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trener zolwia   
21 Aug 2010
UK, Ireland / Poles - go home make your country better [40]

other than money, I wonder what keeps them in the UK away from their families.

Quest for international adventure or to immerse themselves in the new culture? Buying power and variety they can't get at home?
Maybe they just like it there better than in P-Land? Ask Justy.

the English these days seem far to focused on what benefits are available...

Same goes for lazy Americans.
Polish people who come here for summer work have run into resistance -even hostility- from the natives for this very reason. Lazy Americans resent their Polish hard work making us look bad. This has only gotten worse as there are fewer jobs during this recession.
trener zolwia   
21 Aug 2010
Love / Polish girls hard in relationships [156]

Again the attitudes developed under communism show. I think it will likely take a couple of generations for that to subside...
trener zolwia   
21 Aug 2010
Love / Polish girls hard in relationships [156]

Then come the questions about luxury. She's twisted my arm and we're off to a 5-star hotel in Fuerteventura right at the start of 2011. However, I dread the day that she mentions Ferraris

LOL! I'm sure there is a lot of that! Prolly many husbands and fathers have to contend with that. Hahahaha!
So your wife is a perfect example of my speculation on how TV has changed that part of the world...
That's exactly why the Commies wanted so to shield their subjects from the western world influences. With the internet it will only get more difficult. The powers in places like China and Iran are wrestling with this now.

Kinda funny how Hollywood helped end communism elsewhere and yet it is the center of communism in America...
trener zolwia   
21 Aug 2010
Love / Polish girls hard in relationships [156]

Right. Instead we're soft and spoiled because we don't know just how good we have it compared to others.

I think TV and movie access giving a view of western life has also likely contributed to the attitudes in eastern places. I can imagine a little Polish kid seeing Hollywood's version of US life on TV and then looking around at her own world and thinking how it could be much better for her. So maybe TV has contributed to this drive we see... Heck, maybe TV brought down communism?
trener zolwia   
21 Aug 2010
Love / Polish girls hard in relationships [156]

accruing wealth but that's their perogative. Besides, overheads are really rising here and it's hard for many Poles to build up a nest egg for a rainy day ... They aren't harming anyone

True. And it is up to each of us to look out for our own best interests. I suppose the more difficult life is in a country the more the peeps are assertive about collecting and protecting those interests...
trener zolwia   
21 Aug 2010
Love / Polish girls hard in relationships [156]

In my experience here in the US, the Polish girls in general have been much less materialistic than your average American girl. But note that the Polish girls I have met were your study-hard, read-alot, large goal girls who were obviously more intelligent than your others.

Yes! That's what I liked best about my smart Polish girl. She was so un-Americanized and genuine...

:[
trener zolwia   
21 Aug 2010
History / Was there sex in Poland during communist regime? [60]

Men can be covered in mud and sweat and blood and be under a barrage of bombs and still want to do it. Not women...

Him: "Come on, honey, get them pants off!"
Her: "Here? Now? What are you crazy?! We're gonna die! And you need a shower and a shave..."
trener zolwia   
21 Aug 2010
UK, Ireland / Poles - go home make your country better [40]

they should go to the UK for a stint, pick up some invaluable exp and transfer their learning back to Polish life.

In order to stop the brain-drain and collect some foreign wealth and return it to the homeland, would indeed help Poland.
As Poland's economy seems to be doing better than the rest of the EU anyway, one can reason that the flight will slow on its own soon as more opportunities avail in P-Land.

Would you agree?
trener zolwia   
21 Aug 2010
USA, Canada / Feminine surname endings in America? [48]

both of my parents use their own forms and it doesn't seem to be an issue whatsoever... but sometimes people are surprised when i tell them who my mom is as they don't recognize our names as being the same..

Ok. Then you would have firsthand knowledge of this. One can understand the confusion it could cause. It's something most of us have never had to deal with or even thought of...
trener zolwia   
21 Aug 2010
History / Was there sex in Poland during communist regime? [60]

Then, was sex the determining factor of the Berlin's wall fall? Do we underestimate the power of sexual energy that Freud was so often exploring in his works and don't appreciate its power to change even brutal systems like bloody communism?

Interesting thought.

Or perhaps no one was having sex under communism because everyone was so collectively miserable? We all know how women have to be just in the proper mood, and being hungry and oppressed can't help that mood...
trener zolwia   
21 Aug 2010
Love / Polish girls hard in relationships [156]

Married life not all bliss, Seanus?

Lol. They're all half crazy. You just have to find the ones that are only half!
trener zolwia   
21 Aug 2010
Love / Advice Please! Meeting my Polish boyfriend's parents!! Gifts, customs... [105]

visiting a relevant forum for extra tips is a great idea

Of course it is.

Try to avoid talking about yourself to much, talk Poland in a positive manner, mention Robert Kubica (formula 1 driver) Adam Malsyz (ski jumper) say you love Polish food and traditions, compliment them on a lovely daughter.

Good advice here.
trener zolwia   
20 Aug 2010
USA, Canada / Feminine surname endings in America? [48]

It is just the lack of cases (almost) and conjugation in English that makes Americans unable to understand that there are e.g. feminine and masculine forms of nouns, names including.

Yep. We don't play that over here.
trener zolwia   
19 Aug 2010
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

eejit

What's an eejit?

pie

And why do you always call him pie?
trener zolwia   
19 Aug 2010
USA, Canada / Feminine surname endings in America? [48]

Generally Polish people perceive Kowalski and Kowalska as different forms of the same name (like Smith and Smith's, Smiths and Smiths' are different forms of the same name in English) and not two different names)

Ok, but try puting that on an official form over here and it wouldn't be accepted, the clerk or computer will reject it as a different name.

Czechs routinely modify the names of non-Czech women to conform to their system so you'll see references to Hillary Clintonova

They even change others' names when refering to them??! Now that's just getting crazy! :D
trener zolwia   
19 Aug 2010
USA, Canada / Feminine surname endings in America? [48]

law or not, female always gets a feminine everything..

But is it a law or just a cultural rule? Must a women do it?

It's ok if you don't know. You can just say so. No biggie. Not like anyone will get a lesser opinion of you than they already have...
trener zolwia   
19 Aug 2010
USA, Canada / Feminine surname endings in America? [48]

mafketis

Interesting. Thanks.

Is that the law, or just a cultural rule?
Kinda weird that a woman changes her last name and not even to her new husband's name, technically.
Add to this the Polish rules (laws?) pertaining to first names... They have to be from an approved list... girl names must end in 'A'...

See, that's all foreign to us as we don't get into feminine and masculine surnames at all. And there are certainly no restrictions on first names...
trener zolwia   
19 Aug 2010
USA, Canada / Feminine surname endings in America? [48]

Do Brits really use 'surname' or is it a fossil left over from language textbooks?

I've seen the term on PF more than anywhere in my life. Polonius uses it all the time. But then, he's a nameologist... Lol, or whatever they're called. (-calling petty leg humper Plk123 for another cheap shot!)

It's about respecting other cultures. Kowalski/Kowalska

In that we have no such laws, this would fall to the immigrant themselves.

Wait, let me get this straight... You guys are saying that in P-Land a woman always changes her last name (surname) to feminine version when she gets married? She has to by law??
trener zolwia   
19 Aug 2010
Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

I love PG (Don't get alarmed, I mean Peter Gabriel)

It's cool. I don't roll that way but I don't care if others do. ;)
trener zolwia   
19 Aug 2010
USA, Canada / Feminine surname endings in America? [48]

surname

Once I realised my mistake I knew one of you would take that easy shot.
I guess you gotta try to get them however you can... Petty.

Btw, in US we don't use the term 'surname' so much, so it's not that familiar. We generally just say first name/ last name.
trener zolwia   
19 Aug 2010
USA, Canada / Feminine surname endings in America? [48]

I thought that first generation lady immigrants from Poland keep the female form of the name but their female children born in the new country take the father's name.

Maybe so. But as we have no such laws, any changing of names upon immigration here is due to cultural traditions in the emigrated land.

Many women here don't even take the husband's sirname upon marriage anymore. I suppose this makes things easier come divorce time.
Even children born here don't automatically take the father's sirname anymore. There are so many out of wedlock babies born these days that sometimes the tramp doesn't even know who the father is, so the kids will be recorded with the mother's sirname.
trener zolwia   
18 Aug 2010
USA, Canada / Feminine surname endings in America? [48]

My question is the following: is that merely by custom and personal preference or is there a US law mandating that -ska names msut be changed to -ski?

Nope. Absolutely not. Unlike P-Land, America has no naming laws whatsoever.
For first names one can name their child any old stupid scattered mess of letters they can come up with -and many do these days. American blacks are known for naming their kids ridiculous things like this. Old joke says that they toss Scrabble tablets and name their kids whatever letters come up. Lol...
trener zolwia   
18 Aug 2010
Love / Polish girls hard in relationships [156]

Maybe it's hormonal. Has anyone ever studied the hormone levels of Slav chicks compared to others around the globe?

Meh, what's it matter? They're all half crazy...