Travel / About the toll stops on the highways [17]

lol cant dispute that...:)

Travel / About the toll stops on the highways [17]


lol just the kind of statement that will really upset the English....thing is , it's probably true...

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [250]

maybe spend some more time with your half sister she might remember a tiny thing ...

there are plenty of Brits here. You might contact the Polish Cultural Centre i think its in Kensington or Hammersmith.

they would at least know about this kind of thing, where to look, and maybe have more time for it than embassy staff who are really only there to represent their living citizens.

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]

good to see you too.

Yes she has that movie/music transatlantic twang, but slips in and out of other ways of speaking.
If i was asked to guess without knowing she was Polish, i would have guessed French living in London or New York for a long time or something like that.

or maybe one of those nomadic international kids that go to Swiss boarding schools or little tutorial colleges in London.

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]

yes I was just thinking the same to be honest. but those African women can do tiny tiny plaits they are the experts. It takes hours.

I think you have to bring a packed lunch to the hairdresser lol

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]

it must be hard to find a good African hair braider in Poland i wonder how she manages.
was thinking of getting some nice extensions myself but decided it would be cultural appropriation ..:):)

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]

OK i watched the interview video and she has excellent second language English..also of course her father would know English being from Nigeria so she could have picked up a lot form him as well as movies and so on as she says herself.

anyone who says she has no trace of an accent just isn't listening.

she is a musician that is why her English is so good. she listens.

hey Atch how are you? Long time!

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]

well then she is perfectly bilingual - as you say there are levels of it.

when i was reading about this stuff i came across some idea that just a few 'get by' words in another language makes you 'bilingual'!! i dont think so!. It seems very subjective.

Anyway the people who are commenting about the way this girl speaks probably dont even hear nuance in accent they are too busy foaming with rage. or something.

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]

'she speak with no Polish accent' - it's called being "bilingual"

why are old men so sour and rude about her?

ffs i just looked her up. Simon Cowell himself pressed the golden buzzer to bring her to the finals. It wasnt Walliams having a laugh.

Cowell has been producing successful singers and groups for his entire working life . he knows what is good and what is not.

being a sour rude old troll upset because a young woman of colour is (a). Polish and (b). successful just makes you look pitiable.

and she doesnt have 'dreadlocks' her hair is braided

just to make everyone extra happy here is a 'Polish Plait' from the `17th century

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadlocks#/media/File:Sartori_Plica_polonica.jpg

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]

who even cares...although i would imagine a Nigerian man with the surname of James is already of mixed heritage.
Looks like she might be more white than black lol

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]

i am looking now...

i think the golden buzzer means she is just straight through to the finals.

genius show format AGT....invented by a Brit of course...lol

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]

lol..
i honestly don't know who Sarah James is i stopped watching daily TV a while ago now..but i do love a golden ticket....

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [250]

my apologies for being so rude xx i am racking my brains...

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [250]

ok so you can work on that last known address and other crumbs of information.
I have also done this for a mysterious grandparent.
Once you have looked at a few documents and checked ancestry for births, deaths, marriages you will have some names that you can take to facebook.

possibly with a leap of logic and some guesswork.
my brother and i found all kinds of living relatives right there on facebook! with their profiles wide open. Its amazing... you can google peoples names, and photos of them dancing the can can come up I swear.

i can look at records held by companies house and find out all sorts of stuff, addresses, names all kinds...
you have to become your own private detective.

good luck , didnt mean to sound so rude xx

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [250]

who is Wozzy? what are you on about?

you look on ancestry.com and get a copy of his death cert, for a start. that will tell you all kinds of stuff, residence at time of death, place of birth etc.

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]

oh that just looks like a perfect dinner all round...

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [250]

oh er yes i see you mentioned SK above - should have read the thread.

that poor kid, he was so slight and delicate looking. just wtaf.

UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [250]

Sebastian Kalinowski - murdered by scumbags

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

no, is very good ....is just jak native

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

what happened to the Jews of Bulgaria then Lyzko?

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]

thats really cool. would appeal to the new bilingual generation of Polish youth

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]

yes exactly. Look at how atrocious the poorly translated English version of neun und neunzig luftballoons was - even the singer hated singing it in English.

Ok she was German not Polish but still...

and as well as the lovely Nena from Berlin, everybody has heard of Nina Hagen and she never felt obliged to sing in English.

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]

Ok she sings in English and she is very lovely....

still not as good as Alexandra Stan...

Life / Why Polish singers are not popular abroad? [95]

because of the language. English (and Spanish) are the languages of international popular music.

its a shame really

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]

reminds of the worst kind of food that people ate in UK 50 years ago.

Other than the weird jelly stuff i find Polish cuisine delightful though. i am always sniffing around the Polski Skleps

When i was a kid ( not quite 50 years ago but not far off) some friend of my mother's served up a chicken jelly...and salad....gross...

Love / Do Polish Women age well? [153]

Well maybe these middle aged 'females ' are sick of being regarded as your w'@nk fodder.
Just a thought.
Women get those veins usually after childbirth.
In magazines they would be airbrushed out.

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

Hahaha I knew you would. ..

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

Ah yes she is a cunning stunt.....

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

You won't never do that Pawian....luckily for you.....nobody speaks like the Queen except....the Queen.

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

'I never said nothing to nobody'....