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gumishu   
9 Sep 2017
Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]

Kraków has actually very good water quality - the Kraków tap water comes from the Dobczyce reservoir on (the Raba if I recall correctly) river that flows from the mountains - the reservoir is restricted from any other use (no bathing and probably even no angling)
gumishu   
8 Sep 2017
Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]

Tap water is safe to drink

you of course mean by it that it will make you sick within hours or kill you outright - so yes in that sense it is safe

in the long run? - in the long run you are making a filter for chemicals from river water of yourself - thanks I will stay away - i lived in a town were water was partly from Odra river and partrly from Nysa Kłodzka river - and no it did not taste good at all (so was tap water in Wrocław when I studied there)
gumishu   
8 Sep 2017
Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]

It's OK for tea or coffee

you probably have higher tolerance for 'syfy i paksudztwa' from the river water - you cannot filter them out completely, so good luck for you drinking tap water in the long perspective
gumishu   
8 Sep 2017
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

@gumishu

There are almost 600 people under the surname Sikoń in Poland and only 14 people under the suraname Sikoński - so theoretically you grandpa's surname could have been Sikoński but I somehow doubt it
gumishu   
8 Sep 2017
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

SIKON

most probably Sikoń - I doubt it was altered much -if it were Sikoński or some such it would have been preserved in the French language - Sikoń could have been a nickname (turned surname) for a person who needs to pee often (sikać means to pee mostly, but also trickle) - peasants didn't have surnames for quite a long time in Poland (even up to 19th century) and they went under first names and nicknames
gumishu   
8 Sep 2017
Life / Tap Water quality in Poland [44]

Warsaw

Warsaw derives most of it's water supply from the Vistula river and the river is well a sewer to an extent - I wouldn't drink tap water in Warsaw

Mrągowo is a different case - it is small and it lies in a clean area and on a lake (or oven two lakes)
gumishu   
22 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

oh not poor little Gummi again.. lol

you like patronising people rozumiemnic, don't you
gumishu   
22 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

it's people who when they realise that it is no longer socially acceptable to go around calling people dumb Polacks/Paddies/Nig.gers

have you met such people here? I haven't
gumishu   
22 Aug 2017
Real Estate / Electricity / Gas cost in Poland [11]

know it is based on usage but i just want to get a ball park figure.

a kWh costs about 50 groszy total
gumishu   
22 Aug 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

Poles paradoxically didn't en masse support the extermination of Jews

maybe because they have suffered from the hands of Germans (inteligentsia, those taking part in Silesian uprisings etc were the early victims of Germans) way before the Holocaust started. Also Poles were daily reminded that Germans considered them Untermenschen.
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

Jews who killed Jesus, when everybody with a brain knows it was the Romans:-

hmmm , heh, we want Barabas and so on - it was Jews who wanted Jesus killed and Pilate famously washed his hands

but it's just a detail and it don't matter ultimately

ever heard of 'Wasze ulice, nasze kamienice' (your streets our real-estate) - and it mattered before the war (in the interbellum)

as for NSDAP support in Germany - the election results of 1933 clearly show that the NSDAP had more support in Protestant Laender and generally in the North -that's your paradox for you

you were also insinuating that Germans built the camps in Poland because Poles somehow supported the idea - does it make sense in the light of Poland being the only occupied country where any help given to Jews was punished with death by the German occupation authorities

while Polish anti-semitism in the interbellum is undeniable Poles paradoxically didn't en masse support the extermination of Jews - so many paradoxes Lyzko - I'm not sure you can deal with such an ammount

especially when your mind works on cliches
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]

Every time I hear mikke speak I can't help but laugh at some of the stuff he says.

you wouldn't suspect him of being a terror inspirer or apologist though, would you? and rightly so - I was a Mikke follower when I was young - he is a libertarian doctriner though and I sort of grew out of libertarian doctrinerism - but I do believe in free market
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]

The guy who wanted to blow up the Sejm would also have caused a horrific death toll had he succeeded.

again the guy who wanted to blow up the Sejm was directly inspired to do so by ABW operatives during the PO reign (for those who don't know what

ABW is - ABW Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego - Internal Security Agency)

the Wrocław bomber didn't have political motives - he called the police the same day demanding ransom - one lonely sick guy who just happened to admire Mikke

so much for your right wing terrorism in Poland
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]

I just told you about the Wrocław bomber - and well now Korwin-Mikke (regardless of how of touch some of his ideas are) is a terror apologist for you, yes? - how deluded one can become, I wonder
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]

the guy who wanted to blow up the Sejm,

the guy who wanted to blow up the Sejm was inspired to do so by ABW operatives which even the court admitted in the explanation of the verdict and it happened good couple of years ago and not in the last two years - so fail

the Wrocław bomber demanded ransom for not detonating his bombs in a call to police so he was hardly a terrorist - he was not part of any right wing group either
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]

It's been said elsewhere, but the danger in Poland is domestic terrorism,

how much of domestic terrorism have you seen in Poland for the last two years?
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]

I use to not like macron but after a few of his comments he's not all that bad.

Macron actually undermines the most important EU fundaments in his rhetoric, namely the free flow of people and capital within the EU
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

Sto lat za murzynami sounds racist to me.

so it is racist to say blackAfrica was backward through most of the history - sure we should avoid inconvenient facts
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

If used with a perjorative adjective or in an offensive expression, it is racist

no it isn't - the same Brit doesn't become racist when paired with the adjective bloody and imperialist

there are racists word in Polish to describe black people - czarnuch, bambus, asfalt - 'murzyn' is not racist and doesn't become one paired with pejorative adjectives
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

Not sure about John Godson, who doesn't mind the word.

John Godson must be a self-hating 'murzyn', hahha :) - it is the only explanation why he settled in the racist Poland
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

Not sure about John Godson, who doesn't mind the word.

John Godson must be a self-hating 'murzyn', hahha :)
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

do you mean nigg.er?

it's not me who put asterixes in the place of nigg.a - it's the forum engine that did it - I'm not affraid to refer to this word and it being a self-reference by some black Americans
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

be offended by a non self referential term?.

to some black people in America the word ***** is a self-referential term, you must have heard about it

are racist idiots.

we are racist idiots, me, you kaprys and greggy - all of the Polish anthropologists of the 20th century were racists idiots - they just didn't know it
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

And is it always used with neutral intent?

you bloody imperialist Brit - you see I used the term Brit to insult you - we should ban the term Brit, no?

be offended by a non self referential term?.

to some black people in America the word ***** is a self-referential term, you must have heard about it
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

Can't you find a way to speak about millions of people that doesn't objectify them?

how does that objectify them? care to explain?
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

There are actually neurological reasons some people feel that way.

I didn't know we have a neuroscientist here
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

Oh did you mean where I suggested you go up to a black man and call him a moor?

English speaking cultural imperialism at its best - transplanting the notions of the words from English to Polish - because we know better you know
gumishu   
21 Aug 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]

here a quote from wikipedia

mods - the quote was quite short - why are you making people read the whole article on Israel Singer and wonder what part of the article poster had in mind

use 'quote' when quoting please