Category: Social Media Posts

Czech-language Adidas Facebook post featuring black, bearded US basketball star James Harden becomes target for racist, Islamophobic commenters angry about “multi-culturalism” (Lidovky.cz) [Social Media Post]

Advertising / Foreigners / Internet / Racism / Shopping / Social Media Posts / Sport

28 May, 2019

Czech-language Adidas Facebook post featuring black, bearded US basketball star James Harden becomes target for racist, Islamophobic commenters angry about “multi-culturalism” (Lidovky.cz) [Social Media Post]

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Good Read: Raymond Johnston tours “Prague’s cemetery row”, a collection of five distinctive burial grounds where Prague 3 meets Prague 10 (Magic Bohemia) [Social Media Post]

Prague Tourism / Social Media Posts / Strange & Spooky

27 May, 2019

Good Read: Raymond Johnston tours “Prague’s cemetery row”, a collection of five distinctive burial grounds where Prague 3 meets Prague 10 (Magic Bohemia) [Social Media Post]

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Breaking: Former footballer Tomas Repka reports to prison in Prague 6- Ruzyne at start of two-and-a-half-year prison sentence (Blesk.cz) [Social Media Post]

Celebrities / Crime / Fotbal / Law / Social Media Posts / Sport

27 May, 2019

Breaking: Former footballer Tomas Repka reports to prison in Prague 6- Ruzyne at start of two-and-a-half-year prison sentence (Blesk.cz) [Social Media Post]

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Joke party “ANO, vytrollime europarlament” (“ANO, we’re trolling the European Parliament”) to get 1.1 million crowns in state funding after receiving 1.57% of Czech vote in European elections; policies include “sea for the Czech Republic” and putting a Czech on Mars by 2030 (iDNES.cz) [Social Media Post]

Politics / Social Media Posts

27 May, 2019

Joke party “ANO, vytrollime europarlament” (“ANO, we’re trolling the European Parliament”) to get 1.1 million crowns in state funding after receiving 1.57% of Czech vote in European elections; policies include “sea for the Czech Republic” and putting a Czech on Mars by 2030 (iDNES.cz) [Social Media Post]

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Man shoots and kills deputy mayor of Drazuvky, South Moravia then kills himself, apparently because deputy mayor got involved in argument between neighbours over access to water well (Novinky.cz) [Social Media Post]

Crime / Local News / Social Media Posts / Tragedies / Violence

25 May, 2019

Man shoots and kills deputy mayor of Drazuvky, South Moravia then kills himself, apparently because deputy mayor got involved in argument between neighbours over access to water well (Novinky.cz) [Social Media Post]

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Clearance sale at Lidl supermarket in Plzen causes 100-metre-long queues “like those for bananas under Communism”; Gerska street store closing for several months for reconstruction (Blesk.cz) [Social Media Post]

Local News / Shopping / Social Media Posts

24 May, 2019

Clearance sale at Lidl supermarket in Plzen causes 100-metre-long queues “like those for bananas under Communism”; Gerska street store closing for several months for reconstruction (Blesk.cz) [Social Media Post]

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31-year-old man abused by Prague Kaufland cashier for not speaking Czech then forced to show ID because he was buying beer turns out to be Sparta Praha and Romania national team goalkeeper Florin Nita; Kaufland apologises (Jaroslav Homolka on Facebook) [Social Media Post]

Alcohol / Expats / Fotbal / Racism / Shopping / Social Media Posts / Sport

24 May, 2019

31-year-old man abused by Prague Kaufland cashier for not speaking Czech then forced to show ID because he was buying beer turns out to be Sparta Praha and Romania national team goalkeeper Florin Nita; Kaufland apologises (Jaroslav Homolka on Facebook) [Social Media Post]

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Cops open fire to stop white Mercedes van travelling in wrong direction on Jizni spojka section of Prazsky okruh ring road, between Prague 5 and Prague 9; 44-year-old driver was wanted by police, refused alcohol and drug tests, and had been banned from driving twice before (iDNES.cz) [Social Media Post]

Accidents / Driving / Police / Social Media Posts

24 May, 2019

Cops open fire to stop white Mercedes van travelling in wrong direction on Jizni spojka section of Prazsky okruh ring road, between Prague 5 and Prague 9; 44-year-old driver was wanted by police, refused alcohol and drug tests, and had been banned from driving twice before (iDNES.cz) [Social Media Post]

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Politics: Expres.cz publishes its all-important list of the 7 most beautiful Czech candidates standing in the European elections (Expres.cz) [Social Media Post]

Internet / Media / Politics / Social Media Posts / WTF

23 May, 2019

Politics: Expres.cz publishes its all-important list of the 7 most beautiful Czech candidates standing in the European elections (Expres.cz) [Social Media Post]

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Supreme Audit Office (NKU) president Miroslav Kala and members of parliament’s budgetary control committee visit Peru at Czech taxpayer’s expense: business-class flights, luxury hotels, visits to Cuzco and Machu Picchu, and just 2 official meetings in 7 days (iROZHLAS) [corrected]

Corruption / Czechs Abroad / Politics / Social Media Posts

23 May, 2019

Supreme Audit Office (NKU) president Miroslav Kala and members of parliament’s budgetary control committee visit Peru at Czech taxpayer’s expense: business-class flights, luxury hotels, visits to Cuzco and Machu Picchu, and just 2 official meetings in 7 days (iROZHLAS) [corrected]

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