News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [495]

Where is the spreadsheet from ?

Looks pretty rudimentary and surely would need to be some pretty extensive evidence before we turn our democratic system upside down ?

I thought the elections were observed by international expert? Isn't that normally the case?

News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [495]

Where is this spreadsheet from ?

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

As always your numbers are incorrect

The median age in the US is 38.5

The hostage crisis was 44 years ago.

More than half of Americans were not born. Another 10 percent at least were small kids. And many were living in Guatemala, India or even Poland back in 1979.

But anyway, why intervene in Iran but not in Ukraine ? What's the reasoning ?

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

More than half of Americans were not even born in 1979

Of the rest, I bet 50 percent could not point to Iran on a map.

I would be amazed if even 5 percent of Americans have heard of the hostage crisis unless by watching that movie.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Does the Shah's son have any experience in managing difficult tasks ?

Will the Iranian people shrug and say "who else?" - I am a bit skeptical they will welcome him back just because he has a nice suit and expensive watch

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Yes 40 years is too long

But without a plan this will be a disaster. "Flatten them" and "cut the head off the snake" is bar room talk

And right now Iranian civilians are being killed. We know from our Svetoid Serb friends that even if bombing is "well intentioned" it creates a generation of resentment

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

I don't know what to think of this crisis

Attacking Iran might have merits but also gives another signal to North Nigeria, China and any other dictators that the US will attack just because they don't like you. The result will be more countries developing nukes.

Attacking without a "what next ?" plan is insane. Will be another big failed state to go with Iraq, Libya, Syria and Somalia, more refugees in Europe and security problems for decades.

The Shah's son ? Is that the plan ? My god

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Golden Cow now off to work his magic at the negotiating table

It worked so well in Ukraine and Gaza that it's no wonder he should have this problem all sorted by Friday

Law / Zloty lifts Poland's Economy [58]

It will be a rough few weeks for all the East European currencies against the Euro and the GBP too - need a bit of stability in the world.

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

No - you start a night shift every evening and post irrelevant and attention seeking crap all over the forum - death to gays, stuff about Euro morons, deep transsexual fantasies, women are all ******* etc.

You are not "shot first" - rather trolling is your only hobby

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

Why ? You think that rapist invaders, looters and thieves deserve equal rights ? This isn't the 19th century where military men have some traditions of honor.

The NNs in Putler's command are as vile as the Wermacht and their war crimes are well documented. If they had better organization, better weapons and weren't always pie eyed by 11am they would have killed many more civilians.

Same goes for their Korean allies

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

Just my own perception and the reason why I'm not contributing.

If others don't think you are the problem then fine - good for them

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

Fine - of course. It's up to admin how they handle him. But it's up to me if I contribute any money.

It's obvious that his spamming is a big reason for the forum being in its death throes

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Golden Cow's weakness has made this possible

Not sure that Israel has "no choice" but to attack Iran - especially at a fragile time like this. In 10 year many countries will have nukes, including Poland, so is Israel entitled to attack all of them ?

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

That is obviously not the case. I consider the Nigerian people to be at least equal to Putler's meek subjects in almost all walks of life - commerce, culture, music, definitely food, any sport except ice dancing, soldiering and science.

The two exceptions are obvious - heavy breakfast drinking and amateur **** (in normal films, Nollywood is a world leader BTW, especially compared to North Nollywood where you can only make what Putler approves).

My comparison is rather with the fact that in both cases they are corrupt petro states where the government holds back the people. Difference is that Nigeria is generally moving in the right direction.

Case closed - and there will be no 10 bucks a month until Novi's spamming is all on one thread

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

What anti North Nigerian insults are these ?

If these drunk thieving soldiers seriously get insulted by a few jokes while they bomb civilians, rape and loot in an unprovoked invasion then they are in the wrong job.

But you know full well that he spams most other threads and you know exactly how

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

I will donate when Novis posts are all on one thread - at least those that are pure trolling and hatred

It's not an excuse BB - once the admin do that then I will donate no questions asked.

Anyway, the costs of running this forum seem way higher than another forum that I have contributed to. Circa four times higher.

Technically, after some script customization, it'd be possible to move all posts from a certain user to a dedicated thread automatically. The costs, as BB mentioned, will be a little lower starting this year.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

Seems like something that would fit in the lobby or bar area of the Hotel Bristol - but that's not a modern building

Is it in a hotel ?

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

He is the reason I won't contribute to this forum.

Put all his posts in one thread and I will happily donate

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]

The small cake is mochi - seems to be in vogue at the moment, you can get in Kuchnia Swiata but also in a lot of the new "everything and nothing" stores like Turtle and Halfprice

Other one looks like an Arab or Liban sweet, nuts with a molasses paste. Plenty of place selling that now in big Polish towns

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]

EU tarriffs - imposed by committees of experts after careful consideration of the likely effects and chance of success

US tarriffs - imposed by a senile moron based on the last person he spoke to or some crap he read on the internet

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]

So tip a stock that will benefit from tariffs, per your logic there should be many to choose from

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]

This thread is to discuss the markets - not politics and certainly not your lame ass trolling

Dollar is down because the deficit is expanding and dumb tariffs making it worse not better.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]

Dollar sinking badly now - under PLN 3.70. Mixture of tariffs and USD deficit worries.

Zloty holding up quite well, helped by the confidence vote for Tusk

So a good time to order stuff from the US Amazon. Not sure if a good time to get into US stocks

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]

Prizes will be as follows

Each quarter I will donate 150 zloty to a charity of choice for the winner of that quarter.

By charity I mean nothing political and nothing religious.

Will be 5 quarters

To June 2025
To Sep 2025
To Dec 2025
To March 2026
To June 2026

You don't have to hold the stocks physically - it's up to you but it's just for fun.

And as well as Warren Buffett's entry, here is an entry by AI

ASML [Dutch chip maker)
Brent Crude Oil Futures
I Shares MSCI Indian ETF
Vanguard Total Bond Index ETF
SPDR Gold Shares
Mercado Libre (Argentinian supermarket chain)

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]

Thanks JR !

Will do the spreadsheet today but any gains or losses start on the date of the post

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]

That's a bit more maths than I was anticipating. basically was just going to put the percentage gain in local currency. That's logical if you are picking 6 - they would logically be aligned to circumstances and it's not fair on the Americans to judge them in zloty. But in your case if you want to tip every stock in the world then should maybe be rebased to one currency.

Anyway ref's decision - percentage gains, no currency adjustments.

Was quoted 1.49% for an Irish based S&P 500 tracking ETF last week. Might be available cheaper but that was the third bank I had checked. There is no Vanguard or similar in Poland, so the tiny fees that Americans enjoy will never be available here.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]

Yes, but you want to choose one currency to be measured in. Can be PLN, USD, EUR or CHF ? or each to be measured on a straight percentage basis ?

And a 1.5% handicap that reflects the typical cost of holding an index fund for a Polish resident.

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

You know nothing about alcohol but you post on this thread ? Classic trolling

Tell you what - suggest 6 wines for us to try, American is fine, otherwise go back to the designated troll threads

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]

Last night was raining but still had a grill - some chorizo from Lidl and some klopsiki. Had with a bottle of Lidl Chilean Carmenere - I think 30 zloty from their Deluxe range and really excellent with that kind of food