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Last Post: 31 Oct 2012
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George8600   
31 Mar 2010
Love / ARE POLISH GIRLS GOLD-DIGGERS? [359]

Bankrupt Greek men will be doing the same soon ;) ;)

The men aren't bankrupt...they're the ones that abused the system and crashed things over. It's why in Athens you see one man with a foreclosure and dying of no healthcare and another with a Maserati.

We Greeks rely mostly on looks,appearance and clothes and bla-bla comes second.

Pssssh. People in every country rely on those things....stop generalizing.

EDIT: Why the hell is there a google ad for dating Lithuanian women under my post? Seriously?
George8600   
31 Mar 2010
Love / What do foreign women think of Polish men? [120]

Polish girls have obviously much lower standards than English or Greek women.

Thats not what I meant at all. Standards have nothing to do with ethnicity....and more in person. The fact that one is stuck up doesn't mean they have lower standards....
George8600   
31 Mar 2010
Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [644]

The CIA worldfactbook says 95% Grunwald. Also I didn't say that homosexuality (a thing of pure nature) wasn't existent, I meant the openness of it. Also Poland is 98.6 % Polish with the huge numbers of emigration this year. :-(
George8600   
31 Mar 2010
Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [644]

My guess is less than 50% of Poles are religious.

that's a joke. I have lived in Poland and almost every other person I see wears a
cross. Maybe in France UK or Sweden it's true but I doubt Poland. Also the study was conducted by the EU in their europollmeter reports which asked Poles directly just as they asked France ans Sweden. There's no reason to lie. If your so intimitaded by religion in Poland then just don't go there.
George8600   
31 Mar 2010
News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Depends who makes the statistics:)

Europollmeter (EU), CIA World Fact Book, World Development Report (UN/World Bank). Also I didn't mean most Catholic by number, but rather by porportion, and judging by some latin countries I could say it's probably in Europe and not the world.
George8600   
3 Apr 2010
Food / Polish food in Pictures. [277]

My pierogi. Don't mind the paper plate. I boil the pierogi from the frozen state, take the soften pierogi and then saute it with chopped wild mushroom and onion in olive oil and butter. Tastes very good, and even with pepper.
George8600   
3 Apr 2010
Food / Polish food in Pictures. [277]

It also depends the type of dough the pierogi is made of. Here in Chicago we have one of the highest quality kinds known as Kasia's. I personally think too much grease and fat is disgusting....but whatever suits you lol.
George8600   
3 Apr 2010
Language / Poltran? (the free online Polish-English dictionary) - where's it gone? [48]

lol everytime I type poltran into google or yahoo from pure habit your thread on here comes up as the first result and poltran is no where to be found. Congrats on making yourself famous, lol. Anyway, I too am currently using google translation as of now, even though it has some glitches to it.
George8600   
6 Apr 2010
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

Read this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_difficult_language_to_learn

The website you posted was written by a Pole native in the language, and states no sources other than his generalizing comments he has with readers below the article. there are tons of articles like that which claim that Italian, no German, no wait Japanese are the hardest to learn. Which to believe? The way I see it, there isn't one.

Linguistic neurology is so little understood that the rankings of difficulty are different for all. Factors may include what family their native (first language is), the age which they picked up the second language, their method of learning and time spent (some learn it better conservatively in a classrooms while others use software that teaches it inversely), their IQ level, etc. etc.
George8600   
8 Apr 2010
News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

France doesn't allow crucifixes or Stars of David to be worn in school either. It doesn't exclusively ban headscarves, but all trappings of faith in public schools.

not true I have lived in France.
George8600   
15 Apr 2010
Life / Poetry and Poets of Poland [58]

So one thing that I have always been into, is Polish poetry. I don't know what it is, it just grasps me and connects with me better than any other modern poetry. I am also a lover of classical poetry where the French and Germans might come in, but I too am keen on Polish classics as well. So any poetry readers or considering to be?

Has anyone ever read from Symborska? Her modern/post-modern poetry won Poland a nobel prize in literature. Moreover, any other very famous ones? I have had the pleasures of meeting Jacek Dehnel and Tomasz Różycki in person and they too are very well known in modern Polish poetry.

For anyone beginning or already into it, I highly recommend the popular book 'Six Polish Poets' which is an anthology of the best of modern polish poetry and is written bilingually in English and Polish.

It ships internationally I believe, and you should be able to find it in any bookstore in Poland if you live there.
George8600   
28 Apr 2010
Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

sooo sad..so true...

lol as a Greek, I can compare this evenly as well. It seems like general features that come with all Mediterraneans.
George8600   
22 May 2010
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

Hi Tomasz ^_^. People tell me the same thing too, but that's because I am half Greek and half Polish. You can probably find my picture if you click a few pages back on this thread. Anyway, I people call me this since I have light brown eyes and black hair along with pale olive skin (which would be a true olive if I was 100% Mediterranean). Either way, none of the ethnicity you noted are really Mediterranean but more or less related to their own genomes such as the Hungarians or Romanians whom are descendants from the Magyars, the Bulgarians who are southern Slavs, the Ukrainians, Tatars who are Slavic tribes. In fact the Tatars are the main Slavic tribe for poles. So I would say that you are indeed polish if you test positive for Tatar haploids. The theory people tell you I would say is false. I would say climate, melatonin, or personal/parental genetics play a factor. Any mixing with Poles (which is very little believe it or not) has been purely Caucasoid. Many genetic tests have proven that Poland is more homogeneous than one things. Truth is, through history many places like Galicia and Silesia have been occupied purely for military and conquer-ship empire reasons. Most foreign populations that moved there soon migrated out when their land was lost and Polish people have migrated to these places in mass. Especially for Silesia where all the Germans were driven out by the Marshall Plan and Soviet Forces and resulted in millions of Poles from Warsaw migrating to this area. As for Galicia, it has it's name from a mere short-lived Napoleonic conquering. Galicia is Greek and Italian for France.

Anyway, you might have Mediterranean blood in you. Again the ethnic groups you mentioned aren't really Mediterranean. What would be is: Italian, Greek, Macedonian, Turks/Anatolian, Southern French, Spaniards, etc.
George8600   
22 May 2010
Travel / Poland from a Persian Tourist's Perspective [269]

That's strange because Ahmedinejad is said to have driven many out of the country.

The same man who is said to have driven out all homosexuals and holocaust recognizers. @_@
George8600   
25 May 2010
News / Polish Policeman shoots down a foreigner in Warsaw [300]

I just don't want those poor, uneducated, foreign, cultural different people clogging my own country!

Is that racist? Well, then I am one! Shoot me...

Whats funny is that Americans used to say that about Germans coming over to the US in the early 1900's or Polish people who still come over here....

Is that ironic?

Harry:
Sounds very much like the places where you belong.

Like Israel, where Ethiopian-Jews are unwittingly sterilized?

Funny how Israel is enacting Nazi policies which it escaped from to create it's very own country.... sigh.
George8600   
31 May 2010
Life / Any good Polish films to watch? [110]

Oh what a nice topic to bring up. I myself am more into modern Polish films since that's what my library mostly offers for rental in the foreign section. It is nice though and a detailed collection.

Here they are:

Katyn

Wesele

Da Vinci

Anioł

Jeszcze tylko ten las (English: Just Beyond This Forest)

The Peasants

Komornik (English: Debt Collector)

Seksmisja (Worst movie ever!)

Knife In The Water (Roman Polanski's first and only Polish film)

Pan Tadeusz

Trzeci (Good movie!)


I also have this website: polishfilms.org

But it's more or less a festival with indie films that aren't widely available...but I think those are the best!

If you like other foreign films I recommend the Cannes website, they have every film listed that has ever been screened there.

Enjoy ^_^
George8600   
31 May 2010
News / US to deploy Patriot missiles to Poland [404]

Those aren't patriot missiles. According to the news Obama has put this on "hold" (like so many other things @_@) since his talks with Russia several months ago.
George8600   
4 Jun 2010
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

By dark what do you mean? Poles in general aren't dark...they simply aren't pale like most far eastern slavs. They tend to have a more richer, rosier, more deeper white complexion...sort of like germans. When I think dark I might think the Mediteranean with olive skins and what not. The yellowish olive skin tone you speak of is me. I have pale olive skin but that;s because I'm half Greek and half Polish. I also have brown hair I guess. Also Poles never really mixed with Magymars(Hungarians), Romanians, or Swedes so much. These ethnicites arern't visible in genetic tests.
George8600   
6 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / Any Poles in Orange County, CA? [40]

Yep--that's Orange County for ya...there is a serious lack of Poles and Polish cuisine :(

And every other place in the US except Chicago and New Jersey maybe. Truth is, Poles are under-represented in the US. Look at Chicago, the Italians, Greeks, Ukrainians, Irish, and even Germans have their own "towns" and "city centers" and the Poles who greatly out number all these groups have little to nothing. :-(
George8600   
14 Jun 2010
History / The Two Saddest Nations on Earth... Poles and Jews [171]

Aren't there thousands of Israel, Hillel, and Jewish forums on the internet for these?

It was a thing of the past and now it's over. The current Jewish census in Poland is less than 5,000 people. What we should be worrying about is the surge of Ukrainians and Germans into our country.
George8600   
14 Jun 2010
Love / How do I make a Polish girl cry? [107]

How do I make a Polish girl cry? My new Polish girlfriend (who, by the way, is named Kasia, is Catholic, smokes cigarettes and likes all things American), is always upbeat and cheerful. This is highly annoying. I've tried everything to upset her, but nothing seems to work. Help?!

Why would you want to do that? Your girlfriend sounds awesome, I wish I had a Polish girl like that which I only dream of having been single my entire life...

lol anyway, read her this poem of mine, I read it at a poetry reading and it made some people cry:

Happiness

To be a plain Polish [original verse English] woman-over the hill, scrawny,
not a very good poet; to live in the countryside
with a man who is cooling (weak heart, renal cancer-
the reasons do not matter). To carry up the staircase
(the musty, narrow staircase) a tray with his breakfast,
and yourself. Write: It's your birthday
George8600   
15 Jun 2010
Love / How do I make a Polish girl cry? [107]

Believe it or not I have met Greek girls with the name Kasia or Tasia.

Anyway, why was your girlfriend crying tears of happiness when you left her at the airport?

Also how is it that you get Polish girls to cry for you over the phone with your shrewdness and for my poetry to not get a single girl to have ever even touched me....lol.... phenomenal.

I LOVE MACEDONIA AND SKOPJE!!! Yaaaay!

Wow Southern Polkakamon how nice of you to confess...
George8600   
15 Jun 2010
Love / How do I make a Polish girl cry? [107]

It made me cry, because it was SO terrible, and I like good poetry..

Well it is one of my first...

Also I am aware that it is prose...no need to be so harrowing about it.