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"You don't look Polish" statement


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InCogNeato
  Sep 10, 07, 07:36  #1

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?

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tornado2007
  Sep 10, 07, 08:15  #2

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

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Firestorm
  Sep 10, 07, 09:16  #3

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 )

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Wyspianska
  Sep 10, 07, 09:20  #4

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

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tornado2007
  Sep 10, 07, 09:22  #5

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 :)

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Wyspianska
  Sep 10, 07, 09:24  #6

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 :)

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tornado2007
  Sep 10, 07, 09:29  #7

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 :)

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plk123
  Sep 10, 07, 16:27  #8

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

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gavin79
  Sep 10, 07, 16:30  #9

Knowone ever thinks I look polish either ;-)

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tornado2007
  Sep 10, 07, 16:32  #10

if all these people are saying they don't look Polish, then were are all the people who are Polish and look it, lol :)

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plk123
  Sep 10, 07, 16:44  #11

chiacago is loaded with them.. :) so was Instambul. hehe

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Firestorm
  Sep 10, 07, 17:19  #12

Quoting: tornado2007
were are all the people who are Polish and look it, lol :)


Working in the uk.. Lol

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tornado2007
  Sep 10, 07, 17:21  #13

Quoting: Firestorm
Working in the uk.. Lol

hahahaha, yeah i never thought of that one ;)

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AleksyT [Guest]
  Sep 10, 07, 20:09  #14

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.

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beckski
  Sep 10, 07, 20:12  #15

Quoting: InCogNeato
"You don't look Polish" statement


I guess I'm just a dead giveaway with the blonde hair & blue eyes.

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Irisheyz77
  Sep 11, 07, 07:58  #16

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.

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Mala_Elf
  Sep 17, 07, 11:39  #17

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

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tornado2007
  Sep 17, 07, 11:44  #18

Quoting: Mala_Elf
Mala_Elf

half polish and half german, you must have a real good internal war inside of you :)

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theMISSIONARY
  Sep 18, 07, 04:45  #19

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!?

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Osiedle_Ruda [Guest]
  Sep 18, 07, 06:14  #20

Apparently I have "swarthy Italian looks" (lol) but I'm 100% Polish and proud hehe :D

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Gosiaa
  Sep 18, 07, 07:51  #21

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 ...

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Snowski
Edited by: Snowski  Sep 18, 07, 13:10  #22

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 :)

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