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gumishu   
9 Jan 2013
News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]

he's out of his office, no documents, no advisors, no staff - can he be equally productive in Sopot? - prime minister's job is a hand's on job - we have already seen Tusk unable to react to Anodina's MAK report because he was on a ski leave in the Dolomites
gumishu   
9 Jan 2013
News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]

Tusk is good hard working guy.

hhaha every week he flies back home to Gdańsk on Thursday - working in government doesn't serve the poor bloke

Prime Minister Tusk has four day weekend? He uses planes like a taxis and is flying to home in Sopot. The flights cost the 6 million zl.

The head of government puts aside the implementation of savings policy when from the homesickness, miss of beloved wife and daughter, he is getting into the government plane and flies at weekends on the route Warsaw-Gdańsk. Prime Minister Donald Tusk is organizing yourself a job in order to be on Friday afternoon with his family in Sopot. He comes back to business duties just on Monday afternoon, and thus has nearly four day weekend. With governmental machinery, like a taxi, he flew 175 times, which cost 6 million.

se.pl/wydarzenia/kraj/premier-tusk-ma-cztery-dni-weekendu-samolotami-jak-taksowkami-lata-do-domu-w-sopocie-loty-kosztowaly_184091.html

There are a number of well-publicised cases where that has happened.

name just one
gumishu   
9 Jan 2013
News / Predictions about Poland for 2013 [85]

you don't know Poland enough milky - when any major change is made in Poland there is a chaos - there is a fresh good example of introducing Koleje Śląskie instead of PKP Przewozy Regionalne in Śląsk

A SEVERE shortage of rolling stock has led to widespread replacement of train services with buses by Slaskie Railway (KS) which only started its new concession in the Polish province of Silesia with the start of the new timetable on December 9. Within the first of couple of days,

railjournal.com/index.php/main-line/train-shortage-plunges-new-polish-operator-into-chaos.html
gumishu   
9 Jan 2013
News / Predictions about Poland for 2013 [85]

Chairman Jarek and Anna Grodzka will announce their public engagement in May 2013.

heh :) may's the month of love in Poland ;)

There will also be chaos after the meldunek system ends.

this is an idiotic move tbh - meldunek is not a major pain in the ass
gumishu   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

The main aim of this thread is to answer the question why do foreigners have silly ideas about Poles?

what is wrong with walking differently zeti - if they can tell a Pole in Britain what's wrong? maybe we just stick out and that's it
gumishu   
8 Jan 2013
Real Estate / Can foreigner buy apartment in Warsaw, Poland? [39]

there is a onetime tax payment when buying a flat (it's about 20 per cent value of the flat)

I have greatly exaggerated the tax - it is 2 per cent of the value of a flat (property) when buying
gumishu   
8 Jan 2013
Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]

Paulina:
ćma

Also: 'Zaćmienie słońca'

'ćma' is 'ciemność' in Kurpie dialect just as Lyzko stated (my guess is it is the same in North Masovian dialects)
gumishu   
8 Jan 2013
Real Estate / Can foreigner buy apartment in Warsaw, Poland? [39]

yes, you can - there is no council tax in Poland on flats you only pay rent (council tax is already paid in rent) - there is a onetime tax payment when buying a flat (it's about 20 per cent value of the flat)

real-estate-poland.maxon.pl

oh wait - now I am not sure - I know for sure that EU nationals are allowed to buy flats in Poland just as Poles but I am not sure about non-EU nationals

but you can surely rent a flat - it does not matter if you live there or not
gumishu   
8 Jan 2013
News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]

Gazeta Polska is known for writing complete fabrications and for having to make countless apologies to people slandered in the newspaper. It's certainly not credible journalism!

you are completely wrong - they would have been out of business already if they went around and slandered people
gumishu   
7 Jan 2013
Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]

It's probably a colloquial word but makes it less ambiguous.

zakluczyć is not even colloquial - must be some kind of local neologism - I haven't heard zakluczyć where I live - but I am aware that Russian has 'zakliuczit''
gumishu   
6 Jan 2013
History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]

we gotta use quantum physics (theory of diff universes) and send gum back to the past where he again might re-enjoy the old good days under Gierek n other comrades.

travel in time is impossible - and capitalism is not much better than communism - workers share little in the profits of their companies - this system will collapse eventually
gumishu   
6 Jan 2013
History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]

Nothing was better under communism.

oh, please - can't you remember the atmosphere at school where noone was better than his pals - there was little violence in schools - look what is going on in schools now with violence even against the teachers - look at the situation where some children go hungry to schools and the segregation it produces when giving out meals in school cantines
gumishu   
6 Jan 2013
History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]

gumishu, so how was it with the flats? From my parents I heard something only about książeczki mieszkaniowe.

yes they were bought,, i don't if there were market prices for flats but you needed to save for a flat which most working couples could afford (waiting for a flat was another thing though and it sometimes laster for a good couple of years - it depended on lots of things - in our case (we got a flat from local Housing Cooperative (Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa)) there was no bribery involved - we received a flat in 1981) - lot's of things were better under communism - like safety on the streets (much less crime) - safety of jobs

In simple words - your money did not bought you a flat. Money bought you a better place on the list of people who are entitled to get a flat.

but the housing system worked somehow, new flats were built - I was seeing it with my own eyes
gumishu   
6 Jan 2013
History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]

They were bought as far as I know. There was something called książeczka mieszkaniowa, where you put the saving. When you raised all needed money you waited on a list for a flat.

enkidu oversimplifies things - and there was free market of used things - we bought an old Fiat 126p for the money we have earned growing strawberries (which is a lot of hard work) - there was a lot of free market in Poland actually for a communist country: like ice cream shops, florists, private bars etc. there were private car mechanics too, lot's of private services.
gumishu   
5 Jan 2013
Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]

Wszedł facet do warzywniaka i nasrał w pory.

hehe this one's good :)

robiła babcia na drutach, przejechał tramwaj i spadła ;)
gumishu   
2 Jan 2013
Law / Poland economy is slowing down - how does it affect you? [117]

Despite slowdown and crisis looming,

the real thing that is a true menace is not some still elusive crisis but very real inflation which is two digit for poor people - the whole method of calculating in Poland is screwed and does not reflect the true inflation (especially the food prices) - we are constantly paying more for lower quality products
gumishu   
2 Jan 2013
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

berni ask yourself where do you put Czechs, Slovaks and especially Sorbians (I guess you know who Sorbians are) - are they Eastern Europeans or something else
gumishu   
2 Jan 2013
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

Amazing really that those on this thread who are so keen to move a bit of Eastern Europe into Central Europe generally don't actually live here. Some don"t even have any genuine connection with the place, just relatives who left

jon - is Germany central or western Europe ?
gumishu   
1 Jan 2013
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

Please try not to offend Polish people by suggesting we are Eastern Europeans, that's what the anti-Polish trolls do on here.

this is being oversensitive - and it implies that Eastern Europeans are somehow inferior
gumishu   
1 Jan 2013
News / The quality of Polish media coverage [54]

They shot in their own feet with the article about explosives on the Smoleńsk plane wreck.

if Rzeczpospolita was an independent daily and not government's cronie's possession it would have been just an article and no shot in the foot
gumishu   
1 Jan 2013
News / The quality of Polish media coverage [54]

you have definitely misunderstood Varsovian - explosives on the plane and TNT on the wreckage can be two different things
gumishu   
29 Dec 2012
History / Destructions of Poland thoughout centuries [55]

That would be a too big provocation at the time.

maybe you are right - but to me it is perfectly clear that our monarchs have lead to the disasters that befell Poland