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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Do you think there is a "Polish" problem in the Uk now that it's become the 2nd language in England?

464 replies

NomadsLand · 31/01/2013 20:48

I've been to Poland and I like Poles a lot as a people. I think Warsaw is a great city and I have nothing against Polish people.

My mother complained back in 2007 about the number of Poles in Liverpool changing the 'culture'. What she meant was that she loves to banter with people in shops and restaurants and she used to get a lot of chat back (Liverpudlians are generally very funny - IMHO - and love a bit of verbal 'how's your father'). She complained that this had changed and that she was increasingly met with blank stares. This is high insult to my mother!

I didn't think much of it. But I am now finding the same - I approached a new restaurant outlet at my local services today and joked about them selling hot dogs and milkshakes and what a welcome addition to the usual (was hungry and about to make an irresponsible food choice!). I got the same blank stare. Didn't understand a word I said.

I finally understood what my mother has been saying. AIBU?

OP posts:
Pagwatch · 01/02/2013 18:27

Hulls my love - they are letting you back soon , surely ?

mrsjay · 01/02/2013 18:28

oo I was deleted I can't remember what I said Confused oh well

mrsjay · 01/02/2013 18:29

OH i remember what I said was nothing THAT bad ho hum

Pagwatch · 01/02/2013 18:29

I heard about the 'name names' shite this morning. you weren't bothered were you. That has been on the cards for while - like a big boil.

It has been a bizarre day or so.

LineRunner · 01/02/2013 18:33

the ones that come here and immediately get the posh houses and benefits without doing a scrap of work. beacause they can.

I see your Posh Houses For Free and raise you Clandestine Immigrant Devil Worship.

BIWI · 01/02/2013 18:35

Pag - have had a message from Hulls saying she has been banned Sad

manicbmc · 01/02/2013 18:37

Is the devil an immigrant? Oh ffs. Grin

Pagwatch · 01/02/2013 18:37

Oh fucking wankery.
She said she couldn't post but I assumed that it would be brief while they sorted that thread out - which is after all a big pile of steaming toss -pottery

Gah.
Sometimes the arses on here....

manicbmc · 01/02/2013 18:40

What the hell has Hully been banned for?

Should we have a 'Free the Mn One' thread?

marjproops · 01/02/2013 18:41

Immigrant devil worship??????? explain????

GetOrf · 01/02/2013 18:41

Bloody hell! She hasn't been banned. SURELY not.

What the bloody hell has happened?

BIWI · 01/02/2013 18:42

Not sure - I wasn't on the thread. The one in FWR with pan.

catgirl1976 · 01/02/2013 18:42

YABU

Something's got to be the second language

What would you prefer?

Also, the Polish guy who works in the shop near me is vair good looking.

catgirl1976 · 01/02/2013 18:43

Hully has been banned? Shock

But...but..why?

That's like banning strawberries from Wimbledon. Only wronger.

Pagwatch · 01/02/2013 18:44

T'was one of the wankers on the FWR thread.
They've been all smug and gloaty about it 'well if you can't refrain from personal attacks' while they derail, and goad and misquote her after the fact.

GetOrf · 01/02/2013 18:44

I was on that thread fgs. She didn't do anything other than call Pan a coward. And quote an insult back at him which he used in the first place. And she was het up but NO more than any of us have been on threads at times.

Fucking norah. Angry

GetOrf · 01/02/2013 18:45

Oh I am so fucking FURIOUS they sit there insulting but staying within the guidelines, and then when someone loses their temper THEY are the ones banned.

Those bastard fucker arseholes.

aquashiv · 01/02/2013 18:47

Surely any culture will change over time. Nothing is set in stone that is the beauty of it being able to evolve change and grow?

I think you need to come up with some better one liners than that no wonder you got blank stare.

BIWI · 01/02/2013 18:47

Ah. So more derailers, then?

Pagwatch · 01/02/2013 18:47

Yep. Absoloutely right Getorf.

They must be ever so precious that being called a coward is too much in the midst of a very robust debate

PacificDogwood · 01/02/2013 18:47

Oh, I missed lots of bad German swearing! I could've contributed

I am surprised this fred is still standing. In a fashion...

But more improtantly: hully has been banned?? WHAT?? Whatever for??

PureQuintessence · 01/02/2013 18:49

So you like Poles when you are in Poland on holiday, but rather they did not come here and change Liverpoodlian culture to the worse with their blank stares at your bad jokes?

Yabu.

GetOrf · 01/02/2013 18:49

The motherfuckers.

They are still at it on that thread.

Useless inadequate pieces of piss.

PureQuintessence · 01/02/2013 18:50

Oh dear.

That will learn me not reading to the end of the thread.

PureQuintessence · 01/02/2013 18:51

Surely they should have banned Worra, and not Hully?