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From the Mailbag (II): Apologize to Diána Bácsfi, or Else!
It was not only our take-down of Steven Spielberg that generated significant amounts of mail over the past few weeks. We've also received letters on subjects ranging from sports to beauty pageants to the relative locations of hospitals and restaurants. Not to mention this piquant (translated) missive from an anonymous reader aggrieved by our less less-than-respectful treatment of Hungary's most illustrious far-rightist:
You fucking matzo-chewing lousy Jewish horde!
How do you dare taking the name of Diánna [sic] Bácsfi on your stinking face? You degrade her and call her all kinds of ugly creep. You pronounce her "dog face," interesting, I thought it was only us Arrow Crossists who judge others by their appearance. Hmmm... It doesn't fit your world view, does it? That is why you have this frothing anger against her. You think all Hungarists are uneducated grandchildren of a former arrow crossist janitor. This view of yours has been destroyed by Diána, because if these bolshevik quislings let her, she will have two diplomas and She is the pride of the university (of course, only based on academics). I'm not writing these lines because I see it necessary to protect her from you. You are pathetic pigmy red jewish animals, and your site has the level of a public toilet, visually and content-wise has the standard of a 10-year-old kid. Your filthy insults don't reach up to her. What you do is like trying to blind the sun with a flashlight. You can scribble whatever you want, the Führer, Ferenc Szálasi and yes, the light of Diána Bácsfi's spirit shines over Hungary.
You are scummy rotten quisling homosexual maggots. I hope AIDS will lay you out soon. Die soon.
Name Withheld
Dear Name Withheld:
When we called Diána Bácsfi a "dog-face neo-Nazi skank" what we actually meant was that she is a wonderfully energetic and fearless advocate for the rights and honor of everyday Hungarians, who fights so hard for the causes that she loves that she sometimes comes across as a little overly aggressive.
Thanks for writing, sieg heil, and no hard feelings, right?
Dear Pestiside:
[You write that] “The Taiwan Restaurant Nestled in a nondescript building on a side street behind Szent János Hospital.” Behind Szent János Hospital in XII district you find the Monarchia restaurant... a very posh and very expensive restaurant with a not remarkable cuisine. Maybe you confused the Szent János Hospital with the Szent István Hospital!
With best regards,
Kálmán Hajdu
Dear Kálmán:
Yes, indeed it seems we were mistaken. We've fixed the error, and hereby offer our most sincere apologies to anyone who was trying to go to the supper-yummy Taiwan and ended up the icky Monarchia instead, or, for that matter, in Szent János Hospital.
Dear Pestiside:
I am sending a couple of pictures of the Hungarian girl who participated at Miss Universe 2005, Szandra Proksa. You posted a picture which has nothing to do with the girl who participated at the world contest. You [also] criticized her English knowledge. You were right. It is true that the interview didn't go as it should have with someone who has passed an intermediate level language exam. But you don't know what was in the background, in what emotional state she was in at the time of the interview, but that is not important any more today. I find the text of the article to be incorrect. But it is easier to write this style than to take the time and find out things.
Györgyi Horváth
Dear Ms. Horváth:
We were simply pointing out that Szandra was getting a raw deal, because the only pics available at the time via a Google search for "Szandra Proksa" were of the girl we illustrated the story with. (Who, to be perfectly honest, we still suspect is actually Szandra on a really bad hair day.) But now we see that there are lots of nice shots of the "real" Szandra, rather than the "false" Sandra, available via a basic Google image search. Meanwhile, note that we also went out of our way to try to fix the problem, by tagging the skankiest-looking Szandra/non-Szandra shot "Natalie Glebova.jpg," so that people would think it was actually the Russkie-Canuck hussy who beat Szandra to the Miss Universe crown.
Either way, this seems like a perfect opportunity to not only rectify any lingering Szandra/non-Szandra problems, but to address a similar and even more distressing crisis, namely the ongoing global computer glitch which continues to place Slovene supermodel/Donald Trump scratching pole Melania Knauss atop the Google image search rankings for "Hungarian." To do this we've added some of the better shots you sent to the bottom of the original story page, and tagged them all "Szandra Proksa Hungarian." This way, the little microprocessors that run the Internet will eventually not only push out all the "bad" Szandras, but the bad Slovenes, too.
Dear Pestiside:
I love reading your blog, and seeing as you guys are the font of all knowledge in Budapest I was wondering if you guys know of a place in Budapest that will be showing the England vs Wales world cup soccer qualifiers? Maybe a pub or sports bar or something? I'm flying into Budapest on the weekend and would love to see it. Any advice?
Phil
Dear Phil:
Sure - Prague!
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