I love Brighton beach! My friend was in a show there and it seemed so cute when I went. Why the bad vibes?
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.