Had a fun trip to NYC this weekend. It's hard pleasing everyone in a 5 people group so we did spend Sunday in Brighton Beach, the russian neigbourhood (urgh, i always get deeply uncomfortable there) and the other half of the day in the woodberry outlets. I've never been to outlets before but it kinda got old after 1h. Because of that trip I then busted my ass writing a 30 page essay in 2 days. The rest of the week should be peaceful tho :) Nothing big planned for the next days, it's nice to have some peace of mind. How do people with actual responsabilities manage?!
The boardwalk is not too bad, but the noisy stinky street with all the shops under the subway line is just terrible. The worst thing there are the people tho. We were sitting in a nice coffe place when 2 women walked in with their own food and coffee and just sat down at the tables. They were not together btw, they didn't even know each other. It goes to show this attitude is pretty common. They then got pissed when the owner told them to leave. I just can't stand the mentality of the people there: the sovok mentality. I'm not sure how to translate it to english. ThatFanficGuy you got any translation ideas?
Well, the "sovok" comes from the Russian for "dustpan" and is currently used in Russia pejoratively to describe a Soviet line of thinking (rather authoritative, self-centered with some hatred towards others mixed in; consider how "sovok" [soh-VOHK] and "Soviet" [SOH-vie-yet] sound to get the idea where the name came from). I don't believe there is a translation that would adequately get the idea across, and I don't believe there can be one, either. It's one of those things, like borstsctschstsch, blini and pelmeny that haven't got their way to English.