Food / Polish roast pigeon anyone? [17]

Recipes?

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


Stupid term. If you move country to take up work or what is now becoming more common, welfare, then you are an immigrant.

Simple as.

UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]


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I am a Polish citizen living in Ireland and i just can’t believe how indifferent is Polish embassy in this case. I hope that something like that will not happen to me or any other Polish people living in Ireland because the only support we can count on is from all good people like you, regardless nationality. I think that everyone who feel that is a shame that Polish Embassy did nothing to help that girl and her family should sent an e-mail and tell them what feel about that, it will cost you nothing. Polish embassy e-mail; dublin@msz.gov.pl

Comment from one of your compatriots. Contact them with the email address quoted.

UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]


Ever watch Banged Up Abroad ? Some British embassies seem to do more for British citizens than others. Some reps/ambassadors will do their best to help, others are only too happy to kick back, do the square root of fooooook all and collect a nice cheque each month. Par for the course in the civil service.

Food / Any królik (rabbit) fanciers on PF? [76]

Rabbit stew served with crusty bread. So good.

There are abundances of them in my local park, but I wouldnt have the heart to hunt them. Too cute.

Food / Any królik (rabbit) fanciers on PF? [76]

Any decent recipes?

Food / Any królik (rabbit) fanciers on PF? [76]


Love eating them.

UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]

I cant believe I got into an argument over this. I gotta look at myself in the mirror! hahaha!

My own moms passed from the same disease so I am kinda disgraced with myself for starting an argument over this..

UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]


Dude, if my government flew her home in their government jet and gave her 100,000 euro to enjoy the rest of her life I wouldnt complain.

I wish this chick nothing but the best, but sometimes that doesnt flow across the interwebz.

I salute her fam and everyone whom donated the few euro but am just wondering if it could be spent better. Is all.

UK, Ireland / I'm currently living with a Pole who has been claiming benefits in the UK [35]

Where can we view the discussion? Has it been uploaded to Youtube yet?

UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]


Ours do. Within reason.


Its at 33,000 euro plus now. And the journal is a puff piece online paper. Great for candid articles, pretty useless for everything else.

The story was in the Irish Times 24 hours before the journal.ie picked it up.


VHI? Maybe, I dont know.

All legal residents are entitled to practically free healthcare in public hospitals. The hospital she was in is not a private hospital. So I doubt she had VHI.


Iam well aware of the Smoleńsk tragedy. I was talking about our jet. I am surprised her friend did not contact the Minister for Foreign Affairs to try and arrange a cheaper mode of transport. Gilmore is a decent skin and I have no doubt that he would have made it available to her and fam.

I understand she needs her medical equipment to be on board with her at all times, so normal air travel is out of the question. But charging 20 odd large to fly here home seems rather excessive.

A very sad tale and I hope she gets to enjoy her final moments with her fam and in her homeland.

UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]

€ 33,821 raised by 1,299 people in five days.

Fook me pink !

UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]


Government agencies have contributed and the state took care of all her treatments and healthcare.

I dont know why her friend didnt request for state help to relocate her back to her family. They probably would have organised the governmental jet. Or else arranged for transport much less than the 20,000 euro quoted.

Bit weird.


This has been proven wrong, time and time again. In face, thousands more are coming each month(there were articles on it, WB posted a thread here).

Probably not the time nor the place, but.

UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]


Your embassy or community didnt want to know......

UK, Ireland / Why Manchester rules over Warsaw :) [65]


Scouse accents are up there with Derry accents for me.

A weak spot.

The scouse and the Dub accent are said to be interlinked. Both port cities that traded with each other a lot. Il dig up an article about it you are interested.

When I am in my sisters for an evening she always watches Coronation Street. There is one character in it with a bit of a gammy mouth who serves the bar.

That accent, man. She would have even me belting out God Save the Queen if she asked.

UK, Ireland / Why Manchester rules over Warsaw :) [65]

A softly spoken mancunian accent on a girl can be an attractive trait.

Quick witted folk.

Mad about their football. Went to a United and Leeds game when I was a nipper. That was hardcore. After the game a load of lads ,around my age at the time, were looking on someone to start a scrap with whilst chanting we all hate Leeds scum. I kept me gob shut in case they took me for a Leeds fan. The Manchester United museum is something else. The locals working together to rebuild the stadium during the war and the Munich disaster show that its not just a club. Pity its gone all corporate and there are more plastic fans in attendance than real mancunians but thats modern football.

City centre was nice and the shopping is good. Cheaper than here. The estates on the way in from the airport looked pretty grim. I would say it would be great for a holiday. Not so great to live there. Unless you are relatively well off. Like most cities.

I hear Deansgate is a good time. Id like to go back as an adult and explore the place. Maybe see a few games, too.

Travel / Polish or British passport (child traveling to Poland) [51]

I think you can avail of the two.

Polish and British.

I may be mistaken, so dont take my word for gospel.

There are a load of Brits on these boards, so they should be able to clear it up.

Study / A foreign student wants to study Tourism. Visa in Poland? [7]

There are three decent schools for studying tourism and hospitality management.

Two of them are in Switzerland.

This is simply a case of availing of a student visa to decamp oneself into an EU nation.

Travel / Polish or British passport (child traveling to Poland) [51]

An EU passport is an EU passport at this stage.

Wherever you choose to bring him up, get him a passport of that country.

Then he can vote etc when he grows up.

Congrats on the nipper.

Life / Multiracial Poles [154]

Its called treason. Something you and your ilk are guilty of.

Cant practice the death penalty in the EU. I wonder why.


Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Everyone but its members and those that threaten its interests.

UK, Ireland / I'm currently living with a Pole who has been claiming benefits in the UK [35]


"Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again in the Highlands – Danny Alexander."

Harriet Harman

UK, Ireland / I'm currently living with a Pole who has been claiming benefits in the UK [35]


Cant view it here. Can you upload it?

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


That's it. A countries immigration policies should be that of an exclusive nightclub. No riff raff, no freebies, any trouble and you are out the door and only valued patrons allowed to become members.

Paws,

Fifty is the maximum number of men they can accommodate, not the cut off age.

That's only one of the many, many shelters available.

The shelters are absolute kips. Seriously, seriously dilapidated. The UK on the other hand has much better hostel and shelter accommodation available to their homeless population. Especially in London.

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]

Dunno. You guys dont exactly have a labour shortage there, do you?

Anyway. Heres an article from the Irish Times.

ANDREAS TILTS HIS HEAD up towards the strip lights in the kitchen. "Here," he says, rubbing three fingertips across scarring just behind his left ear. "Here. Bottle," he says with a heavy Polish accent. With the point of his thumb he shows how the glass beer bottle was stabbed into his throat. Behind him other middle-aged men sit over rickety tables eating yogurt or rice, or playing cards.

"At the Liffey," he says. The boardwalk? "Yeah, boardwalk. He was drunk too." He shrugs. "Life is brutal, you know?"

The Santa Maria off Harcourt Street in Dublin is the city's only homeless hostel specifically for foreign nationals. Here are Hungarians, Slovaks, lots of Polish people, Lithuanians, one Spaniard and, some nights, a Nepalese man.

It's men only, 50 at capacity, all of whom have been accessing homeless services for two years or more. There are 47 medium-term beds and three night-to-night beds with a different head on the pillow every night. Three floors, four or five beds per room, mostly bunks. Opened six months ago, it is due to close in the coming weeks. An existing hostel with 35 beds in the north inner city is to be assigned to migrants.

irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0317/1224313455175.html

Sad article. Probably best not to read it fully before bed as it will get you down.

Yer mans story is replicated a thousand times in both Ireland and the UK. Maybe you should be looking at ways to help out your fellow citizens and to bring them home instead of forgetting about them and importing their replacements. I am not trying to be offensive here. There are thousands of my fellow citizens sleeping rough in the UK tonight, too. Not that either of our governments give a damn. Citizenship only matters to these pr*cks when they want a vote.

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]

Give it ten years, bro. Its absolutely remarkable how fast a homogenous nation can change into a multikulti utopia.

The first black man I ever saw was at a BA checkpoint in the mid nineties. Now, I am a minority in my own area. Finished school in the mid 00s and there were about twenty foreign students out of nine hundred boys. Now, its majority minorities.

As soon as Poland and other accession states reach the level of prosperity that we enjoy here in the old fifteen states, you too will get your share of enrichers.

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]


Indeed. And the Catholic church is bringing in impoverished africans and parachuting them into rural communities where they have absolutely no ties or support networks. The tens of thousands of Somalis in Maine, for an example.

If the flock is decreasing, import more.

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]

I am very decent looking actually. For a mick. :)

Much better looking than any ethnic fresh off the boat! I had my photos up on here, before I started getting threats by pm.

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]

Them dudes in pawains photos are absolutely horrid looking !

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]

Three Polish men charged with the robbery of €30,000 worth of cosmetics from Kennelly's Chemist in Castleisland in the early hours of Tuesday morning were yesterday refused bail when they appeared at Tralee Court.

The three men, who had arrived in Ireland just nine days before the alleged robbery, were chased through West Limerick and North Kerry, and were eventually stopped at Glin.

They were questioned at separate garda stations and brought before Tralee District Court late on Wedensday afternoon after beig formally charged with the alleged incident, at Kennelly's Chemists on Main Street in Castleisland.

Gardaí objected to bail on the grounds that the men would be a flight risk, and may commit further crime.

Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]

You will need them to have 25-30 kids a couple to even start to break even on the job front, Paws!