Life / Where to Buy a Beanbag in Warsaw? [4]

Any ideas on where I might pick up a bean bag chair in Warsaw? The nearest I've found is the This and That shop in Arkadia, but they were only kids size.

Any help much appreciated.

UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK Turn Out to be Star Waiters and Waitresses. [13]

And I thought Poles poaching swans and eating grass was the most ridiculous articles I would hear from British newspapers. Now, as the Poles are heading home, they seem to be blubbing like someone who's been sacked off at the altar.

See this extract from a Daily Telegraph piece below.

The Polish influx was like importing our parents' generation into today's UK," says Paul Statham, professor of sociology at Bristol University. "It has been about values – a mass arrival of people with traditional values that have been eroded here."

Allied with "a Catholic way of viewing the world, with family and community values at its centre", Prof Statham argues that Poles have effected a "basic cultural trend".

"Simple things like being treated politely in bars and restaurants had all but disappeared before Poles arrived in large numbers to work here. Now that has changed and will remain changed. Britain is changing itself."

Poles can be admired for many things, and there is plenty of good stuff in this article about hard work, but treated politely in bars and restaurants?? Polite, in the sense of not really bothering with the waitressing aspect of the position or the customer service end of things.

This fella has obviously never been served by Polish waiters and waitresses, maybe Czechs and Hungarians, they can at least muster up a smile.

But then I suppose doctors and scientists weren't made to ferry cake and coffee around.