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Joined: 1 Apr 2007 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 9 Apr 2008
Threads: Total: 1 / In This Archive: 1
Posts: Total: 587 / In This Archive: 468 		From: Kanada
Speaks Polish?: tak
Interests: tennis, travelling

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witek   
1 Aug 2007
History / Worst Polish leader Lech Kaczynski or King Stanislaw Poniatowski? [44]

Poland never was friom sea to sea. You are talking about Great Lithuania in 16 century

In 1569 due to the Union of Lublin lands formerly under control of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania such as Podlachia, Volhynia, Podolia and the Kiev regions were incorporated into the Crown of Poland.

Thus Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth reached from the Baltic to the Black sea in the 16- 17th Century
witek   
1 Aug 2007
History / Worst Polish leader Lech Kaczynski or King Stanislaw Poniatowski? [44]

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for a while controlled parts of Moldavia and other regions of the Black Sea as this was the Commonwealth-Ottoman border and many bloody wars were fought between the Poles and Turks in this region.
witek   
7 Aug 2007
Life / Polish people hate jeans? [56]

Why do polish girls prefer these open shoes with low heels that make a distinct sound when walking,like kla-kla-kla,and not flat shoes or shoes with heels?

i think open toe is sexy.

i like feet.

yummy
witek   
24 Aug 2007
UK, Ireland / Why do Poles come to England? [514]

What did the Russians 'free' Eastern Europe from?

The Russians did clear the Germans out of Poland which cost the Russians at least a million lives.

The Russian armies which pushed the Germans out of Poland consisted of the Belorussian Front / Ukrainian Front which included the Polish 1st and 2nd Armies

Major Offensives:

1. Operation Bagration (June 1944- August 1944)
Russians push Germans out of Eastern Poland, Ukraine and Belarus.
Estimated Casualties : Germans 300,000 Russians 100,000 killed

2. Lublin-Brest Offensive (July 1944- September 1944)
Russain attack to clear Germans from Central Poland. Russians secure Lublin and Brest regions however stop on the shores of the Vistula river across from Warsaw where the Poles were Uprising against the Germans.

Casualties : Germans 120,000 Russians 80,000 killed

3. Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive (July 1944)
Russians drive Germans out of Lwow and Sandomierz region
Estimated Casualties: Germans 300,000 Russians 100,000 killed

4. Vistula-Oder Offensive (January 1945- February 1945)
Russians drive from the Vistula to the Oder river pushing the Germans out of Poland.
Estimated Casualties: Germans 100,000 Russians 80,000 killed

5. Battle of Berlin (April 1945- May 1945)
Russians/Polish Army drives into Berlin and captures the capital of Nazi Germany.
Estimated Casualties: Germans 458,00 Russians 300,000 killed

Hence we Poles must remember that many Russian lives were lost to rid Poland of German Occupation



witek   
25 Aug 2007
UK, Ireland / Why do Poles come to England? [514]

More Poles have come to the UK in a short space of time because it is one of the best places in the world to live and work.By comparison only a handful exist in most of those other countries you mention.

only a handfull of Poles in the U.S. Canada, Germany?

Poles living abroad excluding British Isles :

America 9,000,000
Brazil 1,500,000
Canada 800,000
Argentina 500,000
Belarus 400,000
Germany 300,000
Lithuania 250,000
Australia 150,000
Ukraine 144,000
Russian 77,000
Latvia 57,000
Czech Republic 50,000
Italy 50,000
Kazakhstan 47,000
Spain 44,000
Holland 39,000
Austria 20,000
Iceland 7,000
Mexico 5,000
Turkey 5,000
witek   
25 Aug 2007
UK, Ireland / Why do Poles come to England? [514]

There is a big difference between that kind of immigration and having 750,000 Poles arrive on your door step carrying there suite cases

looks like your job hauling petrol is in jeapordy as many of those 750,000 Poles will be better drivers and do your job better and for less $$$.
witek   
15 Sep 2007
Love / Do Polish men like to flirt? [42]

But six months ago, I started to look a lot more attractive

did you get a nose or boob job?

I decided to wait until he made some very overt physical advance. As this has not happened (despite him sitting close to me at times)

maybe he is shy and likes you? why don't you put the moves on him?

I believe that we are just in a friendship

a guy and girl can never be true friends because one of them always wants to sleep with the other.
witek   
15 Sep 2007
Love / Do Polish men like to flirt? [42]

do men really like aggressive women? I don't think they do....

i have had 2 women who simply got naked right before me on the second date. is that agressive? i don't know. they simply had a strong sex drive.
witek   
17 Sep 2007
Love / Do Polish men like to flirt? [42]

On the other hand, perhaps you are so appealing, they couldn't hold back ;)

lol. good one. i am nothing special. i am an average looking male with average intelligence and mediocre aspirations in life.
witek   
18 Sep 2007
Love / Do Polish men like to flirt? [42]

So....what happened? On the second date?

well when the girls undressed right in front of me without me saying a word, the only thing that could happen was sexy time. however there was one occasion when i told a naked girl to get dressed and i made her cry.



witek   
19 Sep 2007
Love / Do Polish men like to flirt? [42]

told a naked girl to get dressed and i made her cry.

thats cold ;)

i am learning from my mistakes. i will never tell a naked girl to get dressed again as i hate to see a pretty girl cry.
witek   
20 Sep 2007
Travel / My opinion on Gdansk and Poland after 11 days [45]

I am not talking about the Old Town but get a bus and go to Podmiejska and those streets in the outskirts. God-bloody awful! Like England would have been like in the 1500's!

If I remember rightly, it was called Orunia the district where I stayed in Gdansk twenty three years ago.

parts of Orunia are old and this is where the pensioners and poor people live and the other parts of Orunia are beautiful new developments. the best thing is that from Orunia it is only a 7 minute bus ride to centre of Gdansk and the train station.



witek   
21 Sep 2007
Genealogy / Lepik Surname - meaning and origins [25]

Can anyone help me with the meaning of the surname Lepik please?

Lepik seems to be an Estonian surname and means alder grove
witek   
23 Sep 2007
Genealogy / Lepik Surname - meaning and origins [25]

if the name is Tomasz Lepik then most likely he was a Pole or Polonized Estonian living in Estonia.

if he was Estonian then his first name would be Toomas, not the Polish Tomasz
witek   
30 Sep 2007
Life / My neighbours in Poland are stealing all my things [180]

know what to do, in Poland i am stranger , and a bit alone...what do i do...?

buy a couple of guard dogs. almost every person that i know in Poland (that doesn't live in a apartment) has one or two dogs in the yard.



witek   
1 Oct 2007
Life / My neighbours in Poland are stealing all my things [180]

iI am asking about how to deal with the scum who stole from me

maybe befriend them?

"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer"

Sun-tzu
Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC)



witek   
1 Oct 2007
Life / My neighbours in Poland are stealing all my things [180]

Sad thing is...these people are already friends...or pretend to be...they have drunk coffee at my home , shake my hand when they see me , then steal when they know i was not at home....

sometimes a man must stand up for himself and show others that he will not be pushed around or intimidated by anyone. the moment they robbed you should have confronted them and threatened them with violence or Police arrest because this is all they understand.
witek   
3 Oct 2007
Genealogy / Anyone Else 1/2 Polish??? [58]

I'm 100%

even though you're 100% Polish you still somehow resemble a dog
witek   
5 Oct 2007
Life / My neighbours in Poland are stealing all my things [180]

It is a well known fact that the Poles will steal everything even things 'nailed down'. My family in Poland tried to grow trees to make a boundary fence and they were all stolen in the night so they replanted then yet again and guess what? Yes, in the night again, the same thing happened all the trees were pulled up by their roots and were stolen so what was the point?

lol good one. Poles are good at stealing. Better lock your door Michal.The best is when I hear thieves have disasembeled and stolen a bridge in one night or some train tracks.
witek   
5 Oct 2007
Life / WHY POLISH PEOPLE DON'T USE THEIR NATIVE FIRST NAME WHEN ABROAD? [136]

have noticed that, most of the time, polish people don't use their "real" name when they are out of Poland. For example, Pavel converted into Paul, Bastek = Sebatian, Paulina = Pauline, Basha = Barbara... It's not too difficult to pronounce so...
ARE YOU ASHAMED OF YOUR POLISH NAMES? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? ARE YOU TRYING TO MAKE IT SOUND MORE... MORE CIVILIZED?

i haven't changed my name. it is still Witek/ Witold and this causes me some difficulty because most Canucks don't know how to pronounce my name and/or think i am named after the honda engine (vtec). even if i was to change my name there is no English translation of Witek like Victor. so i am stuck with my name Witek and most of my friends to simplify the matter call me V or Vito.