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Posts by JonnyM  

Joined: 9 Mar 2011 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 15 Mar 2012
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JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
Food / Cooking Polish kiszka [99]

but it can be eaten just as it comes

If your American kiszka is anything like our Polish kaszanka, that would be a very bad idea. Even worse to eat Polish kiszka uncooked.
JonnyM   
28 Feb 2012
Australia / Mail problem- Poland to Australia, delivery time frame [40]

Actually its quite good, cheap and fast.

I've always found it OK, though I've noticed that international mail (to and from the UK) is always far quicker from rather than to Poland.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
Genealogy / My dad's last name was Polak - Do I look in any way Polish? [57]

Polak is not a Polish last name. It means Polish man in Polish. Pollack is a fish.

The second and third statements are right, but the first isn't. I've met a few people here in Poland whose surname is Polak.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / WHAT IS IT ABOUT POLISH PEOPLE THAT MAKES THEM THINK THAT UK WANTS THEM? [309]

maybe you are all stupid and lack a vocabulary in which case you will all more than likely be employed as you pose absolutely no threat to your masters.

Or maybe in fact some of us posting in this thread are highly intelligent and highly paid professional people with marketable skills or a business of their own. Or both...

I'm waiting for some Polish people to agree with me that the UK must get out of Europe. Will I be waiting until I breathe no more?

Possibly, though if you had a look at some of the other threads here you'd find there are quite disparate views on EU membership within Poland.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / Increasingly more Polish children born and educated in UK can't write/read! [51]

I always thought that learning of the spelling in English language countries goes like that:
A teacher is showing a cardboard with the spelling of a word. Kids, this a word "you". Kids repeat. Then this is a word "apple". Kids repeat. Pure rote learning.

No. That system doesn't work. There are several approaches, among the most controversial being phonics. Many children (usually those from educated families) can already read to an extent when they start school at 5.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
History / Poland did reasonably well in land terms out of the postwar settlement [270]

The German Danzig ceased to exist because all its inhabitants left for Germany or were killed during or shortly after the war.

There are still quite a few people of German descent in Gdansk, especially around Wrzeszcz, as well as Poles from the area who have some German heritage.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
News / Police and priests save homeless in Poland [29]

Most homeless (in the sense of rough sleepers) are jobless and have all sorts of other problems. When someone gets to that situation in life, they need a bit more help than being given a pair of shears and pointed at a garden.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / Increasingly more Polish children born and educated in UK can't write/read! [51]

Btw. I've always wondered if the early start of education in English language countries is forced by the complicated spelling rules?

No. It starts early because that is the most effective system and educationally the best practice.

kids have many memory work to do... learn the spellling of all words of their language. Is that the case?

Not at all. Language doesn't work that way.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
Food / Comparison of supermarkets in Poland. Which one is the cheapest? [30]

I know one farmer down by Garwolin who sells all his produce for export and buys the stuff he eats himself from the supermarket. Something to do with soil contamination.

In respect of meats here, it does not take a rocket scientist to work out why the Poles have gotten so much taller over the last 25 years, when their favorite meat is chicken...

I don't eat chicken at all, for 3 reasons. One is the hormones and antibiotics they are fed with, another is that when I was working in Africa last year I ate chicken that tasted like chicken used to (i.e. tasted of something) and it was totally different to the rubbish we get in the developed world, but the main reason is the appallingly cruel way the birds are treated during their short lives.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / WHAT IS IT ABOUT POLISH PEOPLE THAT MAKES THEM THINK THAT UK WANTS THEM? [309]

Dude, I guarantee you, if you spent HALF as much time looking for a job as you do crying about it, you'd probably be CEO of something other than Sad Sack Inc.

+1

It's obviously easier for the guy to sit at home on the internet blaming the people who got the jobs instead of him than to go out and get work.
JonnyM   
27 Feb 2012
Food / Cooking Polish kiszka [99]

Kaszanka is most certainly not for eating raw 'like any cold cut'. It must be cooked first and can only then be eaten cold.

Kiszka (as made and eaten here in Poland) and kaszanka are very different things by the way.
JonnyM   
26 Feb 2012
Food / Cooking Polish kiszka [99]

I've never heard of raw.Try frying it with chopped apples
JonnyM   
26 Feb 2012
Study / Top Language Schools to Work for in Warsaw? [32]

This is one of the problems - a qualified teacher should be a methodologist anyway.

No, and this is one of the big issues.

A huge issue - aside from any matter of potential discrimination on the grounds of nationality, a competent and qualified native speaker teacher is likely to have a much better idea of how to do the job than some foreign 'methodologist'.

Country life is looking more appetising :)

Agreed. Such people perhaps need advice on heuristics, however they shouldn't be working at all. In Germany where the profession is unionised, they probably either wouldn't be working or would only be found in method schools.

expection?

Inspection!
JonnyM   
26 Feb 2012
News / Police and priests save homeless in Poland [29]

The homeless should be required to adopt neighborhoods where they are required to mow an trim everyone who lives in that neighborhood's yard

You may want your hedge trimming by a cussing tramp, but I prefer a gardener doing it.
JonnyM   
26 Feb 2012
History / Lech Kaczynski - was he a good leader? [88]

but respect for people who are not longer alive hence are judged by the highest tribunal.

No no no. If there is a 'highest tribunal', it/He judges us on what we do when we're alive. Being no longer alive in no way confers respect.

JK is a God-fearing, red-blooded man, and his love of pusssies should be ample evedence of that.

One day, I'll tell the whole story. It's a sad but general fact that people who are pestering you in the bushes at Błota tend look like JK rather than Ronaldo, and a young (and devastatingly handsome) foreigner might easily remember if he's told that the most bothersome pest is a former child actor whose twin brother wants to run for mayor. I wonder what he gets up to now he's much more recognisable.

I reckon most of them if they actually knew anything about him would run a mile - especially once they discovered just how socialist his views are.

Indeed.
JonnyM   
25 Feb 2012
Study / Top Language Schools to Work for in Warsaw? [32]

That sounds a bit like the work I do sometimes - mostly teacher training, school expections, examinations etc. Are the methodologists native speakers?