25 Things Never to Say to a Czech

We Czechs may not know much about our own country but don’t even try to tell us otherwise. For you foreigners who are on the way to party in Prague, make sure you do not utter the following statements around anyone who is from the Czech Republic. Otherwise they might beat you with their socks (although they will probably have to pull them out of their sandals first). Read on.

1. Czechoslovakia is so beautiful! 


2. Who is Havel? 


3. 
You’re not all alcoholics, right? 

4. Why are there so many hookers here? 

5. I don’t like beer. 

6. I am a vegetarian. 

7. Czech is the same as Russian, isn’t it? 


8. It sucks that the metro doesn’t go after midnight.

9. There’s a buffet. Why not stock up for later?

10. I heard theft is really common here.

11. Don’t you mind that you have no sea? 

12. Czech women are super promiscuous.

13. It’s cool that Poland is so close. 

14. This place is so charmingly retro. This is what we would have worn five years ago.

15. What is hockey?

16. Dumplings, sauerkraut, pork: isn’t that really German food?


17. There are so many fat people here. 

18. So these are the most beautiful women in the world?


19. You all wear socks with sandals.

20. Prague is nice, but that Budapest… 

21. I know a lot of Czech women from porn already.

22. Everything is so cheap here!


23. Are those pants with checks and flowers your national costume?

24. Do you really take canned food on holiday? 


25. Wasn’t Kafka actually German?