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If someone in Poland has underfloor heating and a heat pump with the option of cooling the house in the summer . They are becoming increasingly popular due to climate change. In the past, the normal temperature in Europe in the temperate zone was +25 degrees Celsius in the summer and therefore no one needed air conditioning.
8:39 Nice video, but I can tell you religion isn't the reason for shops being closed on Sundays. At least that's the answer you're gonna get if you ask an average person. Me, personally, I do not really know why did the government decide that. Was too young when the change happened. Also, yea, American bread is shit, with all the respect, unless you use it for toasts, so like it's recommended use here.
Small talk doesn't exist in Poland, it's all BIG talk. If you ask a Pole "hey, how is it going?" get ready to hear something like "Pretty bad actually, my dad was diagnosed with cancer, and my bank just raised our mortgage rate, which means we probably won't be able to blah blah blah"
Exactly. My "Small Talk" ends with "Cześć" or "Dzień dobry". If someone responds with something more than the same statement, it is already a conversation, not "small talk"
Complaining is our national sport, it is not a secret. Everybody coming to Poland should be aware of the fact "how are you" is not a greeting here; it's a window of opportunity to spill our dark souls :D
@echinorlax Ha, Ha, absolutely, when my husband joined me here in Australia 45 years ago when asked "how are you doing?" would enter into this whole tiride about, health, problems with adjusting to the new country and the list would go on and on 🤣. He just could not understand that it is not the done thing here.
Trying to upsell something to Slavs is generally not a good idea. Our mindset works like this: "Why would you try to convince me to buy your product? Probably because it's low quality. If it were really good, you wouldn't need to advertise it so aggressively." Living in a country that wasn't very rich for a long time teaches consumers to make informed purchasing decisions. When I go to an automotive dealer, I don't need him to sell me the car because I've already done all the research myself. The only way to convince me to buy the more expensive model is to give me a discount on it and emphasize the better quality-to-price ratio.
9:20 - oh yeah, that "how can i help you" pisses off most of the poles, like: "I just came in, let me see what you got, let me chek your quality and if I would be interested in something I will ask, do not bother me right now", we do not need your help or advertising, we can go through menu/shop on our own just give us some space and time...
Wy chyba macie najebane... Zamiast klasyfikowac, co generalizując wkurza jakąś grupę ludzi to najpierw nauczcie się z nimi rozmawiać i komunikować. Z tego co tutaj jest analizowane i co wypisujecie można wywnioskować, że kiedy np ktoś spyta się was, czy potrzebujecie pomocy to jakby wam matkę zwyzywał. Ale co tam, polaczki zawsze z ego w kosmosie.
@@CoreyFart85 zazwyczaj się mówi, że mamy kompleksy, a nie wybujale ego, no ale dobra powiedzmy, że rozumiem o co Ci chodziło... Moim zdaniem tu nie chodzi tylko o to jak się czujemy, to po prostu strata czasu. Większość ludzi potrafi wybrać produkt, który ich interesuje samodzielnie, pomoc pracownika w takim wypadku wydłuża niepotrzebnie ten proces, bo albo musimy wytłumaczyć jakie są nasze preferencje, albo istnieje spora szansa proponowania nam rzeczy, których nie chcemy, a to też zajmuje czas... Dodatkowo, bycie nachalnym w kwestiach zakupowych może być odbierane jako próba jak najszybszego pozbycia się klienta... Takie zachowania/odczucia mogą być spowodowane tym, że u nas kultura small talku praktycznie nie istnieje, więc niepotrzebne interakcje z innymi ludźmi w mniejszym lub większym stopniu nas irytują. Jest też takie powiedzenie: Nadgorliwość gorsza od fa****mu.
I hate when shop assistants or waiters, etc. are too invasive, imposing themselves. It's not "good service", if I need help I will ask, and then you can show how nice you are, within the extent of how much help was requested, don't overstep that boundary. Don't talk to me otherwise cause you're only gonna stress me out and make me leave awkwardly instead of making a purchase, and I'm gonna go to the competition that will let me do my stuff in peace, without bothering me. I can't understand why Americans think that talking to me without being asked will make me buy stuff, it's going to make me annoyed and NOT buy anything. Same with restaurants, if the waiter is literally waiting by the table I would absolutely hate being observed like that, give me some freaking privacy to enjoy a meal in peace. It's enough that at some point you come by and ask if everything is good to give me an opportunity to order more, and if something was bad I would be asking someone from the service to come, you don't need to freaking stalk me. This American style "pro activeness" and "going the extra mile" with a fake smile is TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE, feels patronising and sarcastic, hostile, like they think I don't belong there and need to watch my every move or something. I hate it. I so much prefer the Polish way where we often don't even exchange any words at all, just a slight smile and a few nods and gestures are more than enough to make a transaction without wasting time or any fake pleasantries that are just exhausting, unpleasant. I live in the UK and it's not as extreme as the US but it's already sometimes really awkward and annoying when they try to control the situation instead of just letting me pick what I want. That's not gonna end up in an upsale, but a lost sale whatsoever.
EXACTLY, in Poland it depends on shop, but I remember times where especially in clothing stores employees were just assaulting you with questions "how I can help you?" - fortunately it is less visible now. Although I like small talk in grocery store where i know everyone and cute sad smile "today we haven't your cigarettes" :D
This! There's a popular restaurant in my city in Poland where they try to upsell you everything and I hate it, but for years their food was great so I was coming back to that place. They changed their menu however and now only one item is worth coming back so instead of once a month I go there once a year.
I love the Dutch style. When you enter a shop in the Netherlands, the shopkeeper looks at you, says "good morning" and leaves you to browse in peace, unless you have a question to ask.
Living in the block (I don't know how to describe that building in English) you do not have choice of people. You even do not have to know them. You cannot spend time at your balcony, you cannot open the windows, the smoke comes even through the ventilation to your own flat.
@@WheresWes if we were talking about Poland in 90's you'd see cigarettes everywhere...and you could smell smoke everywhere (literally, even at school, as teachers would smoke either in classes between lessons, or in their cabinet next to class)... now 30 years later, minority smokes... sure there are places where you can find people smoking, but in general it's prohibited in most public areas... only exceptions being marked areas where smoking is allowed. Vapes are other thing, they are popular amongst youngers, seems like a trend that became popular 3-4 years ago... Kids like to see themselves as 'grown ups' and do it, by reaching for substances that are resticted to adults... forbidden fruit effect... 60-70% of them, will drop it, once it becomes legal to them... rest will get addicted and probably die to lung cancer... what can you do... natural selection
Regarding the floors - Polish equivalent "piętro" comes from the verb "piętrzyć" - "to stack". So first "piętro" needs to be stacked on something, thus it cannot be on ground level.
Also, ground floor used to be considered the least comfortable, the cheapest, so maybe it wasn't counted as a floor to live on (for a respectable citizen).
@@suonatar1 Where did you found information that ground floor was considered the least comfortable and the cheapest? In what time period? Because historically ground floor was for business - not living. First floor was the most expensive and last floors of buildings was for poor people/servants etc, as there weren't elevators to take people there ;)
2:19 I've heard this before from many Americans about Celsius and it always makes me laugh so hard. I've never had a situation where I thought: it's warmer than 16°C but colder than 17°C. And to say that Fahrenheit is more accurate is even more funny. Can't Americans imagine that it is possible to measure such a temperature as 16.2°C or 16.00000000001°C? 😂
Who cares about Celcius or Fahrenheit?? At the end of the day, this is America who sent a man to the moon and not Poland. Maybe you should consider learning how to pronounce English names like Google, wi-fi or realize that Indians live in India and not in North America. Oh, and one more, for Christ's sake, bar is a place where drink and not eat! When you steal a nice English name like "bar" at least use it correctly Don't call cafeterias and restaurants "bars" ;)
6:25 as a polish architecture student, i can tell you that this is literally the law, the dirty and clean spaces in bathrooms cannot be in one big room. the only exceptions to that law are old buildings, where you cant easily change the layout of rooms.
What is unclear about Polish addresses? Street name (e.g., Sosnowa), building number (12)/apartment number (if there are multiple apartments in the building). On one side, you have even numbers, on the other, odd numbers. What is unreadable here?
To be fair (Letterkenny reference should be inserted here), sometimes we do have some strange numbering, usually when street meanders through neighbourhood of buildings made by one developer (developer in polish means building construction company - just putting it here, because I've got in the past, stupid comments that software developers have nothing to do with buildings) over a short period of time. For american it can be a bit confusing in combo with addition of staircase and apartment number. My friend live on a street that literally circles around dozens of blocks with no-name side streets. Might be that this Wes guy lives in one of these neighbourhoods. They are rare, but even we need to consult google maps to traverse them.
@MonikaMazgola @kikiv1993 chodzi o to że ulica dobiega do np zgrupowania bloków na ulicy Xowej, one mają numery 1-5 i musisz chodzić pomiędzy blokami szukając bloku Xowa 3, mieszkania 12, czasem nawet bloku 3A/12, a w stanach każdy jeden budynek w dużym mieście jest przy ulicy, a adres wskazuje od razu drzwi mieszkania których szukasz. Stąd takie adresy z ogromnymi liczbami jak w filmie. Do tego miasta zbudowane są na siatce prostopadłych ulic
He probably meant housing estates/blocks/„osiedla”. Where a whole group of buildings is called, for example, "osiedle Składkowskiego" and there are several small streets under the same name, the buildings differ only in numbering + letters (usually in some order). Post-communist legacy.
In summer, we sleep with our windows open at night-that's our air conditioning😉. During the day, when the sun is high, you want to shut your curtains so the sun doesn't heat up the room. South European countries (Italy, Greece) also do this and open their windows closer to the evening.
@@GutekZ don't sit inside ur bedroom, i live in spain i always just 3 hours before bed open the window and shut the lights. And if absolutely neccassary use fans/aircon
Yeah because it works so well when it's 20c+ at night anyway... AC is only proper way to do it. Only reason it's not popular it's because it's expensive to run with our highest on planet energy prices. Countries you described are in different climate, they have much drier air so experience of temperature is completely different. Poland has surprisingly high humidity reaching 80% and more at times this means even mere 25c can be too much for some.
My parents recently built a house and we even had a discussion about whether or not to have air conditioning, but we all agreed that it was a waste of money because you could just cool the room by opening the windows in the evening. I have the impression that most Poles have gotten used to overheated buildings, and although we sometimes complain about it, such an investment is generally seen as unprofitable.
i'm a polish and for me winter is harsh. it doesn't necessarily means that snow is needed to be considers as harsh. it's cold, the wind is usually strong, it's depressingly dark all the time, you barely see the sun... of course, it used to be a lot harder when we actually had snow but now it's still unpleasant. especially for someone who used to live in warmer places.
People from abroad constantly record videos about these milk bars, but for Poles they are of marginal importance. In many cities they do not exist at all.
Tourist attactions are often open on Sundays... if anything they might be closed on one specific day during the week... (like most Museums are closed on Mondays). That was the whole idea about closing the shops on Sundays: to have time to spend with families, either at home... or at tourist attractions... cinemas, theaters, different kind of museum, restaurants -> most things are open on Sundays.
Milk bars are called milk bars because they didn't serve meat dishes in the past, they were established as cheap eateries, subsidized by the government during communism, some survived with subsidies, but are currently subsidized by city budgets, they may have meat dishes but they are not subsidized.
@@Wszobrody To be honest... There are rare cases. Very rare. Check village Węgrzce just north of Krakow. Address "ul.C3 35C" would be fully valid there (though it doesn't exist yet)
I assume, he wanted to say, that at least in my city, you have name of the street, and further only a number. So for example - sing saying ul. Powolna, and going further on the building, you have only numbers, like 2, 4, 6 and so on.
Największy problem jest gdy masz dojechać do jakiejś wsi, np. Nowa wieś i okazuje się, że w Pl jest takich w uj i jeszcze trochę XDD. Wtedy trzeba znać województwo i obok jakiej wsi, jakiego miasteczka się znajduje
"Here in Poland everybody smokes". No, this is not true, not true at all. Are you completely sure, that you've ever been to Poland? This seriously undermines your credibility. No, we're not obsessed with bread. We just eat it often. And we're quite good at making it.
"American bread"? You mean that square thing made of Styrofoam that tastes like Mendeleev's Table? In several thousand years, archaeologists of that time will unearth this thing as the only remnant of the American civilization. :)
@@WheresWes Really? In my parents' generation everybody smoked, home, work, it was something you just did. Now? Almost everybody I know quitted if they even started. It's really uncool these days. Maybe some lower class kids, but they will probably stop when they go to work or university.
We smoke a lot. Some places you can not go without being forced to run to pass someone. More poor districts (dzielnica/ osiedle) more people smoke. And more stinky cigarettes
the rule is: store can be open on Sunday only if the owner is behind register. And since Żabka is a franchise shop, the owner is a cashier and they can open the store.
Wes, about adresses, system that's in Poland helps a lot in fiding exact building. You just need to know these rules: 1. one side of street has even numbers, the other side has odd numbers 2. numbers increse in same direction (on both sides), although can incease at different pace (so it's possible that on one side of street you'll see buildings with number: 9,11,13,15 and on other side: 42,44) Once you know these 2 rules, you can find literaly any bulding you're looking for, and find it quickly. Once exception of that rule, could be villages without street names, where building just have numbers. Homes usually will be numbered similiar as on streets-> numbers will decrease or increase as you travel from one end to another... unless you end up in a village where they don't... and next to a house 111, there's a house 4231 and next to them stands house 523... But seen only one such village so far... Getting back to cities topic: In most Japan cities, only main street /important streets have numbers, so adress there usualy consists of: closest named street, number of parallel streets you have to skip, number of perpendicular streets you have to skip and finaly building number which doesn't follow any logic and is just one of buildings in the square defined by those paraller and perpendicular street... I still find Polish system easier to navigate... find street, check which side of street is odd, which is even... compare numbers on 2 buildings to find out which direction numbers increse/decrese and just walk/drive in needed dirrection until you find one you're searching for... you can't miss
And then you go to Huta in Kraków and everything changes. If there's a grid of 4 streets, none of the buildings' address have any of the street names. It's Osiedle Something and the numbers are chaotic - you could have numbers 2 and 43 next to each other.
Also, I don't know if it works in other places, but with one exception of Puławska street, all the numbers in Warsaw grow along the river's current (if the street is paralel to the river) or from the river (if perpendicular).
@@sylwiatime don't know about other towns/cities, but from my experience numbers grow along the main streets from the old town/city center to the edges of the town/city, so not along the river's current.
On the topic of villages, a lot of villages without street names will have extremely random numbering, but that's mostly because it's chronological numbering by order of construction. In the village I'm in right now (in Beskid Makowski), there is a general pattern for numbers up to around 260 (start near the church, go along one side of the main road to the end, go along the other side in reverse to the other end, go back up the first side again until you reach the church again), but beyond that pattern up to the current highest number, which should be around 700, it's random and due to chronology. The number below and above mine are both at least a kilometre away. Cities however, much like many commenters have remarked already, are very good at following the "one side even, other side odd, rise in the same direction" pattern. More so than that, in most cases the odd numbers are on the right-hand side when facing in the ascending direction, which will usually lead away from the city centre.
Winter in Poland is not "harsh" for over 25 years, now its light winter or even no winter at all, in 90's in winter there was -30 and we were going to school through 40cm of snow, that was winter. And I dont know where are you walking but smoking is not a thing in Poland, I was in Italy on vacation, and THERE they are smoking like old train
I think that Poles are hospitable and cordial people, they like Americans and have had close ties with the USA since the 18th century, starting with the American fight for independence ,and ending with the huge immigration from Poland to the United States (especially in the second half of the 19th century), but, as far as I know, Poles don't give a shit that something is confusing Americans in Poland. And when it comes to air conditioning: bacteria, protozoa, dry air that is harmful to the lungs and skin, struggling with cleaning an installation used for a very, very short period of a year, etc. This is why most Poles tolerate air conditioning at work, shops, restaurants, but rarely at home. And another reason why Poles do not think they need air conditioning is at most 2-3 weeks of real heat and better insulation of walls and roofs from outside temperatures than in the USA (better quality of buildings - mainly made of brick or concrete, usually covered with thermal insulation, plus two- or three-layer windows with insulation) and better ventilation of buildings - gravitational ventilation is used. And at home, all you need is a good fan, turned on only occasionally, and if someone has a tree outside the window that casts a shadow, there is no problem at all. Even now, when the climate in Poland has quickly changed to warmer. I don't know what it will be like when the heat is longer, but for now air conditioning is widespread in Poland mainly outside private apartments and it makes sense
I don't install AC because in the city I really need it for about 2-3 weeks a year... And during those periods usually a fan, bikini and ice cream is enough to survive. In a while I will move to the countryside. Over there even in the worst days temperature always drops below 20 degrees at night and quite quickly too, since it's near a forest, which is on the western side and gives shade quite early.
I reside in a newly built building. And happen to have almost the same adress as people living on the same floor but in the builiding on the opposite side of the street. End result? All guys working in food delivery services trying to deliver someone else's food to my doorstep all the time just because some foreigner's renting out that other place cannot wrap their heads around how tiny differences in numbering of buildings work like in Poland. Since yes, we can have numbers but can also add letters to them like the building A and the building B. Apparently very confusing to both tourists and foreigners working in food delivery industry.
Many people smoke, yes. But it's not as bad as in Spain. If someone wants to experience a European country in which smoking in public is a massive issue they should visit Spain. Even in Italy the problem is not as bad as there. As fo Poland a new phenomenon would be immigrants from Ukraine and some from Bialorussia and Russia smoking really smelly, very cheap cigarettes on a balcony or even inside elevators. Started with this most recent immigration from Ukraine and in Kraków for example this new phenomenon has been on increase recently. It's visible since Polish people have already switched more to vaping which is more expensive and maybe more harmful to health than traditional cigarettes but either less smelly or even odourless. Polish people however tend to disobey a ban on smoking next to bus stop, so yes, in public places like this they can give an impression of smoking being a bigger issue than it actually is.
5:00 - Polish bread will spoil in about 2-3 days - That tells you there really isn't much mold-inhibiting garbage inside it....unlike in US bread, which can sit in your kitchen for months or even YEARS and still be "edible". I wouldn't even poke that with a stick cause I would be afraid the stick will turn into ash...
9 дней назад+30
"Lets say its 16°C in the US We can be more akurate cu we got 61 62 62..." And we got 16°C 17°C 18°C... American logic blows my mind🤯
Per 1C u need to add 1.8F. So i understand what he meant that their is more accurate. But if we add logic to the conversation we can remind him that we are used to tell temperature using "nubmer dot number" like 15.5C. So in F system we could even say with 0.18F tolerance.
9 дней назад+15
@michamielczak3280 lets start with the fact that its not like the 0.5 even matters to anyone 😉
1) Milk bars in Poland used to be focused on diary, flour and cereal or egg dishes, more than meat dishes. They provide cheap but healthy food for working class. Became popular after 1918 and were incorporated into communist "welfare" system in PRL after 1945 (state financial support). It is UNTUE that there are no similar bars in USA. There are quite a lot of them presently, just not in large cities. Usually they can be found in northeast states from New England states to Pennsylvania and Michigan. Unfortunately Americans food industry have forced the production od not-so-healthy food semi-products that are prepared by frying or grilling. Therefore most food there is basically industry standard. Those bars and diners were replaced mostly by fast-food chains. But those that offered home-style cooking (usually opened by migrants from Scandinavia, Germany or Poland and run by their descendants) survived due to local population support. Case in point: "Polish Bites" Indian Rock, PA 2) "Smoking culture" - Untrue. About 30% of adults are smoking cigarets according to polls from recent years. 3) Metric system is SCIENCE based. Imperial system is tradition based. All or almost all temperature measurements in Celcius are made with decimal fractions. So for 180 degrees Fatenheir we actually have a THOUSAND values in Celcius, which actually is more precise. So your opinion is again untrue. 4) Air-conditioning is the "easy way out". It's also a GIANT power consumer in any buiding or a house. Mechanical air flow circulation is much better, IMO. Plus well designned building with proper materials. With proper paints, isolation materials a roof or wall can reflect up tp 95% of light (therefore not accumulate heat). I live in a red brick building with flats that have windows on two different sides of the building. We have a air flow system in common part of the building and renovated walls and roof 7 years back. Never got more that 25 Celcius in my flat during summer. In winter with heat turned off for a week long vacation I return to 18 C. I have a power circuit reserved for air- conditioner (included it into power grid renovation), but never felt it neccessary to install it.
You are probably right about the toilets. This is Polish invention ;) Public restrooms have special official reulations (sanpid). Urinals and toilets must be separate from sinks in places like shopping malls or restaurants.
most old buildings are from brick so they don't need air conditioning while new buildings are from different materials so they are not so good at keeping stable temperatures
I live in a 1949 brick building and during the hot season a fan is mandatory. Because of the noise I have to turn it off before going to sleep and sometimes it's too hot at night.
Not true. I have American style house - sticks 😂 and 30 cm of insulation. My mother lives in old brick house - 60 cm of wall. My house is cooler and more stable.
Because you can't explain to older people that when it's hot outside during the day, they shouldn't open the windows. Old brick buildings heat up slowly and cool down slowly. You need to know how to "operate" this type of house, And you won't need air conditioning at all..
WTH? Addresses are stupid easy over here. Street name; building number; apartment number. Always. The only places without street names are villages with 4 houses in total and one mailman that is older than dirt. That's it. It's the American way the address is given is ridiculous. Building number first, name of the street second. And streets' names being literal numbers, too. 🤦🏽♀
There is some logic in the house number before the street name, in that the entire address then flows "from smallest to largest unit"; it's just that as Poles we're used to the street+house order that's actually dominant in mainland Europe. Both have their advantages, I wouldn't call it ridiculous straight away.
About paid public bathrooms. Its actually good system because they aren't just paid. They also have a cleaner overlooking them, who usually collects the fees. This way public toilets are overlooked by someone to make sure they are clean and nobody will try to use them inappropriately.
The funny part is we also use imperial system. For pipes, for some reason. I work in water and sewers constructions aaaand for some weird reason water pipe sizes are In inches. Just water. No efing idea why. I work with pipes for like 15 years and I can't get use to wate pipes being 5/4" or 1" when if u switch to sewers they are metric so we use 110mm pipes 160mm, 200mm etc.
So if the ground floor is the first floor for Americans, what is the underground floor? 0? And then -1? Sorry, but to me it makes more sense in the notation that is used in Poland, we start from 0, everything above is 1, 2 etc., everything below is -1, -2 etc., this is based on the coordinate axis (Cartesian coordinate system), which always starts from 0.
In Poland, prices are the same on the shelves and at the checkout in u USA different prices on the shelves and at the checkout Slavic coutries have the same opinion as Asian countries about leaving tips.
Hey I also do take my shoes off and actually change into my home clothes when I come into the house and I'm african brit lol. I think even africans when it comes down to cleanliness and pride is similar to slavic and asian cultures too. We like to be hard working and achieve good things in our life too hahahaha.
The smoking thing... In my school at the long break that is 15 minutes half of the students go to a Carrefour thats close by and the other half of them go to smoke vapes and normal cigs in a small park under the building. Also during the short breaks that are 5 minutes long the bathrooms on every floor are crowded by the students to smoke, its always foggy in there. So I think smoking is mainly big in the younger group age. Goverment is trying to do something about it and they raised the tax on nicotine products but it didnt do much, it didnt people off smoking just made them pay more.
As to the service in shops this is true that typically shop workers aren't too attentive. That's beacause we don't really like being disturbed and watched constantly during our shopping. It seems rather uncomfortable. However some shops tend to teatch their workers to be overattentive, but this is annoying😂
I'm Polish living in Romania. Here my address consists of: Street's name with number - building (block) number - entrance number - floor level - apartment number. In comparison Polish addresses are super simple.
Milk bars used to serve mostly diary based and non-meat, vegetarian dishes(also soups) hence the name... menu evolved over time, name stayed as it became a brand itself.... first Milk bars started operating under that name between ww1 and ww2
I'm about 50 and was eating in milk bars early in my life, obv. Never ever I remember them NOT serving meat. So it's either not true, or was operating this way some time before my childhood 😊
@@magdalenao7867true, i'm gen Z and since I can remember you can eat meat in milk bars. Maybe there are bars where there is no money to buy meat and they prefer to make soups, dumplings and other flour dishes but I have not encountered that
@@magdalenao7867 you are too young Magda, that was the case before 1990s, no meat. Naturally you do not rememeber (too young) the times when meat was scarce, one had to stand in line for hours to get any and that was only in exchange for tickets, 1kg per adult slightly more for growing children. Only miners received a larger allowance. So no, meat was not on the menu in milk bars.
That's because Americans are getting less European, since the 1960s, just look at old pictures and videos of Americans some decades ago and compare to now... or statistics, in the 50s or 60s the majority of Americans had blue eyes, ... now I think it's like 15% or even less... that's a shift, also I can't remember the last time I saw a real blonde (not bottle) from America these days, before it wasn't that uncommon, now it's like really rare.
Everyone smokes? It's so much better since there is a ban to smoke indoors. It used to be horrible. A lot of people got a push to quit or limit smoking. Still it's bad. And people can stink, and they smoke where they shouldn't, and they think if they live in apartment block they can smoke inside or on the balcony, or a bus stop. Still hate it with passion 😂😂
In Poland all streets have names. Some are named after destinations, like Warszawska Avenue in Lublin and Lubelska street in Warsaw. Every city has 3rd of May street, avenue or plaza. Many streets are named after famous Poles. There are streets named after important historical events. Many street are named after local geography like for example Nadwodna street which runs parallel to a river - it translates to "above water". Then there are names after plants and animals. A city might have whole series of streets named after trees or flowers. And there are pure functional names, like Dworcowa being the common name for a street next to train or bus station, as "dworzec" means station in this context. Some years ago one of the politicians from the far right claimed that these streets were named after soviet poet, Dworcow. The number thing goes like this: each building has its number, it doesn't matter if its the single house or big apartment building. In the later case there is / followed by the apartment number. Currently I live at apartment block that also includes a letter: something like Kozia 4B/11. There are actually 6 buildings with the same number followed by letters from A to F, each with 50 apartments. As for stores being closed at Sundays, it's a recent change. And there are some Sundays, usually before major holidays, when stores are open. But of one really needs to buy something, like toilet paper, buns and vodka, they can do it at nearest gas station.
I was kinda surprised so checked the statistics and surely it looked just as I expected - smoking in Poland is less popular than in US. I don't know where did you get the idea that so many people smoke here.
@WheresWes ok... Checked the statistics for vaping only. Over 11% more in the USA than in Poland, difference even larger than in the case of traditional cigarettes. Sorry but your observation doesn't seem to match reality
Everyone is smoking? The only person I know who WAS smoking, was my Dad, even he stopped more than 10 years ago. I don't actually know any Polish person who smokes now.
I know a lot tbh like I go to work at a factory and there are smoking rooms and everyone smokes on their brakes, they rather go for a smoke than eat something sometimes
I've never understood Fahrenheit "accuracy" argument. Sure it might work in some states where the weather is fairly stable but I cannot really distinguish 1 C difference at all unless it's indoors. The feeling is so dependant on so many other factors like humidity, wind, insolation etc. that the sole temperature scale accuracy is technically useless.
Another thing: that numbers case- not exactly True - only Polish "skyscrapers" are like that.Most houses have addresses like ulica Xxx +number of the House.
I cannot agree when it comes to smoking, when you said everybody smokes. I would say not more than 20% of Poles smokes. And it is related witch social position and education. Non of my friend smoke, nobody in my family smoke... Some young people smoke but 90% of people after 30 don't smoke.
According to worldpopulationreview in 2022 smokers percentage: - USA: 24.3% - Poland: 23.6% I really don’t understand statements that everybody in Poland smokes xD. Where is this coming from?
Cant really agree with the "every1 is smoking" thingy, sorry. Everyone was smoking in the 90s and from that time it goes less and less popular. At my workplace we have 3 smokers for 40 workers. I have only few smokers around my friends and family. According to official data from 2019 we had 34% smokers in total. Personally i think its way less.
I am a Pole who lives in a flat with two students from Africa (I am renting spare rooms to them). One of them constantly greeting me with very polite "Hi Ola! How are you?" and I think it's very nice, but every time I have a bad day I have to fight an intense urge to complain about everything 🤣I know it's only an invitation to small talk, but it's just goes againt my instinct to treat that question so lightly
No small talk is low-key because of history. For a long time, there were many ears interested to listen to. We learn to not talk without reason because we don't want to have problems.
8:55 - Just to clarify: They are "good" in terms of "you won't get any food poisoning" and those stores (usually) are pretty strict when it comes to expiration dates, tastewise: they are mediocre at best but healthwise many of those are worse than fast-food so do not eat too much in there. Don't get me wrong products are fine, same as in most shops (although slightly overpriced) but any meals offered as "to go" are (again usually) not soo good for your health - just avoid everything with nutri-score below C level please... C is more or less where junk food starts. JFYI
Some of the things you mention are only in larger cities, but there are many things I can agree with. There are so-called shopping Sundays where most stores are open, but for a shorter time. They used to be open all the time, probably since 2018, Sundays were introduced as non-working days.
So true about small talk. I talk to the women working at my beloved Zabka and ask them about themselves, their lives, their kids. They were freaked out at first, but my charm quickly won them over! Another great video Wes. Keep it up! Na zdowie , Danny
In my local store (small one, not chain store) there are 3 older women working (60+) and two of them are quite talkative, especially the oldest. She ask how it is going and last time she scolded me for not wearing my glasses (I have metal ones and it was below 0 that day, so I took them off to not freeze my nose.... also I am 35, so being scolded by "stranger" [as not friend or family member] was funny 😂)
@@MaraMara89 But if those are prescription glasses she was right! Hihi, just kidding (kinda?..) ;). Anyway, I'm not surprised at all. Like, you know, being asked about family and private matters by a "stranger" feels a little weird to us, but being told off by an older "stranger" lady that you're not taking care of yourself properly... yeah, that's 100% normal. XD
@yuaelt my glasses are not really strong (well, was not strong then, I just bought new ones that are stronger), she find out that I don't wear glasses because I was scrunching my eyes to see price on a shelf 🙃
Przyznam, że ja miewam lekki problem z pytaniem 'Co tam słychać?'. Zaczynam się wtedy zastanawiać co właściwie mam tej konkretnej osobie odpowiedzieć. 🤔 Kiedy się ostatnio mogliśmy widzieć i o czym wtedy rozmawialiśmy - i nie zawsze umiem to sobie przypomnieć na zawołanie. Nie wiem czasem czy ten ktoś nie próbuje mnie o coś jednak dopytać w ten sposób co powinnam kojarzyć sama. A jak powiem jedynie coś w stylu 'Jakoś leci', to ta osoba pomyśli, że ją zbywam mówiąc tak ogólny, nic nie znaczący banał. Chociaż akurat w USA taka odpowiedź jest właśnie tą oczekiwaną, bo nikt nie chce wiedzieć co NAPRAWDĘ u ciebie słychać. 😂🤭 W kwestii mało angażującego się personelu w obsługę klienta najbardziej jaskrawym przykładem bywają dla mnie sklepy budowlane, gdzie szczególnie jako kobieta mam często ochotę o coś dopytać pracowników a tych niekiedy nie ma nigdzie na horyzoncie. 🤨🙄 Przemierzanie tych dość dużych hal w poszukiwaniu żywej duszy, która coś wie na temat, na który ja czegoś nie wiem, bywa trochę zabawne a trochę irytujące. Ja w miejscach publicznych zachowuję się ciszej niż w domu. I dostosowuję się zwykle też do otoczenia. Cenię sobie spokój, więc nie mam dużej potrzeby drastycznego wyróżniania się na co dzień (a w Polsce pod wieloma względami łatwo się wyróżnić). Generalnie mam tendencję do unikania bardzo tłumnych miejsc (i lubię zaciszne zakątki w mieście). Przykładowo rzadko bywam na rynku miasta. Do tego mnie się często na mieście włącza tryb zadaniowy - że gdzieś trzeba się przemieścić, coś załatwić czy znaleźć jakieś miejsce i skupiam się na tym, żeby zrobić to możliwie szybko, bezkolizyjnie, sprawnie, bez wchodzenia nikomu w drogę i bez skupiania na sobie nadmiernej uwagi. Głośni ludzie bywają na dłuższą metę zresztą męczący. Zwlaszcza w grupach. Ja sama lubię obserwować ludzi; wolę bardziej rolę obserwatora. Więc hałaśliwe osoby bywają wręcz moim przeciwieństwem w zasadzie. 😂 Wpasowywanie się w ogół ludzi to właściwie automatyczne zachowanie stadne i potrzeba akceptacji. To może też wynika z wychowania - na grzeczne dziecko i z krytycyzmu (też samokrytycyzmu). Że jednak miejsce publiczne nie należy tylko do ciebie a swój indywidualizm zaznaczasz w bardziej subtelniejszy sposób. Natomiast ja bym się trochę niekomfortowo czuła w transporcie publicznym, w którym w ogóle nie wypada się odzywać. To jest dla mnie już z kolei przesada w drugą stronę. 😂
Zawsze będziesz w nieodwracalny sposób Amerykaninem, bo tam się wychowałeś. I tam sięgają Twoje korzenie. I to dobrze, że jesteś dumny ze swojego pochodzenia, bo to znaczy, że akceptujesz to kim jesteś. W Polsce jesteś wręcz żywą reklamą Ameryki w jakiś sposób - dla tych, którzy kojarzą skąd jesteś. Już samym faktem, że jesteś. Ty jesteś dodatkowo elastyczny, bo nie próbujesz na siłę robić z Polski Ameryki. Więc jesteś bardzo dobrym połączeniem kogoś z zewnątrz, kto tutaj próbuje się jak najlepiej odnaleźć. A Polska pod wieloma względami jest hermetyczna i nie tak przyjazna czy uśmiechnięta jak Ameryka, więc my tego niełatwego procesu asymilacji często nie ułatwiamy. Jesteś jednym z tych przykładów obcokrajowców, którego wielu z nas chciałoby w naszym kraju. Kimś kto szanuje Polskę, uczy się jej i nikomu nie szkodzi (dopóki nie zrobiłeś nic złego, nie masz powodu, by wstydzić się czegokolwiek). Możesz do końca nie zrozumieć nigdy Polski - i to jest jak najbardziej w porządku. To będzie wręcz odpowiadało temu kim rzeczywiście jesteś - kimś więcej niż człowiekiem stąd, przypisanym we wszystkim pod Polskę. Nie poczuj się w żaden sposób gorszy - nigdy tak o sobie nawet nie pomyśl. Bo jest wręcz dokładnie na odwrót. Twój atut polega właśnie na tym (między innymi!), że... nie jesteś z Polski. Tym się właśnie wyróżniasz. I to Cię wzbogaca. Jesteś kimś kto wręcz nas wzbogaca. Wnosi że sobą coś ożywczego i może wielu rzeczy nauczyć, przybliżyć nam coś w czym my się słabiej orientujemy. W ogóle nie jesteś nikim gorszym. A jeśli ktokolwiek kiedykolwiek chciał, żebyś się tak poczuł i to sprawił - sam był od Ciebie gorszy. Gwarantuję Ci to. 😊😅 Ja sama nie pojmuję Polski do końca, dlatego ciągle gdzieś się jej uczę, zgłębiam ją i wciąż jeszcze ogarniam. I nadal mam poczucie, że ogromu rzeczy nie wiem. I Polska potrafi nadal być dla mnie zaskakująca. Potrafię być przez nią sfrustrowana, ale też i wzruszona. Polska generalnie bywa trochę dziwna i absurdalna. Chyba wogóle nawet nie ma jednej Polski, bo czasem ma się wrażenie, że ludzie tu żyją jakby w równoległych światach 😉😂 - to już chyba jest największy absurd zaistniały w Polsce.
As for cigarettes, the further north you go, the fewer people smoke. Seriously. I lived in Krakow for 10 years and I also had this association that everyone smokes everywhere! Maybe because it's a very touristy city and we know that the British, Spanish and Italians also smoke a lot. Anyway, since I've been living in the Tri-City for four years, I have to tell you that it's a much smaller problem here - about 80% less smokers. So I invite you to the Tri-City.
Nah, man, a lot of people smoke in Tri-City too. Like every one in three people at least (which is also backed by poll data). As someone with asthma I wish smoking was such a non-problem like most people claim. I am still to go a single day without voughing my lungs out and literally choking at least once.
Krakow also is/was a city of art/music/philosophy people (hipsters?) - I mean: cigarettes are part of style there for some people :/ And Tri-city is the best part of Poland to live long (highest average life expectancy), so less people smoking make sense
8:13 this rule only applies to big malls. Private owned shops, small ones you find everywhere are usually open on sundays. The way zabkas dodge this is cause each is technically private owned. This caused an unexpected situation where you will find that many liquor stores - the stuffy ones previously occupied only by hobos - will also use that fact and put basic grocery items like bread, butter, milk, flour, and even sanitaries in their shelves.
The trade-free Sundays didn't get instituted because of Catholicism, but because of a need to comply with EU regulations. The reason Żabka stores can stay open on that day is because the company owners decided to squeeze a hotdog grill into every store, so that they could reclassify the stores as offering restaurant-like services, thus getting around the regulations.
Yep, my mom actually hates when anybody in the store asks if she needs help, she instantly repeats with smt like "i didnt even have time for checking anything" kinda rudely, so i have the same feeling bout it but i just politely or rudely (depends on approach) answer "no"
I dunno about those harsh winters since that is first time in my old life that not only i've never needed to turn on central heating but it is almost febuary and i have windows opened. xD
To me it sounds more like differences between Europe in general and the US. Maybe heating system is something particular for Eastern Europe because it is very effective here - winters used to be very harsh decades ago so in most cities you have central heating systems.
About the "Service quality" in the service industry: it is simple: We prefer Autenticity over fake politeness! Dead simple. 👍 Ok, don't be a "D" to customers! That wouldn't fly either. Apply basic decency, etiquette and be authentic. For me when a server or waitress is not super (fake) enthusiastic, is something i prefer. Maybe she/he has a bad day. You could try to cheer them up or something, and have a bit of genuine conversation. That's waaay better than the alternative: "Oh, I'm sooo super cheerful on the outside and sad on the inside😢, same as you and we "small talk" about bullshit, and nighter of us is feeling better at the end. Poland = genuine People, real conversations.
As for smoking i think it is getting better with each generation, when I was young it was so common that at parties everyone was smoking by the table and no one cared about kids etc. As for AC, I dont know if those are climate changes, global warming or something but have feeling that with each year winters are getting short and summer heats are stronger. A lot of people are buying AC but its new for poland to care more about heat and less about cold.
You didn't show how is Poland "different" from the USA, you just described why USA is weird and f**** up for the rest of the world → food size, ice in the drinks, non-metric system, air conditioning, first floor, bread, toilets, being f**** loud everywhere, opening hours, shoes off😀Thanks for that! Correction: NO, not everyone smoking, on the contrary. In comparison to many countries, Polish people smoke much less. Actually, I know very few people who smoke. And thanks for the laugh at the part "Adresses are here vey complicated" - that was awesome 🙂 This is a complicated address: ulica Chopina 14/36, 30-049 Kraków. Explanation for Americans: ulica Chopina = Chopin street, 14 = house number 14, 36 = apartment number 36, 30-049 = zip code 30-049, Kraków = Krakow. It's indeed very complicated.
Tbh? In Żabka (Frog) there is no healthy food in these you showed. Hotdogs, burgers etc. Of course it's not American unhealthy level but better is to even order from restaurant or from milk bar than eating in Zabka. They are like "oh shit i forgot 1-2 things from other shop so I'll take from here" or "oh crap i forgot about breakfast, today I'll take hotdog" but definitely I would not title these "healthy"
It might not be healthy, but eating there is rather safe. It is processed food, but fresh. In Żabka you can also buy salads, yogurts, fruits and veggies, bread etc. , not only fast food items
I never sit on my bed with outside clothes on. The first thing i do after comming back home is taking a shower and changing into my pijama/home clothes
We don't have streets named after numbers, you might mean those condo areas called "osiedle" where each block has it's own number in that area but there's no street names inside
You can work on a sunday if you want to- so small owned businesses will sometimes be open. Like some restaurants, or small corner shops, or Żabka's. You cannot demand a worker comes to work, so big supermarkets etc need to be closed (unless they're assholes that try to find loopholes. looking at you, intermarche, how the fuck you are not a library are you mad) Keep in mind when you say that you'd prefer the sundays open that then people have to work those sundays. So a lot of people from jobs that don't stop on friday do enjoy the mandatory one free week on the weekend, especially people with kids that disappear to school during the week.
0:11 When I was a kid Milk bars totally confused me too! They're a relict of old times (PRL) and they're donated by government. They were kept because of supporting local community 4:09 Actually I think for many Poles a drink out of a refigerator is enough and people rarely use ice (rather for % than for regular drink ;) ). It's great to hear some suprising insights, thanks for your video Wes!
4:34 This distinction is not unique to Poland. In fact, the way of saying that 1st floor is the ground floor is mostly seen in USA. In most naming conventions, the ground floor is floor 0, and you go + or - depending on level.
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If someone in Poland has underfloor heating and a heat pump with the option of cooling the house in the summer . They are becoming increasingly popular due to climate change. In the past, the normal temperature in Europe in the temperate zone was +25 degrees Celsius in the summer and therefore no one needed air conditioning.
I'm also annoyed by smoking :"(
@ Me too.
milk bar is subsidized by the state so that everyone can afford meals, this often applies to some dishes from the menu
8:39 Nice video, but I can tell you religion isn't the reason for shops being closed on Sundays. At least that's the answer you're gonna get if you ask an average person. Me, personally, I do not really know why did the government decide that. Was too young when the change happened. Also, yea, American bread is shit, with all the respect, unless you use it for toasts, so like it's recommended use here.
Small talk doesn't exist in Poland, it's all BIG talk. If you ask a Pole "hey, how is it going?" get ready to hear something like "Pretty bad actually, my dad was diagnosed with cancer, and my bank just raised our mortgage rate, which means we probably won't be able to blah blah blah"
Exactly. My "Small Talk" ends with "Cześć" or "Dzień dobry". If someone responds with something more than the same statement, it is already a conversation, not "small talk"
Complaining is our national sport, it is not a secret. Everybody coming to Poland should be aware of the fact "how are you" is not a greeting here; it's a window of opportunity to spill our dark souls :D
@echinorlax Ha, Ha, absolutely, when my husband joined me here in Australia 45 years ago when asked "how are you doing?" would enter into this whole tiride about, health, problems with adjusting to the new country and the list would go on and on 🤣. He just could not understand that it is not the done thing here.
Nienawidzę "Jak się masz" na powitanie. Kto to wgl wymyślił. A gdybym musiał tak jeszcze robić przy klientach???
Trying to upsell something to Slavs is generally not a good idea. Our mindset works like this: "Why would you try to convince me to buy your product? Probably because it's low quality. If it were really good, you wouldn't need to advertise it so aggressively."
Living in a country that wasn't very rich for a long time teaches consumers to make informed purchasing decisions. When I go to an automotive dealer, I don't need him to sell me the car because I've already done all the research myself. The only way to convince me to buy the more expensive model is to give me a discount on it and emphasize the better quality-to-price ratio.
9:20 - oh yeah, that "how can i help you" pisses off most of the poles, like: "I just came in, let me see what you got, let me chek your quality and if I would be interested in something I will ask, do not bother me right now", we do not need your help or advertising, we can go through menu/shop on our own just give us some space and time...
"Dokladnie."Jak mam ci pomoc"? To oznacza, ze masz mnie za idiote! Sam poprosze o pomoc, jesli jej bede potrzebowal.
Wy chyba macie najebane... Zamiast klasyfikowac, co generalizując wkurza jakąś grupę ludzi to najpierw nauczcie się z nimi rozmawiać i komunikować. Z tego co tutaj jest analizowane i co wypisujecie można wywnioskować, że kiedy np ktoś spyta się was, czy potrzebujecie pomocy to jakby wam matkę zwyzywał. Ale co tam, polaczki zawsze z ego w kosmosie.
@ A kto ty jestes, zeby tak pogardliwie wyrazac sie o nas? "polaczek" to wyjatkowo obrazliwe i niepolskie okreslenie.
@@CoreyFart85 zazwyczaj się mówi, że mamy kompleksy, a nie wybujale ego, no ale dobra powiedzmy, że rozumiem o co Ci chodziło... Moim zdaniem tu nie chodzi tylko o to jak się czujemy, to po prostu strata czasu. Większość ludzi potrafi wybrać produkt, który ich interesuje samodzielnie, pomoc pracownika w takim wypadku wydłuża niepotrzebnie ten proces, bo albo musimy wytłumaczyć jakie są nasze preferencje, albo istnieje spora szansa proponowania nam rzeczy, których nie chcemy, a to też zajmuje czas... Dodatkowo, bycie nachalnym w kwestiach zakupowych może być odbierane jako próba jak najszybszego pozbycia się klienta... Takie zachowania/odczucia mogą być spowodowane tym, że u nas kultura small talku praktycznie nie istnieje, więc niepotrzebne interakcje z innymi ludźmi w mniejszym lub większym stopniu nas irytują. Jest też takie powiedzenie: Nadgorliwość gorsza od fa****mu.
I hate when shop assistants or waiters, etc. are too invasive, imposing themselves. It's not "good service", if I need help I will ask, and then you can show how nice you are, within the extent of how much help was requested, don't overstep that boundary. Don't talk to me otherwise cause you're only gonna stress me out and make me leave awkwardly instead of making a purchase, and I'm gonna go to the competition that will let me do my stuff in peace, without bothering me. I can't understand why Americans think that talking to me without being asked will make me buy stuff, it's going to make me annoyed and NOT buy anything. Same with restaurants, if the waiter is literally waiting by the table I would absolutely hate being observed like that, give me some freaking privacy to enjoy a meal in peace. It's enough that at some point you come by and ask if everything is good to give me an opportunity to order more, and if something was bad I would be asking someone from the service to come, you don't need to freaking stalk me. This American style "pro activeness" and "going the extra mile" with a fake smile is TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE, feels patronising and sarcastic, hostile, like they think I don't belong there and need to watch my every move or something. I hate it. I so much prefer the Polish way where we often don't even exchange any words at all, just a slight smile and a few nods and gestures are more than enough to make a transaction without wasting time or any fake pleasantries that are just exhausting, unpleasant. I live in the UK and it's not as extreme as the US but it's already sometimes really awkward and annoying when they try to control the situation instead of just letting me pick what I want. That's not gonna end up in an upsale, but a lost sale whatsoever.
I agree
They want to talk to me while I chew!
EXACTLY, in Poland it depends on shop, but I remember times where especially in clothing stores employees were just assaulting you with questions "how I can help you?" - fortunately it is less visible now. Although I like small talk in grocery store where i know everyone and cute sad smile "today we haven't your cigarettes" :D
This! There's a popular restaurant in my city in Poland where they try to upsell you everything and I hate it, but for years their food was great so I was coming back to that place. They changed their menu however and now only one item is worth coming back so instead of once a month I go there once a year.
I love the Dutch style. When you enter a shop in the Netherlands, the shopkeeper looks at you, says "good morning" and leaves you to browse in peace, unless you have a question to ask.
Regarding smoking, you must be hanging out with weird people 😂. In my experience, it is 10-20% people who smoke. By no means a majority.
yeah, smoking ain't trending since many years now
and half of them even switched to electric cigs
Living in the block (I don't know how to describe that building in English) you do not have choice of people. You even do not have to know them. You cannot spend time at your balcony, you cannot open the windows, the smoke comes even through the ventilation to your own flat.
Seems like a lot to me. You walk everywhere people are smoking cigarettes or vapes. Tons of younger people smoke vapes.
@@WheresWes if we were talking about Poland in 90's you'd see cigarettes everywhere...and you could smell smoke everywhere (literally, even at school, as teachers would smoke either in classes between lessons, or in their cabinet next to class)... now 30 years later, minority smokes... sure there are places where you can find people smoking, but in general it's prohibited in most public areas... only exceptions being marked areas where smoking is allowed.
Vapes are other thing, they are popular amongst youngers, seems like a trend that became popular 3-4 years ago... Kids like to see themselves as 'grown ups' and do it, by reaching for substances that are resticted to adults... forbidden fruit effect... 60-70% of them, will drop it, once it becomes legal to them... rest will get addicted and probably die to lung cancer... what can you do... natural selection
@@MonikaMazgola I think the term you're searching for is "living in a flat" :)
Regarding the floors - Polish equivalent "piętro" comes from the verb "piętrzyć" - "to stack". So first "piętro" needs to be stacked on something, thus it cannot be on ground level.
Also, ground floor used to be considered the least comfortable, the cheapest, so maybe it wasn't counted as a floor to live on (for a respectable citizen).
@@suonatar1 Where did you found information that ground floor was considered the least comfortable and the cheapest? In what time period? Because historically ground floor was for business - not living. First floor was the most expensive and last floors of buildings was for poor people/servants etc, as there weren't elevators to take people there ;)
@MaraMara89 It was just an assumption
And the ground floor name"parter" comes from French "par terre" - on the ground.
2:19 I've heard this before from many Americans about Celsius and it always makes me laugh so hard. I've never had a situation where I thought: it's warmer than 16°C but colder than 17°C. And to say that Fahrenheit is more accurate is even more funny. Can't Americans imagine that it is possible to measure such a temperature as 16.2°C or 16.00000000001°C? 😂
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Well said.
Exactly. Your body ain't even registering that minute difference in temperature!
A mericans do not want to accept the reality of beig total weirdos with their f scale. 😂😂😂
That's a good one. Love it 😂
Who cares about Celcius or Fahrenheit?? At the end of the day, this is America who sent a man to the moon and not Poland. Maybe you should consider learning how to pronounce English names like Google, wi-fi or realize that Indians live in India and not in North America. Oh, and one more, for Christ's sake, bar is a place where drink and not eat! When you steal a nice English name like "bar" at least use it correctly Don't call cafeterias and restaurants "bars" ;)
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as a polish architecture student, i can tell you that this is literally the law, the dirty and clean spaces in bathrooms cannot be in one big room. the only exceptions to that law are old buildings, where you cant easily change the layout of rooms.
In bathroom for disabled you merge clean and dirty space into one room.
@HatredPrime yeah, that too. Would be very inconvenient otherwise
What is unclear about Polish addresses? Street name (e.g., Sosnowa), building number (12)/apartment number (if there are multiple apartments in the building). On one side, you have even numbers, on the other, odd numbers. What is unreadable here?
To be fair (Letterkenny reference should be inserted here), sometimes we do have some strange numbering, usually when street meanders through neighbourhood of buildings made by one developer (developer in polish means building construction company - just putting it here, because I've got in the past, stupid comments that software developers have nothing to do with buildings) over a short period of time. For american it can be a bit confusing in combo with addition of staircase and apartment number. My friend live on a street that literally circles around dozens of blocks with no-name side streets. Might be that this Wes guy lives in one of these neighbourhoods. They are rare, but even we need to consult google maps to traverse them.
I did not understand it neither
Yes, it’s extremely simply system. Is even nothing to understand. Just follow by numbers.
@MonikaMazgola @kikiv1993 chodzi o to że ulica dobiega do np zgrupowania bloków na ulicy Xowej, one mają numery 1-5 i musisz chodzić pomiędzy blokami szukając bloku Xowa 3, mieszkania 12, czasem nawet bloku 3A/12, a w stanach każdy jeden budynek w dużym mieście jest przy ulicy, a adres wskazuje od razu drzwi mieszkania których szukasz. Stąd takie adresy z ogromnymi liczbami jak w filmie.
Do tego miasta zbudowane są na siatce prostopadłych ulic
He probably meant housing estates/blocks/„osiedla”. Where a whole group of buildings is called, for example, "osiedle Składkowskiego" and there are several small streets under the same name, the buildings differ only in numbering + letters (usually in some order). Post-communist legacy.
In summer, we sleep with our windows open at night-that's our air conditioning😉. During the day, when the sun is high, you want to shut your curtains so the sun doesn't heat up the room. South European countries (Italy, Greece) also do this and open their windows closer to the evening.
That’s just means you’re letting all the mosquitoes in, because houses in Europe normally don’t have screens on their windows. 😢
@@GutekZ don't sit inside ur bedroom, i live in spain i always just 3 hours before bed open the window and shut the lights. And if absolutely neccassary use fans/aircon
@@GutekZno, you don’t. Is 100 way to prevent room for mosquitoes.
Yeah because it works so well when it's 20c+ at night anyway...
AC is only proper way to do it. Only reason it's not popular it's because it's expensive to run with our highest on planet energy prices.
Countries you described are in different climate, they have much drier air so experience of temperature is completely different. Poland has surprisingly high humidity reaching 80% and more at times this means even mere 25c can be too much for some.
My parents recently built a house and we even had a discussion about whether or not to have air conditioning, but we all agreed that it was a waste of money because you could just cool the room by opening the windows in the evening. I have the impression that most Poles have gotten used to overheated buildings, and although we sometimes complain about it, such an investment is generally seen as unprofitable.
Harsh winters?
It's end of January and most days we're above zero.
Climate change pretty much cancelled winter in my lifetime.
i'm a polish and for me winter is harsh. it doesn't necessarily means that snow is needed to be considers as harsh. it's cold, the wind is usually strong, it's depressingly dark all the time, you barely see the sun... of course, it used to be a lot harder when we actually had snow but now it's still unpleasant. especially for someone who used to live in warmer places.
People from abroad constantly record videos about these milk bars, but for Poles they are of marginal importance. In many cities they do not exist at all.
In my tiny town, there are three sushi places and no milk bar
I miss milk bars so much😢
Globalisation @@Ula-Ka
True but as a Warsaw inhabitant I eat there quite often
hahah I thought the same thing. I guess they still exist somewhere, but they're really rare.
Tourist attactions are often open on Sundays... if anything they might be closed on one specific day during the week... (like most Museums are closed on Mondays). That was the whole idea about closing the shops on Sundays: to have time to spend with families, either at home... or at tourist attractions...
cinemas, theaters, different kind of museum, restaurants -> most things are open on Sundays.
Milk bars are called milk bars because they didn't serve meat dishes in the past, they were established as cheap eateries, subsidized by the government during communism, some survived with subsidies, but are currently subsidized by city budgets, they may have meat dishes but they are not subsidized.
No, they are older than communism.
Where have you seen street numbers instead of street names in Poland?
Never in Poland
"street(w domyśle nazwa ulicy),(Tu pauza) number(w domyśle numer budynku)" nigdy nie powiedział "street number this" w domyśle ulica nr N
@@Wszobrody To be honest... There are rare cases. Very rare. Check village Węgrzce just north of Krakow. Address "ul.C3 35C" would be fully valid there (though it doesn't exist yet)
I assume, he wanted to say, that at least in my city, you have name of the street, and further only a number. So for example - sing saying ul. Powolna, and going further on the building, you have only numbers, like 2, 4, 6 and so on.
Największy problem jest gdy masz dojechać do jakiejś wsi, np. Nowa wieś i okazuje się, że w Pl jest takich w uj i jeszcze trochę XDD. Wtedy trzeba znać województwo i obok jakiej wsi, jakiego miasteczka się znajduje
In the past there was no need for AC in Poland.
It’s just recently that summers got so hot, and winters so mild.
as a polish person, SHOES ON THE BED IS THE BIGGEST CRIME
So true.
the saparation between the handwashing area vs the room where the toilets are actually makes it more hygenic
Smoking???!!! Are you serious???!!! It couldn't be further from the truth!
It depends with who he is hanging out with
i don't smoke but i do see and meet A LOT of smokers. i do think he has a point...
"Here in Poland everybody smokes". No, this is not true, not true at all. Are you completely sure, that you've ever been to Poland? This seriously undermines your credibility.
No, we're not obsessed with bread. We just eat it often. And we're quite good at making it.
American bread would be considered cake in Poland tbh😅
Or just baked product.
Sounds like an insult to the polish cakes.
I would say that American bread would be considered as radioactive waste in Poland 😅
@ cruel but true.
"American bread"? You mean that square thing made of Styrofoam that tastes like Mendeleev's Table? In several thousand years, archaeologists of that time will unearth this thing as the only remnant of the American civilization. :)
I'm from poland and i don't agree on second issue, we don't smoke that much
pomyśl tylko ile osób w szkołach średnich i wyższych jara na przerwach, do tego dochodzą e-pety palone zawsze i wszędzie. Na pewno jest to problem
I see it everywhere. I live in a building with many university students and tons of them smoke.
@@WheresWes Really? In my parents' generation everybody smoked, home, work, it was something you just did. Now? Almost everybody I know quitted if they even started. It's really uncool these days. Maybe some lower class kids, but they will probably stop when they go to work or university.
@@autumnrambleyou also have to count how many people vape
We smoke a lot. Some places you can not go without being forced to run to pass someone. More poor districts (dzielnica/ osiedle) more people smoke. And more stinky cigarettes
Żabka is a store, which always finds a way to be open on Sundays, regardless of restrictions. 😂
It's beacuse they found a way to cheat system :)
the rule is: store can be open on Sunday only if the owner is behind register. And since Żabka is a franchise shop, the owner is a cashier and they can open the store.
Wes, about adresses, system that's in Poland helps a lot in fiding exact building. You just need to know these rules:
1. one side of street has even numbers, the other side has odd numbers
2. numbers increse in same direction (on both sides), although can incease at different pace (so it's possible that on one side of street you'll see buildings with number: 9,11,13,15 and on other side: 42,44)
Once you know these 2 rules, you can find literaly any bulding you're looking for, and find it quickly.
Once exception of that rule, could be villages without street names, where building just have numbers. Homes usually will be numbered similiar as on streets-> numbers will decrease or increase as you travel from one end to another... unless you end up in a village where they don't... and next to a house 111, there's a house 4231 and next to them stands house 523... But seen only one such village so far...
Getting back to cities topic:
In most Japan cities, only main street /important streets have numbers, so adress there usualy consists of:
closest named street, number of parallel streets you have to skip, number of perpendicular streets you have to skip and finaly building number which doesn't follow any logic and is just one of buildings in the square defined by those paraller and perpendicular street...
I still find Polish system easier to navigate... find street, check which side of street is odd, which is even... compare numbers on 2 buildings to find out which direction numbers increse/decrese and just walk/drive in needed dirrection until you find one you're searching for... you can't miss
And then you go to Huta in Kraków and everything changes. If there's a grid of 4 streets, none of the buildings' address have any of the street names. It's Osiedle Something and the numbers are chaotic - you could have numbers 2 and 43 next to each other.
@@michamarkowski2204 Yes, but those are exceptions to the rule
Also, I don't know if it works in other places, but with one exception of Puławska street, all the numbers in Warsaw grow along the river's current (if the street is paralel to the river) or from the river (if perpendicular).
@@sylwiatime don't know about other towns/cities, but from my experience numbers grow along the main streets from the old town/city center to the edges of the town/city, so not along the river's current.
On the topic of villages, a lot of villages without street names will have extremely random numbering, but that's mostly because it's chronological numbering by order of construction.
In the village I'm in right now (in Beskid Makowski), there is a general pattern for numbers up to around 260 (start near the church, go along one side of the main road to the end, go along the other side in reverse to the other end, go back up the first side again until you reach the church again), but beyond that pattern up to the current highest number, which should be around 700, it's random and due to chronology. The number below and above mine are both at least a kilometre away.
Cities however, much like many commenters have remarked already, are very good at following the "one side even, other side odd, rise in the same direction" pattern. More so than that, in most cases the odd numbers are on the right-hand side when facing in the ascending direction, which will usually lead away from the city centre.
Winter in Poland is not "harsh" for over 25 years, now its light winter or even no winter at all, in 90's in winter there was -30 and we were going to school through 40cm of snow, that was winter.
And I dont know where are you walking but smoking is not a thing in Poland, I was in Italy on vacation, and THERE they are smoking like old train
I think that Poles are hospitable and cordial people, they like Americans and have had close ties with the USA since the 18th century, starting with the American fight for independence ,and ending with the huge immigration from Poland to the United States (especially in the second half of the 19th century), but, as far as I know, Poles don't give a shit that something is confusing Americans in Poland. And when it comes to air conditioning: bacteria, protozoa, dry air that is harmful to the lungs and skin, struggling with cleaning an installation used for a very, very short period of a year, etc. This is why most Poles tolerate air conditioning at work, shops, restaurants, but rarely at home. And another reason why Poles do not think they need air conditioning is at most 2-3 weeks of real heat and better insulation of walls and roofs from outside temperatures than in the USA (better quality of buildings - mainly made of brick or concrete, usually covered with thermal insulation, plus two- or three-layer windows with insulation) and better ventilation of buildings - gravitational ventilation is used. And at home, all you need is a good fan, turned on only occasionally, and if someone has a tree outside the window that casts a shadow, there is no problem at all. Even now, when the climate in Poland has quickly changed to warmer. I don't know what it will be like when the heat is longer, but for now air conditioning is widespread in Poland mainly outside private apartments and it makes sense
Therefore we are eco-friendly. No power wasted to cool things down when the nature says it should be warm.
I don't install AC because in the city I really need it for about 2-3 weeks a year... And during those periods usually a fan, bikini and ice cream is enough to survive. In a while I will move to the countryside. Over there even in the worst days temperature always drops below 20 degrees at night and quite quickly too, since it's near a forest, which is on the western side and gives shade quite early.
I thought only we Rwandans had Milk bars. Way to go, Poland!
Wut? All buildings have numbers in Poland o_o what do you mean? What kind of very unclear address did you see?
I reside in a newly built building. And happen to have almost the same adress as people living on the same floor but in the builiding on the opposite side of the street. End result? All guys working in food delivery services trying to deliver someone else's food to my doorstep all the time just because some foreigner's renting out that other place cannot wrap their heads around how tiny differences in numbering of buildings work like in Poland. Since yes, we can have numbers but can also add letters to them like the building A and the building B. Apparently very confusing to both tourists and foreigners working in food delivery industry.
"Everybody smokes", yeah no, maybe in the 90's.
Many people smoke, yes. But it's not as bad as in Spain. If someone wants to experience a European country in which smoking in public is a massive issue they should visit Spain. Even in Italy the problem is not as bad as there. As fo Poland a new phenomenon would be immigrants from Ukraine and some from Bialorussia and Russia smoking really smelly, very cheap cigarettes on a balcony or even inside elevators. Started with this most recent immigration from Ukraine and in Kraków for example this new phenomenon has been on increase recently. It's visible since Polish people have already switched more to vaping which is more expensive and maybe more harmful to health than traditional cigarettes but either less smelly or even odourless. Polish people however tend to disobey a ban on smoking next to bus stop, so yes, in public places like this they can give an impression of smoking being a bigger issue than it actually is.
5:00 - Polish bread will spoil in about 2-3 days - That tells you there really isn't much mold-inhibiting garbage inside it....unlike in US bread, which can sit in your kitchen for months or even YEARS and still be "edible". I wouldn't even poke that with a stick cause I would be afraid the stick will turn into ash...
"Lets say its 16°C in the US We can be more akurate cu we got 61 62 62..."
And we got 16°C 17°C 18°C...
American logic blows my mind🤯
Per 1C u need to add 1.8F. So i understand what he meant that their is more accurate. But if we add logic to the conversation we can remind him that we are used to tell temperature using "nubmer dot number" like 15.5C. So in F system we could even say with 0.18F tolerance.
@michamielczak3280 lets start with the fact that its not like the 0.5 even matters to anyone 😉
1) Milk bars in Poland used to be focused on diary, flour and cereal or egg dishes, more than meat dishes. They provide cheap but healthy food for working class. Became popular after 1918 and were incorporated into communist "welfare" system in PRL after 1945 (state financial support).
It is UNTUE that there are no similar bars in USA. There are quite a lot of them presently, just not in large cities. Usually they can be found in northeast states from New England states to Pennsylvania and Michigan. Unfortunately Americans food industry have forced the production od not-so-healthy food semi-products that are prepared by frying or grilling. Therefore most food there is basically industry standard. Those bars and diners were replaced mostly by fast-food chains. But those that offered home-style cooking (usually opened by migrants from Scandinavia, Germany or Poland and run by their descendants) survived due to local population support. Case in point: "Polish Bites" Indian Rock, PA
2) "Smoking culture" - Untrue. About 30% of adults are smoking cigarets according to polls from recent years.
3) Metric system is SCIENCE based. Imperial system is tradition based.
All or almost all temperature measurements in Celcius are made with decimal fractions. So for 180 degrees Fatenheir we actually have a THOUSAND values in Celcius, which actually is more precise. So your opinion is again untrue.
4) Air-conditioning is the "easy way out". It's also a GIANT power consumer in any buiding or a house. Mechanical air flow circulation is much better, IMO. Plus well designned building with proper materials. With proper paints, isolation materials a roof or wall can reflect up tp 95% of light (therefore not accumulate heat). I live in a red brick building with flats that have windows on two different sides of the building. We have a air flow system in common part of the building and renovated walls and roof 7 years back. Never got more that 25 Celcius in my flat during summer. In winter with heat turned off for a week long vacation I return to 18 C.
I have a power circuit reserved for air- conditioner (included it into power grid renovation), but never felt it neccessary to install it.
You are probably right about the toilets. This is Polish invention ;) Public restrooms have special official reulations (sanpid). Urinals and toilets must be separate from sinks in places like shopping malls or restaurants.
most old buildings are from brick so they don't need air conditioning while new buildings are from different materials so they are not so good at keeping stable temperatures
I live in a 1949 brick building and during the hot season a fan is mandatory. Because of the noise I have to turn it off before going to sleep and sometimes it's too hot at night.
Not true. I have American style house - sticks 😂 and 30 cm of insulation. My mother lives in old brick house - 60 cm of wall. My house is cooler and more stable.
Because you can't explain to older people that when it's hot outside during the day, they shouldn't open the windows.
Old brick buildings heat up slowly and cool down slowly.
You need to know how to "operate" this type of house, And you won't need air conditioning at all..
@@kamilmotaa1434 heat-resistant shades do a great job - I have them on every window, except WC and kitchen.
WTH? Addresses are stupid easy over here.
Street name; building number; apartment number. Always. The only places without street names are villages with 4 houses in total and one mailman that is older than dirt.
That's it. It's the American way the address is given is ridiculous. Building number first, name of the street second. And streets' names being literal numbers, too. 🤦🏽♀
There is some logic in the house number before the street name, in that the entire address then flows "from smallest to largest unit"; it's just that as Poles we're used to the street+house order that's actually dominant in mainland Europe. Both have their advantages, I wouldn't call it ridiculous straight away.
For cooling just buy a desk fan. Cheap, effective.
About paid public bathrooms.
Its actually good system because they aren't just paid. They also have a cleaner overlooking them, who usually collects the fees.
This way public toilets are overlooked by someone to make sure they are clean and nobody will try to use them inappropriately.
The funny part is we also use imperial system. For pipes, for some reason. I work in water and sewers constructions aaaand for some weird reason water pipe sizes are In inches. Just water. No efing idea why. I work with pipes for like 15 years and I can't get use to wate pipes being 5/4" or 1" when if u switch to sewers they are metric so we use 110mm pipes 160mm, 200mm etc.
We also use P/si unit in wheel pressure.
So if the ground floor is the first floor for Americans, what is the underground floor? 0? And then -1?
Sorry, but to me it makes more sense in the notation that is used in Poland, we start from 0, everything above is 1, 2 etc., everything below is -1, -2 etc., this is based on the coordinate axis (Cartesian coordinate system), which always starts from 0.
In Poland, prices are the same on the shelves and at the checkout in u
USA different prices on the shelves and at the checkout
Slavic coutries have the same opinion as Asian countries about leaving tips.
Hey I also do take my shoes off and actually change into my home clothes when I come into the house and I'm african brit lol. I think even africans when it comes down to cleanliness and pride is similar to slavic and asian cultures too. We like to be hard working and achieve good things in our life too hahahaha.
The smoking thing... In my school at the long break that is 15 minutes half of the students go to a Carrefour thats close by and the other half of them go to smoke vapes and normal cigs in a small park under the building. Also during the short breaks that are 5 minutes long the bathrooms on every floor are crowded by the students to smoke, its always foggy in there. So I think smoking is mainly big in the younger group age. Goverment is trying to do something about it and they raised the tax on nicotine products but it didnt do much, it didnt people off smoking just made them pay more.
Klapki are more to the swimmingpool u can also say that, but the specific ones we wear around the house are called papcie 😊
Kapcie.
@pzwolski laczki
@@patrykrusin2501 bambosze
papucie
Ranne pantofle..🤣
agreed, going to sleep dirty? yack, disgusting
you put on clean pajama, lie down in your clean bed, you just have to take a bath to be clean yourself!
I take shower every morning, but my bed sheets are always dirty.🤣🤣🤣
Aren't you, as an American, surprised by self check-out in Zabkas? There is way less theft in shops here compared to the US.
As to the service in shops this is true that typically shop workers aren't too attentive. That's beacause we don't really like being disturbed and watched constantly during our shopping. It seems rather uncomfortable. However some shops tend to teatch their workers to be overattentive, but this is annoying😂
I'm Polish living in Romania. Here my address consists of: Street's name with number - building (block) number - entrance number - floor level - apartment number. In comparison Polish addresses are super simple.
Milk bars used to serve mostly diary based and non-meat, vegetarian dishes(also soups) hence the name... menu evolved over time, name stayed as it became a brand itself.... first Milk bars started operating under that name between ww1 and ww2
I'm about 50 and was eating in milk bars early in my life, obv. Never ever I remember them NOT serving meat. So it's either not true, or was operating this way some time before my childhood 😊
@@magdalenao7867true, i'm gen Z and since I can remember you can eat meat in milk bars. Maybe there are bars where there is no money to buy meat and they prefer to make soups, dumplings and other flour dishes but I have not encountered that
@@magdalenao7867It's not that they've decided not to serve meat, but meat was hard to get (like in the 80s).
You always can get meat in milk bars. It was always cheap and good food
@@magdalenao7867 you are too young Magda, that was the case before 1990s, no meat. Naturally you do not rememeber (too young) the times when meat was scarce, one had to stand in line for hours to get any and that was only in exchange for tickets, 1kg per adult slightly more for growing children. Only miners received a larger allowance. So no, meat was not on the menu in milk bars.
For me, Americans are more and more culturally exotic and less and less "European".
That's because Americans are getting less European, since the 1960s, just look at old pictures and videos of Americans some decades ago and compare to now... or statistics, in the 50s or 60s the majority of Americans had blue eyes, ... now I think it's like 15% or even less... that's a shift, also I can't remember the last time I saw a real blonde (not bottle) from America these days, before it wasn't that uncommon, now it's like really rare.
Everyone smokes? It's so much better since there is a ban to smoke indoors. It used to be horrible. A lot of people got a push to quit or limit smoking. Still it's bad. And people can stink, and they smoke where they shouldn't, and they think if they live in apartment block they can smoke inside or on the balcony, or a bus stop. Still hate it with passion 😂😂
Go to Germany or France and look how much people smoke there
The apartment, including the balcony, is your property and you have the right to smoke there as much as you like. No one has banned it yet.
In Poland all streets have names. Some are named after destinations, like Warszawska Avenue in Lublin and Lubelska street in Warsaw. Every city has 3rd of May street, avenue or plaza. Many streets are named after famous Poles. There are streets named after important historical events. Many street are named after local geography like for example Nadwodna street which runs parallel to a river - it translates to "above water". Then there are names after plants and animals. A city might have whole series of streets named after trees or flowers. And there are pure functional names, like Dworcowa being the common name for a street next to train or bus station, as "dworzec" means station in this context. Some years ago one of the politicians from the far right claimed that these streets were named after soviet poet, Dworcow.
The number thing goes like this: each building has its number, it doesn't matter if its the single house or big apartment building. In the later case there is / followed by the apartment number. Currently I live at apartment block that also includes a letter: something like Kozia 4B/11. There are actually 6 buildings with the same number followed by letters from A to F, each with 50 apartments.
As for stores being closed at Sundays, it's a recent change. And there are some Sundays, usually before major holidays, when stores are open. But of one really needs to buy something, like toilet paper, buns and vodka, they can do it at nearest gas station.
I was kinda surprised so checked the statistics and surely it looked just as I expected - smoking in Poland is less popular than in US. I don't know where did you get the idea that so many people smoke here.
Nah I don't think that's accurate. Just walking around smoking is way more common here than the US. You also have to look at vaping
@WheresWes ok... Checked the statistics for vaping only. Over 11% more in the USA than in Poland, difference even larger than in the case of traditional cigarettes. Sorry but your observation doesn't seem to match reality
Everyone is smoking? The only person I know who WAS smoking, was my Dad, even he stopped more than 10 years ago. I don't actually know any Polish person who smokes now.
I know a lot tbh like I go to work at a factory and there are smoking rooms and everyone smokes on their brakes, they rather go for a smoke than eat something sometimes
I liked the word "Breadcession". Good summary, mostly accurate given my experience of living in both countries.
I've never understood Fahrenheit "accuracy" argument. Sure it might work in some states where the weather is fairly stable but I cannot really distinguish 1 C difference at all unless it's indoors. The feeling is so dependant on so many other factors like humidity, wind, insolation etc. that the sole temperature scale accuracy is technically useless.
Another thing: that numbers case- not exactly True - only Polish "skyscrapers" are like that.Most houses have addresses like ulica Xxx +number of the House.
zabka despite of being everywhere and almost constantly open is still low quality and expensive
I cannot agree when it comes to smoking, when you said everybody smokes. I would say not more than 20% of Poles smokes. And it is related witch social position and education. Non of my friend smoke, nobody in my family smoke... Some young people smoke but 90% of people after 30 don't smoke.
Lies 😂
Everybody smokes in the 80 and 90 but it was still not everybody now people tend to not smoke
According to worldpopulationreview in 2022 smokers percentage:
- USA: 24.3%
- Poland: 23.6%
I really don’t understand statements that everybody in Poland smokes xD. Where is this coming from?
@@Flypho726 probably social bubbles...
I encounter maybe one smoker per week in Warsaw. Not sure what Wes is on about.
Cant really agree with the "every1 is smoking" thingy, sorry. Everyone was smoking in the 90s and from that time it goes less and less popular. At my workplace we have 3 smokers for 40 workers. I have only few smokers around my friends and family. According to official data from 2019 we had 34% smokers in total. Personally i think its way less.
I am a Pole who lives in a flat with two students from Africa (I am renting spare rooms to them). One of them constantly greeting me with very polite "Hi Ola! How are you?" and I think it's very nice, but every time I have a bad day I have to fight an intense urge to complain about everything 🤣I know it's only an invitation to small talk, but it's just goes againt my instinct to treat that question so lightly
All very helpful, practical information, thanks. And I like your music too, BTW.
No small talk is low-key because of history. For a long time, there were many ears interested to listen to. We learn to not talk without reason because we don't want to have problems.
8:55 - Just to clarify: They are "good" in terms of "you won't get any food poisoning" and those stores (usually) are pretty strict when it comes to expiration dates, tastewise: they are mediocre at best but healthwise many of those are worse than fast-food so do not eat too much in there. Don't get me wrong products are fine, same as in most shops (although slightly overpriced) but any meals offered as "to go" are (again usually) not soo good for your health - just avoid everything with nutri-score below C level please... C is more or less where junk food starts. JFYI
Some of the things you mention are only in larger cities, but there are many things I can agree with. There are so-called shopping Sundays where most stores are open, but for a shorter time. They used to be open all the time, probably since 2018, Sundays were introduced as non-working days.
So true about small talk. I talk to the women working at my beloved Zabka and ask them about themselves, their lives, their kids. They were freaked out at first, but my charm quickly won them over! Another great video Wes. Keep it up! Na zdowie , Danny
Wow, I'm not surprised they were freaked out... I hope this happened after you became a regular customer and they already kinda knew you
In my local store (small one, not chain store) there are 3 older women working (60+) and two of them are quite talkative, especially the oldest. She ask how it is going and last time she scolded me for not wearing my glasses (I have metal ones and it was below 0 that day, so I took them off to not freeze my nose.... also I am 35, so being scolded by "stranger" [as not friend or family member] was funny 😂)
@@MaraMara89 But if those are prescription glasses she was right! Hihi, just kidding (kinda?..) ;). Anyway, I'm not surprised at all. Like, you know, being asked about family and private matters by a "stranger" feels a little weird to us, but being told off by an older "stranger" lady that you're not taking care of yourself properly... yeah, that's 100% normal. XD
@yuaelt my glasses are not really strong (well, was not strong then, I just bought new ones that are stronger), she find out that I don't wear glasses because I was scrunching my eyes to see price on a shelf 🙃
@@yuaelt I was the only American in town, so they knew me (and soon after loved me! ) our kids went to the same school. It was fun to chat!
Przyznam, że ja miewam lekki problem z pytaniem 'Co tam słychać?'. Zaczynam się wtedy zastanawiać co właściwie mam tej konkretnej osobie odpowiedzieć. 🤔 Kiedy się ostatnio mogliśmy widzieć i o czym wtedy rozmawialiśmy - i nie zawsze umiem to sobie przypomnieć na zawołanie. Nie wiem czasem czy ten ktoś nie próbuje mnie o coś jednak dopytać w ten sposób co powinnam kojarzyć sama. A jak powiem jedynie coś w stylu 'Jakoś leci', to ta osoba pomyśli, że ją zbywam mówiąc tak ogólny, nic nie znaczący banał. Chociaż akurat w USA taka odpowiedź jest właśnie tą oczekiwaną, bo nikt nie chce wiedzieć co NAPRAWDĘ u ciebie słychać. 😂🤭
W kwestii mało angażującego się personelu w obsługę klienta najbardziej jaskrawym przykładem bywają dla mnie sklepy budowlane, gdzie szczególnie jako kobieta mam często ochotę o coś dopytać pracowników a tych niekiedy nie ma nigdzie na horyzoncie. 🤨🙄 Przemierzanie tych dość dużych hal w poszukiwaniu żywej duszy, która coś wie na temat, na który ja czegoś nie wiem, bywa trochę zabawne a trochę irytujące.
Ja w miejscach publicznych zachowuję się ciszej niż w domu. I dostosowuję się zwykle też do otoczenia. Cenię sobie spokój, więc nie mam dużej potrzeby drastycznego wyróżniania się na co dzień (a w Polsce pod wieloma względami łatwo się wyróżnić). Generalnie mam tendencję do unikania bardzo tłumnych miejsc (i lubię zaciszne zakątki w mieście). Przykładowo rzadko bywam na rynku miasta. Do tego mnie się często na mieście włącza tryb zadaniowy - że gdzieś trzeba się przemieścić, coś załatwić czy znaleźć jakieś miejsce i skupiam się na tym, żeby zrobić to możliwie szybko, bezkolizyjnie, sprawnie, bez wchodzenia nikomu w drogę i bez skupiania na sobie nadmiernej uwagi. Głośni ludzie bywają na dłuższą metę zresztą męczący. Zwlaszcza w grupach. Ja sama lubię obserwować ludzi; wolę bardziej rolę obserwatora. Więc hałaśliwe osoby bywają wręcz moim przeciwieństwem w zasadzie. 😂 Wpasowywanie się w ogół ludzi to właściwie automatyczne zachowanie stadne i potrzeba akceptacji. To może też wynika z wychowania - na grzeczne dziecko i z krytycyzmu (też samokrytycyzmu). Że jednak miejsce publiczne nie należy tylko do ciebie a swój indywidualizm zaznaczasz w bardziej subtelniejszy sposób. Natomiast ja bym się trochę niekomfortowo czuła w transporcie publicznym, w którym w ogóle nie wypada się odzywać. To jest dla mnie już z kolei przesada w drugą stronę. 😂
Zawsze będziesz w nieodwracalny sposób Amerykaninem, bo tam się wychowałeś. I tam sięgają Twoje korzenie. I to dobrze, że jesteś dumny ze swojego pochodzenia, bo to znaczy, że akceptujesz to kim jesteś. W Polsce jesteś wręcz żywą reklamą Ameryki w jakiś sposób - dla tych, którzy kojarzą skąd jesteś. Już samym faktem, że jesteś. Ty jesteś dodatkowo elastyczny, bo nie próbujesz na siłę robić z Polski Ameryki. Więc jesteś bardzo dobrym połączeniem kogoś z zewnątrz, kto tutaj próbuje się jak najlepiej odnaleźć. A Polska pod wieloma względami jest hermetyczna i nie tak przyjazna czy uśmiechnięta jak Ameryka, więc my tego niełatwego procesu asymilacji często nie ułatwiamy. Jesteś jednym z tych przykładów obcokrajowców, którego wielu z nas chciałoby w naszym kraju. Kimś kto szanuje Polskę, uczy się jej i nikomu nie szkodzi (dopóki nie zrobiłeś nic złego, nie masz powodu, by wstydzić się czegokolwiek). Możesz do końca nie zrozumieć nigdy Polski - i to jest jak najbardziej w porządku. To będzie wręcz odpowiadało temu kim rzeczywiście jesteś - kimś więcej niż człowiekiem stąd, przypisanym we wszystkim pod Polskę. Nie poczuj się w żaden sposób gorszy - nigdy tak o sobie nawet nie pomyśl. Bo jest wręcz dokładnie na odwrót. Twój atut polega właśnie na tym (między innymi!), że... nie jesteś z Polski. Tym się właśnie wyróżniasz. I to Cię wzbogaca. Jesteś kimś kto wręcz nas wzbogaca. Wnosi że sobą coś ożywczego i może wielu rzeczy nauczyć, przybliżyć nam coś w czym my się słabiej orientujemy. W ogóle nie jesteś nikim gorszym. A jeśli ktokolwiek kiedykolwiek chciał, żebyś się tak poczuł i to sprawił - sam był od Ciebie gorszy. Gwarantuję Ci to. 😊😅
Ja sama nie pojmuję Polski do końca, dlatego ciągle gdzieś się jej uczę, zgłębiam ją i wciąż jeszcze ogarniam. I nadal mam poczucie, że ogromu rzeczy nie wiem. I Polska potrafi nadal być dla mnie zaskakująca. Potrafię być przez nią sfrustrowana, ale też i wzruszona. Polska generalnie bywa trochę dziwna i absurdalna. Chyba wogóle nawet nie ma jednej Polski, bo czasem ma się wrażenie, że ludzie tu żyją jakby w równoległych światach 😉😂 - to już chyba jest największy absurd zaistniały w Polsce.
Didnt feel a cigarette for years, have one friend who smokes but he goes outdoors for that.
As for cigarettes, the further north you go, the fewer people smoke. Seriously. I lived in Krakow for 10 years and I also had this association that everyone smokes everywhere! Maybe because it's a very touristy city and we know that the British, Spanish and Italians also smoke a lot. Anyway, since I've been living in the Tri-City for four years, I have to tell you that it's a much smaller problem here - about 80% less smokers. So I invite you to the Tri-City.
Good to know
Nah, man, a lot of people smoke in Tri-City too.
Like every one in three people at least (which is also backed by poll data).
As someone with asthma I wish smoking was such a non-problem like most people claim. I am still to go a single day without voughing my lungs out and literally choking at least once.
Krakow also is/was a city of art/music/philosophy people (hipsters?) - I mean: cigarettes are part of style there for some people :/ And Tri-city is the best part of Poland to live long (highest average life expectancy), so less people smoking make sense
8:13 this rule only applies to big malls. Private owned shops, small ones you find everywhere are usually open on sundays.
The way zabkas dodge this is cause each is technically private owned.
This caused an unexpected situation where you will find that many liquor stores - the stuffy ones previously occupied only by hobos - will also use that fact and put basic grocery items like bread, butter, milk, flour, and even sanitaries in their shelves.
What the hell? Literally no one smokes if you compare 2025 and 2015.
The trade-free Sundays didn't get instituted because of Catholicism, but because of a need to comply with EU regulations. The reason Żabka stores can stay open on that day is because the company owners decided to squeeze a hotdog grill into every store, so that they could reclassify the stores as offering restaurant-like services, thus getting around the regulations.
What EU regulations? I think you might be wrong here
Breakfast at 8:30? Maybe in sunday. In most places work time is 8-16 (8AM to 4PM) so i think 7:00 or 7:30 is more appropriate.
Some people eat breakfast at work
He lives in dorm, so students starts later ;) also: I eat breakfast at work at 9/10
Yep, my mom actually hates when anybody in the store asks if she needs help, she instantly repeats with smt like "i didnt even have time for checking anything" kinda rudely, so i have the same feeling bout it but i just politely or rudely (depends on approach) answer "no"
wait, wait, wait not everyone smoke and eats at 2PM
I dunno about those harsh winters since that is first time in my old life that not only i've never needed to turn on central heating but it is almost febuary and i have windows opened. xD
About smoking - for me as a Pole it's also annoying there should be regulations about smoking in public places like regulations for drinking alcohol
Smoking is actually banned almost everywhere in Poland, I'm very surprised about that comment.
About floors - Americans count floor and Poles count ceiling.
8:09 im polish and i dont know a single person who likes that everything is closed on sundays xd
To me it sounds more like differences between Europe in general and the US. Maybe heating system is something particular for Eastern Europe because it is very effective here - winters used to be very harsh decades ago so in most cities you have central heating systems.
A reason people in Poland eat early while people in Spain eat late is because Poland has reasonable timezones being on the eastern part of a timezone
About the "Service quality" in the service industry: it is simple: We prefer Autenticity over fake politeness! Dead simple. 👍
Ok, don't be a "D" to customers! That wouldn't fly either. Apply basic decency, etiquette and be authentic. For me when a server or waitress is not super (fake) enthusiastic, is something i prefer.
Maybe she/he has a bad day. You could try to cheer them up or something, and have a bit of genuine conversation. That's waaay better than the alternative:
"Oh, I'm sooo super cheerful on the outside and sad on the inside😢, same as you and we "small talk" about bullshit, and nighter of us is feeling better at the end.
Poland = genuine People, real conversations.
As for smoking i think it is getting better with each generation, when I was young it was so common that at parties everyone was smoking by the table and no one cared about kids etc.
As for AC, I dont know if those are climate changes, global warming or something but have feeling that with each year winters are getting short and summer heats are stronger. A lot of people are buying AC but its new for poland to care more about heat and less about cold.
Where do you live that people smoke a lot? I know only few smoking people. In every company that I've ever worked maksimum 20% was smoking.
what ... smoking in poland ... 10% comparing to eu
You didn't show how is Poland "different" from the USA, you just described why USA is weird and f**** up for the rest of the world → food size, ice in the drinks, non-metric system, air conditioning, first floor, bread, toilets, being f**** loud everywhere, opening hours, shoes off😀Thanks for that! Correction: NO, not everyone smoking, on the contrary. In comparison to many countries, Polish people smoke much less. Actually, I know very few people who smoke. And thanks for the laugh at the part "Adresses are here vey complicated" - that was awesome 🙂 This is a complicated address: ulica Chopina 14/36, 30-049 Kraków. Explanation for Americans: ulica Chopina = Chopin street, 14 = house number 14, 36 = apartment number 36, 30-049 = zip code 30-049, Kraków = Krakow. It's indeed very complicated.
And then the possibility of entering a decimal number comes in, and the resolution in *C increases at least 10x
Tbh? In Żabka (Frog) there is no healthy food in these you showed. Hotdogs, burgers etc. Of course it's not American unhealthy level but better is to even order from restaurant or from milk bar than eating in Zabka. They are like "oh shit i forgot 1-2 things from other shop so I'll take from here" or "oh crap i forgot about breakfast, today I'll take hotdog" but definitely I would not title these "healthy"
It might not be healthy, but eating there is rather safe. It is processed food, but fresh. In Żabka you can also buy salads, yogurts, fruits and veggies, bread etc. , not only fast food items
I never sit on my bed with outside clothes on. The first thing i do after comming back home is taking a shower and changing into my pijama/home clothes
fun fact - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was from Gdansk
I like that it was very accurate and mix of good and bad things. You seem very objective, looking also from the Asian point of view.
We don't have streets named after numbers, you might mean those condo areas called "osiedle" where each block has it's own number in that area but there's no street names inside
9:00 because in the USA service workers are focused on upselling or tips.
You can work on a sunday if you want to- so small owned businesses will sometimes be open. Like some restaurants, or small corner shops, or Żabka's. You cannot demand a worker comes to work, so big supermarkets etc need to be closed (unless they're assholes that try to find loopholes. looking at you, intermarche, how the fuck you are not a library are you mad)
Keep in mind when you say that you'd prefer the sundays open that then people have to work those sundays. So a lot of people from jobs that don't stop on friday do enjoy the mandatory one free week on the weekend, especially people with kids that disappear to school during the week.
0:11 When I was a kid Milk bars totally confused me too! They're a relict of old times (PRL) and they're donated by government. They were kept because of supporting local community
4:09 Actually I think for many Poles a drink out of a refigerator is enough and people rarely use ice (rather for % than for regular drink ;) ).
It's great to hear some suprising insights, thanks for your video Wes!
2:21 in Celsius we also say 16.2°, 17.9° 23,3° etc… it’s just not shown that accurate on a 🌡️
As polish... MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS ONE PLEASE!
4:34 This distinction is not unique to Poland. In fact, the way of saying that 1st floor is the ground floor is mostly seen in USA. In most naming conventions, the ground floor is floor 0, and you go + or - depending on level.