A Polish friend kindly shared with me that for every two Polish policemen together on patrol one of them will, without doubt, have a moustache. Walking home tonight I saw two such bobbies on the beat and true to word one of them had a little furry animal positioned underneath his nose.
Moustaches are still very much de rigeur in the segregated world of those of a certain age or mindset and for many it almost seems as though they would be somehow incomplete without one. Replete with cigarette hanging from this hairy top lip cascade they really do conjure up images of a bygone era. Different strokes for different folks, though. It would be more than a little dull if we all looked the same but, then again, it would be more than a little funny if we all had moustaches.
Moustaches are still very much de rigeur in the segregated world of those of a certain age or mindset and for many it almost seems as though they would be somehow incomplete without one. Replete with cigarette hanging from this hairy top lip cascade they really do conjure up images of a bygone era. Different strokes for different folks, though. It would be more than a little dull if we all looked the same but, then again, it would be more than a little funny if we all had moustaches.
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Now that's some photo :) [You noticed SF movies never have bearded / tached clones?] Your fiend is probably quite right about the police. Straz Miejska [Municipal Guard] is a formation younger than the police, so I think I saw two [male] guards yesterday and no stache upon them. = If you ask me [or care to see my website, post "Heirs to the Hair..."], moustache is one Polish meme, now receding.
thanks, dictor toolittle. i'll head over to your place now!
The "ironic 'stache" was in among New York's hipster population for a while, especially Salvador Dali style handlebar specimens. The city was teeming with men who looked as if they spent their spare time tying women to railroad tracks :-)
noooooo, that's crazy. i mean, if you can take it off then, well, fine but if not then don't just come across as a bit of a plum?
I guess there could be no such thing as an undercover cop then, huh?
P.S. Thanks for visiting my blog! I'm really intrigued by yours, as my boyfriend has dreamed of living in Poland all his life :-) I'm going to pass along your link
melanie, thanks! hope he enjoys it. there is also another polish-based blog written by an englander...it's in my blogroll.
Flowers: I'm amazed that you have rozzers in pairs over in Katowice, everywhere else they seem to patrol in groups of at least four; for company. When I lived in Warsaw many moons ago the bill used to congregate on the steps of the underpass in the center of town where it was much warmer than the frosty streets. Walking through there in the evening with ten to twenty plod hovering about trying to look busy used to cause us to comment that it must be a 'high crime area.'
I claim the prize for the highest number of police-euphemisms in one comment.
Melanie: Why has your boyfriend dreamed of living in Poland all his life? Does he have some kind of psychiatric condition? Couple of months here and he'll be cured, never fear :)
batorego: i've only ever seen them in pairs when patrolling. in their vans, however, there are always full herds.
italy, though....standing around together doing nothing. the most ridiculous looking police i've seen - after the japanese, of course, with their flashy sticks.
Batorego, reasons for Melanie's BF's dream I know not -- but there's an American-sounding guy talking to me in Berlin the other day, and he says he'd love to live in Poland, so I ask why, and he says: "man, legal pot, man, legal hookers, where else, man, Polland rules, man."
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