'tease a Pole'

[nasza_maggie]

a new game for the brtish yuffs

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Idź do Tesco, znajdź Polaka i mów bardzo szybko. Nie rozumie? Wołaj
menedżera, rób awanturę. Kto to widział, żeby obsługa nie mówiła po angielsku!

O co chodzi? O grę. Grają w nią angielscy gówniarze. Nazywa się "tease a
Pole", czyli "podrażnij Polaka". Jej przedmiotem jest Polak (punkt za
właściwe wytypowanie), który pracuje w Tesco. Dlaczego? Bo zabiera pracę
miejscowym. Bo ma śmieszny akcent i pochodzi z jakiegoś pieprzonego,
zacofanego kraju. Bo pracuje za grosze. Bo się czerwieni, jak nie rozumie.

[usenetposts]

The equivalent I get in Poland is "enrage foreigners by answering them in
English when they address you in perfectly adequate Polish".

The perfect antidote to this, of course, is to go into English, but into
extreme Cockney or Tyneside, or give them the ultimate - Norrn Irrun!

Then, when they look confused, go back into Polish again, with a sigh.

[craick]

may i ask you where are you coming from usenet?

[usenetposts]

craick napisała:

> may i ask you where are you coming from usenet?
>

You remember that huge blast in Hemel Hempstead last December, the biggest
peace time explosion in Europe, but no-one was killed?

Yes, that's where I come from - Hemel Hempstead, town of miracles! Forget
Czestochowa and go on pilgrimage to Hemel and let your car worship at the
legendary two-way roundabout.

[ianek70]

usenetposts napisał:

> The perfect antidote to this, of course, is to go into English, but into
> extreme Cockney or Tyneside, or give them the ultimate - Norrn Irrun!
>
> Then, when they look confused, go back into Polish again, with a sigh.

Once or twice I've been speaking with smartarses and mispronounced or misused a
word, and they say "No, to możemy po Twojemu."
So I repeat what I've just said in Glaswegian, twice, then in very s l o w and
c l e a r l y enunciated Glaswegian, pause for 6 seconds (5 is the embarassment
threshold) and continue in Polish.

[nasza_maggie]

Hmmmmmmmmmm I wonder if you guys would be so clever if they answered you back
in dialect, like you do to them.
With a góral or kaszub you wouldn't be so feisty

[ianek70]

nasza_maggie napisała:

> Hmmmmmmmmmm I wonder if you guys would be so clever if they answered you back
> in dialect, like you do to them.
> With a góral or kaszub you wouldn't be so feisty

Neither would a Pole, but I'd just say "Pitej gorolu i niy dupć w fleki."

[nasza_maggie]

Oh no, trust me, they would.

[ianek70]

nasza_maggie napisała:

> Oh no, trust me, they would.

They'd continue to dupcić when expressly requested not to?
I'd just tell them I'm from Warsaw, and could they please use more pretentious
words.

[marcus_anglikiem]

those cretins should be sent to work in a corner shop in Praga. except that
then they'd be taking jobs from decent hard-working Poles. (or perhaps just
giving them a few days off. hmm, might be an idea here ...

[nasza_maggie]

Praga? Why Praga?
And where did you see a corner shop???
I'm sure none of those chavs would survive 10 minutes on Stalowa though I'd
send them off to the middle east

[ianek70]

nasza_maggie napisała:

> I'm sure none of those chavs would survive 10 minutes on Stalowa though I'd
> send them off to the middle east

To Radom? You monster!
Whatever they've done, they don't deserve that...

[marcus_anglikiem]

reputation,i guess. though last time i walked around Praga,it was perfectly
peaceful...hmm, then again it WAS daytime.
Do they not have corner shops in Praga? what? four possible escape routes too
much risk?
if you'll excuse my ignorance,you mean by Stalowa, Stalowa Wola?
...the middle east? i think some of them are there already...

[marcus_anglikiem]

aha, ON Stalowa? so...? what's that, a dzielnica? ... Radomia?

[nasza_maggie]

Well if you knew Praga you would know about Stalowa. But it seems you don't
know much about Praga, only maybe a few stereotypical views that they tend to
print in GW all the time.

Middle East - I meant Baghdad, but I think Radom would be anough))

And there are no cornershops in Praga, that is solely a UK trend.

[bluteau]

hey, hey, we have cornershops ("depaneurs" in Quebec) all over Canada too, you know.

[nasza_maggie]

sorry

I'm sure you nicked that off the Brits though

[bluteau]

Maybe so, maybe so...

[ianek70]

nasza_maggie napisała:

> And there are no cornershops in Praga, that is solely a UK trend.

But as you know, the Silesian word "winkel" (corner) is sometimes used to refer
to a shop, just as the High German "Eck" (corner) means "shop" in Austria.
Drei-eck (a T-junction thing), Blumen Eck (a florist). Putting shops on corners
is just common sense.
Bloomin' 'eck.

[asiaasia1]

praga. i live there. my grandma has been living there for over 70 yrs.
it is quite liberal area.
every night ( around 10 pm) i come back home with my new laptop that i take with me in the morning and nobody was bodering me yet.
i have nice neighbours.
only one family is typical mafia family.
at least they know me and i know i will be safe , because they do not attack neighbours.
my black rastafarian partner did not have any racisit comments from those people in praga.
we had a very racist incident in ogród saski, near to my former high school ...
do not be scared of going to praga, please ...

[marcus_anglikiem]

sorry, i have only ever passed through Radom on a bus. it was raining; i was
adull afternoon on my travels from VCS, London to Pulawy...
as for corner-shops being solely a UK thing, no. shops on corners i have seen
in many towns in Poland and in many other countries. i recall corner shops in
Slupsk, Brzesko-Okocim itd...

[nasza_maggie]

those arent the type of corner shops we're thinking of

[marcus_anglikiem]

i did wonder about that... how would you characterise the English and Polish
cornershops respectively ?

[nasza_maggie]

wellllllll im sure David will tell you about the Uk ones in great detail

Polish corner shops have now turned into animals
like żabka or biedronka

[marcus_anglikiem]

hmm, English corner shops i know well. The corner shops i have visited in
Poland are your sklepy spożywcze, s.- i warzywne, s.- i monopolowe, sklepy
nocne...