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Joined: 9 Mar 2011 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 15 Mar 2012
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JonnyM   
1 Mar 2012
Work / English native speaker without a teaching experience moved to Poland and got a job [66]

hat you can step off the plane and "teech Englisuch', you're going to get a nasty shock in today's Poland.

+1

There are always crap schools that employ people who don't know how to teach and pay peanuts, but at the moment the market is changing so such places have an ever greater supply of fresh meat. And the number of learners enrolling in such places is falling.
JonnyM   
1 Mar 2012
Language / Polish on the computer? [5]

The PoLish Programmers thing is easy enough to fix - just deinstall it via control panel. I only have English UK and Polish 214. You could probably delete Calibri, but I'm not sure that would be a good idea, better just to put up with that one!
JonnyM   
29 Feb 2012
USA, Canada / Texas Silesian Language [13]

Bloody Hell, this one goes round like a f*cked penny.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
Food / Comparison of supermarkets in Poland. Which one is the cheapest? [30]

However, when it for example comes to meat that is sold in Biedronka. Can I assume that those animals were not hold under species-appropriate conditions to ensure those low prices?

When the UK recently banned a certain type of pig unit due to extreme cruelty, all the equipment was sold to Polish farmers.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

It's not all skinheads and bovver boots now. A respectable organization

So some of them have bought cheap suits. Same people, same long list of convictions for violent crimes, same thugs.

more in common with socialist policies than fascist ones.

Stop being disingenuous. You know very well indeed that the dividing line between socialist and nationalist economic policies is inchoate.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
Food / How toxic is industrial salt? (some food factories in Poland used it for sausages) [49]

how toxic is the industrial salt.

And we've established that it's very toxic indeed and that there's a government investigation into companies who have been selling it to food processing plants.

Have you stopped using antiperspirants? Do you choose carefully when buying a t-shirt?

I only use essential oils and don't wear tee-shirts.

Of course such cases should not be ignored and carefully examinated. The point is not to panic. On daily basis our organisms are dealing with carcinogens yet we still alive and we are the lognest living generations in world's history.

I think it's too early for countries to think about banning imports of processed foods from Poland, however we can't be too careful about this.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]

Of course, their only option was to come to europe, bypassing dozens of safe countries along the way........

Their best option was to come to the country where they'd studied medicine, which they knew and liked.

The vast majority of asylum seekers are bogus.

Those who are granted asylum are far from bogus.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
Work / My friend is looking for a job in Poland with a physics degree [32]

With these noted skills, is it feasible for him to try to look for a non-teaching job with his physics degree in Poland?

Not really. There are plenty of people with degrees in Physics working in quite bad jobs here. He would be up against strong competition.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
Food / Cooking Polish kiszka [99]

It could work well like that but the result would be different. I just add big chunks of apple (red ones seem to work better than cooking apples) to the frying pan. I think that's how the French sometimes cook their version of kaszanka. It works with the potato filled Polish kiszka too.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / WHAT IS IT ABOUT POLISH PEOPLE THAT MAKES THEM THINK THAT UK WANTS THEM? [309]

They are lobbyists whose sole function in life is to pester politicians with enough material and opinion to make them change or alter some sort of traditional policy or viewpoint that has been seen as normal for a long time.

Most lobbyists aren't think tanks and most think tanks aren't lobbyists.

Your behaviour shows you as exactly what you are: a disgrace to your race and to your country.

Yes. An oxygen thief.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
Food / How toxic is industrial salt? (some food factories in Poland used it for sausages) [49]

If law was broken then guilty should be punished.

That's what the thread is about. And whether or not the government will be transparent about it due to the sensitivity of exports.

I merely saying that it's a silly to panic knowing how polluted environment is and how many artificial additives, which might be proved in future to be harmful, we eat.

We should take great care about what is added to processed foods, none of which are good for you in the first place.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]

Happened to a couple I knew from Iran. They came to Britain (where they'd studied medicine) as a real emergency with days to go before being arrested back home. No time to apply for a visa though they'd certainly have got one if they had. They were well-to-do people with funds outside Iran, and they rented a big house in a decent area and put their kids in private school. They weren't by any means a drain on the state - if anything the reverse.

As asylum seekers though they weren't allowed to work - even on a voluntary basis. They offered to work at the local hospital for free, to keep their professional skills up-to-date and as a way of saying thank you. But no, they had to sit at home instead for two years waiting for their (successful) application to be processed.

Ever get the impression that his in-depth knowledge of benefit scams and the dole could be based on personal experience with him?

Something tells me he's closer to all that than many on here.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
Food / How toxic is industrial salt? (some food factories in Poland used it for sausages) [49]

All salt is poisonous, as is pretty well anything in a large enough quantity. Processed food contains plenty of salt - also refined sugar. Especially so in Poland to reflect consumer tastes. Wędliny especially contains lots of salt and also saltpetre (Postassium Nitrate). Small quantities aren't necessarily harmful however over time neither salt nor saltpetre are especially good for you.

Industrial salt however has several definitions - 'salts' might be a better word than 'salt'. It is these other substances (which vary according to the type of industrial salts used) that are the problem. All are dangerous in their own way. If it is pure salt (as Polsyr says, without iodine) there is no problem. If the salts however contain things unsuitable for food use it is a whole different matter.

The industrial salts thing might be a fuss over nothing, however it needs to be investigated immediately, products from the affected factories need to be taken of the market, the investigations need to be transparent and this could lead to huge international lawsuits.

This is particularly worrying since Poland is a major exporter of processed foods.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
Food / Cooking Polish kiszka [99]

Admittedly a nip of 50% wódka is highly recommended to promote digestion.

Never a bad thing.

Worth mentioning that it's always a good idea to wash any kind of kielbasa before eating.