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jon357   
5 Mar 2025
Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [725]

The USA's stock market is crashing so badly, it's almost as if the country is being run by a senile casino owner who went bankrupt 6 times.
jon357   
5 Mar 2025
Feedback / Getting logged out of PF [26]

Yes, your sources to

Pull yourself together.

Of course not.

What part of Admin's comment didn't you understand?

does nothing to stop targeted adds

There's another little known but positive use. Booking flights and sometimes hotels. Sites like Momondo.co.uk (my favourite), Opodo, etc, know if you've been looking at hotels in a given place and on airline websites. They know that the more you look, the more interested you are and that can affect the prices they quote. Flushing out the cookies can stop them doing that.
jon357   
5 Mar 2025
Feedback / Getting logged out of PF [26]

Sources?

The internet is your oyster.

I've used it for longer on and off, but don't bother now since I've bought a laptop with mich bigger memory.

deleted over 950 tracking attempts by the Polish Forums

Safari blocks trackers.

I just had a look. 109 blocked in the past month on my tablet (which I use most). Mostly from Google or related organisations. None shown from PF

Disturbingly, a couple from r*SSian websites, including one I've not used.
jon357   
5 Mar 2025
Law / Custody Issue and Travel Abroad of my Girlfriend from Poland [31]

But that doesn't mean they've already lost

Let's hope they do, given the shocking behaviour of the courts and police.

The fine should be hefty, the kids returned home, as per the original custody ruling.

The courts are probably independent. 🤔

True, which means there's a greater likelihood that Poland will be fined.
jon357   
5 Mar 2025
Feedback / Getting logged out of PF [26]

And it potentially damages your computer.

Easier and quicker just to clear cookies.
jon357   
5 Mar 2025
Life / Immigrants in Poland [26]

They prefer to be called, "ex-pats" instead of immigrants though

What makes him think that?
jon357   
4 Mar 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [286]

It is a particularly grisly case

There's an odd fascination wit( true crime (and of course the media, tv and bookshops are full of it.

I remember as a teen there was a real panic near my village. Something nasty had been found. Remember, this was just after the Yorkshire Ripper, that guy who killed the Laitner family in Sheffield after the wedding reception then went on the run locally and a serial rapist called the Fox who broke into peoples houses and also went on the run.

The panic was unjustified though. There was a lot of dismembered flesh however it was vacuum packed with Sainsbury's labels. Someone's freezer had obviously broken down.
jon357   
4 Mar 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [286]

He's pleaded not guilty to both murder and manslaughter

That's seems strange since the was using the victim's bank account and sending birthday cards to his relatives pretending to be him. That would be very difficult to credibly explain away.

It has a few echoes of this horrible case:
While searching the home of a detained 40-year-old Polish bricklayer, German police uncovered a shocking find: mutilated bodies were discovered in his refrigerator.
polskieradio.pl/395/7789/Artykul/3435305,dismembered-bodies-discovered-in-freezer-of-polish-man-arrested-in-germany
jon357   
4 Mar 2025
Feedback / Getting logged out of PF [26]

@Barney

CCleaner just does it superficially. All his downloaded images are retrievable by law enforcement agencies.

It can be handy if your computer is an old one and has a very small memory and you've been online a lot but that's about it.

it always clears all my passwords and log in names.

That's because it clears all cookies and anything in the cache. If I post here on a work computer, I clear the history on Firefox just for privacy. If you've not got a problem with memory size, you may as well just do it that way, and some people say that CCleaner can cause damage.
jon357   
4 Mar 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [286]

A particularly grisly murder.

The dismembered corpse of a 67 year old man was found in various parts of a nature reserve near Manchester last week

The murder trial's happening now. There's only one person on trial now; perhaps the other person originally charged hasn't gone to trial.

Further body parts were found .....including his heart, a kidney, lungs and genitalia.

A piece of Everett's spine was discovered at Boggart Hole Clough while a further 10 body parts, which appeared to have been sawn from his body, were discovered at Linnyshaw Colliery Wood. Parts of Everett's head and face were found at Blackleach reservoir

[About a third of the body was recovered by police. Majerkiewicz appeared in court wearing a grey tracksuit with a shaved head. He heard the proceedings through a Polish interpreter.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/04/man-sent-texts-from-housemates-phone-after-killing-him-manchester-court-told

It looks like he didn't hold back. I find it hard enough to bone a joint of meat to stuff it and cook it. It must have been a hassle to do all that.

It's a full trial, so the defendant must have pleaded not guilty.

It says in the article that he was sending birthday cards after the person died and was using bank accounts however we shouldn't second guess a jury since they hear more of the evidence than the public. Having said that, it can't be easy for the defence lawyers in such a trial
jon357   
4 Mar 2025
History / Lech Walesa - Happy Birthday! [54]

They

Yugoslavians? Who knows?

President Wałęsa reminds me of Arthur Scargill. A flawed hero. Sometimes intemperate but essentially decent and he stepped up and did his duty at the time it was needed.
jon357   
4 Mar 2025
History / Lech Walesa - Happy Birthday! [54]

The letter's been replaced with a link to a website I'm not a fan of but yes, it's very worth reading.

Says it all

He hits the nail on the head.
jon357   
4 Mar 2025
History / Lech Walesa - Happy Birthday! [54]

Here's the actual text of President Wałęsa's letter this week. It's a bit long as a quote, however since it's a Polish President and a world crisi, hopefully Admin will allow it.

Nice to see that he capitalises the wretched word russia properly.

reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1j3avyl/comment/mfz5tn1/
jon357   
3 Mar 2025
Genealogy / Bryszkiewski - searching for my Polish roots [35]

@Ducati 14
I was just reading an article about you in the newspaper. It's a fascinating story. Ae you really Rastafarian?

burnleyexpress.net/heritage-and-retro/heritage/from-poland-to-longridge-via-the-battlefields-of-wwii-the-historic-bryszkiewski-story-of-pride-endurance-and-family-3193426
jon357   
3 Mar 2025
Genealogy / Bryszkiewski - searching for my Polish roots [35]

so could you please stop this talk

People stopped at least half a dozen posts ago.

If that talk makes you uncomfortable, it's worth mentioning that it's only those posts that you respond to. The other ones offering useful information go without comment.

Are you planning to visit Poland? It's a nice place to come.
jon357   
3 Mar 2025
Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [725]

buy gold and silver.

It's high, very high, right now, however in the long term it goes up. Gold, anyway.

Every time I've asked a so-called investment whizzkid if I should buy gold or not, the answer has always been no. Yet it rises and rises.

Best to buy in ingots, sealed in plastic. Some buy gold that never leaves the vault however I like to hold it.

Sovereigns are nice to have but they do sell at a discount.
jon357   
3 Mar 2025
Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [725]

BAe Systems shares have rocketed today, as have Thales and Rheinmetall. Rolls Royce are doing pretty well this week too. America's loss is Europe's gain.
jon357   
3 Mar 2025
Genealogy / Bryszkiewski - searching for my Polish roots [35]

not a common name

It is rare.

If you put it into the search box at nazwiska-polskie.pl/ it will tell you (screenshot below) that there are only six people with that name, all living in the same small village called Kurzętnik close to Nowe Miasto Lubawskie. The Boleszyn in question is likely to be the one in northern Poland.

It was actually Polish from 1920 though the German and German speaking population was a significant size and in the war became part of Germany rather than an occupied territory.


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jon357   
3 Mar 2025
Genealogy / Bryszkiewski - searching for my Polish roots [35]

The point I am making is why twist the obviously Polish name.

As far as I can see, it was just something that Ron suggested on the basis of the name's sound. I'm not sure if Ron speaks Polish or has ever lived in PL.

I was puzzled too by the comment, since it didn't sound like anything other than a usual Polish surname.

Boleszyn

There are two. One in the north in an area which I think was German territory before the war, albeit with a large Polish population and the other in central Poland (the Holy.Cross Mountains - we have a poster here from there).