Travel / THE VIKINGS ARE COMING...what to do and see in Poland....? [30]

Bikers from lots of countries have been camping in Glastonbury (well a field on the edge of town, not literally in the town centre)all week. tomorrow's their last day, so they drove through the town on their bikes, flying the flags of their countries. A few Poles, a lot of Danes, the French were by far the noisiest, followed by the Italians.

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]


At least we speak our own language. The clue is in English from England. Not only do you not have a language of your own, you can't even learn to speak ours properly.

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]

Well DE, if you want to be really pedantic. The Germanic tribes who settled in what was to become England spoke different dialects. When they unified as England, the dialect used as the lingua franca was in fact the dialect spoken in Wessex, so English evolved from the West Saxon dialect. The dialects were brought to England by the English and it was the English language that was taken to America.

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]


No one can give a definite answer to that, apart from the point that the different tribes referred to themselves as Anglecynn, meaning they were of the same ancestry and related, they shared a religion and dialects that were understandable to each other, the Angles may have been the larger group. but it was a Wessex king that unified the people, so the Angles and their kin named their unified land Englalond, but it was Alfred King of Wessex who unified them who made his own dialect the main one.

UK, Ireland / 4 teenage boys held in UK - murder of chef stabbed to death as he celebrated his 30th bday [24]

probably, but it's racist to say so

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.

History / Historic Polish-Japanese intelligence cooperation [21]


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

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

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


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

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.

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]


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.

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


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

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

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.

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

Has Crow been writing your scripts?

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 / 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 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]

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

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

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 :)

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.

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

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


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

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]


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.

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

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.

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


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