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"You don't look Polish" statement

InCogNeatoThreads: 1 Posts: 1 Joined: Sep 10, 07	Sep 10, 07, 07:36 / #
I always love the statement "you don't look Polish". How Polish do you have to be to look like one.....and what does one look like anyway? Have a fantastic day everyone!.

tornado2007Threads: 20 Posts: 3,497 Joined: Jul 11, 07	Sep 10, 07, 08:15 / #
Quoting: InCogNeato what does one look like anyway? i can't really describe it to you but there must be something in it because all my friends are astounded when i can pick out the Polish girl in the cue or in the nightclub, whether its body language, facial looks i don't know but its possible to do, obviously sometimes i'm wrong and the turn out to be czech or something like that but always they are Eastern European

FirestormThreads: 7 Posts: 511 Joined: Nov 29, 06	Sep 10, 07, 09:16 / #
Quoting: InCogNeato and what does one look like anyway? Dunno. But i remember on my trip across Russia Getting many strange looks. When i asked the girl i was with why. She said " Because you dont look Russian. And they are curious... " Im still puzzled. ( They didnt look any diff to me )

Wyspianska	Sep 10, 07, 09:20 / #
i think i dont like polish im different than all typical blondies with strands in their hair. And i see sooooo many of them every day that i think it can be an example of polish looking Sad but true oO

tornado2007Threads: 20 Posts: 3,497 Joined: Jul 11, 07	Sep 10, 07, 09:22 / #
Quoting: Wyspianska i think i dont like polish im different than all typical blondies with strands in their hair. And i see sooooo many of them every day that i think it can be an example of polish looking Sad but true oO being polish isn't about the long streaky hair, its something else but i can't put my finger on what it is, my friends say to me 'pick out the polak' sometimes its almost a game, lol its funny sometimes girls think your looking at them because you wanna talk and all everybody is doing is waiting for me to say 'yes' or 'no' usually if i get it wrong i have to down my drink, if they don't catch me out then they drink theirs :)

Wyspianska	Sep 10, 07, 09:24 / #
ha, thats stupid i bet u would say no if u saw me in a club and u know what? u will lost ur drink for me :)

tornado2007Threads: 20 Posts: 3,497 Joined: Jul 11, 07	Sep 10, 07, 09:29 / #
Quoting: Wyspianska and u know what? u will lost ur drink for me :) ow well you could have the drink, but you would have to like pints if we were in a pub and in clubs usually cocktails :) Quoting: Wyspianska i bet u would say no if u saw me in a club i don't know, i guess i can't say know as i know your Polish but it would have been interesting to see if i would have said yes or no :) Quoting: Wyspianska ha, thats stupid i think thats half the fun, its so stupid :)

plk123Threads: 30 Posts: 6,412 Joined: Aug 29, 07	Sep 10, 07, 16:27 / #
i must not look polish because the polaks at the stores in chicago always try to talk english to me and are always shocked when i start speaking polak.. high cheek bones.. very eatern euro.. many times the shoes are a huge giveaway.. i play "find a polk" a lot too. :D

gavin79Threads: 3 Posts: 81 Joined: Jul 16, 07	Sep 10, 07, 16:30 / #
Knowone ever thinks I look polish either ;-)

tornado2007Threads: 20 Posts: 3,497 Joined: Jul 11, 07	Sep 10, 07, 16:32 / #
if all these people are saying they don't look Polish, then were are all the people who are Polish and look it, lol :)

plk123Threads: 30 Posts: 6,412 Joined: Aug 29, 07	Sep 10, 07, 16:44 / #
chiacago is loaded with them.. :) so was Instambul. hehe

FirestormThreads: 7 Posts: 511 Joined: Nov 29, 06	Sep 10, 07, 17:19 / #
Quoting: tornado2007 were are all the people who are Polish and look it, lol :) Working in the uk.. Lol

tornado2007Threads: 20 Posts: 3,497 Joined: Jul 11, 07	Sep 10, 07, 17:21 / #
Quoting: Firestorm Working in the uk.. Lol hahahaha, yeah i never thought of that one ;)

AleksyT	Sep 10, 07, 20:09 / #
I can't tell to much is someone is specificaly is POLISH, BUTTTTT i can easily tell if somebody is eastern european. So when I see someone like that its either polish, russian, former yugo , bulgarian, romanian albanian etccccc.

beckskiThreads: 19 Posts: 2,148 Joined: May 15, 07 MEMBER	Sep 10, 07, 20:12 / #
Quoting: InCogNeato "You don't look Polish" statement I guess I'm just a dead giveaway with the blonde hair & blue eyes. A sincere thanks PF, for putting up with me FIVE terrific years, muah!

Irisheyz77Threads: 6 Posts: 46 Joined: Sep 6, 07	Sep 11, 07, 07:58 / #
I think that it might have something to do with the shape of the face. At my last company shortly after I started to work there we had a baby picture contest and one of the owners walked in took a look at mine and said now that's an eastern european face. He studied it for a few moments more then ruled out the woman who was Ukranian and then picked it out as me and was like...you're Polish right? I'm 4th generation here in the states and my name is an English as you get...no one there knew my ancestry yet he just knew that I was Polish.

Mala_ElfThreads: 14 Posts: 21 Joined: May 2, 07	Sep 17, 07, 11:39 / #
I was told that I look Polish although I am mostly German. I have no idea what is supposed to look German, and what is supposed to look Polish :) I have dark hair :( an oval face and big blue eyes. I hope I look Polish =D

tornado2007Threads: 20 Posts: 3,497 Joined: Jul 11, 07	Sep 17, 07, 11:44 / #
Quoting: Mala_Elf Mala_Elf half polish and half german, you must have a real good internal war inside of you :)

theMISSIONARYThreads: 4 Posts: 17 Joined: Apr 20, 07	Sep 18, 07, 04:45 / #
Quoting: tornado2007 half polish and half german, you must have a real good internal war inside of you :) it could be worse....I'm Polish x German cross Scottish x welsh ( abit like a dog LOL ) no wonder i have a very bad temper!!! i can pick a Slavic person fairly well and northern euros i also have Germans and other Germanic types come up to me and speak German or danish etc but i don't look German!?

Osiedle_Ruda	Sep 18, 07, 06:14 / #
Apparently I have "swarthy Italian looks" (lol) but I'm 100% Polish and proud hehe :D

GosiaaThreads: 5 Posts: 96 Joined: Aug 18, 07	Sep 18, 07, 07:51 / #
Polish faces are round !;-) high cheek bones and because we put our newborn babies on most of the time on their back the head forms into a thin round disk - joke however the Anglos put their newborns on their sides, their heads turn out thin and norrow ...

SnowskiThreads: 1 Posts: 5 Joined: Sep 18, 07	Edited by: Snowski Sep 18, 07, 13:10 / #
Hi I am adopted and yesterday I received my adoption records from the state. I finally had it 99% confirmed that my father was Polish. This makes me half Polish and half English. Today a woman stopped me at and asked me if I was Polish. She liked my short gingery beard (different to my hair colour - light brown/blonde) - and said she had seen many Polish people with the same colouring. I am 6 ft 2 (188cms) and slim. It totally threw me when she said this to me.... it made may day, but also made me cry. I have always felt different and looked very different from the short skulking English. Does anyone else feel different to the English?...as Polish or part-Polish people? It feels great to know who I am now, and where I come from. I feel I am amongst friends here :)

me, myself & i	Mar 4, 09, 02:35 / #
time for some quoting & replys to conversations i was never part of :) theMISSIONARY: Polish x German cross Scottish x welsh uh, it can be worse! im german welsh czech scottish french polish irish & austrian probly why my grandma likes to go a little heavy on the wine during holidays Snowski: I have always felt different and looked very different from the short skulking English. try looking eastren european & haveing dark hair while studying the holocaust then you will feel like you dont belong with all the fake blondes around! this is the reason why i hate learning about the holocaust people always think that im related to someone that was in the holocaust because of how i look, then i have to go through explaining to them how i am not jewish or russian & that the only east euro that i am is czech & polish & when ever i cant think of a writing topic for a paper people always say i should write about the holocaust & never recomend it to some else how stupid is that! Gosiaa: however the Anglos put their newborns on their sides, their heads turn out thin and norrow haha!! i wish i could come up with funny stuff fast, come backs always pop into my head a minute to late :( Osiedle_Ruda: Apparently I have "swarthy Italian looks" oh la la! well like i already said i get to look jewish & russian Irisheyz77: my name is an English as you get... mine too! one of my friends told me that my name sounds like a name that came from a jane austen book :) plk123: shocked when i start speaking polak i bet they would talk polish to me & id just be like uh huh yeah could ya speak in english , hey i used to live by chicago!

CalicoeThreads: 1 Posts: 205 Joined: Aug 15, 08	Mar 4, 09, 14:38 / #
Snowski: Does anyone else feel different to the English?... Uhm, very much so.

Gurl	Oct 1, 09, 05:08 / #
you know you look eastern european when everyone mixes you up with the girl from russia

BrettCelinskiThreads: 1 Posts: 8 Joined: Oct 22, 07	Oct 4, 09, 19:57 / #
To me there are two major "Polish looks": The blond, light eyed Nordic kinda look with white blond or dirty blonde hair The more Mediterranean/"Italian" look with dark eyes and hair. Yet in both the face is very similar, I can always tell haha.

OsiedleRuda	Oct 4, 09, 21:22 / #
BrettCelinski: The more Mediterranean/"Italian" look with dark eyes and hair. hehe, that's me, lol

BrettCelinskiThreads: 1 Posts: 8 Joined: Oct 22, 07	Oct 4, 09, 21:38 / #
Do you get mistaken for German/Austrian a lot too? Cause I often think (and am correct) when I talk to people who foremost know they are German but also have Polish or some other Slavic heritage; it is a common Central European "look". Also many famous Germans and Austrians, almost right away I can tell if they have Polish or Slavic in them.

KsysiaThreads: 39 Posts: 545 Joined: May 6, 09	Edited by: Ksysia Oct 5, 09, 20:28 / #
Polish look is all about those big cheeks, we have very wide faces with round cheeks. But I get told that I don't look Polish - only once when I was really tired with eyes shining from fever and sweaty hair I was told I looked Eastern European. So I suppose it's about what the foreigners look for to decide that somebody is 'slovenly', and then that they are Slav.

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