"Go home ya Polish bastard"

Is a dangerous way to get your kicks. Says it to enough people and he is gonna run into a Polish fella at some stage and without meaning to generalise too much but they are well able to handle themselves

Obaraten wrote: »

I know it could have but i just find it strange that this randomer would come over to a group of lads trying his best to start a row

Seriously, the drink problems some people have they'd walk up to a wall and try to argue with it. Dont let it bother you. Just be proud you didint take the bait.

Wasza matka

MrStuffins wrote: »

OP, did you take acception to being called Polish?

I live in Spain and a lot of people can be racist. Just recently i was called a "****ing Irish".

But it's true, i AM Irish. And i found it funny that this guy thought he could slag me off by pointing out I am from the country of Ireland!

I just laughed at him!

I suspect he was using Irish as shorthand for drunk, violent, taking our women/apartments etc

Its easy when you are in a high paid job requiring perhaps a bit more than minimal English and also a local emphasis in your education, to forget that competition between the Irish and foreigners for scarce jobs is at a fever pitch.
In most service jobs, requiring little local and language skills there is a large reduction in conditions, security and wages due to the presence of large numbers of people from Eastern Europe whose wage expectations are somewhat lower than the Irish. This changes in a matter of months as they find out how dear everything is and either go back home or look for higher wages. In the meantime the employers have 6 months to a year low cost labour until the foreigners find out the true cost of living in Ireland.

It is hard on our lower skilled workers to make the adjustment to higher demands, lower wages, less job security that the recession and foreign labour competition bring to the workplace. It is a human reaction to feel anger towards those who are powerless and different and new to the work scene. The real anger should be directed at the politicians and those in positions of influence who allowed free access to our labour markets to happen in the first place. Why did we go for the fastest and most liberal transition to full access to our labour markets when other European countries delayed it? Who did this suit? Certainly not the low skilled, lower paid people in service industries who now have no hope of improving their lot.

The loudmouths in pubs are only saying out loud what a lot of Irish people are thinking quietly to themselves but are too afraid to say. When hard times bring hunger and desperation in their wake these quiet people may not stay quiet for long and those with differences, whether national, linguistic racial etc. will not stay quiet for long.

Will you expect the parents of this country to accept that their children have to go away for work while foreigners take the few available jobs here?

Would anyone expect the long term unemployed to accept foreign labour in local shops etc. when they can't get a job for years?

So far the forces of the left have tried very hard to emphasise the international nature of labour and have defended the rights and safety of foreign labour but it may not be able to do so if the grass-roots support is pushed further in poverty by being displaced by foreign workers.

There is an urgent need for policing initiatives to counter this threat but those in power don't want to know. So long as they have an endless pool of cheap compliant and powerless labour to do their bidding they will leave the real trouble and conflict to those at the bottom.

A Polish fella got badly done over in Coolock last night, I won't suggest it was the same fella but it shows how different the experience could have been.

Sorry to hear this op. I often get abused the same way aswell...:( Only thing is I am Irish....:(:(.

OP, I'm Irish, and I was driving home one evening and there was an idiot on the side of the road staggering home after a skinful (and this was only 7pm or so).

As I passed he gave me an exaggerated two-finger salute; I don't know the guy and don't want to.

Basically, there are drunken idiots everywhere, and unfortunately "getting pissed" seems to be a pastime to far too many people (without being insulting, many Polish people too).
Some people are simply an embarrassment to their country.

I definitely wouldn't take it to heart; as I always tell myself, what counts is not what strangers think of me, it's what people I know think of me. Anyone else is basing their opinion on their own prejudices, ignorance, and inadequacies.

Liam Byrne wrote: »

OP, I'm Irish, and I was driving home one evening and there was an idiot on the side of the road staggering home after a skinful (and this was only 7pm or so).

As I passed he gave me an exaggerated two-finger salute; I don't know the guy and don't want to.

Basically, there are drunken idiots everywhere, and unfortunately "getting pissed" seems to be a pastime to far too many people (without being insulting, many Polish people too).
Some people are simply an embarrassment to their country.

I definitely wouldn't take it to heart; as I always tell myself, what counts is not what strangers think of me, it's what people I know think of me. Anyone else is basing their opinion on their own prejudices, ignorance, and inadequacies.

Autually Liam a bit o/t but the day I got married we were on the way to the hotel in Blarney and I looked out the window at a drunken pedestrian and when he copped the wedding car he started making fap fap gestures at me..:D