Comments on: Scotland. Tale of an elderly lady of the Clyde’s islands and the Polish beggar http://fieldhand.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/scotland-tale-of-an-elderly-lady-of-the-clyde%e2%80%99s-islands-and-the-polish-beggar/ Life of a Polish migrant in the UK (in English) Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:02:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: fieldhand http://fieldhand.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/scotland-tale-of-an-elderly-lady-of-the-clyde%e2%80%99s-islands-and-the-polish-beggar/#comment-11 fieldhand Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:39:29 +0000 http://fieldhand.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-11 I didn't dare to comment on you blog. It would be waste of "bits and bytes" of such luminous example of xenophobia and selective presentation of facts. I just posted a comment on mine instead and linked to you, it worked. It's you who come and comment here and it is me a plain Polish "fieldhand", Eastern European publishing your comments without cuts. Freedom of speech. This blog is for people like you. To make you all understand that we are not going anywhere. Some people are Polish get over it! As to "bastardised Americanisms". Well that's the way I spell it, pal ;-) and world with me... how do you feel at the chemist when you see "bastardised" COLOR and not COLOUR. Empire is long gone, same intellectual and language influence of Britain. I didn’t dare to comment on you blog. It would be waste of “bits and bytes” of such luminous example of xenophobia and selective presentation of facts.

I just posted a comment on mine instead and linked to you, it worked.

It’s you who come and comment here and it is me a plain Polish “fieldhand”, Eastern European publishing your comments without cuts. Freedom of speech.

This blog is for people like you. To make you all understand that we are not going anywhere. Some people are Polish get over it!

As to “bastardised Americanisms”. Well that’s the way I spell it, pal ;-) and world with me… how do you feel at the chemist when you see “bastardised” COLOR and not COLOUR.

Empire is long gone, same intellectual and language influence of Britain.

]]> By: Apollo http://fieldhand.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/scotland-tale-of-an-elderly-lady-of-the-clyde%e2%80%99s-islands-and-the-polish-beggar/#comment-9 Apollo Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:17:15 +0000 http://fieldhand.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-9 If you can't keep a civil tongue in your head, please don't post bigoted comments to Secret Scotland, especially if you don't care about the content. All stories are taken from current news events, which may or may not be linked depending on the availability of a link, whether or not we have time to add the link, or even (at the moment) if the Wordpress link option is functioning If you care to look at the BBC News items for Scotland (which it is clear you are at least aware if) you will find archived there the news items the blog entry recounts. If you make a little more effort, you will also find news items online for the Isle of Bute, together with details of those concerned and the police involvement. This makes the items a matter of public record, and fair game for review. I do not think an individual came to my door with a scrap of paper claiming they were Polish and could not speak English, he did! This is not hearsay or urban myth, it is fact. If you wish to take issue with someone, go find him and ask him if he really was Polish, or only impersonating someone Polish - I only recounted what the person at the door claimed. Oh, and by the way, in Scotland, we Scottish/Polish halfbreed illiterates spell 'totalling' correctly, with the letter 'l' appearing twice in the centre, and not the using the bastardised Americanism that omits one, and only shows a single as the incorrect 'totaling'. "Happy Fieldhand" should undertake a review of its own entries before throwing out free spelling lessons, or referring to anyone else as 'illiterate' :-) If you can’t keep a civil tongue in your head, please don’t post bigoted comments to Secret Scotland, especially if you don’t care about the content.

All stories are taken from current news events, which may or may not be linked depending on the availability of a link, whether or not we have time to add the link, or even (at the moment) if the WordPress link option is functioning

If you care to look at the BBC News items for Scotland (which it is clear you are at least aware if) you will find archived there the news items the blog entry recounts. If you make a little more effort, you will also find news items online for the Isle of Bute, together with details of those concerned and the police involvement. This makes the items a matter of public record, and fair game for review.

I do not think an individual came to my door with a scrap of paper claiming they were Polish and could not speak English, he did! This is not hearsay or urban myth, it is fact. If you wish to take issue with someone, go find him and ask him if he really was Polish, or only impersonating someone Polish – I only recounted what the person at the door claimed.

Oh, and by the way, in Scotland, we Scottish/Polish halfbreed illiterates spell ‘totalling’ correctly, with the letter ‘l’ appearing twice in the centre, and not the using the bastardised Americanism that omits one, and only shows a single as the incorrect ‘totaling’.

“Happy Fieldhand” should undertake a review of its own entries before throwing out free spelling lessons, or referring to anyone else as ‘illiterate’ :-)

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