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jon357   
20 Mar 2012
Food / Could you recommend me a fresh Polish juice from fruit? [18]

a superfood,

Indeed. And a very traditional British ingredient. The main problem with elderberries though is the amount of Tannin - mixed with apple, the effect is somewhat mitigated. Personally I prefer cordial made from the blossom, elderflower. Both make good wine.
jon357   
20 Mar 2012
News / Drunken Brit beats up young Polish policewoman [62]

So you are saying that the trash is innocent and two police officers are liares ?

Yes - Polish police officers are very often liars. I wouldn't even accept a confession if it wasn't made in the presence of a lawyer and if the accused is a foreign citizen, in the presence of somebody from the embassy.

Rioters from Jamaica represented the largest group of foreign inmates, followed by Somali and Polish offenders. The list also included those from Colombia, Iraq, Congo, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.

That's amazing. I wonder why?
jon357   
19 Mar 2012
Life / In case you didn't hate Polish drivers yet.... [15]

I think so too. They should seriously crack down on parking in bus stops. Pavements too where access for pedestrians and wheelchair users is blocked.
jon357   
19 Mar 2012
News / Drunken Brit beats up young Polish policewoman [62]

I agree, there should be a custodial sentence for assaulting police in cases where it is proven beyond doubt to have happened. But whose evidence is more believable and likely to be true - a tourist, drunk or not, or a Polish police 'officer' without independent corroboration?
jon357   
19 Mar 2012
News / Drunken Brit beats up young Polish policewoman [62]

I agree. If this was a violent crime by a Pole in the UK, it wouldn't merit an article, never mind a photo. At best three lines in the courts page. In any case, knowing the Polish police, I wouldn't be surprised if there's more to it.
jon357   
19 Mar 2012
Life / Warsaw Philharmonia - keeping the smelly plebs out! [8]

the season tickets are VERY CHEAP

All well and good. They provide up-front income. There are a couple of dozen permutations. I've had one for a few years - when I'm out of the country on my travels i give the tickets to others. I used to have a full season ticket for Opera North and was always glad of being able to get the same box - at the Warsaw Philharmonic they're generally much cheaper, but if you get a full ticket, the price isn't low.

Everyone would buy season tickets if they could, but only nomenklatura can have them!!

I've never had a problem. The best thing about getting one of the season tickets is that they ensure that people who are committed to attending concerts won't have problems getting in to one of the more popular concerts due to the tickets being sold out to people who otherwise wouldn't go there from one month to the next.
jon357   
19 Mar 2012
Work / BEWARE of K&S Krakowska Szkoła Języków Obcych!! [41]

happens quite often?

No it doesn't.

This is for those for who either have come to Poland for an enjoyable working experience, or for those who are already in Poland looking for extra teaching work or to gain employment. All the best in Poland and good luck!

And a few enquiries have shown that there's similar stuff about this in various places on the internet, but none of them where one would normally post about a rogue school, and none of them written by a native speaker of English.
jon357   
15 Mar 2012
News / American soldiers beat up in Torun, Łódź [141]

But not being white makes the chance of getting into a fight a hell of a lot higher. As anybody who has any personal experience (you very clearly do not) will tell you. Do you actually know any non-white people who have spend time in Poland?

When I came to Poland I worked for a company that employed 80 foreigners, about 50 of them male, 48 of them white. Guess what the two who were attacked by strangers had in common.