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bluesfan   
29 Mar 2014
Life / Is it common for Polish people to speak English in Poland? [122]

Americans are SUPPOSED to be ignorant of foreign languages, therefore, they are!

What do you mean by "supposed"?
How many Americans have you personally met that can speak a foreign language fluently? And how many Europeans have you met that meet the same criteria?
bluesfan   
29 Mar 2014
Life / Is it common for Polish people to speak English in Poland? [122]

Ok I won't paraphrase you; I'll quote you...

the majority WANT to say that they "speak" English, but only a minority in my experience actually do:-)

Their English was poor to often plain incomprehensible

I had to say at one point that I honestly couldn't understand their English, and could they PLEASE speak in Polish

I talk English language with you. Why you like so much Polish?" etc..

I actually that many Poles can speak English quite well. At a guess I'd say that I've spent more time in Poland than you and have met and spoken to more Poles than you.

However, if you honestly believe that very few Poles can actually speak English then that's your opinion. Have you even asked yourself why Poles tried to communicate with you in English and refused to speak in Polish? Maybe it was because they couldn't understand your Polish... ;)
bluesfan   
28 Mar 2014
Life / Is it common for Polish people to speak English in Poland? [122]

I'm quite certain that my Polish pronunciation was clear

vulkan is right, polish people would have to need to say 'vot' or 'vy' as they have the w sound clearly in their language.

I think Wlodz is trying to convince us that Poles speak English like they're characters from 'Allo 'Allo.
Wouldn't be so bad, but he's also professing to speaking Polish so perfectly :D :D

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cOhsHRLX7fw
bluesfan   
15 Jan 2014
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

Poles and other foreigners won't go home because they receive better benefits in the UK?

No, it's because they work here.

These people are just parasites they will milk our country for what they can get, and when it has gone they will move onto another country

I assume you're talking about this generation of unemployed British chavs and UKIP voters...

Enoch Powell

Sound like he's your hero...
bluesfan   
4 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

my opinion that Polish police are a bunch of incompetent cowards.

This is not the first time this week that you've displayed your xenophobia against Poles.

Paulina, all that's lacking in your mountain of irrelevancies is any kind of proof that those arrested had done anything wrong ..

I have to agree with Paulina on this one. You should try listening to her and not just countering her opinions.
You always try to win the arguement don't you? It doesn't matter whether you're right or wrong, does it?
If 'football fans' are carrying weapons it's usually because they intend to use them.
I don't see a problem with pro-active policing in this case (although I am aware what Paulina has said about the arrests occuring after the Police being attacked).
bluesfan   
1 Dec 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

If that is true then your social circles and experiences must have been extremely limited.

What utter nonsense. We just work and and interact with different types of people.

A bit like me claiming to know the UK well, but never having met any chavs/unemployed/lazy/poorly educated people.

Again, my point is this: Why should these people have the right to live in the UK but not our European brothers and sisters, who are better educated and work harder?

I'm sure you wouldn't be happy if you received the same ignorant xenophobic abuse as an immigrant that some posters here say about Poles in the UK.
bluesfan   
1 Dec 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

You obviously idealise Poles for some reason or other.

Nope. I'd say the samer about Germans, Japanese, Czechs, Hungarians etc etc....

If you lost your ability to work would you be happy to be described as such?

Losing one's ability to work and choosing to defraud the welfare state are two very different things.
As a foreigner and an immigrant I would have expected you to be a little bit more intelligent and tolerant on the topic of immigration...

Either you don't know that much about them or simply choose what to notice and what to ignore.

Wrong again buddy. As I said before:

Clearly we must just have different social circles and different experiences. That or one of us is a little bit xenophobic and trying to slag off Poles....

bluesfan   
1 Dec 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

Read my previous comment:

The UK does not 'import foreigners'! Neither Blair, Brown nor Cameron went on amazon or ebay and purchased 'foreigners' to be shipped to the UK.

Freedom of movement and labour is one of the fundamental principles behind the EU. And it's a blessing - it's allowed many of us to travel, work and live freely in continental Europe :)
bluesfan   
1 Dec 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

Sure you know some 'lazy' Brits. Have you never met their Polish equivalents? If not, then you don't really know Poland and Poles, do you.

Nope. Clearly we must just have different social circles and different experiences. That or one of us is a little bit xenophobic and trying to slag off Poles....

However, do you see the point of paying people to do nothing and importing foreigners to work?
Because, I don't.

The UK does not 'import foreigners'! Neither Blair, Brown nor Cameron went on amazon or ebay and purchased 'foreigners' to be shipped to the UK.

Deadwood will always be deadwood, benefits or not.
Wouldn't you agree that it'd be better to welcomeour European brothers and sisters into the country and export all the scum to.... well, to anywhere that will take them?
bluesfan   
1 Dec 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

Have you lived and worked in Poland?

Yes.

There is also an underclass in Poland. What do you imagine they are like?

I don't know. Maybe they think lazy uneducated foreigners like yourself should go back to your own country.
I mean after all, you don't even make an attempt to learn their language or conform to all their customs and traditions, do you? ;)
bluesfan   
1 Dec 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

The idea of hardworking Poles and lazy Brits is a myth.

Wrong. It's the truth. You only need to live and work in the UK to see that.

Unemployment is higher in Poland than in the UK.

It's about the same. The govt fiddle the figures to make unemployment seem lower than it actually is.
For example, I see many scum who aren't 'unemployed'; they receive 'incapacity benefit'. This is due to being incapable of getting off their asses, and finding a job.

Thanks to 'incapacity benefit' many lazy Brits can sit at home, smoke weed, drink Special Brew, contribute nothing to society - and they're not even considered 'unemployed' - fantastic!!!

There is an underclass in the UK who make no attempt to be part of society and have no intention of working - this is the biggest problem in the UK.
bluesfan   
1 Dec 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

The fact is that many British chavs abuse the system - they dwell in the UK with no language skills, they can't or won' find employment and stay on benefits, live in council houses some working on the black-market doing some odd jobs. Why won't they just get a job? Ort move to another country? Ah, they can't speak another language, can't support their families there, their children are uneducated and unpopular and can't learn or make friends (not like in the UK) and have normal life. They (the British chavs) are underdogs in the UK with no aspirations and no future.

If the thread is about unemployement and about pople living off benefits then the OPseriously needs to take a reality check. It's educated Poles and other central Europeans who keep our economy going, Hardworking individuals who usually speak two or more languages and work their asses off to provide for themselves and their families.

If it's about 'immigrants' - and I suspect it is - then the OP and all those who agree with him are nothing short of ignorant xenophobics who really should concentrate on improving their own lives and not worry about what other people are doing. After all it's the taxes from these 'immigrants' that are keeping millions of lazy Brits on the dole and in those lovely council flats :) :) :)

At the end of the day the free-market is and has never provided full employment, so people need to compete for jobs. Our brothers and sisters are very welcome in the UK. :) :)
bluesfan   
20 Nov 2013
UK, Ireland / How to make my Polish friend's dad like me [25]

I'm just asking that because you made it seem like Polish students are supposed to be hard-working.

Most of the ones that I've met are very hard-working and committed to their studies.

Based on the Polish immigrants I've met, that is not the case.

Maybe it's just the lazy ones who go to the Sates? Or maybe they're just copying their peers and one too many BigMacs and American TV has made more lazy? ;)

How to make my Polish friend's dad like me

Are you male or female?
bluesfan   
4 Nov 2013
Language / A little Polish grammar. Masculine, animate objects. [64]

The most in-depth contemporary "brick-and-mortar" Polish grammar I've ever seen in English remains "Polish: A Comprehensive Grammar" - 2012 by Iwona Sadowska, both in paper as well as hardback

Does it look something like this:


  • Polish_Grammr.png
bluesfan   
4 Nov 2013
News / Poland to (temporarily) restore internal Schengen borders [15]

I thought PL was central Europe as so many Poles insist.

Poland is in Central Europe.
The UN, however, doesn't have a category for Central Europe. They categorise Europe into Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western regions only.

So, Poland must be Eastern Europe

Erm, no.
bluesfan   
2 Nov 2013
Language / A little Polish grammar. Masculine, animate objects. [64]

They look very familiar ;)

Mocha, 3 books that you need to buy:

amazon.co.uk/Polish-Weeks-intensive-course-CD-ROM/dp/8375440299/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
amazon.co.uk/301-Polish-Verbs-Conjugated-Barrons/dp/0764110209
amazon.co.uk/Collins-Pocket-Polish-Dictionary/dp/0007259980/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1

Work on a chapter a day of the 1st book and in a month you'll be half way there ;)

As for the verbs, work on conjugating the present for imperfective verbs first. Then the past and then the future tenses.

Use the dictionary to build your vocabulary.

Read as many ebooks and watch as many Polish films as possible.

Hope that helps :)
bluesfan   
29 Oct 2013
Love / Younger Polish girl 24 dating old man [21]

for there wealth

their*
You're an American. You gave yourself away too easily.

rather than have a go at my dad

Why would you have a go at your dad? You obvioulsy have an interest in other people's sex lives.
How old are you? 45? 50?
Why don't you stay out of other people's personal lives and work on making yourself a better person.
Your opening post was littered with grammatical errors. Maybe you could spend your time a little bit more productively and learn something.
Who knows, maybe one day you could get a VISA and migrate to the UK or Poland.
bluesfan   
29 Oct 2013
Love / Younger Polish girl 24 dating old man [21]

you think she is geniun?

Please help I just hope she not a con artist

It looks like there's only one con artist on this thread - You!

an American troll probably wouldn't know it.

Exactly Harry. This is a troll thread written by a either a non-native speaker of English or an uneducated American troll.

Also, notice how many of the posters here have assumed that despite:

she has her own place, a job

have decided that because she's Polish, she must be poor and a gold-digger.
Harry, I'll bet you a beer that the OP is also one of the first posters to respond in this thread...
bluesfan   
17 Oct 2013
Life / Poland: The land of -isms [63]

Now take white people (who are increasingly more divided in US) still most of them vote for Republicans (more socially conservative).

There's a good reason for that:


  • voting_republican.jp.jpg
bluesfan   
16 Oct 2013
News / Lech Walesa vs Immigration: Brits humiliated him at London Heathrow Airport [105]

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about Paulina.
I'm guessing by the 'your lot' comment that there's supposed to be an offensive blanket statement in your post somewhere :P

As I said before 'don't shoot the messenger'...

You should also remember that it takes two to tango - and no-one's complaining... ;)
bluesfan   
18 Sep 2013
Study / My experience in Poland (Poznan) as a student who recently moved from Syria [117]

,but they searched me like a terrorist

Sorry buddy that was my 'tip-off' :P

one of the guards wanted to get intimate by the way he searched me

Yeah, he saw your topless pics but I had no idea he was that way inclined ;)

Good luck Dany, I hope it all works out for you :)
bluesfan   
14 Sep 2013
Love / Polish girls- breasts size [65]

meat a polish woman

Was that a deliberate spelling mistake or a freudian slip?
Either way, I'm pretty sure some of the forums female posters would rather not be graded by their physical attributes; they are after all human beings and not pieces of 'meat'.

I don't wanna be frank but I'm gonna. Stop making these incredibly shallow stupid ******** threads!!!!!

agreed.
bluesfan   
13 Sep 2013
Love / Polish girls- breasts size [65]

Only a person who sees a woman as a pair of tits would start such a silly topic.

Right.

Having known women with large, small and barely breasted, I can say that I prefer small sturdy breasts any day instead of those large drooping bags hanging down to their bellies...,

Given your post, how do you think of women any differently than the OP?
I understand that's your 'preference' but you are still grading women not by their personality and charachter but by their breast size and shape.

You guys (and you know who you are) are making yourselves look shallow and pathetic.
How about showimg some respect to the fairer sex rather than objectifying them...
This is a stupid and pointless thread.
bluesfan   
9 Sep 2013
UK, Ireland / Learning Polish - Polish shops in England? [34]

I was wondering, when I become a fair amount better at Polish, would it be a good idea to visit them and try out my Polish? (obviously I'd be buying things there).
Or would the Poles running the shop be a little bit reluctant to have an English person learning Polish in their shop?

I pretty much did the same thing. I knew that one shop sold Polish dvds so I used to buy them there.
I live in a different city now, so I went in a Polish shop just to practise my Polish a bit :D
Did they mind? No. The lovely young lady behind the counter couldn't work out if I was English or Polish :D
Happy days :)

Roz, that clip. tut tut tut. Very poor and inaccurate racial stereotyping :P
bluesfan   
21 Aug 2013
Life / What makes a man a Pole? what does it mean to be a Pole? [187]

I got a bit curious as to what defines a person to be Polish...?
let me start first, in my opinion it is the blood,

Surely not Goofy? After all you upset a Poster, who was born Polish, last night by saying that blood only accounts for 1% of being a real Pole.

What makes a Pole a Pole?
Surely its not only blood,

Right then. So by your own admission, someone who isn't Polish and doesn't have 'Polish blood' but lives in Poland can be more Polish than a Pole (with the fancy 'Polish blood')who's long abondoned his homeland.

That is what you are saying, right? Well, I would agree with you to a point there. xD