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Last Post: 29 Nov 2012
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NorthMancPolak   
29 Nov 2012
News / Repopulating Poland with Ukrainians? [67]

Many Western Europeans bash Poland because they are jealous of our homogeneous nation

The homogenous nation you deserted, so you could move to a country which resembles those "cess-pits" you despise? Hmm...

The HudsonHicks' of this world are a tiny minority and should be ignored or riducled for fun:D

Anyone who spends so much time reading Polish forums (not this site) to check how many "benefity" are being claimed by Poles, clearly has no life, and cannot be taken seriously.

And since those Europeans who like diversity in their countries are in minority maybe they will themself ultimately move to the Asian countries?..

You won't hear me banging on about "diversity" all day like some do, but if I could find a job in my field in Hong Kong, I would move tomorrow.

Whereas I would never move to Poland - and it's nothing to do with lack of diversity.

What is better when a disfunctional mother have several children or when a decent couple have one baby?

Clearly the latter, but you'll never convince the UK government of that - and it looks like Poland is heading the same way.
NorthMancPolak   
24 Nov 2012
UK, Ireland / Polish Ophthalmologist in UK [28]

You need to get around more.

This from the guy who spends all day encouraging anti-Polish sentiment on Polish websites? lol

No they're not. You obviously live in a **** part of town.

Yes they are.

And I live in a nice part of town.

I could name dozens, if not hundreds, of streets in England which are full of shops owned/run by your South Asian friends.

Whereas even in areas which are full of Polish people, you will never find dozens of Polish shops in a row, and you know it.

But this forum is full of lying trolls, so you're in good company.
NorthMancPolak   
23 Nov 2012
UK, Ireland / Polish Ophthalmologist in UK [28]

but KSIĘGOWOŚĆ means accountancy not GROCERIES!!!

Are you sure that the owners of that shop are actually Polish???

hahaha!!! the fool is pwned again! :)

As anyone over here knows, just because a shop says "Polski Sklep" on it, it doesn't mean it is is owned by Poles, or even has a single Polish employee! :) But that won't stop his Pole-bashing agenda.

It's interesting to note that he never, ever complains about shops with names like "Desi Khanna" or "Mumtaz Food Store" - which are far more common.
NorthMancPolak   
18 Nov 2012
Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Spoken like only a man who knows nothing about girls can speak :)

Spoken like a man who has multiple banned usernames and once claimed to be a prn producer :D
NorthMancPolak   
18 Nov 2012
UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [168]

I can't imagine you giving up a seat for a pregnant woman or an elderly person since you darn right paid for the ticket and got there first.

HH would probably say "oh the last time I gave up my seat to a 'pregnant' woman, she replied 'I'm not pregnant ya c**t!!!' so that's why I don't do it".

Though I suspect that this is an urban myth, because (a) it never happens to me, and (b) I always get a smile and a "thanks".

Then again, I don't spend all Friday and Saturday evening typing "benefity how much Polish people" into Google, or posting cr*p about Polish people on a Polish forum. There's a moral in there somewhere :)
NorthMancPolak   
18 Nov 2012
UK, Ireland / English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it? [168]

Why Britsh people scarcely use kind forms of refering to strangers like sir, madam.

+1

(so you got bored of the guest account at last? ;) lol)

hudsonhicks should go to somewhere like Yorkshire - they think that rudeness and abruptness are something to be proud of round there!

Though the problem with such threads is that they always pick out some random "bad" event, and then ask "are all Poles/English/Jews/women/men/Catholics/Arabs etc etc like this". Not all Poles are like the mohery, and not all British people are like some "aspiring rapper" on the bus to Crystal Palace.
NorthMancPolak   
16 Nov 2012
Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [382]

I shall be reporting back again soon :)

See, I keep my promises ;) lol

Well, in the five years since I started this thread, there has been some change - some for the better, some for the worse. They are still my preferred carrier to PL, but I think I'll give BA another try next time, at least on part of the route.

Why? Because cost-cutting is increasingly evident.

While I don't mind not getting a meal on short-haul flights, there needs to be consistency. Only dry snacks were offered on the LHR-WAW flight, but baguettes were available on the return portion. In expectation of the dry snack again, I have bought a sandwich at the airport. Now, I don't eat a lot, so a ciabatta + a large baguette is a little too much for me! If they must make these cuts, then at least tell us exactly what we're going to get beforehand, not vague promises of a "meal" onboard.

WAW-KRK-WAW flights were fine, other than weather-related delays and a faulty seat on the ATR-72 on one leg - lack of meals isn't a problem, but lack of maintenance on an an already far-from perfect aircraft is.

A cramped "LOT Charters" 737 was used on the WAW-LHR portion... yet again. One of the reasons I only fly full-service airlines is to avoid the pitfalls of charters/low-cost airlines - I do not expect this kind of service downgrade on what is clearly one of LOT's most important routes.

Though it's not all downhill. The flight attendants seem better than ever - they've clearly been on some sort of customer service course during the past few years. Either that, or they moved the worst ones to other routes lol, but as I keep recognising faces, that's not necessarily the case. And both international flights were on time - for a change!!

They can't shut up about their new "Dreamlinera" though - the announcements make them sound almost like Ryanair now haha :) Nothing like blowing your own trumpet, eh... haha :)
NorthMancPolak   
1 Nov 2012
Life / I hate Warsaw. The worst part about living here is the people who move here from small towns, villages.. [124]

I lived in London for a year and a half...

Earlier, you said you have "been" to London, not lived there. That makes a big difference.

maybe things have changed now, but I was there a decade ago

That's a long time, especially in London. It has changed a LOT since then (and not necessarily for the better).

and sure there were arrogant people but I didn't get the bad vibes that I do in Warsaw.

You should go back. I'm not saying that will make you love Warsaw, but you may find that London isn't quite the same place you remember.

I say embrace it while it lasts, there are no better or worst cities

This is good advice.

Well, I was taking photos inside of a milk bar (bar mleczny,) and some guy thought I was photographing him and threatened to literally cut my neck with my dull butter knife.

To be fair, it's never a good idea to take photos of other people without permission, any seasoned traveller/expat would (or should) know this.

Oh yeah, probably the most beautiful city I've ever seen, from an architecture and aesthetic standpoint.

It's all subjective. I've been to Paris once, and I'm in no hurry to return. I've been to Warsaw dozens of times, and I will be back soon :)

in London it;s very much by area tho' isn't it?
you would have a quite different 'people' experience in say....Chelsea than Brixton innit?
I suppose warsaw is that bit smaller.

Indeed. Each borough has its own character. Enfield's probably the friendliest place I've ever lived in my life, yet it's nothing like the London which tourists would see.

Warsaw can't really be compared to places like London, Hong Kong or NYC, it's not big enough for a start.
NorthMancPolak   
1 Nov 2012
Life / I hate Warsaw. The worst part about living here is the people who move here from small towns, villages.. [124]

I've been to New York and London, and nowhere did I see the sickening stuck-up attitude that I do around here.

You've only "been" to London, whereas I have lived there for a third of my life. I can guarantee that there are plenty of arrogant, stuck-up, self-obsessed and money-orientated people there. Though I would add that this is the case in every major city I've lived in, these days at least.

Capital cities tend to have this on an even higher level, though. In some ways, it's justified - capitals tend to attract the ambitious (like me :) ), and it's true to say that I've achieved my greatest successes in London and not elsewhere. The downside is that you usually have to live in a totally different way to achieve this within capital cities (higher costs, longer travelling times, less space, more crime, no car, etc), which is partly why some people who live in places like Warsaw or London may think they are "better" - they aren't really, but if you are willing to endure certain discomforts in order to achieve success/money, it's hardly surprising that you may look down on the unambitious people you left behind.

This probably makes me sound a bit stuck-up lol, but I'm not, I'm just trying to explain that places like London are virtually a separate state within a country, and the rules are a little different there ;)

I like Warsaw - it's the only Polish city I really feel at home in, but I think that 12 months there would be more than enough for me.
NorthMancPolak   
25 Oct 2012
UK, Ireland / Poles living in the United Kingdom - give us a shout [11]

What were you teaching?

English. Haven't you seen his spelling and grammar? ;)

Though it's obvious that his thread is not simply about Poles in the UK, but is actually a thinly-disguised attempt to get more tenants for his landlord.
NorthMancPolak   
23 Oct 2012
History / "Westerner's" most ridiculous beliefs about the time of communism in Poland [73]

I ensure you I have never thought so.

Don't worry, I know you didn't ;)

Speaking that I don't consider someone who thinks that there was a cultural isolation as being mean or anti Polish or whatever. Just uniformed that's all.

That's about it - uninformed, and indifferent.

I've always considered it interesting how people from the capitalistic countries of that time imagined living under communism. Certainly many have some views influenced for instance by the media informations they were given in those times, right?

It was a long time ago, and I can't remember that much about the media reports, but I don't think that "culture" was really mentioned that much. But I don't think that this would make UK people think that Poland had no culture. I think most people weren't interested, that's all.

It affected families like ours, of course, because we had relatives over there, so we kept ourselves informed about life in Poland.

I think that most people would have thought of Poles as poor and oppressed, but not necessarily uncultured.
NorthMancPolak   
23 Oct 2012
History / "Westerner's" most ridiculous beliefs about the time of communism in Poland [73]

NorthMancPolak

By the way, would you agree or disagree that the Oxon's belief about absolute cultural isolation of People's Republic of Poland are widespread among other Britons?

Neither agree or disagree.

Most people over here simply have no idea about current Polish issues, never mind about how Poland was like over 20 years ago. Those who do have an idea are extremely unlikely to have oxon's attitude. Everyone I know who is not Polish, and had visited Poland before 2004, had nothing but praise for the people and the country.

Likewise, as I have mentioned before on this forum, there was virtually no anti-Polish opinion in the UK before 2004. The way that the trolls behave on here, you would think that we have been (for want of a better phrase) "white Pakis" for decades. This is absolutely NOT the case. Please do not think that the opinions of sad loser trolls on PF represent the majority of UK people.
NorthMancPolak   
23 Oct 2012
History / "Westerner's" most ridiculous beliefs about the time of communism in Poland [73]

Haven't you learned that oxon can't be taken seriously‽ He knows nothing about the real Poland!

Polish people do not embrace British culture. (James Bond is just pure drivel.)

More evidence that oxon has never been to Poland, or he would have seen that Polish shops are FULL of western CDs/DVDs, etc.

Compare the shelves containing western films, to the "kino polskie" shelves in Empik. And that's just one example. UK/US culture is everywhere in Poland - some may say there's too much of it!

Under communism, you did as you were told and you meekly obeyed. Your personalities and creative juices were stifled so you all grew up with absolutely no clue about what music was apart from the odd classical.

Rubbish. My mum was already a fan of the Stones/Beatles, etc. when she arrived in this country (1960s) - she became aware of this music by listening to the radio.

Even under communism, Poland wasn't a Third World village (even though people like oxon think it still is, lol.)
NorthMancPolak   
18 Oct 2012
Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [382]

If you were a genuine Pole, you'd know the difference between the army and the Straz Graniczna.

They are so easy to spot, aren't they? :D

Maybe those who have a negative impression towards Lot simply have a tendency to get a bad luck? ;)

Most of the haters seem to be American, not European. I wonder if there's worse service (and/or worse aircraft) on long-haul flights? The only problems I've had on my numerous LOT flights have been ATC-related issues - delayed arrival due to holding patterns around Heathrow, which is nothing to do with LOT, and typical for LHR.

I've got six flights booked between now and Christmas, and four are with LOT. I shall be reporting back again soon :)
NorthMancPolak   
18 Oct 2012
Language / Busha and JaJa [140]

drajwować karę, pejntowsć giejtę, klinować szusy

And you wonder why we laugh at certain Pol-Ams! Thank heavens I was brought up in the UK - where our parents taught us correct Polish, we were constantly corrected on our grammar, and we used none of this Americanised Polish nonsense.

It seems that 'busha' has rather become a word which signifies rather people pretending to live in a past which simply never existed and thus revealing their ignorance.

It's like those mythical English "good old days" where everyone left their doors open, everyone knew everyone on their street, everyone got on fine, there was no crime, and everyone was far happier - despite the fact they had to walk a bloody long way to buy a loaf of Hovis - which they had just worked for 16 hours in t' mill to pay for. "But it were great back then! We were poor but happy". Yeah right. Anyone who has been poor knows it doesn't make you happy. But nostalgia does :)

I was born in the 1960s, and no-one I know has ever lived through such a time, including people my parents age :)

Kids today will be talking about how things "aren't as good as back in the 2010s" in 50 years time. Mind you, we might actually have won the World Cup again by then... lol

I do not know from where he invents such hilarious stories. Even the script is bad.

+1

Then again, any real Pole knows that "jaja" means "b*llocks" in Polish, not "Grandad" haha :)
NorthMancPolak   
16 Oct 2012
Language / Busha and JaJa [140]

The word "busia" exists neither in this nor in another Polish dictionary!

And there is the point.

I knew the answer anyway, but I asked my mum to check. Like a second opinion, so to speak.

She replied "Co?? hahahahaha!!"

The latter bit sounded familiar, but I can't say why :D
NorthMancPolak   
13 Sep 2012
Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]

True, but only because they look like Polish women after nose reduction surgery :D

And the photo isn't flattering - the girl on the right looks like she's had a weird arm Photoshopped on, and the one on the left looks like she's got HUGE thighs! lol

I can't believe this thread is still going. No wonder so many people on here complain about Polish golddiggers - if you make them think they're the world's most beautiful, they'll act like they are! Some people deserve what they get, haha :D
NorthMancPolak   
31 Jul 2012
Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]

This is a pointless thread.

A pointless thread, but one with an agenda, no doubt. I'm sure the "guest" OP is actually one of those Serbs/Serb apologists who dominate (read: ruin) this forum from time to time.

The question is as pointless as asking "Simplified Chinese looks better, so why do Hong Kong Chinese use traditional characters?".
NorthMancPolak   
20 Jul 2012
Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [252]

s anyone else surprised to still be here as long as they are or have any of you seriously considered leaving, or even left, only to return again?

I left and came back, but a few of my threads still seem to pop up regularly - five years later :0
NorthMancPolak   
16 Jul 2012
Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]

Easy - the Pole would be wearing camo pants and carrying a reklamówka full of beer :D
NorthMancPolak   
16 Jul 2012
Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]

why would people assume you are not polish if you are white?

Line up a ginger-haired Scot, a Pole, a Spaniard, a Greek and a Jew of Baltic origin, and you would definitely see the difference in these almost equally-white people.

You guys haven't seen many Germans then ;-)

I'd have said more northern European. I don't think he looks at all Polish or Slavic, but he wouldn't stand out in Poland. An Italian would stand out more.