Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [725]

It jumped and then fell again.

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.

Genealogy / Bryszkiewski - searching for my Polish roots [35]


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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Genealogy / Bryszkiewski - searching for my Polish roots [35]


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.


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).

Law / Custody Issue and Travel Abroad of my Girlfriend from Poland [31]

It looks like there's some movement on this very sad case.

The children should be brought home and the parent who abducted them needs to be brought to justice along with any public employees who assisted them in this. It looks like it will be very expensive for Poland.

Poland is facing legal action from the European Commission over the case of a British father who has not seen his two children for years after they were taken to the continent by their mother.
Polish courts have repeatedly ignored rulings from their English counterparts that the children should be returned to the UK after their illegal removal in 2021.
Polish judges have cited Brexit when ruling in favour of the mother, who abducted the children to her native Poland despite the British courts twice rejecting her applications to move them there.
The Polish embassy has also been accused of improper interference in the case after it wrote to the English family court to ask it to prevent the father, who was born in the UK, from making further legal applications to try to access his children

thetimes.com/uk/society/article/poland-faces-legal-action-after-mother-abducts-children-from-uk-8lw5j3x28

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [725]


That's unlikely to change, however their Chinese rivals of course aren't open to investment.

The other side of the Atlantic is not a place I'd invest in at the moment. And I still think term deposits are good, especially in mutually owned providers.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [725]

What a load of rubbish.

Why shouldn't there be a trade deficit, especially when you consume so much?


His ' cryptobros' probably cut him in.


Unfortunately so much of it is a scam, pushed online to very naive people in developing countries.

Genealogy / Bryszkiewski - searching for my Polish roots [35]


Were they not Poles?

USA, Canada / What I don't get about Americans vs Polish [56]


I hope they're wrong. Ukraine's minerals are not theirs.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [725]


They should be hunting down 'cryptocurrency' and arresting those involved rather than buying that non-existent money.


It's a worry. If their economy tanks, the ripples will spread to other more fiscally responsible countries.

Greed always has its consequences.

USA, Canada / Now American men want to marry Polish women for polish papers. [42]


There are drag artistes who wear less.

USA, Canada / Will Americans flee from the US to Poland? [186]


It's quite funny that the stupider ones think that anyone who dislikes a particularly controversial and globally disliked politician must have some sort of non-existent 'syndrome'.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1390]


So make them insiders.


Ery good. It's a shame they got as much as that.

USA, Canada / Will Americans flee from the US to Poland? [186]


It's obviously on the way down, and of course they'll lose all those arms and tech exports.

Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]


So are you...

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [124]

There was the Polish crime writer who wrote about murders. And had committed them himself...

News / Poland, Western Europe and the USA - What if Ukraine disappears from the map? [144]


Probably Caer Lud.

Did Serbs do the cave paintings at Lascaux as well?

News / Poland, Western Europe and the USA - What if Ukraine disappears from the map? [144]


Isn't the spread of almost every language to an extent inseparable from some sort of politics or other? Even an obscure, minor and unloved language like Serbo-Croat.


Who knew?

And did Serbs build Stonehenge, Ayers Rock, the Cerne Abbas Giant and the Step Pyramid of Djoser too?

News / Poland, Western Europe and the USA - What if Ukraine disappears from the map? [144]


What is a 'false language'?


And is the pre-Indo-European substrate based on Serbian too?

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [725]


Who said Polish, and why be greedy? Ot that you've any money to invest


And no wonder where you are. Great to see Tesla stock absolutely collapse.

You should get used to this happening.

Off-Topic / Stock Market Talk and Trading - part 2 [725]

How are Tesla shares doing right now?

Edit. I just saw you reply
I get an ok percentage in the U.K. and als9 on term deposits.

It's possible to invest ethically too.

Plus gold has done well, and people shouldn't underestimate ERNIE for long term deposits.

News / Poland, Western Europe and the USA - What if Ukraine disappears from the map? [144]


Indeed. Some Ukrainians say that most white-skinned people in the r*SSian 'federation' are basically a type of Finn.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [124]


That's a large demographic and I'm sure many are touchy (watch them trying to turn somersaults over Jedwabne) however it's good if fewer are.


I almost never look at non-musical YouTube videos and never listen to podcasts but good that people are taking an interest. It would be good thoug( if the better quality newspapers had more crime coverage instead of leaving it to Fakt etc.

USA, Canada / To move back to Poland from the USA or not to move back....that is the question [124]


Important to remember that around half voted against him, and his antics (especially that 'doge' nonsense and firing thousands of essential workers) is likely to lose him congress.

USA, Canada / Censorship and violation of 1st Amendment in US [147]


Basically the Tube Alloys project which gave them nukes. Something they'd tried to develop themselves but couldn't.

And of course the Marshall Plan was a loan. A loan that the U.K. paid off in full, even though most other countries never did.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [124]


There a few that were written about, but people don't like to think they exist and there's the idea that anything which happens in Poland reflects eithe4 well or badly on the nation as a whole.

I was at a meeting just after the Łódź ambulance murders where so done started taking about it in English. The woman next to him told him in Polish that he shouldn't discuss it in front of foreigners. She either didn't know or it just didn't register with her that we both spoke Polish well.

The FBI say that there are around 40 serial killers operating at any one time in America. If we do the maths about population size, there may well be several right now in Poland. And it has that mix of urban and rural (different types of serial killer) plus a sort of general disaffect in society, a "mind your own business" mindset that could make detection harder.

The Silesia stuff might work well in the thread. The Lodz ambulance murders and Gorgonowa are well known but are stories worth telling, as is Katarzyna Onyszkiewiczowa, (The Female Demon).

Some of the stories are just too sad though, like the couple several years ago who had baby after baby and pickled them one by one in plastic pickle barrels.

News / AI rulez in Poland! The New Polish Open Language Model and AI Technologies. [13]

I like it that the Vatiacn document quotes Ecclesiasticus/Sirach near the beginning. "Ancient wisdom" is often nonsense however the book written by Yeshua Ben Sirach is not.

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [124]


It shouldn't really have. Usual suspects. The topic bleeds into every thread and usually by people (don't take it personally - I wasn't thinking of you) who've not done a blind thing in their lives to attempt to mitigate it by doing something that increases opportunity and economic development in the poorest countries.


That's true, however Europe is the most affluent and urbanised continent and more and more will come. Space is not their main consideration.

I suspect that people movement (and the growth of AI) will be the defining trends of our century, barring another technological leap and/or WW3.

Anyway, best to continue the discussion, should you wish, in more appoporiate threads. When I get back from work, I'll maybe look for some grisly crimes to post about.

I had an idea a while ago to write about the Mazur Cannibal Family (a thing in the late 50s/early 60s about a particularly dangerous family to the north of Warsaw) or about the 1990s infamous Warsaw Head Basher who used to creep up behind women in the centre of Warsaw, bash them on the head with a hammer and then run away. He was never caught..

Feedback / Suggestions for forum features [14]

It's a x after the date. I just clicked on the one for your post #7 and the report thing came up.

I'd guess Admin will see the Mrs Whatsit's loans spam when he has a look later. I think he's in or near Illinois where its 4am so probably he's snoring away happily.

USA, Canada / Censorship and violation of 1st Amendment in US [147]


And hasn't actually avhieeved any of those things he said he'd do right away.

Anyway, that slimy little turd Musk is their real president.