Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

How did you manage that ? Last time it was that price was about 20 years ago when SA still had currency restrictions. I tried to buy a few myself in Joburg but had to fill out quite a lot of declarations

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

Only one Polish politician has seriously proposed to allow gun ownership - Pawel Kukiz.

A few days later there was a mass shooting at a concert in Vegas and he dropped the idea.

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]

What "social programs" ?

I shudder to think what an unemployment office in Omsk looks like

History / What do Poles owe to Romanians? [16]

Allowed remnants of the Polish army to escape in 1939 and carry on the fight against the Nazis (and stopped thrm being murdered by Hitler's Soviet Allies)

Travel / About cars, electric and combustion in Poland. [162]

Or tractors

Travel / Driving in Poland without a driving license? [4]

They are unlikely to come to your house if they were too lazy to arrest you.

If you are involved in an accident without a driving license then that is a serious offense - you might do jail time for it.

You are our guest here - follow our laws, take some lessons and get a license, just like we all had to.

Omg, I didn't realize this was one of Pawian's zombie threads.

Real Estate / Build a house Wrocław area [18]

News to me that you need monthly tax records of CFCs.

I am filing once per annum, form I think is called PIT-CFC and its a 2 page job. Certainly manageable if you have a genuine business in the UK (which in any case has a higher CIT rate than Poland right now, so no extra tax to pay ?)

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

Yes but there is obviously a difference when we are talking about kids (too young to work) or pensioners (already worked, many of them in the most difficult years of communism). I am not so fussed about the benefits as the fact that the taxes fall too heavily on small businesses

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

That's not the problem here in Poland - unemployment benefit is very small

But there have been big increases in child benefits and pensions and that has meant increased taxes. Add to that inflation on fuel, higher wages etc and it's not an easy time to be running a business here.

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

The storm before the storm !

I am not too heavy into tech stocks so I should be ok. Going to buy a few consumer stocks when I have some spare cash, but basically going to continue doing nothing. Concentrating on running my business for a while as been a rough 2024 so far - costs going up but difficult to pass in to my customers

Off-Topic / Stock Market and Trading Talk [1011]

Well that's been a strange week - I ended up about one percent down on my US stocks, about 1 percent up on Europeans. A good week to be on holiday !

Think there will be some falls over the next few months though. Seems like the market is not reacting negatively to a possible Kamala presidency which os good news.

Real Estate / Looking at land to purchase to build a house - big difference in prices? [3]

It is possible but not straightforward to see historical prices - you will need a Polish speaker to help you navigate the websites.

Reasons for difference might include

- connection to water and electric
- planning permission
- road access year round
- grade of the land if it is farmland
- configuration (if the plot is square or misshapen)

Travel / Bus in Kielce (schedule) [5]

If you are intending to doorstep the girl you have been chasing (from your previous posts) then think that through. It would be a huge surprise for her and maybe not a good one - it could be a long walk back to Kielce if it turns out she has other commitments

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

Hope it can keep going, don't mind sticking in a few zlots for running cost but buying it would be crazy.

I think most forums are a dying medium - younger people prefer social media doomscrolling and we just get left with grumpy old men. Almost every thread is quickly spammed - you could start a thread about the new trams in Torun and within 3 posts it would be about faggots, the Mexican border and Kosovo.

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Cheer up and watch the Olympic action - women's time trial cycling is on right now plus awesome Rugby between Fiji and France

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Poles in Poland had a clear preference for Biden - no idea where Kamala would poll but for sure higher than moron Trump

polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2024-07-21/wybory-prezydenckie-w-usa-kto-korzystniejszy-dla-polski-najnowszy-sondaz/

But anyway the only poll that counts is in November - now looking very close though obviously Kamala will get maybe 7 million more votes than Trump

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Amazing how a normal 60 year old politician is triggering so much anger and misogyny.

She will win the popular vote by 7 million plus. Don't know about the outdated and dumb electoral college - that has always been Trumps only route to victory

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Weird Vance is very involved in Project 2025

It wants to ban pornography

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

So your idea would be to make American consumers pay more for worse, uncompetitive products ?

You would love the consumer miracle of communism

Love / Was I taken advantage of? [14]

You are bringing up 3 kids alone plus rich and attractive

He is getting his Mom over to cook and clean aged 39.

You know you can do better so just next him.

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Wrong - Poland would support decent warm humans rather than foul and spiteful old men like Trump

And Vance, though young and smart is already starting to look kinda weird when you put him next to normal people

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Good news for Poland and the rest of the world - Harris has already wiped out moron loser Trump's polling lead with one poll showing her ahead

Hopefully loyal ally Poland will be one of the first places President Harris visits

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Who in their right mind would go back to North Nigerian oil and gas as their main energy source - just leaves them permanently open to blackmail and spying.

The North Nigerians can sell it Turd Worlders

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

But the Ukrainians keep striking into North Nigeria. On top of that Putin has permanently destroyed his biggest industry and wastes maybe a quarter of his army to gain a few km. It's crazy to say Ukraine has lost. They could probably continue this stalemate for several years

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Ukraine had already lost ?

The situation is pretty much the same as it was in Feb 2022

Travel / About cars, electric and combustion in Poland. [162]

Once again you turn a normal thread into your morbid obsession with anal sex

Here in Europe Lexus are moving heavily into hybrid models but that will be news to you as they remain a fantasy out of your reach

Off-Topic / Terms of Ukrainian Surrender [67]

Nobody stole 300 billion - it was left in the banks of the free world and then sanctions were imposed that prevented bank transfers back to North Nigeria.

You could have left it somewhere else like with your Iranian or Chinese or North Korean friends, kept it in Rubels etc. North Nigerian taxpayers should be asking their democratically elected leaders why they did something so risky as leave it with their enemies.

You can have it back after the war, minus whatever it costs to fix everything

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]

There is nothing to buy in Belarus so it doesn't matter what the purchasing power of their fake ass currency is.

Rest of your numbers are wrong and outdated - the place is a prison camp run by a fossil and it's ludicrous to compare it with a rapidly improving economy like Bulgaria.

History / 20 years of Poland in the EU. [317]

That is one of the weirdest comparisons possible

On things that people care about - average salary, GDP per head then Bulgaria, easily the poorest EU country, is still 2x the level of Belarus. And as your own numbers show it has very low unemployment.

But it's also a question of direction - Bulgaria is going in a positive direction, Belarus will remain poor and blighted until they adopt democracy and move away from Moscow.

News / Polish coal will be back [141]

I think if I was freezing to death at a bus stop I might duck into a nearby Zabka and wait until the bus came.