Football Playeer Fined 200,000 For A Nazi Salute

Czech First League Player will pay 200,000 for what was qualified as “semi-Nazi salute. During the match he was “trying to calm down the fans” so he extended his arm twice in a row.

It was an unfortunate gesture and it had nothing to do with Nazi ideology, Pavel Horvath defends himself. However, a court-approved expert on extremism worked on a report that found this gesture extremely problematic. He said the Nazi salute, in order to be complete and to be qualified as racist, would have to be accompanied with the verbal gesture (I can’t write it here…).

No surprise here. Many fans who go to Czech First League matches seem to have only half a brain. Horvath seems to have lost his half for a while there. He says he was under the influence “of the atmosphere”… I am not buying this…

We Want Obits! We Want Obits!

The golden rule in business is Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. I am going to break the rule, hoping that our readers who are 65+ do not read this…

We have a small obits section. Well, more likely a column in which funerals are listed. Just the names and ages. Not full article that would tell the life story of the people, kind of like NYT has. It is there just for information purposes. Example: John Novak, 75. And the name of the funeral home where the funeral ceremony will take place.

Yesterday we did not have it because of a page re-design. Today we have it on a different page.

Between 9 a.m. and now THIRTY people of the age of 65 and over called and asked why we cancelled this section and that if we really did they would cancel their subscription.  Some of them were rude and all of them were grumpy. After the twentieth person called, I wanted to take the next call and yell Why the hell do you care so much about dead people you didn’t even know? Enjoy life!Really. The readers want to read about the deaths and funerals of total strangers. They should learn from my grandmother who is 85 and twice as active as many 65 year-olds.

Paul Potts Rules. Even In The Czech Republic

Czech IT news server named Technet asks its readers to vote on the best YouTube video and former mobile phone Paul Potts from the United Kingdom rules it. Last night he had ten times as many votes as the second most favored video.

Two words: holy cow!

Czech Dubbing: Watch Your Facts

Yesterday’s episode of Married With Children on TV Nova.

Al Bundy talks with three of his overweight friends. They discuss their boyfriends, when one of them says “We are in the Mile High Club“. [translation: I had sex on a plane]

The meaning of the translation in Czech was We WENT to this club called Vysoka mile ["High Mile"]. And we had tons of fun…

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