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Op 29-6-2010 20:01, ervaqre schreef:
>>> Nah, he wouldn't. Polish people are genetically incapable of eating
>>> steak. All they eat is pierogi, which is a shameless copy of the
>>> Chinese jiaozi.
>>
>> Pierogi are dobze! At least the ones with Agaricus bisporus. I liked those a lot
>> when in Poland.
>
> I have no idea what a dobze is! But if you want an alternative to
> pierrogi, look for jiaozi at your local Asian supermarket if you have
> one. They're really quite tasty with oyster sauce!

Dobze = good. Great even.

There are no true Asian markets here. Just a few very small toko's that do not 
look too

>>> However, even though the Poles are Aglami's number one enemy, I must
>>> say I've always kind of liked them in real life.
>>
>> Overwalker!!!
>
> Says the person who has probably been to Poland more often than I have
> been there myself!!

Three times. But that was over 8 years ago. Poland has since come to me. The 
number of Polish license plates (and Bulgarian ones), former co-workers and 
neighbors is starting to add up over here. Local supermarkets even have half 
aisles with Polish import stuff.

>>> Actually, it was not underpaid, but one and a half gulden above the
>>> minimum wage (per hour). Also, conditions were pretty good, and most
>>> of the time we only had to cut roses. All in all it was a pretty good
>>> way for a 16 year old to save money to travel around Australia two
>>> years later.
>>>
>> Any time one says "it's (slightly) more than minimum wage" it means underpaid.
>> Even when comparing to average wage, it may still be quite a bad pay. On top of
>> that: any work they can't find adults for with a contract for life, is undesirable.
>
> Not undesirable for a 16 year old!

That's a sentence that will get you into jail!

> Though I did feel sorry for those
> who had been in the industry for more than 20 years. For me it was a
> good way to earn money to be able to travel to the other side of the
> world, whereas for them the roses were every day reality.

I've worked with people who were kept in such a job because they had brain 
damage. Brain damage caused by a work accident due to an unsafe work environment.

It caused one guy in particular to fall several meters onto a because he lost 
his balance when doing cleaning duties. There was supposed to be a railing 
there. Besides memory difficulties he, oh irony, also wasn't able to keep his 
balance all that well. He couldn't run because of that, just shuffle. Talking 
didn't go too well either.

I myself have been in situations where they neglected to tell me I was supposed 
to wear safety gear like metal tip shoes.

>>> If you want to read up on something interesting by the way, have a
>>> look at the story of the Chinese real estate bubble. All over the
>>> country they are building literally thousands of high-rise apartment
>>> blocks, yet most of them are as good as empty because people cannot
>>> afford the apartments. There are even a few cities meant for a
>>> population of more than a million, yet the streets are as empty as
>>> Dutch streets are when the Netherlands is playing at the football
>>> world championship thing.
>>>
>> I've wandered the silent streets at such a moment. It's scary. Not because of
>> the eerie silence. But because you know any moment now thousands of orange clad
>> maniacs may run out of their houses either celebrating a win and losing some of
>> their alcohol intake or they'll come out and punch anyone who's not in orange
>> clothing to dull the pain of a loss.
>
> Unfortunately, everybody here in China knows about the Dutch team and
> how good or not they are at this football game. At times I wish I
> could make myself invisible.
>
Yet you chose to blend in with over a billion tiny Chinese folk whilst you come 
from a land of tall pale people with freaky round eyes... You couldn't draw more 
attention to yourself if you wore an orange Bavaria-dress whilst blowing a 
vuvuzela. You'd actually draw less of a crowd since most would flee such a 
sight. Just in case it was as contagious there as in the Netherlands. The people 
here don't even have a good excuse for such behavior. It's not like Orange is 
playing particularly spectacular or like they all have brain damage because of 
missing railings.

-- 
Danny.