Genealogy / Crest and the meaning of last name Sumski [33]

Sorry, may have been a bit unfair. The blame lies with their parents.


WTF does that mean?

Is this some consumer brand? An advertising campaign?

What does American mean?

I'm talking about blood and memory.

Genealogy / Crest and the meaning of last name Sumski [33]


It could not mess with it, to a point you don't even know what country, let alone city, your ancestors lived in.

I know my family history going back to the 12th century. Which region we came from, whom we served, what my great-great-great grandfather did to earn his surname, etc.

These kinda rootless, homeless, clueless people really irritate me. I commend them for at least showing the curiosity, but it really is spitting in the face of your ancestors not to know where your grandparents emigrated from less than 200 years ago.

Genealogy / Crest and the meaning of last name Sumski [33]


In Russian and Ukrainian it is the same, «шум». Then it would be Shumsky/Shumski/Shumov/Shumelev/Shumko. He said it was Sumski.

Genealogy / Crest and the meaning of last name Sumski [33]

Sumy is a city in Ukraine.

Sumski, meaning "from Sumy", is a popular last name in Ukraine. More often for Jews.

These types of threads are a good argument against emigration. Within two generations, people haven't the faintest clue of what their homeland is, and have to ask people on Internet forums.

Travel / What are the best countries to live in? [161]


What have you got against them?

Next you will tell me you find Scots to be avaricious and insular, and Georgians to be too "macho".


You may be confusing Kyrgyzstan with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

Kyrgyzstan is 93% mountainous. There is no oil there. In fact, there is nothing there except for hydroelectricity and gold mines.

Travel / What are the best countries to live in? [161]


Kyrgyzstan is beautiful. It's also the only democracy in Central Asia, ahead of even Ukraine in the number of "Maidans" they staged against their governments.

The people there are classic highlanders - hospitable, kind, passionate.

The air is crystal clear, the waters are pure, and the problems of the world seem a million miles away.

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Travel / What are the best countries to live in? [161]

Best place to live in the world is either Kyrgyzstan or Montenegro.

However, I must say I am very partial to mountains.

Law / Rejecting Inheritance [44]


I don't know if it's insane.

With the right frame of mind, you can interpret this in a positive light. That is, having a real and material connection to your grandfather :)

When you turn 18 and finally pay it down, you'll feel twice the adult your 18 year old peers will be feeling. Of course - you just settled your grandpa's debt!

For amounts above $3K, I can see how this stops being funny... however.

Food / Why Poles not like rice? [95]

Rice demands back breaking care and attention.

Winter wheat can be planted and forgotten about for close to half a year.

In other words, more time dedicated to contemplating the mysteries of the cosmos.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [128]

Not when you enslave yourself.

I don't feel like I need a vacation, honestly. I mean, maybe sometimes I do... but it passes.

I don't work at the lumber mill, or on an oil field. My work is talking on the phone to a bunch of bozos, and then occasionally meeting them for dinner or lunch.

Technically, I have joined people on their vacations, but I was still working throughout.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [128]


I've worked for 13 years without a day off.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [128]


That's f*cking outrageous. In the US, the norm is two weeks paid vacation.

Some companies, including mine, have implemented unlimited paid vacation time. It's a great gimmick, because then people begin taking even less vacations - haha! They start grumbling about others who in their view "abuse it", and in the end it leads to a cutthroat environment where everyone tries to outdo the next guy by taking even less vacation days.

American work culture is brutal.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [128]

In NY state, this is the law:
"Sick Leave Requirements
Employers with 100 or more employees must provide up to 56 hours of paid sick leave per calendar year. Employers with 5-99 employees must provide up to 40 hours of paid sick leave per calendar year. If net income is $1 million or less, employer must provide up to 40 hours of unpaid sick leave."

So, the largest companies have to provide 7 days a year (56 hrs / 8 hr work week).

As regards Paid Family Leave, New York is sort of ahead of the rest of the rest of the country. Our governor adopted a new law in 2021. As an employer, here's what I am looking at:

1) I need to get Family Leave coverage for each of my employees.
2) I have to collect contributions from his/her salary to pay for the cost of coverage.
3) Process some BS form, and file it with the government.

Personally - I hate all of these things. Sick Leave, Family Leave, Worker's Comp, Disability Insurance, Unemployment Insurance, etc. It makes life miserable for small businesses, while being completely irrelevant in some other industries (like mine).

Though I'm sure it looks different from an employees perspective.... However, if I were an employee I would have preferred my employer just give me the cash equivalent of what he's paying various insurance agencies and the government.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [128]


Nothing unusual about that.

You move to a country where Englishmen are living in homes they own, a country where they were educated, where they met their significant others, and so on. Meanwhile, you are a Pole with a naked ass. No home, no English education, and no girl will talk to you.

Solution?

Work like a slave on a galley.

In Poland, where you have parent's apartment, are considered quite well educated, and can actually manage a conversation with a girl - why would you work so hard you nearly kill yourself in the process?

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [128]


To drink, or to fight. Two choices only.

Problem: after drinking or fighting, the depression comes back with twice the force.

The solution? Do not let those veins and capillaries contract.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [128]

I think the very premise of this thread is a joke.

Who ever thought that Poles can be workaholics? Are any Slavs workaholics?

Slavs are capable of titanic feats of labor, in a short spurt, after which much time is needed for rest and reflection.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [128]


Ukraine's Minister of Energy proudly announced last week, that starting THIS YEAR, they will begin construction of what will be Europe's largest nuclear power plant - in partnership with Westinghouse. This will be an expansion of the Khmelnitsky NPP, which currently has two working blocs.

Currently, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe is the Zaporozhye NPP, but unfortunately that is now outside of Ukrainian control.

I'm amazed at the audacity of this Ukrainian minister. God bless him, and good luck.

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]


Пиздеть. Whereas пиздить still means to steal or to beat someone. If someone's said too much, and got his ass beat for that - допизделся. Yet, the people that did that to him - отпиздили. If someone took something that was not his - спиздил.


You misunderstand. We are discussing a пиздюлина (pizdyulina). A small, potentially insignificant, implement of a greater whole. Admittedly, much less popular than a хуевина (huyevina), or even a поебень (poyeben).

This all reminds me of a joke about how the CIA managed to plant a wiretap at a Soviet submarine shipyard, and after many years of listening in they learned that a Russian submarine consists of only three components - a poyeben', a huyovina', and a pizdyulina'.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


Hmmm, maybe that, but also organizing a party which includes some people that organized assasination attempts on Russian officials and have done time
For it.

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]

@Alien

Don't forget you are talking to a Russian.

In Russian, there is a crude alternative to the word describing female genitalia. Without further deliberation,I will say that this word is «пизда» (pizda). Unlike your pierdole, it alone has many multiverses more of meaning.

It can mean to steal. But it can also mean to f*ck somebody up physically. It can mean unnecessary running of the mouth. It can describe an important component of a large machine assembly. It can describe the eventual end of all humanity.

You joke with the wrong persons.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


As an officer of the FSB, sure.


He's a monarchist that supports the actual tsar (including the Whites during the Civil War). Also, an avid historical reenactor.

So your jokes are inappropriate Mister Maf.

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News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]

Bottom line: Girkin calls everybody idiots, but now he is in jail.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


We will somehow survive without his genius advice.

I can also be Girkin, look:

1) We need 2M men mobilized tomorrow!
2) We need 10,000 more tanks, planes, mlrs, afvs!
3) People are dying, do you idiots not see?!

How is my Girkin impression?

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Goddamn...

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


Why did you do it?

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]


It's why I had to watch it in Polish (there was no Russian dubbing).

I started watching it in English, and kept drawing blanks on the punchlines.

Edit: The Polish had a lot more vulgarity than the English. It seems Polish is similarly rich to Russian, in its vulgarity. English is limited by the very few permutations of just three words to express the full range of the human condition.

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]

I finished watching 1670 yesterday. I watched it in Polish audio, with English subtitles.

In the end, I enjoyed it very much. My favorite character was the xenophobic homeless nobleman, Bohdan.

Polish humor is very similar to Russian humor. I was watching the series with an American, and many moments where I would explode laughing - they did not understand.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]


You have to admit we're doing well enough, being 20X poorer and smaller.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

Another thing he asked me, is what would an American equivalent of Russia look like, if the USA was the USSR - and it similarly collapsed.

I really liked this question.

I told him it was like Texas separating (Kazakhstan), California (Ukraine), Massachusetts (Belarus), and then IL, IN, WI, MI, MO, OK, TN, ND, SD, ID splitting off as well (the Stans and the Caucasus). Basically, the East Coast minus Massachusetts, is what Russia would be. I tried to match it up to the population loss, and economic potential remaining, in the aftermath of 1991 for Russia.

So then, of course, he said that from that perspective, our current war seems insane. You probably know what I told him then.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

I had a young person (a teenager), ask me some interesting questions recently.

We were watching Ost Bloc military parades, as one does with his brother on a Thursday afternoon. At some point he asked me: what were these Polish/Romanian/GDR/etc soldiers feeling, marching in front of their "puppet" leaders? Did they feel pride, like we did? Did they always know it was an elaborate kabuki theater, and they were essentially attack dogs of the Kremlin?

It made me think, for a second. I told him, that in my opinion these were still "Leaders", with a capital "L". The only person higher in authority than Jaruzelsky, can only be some Brezhnev, but not any other citizen of the almost 300M USSR.

This prompted a second question - did normal citizens then, have a hierarchy of their own amongst themselves? For example, could a Soviet tourist come to Warsaw and act like a complete boor, and annoy all the Poles through his arrogance? Again, I told him that in my opinion, this was a ludicrous concept. If anything, we are seen as slaves, and a people that suffer from a myriad self inhibitions. It's hard to imagine, a Soviet citizen striding around anywhere as a colonial overlord.

So then, we returned to the question of the parades, and if they were authentically uplifting for the people involved. I told him, that it was a good question, and the answer is likely yes. Of course, I also explained that his idea of them as "attack dogs of the Kremlin" was much too simplistic, and that in actual practice they often did refuse to do things or outright rebelled.