Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


Not sure what you mean... Admin decided to sell PF before this discussion started... That's why we're having this discussion in the first place :)

And these are the reasons given:

"Why do you sell the site?

Having worked on different online projects for a few decades, it has taken a toll on our physical and mental well-being, so we plan to spend more time on offline and non-professional activities. Priorities in life, resulted from personal experiences, change too."

So, even if there's going to be money to cover the costs of running PF then I guess the question remains... who's going to be running/moderating it?
From the page: "we'll be able to assign a trusted person to the role and continue the site as is."


Not for me... For me it's always been a madhouse :) Also, we can move somewhere else if there's going to be no other choice.

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


I'm not sure what you mean...
I mean those ready-made forums you can set up for free. Admin made his own forum/site by himself and is paying for using the server.


As I already wrote - I personally wouldn't be OK with donating any money in any way to this forum. But that's just me, maybe other people will do it.

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

@Bratwurst Boy, PF is mainly a relatively small number of regular members these days... Even if it closes down, we could in theory set up our own free forum and hang out and discuss there, I guess...

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

I personally wouldn't be OK with donating any money in any way to this forum. I've never liked how it was run and so I'm not going to contribute to something that I don't agree with...


"Whatever makes sense" may won't be enough though... I agree with BB - having adds on the forum would be more reliable. I just don't know if anyone would be interested in advertising here - if the traffic is big enough...

Btw, 10 dollars is 40 PLN. There's no way in hell I would spend such money every month on this forum... lol Sorry, I'm just being honest...


I also thought that, but I'm afraid that ship has sailed long ago...


No, he didn't, it's just Lazarus' suggestion.

Real Estate / Anyone converted a shed/garage into a home and can shed some light if this is possible? [4]


Yikes... There is "close" and there is "too close", imho...


You want to spend your retirement living literally in the yard of a Polish mother-in-law? o_O Are you really sure that this is what you want...? lol


I can understand that it may seem like a great way to cut costs, but think about how much you'll have to pay for your therapy later... lol


Oohhh, I sense family feud incoming in the future lol 👌

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

@Torq, sorry, but I have no time for this nonsense :)

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

@Torq, I don't necessarily have "our" RuSSians in mind. But I wouldn't want any of them to own it either. It's "Polish Forums", not "RuSSian Forums".

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


Read my post again.


Unless they would ban us :)

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

@Admin, for the love of God - just don't sell PF to RuSSians... I was a member of a Polish-Russian community on the internet for 7 years and once people stopped coming there it was "taken over" by some kind of pro-Kremlin magazine which is "on the list of media outlets monitored by Polish services". So now it's a neverending stream of Kremlin propaganda under the banner of Polish-Russian community :(


True, someone would have to have business in buying it...


Sounds great to me.



But I think what matters is what Admin thinks of this, not us - it's his forum... :P

Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]


I'm afraid you can find hypocrisy and double standards everywhere. But, yeah, considering Serbian "track record" and the way Serbian men behave on this forum I somehow doubt that rape cases are being dealt with in the most exemplar way in Serbia: 🙄

balkaninsight.com/2021/04/05/victims-discouraged-by-lenient-sentences-for-sex-crimes-in-serbia/

"Both Stajnfeld and those who accused Aleksic have been subjected to smear campaigns on social media and in traditional Serbian media, with some critics asking why they did not speak out sooner."

"Lukic said Jelicic had conditioned her career advancement of having sex with him, but when she reported him Lukic too faced a smear campaign from a part of the Serbian public."


I thought you're supposed to be a genius? I think what I wrote was obvious enough (check out the link posted by Vesko Vukovic). Milo managed to figure it out :)

Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]

@Vesko Vukovic, suuure... If the girl was Serbian and the perpetrator was Albanian lol 🤦

Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]


The rapist was from Ohio, but he was sentenced in California. I'm not sure if it had anything to do with the place though - it seemed to be male solidarity coming from the judge - he and the rapist had the same backround - both were Stanford athletes. Also, that lenient sentence made by judge Aaron Persky caused public outrage and he became the first judge in California to be recalled by the voters in over 80 years during the 2018 California primary elections.

Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]


You seem to forget about the case I already wrote about on this forum - I mean the one in which a university student in the US raped an unconscious girl at a parking lot and got only 6 months in prison for that. I guess the "logic" behind that was also that he was "a nice boy" who got drunk and "made a mistake". 🤮🤮🤮

Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]


What "influence"? I haven't heard about Gerard Depardieu being shunned in RuSSia. 🤮


I even remember Zanussi, a Polish director, defending Polański. Zanussi called the victim "a teenage prostitute".

🤮🤮🤮


No, he knew she was 12-years-old. 🤮

Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]

@Torq, I'd just like to point out that Roman Polański is being welcomed in Poland with open arms... 🤮

Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]


Jesus Christ... This is disgusting... Now I won't unsee this article ;(((


I think I'm gonna puke... 🤮





I agree.

Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]

Is anyone watching the Olimpics opening? I turned on the TV after 8 pm and tried to watch it, but it was so boring that I turned it off... I thought there was going to be a cool show on the stadium, but it's just a bunch of people running around the city o_O And it's raining... *sigh*

Love / Was I taken advantage of? [14]


This is very similar to Polish bigos!


It's the same in Poland :) It's just we don't eat bigos on Christmas Eve, because it contains meat, so it's for the next days.

Love / Was I taken advantage of? [14]

Btw:


This looks like a good article about different types of "maminsynek" (momma's boy) - maybe it will help you to make some sense of it all (unfortunately it's in Polish, but maybe try using Google Translate):

zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/95020,1,maminsynek-to-stan-umyslu--5-typow-typowego-maminsynka.read

Love / Was I taken advantage of? [14]


No, that guy has clearly some issues. The fact that he had his first girlfriend only at 34 shows that there's something not right there... Maybe it has something to do with his relationship with his mother. A mother coming everyday to a place of a 39-year-old son to cook and clean for him and his brother is pretty extreme even by Polish standards, imho. It's not like it doesn't happen, but it only happens with men you wouldn't want for a boyfriend or a husband. No woman will probably be ever good enough for him, because she won't be like his "momma".

Also, it's possible that he thinks that you're out of his league and the fact that you have a better job and education than him makes him feel insecure. 🤔

Love / Was I taken advantage of? [14]


If she ended up being in a long-term relationship with that guy or marrying him then it would affect only her, because she would be the only one taking care of the kids, him, the house and working professionally on top of that. So, she actually would have less workload, frustration and disappointment without him in her life. That's what I meant.

Love / Was I taken advantage of? [14]


Who cares? You dodged a bullet. If you, God forbid, married him you'd have a 4th child to take care of. In the long run you'd just feel exhausted, frustrated and disappointed. I'm telling you this as a Polish woman. You have nothing to regret, trust me, just move on :)


Exactly.

Love / Was I taken advantage of? [14]




JUST RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!! ;D 🤦


Oh God... lol


OMG ;D


Why on Earth did you date such a red flag flaky loser then? Know your worth, girl...

*sigh*

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]

Last night there was the wildest storm I've probably seen in Kielce in my life. Earlier I left windows open to air the rooms at night and I had to close them quickly, because hail, leaves and small pieces of tree branches were falling into the rooms through the windows :O The wind was really strong. Since the morning I've been hearing fire trucks sirens throughout the day. Unfortunately the hail broke one of the windows in my father's car :/

kielce.naszemiasto.pl/ogromna-nawalnica-z-gradem-i-ulewnym-deszczem-przeszla-nad/ar/c1-9752317

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Life / Clothes and Fashion Polish style - then, now whenever! [25]


:)))


From what Russians/RuSSians told me Poland was a kind of a window to a somewhat freer world, also a window to the West for people living in the Soviet Union. Some of them got to know Polish language in order to be able to read Polish translations of Western books, for example.

As for your grandma, I'm guessing she had them because of the photos of clothes, so she didn't need to know the language for that :)

Life / Clothes and Fashion Polish style - then, now whenever! [25]


Wow, so that dress is around 50 years old? :O It looks like it's in great condition, like it was bought yesterday!


Thanks for that piece of Polish fashion history - I'm going to read up about them now! :)

That's a nice building, btw (I don't recognise it though 🤔) :)

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


For those who still don't understand what the problem is exactly - I think this article explains it in as simple way as possible:

wiadomosci.wp.pl/dyktatura-algorytmow-media-musza-byc-niezalezne-od-big-techow-7047355044387776a

Donald Tusk is meeting today with Polish media to talk about this issue.

I'm watching you, Donald.

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


I'd just like to point out that I got the Meta decision about not deleting those fake adds after they claimed in that article that they delete those adds "once they discover them" :D 😂 🤦


Or not :D

I just tried to send "request for verification" for both of those reports on my phone, but it doesn't work o_O - I got info that "Sending request for verification wasn't successful. Try again." I did try again and it failed again :D:

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News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]

I didn't get feedback to the report with Andrzej Duda deepfake video so far, so I'm curious what it's going to be :D There is an option to "ask for verification", so I think I'm going to send such request in case of those two reports that I got feedback to yesterday to see what happens 🤔 - here's another Meta feedback from yesterday - again, fake add NOT deleted:

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News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]

Yesterday on Instagram I got feedback to another two reports (that I sent around a week ago), including one concerning the add with Omenaa Mensah photoshopped to look like a victim of domestic violence posted by user Shivang Mathur - I posted a screenshot of this fake add here:

https://polishforums.com/news/poland-ups-downs-democratic-government-88127/10/#msg1979829

This time Meta straight up said they didn't delete those adds because, I quote: "our verifying team has decided that the add published by Shivang Mathur doesn't violate our community rules concerning commercial products" :D:

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