I built a couple of lego sets I got for my birthday and started painting a lasercut airplane model I glued last week.
Justas
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She's a veteran politician with her own cult of personality, she will be fine. She's not planning to be the prime minister though.
Edit: this comment aged very poorly.
This election had some weird surprises, like the young and progressive Laisvės Partija getting zero votes, but it could have gone so much worse.
Reminds me of my cat, actually.
That is an unrealistic level of flexibility.
No, but have some Lithuanian ones.
Don’t spit in a well as one day you may drink from it.
Bend the tree while it is young.
Flax is not yet sown and they are already weaving the linen.
You will know a horse by his teeth and a man by his talk.
God gave teeth, God will provide the bread.
Cat stroking leads to hump raising.
Old love does not rust.
The shoemaker is always barefoot.
Whatever you do, do it well.
There is no medicine that can cure stupidity.
Well begun, is half done.
Idioms
Spoons after supper (too late to bring something up)
hang noodles on the ears (try to fool someone)
like a fifth leg for a dog (something useless)
don’t say ‘wheee’ before jumping over the ditch (too early to brag about something)
sitting like they were just kissed (to be lost and disoriented)
walking like they just sold the land (to be sad)
catch the corner (to grasp the meaning)
my roof is riding away (I am losing my mind)
it’s a fact like a pancake (something easy to accept)
to pour from an empty container into a leaky one (to talk without saying anything meaningful)
go and visit the dwarves (visit the bathroom)
like a finger in the eye (to say something accurate)
it left on the dog’s tail (a plan that failed)
cutting a mushroom (to do useless work)
to shepherd the eyes (look at something nice)
wrap words in cotton wool (trying to speak nicely about a difficult subject)
to leave someone on ice (to abandon someone)
show the goats (to cry and scream when you don't get what you want)
to clarify a relationship (to fight someone)
Definitely my favourite Hungarian.
No, I wasn't. It took me 2 months to switch jobs. With unused vacation money, I got about 1 month's worth of my regular salary. The people who stayed didn't get their salaries for 3 months due to cash flow issues.
The side my country was on, was the middle. A short drive away from where I live now, there are two mass graves from 1940s. On one side, lie the Jewish people who were murdered by the Nazis. On the other, lie Lithuanian intelligentsia who opposed the Soviets.
Tankies and fascists are just the same cats in different coats.
You're oversimplifying a bit. Lithuania stayed pagan for a long time because of many different interest groups, both foreign and domestic.
Lithuania conquered a lot of Orthodox Rus lands and the Rus feared that they will be forced to become Catholic, for example. Also, there were few strong Catholic states in the region that could make strong allies.
Poland made Lithuania convert to Catholicism by accepting their grand duke Jogaila to become their king (by marrying their princess Jadwig), thus making him de jure leader of both Poland and Lithuania. For the Polish, it was an attempt to reduce Austrian influence on their state.