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Paulina   
18 Aug 2021
Language / Can you transcribe this name? [6]

Yes, I think it's Zygmunt - that's a male name. What follows after that is scribbled terribly, I think it could be (...)aresicz. It's hard to say...
Paulina   
17 Aug 2021
UK, Ireland / Polish drink-driving murderer sentenced to 5.5 years in prison [99]

Me neither, Lenka... Me neither...

echodnia.eu/swietokrzyskie/tragedia-w-daleszycach-mieszkancy-sa-zrozpaczeni-to-byl-okropny-widok-trudno-sie-pozbierac-wideo-zdjecia/ar/c1-15759528

" Ten mężczyzna, mąż potrąconej kobiety i dziecka, bardzo płakał. Klęczał nad córką, bił głową o asfalt i wołał: "córeczko"."

My translation (the witness described what happened):

"That man, the husband of the woman and child who were hit by a car, was crying really hard. He was kneeling over her daughter, hitting his head against the surface of the road and yelling: 'my little daughter'."
Paulina   
17 Aug 2021
UK, Ireland / Polish drink-driving murderer sentenced to 5.5 years in prison [99]

There's been a tragedy in my region - a drunk driver in Daleszyce drove into a family taking a walk on the sidewalk. Only the husband and 7-year-old son survived, his wife and 4-year-old daughter were killed:

o2.pl/informacje/tragedia-w-daleszycach-marzena-z-coreczka-zginely-na-oczach-meza-i-ojca-jego-desperacki-krzyk-rozpaczy-rozdarl-serca-6673116977113632a

The husband is in such a bad mental state that the police officers from Kielce were unable to question him as a witness.
There were three men in that car - all of them drunk. The police couldn't question them either - not because they were in such a shock, but because they were too drunk...

And, surprise, surprise - the driver had his driving licence taken away before already for drunk driving...

It looks like some people simply shouldn't be allowed to drive.
Paulina   
17 Aug 2021
History / Site about the Silent Unseen needs help [5]

And so you'd know - that's not just any internet site - here's the info about the project:

elitadywersji.org/informacja-o-realizacji-projektu/?fbclid=IwAR2pSRJikFhybO58LG4xampNVV3zmRz8_6CvpazLhoTKRkLAPCXoknL18rM
Paulina   
17 Aug 2021
History / Site about the Silent Unseen needs help [5]

A guy who's running a site about the Silent Unseen (Cichociemni), which is a great source of info about them and their history, has become unemployed (and is rather poor anyway) and is unable to pay for the server any longer. So, in order for the site to work he has to do some fundraising - it would be nice if you could share this post on Facebook:

facebook.com/115487803329303/posts/409124660632281/

If you are willing to help, at least a little, here's the link on the fundraising site:

zrzutka.pl/j4bbm6

It looks like that GROM ART is going to prepare something for an auction to help out, so, those interested - be on the lookout :)
Paulina   
17 Aug 2021
News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

@gumishu, I have a bigger problem with other things that PiS has done and is still doing than how indiscriminate the 500plus is - it's you guys who are so hell-bent on taking this thread off topic and discussing 500plus (even though there are other threads for that) instead of "Lex TVN" bill (this is what this thread is all about - the "Lex TVN" bill, remember?).
Paulina   
17 Aug 2021
Real Estate / Buying property in Poland [41]

@mochadot18, prices of flats in Poland have been going up recently like crazy, but I'm guessing they're probably still cheaper than in the US... Because of those rises in prices the trend is apparently to look for something outside of the big cities, in the suburbs:

money.pl/gospodarka/ceny-mieszkan-warszawiacy-wydaja-nawet-mniej-niz-4-tys-zl-za-metr-to-wyrazny-trend-6672800328956416a.html
Paulina   
17 Aug 2021
News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

I don't know statics but I would bet money against peanuts that there is no that much people who are rich and take 500plus.

Exactly, you don't know. Millionaires maybe aren't taking it, but I wouldn't be surprised if many people from the middle class were taking it. And, anyway, the government should be making good laws and not pass bad laws and then hope that people won't take advantage of those bad laws. It's not the only example of PiS passing a law first and thinking later.

The only reason you mindlessly cheer for some shady business is because you imagine that PiS got its ass kicked.

I see you don't comprehend what it's all about.

Rather that worry about foreign capital owning mass media in Poland.

The "Lex TVN" bill doesn't prohibit foreign capital in general owning mass media in Poland. It will prohibit only companies from outside of the EU from owning them. German companies, for example, can still own Polish media, as maf pointed out. So this law isn't about that - it's about shutting up TVN.

What are you if not an idiot

Someone too smart, decent and patriotic for you to understand?

The cost of food now is crazy and 500+ does not account for the massive inflation PiS has caused.

Ironside doesn't know that, because he doesn't live here and so he doesn't care.
Paulina   
16 Aug 2021
News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

PiS voters are all poor and uneducated

I never wrote that and I don't think that way.

Nothing about improving poland but perhaps that is not in your and others interest. ..

Sorry, but you clearly have no idea what's in my interest. Unlike you, I don't live in rich Australia or in another rich Western country like Ironside does (yeah, I actually know where he lives). I live in Poland and in my interest is to have here, for example, a well functioning health service. Australia isn't in the EU so maybe you don't know how this works - EU money usually go for building infrastructure. So, the EU can help building a hospital (the building) but the Polish state has to fill it with medical equipment, doctors and nurses. You need... guess what... yes... MONEY for that... So you can have a modern, shiny hospital that can't treat patients, because it's empty... (this is an example from my region, which is, as I already wrote, one of the poorest regions in Poland).

No, sorry, I can't agree that child support for everyone is a great idea in a country where there are people so poor that they have no toilets and bathrooms in the house and no running water... In a country that allegedely can't afford pay rises for doctors and nurses in order to keep them here, but apparently can afford giving money to rich people for having kids...

I could go on and on like this...

Universal child support is standard in many countries, if not a direct cash payment than a tax deduction for every child

Which countries? Enumerate them for me and tell me how much people are getting there. And don't forget to add how much doctors and nurses are being paid in those countries, for example...
Paulina   
16 Aug 2021
News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

@amiga500, oh for God's sake... I don't have a problem with giving benefits to people who actually need them (poor people). The problem with 500+ from the very beginning was that everyone could get it, no matter the income, including people for whom 500 PLN is pocket money. That's simply a waste of money that could go somewhere else where they're more needed and, yes, that's why it's buying voters.
Paulina   
11 Aug 2021
Language / English translation of cuteczka? [8]

@Chrzescijanin, I've never seen "cuteczka" being used. I guess it could be a misspelling of "córeczka", but I would have to simply see it in the context in which it was used.

You can send me the context in a private message or to my e-mail.
Paulina   
11 Aug 2021
News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

@cms neuf, yes, I've read about those jobs for Konfederacja offered by PiS too.

Here's an opinion about why Kaczyński and PiS hate TVN so much and why they're ready to strain relations with the US over the "Lex TVN" bill:

teleshow.wp.pl/dlaczego-jaroslaw-kaczynski-nienawidzi-tvn-opinia-6671098527418880a
Paulina   
11 Aug 2021
News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

@Ironside, Poles commenting on that tweet are writing, among others, that Konfederacja has no balls, that they're going against their core values by not opposing that bill ("wolnościowcy" - supporters of freedom), some of the people write that they won't vote for them again because of this, that if it wasn't for the free media nobody would know about their party, etc.
Paulina   
11 Aug 2021
News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

@amiga500, I've never lived in the West, unlike you I've lived my whole life in Poland (in one of Poland's poorest regions, btw) and still do. Maybe Western countries can afford generous and indiscriminate social benefits, but Poland can't, imho.

But that's not what this thread is about. There are other threads where we can discuss 500+. This thread is about "lex TVN" bill.
Paulina   
11 Aug 2021
News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

And they're royally pissing off the US (supposedly a key ally)...

Something occurred to me... Maybe this is one of the reasons why PiS wants Americans to sell their shares... Because if TVN is owned by an American company it's more difficult for the Polish government to mess with that TV station - the US would have to defend the interests of an American company... If TVN won't be American-owned, PiS won't receive such a backlash from the US for messing with TVN and won't estrange an important ally of Poland... Do you think this is possible?
Paulina   
11 Aug 2021
News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

@gumishu, on the contrary, PiS buying voters with 500+ is just another example of how low they can go to get or retain power and how short-sighted they are. Those money could be spent on health care, for example. But that's not this thread is all about, so don't divert attention from the topic :) Now pluralism and freedom of media in Poland is at stake.
Paulina   
10 Aug 2021
News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

There's been a massive leak of data from Belarusian police, secret services, KGB (including names and photos of the employees, their home adresses, etc.), administration, etc. (sorry for the link in Polish, but I haven't found any article in English yet):

o2.pl/informacje/olbrzymi-wyciek-z-bialoruskich-sluzb-ujawniono-m-in-nagrania-tortur-6670747266816512a

Source for the article (in English):

mobile.twitter.com/tadeuszgiczan/status/1424734523519025152

The hacking took weeks - hackers from a group called Belarusian Cyberpartisans were patiently collecting data throughout this time, including videos of tortures carried out by the police and other services.
Paulina   
10 Aug 2021
Language / Terms of endearment in Polish [222]

@Casper1377, mafketis is correct. I think that also "pandziak" (pronounced "panjyak") is possible:

m.facebook.com/Pandziak-759189127558897/

To address him directly, pandziochu

Poles would usually just say "pandzioch" (unlike in case of "pandzioszku"), I think.
Paulina   
9 Aug 2021
USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [343]

It was Raspberry:)

I was wondering, because it looks pretty reddish, but the petal rose jam filling is the most classic one, I guess :) Do they have it at that deli?

You have to get there early before all the good loaves of bread are gone for that day as well.

The babcias buy them out ;D

I dont like those picnic table and benches though, my dupa was hurting after an hour...lol

That's the highlander style:

mebletwojemiejsce.pl/meble-goralskie?gclid=CjwKCAjwgb6IBhAREiwAgMYKRmVFDzm2g3fNdtc_9Flw5YEp1tuYep_h_GE3CGNuQ41CkncPCMvLVBoCJ4AQAvD_BwE

Life in the mountains is tough, so you have to have a tough dupa ;D

mebletwojemiejsce.pl/meble-goralskie/stoly-stoliki-kawowe-1/stol-goralski

I guess they could add some cushions though lol
Paulina   
8 Aug 2021
USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [343]

@Joker, thanks for the nice photos! :))

Those donuts are looking good ;d That donut in your last photo - is it with a wild rose petal jam filling?
Paulina   
7 Aug 2021
News / Rape and sexual abuse in Poland [202]

SO the little girls put the bait out their and when the little boys go after the suggestive look it is the boys fault.

What on Earth is wrong with you? How little girls can "put the bait out"?? To whom? To peadophilic sexual predators??

If anything the little boys should be taught how

...to control themselves and that girls and women are human beings (who have feelings and can get hurt both physically and emotionally) and not objects for use. I think there's a problem with boys not being taught enough empathy.

The little girl ends up p.g. and the embarrassed mother starts crying rape.

Could you give examples then?

@Ironside, trust me, I don't have an idealistic view of the Polish countryside... Far from it...

So what??

So he would have a male role model. Btw, I've just read that the boy in question apparently had a regular family.

is a fact that people who came from a single partes family have a significant chance to become a criminal or suffer from many disfunctions....

Just like people who come from complete, but dysfunctional families, have a greater chance of that too. Of course it's always better to have a full, loving family than not. But it doesn't mean that if you were raised by a single mother, you're automatically doomed to become a child-raping monster lol

That is what some people claim but there is no evidence for that!

There is - organisations who help and talk to those women and girls who don't report are usually able to give some rough estimates. Sometimes polls are being conducted too. Many people, experts, psychologists, organisations and even the police in many countries say that rape and sexual abuse is a much unreported crime. I also have an idea from my own real life experience how unreported this stuff can be.

"organisations who help and talk to those women and girls who don't report"

...and men and boys who don't report too.
Paulina   
7 Aug 2021
News / Rape and sexual abuse in Poland [202]

Or the pedo rapist teenager was just a sadistic sociopath, some people are born that way

Yes, most likely. First of all, he probably is a peadophile. Their sexual interest in kids comes to the surface during puberty. But not every peadophile becomes a rapist. So, it looks like that he may be a psychopath. However, even though some percentage of people are born with genes of a sociopath or a psychopath it doesn't necessarily mean they will turn into a serial killer, a murderer, a rapist or simply a criminal. It apparently depends on their upbringing - whether they had a good childhood or a bad one.

Watching some hardcore, violent p0rn on the internet could be a factor too to some extent (I'm writing this based on a documentary about the impact the present day pornography has on young people).

Fatherless sons are a danger to any society

Oh, come on, this is ridiculous and simply unfair to men who grew up without fathers, imho. There would be far more peado psychos brutally raping little kids if that was the case, since majority of single parents in Poland always were and are - mothers.

Also, another thing - that rape on the little girl took place in the countryside. So, it's pretty unlikely that the boy was raised by a single mother. And even if he was, there would be usually his grandfather or uncle in the picture, because in Polish villages families usually live close to each other or in the same house with older generations - so he would have a male role model.

Women in the Polish countryside rarely get a divorce. The husband would have to be a really violent, abusive drunk for a village woman to do that and she would probably divorce him only after 10 years or so of domestic violence (yeah, I know about such examples from real life).

So, I think that in Polish countryside it would be more likely for a boy like that to have an alcoholic (alcoholism is an even bigger problem in villages than in the cities, especially in poorer regions) and abusive father than being raised by a single mother.

Btw, what about motherless daughters raised by fathers only? Are they a danger to the society too? lol

Sadly, it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Based on what I know, it seems that it usually makes a big difference. I've watched a documentary about psychopathy from a scientific point of view and another one about why some men are more prone to violence (including rape, it was mainly about rapists, I think) than others. Rapists have some faulty chromosome as far as I remember, but it gets triggered due to bad childhood. The same with people with genes of a psychopath - their brains look different in MRI than of majority of people, but not all of them end up as serial killers, etc. I think that there may be cases when a kid has a normal home and ends up as a murderer, but I guess it may be due to the fact that the psychopath genes are too strong to overcome it by good childhood. I remember such case of a girl in the US who seemed to have a normal family (but you never really know) and yet she wanted to kill her little sister, I think, to check... what it's like to kill someone...

That's why Poland has such low rape stats both in terms of total and per capita

Considering that the more traditional the society is, the more unreported rape, sexual abuse and sexual harassment are, my guess is that it is also the case in case of Poland vs Germany and Sweden. I'm not saying that immigration from more traditional societies isn't a factor, but there's been a real problem in Poland for years with low sentences for rapists, rapists getting suspended sentences and walking the streets freely, the way the police and society reacts to rape victims or even kids being sexually abused (especially by priests, since often the clergy are "holy cows" here). Due to all of this I think that it may be harder for both adults and kids to report rape, sexual abuse and sexual harassment. I don't know about Germany, but I remember reading that in Sweden the likelihood of reporting rape increased over the years.

@Lenka, I was wondering about where were the girl's parents during all this time too and how this boy ended up with their daughter...