Little rant about vain people

Yesterday i went to yet another great event organized by Brno expats center. This time Brno culinary. While it was interesting, i was unpleasantly surprised by the same time. Well, maybe not really unpleasantly, but it left some uneasy feeling how distant people can be for one another. This meeting was for posh people in very posh place with costumes, pretending ones understand stuff about wine and splashing on stuff worth many times less. One thing, i like cozy, not chic. Another thing, i consider myself simple and very unpretentious person and bad liar as well. So i felt extremely uncomfortable.
Also i realized once more how vain and plain stupid people can. Why to go to live in another country if you don't even learn local language and then complain how unfriendly to foreigners local people are? Here's very nice post how to feel local (or at least almost) in Czech republic. I read it several times and can't agree more. According to my very subjective experience and observation quite a lot of immigrants are rich and well, to put it slightly, boring. Rich people are rarely interesting to me because there's not much to talk about with them. Especially when they start about travels. With plain. To capitals. And call it 'traveling'. In my humble opinion it's even more absurd than some people posting questions in let's say Vilnius Tripadvisor forum. When people like that gets cheated and complains about it nobody even feels sorry for them as 99 percent of times it happens it's because they event didn't read about the country they are going to.
So back to where i started, exactly the same stuff i see in the part of expat community here in Brno. Native English speakers expecting that everybody must speak English and putting zero effort in learning beautiful and funny Czech language and getting agitated when somebody don't and later complaining that Czechs in Czech republic can't communicate in foreign language in their home country. Most of them are able to speak only about flying, restaurants, stuff they bought and that's it. Some of foreigners are nice but actually living stereotypes of their home countries. Because of their behavior in my home country i always was careful around British and south European people but only there, abroad, i noticed that i can detect them very easily as they behave like typical tourists there most of the time.
I try not to think stereotypically, but well, people act stereotypically. Brits drink a lot. South europeans shout instead of talking. Americans think that north europeans speak russian. Central europeans not knowing a thing about neighbor countries. North europeans being very sceptical and allergic to stupid and ignorant people and so on. I espeacially notice that when after stating a fact i am called rude/ignorant/angry/little sad/etc. by people not used to truth. What can i say (think most of the time)? Grow up and get a life.

Impeccable days

After moving to Czech republic, Brno, I suddenly become aware how much I miss real, paper letters or post cards. At my early days there I was buying postcards and sending to relatives every week or so. I got word back only from few but still was joyous about it. Now I really fancy buying pretty postcards when I notice them. In this world and time when social networks takes big part in communication, these letters and postcards is great pleasure for me. Damn, I still remember that I got my first mobile phone at age of 16 and as a kid used to play with friends outside, make 'sekrets' in forest and never find them (sekret is small miracle in the ground, created with making a little hole, putting treasured stuff (for kids it was flowers, small toys, candies...) and putting piece of glass on the top). I know that dumb people assume that in my country we speak russian and live in total soviet style hating all russians and polish, but while my childhood actually WAS in soviet style it was real childhood, not damaged by social networks and internet. I still enjoy reading books in paper..

I remember one time i was asked which time period i would choose if i had opportunity to travel in time. Based on how world is nowadays i knew at instant that i would travel back in time. But then i was doubting what i would choose - eighties somewhere in USA (i like feeling smarter than most of others and based on media this period was quite fun there) or 15th century somewhere in Russia (long explanation : central / western Europe was not safe for women as due to crazy Catholics and wars, and in Russia they always (almost) cherished they women and i would like to see more of a country). I decided on eighties as my historical knowledge took over.

True

Finally i have almost everything i always dreamed about - job i love, my own space in flat i'm allowed to sleep at night (i always hated parties and loud people) and enough money to buy food i like and clothes i want. I apologize for other people mistake which they make when beginnings of their sentences interrupts middle of mine. That's life now.
What i still don't enjoy about Brno and Czech republic overall is lack of possibilities to pay with card. I don't like having cash and going to bankomat everytime i need some, so more possibilities to pay with card would be appreciated. But thing is, i intentionally chose bank Fio which has only few bankomats around town but is cheap - other banks requires payments just for using them or availability to services i don't use.

Went to january foreigner's meeting where beer drinking competition happened. I understand that Foreigners.cz offers and likes only expensive or overpriced stuff but that was a bit over the top. Food overpriced and as i heard very untasty (we were at Zlata veverka), stinky (smoking allowed, but zero ventilation) and waitresses almost as bad and rude as in Pegas with it's mentally challenged waiters.
By the way, Czech republic now have angry looking communist as president which is also is first one elected by direct voting (well, in my humble opinion it happened because of old, struck in time, generation, which happens in Lithuania a lot). We still have communists in parliament because old people elects them as they are the ones who actually see point in voting and younger generation and younger ones are already abroad thanks to these communists. And also thanks to England who gives welfare money to basically everyone who asks. There was a bit of 'scandal' over it, but well, this article is very true, British people are whining about their own mistake. Welfare system wasn't created by immigrants, they are just using it.