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gumishu   
4 May 2025
Feedback / Suggestions for forum features [14]

Bobko was complaining about the same thing too.

there was this feature called ignoring in the forum before - is it gone now? (I never used it anyway though) It's not gone.

It's possible to report a PM message too or to ban a user from sending a PM or to disable receiving PM messages completely.

gumishu   
28 Apr 2025
Po polsku / Strefa Wolna od Małpiszonów [46]

tak apropos za co pawian dostał bana?

poza tym myślę, że pawian to taki homing baboon: zawsze wraca
gumishu   
24 Apr 2025
History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [239]

It seems the farmer got their word already in:

thanks, didn't know that - I just wonder what the quotas will be and for which products (as far as I know the EU doesn't import grains - somehow the excerpt doesn't mention grains)

Everything related to the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court for instance.

the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court doesn't exist since July 2022
gumishu   
24 Apr 2025
History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [239]

If such a treaty is so bad for polish agriculture then there should be lotsa Poles in Brusse

not when Tusk is in power - he will sell Polish farmer's down the drain only to remain in favour of the German elites in my opinion - it's not a coincidence that debate over the Mercosur deal is postponed until after the Polish presidential election if you ask me

as for Draghi report you can even find general information in the wikipedia - in Polish media I watch there was more about it
gumishu   
24 Apr 2025
History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [239]

No longer regular payments into the EU-pockets to be shared by the fellow EU-members..

there is an official EU report that calls for drastic cuts in EU cohesion funds and other forms of subsidising "new Europe" (you think it somehow was created against the will of German leadership?) - search for "Draghi report"
also the current Brussel administration negotiated a free-trade deal with Mercosur - if it is accepted, European (read: mainly German) manufactured goods will be free of tariffs in big part of South America and their (Argentinian, Brazilian) agricultural products will reach our markets duty-free - the last part would obliterate Polish agriculture - how is that not German-centric?
gumishu   
24 Apr 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1312]

Europe is about as non-polluting as possible.

well, that's not true - most of Polish electricity comes from burning coal - and me and millions of Poles use coal to heat their homes in the cold season - and guess what: I don't give a fork
gumishu   
24 Apr 2025
History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [239]

To the rule of law,

yeah, sure, you must know what you are talking about - so give me some good example

and the reputation of the judiciary in genera

the reputation of the judiciary among Poles was mainly affected by their own doings (and they are still adding to that "wonderful" legacy) - PiS government only made that public

btw AFAIK your judges are created by land justice ministers - in Poland there is a special constitutional body elected from judges themselves that presents the president with candidates for judges
gumishu   
24 Apr 2025
Classifieds / Kebab business [43]

Pefect response

I was making things larger than they actually are, I think - I only heard of sharia police in one of East London neighbourhoods - but well grooming gangs were a reality in the UK
gumishu   
24 Apr 2025
Classifieds / Kebab business [43]

They come here to have more freedom for themselves and their families.

yeah, and then they establish sharia police in their neighbourhoods (because ya know: freedom)
gumishu   
24 Apr 2025
History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [239]

but never touch the German ruling clique

well, it is kind of steorytipically German isn't it (if you searched old posts in this forum dealing with their beloved cooperation with Russia, like the Nord Stream projects you would see how enthusiastic they were - especially Bratwurst)

Internally they did incredible damage to the rule of law,

internally they did incredible damage, like what damage precisely?
gumishu   
24 Apr 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1312]

betting the economic house on russia behaving like a normal country and not a violent psychotic?

you don't remember what was written here about both Nord Streams here by our fellow German posters? do a quick search then (in short: they wanted it, so they have it - also the new German governing coalition hasn't declared anything about the future of the Nord Streams)
gumishu   
22 Apr 2025
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [731]

"jestem samochodem" is simple and intuitive :P - "jestem" is shorter than "przyjechałem" (or "przyszedłem" because people can also be asked "piechotą jesteś?") - and "jestem" underlines the simple fact that the speaker is there :P - and "samochodem" is abundantly clear because "przyjechałem samochodem" is obvious enough - what is unfortunate is that in Polish if you want to say "I am an engineer" you need to use the instrumental (i.e. inżynierem) to sound natural and native
gumishu   
22 Apr 2025
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [731]

" bo ja wiem" doesn't mean "I don't know" (at least not in the most plain use of "I don't know") - it means more like "I have my doubts" (I understand that native English speakers use "I don't know" to tell they have doubts/bad feelings about something)
gumishu   
19 Feb 2025
Language / Do Poles prefer US American or UK English language? [185]

Seems the younger the Poles, the more attractive American English

I don't have much experience with fellow Poles speaking English, and maybe I am judging all the stuff through my personal lens, but from what I can gather, although what is taught in Polish schools is British English (say, Received Pronunciation), most people after a while turn to the American variety (probably because of much greater exposure through various media)
gumishu   
12 Feb 2025
Law / Moving back to Poland - Healthcare [112]

I am not afraid of Russia. Europe is.

Russia will not be able to attack Europe for some good next couple of years - also why would it anyway? to steal cars in Poland and Germany? I'm not saying we in Poland should disband our army (or even reduce it) - we should keep it just in case - AFAIK European politicians want to restart Nordstreams as part of the peace deal with Russia (so it has no interest in going warlike again) - however Trump might not be happy with such a development since he dreams of selling American natural gas to Europe to mitigate the trade deficit the US has with Europe (especially Germany)
gumishu   
12 Feb 2025
Law / Moving back to Poland - Healthcare [112]

Putin: Ты с ума сошел? Я бы предпочла черную мамбу в качестве домашнего питомца!

it strange that Putin talks like a Russian babushka ("ja by predpoczła" indicates female person speaking)
gumishu   
5 Feb 2025
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

Beloved sister and brother-in-law

I write this couple of words and send you [the photo of] our family [not sure of the following:] only not all of us (???) [the following is clear:] because one daughter is married in the reclaimed lands [clearly this was sent after 1945] .. this other (???) is with her and the little one there is her granddson who is 3. When he [the grandson] wrote the uncle, the uncle sent him some nice clothes.

[the following sentence is probably a plea on behalf of the grandson (or rather in the name of the grandson):] Dear aunt, I, lovely Staś, ask you to send me some shoes your granddaughters don't wear anymore, so I can have shoes for the winter.

Stay in health.

Władysława i Franciszek Domralski(?? - not sure about the surname)
gumishu   
31 Jan 2025
News / Polish coal will be back [141]

Polish cities have district heating schemes
That covers 40%.

district heating systems in Poland ultimately run on coal for the most part - just a remark
gumishu   
14 Jan 2025
Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]

I have to apologize to people who read some of my input on Canada - I might have misunderstood some things I heard in youtube videos - I said in one of my posts that rent in Toronto trippled or quadrudpled when Trudeau was in power: it isn't true: the figure is like a bit over 50 per cent - the person speaking about Toronto situation probably meant house prices which almost trippled between 2015 and 2022 - however since 2022 house prices were on the decline
gumishu   
13 Jan 2025
Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]

was the UK booming in the recent years? since the rent prices rose by 25 per cent in the UK on average in the last 3 years