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Aug 16, 2003 21:31

Today, I strolled around downtown Greenpoint, admired oxymoronically tanned Polish girls, and bought meatloaf from sausage-fingered women in hair-nets.

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batgirl1536 August 17 2003, 03:49:43 UTC
y oxymoronically?

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phthisis August 17 2003, 03:55:48 UTC
I always thought Slavs were naturally rather pale. The Poles in particular resonate to me as blonde, pallid and over-tall golden people. I think this view is reductive, based on an upbringing sheltered from true diversity. I mean, it's mostly accurate, but it excludes the whole sub-genre of heroin-shooting Eastern European cat burglars.

The more I realize that, the less oxymoronic tans or swarthy behaviors among those cheeky Slavs seem. But the culture-shock is still there.

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