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gumishu   
22 Sep 2017
News / Charles Crawford on PiS just after the 2015 election [28]

Charles Crawford was a Brittish ambasador in Poland, he speaks very good Polish - no wonder he described PiS so well and predicted a lot of later developements

here's the article:
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/11954733/Who-are-Polands-victorious-Law-and-Justice-party-and-what-do-they-want.html
gumishu   
20 Sep 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

Even in this lil podunk town where a cousin is a teacher said she has a chinese girl in her class as well as a few other foreigners

I don't mind Chinese, Vietnamese or Indian people - but please God save us from muslims
gumishu   
20 Sep 2017
Food / Origin of the pierogi [118]

Idnetical. As I say, those things are a staple in many many places.

they aren't idenctical if filling is different - can you get sauerkraut and wild mushrooms pierogi in China? or even the most common farmer's cheese, potato and onion ones (aka pierogi ruskie) - I have never been to Ukraine so I have no idea what kinds of fillings they use - I wouldn't be surprised if they use similar or identical fillings though
gumishu   
20 Sep 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

Apparently the black doc spent some time in Poland and picked up quite a decent vocab.

interesting story and the black physician was very tolerant indeed
gumishu   
20 Sep 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

Yes if its used against a black person negatively

of course you mean the małpa word not the murzyn word, or?
gumishu   
9 Sep 2017
Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]

In some areas it's not particularly tasty,

actually it's in some big cities mostly - as some big cities rely on water from major rivers - and you know major rivers are a bit of a sewage - smaller places especially not on major rivers rely on underground aquifers sometimes quite deep
gumishu   
9 Sep 2017
Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]

Kraków has actually very good water quality - the Kraków tap water comes from the Dobczyce reservoir on (the Raba if I recall correctly) river that flows from the mountains - the reservoir is restricted from any other use (no bathing and probably even no angling)
gumishu   
8 Sep 2017
Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]

Tap water is safe to drink

you of course mean by it that it will make you sick within hours or kill you outright - so yes in that sense it is safe

in the long run? - in the long run you are making a filter for chemicals from river water of yourself - thanks I will stay away - i lived in a town were water was partly from Odra river and partrly from Nysa Kłodzka river - and no it did not taste good at all (so was tap water in Wrocław when I studied there)
gumishu   
8 Sep 2017
Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]

It's OK for tea or coffee

you probably have higher tolerance for 'syfy i paksudztwa' from the river water - you cannot filter them out completely, so good luck for you drinking tap water in the long perspective
gumishu   
8 Sep 2017
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

@gumishu

There are almost 600 people under the surname Sikoń in Poland and only 14 people under the suraname Sikoński - so theoretically you grandpa's surname could have been Sikoński but I somehow doubt it
gumishu   
8 Sep 2017
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

SIKON

most probably Sikoń - I doubt it was altered much -if it were Sikoński or some such it would have been preserved in the French language - Sikoń could have been a nickname (turned surname) for a person who needs to pee often (sikać means to pee mostly, but also trickle) - peasants didn't have surnames for quite a long time in Poland (even up to 19th century) and they went under first names and nicknames
gumishu   
8 Sep 2017
Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]

Warsaw

Warsaw derives most of it's water supply from the Vistula river and the river is well a sewer to an extent - I wouldn't drink tap water in Warsaw

Mrągowo is a different case - it is small and it lies in a clean area and on a lake (or oven two lakes)
gumishu   
1 Sep 2017
News / Poland Sports News [1079]

'nic nie sie stalo'

nic nie się stało? are you really sure the order of the words is right here? or you have developed some peculiar 'feel' for the Polish language over the years?
gumishu   
22 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

oh not poor little Gummi again.. lol

you like patronising people rozumiemnic, don't you
gumishu   
22 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

it's people who when they realise that it is no longer socially acceptable to go around calling people dumb Polacks/Paddies/Nig.gers

have you met such people here? I haven't
gumishu   
22 Aug 2017
Real Estate / Electricity / Gas cost in Poland [11]

know it is based on usage but i just want to get a ball park figure.

a kWh costs about 50 groszy total
gumishu   
22 Aug 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [582]

Poles paradoxically didn't en masse support the extermination of Jews

maybe because they have suffered from the hands of Germans (inteligentsia, those taking part in Silesian uprisings etc were the early victims of Germans) way before the Holocaust started. Also Poles were daily reminded that Germans considered them Untermenschen.
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [582]

Jews who killed Jesus, when everybody with a brain knows it was the Romans:-

hmmm , heh, we want Barabas and so on - it was Jews who wanted Jesus killed and Pilate famously washed his hands

but it's just a detail and it don't matter ultimately

ever heard of 'Wasze ulice, nasze kamienice' (your streets our real-estate) - and it mattered before the war (in the interbellum)

as for NSDAP support in Germany - the election results of 1933 clearly show that the NSDAP had more support in Protestant Laender and generally in the North -that's your paradox for you

you were also insinuating that Germans built the camps in Poland because Poles somehow supported the idea - does it make sense in the light of Poland being the only occupied country where any help given to Jews was punished with death by the German occupation authorities

while Polish anti-semitism in the interbellum is undeniable Poles paradoxically didn't en masse support the extermination of Jews - so many paradoxes Lyzko - I'm not sure you can deal with such an ammount

especially when your mind works on cliches
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [957]

Every time I hear mikke speak I can't help but laugh at some of the stuff he says.

you wouldn't suspect him of being a terror inspirer or apologist though, would you? and rightly so - I was a Mikke follower when I was young - he is a libertarian doctriner though and I sort of grew out of libertarian doctrinerism - but I do believe in free market
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [957]

The guy who wanted to blow up the Sejm would also have caused a horrific death toll had he succeeded.

again the guy who wanted to blow up the Sejm was directly inspired to do so by ABW operatives during the PO reign (for those who don't know what

ABW is - ABW Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego - Internal Security Agency)

the Wrocław bomber didn't have political motives - he called the police the same day demanding ransom - one lonely sick guy who just happened to admire Mikke

so much for your right wing terrorism in Poland
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [957]

I just told you about the Wrocław bomber - and well now Korwin-Mikke (regardless of how of touch some of his ideas are) is a terror apologist for you, yes? - how deluded one can become, I wonder
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [957]

the guy who wanted to blow up the Sejm,

the guy who wanted to blow up the Sejm was inspired to do so by ABW operatives which even the court admitted in the explanation of the verdict and it happened good couple of years ago and not in the last two years - so fail

the Wrocław bomber demanded ransom for not detonating his bombs in a call to police so he was hardly a terrorist - he was not part of any right wing group either
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [957]

It's been said elsewhere, but the danger in Poland is domestic terrorism,

how much of domestic terrorism have you seen in Poland for the last two years?
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [957]

I use to not like macron but after a few of his comments he's not all that bad.

Macron actually undermines the most important EU fundaments in his rhetoric, namely the free flow of people and capital within the EU
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

Sto lat za murzynami sounds racist to me.

so it is racist to say blackAfrica was backward through most of the history - sure we should avoid inconvenient facts
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

If used with a perjorative adjective or in an offensive expression, it is racist

no it isn't - the same Brit doesn't become racist when paired with the adjective bloody and imperialist

there are racists word in Polish to describe black people - czarnuch, bambus, asfalt - 'murzyn' is not racist and doesn't become one paired with pejorative adjectives