mutant bison

This guy is so beautiful that I have to attach another pic. There is no more, probably a musk-ox will come next.

Better not to say anything to this.

-- for Luki --

Why should I be decent? I'll be laid out finally like that!
Why shouldn't I be decent! I'll be laid out finally like that.

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Why should I be decent? You'll be laid out finally like that!
Why shouldn't I be decent! You'll be laid out finally like that.

(original: Two hexameters [Két hexameter] by Attila József)

[Well, I guess this is the kind of post which is interesting for Hungarians only, but since I promised to translate everything...]

I read in the news what a huge WW2-bomb had been found in Budapest ("the biggest bomb ever found in Budapest", but finally it wasn't and it doesn't matter anyway). Luckily enough the bomb was empty, nothing happened, everybody is happy etc. Basically it is nothing new, it isn't the first time that we face souvenirs from the second world war and most probably it won't be the last time either, so really nothing special, nothing more should have been said about it, if...

If I hadn't found a line in the news which said that the bomb was made in Germany. Most probably I missed the history lesson when we learned about the bombardment of Budapest by the Germans and I hadn't even read the respective part in the textbook. I quickly asked the fellow Hungarians here (3 at the moment) but they were just looking at me with incomprehension. Everybody thought that Hungary had only been bombarded by the English/Americans and the Soviets (perhaps except for the delicate case in Kassa). I did a lengthy search on the internet then, but I am a twit and I didn't find anything.

Dear millions of blog-reading historians and eyewitnesses, I would be very happy if you wrote me when and how Budapest (or any other part of Hungary) had been bombarded by the Germans. During the siege or after it? I am really curious and maybe I am not alone. You can find the "comment" option below.

Update: it happened after the Soviets took the Pest side. Thanks for the info, K.!

No way...

Suppose that

• you live in Karesuando (well above the arctic circle)
• you are an orthodox jew

Question: how do you handle the problematics of the sabbath?

If you have a more creative solution than this, please don't keep it for yourself! Every idea is welcome.

This was a beautiful day.

This is my favourite house here:

And this is my favourite bridge here.

 I will go to see them again when it starts to snow.

Yesterday I had a nice beer with Z. A babybeer in my hand, a bottle of real Hungarian one in his (the last beer of his flatmate...), between us two webcams and a couple of thousand km.

Z is our domestic zoologist, he knows everything about everything, he had already seen a lot personally and will see even more. He asked me between two sips why I represented the moose as a Nordic Terrorist, a Nightmare of Children, or a Sanguinary Beast, because he already had walked past mooses living in the wild more than once and he is still here, drinking his beer.

Z is - as always (strictly in zoological questions) - naturally right. On the other hand, I did not intend to jinx the animal. I simply showed what the local people say ("if it runs towards you, it is not the best thing") and I keep thinking it is true. But of course it is true as well that this happens very rarely because they are afraid of man and they also prefer to run in the opposite direction.

Is it clear like this, Z? What about a next beer?