About British food

Please make your ideas for your contributions below. I am interested in any ideas, even if it is not available in Hungary but you regard it as something essentially British.

Lord of the "Ring" - Best Parody Eva'

How The Lord of the Rings should have ended

one of my favourite videos :)

Elves

Sorry but we were talking about elves in class so I couldn't miss this one..:)

HGttG Trailer

I love this trailer but unfortunately the film is not so good as it would seem from this..

Learn Na'vi

A Really Hoopy Frood

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is said, despite its many glaring (and occasionally fatal) inaccuracies, to have outsold the Encyclopaedia Galactica because it is slightly cheaper and has the words "Don't Panic" in large, friendly letters on the cover, has this to say on the topic of Douglas Adams.

on a side note

This is the -nationally- less important, but very traditional Scottish sport of 'tossing the caber' (orig. 'tossing of ye barr'). It is one of the heavyweight athletic sports on the various Highland Games, a sport that is said to have developed from tossing logs over narrow pits to form a bridge.

It involves a well-built Scotsman (or American, Dutch, Polish ICE) and a 15 to 23 feet(4.5-7m) long log, weighing between 70 and 150 lbs(32-68kg). The video shows how it's done: the thrower kneels down next to the caber, then lifts the caber up and clutches it tightly while it's leaning against his shoulder. After a short run to gain forward momentum, comes the attempt to 'turn' the caber by flipping it end over end.

The scores are based on the angle the log hits the ground, not on the distance or height, as one would assume. A 'perfect' toss is when the log hits the ground at a 12 o'clock position (starting from 6 o'clock when it's in the thrower's hands) and turns over.

enjoy

Hungary in centre of UK’s “Bigot-gate” scandal

This article's conclusions are a bit far-fetched by saying that Mrs. Gillian Duffy referred to the Hungarian immigrants especially, when asking about the 2 million Eastern European expats, out of which only 2,000 are from our beloved country. However, it might be right in that this was the "fatal blow" to the Labour Party's possible reelection this Thursday. For those who haven't heard about it, Gordon Brown left a campaign event with his microphone still on, and while in his car, he called an elderly pensioner a "bigoted woman" for asking about Eastern European immigrants. The whole story first caught my attention, because the word "bigoted" (vakbuzgó) means moustached in Spanish, so I merely thought he didn't like the lady's looks. :) (retrieved from the Budapest Report website)

Hungary, in the heart of Eastern Europe, is one of the ‘new Europe’ states that will be in the centre of the news in British media for quite some time, thanks to the recent blunder of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The “Bigot-gate” scandal broke when a BBC microphone caught the British PM making sarcastic remarks after his political campaign in Manchester on April 28, 2010.

Brown had finished sweet-talking an elderly citizen, but unaware of his live microphone still in operation, had minutes later called her “a bigoted woman” for daring to ask him about Britain’s brothers in the East. Unfortunate for Brown his negligence can cause the fatal blow to his incumbent Labour Party, which had planned to win the upcoming elections. The woman had complained about her fears about Eastern Europeans immigrants, including Hungarians. She demanded, “All those Eastern Europeans what are coming in, where are they flocking from?” Unconfirmed reports say that there are some 2 million immigrants in the UK of which at least 2,000 are Hungarian nationals.

The majority of Hungarians have decided to stay in their host nation for long term as the British Pound is still stronger than the Euro, much stronger than the Hungarian Forint (300:1) while the minimum wage in the UK (currently GBP 5.80/hour) is merely a dream in Hungary and working conditions at this level in the UK are more humane than in Hungary. Hungarian guest worker Rudolf Magyar told Budapest Report that he, his wife and two boys (6, 10) have settled down in the UK’s Cornwall County and don’t plan to return to Hungary.

“We both have full time jobs. We are paying our taxes and national insurance and our boys are attending school here and playing football for the local team. But the likes of Magyar and his other Eastern European peers are now the back-bone of the British economy, as many Britons prefer to go on job seekers allowance instead of laboring for minimum wages. Nevertheless Brown has drastically reduced his chances of improving his already tarnished short-tempered and arrogant reputation, political analysts said.

His affair with the 65-year-old discouraged lady from the industrial area of Rochdale, Manchester has almost caused a crash in international internet systems as so many viewers had logged on to see the recording on various hosting sites. Now Brown is apologising in every direction, but it seems his words are falling on deaf ears. The Labour Party is furious about his blunder as they are heavily dependant on working class people like thee lady from Manchester. Yet Brown has denied shooting his party in the leg. He argues, “If you make a mistake you apologise… I’m concentrating on bigger issues…”

But what can be a bigger issue than the entire world being hyped up about the stupidity of a prime Minister. Brown made a personal visit to his victim and apologised for having earlier ranted, “That was a disaster…she was just a sort of a bigoted woman,” about her. Political analysts said they believe Brown may not have made the trip, had he not been confronted for the BBC audio recording. The Manchester lady whose name is Gillian Duffy (pictured) is definitely more popular than Brown and has reportedly already hired a media consultant to sell her story to the media.

Cheese Rolling - Official Trailer :)