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rozumiemnic   
10 Jul 2019
Life / Why are Poles in other countries called "Plastic Poles"? [168]

i mean, just because someone has a name ending in -ski, doesn't mean his granny wasn't a Cherokee, AFrican American, Pakistani, or Italian...

it would be almost amusing if it wasn't so sad.

it's like me claiming to be Irish because we had some Irish relatives who would come for high tea from time to time. You know, drop scones, jam, pot of tea, ham and egg salad, fruit cake.

Then going on a forum and lying about who i am in a confused manner...

..and then going on an Irish forum and giving it large about the evils of immigration to/from Ireland.
Do you see how silly that would be?
rozumiemnic   
10 Jul 2019
Life / Why are Poles in other countries called "Plastic Poles"? [168]

they're not Poles, they're mixed heritage Americans. Sorry.

and as for " They have no reason to now that Poland has a great economy and wages are much higher " - what does that even mean? If Poland had a 'great economy' then half the population wouldnt have left, like rats from a sinking ship, would they? no.
rozumiemnic   
10 Jul 2019
Life / Why are Poles in other countries called "Plastic Poles"? [168]

yet those non Poles are still exponentially more Polish than the british isle posters

what does that even mean? how can someone be 'exponentially' more one nationality than another? You make no sense.
The vast majority of 'Pol-Ams' maybe had a Polish grandad, tops. Obviously you are different.
Where was your granny from JOker? probably the southern states via the middle passage.
By the way Dirk, i dont disagree with everything you say, on principle. Uk is a **** hole, I know that. ONe of the main problems now is that there arent enough jobs. If only the Bulgarians, Roumanians and so on would eff off home. The Poles are OK .
rozumiemnic   
10 Jul 2019
Life / Why are Poles in other countries called "Plastic Poles"? [168]

Joker, the USA is a histhole and so is the UK. Let's not make it into a 'which country is histier' competition. Btw i am not and have never been an 'expat'. I wouldnt use that word anyway for old Brit men who married Polish women and got stuck there, it's far too glamourous.

As i have pointed out before, the UK 'Muslim problem' comes from the same reason that you speak English. Get over it.,
rozumiemnic   
10 Jul 2019
Life / Why are Poles in other countries called "Plastic Poles"? [168]

USA has its own problems of a slightly different nature. As i said, the reason why 1 in 5 Muslims (might be) Muslim, is the same reason that you are speaking English to me now <shrugs> - not a silly comment at all but rather germane to this thread.

Read a little history.
rozumiemnic   
10 Jul 2019
Life / Why are Poles in other countries called "Plastic Poles"? [168]

Could they be perhaps.... Plastic bulgarians and plastic Romanians?

:D :D perhaps they are...lol

some things are grossly exaggerated by the press though, Dirk, you must know that.

Dont mention the BBC licence though , I may start foaming at the mouth"!
rozumiemnic   
23 Jul 2019
Life / Why are Poles in other countries called "Plastic Poles"? [168]

It seem to be a purely American (Aglo-Saxon) "invention"

yeh it's a Brit invention coined to describe the kind of Irish people that were born in the UK, but ham up the Irishness. ( as 'Plastic Paddy')
rozumiemnic   
24 Jul 2019
Polonia / Poland and France cultures are similar [112]

i dont see anything about France and Poland to compare. France owned a large chunk of the world and told the people there that their ancestors were 'Gauls' - Poland never had any colonies. (sorry, have been reading Ryszard Kapuscinski)

French are mostly mixed race, Polish are not.

France has carried out savage colonial wars, Poland obviously has not.

French people don't wash, and Polish do.

Need i go on?
rozumiemnic   
24 Jul 2019
Polonia / Poland and France cultures are similar [112]

Yes i love the way France has 'stolen' Maria Sklodowska by trying to turn her into some kind of 'add-on' to Pierre Curie, when in fact he was her assistant.

Ditto with Chopin.
rozumiemnic   
24 Jul 2019
Polonia / Poland and France cultures are similar [112]

Is Poland doing something to promote its popularity in France considering many Poles and their descendants helped form the modern French state?

well, apart from the ones that were deported to Auschwitz, that is.
That is what happened to many Polish and others who had moved to France, thinking it was a civilized place.
[url=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vel%27_d%27Hiv_Roundup][/url]
Mind you i suppose it could have happened anywhere...
rozumiemnic   
25 Sep 2019
UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [437]

There was me, another English lad, and a Latvian running around for 12 hours a

frankly, you were lucky to be even taken on. Our local meat facttory send recruitment teams to Romania and Bulgaria, while HR ( a Polish woman) routinely ignores applications from Brits, even while there is a massive sign outside saying 'we're hiring'. Might as well say 'we're hiring, but not Brits'.
rozumiemnic   
28 Oct 2019
Life / Mishmash facts about Poland and Poles [124]

Do you change times for winter and spring?

yes, the clocks changed on saturday night. Something to do with giving farmers more daylight, apparently.
rozumiemnic   
7 Feb 2020
Life / Why oh Why do Poles drive so incredibly poorly [100]

I think the test must be an incredibly low standard, tbh. I believe, for example, that the test requires action on a skid pan. What a waste of time, that wd be better spent learning about observations and consideration for other drivers, neither of which seem to exist in Polish driver training.

If i am driving here in the UK I would never overtake a truck with Polish plates, as they have zero awareness of or care about their massive blind spot, and if I see a car with Polish plates, I will hang back or even take a different route so i don't have to drive anywhere near them.

I am not being nasty, just honest.
rozumiemnic   
7 Feb 2020
Life / Why oh Why do Poles drive so incredibly poorly [100]

oh no we don't have to do that in the UK. There are plenty of foreign plates, and they are fine. It is just the Polish ones that really need avoiding.

Or perhaps it is the mentality, I dont know.
rozumiemnic   
7 Feb 2020
Life / Why oh Why do Poles drive so incredibly poorly [100]

is it? why?

I think that Poland must have the lowest driving standards in Europe, from what I have seen.

And yet at the same time, some of the most arrogant drivers. I am honestly curious about it.
rozumiemnic   
7 Feb 2020
Life / Why oh Why do Poles drive so incredibly poorly [100]

who drives in the UK? you or me?
oh yes , it is me. Hardly my imagination.
Your comments merely back up what i said about arrogance.
Maybe some Polish drivers dont think that UK driving rules apply to them, i dont know.
rozumiemnic   
7 Feb 2020
Life / Why oh Why do Poles drive so incredibly poorly [100]

If Polish drivers cannot adjust to driving on the correct side of the road for the country they are in, then they shouldnt drive, frankly. I have driven in Czechia and whining 'ooh i am not used to it' is no excuse for poor driving.

And frankly Pawian, you DO sound very arrogant, as ever, just dismissing my experience as 'imagination and forgetfulness'...what kind of response is that?

Not sure where you have stayed Lenka, maybe West Wales...? :D Mostly our motorways and A roads are pretty good.
rozumiemnic   
7 Feb 2020
Life / Why oh Why do Poles drive so incredibly poorly [100]

No, you are again imagining things. :)): It is your bad day today.

no, I am merely reporting what i have regularly observed as a long term driver in the UK. Sorry if that hurts your feelz but i cant help that , nor do I care.
rozumiemnic   
7 Feb 2020
Life / Why oh Why do Poles drive so incredibly poorly [100]

oh lay off the smoke, Pawian.
Milo and I see Polish drivers on a daily basis and it's no fun.
Strangely it is never Polish women at the wheel, only men...:)
I suppose I could do some academic research into it, but I doubt I would get the funding, tbh.
rozumiemnic   
7 Feb 2020
Life / Why oh Why do Poles drive so incredibly poorly [100]

highly possible they are just private opinions, not neccesarily based on true facts.

i might be slightly biased, I admit, but in my wide driving experience Polish drivers in the UK are fecking awful, with little consideration for other road users.

I don't hang back/ resist overtaking for fun, or because of my "imagination", or '"my bad day" (whatever that means?)

No, it is for practical and real reasons.

There, is that better?
rozumiemnic   
7 Feb 2020
Life / Why oh Why do Poles drive so incredibly poorly [100]

why? because there are so many Polish drivers round here. Local slaughterhouse y'see. Attracts them like wasps to a sugar pot.
Other reasons i cannot go into here.
rozumiemnic   
7 Feb 2020
Life / Why oh Why do Poles drive so incredibly poorly [100]

Pawian, in the course of this conversation you have dismissed my lived experience as 'imagination' ' my bad day' 'forgetfulness' and 'hysteria', and that i 'have a mental condition'. Just WTF?

I have really hit a nerve haven't I?
Would you talk to another man like that? I dont think so.
Get a grip of your responses and some self awareness.

I am merely reporting what i have observed, in the country where I , you know..live.