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Paulina   
13 Jan 2013
Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [656]

yes, I'm Polish

And where do you live?

and i don't really mind being called east european.

So? That's your business. Do you mind Poles considering themselves Central European?

if someone says Poland is an eastern european country they most probably mean 1 of the geopolitical divisons of Europe.

That geopolitical divison of Europe is overdue.

The point is that very many Polish people find it derogatory to be called eastern european...

Many people find it ignorant when someone doesn't know geography.

inferiority complex as i said.

Berni23?? :)))
Paulina   
12 Jan 2013
Love / Do you think these renowned Poles are hot? [150]

You mean the facebook generation worrying about privacy? ;)

Dunno, I'd ask for permition - that's the right thing to do, facebook or no facebook. Especially if I was going to show them on a forum like this one (and I wouldn't do that, to be honest).

Now, something for the boys:

Joanna Much

Joanna Mucha:

mucha in Poland

Hot or not?
Paulina   
12 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

Geez, guys, who cares which is taller? lol The point is there's a Mt. Kosciuszko in Australia! Concord of cultures, people! Concord! xD

Men :)

*sighs*
Paulina   
11 Jan 2013
Love / Do you think these renowned Poles are hot? [150]

Something in him repulses me.

Yeah, me too. But he reminds me of Piękny Marian instead (I didn't like that guy) lol

How about 20 years ago?

LOL What is that?? ;D
I can't clearly see his face in that picture ;)
Besides, I don't think it's about age.
Paulina   
11 Jan 2013
Love / Do you think these renowned Poles are hot? [150]

Well, he's not my type either, but objectively speaking that's considered hot, I think :)
And he probably looked better when he was younger ;)

And come on, Rutkowski, really? xD:

rutkowski

Nowak may look a bit like a Southern type gigolo, but Rutkowski? ;)
Paulina   
11 Jan 2013
Love / Do you think these renowned Poles are hot? [150]

You certainly need to get more education on the matter! :):):):)

Pawian, I know which men I consider hot and which I don't - I don't need an article to tell me this ;)
Are we really going to discuss such things in this thread? ;) Of course, some women are turned on by power alone. But Donald isn't hot, Putin isn't hot and Hitler definitely wasn't hot either.

Slawomir Nowak

nowak1

nowak2

Now, that's hot lol
I honestly didn't know what's hidden under that suit... ;]
But I don't like his face although it's handsome.
Paulina   
11 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Never knew him before. I must admit his an eye cookie on this cover

I spotted him during Euro 2012 :] What a shame that Russian team had to go home so early... *sighs* lol

The sweetest one is English. Cute doll face, just perfect :)

Yes, she's pretty, but there's something gentle and nice in the eyes of the Polish "average". I also like French one and Italian, for the same reason, probably ;)
Paulina   
11 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Who do you find the most attractive out of men?

I generally like men with dark hair and dark eyes :) But I can fall for a blue eyed blond man too lol There was a time when I had a crush on Brad Pitt, for example ;D Johnny Depp doesn't do anything for me despite the fact that in theory his "my type".

But Eric Bana does after "Troy", mainly because of the character he played :) So it depends on the role, as far as I've noticed.

It's the same in real life - it depends on the individual character, really, not nationality...
And I like when a man looks like a man - has some muscles, but this also doesn't depend on nationality, I suppose...

I, myself, have strangely discovered that I like the average Pole the most - he was a perfect mix of masculinity and softness.

I immediately thought of Aleksandr Kerzhakov, when I read this! ;D

Look at those eyes, OMG...

the average Polish woman looked very plain comparing to other averages ;)

But sweet! ;)
Paulina   
10 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

I think this might be helpful: It's the average male and female face of many countries from around the world. I am not sure if age has been taken into account. See if you can spot any differences between the average Polish and others: )

Of course I can spot differences - all of those are different faces :))
But you're right - there is something Polish about them (especially about the woman). Also Russian woman is spot on, I think. Russian man - I don't know... Not necessarily... Maybe Ukrainian? The average English man does look English! (or British) And the Irish woman! I'm not sure what's Irish about the man, though, but it's not like I've seen many Irish people, I guess :)

On the other hand, I'm going in my head through all the Polish faces of people I've known and know and I can't really recall anyone who would look similar to that "average Polish woman"... Except for this actress (but I don't know her personally, of course :)):

I was writing before about sitting with my female friends at a restaurant and how our hair and eye colour differed. But it wasn't only that - we also had completely different facial features. One of us could be considered Italian, for example, the second one Irish maybe, third one, let's say, Dutch, and me... I don't know... Jewish, maybe? lol I doubt you'd guess we're Polish. There are so many different facial features - it's pretty amazing! Also among Polish men. I think the same applies to other nationalities.

we got em here too lol

We still have them in Poland too - I guess not all of them have been exported abroad xD

I also can't believe you actually are having a conversation about how Polish women walk and how is that different from others.

They're men... lol At least it's less ridiculous than discussing how pointy Polish heads are ;D

I'm also Polish, so yes, I can confirm the tail part, but my family didn't eat lots of cabbage and gherkins, therefore my skin is not properly green :( But you know, be cool and don't give out the secrets, k?

Haha... xD Sometimes I even like this forum! lol
Paulina   
10 Jan 2013
Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]

@ Pawian..........no I'm quite sure he said ćmok (i've never heard of ćwok before) :)

Because that's one of the meanings :):
sjp.pl/%E6mok
pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C4%87mok
Here its says: "(1.1) *gw. lwow. cham"
*gwara lwowska

But I know this from the dictionary, I've never heard it used like that. Must be regional, as Poles in general usually say "ćwok":

sjp.pl/%E6wok
;)
Paulina   
10 Jan 2013
Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]

OMG Paulina! Did you bring back a flood of childhood memories!
Interestingly, my father used ćmok as a pejorative term as in "co za ćmok" - what a dope/fool

Because that's one of the meanings :):
sjp.pl/%E6mok
pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C4%87mok
Here its says: "(1.1) *gw. lwow. cham"
*gwara lwowska

But I know this from the dictionary, I've never heard it used like that. Must be regional, as Poles in general usually say "ćwok":

sjp.pl/%E6wok
;)
Paulina   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Yeah, probably, the home of über blonds ;D
Paulina   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Nothing. I'm just making a mockery of you people saying that a certain set of features can be attributed to a European country.

lol
OK :)
Paulina   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Well, pics won't necessarily say a lot - I'd probably get loads of blue eyed blonds which you could get in Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, etc. ;)

Just choose 2 countries, 1 of them Poland, type in "typical x face" and "typical Polish face" and let google images do what I can't.

You mean this?:

Laura Drzewicka

Anna Jagodzinska

What's typically Polish about their facial features? You wouldn't have such features in Sweden or Russia?
Or Germany?:
karolina1234.pinger.pl/m/6271221/diane-kruger

What's her nationality - who can guess?

Typical English features.
...

Really? What's typically English about her features?
Paulina   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

I don't want to invest the time in "proving" something that is easier just to observe.

Well, maybe for a foreigner it's easy to observe, but for a Pole - not really :) That's why I'm asking.
So, what are those "typical Polish facial features"?
Paulina   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

I guess each channel has its dress code.

Yes, probably, and I guess I exaggerate a bit, but still... I've noticed that female presenters in TVN24 and France24 dress rather simple, but elegant and are very minimalistic in terms of jewellery. They also usually don't wear heavy make up:

Reporter woman from Poland

When I think of American presenters I see "bigger hair" and stronger make up:

(well, that's not the best example, but I think you get the idea)
And more colours:



But that's probably just a stereotype that got stuck in my head ;)

But I don't think you often see braided hair styles (RTR Planeta) on BBC! ;)

negative on that one Nancy. Poles do have typical facial features. I don't want to invest the time in "proving" something that is easier just to observe.

Why don't you describe those "typical facial features"? I'm curious :)
Paulina   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

LOL Zeti, the moment I saw the title of your thread I remembered that I wondered about the same thing when I was reading one Russian forum - Russians were asking questions about Poles and Poland as if we were some aliens living on Mars :D And they are our fellow Slavs! lol

The only difference, I think, was that they were genuinely curious. My impression is that here foreigners rather state things, even when they "inquire" about something (usually to complain about sth :)) - "Poland is a nation of criminals?" xD).

Probably because there's no Polish look in fact.

Maybe there is, who knows :) Although I wonder if we're that easily distinguishable from other Slavs - taking only looks into account and not clothes, make up?

There is something like Slavic look, Scandinavian look, "Latino" look. Even the French look a bit different than Poles, I've noticed more dark hair and a bit darker skin shade when I was in Paris.

But that's of course the "typical look" :) I don't look typically "Polish", for example :)
When I was in Hamburg with my friends we were at some restaurant and we were sitting next to elderly Germans. We were talking in Polish, but they thought we're Italian lol (probably because of our names - Paulina, Karolina, etc.). There were four of us - I have brown hair, my friend - blond and blue eyes, and the other two - dark brown hair and eyes, and naturally curly red hair and light colour eyes - and we were all Polish :)

And there are also Americans! You can tell them apart even from the Europeans! I had a Polish-Canadian teacher once and she was sooo American! xD

And as far as fashion style is corncerned - you can see the difference even in the news of each country in the way presenters are dressed and what hair styles they have - I have BBC World News, RTR Planeta (Russian), some French news channel, American, and of course TVN 24 (Polish). American style is quite different form the French, for example. I would say the way they dress women in TVN 24 resembles French the most. We all know how American presenters look like :) And the BBC style is... erm... British, I suppose :) I've noticed more than once that Russian female presenters have "Slavic" hair styles and every and each of these presenters is beautiful :)
Paulina   
8 Jan 2013
Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]

Also: 'Zaćmienie słońca'

Wow, right! I completely forgot about this one :))

'ćma' is 'ciemność' in Kurpie dialect just as Lyzko stated (my guess is it is the same in North Masovian dialects)

I didn't know about this! Thanks :)

Mam pociąg do Kobyłek

xD
Paulina   
7 Jan 2013
Language / Fun with Polish ambiguous language [59]

"Ćmok" which is a word similar to "ćma" can mean something like "ciemno/ciemność/noc/zmierzch". Or "po ćmoku" - "po ciemku" (in the dark). Here it probably means "after dark":

ciezkiprzekaz.ownlog.com/zycie-po-cmoku,1552912,komentarze.html
I don't know if it's regional or a countryside thing.
Also, in Slavic mythology "ćmok" was apparently some kind of nocturnal winged demon. Or at least Wikipedia says so:
pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C4%87mok

You can also say "ćmi się" - which means: "it's getting darker".
sjp.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=9054

But again, it's not "literary Polish" (nowadays), I think.
Paulina   
7 Jan 2013
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

some idiot wrote something like that "even if meerkat is imitating some Eastern European dialect" lol so according to that Polish would be not a language but some dialect of a big sh1t country called Eastern Europe where in fact languages are in most cases not even mutually understandable

Good one ;D
Paulina   
7 Jan 2013
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

I guess I should have trusted my eyes and not my ears lol :).

lol Hehe :)
That's what I think too - we all have minds of our own (that's something you learn when you grow up in a communist country with all that propaganda bull*t attacking your ears ;)).
Paulina   
7 Jan 2013
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

Paulina,I'd always heard Poland referred to as being in eastern Europe.Is this an issue because it's a reminder of the eastern bloc?

Honestly? It's not an issue for me lol But when I see people like berni23 and jon357 having such a big problem with Poland being called Central (at least when Poles call it this way lol) and being so ignorant at the same time this is when I usually intervene.

Of course I wouldn't do that if facts weren't on my side, so to speak :)
I think that people in the West (and that's both Western Europe and the US) usually think of Poland as being Eastern Europe becuase of the Eastern bloc. You could see that in jon357 and rozumiemnic's posts. Rozumiemnic wrote that "politically there isn't really such a thing" like Central Europe :) So you see what I mean... ;)
Paulina   
7 Jan 2013
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

:))))

The funny thing is that I think of myself as... European :) That's what I think of Germans, the British, Greeks, Serbians, Russians. We all share common culture and in most cases: big language family (Indo-European languages).

Once I talked to a Japanese guy here in my city who was all around Europe and was surprised that there's some division into the East and to the West. And differences in religion lol "Aren't you all Christians?? We have some Christians in Japan too!" :)) He said that all European cities look the same to him, the same architecture, the same people lol So I guess it depends on the point of view :)