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Hungary in Hooker Crackdown as Whore Oversupply Squeezes Local Sex Prices

Over on Sexiside.hu there was a brief - and typically disgraceful - post the other day cheering the publication of a survey suggesting that prices for pay-sex in Hungary are now Europe's lowest. But while this may mean a new golden era for local johns, it translates into hard economic times for those on the "sell side" of the local flesh trade. Meanwhile, it seems that the Hungarian authorities have either decided on a strategy of pushing up prices for prostitutes by forcing some out of the business, or have just figured now was a good time to stick it to our hard-hit local 'hos.

New Animated Film Voted Worst of All Time

Even before it was released, there was already rumbling, or rather grumbling, about the remake film "A Kis Vuk," aka "The Little Vuk," the animated film based on the story of a little fox by István Fekete. Now, after its premiere, it's been voted the worst animated film of all time, according to Bors. One of the first bad omens was when Attila Dargay, the director of the original film, declined to allow the producers of the new one to use the likenesses of his animated characters, citing a dislike for the direction of the remake. Since it's been released a little over a week ago, less than 12,000 folks have bothered to go and see it, and the critics who have, have been nearly unanimous in declaring its suckiness.

President Opens Museum in Memory of the Hungarian Language

Well, that's not exactly what the MTI piece said (subscription only), but it might as well have. According to it, a new Museum of the Hungarian Language was opened yesterday by President László Sólyom in Széphalom on the former estate of Ferenc Kazinczy (pictured), the man widely considered to have saved the Hungarian language around the beginning of the 19th century, when he led linguistic reformers who essentially yanked Hungarian forward two hundred years, thus saving the nation from having to speak German, or God forbid, French. In case you're wondering why the name Kazinczy sounds so familiar although you never knew about this guy, it's because there's a street named after him in District VII, and it's the same street you stumble out onto after enjoying quite a few korsós at Szimpla Kert. The irony of writing about language while pluralizing a Hungarian word in English is not lost on me. At the ceremony for the museum opening, Sólyom stated that he hoped the museum would help preserve Hungarian culture and spur linguistic advances. We hope so too, because at the rate things are going, Hungarian will cease to be a language and merely become a mispronounced and badly conjugated dialect of English.

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