injunjane: (war)
One year ago a horrible tragedy happened in Prague, tragedy that changed calm and peaceful (at least in comparison with many other EU countries) Czech Republic forever.

Twenty-four years old young man David Kozak entered Philosophical Faculty of Charles University, loaded with several guns and two big bags of munitions. He killed 14 students and wounded 25 of them, and after that shot himself.

A day before that Kozak went to the Klanovice park, and in cold blood shot a young father with his 2-month baby girl. The motive about which he eventually lived a message was not less horrible: he wanted to verify if he was able to kill someone. In the same message he opened up saying that initially his planned victims were a woman with 3 kids(!) he spotted at the playground. After this monstrous murder David Kozak returned home...and shot his own father. And then parted to start the massacre in Prague.

They say the otherwise 'normal' (although rather asocial) guy was looking for the inspiration (yes, he planned this shooting way in advance) in the Japanese manga All You need is Kill. And also some morbid anime porn, along with the example of the Russian school shooter Alina Afanaskina.

This event left a horrible scar on all Czech society.
My love and eternal memory to all the innocent victims of this monster.

Why David Kozak 'got boiled in his own head'
injunjane: (sailing)
Ahoj is an informal greeting used in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, both when welcoming and saying goodbye. Etymologists at the Czech Language Institute believe the word entered Czech from the English “hoy”: a word originally used by seafarers. The word was used as a naval exclamation, used to attract the attention of, or warn, fellow crew members, or as a general greeting.

Of course, the Czech Republic is landlocked, and no one is quite sure how the term got here, but there are competing theories. Some believe that Czech boatmen brought it up the river with them from Hamburg, whereas others believe that recreational paddlers helped to spread this naval salutation through the countryside.

Meanwhile, others have claimed that the word originates in some rather spurious acronyms, from the religious Latin “Ad honorem Jesu” (for the honour of Jesus) or to the political “Adolfa Hitlera oběsíme jistě'' (we will surely hang Adolf Hitler).


I don't think the last two versions are true, because in fact there are more sailor's and marine sayings in Czech language.

The one I was totally charmed with was the metaphor for 'he's crazy'.
In Ukrainian we say 'в нього дах поїхав' (= the roof of his house has moved away)
In French they say 'il a une aragnée au plafond' (= he has a spider on his ceiling)

But the Czechs often say "šplouchá mu na maják" (= his lighthouse has been splashed over by the waves)

The captain of one and only wooden Czech sailing vessel (a replica) La Grace once told me that in spite Czechia has always been a landlocked country, Czech sailors and craftsmen were very welcome in foreign navy for their craftsmen skills. Apparently after returning back home from the sea they brought to their sea-less country a lot of marine metaphors like those ones :)

And now there is also a famous opposition political Czech party called Pirati (the Pirates).
That's so cute :)

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