British taxpayers pay homeless Polish to go home.

I do

re: the Scottish generally are friendly towards Polish people

- But is the attitude towards Poles such as teashoggy's also pretty common in Scotland? I don't expect it is, but please tell me honestly.

I'll be very glad to visit. I'll eat Macsweens Haggis and all the other Scottish dishes. And I'll read Robert Burns's divine poetry, such as Tom O'Shanter, and Walter Scott's The Wandering Willie's Tale (from 'Redgautlet') - one of the greatest pieces of story-telling ever.

All the best, darling.
:)

Its just the strangest thing. My German teacher at school was actually from Germany but I never worked with, or known another German! I find that odd.



I've never come across anyone with such an aggressively negative attitude towards Polish people as that of teashoci. However, I won't lie and say they aren't out there because, of course they are. I hope that you don't meet anyone like that though.

And bring a big umbrella because its raining, raining, raining all the time!!!

:-)

The Polish/German relationship is kinda similar to the French/English one. Before you jump on the band wagon about what the germans did in the war i will say i'm not including all the details of who did what and when or the reasons for it that could take all night!!.

However, apparently the English and the French don't like each other, this is true in some respects but it does not mean every French person and Enlgish person meets is he stereotype Frenchman/woman. This is the same for the Polish/German relationship, yes there is history there and some Polish may have a right to be bitter because of what happend 60's and rightly so. However there has been a new generation of Germans and Poles since then.

In my experience the polish may not have warm kisses ready for the Germans but they do not go out of there way to avoid or dis-like them, as i said before similar to the Enlgish/French relationship.

I could name many more nations who are in exactly the same position. Its just a fact of life. people do not get along with one another all the time, whether the English, Polish, German, French or wherever there will always be disharmony between members of the human race

I work with a German girl now, I've worked with other German people in the past and I know German people I don't work with



Here as well...it's driving me mad..I swear I'm growing flippers :(:(:(

lol
I'm starting to have a new appreciation for ducks!

Its so annoying though, I had a day off today and spent the morning in the garden - thinking I might have a few friends around this evening for some drinks in the garden. Glad I never text anyone (or bothered watering the garden for that matter!). :-)

your not the only ones under water!!! LOL!!!!

It better end soon, it makes me so bad tempered :(



even the ducks are fed up with it....

I've already had my temper tantrum, went out this morning it was nice didn't take a coat, or even a jumper and when i started to walk home this evening the heavens opened!!!! i was soaked to the skin, I've never been so wet.

Just goes to show you can never ever predict British weather, if you do so then its at your own peril!!! LOL :)

I'm going to commit sucide by laying in the garden and drowning myself :(

re: The Polish/German relationship is kinda similar [etc]

- Tornado, there's much truth in what you've written.

But I still think that the English and French like each other way more than Poles and Germans like each other.

For example, the English and French admire each other's culture, and consider themselves fellow Europeans.

But many Germans, including leading German politicians, do not seem even to regard us as Europeans....

I call it deep-embedded racism.

By the way, it's interesting, isn't it, that it's the Germans who should define who is European and who isn't?

lol

I just bought a new bike but I'm thinking of returning it and swapping for a canoe!

me too! I'm really grumpy at the moment!



yeah I heard that, the fish told me as they swam past my window!

Well, you should have learned by now, you're a big boy! ;-)

it's not a canoe you want..it's a bloody submarine you'll be needing if this sodding rain doesn't stop

this is true! Must have a look at Argos online and see if they're selling them yet! :-)

Polskadoll: Hay even big boys make mistakes, hehe

Puzzler: Yes i agree with all that you have said, and i find it astonishing that the Germans do not see the Polish as Europeans, in fact the Polish Geographically and historically are more European than say the Russians who are really a state of Asia but call themselves European because it suites them.

Anyway personally i'd rather spend a day with a Pole than a German if i had the choice :)

I wasn't aware that the French admired English culture?

Daisy, they seem to. It seems to go back to Voltaire at least. (He scribbled
some stupid stuff about Milton and Shakespeare though.) And, for instance, don't the French (as perhaps anybody else in the world) emulate English music? Wasn't there Beatlemania in France?
And didn't the Rolling Stones do some of their best music while living in France?
:)

Yes - but we never got around to Jonny Halliday mania though

re: we never got around to Jonny Halliday mania though

- Strangely enough you didn't.
:)

By the way, Paul McCartney has suggested that 'Michelle' (which has a French sentence in the lyrics) was inspired by the atmosphere of the French existentialism. The atmosphere was prevalent in the fifities and sixties, also at the parties he attended.

But they'd never admit it

True! And it probably would have been quite funny to have seen you drenched to the skin! lol ;-)

I didn't find it that funny at the time but when i looked in the mirror and saw how wet i was even i had a little chuckle to myself :)

well, never did anyone any harm to be drenched like that - having said that, its not happened to me in a while! :-)

Hay don't get me wrong i like been wet but i like to choose when!!!

Well, be sensible in future, take an umbrella!

Umbrella's are for beautiful women and not men :) i'll take a jacket with a hood next time lol

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