News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]


I understand you count yourself among the "polite society" here in Poland

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


are you completely out of the loop? I already said that Nawrocki paid for the guy to buy the appartment from the council - he later bought it from the guy - the guy stood no chance at buying it on his own - what's so difficult to understand here?

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]


forests are also restricted in the same manner as agricultural land afaik

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


because he was a young poor man (he was in his early 20's at the time), who wanted to grab an opportunity and the Gdańsk council sold appartments at a discount to the occupiers? the flat we live in (though not a council flat) we also bought for a 10 per cent of the value

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]


you have to get a permission of the Polish government to buy agricultural land (or a house) in Poland - property taxes in Poland are quite low and they are not (as of now) based on the value of the property

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

@gumishu
as for Nawrocki's opposition to Ukraine joining NATO: Trump also opposes it, European leaders also opposed it - they just went silent on the topic since Trump's election


the appartment was bought by Nawrocki in like 2007 - your conclusions?

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


the man in question was never the owner of the appartment (I understand you don't understand the concept of "mieszkanie komunalne") - Nawrocki gave the man money to buy out the appartment and then bought it from him for at least significant part of the market value (but not in a single payment from what I can gather) - he also supported the man in various ways - the man was never evicted etc etc - watch some media sources other than TVN sometimes, mafketis

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


say what, again?

Law / Zloty lifts Poland's Economy [58]


there is no deadline, however, on when Poland is suppesed to join the Eurozone - in other words: we don't ever have to

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

you seem to know not the first thing whan it comes to PiS, mafketis, howhg, I said it

News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]


somehow I miss the upvote system from reddit - I would very much like to upvote your post

News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]


because the Tories were a lousy government and also COVID happened

Edit: also their stance on illegal immigration was largely the same as the current Labour government

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]


hillarious is not what most people in Poland think a politcian should be, especially when you are, as I said "just talk, no walk" as he is perceived by most Poles by now (though I believe a hillarious politician who would manage to be also effective would be a deadly combination in Polish politics (deadly to his opponents))


he was counting on his personall appeal and the ability, you know ... to talk (at least in my opinion)- in my opinion, also, Hołownia had no dreams (like grounded dreams) of becoming a president

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]


I may be overestimating my deductive powers but I am pretty sure Hołownia's running for presidency was his attempt to strengthen his party's image in the face of diminishing support - he greatly overestimated his personal appeal though it seems (he probably likes basking in popularity like in his early days as the speaker of the parliament when his antics were popular among voters of PO et al and were even streamed on the internet - he is a sleek interlocutor - but most Poles see he is just talk no walk by now )

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]


your understanding of the Polish politics is somehow still subpar, mafketis - I have no doubts Hołownia will support Trzaskowski and I am ready to bet 1000 dollars on that

Po polsku / Papież a sprawa polska [195]

"if" is not always translated as "czy" into Polish - in this case the correct translation is "jeśli"

Edit: also I was wrong about his address being short - the fragment I saw was short but I just checked the transcript (in English) of his address and it wasn't that short at all

Po polsku / Papież a sprawa polska [195]


mówi - osobiście słyszałem fragment jego (krótkiego) przemówienia do zgromadzonych na placu Św. Piotra

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]

*sure, there wouldn't be D-Day

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]

Rich, I said were it not for Americans, Russians might have not won the war against Germany - you said: "but were it not for Russians there would be no D-Day" - sure, they wouldn't: that's why I said "Americans didn't win the II World War on their own" - I hope you understand now

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]

Rich, focus, I never said it was Americans who won the war on their own - dismiss

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


were it not for American trucks, American beef, American boots and plenty other things American, the Soviets would have had much harder time beating Germans if they would have ever succeeded in it

rbth.com/defence/2016/03/14/lend-lease-how-american-supplies-aided-the-ussr-in-its-darkest-hour_575559

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

oh - so it turns out - it's not as storng as a veto from Polish president then :) - POLSKA GUROM !!!

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


I didn't know that - it looks like this kind of veto is even stronger than the Polish counterpart since the Polish parliament can overturn presidential veto

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


in Germany, my son, the president is not elected in the popular vote

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


although it isn't? - the Polish president has the power to veto any new legislation - to overturn presidential veto you need 3/5 of the parliament

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]

to wake up with a hand in a potty means to find yourself in an unpleasant/unconvenient/undesireable situation because of your inaction, negligence or ignorance

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


not really

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


so what? if AfD rules Germany the current political trends in the EU will be no more


yeah - it means that keeping Poland in Germany's fold is really important to German politicians, mostly

History / Poland and Britain started WW2 [356]


I think there are three legs in the coat of arms of Manx island which lies in the Irish Sea and has some unique legal status within the UK

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


am I missing something? namely was AfD "verboten"? that would be quite outrageous, if you ask me