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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not made up.  Hungarian and Mongolian are linguistically somilar languages because Genghis came through there and raped and pillaged.[/quote]

The Mongols did come through in the 13th century and basically burned everything to the ground.  One of the many tragedies to befall the great Hungarian nation, as my dad would say.  Along with the Turkish occupation, the 1848 revolution (which they lost), two world wars (on the losing side for both), Communism, and the 1956 revolution (also lost).  [b]I swear, the Hungarian national anthem is like a funeral dirge.  Most countries have uplifting national anthems - Hungary's anthem tells of the suffering of the nation.  Hence the melancholy and pessimism![/b]  [/quote]

So this sums it up. Interesting reading this because growing up we had an elderly Hungarian neighbor who was a negative nelly. As a high schooler, walking my dog we'd stop and chat and walk together for a while and the whole convo was complaints and 'I noticed this bad thing...' kind of stream of conscious... he was just so sullen and miserable and he seemed to hate and be offended by everything. He'd even turn the conversation to my dog to find problems but my dog ignored him... He liked my old English sheepdog because he reminded him of a Komondor (Hungarian sheepdog)...then I'd go home and feel 70 years older than I did when I started the walk. Anyway, my parents told me that the older generation who knew him, my grandfather who had worked with him said that his mantra about everything was "ISSS NOOO F*CKING GOOOOOD!!" Ever after I was told this I noticed that he would say "Isss nooo ff  ff ff...... GOOD!!" to me, and it became a catchphrase in my house whenever something was broken/needing to be fixed/done.

Anyway, the world takes all types, even the cranksters and I just wanted to say that it's refreshing to even be that cranky and to not be a boastful person. Of all the neighbours I'd run into, he was one of the few who talk to me like an adult and didn't shine up his philosophy for me. He never bragged. Something about certain cultures will complain rather than boast, and it's almost a protection against bad things happening if you don't talk about the good, if you understand. Like if you keep complaining the sky will fall, the most important things will be kept safe. I just nodded my head and listened along and found him interesting.[/quote]

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