish people as racist', only some of their football fans. Which, of course, they are.
szczecinianin   
4 Oct 2013
UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

Yes I have and I have to say that Paulina is correct in her opinion of it.
The show was biased

But you can't point to any inaccuracies it it. As a matter of fact, you haven't even tried.
szczecinianin   
4 Oct 2013
UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

What context, ifor?

A programme you haven't watched.

I know what the programme was all about, I know what problems there are with football hooligans, I read Polish newspapers and watch Polish TV. So what kind of context would change my mind about what Sol Camblell said?

A programme you haven't watched.

His comment was over the line.

No, it wasn't. But you wouldn't know that because you haven't watched the programme.

Are you telling me England national football team's black players didn't bring their families to Euro 2012 because they were afraid they will end up in a coffin?

Yes, some of the players didn't bring their families because they were scared off by violence. Or so it was stated in a programme you haven't seen.

Ifor, ffs, what me watching the programme would change anything?

You'd be able to provide an informed opinion on it.

Personally, I wouldn't judge a programme good or bad without watching it for myself.

You "believe"? What were his experiences?

You keep asking me questions, and I simply reply to the best of my knowledge. I am not Sol Campbell's biographer. As far as I remember, England played in Poland during the time Sol Campbell was England captain. I write, "I believe" because I don't know for certain, and therefore might be wrong.

I don't know what his experiences were. I am not a member of his family or close friend. I can tell you what my experiences are, but not his.

Sure, ifor, now I guess we should make a programme about Polish shops being destroyed in the UK, we will get goofy (or even better - me, since I don't live in the UK) in it and he will say "don't open Polish shops in the UK or they will be destroyed!" After all, I gave you an example of a reported case of a Polish shop targeted by far right. If the British authorities cannot guarantee the safety of Polish shops then there should be no Polish shops in the UK and the UK shouldn't have the right to call itself a tolerant country.

If someone made a programme about Polish shops being destroyed in England, then I would watch the programme and then comment.

I wouldn't condemn the programme without ever having seen it, or at least I hope I wouldn't.

Ifor, I'm not pretending the thugs and far right in the stadiums don't exist

Good, so you should welcome the fact that someone highlighted this problem, then.

everyone knows about them and everyone complains about them (yes, Poles complain about them, did you know?).

But non-Poles presumably can't?

As I wrtote at least two times already, I haven't seen the programme, yes, I've heard it's unbalanced, etc., also from a very normal, educated, liberal, travelled, successful Polish guy who's a great fan of football and goes to matches with his sons (he lives in Warsaw).

That's his opinion, which of course, he's entitled to, as am I, as is Sol Campbell, as are you. But I'd say our opinions are more valid than yours because we've seen a programme and then commented on it, rather than merely commented on something we haven't actually seen.

A number of people were interviewed. So why don't you stop asking me questions, and watch the film for yourself!
szczecinianin   
11 Sep 2013
News / Premier says no recession for Poland [148]

Anyone with a grasp of economics can see that the Polish countryside is hampered by the vast amount of small private farmers that simply aren't using the land to any sort of potential.

What really drings my gears though is the practice of pregnant women taking almost two years off work just to drop a sprog. I'm crucified on Zus, because women ain't working while preggers.

You two make a lovely pair.
szczecinianin   
11 Sep 2013
News / Poland's universities go up in world rankings [23]

But all cutting edge inventions are published in English, not French, Chinese or Russian.

That's why English speaking universities have an advantage, and not necessarily because their research is any better. Supposing research were published in Polish, would this not give Polish universities an edge?
szczecinianin   
11 Sep 2013
News / Premier says no recession for Poland [148]

I no absolutely nobody here who isn't working.

You offer your proof reading services to complete strangers, yet still can't spot the mistake.

Exactly, it's the total inefficiency of it that I cannot understand.........well, I do I suppose. If one was to even suggest that local farmers were to form a Co-op to spread the distribution of goods & wealth you would probably be labelled a Stalinist, even though the system has been proved to work in countless areas of the Europe and the world already.

I can only suggest the likes of Delphi and yourself set yourselves up as business consultants to the rural poor in Poland, and show them where they are going wrong. Who knows, you may show greater talent at telling farmers how to farm than you are at telling writters how to write.
szczecinianin   
11 Sep 2013
News / Poland's universities go up in world rankings [23]

by still only 58th place and American universities are taking most of top 50 again:

That list seems even more biased than 'the Times' list, with American universities taking all the first twelve places.

As far as I can make out, all the authors of these ranking lists have proven is that those whose native language is English find it easier to get published in publications written in English.

No doubt the same would be true for native speakers of French and French publications.
szczecinianin   
11 Sep 2013
News / Premier says no recession for Poland [148]

I think Poles (and Westerners with any sense) should simply accept that 'Delphi knows best'.

I've been living in Poland for nearly twenty years.

I used to imagine that Germany and the UK were richer than Poland, but since coming on Polish Forums, I've changed my opinion completely.

I guess that to really understand what's happening in Poland, you should spend all your time on the internet, listening to the opinions of expats who don't speak Polish and never leave the 'comfort zone' of their virtual reality Poland.

Poles simply don't realise how lucky they are, and only needed someone like Delphi to tell them this.
szczecinianin   
11 Sep 2013
News / Poland's universities go up in world rankings [23]

Your assumptions would only hold true if all students at universities in the UK and USA spoke English as a first language.

I imagine that a fair few do.
szczecinianin   
11 Sep 2013
News / Poland's universities go up in world rankings [23]

Nonetheless, it may also amuse you to poke fun at Poles.

Do you have no comment to make on the methodology employed in this ranking?

Only that I would be suspicious of a German survey that found all the world's top ten universities to be located in German speaking countries.

There are two possibilities. Either that the English-speaking world is massively intellectually superior to the rest of the world or that the rankings are methodologically flawed with a bias towards the anglosphere.
szczecinianin   
11 Sep 2013
News / Poland's universities go up in world rankings [23]

Nope: I've personally taught at Polish universities and my Mrs graduated from a couple of them. I'm glad to see that they're working their way up the global rankings.

My guess, and it's only a guess, is that this was a (not so) subtle 'dig'.
szczecinianin   
11 Sep 2013
News / Poland's universities go up in world rankings [23]

Good news about Poland's universities, they're getting quite a bit better:

Presumably the purpose of this thread is to make fun of Polish universities for being way down the list.

Given that all the top ten are either British or American, would this not suggest an anglocentric bias to the rankings?
szczecinianin   
11 Sep 2013
News / Premier says no recession for Poland [148]

Thankfully in Poland, we have the utter abuse of self employment by unscrupulous businessmen who force their workers into being self employed so that they don't have to pay social insurance contributions. One has to wonder when the tax office will start putting a stop to this particularly vile practice.

I've already said you are right. Absolutely spot on with your analysis. Clearly, you are not some deluded idiot who spends every spare minute of his free time attempting to win pointless internet arguments on some godforsaken forum for expats with far too much time on their hands, but rather a respected authority on European economics and employment law. I can only apologise for having completely misjudged you. In future, I shall be guided by your vast store of knowledge on Poland, gleaned by countless hours of intellectual debate in the chat room of Polish Forums, and discount as valueless all my business and real life experiences in the so-called 'real world'. I can only apologise for having completely misjudged you, and would like to offer my sincerest thanks for finally opening my eyes to the truth.
szczecinianin   
10 Sep 2013
News / Premier says no recession for Poland [148]

Doesn't sound like utopia to me. Sounds rather like hell, especially with the rising rents in Berlin and the widespread usage of Minijobs there.

Yes, it's hell. Poles should stop complaining and thank their lucky stars they don't live in the west. Why no-one else seems to have come to the same conclusion as yourself is a complete mystery to me. Perhaps these fools should spend more time on Polish Forums and less in the real world, and then they would come to a similar conclusion as yourself.
szczecinianin   
10 Sep 2013
News / Premier says no recession for Poland [148]

OK, Delphi, I give up. You are right as always. So many people moving from Poland to the west, and so few the other direction. How wise you are, and what fools others must be.
szczecinianin   
10 Sep 2013
News / Premier says no recession for Poland [148]

szczecinianin:
I'd just love to be able to live in Germany

We'd all love that.

Thanks.

tons and ton of empty land not being utilized.

What does that mean?

Btw, did you get round to answering the question I asked you a few days ago, or are you still pondering the answer?
szczecinianin   
10 Sep 2013
News / Premier says no recession for Poland [148]

They won't work for 500 euro a month?

Sorry to burst your bubble, but do you know what a minijob is?

Great. I'd just love to be able to live in Germany and try to sell double-glazing in Poland for five-hundred Euros a month. Where do I sign up?
szczecinianin   
10 Sep 2013
News / Premier says no recession for Poland [148]

Working for less money than in your own country is a far better option than being unemployed in my opinion.

Not when you get more money being unemployed in your own country.

There are a lack of Polish speaking Germans as it is.

I know a manager of a call centre in Szczecin. German call centre work is outsourced to Poland. Because Germans won't work for 500 Euro a month. I don't blame them. I wouldn't either.
szczecinianin   
10 Sep 2013
News / Premier says no recession for Poland [148]

There's a lot to be said for Germans living in employment blackspots that can't be bothered to learn the Czech/Polish languages in order to find employment.

There may be a lot to be said for your learning Urdu and applying for a job as a street sweeper in Pakistan. But most likely you wouldn't go for it as the pay's crap.

You don't seem to have grasped the idea that people generally look for work in richer rather than poorer countries.