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Post by Bonobo on Jan 21, 2018 16:27:44 GMT 1
It is a recently invented name used for a certain group of people in Poland. It is a bit pejorative and ironic.
Who is a jar?
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Post by jeanne on Jan 21, 2018 21:32:48 GMT 1
It is a recently invented name used for a certain group of people in Poland. It is a bit pejorative and ironic. Who is a jar? I googled it and what I found is that they are people who go back and forth from their home towns to the cities where they work during the week. They carry glass jars of food in their bags with the tell-tale clinking sound giving away their status as jars. |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 21, 2018 21:37:26 GMT 1
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Post by jeanne on Jan 21, 2018 21:45:18 GMT 1
I googled it and what I found is that they are people who go back and forth from their home towns to the cities where they work during the week. They carry glass jars of food in their bags with the tell-tale clinking sound giving away their status as jars. Wow! How did you manage to find it??? You are perfectly right - those are mostly young people, workers or students, who carry jars with home food cooked by their mothers/grannies in small towns. Unfortunately, the name is ironic and a bit contemptuous because it is used by native city dwellers to stigmatise new comers who are accused of barbaric habits and primitive behavior.     What a wonderful feeling when all jars have gone home for Christmas. Warsaw is so deserted.  Native city dwellers need to lighten up a bit...someday they may be in the same position as the jars. I think it's part of human nature not to like people encroaching on one's space. I grew up in a small town on the seashore. Hundreds of city dwellers descended on our normally quiet town each summer...we called them "summer bums." |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 21, 2018 23:01:16 GMT 1
I think it's part of human nature not to like people encroaching on one's space. I grew up in a small town on the seashore. Hundreds of city dwellers descended on our normally quiet town each summer...we called them "summer bums." 1 Exactly, the first war in human history was waged when one apeman encroached on another`s territory. 2 Not summer locust  |
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Post by jeanne on Jan 22, 2018 0:31:05 GMT 1
I think it's part of human nature not to like people encroaching on one's space. I grew up in a small town on the seashore. Hundreds of city dwellers descended on our normally quiet town each summer...we called them "summer bums." 1 Exactly, the first war in human history was waged when one apeman encroached on another`s territory. 2 Not summer locust No, summer bums was more lyrical with the rhyming "um" sounds!  |
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