Keep an eye on your swans Ireland...

pvt. joker

togster wrote:

American humour.... Jeez my sides are splittin. Funny guy :rolleyes:

why not just add the rolleyes smilie to every post?

Terry

Last warning for both of you.

Tha Gopher

eo980 wrote:

Rightyo---- we're obviously done here. Shall we all agree to drop it?

Is that a roundabout way of accepting there may be a small handful of lunatics among our large Polish population who have partaken in this activity?

Frankly if i were a Pole reading this Id be embarrased/amused at the reaction to the OP. In much the same way I wouldnt know where to look if I was reading an English message board where an OP complaining about Irish beggars and junkies was told he was talking out of his arse, because as everyone knows every paddy who ever crossed the Irish Sea worked 6am to 9pm 6 days a week on the building sites. Drank in their own pubs and caused no trouble :rolleyes: Why is it that the few Polish members we have (Zaraustra and at least two other lads) in their posts seem to back up my experience of the Poles (re work ethic, women, culture etc etc) better than the self appointed Irish spokespeople? On t`internet those who speak loudest often know the least of all.

Kintarō Hattori

Tha Gopher wrote:

Is that a roundabout way of accepting there may be a small handful of lunatics among our large Polish population who have partaken in this activity?

No. Not at all. However would you agree that we're not going to agree? Do you just see this thread going around in circles? I dunno about you but there are other parts of boards I like to visit apart from After Hours, and apart from anything else I need to get pepared. Funnily enough I'm off to Poland for the 3rd time this year the week after next.

I didn't quote the rest of what you have to say because it's exactly what I was talking about several posts ago. I took up an issue with the OP because of what he was insinuating. What he was implying could happen hasn't happened here in Ireland that we are aware of. It is an awful act and one which doesn't help the image of Eastern European among the impressionable. It just increases the idea, the image that they are good for nothing and should be rounded up and deported. It's contributing to a negative stereotype.

However your point is that well, 'It could happen'. Anything could happen. Just because it hasn't, doesn't mean it can't. That's a poor and vague point. It's not I believe a valid contribution to this situation.

Terry

eo980 wrote:

No. Not at all. However would you agree that we're not going to agree? Do you just see this thread going around in circles? I dunno about you but there are other parts of boards I like to visit apart from After Hours, and apart from anything else I need to get pepared. Funnily enough I'm off to Poland for the 3rd time this year the week after next.

Do you plan on coming back from Poland and then going there again?

Tha Gopher

Fair enough. You think that of the best part of a million Poles here/UK, not one mentally unstable member of the group has ever attacked a swan.

In terms of logic, I would disagree. A million Buddhsts or Hindus, meh, maybe.

As said I seem to agree with the previous posts the Poles here have made (in terms of reality) and my own extensive experience both positive and negative(largely positive, only negs being the two lazy women prev mentioned, the dodgy gypsy previously mentioned and some gobsh1e who tried to skip my place in a taxi queue), rather than the apparently down wit da eatsidaz Irish ambassadors tbh.

Kintarō Hattori

Actually Terry I do. I'm going for a long weekend and then I'll be heading back over again in about a month's time, making it four trips this year alone, which I agree might be a tad excessive.
Why do you ask?

Terry

eo980 wrote:

Actually Terry I do. I'm going for a long weekend and then I'll be heading back over again in about a month's time, making it four trips this year alone, which I agree might be a tad excessive.
Why do you ask?

I ask because airline routes are usually semi-circular.
Going back and forth would constitute a circle.

I thought it was funny.
Having to explain it wasn't.

Kintarō Hattori

Look I'll be honest and say that I'm either too stupid or tired to get the point your making.

Terry

eo980 wrote:

No. Not at all. However would you agree that we're not going to agree? Do you just see this thread going around in circles? I dunno about you but there are other parts of boards I like to visit apart from After Hours, and apart from anything else I need to get pepared. Funnily enough I'm off to Poland for the 3rd time this year the week after next.

Me wrote:

Do you plan on coming back from Poland and then going there again?

eo980 wrote:

Actually Terry I do. I'm going for a long weekend and then I'll be heading back over again in about a month's time, making it four trips this year alone, which I agree might be a tad excessive.
Why do you ask?

Me wrote:

I ask because airline routes are usually semi-circular.
Going back and forth would constitute a circle.

Me wrote:

I thought it was funny.
Having to explain it wasn't.

I give up.
Comedy was never my forte.

Kintarō Hattori

Sorry Terry. It was a good joke, but as I pointed out I'm either too stupid or tired. I'll go for the latter as I've just watched the extended edition of The Two Towers and I've had several beers, something I don't normally do.

A good joke though, quite clever!

SimpleSam06

flogen wrote:

Ignoring the fact that eastern european workers are, on average, better educated than Irish workers

Say what now? Have you got any, any facts to back up that monstrously presumptuous statement?

Terry

Come on now sam. Everyone knows we have the worst everything in the world, including education.

scitpo

Ignoring the fact that eastern european workers are, on average, better educated than Irish workers

I very much doubt it given that their GDP is a small fraction of ours.

Kintarō Hattori

scitpo wrote:

I very much doubt it given that their GDP is a small fraction of ours.

I can see that you have a wide understanding of socio-economic issues. Not that I have myself, but your implication above is hilarious.

Terry

I wonder if there is another nation out there as self loathing as the Irish.

scitpo

eo980 wrote:

I can see that you have a wide understanding of socio-economic issues. Not that I have myself, but your implication above is hilarious.

Whats socio-economic?

Kintarō Hattori

scitpo wrote:

Whats socio-economic?

That's why your comment can't be taken seriously, at least not by me anyway.

scitpo

Can you keep your red bananna comments to yourself.

Kintarō Hattori

scitpo wrote:

Can you keep your red bananna comments to yourself.

Well when you have a better understanding of what your talking about feel free to make enlightened comments.

scitpo

I know more than you. How many times have you been to Poland? 3 times? Well I've been four. I've read more books on Poland than you as well and know more Polish people.

Kintarō Hattori

scitpo wrote:

I know more than you. How many times have you been to Poland? 3 times? Well I've been four. I've read more books on Poland than you as well and know more Polish people.

I rest my case, though not for the reasons above Sir. You clearly know me better than I know myself.

scitpo

How could I possibly know you better than yourself you sandwich? The same way you don't know what I know so don't bother making any assumptions again. Burn

Kintarō Hattori

scitpo wrote:

How could I possibly know you better than yourself you genius!

Well according to you:
I know more than you. So clearly you know me well to have that understanding.
How many times have you been to Poland? 3 times? Well I've been four. That's marvellous. I've actually been in 2005, 2006, twice this year and will be another two times before the month is out. Though what that has to do with understanding their education system in relation to Ireland I don't know. But you seem to place some emphasis on it and you after all, know more than me.
I've read more books on Poland than you as well. How do you know what books I've read if any? You must know me better than I know myself, I'd never make a statement like that about someone I never met or directed a comment at on an internet forum.
...and know more Polish people. Wow that's amazing stuff indeed. Your definetly something special. I didn't know you knew the polish people I knew. That could only be the case for you to make the statement that you knew more polish people than myself.

scitpo

You are just replying to me here because you're pissed off I made a fool of you on another thread.

PS. Polish people are far less educated when they come to Ireland. Why do you think they are all here as waiters and builders?

challengemaster

our swans, eh?

theres a guy in my town nicknamed "swans" - reason: when he gets drunk(all the time) he repeatidly says swans, and attacks inanimate objects, eg. walls.

morawa

scitpo wrote:

How could I possibly know you better than yourself you sandwich? The same way you don't know what I know so don't bother making any assumptions again. Burn

If you know poland and polish people so well, what do you make of what I have to say. It's easier for me to type in my native 'tongue':

mysle ze nie masz racji mowiac, ze NPB ma cokolwiek wspolnego z wyksztalceniem. Zeby zdobyc prace trzeba miec co najmniej mature co tu w Irlandii jest juz nie wiadomo czym. Kazdy Irlandczyk jesli tylko chce ma prace, nie tak latwo natomiast w Polsce, trzeba skonczyc studia a i tak konczy sie w pubie w Dublinie.

scitpo

mysle ze nie masz racji mowiac, ze NPB ma cokolwiek wspolnego z wyksztalceniem. Zeby zdobyc prace trzeba miec co najmniej mature co tu w Irlandii jest juz nie wiadomo czym. Kazdy Irlandczyk jesli tylko chce ma prace, nie tak latwo natomiast w Polsce, trzeba skonczyc studia a i tak konczy sie w pubie w Dublinie.

Thats a load of ****. Reported for personal abuse and for blatant racism.

Kintarō Hattori

scitpo wrote:

You are just replying to me here because you're pissed off I made a fool of you on another thread.

PS. Polish people are far less educated when they come to Ireland. Why do you think they are all here as waiters and builders?

Ehh I don't remember anyone making a fool of me on another thread, much less you. I think I'd remember your super-generalizations.

Polish people work only as waiters and builders eh? Hmnn I'd better pop down to my local bank so and tell the manager that the poles working there, clearly aren't poles.

morawa

scitpo wrote:

Thats a load of ****. Reported for personal abuse and for blatant racism.

Hmmmn I think your polish might be a tad rusty, because there's no personal abuse in there at all. Zip, nadda, none. With all the polish people you know, you could get one to translate for you, because your polish is really bad if you read one thing when I actually said another.

scitpo

Oh so your one of these people who hates generalisations to a fault no matter how much truth is in it. 80% of people who work in catering are now foreign. Any polish I wonder? Lets keep this discussion based somewhat in reality and not get carried away with trying to be pc.

Kintarō Hattori

scitpo wrote:

Oh so your one of these people who hates generalisations to a fault no matter how much truth is in it. 80% of people who work in catering are now foreign. Any polish I wonder? Lets keep this discussion based somewhat in reality and not get carried away with trying to be pc.

Gosh no I don't hate generalisations, but yours have been hilarious so far. I'm sure that a huge number of people working in catering are Polish, but to say that they only work in catering and construction is plain ignorant.

But anyway I still really like your comment about the polish GDP being lower than ours so clearly they are less educated than us. That's a real gem.

scitpo

but to say that they only work in catering and construction is plain ignorant.

Never said that. Please show me where I mentioned 'only'? Can't, oh well, 3-0.

GDP is related to education in that it costs money to educate people. If a country has a far higher GDP for the last 20 years then they can spend more on a better education. Also in a country that is quite poor like Poland there is less emphasis on education and more on making money as soon as possible. Thats how it is there. 4-0

Kintarō Hattori

scitpo wrote:

PS. Polish people are far less educated when they come to Ireland. Why do you think they are all here as waiters and builders?

Would you look at that, you did say it. Clean your monitor.

scitpo wrote:

....Also in a country that is quite poor like Poland there is less emphasis on education and more on making money as soon as possible. Thats how it is there. 4-0

There are far les jobs in Poland than there are here so in order to actually get a good job in Poland the workforce need to be highly educated in order to get the few jobs that are available to them. Every single Pole I've met so far has gone to university and attained their degree's.

I'm also not keeping scores as that's not what this is about, neither am I that childish. But if it makes you feel better you can, though your 'scoring' has been wrong so far.

Hagar

Jaysus lads, can everyone take a step back. The whole thread is about a nonsense article claiming people eating swans that nobody really believes. Let's just laugh at the stupidity of it and leave it at that.

Kintarō Hattori

Fair enough Hagar. I did try to do that a while back.

pvt. joker

scitpo wrote:

Thats a load of ****. Reported for personal abuse and for blatant racism.

Translation:

You have from (with) reason mysle mowiac, whatever has from (with) with (from) NPB wspolnego wyksztalceniem. At least it isn't known it is necessary be in ireland that work that here Zeby zdobyc miec mature juz. Want has work irishman only Kazdy jesli, however, in poland not so latwo, it is necessary studio (study) skonczyc and in pub in dublin so konczy sie

scitpo

Maybe not swans but they do piss all the locals off by fishing illegaly and also finshing for the sort of fish a dog wouldnt piss on. Still waiting for that 'only'.

pvt. joker

eo980 wrote:

Fair enough Hagar. I did try to do that a while back.

HAHA....that's amusing

Kintarō Hattori

scitpo wrote:

Maybe not swans but they do piss all the locals off by fishing illegaly and also finshing for the sort of fish a dog wouldnt piss on. Still waiting for that 'only'.

Where's the proof of that?
Ehh I highlighted it for you in my post above. How much clearer do you want it to be?

scitpo

pvt. joker wrote:

HAHA....that's amusing

I know, dirty lying sore loser.

scitpo

pvt. joker wrote:

Translation:

You have from (with) reason mysle mowiac, whatever has from (with) with (from) NPB DIRTY IRISH PIG. At least it isn't known it is necessary be in ireland that work that here Zeby zdobyc miec mature juz. Want has work irishman only Kazdy jesli, however, in poland not so latwo, it is necessary studio (study) skonczyc and in pub in dublin so **** YOU!

There you go.

morawa

pvt. joker wrote:

Translation:

You have from (with) reason mysle mowiac, whatever has from (with) with (from) NPB wspolnego wyksztalceniem. At least it isn't known it is necessary be in ireland that work that here Zeby zdobyc miec mature juz. Want has work irishman only Kazdy jesli, however, in poland not so latwo, it is necessary studio (study) skonczyc and in pub in dublin so konczy sie

Did you go to the nearest Polish-English website? Or was it from a dictionary. What you have translated isn't what I have written. It was coherent and concise polish. I'll leave it there for you as a 'puzzle' and you can come back to me when it's properly translated.

Kintarō Hattori

pvt. joker wrote:

HAHA....that's amusing

Go back several pages and it's there in black and white.

scitpo wrote:

I know, dirty lying sore loser.

Ehh what?

scitpo wrote:

There you go.

Falsely editing quotes to try and make your point? Ohh that's low and smacks of desperation.

Terry

morawa, we're all waiting paitently for your translation.

Please don't keep un in suspense any longer.

All I read was "Pubes in Dublin".

pvt. joker

morawa wrote:

Did you go to the nearest Polish-English website? Or was it from a dictionary. What you have translated isn't what I have written. It was coherent and concise polish. I'll leave it there for you as a 'puzzle' and you can come back to me when it's properly translated.

I printed it out and gave it to my polish grandmother. She laughed so hard she spit her teeth on the floor before scribbling this "translation"

morawa

Terry do you require a translation of it? There is nothing bad in it, it's in connection with GDP and education.

pvt. joker

eo980 wrote:

Go back several pages and it's there in black and white.

you single handedly turned this thread into a cluster****

morawa

pvt. joker wrote:

I printed it out and gave it to my polish grandmother. She laughed so hard she spit her teeth on the floor before scribbling this "translation"

Hmnn well your grandmother is probably old, so maybe she doesn't understand complex socio-economics. It might be above her. Maybe her laugh was an embarassed one.

scitpo

Hmnn well your grandmother is probably old, so maybe she doesn't understand complex socio-economics. It might be above her. Maybe her laugh was an embarassed one.

Pull the other one. If I dont know what socioeconomics is then a Polish person most certainly doesn't. You're about as Polish as humour.