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Joined: 19 Feb 2009 / Female ♀ 		Last Post: 31 Oct 2012
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George8600   
11 Apr 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles top the UK's EU crime figures [78]

Bloody hell..... so let me guess the top countries. Poles are doing their usual hassling, the Romanian romas are spurring up things with their outcasted culture, the Irish are getting into bar fights, and the French are coming to the UK as sex-tourists.
George8600   
21 Apr 2011
News / The best Poland ever? [125]

There are 51 million Germans in teh US RIGHT NOW

No...there are 51 million people who claim AT LEAST partial German ancestry of some sort, and according to the census bureau some ethnic numbers are estimated by censuses completed by an accurate majority. This comes as no surprise as Germans were among some of the first ethnic groups to come to America along with the British and French.

This might make BB giggle, but I remember a US History professor telling me that back in the very early 1800's there was a constitutional vote on whether the official language of America should be German or English and English won by only a slighter majority.
George8600   
1 May 2011
News / Polish people humiliated in the latest episode of Family Guy [51]

accuses him of being half-polish

Hey! I'm half Polish!

But the producer of that show is a douchebag,he pretty much made an episode where he made fun of Schindler's list, especially the part where he had Peter as the Nazi with the sniper rifle trying to shoot Jews out of his bedroom window.
George8600   
2 May 2011
Genealogy / Do you think all Slavs are white? [178]

The Albanians i've met have a strong affiliation for Italy and see them as their brothers.

haha, the Italians I've met certainly don't see them anywhere near as 'brothers'...
George8600   
6 May 2011
Love / Poland wow wife [52]

if the guy loves his country so much then why don't he go back there?

tell that to the Irish here in Chicago... I suspect this applies to countries more like Britain, France, modern generations in Italy, etc. You rarely see any of them here in the US as immigrants or first generations.
George8600   
16 May 2011
Love / Hot Polish girls in clubs - why don't they dance/talk with the most attractive men only? [148]

very hot girls that could get any guy yet choose below average looking guys to talk/dance with.

Simple, it's Poland. The women are the hottest and the guys are average. Especially with the trends in them shaving their hair and wearing addidas sports clothing (particularly in the Summer too). hahaha

But in all honesty I'm no shallow person...beauty is in the eye of the beholder...there's no universal definition for it and what matters is that the girls are truly with the ones they love/like and not the ones you like. How would you like it if I came up to you in a club and began offending the girls you like because I don't like them? Is it any of my business? no. Is it my right? no. Is my opinion on an aesthetic superior to yours? no. Whenever I tell people about the 'eye in the beholder' they think I'm some hopeless romantic from the age of Mickiewicz when indeed it's the logical and sociological truth, and opposition is what makes a person illogically shallow and close-minded.
George8600   
20 May 2011
Life / How Safe Are the Polish Cities? [179]

Statistics never hurt anyone....judging an entire countries crime rate by people who happen to come here by mere probability and happen to have "endured" these crimes is wrong. Yes there is sympathy, but according to truth:

According to the 2007-2011 Eurostat reports on the Crime and Criminal Justice Report which uses reports filed by a countries police/sovereign system, these were the rates of intentional homicides per 100,000 individuals of that country:

Poland is 1.21 and has been gradually lowering from the late 1990's rate at 2.21.

The United Kingdom is at 1.28.

Ireland is at 1.25.

Russia is at a whopping13.0.

The Balkan average was 1.64; excluding Albania which had four times the rate than any other Balkan country at 4.5.

and Germany has one of the lowest in the world at 0.86.

I chose these countries since it seems most posters on this forum are from these places.

Other recognitions were that African countries had among the highest rates for the last consecutive decade for which such statistics were collected with rates as high as the 40's and as low as the 20's.

El Salvador has the highest rate at a horrifying 71, spiking up from 52 in 2008 and 37 in 2000.

And finally to conclude with peace, Monaco, Palau, and Iceland all had 0.00 rates.
George8600   
20 May 2011
Language / Is Polish amongst the best-sounding languages in the world? [123]

Hugh Laurie is the man....the absolute man...

Anyway, I do rank British as the best sounding.... then maybe French... they can swear their heads off at you and it sounds so lovely... but it gets annoying over a while.

Annoying/unpleasantness in sound also has to do with the cultural speaking rate/loudness as well. I like languages spoken at a moderate rate and smoothly....again British. But Polish which can be spoken fast and even loud doesn't bother my ears at all and I don't mind it one bit. I say this from being on the train everyday in Chicago and sitting next to these people....

annoying can be Irish spoken for a long time, Italian when it's spoken fast and loud (which it tends to be by native Italians) and it's worse in Sicily when they slur it., Spanish when it's spoken loudly, and Indian.

Then for asian languages, I prefer Chinese and Japanese....Koreans tend to drag on certain sounds/letters/words when they talk and raise their voice when they do it making it quite irritating. As opposed to Japanese which maintains it's tone and pitch quite nicely....

and of course German can be irritating when you don't understand it...I learnt German in high school, but prior I agreed with the common stereotype that German is "mean" sounding.

Also Greek can have slurring and deep vowels which sound really bad if you speak fast and in high pitch.

Oh well, that's my opinion. :-)

American English works best in songs IMO.

haha yea...Thom Yorke is a perfect example...
George8600   
23 May 2011
Life / How do Polish people see homosexuality? [152]

The whole homosexuality "issue" is an overblown politico used as a reason for lazy thinkers to be "political" and used by politicians as yet another debate card/support circuit.
George8600   
24 May 2011
Life / Why do people think that I'm Polish ? [92]

People used to call me Polish in high school because I wore socks with sandals...even one of my teachers who was Polish himself...true story.
George8600   
28 May 2011
Life / Is Lady Gaga popular in Poland? [47]

How many concerts has she had in Poland? Just that one where she brokedown in tears for the "trendy counterparts" ... that was a disaster.
George8600   
31 May 2011
Genealogy / Polish DNA? Poles have the most genes in a group includes Balts, Macedonians and Greeks. [263]

Greeks are one of the laziest nations of the world.

No they aren't....I bet you're one of those people that looks at pictures of Greece and sees all the tourists doing that and assumes it's them.

According to Forbes and other sources Greece is among the top 10 hardest working countries:

Hours worked: 2,052

Legal allowance of vacation days: 20 days

Public holidays: 12

GDP per capita: $30,500

GDP composition by sector: Agriculture 3.2%, Industry 20.6%, Services 76.3%

Population: 10.72 million

Labor force: 4.94 million

along with Poland:

Poland

Hours worked: 1,985

Legal allowance of vacation days: 20 days (26 days after 10 years of employment)

Public holidays: 12

GDP per capita: $16,200

GDP composition by sector: Agriculture 4.1%, Industry 31.9%, Services 64%

Population: 38.5 million

Labor force: 17.01 million

and Turkey:

Turkey

Hours worked: 1,918

Legal allowance of vacation days: 14 to 26 days

Public holidays: Seven

GDP per capita: $9,400

GDP composition by sector: Agriculture 8.9%, Industry 30.8%, Services 59.3%

Population: 71.89 million

Labor force: 25.27 million (about 1.2 million Turks work abroad)

just because you see the rich and politicians exploiting the system does not mean that all the people are like that...
George8600   
7 Jun 2011
Love / Polish dating tips [40]

don't get too romantic on the first date ;)

true, but eventually all the Polish girls I have been with love romanticism... and even though this was probably correlated to their intelligence as opposed to ethnicity...they weren't as materialistic or obsessed with media labels as American girls were.
George8600   
15 Jun 2011
History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]

Ummm.....did anyone notice how in the first pic Pawian posted that the astronaut on the left has his head and hands Photoshopped onto the original astronaut? lol.... I was looking at the head and it looked a bit bigger than the body and thought how the helmet shield could possibly close over it....then I looked at this bottom hand and realized that it was well oversize and cut in the edge as if out of a clipping....

lol, gotta love Communist Propaganga.
George8600   
17 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

Places to be openly gay: France, Italy, Greece, the UK, Netherlands, Sweden. ...Poland...eh...probably not a good idea.