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Posts by gumishu  

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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
gumishu   
6 Jun 2018
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Walesa wasn't scared,

Wałęsa wasn't scared because he was brought to the shipyard by SB on a motorboat specifically to dismantle the strike which he almost managed to accomplish

Dougpol is just furious he cannot effectively change anything in Poland by means of his own powers (the powers he believes he has) that's why he comes here and moans