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Polonius3   
25 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Polish companies need all the help

So all in all, what is your fool-proof prescription for dynamising and expanding indigenous Polish business, creating Polsih production and retail giants and lessening the domination of foreign companies the siphon off profits to their home offices abroad?
Polonius3   
25 Jan 2016
News / Polish President vetoes PO's dingbat gender law [173]

don't even understand the meaning of the word.

But you apparently do so why beat about the bush. Tell us in a straightforward way what all this gender stuff is about!
Polonius3   
25 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

end up in a worse place

In a worse place than the frustrated trough defenders? The masses of disentitled, ex-PZPR, ex-TW, ex-privileged, etc. won't see another such trough for at least another generation!

This just in: PGNiG have just terminated their contacr with S&P. American financial commentator Matthew Tyrmand wrote that extremely politicsed S&P take their cue from the hyperpolticised EU who wanted to punish today's Poland for not being as eurocentric as the PO administration was. Sounds quite plausible!
Polonius3   
25 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

pass the cost on to customers

If that is the case, then the tax legsilation is defective. It should contain a clause prohibiting cost pass-on and mandating profit-margin reduction at the risk of licence withdrawal. And dont tell me your heart pumps purple pony p*ss for the poor, maltreated banksters!
Polonius3   
25 Jan 2016
News / Polish President vetoes PO's dingbat gender law [173]

much-loved presenter

We all know the types that are "much-loved" by you, but don't speak for others. Presidential hopeful Marian Kowalski is also much-loved in some circles.
Polonius3   
25 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

12 million a year isn't much money

12 million is a fantastic yearly turnover. Most small firms are 2-3 member family affairs that will be exempted. You do not understand the real Poland because you view everything through the prism of and equate mainly with the prosperous and successful who constitute a tiny minority in Poland. You'd do better to consider and find ways to educate the majority on how to become successful and well-off.
Polonius3   
25 Jan 2016
News / Polish President vetoes PO's dingbat gender law [173]

does need changin

Before it's changed, why don't you finally define gender as it is used in the PO's gender law. Also please explain why feminists believe it is so important that they have actually pressured American universities to introduce "gender studies". If there's that much hoopla surrounding it, it must be of some significance that goes beyond the Polish Epsicopate not liking it, You are supremely qualified in that area so why not share your expertise with PF?
Polonius3   
25 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

demand more productivity

Is Poland known for excessively high productivity? Polish workers put in more hours but how effectively? Abroad Poles are regarded as workaholics but in Poland...
Polonius3   
24 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

since they election

Since the election Poland has not had a single day devoid of vicious, hysterical uproars which started even before the election when Kosher Boy was warning of imminent fascism. That kind of endlessly whipped up hysteria damages a country's reputation, destabilises the market and scares off investors.
Polonius3   
24 Jan 2016
Life / Price of cigarettes in Poland? [192]

cheaper car

The cheapest compact is a Dacia (Romanian Renault) -- around 34,ooo zł. In fact the smallest cars are not cheaper. Dunno how many cigs you can bring in but hereabouts they run 12 - 14 zł per packet (of 20).

I overstated the Dacia's price; now there are end-of-year discounts so it's around 29,000 zł for the sandero saloon. Other cheapies are Peugeot 107 and Toyota Aygo 28,000-29,000 zł. Also below 36,000 are Skoda Citigo, Citroën C1, Ford Ka and Kia Picanto.
Polonius3   
24 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

ou've never been to Poland

Maybe not, but I read all about it in GW, according to your mates the most reliable news soruce. Besides, in our cyber-era one can be an expert on Mongolia or Bolivia via Google!
Polonius3   
24 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

good changes going to start

They already have... police, civil service, public media, TK... and all in a very short space of time.
Polonius3   
24 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Kaczynski

PROGNOSIS: Despite the pointless, sterile ranting of the niche protest movement, eventually the government's detractors will tire of their futile marches and refocus on more productive endeavours. That development will be enahcned by the government's continuous introduction of good changes which will see PiS' support grow as the as tangible improvemetns are increasignly felt throughout society. The composition of the ruling camp will remain roughly the same as now into PiS' second term in office (2019), but on the eve of the third (2023) Kaczyński will become honorary president of the party and a new person will take over the helm. It is still not clear whether it will be one of PiS' now younger luminaries or someone who has yet to make their political début.

Internationally, Germany will become an effective police state thanks to Merkel's folly. Not a nationalistic one like Hitler's but a protective one introduced to safeguard citizens against increasingly frequent random suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks. By 2019, the Muslim migrant community will have already grown to nearly five million strong thanks to their extremely high birth rate. Muslim problems will be occurring in other European countires but nowhere will they be as severe as in the Bundesrepublik. Heavily armed secuity forces in APCs, on foot and horseback patrolling the streets of German cities will become a common sight. Poland may decide to build a protective barrier along the German border similar to that lining the US-Mexican frontier. Not that many migrants will want to come to Poland, but constant pre-emptive raids by special Germany security forces will have many suspects on the run with nowhere to flee to except Poland. Fugitive terrorist suspects is the last thing Poland needs! Austria, Denmark and France have already built such barriers along their borders with German to prevent unwanted migrant spill-over.
Polonius3   
24 Jan 2016
News / Polish President vetoes PO's dingbat gender law [173]

fail to define

So why don't you define it for us being someone knowledgeable about anatomy's nether regions. What exactly did PO enact in their gender act? Is gender some supreme, overriding concept as some feminists contend and should therefore be introduced here, there and everywhere.
Polonius3   
23 Jan 2016
News / Polish President vetoes PO's dingbat gender law [173]

what "gender" is

In language gender can be masculine, feminine or neuter. In nature gender is either male or female. Something or someone castrated (also some arftifically bred species like the mule) may be regarded as neuter (invapable of reproducing).

In feminist parlance gender is regarded as largely a socio-cultural construct which does not necessarily correspond to one's biological gender. PO went out after passign a gender on demand law stating that everyone can declare themslves to be whatever gender they feel without requiring surgical correction. The feminists have imposed their gender obsession on lefstream bodies such as the UN, EU adn some governments that all proposed legislation must be filtered through a gender-slanted prism, giving that notion undue importance in the overall scheme of things.
Polonius3   
23 Jan 2016
Genealogy / Polish surnames - Origin and Meaning [29]

Both surnames are of oatronymic origin meaning they were derived from a father's first name.
GRZEŚKOWIAK: from Grzegorz (Gregory), hence "son of Grzegorz"; Anglo-Celtic equivalents: Gregson, McGregor.

KUBIAK: from Kuba (diminutive of Jakub = James or Jacob); English equivalents: Jamesson, Jacobson.
Polonius3   
22 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

a science fiction movi

Brilliant comparison! I can just picture scientifically fictitious Michnik with Martian-style tentacles protruding from his head proclaiming to all and sundry: "Jaruzelski was a man of honour, my dad was a man of honour, Putin is a man of honour, all reds are men of honour!"
Polonius3   
22 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

voters support Pi

The main thing is that they support PiS, not one of the wannabe groupings of trough defenders. And even more important than some poll, is that in the present Sejm the whole opposition cannot stop PiS changing the country for the better. They can rant, rave, fume and spew in sterile frustration, and that they certainly do, but it doesn't amount to a tiddler's wink.
Polonius3   
19 Jan 2016
Genealogy / Just found out I'm Polish! [45]

jokes about Polish people

Why are Polack jokes so short? - So the idiots who tell them can remember them!
Polonius3   
19 Jan 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

the effect on jobs

That too is the result of the barrage of vicious attacks on the democratically elected government. If Goebbeslesque lies calling the government a totalitarian dictatorship, warning of coup d'états, even fascism, and discreditng its leaders are repeated week after week by ranting street rabble and propagandistic media, eventually some people and institutions will wonder if there isn't something to it. The disgrunteld losers will eagerly harm Poland if they think that will give them another crack at the feed trough from which they were so rudely ejected by Poland's voters. That's the nitty-gritty of it.
Polonius3   
18 Jan 2016
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

documentations

Bureaucrats can work wonders with theri paperwork. Poles in the USSR were once rebadged as Soviet citizens and if they refused were sent to slave labour camps in Siberia. Nazi officials even made up non-existent nationaltieis like Goralenvolk, claiming Polands' highlanders had ancient Germanic roots. Like surnames, such officialise and fairy tales have absolutely no bearing on one's genetic ethnicity.

At best we can say some Frenchman has an Italian-sounding surname or a Pole has a German one. BTW there are numerous Poles with German names such as Schulz, Schultz or (spelt the Polish way) Szulc. Most loudly proclaim to be Polish.
Polonius3   
17 Jan 2016
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Wrocław

Over the centuries Wrocław was under Polish, Bohemian, Prussian and Austrian rule and now is Polish once again. In such a melting pot/salad bowl most anything was possible.

Nowak is the most popular Polish name (over 200,000 users), but there are more thna 32,000 Nowaks in Germany. And their most common first names in Germany are: Peter Michael Josef Günter Manfred Andreas Wolfgang Werner Norbert and Heinz. Is Nowak a German name? No! Are the people listed above German? Yes!
Polonius3   
17 Jan 2016
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

German origin

Linguisitically, the name Bernatowicz is of Polish origin If it were not then it'd be spelt Bernatoviè (Czech, Sklovak), Bernatović (Croatian. Slovenian), Bernatowitz (Yiddish) or Бepнaтoвич (Russian, Ukrainian). So much for linguistics. The fact remains that any of the above could have been used by a Pole, Jew, Russian, German, Czech, etc. One should never confuse name origin with a person's ethnicity.

Please be wary of online heraldry services. They are known for coming up with coats of arms for nearly every comer so as not to lose a customer.