woman tries to jump consultants waiting list.

Have to say, I'm a bit shocked at the abuse the OP is getting in this thread from 90% of the people posting, and her level of tolerance at the snide remarks and accusations of being called racist is remarkable. Fair play to you OP. No idea whether you are a racist or not.

The woman being Polish is completely relevant to the thread, as she not only behaved in a deplorable manner, but then went on to say how much better things were in Poland.

If I walked into a pub down in Carlow and started screaming for a pint, ahead of others waiting, while also making an issue of how you'd never have to wait this long for a pint in Dublin, of course it would be relevant, if someone then went on to post a thread about it.

They'd also be perfectly within their rights to tell me to "fcuk off back to Dublin so". Doesn't make them anti-Dublin but the fact that I was from Dublin would certainly be relevant to the thread.

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I would recount that part of the story but it wouldn't be relevant other than it would be showing you up for being a bollocks as an individual.



If I made your heritage the 'kicker' of the story then yes it would be opportunistic and unfair to every other member of your family.



Reads fine to me.

For me the story reads as if the woman's bad behaviour can be attributed to her nationality rather than her being a bit of a bitch or unstable or whatever.

Shure look, we'll agree to disagree. We probably all read the same story with a slightly different lens.

Oh agree, if that's the way the OP was intended. I was just pointing out that it would be hard to relate the story without saying "and then the cnut goes on to say that the food would be better if it was the Chocolate family giving a party".

take everything wrote: »

You seem to be missing the point. This was one Polish woman out of 38 million Polish people observed to be acting the maggot. Now if acting the maggot like this was observed to be largely a Polish preserve, then, maybe, MAYBE, we might start looking at the relationship between Poles and acting the maggot (without invoking the racism argument).

But this is one woman acting the maggot. Whether it involves her comparing the health service to her own country's service is irrelevant. It's still one woman acting the maggot. One foreign woman acting the maggot. One Polish woman acting the maggot. One Polish woman acting the maggot and criticising the HSE.
One being the important bit.
One.




One.
Got it.

I've totally got it.

I don't understand what your point is. Did you not get my analogy in my previous post. If it was me making remarks at Chuck's party, I would only be one member of the Chocolate family, but it would still have been me
who brought the Chocolate family into it, and if he wanted to give an account of what happened he would be obliged to tell it like it happened.

If other people then choose to take Chuck's honest account of what transpired, as an assault on the Chocolate family, then I think they would
be being very unfair to Chuck.

Only Chuck can say whether he was hoping or not that people would hold it against the whole Chocolate family, but that's a complete other argument.

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

i am so sick aboput hearing how great poland is... i work witha polish guy and he is always banging on about how great poland is... me and another guy replied to him with "well why are you hear so?" he replied the money is better here... i replied "so poland is not so great then" with a big smug smile on my face

yep, the chap is so wrong and surely getting on your nerves. when the Irish in America start going on about how Ireland is a great country, it's about being proud to be Irish. when the Polish start going on about how their country is great, they are just morons.
when the Poles or the Lithuanian people etc. over here stick together and help each other, it's about creating ghettos. when the Irish abroad do the same, it's great to see a tight community.
funny, how the thread has gone the foreigners bashing route while the story was about one stupid woman jumping the queue - and you see those in every nationality ...

I'm not surprised when things like queue jumping happens, I see it alot...thought it was just something that happens regularly when you put a bunch of people in a room, who are all individual & different from one another in how they deal with being ill or tired of waiting...

...I've been to many consultants and scan appointments in the last 7 months...each time being sent a letter in advance with my appointment time & nearly every time being seen 1-2 hours after my appointment time...so I agree yes our health care system is not very efficient (In many ways)

Last week I was waiting for my scan appointment...it was meant to be at 2:30, I had my daughter with me, she was being really good fair play to her as we waited for 2 hours to get seen, but we managed to entertain ourselves enough to keep her happy
-anyway, this time the delay was because every time the consultant came out of her office to call the next person in a woman came up to her and asked when it was her turn, so she spent about 3 minutes arguing with her about how long they were waiting...that the appointment was for her daughter who was pregnant and tired (I think every woman there was pregnant...and knackered)

So just before I get called in the consultant called the woman & her daughter in and saw them... then after it was my turn the consultant apologised to me for letting the woman skip the queue ahead of me, she felt like she had to see her as she was getting more and more irate every time she approached her.

I shrugged it off & said ok & went on my way...I do believe it takes a certain type of person who kicks up a fuss in this way & thinks its ok, but I don't think its down to race, ethnicity, or whatever...maybe the way she was raised, the environment she lives in...but people like this can be found in every country

...but then yes, deep down I was judging this woman every time she kicked up a fuss...anyone who says they don't judge others easily is on their own little pedestal I think!

So I judged this woman because she was loud, made everyone around her know about how her pregnant daughter was tired & asked "what time was everyone elses appointment at"?, dressed skanger style, another woman called in to see what was taking them so long at one point & had a 1 year old with her who was drinking Coke, and probably a million other little things that I subconsciously picked up on that made my mind up about her...
I am not the nicest person for thinking like this I know, I know...
I am like this due to my environment and my upbringing...we are all different, I suggest dealing with it Angry Kitten!

iguana wrote: »

The thing is the OP is ALWAYS starting threads where she rants about some 'awful' thing someone supposedly did near/to her. And the kicker is ALWAYS that the someone in question is a foreigner.

oh no, you forgot people with fringes. the funny thing is that the OP believes, that Irish should be an optional subject and is happy to speak the language of foreign conquerors as her mother tongue.

downey2003 wrote: »

Because she was saying that "back home in Poland" she wouldn't have to wait!!!!!:rolleyes:

So what, maybe she was telling the truth. Doesn't change anything on the fact that she was a total muppet and that has nothing to do with her nationality.

iguana wrote: »

The thing is the OP is ALWAYS starting threads where she rants about some 'awful' thing someone supposedly did near/to her. And the kicker is ALWAYS that the someone in question is a foreigner.

That's fair enough so. As I said in all my posts, and, my analogies, I was merely pointing out, that, based on the episode recounted, the OP would have been obliged to point out the nationality of the person as it was relevant to the second instance of rudeness.

If the OP is a racist/xenophobe then the OP is a racist/xenophobe.

AngryBollix wrote: »

Perhaps her GP shuld have written her a plane ticket back to Poland if their health service is so good

The gas ovens are better in Poland too....