Budapest Public Transport Co. Fights Looming Bankruptcy With Executive Bonuses, Strike Threats
A couple of Fridays ago Caboodle.hu offered an in-depth look at the dire financial state of BKV Zrt., Budapest’s public transport operator. In the two weeks since it was published, a few things have happened. One, the BKV got a temporary bailout from the city, but one that now looks like it will only keep the buses and metros going for a few more months. Also, we returned from vacation, and unlike our sister site are free to begin our report by saying that the people running the BKV are thieving idiot assholes who should be tied with barbed wire to the metro tracks and then run over by one of the system’s decrepit, Soviet-era cars. While being electrocuted. more >>
Hollywood Hottie Still Smarting from Beating by “Some Giant Hungarian”
Disco Bloodbath Shots Top Photography Awards
Coming to a Budapest Stage Near You: Hurts, Horrors and Malkovich
Follower of Evil Pony of Peaceful County Strikes in Pápateszér
Twenty Candidates Vying to be Hungary’s Losing Entry for Eurovision 2012
Speaking of Satanic disco, this Saturday the first round of the competition to see who will represent Hungary at the 2012 Eurovision song contest will take place. The above video reel features excerpts from each of the songs. Anyone who makes it to the end is a winner! [eurovisionary.com]
Countryside Priest Wages Holy War Against “Satanic” Disco, Loses
A Protestant priest in the eastern Hungarian town Kunszentmiklós has appealed to the local authorities to shut down the town’s popular disco, in a bid to end what he described as the local youth’s gradual slide into “moral filth.” more >>
Snowy Skin Pics, Marinated Body Parts Hottest New Trends in Hungary
Always on the forefront of the latest local trends, top tabloid Blikk has revealed that the “latest craze” among Hungarian teen girls is posing for pictures outside in the cold with barely any clothes on. A “social media expert” quoted by the paper said the trend probably came from the West, while a psychologist opined that it was another example of teens resorting to “extreme methods” to get attention. Either way, it’s certainly a lot more wholesome than another emerging trend we’re now about to call. more >>
Area Bus Driver Celebrated For Being Super Nice; Paramedics Not So Much
In more cheerful news from over the holidays, portal Origo.hu ran a super-sweet and upbeat photo feature about a Budapest bus driver named István Pallér who has become something of a local celebrity due to his penchant for regaling his passengers with weather updates, trivia facts and other fun stuff. Pallér (left), who can usually be found on Bus #16 in Buda, collects interesting tit-bids off the web and prints them out onto a “cheat sheet” which he then reads off of to help take passengers’ minds off their mundane workaday lives. Which is just sooooo nice – at least compared to what some staffers at the national ambulance service have been up to. more >>
Cops Cower in Car as Maniac Pummels, Carves Up Ex
However Grim Your Holidays Were, They Weren’t As Grim as Ours (or His)
Okay so we’re back, and seem to have finally finished moving our junk from one content management system to another, which involved weeks of mind-numbing technical twiddling we won’t bore you with, other than to say it all cast a serious pall over our holidays, and a couple of weeks thereafter. On the other hand, at least we didn’t spend Christmas sitting outside in the cold trying to raise drinking money by selling snowballs for Ft 100 a pop. Sad all around! [subba.blog.hu]
