http://www.pestiside.hu/ en-us 2010-03-12T11:19:34+01:00 http://www.pestiside.hu/20100312/no-wonder-we-got-licked-by-the-austrians-in-1848/ Aside from all the other things that make the March 15th holiday so exciting, this year's celebrations have a few new twists. According to this report on Caboodle.hu, here's one: Until March 19, eighteen life-sized statues of hussars in... wtf? damone 2010-03-12T11:19:34+01:00 http://www.pestiside.hu/20100311/dumb-new-records-ii-chicken-lays-mega-egg-with-assist-from-paks-nuclear-reactor/ A chicken from the slightly-glowing town of Paks in central Hungary recently laid an egg weighing 200 grams and 24 centimeters in circumference. Géza Somogyi, the owner, has sent the egg's measurements to the Hungarian office of Guinness in the... broken records zoltan 2010-03-11T12:23:40+01:00 http://www.pestiside.hu/20100311/dumb-new-records-i-how-many-hours-can-a-person-watch-cartoons-before-they-are-officially-braindead/ 52-year old László Fölkl spent 104 hours watching cartoons in an attempt to break a world record, the organizers of Budapest's Animania Movie Marathon revealed. As part of the record-breaking attempt Fölkl watched nearly 300 cartoons over the time period,... broken records zoltan 2010-03-11T12:07:29+01:00 http://www.pestiside.hu/20100310/metro-drivers-arrive-at-their-wedding-in-full-bkv-glory/ BKV vehicles are not just for stag parties anymore, apparently. Two metro drivers recently caught the metro to their wedding, except that this time it was a special train on which only they and the wedding party sat. A special... our friends, the hungarians zoltan 2010-03-10T13:52:19+01:00 http://www.pestiside.hu/20100310/is-that-a-nokia-box-under-your-coat-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-us/ Should any of our readers not plagued by a conscience find themselves being offered a Nokia box while here in Hungary, may we suggest you wholeheartedly accept it. Following the revelation of the method by which former Budapest deputy mayor... general impropriety zoltan 2010-03-10T12:55:16+01:00 http://www.pestiside.hu/20100310/balaton-sound-festival-gears-up-to-party-like-its-1999/ Like the Volt Festival before it, the annual Balaton Sound Festival has announced its headliners for this year: The Chemical Brothers, Jamiroquai and Paul van Dyk. The Chemical Brothers put on a good show at the Sziget Festival in 2007... music for the mindless masses zoltan 2010-03-10T12:43:30+01:00 http://www.pestiside.hu/20100310/are-foreigners-hungarys-demographic-savior-or-just-a-bunch-of-chainsawwielding-catshooting-maniacs/ As the always-exciting March 15th holiday approaches, many of Hungary's resident foreigners will probably be planning to get out of town, both to take advantage of a three-day weekend, and also to get away from the inevitable crowds of foreigner-hating... goddamn foreigners damone 2010-03-10T10:02:37+01:00 http://www.pestiside.hu/20100309/health-portal-fails-viral-marketing-hygiene-test/ Oooooh look what happened when one of us recently used the "email to a friend" function on Hungarian health portal hazipatika.com. At best their choice of verification keyword (dugott) could be translated as "screwed," though "fucked" would probably be... lost in translation damone 2010-03-09T14:13:30+01:00 http://www.pestiside.hu/20100309/statueatory-rape-crisis-continues-as-beloved-village-madonna-pinched/ How's this for pathetic: Some as-yet-unidentified thieves have made off with a statue that is the symbol of the Heves County of Tenk. Unlike many of the statues of grim-faced politicos and writers previously pilfered in Hungary, this one... sad damone 2010-03-09T13:16:20+01:00 http://www.pestiside.hu/20100308/district-v-mayor-defies-cynics-by-completing-new-budapest-broadway-project-on-time-oh-brother/ A couple of weeks ago our sister site Caboodle.hu had a cheery feature about how the mayor of Budapest's District V was boasting that work on the so-called "new main street" of the district was about to be wrapped... our shitty city damone 2010-03-08T17:14:24+01:00 http://www.pestiside.hu/20100308/and-be-sure-to-check-out-our-translatinging/ We've always loved the fact that Hungarians call blue jeans farmer, and that the Hungarian word for shirt (ing) can be confusingly added to a style of shirt to make a compound word that sounds alarmingly like a gerund... lost in translation damone 2010-03-08T16:23:12+01:00 http://www.pestiside.hu/20100308/local-cops-give-hearty-welcome-to-arriving-drug-dealer/ As we revealed a few weeks back, longtime contributor Sean Jordan had made plans to leave Hungary overland, in part because of his problems getting out of here by air. Well, he did finally join the ranks of Budapest ex-expats,... exclusive report damone 2010-03-08T12:05:35+01:00 http://www.pestiside.hu/20100304/germy-szechenyi-baths-claim-leaves-lifecom-editors-in-hot-chlorinated-water/ The Hungarian Tourist Board and Budapest Gyórgyfürdői és Hévizei Zrt. (the company overseeing Budapest's thermal spas) are seeking damages from Life.com after it included the Széchenyi Baths in its list of "The World's 'Germiest' Attractions". Following loads of negative... dept. of random bullshit zoltan 2010-03-04T13:49:44+01:00 http://www.pestiside.hu/20100304/linda-kiraly-rules-out-posing-for-lad-mags-eight-years-after-her-fhm-spread/ Hungarian-American pop singer Linda Király recently appeared in Budapest again, and the singer had enough time in her schedule to exchange a few sentences with news portal stop.hu, before once again returning to the oblivion where she apparently spends most... retardo hungo celebs zoltan 2010-03-04T13:26:47+01:00 http://www.pestiside.hu/20100304/goofy-informercial-announces-expansion-of-fitness-norbi-empire-into-the-anglosphere/ Perhaps because Hungary is too small of a market or because the Hungarians have grown wise/tired of his questionably effective products, Norbert Schobert is expanding his fitness empire abroad, via this so-bad-its-good video, which calls exercise "eternal torturous penitence... retardo hungo celebs zoltan 2010-03-04T12:48:11+01:00