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Joined: 7 Apr 2008 / Male ♂
Last Post: 17 Dec 2008
Threads: Total: 38 / In This Archive: 3
Posts: Total: 233 / In This Archive: 45
From: Wakefield, England, U.K.
Speaks Polish?: A few words (but I keep trying!).
Interests: History, Reading, Organised Crime, Travelling, Film/TV and attempting to learn Polish.

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ArcticPaul   
31 Jan 2009
Life / Tips on tipping in Poland [45]

My Polish friends were annoyed at me when they saw I wasn't tipping.

I didn't know I was supposed to!

I then started to leave about 10%.

Poles are laid back about it BUT a few tips makes a big difference to a poor wage.
ArcticPaul   
22 Dec 2008
Language / Chodzic versus Isc. When and why? [18]

chodzić: to go
iść: to be going

But both of these verbs have future tense forms.
Idę translates as 'I go'.
ArcticPaul   
21 Dec 2008
Language / Chodzic versus Isc. When and why? [18]

When should I use versions of the verb Chodzić and when should I use Iść?

Examples, exceptions and explanations appreciated.
ArcticPaul   
13 Nov 2008
Love / Nigerian Girls and Polish Guys [43]

I don't understand this.
gtd and myself are simply saying what we have seen or heard from Poles.
No one is calling every Pole racist. But it is a fact that racism is more open here than in more western nations.
ArcticPaul   
11 Nov 2008
Love / Nigerian Girls and Polish Guys [43]

I'm taking some knocks here for asking a simple question but, unfortunately, Poles have a reputation for being less politically correct than Western Europeans.

They are percieved as being about 25 years behind. Throwing banana's at black footballers. Black face paint and curly wigs for easy laughs.

AGAIN. THE MAN IN THE STORY WAS BORN AND RAISED IN AMERICA. HE WAS NOT POLISH!
ArcticPaul   
8 Nov 2008
Love / Nigerian Girls and Polish Guys [43]

OK it is tragic but we have lost the actual subject.

He had a Polish name but was raised in America.

How would a man born and raised in Poland feel about falling for a black girl?
How would his friends, family, neighbours view the relationship?

I witnessed a few incidents of racism in my 3 weeks in Krakow but I'd put that down to excess drink.
ArcticPaul   
26 Oct 2008
UK, Ireland / Britain... What the Poles did for us. [444]

Nice words. Are you sure you are not in love with some pretty Polish blond currently? :))

I've always had great respect for the Poles....
The fact that many Polish women are gorgeous, funny and intelligent is not the point.
ArcticPaul   
26 Oct 2008
UK, Ireland / Britain... What the Poles did for us. [444]

I LOVE THE POLES being in my country and it makes me sad when I read angry guys who have decided on the age old strategy of 'blame the minority'.

The fact is the average Pole has 4 years more education/training than a Brit of similar age.
They have a better attitude to work.
They may not feel like the life of the party EVERY DAY but they usually do not turn into obnoxious, shouting thugs when they meet disagreement. They are mature enough to accept problems and socially motivated to not ruin the atmosphere for everyone in the same enviroment.

Why come onto this forum if your only interest in Poland and the Poles is to scapegoat them for all the problems that greedy businessmen and corrupt politicians have caused you?
ArcticPaul   
22 Sep 2008
History / Battle of Grunwald 1410 The biggest medieval battle. Germans smashed. [174]

It amazes me when I witness history repeating itself in current events.

Example.
When Princess Diana died and the Royal Family kept a 'dignified silence'.
This was very similar to how the population of Ancient Rome reacted towards their Royal Families 'dignified silence' over the death of Germanicus...2000 years ago!

I love history. Especially ancient to, around, 1700.
ArcticPaul   
16 Sep 2008
History / Battle of Grunwald 1410 The biggest medieval battle. Germans smashed. [174]

To Germans, west of Europe gave loyalty, to Slavs - only oblivion

UK and France, 1939, declared war on Germany for attacking Poland (Slavs).
Post war politics was about ideology (communism/capitalism) not racial matters.

So what are you saying?
ArcticPaul   
13 Sep 2008
History / Battle of Grunwald 1410 The biggest medieval battle. Germans smashed. [174]

According to Giles Milton's 'Samurai William' The battles of the Japanese in the 16th and 17th Centuries eclipsed European ones in scale of amount of fighters involved.

I'm hoping to make it to the 600th anniversary celebrations of Grunwald in 2010.
ArcticPaul   
2 Aug 2008
Language / Pimsleur v Rosetta stone [27]

pimseurs is a good aid but useless if your using it as a primary method.
rosetta stone, again, can help but it's essentially deductive logic, not language theory or anything that leads to a person being able to compose their own dialogues.

both are available as free downloads.
ArcticPaul   
29 Jul 2008
Life / Is it me or do any guys in Poland not have shaved heads? [113]

Comb overs......................!
Only the most confident men dare to stray into the 'comb over'.
Julius Caesar first made this style fashionably iconic (1st century B.C) and it's never gone out of style.

SHAVED HEADS ARE EASY!
That's the point.
Straight out of bed, out of shower,after sharing a long car ride with 6 other people in a very small car...............no fuss, no bother.

You can even attend to your own hairdressing needs with an inexpensive set of clippers.
In fact all 7 in a Fiat Uno can share the clippers and save even more money.
ArcticPaul   
19 Jul 2008
Study / Cost of Polish lessons, courses (private) [34]

skype internet connection.
£12.50 for 60, £17.50 for 90 minutes, one to one.

Material e-mailed as pdf files to be printed or listened to/mp3.

Excellent method for people living outside Poland.

IKO is a Warsaw based language school that gets good feedback.
ArcticPaul   
16 May 2008
UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

Let's not be too hard on football 'hooligans' of any nationality. It is an essential aspect of many yong mens lives. My generation has had no great war or depressiion and the chance to stand shoulder to shoulder with a group of guys who will kill for you and take on another group of guys, who will kill you, is a primitive experience of pure adrenalin.

I'm not a neanderthal. I love reading and trying to educate myself. I'm not racist or homophobic but I had something missing in my life. Something that the drugs, beer, women, night classes, holidays and career just didn't satisfy. It was the stoneage part of me that needed to fight and be a part of battles. To test myself in the most basic way against men of a similar mindset.

Centuries ago it would have been 'hooligans' like those Rangers fans that fought at Bannockburn or Agincourt. They are upholding a proud tradition of these warrior isles.

I know many on this site will be totally lost by this logic but I know at least a few will understand me 100%.
ArcticPaul   
3 May 2008
Life / Polish people and racism. [943]

To say a person of colour is not really French (or British or German) is pure ignorance!

If a person is born and raised in a country he is a product of that country.
Culture is learned NOT genetic.

As for Turks v Greeks.... In my experience most Turks are friendly and curious to learn.
Maybe fourth generation german Turks are just sick of not being accepted as Germans?
I know many European Muslims feel 'between' cultures.
Too western for their ancestral homelands,
too exotic (dark) for the countries they try to live in.

One race, the human race.
Stop looking for differences and start accepting the similarities.
ArcticPaul   
26 Apr 2008
Life / Hepatitis C in Poland...please help. [59]

Yeah they exist...but the quality is horrible and they do not offer many services and are rarely "free".

I once watched a documentary filmed in L.A. A man got shot and the cops had to arrest him in order to make him get medical attention.

He really wanted to avoid the county general because he had seen how much people were hounded for payment of bills they amassed whist under its 'care'.

Sometimes I'm glad to be English. We get ripped off in the car park, the prescription charge is a minor irritant and we sometimes have to wait half of the day in the reception area but we don't have to worry about pending bankrupcy over a health problem.
ArcticPaul   
24 Apr 2008
Life / Hepatitis C in Poland...please help. [59]

I'm not defending BubbaWoo so much as enjoying pointing out your stupidity.
I'll do it again.

Guest. Your stupid.

That felt good.
ArcticPaul   
24 Apr 2008
Life / Hepatitis C in Poland...please help. [59]

I think you have missed BubbaWoo's subtle irony.
We'll contact the site admin about the possibility of drum rolls or canned laughter, similar to television sit-coms, so you'll never have to worry about missing the point of a comment completely again.
ArcticPaul   
22 Apr 2008
Study / The reputation of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow. [52]

If someone could instruct me how to include url's in my posts this would be much easier.

First price = Tuition, Room and Board, Tourist and Cultural Programmes.
Second price = Tuition only.
All prices include a 210 PLN non-refundable prepayment.

3 weeks = 4,444/2,390PLN
4 weeks = 5,596/2,590PLN
6 weeks = 7,349/3,430PLN

Personally I don't think these prices are bad.
Could someone post the price of a similar length/intensity course at a Western European/North American Uni with an equally prestigious reputation?

I'll bet it will be at least double the cost.
ArcticPaul   
22 Apr 2008
Life / Hepatitis C in Poland...please help. [59]

what's the difference between Asians and Orientals? The Orient = Asia AFAIK.

Although it is technically incorrect Asians refers to Indo-Iranian groups whilst orientals refers to Mongoloid/Far Eastern races.
The majority of Brits understand this same distinction.
I know the orient starts as soon as you cross the Bosphorus into Turkey.
'AFAIK'???
ArcticPaul   
22 Apr 2008
Life / Hepatitis C in Poland...please help. [59]

It only works with white foreigners. Blacks./Asians have a more aggressive strain and don't even mention the orientals!
Remember Bird flu/ SARS!
ArcticPaul   
22 Apr 2008
Life / Hepatitis C in Poland...please help. [59]

In Britain the government has recently financed a series of advertisements to draw peoples attention to the possibility of Hep C because the vast majority go undiagnosed BUT most routine blood tests reveal the condition.

I have a friend who caught it by travelling on the same train as a Slovakian
Comments please.