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Posts by gumishu  

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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
gumishu   
9 Jan 2018
Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

How about gasoline, is there gas station on the way?

you should be warned about the weather conditions - though it is not very likely that it will snowing according to 2 week forecasts the roads can be slippery because of freezing fog
gumishu   
9 Jan 2018
News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]

Whatever you might think about Trump, it is obvious that him being president is very harmful and potentially fatal for Poland's interest

you must be joking, I guess - German hegemony in Europe is harmful for Poland and Trump presidency forms a nice and much expected counterbalance
gumishu   
9 Jan 2018
Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

the one that looks longest will be the most convenient (but partly paid)- why? - because you avoid one-carriageway roads - you head from Łódź to Katowice (double carriageway road for the most part) and in the area of Katowice you join the A4 motorway/interstate and head east - I can't tell you the exact cost but it's not overwhelming
gumishu   
6 Jan 2018
Life / Polish and Czechs [191]

It's a friggin psycho "expat".

judging from his user name a Jamaican
gumishu   
6 Jan 2018
Life / Polish and Czechs [191]

the Uprising that took place was an utterly terrible idea.

the Soviet Polish-language radiostation appealed to Varsovians to rise so the AK leadership though the Russians will push on to liberate Warsaw when the uprising starts - we all know what happened next - so no it was not an obvious miscalculation on the side of AK leading figures
gumishu   
23 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

mafketis happens to live in Poland and for over 20 years now - which makes the question even more valid

How will it make the system less corrupt?

ever heard of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supereme Court introduced by the new law
gumishu   
21 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

The system starts from the impartiality

and how do you know if the judge is impartial when a verdict on a political figure is passed? we had plenty of politically motivated verdicts in this country before even though the judiciary was presumably independent - you may not be familiar with them cause you haven't lived here all the time since 1989 - the same is valid for the verdicts of the Constitutional Tribunal but again you haven't been here to judge it - yes the judiciary in Poland was independent - including from logic and decency
gumishu   
20 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

Answer my question, why not raise the tax threshold? Not a vote winner, as that would mean working for a living to feed those kids?

I agree with you that 500+ programme is a bit cynical and aimed at winning votes easily as tax threshold raising would only affect those who actually work but it did have an impact on the economy - there is over 5 per cent rise in retail sales in 2017 compared to 2016 (in some months the year to year rise was even above 10 per cent) - at the same time the alcohol consupmtion in Poland hasn't risen dramatically (if I remember correctly the rise was about 2 per cent) so it looks like the money from 500+ is more or less well spent - also the unemployment is at historical low (counting from the communist times where it was formally null) - which means there is not really that many people who only rely on the programme as their sole source of income)
gumishu   
20 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Help him. Easier said than done but still ...

some people are beyond help untill they have enough themselves - my brother doesn't have enough yet - he hasn't hit the hard bottom so far - but as soon as my mom passes he definitely will
gumishu   
20 Dec 2017
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

my brother drinks on Wigilia - but he's an aloholic and drinks almost everyday - he even once went to Pasterka partially drunk - he doesn't bother to go to Pasterka anymore though
gumishu   
20 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

7 kids if I remember rightly. It's so easy to be magnanimous with other people's money.

so you know precisely one family with seven kids and only because they were made famous by Duda, quite telling

again, the 500+ programme has been wholly funded this year by decreasing the VAT gap that was there for the whole time of the PO+PSL rule - do you prefer this money spent on poor families or on VAT scammers, just asking
gumishu   
20 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

Unlike PL where Ziobro could prosecute Tusk and have him tried by PiS appointed judges

judges will be randomly alotted to all cases - and no - there will be no massive purge of regular judges for the simple reason that there are not enough people to replace them - and again it will be the KRS appointing judges not PiS and the representatives of the Sejm in the KRS will be elected with the 3/5 majority in the chamber - so you are just spreading false propaganda

To hand out my money to people who have 7 kids and are too lazy to work for a living?

how many families with 7 kids do you know if I may ask?

Ziobro is an elected official - if people find that his actions are against their best interests they will choose a different party next time don't you worry
gumishu   
20 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

and again - it is a fact that the Supreme Court judges are there for life but their appoinment is purely political/partisan by the governing president and there are fights and machinations around the nominations like after the passing of the late judge Scalia - where the Senate refused hearing of Obama candidate for the post until Obama's term run out
gumishu   
20 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]

the US judges get life time terms

only in the supreme court my friend

in many states (the majority afaik) judges are elected for a term (and probably can even be dismissed during the term if enough people wish for it)