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A man in Jersey has been arrested following the murder of six Polish people.
What are your experiences of Polish people?
There is a Polish guy working for us. He is a very good technician and once showed me a video his girlfried took of him catching loads of Mackerel on the beach.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 11:57, 149 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
and friendly people. Which is unfortunate as I'm neither. Turns out, they're better than me in a fight, too.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:03, Reply)
the complete opposite of you really.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:05, Reply)
Oh man, that's great, that's really great.
I love how you've suddenly become so angry with me, I really can't work out what it was I did that suddenly made you flip.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:06, Reply)
If you're going to try and be funny, try and get it right.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:16, Reply)
'try to'
Now the two of you stop being silly and play nicely.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:19, Reply)
not to mention being a prematurely middle-aged petty little prick.
so you've got no chance of succeeding, none at all. none.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:28, Reply)
we'll do it right after you bone chompy, that's been frothing away for MONTHS...
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:46, Reply)
Besides, it really should be someone who likes him who pops his cherry.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:55, Reply)
And you haven't suddenly made me flip, I've always held the belief that you are a cunt.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:21, Reply)
But you've normally gone along with the banter, whereas you've suddenly started taking it rather personally.
Which is odd.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)
The issue I have with you is that you seem to take such great pleasure from making brash personal comments at the expense of others. At least the majority of the others have the good grace to disguise it as banter. Obviously I won't allow myself to get upset as it's the internet but I still don't have to like it or pretend I think your brilliant and 'just a character'
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:27, Reply)
he is actually very pleasant and mild-mannered but is fully aware that he's a little bit socially inept. deep deep down inside, he is aware that he is a bit of a gimp. so he overcompensates, eg by laughing very loudly in public, or by saying what he thinks is outrageous and/or HILARIOUS on here.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:30, Reply)
compared to some people, al is a raconteur with the rapier wit of oscar wilde and the dashing charm of mr darcy.
then again, compared to REAL LIFE people...... the safety word is "banana"...
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:37, Reply)
*throws petrol*
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)
would you like me to explain why it doesn't matter how much money you spend on cables for hifi/TV applications, to keep us all going whilst we wait for it to pick up?
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:08, Reply)
They in turn are connected to his floor standing speakers which cost £800 per speaker.
The speakers sit behind a small coffee table on one side and his sofa on the other.
I didn't have the heart to tell him what a silly sausage he was being.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:12, Reply)
and my sub's on carpet, not slate.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:14, Reply)
I was pretty angry and made this clear, no one fessed up.
8 years later my now wife confessed saying she had been to scared to admit previously
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:18, Reply)
I sucked it back out again with a hoover.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)
Tweeters usually screw in and if you take out the driver you should just be able to get your hand in and swap it out.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:27, Reply)
It is a Denon mini system with blue lights up the sides and I loved it more than life itself for many years.
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They'll outlast the DVD for sure.
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you tacky, shallow slut.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:47, Reply)
but i thought you LIKED repeating the same old thing ad nauseam?
am i doing it wrong?
do i need to wait for another thread and then link to it again, would that be more al-esque?
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Naughty Bobby.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:15, Reply)
but again, once you're past a certain threshold you would really struggle to notice the difference.
If you made up your interconnects with bell wire, then it won't sound as good as a decent copper wire wit gold plugs. But anything costing more than about 15-20 quid is just a waste.
Obviously with digital connections if it works, then it works, and above that there is no difference.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:18, Reply)
Like having plastic inserts in the middle of the cable, with copper wire around it. Or silver coating. Both of which would only ever make the copper less conductive.
But the topper, the absolute cherry, was seeing one HDMI cable at 60 quid (which in itself is outrageous) and then a nearly identical cable next to it for £100. The difference? The £100 cable had "3D ready" stamped on the packaging.
3D fucking ready. Unlike every other HDMI cable, of course.
In fact, with the right plugs, you could send HD signals down fucking powerflex.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:22, Reply)
Yes, power cable. It'll give you an infarction.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)
in the same way which a transistor does?
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:24, Reply)
how waterproof are your trousers anyway?
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:24, Reply)
between horsepower and torque in the next thread.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:27, Reply)
Actually that's not true, torque is straightforward, power I can manage, it's really their interaction that confuses.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:32, Reply)
Copper's the best conductor and so all cable that transmits electricity is made from de-oxidised copper. Power cord, speaker cable, USB cables, HDMI cables, EVERYTHING.
The only things that make any kind of difference is how well the plugs are made and how thick the cable is. This is purely for bandwidth.
You can get decent build quality for about 20 quid. Anything else is purely don to companies playing us for mugs.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:30, Reply)
if they're anything other than the standard ones that came with the telly, or whatever, then they're wasting money and receiving no benefit. The defining feature of digital is that it's on or it's off. It works, or it doesn't. There is zero benefit in spending money on HDMI cables.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:01, Reply)
Until you read the sentence closely and see that his "girl fried" is involved.
I therefore conclude that Polish people are cannibals, but cultured ones who don't eat raw meat.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:08, Reply)
VOTE FOR THE BESTEST NOW
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:15, Reply)
Funny as fuck to hear them argue in Polish though.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:16, Reply)
that even if I did learn it, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to talk to a native speaker due to my complete inability to hear any actual words.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:18, Reply)
It's the hardest language I have ever tried to learn. I just can't get my head round the weird combinations of consonants.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:22, Reply)
the one who delivers my ocado shopping sometimes kept tripping over my friend's tongue on his last visit.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:19, Reply)
Now I just have to go home, clean teh kitchen, pack up about a million things I sold on eBay this weekend, get them round the post office, tidy the lounge so I can actually see the carpet, hoover the carper, then go and pick up the dog from doggy playschool.
I have successfully made the rest of this thread ^^^ appear less boring. You are all welcome.
Tell me something saucy. I'm bored.
EDIT: Also, all the Polish people I know are very funny and lovely. They don't whinge like buggery about doing some actual work, and they speak our language better than most British people these days.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:17, Reply)
I was rather impressed with Ralph Fiennes' ability to make the words "Avada Kedavra!" sound ominous and vaguely scary rather than stupid.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:21, Reply)
That 'popcorn box' trick can sometimes backfire...
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:24, Reply)
And Stokes Sauce is the best sauce ever.
That saucy enough?
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:19, Reply)
lucky we have such an EXCITING question to replace it. why don't you tell us how many marrows you grew at the weekend instead?
i only grew one, but it was very tasty, especially when eaten several times over the course of sunday with a serving of champagne, suffolk cider and thai dinner.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:18, Reply)
Apart from a semi-chubby at some bird with a very small swimsuit on Ryde beach in the Isle of Wight.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:20, Reply)
you're only allowed to point that thing at immediate family members on the isle of wight
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)
One notable exception was the strange chap who became the handyman for the block of flats I lived in as an undergraduate. He was an odd fellow, and seemed to either be half-cut or hungover every time we saw him (which, as undergraduates, was not something we could criticise him for).
When we had problems with our boiler, after much shouting at our landlord, I thought I'd manage to convince him that it was finally time to replace the knackered old thing. Until this crazy feller then convinced our landlord that he'd be able to fix it. He turned up one evening, drank most of our coffee, made a bit of a mess and basically achieved nothing except delaying the replacement of said boiler and freaking out our female flatmate.
We lived on the top floor. I left the flat one day to find a spray of vomit that had managed to extend down the top flight of stairs. Apparently he and his friend had got pissed as darts players in our stairwell. He cleaned it up, or at least tried to, but the carpet remained stained as a permanent reminder of that foul-smelling morning.
Finally, our gas meter was in a small cupboard just outside the door to our flat. My flatmate came back one evening and said to me
"Crow, can you come and listen to this?"
I went down to the door with him.
"I'm not going mad, am I? Can you hear someone sleeping in there?"
He was right. Someone was asleep in there. It could only have been him.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)
They have conformed to stereotype by doing a better job for less money.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:24, Reply)
Hastily arranged viewing for 3pm on an alternate.
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and if she doesn't I know where she lives so can knock on the door for awkward conversation.
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Weren't you looking to buy a place a while back?
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:39, Reply)
Have 75k sat in an account for my deposit - boom.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:41, Reply)
Although it does completely obliterate any sense of sympathy I may have had for your housing-related woes
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:46, Reply)
it was magnificent.
Had a party at my place on Saturday for my birthday and the Poles up the street were listening to some very odd music indeed.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:35, Reply)
vipros, please don't. PLEASE?!
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:38, Reply)
so I get to enjoy exciting activities (or this weekend, playing golf, and then getting hammered) and get it enhanced with lovely fresh produce from the garden.
So basically, my life is better than yours
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:39, Reply)
I don't see a gorgeous super-rich Asian man whisking you away in a car that cost more than Sharon Osborne's face for MEGA HOT SEX
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:41, Reply)
Swipey is shallow
There you go
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:45, Reply)
If you'll excuse me Ms Swipe, I need to go to hospital to have this bullet removed from my stupid fat foot
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:48, Reply)
We have a cucumber which is well on it's way to being ready for picking.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:41, Reply)
I'll stick with Pippa Middleton though
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:57, Reply)
for the moment
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(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:06, Reply)
i only do that if it involves nice people!
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:08, Reply)
i was really impressed at the july bash by how nice everyone was.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:13, Reply)
I'll look after you.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:29, Reply)
As I will have to navigate the tube either drunk or hungover. Decisions decisions.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:25, Reply)
And the October bash will be a laugh too I hope.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:14, Reply)
Got to give the police a sporting chance, what?
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:27, Reply)
You can have a nice close up look when it's jutting out of your neck.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:33, Reply)
By and large the Polish population of the 1930s were massive anti-Semites, and they welcomed (and joined in with) the anti-Jewish persecution that went on under German occupation with gusto. This attitude exists to this day, where far right groups (often affiliated to football teams) perpetuate these racial superiority theories. Far from the boo-hoo victims of history, they were a bunch of cunts.
Of course, one of the biggest ironies of all time (clocking in at 15,000,000 mechaspoons on the Morrisette Scale) is that one of the groups most committed to an idea of their own racial superiority in the world today is, errr, the Jewish people.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:26, Reply)
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