• DavidGarcia
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    10 months ago

    wowee I didn’t know Orban was that old. is he a vampire or something?

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      10 months ago

      Orbán is a somewhat common surname in Hungary and surrounding countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orban_(surname)

      If you speak about our Mighty Beloved King and Savior of Hungary Orbán, Eternal Consumer of EU Funds he is usually compared 2 Hungarian folk entities: Kisgömböc and Döbrögi.

      Kösgömböc is the stomach of a pig, “Pork puding” in English. There is a widely known folk tale about a bottomless Kisgömböc, which eats everything and grows huge. There is a very nice cartoon about this story from 1977, you can enable English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSnAbMhMeHs

      Döbrögi, written sometimes as Döbröghy is the antagonist of the folk tale based poem Lúdas Matyi, in English: Mattie the Goose-boy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattie_the_Goose-boy_(poem) Döbrögi is a fat local lord, and his favorite daily activity is messing with the poor peasants.