cultural misunderstandings: If you say to a Hungarian, "your mother is a whore" he will kill you.

If you bump into him inadvertentl and quite innocently in a crowded bar, he will try to kill you.

If he mistakes you for his nemesis in the village pub, already slushed, you might as well go out and by yourself that wreath you've always wanted.

If you screw his wife, he takes the day off and goes out fishing.

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I did not wake up as a new immigrant soon enough that you can't call people "stupid" to their faces in Canada. In Hungary it's not an insult, it's rather a voiced disapproval of an action or decision, but it's not an insult.

If you correct someone's grammar in Hungary, in Germany, in the states of the former Yugoslavia, in the states of the former Chechoslovakia, or in the states of the former Soviet Union, then the person being corrected apologises for his mistake, and thanks you for correcting him. This is not a joke at all. This is how it is. There, and in Western Europe, to not know his own language perfectly by a citizen is a sign of limited patriotism, of failure in patriotic behaviour. Tons of hapless dyslexic boys and girls got the strap in their schooling,from grade one all the way up to the Ph.D. and post-graduate levels, if they put a LY instead of a J in writing. They were pronounced the same, otherwise Hungarian is a phonetically correct language. In America, if you correct someone's English, they look at you dirty, or call you an azzole and declare that spelling correctily is only for nobody, who cares.

In Europe, to be sure in some Eastern European countries, until recent times there were no laws against wife beating. The term "domestic violence" did not exist in the law books. When in the last ten-twenty years domestic rape and kid-beating became illegal, the stand-up comedians had a field day making fun of those laws. There used to be an old folk wisdom-like proverb, "money is good when you count it, wife is good when you beat her."

Local racial discrimination is rampant in Hungary to this day. Jews have a bad rep, but they are allowed to practice trade, academics, medicine, anything. Hating Jews in Hungary is a tradition, but it lost its bite. Now what's bad is hating Gypsys. It's worse right now in Hungary to be a Gypsy, in terms of being barred from opportunities that regular citizens get, than to be a black man in America. Jimi Hendrix therefore gave his last album the title "Band of Gyspys" spelled as such, as he felt great affinity for Hungarian Gypsies as an American Black. Most, almost all valid cases of immigration to Canada from Hungary and from similar types of countries is done by Gyspies, coz they can easily and successfully prove they are discriminated against. Gypsies are repped as thieves, but nobody knows if they indeed thieve more than the average magyar.

Theft was a complete disgrace in the culture, until communism came in in 1948, and then everything became the property of the state, except your clothes and your furniture, and then later your car. So to steal, meant to steal from the State, not from an individual, and that gave a huge moral and ethical green light to the birth of a thieving nation.

Magyar = Hungarian, jol = good, appropriate, "well behaved magy" (notice the short form) is "well hung".

Hungarians have no concept that their nationality's name is so close to the English word hunger, much like Mr. Lipshitz does not know what his name means in English, or Mr. Kant, or Mr. Farkass. "Fak" is simply a small wooded area. Shitt is the prison or jail in slang, and pee means pee. That word is universal in all languages, or aunt Pipi (pronounced pee-pee) used to say so, as she forbade us to call her on her nickname every time we visited.

I am fifty percent Jew, fifty percent Hungarian, and my thinking mode is mostly Hungarian, but I still hate them with a passion. They are an argumentative, arrogant bunch, I present as their rather very toned down equivalent. But I mostly hate them for their brutally bigoted and obnoxiously prejudiced values that they don't even think can be challenged. In my last trip home, we were walking down the street in Budapest, and the hubby of a very own cousin of mine all of a sudden started to publicly curse and debase a bunch of gypsys whom I did not even notice, because they were dressed regularly. It was a very stomach-churning experience, I wanted to die of embarrassment, and then I never again went back to that pispot country.

Yep most things are sentinmental , just cause they make you feel better, which makes things easier

As for undies, dont wear the things, I have never been able to see any reason for women to need them. its not like we have anything to hold in.