Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]


Because in Poland if a man is insecure about the size of his penis he has to buy a BMW or Audi and then drive like an utter bell-end. But in the USA such an idiot can buy a gun and carry it with him.

Off-Topic / What is a woman? [734]

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]


Well, one person we won't name (as he gets very upset) did commit 75% of the felonies he's been convicted of during republican administrations.

Although, to be fair, none of those involved violence, just forgery, fraud and various types of theft.

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.

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


They're the best I've seen anywhere. The only problem is getting there: I usually fly to Glasgow, hire a car, stop somewhere overnight, then get a ferry the next day. You could also fly, but the non-subsidised seats are pricey and so's car hire on the islands. Also, as there are no direct flights from here to Glasgow, you need to go via Amsterdam or London (or Paris) and that extra time means you usually miss the flight from Glasgow to whichever island airport, so add in a night at a Glasgow airport hotel.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]


Yes, but saying things like that will only confuse the hard of thinking: they'll say that 1.31 is a smaller number than 5, so apples are cheaper in the US. What you need to do is give the Biedronka price per kg in USD per pound, i.e. (5 / 3.66) * 0.454 = $0.62

So, apples in Poland are less than half the price of apples in the USA.


What did I say would happen when the price was given in zl per kilo?

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


Just make sure you expect mosquitoes.

History / 81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising [72]


So, not going to go into detail about what the supposed price was?

History / 81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising [72]


I've always wondered what the supposed price was. If Poland was something which the US and the UK sold to the USSR (which they clearly did not), what was the supposed price that Stalin agreed to pay?

Genealogy / Meaning of the Surname Scobel [17]

Wasn't there a Scrobel chap who used to post here a few years back?

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]

On the topic of investing in stocks, does anybody happen to know how one can invest funds in a PPK into ETFs? Ideally not WSE-listed ETFs but even WSE-listed would be than nothing.

Also, am I correct in thinking that the smart thing to do is set one's PPK contributions to 4% and then forget about them? And it's better to max out one's IKZE before funding the IKE?

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


Yes, very much so. We always do a couple of one-week holidays inside Poland each year and a couple of long-weekend city breaks too. Last summer we spent a week in a cottage near Dukla at the beginning of September and liked it so much we're going back to that area next month. We also did a week near Augustow last spring and the spring before that, at this cottage alohacamp.com/en/property/laspole-924


If you want superb empty beaches, head up to the Outer Hebrides in early June. Berneray's West Beach matches anything you'll find in the Caribbean but it's empty. Last June we spent four hours walking along it and saw five other people.

Off-Topic / Feed Back on the Moderating - Part 2 [207]


How many of those 20,000 know the identity of the person who served five years on a forgery charge out of Emmet County and the five other felony counts that were dropped in 2004 in exchange for a guilty plea? And about the convictions for check fraud in Washtenaw County, fourth-degree grand larceny in New York and grand auto theft in Florida?

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]

Poor dumb jimmy seems to have lost his mind: he believes that anybody is going to do anything other than laugh at a geriatric hockey scammer! Hoot! That's nearly as funny as poor dumb jimmy claiming to have a photograph that proves 21% of $1.6 million is $456,000 when in reality all it proves is that poor dumb jimmy is too dumb to understand what "total account value" means! LOL!

As if anybody was ever going to believe that poor dumb jimmy has assets worth $1.6 million when poor dumb jimmy can't even divide 16 by 4!

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]


If poor dumb jimmy donates to PF even 1% of the $456,000* he claims to be 21% of $1.6 million and what he made in a single day on Tesla shares, I'll agree that there are however many genders you say there are.

In poor dumb jimmy maths 1% of the $456,000 is $9,680, and he's got a photo to prove it!

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]


Are you saying that you don't accept that poor dumb jimmy has a photo which proves that 21.91% of $1.6 million is $456,000?

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]


It's very different. With the incident you mention one needed to believe a friend of mine who worked at the place. With poor dumb jimmy claiming that 21.91% of $1.6 million is $456,000, one can read that for oneself in this very thread. And one can also check for oneself the number of Tesla shares a person would have needed to make $456,000 on 24 October (9,737 shares, because Tesla shares went up by $46.88 and $456,000 / 46.88 ≈ 9,737). And one can also check for oneself the value of 9,737 shares on Tesla at close on 24 October ($2,536,929.76, because $260.48 x 9,737 = $2,536,929.76).

So here one needs to believe nobody other than one's own eyes.

Well, you could choose to believe poor dumb jimmy when he tells you that his precious photo proves your eyes are lying and he really is a multi-millionaire. LOL! Hoot!

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]

Poor dumb jimmy really does have problems with facts. And the truth.
The simple fact is that anybody who says that 21.91% of $1.6 million is $456,000 is a liar.
Fidelity have never said that. Fidelity said that a client with a total account value had made $456,000 on Tesla stocks in one day.
But poor dumb jimmy is too dumb to know that total account value is assets less liabilities, so he thought the photo he was sent showed that that client had a holding of $1.6 million in Tesla shares. So poor dumb jimmy lied about the value of Tesla shares he had. To make $456,000 on Tesla stocks on 24 October one needed 9,737 shares and $260.48 x 9,737 = $2,536,929.76. Such a simple truth, but still far too complex for poor dumb jimmy.
And now poor dumb jimmy seethes and rages every day because he's been proven to be a poor dumb liar too dumb to even divide 16 by 4. LOL! Hoot!

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]


Your claim is clearly false, just like poor dumb jimmy's claim that 21.91% of 1.6 million is 456,000. At the very least poor dumb jimmy reads them, as can be seen from the rage they make him fly into. As for who else, who knows? But everyone here does know that poor dumb jimmy is a liar who can't even divide 16 by 4.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]

Poor poor dumb jimmy, now it's all been explained so even the dumbest of morons (i.e. poor dumb jimmy) can see what happened. He was simply too dumb to read the words "total account value" and to understand what they meant. And from that one mistake, he was soon having to claim that 21.91% of $1.6 million is $456,000. Anybody else would have admitted they made a mistake and agreed that to make $456,000 on 24 October they'd have needed 9,737 Tesla shares and $260.48 x 9,737 = $2,536,929.76. But not poor dumb jimmy, because poor dumb jimmy had already posted a photo that he thought proved he'd made $456,000 and had a holding of $1.6 million in Tesla shares. Sadly for poor dumb jimmy, all his latest most precious photo has done is to prove to the world that he's too dumb to divide 16 by 4! LOL! Has there ever been a poster at PF dumber than poor dumb jimmy? Hoot!

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]

The problem here is that poor dumb jimmy is too dumb to understand the difference between holding of shares in one company and "total account value".
To make $456,000 on 24 October a person would have needed to own 9,737 Tesla shares, as the share price went up by $46.83 (from $213.60 to $260.48) and $456,000 divided by $46.83 is approximately 9,737. At the 24 October 2024 closing price 9,737 shares would be $260.48 x 9,737 = $2,536,929.76. Very simple maths. Well, clearly not simple for poor dumb jimmy, as he claims shares worth $1.6 million would have returned $456,000.

But because poor dumb jimmy is so dumb, he can't understand that what Fidelity call the "total account value" is assets less liabilities (e.g. outstanding debit balances and amounts required to cover short options positions), not only the assets held. In this case, the man who sent poor dumb jimmy failed to mention the liabilities, and because poor dumb jimmy is too dumb to divide $456,000 by $46.83 and then multiply the result by $260.48, he believed that the $1.6 million was the holding in Tesla. Anybody else can just divide 16 by 4 and realise that there is no way in hell that 21.91% of $1.6 million is $456,000. But not poor dumb jimmy. LOL! What a f*cking moron! How dumb can poor dumb jimmy be?!

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]

Fidelity? Can poor dumb jimmy quote Fidelity saying that 21.91% of 1.6 million is 456,000? Nope.
Can poor dumb jimmy quote Fidelity saying that Tesla shares didn't go up by $46.88 between close 23 October and close 24 October? Nope.
Can poor dumb jimmy quote Fidelity saying that $46.88 * 6,143 = $456,000? Nope.
Can poor dumb jimmy quote Fidelity saying that the number of Tesla shares worth about $1.6 million on at close on October 24 wasn't 6,143? Nope.

Can poor dumb jimmy do anything other than seethe about being so clearly shown to be liar who is too dumb to even see that 16 / 4 = 4? Well, in theory poor dumb jimmy could just shut up and hope he stops being ridiculed for being so dumb (and so poor), but of course poor dumb jimmy is too dumb to even know when he's beaten and it's time to shut up! LOL! Hoot!

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [743]

Hahaha, it's 7.30 a.m. in Michigan and poor dumb jimmy is already spitting with fury! LOL!

Is he ever going to face up to the fact that everyone knows that going up from 213.6 to 260.48 is an increase of 21.91% and that 21.91% of 1.6 million is not 456,000? Poor dumb jimmy is too dumb to even be able to lie about owning shares! What a f*cking moron! Hoot!