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Posts by Ironside  

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Ironside   
6 Feb 2016
Life / Whats up with Polish guys getting drunk and looking for a fight? [60]

But... I got dirty looks sometimes because I'm white, and was holding a Japanese girl's hand.

I'm not readying more as I call whoever wrote it on BS. You dude have no shame and no brains.

am a Canadian born Iranian.

You are a brainwashed bigot then and a kid obviously. Grow up!
[quote=Dougpol1]After a three wise dudes under a bridge decided to include in the term - racism things that have nothing to do with a race - that word is meaningless. Like you.
Ironside   
6 Feb 2016
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

its fine Ironside I am used to it and don't mind.

It doesn't seem to be fine but that is your problem and I'm not gonna pry although I could write about chips.
All I wanted to do was to help you take a look at the issue from a different angle, a different point of view, sarcasm didn't work obviously but it was me trying not to take you seriously, your own fault. :) Won't happen again.

I was just making a comment

Hey what a coincidence so was I.

Is that OK with you or should I get permission in triplicate before posting?

Imagine that I was sure we were having a friendly conversation. Did realize you are such a obedient female deeply respectful towards all males. I'm surprised that you need my permission but if you need it here it is - you have it.

Ironside

Lzyko, you are a lonely dude I get it. I grant you permission to correct all errors in my posts to your hearth content. In exchange don't address me whenever take your fancy t o write yet another of your hmm... 'original' diatribes.
Ironside   
5 Feb 2016
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

er no not really....just thinking people might act normally about it,

I understand where you coming from but you are looking at this from a wrong angle. Do you realize that you complaining about people trying to do you a favor and talk to you in your own language? Admittedly it wasn't at all what you have been expecting but tough, you gain some you lose some.

On the other side of the coin those people based their reaction on their limited experience, and that experience is telling them that 19 out of 20 Anglophones either doesn't speak their language at all or know few phrases poorly. Hence they are not wasting time listening to you botching that royalty and let you know that you can speak in your own language while asking for chips or cigarettes.

They never realized that you are an exception and you are fluent or nearly fluent in that lingo or they you would rather talk in their language cause you want to learn. Instead of blushing you should communicate to them your intent - and now you are holding a grudge and throwing chips and spilling vinegar all over helpful strangers like poor moi!

Don't set me on fire but unlike johnny reb for real..
Then maybe just maybe in the disused ten place there is something in this that people might be not use to foreigners talking to them in their language. Hell , As I said that isn't something to complain about, some things are just the way their are.
Ironside   
5 Feb 2016
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Good grief how cheeky, an English person attempting another language!!

Jeepers they attempted to talk to you in your language, what next? Are they gonne hold your hand and call you dear? How dare they? Here I was expecting VIP welcome at least for talking to them in their funny gibberish.

'sic (sic) the dog on me'? what on earth does that mean?

Set a dog on you, go for your jugular, bust you or whatnot take your pick!
Ironside   
5 Feb 2016
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

everyone is always banging on about how 'hard' Polish is

I don't know I'm taking their word for it. I have been always of the opinion that Polish is a really easy language to learn, it took me no effort at all.

You use the words that you know well enough, and suddenly you get this lip curling sneer and someone addressing you in really poor English.

Oh poor you, you are lucky they didn't sic the dog on you.
Ironside   
4 Feb 2016
UK, Ireland / British guy refused work because of Polish workers [39]

Is that annual kick a Pole routine in The Fascism Daily? Have they run out of ideas? Wasn't a story they used in that paper of theirs the last year just the same to the T? Seems their readers swallow hook, line and sinker everything the paper cook up for them.
Ironside   
4 Feb 2016
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Ironside, as Poles, neither of you two should even attempt to compare, that is, judge the English of an educated native speaker;

Don't tell my what I should or shouldn't. You are being rude and obnoxious. I can judge your English all right, if you don't like it sue me or keep your silly prejudices to yourself.
Ironside   
3 Feb 2016
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Yes you would

No I wouldn't!

You once got very cross with me for correcting your spelling

Nah, I got cross with you because you proceeded to lecture me in a very snotty manner. You persisted in that folly even after I have patently explained to you error of your ways. You would have none of it and since then you casted me as a villain of this forum - another folly.

To the point, you lie about what had happened. As a matter of fact you were using spelling as yet another stone to be casted at me in your indignation and haste to punish poor me for telling you to mind your own business and stop interfering into something you as a newbie on this forum have no clue about.

If somebody would bother to correct my errors without an ulterior motive in mind I wouldn't mind it at all.

You make loads of errors in spelling and grammar

I'm well aware of it thank you. You see I'm dyslectic and I would have to read my posts again in order to correct those errors. I'll pass, thank you.

One of the features of your own English Ironside is that your command of syntax and grammar deserts you big-time when you get over-excited.

The some goes for any other language I would use.

And one of the nice things about Ziemowit is that he continues to want to learn and improve his English skills, it's one of the reasons he visits this forum

I'm baffled why would he choose PF forums for it. I think he would do himself a favor if he was to seek some forum better suited for his needs. On PF very few posters can be learned from, very few indeed.

I have to finish by correcting a mistake you make all the time because it's driving me absolutely nuts: stop saying 'end off' as a conclusion to posts.

I haven't realized that I'm writing 'and off' rather than 'end of' - thank you! By the way I'm not using that particular phrase very often, it means you must be reading my posts with a bated breath. I'm faltered.

And yes my own Polish is cringe-inducing although people are very kind and tell me 'ale bardzo ładne Pani mowi po Polsku'

I'm sure your Polish sounds very pretty. You are a feisty Irish lady indeed and I must confess that I do enjoy provoking you into your spirited outbursts, its fun. I'm sure we would get along splendidly under different circumstances.
Ironside   
2 Feb 2016
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

you're scarcely the one here to judge my English

In that you are mistaken my friend I can judge your English.

[AN] inferiority complex

See if you would have contented yourself with correcting some grammatical errors even in my posts I wouldn't mind it at all. You would go around in your merry way wailing on a sorry state of contemporary educational standards unmolested.

However you are a person who is displaying less than agreeable traits.
You are judgmental, moody, contradictory, domineering and patronizing. It is irrefutable fact that you are behaving like a dick at times, in other words you were behaving badly. Nothing more and nothing less. Behave, show some manners and we can have a proper debate as adults should.

A quick-witted response

A witted response would be a more appropriate phrase here. However you are complaining Lyzko so he'll not pull you on that one. If you on the other hand would've scold him it would irrevocability put you in his black book and he would've point that out.

His English is not erroneous

Everything has its time and place. This forum is mainly dedicated to debate about things connected with Poland or to the exchange of information about Poland. Hence English on this forum should be clear, informative and to the point. Other than that one needs to remember that people are writing here in the way they talk. English of this forum is more oft than not a conversation in a form of a written post.

His English is overtly stylized. He reminds me of a craftsman who know his trade well but he is not an artisan he claims to be. Whose works are being testimony to the fact that coping masterpieces cannot turn a copycat into a master by any stretch of imagination.

It all would be charming and harmless if at the same time he wouldn't usurping himself position of a judge of the English language usage and standards, perhaps he misses his job as a lecturer.

I disagreed and replied in a post that followed that everyone was entitled to use English of whatever century

You and him are very much alike you both like to tell people what to do and who to do it. Perhaps you are a lecturer too. I have an advice for you a one you can take or disregard - don't bring your work home.

By the way - your English is stiff, measured and proper - not a refreshing read but clear and commutative.
Ironside   
31 Jan 2016
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

sorry Ironside but with such personal attacks it's you who proves to be more of a dickhead

Look mishu mind your own business if you have feelings for Lyzko that is you problem. I know your opinion and I don't care much for it.

I will gladly adviSe you that the word is "thickheadedness":-)

Thank you Lyzko that is very kind of you. I have been looking for a word that would combine many 'qualities' and the word thickheadedness doesn't give a justice to what I have in mind.

How would you call someone with an abhorrent attitude combined with inferiority complex, stubbornness and lack of manners? Furthermore that someone is convinced that he is a very well mannered and helpful soul with good intensions.

Calling that someone a certain part of the human anatomy seems to be convening my intent quite well.
However I'm always willing to learn and if you could come up with an appropriate equivalent I'm sure it would came handy.
Ironside   
31 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

A voice in discussion. Matthew Tyrmand talks in Warsaw about many aspects of Poland's post-election political scene. He also talk in some length about reactions to the result of the last election in Poland in the leftie/liberal western media and their sources in Poland. In English.


Ironside   
28 Jan 2016
News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]

Yet you fail to provide one teensy weensy bit of evidence for your wild assertion.

Hmm jon you are in no position to argue trust me. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

My guess

You are the one that can be counted on to butt in rudely.
Ironside   
28 Jan 2016
News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]

And other parties are what, Korean ?

What others? PO or N are both Soviet parties.

Poland doesn't acknowledge a nation has a minority (see - Silesians, Ślązacy, Kaszubi)

Cause they are not a minority and never were.
Ironside   
27 Jan 2016
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

What about the twerps or people who wanted to learn English and failed, huh Wulkan??

Wulkan? Ironside not Wulkan. You really should lay off those meds Lyzko.
Read the topic of this thread. Tic tack tick tack - got it ? now let it sink in.
Ironside   
27 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

. And since you hate gays so much

Could you share how you came to that not so brilliant conclusion?

because he is an arrogant and hateful chap

Really? How come? So far he appear to be on of the most restrained and cultured as well as well mannered politician who is being constantly attacked haters, hate speech, slanders and vulgar politicians and other nasty people who lie all the time like Lis for example.

Nobody would care about his sexual orientation

Fact is nobody cares about his orientation but hypocrites and twerps.

in Britain snide little references to his homosexuality would be all over the tabloids.

In Britain you could have be jailed if they have caught involved in homosexual acts in the 70'. Maybe they didn't implement that law in 70' but few decades or even a decade earlier it was a very real possibility for gays to be jailed.

In Poland homosexuality was never persecuted by the law. Nobody cared , until these damned activist came together with their twisted ideology. Still nobody really cares.

I Would think that those activist if they would really care about homosexuals would be set against using alleged homosexuality of JK as a political weapon against him. Thing is they don't care about gays but about their agenda. Hypocrites.
Ironside   
27 Jan 2016
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Polish merely LOOKS like the hardest language in the world to learn, English IS the hardest language in the world to learn [right].

I'm not sure that someone really care about that. Maybe some twerps or people who wanted to learn Polish and failed.
Ironside   
27 Jan 2016
Feedback / Is it Polish forum or foreign forum? [159]

This does not feel like a Polish forum because of you.

Let me put it this way Ktos, for you are fairly new here, you have no room to complain, right now everybody has a chance speak his or her mind and every voice is treated equally, moderating got better, if you disagree with somebody and if they are wrong that is their right and their choice, should they be censored?

You can take my word for it things were bad in the past for two reasons; less moderating by the mods and Admin annoying attitude, foreigners were given more leeway than Poles. Right know that isn't the case. So man up and stop whining.
Ironside   
25 Jan 2016
News / Polish President vetoes PO's dingbat gender law [173]

Having a gender is dangerous how?

it can strangle you in your sleep.

By t he way don't pretend you don't know what he is talking about.

Well done Mr. President!
Ironside   
15 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Good news, as in more propaganda and less facts?

Really delph are you going to play this game now? There is not facts but only propaganda. Do you still want to preened that anti-Pis campaign in media has anything to do with facts? Find yourself somebody stupider.
Ironside   
15 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Another day, and yet more bad news for PiS.

hmm, give a two or three weeks more and there will be more of good news under new management in TV.