Are you Poles proud of your country? Then why do you keep coming to Britain?

IronsideThreads: 59 Posts: 6,786 Joined: Feb 26, 09 ♂	Edited by: Ironside Jun 6, 11, 00:30 #91
Seanus: here. Please see above link I posted. I would rather believe statistics than a newspaper. What says you ?

EdWilczynski

Jun 6, 11, 00:42 #92

huddersfield:

Agree with the bulk of what you say but I have to ask your age group. I started at All Saints in 87

I started All Saints in 81 and left in 86.

I grew up in Marsden and the Marsden/Slaithwaite area had a large Polish community (because of Crowthers)

My uncle married a Polish girl (Polish Mother, English Father) from Slaithwaite and they moved to Canada.

I'm not saying that you didn't take crap for having a Polish surname but if you did I can say with some certainty it was not the norm.

EdWilczynski	Jun 6, 11, 00:49 #93
Advice: If you are, why do you all keep coming to Britain instead of making your own country better? Advice, there are currently 6 million Brits living abroad. Why aren't they in GB?

dailytale	Jun 6, 11, 04:06 #94
i would bet none of them are cleaning their host's crap splatter off toilet bowls, though.

grubasThreads: 20 Posts: 1,452 Joined: Feb 1, 10 ♂	Jun 6, 11, 05:23 #95
dailytale: i would bet none of them are cleaning their host's crap splatter off toilet bowls, though. You would lose your bet a$$hole.

guesswhoThreads: 23 Posts: 3,326 Joined: Mar 17, 10 ♀	Jun 6, 11, 05:38 #96
Advice: Are you Poles proud of your country? Then why do you keep coming to Britain? What are you trying to say advice, that when one travels a lot, he's not proud of his country? I've been to over 40 countries and I'm very proud of my country. Somehow your logic doesn't add up, don't you think?

SoftsongThreads: 6 Posts: 588 Joined: Sep 2, 07 ♀	Edited by: Softsong Jun 6, 11, 07:39 #97
This was posted a few months ago by a couple of Polish men who are very proud of their country. And yet, humble, too. Enjoy a few scenes from Poland from some people who wish for you to visit one day. http://youtu.be/_UGgDxpujd4

huddersfieldThreads: - Posts: 8 Joined: Jun 5, 11 ♂	Jun 6, 11, 08:27 #98
EdWilczynski Fair enough mate. Looking at it in the cold light of day (I had a few Warka with mates whilst watching the Polska - Argentina game yesterday) I think we brought it on ourselves a little bit. There were a few of us with Polish backgrounds who knew each other from the Saturday school and we therefore tended to hang around together a lot.

EdWilczynski	Jun 6, 11, 09:32 #99
dailytale: i would bet none of them are cleaning their host's crap splatter off toilet bowls, though. Knobs like you make me ashamed to be a Briton. You need to drop the "We are the great colonial power" routine.....It doesn't ring true anymore and hasn't done for a very long time.

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Jun 6, 11, 12:02 #100

EdWilczynski:

Sorry, I struggle to accept that you took crap for being Polish in Huddersfield. Perhaps the new wave of Poles can lay claim to that but not the old and bold and I object to you trying to infer that an area like Huddersfield has had some sort of long standing anti Polish sentiment because that couldn't be further from the truth.

Without being rude, perhaps there was something else which made you a target, kids can be cruel but being Polish descent wouldn't have been one of them in the Huddersfield I grew up in. Indeed, all through my youth I heard nothing but good things about the Polish especially from my Grandfather who fought alongside them. My best friend was called Robert Szostak whose grandfather fought at Arnhem.

Yups, I was brought up in Doncaster,sounds the same,untill 04 being Polish was just not an issue for anyone,infact the wartime era Poles and they way they had made good lives in the UK were,if anything,over romanticised.
So,going with your touchy response to my post Im guessing you are just one of those types who rubs some people up the wrong way,or takes the wrong end of the stick more often than is practical .
And I started high school (grammar school) in 89 so we are hardly from widely different generations.....

EdWilczynski

Jun 6, 11, 12:46 #101

isthatu2:

So,going with your touchy response to my post Im guessing you are just one of those types who rubs some people up the wrong way,or takes the wrong end of the stick more often than is practical .

Sorry mate I think you have me confused with the chap that did seem to take offence.....Namely the poster called Huddersfield.

huddersfield:

isthatu2: What a load of bollox.You were brought up in Yorkshire with a Polish name and you try to say that made you stand out,lols,pull the other one fella, I knew plenty of kids part,full,a teeny bit Polish growing up,none got hassle for being Polish,one or two did simply for being pr!cks though :)
OK, so I'm a prick then. It's fantastic that everyones experience of growing up is identical isn't it? I bow to your superior knowledge of my childhood. Well done.

Edit: If you're going to resort to petty name calling, why don't you call me a "dirty ******* immigrant" as I was called at school? So much better than "prick" eh?

I was actually agreeing with what you said to Huddersfield.

Grammar school in Donny? Nah....Not having that fella. ;)

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Jun 6, 11, 14:46 #102
I-S, not in this case. Stats are variable and of dubious standing wherever you go, pretty much. If we were to meet in the middle and say 800,000+ then that's still very high indeed. There's more to life than money and they should realise it.

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Edited by: Ironside Jun 6, 11, 16:28 #103

Seanus:

If we were to meet in the middle and say 800,000+ then that's still very high indeed. There's more to life than money and they should realise it.

I you realize that they are not only in GB but in others EU countries it would make as much as 2 - 3 million Poles outside Poland.
It is high. They should realize that there is more to life than money ? Well, isn't that philosophy you could apply to everyone regardless of nationality?
I think that Italians are pretty laid-back, but then no so long ago on PF somebody called them lazy lol !
Remind me how many Britons emigrate annually ?

ZIMMYThreads: 10 Posts: 2,353 Joined: Feb 21, 09 ♂	Jun 6, 11, 16:49 #104
dailytale: i would bet none of them are cleaning their host's crap splatter off toilet bowls, though. I'm tempted to hire a butler named Jeeves, or is it Nigel? Softsong: Enjoy a few scenes from Poland http://youtu.be/_UGgDxpujd4 That song has quite a bit of American 'country music' to it. It was also sweet.

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