The Polish?

Badly Drunk Boy

fightin irish wrote:

I think ya might be missing the general consenus(sp?) here. From the way i read this thread people are really happy to see a nation FULLY intergrating into Irish society for a change...In fairness we've a **** load of horrible, criminal/scam merchants coming over(not just in ireland tho)

Eh...not everyone has to go along with the consensus. It's called having yer own mind...

I've nowt against things Polish (but me Ma might disagree. I haven't met Mr Sheen in years.) The perfectly lovely Polish people in work are cleaners (is that appropriate?) and the sight of them doesn't make me want to puke...:D

fightin irish

Badly Drunk Boy wrote:

Eh...not everyone has to go along with the consensus. It's called having yer own mind...

Did i say anything about ''everyone has to go along with the consensus''. I tought i was just pointing out IMO how the thread was developing. Maybe i did a bad job.

Kintarō Hattori

jazoo wrote:

Why is it polish this polish that there have been Chinese, Nigerian ,Romanian people coming here a long time before we had any poles and they don’t have there own segment in the evening herald , that’s racism ………….

Sure there have been other immigrants here before the Polish, but there has never been anyone else here in such large numbers. That's why there is so much fuss about the Polish.

kevthecelt

I love the polish and i think they are one of the best things that has happened to this country in years, hard working honest people, ive been going out with a polish girl for nearly 2 years now and ive never been happier

DOLEMAN

The most beautiful girl I've ever seen was Polish. Absolutely stunning. Yes amazingly she didn't think so. I love the way Polish women don't get an ego when they're lovely...

In general, I think Polish people are very nice - innocent, friendly, intelligent, sociable...

LegacyUser

There are polish lads down in my gym...put it this way, you could learn a lot from them. Massive. Absolutely Massive. Very strong, very outgoing and excentric guys.

If one of them caught you with his girlfriend and he came after you, you'd run off and commit suicide before he got to you...

Red Alert

Polish women are really sound. I was talking to one in a shoe shop one day and she said she was a phyicist and wanted to stay in ireland for a while but wanted to improve her english in the shop first as well as earning a bit. They really make a difference from some of the egotistical irish women doing the rounds.

Some of the estonians are quite hot too.

DOLEMAN

Red Alert wrote:

Some of the estonians are quite hot too.

Indeed. The north east europeans look slightly different than the south east ones. Both are tasty though!

axer

Roundtower2 wrote:

p.s. please don't post negative comments - if you want to do that, then start a new thread. Let's have this as a positive thread about the 150,000 Polish people who are now based here

A thread where people only post positive experiences is stupid and not realistic. I will comment however that I have not had any bad experiences with any polish.

My girlfriend is German and I am in Germany now so all I have to say is -
One Nil, One Nil, One Nil, One Nil!!!! Wuuuwhooo - go on Deutschland!!

Badly Drunk Boy

fightin irish wrote:

Did i say anything about ''everyone has to go along with the consensus''. I tought i was just pointing out IMO how the thread was developing. Maybe i did a bad job.

You said that people might be missing the consensus. Implying they were wrong. Whatever you were trying, you did a bad job...:p

fightin irish

Badly Drunk Boy wrote:

You said that people might be missing the consensus. Implying they were wrong. Whatever you were trying, you did a bad job...:p

Nope... i said ''he'' might be missing the consensus IMO'' but i made a balls of it alright:D

Brian Capture

There should be more immigrants let into Ireland.

Anything that annoys skangers and the ignorant Irish underclass is a good thing.

AngryAnderson

God. I wish the racists really would come along and turn around this patronising embarrassment of a topic. :eek:

Say, who likes Nigerians? Let's all gather around Obuku here and tickle him under the chin! Then when we're done, we'll all go over to Ling Wu over there and pet her for a few minutes.

Or is it just me that thinks that taking people as you find them, regardless of nationality, is the most blatantly obvious and sensible thing to do?

Terry

AngryAnderson wrote:

God. I wish the racists really would come along and turn around this patronising embarrassment of a topic. :eek:

Say, who likes Nigerians? Let's all gather around Obuku here and tickle him under the chin! Then when we're done, we'll all go over to Ling Wu over there and pet her for a few minutes.

Or is it just me that thinks that taking people as you find them, regardless of nationality, is the most blatantly obvious and sensible thing to do?

no, it's not just you.

the thing is, if someone is guilty of a crime, nationality shouldn't come into it.

Attol

I think there's a bit of a culture clash. I work in retail and 90% of Polish people will throw the money at me and won't utter a word. I find it really rude and disrespectful. Also I live with 6 of them at the moment. They avoid speaking English and just speak Polish when the 3 non Polish people are around. I find the ones I know aren't integrating very well. It's kind of "us" and "them" as far as I can see at the moment.

Diamondmaker

Oh the chicks and the accents...oh so sexy I love em!

Terry

they took our jobs.

The Sweeper

Best damn boss I ever had in my whole life was a Polish woman in her fifties. I miss working for her.

AngryAnderson

julep wrote:

no, it's not just you.

the thing is, if someone is guilty of a crime, nationality shouldn't come into it.

Not too sure what your point is there relative to what I said but I agree with you, FWIW.

Cake Fiend

julep wrote:

they took our jobs.

th' tk urr jrrrrrbbs!!

Sam Vimes

Sico wrote:

th' tk urr jrrrrrbbs!!

everyone back in the pile

ChityWest

Sico wrote:

th' tk urr jrrrrrbbs!!

That episode is on mtv right now. (randy just got got fired)

'day tuk urr jabb'

Karl Hungus

Oh yeah, I forgot, my doctor is a Polish woman. I like her a lot better than the previous doc, who didn't really seem to give a crap.

slipss

Ok I didn't read the whole 4 pages, just the first one, but the jist(is that how you spell jist?) of it seems to be do you like the Poles?. Personally I really like the Polish people, or those I have met so far in anyways. That being said, the first time I was stabbed, back in 2001 it was a Polish bloke that did it. But anyways, they seem to remind me alot of real Irish people i.e. people that don't live in D4, that wanted to work as soon as they were able to, and that would sopport their freinds ahead of any one else, be it gaurds or state or employers. The have a reasonably similar history to our own and I think that has shaped the culture in the same way as ours. They work hard, fight tough, drink like fish, and look after thier own, and are severe cleptomaniacs (but only when they can justify it) my kinda people.

Dirk Gently

slipss wrote:

the first time I was stabbed, back in 2001

How many times you been stabbed. Is it a weekly recreational thing or was 2001 just a bad year for you.

Sam Vimes

clown bag wrote:

How many times you been stabbed. Is it a weekly recreational thing or was 2001 just a bad year for you.

slipss is just a popular guy

ptashek

Daddio wrote:

Are there many Polish on boards?

There are indeed. Myself, for example.

ptashek

Raiser wrote:

I had always assumed that the were liftime immigrants into Ireland - like we were around the time of the famine etc. Seemingly the vast majority plan to work save cash and make their way home ? Anyone know the story here am curious as to whether they are making a life here or having an extended working holiday.....[?]

Both. Some of the less qualified or with poor english are here just to make enough cash to go back home, buy a house, live for some time on what they earned and then come back. But there are people, like myself, who left Poland 'cause they just couldn't stand it anymore. My plan is to stay in Ireland as long as it "pays the bills" without a major headache.

ptashek

deisedolly wrote:

One girl had saved like €25000, thats like looooooads in Poland!

Roughly an equivalent of 3 years on an average, private sector salary.

ptashek

julep wrote:

they took our jobs.

All of them, or are you just looking for someone to blame?

BlitzKrieg

*scratches head*

i must have lost all hope for humanity...or at least boards. Cause i just assumed straight off the bat that the OP was blatant sarcasm...

but seeing as it actually isnt i dont have much experiance of the Polish living in Ireland, seeing as i am living in England at the moment, but seeing as i dont really care where anyone comes from over here when judging them, i assume the same applies to the polish in Ireland.



On a side note, has any of the polish here tried f*cking with the tourists by telling them they are speaking irish when they are speaking polish, could have alot of fun messing with some people.

susanna

The Polish are great, I worked with a few and my sister lived with a Polish couple, really sound people

TheTruthFairy

I was good friends with a Polish guy who has gone back home now. He was a great laugh and the tales he told me about living under communism certainly opened my eyes.

I've worked with Poles too and must agree that they are great workers. This I imagine is because the vast majority of Polish people actually appreciate the fact that they have jobs wheras most Irish people seem to take their cushy lives for granted.

Bullock99

... And Polish women are beautiful.

Ruu

Thanks for that, most of the folks in the thread have moved on I would say...hopefully as the thread is nearly 9 years old at this stage.