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Joined: 30 Sep 2011 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 28 Jan 2012
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Gustav   
30 Sep 2011
Work / Krakow Salaries Getting Lower? Only Kids Want Lessons?? [6]

There are no barriers to entry in your chosen field other than a course that costs a few hundred quid and a few weeks effort.
Supply of teachers is outstripping demand from students.

Think you just obliterated the nail there. Beautifully put.

Those students that do want lessons have less disposable income

Fore!! Not seen in the economic data, unless you are over-exposed to unskilled Poles?
Gustav   
3 Oct 2011
Life / Expats/Immigrants in Poland: Needy, Greedy or contributor. Which one are you? [118]

The 'classfication' can be even simpler...

'Serious' guys learn Polish and work in their field

The rest make a collection of excuses and teach....

The attitude by schools towards the community they are in is despicable in many cases - I could happily tell you a few stories about school directors receiving bribes to block initatives that would actually benefit communities rather than private language schools.

Surely you would report such occurrences to the anti-corruption authorities at the earliest opportunity??

That is if your stories are actually true....
Gustav   
3 Oct 2011
Life / Expats/Immigrants in Poland: Needy, Greedy or contributor. Which one are you? [118]

And for those whose field is education?

Quite. But as you well know few of the guys here left university with the faintest intention of teaching English.

Therein lies the point- plenty of guys on PF are kidding themselves along that they aren't needy- that they didn't come here for a girl and took any job going (nothing inherently wrong with that - definitions of romance are subjective) but can't read the front page of FAKT or phone up the local plumber to come and fix the toilet (surely the very definition of needy- unable to function without others)
Gustav   
6 Oct 2011
News / British man prosecuted for raping teenage girls in Kraków [47]

equine girls tend to be spoilt brats

How many Polish horse-riding clubs do you visit regularly to make such a sweeping statement?

It wouldn't be a shock if some of them complained about him maliciously because he didn't let them enter some competition.

Are you seriously suggesting a girl under 15 years old make this stuff up?
Gustav   
9 Oct 2011
News / Tusk wants to privatize PKP Cargo. [38]

Actually, the cars not running are solely to do with inept PKP Intercity management

This is the key problem to state rail companies.

Passengers- most of whom struggle to run a bath, think they have all the answers.

Have you ever met any of the PKP Intercity top brass or are you just repeating what you've been spoon-fed by the media?
Gustav   
9 Oct 2011
News / Tusk wants to privatize PKP Cargo. [38]

So your answer to the question 'Have you ever met any of the PKP Intercity top brass'

Should be a simple 'no'.

You may well be correct though sir, maybe what PKP Intercity needs is an English teacher who knows everything and is easily offended.
Gustav   
9 Oct 2011
News / Tusk wants to privatize PKP Cargo. [38]

In the interest of the facts, you answered my original question with a question.

Master of diversion sir?
Gustav   
10 Oct 2011
News / Will you be proud of tranny (transsexual) representing Poland ? [124]

Unfortunately, there are still a lot of people in Poland (and on this forum) who think that homophobia, misogyny and macho posturing are Polish "traditions" worth preserving.

Well yeah, look at the success of the anything-goes liberal approach in the UK

Well worth copying that.
Gustav   
10 Oct 2011
News / Will you be proud of tranny (transsexual) representing Poland ? [124]

Come back when Poland has a music/club scene which is copied and envied by many other countries around the world, then you can ta

You can explain why Brits shrug their shoulders at 14 year old mothers and why TV documentaries show major cities as 'No-Go' areas as drunken yobs run rampage on a Friday night.

But its ok, the music is alright!
Gustav   
10 Oct 2011
News / Will you be proud of tranny (transsexual) representing Poland ? [124]

primitive prejudice

Its quite easy and amusing to label anyone who doesn't support ultra liberalism as primitive-but consider the logical conclusion.

A young child in the future will be told at school that transsexualism is a personal choice/preference like anything in life. (To not promote it equally in schools would be discriminatory) Thus, if you are comfortable with a rebellious teenager coming home and declaring they are going to have a surgical operation to change their gender ( to object would be in contravention of their human rights) then all well and good.

But it is important to consider the full implications of something before slinging mud.
Gustav   
10 Oct 2011
News / Will you be proud of tranny (transsexual) representing Poland ? [124]

Stop peddiling scare stories that have no basis in fact gustav.

You make a hideous assumption.

Consider Thai 'Lady-Boys' and the large numbers of sex workers around the world who change gender purely by choice - financial reasons being just one reason.

Rather than quote the bogus 'medical research' argument why not take a look at the facts?

By the way, do you want a shovel to remove your mountainous naivety?
Gustav   
10 Oct 2011
News / Will you be proud of tranny (transsexual) representing Poland ? [124]

Are you comparing Poland to a third world country where people are forced into all sorts of drastic choices just to put food in their bellys? How insulting to Poland.

No. You have a probably never been to Thailand, so how you can insult Thai people is utterly staggering, but then not surprising given your previous posts.

Go visit and find out.

They are not 'putting food in their bellys'. They are making an independent choice.

You can always spot a bleeding heart liberal a mile off. Anyone who disagrees with them is a 'bigot' or 'primitive', as they have the definitive answer for everything.

Shrill arguments and faux intellectualism. Yep... your just another Brit here... who knows everything about Poland but can't speak the language.

Genius!
Gustav   
28 Oct 2011
Work / Englishman seeking non teaching work asap - to stay in Poland or ..? [37]

I have been living in Krakow now for 2months and started as a Native English Speaking teacher

Yes, you are foolishly naive to not think very hard about what you were going to do here.

That said, don't be take the advice of some on here too seriously... they too blindly followed a girl to Poland. Some of the characters dishing out advice on here are still 60zł an hour any age, any level anytime teachers after years of being here.

It seems they like to round on the 'off the plane' brigade as a way of making themselves feel more important!
Gustav   
29 Oct 2011
Law / Child Support Poland - my story and advice request [22]

The Polish courts are renowned for being thoroughly idiotic

Delphia making his sweeping unsubstantiated claims yet again...

Don't waste your time with online forums - you really, really, really have to get a good solicitor who understands Poland as soon as possible.

This is all that needs said.
Gustav   
29 Oct 2011
Law / Child Support Poland - my story and advice request [22]

For an English teacher you have a remarkably poor grasp of your own language-

The Polish courts are renowned for being thoroughly idiotic

Courtesy of the Cambridge Online Dictionary:
(renowned: famous for something)
(thoroughly :completely, very much)
(idiotic:stupid)

To paraphrase "The Polish courts are famous for being completely stupid'

Quite rightly, I called this 'a sweeping unsubstantiated claim' because... it is an utterly idiotic statement to make.

Of course there are problems with the legal system- name a country which has a perfect system. In every country, legal professionals complain about the legal framework and the media report on controversial cases. Good news stories don't sell newspapers!

There are problems with the Polish legal system, but you often exaggerate for attention apparently.
Gustav   
1 Nov 2011
News / Monument gets erected when a clique rules in a small Polish town [29]

He was a disgrace to Poland,

A Lawyer and served as vice chairman of Solidarność post 1989.

8,257,468 votes in the 2005 Presidential election 2nd round, with 54.04% of the vote

Or should we believe a British keyboard hero in Poznań??

Unfortunately Delphia would be wise to study Latin : wisdom such as nil nisi bonum is sadly beyond him.
Gustav   
16 Jan 2012
Law / IT department (computer programming) - Opening up an Office/Business in Poland [53]

T0bias- if you are genuine:

A pointer:

there are plenty of programming companies in Poland that offer that.

Reliable contributor. Accountancy expert of some kind judging by his posts

I'd recommend Poznan at the minute

Opinionated English teacher, who is frequently banned for his self indulgent rants
Gustav   
29 Jan 2012
Language / Community interpreting/public service interpreting in Poland [13]

The current system works rather well

The language of Poland is Polish.

If you choose to live/work in Poland, either learn the language or have the intelligence to have a bi-lingual secretary to help out.

I can see that 'Community interpreting' would be a lucrative new market for interpreters, but why should hard working polish taxpayers fund this?

We can only hope that such madness doesn't invade our country.

Perhaps we should ask the inhabitants of Poland 'B' if they would be happy with relatively wealthy foreigners demanding such services?!

Some people have no shame
Gustav   
30 Jan 2012
News / Icy blast cleans the streets of the homeless in Poland.. [63]

Another harsh winter spell, and another spate of deaths amongst the homeless community

Is this a tragedy, or nature's way of removing life's failures from the world?

Do the homeless lack someone to stand up for them in the media, compared to other groups?
Gustav   
30 Jan 2012
News / Icy blast cleans the streets of the homeless in Poland.. [63]

that's so nasty. Even your thread title refers to the homeless as dirt.
Homelessness can happen to anyone, whether through mismanagement, addictions, or pure bad luck.
One day you could be sleeping on a park bench yourself.

You make a good point, indeed my questions were phrased to create debate.

Namely, we can all wring our hands behind a shiny laptop computer in a warm apartment with a glass of chardonnay, but implicitly you and nearly everyone else agree with the 'street cleaning' metaphor as we simply ignore the problem or don't even allow it to enter our minds. That has to be true- it would only take a few hundred people across the country who cared to eradicate homelessness for good.

But the reality is,we are fast becoming like any other capitalist country- happily trampling over the poor, to hell with anyone else, in our desperate chase for an extra dollar.
Gustav   
2 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]

Surely xenophobic hatred of the worst kind by Jimmy Harte?

Do Irish senators have immunity from prosecution? He must surely know that joining the EU means giving up any control over European migration.

Don't worry Senator Harte , increasing EU integration will mean your hatred will become ever more irrelevant.
Gustav   
2 Feb 2012
Life / What is wrong with Poznan? [197]

I stumbled across this interesting news story -

Let's be honest you were desperately searching for it!
Gustav   
25 Feb 2012
Genealogy / Being ashamed of Polish ancestry? [156]

Polonius3: And the lavish Polish-American wedding

You mean the "dreadful, tasteless, over the top display of garishness and debt"?

How many Polish-American weddings have you been to Michael?

Here we have a chap who is apparently proud of his ancestry- isn't that something to celebrate rather than attack?
Gustav   
25 Feb 2012
Genealogy / Being ashamed of Polish ancestry? [156]

I'm not sure how trying to negate everything a poster writes has anything to do with this thread, where the chap is discussing Polish Ancestry

You could start a thread 'Explaining my bigoted views towards Polish-Americans' to deal with your own issues, no?
Gustav   
5 Mar 2012
News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

Evidently you have no experience in the train industry whatsoever. Firstly you have no understanding of how large an organisation a PKP was, and the complexity of it. Break up was always going to cause problems. Perfect solutions are only available to keyboard warriors, not in the real world.

The cheap worker jibe is a tired old neo-liberal media line. Its easy because it doesn't involve any thinking. In any business there are good and bad people. There are good and bad teachers in your school. Fact of life.

If we want to find a failed railway system, we need to look no further than Britain- the most expensive railway in Europe, overcrowded with ticket prices rising 8%+ every year.

Privatisation was a miracle for a dozen mega-rich transport moguls!
Gustav   
5 Mar 2012
News / About fifty injured after two trains collide in Poland [73]

Michael:

I'm glad you didn't try to defend the cheap jibe at the workers.. glad you are finally seeing some sense.

(nonsense),

idiotic

disaster

the whole thing is a complete and total diaster.

Its evident from your comments you have nothing but hyperbole to add to the debate. The shrill squeal of a keyboard warrior taking information from a blog. You need to realise that blogs are written to attract readers and that doesn't always involve giving a balanced, objective account of the facts.

PKP IC and PR do some things well and others not so well. Same as DB, Russian Railways or even your school.

PR successes are in the same bracket as 'government efficiently completes XYZ project' in terms of news/blogs: who wants to read something mundane and mildly positive?? Bad news /controversy sells - the masses like something to complain about.

Clearly you have not read recent financial reports on PR to be familiar with the current financial situation.

Some appreciation of the complexity of the task and considered analysis would do you a service, compared to tabloid hyperbole soundbites