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Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]

A new low, even for poor dumb jimmy: now he's claiming that three is the same as "a single"! LOL! What a f*cking retard! No wonder he can't tell you what a quarter of 16 is. Hoot!

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]

And poor dumb jimmy is still to dumb to understand that a PPK is not the same as an IKZE! LOL! Next he'll be answering questions about a PPO by talking about an IZE.


Poor dumb jimmy, so dumb that he believes every word AI tells him! Of course one can have more than a single IKE. I have three (one with Alior, opened to make use of their commission-free purchases of WSE-listed ETFs; one with BOSSA, opened to take advantage of their commission-free FX transactions in order to purchase non-WSE-listed ETFs; and one with XTB, opened to make use of their 0% commission on shares). The point is that one cannot invest more than the annual limit each year.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


You're completely right. The quality of life in Madrid is far lower than in cities such as Valencia or Monte Carlo, but one needs to have been to Europe to know that, so the poor dumb one doesn't know it.
And one needs to know Polish to understand that Życie and Madrycie rhyme, so that also counts out the poor dumb one.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


To be fair, some of it is his own work, given that there's no AI out there so stupid as to write "residence" when it means "residents".


A Polish friend once explained "Jutro, jutro" as meaning "It's like manana manana but without the sense of urgency."

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [747]

How amusing: the Michigan Mystic has learned how to put questions into Chat GPT! Just look at that punctuation, LOL! What a pity that he's too ignorant of Poland to understand that a PPK is not the same as an IKZE. Although perhaps from his perspective they are both the same: they're things he'll never have, because both require investments of actual money rather than the fantasy dollars poor dumb jimmy uses to do things such as buying a $1.6 million position in Tesla. But because poor dumb jimmy is too dumb to know that total account value is assets less liabilities, and too dumb to know how much a quarter of 16 is, he tried to claim he'd made a profit of $456,000 when shares worth $1.6 million went up by 21.91%! Hoot !

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]


I was in Fukier in the late '90s (3 January '98) and the only other table in there were to badly dressed gentlemen who spoke Russian to each other and English to the two ladies of negotiable affection who were with them (the ladies were speaking to each other in hilariously bad French) and to the waiter. At the end of the meal they asked the sommelier which is the most expensive bottle cognac he can offer. He replied that they had a couple of bottles of Louis XIII in the cellar and that's the best they have. "It is the most expensive?" "Yes, it is also the most expensive. It's $12,000." "We'll take it." So, out comes this glorious looking bottle, it's poured for one of them, he sniffs it, samples it, nods and says "Please pour for everybody. And bring us four bottles of Coke."

Off-Topic / PF Poster Polonius3 - Sad news [21]


No connection that I'm aware of.


Definitely two different people, and the living one is a good six decades younger than the other one.

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Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]


Why spend 250zl and then mix with tonic when you can spend half that and get something that tastes almost identical? I'm sure that I can tell Harris gin from Gordon's ten times out of ten but I'd be struggling if they were mixed 50:250 with tonic. It'd be easier with something more distinctive, like Monkey 47, but even then the tonic would kill the flavours.

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]


Speak for yourself! I put a drop of water into some whiskies, to open up the aromas, put literally one or two millilitres in a 50ml pour. As for gin, anything under naval strength I always drink neat, and naval strength I mix 3:1 with sparkling water. I simply don't understand people who apend 250zl on a bottle of gin and then drown it in tonic.

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]


Not a gin fan either, that's a terrible gin. Bottled by a wine company using commercial spirit. Anyone selling a gin that's 37.5% is far more interested in money than gin.

Talking of gin, the Warsaw whiskey and gin festival is 10 and 11 October. Highly recommended.

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I don't think those are even vaguely exotic these days. You'll find both in every Biedronka in Poland. As for why I like them, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Shiraz account for abput 90% of the wine I drink in Poland.

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]


I was at the Jasło wine festival on Sunday. There were some pretty decent wines there but everything was at least double what similar quality wines from New Zealand and Australia cost.

Off-Topic / What is a woman? [840]

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News / Taxes, taxes everywhere [35]


You didn't ask what I gave, you asked what I paid. I gave exactly as much as I would paid if I had the choice. But I didn't have the choice: the government took it from me and gave it to the Polish Catholic church.


Tell me about it. Very easy to see why so many Poles cheat on their taxes. (Personally I prefer to be annoyingly honest with the tax bastards: they expect everybody to cheat and somebody being too honest makes them think that the person is getting away with murder somewhere but they can't see where.)

News / Taxes, taxes everywhere [35]


Too much. Last I saw the state gave about PLN 9 billion a year to religious organisations, with 95% of that going to the Polish Catholic church. With Poland's total government expenditure being around PLN 1,067 billion, that would suggest that 0.84% of what I paid in total taxes (PIT, ZUS and VAT, plus excise and other taxes) went to religious organisations. I'd far rather have that amount in cash.


Actually it's less. Mostly because the lack of specialists able to diagnose kids who don't speak fluent Polish means that few of them get intensive (i.e. expensive) assistance provided to kids that speak fluent Polish. Also, and here I'm sharing the opinion of a Polish-Ukrainian child psychologist, Ukrainian parents are more likely than Polish parents to think their kids need a smack than professional assistance.


No. Some people are already taxed quite enough. Today I saw a payslip with a gross amount of slightly over PLN 19,000 and a net amount of slightly under 9,000. Of course when that nine is spent, 23% of it will go as VAT, meaning the person gets goods with a value of 7,300 ish. And the 19k actually cost the employer about 23,200, as we need to add to that the employer's ZUS contributions. So, in exchange for work valued by an employer at 23,180zl that person gets goods valued at 31.5% of that amount and the government gets 68.5% of the dosh to do with as it wishes.

History / What do Poles owe to Romanians? [16]


That's not exactly true. Jaruzelski was elected president by the parliament of Poland, not by the people of Poland.

News / Taxes, taxes everywhere [35]

But the good news is that a church tax is being considered. If that comes in only people who want to fund a church will have taxes taken from them to fund any church.

News / Poles drinking more than ever, as incomes rise. [32]


Unfortunately not any longer: I just checked the Dar Wina website and they don't have any.

But Lidl's online store (click and collect at any Lidl) has some excellent gins. I just ordered a bottle of Edinburgh Seaside and a bottle of Tanqueray No. 10. PLN 280 for the pair. The Tanqueray No. 10 is a revelation if you've ever tried the regular Tanqueray.

Off-Topic / The agreement in Alaska between the US and Russia. [43]


To be fair, I've never seen Just Dance Vance trying to discuss anything with Rich, which is most certainly the right thing to do.

Off-Topic / The agreement in Alaska between the US and Russia. [43]


Has Just Dance Vance ever been right about anything?

Travel / Holidays in Poland, is it still worth coming here? [22]


There are airports on most of the islands, including one which doesn't have a runway, instead the planes land on the beach when the tide is out.