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  • #62
    Dragan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    jimbo78 wrote: »
    Wonder will we start seeing Irish people back in low paid jobs now? Or are we too proud

    Indeed, because every Irish person is in a high paid job?


  • #63
    Wagon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭Wagon


    I'll miss the pretty polish women :(

    But I'll be leaving next year myself so :D


  • #64
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    CaptainNegative wrote: »
    Ah, they're not going are they?
    Sure, isn't there plenty of room for them all?
    I'm sure people would be much happier if a third of Cork just packed up and left.

    Why only a third?

    I'll gladly trade a few thousand nordies in too


  • #65
    homerjay2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    mr girlfriend is polish and she may have to leave next year :(. all the best looking girls in work are eastern polish and latvian, so i obviously hope they stay! wouldnt mind a few nationalitys leaving though but wont mention them.....


  • #66
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    No more Magdas. :(


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  • #67
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    But the Rick Spleens are still here :(


  • #68
    SheroN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭SheroN


    Great maybe I'll be able to get near the benches in my local gym again.


  • #69
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    mike65 wrote: »
    But the Rick Spleens are still here :(
    Ah to have mammy and daddy paying the rent for me...


  • #70
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,102 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    The generally miserable attitude and constant complaining didn't help either.

    Have you ever thought this might be an issue your having Sam? I've never experianced a bitching moaning pole. They love the place.
    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    They add nothing to the country socially, economically, any way, and they take a significant amount out of it. Lock the door behind them, please.

    We have polish newspapers, radio programs and even a TV program. Many of us who are a little bit adventurous have been enjoying the delights and horrors that polish shops have to offer. You can't say they haven't added anything socially- that's just plain silly.

    As I mentioned earlier I work in retail and about half of our customers are foreigners. They may not be as carefree with their money but that's not a bad thing. They tend to weigh up their options before making a purchase, which sounds wise rather than stingy.
    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    There won't be any shortage of them coming over any time soon.

    Well that's just great then.


  • #71
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
    Have you ever thought this might be an issue your having Sam?
    Doubt it, I regularly mix with people from four corners of the world. Living in a low rent area as I do, the place is like the UN. :D
    Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
    I've never experianced a bitching moaning pole. They love the place.
    Oddly enough so, I have been told by Polish people that if they try talking to Irish people when there is a group of Poles there, they get berated by their brethren for not sticking with the group. I've actually seen that happening in fact.
    Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
    We have polish newspapers, radio programs and even a TV program.
    What the hell good is that if you don't speak Polish? And please don't tell me to learn, I speak languages most people have probably never heard of, and I don't feel like spending time on that exercise in vowel avoidance just to facilitate people coming here to take as much cash as they can and run.
    Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
    Many of us who are a little bit adventurous have been enjoying the delights and horrors that polish shops have to offer.
    Really, its no great shakes. They do a decent sausage, but besides that theres not much in the way of surprises.
    Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
    As I mentioned earlier I work in retail and about half of our customers are foreigners.
    And if ten more people come in and tell the same tale, I'll still be saying that the plural of anecdote is not data.


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  • #72
    neil_hosey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    its a bit naive to think that when the poles go home, there'll be loads of jobs. I would bet the vast majority of them heading home are those who have lost their job and can't find another one. Its true that it will put less stress on the social welfare system.


  • #73
    neil_hosey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    Really, its no great shakes. They do a decent sausage, but besides that theres not much in the way of surprises.

    Ive been to Poland numerous times, and their food is great. Not just sausages although they are great.


  • #74
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    neil_hosey wrote: »
    Ive been to Poland numerous times, and their food is great. Not just sausages although they are great.
    If you want delights and horrors, tuck into a leech the size of your thigh lightly fried on the outskirts of a Visaya wet market. That'll put hairs on your chest.


  • #75
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    And please don't tell me to learn, I speak languages most people have probably never heard of,

    Certainly, you are fluent in Sh/ite talk, Whinge and Stereotype.


  • #76
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    Nodin wrote: »
    Certainly, you are fluent in Sh/ite talk, Whinge and Stereotype.
    Well said that man. Carefully reasoned, thought out, argued, presented and elegantly finished. Heh. I mean what, did you wake up this morning and decide that your circle of friends and family being aware of your declamatory eloquence wasn't enough, you needed to let the whole country know?


  • #77
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,102 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    Well said that man. Carefully reasoned, thought out, argued, presented and elegantly finished. Heh. I mean what, did you wake up this morning and decide that your circle of friends and family being aware of your declamatory eloquence wasn't enough, you needed to let the whole country know?

    No rather than tart his statement up he just went straight to the point.


  • #78
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    Well said that man. Carefully reasoned, thought out, argued, presented and elegantly finished. Heh. I mean what, did you wake up this morning and decide that your circle of friends and family being aware of your declamatory eloquence wasn't enough, you needed to let the whole country know?

    O, I just though we should break with the tradition of not honouring the prophet in his home town.


  • #79
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
    No rather than tart his statement up he just went straight to the point.
    And what a point it was.


  • #80
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,102 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    What the hell good is that if you don't speak Polish? And please don't tell me to learn, I speak languages most people have probably never heard of, and I don't feel like spending time on that exercise in vowel avoidance just to facilitate people coming here to take as much cash as they can and run.

    I don't want you to learn polish but you did state that culturally and socially they added nothing to the country which is simply wrong.

    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    Really, its no great shakes. They do a decent sausage, but besides that theres not much in the way of surprises.

    You haven't been eating the right food.


  • #81
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    declamatory eloquence... I like Thesaurus Rex me

    Here's another word for you.. magniloquent


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  • #82
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I heard that a lot the Brazilians in Gort are leaving this Christmas.


  • #83
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
    I don't want you to learn polish but you did state that culturally and socially they added nothing to the country which is simply wrong.
    No, economic migrants on a revolving door in and out of the country add nothing to the culture, regardless of who you married. :p Or did you marry her in the end, I seem to recall you were having some issues.
    Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
    You haven't been eating the right food.
    You're telling me. What really gives me the creeps is wondering what the hell they raised the thing on, water buffalo?
    L31mr0d wrote: »
    Here's another word for you..magniloquent
    The irony of my previous statement has been superceded, I stand humbled. :D


  • #84
    djpbarry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭djpbarry


    noblestee wrote: »
    Notice that there are 200,000 poles here...
    I'm curious to know where that figure came from? It seems very high?
    Alexandria Broad Rawhide wrote: »
    I will argue the point that the jobs that the polish leave here will be filled by people who are desperate for work.
    Two points. Firstly, are the unemployed Irish qualified to do the jobs that are apparently being vacated? Secondly, if there are so many people in this country "desperate for work", then why is it that scarcely a day goes by when I don't see a shop, bar, cafe or restaurant somewhere in Dublin advertising a job vacancy (possibly vacated by those who have emigrated)?
    JæKæ wrote: »
    Rent-they pile 12 of them into a one bed, so not really losing out on that much rent per head.
    Food-it's all Aldi they buy which goes straight to Germany, apart from the employees wages
    Drink-they stay in and get locked on Polish vodka
    Hairdressers-they cut their own hair
    Stereotype much?


  • #85
    djpbarry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭djpbarry


    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    Oddly enough so, I have been told by Polish people that if they try talking to Irish people when there is a group of Poles there, they get berated by their brethren for not sticking with the group. I've actually seen that happening in fact.
    …
    And if ten more people come in and tell the same tale, I'll still be saying that the plural of anecdote is not data.
    :rolleyes:


  • #86
    djpbarry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭djpbarry


    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    No, economic migrants on a revolving door in and out of the country add nothing to the culture, regardless of who you married.
    Horse**** and you know it, regardless of any personal prejudice.


  • #87
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    qz wrote: »
    Now I'm not a racist, but...
    Most I have met are caucasian, just like most Irish...

    Or do the geography books now include polish as a distinct race, and traveller for that matter?


  • #88
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,102 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    SimpleSam06 wrote: »
    No, economic migrants on a revolving door in and out of the country add nothing to the culture, regardless of who you married. :p Or did you marry her in the end, I seem to recall you were having some issues.

    That's just nonsense Sam. You're telling me that people who have been here nearly 5 years have added nothing to the country? I'd never have gone to poland had they not come here. I'd never have experienced polish food, culture, language etc. I'd never have bought an apartment in poland.
    Right now in the fridge at home apart from the usual stuff there is some mint vodka (polish), polish sausages and some polish bread.

    I haven't married her yet. Like any relationship it has its ups and downs.


  • #89
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    djpbarry wrote: »
    Horse**** and you know it, regardless of any personal prejudice.
    And here we have the politically correct in their knock kneed run for the sun, weaned on lethal weapon 2 and fortified in academia, insulated from any form of reality by the taxes of others, sneers on their pasty faces while they wait for the pension to kick in, no reasoning required other than the righteousness of their cause, in the new religion of enlightened passive agression (although the new boss looks strangley like the old boss), upon whose altar you can sacrifice anything, your children's future, your family, your rights as a human being, whatever, just to get at those evil white middle class men in the first world. Who are all racists.


  • #90
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
    That's just nonsense Sam. You're telling me that people who have been here nearly 5 years have added nothing to the country?
    Where is the Polish music? Where is the literary work they have added to our culture, the plays, the movies, the slang, the sense of humour, anything beyond sausages and apparently mint vodka? They may as well not be here for all the impact they have had.


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  • #91
    mercuroman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 ✭✭mercuroman


    I reckon they've had enough. I think this pushed them over the edge - how could someone live in a country where this happens?


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