While it’s hardly surprising that the four Scandinavian countries would top the list of the World’s Happiest Countries (and yes, we know Finland technically isn’t Scandinavian), we certainly didn’t expect Hungary to show so dismally, tied with Albania at 103rd and behind the Palestinian territories, with only Latvia and Bulgaria coming up lower for European countries. Still, if we learned anything from this list, it’s that Moldova came in ten spots ahead of Romania, despite being something like thirty years behind in development, proving that ignorance can indeed be bliss. [forbes.com]
How many happy hungarians do you know lol
My wife!
Mrs. Wolfi has no reason to be happy.
She’s not a widow yet.
Dancing on your grave would bring joy into her life.
Of course ignorance is a bliss. Religion is the proof of that.
let’s not do religion issues if you please, and what is this sh@t about dancing on graves. shame on you!! tell you what, not being hungarian i am utterly miserable without running water for the third week!! so where do it leave me you might ask? reading miserable slobs like the two of you. cheers to your wife wolfie, keep her smilin’
The citizens of Hungaristan are truly a miserable bunch of
assholes (sorry no – an asshole is useful). They love nothing
better than wallowing in self pity and gloom – everyone’s
calendar is populated by the days that people died on, and the
local ad rag has pages and pages of long dead ugly people. Ask
Hungarian A about Hungarian B and all you hear is bad stuff,
how lazy, mean, stupid etc. they are. The country has gone to
the dogs (mostly because that’s what they kept voting for) and
they all feel this terrible, tragic (yet mostly self-inflicted) loss
dating back to Trianon (don’t ever say that word to a Hungarian
if you want to get away in less than 3 hours). They slap they
stupid, meaningless bloody map of ‘Old Hungary’ on everything
just to remind themselves and make sure they stay depressed
and hopeless. Even the National Anthem is a depressing,
tuneless, mournful dirge… is someone putting Mogadon or
Largactyl in the water supply? Even the crows round here have
got fed up and have buggered off to Bulgaria.
Take all that, mix with copious quantities of alcohol, throw in
some arrogance and conceit, add a splash of wholly unjustified
superiority, leave to brew for 30 years…
Anyway – half the people in our village don’t have running water,
or inside toilets. They just shit and piss in the garden (that patch
of land surrounding the house filled with weeds, rusting farm
machinery, tractor tyres, rusty wire and nails, chunks of rotting
wood, a psychotic dog on a chain thats so hungry it eats it’s own
shit, 2 vines but no trees – they’ve all been chopped down and
burnt to keep their miserable carcasses warm in the winter, a
shed filled with crap and rats, and a satellite dish). All the roofs
have holes, all the render falls off, all the windows are rotten or
broken, all the concrete is cracked, all the roads are dirt, or dust
in the summer and mud in the winter, all the chickens are
scrawny and don’t lay eggs, the shop is full of meat with green
fur on it, and everything way past it’s sell by date, the phone box
is bust, the bus stop has 2 families living in it (no seriously – 2
families – no water, no heating, no toilet – just two rooms)
And these are honest to God Hungarians – not Gypsies. In
Hungary. In the EU, in the 21st Century.
@quatermass, please, please, please tell us the name of this wonderful village. I thought only Roma lived like this.
idea for Youtube video: quartermass performing his rant with the Hungarian hymnus playing behind him.
Anyway….hard to dispute. I’ve seen much of what he’s saying. It could be just about any village east of Budapest–the ones in the west are only slightly better. People take shockingly little pride in their environment. Yeah, paint costs money, but if you’re little brick partition wall collapses you can fix it for a few hundred forint. But noone cares. Far too many people here are ‘shit where you sleep/eat/drink/fuck’