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Irish thread on polish forum

  • 15-12-2007 04:05PM
    #1
    tomster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I am wondering if there is anything you'd like ask Poles living in Ireland? Do you people have any questions, suggestions, advices, opinions for Polish living in your country? I'm trying to get as many informations as I can, as this thread hasn't been created yet and I honestly don't know if there is any point of doing that. I'm not interested of any "politically correct" threads "how nice and lovely we all are" I get everywhere, but rather to get real opinions and real people involved. The idea is to get to know each other better, to help us integrate and for both - to understand each other. Thread would be in english.

    Regards.


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Comments

  • #2
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Ask them to send more hot women over.


  • #3
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Any questions I may have I ask my Polish friends. Thanks for the offer though.
    If you're interested there is a Polish subforum on boards. Here.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,735 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    tomster wrote: »
    Hi,

    I am wondering if there is anything you'd like ask Poles living in Ireland?

    Pint?


  • #5
    tomster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭tomster


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Ask them to send more hot women over.

    You could ask them yourself if the idea goes through... That's the point.


  • #6
    Lands Leaving
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Lands Leaving


    Can I have some of that mad polish vodka. Good stuff.


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  • #7
    sickpuppy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 955 ✭✭✭sickpuppy


    Id love to ask them how thay can live on 12 euro a week?
    How can they eat same bland food everyday?
    Why so many of them complain about ireland and still stay here?


  • #8
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    sickpuppy wrote: »
    Why so many of them complain about ireland and still stay here?

    I'd second this.


  • #9
    tomster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭tomster


    sickpuppy wrote: »
    Id love to ask them how thay can live on 12 euro a week?
    How can they eat same bland food everyday?
    Why so many of them complain about ireland and still stay here?
    Again: that's why I'm looking for this thread to be opened.

    PS: I honestly don't know the answers...


  • #10
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,554 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    sickpuppy wrote: »
    Why so many of them complain about ireland and still stay here?



    same reason as the rest of us?


  • #11
    Ekancone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Ekancone


    rb_ie wrote: »
    I'd second this.

    Thirded. In fact i would like to apply that question to anyone person who lives here, Irish or otherwise.


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  • #12
    Lands Leaving
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Lands Leaving


    Some tough intellectual questions here.

    Why don't some of them bother to learn english when they have to deal with people who only speak english? I'd learn the language if I was living and working abroad

    Plus it'd be a lot easier to chat up polish women if they had a clue what I was saying.


  • #13
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    Fair dews tomster, I think it's a good idea :)


  • #14
    sickpuppy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 955 ✭✭✭sickpuppy


    Im not pulling the piss or being racist.
    Ihave worked with polish and mnay other eastern europeans in 5years on building sites in Dublin.
    I have rarely heard any positives on anything off them.
    They have a look and an attitude as if there coming from a babies funeral.
    Miserable incessent complaining about the price of food drink Irish women dress like tramps etc.
    Maybe they dont realise that there getting many times the wages they would earn back in Polska.
    Also there safety record on building sites is appalling maybe they fear theyll get fired if they dont do acertain job.
    Why do so many of them drive without insurance?


  • #15
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    sickpuppy wrote: »
    Id love to ask them how thay can live on 12 euro a week?
    By living on cheap "bland" food?
    How can they eat same bland food everyday?
    Because Ireland is reknowned for its dishes filled with spices, herbs, and all things flavourable. mmmmm, flavourable.
    Why so many of them complain about ireland and still stay here?
    Ask the Irish the same.


  • #16
    Lands Leaving
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Lands Leaving


    Karoma wrote: »

    Ask the Irish the same.

    But its our right to complain, we didn't move here, why move here if its crap.

    btw I don't mind Ireland, there's a lot of bad things yeah, but no more than anywhere else in the western world and a lot less than most of the world.


  • #17
    sickpuppy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 955 ✭✭✭sickpuppy


    Well Karoma being born in a country and complaining about it and emmigrating to one are both very different.
    If your pissed off abroad in general people would come home to there mother county.
    Iwas born in ireland i didnt choose to emmigrate here,
    can you not spot the difference.


  • #18
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,554 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    I can see it, but I'm not entirely sure how relevant it is.


  • #19
    Lands Leaving
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Lands Leaving


    Wait, is this definitely about people from poland?

    Not Pledge?

    I think Mr. Sheen needs to get back to his own country.

    I'm having trouble getting a shine on my desk, any suggestions?


  • #20
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    With moving from country to country being so easy, and nationalism dead... there's really not that much difference. **** OFF TO ANOTHER HOME, PADDIES!!1!


  • #21
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,678 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    sickpuppy wrote: »
    How can they eat same bland food everyday?

    Polish food is far from bland.


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  • #22
    tomster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭tomster


    sickpuppy wrote: »
    Im not pulling the piss or being racist.
    Ihave worked with polish and mnay other eastern europeans in 5years on building sites in Dublin.
    I have rarely heard any positives on anything off them.
    They have a look and an attitude as if there coming from a babies funeral.
    Miserable incessent complaining about the price of food drink Irish women dress like tramps etc.
    Maybe they dont realise that there getting many times the wages they would earn back in Polska.
    Also there safety record on building sites is appalling maybe they fear theyll get fired if they dont do acertain job.
    Why do so many of them drive without insurance?
    No one acuses you for being racist!!! I say again: thats why I wanna open such thread, Irish complaining to other Irish and Poles to other Poles brings us nowhere! I wanna see those complainig Poles answering your questions dude, really! And I wanna see your answer! That could change something, because moaning to a few friends is pointless...


  • #23
    Tha Gopher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭Tha Gopher


    daithifleming wrote: »
    Thirded.

    4th`d!

    Come on, how can Irish winters with days usually between 5 and 15 be worse than back home where it is -12? I dunno but most EE I meet here complain the weather is worse than back home.

    And is our health service really that awful? Any time me or my mates required hospital attention in the last few years we were seen to in 15 odd minutes :confused: None of us have VHI or that craic. I think hospitals were worse years ago, when I was 10 i waited somethin like 5 hours to be assessed when I had a severe flu requiring hospitalisation, was left in the waiting room coughing/puking myself to bits waiting. And when I was younger they even refused to take me at the hospital the first time I went (kidney infection), parents took me bak to the GP who had forwarded me and he had to demand I get admitted.
    tomster wrote: »
    No one acuses you for being racist!!! I say again: thats why I wanna open such thread, ..

    Indeed. Except its nearly always irish people doing the accusing. Check the Polish Drivers thread in Motors to see how tetchy and ludicrous pople can get because someone notices one race are more inclned to certain traits than others. I guess they get all uppity if a yank says we are the biggest drinkers in Europe and to counter it produces a survey showing we fall just behind the Czechs and, a rather surprising Franc Le Tanke, Luxembourg!


  • #24
    Ekancone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Ekancone


    ned78 wrote: »
    Polish food is far from bland.

    Are you kidding? 90% of it consists of turnips and cabbage!


  • #25
    sickpuppy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 955 ✭✭✭sickpuppy


    Dathi thats not fair throw in tinned fish and gherkins and imsure its yummy.


  • #26
    Ekancone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Ekancone


    sickpuppy wrote: »
    Dathi thats not fair throw in tinned fish and gherkins and imsure its yummy.

    Thats the 10%...


  • #27
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,554 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    cabbage is ****ing lovely.

    and you call yourself Irish. scum.


  • #28
    Ekancone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Ekancone


    Mordeth wrote: »
    cabbage is ****ing lovely.

    and you call yourself Irish. scum.

    Polish food tastes like the Iron Curtain.


  • #29
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    sickpuppy wrote: »
    Id love to ask them how thay can live on 12 euro a week?
    How can they eat same bland food everyday?

    you could ask most irish students that, if you ignored the fact they spend the rest of their rent allowance and grant money on cd's boose fags and drugs :D, which is fine too.


  • #30
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,413 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Tha Gopher wrote: »
    And is our health service really that awful? Any time me or my mates required hospital attention in the last few years we were seen to in 15 odd minutes :confused:

    Lucky you, I spent 26 hours on a trolley in Vincent's A&E earlier this year, so yes, I think people's complaints about the health system here are legitimate. However, that's a different issue and from working with some Polish people the problem they seem to have with the health service here is not the quality, but rather trying to make themselves understood and understanding the doctor themselves. These are people with very good English, but in fairness how many of us could describe our symptoms accurately in a foreign language.

    What I've found from working with Russians, Poles and having a girl from Belarus working for me last year is that they seem to live up to the Eastern European stereotype of being pessimists. Everything seems to be conspiring against them, be it the weather, the traffic, public transport, whatever. It always amuses me because they don't get it when you point out that everyone else got wet that morning too, for example.


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  • #31
    sebastianlieken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭sebastianlieken


    theres a large proportion of polish ppl living in ireland that refuse to learn the native language; english (during the summer, was dealing with a group of contract cleaners, the translator was one of the cleaners 8 year old sons for christ sake!) if u live in a country, the very least you can do is make an effort to learn the language.

    polish people tend not to integrate too much with the irish, they mainly socialise within their own groups and thats it!


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