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skysoulmate   
23 Jul 2010
Love / Why do Polish women prefer foreigners for boyfriends and husbands? [418]

Good for You. Great many women from Africa are strong, independent and resourceful.

She was not from Africa, she was an American woman; this was years ago when I was in training (no, not the Alison kind of training :)

I must say that your posts confuse me sometimes. I believe you're of Jewish faith and you've already mentioned your preference for Jewish women. Good for you and yes, many are stunningly beautiful and are very smart too. However, what purpose does it serve for you to berate Polish women? Do you think the type of language you use will make more people like the Jews?

You know very well there's a lingering distrust there and in order for the relations between the two people to improve there must be a respectful dialogue between the two. Your posts are very condescending toward Polish women and I think you know that.

In my view you'd find it much easier to share your perspective on things if you refrained from the venom you so often use.

Just my take on it.

Kol Tuv
skysoulmate   
23 Jul 2010
Love / Why do Polish women prefer foreigners for boyfriends and husbands? [418]

It sucks when a woman steals your money but at the end of the day you only have yourself to blame for being naive and letting her have it... The communist b*tch! ;-D

Yeah, it's all true. Equality somehow has become a "let's be as bad or even worst than they are" - mantra. Applies to both sides and it is what it is.

I briefly dated a beautiful, black woman. Very inteligent, spoke several languages and I'm glad I got to know her. However, I'm certain that makes me a communist hound dog... Oh well, -> communist hound dogs of the world - unite, the revolution is coming! <- :)

It's not that we're brainwashed or forced into it, if we were hairy, smelly with frizzy hair and spotty faces you men wouldn't like us! :D So maybe men are the brainwashed ones because you don't fancy the cavewoman look anymore ha ha.

Cavewomen? Oh, the good 'ole days of Alpha females ;)

I didn't think y'all were brain washed, I was simply talking about how we all are molded into specific gender roles from very early on in our lives whether we know it or not.

It's always a good idea not to befriend your exes on facebook because all of those unneccesary thoughts and hopes will creep back into your head everytime they update their status. You have to let the past go whether it was a bad decision to break up or a lucky escape! I count mine as a lucky escape, wouldn't waste another breah on the tosser and feel sorry for any females who make the mistake to get emotionally involved with 'it' in the future :)

You're right and I thought about it afterwards. I have no idea how she found me as she didn't have my email address and my FB page is not under my name but my call sign. Yet she did and I thought it'd be very rude of me to refuse an FB invite from her as after all we used to be an item and there were indeed many good memories.

I figured dropping her as a FB friend would be even more rude than not accepting her invite to begin with. It's all good, just feels weird sometimes.

I don't. I agree with what you've written.

Glad to hear that.

You mean hypocrisy?
I don't know, maybe. Well, in general - yes, after all we're all humans.

Paulina - you touched on numerous issues here and overall I tend to agree with you. Yes, the world isn't fair, yes women often face a double standard when it comes to expressing their sexuality, yes, many men are heartless pigs. Hypocrisy? Absolutely.

However, there's also hypocrisy when looking from the opposite angle.

In many countries nowadays when looking for good paying jobs, applying to renowned universities, etc. your experience or your grades do not matter as much as your gender or the color of your skin. Political correctness helps people with lesser experience simply because they're "inies" and not "outies" between their legs or because their skin is darker. Some call it political correctness, some call it affirmative action I call it hypocrisy, or revenge sexism and revenge rasism.

The vast majority of divorce cases where children are part of the household end up with a total victory for the woman. Courts still view the mother as the "more important" parent. Statistics vary somewhat in the western hemisphere and for the sake of our discussion I'm including Poland in that group. Yet no matter which country you look at, in each and every one of them women win the vast majority of all child custody cases. Hypocrisy? Absolutely.

Recently there have been numerous cases of teachers sleeping with their teenage students. For the male teachers it means decades and decades behind bars, often in a he said she said environment where the courts tend to believe the young girl even if there's no other evidence and/or witnesses.

For the female teachers it usually means a suspension; after repeated offenses a few years behind bars where they get out early with good behavior.

Somehow it's less of an evil if a 40 year old female teacher molests a 15-year old boy then if the genders are reversed. What happened to the gender and race blind justice? Hypocritical? Absolutely.

In my view the world is full of injustices, full of hypocritical people. Yet we tend to notice mainly what might affect us the very most. One day I'd like to be a father, a good father. Yet, yes I do worry that if my marriage was to fail and my wife/girlfriend wants me out of our kids' lives all she needs to do is to take me to court and statistically speaking I will lose.

Likewise, you as a woman are frustrated by what you (and I) perceive to be an unfair treatment women get when they date men. Totally understandable and no it's not fair.

Interestingly, women are often their worst enemies and will judge other women more harshly than the men would. Often they also cling to old traditions, old perceptions, etc. Recently I watched a documentary about the horrific practice of female genital mutilation in some African countries. To my surprise it was primarily the women in those tribes who fought to keep the despicable tradition alive.

There are many, many other examples of hypocrisy affecting both genders.

Anyways, my point is that hypocracy exists everywhere you look. All you and I can do is to break the chain of events, you know one at a time and slowly the society will be changing for the better.

I try to see the world from the "other" perspective, even if it makes no sense to me at all. I try to understand but more importantly to respect.

Just because a woman hurt me does not mean I must hurt other women. Similarly, you should try to understand the world from our perspective even if it makes no sense to you at all. Just try and if it still seems totally stupid to you then, well try to respect the other view point. Not always easy and often I fail at it, but I try... Pay it forward you know.

But I appreciate what you, Skysoulmate, and AJ are writing here.
I'm impressed. You guys are cool :)

Not too often but every now and then we get in touch with our softer sides lol Thank you btw.

PS. Self disclosure -> I sent Paulina some money to call me cool, unfortunately the check bounced ;)
skysoulmate   
22 Jul 2010
Polonia / Polish people in Shanghai ...? :) [33]

Sorry, yes SHA or PVG - Pu Dong Airport, the code I'm familiar with.

Cool, you do the same, use PM feature if you want. Sometimes I forget old threads...

Zàijiàn

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skysoulmate   
22 Jul 2010
Polonia / Polish people in Shanghai ...? :) [33]

Correct, that's the one. I hope my info is still correct, Victoria might be the only one who knew as she was the only ex-pat I'd met there. Not sure who comes to those meetings as I'd always been too busy shopping lol but supposedly the meetings were very popular. I'll try to find out more and if so will post it here... How long are you staying in PVG? Is it a long term move or a temporary contract?
skysoulmate   
22 Jul 2010
Love / Why do Polish women prefer foreigners for boyfriends and husbands? [418]

Indeed.

Please do not disregard the other part of my post where I also criticized some women. Goes both ways you know...

I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment, and think a lot of guys need to get over their own ego, and basically just grow up. She's not your possession. But if girls would change their attitudes just a little, I suspect guys wouldn't have to be so jealous, aggressive and possessive anymore, because I think we all know there's a reason for such behaviour;

I highlighted the part I disagree with. Jealous? Sure, if you have reasons than it's a normal and an anticipated reaction if you have feelings for someone.

Aggressive and possessive? Never. Why? You answered it yourself in the highlighted section. It's also pointless unless you move her to North Korea to make sure she's all yours. Even then she'll stray if she wants to.

The only true means of being sure is to conquer her heart and to be kind, gentle and loving to her before but especially after becoming partners. Goes both ways.

If she still strays leave immediately as once a cheater always a cheater - she simply wasn't worth your love and your affection. Again, it goes both ways. This comes from a divorced guy so go figure. ;)

They're afraid to end up alone for the rest of their lives when they lose their girlfriend to someone else. (Am I wrong, guys?)

You're right but see above.

I usually treat women with respect, but I still think guys are allowed to disagree with girls about a variety of matters though!

Absolutely! A relationship is just that a relationship that is being molded each and every day. I guess the key is to sometimes agree to disagree.

I however, don't blame women for being loose. I do think they have too many images in their mind about their perfect partner though, and because of this they've been rejecting some really nice guys, simply because they have these unrealistic demands.

...and we, as a society don't put unrealistic demands on women? Really?

AJ, how much time do you need to get ready after you wake up? 20-30 minutes? Get up, brush your teeths, shave, quick shower, put on your tshirt and your jeans, quick breakfast and off you go. Granted military taught me to speed up that process so I can probably be ready in 15 minutes if I have to.

Ladies usually need more time, don't they?
You think women shave their legs and if we're really lucky other areas (yes, I'm selfish here :) just because they want to? Do they put on all that make-up, eye-liners, lipsticks, hair treatments, etc. just because they want to or is it because we as a society put such demands on women from the time girls turn into women? See my point? They're flooded with images of what's expected of them, tv shows, magazines, friends, etc., etc. from early on.

Yes, they do turn down many good guys but we guys turn down many good ladies. Every now and then I get a facebook update on a friend, ex-girlfriend announcing the birth of their child or marital status update and I think, what the hell was I thinking? Why did I break up with her? I'm certain you and many other guys have those moments too.
skysoulmate   
22 Jul 2010
Love / Why do Polish women prefer foreigners for boyfriends and husbands? [418]

Also, if you walk into a bar and flash some cash or an expensive watch, guess what kind of girls are gonna be swooning all over you.

I agree, enough of this "Polish women make excellent prostitutes" mentality. Midas, the BBC reporter you mentioned should've been fired on the spot for that comment, a ridiculous thing to say.

Some men and some women are sluts, loose, or whatever term you prefer. Historically speaking women used to be more "conservative" or discerning than men are but that gap, pun intended ;) is quickly closing. Unfortunately, nowadays equality often means adopting men's bad habits and behaviors rather than for us men to improve our own behavior.

Look at smoking, in the past it was primarily men who smoked, today it's often women who smoke, I remember a study in Sweden showing women in lower income brackets being the "typical" smoker. Alcohol came next and now it's the sex. We're becoming more "equal" by the hour, not by any kind of milestone achievements but by lowering the bar for everyone, the lowest common denominator; I'm talking in general terms of course.

One thing that hasn't changed is that it's still women we like to blame for being loose, etc. The guys, well guys will be guys. Hypocritical.

Men are like that, aren't they?

Some men are like that, I'd hope a tiny minority of us.
skysoulmate   
21 Jul 2010
Polonia / Polish people in Shanghai ...? :) [33]

Whenever in Shanghai we stay at the Hilton and according to the German concierge (victoria?) about once a week there's an expat get-together at the hotel, lots of people and many nationalities. Might be a good way to meet some people from back home. I talked to her a year ago so hopefully the info is still correct. I'll be there in a week and will try to find out more.

PS.
I strongly suggest everyone here removes their phone numbers and email addresses and uses the PM feature instead. Y'all are every spammers dream. :)

Oops, never mind, I just realized this is a pretty old thread.
skysoulmate   
21 Jul 2010
Po polsku / Wymowa polska nazwisk na Wyspach Brytyjskich? [15]

...Czy ich poprawiasz, czy pozwalasz na jego kaleczenie? Dlacszego?

Poprawiasz Polaków kiedy mówią o "Toni Bleer", "Ronaldzie Reganie", "Baraku Obamie", Makdonaldzie" czy "Dziak Danjels £ysky"?

W Britanii (UK?) i w Ameryce my nie "kaleczymy" polskie nazwiska, my wymawiamy te nazwiska po angielsku. W Polsce Amerykańskie nazwiska są wymawiane po Polsku.

Jenkie ee dovedzeña ;)
skysoulmate   
21 Jul 2010
USA, Canada / American father's son is in Poland, [he's] told to pay child support.... [30]

wow, what a twist of words coming from you, yeah , that would be cold of me to say
but I didnt say it like this, so maybe you should read a little better.

Sorry about the late reply, lost the link to this thread...

I couldn't understand your post because you were making assumptions about this man simply because he is a man. In my view the courts should be the ones judging, not you or I.

If we makes disparaging comments here then we're judging one side and I disagree with that because we don't have all the facts, the courts do. The courts rule in favor of the woman more than 90% of the time, at least here in the US according to an article in USAtoday a few years back. Yet I still support court rulings because it's a better alternative to letting you and I decide or tell someone what he should or shouldn't have done. NOT our place to do that. It's like us telling a raped woman to avoid short skirts next time. Totally irrelevant. Besides, never, ever kick someone who's down, man or a woman.

We all have our biases, I do and so do you as you just described helping out your friend. Therefore you and I are unfit to make impartial judgments here.

I believe in a gender blind rule of law, ideally both parents should share custody, but if impossible some kind of compromise should be reached. If a man or a woman takes the law into his or her own hands by kidnapping the child for example (the link below), that parent has lost all credibility and rights as a parent in my view (and every court's view too). That parent is now a criminal.

The typical "but he did this and he did that" is something a court should've looked into, not one parent alone.

That's my view on it and again, I'm very well versed in the plight of abused women, my mother ran a shelter in Sweden and I know there's an evil side in some men. However, to arbitrarily punish all men by making empty accusations and innuendos is wrong and that's why I disagreed with your post.

This thread summarize how I feel about this issue:
polishforums.com/off-topic-lounge-47/help-spread-message-videos-canada-poland-international-child-45008

ps. no spell checker today, sorry
skysoulmate   
20 Jul 2010
USA, Canada / Are Polish women marrying for US citizenship (or green card)? [19]

... That's more or less history when they can move to the UK and earn pounds which are worth even more than USD.

I agree with your post overall except for the quote above, very flawed comparison. So it takes $1.5 to £1 +/- a penny or two. What's that got to do with anything??

That's like saying people are better off in Latvia than in the UK because it takes £1.20 to 1 Latvian Lat. "Lats are worth even more than the UK £" so it must be so.

However I'm pretty sure the average person in the UK has a higher living standard than a person in Latvia.

So yes, I agree with you that marriage for a green card is not as common anymore (still happens though) however your currency comparison is not very logical, apples to oranges...
skysoulmate   
20 Jul 2010
Love / Why do Polish women prefer foreigners for boyfriends and husbands? [418]

Thank You for posting these pictures. Lovely ladies from IDF... Polish chicks got nothing on them.

You're welcome ...and yes they do!

Read my post again please, I said that each and every country has beautiful people and we, men and women are often drawn to what we perceive as different, that's all I said. I did not say one country or the other had a monopoly on beauty. Polish, Swedish, American, Israeli, doesn't matter...

Also, not sure why you turned this thread into a Serbian bashing thread? I agree with almost everything you've said about the brutality and despicable actions taken by the Serbs (of course it's all NATO propaganda according to our "friend" Wrona).

However, all sides were guilty; Serbs simply had more manpower and resources than the other groups.

I say start your own thread on Serbia and let this be a thread about Polish women... Some of us need "Polka 101" all right? :)
skysoulmate   
20 Jul 2010
Genealogy / Changing my name to a Polish one [35]

Czesław, an interesting concept and I'm all for it as I believe it's your (and your family's) future so you chose your own destiny. Having said that, if you're married make sure your wife is ok with it; unless she has a different last name than you do which is getting pretty common in Sweden for example.

Also, if your kids will be getting your last name please check with them too if they're old enough. You picked very difficult last name for sure and you know how kids like to bully other kids they deem "different" in one way or the other.

I don't want to advertise my last name here but my name was altered too. When my parents got married they combined their last names into a new one, to signify a new beginning. As an example, if their last names had been Lindgren and Svensson their new, combined last name would've been Lindsson. That's not my name but that's how it was created and I like that. One day I might alter it again if my wife's-to-be name would make sense to be combined with (and if she wants to do that of course).

Just an idea, overall I like your choices but think at least one of those names should be easy to pronounce. You'll be the guy holding up the line whenever they need the full spelling of your name... ;)
skysoulmate   
20 Jul 2010
Love / Why do Polish women prefer foreigners for boyfriends and husbands? [418]

Skysoulmate - go to Israel, man, you'll love it.

I have and yes, I did :) LLHB and some other places come to mind...

Beautiful country and beautiful, strong people, and yes women in particular. Those are not my pics, just showing a fairly common view at some of the bases there...

However, as I said in my earlier post, each and every country has their share of beautiful people and that's why many men and women are drawn to the different cultures, the different people. Polish women are not unique in their perceived preference for foreign men, only some do of course but there's nothing wrong with this "foreign infatuation." This "unusual and exotic" preference is not unusual in other countries either. Amongs men and women... Vive la différence! ;)

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skysoulmate   
19 Jul 2010
Love / Why do Polish women prefer foreigners for boyfriends and husbands? [418]

Born in Poland, moved to Sweden as a child and was raised there, moved to the US in early 90s and have lived here ever since, also lived in Japan for a short stint and some other places during deployments.

In my view many Polish women, just like many American, Swedish, Japanese, etc., etc. women are drawn to something different. Many Polish women like westerners, many Swedish women love Americans and men from Spain, Italy, etc, Japanese women love us, round-eyes a whole lot. Why? Because "different" sounds so alluring and exotic, it has a promise of adventure and new beginnings, romance, manners, old school charm or just something different. Sometimes those hopes become a reality often they become "normalcy" after the initial infatuation.

Guess what? While traveling I've come to the realization that men - once again - are not that much different from women and we too are drawn to women from different cultures, whether it's the blond and long-legged Swedish ladies, the olive-skinned Brazilian latinas, the pasionate and full of energy Italian bambinas or the gentle and beautiful Thai and Philipina women, we too, or many of us are drawn to what's perceived to be different. Of course, those were just some examples, it applies to many, many other nationalities. There's beauty in each and every nationality and race so following our hearts does make sense. Hopefully, when a couple becomes one their differences keep them united even after the initial novelty period has ended, hopefully they appreciate each other and have a happy future together. Well, at least that's my view on the subject. Sayonara.
skysoulmate   
17 Jul 2010
Love / Need help and assistance to ask polish girl out [48]

Uśmiech - that's the proper way to spell it - you can copy and paste if you want...

Well, it's great you're trying to be nice to her but your English seems pretty limited (please don't take it the wrong way) and apparently so is hers so it will be hard for you two to connect. Hard but not impossible.

You worry she's an elder? I assume you mean older than you? Elder means something else. Well, if she's older than you so what? You either like someone or you don't, why does that bother you so much?

Also you said: "I also read in few article that polish girl having tatoo and body piercing considered ........., not good in chraccter! that hurted me a bit as she seems to be nice person"

Wow, talk about being judgmental! So does that apply to Polish ladies only? What if it's a German or a Japanese woman? You need to throw away the paper you read prompto!!! If you judge a person's character based on her tattoos, piercings etc. or because of something because you read about them in a magazine then you need to reevaluate yourself as a person. Open-mindedness is important when it comes to truly caring for someone.

I say copy some sweet notes in Polish and leave it in her v-file, etc. Smile, be kind, be friendly and hopefully it will work out. Don't know any dating phrases in Polish because I never dated a Polish woman and last time I played with a Polish girl it was in "piaskownica" (sand box ;).

My overall advice would be to throw away and and all preconceived notions on "what you heard about this or that" - judge people on one thing only, your personal interaction, your personal experience with them. You would want that from others wouldn't you?

Maybe a simple "coffee - you and I?" would work? "Ty i ja na kawę?" I don't know...

Good luck to you with your "ładna Polska dziewczyna" (pretty Polish girl) :)

PS. Posted this message using wi-fi over Juneau, Alaska while commuting on Alaska Airlines flight at FL370... ;)

Technology can be amazing sometimes... :)
skysoulmate   
14 Jul 2010
Love / All the good Polish men for dating are taken? [111]

szarlotka">What's the Polish word for 'Deliverance'?

He got a real pretty mouth ain't he?

LOL

A sick movie yet most people have heard of it...
skysoulmate   
13 Jul 2010
Love / All the good Polish men for dating are taken? [111]

normal and cool guys on this forum are taken...
and the rest is just hopeless...
maybe try some Polish dating site...

Dang it, I'm totally hopeless then... (slitting my wrists ;)

PS. What website??
skysoulmate   
8 Jul 2010
Language / Which is the correct spelling - uwierzyć or wierzyć? [5]

In other words:
wierzyć = to believe
uwierzyć = to start believe

Yeah, that's my understanding too. If I were to use that word in particular personally I'd use wierzę instead -> I believe or wiara -> faith.
skysoulmate   
6 Jul 2010
Genealogy / Jablonski from Skole, Stryj [8]

would be of interest to any of his remaining relatives. But how do I go about finding them?!

I think it's very noble of you trying to return those pictures to his family. A relative of mine was 25 (or was it 26?) when he was murdered in Katyń and I do remember that his wife (no longer with us) always hung on to his pictures and other articles that reminded her of him, even when she was very old. She never remarried always thinking one day he'd come back. His last letter to her stated he was held in a camp but everything was fine and he'd be coming home soon.

I bring this up only to say that these pictures could indeed be very important to his relatives. How to find them? Wow, many Poles were "relocated" to Siberia, the lucky ones were moved to western parts of today's Poland. Maybe you could write a letter to the local church? Hopefully they have some kind of records there? Good luck and thanks for trying to do the right thing.
skysoulmate   
4 Jul 2010
Travel / what are the average fares to Poland from USA? [10]

In general you need to book your tickets 2+ months ahead of your trip to have any major savings. Summer and Christmas time are usually most expensive.

I think kayak.com has the best fares, not always but most of the time. Also orbitz.com and travelocity.com have good deals. If you're an avid traveler you might try to fly to Stansted and use a low cost carrier like wizzair or ryan to fly to Poland. If you do, I suggest you ship most of your bags before your trip (post office, ups, fedex, etc). Pain in the butt to keep dragging several bags while switching airlines and terminals. Plus the many bag fees will increase your ticket prices more than you think.

Bon voyage
skysoulmate   
4 Jul 2010
Love / Do Polish men find African American women attractive? [25]

I am only concerned because i come from a plave where it is ver diverse and race is barely lookad at as an issue.

Fair enough and again, I'm sorry if I sounded harsh. In my view people will be curious but that's about it. Hope you'll have a blast and that you'll share your perceptions with us here on PF.
skysoulmate   
4 Jul 2010
Love / Do Polish men find African American women attractive? [25]

Thanks, but honestly, would i feel uncomfortable on my visit?

Irianas - are you being serious? Are you a mean person who doesn't get along with others? If so then yes, you'd feel uncomfortable in Poland! ...and Sweden, and Germany, Rhode Island, etc, etc. Get it? People are people no matter where you go. There are good ones and not so good ones. I've been in New York many, many times so I know there are jerks there too.

We men are just as diverse as the women are. I was born in Poland, raised in Sweden and - brace yourself - I used to date a black lady. She was tall, slender and beautiful. It didn't last long due to our busy schedules but never in a million years did I go thinking "will I feel uncomfortable being around her friends and her family?" Because if I were to think like that then I wouldn't really deserve her now would I?

I liked her as a person and NOT because she was this or that. Your questions imply to me you have already made up your mind about a whole country before you even visited it. Free your mind, be kind to people and smile when you meet them -> you'll see that it'll open the Polish doors wide open.

I hope I wasn't too abrasive with my comments. I'm simply amazed that so many people are so afraid to open up to others for fear of "feeling uncomfortable"...