Posted in Eh, Czechs, Life, tagged phones, Technology on July 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Sometimes you never realize how important some thing is until you really need it. Czechs in the 21st century living in villages or smaller towns know.
Example: a bank operates an ATM in a small town. According to a cost and profit calculation, the machine is not making profit. And the bank is losing money. It [...]
Posted in Economy, Eh, Czechs, Travel on July 2, 2008 | No Comments »
A sign in CZECH in my hotel restaurant:
Dear guests, please be advised that no takeaway is allowed. If you are seen doing so, the hotel would have to insist that you pay for what you have been attempting to take out.
Haven´t we learned already?
Posted in Eh, Czechs, Travel, tagged holiday, summer on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
If you are a no-strings-attached person like yours truly, you would enjoy a relatively new way of buying your summer holiday. I am sure it is not specific to the Czech Republic, but I am also sure that in some countries this way of vacationing is impossible, due to labor laws, lifestyle(s) etc.
It is called [...]
Posted in Eh, Czechs, Law, Life, tagged cars, children, howto on June 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Minimum age is a tricky thing.
According to certain American legislation, an American can go to jail for having LEGAL consensual sex abroad with a fourteen year-old, if the age of sexual consent in his home state is fifteen or sixteen.
So, what can Czechs do and when?
15: you can own and ride a small motorcycle, limited [...]
Posted in Eh, Czechs, tagged USA on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
TODAY: AMERICANS
#1: We should say I Love You more often: If there is anything I think Americans do way often is say things like “I love you, mom” at any occasion in which a mom behaves like a mom and a child behaves like a child. Let’s say a daughter wants to postpone her curfew, [...]
Posted in Eh, Czechs, Life, tagged health, smoking, alcohol, sex on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Czech Institute for Public Health issued the annual statistics related to smoking, alcohol and drug use. It includes stats on teens that shocked me: when it comes to sixteen year old smokers, there are more girls than boys. Plus, girls are catching up in terms of alcohol as well…
Half a decade ago, the numbers [...]
Posted in Education & Science, Eh, Czechs on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
The last week of April and the first two weeks of May are the last three weeks high school seniors are “students” of their schools. So it is the time for them to collect some money for their going away parties. These unofficial parties take place with A LOT of alcohol: Czechs can legally purchase and drink alcohol when [...]
Posted in Eh, Czechs, Travel on April 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This has to be the stupidest tourism-related offer I have seen in years.
Czechs who go on holidays to Croatia with the CKVT travel agency can enjoy the company of Czech actors, stand-up comedians, singers, etc. The noted personalities get their “holiday” more or less for free in exchange for their performance. The travel agency is advertising [...]
Posted in Eh, Czechs, Politics on April 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Members of the Czech delegation led by PM Mirek Topolanek did not care much about the protocol during their visit to the United Arab Emirates. Even the PM acted dumb, a MF Dnes daily reporter writes on the paper’s blog.
According to the reporter who witnessed an official lunch [or dinner, hard to tell] the PM got [...]
Posted in Eh, Czechs, Life on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I went grocery shopping to a BILLA supermarket in the very downtown Brno, on the main square where all tourist groups from Asian countries gather to hear the main chapter from the history of Brno.
The drugstore aisle that usually offers five kinds of toilet paper was almost empty. On two top shelves there were fancy [...]
