Opinion On Polish People

Trevko · 10-12-2005 6:18pm #1

Alright so they are here the last year or two...what do you guys think of them? ok so some of them are hott but really,what is your feelings towards them?

Riamfada · 10-12-2005 6:26pm

I like them.

Binomate · 10-12-2005 6:33pm

I know pleanty of sound poles. They work hard as well.

Trevko · 10-12-2005 6:40pm

Yeah alot of them are cool,some are rude but I guess you can say that about Irish people too.I have 2 Polish friends and a few Slovak..They cool people plus the fact Im sneakily trying to snag an eastern european bird

SprostonGreen · 10-12-2005 6:43pm

I'd like to marry one.

cormie · 10-12-2005 6:45pm

Same with any nationality/race/colour/height/weight etc etc. It all depends on the individual.

Kobayashi · 10-12-2005 9:32pm

As a Scot who moved here I've seen things from a different perspective to you. I moved over knowing no one so had to do a bit of networking to meet new friends. I found that a lot of Irish folk in the pubs did not really want to speak to the Polish people but were quite prepared to chat away to me, invite me to join their company etc. To the extent that one Polish friend actually asked me if something was wrong when we were talking to an Irish group but they basically were ignoring him and talking to me all the time. Maybe folk can't be bothered as sometimes their English isn't perfect?

paulyx · 10-12-2005 9:33pm

I know a few from work and have to say big thumbs up.... very nice people

And great crack

ardmacha · 10-12-2005 9:47pm

Poles are grand. I think we are lucky to have immigrants from Poland, as a similar large number from other more distant lands might not integrate so well.

Riamfada · 11-12-2005 6:38pm

Yeah actually anyone got any spare poles going around. Hot Hot race. Not like our donkey nation. Actually with centuries of interbreeding Irish people may even become and attractive race. Lets get started

Eurorunner · 11-12-2005 10:13pm

Good people for the most part. Work hard, dont get into trouble (there are other groups here who do), are friendly and will integrate well..

PlayaFlow · 11-12-2005 10:20pm

polish people hot?? what have you been smokin'

polish people ; black leather jacket waring, skin head , bmw drivin men who look like 24hr doormen and big hefty women named svetlana with big hairy armpits and very red lipstick.

raheny red · 12-12-2005 12:08am

I know 2 different groups Poles round my area.

One group are really friendly.

while the others are extreme racists..............EXTREME

Dustaz · 12-12-2005 1:20pm

I find this polish thing utterly bizzarre.

Apparently theres something close to 5 billion poles living in ireland, even to the extent that they are the only minority to have their own show on the City channel. Yet i have still to meet a single one! Im pretty sure im in a minority of one on this but where the hell are they all? The northside (being a good southside boy, i rarely venture across the river)?

Im serious, i know bosnians, rwandans, togo'ians, romanians but not a single pole. What gives.

PlayaFlow · 12-12-2005 4:10pm

5 billion poles?? lol ...i take it your joking

but anywho , they are a mysterious group that only keep to themselves and are always workin , so its not like they have time to mingle

Sleipnir · 12-12-2005 4:12pm

There are 5 billion poles.
Most of them are connected by wires for the telephone system.

raheny red · 12-12-2005 4:41pm

They even have their own pullout now in one of those free papers you get in the morning on the dart or bus!

Stark · 12-12-2005 4:56pm

The one who lives with me is a complete and utter tool. I've heard they're nice in general though.

Dyr · 12-12-2005 6:12pm

Never had a problem with any poles i met,all seemed sound. Funny thing is though i just heard an ad on the radio about health and safety in polish. If we're serious about health and safety why do we allow people who cant communicate effectively through english to be employed? I have a relative who gave up the scaffolding game because we was nearly killed twice by eastern europeans who a) hadnt a clue what they were doing and b) couldnt understand his frantic instructions to cease and desist from their inadvertant efforts to kill him. He now works as a milkman

:v: < would it be wrong to suggest that the proliferation of furrin werkers in the construtction game is a cause of the rise in fatal accidents in that sector?

of course it would pakthingey...

Trevko · 12-12-2005 7:40pm

Haha,,you know some Polish are real cool then others are total wierdos,there are some who just stare you out of it like some staring competition,about the pub thing,,some are nice,but if you notice,,in the city centre,they all stick together,it is them who dont integrate with us and if they bothered to learn english properly then we'd be glad to let them mingle,you know...heres a secret,I was on the website www.polskidublin.com and in the chatroom area 'Czat' you can go in,and when you say your irish,guarunteed 80% of them tell you to get out,either that or ignore you or slag you off in Polish,,Ive been told by alot of the poles in Dublin that alot of them despise Irish and are only here for cash...part of me believes this..
Youd think after we accepted the so called invasion from them that theyd be a lot more grateful,.dont get me wrong,have polish friends,but some of them are just such pigs.
P.S. lol Svetlana is more a Russian name, typical female names are Dorota,Ania,Agnieszka,Paulina,Ewa etc - Im studying the language a bit,I plan to open a net cafe and polak restuarant,,hehe may as well cash in on them a bit

Sweetness! · 12-12-2005 9:17pm

One polish guy stole my friend's seat in a pub...fecker

Agent Smith · 12-12-2005 9:35pm

polisg people are cool

gotta love the polish security guy in work....

Morning tom

HALLO JOE!

atheist · 12-12-2005 9:42pm

Someone who's one quater polish

Tha Gopher · 13-12-2005 9:51am

Eurorunner wrote:

Good people for the most part. Work hard, dont get into trouble (there are other groups here who do), are friendly and will integrate well..

LOL:D
Obviously havent met some of the ones I know. One guy I work with, he learned most of his English from listening to gangsta rap most of his life (its suprisingly a huge genre in Eastern Europe), thus the staffroom chat of where we all going tonight often ends up "so, we go to nightclub tonight yeah? Grab us some bitch and hoes":D Likes to portray himself as "being connected", "knowing people", telling us about all his mates locked up in either the Joy or back in Poland for moving yokes.

They mostly seem farily alright though, they are VERY like the Irish in most ways (getting locked wise anyway)

Dustaz wrote:

I find this polish thing utterly bizzarre.

Apparently theres something close to 5 billion poles living in ireland, even to the extent that they are the only minority to have their own show on the City channel. Yet i have still to meet a single one! Im pretty sure im in a minority of one on this but where the hell are they all? The northside (being a good southside boy, i rarely venture across the river)?

Im serious, i know bosnians, rwandans, togo'ians, romanians but not a single pole. What gives.

Are you on the dole or something? In the past 8 months I must have worked with at least six of them.
Though yes, alot of them would be concentrated in Blanch but still, alot of them have degrees etc, Id have thought theyd be fairly common in southside offices and such.

Dustaz · 13-12-2005 11:52am

Tha Gopher wrote:

Are you on the dole or something?

No, Thats a northside thing.

amigaboy · 14-12-2005 11:22pm

I've met some very hot polish women, just like any other group there's uglies in the mix, but i have a softspot for blondes...mmmmm..

One that is working as a bar girl in my local is extremely fit, and she's very friendly too - that seems to be normal with the polish girls.

Some groups tend to be very sticky and don't interact much, but I haven't found this with the poles, especially the blonde ones....mmmmm....

..

just one thing, is there any polish guys over?
I don't think I've met any yet....

raheny red · 15-12-2005 12:32am

amigaboy wrote:

One that is working as a bar girl in my local is extremely fit,

Oh shít how did I forget about the bar girls :mad:

??

Anyway if you have never been to the Station House in Raheny (across from the DART station) it is worth a visit. Down there last week with the lads and anytime she came over to the table we gave her a standing ovation. She is a hero.:p

I fcúking LOVE Poles!!

senordingdong · 24-12-2005 4:01am

I don't like them...the trouble making ones that is.

I've met about two sound ones.

The rest were just scumbag knackers and I hate them being here.

Laguna · 24-12-2005 4:22am

senordingdong wrote:

I don't like them...the trouble making ones that is.

I've met about two sound ones.

The rest were just scumbag knackers and I hate them being here.

Take people as you find them, don't judge an entire nation on your perceptions of the few you've personally met. That's like me happening to meet Graham Norton and thinking all Irish people are the EXACT same as him, sexual orientation and all.

No nationality in the infancy of its immigration to another country ever integrates well initially, for example, why do the Irish who travel the world build Irish bars/clubs/associations everywhere they go?, because it helps them to integrate by bringing a piece of their own culture to their new home.

doodio · 24-12-2005 5:10am

i'm sick and tired of how ass backwards this country is :P
~your friendly neighbourhood canadian

Dyr · 24-12-2005 10:12am

you know where the airport is..thanks for visiting!

:v: < the less americans over here the more i like it

senordingdong · 24-12-2005 12:34pm

Laguna wrote:

Take people as you find them, don't judge an entire nation on your perceptions of the few you've personally met. That's like me happening to meet Graham Norton and thinking all Irish people are the EXACT same as him, sexual orientation and all.

No nationality in the infancy of its immigration to another country ever integrates well initially, for example, why do the Irish who travel the world build Irish bars/clubs/associations everywhere they go?, because it helps them to integrate by bringing a piece of their own culture to their new home.

I never said I think that of all Poles, I merely stated that the vast majority of them seem to be scumbags.

It bothers me when that these people are allowed into the country.

Eurorunner · 24-12-2005 1:50pm

never said I think that of all Poles, I merely stated that the vast majority of them seem to be scumbags.

vast majority..:rolleyes:

A lot of us have been around long enough to know of the difficulties (alongside the great experience) encountered in living in another country. No matter where you go, you will always come across idiots like you with sweeping statements like this. Peoples begrudgery of other groups can only come about as a result of their own personal failures or some sort of fear. Which category do you fall into?

Laguna · 24-12-2005 4:15pm

Bambi wrote:

you know where the airport is..thanks for visiting!

:v: < the less americans over here the more i like it

Hey, don't take it out on Daddio just because your mum died in that Disney film of your life..

senordingdong · 24-12-2005 7:50pm

Eurorunner wrote:

vast majority..:rolleyes:

A lot of us have been around long enough to know of the difficulties (alongside the great experience) encountered in living in another country. No matter where you go, you will always come across idiots like you with sweeping statements like this. Peoples begrudgery of other groups can only come about as a result of their own personal failures or some sort of fear. Which category do you fall into?

Oh...so you called me on generalising...then generalised me...good one(!)
Idiot.

Actually my begrudgery comes from the actions of the vast majority of poles I have encountered.

timamansio · 27-12-2005 1:44am

senordingdong wrote:

I never said I think that of all Poles, I merely stated that the vast majority of them seem to be scumbags.

It bothers me when that these people are allowed into the country.

Actually they are EU citizens and, as such, are as entitled to be here as you are. And you, as an EU citizen, are more than welcome to go live in Poland if you so desire.

My experience of Polish people living here has been a positive one. I find them hardworking, good humoured and friendly. In fact my experience of them in the service industry in particular has been infinitely more positive than their indigenous equivalents.

senordingdong · 27-12-2005 8:32pm

timamansio wrote:

Actually they are EU citizens and, as such, are as entitled to be here as you are. And you, as an EU citizen, are more than welcome to go live in Poland if you so desire..

Yes, and if at some point in my life I decide I want to go to Poland for work or leisure I will be chuffed with this, however, if I did go, I would have some respect for the place and it's people.
I will not however, be rude, insulting and abusive to the indigenous people.

DublinWriter · 27-12-2005 9:56pm

Dustaz wrote:

Im serious, i know bosnians, rwandans, togo'ians, romanians but not a single pole. What gives.

Probably because they are too busy working!

A couple of haircuts back, the Polish guy cutting my hair reckoned their was currently close to 60,000 poles in Ireland.

They are a very, very , very hardworking lot. Even when I was in Frankfurt and Brussels I worked with and knew a few poles. My cleaning-lady in Brussels was only doing the job as a cover-story for the two properties she bought and was renting out (this was before Polish EU Membership).

Like us, they're also prone to depression and ill-health, and tend not to look after themselves so much.

ezone · 31-01-2006 12:23am

Im sure there are plenty of decent polish people out there but i'm having the misfortune to be living underneath and next door to some 3-4 above the same in room next door in a very old house off s-c-rd. This is in small bedsit style flats.

Upstairs theyve left the empty speaker boxes outside the door from their 3 ft tall speakers and they have a preference for hardcore Polish techno at any random time and volume. the speakers are on the floor.

They show no sign of intergrating unlike the previous Venezulan, Italian, Egyptian, French, German etc. Tenants

Actually the German guy left weeks after they arrived here because of the noise and they are also skinheads . They then moved into his flat.

Just my personal experience.

:| · 31-01-2006 12:32am

the irish as a race don't like people invading the country ie england, and because of the amount of polish people we tend to see it as that, it could have become a real hate problem. but all this anti racism pro polish thing is quite encouraging, i hope its like this in reality

jaqian · 31-01-2006 3:52pm

Laguna wrote:

Take people as you find them, don't judge an entire nation on your perceptions of the few you've personally met.

Slightly OT here but what do people think of the Romanians? Has anybody met a Romanian thats not a gypsey, are there any? They just seem to be all spongers I've never seen them start a business or do anything constructive apart from recycling the Big Issue magazine to aid begging. We might clash with itinerants from time to time but at least they earn a living for the most part. I've met/worked with many different foreigners and have found them all to be hard working/interesting. The Romanians are the only ones that get my goat.

cashback · 01-02-2006 1:19am

jaqian wrote:

Slightly OT here but what do people think of the Romanians? Has anybody met a Romanian thats not a gypsey, are there any? They just seem to be all spongers I've never seen them start a business or do anything constructive apart from recycling the Big Issue magazine to aid begging. We might clash with itinerants from time to time but at least they earn a living for the most part. I've met/worked with many different foreigners and have found them all to be hard working/interesting. The Romanians are the only ones that get my goat.

Well, I only ever knew one Romanian. I used to work with him and he was as nice a guy as you could meet. Hardworking, intelligent and wanted to set up his own business. I can't speak for the rest of the Romanian people and neither can you I'd guess.

jaqian · 01-02-2006 10:04am

Well my only experience with Romanian's are the gypseys and that hasn't been a great experience.

el tel · 01-02-2006 1:07pm

Trevko wrote:

Alright so they are here the last year or two...what do you guys think of them? ok so some of them are hott but really,what is your feelings towards them?

I saw a really interesting social documentary movie called Rocco Invades Poland and have to say the people in it appeared to be the most open-minded, enthusiastic, willing and good humoured bunch you could ever come across. And indeed that's what happened in the end.

Zebra3 · 01-02-2006 9:21pm

Know loads of Romanians. All sound hard-working people.

arkle8 · 08-02-2006 10:34am

white europeans, same as we are. So we will have no problem with them as soon as they get the hang of the language. (english I mean)

DublinWriter · 08-02-2006 11:54am

jaqian wrote:

Slightly OT here but what do people think of the Romanians? Has anybody met a Romanian thats not a gypsey, are there any?

I worked in Brussels with a blonde Romanian girl who could have been a supermodel - she was an Oracle DBA strangely enough!

The Romanians we get in Ireland are mostly Roma-Gypsies and are quite different from the average Romanian.

Kintarō Hattori · 08-02-2006 1:31pm

As it says above, your question is VERY general. My GF is Polish and have been going out with her for 15 months at this stage, and I couldn't be happier. Such a sweet and hard working person. I've been too Poland with her for some holidays and in my two weeks there I only came across two rude people- not bad.
While there I met her cousin and her flatmates. I don't think I've ever been made to feel more at home or welcome anywhere. It was an amazing experiance.

I've met her friends and acquaintances? who are all nice people and I have no complaints about them.

We have had two Polish people in work, both fine. One of them is a saleman and is an exceptional member of staff- frequently being top salesman. If we had more like him all our jobs would be alot easier.

In short, the Polish people that I have met couldn't be nicer, friendlier or harder working if they tried.

raheny red · 08-02-2006 8:32pm

Are you talking about the thread name??

If so that is not a question but Trevko just wanted people's opinions - good or bad!!

Kintarō Hattori · 08-02-2006 9:38pm

True enough, I didn't read it slowly enough!!!

Tha Gopher · 10-02-2006 2:27pm

el tel wrote:

I saw a really interesting social documentary movie called Rocco Invades Poland and have to say the people in it appeared to be the most open-minded, enthusiastic, willing and good humoured bunch...............

ROFL!!!:D The competition for post of the year has kicked off:) Lend us your DVD and Ill vote for you tman

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