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Paulina   
5 Mar 2024
Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]

It's fine to have an interest in crimes and detection however there is to be a way to pick up on people earlier.

True. That part is unofficial, but there's more info here that probably may say more about him:

onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/widzial-doriana-s-zaraz-po-ataku-tej-twarzy-nie-zapomne/yz1nc7e,79cfc278

Half an hour after the rape he went shopping and according to the shop assistant he behaved as if nothing happened...
Also, he lived with his girlfriend and according to the neighbours arguments and shouts started when he moved in (info from another article). According to the neighbours, judging by the sounds coming from their flat, he was hitting her.

after snapping his own baby's spine over his knee.

Jesus...

That and the arrogance, the really dangerous ones never think they'll be punished for their crimes.

According to the police he was surprised that they found him.
Paulina   
5 Mar 2024
Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]

This is an extreme crime for a first offense (if it is... have their been reports that he 'known to the police' as they say?)

Judging by what I found in other articles - he was convicted before for theft and possession of drugs. According to unofficial information the police found articles about sexual crimes and books about serial killers at his place.
Paulina   
5 Mar 2024
Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]

"1670" won at "Polish Oscars" (Orły 2024) as the best TV series! :))):

swiatseriali.interia.pl/newsy/seriale/1670-1682/news-to-najlepszy-serial-roku-polska-nagroda-filmowa-dla-produkcj,nId,7369585

famousandhappyJohnPaul

So... how about a second season? Netflix, hop, hop, hop! ;D

hophophop
Paulina   
5 Mar 2024
Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]

I suspect drugs played a role though I'm not sure what drugs can unleash such violence...

It didn't have to have anything to do with drugs... There are psychos out there who are rapists, serial killers, etc. as I'm sure you're aware...

Yes, such an appalling tragedy,. A Belarussian woman came to Poland for better life and got murdered by a Polish garbage. :(:(:(:(

She was an orphan, btw - her parents had their parental rights taken away from what I've read. How much bad luck can you get in life... Jesus...

What adds to the tragedy and makes me feel sick to the stomach is that people literally walked by, saw what's going on and didn't help her - they didn't even call the police. The CCTV recording has shown two women walking by the gate when the rape was taking place and they stopped for a moment. From what I've read they went to the police only after the news of the rape broke out. They testified that they didn't realise a crime was taking place - they thought that it was a couple of homeless people having sex and "taking it too far" and when they stopped the man told them to leave in "a vulgar manner".

The thing is - having sex in public is illegal in Poland. If they called the police - they could've saved her life :(((

So, the conclusion is - you can get raped and killed in plain sight in Poland and noone will help you. That's the reality.

Look at the pathology in the comments under this article:

o2.pl/informacje/brutalny-gwalt-i-zabojstwo-lizy-w-centrum-warszawy-dlaczego-nikt-nie-zareagowal-dramatyczny-apel-psychologa-7002597804071488a

One man wrote that you'd have to take a leave from work for one day in order to testify at the police station and that's why people don't call the police o_O Who cares that a human being is getting raped and killed... Taking a leave from work for a day - now that's a serious "bother" in comparison... 😢

Btw, I know this mentality very well, because I've experienced this kind of indifference and inaction in Kielce (so not such a big city like Warsaw) more than once. One time I talked a woman into staying and waiting for the police, because she witnessed how a car drove into a teenage girl when she was crossing the street. The woman saw that the girl had a green light as a pedestrian and I thought that was an important information. She wanted to go home, because she thought it would be a bother - that she would have to testify in the court and such. So I stayed with her until the police came (the girl was already taken to the hospital by an ambulance). The police didn't seem to be doing their job either - a police car stopped near the sight of the accident and they just sat in the car. Me, the witness and two other women were waiting nearby for them to come out and ask some questions, but they didn't. So I finally lost my patience, went over to them and told them that this lady saw everything. They went out of the car and I left only when they started talking to the witness.

How do you know? Facebook?

It's plainly written here in this article that he's a Pole and a resident of Warsaw:

wydarzenia.interia.pl/mazowieckie/news-marsz-milczenia-przejdzie-przez-warszawe-z-apelem-do-polityk,nId,7369530

Such scum needs to be locked with the key thrown away.

I agree.


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Paulina   
2 Mar 2024
Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [121]

The patient died today before noon.

:(((

if the result confirms that the woman died as a result of a brutal attack

lol

Sorry, I know that an autopsy needs to be done, but this fragment made me "lol" nevertheless...

This reminded me of a case that happened some years ago in my city. A girl/young woman entered a staircase in a block of flats. A man entered right after her and grabbed her from behind. She struggled and fortunately managed to escape. Everything got filmed by a CCTV camera (the video was posted in the article or shown on TV), but I haven't heard about the police finding him. I was in awe of this girl, because that was a young, tall, well-built man, so I can imagine he was strong (he didn't have a knife though). I even remember thinking "Why a man like that would want to rape a woman? He shouldn't have problems with attracting women." As I googled for it now - it turned out there were similar cases in Kielce at that time:

echodnia.eu/swietokrzyskie/kolejny-seksualny-atak-w-klatce-schodowej-w-centrum-kielc-ten-mezczyzna-jest-poszukiwany-video/ar/8496138
Paulina   
28 Feb 2024
Life / Any good Polish films to watch? [112]

@Lenka, I don't know - it depends on Netflix's decision:

filmweb.pl/news/%221670%22%3A+czy+powstaje+ju%C5%BC+2.+sezon+hitu+platformy+Netflix+Scenarzysta+odpowiada-153475
Paulina   
28 Feb 2024
Life / Any good Polish films to watch? [112]

It's very funny.

Imagine what filming it must've been like lol:



it's as much about modern Poland than anything that happened in the past.

That's one of the things that makes it so funny and relatable.
Paulina   
28 Feb 2024
Life / Any good Polish films to watch? [112]

No one wants to talk about 1670 (Office style mockumentary)?

Fun fact - the director of photography in "1670" is... Swedish! :O Tfu! Potwarz! ;D

Info provided by the Swedish embassy in Poland lol:

facebook.com/share/p/RFSp7ErUfjHPDuWH/

hop hop hop hop!

:D

Kania, did you watch it?? Hop, hop, hop! ;D
Paulina   
27 Feb 2024
Life / Cult videos on Polish youtube [18]

The most popular comment under the first video suggests GROM :)

Sooo... Formoza after all :D Cool! 😎👌

From what I understood the Formoza episode will be recorded from 8 to 12 April and AJ will need some knowledge about survival, because he'll spend two days in the forest.

So, for now - a video where AJ is learning survival in the forest from a survival expert from Partyzanci Lubelszczyzny - there are some useful tips there :):


Paulina   
24 Feb 2024
Law / A Complicated Child Support Question (Polish citizen / UK) [24]

That's not really a judgement, Paulina.

It is a judgement. Besides judging a whole generation, clearly, you're also judging an individual that you don't even know.

I know she can.

Maybe she can, maybe she can't. You don't know her. But that's not the issue here - if she has the right to get something from her biological father, then why wouldn't she? She didn't invent this law. This law is there for a reason.

It's only because of the family support law in Poland that the question even arises. I wonder what she would do if she were a Brit?

It doesn't matter. Her father IS Polish and so I guess the Polish law applies. And that's why she can and has the right to ask this question.
Paulina   
24 Feb 2024
Law / A Complicated Child Support Question (Polish citizen / UK) [24]

It sounds like both his parents sound like cr@p on a stick to be horribly honest.

Probably...

Grown kids from that kind of environment learn to lash out as a defense mechanism.

Well, Atch provoked it.

I'm doubtful how easy it will be or how much he will get (see my link)

Yeah, I have no idea, tbh...
Paulina   
24 Feb 2024
Law / A Complicated Child Support Question (Polish citizen / UK) [24]

@Atch, you weren't the most courteous yourself, imho:

Your generation has grown up with more of a sense of entitlement

That was pretty judgemental and insensitive. You don't know this boy and what he's been through.

And if he is indeed entitled by law to get something from his biological father, then why not try and get a go at it...
Paulina   
24 Feb 2024
History / DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ORDER NO. 00485? [11]

The dead in history just become numbers and more numbers.

For me they are not numbers, they are my people...
Paulina   
21 Feb 2024
History / DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ORDER NO. 00485? [11]

Really?

Yup:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_(given_name)

I thought you were Polish?

I am Polish, but what does it have to do with anything? "Marion" isn't a Polish name.
Paulina   
21 Feb 2024
History / DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ORDER NO. 00485? [11]

Of those 111,091 were EXECUTED.

That's comparable to the highest estimate of the number of victims of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by UPA. That's, of course, info for Putinist a-holes, who have problems with grasping the reasons behind Poles disliking the Soviet Union, its symbols, Stalin, etc. :)

Stalin was dead right. 86 years later and I just found out about the largest eradication of "riff-raff" during the Great Purge.

:(

Perhaps stop reading Polish history, to preserve your gentle psyche?

Pity you and other RuSSians don't have her curiosity about history and "gentle psyche"...
Paulina   
20 Feb 2024
News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

Quietly wishing Poles get invaded by Russia, or that they experience on themselves starvation - is totally not anti-anything.

Bobkovich, please pay attention to what I quote :) - I meant comments like this:

"Poles are behaving extremely irrationally" - for it to be anti-Polish.

Paulina   
20 Feb 2024
News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

"Poles are behaving extremely irrationally" - for it to be anti-Polish.

So, according to a RuSSian any criticism is being "anti-some-nationality"? No wonder RuSSians see "Russophobia" everywhere lol

You just made up your own criteria on what is anti-Polish

Nope, that's what you're doing o_O

Check this Soviet flag on this "Polish" farmer`s tractor.

WTF... Is this for real??
Paulina   
20 Feb 2024
News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

Do you want me to hire Nielsen and Gallup, so they could do an independent survey for you?

Yes, surveys would be much better. Especially taking into consideration all those troll farms and informatorom war on the internet.

You can see, I hope, with your own two eyeballs that the overwhelming majority of comments (both in volume and in popularity) are anti-Polish.

I don't have the time to read all the comments right now, but judging by that first page that I've read - Ukrainians are angry, because of the situation with grain at the border. And their anger is understandable. That doesn't make them "anti-Polish".

Even people like you and Paulina, argue why Poland should aid Ukraine primarily from a pragmatist point of view.

Not really. In my case - not primarily.
Paulina   
20 Feb 2024
News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

Careful, don't choke when you read these comments.

Could you quote those comments that are supposed to make us "choke"? Because I've read the first page of those comments and I think I saw only one or two prejudiced comments. Besides those - I don't see anything horrible.
Paulina   
20 Feb 2024
Language / Help with clergy titles/forms of address in Polish language? [5]

@Megtheduck, when you're addressing them during a casual meeting:

bishop - "księże biskupie"
archbishop - "księże arcybiskupie"

But in case of official celebrations, letters and invitations:

"Wasza Ekscelencjo" (both for bishop and archbishop)
Paulina   
20 Feb 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [792]

That`s really bad - they prefer to use air fresheners instead of accurate cleaning the place. :):):)

But you do realise that you can clean your place more thoroughly at another time and not just before Christmas or Easter, right? :)

It isn`t obscure. And it gives males a good chance to show they can be useful and helpful at home. :):):)

Well, if you're talking about males, then it is obscure lol Men helping with cleaning before Christmas and Easter are a rare breed where I live:

rmf24.pl/raporty/raport-boze-narodzenie/najnowsze-fakty/news-boze-narodzenie-swieta-przygotuja-glownie-kobiety,nId,1073798
Paulina   
20 Feb 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [792]

coz the urine drops splash all over the place when you pee and get into all nooks and crannies and stay there causing bad smell so you need to clean everything thoroughly !!!!

Sure, but I doubt that even Poles (=Polish women) clean it so thoroughly (as in - bother to remove the seat) before Christmas - there's simply usually no time for such thorough cleaning.

Btw, I'm a perfectionist too and so I have ways of getting into all kinds of nooks and crannies ;) ✨

And that`s what shocked me that native Poles had no idea what I was talking about. :(:(:(:(:

Well, I've guessed it, didn't I... :) And there are only two Polish women on this forum, so... lol

Seriously, it exists everywhere in Poland before Christmas and Easter and I am really surprised Paulina is surprised. Doesn`t she know the expression "Christmas or Easter tidying/cleaning"????

You only wrote about Christmas though, so just like Feniks I thought that you were maybe writing about some kind of obscure Christmas tradition in your region.

I'm familiar with the expression "świąteczne porządki" (holiday cleaning), but I associate "wiosenne porządki" (spring cleaning) with a more thorough cleaning.
Paulina   
19 Feb 2024
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [792]

Why do people remove the plastic toilet seat from the toilet bowl before Christmas??????

To clean the seat and the toilet bowl? You don't have to remove the seat to do that though...

Please don't tell me that you have a festive toilet seat for the holiday.....

lol :D

No, I am dead serious it belongs to the tradition!!

Which "tradition"?
Paulina   
17 Feb 2024
Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

So I gave up with the full knowledge that I was killing a great artist in me!

😢
Well, I guess we all have to make choices in life ;)

You can always try again once you retire though :) Painting is relaxing :))

When I tried to check my talent, there was no internet. Don`t forget about it.

Yes, I understand. The internet is great in this respect - nowadays you can find any info you need, there are instruction videos on YouTube, you can order art materials in on-line shops, etc. :)))

And another snowy painting...

Marcin Jaszczak is a contemporary artist with an interesting style:

"Zimowy sad III" (winter orchard 3) - oil on canvas, 80 x 70 cm, 2023:


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Paulina   
17 Feb 2024
Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

Sadly, he died a few years ago :(

And from I understand - he died young... I'm sure he could get even better at painting, but unfortunately we will never find out... :(

That`s the common trait in the youth - believe you can do anything coz you just want to do it.

Yes, but I'm guessing you gave up after that first oil painting attempt, because you didn't like the result... I think that many people do that, because they probably often don't realise that to make good art you actually have to put effort into learning how to do it and into practicing it. It's not like you are born with a talent, you take a brush in your hand and you're just starting to paint and some kind of magic is happening :))

As one of the drawing & painting teachers at our art school told us - becoming a good artist is due to 10% of talent and 90% of hard work.

So, that comment of mine was a way of encouraging those in self-doubt :) If someone wants to try drawing or painting - do it and don't give up. It's just always better to know what you're doing and do some research about what materials to use in order not to get discouraged at the very beginning of your adventure :)

Since the cyclon Paulina :D brought spring weather to Poland it doesn't look like snowy winter will come back, so let us enjoy it at least in some paintings of Polish artists :):

I like the way Jan Grubiński (1874-1945) painted snow - it looks yummy in his winter landscapes - like whipped cream :))

"Zimowe słońce" (winter sun) - oil on canvas, 70.5 x 103 cm:

grubinski

"Zima w lesie" (winter in the forest) - oil on canvas, 98.5 x 142.5 cm):

2

"Świeży śnieg" (fresh snow) - oil on canvas, 72 x 102 cm

3

"Wilk w zimową noc" (a wolf in the winter night) by Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski - oil on canvas, 117,6 x 152,5 cm, after 1900:


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