Not Just Racist But Uneducated As Well

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-29491933

Ignorance abounds !

[douglas9401]

*** Latvians and their prejudices. :-)

[douglas9401]

Okay then, 'blooming'.

[lindapalmara]

I saw a 'Neighbours from hell' programme last week about a lovely young Polish couple who both had jobs and bought a house to start a family in Wales - next door to this horrible bigot who on one occasion after a lot of racial abuse tried to burn their house down, white rightly he was arrested and jailed.

[Cloverjo]

Am I missing something? Was this half way through the clean-up? I can see the misspelling, of course, but how is this racist?

[Khandro]

I hear that the decline in UK church attendance is being arrested by Polish and Rumanian immigrants.

[mikey4444]

CJ...I think the photo was taken to not cause offence. I doubt if the missing words are "welcum hear" somehow.

[mikey4444]

K...I think you are right there, at least for the Catholic Churche. My local one, that my brother attends, has to cram them in on a Sunday ! The priest is over the moon !

[kevanswerbank]

I had an excellent Polish taxi driver recently. Sadly, he was working such long hours that he didn't have time to go to the gym. Also, I don't think I've ever seen a fat Polish lady.

[mikey4444]

On a side issue, isn't it wonderful that so many people turned out to paint over the graffiti ?

[Peter Pedant]

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Find the culprits by setting a spelling test ?

Problem is the whole town may fail .....

[Khandro]

mikey, yes I thought that too. It doesn't say much for the Welsh labour force - a dozen of them I hour to cover a bit of graffiti - one poles would do it in 5 minutes !

[mikey4444]

lol K !

[Svejk]

except the Poles. They're brilliant at spelling, I expect. ;-/

[douglas9401]

If faith in a god and full houses of worship were measures of a good human beings there would be a lot less news of barbarically executed hostages.

[Khandro]

douglas; What an extraordinarily muddled premise, and an even more muddled conclusion.

[mushroom25]

can anyone explain to me how this matter represents racism? poles are Caucasian just like the majority populations of most of western Europe and in general, until they reveal their accent, are indistinguishable from mr smith who lives 2 doors down.

bigotry maybe, but racism?

[Gromit]

Imegrants is the correct spelling in Welsh.

I once nearly complained about an embarrassing error on the television when I found myslf wastching something called 'Snwker'. It turned out I was watching S4C.

[Kathyan]

The term 'racist' has lost it's original meaning. People say things that are considered racist even when they aren't.

[whiskeryron]

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mushroom25
can anyone explain to me how this matter represents racism? poles are Caucasian just like the majority populations of most of western Europe and in general, until they reveal their accent, are indistinguishable from mr smith who lives 2 doors down.//

Can I just point out to you that ''Mr Smith who lives 2 doors down'' is Czech.

[mikey4444]

Not according to my on-line translator Gromit. It gives the Welsh translation of immigrants as mewnfudwyr.