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amiga500   
30 Mar 2021
Life / Another reason Polish people and Poland pisses me off [52]

Netflix Polish shows are quite average, Canal+ and HBO Europe make the best polish tv series you should check out Belfer tho. It's really excellent in season 1 ogladaj.to/serial/belfer-2016-2017thgpmvsuut.html or
amiga500   
30 Mar 2021
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

An good comparison would be between Czech who have the korunua and Slovakia who adopted the euro. I know in the latter there was really bad price increases when it was introduced. Don't think it has helped their economy in tems of growth and investment relative to Czech either. The Euro ( a montery union ) is useless without a corresponding fiscal union.
amiga500   
30 Mar 2021
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

@Lyzko
Poles are happy to be part of the EU, because they see benefits to it, not to any sentimental attachment to a supranational state like maybe germans. But they still resent EU trying to tell Poland what to do in regards to migrants and some other matters. Once Poland becomes a net payer rather than a beneficieree of funds peoples viewpoints of EU might change. They do appreciate the Shengen zone and being able to work easily for more money in Germany and U.K etc.
amiga500   
30 Mar 2021
News / Raising Poland's legal drinking age to 21 [95]

A 16 or 17 year old isn't a child as far as the law is concerned for drinking wine

You seem to be well versed in the subject matter...
amiga500   
31 Mar 2021
News / Famous Polish writer prosecuted for free speech [71]

I am told.

the news is on the tvp website so I don't see why it wouldn't get a mention on one of the bulletins. Perhaps you should make a cursory attempt to verify things you are 'told'. This ain't chinese whispers mate.
amiga500   
31 Mar 2021
News / Famous Polish writer prosecuted for free speech [71]

on the main public TV news bulletin.

Fair enough You are correct. There is no mention of it on the 18:00 Panorama bulletin on the dates when the news came out. But they went on about inane Człowiek z Buraka rubbish for a few minutes, pretty pathetically lame not to cover it!
amiga500   
31 Mar 2021
Life / Another reason Polish people and Poland pisses me off [52]

I mean the duplication of letters to create phonemes?. sorry i don't know my linguistic jargon.
compare szczęście to the czech štěstí. Also unpredictable combinations of letters that adds complexity as it has to be learnt not to write szczęśćie or szczęścze or śczęszcie etc etc
amiga500   
31 Mar 2021
Life / Another reason Polish people and Poland pisses me off [52]

Yes unfortunatly my dad had the brilliant idea not to send us to the polish language school when i was a kid in Nigeria so I had to learn the writing as an adult. From an outsiders perspective and someone who has also learnt Czech, Polish is overly complicated, has duplication and as Czech and Slovak are much newer languages they clean up and improve on Polish and are BETTER> the only difference i can hear in szcze and śce is maybe the length of pronunciation and latter slightly softer?
amiga500   
31 Mar 2021
Life / Another reason Polish people and Poland pisses me off [52]

wieś (village)
wiesz (you know)

Yes and that is another point. No other slavic language does this. In czech it's wieś - vesnice wiesz - Vis. The pronouciation is vaguely similar but not to the point of being so similar that it takes special work to differentiate between the two words for learners. As I said it's like polish was designed by an alcoholic who kept forgeting what they were doing.
amiga500   
2 Apr 2021
Travel / Polish Train Restaurant/Bars [4]

Always had good times (and shots of vodka) on pkp restaurant cars. ! also one guy attacking me for swearing.
notesfrompoland.com/2021/03/29/wars-welcomes-you-the-70-year-old-polish-dining-cars-that-have-become-an-institution/
amiga500   
2 Apr 2021
Travel / Polish Train Restaurant/Bars [4]

WARS cars are excellent.

Funnily enough there are PKP WARS cars attached to two russian trains that stop in Warsaw. The Moscow to Paris via Berlin and the Moscow to Nice via Austria, Switzerland and Italy. I always thought these were unbookable from Poland but apparently it's possible. Looks shmicker than the PKP Berlin express! .



amiga500   
3 Apr 2021
Law / Discrimination of clients and refusal of service allowed in Poland [3]

You know about ten years ago I was exploring Melbourne with my far left activist friend, real hot punk chick who actually did things, and we walked into an empty bar and ordered a beer. the bartender said we don't serve women here and pointed to his exemption of discrimination law document on the wall. turns out the homos got their own exlusionary preference , so they can f*ck each up up the as* at bars without women looking on. bit dodgy of the fag to do that when the bar was empty though.

But really what is wrong with discrimination? it is totally normal part of life. A golf club will discriminate against mountain bike riders to it's premises, a anarchist bar will not let in konfedercja ultras. A private business (if it does not have a monopoly) should be free set its terms of entry. Don't want to make cake for gays? fine with me . Don't want cops or women there? Fine with me it's your business! enough of this Ethics Reich where the goverment and Corpos wants to force us to love everyone equally.
amiga500   
4 Apr 2021
Work / Where is the immigration industry [23]

@symbols3to16
Don't mind our resident wariat. There is a lot of money in this area, though lack of Polish might be a barrier. Definetly bringing IT specialists from Ukraine/Belarus/etc would be intersting and lucrative
amiga500   
4 Apr 2021
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [275]

, the money were intended

It was part of their broader measures to introduce social solidarity as part of goverment policies.

Saying that I am happy that certain families receive it.

Yes it has drastically reduced poverty. However it should now be means tested so upper middle class and the above should not recieve it, and the money spent on the health system or other social measures.
amiga500   
4 Apr 2021
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [275]

It was supposed to increase birth rate.

Well of course a conservative party had trouble framing a policy in left wing economic terms in 2015. They have got up to speed now.
youtu.be/2AayJa6Fxsg
amiga500   
5 Apr 2021
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [275]

They're not conservatives they're tax ans spend socialists...

Rubbish. tax and spend socialists would raise taxes or go massively into deficit. United Right has introduced social spending whilst REDUCING taxes. 9 percent corporate tax for firms with revenue less than 1 million euro, no income tax for under 25s etc . And no deficit (before pandemic) Hardly socialist but more smart and what poland needed. Next up will be investments in health care.

most accurate statements ever made here

If you think united right is socialist then Biden who is raising corporate taxes must be a communist! bloody yanks!
amiga500   
5 Apr 2021
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [275]

Then they turn 25, and magically their income falls below

You seem to run in an interesting circle. Your doctor steals remedesivir from the hospital and young people who are your employees or nephews are committing tax fraud. Instead of being grateful to the only goverment in the west that does not tax their income in their youth they spit in the face of Poland by defrauding their community. These white collar criminals deserve jail.

, it is not available to any existing corporations.

Yes it is, according to KPMG as of Jan 2019 a 9 percent rate is available to most taxpayers if their income does not exceed 1.2 Million Euro. Yes it is also available to big business in the first year of their operation but thata two separate things.

To add to your dishonest bunch of mates, the fact you do not know this, means your accountant/lawyer is taking advantage of your lack of polish and is creaming 10 percent of your companies taxes. Nice! Well I guess anything goes in the ruthless capitalist land, just hope you have changed your bank passwords recently! they'll clean that out next.

Fakes are fakes

I already told you I was born in Poland, left when was a kid, then lived in Poland in 2010 and come back regularly. Plus my extended family has a manufacturing business in Poland. I had to do this because you claimed that anyone who thought Duda would win the elections in 2020 never lived in Poland as they knew nothing about the conditions here. haha history repeating.
amiga500   
5 Apr 2021
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [275]

investigate the new business tax at 9% and you need to take a reading comprehension class

A week ago you claimed it was only available to businesses that were making peanuts. Today you said it's only available to new businesses. Wrong on both counts. Sounds like you can't get your story right. If your business has revenues of more than 1.2 million euro than just state so.

That does not change the fact that united right lowered the tax rate of small/medium business in poland from 19 to 9 percent. Eliminated income tax for young people. Hardly socialism!

The only thing your family manufactures is BS

Organic fertiliser production is a very lucrative business.
amiga500   
5 Apr 2021
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [275]

So in the space of one hour regarding the 9 percent tax rate , you have gone from

it is not available to any existing corporations

to

You must make an application for it if you are an existing company

Are you for real or Jons second trolling account? How do you expect anyone to take your claims on running a business seriously when you don't even know basic details about the polish tax system?
amiga500   
6 Apr 2021
News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [558]

Much ado about doing nothing that will work.

And what is your dumb neolib solution? tax free threshold starting at 300k, cutting to the bone social welfare spending and thus consumption and millions for businesses such as yours. ain't happening jack! If you don't like it move to china where there is no social welfare and your brand of ruthless capitalism will be widely accepted.

Yes,. it is going to erode Poland`s finances even more.

Funny how fake leftwingers in poland are against actual policies that help the working class, but instead all about virtue signalling on identity politics issues. Never mind the fact that the tax free threshhold will help fellow teachers working in the public system. You sir are a class traitor.
amiga500   
6 Apr 2021
News / Unfulfilled promises by PiS [558]

When economy is concerned, I have always been conservative

Yes anyone who does not believe in the right of a child not to go hungry but believes in the right of a child to be forced to attend drag queen story time is not leftwing at all. You're some sort of neo-liberal deviant really. Don't worry there is a faction of konfedercja that would suit you to a T