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Richfilth
Joined: 24 Sep 2007
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same here.
Especially the babcia poking me in the back to hurry up  |
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Prospect_Ave
Joined: 12 Mar 2007
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-The convenience of having the world running 24/7 so you can spend money faster is worth missing out.
-They talk precisely about the things you have nothing to say about: family, kids, current affairs, Oprah, the View, reality TV shows, weekends at Wal-Mart, at the movies, etc.
-There is way too much food. Obesity is a subject of embarrassment back to the fold.
-100+ TV channels�and that�s just the basic package.
-An why should we continue to overpay for a coffee and a pastry at Starbucks?
After a couple of days of being back in the States, the feeling of �what-a-waste-of-plane-ticket� hits you. To come back for the usual stuff, not even for the customer service kind of treatment and the option of full refunds at Target, it will really make it worth your while. The need of �I can live with less� haunts you.
Apropos, when you work abroad, there is nothing like watching people talk and not understand a word they say to make you feel smart again. |
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dynow
Joined: 07 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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Prospect Ave wrote:
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-The convenience of having the world running 24/7 so you can spend money faster is worth missing out.
-They talk precisely about the things you have nothing to say about: family, kids, current affairs, Oprah, the View, reality TV shows, weekends at Wal-Mart, at the movies, etc.
-There is way too much food. Obesity is a subject of embarrassment back to the fold.
-100+ TV channels�and that�s just the basic package.
-An why should we continue to overpay for a coffee and a pastry at Starbucks?
After a couple of days of being back in the States, the feeling of �what-a-waste-of-plane-ticket� hits you. To come back for the usual stuff, not even for the customer service kind of treatment and the option of full refunds at Target, it will really make it worth your while. The need of �I can live with less� haunts you.
Apropos, when you work abroad, there is nothing like watching people talk and not understand a word they say to make you feel smart again. |
The sentence structure/word usage of this post utterly confuses me to the extent that I lose the point of what is being (trying to be) said, but I digress......
1) Yeah, the food is a problem. Every time I return, I can't wait for chinese food and pizza, but after 3 days, I'm sick as a dog and constipated.
2) I'll never understand people dumping that much money every morning into Starbucks.
3) I never feel like I wasted a plane ticket, afterall, I can't see my family and best friends in Poland, but I certainly feel a bit empty in the US. Nothing ever seems to change back home, which is again why most of us left. |
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Kymro
Joined: 19 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| dynow wrote: |
Prospect Ave wrote:
The sentence structure/word usage of this post utterly confuses me to the extent that I lose the point of what is being (trying to be) said, but I digress......
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'Prospect Ave' is of course 'Big Cannon' aka 'Bindair', who after a specularly unsuccessful spell at Callan schools in Poznan, is now apparently raking it in in the Gulf.
I have always wondered whether the guy is a native speaker of English, and could never work out to what extent what he wrote were Americanisms or just plain wrong.
Dynow, as an American, could you help me out with this? |
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dynow
Joined: 07 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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Kymro,
do you think it's really Bindair??? I mean, if it is, it adds up I guess, considering the nothing short of strange sentence structure......I wonder.
I read that post, and I honestly didn't know what he was talking about for the most part. it was just straight up strange.
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| Obesity is a subject of embarrassment back to the fold. |
what????? back to the fold???
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-The convenience of having the world running 24/7 so you can spend money faster is worth missing out.
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What?!!! is worth missing out???
i could go on, but i just don't understand that post altogether.
bindair was such a total disaster, i remember that clown back when i first started posting here....  |
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Kymro
Joined: 19 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:15 am Post subject: |
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| dynow wrote: |
Kymro,
do you think it's really Bindair??? I mean, if it is, it adds up I guess, considering the nothing short of strange sentence structure......I wonder.
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No doubt whatsoever.
His latest incarnation sends me abusive p.m.'s whining about whatever I said to his to his previous incarnation.
I'm still wondering if he's a native speaker of English. |
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scot47
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JPM
"Expat" ? The reality is that EFL teachers are migrant workers, gastarbeiter.
An "expat" is a retired used car salesman sitting about in the Union Jack Club in Torremolinos. |
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scottie1113
Joined: 25 Oct 2004
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Location: Gdansk
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I guess that makes me a migrant worker, although I do have a resdiency hard and no intention of going back to the US anytime soon. |
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phantombedwetter
Joined: 29 Nov 2007
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Location: Pikey infested, euro, cess-pit (Krakow)
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: Re: Thoughts after your first trip home from Poland........ |
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Sgt Bilko
Joined: 28 Jul 2006
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Location: POLAND
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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| You know, Phantom, that's exactly how I imagined you'd look.... |
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roset
Joined: 14 Dec 2007
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Location: At my computer - duh
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject: Re: Thoughts after your first trip home from Poland........ |
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And...My God the girls are fat in England!
In the ten years since leaving, the waistlines seemed to have expanded to lardarse proportions. They are so unattractive that my nad sack shrank into my body whilst walking around, and I would have preferred to procreate with a bucket of rotting fish heads. |
As a women of the species and living in Warsaw I have to respond in defense of fellow female brits. I mean really, are you being serious? Women have enough to deal with from men without have to read such comments which are quite frankly demeaning and insulting.
But then I should take anything to seriously from someone who names themselves 'phantombedwetter'. But still, the polish women are welcome to you.
(And yes, I am perfectly happy with my size thank you very much.)
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Richfilth
Joined: 24 Sep 2007
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Location: Warszawa
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roset
Joined: 14 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| oh whatever richfilth. I've stated my point. not sure whether that was more for the brits or the swedes though (esp. number 3). still us brits deserve defending. |
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dynow
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| i was sent a link from my cousin about 6 months ago, it had the same exat photos, but it claimed that those women from Sweden weren't from Sweden, but that those pictures were taken at a club in Warsaw. |
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Kymro
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Sgt Bilko wrote: |
| You know, Phantom, that's exactly how I imagined you'd look.... |
It's also typical of the man's oversize ego that he would post an oversize photo that makes reading posts a pain for others. |
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