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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)
I've found the Polish to be extremely polite
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)
Friendly, charming, intelligent, humble,
the complete opposite of you really.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:05, Reply)
Ah-HA!
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)
Ah-Ha are your favourite band you appalling spastic.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:13, Reply)
It's spelt a-ha actually.
If you're going to try and be funny, try and get it right.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:16, Reply)
psssst
'try to'

Now the two of you stop being silly and play nicely.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:19, Reply)
Let them fight, I'm hoping for a flounce

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:21, Reply)
Swipe must be due another one soon

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:22, Reply)
We can but hope Foxy, we can only hope.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)
nah, you'd need to be really tedious and repetitive to achieve that
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)
You two should totally just shag and get it over with

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:38, Reply)
sure
we'll do it right after you bone chompy, that's been frothing away for MONTHS...
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:46, Reply)
Please
I may be easily riled but give me some credit for my taste
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:47, Reply)
meh
look upon it as your bit for charity
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:51, Reply)
That's not a "bit" for charity
Besides, it really should be someone who likes him who pops his cherry.

likes doesn't actively loathe
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:55, Reply)
I will never flounce!
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:22, Reply)
Only a pedant or a superfan would know that.
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)
Excellent.
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)
No, I've often ignored the banter.
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)
if i may paraphrase from a gaz i received on the topic of al a couple of years ago now: it's because in real life
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)
Wait...
There are socially inept people on here?
Who knew?
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:35, Reply)
it's all relative
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)
Yeah Al, what do you say to THAT! you're not going to let him get away with it ARE YOU?
*throws petrol*
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)
I'll say what I said above.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)
yeah that seems to have worked

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:29, Reply)
Better than I could have hoped for really.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:38, Reply)
This thread's a little slow
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)
My friend spent £200 on the cable that connects his £1500 CD Player to his £1500 amplifier
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)
My front left and front right speakers are sitting on the shelves of a couple of MDF bookcases
and my sub's on carpet, not slate.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:14, Reply)
At a party at uni someone pushed in my tweeter
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 did that on one of my B&Ws
I sucked it back out again with a hoover.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)
Tried and failed

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:24, Reply)
Does the company make spares?
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)
Probably, however it was my 18th birthday present so is 11 years old now
It is a Denon mini system with blue lights up the sides and I loved it more than life itself for many years.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:29, Reply)
If it's a Denon, you might be surprised.
Give them a call.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:30, Reply)
maybe I will...I wonder if i should replace the mini disc section as well?

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:34, Reply)
Oh yeah, there is no way those babies are going to become obsolete.
They'll outlast the DVD for sure.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:39, Reply)
Oh Al, you scamp.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:41, Reply)
I once spent nearly 200 pounds on a seperates minidisc player and recorder.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:43, Reply)
I look on it as a learning curve.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:43, Reply)
god how could you put how much it cost you on here?
you tacky, shallow slut.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:47, Reply)
This is just getting a bit sad.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:51, Reply)
oh sorry
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?
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:56, Reply)
As in replace it with an Ipod dock or hard drive player if they make one, smart arse

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:50, Reply)
Oh right, yeah, that's a good idea.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:54, Reply)
yes

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:14, Reply)
You're only saying that because you think it might wind up Al.
Naughty Bobby.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:15, Reply)
For analogue connections it does make a difference
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)
Some of the cables I've seen in places like Richer Sounds have made me choke with rage.
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)
Don't Google BMI's Oceanic "Statement" power cable then.
Yes, power cable. It'll give you an infarction.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)
Is that the power cable which prevents interference
in the same way which a transistor does?
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:24, Reply)
you are so lucky monty isn't here to see that
how waterproof are your trousers anyway?
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:24, Reply)
You wait, I'm going to explain the difference
between horsepower and torque in the next thread.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:27, Reply)
i love it when you torque dirty to me, baby

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:30, Reply)
I find this concept very hard to understand
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)
oh come on
mine was better!
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:33, Reply)
no, genuinely interested.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:18, Reply)
Basically it all comes down to electricity.
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)
cannot wait to regurgitate this to my gimpy seperates mate.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:32, Reply)
Like Al said above, check out their HDMI interconnects
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)
That video sounds impressive but not very saucy
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)
Wow
I must have done that subliminally
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:13, Reply)
The chompy defence

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:15, Reply)
The other explanation I had was that "his girlfried" was shorthand for the seminal 1933 Cary Grant fast-talking screwball comedy His Girl Friday
VOTE FOR THE BESTEST NOW
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:15, Reply)
Perfectly polite, normal people.
Funny as fuck to hear them argue in Polish though.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:16, Reply)
Polish is one of those languages
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)
I'm learning it through Rosetta Stone
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)
some of the men are hot
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)
Do you not think that they have quite wide heads?

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:20, Reply)
i wouldn't mind finding out with this one

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:20, Reply)
Well, computers for spastics is over for another week, thank christ.
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)
EXPELLIARMUS
That's something sorcery.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:18, Reply)
It always sounds like they're ordering food though.
Asparagus!!
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:19, Reply)
I saw the final film on Saturday
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)
And did Social Services counsel the child afterwards?
That 'popcorn box' trick can sometimes backfire...
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:24, Reply)
Nah
Ms Foxtrot went and sat next to me instead of him. BORING
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:31, Reply)
I think I'll hoover the carper first.
And Stokes Sauce is the best sauce ever.

That saucy enough?
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:19, Reply)
I HAVE GONZISM YOU HEARTLESS CUNT!!!!!

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:20, Reply)
Pitty it's not an STI/D

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:33, Reply)
wow
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)
I grew bugger all.
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)
careful
you're only allowed to point that thing at immediate family members on the isle of wight
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:23, Reply)
On the whole, I have found the Eastern Europeans to be perfectly pleasant and hardworking
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)
My only experience of Poles has been professional
They have conformed to stereotype by doing a better job for less money.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:24, Reply)
I've just lost my accomodation for next term, fuck!
Hastily arranged viewing for 3pm on an alternate.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:28, Reply)
I don't get how that happens.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:34, Reply)
the landlady couldn't rent all the rooms so is renovating and selling the place instead.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:34, Reply)
Did you ley down a deposit?

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:38, Reply)
yeah she is putting that back in my account today
and if she doesn't I know where she lives so can knock on the door for awkward conversation.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:39, Reply)
You should ask her for compensation, for expenses and time wasted.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:41, Reply)
hadn't considered that, is it not a bit American?

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:42, Reply)
No, not at all, they've left you on short notice homeless. It's going to cost you money and time to re-arrange things.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:48, Reply)
Hmmm still think it's a bit bent

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:56, Reply)
Have you looked down the back of the sofa?

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:35, Reply)
Ba-dum- pffffffffffffffffft.
Irritating! loved that house.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:37, Reply)
Sorry to hear that mate
Weren't you looking to buy a place a while back?
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:39, Reply)
yeah but have put that on hold until I graduate as may move abroad.
Have 75k sat in an account for my deposit - boom.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:41, Reply)
Good answer
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)
I reckon that's fair enough.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:55, Reply)
I like Polish bread.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:35, Reply)

br h
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:41, Reply)
Al, I ate the first corn on the cob from my garden yesterday
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)
oh christ not more vegetable growing
vipros, please don't. PLEASE?!
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:38, Reply)
once it's set up it doesn't actually take much work
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)
Don't be ridiculous Vippers
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)
That's because he doesn't earn enough money.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:41, Reply)
Or is it too much money
I've forgotten how this joke works now.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:42, Reply)
Allow me to explain the joke in intircate detail for you
Swipey is shallow

There you go
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:45, Reply)
shame your spelling isn't as intricate as your joking...

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:46, Reply)
Ooooooooooh dear
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)
Awesome stuff
We have a cucumber which is well on it's way to being ready for picking.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:41, Reply)
Sorry Al, too easy
pi fu
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:42, Reply)
I've heard that the Jersey royals are really quite tasty
I'll stick with Pippa Middleton though
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 12:57, Reply)
what's with all the swipe hating?

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:01, Reply)
sexual frustration

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:02, Reply)
the same old story.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:03, Reply)
They are hoping for a flounce

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:02, Reply)
i have decided i can annoy al much more by being here
for the moment
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:03, Reply)
surely you can change a few details on a file and make his life a legal hell.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:06, Reply)
that would mean letting this place spill into real life
i only do that if it involves nice people!
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:08, Reply)
that's afucking good shout.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:10, Reply)
yes and there's lots of them too
i was really impressed at the july bash by how nice everyone was.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:13, Reply)
I am part looking forward to mechabash
and part terrified.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:14, Reply)
why are you terrified?
just get drunk
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:17, Reply)
People off the internet, innit.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:18, Reply)
As long as you leave the dressing gown at home
I'll look after you.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:29, Reply)
I'm trying to decide whether to get a hotel near the venue or near the station
As I will have to navigate the tube either drunk or hungover. Decisions decisions.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:25, Reply)
I think I'm meeting Monty this weekend which I'm looking forward too.
And the October bash will be a laugh too I hope.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:14, Reply)
Make sure you tell a friend where you're meeting me.
Got to give the police a sporting chance, what?
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:27, Reply)
I'll be tooled up bruv, just incase it's an ambush.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:29, Reply)
Oh it's an ambush alright.

(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:31, Reply)
Actually you can help identify my grandads military sword I swiped.
You can have a nice close up look when it's jutting out of your neck.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:33, Reply)
Don't make me cut myself
come join my shiny new thread.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 13:26, Reply)
Polish fact:
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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