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PolkaTagAlong   
22 Oct 2012
Genealogy / Is it Likely One of My Polish Ancestors Did Some Funny Business With a Bulgarian? [16]

One explanation could involve Tatars, who are partial descendents from Volga Bulgars.

But it's a distant like 4-6th cousin match. It couldn't be that close of a relation if it was that. It is NOT a "similarity" that it's measuring, it's a relation.

Polka you're not a terribly bright are you? He is trying to tell you that it is quite likely that your ancestors had probably absolutely nothing to do with Bulgaria, because nationality does not go hand in hand with ethnicity.

Obviously, but he doesn't make much sense.

So when you say "Bulgarian chromosome segment" what do you mean: Slavic, Turkish, Mongolian?

For the GAZILLIONTH time, someone of Bulgarian NATIONALITY.
PolkaTagAlong   
19 Oct 2012
Life / Poles and the temperatures they heat their homes [36]

The parental units wait forever to turn the heat on and I like to be cozy! I'm so unhappy in October! They wait till after Halloween to turn it on and it's like 50 degrees in the house! I like it to be about 73 or 74 F in the house when it's cold. In the winter they keep it at like 68 F! Crazy!
PolkaTagAlong   
18 Oct 2012
Genealogy / Is it Likely One of My Polish Ancestors Did Some Funny Business With a Bulgarian? [16]

Of course you can't lol! What it's doing is finding distant cousins and grouping them by their nationality. So if I have a fourth cousin from Bulgaria, I don't know how that is possible unless one of my polish relatives emigrated not too long ago or someone had an illegitimate child.
PolkaTagAlong   
18 Oct 2012
Genealogy / Is it Likely One of My Polish Ancestors Did Some Funny Business With a Bulgarian? [16]

So what do you think explains that Bulgarian segment on my chromosome though? I have no ancestors that were Bulgarian immigrants (those people didn't even come to America) and I have no last names going back as many generations that I could trace that would be anything but Polish. If it is actual Bulgarian ancestry, it would have to be from an affair that produced an illegitimate child. During modern times, like 1900s would a Pole ever migrate to Bulgaria? Doesn't seem like a better place to move, just sayin. It seems like it would have to be that either a Pole or a Bulgarian was traveling to the other's home country, and somebody had an affair outside of marriage.
PolkaTagAlong   
18 Oct 2012
Genealogy / Is it Likely One of My Polish Ancestors Did Some Funny Business With a Bulgarian? [16]

At first I wasn't suprised to see a big Bulgaria segment on my ancestry finder results on a genealogy test, I probably had Polish relatives who moved there I thought. However, when I heard that Bulgaria is a popular vacation spot for Poles, a thought occured. What if my ancestors traveled to Bulgaria, and the wife did some funny business and ended up pregnant with the Bulgarian man's child instead of the husband's? It certainly seems the more likely explanation. It's impossible for me to tell what the ethnic background of the relative I get that from is, they keep their information private. Some of my Polish relatives did have a very dark complexion, but there are lots of Polish people who have that. Some are very Pale, and some tan well naturally. Nonetheless it is very, very interesting and mindblowing to find that your ancestors probably had illegitimate children.

Back in the late 1700s to early 1800s, could Polish people afford to travel to Bulgaria? I'm pretty sure they were middle class. Or do you think it's more likely I just have a distant relative of Polish ethnicity who migrated there recently?
PolkaTagAlong   
5 Oct 2012
USA, Canada / Do Polish guys like American girls? [103]

Oh God, don't do online dating. Guys often meet girls over the internet so they can hide things about themselves and show the best parts of themselves. Just think, why would a guy like you describe be messing around with girls he met on the internet from a different country for? If what he was representing himself as was really him he'd have no trouble finding someone from the girls around him. Guys aren't "choosy" the same way women are, they're not looking to "fall in love" they want to be satisfied, that's their only goal, that's why I think it's never a good sign when a guy looks for a girl on the internet. Now, meeting people on facebook that are local or you met them through another friend is usually different. A long distance thing like that is DEFINITELY weird though.
PolkaTagAlong   
1 Oct 2012
Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]

Polish women are often encouraged to value themselves for their appearance rather than their intellect.

This is definitely true. I care deeply of what men think of my appearance. Sometimes I feel silly, but I just can't help it. I'm pretty sure it's the cultural influence that was passed down. The part about caring deeply about your appearance and your parents raising you to think that being pretty is essential is all too familiar to me.
PolkaTagAlong   
30 Sep 2012
Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]

I'm not from a conservative family. I can't cook, I ruined several clothes by washing them together with other colours, and genrally know nothing about running a house.

I'm the same way, I can barely keep my room clean and wash my own clothes every week. I'm not very "nurturing" or "motherly," I come across rather assertive. I'm a bossy babysitter lol. I don't see what feminists think is so wrong with those jobs though. The majority of women are happier and their efforts are better off with a more domestic role than a traditionally male job, but for a smaller percentage of women it's not, so that's why the law should recognize the genders equally. The government should not be influenced in any way by cultural societal matters.
PolkaTagAlong   
28 Sep 2012
Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]

Of course YOU know that!

Thats a bit more civilised but still as mad as a box of frogs

Of course it SOUNDS mad, because no one understands the clever strategy they use through the media to slowly emasculate the culture.
PolkaTagAlong   
28 Sep 2012
Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]

What I basically mean is that there is a bias against masculinity in the media and the culture that is consequentially caused by the propoganda radical feminists push down people's throats. There really is no clear way to define it, it is just my way of describing this bias in society that I've observed. I call it "cultural" feminism because it's really not about obtaining equal rights, it's about weirdos who hate men because they're men that put propoganda out there and think that if women aren't dominating men then there must be some evil conspiracy to oppress women.
PolkaTagAlong   
28 Sep 2012
Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]

How does education create an incompetent welfare state?

It doesn't, but when you spend resources on all the unwashed masses who are too stupid to ever make the resources spent on it worth it creates a bureacratic mess where you have to have a degree to do anything and it's just like a high school diploma, it doesn't mean anything. It takes all the attention in education away from people with actual ability who make the best use of it and levels them with people who don't deserve it.

I believe that without feminism you would be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, unable to read or write.

I'm talking about MODERN CULTURAL feminism. Much different from the movement to recognize women as having equal rights under the law.
PolkaTagAlong   
28 Sep 2012
Love / Why don't Polish women treat education seriously for themselves? [130]

I believe feminism is reverse sexism. Biology creates these roles, they're fixed and part of reality. And let me tell you this, when feminism tries to push women farther away from what would be their natural behavior and role in society, it creates a huge disadvantage. It's a dirty trick and creates a situation where women are expected to hold the world on their shoulders, when that's not really the rational thing in nature because of physical and psychological differences. Who the heck wants to work their butt off their whole life to pay their own way, and then when you do have babies, you're expected to work, be the primary caretaker, clean the house, and make dinner!! The natural roles don't go away, and with feminism rampant in society, men aren't held to a standard and they sit like little babies on the couch and expect you to do what they can't AND pay your own way! Everything is just genetic, I'm sorry it just is and the sexes are more genetically programmed to perform certain tasks (for example, men tend to have a better sense of direction etc.). The differences are slight but it really is more rational for men to be the breadwinners/soldiers and women to be the caretakers. Really there is no "stronger sex" both roles are vital in society. Without children being properly nurtured and taught there is no technology or progress in society. I don't think it's right for women who want to work their whole lives and not be a homemaker to be oppressed by society, but I also don't think it's right for their to be a hideous anti-male bias in the media and a hatred toward women who devote their life to nurturing their family. I truly believe that discrimination against the masculine is a problem in modern culture. It's a tricky sort of sexism, like a slow working cancer.

What is the point of everyone going to college? Tell me what the point is to it? The economy needs a working class to do jobs that don't require education or skill. It is a terrible waste of resources and creates an incompetent welfare state. It makes it so that everyone has to have these stupid little degrees to do anything and getting an education isn't even about ability or skill anymore.
PolkaTagAlong   
29 Aug 2012
USA, Canada / Where could I go in Pittsburgh that has a high population of Polish-Americans? [39]

Wow, such a shame, def not moving there haha. Never even heard of that show. Unfortunately My parents won't let cable into our house (not even if I pay them for it), so I am limited with the shows I can watch when I'm hanging out at my brother's.

I'm a type of weirdo, but a normal one. A kind of semi-weirdo without a subculture. I'm into my writing and all my little topics and hobbies I like to talk about, and I'm very detail oriented, but I want most of the things normal people want, I dress normal and have normal jobs/major. You could say I'm like an average person, just a wee bit eccentric. I like normal people much more than other weirdos though haha.
PolkaTagAlong   
28 Aug 2012
USA, Canada / Where could I go in Pittsburgh that has a high population of Polish-Americans? [39]

It seems like every house has a Steeler Helmet as well, thats all they really have for entertainment unless you like to drink a lot

Hmm, I hope you're exaggerating. The town I live in is even more boring. I'm not a drinker, and I'm not a sports fan so maybe Pittsburgh isn't a good idea.

I've been reading a lot of comments about how freaky the people are in Pittsburgh. There are mostly hipsters and freaks in their tight little cliques who are not interested in people until they know them. it's exactly what I'm trying to get away from here with the southern baptists and the bohemians/subcultures.
PolkaTagAlong   
26 Aug 2012
USA, Canada / Chris Gets Dumped on the Bachelorette for Being Polish! [52]

I like to throw the race card every now and then. I am assuming that Emily dumped chris for a number of reasons, basically because he is polish. 1 she didn't want to raise children with a polish heritage, she wanted to continue her southern belle legacy. 2. She didn't want to convert to catholicism 3. She didn't want to "fit in" with his life, she wants to be in control of everything.
PolkaTagAlong   
26 Aug 2012
Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [656]

Please don't consider it a 'defect'

I was just calling it that because technically it is even though it seems more like just a trait.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_chin

you look a bit like her:P

Really?! :O Wow, never thought that could be possible. That makes my day! She is considered one of the most beautiful women on earth I think.

I started out with the recessive gene (the jaw assymetry) and then the dominant gene developed into adulthood which presented the fissure. I didn't used to have a fissure at all until I was about 15 or 16 when I was finishing my growth. The model I mentioned had the recessive part but didn't have as much of the dominant part which is more environmenal.