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gumishu   
3 Jun 2018
News / Poland's economics and education against the background of the world [27]

If Finland can afford it, then so can Poland.

can afford can mean various things not just being able to finance something as you probably know

It's not sustainable if continued growth is the aim.

why do you actually bother - did you bother the same when PO was in power or was everything rose petals for you back then
gumishu   
3 Jun 2018
Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]

the fact is nobody in Poland appart from narrow financial circles calls our currency PLN instead of złoty in everyday speach - there are even millions of people in Poland that are happily unaware of it being code named PLN
gumishu   
7 May 2018
Work / Additional freelance work in Poland - ZUS, taxes? [11]

ok I just read up - starting from this year if your 'zaliczka na poczet podatku dochodowego' or monthly due tax is lower than 1000 PLN you don't have to pay it that month but you have to include the income in the tax return you file at end of the fiscal year
gumishu   
7 May 2018
Work / Additional freelance work in Poland - ZUS, taxes? [11]

it should be done on a monthly basis yes if you run your own business (which you do when you are a freelancer) - but the final 'rozliczenie podatkowe' will determine if you need to pay additionally (because you crossed the income threshold), don't need to pay anything or receive some paid tax back
gumishu   
7 May 2018
Work / Additional freelance work in Poland - ZUS, taxes? [11]

if you work on a umowa o pracę, and the additional job is not another umowa o pracę you don't have to pay ZUS for the second job or for a business you own in most cases and certainly not in your case (the cases when you need to pay ZUS from your business (działalność gospodarcza) include a situation when your umowa o pracę doesn't pay you the minimum Polish wage) - but yes you are obliged to pay income taxes from your additional income - (19 or 32 per cent depending on your income as you stated) - you will need to file your tax return covering all of your incomes (well the ones you feel Urząd Skarbowy are able to detect)
gumishu   
6 May 2018
Language / Issues understanding "to go" verb in Polish language [18]

iść means specifically to walk - if you are using some means of transport you use the verb jechać - you don't say . Idę samochodem but Jadę samochodem.

Pić is pronounced by English speakers as picz - pić means to drink picz means pussy - Chcę pić means I am thirsty (literally I want to drink) Chcę picz means I want pussy
gumishu   
23 Apr 2018
Law / Climate change/environmental businesses or NGOs in Poland [66]

it wouldn't - especially if the outcome would be to allow the abortion on demand - according to polls more than 50 per cent of Poles don't want abortion on demand - but the supporters of it are more politically driven and would go to vote in such a referendum in higher percentage than the opponents
gumishu   
23 Apr 2018
Law / Climate change/environmental businesses or NGOs in Poland [66]

it's a waste of money and a risk - a risk that the supporters of abortion on demand are much more politically active and driven and would outvote the silent majority - polls show that 50 something per cent of people in Poland are for the current abortion compromise - and if you ask me nothing should change about the matter
gumishu   
23 Apr 2018
Law / Climate change/environmental businesses or NGOs in Poland [66]

So you'd accept it if Poles voted for gay marriage in a referendum, as in Ireland?

the constitution would have to be changed - that means that would be a constitutional referendum

Ah, like the Jews, yeah?

Casual Observers thinks the British who come here to teach English automatically become Polish on the entry I guess or within a year or so - some people do have strange delusions
gumishu   
11 Apr 2018
Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [402]

Or Posner, an old friend is called this.

Posner means from Poznań or Poznański - Posen is a Gernam name of Poznań
gumishu   
22 Feb 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

It's the kind of lack of survival instinct that led a bunch of placid Swedes to simply watch Anna Lindh being murdered without trying to intervene

is there a footage of it in the interenet? did people really watch the woman being stabbed and did not react?
gumishu   
21 Feb 2018
Australia / Polish pierogi in Australia [11]

Yvette

my mom makes pierogi dough without eggs - just flour, water and i guess salt
gumishu   
3 Feb 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Poland was freed from Nazis and it became free country

oh yes Poland was freed from Nazis only to be grabbed by Soviet-style Soviet-backed communists who installed a rule of terror - maybe you stopped reading your history book before it mentioned it - or maybe your history book was written in the 70's when the UK was run by Soviet apologists
gumishu   
1 Feb 2018
Love / Polish Pet Names For Girls. [156]

Edytuś sounds too long and would be very awkward as a diminutive.

Edytuś is equally long as Edytka or Edycia in terms of syllables (it's all that matters)
gumishu   
1 Feb 2018
Love / Polish Pet Names For Girls. [156]

Edytuś była gets 0 ghits as do Edytuś poszła, robiła, zrobiła

internet is not the perfect sample of Polish mafketis

oh Edycia is a good dmininutive of Edyta too
gumishu   
1 Feb 2018
Work / Can I find a job in Poland that requires speaking in English? [82]

I always thought I don't have an accent in English (how humble of me, no?) - and I went to London - nobody actually paid attention to my accent so I thought I don't have one - then I worked with an Irish-born guy for some time and told him that despite living in the UK most of his life he still a noticeable Irish accent - he replied to me that I have a strange accent - I was dismayed and flattered at the same time ;) - dismayed because he said I had an accent and flattered because he could not pinpoint it ;) - I am a strange beast
gumishu   
1 Feb 2018
Love / Polish Pet Names For Girls. [156]

huh? Not Edytusia?

you still don't have a feel for segments of the language mafketis
gumishu   
31 Jan 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

.but at the moment it all seems like papering over the cracks and they are not really concerned with the lives of people

i'm not sure you noticed the 500+ programme - it is the most generous and most effective social programme in the last 25 years - it already reduced child poverty drastically -
gumishu   
31 Jan 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

laws on pollution

you know these things cost - the cost would be covered either by the state or by the taxpayers directly (which means it would be paid by the taxpayers either way) - and you expect it to be applauded? - currently coal heating is the cheapest option in Poland - and many Polish people can't afford changing it to other types of heating

all your proposals for policies cost real money - the money that the government and the population don't have at the moment