Polish street signs vs 30% unemployment

dr.fuzzenstein

This is his excellency the Mayor calling for Polish street signs:

http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/local/mayor-of-limerick-wants-polish-street-signs-1-4011509

And this is an article stating the official unemployment rate for Limerick is nearly 30%:

http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/limerick-estates-are-unemployment-blackspots-1-4010085

A few points:
This is the biggest load of codswallop I have ever heard in my LIFE!
I have no problem with our Eastern European friends who are living here and I am a foreigner myself, being a German.
But the idea that we need to spend money on street signs when taking nearly 30% unemployment into account is not only stupid, but offensive.
Who elected this yoghurt to be Mayor? There are bits of lemon peel floating down the Shannon that would do a better job.
I am so angry about this stupid, daft idea I can hardly type, what hope do we have in Limerick for the future?
None, if this is the way we're going.
This ape needs to go!

Sure it will be grand

losthorizon

Apple Strudel v The Rolling Stones

The Connection Please?

wexie

Maybe unemployment is so high cause all the Polish fella's are getting lost on the way to work.....???

Jofspring

To be honest lads anyone that listens to what any mayor in Limerick has to say about anything and take it serious is the bigger fool. Everybody was waiting for him to come out with his first stupid story to get in the papers and it seems it came quicker than most would have thought.

DarkJager

losthorizon wrote: »

Apple Strudel v The Rolling Stones

The Connection Please?

Money spent on putting up street signs in Polish vs money spent tackling the unemployment rate.

dr.fuzzenstein

losthorizon wrote: »

Apple Strudel v The Rolling Stones

The Connection Please?

The connection is the fact that in the eyes of the Mayor the installation of new street signs in various languages seems to be a more urgent and pressing problem than a near 30% unemployment rate in Limerick.
I'm amazed I even have to explain this. Is that you Gerry?

Berty

What Language is "African" exactly?

zulutango

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

The connection is the fact that in the eyes of the Mayor the installation of new street signs in various languages seems to be a more urgent and pressing problem than a near 30% unemployment rate in Limerick.
I'm amazed I even have to explain this. Is that you Gerry?

This is just the local media trying to sell newspapers by talking up a comment made by the mayor.

Besides, the mayor doesn't have any role when it comes to tackling unemployment.

dr.fuzzenstein

Beer Baron wrote: »

What Language is "African" exactly?

They speak that in Africaland.;)

christmas2012

first thing they should do is get rid of fas and jobbridge and create actual jobs,as jobbridge and fas hog up and job block what could be paid jobs advertised..its a scandal and a scam..

golden lane

zulutango wrote: »

This is just the local media trying to sell newspapers by talking up a comment made by the mayor.

Besides, the mayor doesn't have any role when it comes to tackling unemployment.

it appears he doesn't have a usefull role......endv of.....poor man...

Callan57

Is this what the property tax is going to be spent on .... no money to fix the bloody potholes but money for the mayors personal ego trips :mad:

Anyway what about the Chinese ... there here a lot longer than the Poles and presumably they are still getting lost.

the_blackstuff

You really must have to be a muppet to become mayor of limerick! 4 in a row and probably more if i was bothered to look.

celticcrash

African Dialects

• Adangme (Ghana )
• Afrikaans (Southern Africa )
• Akan: Asante (Ashanti) dialect (Ghana )
• Akan: Fante dialect (Ghana )
• Akan: Twi (Akwapem) dialect (Ghana )
• Amharic (Amarigna; Amarinya) (Ethiopia )
• Awing (Cameroon )
• Bakuba (Busoong, Kuba, Bushong) (Congo )
• Bambara (Mali; Senegal; Burkina )
• Bamoun (Cameroons )
• Bargu (Bariba) (Benin; Nigeria; Togo )
• Bassa (Gbasa) (Liberia )
• ici-Bemba (Wemba) (Congo; Zambia )
• Berba (Benin )
• Bihari: Mauritian Bhojpuri dialect - Latin Script (Mauritius )
• Bobo (Bwamou) (Burkina )
• Bulu (Boulou) (Cameroons )
• Chirpon-Lete-Anum (Cherepong; Guan) (Ghana )
• Ciokwe (Chokwe) (Angola; Congo )
• Creole, Indian Ocean: Mauritian dialect (Mauritius )
• Creole, Indian Ocean: Seychelles dialect (Kreol) (Seychelles )
• Dagbani (Dagbane; Dagomba) (Ghana; Togo )
• Diola (Jola) (Upper West Africa )
• Diola (Jola): Fogny (Jóola Fóoñi) dialect (The Gambia; Guinea; Senegal )
• Duala (Douala) (Cameroons )
• Dyula (Jula) (Burkina )
• Efik (Nigeria )
• Ekoi: Ejagham dialect (Cameroons; Nigeria )
• Ewe (Benin; Ghana; Togo )
• Ewe: Ge (Mina) dialect (Benin; Togo )
• Ewe: Watyi (Ouatchi, Waci) dialect (Benin; Togo )
• Ewondo (Cameroons )
• Fang (Equitorial Guinea )
• Fõ (Fon; Dahoméen) (Benin )
• Frafra (Ghana )
• Ful (Fula; Fulani; Fulfulde; Peul; Toucouleur) (West Africa )
• Ful: Torado dialect (Senegal )
• Gã: Accra dialect (Ghana; Togo )
• Gambai (Ngambai; Ngambaye) (Chad )
• olu-Ganda (Luganda) (Uganda )
• Gbaya (Baya) (Central African Republic; Cameroons; Congo )
• Gben (Ben) (Togo )
• Goun (Benin )
• Gurma (Gourma; Gourmantche) (Burkina )
• Gurma (Gourma; Gourmantche) (Togo )
• G||wi (!kwi) (Botswana )
• Hausa (Arabic script) (West Central Africa )
• Hausa: unidentified Nigerian dialect (Nigeria )
• Herero (Namibia )
• # Hûâ, Eastern (# Hòã) (Botswana )
• # Hua (!xo) (Botswana )
• Igbo (Ibo; Igho) (Nigeria )
• Kaba (Sara Kaba) (Central African Republic; Chad )
• Kabre (Kabye) (Togo )
• Kanuri (Chad; Niger; Nigeria )
• Kasem (Kassem; Kasena) (Ghana; Burkina )
• e-Kele (Lokele) (Congo )
• Kikuyu (Gikuyu) (Kenya )
• Kimpin (Kipindi) (Congo )
• Kinande (Congo )
• Komoro (Comorian) (Comoros Islands )
• Kongo (Kicongo): ki-Tuba (Kituba) dialect (Angola; Rep. of Congo; Congo )
• Kongo: ki-Ntaandu (Kintandu) dialect (Congo )
• Kongo: ki-Zombo (Kizombo) dialect (Angola; Congo )
• Kongo: Kimanianga dialect (Congo )
• Kpelle (Guinea; Liberia )
• Krio (West Africa )
• Kusal (Kusaal) (Ghana; Burkina )
• Kwakum (Bakoum) (Cameroons )
• oci-Kwanyama (Kuanjama; Kuanyama) (Angola; Namibia )
• Logo (Logoti) (Sudan; Congo )
• Losengo: Mangala (Lingala) dialect (Congo )
• si-Lozi (Zambia )
• ki-Luba-Katanga (Kiluba) (Congo )
• Luba-Lulua (Tshiluba, Ciluba) (Congo )
• Luhya: lu-Tiriki dialect (Kenya )
• ci-Lunda (Angola, Congo, Zambia )
• ci-Lunda : Ndembo dialect (Congo )
• Luo (Kenya; Tanzania )
• ki-Luuwa (Kiluwa) (Congo )
• Lwo (Uganda )
• Lyele (Lélé) (Burkina )
• ci-Makonde (Shimakonde) (Mozambique; Tanzania )
• i-Makua (Makhuwa) (Mozambique; Malawi )
• Malagasy (Malagasy Rep. )
• Mandinka (Mandingo) (Upper West Africa )
• Masa (Massa) (Chad; Cameroons )
• Masaba: ulu-Bukusu (Lubukusu) dialect (Kenya; Uganda )
• Mashi (Congo; Zambia )
• Mbai (Chad; Central African Republic )
• Mbaka (Central African Republic )
• Mbati (Issongo, Lissongo) (Central African Republic )
• ki-Mbundu (Kimbundu) (Angola )
• i-Mbuti : Batua (Lutua-Bambote) dialect (Congo )
• Mbuun (Embun, Kibunda) (Congo )
• Mende: Kpa dialect (Liberia; Sierra Leone )
• Moré (Mossi) (Burkina; Ghana; Togo )
• Nama (Namibia )
• Nama: Damara dialect (Namibia )
• Nankanse (Nankani): Burkina dialect (Burkina )
• Nankanse (Nankani): Ghanaian dialect (Ghana )
• oru-Ndandi (Kinande) (Congo )
• isi-Ndebele (Sindebele) (Zimbabwe )
• ci-Ndonde (Kimawanda, Konde) (Tanzania )
• oci-Ndonga (Ambo; Ochindonga) (Namibia )
• Nguni: isi-Swati (Siswati, Swazi) dialect (Swaziland; South Africa )
• Nguni: isi-Xhosa (!Xhosa) dialect (Botswana; South Africa )
• Nguni: Zulu dialect (Southern Africa )
• eke-Nyakyusa: Ngonde (Konde) dialect (Malawi; Tanzania )
• ki-Nyamwesi (Nyamwezi) (Tanzania )
• Nyang (Kenyang) (Cameroons )
• ci-Nyanja (Chinyanja) (Malawi; Zambia )
• ci-Nyanja: ci-Cewa (Chichewa) dialect (Malawi; Zambia )
• oru-Nyoro (Runyoru-Rutoro) (Uganda )
• Oromigna (Galla) (Ethiopia; Kenya )
• Riff (Tarifit) (Algeria; Morocco
• shi-Ronga (Shironga) (Mozambique; South Africa )
• Ruanda (Kinyarwanda; Runyarwanda) (Rwanda )
• iki-Rundi (Kirundi) (Burundi )
• Sango (Sangho) (Central African Republic; Chad; Rep. of Congo )
• Sara: Sara Ngama dialect (Central African Republic; Chad )
• Sara: Sara-Majingai (Madingaye) dialect (Central African Republic; Chad )
• Sérère (Serer) (The Gambia; Senegal )
• Shona (Mozambique; Zimbabwe )
• Shona: Kalanga dialect (Botswana; Zimbabwe )
• Shua (Botswana )
• Sidamo (Sidamigna) (Ethiopia )
• Somali (Somalia; Djibouti; Kenya; Ethiopia )
• lu-Songe (Kisonge) (Congo )
• Songhai: Zarma (Djerma) dialect (Niger; Nigeria )
• Sotho, Northern (se-Pedi) (South Africa )
• Sotho, Southern (se-Sotho, Sesotho) (Lesotho; South Africa )
• ki-Sukuma (Tanzania )
• Swahili (Kiswahili) (Central and Eastern Africa )
• Swahili: Mashingoli dialect (Somalia )
• Temen (Temne, Themne) (Guinea; Sierra Leone )
• Teso (Ateso) (Kenya; Uganda )
• Tigrinya (Eritrea; Ethiopia )
• Tiv (Nigeria )
• Tobote (Busari, Bassar) (Ghana; Togo )
• ci-Tonga, Malawian (Kitonga, Siska) (Malawi )
• ci-Tonga, Zambian (Plateau Tonga) (Zambia )
• shi-Tswa (Phikahni) (Mozambique; Zimbabwe )
• se-Tswana (Chuana; Setswana) (Botswana; South Africa; Zimbabwe )
• ki-Tuba: Monokutuba dialect (Kikongo Monokutuba) (Congo )
• Tumbuku (Timbuka; Chitumbuka) (Malawi; Tanzania; Zambia )
• ce-Venda (South Africa )
• Wolof (jolof; Oulof) (The Gambia; Mauritania; Senegal )
• ci-Yao (Chiyao) (Malawi; Mozambique; Tanzania )
• Yaoure (Yahore) (Ivory Coast )
• Yoruba (Benin; Nigeria )
• Zande (Central African Republic; Congo; Rep. of Congo; Sudan )
• olu-Ziba (olu-Haya) (Tanzania )

Yes I agree with our mayor. lets add our African neighbours langauges to our signs;)

Louche Lad

I've noticed that a number of Africans in Limerick City, if they're not speaking English, are actually speaking French. So add French to the list.

Paulie Gualtieri

there should be signs in polish saying please do not use your friends dole card to claim benefits from social welfare if your friend is gone back to Poland and if you do at least practice his hand writing , ( social welfare service worker told me this last week )

EMTFlynn

New Electronic system was introduced to the Limerick social welfare office yesterday.

Records your signiture each time you sign on the new keypad

You will be asked for ID or to meet the supervisor if your signiture doesn't match each time.

Icky Thump

“I am passionate about bringing everyone together. I was an immigrant myself: I have family abroad still in Wales and Australia so I understand what it is like. We have thousands of Poles and other foreign nationals here,” he explained, “I would like to see some Polish and African signs going up,” he said in an interview with the Limerick Leader.


is he saying his family cant understand the signs in wales and australia????

how this tool could have ever been elected is a joke let alone the curruption that allows him to be mayor.

Paparazzo

"African"!!!
Jesus wept, how does he managed to get dressed in the mornings?

ciarang85

give limerick back to the limerickians:pac:

Vanolder

I have no problem with anyone coming to or working in this country but they embrace, or assimilate, to our culture and way of life, not the other way around. This ding bat has been well flagged as not being the brightest pupil so it's not really his fault, but rather the blame lies with the process, or those, that put him in power.

In short - He can f**k right off with his Polish street signs.

Spook58

We need signs in Chineseland. The previous mayor has secured thousands of new jobs when he and Kevin(Healy Rae) Kiely visited China. Maybe thats's why they wanted all the Polish to be sent home to make space for all the new business coming into Limerick. Well done I say

xsiborg

they're talking about this now on 4FM, having a right good laugh about it! :rolleyes:

well done gerry. clown! :rolleyes:

ninty9er

While in theory it was a nice gesture to make, what happens when the polish speaking population dwindles when all that's left here is 3rd and 4th generation Polish emigrants.

Useless signs. Streets have names, if we're all describing the names differently how the fuck is anyone supposed to know where to go.

Somebody please think of the postmen!!:D

scully74

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chalkitdown

I have no problem with informational/community civic signs being in all major languages and think it would be a good idea but street signs? Oh dear.

fasttalkerchat

Ridiculous suggestion. Polish people use the English names for streets so this would be a total hindrance! It would lead to Polish people translating the name back into English and being changed in the process.
Eg. Connolly Way -> Droga Connolly -> Connolly Road

ninty9er

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Ridiculous suggestion. Polish people use the English names for streets so this would be a total hindrance! It would lead to Polish people translating the name back into English and being changed in the process.
Eg. Connolly Way -> Droga Connolly -> Connolly Road

Ná dean dearmad ar Slí Uí Chongaile

golden lane

surely there's a wroclaw street in limerick.......that needs changing to english.....

ninty9er

golden lane wrote: »

surely there's a wroclaw street in limerick.......that needs changing to english.....

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/bertie-delighted-by-indian-govts-de-valera-honour-240500.html

If the Indians are naming streets Irish names....