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Posts by Chicago Pollock  

Joined: 10 Apr 2010 / Male ♂
Last Post: 11 Oct 2011
Threads: 7
Posts: 503
From: USofA, Chicago
Speaks Polish?: Noski
Interests: Outdoorski stuff

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Chicago Pollock   
26 Sep 2010
Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]

Where you in the States when Lee Marvin the actor was sued by his live-in for alimony when he dumped her? The courts ruled that his live-in was a legitimate marriage and he owed the money. He owed her financial support.

Marriage prevents men from impregnating women and than leaving them destitute.
Chicago Pollock   
27 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]

"You Can't Go Home Again" by Thomas Wolfe

The title comes from the finale of the novel when protagonist George Webber realizes, "You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time - back home to the escapes of Time and Memory."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Go_Home_Again
Chicago Pollock   
27 Sep 2010
Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]

I know that many women forgo their careers during marriage, but if they do it willingly, then they should consider that they are taking a gamble.

F-Stop what the law says, "it isn't a gamble". Both parties have contractual obligations.

On the other hand, it's a relatively new phenomena that people are marrying out of love for one another.Marriage is an archaic carryover from a time when such contracts were needed for society at the time.

Marriage is not archaic. Everyone is not a type "A" personality well salaried professional.

government and law is about preventing the strong from taking advantage of the weak. Without the law society would revert to the Middle Ages where might meant right. And we'd have a bunch of fiefdoms with private armies running around and ruling with the sword.
Chicago Pollock   
27 Sep 2010
Genealogy / Mixed-Blood Poles in America (Do we count?) [118]

What does "Democracy in America" by Tocqueville have anything to do with the topic at hand???

He's was a very perceptive Frenchman who described YOUR culture.
Chicago Pollock   
29 Sep 2010
Love / Polish Girl Doesn't Want To Touch. [240]

I think it's obvious that she needs three hots and a cot and he's looking for a piece of bum. She needs a women's shelter. But being Polish in America, too independent, too stubborn, too ignorant, whatever to look for any help. School of hard knocks.
Chicago Pollock   
29 Sep 2010
Genealogy / Polish nationality? Which of the following (if any) determine being Polish. [231]

Move to Poland. Learn the language. Eat the food. Contribute to Polish Society. Poland needs people like you. They're asking for people to return, someone mentioned that Poland is offering people money to open businesses in Poland. Reading the posts on this forum convinces me that you can make a go of it economically in Poland.
Chicago Pollock   
30 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

The Big Lie on Polish Forum is that Poles in America are subjected to public bashing. A complete lie. Nothing is further from the truth. They were never subject to public bashing. The TV series (1970's) he keeps referring to was "All in the Family" about a bigot who's daughter was married to an American of Polish descent and the theme of the show was that the son-in-law would argue with his father-in-law about being bigoted. The show actually showed Poles to be progressive and open minded.
Chicago Pollock   
30 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

So how come many Americans today indicate this show as the source of all they know about Polish people and all the jokes about them?

answers.com/topic/all-in-the-family
Chicago Pollock   
30 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

Here's the description of the character, hardly derogatory:

Rob Reiner as Michael Stivic. Gloria's Polish-American hippie husband was part of the counterculture of the 1960s. He constantly sparred with Archie (in the original pilot, the character 'Michael' was Irish-American). Michael's character was, in many ways, as stubborn as Archie, even though his moral views were generally presented as being more ethical and his logic somewhat more sound. For his bullheadedness, Stivic was sometimes criticized for being an elitist. While Archie demonstrated the lion's share of the hypocrisy, Michael had, on occasion, shown his own. As discussed in All in the Family retrospectives...

Chicago Pollock   
30 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

I know what you mean

^ "Sticks and stones may break my bones, and you are one dumb Polack" - Archie Bunker to Mike Stivic.

you can still get the show on cable or dvd's. It was a popular show. I'm old enough to remember it. All I can is...see it for yourself. YOU BE THE JUDGE.
Chicago Pollock   
1 Oct 2010
Life / Bugs in Polish houses and apartments [78]

We reckon there could be one more type of bug but its not confirmed yet, as his girlfriend woke up with 5 red dots ( bites ) under her arm. It could have been a spider or something else but i think its some bigger white color centipede which is bigger than the ones in the bathroom .. i read that some bigger centipedes can bite.

bedbugs
Chicago Pollock   
2 Oct 2010
USA, Canada / Do any other Polish Americans feel that our culture needs to be more well preserved? [38]

However, yes I'd like to see Polish culture preserved in the US. It takes guts to be this way. I find it very honorable.

It's difficult if not impossible to maintain your culture when living in a foreign country. You change, your host country changes and your native country changes. It's no different if you are an American in Poland, the longer you stay the more you lose touch with your country. Nothing stays the same.

However, I'm against creating little "countries" inside the US like it is for example in Chicago where a part of it is practically Polish.

In time they'll assimilate. If not them certainly their children.
Chicago Pollock   
2 Oct 2010
News / Poles DO return to the UK [39]

Poland acquires the Euro itself, which might be somewhere between 2013-2015

Bad move losing monetary control of your economy. Poland should keep the zloty.
Chicago Pollock   
3 Oct 2010
Life / Bugs in Polish houses and apartments [78]

You guys. Leave those spiders alone! They're your friends. They're predators who will keep your place clean of vermin if you let'em be. I have plenty of spiders in my place. I usually find'em in the bathtub getting a sip of water. When I do I just get a tissue, pick 'em up and drop 'em off behing the wall. They survive and keep the place clean of silverfish, bedbugs, all kinds of nasty insects. Works like a charm. BTW a few cobwebs don't bother me.
Chicago Pollock   
3 Oct 2010
News / Poles DO return to the UK [39]

They can't. When the Poles voted yes to joining the EU, accepting the Euro was a non-negotiable part of the package.

Get out of the EU than. But could Poland govern itself without supervision by the EU?
Chicago Pollock   
3 Oct 2010
Work / English teacher from Turkey, have any chance to work in Poland? [71]

ok, I understand. I will not try

Don't give up so easily. A little optimism goes a long way. If you go and live in Poland you don't know what will happen. In the mean time why don't post on this forum? It'll give you a chance to practice your English and get some info on Poland.
Chicago Pollock   
3 Oct 2010
USA, Canada / Do any other Polish Americans feel that our culture needs to be more well preserved? [38]

PolAms need to be culturally more assertive and expose fellow-Americfans to our unique cultrual contributions. The Jews, Balcks, Hispanics, Irish, Arabs and others are doing so. Czy my gorsi?

No, that's not Polish people. Polish people assimilate. Some ethnic groups assimilate, some don't. Why do you want Polish people to be like Blacks, Hispanics, Irish or Arabs???? Why can't Poles be Poles??
Chicago Pollock   
4 Oct 2010
Love / Are Polish and Slavic men perhaps a little bit insecure sometimes? [113]

You have clearly never read anything by Florence King. She explains at length the southern (those below the Smith & Wesson line) psyche.

Florence King is a monarchist, an elitist. You know who they are, the same ones who marched through Poland in the 1940's.

Don't confuse Rednecks with elitist. Rednecks are working class Southerners and are not elitists.

stfu you stupid b*tch,

This statement is not passive aggressive. As stated previously if you are truly a 19 year old college student get your butt to a Naval recruiter and get into their medical units. But the more you post the more I think you're about 14 maybe 16 max.
Chicago Pollock   
4 Oct 2010
Life / Bugs in Polish houses and apartments [78]

Yes, all spiders must die! I hate them all, especially the one in my kitchen sink at the moment preventing me from doing the dishes! Big fecker is too large to be drowned by tap water:( Now im preparing my deodrant can and lighter to fashion some kind of flame gun to kill him.

I was in my bathroom the other day looking about and it occurred to me how few bugs I have in my house. And I thought gee, those spiders must have nothing to eat. What the heck do they do for food as there aren't any bugs around for them to feed off? Just then it occurred to me, that there aren't any bugs around because yes...THE SPIDERS EAT THEM!!! OF COURSE!!
Chicago Pollock   
6 Oct 2010
USA, Canada / EMPIRE STATE BUILDING IN NYC DISRESPECTS POLISH AMERICANS! [88]

Pulaski???? What about Kosciuszko?

As a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United States, Kościuszko has given his name to many places around the world and numerous monuments. The Polish explorer Count Paweł Edmund Strzelecki named the highest mountain in Australia, Mount Kosciuszko, after him. The mountain is the central feature of Kosciuszko National Park.

Chicago Pollock   
7 Oct 2010
Love / THE POLISH DISEASE, wanna marry a Polish girl ? read on... [197]

I think there's some kind of difference with them, but I don't know what it is exactly, and it's a touchy subject trying to discuss it

Cultural differences. You pays you money you take your choice (of course these are generalities)

English women: can cook & sew, good with kids, good humor, stiff upper lip, routine

Polish women: hard working, good house keepers, intelligent, ambitious, surprise