| Only in Hungary |
[04 Apr 2012|12:26am] |
Aka, the Great Hungarian Presidential Plagiarism Scandal. (Hey, it's even on Wikipedia!)
Non-Gov't Media: Oh hey, Dr. President. It seems 180 pages from your thesis had been plagiarized from a certain Nikolai Georgiev's publication. *shows proof*
Dr. President: ...
Non-Gov't Media: Well?
Dr. President: ...I didn't do any such thing.
Non-Gov't Media: Oh, really. How about proof for even more plagiarism?
Dr. President: No, see, you're wrong. Those materials you claim I copy-pasted were free to be used by anyone and I just happened to use the same materials as that other guy. And I used to work together with him, anyway.
Relative of Georgiev: You never worked together with him.
Dr. President: The last 35 pages are totally my own work.
Media: *shows proof of the last pages being plagiarized* Oh hey, it seems more than 94% of your thesis is essentially copy-paste.
Dr. President: ....I didn't do anything wrong.
Gov't: Aww, don't worry, we'll prove your innocence. Expert panel, disprove this vile slander.
Expert panel: Uummm. Well, there are some minor problems, like, um, using text from uncited sources and stuff. But it's not Dr. President's fault. It's the fault of the university for not telling a 50 year-old man that plagiarism was a no-no. So Dr. President is still Dr. President and he didn't really do anything wrong. Honest. *sweat heavily*
University: *unexpectedly grows a spine* WTF?! Our fault?! He plagiarized his entire thesis! *strips President of his doctorate* (funny how no-one noticed it back then, ehehe)
Dr. President: HDU?! I didn't do anything wrong! It was honest work! A man's work! I won't resign!
Prime Minister: THE PRESIDENT IS INVIOLABLE.
Gov't: (echoes) Inviolable... inviolable... inviolable...
Media: Oh for fuck's sake.
Dr. President: Ha! You can't make me resign. :P
Prime Minister: Let's have a talk.
Dr. President: ...okay, I resign.
Everyone else except Gov't: Fucking finally. It only took more than 3 months.
Ex-President: BUT I'LL SUE YOU! BECAUSE IT WAS AN HONEST WORK! A MANLY WORK! AND I'LL WRITE A NEW THESIS TO SHOW YOU THAT I CAN DO IT!!
Conservatives: Aaaww. The poor guy. It was just a small mistake. Who are we to judge him? :(((
Gov't: Our former President was the latest victim of the international liberal-bolshevik-capitalist-anti-Hungarian-EU-centric conspiracy. Indeed, he is a true martyr.
Christian Democrats: HE'S LIKE JESUS, IN A WAY.*
*No, seriously, they really compared him to Jesus.
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| why I love Youtube reason #1234235 |
[22 Jan 2012|11:55am] |
This used to be my favorite Luna Sea song:
Genesis of mind -yume no kanata he
Oh, the nostalgia. I wasn't even a fan or anything, but it's like seeing a bunch of old friends. :D Ryuuichi's theatrics, Sugizo and his three-headed guitar... :D (I wonder what Sugizo is up to nowadays. I really liked his solo projects.)
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[20 Jan 2012|05:28pm] |
Le Monde sez:
"Or, depuis l'affaire Waldheim - élu à la présidence en 1986, malgré les révélations sur son passé dans la Wehrmacht -, l'Autriche a dû se confronter à son rôle dans la catastrophe nazie. Tandis que la Hongrie se réfugiait dans un discours victimaire, le mal venant toujours des autres : les Ottomans, les Habsbourg, les juifs, les libéraux, les Allemands, les Russes, les Tziganes, maintenant la Commission européenne ou le Parlement de Strasbourg.
"La Hongrie est la nation la plus souffrante d'Europe", ironise l'ancien vice-chancelier autrichien Erhard Busek, du parti du peuple ÖVP ..."
Basically, yeah. And the sad thing is that if you ask a random person on the street it's likely that they will agree that we've suffered the most of all countries and everything wrong that happened was always someone else's fault. (Except for stuff that happened during the "Cursed era" of communism, then it was those dirty communists who were obviously Jews anyway. It's to the point where the right, including the current govt and the extremist right, are still playing the communist card, all the fucking time, after 20 years. Shit, they managed to use this rhetoric to criminalize the Socialist party.) I mean, according to a survey some 80% of people think that Hungary's role in the Holocaust was all the Germans' fault. It's not like the Hungarian government, authorities and many civilians were enthusiastic to cooperate or anything. Those dirty Germans made us do it!
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[02 Jan 2012|07:16pm] |
It's taken a year and a half, but it seems people have finally woken up and angry enough to openly turn against the Party in large numbers. Okay, it's only a demonstration, but hey, it's a start.
Of course it has to happen right when I'm sick as a dog so I can't be there, but I'm listening to a live coverage, and I'm hearing thousands of people chanting "GTFO ORBÁN"
Music to my ears.
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[30 Dec 2011|02:31pm] |
Jesus Christ.
They just managed to literally criminalize the largest party in the opposition. And include it in the fucking constitution.
What the fuck. What the everloving fuck.
I wonder what the EU and Washington are going to say about this. Not that Orban & Co. will care. (Btw: Hillary Clinton's warning letter to our Dear Leader, from here. Too bad it's like water off a duck's back, in the meanwhile they have passed all laws Clinton was complaining about.)
At this point I think they won't stop until they're forcibly stopped. If Orbán wants to keep this up, wants to keep his power, he has nowhere to move but forward, out of the EU, into total autocracy. As it is, more and more things are getting nationalized, they control 99% of the non-internet media, only a handful of "dissenting voices" remain (one TV channel and 3-4 print newspapers, the only radio channel has just been silenced), and they've already taken over one of the largest internet news portals. Commercial tv/radio don't touch politics now, and the state channels/stations feed people carefully selected and distorted news. They've already tried to regulate the internet once, to police blogs and online publications - who's to say they won't do it again? They're planning to reach a monopoly on the mobile communications market, too. They've "reformed" the educational system, turning into something out of the darker days of the 19th and early 20th century. It's obvious that they're planning to reintroduce compulsory military service. And again, this is only the tip of the iceberg. They control the judiciary (the head of which is, in fact, a close friend of Orbán's family). And now they have essentially opened themselves a way to dispose of the socialist party, still the largest party in the opposition.
And yet again I wonder - do people not realize what's going on? Do they seriously not realize the parallels with the early communist times, just because this time it's gilded with nationalism? Are they not reminded of anything by the way the govt. uses nationalist propaganda? There is a word starting with "f" and ending with "ism" (connected to a guy whose name starts with "M" and ends with "ussolini") that's starting to become a disconcertingly accurate description of what we have here.
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[23 Dec 2011|11:55am] |
A while ago some people started an impromptu demonstration against the govt's undemocratic ways. People chained themselves to the Parliament's building, etc.
It ended with arrests.
They also arrested members of the opposition, including a former PM who has been demonized incessantly by Fidesz and the right since 2006. Fidesz has been looking for some excuse to lock him up since they came into power - lo and behold.
So.
I'm going out there. Fuck the consequences.
ETA:
Back home, will be out again a bit later... in the meanwhile, here is the warning letter sent by President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso to our Dear Leader. I hope doubting!anon below considers this enough proof... (Great blog, btw.)
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| well, fuck. |
[20 Dec 2011|08:11pm] |
Today they announced that the last radio station that held and expressed liberal views, served as platform for the opposition and also as a source of information for those who don't trust the government-controlled news agency, has lost its frequency. I'm not surprised - the tender has been specifically fashioned against this station. They had no chance of winning unless they turned into a generic music radio with next to zero political content.
I'm sure the owners will try to do something so they can stay on air but frankly I don't see many chances for that, unless Orbán decides he needs to keep it to pretend that this place is still a democracy.
After all the crap in the past weeks I feel I have the right to be annoyed when someone from the US or Canada or the UK or anywhere else from the so-called "west" whines about their govt. being dictatorial and crap. Yes, I'm bitter. Guys, I know your countries have problems too, but come back when your government aggressively stomps out all criticism and dissent, stifles parliamentary debate, nationalizes private pension funds (having confiscated most of it, including mine, earlier this year via the political equivalent of holding a shotgun to our heads - but this time they didn't even offer a choice for those who had risked keeping their savings), regularly throws bones for the extremist right, lets an entire city fall into chaos for political reasons and then nationalize it, controls 99% of the media, lets the healthcare system fall apart while blowing ridiculous amounts of money on shit like football academies and renaming streets and airports, etc. etc. etc. etc. This is just the top of the iceberg.
Basically, 22 years after the Russians left it's back to the good old days of single-party authoritarianism, except this time it has a nationalist, xenophobic flavor. Fucking fantastic.
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| WHAT THE FUCK |
[16 Dec 2011|04:01pm] |
What the fuck is going on here? They realized that the EU is not going to let them build a single-party state that leeches EU money while trampling on everything the EU stands for, or what? That the EU and the IMF won't support a government that has already ended judicial independence and is planning to end the National Bank's independence? A government that's openly, shamelessly confiscating people's private savings because they've squandered everything else on football academies, renaming streets, buying shit for no reason whatsoever other than prestige, etc etc etc etc?
It seems Orbán is trying to make us leave the EU earlier than planned.
Jesus Christ.
I don't think I've ever felt so helpless in my life. I really need to get out of here... unfortunately it seems I won't be able to avoid the inevitable implosion.
(In the meanwhile I need to get myself one of those "Keep Calm and Carry On" posters...)
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[15 Dec 2011|12:43am] |
So, Wikipedia tells me that Lucifer will be played by Koyasu Takehito.
WHY???
He's so not this role it's not even funny. Dammit! :/
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[11 Dec 2011|05:37pm] |
If I see one more genderswap fic or fanart for this ship... one more... I'll...
I'll be very annoyed.
Argh.
What is it with this ship and genderswap?! I don't have anything against genderswap in general, but this is the one character whom I simply can't see as a girl, and fandom seems to be adamant on turning him into a girl. Argh.
Why don't people genderswap the other guy nearly as much? That would be much more interesting.
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| so yeah |
[04 Dec 2011|10:12pm] |
Dropped the Ouran live action. Eww.
But about Yankee-kun to megane-chan. The drama actually isn't half bad once you accept that it's not what you expected it to be (ie. an adaptation that resembles the original). And if you learn to fast-forward the annoying messages-of-the-day. And if you manage to get over the fact that the characters have entirely new personalities and backstories. And so on.
But yeah, as a standalone story it's not half bad. It's pretty cute. Surprisingly the acting is pretty good, too. Mostly. The guy playing Shinagawa is damn attractive (and gives a pretty good performance, considering everything - I hear he's an acclaimed actor), Adachi is cute, Rinka has lots of "chemistry" with Adachi, Chiba is... Chiba. He doesn't have a lot of personality here, but I guess he's funny? The problem is Izumi, he was one of my favorites from the manga and he's been completely reinvented as an angsty, rude pretty boy (much like Ishida from Bleach, by the way) and it's bad. Also he's supposed to be pretty but to me he just looks weird. He's also the most delicate-looking guy I've ever seen, it's like a small wind could knock him over and his wrist would snap if I grabbed him. Uuh.
I wonder, do Japanese drama casting people have some sort of problem with dark-haired megane characters? They ruined Tounomine, they ruined Izumi, they ruined Kyouya... they just can't get them right.
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[04 Dec 2011|07:34pm] |
After thoroughly enjoying Tenchijin, I thought what the hell, I can do this. I can watch J-dramas now. It's time I swim a bit deeper in!
So, at first I thought I'd try another Taiga drama *cough*FUKUYAMA*cough*MASAHARU*cough* but then I got distracted by an adaptation of Yankee-kun to megane-chan... which of course turned out to have nothing to do with Yankee-kun to megane-chan. Why, why haven't I learned anything from the horrors of Yamada Tarou monogatari and Otomen?! (I watched it though, because the guy who played Shinagawa was ridiculously hot. *is shallow* Too bad they completely ruined Izumi. :/)
So I swore not to try any more anime/manga adaptations... but then my curiosity got the better of me and now I'm watching the first episode of the live action Ouran Host Club. That's right, one of my favorite anime of all time.
I'm only five minutes in and I want to cry. WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO TAMAKI AND KYOUYA?! They're not attractive at all! And you know, in any other show it's like whatever, but this is Ouran! They're supposed to be drop dead gorgeous and they're not. Plus Kyouya's attitude is just off. Guh.:/
ETA
WHAT. LIVE ACTION SD HONEY. WHAT. WHAAAT.
This is so bad. This is so, so, so bad. o___o)
ETA#2
Nope, Tamaki is not any more attractive without a shirt. Quite the contrary. And what's up with his hair?!
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[30 Nov 2011|01:58pm] |
When in doubt, blame the Hungarians :DDDD
Although if one stops to think about it, we do have a tendency to bring misfortune on our own head (see: shit we're currently in).
Facepalming at the comments, though. No sense of humor, as always.
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| oh my |
[25 Nov 2011|07:06pm] |
According to the Dear Leader's right hand, the Infallible Minister of Economy, there are "operations" going on against Hungary. I probably fail to convey his tone, though - the word he used means military operations. We are under attack. By evil foreign speculators (or, as half the country will interpret it: those dastardly Jews). For what reason? Because they want to destroy us, duh! But why? Because...
Because...
Uh, just because. Because that's what evil foreign powers do, REMEMBER TRIANON, NEVAR FORGET.
But we're standing tall. We won't waver.
We're not sinking, dammit! La la la~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8IBnfkcrsM
(Ahaha, I almost forgot how much I liked this movie!)
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| oh lol |
[25 Nov 2011|12:49pm] |
So, we have been downgraded to Ba1 by Moody's, with a negative outlook.
But, but, but! We don't understand this! We're doing just fine! We're doing better than most of the EU! There is absolutely no basis for this downgrade, Moody's has no idea what's going on here, they don't know what they're talking about. I mean, who do they think they are, seriously? They're just a bunch of dilettants out to destroy us.
What'd you say? That we're neck-deep in debt, our economy is in tatters, our currency hits new lows with each day? I have no idea what you're talking about. Our economy is doing fine thank you very much, we're managing our debt better than anyone else, and the forint would be doing great as well, if not for the international capitalist elite's coordinated attack on our poor, long-suffering country.
^^^
Paraphrase of the official statement released by our Ministry of National Resources (lol I'll never get used to this name), while the rest of Europe cringes in embarrassment or goes rotflol.
Keep digging that hole, guys, we're not deep enough yet.
ETA:
And just to show that Fidesz still has new lows they can sink to: apparently this downgrade is a matter of national security. Someone is targeting our fair land and blooming economy and we cannot just sit and do nothing! We must find who is behind this!
I mean, it can't be that we are, in fact, in deep shit. Because we're not. We're not, goddammit!
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| uaaaaahhhh |
[14 Nov 2011|08:52pm] |
SO CUTE
SO DAMN CUTE
*is ded of moe*
orz
I want one. I want one so much. And I want a tiny Masamune too, for him to play with. And Keiji to bug them. And Kasuga for my Boobies Club (Orihime, Lust and Winry are getting bored with each other).
And he's not too expensive either... except, y'know, there's shipping. Gah.
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[13 Nov 2011|09:56pm] |
So, about shipping Kyougokudou and Sekiguchi...
I went to take a look around, and apparently there's a fandom for Kyougoku Natsuhiko novels. :O Not very active, and most of it seems to be Enokizu x Sekiguchi, but Kyougokudou x Sekiguchi exists. Wow.
Too bad the fic I found are not quite what I'd like to read for these characters. I kind of wish that Mouryou and Ubume were more popular in the English speaking fandom, I think they would appeal to writers who like long, meaty, dialogue-heavy, involved fics.
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| HEUREKA!! |
[08 Nov 2011|10:33pm] |
I just found out how I can download fics from Pixiv without all the useless clutter. And I did't even need a Firefox add-on, mwahahaha.
(I need a Chrome add-on, but whatever, I actually use Chrome sometimes.)
Step 1.
Pixiv downloader add-on for Chrome. The only Pixiv downloader I found that works for fics as well! (And I'd been looking for hours.)
Step 2.
Fic gets saved as plain text. Here's where Text2html comes in! Simple, clean, can do batch conversions, adds one line that can easily be deleted later. Oh yeah, baby, yeah.
Step 3.
ARCHIVE ARCHIVE ARCHIVE *goes on download spree*
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