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PolkaTagAlong   
19 Oct 2012
Life / Poles and the temperatures they heat their homes [36]

The parental units wait forever to turn the heat on and I like to be cozy! I'm so unhappy in October! They wait till after Halloween to turn it on and it's like 50 degrees in the house! I like it to be about 73 or 74 F in the house when it's cold. In the winter they keep it at like 68 F! Crazy!
PolkaTagAlong   
18 Oct 2012
Genealogy / Is it Likely One of My Polish Ancestors Did Some Funny Business With a Bulgarian? [16]

Of course you can't lol! What it's doing is finding distant cousins and grouping them by their nationality. So if I have a fourth cousin from Bulgaria, I don't know how that is possible unless one of my polish relatives emigrated not too long ago or someone had an illegitimate child.
PolkaTagAlong   
18 Oct 2012
Genealogy / Is it Likely One of My Polish Ancestors Did Some Funny Business With a Bulgarian? [16]

So what do you think explains that Bulgarian segment on my chromosome though? I have no ancestors that were Bulgarian immigrants (those people didn't even come to America) and I have no last names going back as many generations that I could trace that would be anything but Polish. If it is actual Bulgarian ancestry, it would have to be from an affair that produced an illegitimate child. During modern times, like 1900s would a Pole ever migrate to Bulgaria? Doesn't seem like a better place to move, just sayin. It seems like it would have to be that either a Pole or a Bulgarian was traveling to the other's home country, and somebody had an affair outside of marriage.
PolkaTagAlong   
18 Oct 2012
Genealogy / Is it Likely One of My Polish Ancestors Did Some Funny Business With a Bulgarian? [16]

At first I wasn't suprised to see a big Bulgaria segment on my ancestry finder results on a genealogy test, I probably had Polish relatives who moved there I thought. However, when I heard that Bulgaria is a popular vacation spot for Poles, a thought occured. What if my ancestors traveled to Bulgaria, and the wife did some funny business and ended up pregnant with the Bulgarian man's child instead of the husband's? It certainly seems the more likely explanation. It's impossible for me to tell what the ethnic background of the relative I get that from is, they keep their information private. Some of my Polish relatives did have a very dark complexion, but there are lots of Polish people who have that. Some are very Pale, and some tan well naturally. Nonetheless it is very, very interesting and mindblowing to find that your ancestors probably had illegitimate children.

Back in the late 1700s to early 1800s, could Polish people afford to travel to Bulgaria? I'm pretty sure they were middle class. Or do you think it's more likely I just have a distant relative of Polish ethnicity who migrated there recently?
PolkaTagAlong   
5 Oct 2012
USA, Canada / Do Polish guys like American girls? [103]

Oh God, don't do online dating. Guys often meet girls over the internet so they can hide things about themselves and show the best parts of themselves. Just think, why would a guy like you describe be messing around with girls he met on the internet from a different country for? If what he was representing himself as was really him he'd have no trouble finding someone from the girls around him. Guys aren't "choosy" the same way women are, they're not looking to "fall in love" they want to be satisfied, that's their only goal, that's why I think it's never a good sign when a guy looks for a girl on the internet. Now, meeting people on facebook that are local or you met them through another friend is usually different. A long distance thing like that is DEFINITELY weird though.
PolkaTagAlong   
1 Oct 2012
Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]

Polish women are often encouraged to value themselves for their appearance rather than their intellect.

This is definitely true. I care deeply of what men think of my appearance. Sometimes I feel silly, but I just can't help it. I'm pretty sure it's the cultural influence that was passed down. The part about caring deeply about your appearance and your parents raising you to think that being pretty is essential is all too familiar to me.
PolkaTagAlong   
30 Sep 2012
Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]

I'm not from a conservative family. I can't cook, I ruined several clothes by washing them together with other colours, and genrally know nothing about running a house.

I'm the same way, I can barely keep my room clean and wash my own clothes every week. I'm not very "nurturing" or "motherly," I come across rather assertive. I'm a bossy babysitter lol. I don't see what feminists think is so wrong with those jobs though. The majority of women are happier and their efforts are better off with a more domestic role than a traditionally male job, but for a smaller percentage of women it's not, so that's why the law should recognize the genders equally. The government should not be influenced in any way by cultural societal matters.
PolkaTagAlong   
28 Sep 2012
Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]

Of course YOU know that!

Thats a bit more civilised but still as mad as a box of frogs

Of course it SOUNDS mad, because no one understands the clever strategy they use through the media to slowly emasculate the culture.
PolkaTagAlong   
28 Sep 2012
Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]

What I basically mean is that there is a bias against masculinity in the media and the culture that is consequentially caused by the propoganda radical feminists push down people's throats. There really is no clear way to define it, it is just my way of describing this bias in society that I've observed. I call it "cultural" feminism because it's really not about obtaining equal rights, it's about weirdos who hate men because they're men that put propoganda out there and think that if women aren't dominating men then there must be some evil conspiracy to oppress women.
PolkaTagAlong   
28 Sep 2012
Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]

How does education create an incompetent welfare state?

It doesn't, but when you spend resources on all the unwashed masses who are too stupid to ever make the resources spent on it worth it creates a bureacratic mess where you have to have a degree to do anything and it's just like a high school diploma, it doesn't mean anything. It takes all the attention in education away from people with actual ability who make the best use of it and levels them with people who don't deserve it.

I believe that without feminism you would be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, unable to read or write.

I'm talking about MODERN CULTURAL feminism. Much different from the movement to recognize women as having equal rights under the law.
PolkaTagAlong   
28 Sep 2012
Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]

I believe feminism is reverse sexism. Biology creates these roles, they're fixed and part of reality. And let me tell you this, when feminism tries to push women farther away from what would be their natural behavior and role in society, it creates a huge disadvantage. It's a dirty trick and creates a situation where women are expected to hold the world on their shoulders, when that's not really the rational thing in nature because of physical and psychological differences. Who the heck wants to work their butt off their whole life to pay their own way, and then when you do have babies, you're expected to work, be the primary caretaker, clean the house, and make dinner!! The natural roles don't go away, and with feminism rampant in society, men aren't held to a standard and they sit like little babies on the couch and expect you to do what they can't AND pay your own way! Everything is just genetic, I'm sorry it just is and the sexes are more genetically programmed to perform certain tasks (for example, men tend to have a better sense of direction etc.). The differences are slight but it really is more rational for men to be the breadwinners/soldiers and women to be the caretakers. Really there is no "stronger sex" both roles are vital in society. Without children being properly nurtured and taught there is no technology or progress in society. I don't think it's right for women who want to work their whole lives and not be a homemaker to be oppressed by society, but I also don't think it's right for their to be a hideous anti-male bias in the media and a hatred toward women who devote their life to nurturing their family. I truly believe that discrimination against the masculine is a problem in modern culture. It's a tricky sort of sexism, like a slow working cancer.

What is the point of everyone going to college? Tell me what the point is to it? The economy needs a working class to do jobs that don't require education or skill. It is a terrible waste of resources and creates an incompetent welfare state. It makes it so that everyone has to have these stupid little degrees to do anything and getting an education isn't even about ability or skill anymore.
PolkaTagAlong   
29 Aug 2012
USA, Canada / Where could I go in Pittsburgh that has a high population of Polish-Americans? [39]

Wow, such a shame, def not moving there haha. Never even heard of that show. Unfortunately My parents won't let cable into our house (not even if I pay them for it), so I am limited with the shows I can watch when I'm hanging out at my brother's.

I'm a type of weirdo, but a normal one. A kind of semi-weirdo without a subculture. I'm into my writing and all my little topics and hobbies I like to talk about, and I'm very detail oriented, but I want most of the things normal people want, I dress normal and have normal jobs/major. You could say I'm like an average person, just a wee bit eccentric. I like normal people much more than other weirdos though haha.
PolkaTagAlong   
28 Aug 2012
USA, Canada / Where could I go in Pittsburgh that has a high population of Polish-Americans? [39]

It seems like every house has a Steeler Helmet as well, thats all they really have for entertainment unless you like to drink a lot

Hmm, I hope you're exaggerating. The town I live in is even more boring. I'm not a drinker, and I'm not a sports fan so maybe Pittsburgh isn't a good idea.

I've been reading a lot of comments about how freaky the people are in Pittsburgh. There are mostly hipsters and freaks in their tight little cliques who are not interested in people until they know them. it's exactly what I'm trying to get away from here with the southern baptists and the bohemians/subcultures.
PolkaTagAlong   
26 Aug 2012
USA, Canada / Chris Gets Dumped on the Bachelorette for Being Polish! [52]

I like to throw the race card every now and then. I am assuming that Emily dumped chris for a number of reasons, basically because he is polish. 1 she didn't want to raise children with a polish heritage, she wanted to continue her southern belle legacy. 2. She didn't want to convert to catholicism 3. She didn't want to "fit in" with his life, she wants to be in control of everything.
PolkaTagAlong   
26 Aug 2012
Off-Topic / I am a Pariah: My Horror Story [44]

I think that I'm too old to learn a language to really speak it in any useful way. I'm not saying I can't learn it, I'm just saying it's not worth it to me at this point. Polish is a very interesting and fun language to speak, but it's not of any use here (maybe if you lived in Chicago). Haha Polish was certainly never spoken in my home, and I don't even think it was spoken in the 1st or 2nd generation families either. We do, for example, use pet names (my nickname when I was very little was "bah") and add a "y" to many words though. I don't think it would make me feel closer to my heritage, or that I even need to but it would have been a neat thing to learn as a teenager.

I think I am considered 3rd or 4th generation, but I inherit 1/8 from my dad's side and possibly another small percentage from my mom's. The reason I know this is because on a genealogical test I keep seeing distant relatives (4th to 6th cousins which I estimate are probably not my dad's) with small amounts of Polish in their ancestry finders. People also say my mom looks East European and on the genealogical apps which break down the sub-groups of different races I usually get values of 37% for the East Europeans categories. If I am truly 1/4 or more Polish and other Slavic groups, I think it's reasonable to see West Slavs or Poles as my people or my identity. Most non East Europeans score some low values of that anywhere from 0-10% so there's probably a pretty wide error margin though.
PolkaTagAlong   
26 Aug 2012
Off-Topic / I am a Pariah: My Horror Story [44]

Everyone these days has problems with men :) When you are not socially affiliated, guys avoid you because the girls control the guys, and they forever ostrasize other women who try to run their own ship. If you are meek and desperate and cooperative but you're a boring person or something like that you might get some social affiliation. I like other people and am interested in them, but I'm anti prosocial. Having female friends requires commitment to cooperation, women who think on their own terms are always alone. It's a no brainer when you consider the circumstances, my personality, and understand what the people are like around me.

Also, most men could care less if a woman is intelligent. In fact, I know that a lot of guys intentionally pursue women they think are dumb.

The only reason I feel bad now is because I'm alone and I'm stuck here. My experience growing up was both a strengthening one and a miserable one, which shaped my outlook on life in a negative way. Don't worry, I can't forget my past, if I try to it comes back to haunt me with a vengeance. I'm proud of who I am and my FAMILY is and I don't care what people think. I don't need to go to a Polish fest or talk about Polish stuff to be proud of who I am (although it would be fun and interesting) my whole thing is I want to be around people who are genetically like me (share the same mannerisms, do things in a similar way etc.) so that I can truly feel connected to other people. I'm sick of being too white so that people hate me, and then not waspy enough I mean I just can't win. I'm not that Polish by blood, but I'm a lot more similar to them in every way than other group in my ethnicity. Its impossible to understand the stress and misery of growing up in an environment where you are considered abnormal and everything seems alien to what you are taught at home and what you are naturally accustomed to. Genetics are everything. They influence behavior, appearance, personality, what you're good at and what you're not. The Polish element in my ethnicity is strongly pronounced in me genetically for some reason (maybe it's because they're closely bred, that I have more than I think who knows) so I believe I should try to surround myself more with those other people in order to be happy and feel normal and have a strong sense of belonging.

Not wanting to sound like a pick up line but if you I lived near you I would probably want to meet you,

You like philosophy and religion, so we'd probably have some good conversations. In a perfect world...

Deep down I was never ashamed of my Polish background, but I was associating my differences from other people with my misery. My grandfather was the only one of his family to change his name out of shame for being a polack. One gets all weird and desperate when they were in the situation I was in. It's like a surivival instinct to try to assimilate into the crowd.
PolkaTagAlong   
25 Aug 2012
Life / Why are Poles in other countries called "Plastic Poles"? [168]

It means you look Polish, but you're not really an authentic Pole haha. It's like, if you saw a manly looking guy who was really domesticated by feminism, he would be a "Plastic Male."