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Posts by Paulina  

Joined: 31 Jan 2008 / Female ♀
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Last Post: 30 Oct 2024
Threads: Total: 16 / Live: 10 / Archived: 6
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Paulina   
30 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [244]

....maybe there is no such thing as "free forum" anymore....otherwise we just could stay here?

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.

you donate 1.5% of the income tax you paid in Poland

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.
Paulina   
30 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [244]

@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...
Paulina   
30 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [244]

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...

Others can send $5-10 or whatever makes sense.

"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...

It could be so much more than it is, and could attract so much more traffic than it does.

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

He did???

No, he didn't, it's just Lazarus' suggestion.
Paulina   
30 Jul 2024
Real Estate / Anyone converted a shed/garage into a home and can shed some light if this is possible? [4]

to stay close to family

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

The house would have also served as our retirement home

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

and reduce costs.

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

but you will have zero ownership of that house, correct?

Oohhh, I sense family feud incoming in the future lol 👌
Paulina   
28 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [244]

@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".
Paulina   
28 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [244]

Why not?

Read my post again.

It wouldn't happen because we would have you, Pawian and Maf here to counter all the propaganda. :)

Unless they would ban us :)
Paulina   
28 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [244]

@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 :(

Respectfully, any website is only worth buying when it has an income.

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

what the other regulars think about PolAms idea....

Sounds great to me.

ok

But I think what matters is what Admin thinks of this, not us - it's his forum... :P
Paulina   
27 Jul 2024
Off-Topic / Random Sports News [764]

Of course..... LOL!!!!These guys have no morals!

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."

What are you trying to say? That is not a complete sentence.

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 :)
Paulina   
26 Jul 2024
Off-Topic / Random Sports News [764]

@Vesko Vukovic, suuure... If the girl was Serbian and the perpetrator was Albanian lol 🤦
Paulina   
26 Jul 2024
Off-Topic / Random Sports News [764]

Let me guess...It was not in Okla, FL, or TX.

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.
Paulina   
26 Jul 2024
Off-Topic / Random Sports News [764]

Euros are not capable of shame...

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". 🤮🤮🤮
Paulina   
26 Jul 2024
Off-Topic / Random Sports News [764]

if we remain under this influence

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

Really? That is shocking!

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

🤮🤮🤮

Or the girl told him she was 32 so he believed her.

No, he knew she was 12-years-old. 🤮
Paulina   
26 Jul 2024
Off-Topic / Random Sports News [764]

@Torq, I'd just like to point out that Roman Polański is being welcomed in Poland with open arms... 🤮
Paulina   
26 Jul 2024
Off-Topic / Random Sports News [764]

thesun.co.uk/sport/29487234/paris-olympics-volleyball-rapist-banished-athletes-village/

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

The Dutch offered support to him

I think I'm gonna puke... 🤮

Her description literally says "Policewoman & Degree in Psychology."

why

this is black humor of a new level.

I agree.
Paulina   
26 Jul 2024
Off-Topic / Random Sports News [764]

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*
Paulina   
24 Jul 2024
Love / Was I taken advantage of? [14]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podvarak

This is very similar to Polish bigos!

The meal is often made in larger quantities for family gatherings in the winter time (it is a common addition to the table at Christmas or family gatherings in the days after Christmas

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.
Paulina   
24 Jul 2024
Love / Was I taken advantage of? [14]

Btw:

What in the holy hell?? (...) If he hadn't been such a sweet and considerate man, I'd say yes, but it's hard for me to reconcile a sweet man and a player in one.

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
Paulina   
24 Jul 2024
Love / Was I taken advantage of? [14]

Do Polish men prefer hard-core women?

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. 🤔
Paulina   
24 Jul 2024
Love / Was I taken advantage of? [14]

This happens even with fewer children and usually affects both parents.

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.
Paulina   
24 Jul 2024
Love / Was I taken advantage of? [14]

Did he lose interest in me because I'm just too stable, fun and caring?

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 :)

He is getting his Mom over to cook and clean aged 39.

You know you can do better so just next him.

Exactly.
Paulina   
24 Jul 2024
Love / Was I taken advantage of? [14]

His mother comes over every day to cook and clean for them.

Janice

JUST RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!! ;D 🤦

and just went off about idiot left-wing, over-educated women (essentially me)

Oh God... lol

I kinda got the impression that he thought Polish women were too much for him

OMG ;D

Men like and pursue me

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

*sigh*
Paulina   
14 Jul 2024
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

Photos from the article:


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Paulina   
12 Jul 2024
Life / Clothes and Fashion Polish style - then, now whenever! [25]

a very intriguing name - "Uroda"

:)))

I don't know why my grandma had to have fashion magazines from a language she could not understand - but I gather there were not many fashion magazines in the USSR.

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 :)
Paulina   
12 Jul 2024
Life / Clothes and Fashion Polish style - then, now whenever! [25]

My favourite dress is an original 1970s halter neck evening dress from Fenwicks.

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

Let's step back even further to 1868, the year that the Herse fashion house was founded in Warsaw.

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 🤔) :)
Paulina   
10 Jul 2024
News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]

Is the Polish government betraying Polish media in favour of the foreign big tech? It looks like it:

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.

watching
Paulina   
10 Jul 2024
News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]

money.pl/gospodarka/facebook-odpowiada-na-reklamy-z-omena-mensah-usuwamy-po-ich-wykryciu-7046885593680832a.html

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 😂 🤦

There is an option to "ask for verification", so I think I'm going to send such request in case of those two reports

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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Paulina   
10 Jul 2024
News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]

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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Paulina   
10 Jul 2024
News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]

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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Paulina   
10 Jul 2024
News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [342]

Omenaa's Mensah husband, the founder of InPost, is going to war with Meta over those fake news adds which are featuring his wife:

Meta's answer is that they delete those fake adds once they discover them, but it looks like they're lying (I'll post evidence later in my comment):

money.pl/gospodarka/facebook-odpowiada-na-reklamy-z-omena-mensah-usuwamy-po-ich-wykryciu-7046885593680832a.html

So this is what Meta has to say (my translation from the article):

"When asked what Facebook is going to do in this case Meta answered to cyberdefence24.pl that they "delete such adds after discovering them". Meta added: "creating adds which use public people in a deceptive way to deceive others is against our rules".

In response to portal's questions they admitted that although Meta has specialised systems for discovering clickbaits with public people and is investing in trained verifying teams, they don't always succeed.

The press office also assured that "(...) we're still investing in improving our systems. We also cooperate with the local administration, local law enforcement and we're taking legal actions."

My comment:

Sure... :)

Meta, how about you simply delete those adds when people are reporting them to you? Are your "verifying teams" blind, retarded or are they AI bots? :D

Not long ago I registered on Instagram (Meta owns Instagram) and I reported a few of those fake adds, including that deepfake video with the Polish president.
I got feedback to my first report (Omenaa Mensah fake add) pretty soon, but it was confusing. The message claimed that they deleted the add (Screenshot 1), but when I clicked on "Show report details" it said that the add wasn't deleted, because that fake add doesn't violate their rules :D (Screenshot 2) - so I don't know if it was deleted or not: 🤷


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