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Joined: 9 Jul 2012 / Male ♂
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sanddancer   
9 Jul 2012
Life / Wroclaw Stadium and the Queen gig. [20]

I saw freddy, john deacon and 'queen' in 1985 and Brian may on tour in about 1993-4... can't see the point of watching them now especially with the useless selection of vocalists that they choose.
sanddancer   
9 Jul 2012
Life / A rant on customer service in Poland [42]

WatWat

Poland and customer service arn't two words that sit together comfortably. I have had crap service from Multimedia and don't get me started on Citibank.
sanddancer   
9 Jul 2012
Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

What about road deaths! Polish drivers are the worst in Europe and constantly blame the road (whilst using a mobile phone whilst driving)
sanddancer   
9 Jul 2012
Life / Wroclaw Stadium and the Queen gig. [20]

Nice little earner though, not surprised BM and RT couldn't resist it. Massive audience there = mega bunce

I'm sure both BM and RT don't need the money. I saw Paul Rodgers in about 1991 and he was fantastic. I even managed to have a chat with him over a pint in the concert bar at the newcastle city hall. Queen should give up now and BM and RT should go their own ways. Queen died the day that FM passed away.
sanddancer   
9 Jul 2012
Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

Problem with the Polish system is that it is so hard to lose your licence compared to the UK. 4 speeding fines and it's a ban in the UK in Poland you can go on forever (it seems). Also in the UK the pedestrians have 'right of way' and the road system is geared towards them. Drivers in the UK are more careful as a result of this. Uk drivers also 'self police' slowing down the traffic or flashing at dangerous drivers. In the UK it is unacceptable to drive whilst talking on your mobile phone but in Poland it's the norm.

Unless Poland bucks it's idea up regarding road safety they should be banned from driving in the UK unless they are shown (by passing a test) as being competent drivers.

p.s. The EU doesn't build the roads. The roads are funded by the EU but built by incompetent Polish contractors because the insular poles wont get the french, germans or brits to build them properly.
sanddancer   
10 Jul 2012
Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

Have you ever actually been to Poland?

Yes I live here... and on average see 1 or 2 accidents (or the aftermath of) a week!

It's 20 points to lose your license in Poland and most speeding fines carry only a 2 point penalty (10x2 point fines) whereas 12 in England (4x3 speeding fines)

Car insurance also is incredibly low and the cost of vehicles at the lower end of the market is incredibly cheap. Add on top of this the state of some of the cars being driven! This makes it easy for idiots to stay on the road cheaply and hard for them to lose thier licenses. The Poles however, will always blame the state of the roads!

As for road building just read the debarcle regarding the Chinese contract for the new motorways and how the Poles would only deal with Polish companies that upped the costs.
sanddancer   
16 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / Poles robbing Poles in the UK [12]

for a few hundred euro

Pounds mate.. us Brits arn't part of the Euro mess!
sanddancer   
16 Jul 2012
News / E.U. Funds 2013-2020 for Poland [33]

delphiandomine

really keep telling yourself that. The EU is under pressure from all sides Germany, France and the UK to reduce the budget of the EU. The 80 billion for Poland would be a good amount to begin with. They will cut funding that wont directly effect their own! sorry Poland! Now it's time to fend for yourself!
sanddancer   
17 Jul 2012
News / E.U. Funds 2013-2020 for Poland [33]

We'll see how well the eurozone is doing once the debt crisis blows up to its peak

Exactly, I'm no fan at all of the whole 'Socialist Europe Mess!', the British government is in debt and will cut public spending on essential services and will still continue to fund 'road building' schemes in Poland. But for how long? The British public are getting nervy and are asking with a louder voice for a referendum on European membership. I for one will vote against membership and the UK can become like the Swiss. I don't know anybody in the UK that want's to keep handing money over hand-ove-fist to this useless ideal.

For those that think that Poland is getting cash for nothing take a look at the PIGS and see how many 'puppet' government the Germans have put in place. In Poland the mose anti-euro government all perished in a plane crash... coincidence... i think not!
sanddancer   
17 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / Poles robbing Poles in the UK [12]

Actually the UK is as much in trouble as the rest of the EU

Really. The UK has control of it's own currency. it gives a huge amount directly and inderectly to the EU. Without the EU the UK would return once again to is previous pre-europe standing in the World. Time to get out!
sanddancer   
17 Jul 2012
Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

You are such an ignorant person that I don`t even try to comment on your posts

Really what's so ignorant in what i said? The Poles gave the contracts to Chinese contractors which where made to buy materials at super inflated prices by Polish suppliers and therefore couldn't afford to finish the job. The Polish government went back to the EU with a bigger begging bowl to get the job finished.. of course this is all lies! doh!

In no other EU country have i ever seen tarmac roads with cart-ruts in them! Well done Poland!
sanddancer   
18 Jul 2012
News / E.U. Funds 2013-2020 for Poland [33]

Anti-Euro government? May I remind you that President Kaczynski failed to remove Poland from the EU despite having the mandate to do so?

And we know what happened to him! But it's easier now for the Poles to blame the Russians or the Pilots then the forces that were really behind his death! Do you need a list of 'EU victims'?

And if you knew anything about the EU and how it's funded, some of that cash comes from Poland too.

The UK has been a nett contributor to the EU every year since it joined bar 1975. (The year of the UK referendum). How does any cash injected by Poland into the coffers cover the amount injested by the CAP and European regions development funds? The UK does gain some cash from the CAP and a small amount from regional development but if the UK were to leave the EU this amount would be covered by central government. What makes you think that I know less then yourself on EU funding? What makes you think the average German or Frenchman on the street is happy giving money hand over fist to the EU? Look at the trouble the Germans are having at the moment.

Many Eurozone countries are doing just fine - Estonia, Slovakia, Luxembourg, etc.

Luxembourg, Estonia and Slovakia are also nett gainers from EU funds, you cant look at these coutries as being especially successful.

What, tied to the EU through non-negotiable treaties without a say and paying for the pleasure of it? Yes, I can't wait!

Do you work for the EU? The UK god willing will have a referendum sooner then later and the people and not the EU will decide on the future of the UK. And for your information (Miss 'i know more then you about the EU') there is a clause in the Treaty of Lison (TEU article 50) which states that "Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements." What part of this is non-negotiable? There are also acts of parliment in the UK which states that no laws made outside of the UK can overtake UK laws. If the UK decided to leave it could. Unless you know different?
sanddancer   
18 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

For all of the others on here who think that the press are anti-polish here is an article from todays Daily Mail. Maybe they shouldn't print this in case they upset the polish populous. Maybe the UK government should demand an apology from Poland for the actions of its citizens within the UK?

Here are a few more...to be proud of.

deadlinenews.co.uk/2012/01/26/police-hunt-man-in-connection-with-polish-murder/
independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/pole-who-murdered-six-people-tried-to-kill-himself-last-month-2338185.html
sanddancer   
18 Jul 2012
News / E.U. Funds 2013-2020 for Poland [33]

I'd be interested to hear how the EU made the Captain go below minimums.

Thats what the EU led Polish investigators want you to believe!

I'm also sure the average Brit would love to be subject to the 90/180 day Schengen rules, especially all those Brits in places like Spain who have never bothered complying with the requirement to register their residence.

Not good for the UK? are you crazy? Do you know how much the UK gives to the likes of Germany and France in trade deficit? If the UK left the EU they would just stop trading with the UK!!!.. get real! As for cigarettes the importation of cheap cigarettes from the EU wouldn't exactly hamper the exchequor! Try again!
sanddancer   
18 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

Really. Did you see the figures from crimes commited by Poles in London? People do lash out at Asians. But for the Poles to think that they are generally 'picked-on' is utter rubbish. Poles are emmigrating their problem to the UK and then denying that they are by using the 'anti-polish' card. (same as other minorities do in the uk) The times that they come on here and talk about the Guardian. the Guardian only prints news (if its a lie then the Poles can easily take them to court in the UK)
sanddancer   
18 Jul 2012
News / E.U. Funds 2013-2020 for Poland [33]

Of course, the Russians found exactly the same cause. Are they led by the EU, too?

What makes you think that i don't work? Wrong again!

It would be perfectly possible for the EU simply to tax non-EU financial transactions for much of the business to flood out of London and straight into Frankfurt.

Less favourable terms! How would that work..we have a massive trade deficit with them already? WE BUY MORE FROM THE EU THEN WE SELL!! UNDERSTAND??

As for taxing London they keep trying and failing! Face it the EU would collapse if the UK left and they will try to use all kind of threats to keep the UK on their 'socialist nightmare of a gravy train'!

Face it most of the UK's positive balance comes from trade comes from the US and trade with Commonwealth countries. We don't have to rely on the EU as much as other countries do. If we left we could sort out the deficit and industries that are suffering because of EU legislation could recover. (Fishing, Manufacturing etc)
sanddancer   
18 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

It took me 2 minutes to get that list above. But on that small list you will see that it's definately an ongoing thing of Poles killing people in the UK 'constantly' (continally occuring). As i said before if the Daily Mail prints so much rubbish then why haven't the Poles complained more about them officially? Every murder commited by a Pole in the UK is damning.

The Expats in Poland don't murder people 'constantly'...why's that then?
sanddancer   
18 Jul 2012
News / E.U. Funds 2013-2020 for Poland [33]

And where will the money come from to buy when a financial transaction tax sucks the life out of the UK economy?

Really? Keep telling yourself that.. i'm sure the European companies and citizens based in the UK wouldn't allow that to happen. If that was the case why hasn't the eu clamped down more on the fiddle that is swiss bank accounts?

Collapse? Hardly. In fact, one of the first actions would be to launch a financial services tax - you know, exactly what Cameron vetoed. Boom - UK is in trouble overnight.

A tax of a mere 0.5% on non-EU financial transactions would cripple London. A bloc of 380 million people (and more on the way) could quite easily bully the UK into begging for membership for a second time

Keep telling yourself that the EU needs the UK less then the UK needs the EU. Nobody in the UK believes you. 380million people trade less with the UK then the UK does with them... it's a loss! we can do without it! and the 6% rise in the annual EU budgets!
sanddancer   
20 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

So you're saying that Poles in Britain are like Cubans, Caribbeans and South Americans in America in that they are "clogging up" the British justice system?

In 2004 there were a total of 99 Polish prisoners in UK jails. In 2009 a total of 1,240. Each one of your so called 'countrymen' cost the UK tax payer approx 500gbp per month. That's a total of 7.5 million a year plus the added expense of Policing and the courts. We don't care if they are the best or worse (it's not a competition) the simple fact is that over 1,200 Poles are in the UK commiting crimes that would not exist if we closed the border or did stronger checks on the criminal backgrounds. I very much doubt whether the whole of the 1,200 poles if they were back in Poland whould be spending time incarcerated at the pleasure of the Polish tax payer. It's not the fault of the Polish government and people but the fault of the British government for allowing this to go on. As I've said before what is the percentage of British expats in the Polish prison population compared to the other way round. Poland 'is' exporting is criminals!

So you're saying we, Poles, committed some "atrocities" against the Jews and that those atrocities were as bad as the German ones?

How can you say that any atrocity is worse then another? The Poles who aided the Germans during the war were no better then the guys who threw cyklon 'b' down the chimneys. As for British hating Polish...prove it! The Polish in the Uk make up over 1% of the population, we house them, school their kids (even pay for kids living in Poland about 50,000 receive Child benefits), we give them jobs and benefits in abundance. Where is this so called hate? Look at articles in the Daily Mail that are supposed to be anti-polish and you'll find that those articles probably make up alot less then the 1% of the newspaper articles (compare it to articles on Albanians!)

The UK is funding and has funded in the past Polish growth through allowing Poles to work in the UK years before other EU countries.. wait to see how the Poles are treat by the Germans in the next couple of years.
sanddancer   
23 Jul 2012
History / Did British public protest against the sell out of Poland to the Soviets? [286]

Why did the British people need to protest? Poland wasn't their country or infact thier problem. M

aybe the British still remembered Polish troops in various German divisions in World War One or Poles fighting with Napolean in the Napoleonic wars! In fact in History the Poles have fought against us on more then 1 occasion. I'm sure a fact that Churchill was fully aware of.
sanddancer   
23 Jul 2012
History / Did British public protest against the sell out of Poland to the Soviets? [286]

Like Polish solders were the only allies they had during the Battle for Britain? Only allies in Force?
I guess bad memory is a blessing for self-esteem eh?>

Really... the Poles in the 'Battle of Britain' made up about 20% of the kills. Who made up the other 80%? Remember if the British hadn't have been so busy the germans would have had more time to complete it's untermensch policy!

The thread is about British public not about Churchill. By the way Churchill have been fed BS by the British Intelligence infiltrated by Soviet agents.

As i said before the British public had more to worry about at the time then Poland, who to be honest hadn't done Britain any favours in the past. Fact!

So then answer this question why doesn't Poland spend a little bit more preparing it's defences for the next invasion? It's spending on defence is woeful!

answer... it doesn't need to it'll hope for another round of help from the Imperialist British and the Americans.
sanddancer   
23 Jul 2012
History / Did British public protest against the sell out of Poland to the Soviets? [286]

what aid it was within Britain's power to give to Poland in September 1939 which was not given? How many years will we need to wait for you to answer that question and how many times will you lie about the answer? I wonder....

Let's blame the British for Polands complete lack of ability to be able to defend its borders!
sanddancer   
24 Jul 2012
History / Did British public protest against the sell out of Poland to the Soviets? [286]

Yes, the Brits and French permitted Hitler to militarize the Rhineland in contravention of the Versailles Treaty, then gave away Czechoslovakia to Hitler without a fight.

Chris R... are you a politician? Just answer the question. Why do the Poles never protect their borders with an efficient force? Look at GDP spent by the UK on defence. Why should the Poles continually ask the UK for assistance when they arn't prepared to pay for their own defence?
sanddancer   
24 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / And you wonder why there is Anti-Polish feeling in the UK [187]

Brits on the other hand have always been subjects of whoever their crowned rulers of the day have been. It's the same for them today as it has been since 1066. No wonder there is anti-Polish sentiment in the UK; it is sheer envy.

Poles are citizens in their own nation? When was the last time Poland was a fully independant nation? The German led EU are running the Polish puppet government at the moment, before that the Russians did, before that the Germans did..Russians next?

The UK is it's own master, this is why the EU nations hate us. Why on earth would the UK (head of the commonwealth an approx 1/3 or the planet) envy little Poland? Get real!
sanddancer   
24 Jul 2012
History / Did British public protest against the sell out of Poland to the Soviets? [286]

Why do the Poles think that their insignificant nation is the be all and end all. The UK owes Poland nothing. Never has done and never will do. The Poles need to sort out their own defence and stop begging for help. You'll soon stop bleating 'Yalta' or 'imperialists' to the British and the US when the Germans or Russians come knocking again!
sanddancer   
24 Jul 2012
News / E.U. Funds 2013-2020 for Poland [33]

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They won't, because Germany, France (especially France!) and the UK also benefit massively from these funds

The three countries listed don't benefit at all. They give MORE to the EU then they take. doh!!
sanddancer   
24 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / Irish Census and number of Polish [46]

Poles tend to be supporters of Ireland over the Brits

Who cares... two insignificant nations!
sanddancer   
24 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / Irish Census and number of Polish [46]

Sorry... what are you trying to say? Maybe British occupation... maybe if the British were still in the Republic of Ireland then they wouldn't be in such a mess. Another failed catholic country! (p.s. i'm irish by ancestory and have an irish surname)