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NorthMancPolak   
21 Oct 2012
UK, Ireland / Poles working in Manchester, England - request for facts [34]

Thanks for the reply. I had thought about going into Polish shops but to be honest I'm not totally sure where to find a lot of them, any recommendations other than what you already posted?

Also I knew there was older communities but I was looking to research the newer communities for this project

Let's face it, you're never going to return to this forum (these "researchers" never do :p ), but this link may be a good start for others who are genuinely interested in such matters:

If you actually come form Manchester / live here, you only have to walk down a street in a not so pleasant area (Cheetham Hill, Salford, etc. etc.) to find a Polish shop

oi... some parts of Salford :p

Try Prestwich, probably a better class of person who owns the shop as its a nice area.

That one closed a couple of years ago.

There used to be the Polish Circle club on Cheetham Hill Road, but its closed now...that would have been a very good place to get some info.

According to "Shameless", there's one in Benchill! This is false. lol
NorthMancPolak   
21 Oct 2012
UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]

If I was dying I would want to die in Canada. My home country. Why is so outrageous that she wants to do the same.

omg! I agree with something pip wrote! lol ;)

Her family probably works, would you expect them to quit their jobs and come to Ireland so that you can moan that there is more Poles in the Islands? She is not getting government to pay for her trip back.

+1
NorthMancPolak   
21 Oct 2012
Love / I live in Holland and i never meet a good polish guy. [33]

JustysiaS

OMG.

She's back!

lol :D

I.m a girl and was a virgin too until i met this polsih boy...I was uncertain first, but I;m now in love with Polish men..They are real gentlemen and are the best lovers

How many have you slept with? Your post suggests that you may only have slept with one - in which case, you have NO idea who makes the best lovers.
NorthMancPolak   
18 Oct 2012
Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [380]

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
Life / Poles and the temperatures they heat their homes [36]

absolutely true. part of the reason Polish children are always sick.

It's that ridiculous Polish idea that you have to do certain things "bo zmarzniesz" - like being forced to wear a jumper in June, when all your mates are out in T-shirts :)

furnace

Furnace??? :D

I used to live with a Canadian - some of the words she used made me laugh, too ;)
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   
17 Oct 2012
Food / What made in Poland produce would you recommend [110]

I've had three of these today, because they're 3 for £1.00 at Tesco (one of the very few things I buy at Tesco these days, Sainsburys all the way):
NorthMancPolak   
16 Oct 2012
UK, Ireland / Why Manchester rules over Warsaw :) [65]

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

I love the accents round here, though I prefer those from north of the M60, like Bury/Bolton etc.

Salford accents do it for me, too - the chavvier the better. Very unusual for me, as I'm not exactly keen on "council estate" accents, but Salfordian is a unique exception :D Which is just as well, seeing as that's where I live :D You won't hear too many of these on TV except a few Corrie actresses, and Janeece from Waterloo Road of course. I suspect that this is what isthatu2 may mean by

But the other version can cut diamonds at a 100 paces :)

lmao

The estates on the way in from the airport looked pretty grim.

It's nothing compared to places like Collyhurst, Newton Heath, Clayton, Gorton etc. The rough parts of south Manchester get all the press, but there are places at the other sides of town which I would be much more wary of wandering around in. And that's not even mentioning the dodgiest parts of Salford (i.e., most of it).

Id like to go back as an adult and explore the place.

Yes, you definitely should. It's changed a LOT in the last 15 years or so.
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   
16 Oct 2012
Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]

+1

Don't you get the feeling that he was bullied by girls?

I bet she was from that so-called "media-controlling" community as well :D

It is all true. I prefer working with men as well in the office too.

I work in a mainly female environment (and I like it that way). Occasionally men are the majority on a shift, but that's always good fun - we can talk about cars and footie and hot chicks for a change - it somehow makes it more fun if manliness only dominates from time to time haha.
NorthMancPolak   
16 Oct 2012
Life / Polish vs British vs American - Clash of cultures [390]

But Pawian, you shouldn't believe everything you read! This is the Daily Fail after all.................:):):):)

It's pawian who is full of fail, as always...

One in six British women struggles to crack the art of cooking, a survey revealed today.

Yet our Krakowian self-proclaimed "genius" fails to understand that the above statement means that 83% of British women CAN crack the art of cooking".

Which probably means England 1, Poland 0 (or it could be if they had closed the roof in time, lol).

Pawian have to agree with Pam nobody eats that crap for breakfast unless they are builders or farmworkers and have already worked a few hours before breakfast.

+1

It's too expensive for breakfast anyway.

I have porridge :D
NorthMancPolak   
14 Oct 2012
Life / Polish vs British vs American - Clash of cultures [390]

Me too. Most of my English girlfriends cooked pretty well. The least likely to cook was an ex from Bydgoszcz, so let's put an end to the lazy generalisations. There are loads of great British chefs, whereas Poland has a half-French guy (iirc) and Magda Gessler, lol :)
NorthMancPolak   
7 Oct 2012
Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]

No, but my profile tends to be self-explanatory anyway.
NorthMancPolak   
7 Oct 2012
Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]

Perhaps he needs to be asked 10 times, like Polonius :D
NorthMancPolak   
7 Oct 2012
Life / A rant about "patriotism" in today's Poland [60]

Seriously, who in their right mind demands at least 160,000 pounds of Polish flesh per annum while simultaneously using every opportunity to declare to one and all that Poland is "his" country?

Someone who knows what the phrase "tongue in cheek" means.

Besides, Poland would be a better place if it lost 160 000 of its backward, religious bigots. As would any country, come to think of it.
NorthMancPolak   
6 Oct 2012
Life / A rant about "patriotism" in today's Poland [60]

It's better to praise and defend an adopted country, than it is to constantly bang on about "patriotism" after having deserted your country.

There are plenty on here who do the latter. Usually those who go on about "faggots", "the Jew" and "fuhrer Tusk", funnily enough. They can PiS off :)
NorthMancPolak   
6 Oct 2012
Life / A rant about "patriotism" in today's Poland [60]

And faggots will still keep talking about Polish artists not singing about Polish history. These are some of those times when I'm utterly disgusted with this nation

Personally, I'm more disgusted with people who continually use words like "faggots" on PF.

Chinese hasn't got a chance for one simple reason - they don't care about it being spoke

Spot on. The Chinese government is finding it hard enough to get the entire nation to adopt a common language (Mandarin), so they're hardly going to waste time on convincing the world that they should learn a language which is effectively only used in one country.

If Bieganski was correct, English would be dying out in Hong Kong, but the opposite is happening, even 15 years after the handover.
NorthMancPolak   
6 Oct 2012
UK, Ireland / Polish in Uk are some of the hardest working and nice people [37]

I know I'm a few years late with this but I would like to welcome all the Polish and other Eastern European people to the UK

Over 70 years too late, but thanks anyway ;)

thx for insulting us by calling Easter European

innit :)

This is a geographical map of Europe

Yugoslavia?? :D
NorthMancPolak   
3 Oct 2012
Love / Polish women and foreign men [76]

I been leaving in England for quite a while and met many English women complaining about English men who according to them only sit infront of the tv, watch football, drink beer and are useless at anything else.

Then they should get themselves a better class of man if they're fed up of such stereotypical couch potatoes.

I'm too busy with other interests to sit in front of the TV all day, I don't drink, and I work out a lot. I do watch mostly sport though. :D

If I wanted to generalise, I could say that a lot of women (Polish in particular) just want to sit at home in front of the TV, while chain-smoking, drinking whole bottles of wine, and don't like going anywhere because they have anxiety attacks if they do.

But that's just two of my exes :D

Unfortunately, on PF, such an experience with one man or woman tends to equal "all men/women", doesn't it?
NorthMancPolak   
3 Oct 2012
Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]

He hasn't got a plot, he has an agenda. An agenda which seeks to prove that all Polish women are either sl*ts, uneducated sl*ts, or are simply desperate for black c*ck.

He's being a lot more subtle about it now, i.e., his posts no longer end with "and everyone knows that Polish women prefer black men", but we know what he's up to.

Like Polonius3's obsession with homosexuality, he is clearly obsessed with black c*ck himself. Apart from healthcare workers, few men would know so much about Polish pen*s size, unless they had some sort of interest in gay issues - and he's made it pretty clear that he's not a nurse or a physician.

Polish women (not the decent ones, anyway) don't tend to go around telling people about their experiences of c*ck sizes, so we know he's trolling again. I've got four decades of experience with Polish people, so I think I've got a better idea of the truth than some trolling South African with an American passport.
NorthMancPolak   
29 Sep 2012
Off-Topic / Loading a photo of Poland from your mobile/cell phone takes 30 seconds, come on! [86]

Not quite Poland, more like Polishness in Salford really ;)

I should do a series. I could entitle it "Photos hudsonhicks would hate" - photos of Polish shops and/or businesses which cater to Poles round here.

Anyway, I was rollin' tru da endz in my babe magnet (jk) so I snapped the local "Funciak Sklep" (lol) :)

More later :)
NorthMancPolak   
29 Sep 2012
News / The consequences of a PiS electoral victory [22]

Just shows to go that urban legends are not always true.

That's the whole point - it's an idiom which is actually hyperbolic. You're not supposed to take it literally.

Someone who uses so much hyperbole in his posts should know this.

Then again, you should know why we don't think PiS are good for Poland, but you don't.