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Posts by rybnik  

Joined: 16 Jan 2011 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 2 Nov 2013
Threads: Total: 18 / Live: 4 / Archived: 14
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rybnik   
2 May 2011
News / John Paul II's Beatification [134]

claiming that jews have no need to convert to achieve salvation, holding Assisi 1 AND 2, and via his "cultural center", proliferated COMMON prayer with pagans, heathen, and all manner of reprobates and protestants and polytheists...

Enzo, you're a fanatic and you scare me.
rybnik   
1 May 2011
News / John Paul II's Beatification [134]

Eyewitness: How John Paul made an Italian-American “part Polish”

Nice article..
rybnik   
1 May 2011
News / John Paul II's Beatification [134]

So many Polish flags! So many Poles! It's awesome!.......I don't think they should fast-track his sainthood though.
rybnik   
1 May 2011
Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

Does anybody know if the current road-building effort, that's going on all across Poland is a 24-7 undertaking?
rybnik   
22 Apr 2011
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

Polish people certainly have enough reasons not to assume that everyone they meet has their best interests at heart. But also, and more importantly, once they know you, they honor frienship to a fault.

Absolutely! That was my experience to a person.
rybnik   
22 Apr 2011
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

It certainly was true when I lived there(PRL days). I would constantly be asked "what are you smiling for? are you stupid"?? Hahaha I quickly learned to do as the natives and just furrow my eyebrows and scowl lol
rybnik   
19 Apr 2011
Love / Do Polish Women age well? [153]

But the attention of women is also a target, just in a different way.

Agreed! I submit that women dress-up as much for other women, maybe even more so, than they do for men. The competition amongst women is fierce.
rybnik   
18 Apr 2011
Love / Do Polish Women age well? [153]

The amount of wrinkles present is highly dependent on the amount of sun exposure, besides genetic factors.

Monia, I said nothing about aging. I made a statement about skin wrinkling and its relationship to melanin(not melamine btw). Apparently, your research is in agreement with me [wrinkles = sun exposure. melanin decreases the amount of sun damage over time]. This results in less wrinkles.
rybnik   
17 Apr 2011
Love / Do Polish Women age well? [153]

PB,
the point is that pigment, melanin, protects the skin(and eyes) from the harmful, aging effects of the sun. That's why Africans, Asians and Inuits wrinkle much less than Caucasians. Hence they look younger. It's not an opinion but a scientific fact.
rybnik   
17 Apr 2011
Love / Do Polish Women age well? [153]

since most have lighter features (skin, eyes and hair) people with dark features age fast.

It's the exact opposite :)
rybnik   
16 Apr 2011
Love / Do Polish Women age well? [153]

The following will keep anyone looking young far beyond their years:
1) plenty of rest-the body needs to regenerate
2) low stress- stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol hasten aging
3) excercise- for endorphin and growth hormone release(among many other benefits)
4)no smoking- constricts small blood vessels hampering skin nutrition
5)protect from ultra-violet radiation(that's why pigmented skin "ages" better than Caucasian skin.
rybnik   
16 Apr 2011
Life / Sexual culture in Poland [66]

But not a lot of people are open about sex in Poland, they'd rather talk about their bowel movements than their loin movements

Still to this day?! lol

I mean, how many nutrients would be left after the fourth or fifth regurgitation?

you'd be surprised.
rybnik   
13 Apr 2011
Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

I hear what you're saying. I do. It's still incomprehensible for me that a country of Polands
business and manufacturing heritage doesn't see how important good, fast roads are especially with Germany right next door! Nie kapoję(I don't get it).
rybnik   
10 Apr 2011
Genealogy / Help me find my cousins from Rybnik [25]

I have another request. Would anyone be willing to look up an address of a cousin of mine? I'm unsure as to the "etiquette" of such a request but I'm at my wit's-end.

Ok I've got an update. I've been busy since my last entry.....Over the past year or so I've been corresponding with an Australian cousin, whom I've never met. Just recently she started a Facebook account for her mother Teresa; I friended her and we began "talking".

I ask about some other cousins to which she sends me an address. I snail mail a letter to my Aunt, that I've never met. One week ago I get an e-mail from this cousin Wojtek who's also a stranger to me. We exchange e-mails and I find out the two cousins in Germany did change their last name to Schenker. Cousin Wojtek doesn't have an address but he does have a 10-year-old cellphone number and he doesn't know if it's still active.......Needless to say, I'll be checking-in on Wojtusz this September when I re-visit.
rybnik   
8 Apr 2011
Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

However, unlike the US - an overweight truck is a far more serious matter, with the punishment being very severe - so there's not the same problems.

I would imagine the buildings located in the villages these trucks rumble through must suffer structural damge.
rybnik   
8 Apr 2011
Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

the TIR's (semi trucks) are killing the roads, the indentations their overloaded load leaves are a killer.

Do you weigh your trucks(as in the States)?
rybnik   
8 Apr 2011
Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

Polish government too busy selling the land to israel.

you're funny. You see, the roads that are in disrepair ARE the same commie roads. That's the point: very few new roads and the existing roads are all beat up.....You're right about the cars. I'm sure there are more cars on the road nowadays=more wear-and-tear.