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Posts by gumishu  

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gumishu   
6 Jun 2019
History / Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 [341]

Would an agent dismantle communism like Wałęsa did?

so you believe Kiszczak's archive is a fake yes - and guess what Wałęsa never dismantled anything? sam tymy rencamy obalyłem komunę? - maybe he prevented a civil war but that's about it
gumishu   
5 Jun 2019
Life / How do Polish people treat their animals? [33]

and what can be fished in Poland that's big enough to take a kitten as bait?

you answered yourself catfish - there are records of giant catfish from Oder going back to 15th century - Vistula is probably better suited for big catfish now than the Oder
gumishu   
5 Jun 2019
History / Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 [341]

communists.

maybe according to you Wałęsa was not agent Bolek and Kiszczak archives are a fake - maybe he doesn't lie now about his past - maybe he kept his promise of 100 000 PLZ for every Pole - maybe he was not attempting to gather support among the military to make a virtual putsch and gain all the power - yeah the history was ever so simple for Poland
gumishu   
25 May 2019
Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [402]

Becela (written with this Czech hacek thing over the C) is just Czech for the same thing as Beczała
gumishu   
24 May 2019
History / MAP OF POLAND IN 1880'S [95]

@familytree

could you try posting a photo of the birth certificate - I can't infer anything from the spelling you suggested (but it may be because the place is so small I have never heard of it)
gumishu   
4 Jan 2019
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

Can you communicate in Czech?

well i'm not fluent but I can hold a basic conversation even though I haven't practiced in years and it's been long since I watched Czech TV now -we bought a satelite Polsat subsciption and there are no Czech channels in the package - anyway I can understand much more than I can actively would be use in a conversation - but it is similar in all languages I know to some extent including English
gumishu   
4 Jan 2019
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

Vlad I must admit I very much like the Russian language especially it's melodiousness - but I like quite a number of languages for their sound including German

to my embarassment though when I met Russian people in England in the early 2000's most of words that came to my mind while trying to speak Russian were Czech - to my justification after my school years i had almost none contact with your language and instead I watched a lot Czech TV which I preffered to Polish TV stations - I live near the border with the Czech Republic
gumishu   
4 Jan 2019
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

So, non of the similarities I've p

hmm it's not that I knew every single Russian word you posted to be honest - more like about half of them - but I am not surprised with similarities between the two languages
gumishu   
4 Jan 2019
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

All of whom? I suspect many people in Poland are ignorant about

hmm maybe I put too much trust in my fellow Poles - I personally learned Russian in elementary school and was ever since aware of things our languages share (but also in notable differences) - well we should bear in mind that there are now generations of Poles who barely had ever contact with Russian (but my 10-year-old nephew knows cyka-blyat from web-based games :P
gumishu   
4 Jan 2019
Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

Brother - Brat, braciuszek - Brat, bratuszka

it's ok Vlad, we all know that Russian and Polish have similar vocabulary in their cores - then didn't stop both nations to fight wars though - hopefully we won't see any more of these
gumishu   
3 Jan 2019
News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]

: gays are born gay

Rich - gays are indeed born gay - buuuut - gays were not created gay - being gay is a matter of a choice made many incarnations before - a choice that was further reinforced through subsequent decisions - the choice was made because the soul in question held females or a female element responsible for the fall in consciousness instead of accepting the soul's sole responsibility - it is similar with lesbians - the picture is further complicated by the fact that many souls in present were forced to inhabit the bodies of the sex that is not preferred by the soul - that's why you have effeminate gays and butches on the opposite side of the spectrum
gumishu   
3 Jan 2019
News / Poland's News sources [59]

technocrats

hahah technocrats decent - you are funny
gumishu   
2 Jan 2019
News / Poland's News sources [59]

populism.

everyone knows populism is evil - especially those who benefit from 500+

and well we all know that VAT mafias were fairy tales - and that there is no money to cover for 500+ expenses - and that budget deficit is exorbitant as of november 2018 - a staggering minus 6 billion PLN - I hope you know what deficit in negative numbers means

But there hardly any content - one article every two months....

you must have read the notesfrompoland.com website - the Notes from Poland facebook profile is much more lively but there is an obvious bias to it
gumishu   
2 Jan 2019
News / Poland's News sources [59]

A couple of expat Brits who know nothing about Poland and have their own private multi-culti snowflake agenda'

I couldn't put it any better than that
gumishu   
2 Jan 2019
News / Poland's News sources [59]

sure jon - we just have different feeling of what is neutral and what is not
gumishu   
2 Jan 2019
News / Poland's News sources [59]

On social media there's a good news source "Notes from Poland", run by someone who used to post here.

heh Notes from Poland neutral heh
gumishu   
2 Aug 2018
Work / Living in Poland with income from the US. [44]

5-6,000 Zloty

it is doable - we as a family of four live for not much more than 4000 Zloty but our rent is quite cheap cause we live in the countryside
gumishu   
1 Aug 2018
Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [402]

I read that "Ski" is a "from"

yes indeed

the place name (a village most probably-never heard of such a town) could have been Jew or Jewo - the name has nothing to do with Jews or Jewishness - a Jew in Polish is "żyd" - Jew or Jewo are probably old forms or derivates of 'jaw' which means sort of visible, uncovered
gumishu   
25 Jul 2018
Language / Harmless old-fashioned Polish swear words/phrases [159]

Something about... jak wrone to krakasz jak I one.. when you hang out with crows (meant to mean a bad crowd) you speak/act like them

kiedy wejdziesz między wrony, musisz krakać tak jak one
gumishu   
7 Jun 2018
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Who has been feeding you HS?

he must be an avid consumer of TVN Fakty - Dougpol you know living off TVN Fakty news is similar to living in a parallel universe

What was the point in fighting tanks on horses?

you actually believe Poles fought tanks on horses? oh well let me see - German propaganda and a commie filmmaker have swayed the world opinion it seems