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gtd   
9 Nov 2008
Life / A trip to a Polish supermarket [136]

Groszy can also mean inches ;)

I prefer to measure things in centimeters. Gives a bigger number and makes me feel more manly.
gtd   
9 Nov 2008
Life / Uniformed people in Poland - explanation needed. [17]

the airport staff in Poland wear military camouflage as well, don't they? the ones that check luggage and passports.

I think they are a militarized version of Customs and Immigration. And they have some BABES working there. Nothing like a girl in a uniform and carrying a gun to get the blood flowing. I have been tempted a time or two to do a runner just to get wrestled to the ground by one of them ;)
gtd   
9 Nov 2008
Life / Uniformed people in Poland - explanation needed. [17]

One thing ive never understood in Poland is why all these uniformed guys incl police tuck their trousers in their boots.

Trying to look all bad a$$ special forces or something.

You know I have seen them unloading a bankomat a time or two and they take it VERY seriously. Two guys with body armor, helmets and submachine guns stand in front and to the sides of the machine...two other guys with the same getup and pistols are loading/repairing whatever...and then they withdraw like some GROM/NAVY SEALs into the back of the van and speed away with the blue lights on.

In the US it is usually one old guy with a vintage six shooter and a limp. I guess bankomat theft is a big deal here.
gtd   
9 Nov 2008
Life / A trip to a Polish supermarket [136]

It means tiddler here in Silesian, gtd ;)

THATS why she was so offended. I thought I was fulfilling her request.
gtd   
9 Nov 2008
Life / A trip to a Polish supermarket [136]

offer to whip out the groszy to simplify things.

I did that once and got escorted out...but then maybe groszy means something different in the local dialect???
gtd   
9 Nov 2008
Life / A trip to a Polish supermarket [136]

Don't they have a little sign that they ask you to place after your shopping saying "till closed"? (or in Polish).

No they just shaft it off on an unwitting customer to be the 'sign' or else yell at everyone. I would hate that job too but I swear that they recruit the b1tchiest women in Poland for the positions.

the change issues drives me crazy. I see nothing has changed. I used to say NO just to make their life more miserable.

Yeah I have to be honest and say that even if I do have change I always say no just to get up their noses.
gtd   
9 Nov 2008
Life / A trip to a Polish supermarket [136]

not normal at all. if there are as few as twenty or thirty customers than there will only be one checkout open.

Yesterday apparently I was assigned 'last guy in line duty' and I guess it was my job to tell everyone that came behind me the kasa was closing. Well I didn't know this was my obligation because she just yelled something unintelligible at me when I first came up. So as people naturally flock to the shortest line she is telling them it's closed one after the other and then scolds me for not doing my civic duty and keeping the way clear. I am a failure at 'last man in line'.

The truth is I have no interest in repeating over and over to each of the 50 people that come up while I am waiting that the kasa is closing. Not my job...and I am just not that sociable. The side effect of that is by the time I got to her she was right miffed at me and I think overcharged me...unless a bag of apples and a liter of water normally costs 50pln??

Anyway....I hate shopping.
gtd   
9 Nov 2008
Life / A trip to a Polish supermarket [136]

that was 6 yrs ago, i was quite afraid and didn't want a scene. that pr*ck still works there today, he's pathetic.

Yeah I have been stopped at the Empik beeping gates a time or three for a bag check and didn't really put up much of a fight so I was just talking tough ;) But if one of them decided to grab me or something I would not be pleased and depending on if they were a frail old man who's arse I could kick or if they were one of those steroid filled monsters with arms bigger than my legs I MIGHT bust some faces or run away screaming like a girl.

Now that I mentioned it however I would like to know what the laws are on them putting hands on you. In the US they can only follow you and point you out to the Police but can't touch you legally. I have seem them grab a person or two here so I am assuming they have looser laws?

I sure wouldn't follow a guy into a back room...not a good idea for a girl especially...no witnesses.
gtd   
9 Nov 2008
Life / A trip to a Polish supermarket [136]

i packed my stuff into my bag and was just about to leave when this idiot security guy told me to follow him to this room (zaplecze lol) i was like why and he said no questions follow me. so i did and i asked what's this all about and he said he saw the contents off my basket before i went to the till and one thing was missing (so i probably nicked it). i told him i put it away and he can go and check, so he did and came back with the slimiest smile on his face telling me he was sorry. i was furious, so humiliating! i haven't gone to that shop for over a year after that incident ha ha.

Tell them to get bent and call the police if they have a problem. They are not police and cannot legally detain you to my knowledge...people just do it as they are afraid.
gtd   
9 Nov 2008
Life / A trip to a Polish supermarket [136]

I think they are like a lot of jobs here nobody ever sees do anything...left over from communist times when they made jobs for everyone even if it wasn't necessary. The guy I see the most there even wears sandals with his tactical gear...I bet he can run fast in those. Sometimes I like to look suspicious...stare at them until they look at me then look down..do that a few times then suddenly move to another aisle...they try to nonchalantly move to where they can see you and then you jump back out of sight. Ok I know it's mean but I only do it to the ones who are nasty to people quite often ;)
gtd   
9 Nov 2008
Life / A trip to a Polish supermarket [136]

I am too lazy to go that far for food. I can only be bothered to go within a few blocks. Both of those places are a bit of a hump for me....
gtd   
9 Nov 2008
Life / A trip to a Polish supermarket [136]

This one is more for the expats living in Poland. I am sure it will sound familiar.

So as I enter my local Albert's (yeah I know it is Carre Four now but I resist change) I nodded to the friendly (ok not really) security guy standing by the door in full tactical gear including vest, handcuffs and baton (I guess his submachinegun was in for service). Though I knew it was pointless I looked in the rack for the shopping baskets by the door but as usual it is empty and all 700 baskets in the store are piled up under the kasas where you cant get to them without pushing through a queue of 30 people. So I decide to go light and see what I can manage to balance in my hands.

As I make my way through the aisles admiring all the rotten fruit and wilted vegetables I start getting a craving for my favorite canned peaches. Every week for the last month and a half they have been out of stock but continued to mock me with the little price tag and empty space on the shelf. As I rounded the corner a warm light shone from above like in one of those religious movies and underneath it sat ONE can of peaches...ONE. After a month and a half it seems they were not able to manage a full restock of peaches. Now if I wanted papaya there were about 50 cans available as usual. I guess Poles love peaches and hate papaya. So counting my blessings I snag the peaches and move on.

I seem to always have a problem getting bread. I never shop early enough to get anything decent. By the time I get there all that is left are a couple hard as rock baguettes, some stale razowy bricks suitable for masonry, and several dozen of those little round rolls with the nuts all over them that nobody ever buys....oh well I can live without bread...as usual.

I pick up a few more small things but between the guy driving the cleaning zamboni around trying to take my feet out and the old ladies packing off all the produce to the back about two hours before closing it seems most of my plans had been foiled for the evening. (see where I come from they actually wait until closing time to clean and put everything away...but not here...oh no not in Poland)

After I choose which queue I would prefer to wait 30 minutes in I start watching the fellow shoppers to pass the time. There is the old homeless guy buying his two beers with a handful of change, the classic mom buying 6 liters of milk..4 heads of cabbage..a 5kg bag of sausages..a packet of Vegeta and a crossword book, the teen girls all talking on their phones while somehow simultaneously talking to each other as well...they are buying gum and cigarettes, the super hot dressed to kill 35yo woman with a family pack of toilet paper and a box of laxatives, and the foreign businessmen in suits all carrying a couple liters of hard liquor each presumably for a wild night back at the hotel.

When I am next in line and thinking it is almost over the lady in front of me decides she is not happy that the cabbage is 3gr more per kg than she thought. This starts a 5 minute argument between her and the 16yo kasa girl who looks irritated that she is even alive to suffer this indignity...oh the trials of life. So after finally agreeing on a price, rather than giving the girl the amount due that is CLEARLY showing on the register she thrusts out her hand full of various coins and expects the kasa girl to pick through it and choose the proper amount...and she does. I guess it is expecting too much of citizens to count change in this harsh world.

FINALLY it is my turn. I get my second wind and as I am trying to keep up with bagging my things so that I don't get behind and have to try and pay over the shoulder of the guy behind me whilst his things come barreling down into a pile on top of mine. The next interaction is I am sure familiar:

Kasa Girl: "46.61zl"
Me: Hand her a 50zl bill
Kasa Girl: Do you have 6.61?
Me: Shake head no
Kasa Girl: Scowls at me for a few seconds and then says "Maybe 1.61?"
Me: Shake head no
Kasa Girl : Scowls just a bit longer this time then says ".61?"
Me: Shake head no yet again.
Kasa Girl: Scowls even longer...sighs theatrically and then kind of lobs my change at me half of which lands in the little tray and half of which goes onto the floor.

So after recovering my money and finally getting on my way I once again nod to the SWAT team member stationed by the door and head home. This time I make it home without one of the super thin (no longer gratis) bags tearing and dumping my things on the ground. Now I am sitting here with my feet up and enjoying the fruits of my labor in a Jednodniowy Sok Marchewkowy and a sandwich.

Thus ends a tale of supermarket adventure. I hope you enjoyed it...and I hope you didn't have any post traumatic stress flashbacks as a result.

Cheers.
gtd   
8 Nov 2008
Real Estate / BUYING A HOUSE IN POLAND.. and having the seller strip it bare.. [12]

and it was months later when the house was starting to look very nice that the seller turned up , and said he had changed his mind about the sale and wanted to have his house back...for the same price of course....anybody else had a similar experiance...?

Never had this experience myself but I would tell the buy back guy to take a hike. The nerve of some people...insane. And taking off doorknobs etc? WTF kind of cheap arse nonsense is that?
gtd   
8 Nov 2008
History / German POWs after WW2 - did the allies commit mass murder? [228]

The french were spiteful bastards after the war

Well everyone who was invaded by the Nazis had plenty of reason to be spiteful The difference between the Russians and everyone else is the Russians took the opportunity to spread communism and enslave several nations and the rest of the participants just wanted to get back to free life.
gtd   
8 Nov 2008
History / German POWs after WW2 - did the allies commit mass murder? [228]

If it's the Germans that is...you mean!

No I think the Russians were scum too during the war. I believe the Allies were the only one with any intention of returning the liberated land to the rightful owners and generally doing the right thing.
gtd   
8 Nov 2008
History / German POWs after WW2 - did the allies commit mass murder? [228]

Well...so did the majority of the german forces but you wouldn't know it...

Well I would agree with you if you mean how the Wermacht treated prisoners and most civilians. But I would say rolling through Europe taking over nation by nation reduces the ability of them to claim any sort of moral high ground. But as a fighting force the regular army was known to be chivalrous and honorable. The Luftwaffe in particular had a very good reputation for honorable combat (ie sometimes not firing on someone who had jammed guns etc in the spirit of a fair fight) and treatment of prisoners.

Anyone with any idea of history knows that special units did most of the really nasty stuff on the Nazi side.
gtd   
8 Nov 2008
History / German POWs after WW2 - did the allies commit mass murder? [228]

There are always atrocities in war and there were several incidents documented where Allied Forces executed prisoners etc (don't have any references saved I just have seen many documentaries etc.)

I do think it can be safely said however that overall the Allied Forces treated people better than the Axis powers.

So I would say your comment about 'complete moral collapse' would be untrue. There were elements and individuals that experienced that or never had morals to begin and did some horrible things. But I believe the majority of Allied Forces from all nations behaved acceptably.
gtd   
7 Nov 2008
Work / How much Poles earn compared to foreigners! [29]

Doctors in Poland are constantly underpaid (from the public sector) and so are nurses.

Yet they still manage to do a better job than in the USA where everyone is paid VERY well. I'd trust a Polish doc more any day.
gtd   
7 Nov 2008
Life / PAYING TO TAKE A PISS IN POLAND, it's BIZARRE [77]

Do what the dogs do and crap all over the pavement, nobody gives a shite anyway.

Generally in Warsaw they keep it in the grass...the occasional bomb gets smeared and stomped on along the sidewalk. Of course that also means that grass areas always smell horrible and are covered with shite.
gtd   
6 Nov 2008
Life / What do people think of Italian Products? [37]

Yeah pity it will be reliable and well engineered now :P

The Germans ARE the ones you want building the thing that hurtles you down the road at speeds fit to kill you.
gtd   
6 Nov 2008
Law / My father is 100% Polish, mother is 0% Polish. Citizenship in Poland. [29]

But surely making it so easy to get hold of them (for example in a supermarket, I believe?) can't help.

No...the guns used in most cases of violence are not the hunting type of guns you can buy in SOME Wal Mart type stores. You also have to pass a national background check to even buy those.

The bad guys will always get the tools to kill people no matter what the law says. The laws only keep good normal folks from responsibly owning guns.

Not quite - to drive a car I have to pass a test, have a license, valid insurance and make sure my car is roadworthy. I also have to pay a fortune for heavily taxed fuel and an annual inspection. In the event of an accident, I also can't claim to have killed/maimed someone in self-defence... Also, cars are useful!

I don't buy your defense. People who wish to carry a gun for self defense must take courses and pass tests. I am not sure what you mean about not claiming to kill someone in self defense as I think this is the time it is OK to kill someone with a gun...to protect life. Guns are useful as well...providing food to hunters, self defense etc.

Fact is cars still kill many more people every year than guns. Guns like cars are tools. People can misuse those tools but it doesn't make the tool evil. You response is what I hear from every European. They don't get it because they have a skewed view of gun culture. They believe the propaganda and nonsense.

Look at the UK for an example of how bad people always find a way to kill. Ban guns...people use knives...ban knives...people will move on to the next thing to kill others with. You cannot remove all possible dangers..like I said if so you would remove cars as they are one of the biggest killers.

Gun owners do not WANT to kill anyone. Most of them are hunters and sportsmen. People who carry guns for self defense would be happy to never need it. But the time you do need it to save the life of your family or others makes it worth having.
gtd   
6 Nov 2008
Life / Can an American in Poland renew American Passport here? [18]

75?? I got ripped off :P

Must be a big city tax in Warsaw.

Hey don't forget your parents full birthdays and places of birth if you don't have them memorized. You need them for the application. I never remember the birth years.

Also make sure your photos fit the American standard as a lot of the shops here don't get it right.
gtd   
6 Nov 2008
Law / My father is 100% Polish, mother is 0% Polish. Citizenship in Poland. [29]

You do realize the people who commit gun violence wouldn't follow the rules if there were some banning guns right? This is an empty argument. In the end it doesnt really matter as it is a right and in our laws so you can be against it all you want...we can still have them :)

By your logic we should ban cars as they kill a LOT more people than guns.
gtd   
6 Nov 2008
Law / My father is 100% Polish, mother is 0% Polish. Citizenship in Poland. [29]

I guess we take for granted the freedoms we have, until we don't have them.

Yep. The only things I think the US is behind the times on compared to other developed nations is health care and education costs. Overall the USA has good comforts and rights. It is just in a few specific areas it falls short. Taxes, fuel, goods...most things are cheaper there. I never got people complaining about fuel costs when Europe as always paid 2 to 3 times as much.
gtd   
6 Nov 2008
Law / My father is 100% Polish, mother is 0% Polish. Citizenship in Poland. [29]

I know several people with both. I think in the laws it does say you are not allowed to hold both as this comes up commonly and I have seen it on official information but nobody ever enforces it obviously.

Either way the OP isnt going to do it ever. He is just blowing wind because he is pissed off about the election. He cant see that the things he is afraid of in the USA already exist here...high taxes, social systems, no guns allowed etc.