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What are those scars and cuts on many Polish guys' arms?


sweetcandy  2 | 1  
27 May 2011 /  #1
Hello! I moved to Poland 1 year ago, and i still wondering i have seeing many polish guys with cuts marks or scars on their arms?? but i have seeing more old guys than young ones, whats the meaning of them? means that they were on jail or they were part on the mafia????

also tattoos on their side of their eyes and in the eye lid?

does somebody knows?

have o good one every-1!!!!
Antek_Stalich  5 | 997  
27 May 2011 /  #2
The tattoos on the side of eyes or on eyelids clearly indicate ex-cons, former prisoners. Such tattoos are a part of a jail code called grypsera. Such men are to be avoided.

Grypsera code
Wroclaw  44 | 5359  
27 May 2011 /  #3
Such men are to be avoided.

it's always worth knowing at least one bad guy.
OP sweetcandy  2 | 1  
31 May 2011 /  #4
ooohh i know now!!!

thank you!
JonnyM  11 | 2607  
31 May 2011 /  #5
Such tattoos are a part of a jail code called grypsera

Like the little plastic ball (usually from a pen) inserted under the skin half way down the wotsit and held in place by scar tissue. To avoid.
citizen67  6 | 187  
16 Feb 2013 /  #6
The tattoos on the side of eyes or on eyelids clearly indicate ex-cons, former prisoners. Such tattoos are a part of a jail code called grypsera. Such men are to be avoided.

Looks stupid.
pawian  219 | 24566  
17 Feb 2013 /  #7
but i have seeing more old guys than young ones, whats the meaning of them? means that they were on jail or they were part on the mafia????

You must have seen me. No, I wasn`t in jail but I belonged to a youth gang as a teenager and one of our gang`s rites of entrance was sznyty - cuts on forearm with a safety razor.
1jola  14 | 1875  
17 Feb 2013 /  #8
i still wondering i have seeing many polish guys with cuts marks or scars on their arms??

Those are called sznyty. Probably from Yiddish - to cut.

They are cuts made with razors to show "bravery." In the criminal world, bravery has it's own twisted meaning. Some wannabe bad guys self mutilate too.

Sznyty - common term referring to scarring, which is the result of deliberate self-harm of individual who is wishing in this way for possible clearly and permanently mark the skin of his body. It is a specific ornament which should indicate the courage and resilience of the person to pain, or identify this person as the associated to a particular community. In primitive societies it's a method of decorating the body, in civilized societies is popular among criminals, as prison inmates and in numerous youth subcultures. It is also a method of proving "masculinity" among adolescents, mostly male, by proving resistancy to pain.

Sometimes the cuts also makes a person who wants to overcome in this way own psychic pain, for example it can be an expression of despair resulting from the separation from a loved one. Sometimes such cutting can become even a habit. Such persons can then gradually cut on all, still intact parts of the body. This indicates that it is a form of building relationships with the world by making yourself the pain which suppose to feel it. Often this is an attempt to draw attention on oneself.

/wiki/Sznyt_(blizna)
crochetbitch88  2 | 83  
17 Feb 2013 /  #9
Those sznyty are in Poland an equivalent to mating colours in other species - the more sznyty a male have the more manly and attractive he appears to women, the above picture would make many knees weak in Poland
crochetbitch88  2 | 83  
18 Feb 2013 /  #10
That picture convinces me, Polish people are stupid.

We are just learning from you, folks
PennBoy  76 | 2429  
18 Feb 2013 /  #11
Hello! I moved to Poland 1 year ago, and i still wondering i have seeing many polish guys with cuts marks or scars on their arms??

My one friend has several deep cuts on his arms. He said he got in a knife fight with another Polish guy while in Spain. So yes its from fighting, i dunno about gangs but hooliganism definitely.
pawian  219 | 24566  
18 Feb 2013 /  #12
That picture convinces me, Polish people are stupid.

That is true, Poles are stupid when they imitate Western foolishness.
APF  4 | 106  
18 Feb 2013 /  #13
but i have seeing more old guys than young ones, whats the meaning of them?

I know some guys who were during communism in Polish jail .. the name of it means "the royal cut" .. like the toughest guys in the prison cutted with an razor-blade from their little toe straight to their head .. their also other stuff
wirral  
7 May 2014 /  #14
Do you have any more information about this. I live in england and this polish fella has got it on his eye lids
enkidu  6 | 611  
8 May 2014 /  #15
Round scars on the upper arm may be sign of obligatory vaccination.
Dont gag me yo  7 | 155  
8 May 2014 /  #16
I have seen it in usa also on many men and women also.lol looks cute but creepy(not that I am an admirer of tatoos)...never thought what they were about!I meant that tear thing under the eye.

lol just googled it has various meanings

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teardrop_tattoo
mochadot18  18 | 242  
8 May 2014 /  #17
...... Dgme you find that cute wtf
This whole thread is just creepy and wrong cutting is disgusting nasty and wrong. Done by mentally ill people... Or stupid people if they do this crap for attention or for acceptance
Johnny aka Pol1  
15 Apr 2017 /  #18
It is Far from Disgusting mochadot. It just shows how ignorant you are on the subject. I would love for you to say that to any of them face to face. Better yet if you ever end up in prison 10 to 1 says you will stay Very Quiet. .
Marsupial  - | 871  
15 Apr 2017 /  #19
It is a sign of poor intelligence like most tats and these sort of things
Cuzzo  
10 Oct 2017 /  #20
It's a fear tactic. If you see a white dude you're probably not gonna be very afraid of him, but when you add all these scars and cuts it puts a person very on edge, especially gunshot wounds and stab wounds. Might make even the hardest criminal think twice about getting involve with that guy.
Sparks11  - | 333  
10 Oct 2017 /  #21
why be afraid of someone who looks all beat up?all that means is that they know how to get hit/stabbed/shot and probably arent good enough/ smart enough to avoid it.

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