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Joined: 23 Dec 2006 / Female ♀ 		Last Post: 22 Nov 2012
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shewolf   
26 Sep 2010
Love / Polish Girl Doesn't Want To Touch. [240]

But I feel like I'm the bendiest guy in the world now, a professional contortionist that could make money in the circus. I'm bending over backwards really far

wow. Can we see a picture of that? ;)

I have asked. She becomes expressionless, almost slightly irritable. Even if calm, and sweet in the asking, she avoids eye contact and says nothing. She will even walk away without saying goodbye. She has done it several times.

That means "no".

Did you tell her that you had romantic feelings for her before she moved in with you?
shewolf   
21 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Any Poles in Orange County, CA? [40]

Do you watch Huell Howser? He did a show on the Modjeska House.

I also saw an awesome documentary about her life. Bay Island in Newport Beach was once called Modjeska Island because she bought a house there.
shewolf   
21 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Any Poles in Orange County, CA? [40]

Our Saddleback Mountains contain a Modjeska Canyon so named for the famous Polish actress who lived there

You can even take a tour of the Helena Modjeska house.
shewolf   
21 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Any Poles in Orange County, CA? [40]

Anyone have any good restaurants/delis/ other for him to get his feet wet with?

Did you mean in Orange County only? There's Polka Deli in Orange. It's very small but he might meet some people there. They all speak Polish.

If you mean Los Angeles, too, here's a topic that has a list of places:

Pol-AM eateries/delis in California
shewolf   
15 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Pol-AM eateries/delis in California [17]

Partial listing of California's Polish-American eateries and delis as well as non-Polish ones that serve or stock Polish items

There's also European Deli and Bakery in Glendora, CA.

Old World Restaurant in Huntington Beach has awesome Polish sausage.
shewolf   
10 Sep 2010
Life / Polish ghost stories [38]

ooh i am scared now...hold my hand Shewolf....

:)

Ah this will be the forest near Drawsko pomorskie . now a huge Nato training ground , but for many years the place where the legion of the dead ride ride into battle with the enemies of Polska...

That's amazing. I'll have to tell my friend. I don't think they knew this.
shewolf   
10 Sep 2010
Life / Polish ghost stories [38]

I have a friend who was stationed over there in the military years ago, I forgot exactly where. They were asleep in the forest in the middle of the night and they were awakened by horses galloping toward them. They got up terrified and the sound vanished. In the morning, they checked and there were no marks in the dirt.
shewolf   
7 Sep 2010
Life / Poland, maybe the world's last bastion of faith [67]

What deterioration? Our society is progressing nicely, thanks!

Well, except on the streets of L.A. hehe. I had a friend visit and could not believe what the daily news was like here.
shewolf   
7 Sep 2010
Genealogy / Mixed-Blood Poles in America (Do we count?) [118]

Well, because your dad was from Englewood, his last name is anything but Sklodowski.

I believe him. He didn't exactly say his dad was Polish. It's probably the other way around.

No! This word is used to describe babies born in the US under the 14th amendfment.

The article says that children are considered anchor babies if their mother is an illegal immigrant. I guess that means if your dad is illegal when you're born but your mom isn't, then you're not an anchor baby? That's weird.
shewolf   
7 Sep 2010
Off-Topic / Does anyone else find Cygans fascinating? [60]

Aren't Gypsies called Roma in Europe and their language Romani?

they also play guitars.. google Gypsy kings sometime.. super awesome.

I've had a Gipsy Kings CD for years. love it.

By the way, there was a hugely popular tv show "Gitanas" about Spanish gypsies. She was gypsy, he was white, their love was forbidden.

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cdDqO36-7jE
shewolf   
6 Sep 2010
Life / Poland, maybe the world's last bastion of faith [67]

Moral behavior was the norm and challenges to that foundation were openly condemned. The consequences of that environment were only good. Divorce was unheard of, as were cases of abuse, addiction, abandonment, theft, violence, etc. It was a wonderful time during which it was rarely necessary to lock your doors, even if you were leaving for the day.

It must be nice to say that you grew up in a perfect world like that but I'm sure there were ALOT of people who lived around you who experienced abuse, addiction, etc. in secret. They didn't have to lock their doors because the devil was already inside. The church is sometimes a cover or illusion.
shewolf   
3 Sep 2010
Love / Polish citizen in the UK: I made a mistake and now she won't forgive me, help! [57]

She's thinking i did it myself, pls help me
this is the girl i intend to marry after my final exams 2months from now
and she doesn't even want to talk to me. What should i do?

Is this for real? Why would she think you did it? Why would she not talk to you if she was really planning to marry you? There's something more going on here. It doesn't make sense.
shewolf   
31 Aug 2010
USA, Canada / PolAms -- do you regard yourselves only as 'white Americans'? [187]

Yes, I'm married and have a wonderful little daughter. :) And it's great to see you and Patty around here again. I thought you already gave up on this place.

Congratulations! A daughter? How sweet. I've been here the whole time, probably just in different threads than you.

Unfortunately, over here, we have a lot of people (usually liberal-lefties, naturally) who think that no-one is allowed to call themselves "indigenous British". Although it is unlikely that anyone alive today can claim to be descended from the earliest settlers, it's clear that a group of people eventually came to be regarded as "ethnic Britons" (Scots, English, Welsh), irrespecive of their origins.

That's interesting. People in the U.S. can prove through DNA tests that they're related to the indigenous tribes. It's also like that in Canada, and Latin American countries and probably other countries in the world.
shewolf   
29 Aug 2010
USA, Canada / PolAms -- do you regard yourselves only as 'white Americans'? [187]

The chances of you being ethnically 100% Polish isn't very likely - if you knew the history of the country that you claim to be from, you'd know fine well that Poland was a melting pot and that many people who lived in Poland weren't actually Polish at all. Can you trace your lineage right back to the founding of the Piast dynasty? No?

Nobody is 100 percent anymore in the world. That doesn't mean anything. Based on that idea, how would you explain Native Americans and Mexicans or Africans or Middle Eastern races? They're all a mixture of native and European and nobody tells them that they're not their race.

Why are Native Americans still considered Native American even though they have a mixture of European in them? What about all the Latin American countries? They're a mixture of all sorts of races but yet their kids who are born outside of those countries are considered descendants of them. No one tells someone of Mexican descent that they or their parents are not really Mexican just because the full blooded Aztecs are gone.
shewolf   
28 Aug 2010
USA, Canada / PolAms -- do you regard yourselves only as 'white Americans'? [187]

Part of my wifes family comes from what is now Belarus.

Matyjasz is that you? You're married now? aww. How cute.

I may be wrong but sometimes it seems as if this "I'm Irish American", and "I'm Italian Am" was a form of snobbery amongst yourselves. You know, everyone wants to be something special and not just yer plain american mutt.

But even the government does that. They use the terms African American and Mexican American on the census form.

Not all Americans are a large mixture of races. There are a lot of legal immigrants and first generations. Some immigrants required their children to marry within their race. For some races, it was not even legal to marry a person of another race. Being American doesn't automatically mean racial mixture.
shewolf   
27 Aug 2010
Love / How to make a guy (Polish or other) happy? [62]

Breaking up wasn't nice for my friend. She heard something like :"Well, I am not sure if you will not want to be with me again", "you aren't resposible, you don't know what you want, you don't want to grow up or similar b**** like "you wanted to be on a lonely island and I even wanted to be with you there".

A man who blames the woman because he was unfaithful? That's a surprise. Seriously, why didn't he break up with her first and then date the other woman? Because he's a cheater. He probably did it before and will do it again with the new woman. It wasn't her fault.
shewolf   
27 Aug 2010
Genealogy / Mixed-Blood Poles in America (Do we count?) [118]

Ok if someone is born in America yet thier father was born in Mexico are they not Mexican?

They're American citizens but racially they're considered Mexican American whether they speak Spanish or not and regardless if they've ever been to Mexico.
shewolf   
27 Aug 2010
USA, Canada / PolAms -- do you regard yourselves only as 'white Americans'? [187]

Then you get the American Polonia, who are frankly idiots. They consider themselves to be Polish, yet they don't speak the language, nor do they have any interest in the country.

Then there's the fact that many of them can't even pronounce their name properly - I'm sorry, but you can't claim to be Polish if you can't even say your last name properly. Then you get the fact that many of them claim that their great-grandparents came from Poland - yet when you listen to them, you discover that they emigrated before 1920.

So then if someone goes to college and learns the Polish language fluently, learns how to pronounce their last name perfectly, learns more Polish history, and then discovers that their grandparents emigrated in 1921, they switch from not being Polish to being Polish? Is that how ancestry is decided? It doesn't make sense.
shewolf   
27 Aug 2010
USA, Canada / PolAms -- do you regard yourselves only as 'white Americans'? [187]

Sorry, but if you claim to be Polish-American, then you should be fluent in Polish (not just in listening/speaking) and you should actually have spent a decent amount of time in Poland. Holding a Polish passport and voting Jarek doesn't make you Polish!

Other races have no problem when someone wants to identify themselves with the homeland of their parents or ancestors. They're actually happy and proud to find someone who has the same ancestry as them and they feel a kinship. For some reason, people from Poland have a problem with it. When someone's parents or grandparents were from Poland and they want to recognize that, it's not acceptable. Why is that?
shewolf   
27 Aug 2010
Genealogy / Mixed-Blood Poles in America (Do we count?) [118]

Tymoteusz, do you look "white"? It's not that simple for people who are mixed with a race that is considered "minority" such as Latino, African American, Asian, etc. Not everyone gets treated equally like that, like we're all just "Americans". Even the government Census separates people into racial groups. For example, they consider you "Hispanic or Latino" if you had a parent or grandparent from a Latin American country. It doesn't matter if you and all your other ancestors were American or European.
shewolf   
25 Aug 2010
Love / ARE POLISH WOMEN CATTY...? [75]

What is catty? Does it have anything to do with meowing and purring? ;)
shewolf   
16 Aug 2010
UK, Ireland / The slow, whiny death of British Christianity [86]

Seems like a couple more people like the other guys...

We all know this, which is the point to the thread but to say that Christianity is a dying thing is not realistic. It's probably like that in some countries but not in the U.S. The stadium in California has 45,000 seats, and people in the parking lot watching on a screen who couldn't get in. That's just one night in one small part of the world.

I also have a video for you to watch:

No one is denying that there are a lot of people who don't follow religion. We all know that. It exists in the U.S., too, but Christianity is alive and well in the world regardless. Otherwise, all the churches, mega churches, and Christian concerts would not have thousands upon thousands of people in them on a regular basis. (some churches have several services per day on Sundays because there are so many people)
shewolf   
16 Aug 2010
UK, Ireland / The slow, whiny death of British Christianity [86]

Of course people like skysoulmate have the right to believe in whatever they want, but he should know that he's part of the minority who really does,

Are you sure about that? Look at all the people in this video, (which starts at 40 seconds). This is a Christian concert and all of those people made the decision to follow Christ. It sounds like the churches are different in the U.S. ? Don't they have things like this overseas?

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yymHIYyqcKY