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gumishu   
13 Jan 2024
News / Polish PM Tusk- dictator or not? What Poles think? [455]

Certainly the astronomical salaries are something that started under PiS

Tomasz Lis's firm earned more than 20 million PLN in the years 2008-2016 for producing his talk-show programme for TVP - there are more examples of such

pudelek.pl/artykul/90994/ile_naprawde_zarabial_tomasz_lis_w_tvp_21_milionow_zlotych_to_tylko_polowa_prawdy/
gumishu   
13 Jan 2024
Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]

they can stop getting pregnant and they can support themselves so they don't have to relay on husband, kids.

and then suddenly they retire and kids of other women have to support them through social security systems which eventually fail because most women decided they don't want to have more than 1 kid and a need arises to import incompatible culture work force from far away
gumishu   
12 Jan 2024
Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [402]

@tylerkiz

Edit: I found a surname Kiesner (mostly found in Germany, the US and Poland) - alas there was no explanation on the meaning of the name, but I think it is the most likely candidate for the source of the name Kiznar/Kieznar/Kizner (to focus your attention a German surname Weiner (wine-maker/wine grower) became a Polish surname Wojnar (the surname also comes from the same area: the Polish part of the Karpathians and their piedmont)
gumishu   
12 Jan 2024
Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [402]

@tylerkiz

the name Kizner, Kiznar probably has German origins - in 13th century if I recall correctly there was a wave of settlers from Germany in the Polish Karpathian mountains and piedmont - these people eventually adopted the language of their Polish neighbours later in 16th-17th century but their (phonetically altered) surnames remained - I don't know what Kizner means (my wild guesses are "cheese maker" (cheese is "Kaese" in German) or a surname connected to "Kiese" (gravel in German) but my guesses may be completely off and my knowledge of German is quite limited)
gumishu   
12 Jan 2024
Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]

just in case you get an unwomanly impulse to abandon your domestic duties.

I now know what Atch is all about - she's mad at her husband ... er.. I mean patriarchy
gumishu   
12 Jan 2024
Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]

Have you heard of Euro Free Speech Zone.com? You can post anything you want as long as it doesn't offend,

hahahah that was genius :)

sorry, but

Only if it's one where I can talk about embroidery and fluffy kittens - or housework of course.

you have just offended me - I'm off to report to the mods :)
gumishu   
12 Jan 2024
News / How strongly are Poles sure that president Duda defend Poland's interests ? [265]

So the unconstitutional version of the constitutional tribunal..... try again.

I never said anything about the Tribunal - use your own knowledge of the Polish constitution to support your claim that the pardon Duda gave to the two PiS politicians in question was invalid
gumishu   
12 Jan 2024
Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]

hear it from gumishu

I dream daily about gang-raping big beautiful butch lesbians by the dozens on my own - I know you people find it preposterous and a little outrageous but that's just how I roll
gumishu   
12 Jan 2024
Travel / Fishing in Poland - where to go, what to catch? [81]

The bureaucrats will no doubt argue that's needed to protect the rights of the citizens, bla bla bla... does anyone actually believe it?

the simple thing is that Polish anglers (fishermen?) rarely release their catch as there is a tradition among them to consume what they catch (rarely on the spot of course) - after all Polish people are known of eating carp at Christmas time - do you think they will scorn a humble roach, a tasty eel or a noble pike - then there is angler's union who grow little fish and release them in various waters - most of the income they (the union) have (most probably all of it) is from licences - et voila
gumishu   
12 Jan 2024
News / How strongly are Poles sure that president Duda defend Poland's interests ? [265]

If he grants pardon again, it means that the re-conviction of both men was valid.

it's not the same thing as the first time Duda granted them pardon - Duda is going to begin a completely different procedure that has to involve ministry of justice (if I understood correctly - it however won't stop the opposition from claiming Duda admitted to making a mistake with the first time he gave Kamiński and Wąsik pardon)
gumishu   
12 Jan 2024
Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]

At what point a tribe would say, Oh sh*it...let's think this crap through one more time...

if one day 100 per cent of women turn 100 per cent lesbian, there would be no other way of sustaing the human species other than through mass scale raping :P
gumishu   
26 Nov 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

That's one of the reasons we have a problem with gangs of local Dubli

it seems the Irish don't mind - otherwise they would vote for parties who would call for harsher treatment of criminals - or maybe the Irish people would call for the change in how the judges are created and would call for them to be elected like in many US states
gumishu   
19 Nov 2023
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

o od naszej rodziny do Twojej rodziny.

od naszej rodziny dla Twojej rodziny (no 'o' at the begining, either)

na Was wszystkich swoimu

I guess this was just a typo, but it should read 'swoim'
gumishu   
18 Oct 2023
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Performing life saving procedure shouldn't require civil courage!

yeah - you need to get some courage to overcome unfounded fears, too
gumishu   
18 Oct 2023
Language / What are the best professional reasons for learning Polish? [16]

@Novichok
Rich I rememeber you have said you studied in Poland - did you work as an engineer in the US? (by engineer I mean the US equivalent of Polish 'inżynier' - I just actually don't know how Americans would call a person Polish people call 'inżynier')
gumishu   
18 Oct 2023
Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]

..because if a man tells an off-color joke with a woman next to him he will be reported for sexual harassment or some other crap.

you are mixing American realities with those Polish: feminism hasn't got this far in Poland yet (now it's like the middle-of-90's America here)

Men "dominate" in coal mines, wars, as crane operators, car racing, bridge construction, hunting, rescue operations, on submarines, in engineering, as composers, inventors, and firemen

all valid points - I believe pawian is a dangerous feminist fanatic at this point
gumishu   
18 Oct 2023
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

for fear of breaching the country's strict abortion laws

have you read the law - it's plain and simple they just didn't apply it - again ignorance, cowardice (or at least lack of civil courage) and disregard for human life - oh yeah, and if you read up on the exact case actual neglect
gumishu   
17 Oct 2023
News / PiS` magic tricks - the first budget without deficit in Poland [39]

@pawian

if you don't understand what you are talking about, shut your mouth

@pawian

State revenues after August amounted to PLN 373.76 billion. At the same time, expenses exceeded PLN 390 billion

this only means that the budget deficit after August amounts to around 16 billion PLN - last year the deficit was singificantly lower amounting to about 12 billion PLN for the whole year but still the deficit is quite law

by comparison summed up budget deficit between 2008- 2015 amounted to 267 billion which means average yearly deficit was about 33 billion (with no social transfers to speak of (500+ programme costs the budget more than 20 billion yearly ))

there is not a figure in your quotation that presents the forecast and actual VAT income and no calculation indicating some kind of growing VAT evasion (the expert said simple arithmetics - why hasn't he shown it then) so you just have a word of your expert to convince yourself - I need figures
gumishu   
17 Oct 2023
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

polish-hospital-refused-abortion-against-psychiatrists-advice-for-fear-of-prosecution

well ok, in my personal opinion perceived threats to the mental health of the mother should not be a possible reason for abortion but the Polish law just states 'threat to health' as a legal reason for abortion (and I'm pretty sure the term health is not defined in the Polish law anywhere)
gumishu   
17 Oct 2023
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

The law regarding something as serious as this should be concise and not open to misinterpretation

and you think it isn't?

as far as I know the main piece of regulation on the subject is as simple and concise as follows:

article 4a of the Family planning, protection of human foetus and conditions on which aboriton is allowed Act (translation mine)

Przerwanie ciąży może być dokonane wyłącznie przez lekarza, w przypadku gdy:
1) ciąża stanowi zagrożenie dla życia lub zdrowia kobiety ciężarnej,

Termination of pregnancy can be performed exclusively by a doctor in these cases:

1. the pregnancy poses a threat to the life OR health of the pregnant woman

there were 3 other cases in the original act (the act was passed in 1993) of which (after the two separate Consitutional Court rulings only one of which was recent) only 1 other remains namely: when there is a valid suspicion that the pregnancy is a result of a prohibited act

I actually should have said 'ignorance of the law' instead of 'misinterpretation of the law' in my previous post - I know many people raised the issue of the recent Constitutional Court ruling on abortion law having a 'chilling' effect on doctors but in my personal view it's just ignorance on their part - ignorance, cowardice and disregard for human life (yeah I know these are strong words)
gumishu   
17 Oct 2023
News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

Szczepan Twardoch (Polish author, a 'democratic camp' voter) on the 'ends of democracy' of the last couple of years - wprost.pl/polityka/11443192/wpis-twardocha-wywolal-burze-co-z-tymi-1231412-koncami-demokracji.html
gumishu   
17 Oct 2023
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

How many Polish women died in any given recent year because of the Polish abortion laws?

the opposition media would like you to think that there were at least two such cases - and both have been discussed here I believe - in my private opinion they were cases of misinterpreting the law, lack of civil courage and even downright neglect (I don't know the details about the latest one but I read quite a deal on the former)