UK, Ireland / Polish Ophthalmologist in UK [28]


See Hudders, the more you throw stones, the more I can show you.

britishcornershop.co.uk

Look, an online shop for IMMIGRANTS spending MORE for their precious British products!


What kind of moron goes to Greece and doesn't eat their wonderful local food?

UK, Ireland / Polish Ophthalmologist in UK [28]

Oh Hudders. Let's quote from this thread, because it's just so funny -

forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=1587729

The title of the thread - "What food to bring on self catering holiday to France"

Some selected gems -






Hahahahaha. Oh Hudders...you really can't convince us that the Brits are such open minded people when they take CHEESE TO FRANCE. Hahahahaha.

UK, Ireland / Polish Ophthalmologist in UK [28]


Any excuse to avoid admitting the truth, huh? ;)

British people behave far worse than Poles abroad - I must dig up the link, but I found one example where a British family took CHEESE TO FRANCE.

I mean. Cheese. To France. :D

Hahahahaa, here we go -

forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=15422297&postcount=14


Cheese to France, hahahahahaha :D And he has the nerve to complain about Poles?

UK, Ireland / Polish Ophthalmologist in UK [28]

Facepalm? ;)

Even worse though - normal people are at work on Fridays, but Hudders isn't.

(as for me, I'm just preparing to spend 12 hours in my school for the "noc w szkole" :)

UK, Ireland / Polish Ophthalmologist in UK [28]


Brits sitting in British bars in Spain, need I say more?

Hudders really must be lonely if he's spending Saturday afternoon reading internet forums about Polish people in the UK, though.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Ah, the day they let children unsupervised on the internet...

UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [168]


Same everywhere with old people and lacking manners. I used to co-manage a small shop for a summer, and it had a post office attached. The postmistress absolutely loathed the customers - not least because they complained about everything and everything. Nothing was ever good enough for them.

UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [168]


I remember one case vividly. I was sat on the bus in the middle of the day and the bus was empty. I'm sitting at the front on the right side, sat next to the window quite comfortably. Next stop, an old couple gets on, and she immediately starts complaining that "her seat" wasn't free. She sits on the opposite side, scowling - and her husband sits next to me. They could have chosen almost any other pair of seats on the bus - but no, she wanted that seat.

I learnt a good insult after that for such occasions. I've lost count of the amount of times when I took the tram rather than driving, went to sleep and was rudely awoken by some babcia who wanted the seat.

UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [168]


You can't translate like that, and only a monolingual person would say such a stupid thing.

Life / Poczta Polska Is Killing ME! Transit time. [28]


There is some issue going on with Poczta Polska and Warsaw - I have no issue at all with UK-Poznan mail and even Poland-USA mail, but anything going to/from Warsaw seems to just get stuck somewhere.

History / Pokłosie (film on Jedwabne) [36]

He can allege all he wants, it doesn't make it true. I bet the vast majority complaining haven't seen it, however.

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [574]

There's a poster on here called Harry who loves your town, too :)

It definitely has potential to be a tourist place - I had a wonderful couple of days there! There's also the great...I don't know how to call it, the car slide thing that goes down the hill - I went on that about 5 times :D

Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [574]


Yes. We only don't like those who have never been to Poland and who have no connection to Poland.

Those people are lined up against the wall and laughed at.

(edit - I notice you're from Przemysl, it has a lovely Rynek and good beer!)

Law / Opening a Polish Bank Account by a foreigner in Poland. Recommendations. [299]


Unless it's changed, that's not quite right - a few banks will accept a declaration that you're resident at a certain address. Millennium and mBank certainly did - and my friend opened an account with Multibank with just his passport a few months ago. But it's all in person.


It's not. Every bank in Poland will require either a physical visit or proof of living somewhere.

News / THE ARMY OF POLAND - THE REALITY [493]

Except they're not Polish-Americans.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


There was one last year. The public clearly voted for parties which support the current "middle" agenda between social liberalism and conservatism.


Most polls suggest that the population support the status quo. Most RC voters have no problems with civil unions, RC voters are pro in-vitro (even Kaczynski has declared that he's willing to look for a legislative compromise!) and they support the current stance on abortion.


And when the conservatives lose the vote?

News / THE ARMY OF POLAND - THE REALITY [493]


They got a proven plane, yes - but the jury is out as to whether it can stand up against the Eurofighter. The F-16's aren't bad planes - but at this moment in time, renovating the MiG-29 and SU-22's would have made more sense. Yes - the SU-22 would be useless against Russia - but who would expect Poland to hold out long anyway?

There were also quite a few second hand MiG-29's available to buy at the start of the 21st century - there was no reason why Poland couldn't have bought a few of them at a bargain price. A decent fleet of those - modernised - would have suited the Air Force and also been drastically cheaper than the F-16 mess. They also would have let Poland wait and see with the Eurofighter.

It seems very much to me as if the F-16 purchase was political, not military.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

A dick is a dick, indeed.

News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]


He's the owner - he can do what he wants. If I owned a newspaper and someone got it wrong like that, they'd be fired too - it made a laughing stock out of Rzeczpospolita and made people say "stupid PiS newspaper" - not what the owner wants.


Nice story. Did Gazeta Polska publish that particular rubbish?


Are you suggesting that the journalist and Kaczynski were manipulated? Because if so, I agree with you - it seems that Kaczynski walked straight into a political trap, and the journalist clearly got it wrong.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Spoken like only a man who knows nothing about girls can speak :)


Definitely time for them.


Turn off the internet. Walk away.

News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]


Pretty big mistake to make, all things considered. He more or less reignited the civil war in Polish politics - which is a pretty serious thing to do.


He made a rookie mistake - he relied on sources that may not have been in his interest.


The editor was fired too, so I suspect it was simply a ill-judged move. If they had got it right - the journalist and editor would be in line for immense praise. They got it wrong, and so they fall. What makes it worse is that many serious people read Rzeczpospolta, particularly for the "professional" content. They do not want to read Gazeta Polska type "journalism" - and so the editor, journalist and others had to go.

News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]


Wrong. He was fired for writing an article that wasn't factual, that contained numerous mistakes and one that did a great deal of harm to the newspaper that he worked for.


I think we all know that when a journalist runs with a story that is subsequently absolutely discredited - he has to either resign or quit. There's no second chance in journalism - he got it wrong, badly wrong - and paid the price.


Has he been hired yet, I wonder? Either them or Gazeta Polska would love to have such a person on board.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]


They do? News to me - the girls I know are all over Latinos, not Americans.

Law / Working in EU countries and in UK with Poland's Residence Card (Karta Pobytu)? [51]


One further, I think - anyone married to an EEA+CH citizen doesn't need a work permit in Poland. The problem is that the Karta Pobytu issued in this case looks identical to the one based on non-family residence - so employers are totally confused by it.

Not actually fond of this law at all.

Love / Google: Polish women "easier" than English women - official! [52]

Well, he would be, but there's really not that much demand for ugly American dudes on webcam.

Love / Google: Polish women "easier" than English women - official! [52]

Is this our good old friend EM Wave back again?

Life / I hate Warsaw. The worst part about living here is the people who move here from small towns, villages.. [129]

You really have to wonder what kind of fools set fire to rainbows.

Life / I hate Warsaw. The worst part about living here is the people who move here from small towns, villages.. [129]


It just shows that they spend their lives thinking about homosexuals and other such topics whereas we...don't :)

Clearly his time in a foreign air force with all those men must have taught him a thing or two about man to man love.

Life / I hate Warsaw. The worst part about living here is the people who move here from small towns, villages.. [129]

Quite possibly, I know it's a common complaint about people in your line of work that they don't have a "feel" for what's right when translating into English.


Certainly him and his family must have valued money over everything else, otherwise he wouldn't have signed up to drop the bomb on his own people.

Life / I hate Warsaw. The worst part about living here is the people who move here from small towns, villages.. [129]


I made the mistake of going into one hipster cafe near there. The hot chocolate was fantastic, the clientele...not. Many of them were sitting around with laptops looking thoroughly antisocial - really, haven't these guys watched even a single episode of Friends?


No self respecting hipster would be seen dead with pierced faces and Che Guevara t-shirts. Wrong subculture.


Out of interest - do you think it did anything for your English skills?

Shows how people's insecurities play on their minds though - a nice rainbow is a nice rainbow. What rational person associates a rainbow with homosexuals instantly?