Life / Abrupt Poles explained ! [51]


That's your first fail, the Welsh are British, in fact they are the original Britons. The countries of Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland make up the British Isles. Like a lot of foreigners, you get English mixed up with British. The English by the way are not Britons.

News / Wroclaw man helping police after recent events in Norway [48]


Who knows, we could be next, maybe he posted on this forum and we all spoke to him. Crow could turn out to be Norwegian and not Serbian after all, such is the internet.

Feedback / Remove screen-names altogether. The Next Step In Improving PF! Personal insults would be impossible [35]


You only just figured that one out

UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK, you know were the door is [102]


Where I work we have to maintain our own profiles on our staff records database. We have to state ethnicity, whether we are straight, gay or bi, if we are transgender, what our religion is. My details change on a monthly basis

Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]


Yes, there was an i-phone virus going around recently where your phone wallpaper is changed to a picture ofRick Astley, it happened to one of my bosses at work.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8349905.stm

Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]


You've been hacking into my phone haven't you?

Life / What on earth is the fascination of Indians, Pakistanis and Nepalese with Poland? [112]


I recently had a brilliant British born Indian doctor, obviously he did his training here, so maybe that's the difference. He liked to be called Dr Bob as no one could pronounce his name.

My Dad has two German doctors at his group practice, one is brilliant, the other one is crap, but dad likes her because she's very attractive, apparently.

Law / Maintenance & Rights: Polish mother & child in Poland, Irish father in the UK [57]

Pity your dad didn't do the same with your mum

UK, Ireland / Is UK the new cradle of antipolonism? [161]


Coming from a farming family myself, I feel I must take objection to that comment.
What you should have said is some farmers are tight barstewards. This was the case in Tolpuddle in the late 1800s, when a farmer tried to cut the wages of his labourers. A group of them withheld their labour and started the birth of the trade union movement in this country. Victorian farmers couldn't bus in groups of Poles to do the work for less, if they could, they would have done.

UK, Ireland / Is UK the new cradle of antipolonism? [161]


exactly! and how much of that money did the agency give the worker? did the agency supply the accommodation? Was the rent taken from their wages? Employ people from another country, they'll need accommodation. that's one hold you can't have over locals.

It's easier and cheaper for farmers, or any employer for that matter, to use and agency than advertise.

UK, Ireland / Is UK the new cradle of antipolonism? [161]


it's one that boils my **** as well.

History / Pomerania -a Polish land since the creation of Poland and the German invaders. [60]


Is he still sulking? He doesn't know about the new photo facility on your personal info page. I'll find him a nice picture of a helmet, not a single pink butterfly wing in sight if he comes back

News / Poland warns against deporting its workers: hypocrisy? [35]

Stu, it's the same in the UK. I'm fed up with seeing Romanian Big Issue sellers.
Denmark is going the same way is Holland, the thing our countries have in common is a good social welfare system, which used to work, but it's being overstretched and is about to crumble. A third of public sector workers are now being made redundant because of it, myself included, I lose my job in October, hopefully I'll find another job before the redundancy money runs out.

UK, Ireland / Brits dislike freshwater fish? [11]

I like plaice best, John Dory is quite nice too.
Growing up by the sea I was spoilt for choice, fresh mackerel with new potatoes :)

UK, Ireland / Brits or Poles more eager to try new foods? [17]


I remember watching my grandmother make jellied eels, they still wiggle when you cut them up, even though they are supposed to be dead :(
And, I remember watching my dad make brawn, you don't want to know what goes in there

News / Car theft in Warsaw (the most popular cars among car thieves in Poland) [54]

As I've not seen them carry knives or eat swans, I cannot say that can I? i can only comment on what I have seen from this one small group of individuals

News / Car theft in Warsaw (the most popular cars among car thieves in Poland) [54]


I wondered how long this would take. I make a remark about one dodgy family from Poland moving into the street and suddenly it's racist. I would make the same remarks if they were English, Irish or outer Mongolian chavs. As much as it may hurt your senses, there are criminals in Poland and Polish criminals coming to the UK. If you saw the people who have moved into this house, you would have your doubts about them too. I make a comment about one group of Poles and it's suddenly "ooh she's racist towards all Poles" I'm sure not all Polish families have broken disused fridges stuck in the front garden making the street look like a tip, or pile up empty beer and vodka bottles and used cigarette ends besides the rusting kitchen appliances, but this family does. But it would appear that neither me nor my neighbours are allowed to complain about this family, because they are Polish and that makes us racist. I bet their neighbours in Poland were glad to see them move and I bet they had doubts about where he got the van from as well.

News / Car theft in Warsaw (the most popular cars among car thieves in Poland) [54]

they've only just moved here, so they brought the car with them. He does look dodgy though

News / Car theft in Warsaw (the most popular cars among car thieves in Poland) [54]


I have new Polish neighbours, they have a left hand drive VW, white van. They do look a bit rough, a builder bought the house a few years ago and turned it into bedsits, a couple and their young son now live in one of them, the father only wears vests, he walks down the street in his vest. As for the mattress they unloaded, I've seen better in front gardens on council estates. Do you think this VW van might be stolen?

News / Sex is patriotic: Poland's birth rate rises [34]

Has Crow been writing your scripts?

News / Rostkowski's comment about Greece from people who will pay nothing [11]

My cousin lived for years in Greece, but lost his business recently. he told my uncle (his father) that teh Greek people are a lot to blame for their own problems. He has many Greek friends and loves the country, but he said he has never come across such a lazy bunch of people.

Some years ago funding was given for a new road to be built where he lives, it would have improved tourism in the area, while creating jobs in the meantime building it. The money was taken, but the road has never been built. He said there are many more examples of this across Greece. He feels sorry for the hard working Greek people he knows who are being let down by their countrymen.

UK, Ireland / The number of Anti-English Poles... [228]


Wrong, I hate being hot, it makes me irritable and bad tempered.


Buy one get one free at JJB sports

Love / Polish male partner's Vile female colleague [7]


ooh, I like that one (must make a note of that, could be useful)

News / Germany provoke Poland using Silesian question. Poland's attitude ? [124]


No I didn't, unlike you, I wouldn't try to comment on something I know little about. The Scots (descendants of the Scotti) speaking English doesn't make them anymore English than an American, they do however, share their ancestry with the Irish. I was pointing out your mistake in using a statement like the Scots being of Irish decent as an analogy to point out Silesians aren't German.

News / Germany provoke Poland using Silesian question. Poland's attitude ? [124]

yeah and you tried to make the point that it's just as ridiculous to say the Scots are Irish as it is to say Silesians are German. You fell down with that argument, because the Scots are descended from an Irish tribe called the Scotti who invaded what would alter be named Scotland after them

News / Germany provoke Poland using Silesian question. Poland's attitude ? [124]


The Scotti came from Ireland into what would later be named Scotland after them, so the Scots are historically Irish.

UK, Ireland / Poles top the UK's EU crime figures [78]


Yeah, I notice that every time I read one of your posts

Travel / Which bus from Poland to London via the Eurotunnel? [27]

I'd rather a ferry than a tunnel any day, each to their own


Can I ask what was so bad about the trip? Dover to Calais can't get that rough, apart from the booze cruisers that is

History / Historic Polish-Japanese intelligence cooperation [21]


Those that were in the Far East always referred to it as the forgotten war.

History / Historic Polish-Japanese intelligence cooperation [21]

I think I've mentioned this before, when I was a child we had three neighbours who had been Japanese prisoners of war, two of them soldiers, but one woman was a child in Burma when she, her mother and siblings were taken by the Japs. One of the men had managed to rebuild his life, but had a deep hatred of the Japanese, would not have any Japanese products in his house, the other was on a permanent return trip to the mental hospital where he eventually died. The lady whoa was just a child when taken by the Japs had snow white hair, she was born with black hair, but it turned white when she was 13 because of the treatment she received. She told me how her brother aged ten had a fever, the Japs said he was infectious, doused his bed with petrol and was about to set fire to it, with the boy alive in it, when a doctor stopped them saying that it was not infectious.