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Posts by peterweg  

Joined: 16 Feb 2007 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 19 Jun 2020
Threads: Total: 37 / Live: 25 / Archived: 12
Posts: Total: 2,311 / Live: 2,043 / Archived: 268 		From: London, Battersea, Krakow.
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peterweg   
5 Apr 2010
Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]

Really ? Could you show me any job offer for a nurse in Poland, which says that English speaking abilities are requaried and that they will be obligated to use English at work ?

Sorry, I simply asked my GF who is actually a student nurse. Polish nurses now have English lessons and have to pass English exams in order to qualify. To become a nurse in Poland you HAVE to speak English to sufficient standard.

Do you want me to explain that again for you or are you simply going to decide that its not a convenient reality?

The reason why they are required to speak English is so that they can communicate with other EU citizens who are equally entitled to treatment in Polish hospitals.

Thats not fitting with your little poland worldview either? EU citizens have a RIGHT to treatment in Poland.

BTW, Polish Nurses are trained to British Royal School of Nurses standards - they are at least the same standard of training, possibly higher.
peterweg   
5 Apr 2010
Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]

Part of the reason was that Churchill didn't give a stuff about Poles, he disliked their selfishness.

Thats bollocks. Churchill was the only one who tried to stand up for Poland, the Americans sold Poland down the river.
peterweg   
5 Apr 2010
Travel / Krakow a safe and friendly city for foreigners? Read this! [161]

but anyway I don't think that nurses have English speaking in their job requirements.

Wrong there. Polish Nurses have English lessons and its its a job requirement now.

My GF is a student Nurse in Krakow.
peterweg   
5 Apr 2010
News / Should Poland made an energy bridge deal with Russia? [122]

If Poland would develop its huge gas reserves, it would be in a much stronger negotiating position vis-a-vis Gazprom and 'the bear'.

Poland will be developing its gas reserves soon. One field alone is equivalent to 1000 years gas imports.

business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article7087585.ece
peterweg   
10 Mar 2010
Language / English borrowings in Polish [38]

The Poles never had much pride in their language or culture. Are you joking?

No, he just thick. Some people are so stupid they cannot even begin to comprehend what that are saying.

Its just been proven that those less tolerant of other nationalities are less intelligent than average.
peterweg   
22 Feb 2010
News / The creator of The First Polish Computer Died [6]

He might have been a pioneer but having no influence outside the communist block wouldn't have made him prominent.

Quite frankly the contribution to the computer world from communist countries is zero.
peterweg   
27 Jan 2010
Life / Horribly cold in Krakow at the moment , how do you cope with such temperatures ? [124]

This is the coldest winter I have ever experienced.

This is my first Polish Winter, my GF assured me that is is not that unusually cold, but according to the BBC website the lowest ever January temp in Krakow was -23c. She might be telling me porkies.

Over the weekend we had two nights of -30C, my oldish (1950's) house north of Slomniki (30km north of Krakow) managed to be stay heated at +20C all night and day, used a lot of coal though. Fortunately I have another tonne of wood to burn next.

Personally the cold doesn't bother me much; dry, generally windless, its not that bad. Not like the 70mph blizzards you can get in the UK.
peterweg   
19 Jan 2010
News / Poland's Economy Is No Joke [63]

"Watching the world's leaders stumble their way through the economic crisis, it often feels as if political success and economic understanding are mutually exclusive. Even the Chinese, who over the past generation have engineered a dramatic turnaround from their Maoist economic nightmare, show a remarkable willingness to pursue a monetary policy (a currency peg to the U.S. dollar) that yields no benefit to their citizens. Amid this morass of economic quackery, it is refreshing to see a clear ray of sanity emanating from one country: Poland.

Last summer, I was invited to speak at the Economic Forum in Krynica, a resort town in Southern Poland. I was amazed at the level of economic activity and civic spirit that was on display throughout the country. I also was fairly surprised that my economic views, which are routinely ridiculed at home, have much wider support among the Polish economic officials who presented at the conference.

europac.net/externalframeset.asp?from=home&id=18021
peterweg   
13 Jan 2010
Food / Burgers, why not in Poland? [54]

Decent Burger?

Thats an oxymoron, anything that can legally contain 1% excrement cannot be defined as decent.
peterweg   
4 Jan 2010
Life / WHY ARE POLISH CALENDARS SKEWED? [42]

Sunday is the first day of the week for Jews and the US is following the Jewish system whereas Europe has the Christian Sabbath on a Sunday.
peterweg   
21 Aug 2009
News / Polish Mom claims daughter got pregnant from swimming in pool! [162]

Also if anyone of such supposed guys know everything "a sperm can't last that long" well then, how long does a sperm last?

Sperm either floats or sinks in water. It coagulates into lumps.

It doesn't, however, swim through cold, disinfected water through swimming clothes (quite thick and with a gusset) and into a virgins vagina.

Sperm tends to be very, very welcome when its already inside said Vagina and ejecting from a pretty boys cock.

Number of women impregnated via traditional method: several billion. Number impregnated by swimming pool method 1 (allegedly).

Odds of swimming pool method of conception - several billion to one, if not more.
peterweg   
6 Aug 2009
History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [901]

tornado2007

i know that some Poles joined the RAF but apart from that i'm not sure, anyway after all this talk of Britain 'doing it for themselves' the Polish didn't exactly join the RAF for something to do, they were a little pissed at Jerry, if thats not doing something for yourself i don't know what is :):):):):)

Fourth largest Allied army throughout the war, something like 250K fighting at anyone time.
peterweg   
25 Apr 2008
Life / Hepatitis C in Poland...please help. [59]

Hep C in

USA 1.8%
Poland 1.4%
UK 0.02%

pkids.org/pdf/phr/03-06hcvglobal.pdf

>Why is there a major MRSA crisis in the UK?

Is there or is there a new sudden reporting of it. US hospitals simply hide the statistics, in fact MSRA is far more common in the US due to the over abuse of antibiotics that has been going on for decades. Nation figures show that but individual hospitals in the US are miraculously clean.

I read a report a few years ago, over 8% of samples sent to US labs had anti-biotic resistant infections, in the UK it was about 4%. With those sort of figures you can clean all you like but the patients are already infected.
peterweg   
25 Jul 2007
Language / English borrowings in Polish [38]

You could look at the London Polish magazine, 'Cooltura' .

A Russian translator friend commented all the strange Polish/English words
peterweg   
22 Jul 2007
UK, Ireland / Warning to British people visiting Poland!! Don't get drunk and smash the place up! [447]

another example of your brain possibilities, you have just again agreed with me that your level is just too low for polish users of this board, shame that just like brits are trying to destroy krakow, another brits of the same low level ar tring to destroy this forum. Best way is to ignore him until admin kicks him out.

Hello Mr Pot, have you met Mr Kettle?
peterweg   
17 Jun 2007
UK, Ireland / Polish Beer In The UK [98]

Most beer is good, except American and Mexican which are bland and tasteless. However, Continental Larger as we call most countries beers are just type of beer. Larger is drank because its basically tasteless and cold, there is little difference between Larger throughout Europe. If you had a blind tasting of every bottled larger in Europe you will be very unlikely to pick Polish or any other nations brew out (some of the best German beer, possibly excepted). They are mass produced for eas of transport and shelf life.

English Beer goes from anywhere from 3% to 12% (when its called barley wine). There are 2500 different ales brewed by 500brewers in the UK. If you go into a Uk bar and order Stella, Fosters, Heiniken or any other largers you are not drinking English beer. If you order beer purely based on its alcohol strength, then you are a peasant who no right to make comment on good or bad beer anyway.

camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=180657
peterweg   
21 May 2007
Life / Prices of cars in Poland? [88]

My friend imported his car from the US. He never drove it was so expensive on fuel he couldn't afford it. US cars also are generally to big for European roads and you are likely to get treated like crap for driving a obnoxious car. Two of my neighbours have 'I am a ****' painted on their BMW's...

Its obviously more lucrative to buy second hand in West Europe and ship to Poland. Anybody going to answer the question about registration and tax in Poland? I assume you can drive it as it is for a year or two, as many Poles do in the UK.
peterweg   
10 May 2007
Love / All Polish women can't be nutters can they? [257]

God I hate reading about similar situations, But have faith :)

No don't, it is pretty hopeless. I had the same and think my present relationship is going the same (although not with the sex being turned off)
peterweg   
23 Apr 2007
USA, Canada / CULTURE SHOCK! (of my Polish finance who visited the US) [210]

In US they always say: "Have a nice day" and smile when you shop. Never hear that in Poland. SHOCK!!!!

Yeah, but visitors to the US assume that they actually mean it.

Its a meaningless comment, they may as well say 'go **** yourself'

BTW, Ireland and other countries have added a tax of 10p or so on plastic bags to reduce the billions of bags that end up poluting the countryside. Free plastic bags at supermarkets are causing massive environmental damage in all countries, expect to pay for them in future - its not supermarkets being nice or nasty.
peterweg   
16 Apr 2007
History / Poland's January Uprisings of 1863 [76]

the irish rebels were outnumbered by the British. They won. Im not rubbing it in your face. Just saying being outnumbered is not the excuse.

Difference being that the Germans or Russian are quite happy to level a city and exterminate its population.