Okay, not really stag related, or stag weekend oriented, but I know almost all stags are into football, so I thought this post on Pestiside.hu may be of interested, especially the heated comments following it. This partially explains why five-a-side footy is more expensive in Eastern Europe (i.e. pitch rental) - because there aren’t many good pitches, and the ones that do exist overcharge and overbook.

So here is the article - Enjoy!

The Problem with Hungarian Football is the People NOT Playing It.

As I have discovered on trips and at parties where Helen is present, she likes to do what she calls her ‘Stripper Pose’. This first came about in our travels to Bratislava, to do “research” for stag weekends there (e.g. we drank a lot, slept late and didn’t see much of the city, just like a stag do!) One evening we had just visited our second strip club, a very classy - no - THE CLASSIEST strip club in Bratislava, complete with an amazing laser show and amazingly gorgeous strippers, when Helen decided to do her own ‘Stripper Pose’. She has since done it a few times and I’ve had the good fortune of capturing it on film:

The one-and-only, The original ‘Stripper Pose’!!!

Helen gives a step-by-step lesson on how to do her special pose:

You talking to me? Eh? I’ll show you how to do a stripper pose!

Step One: Bend over

Step Two: Grab your ass!

BOO! We celebrated Halloween, my birthday and had Anna’s leaving party Stag Republic style! We started as usual, with a spread of food fit for a Stag king - cakes, scones, chips and salsa, strudel and champagne.

Above - chowing down with the Stag office people. Saying goodbye to Anna… and finally, we get to choose our pumpkins.

The carving starts with instructions for first-time pumpkin carvers Nora and Helen. Then the goriness begins. Pumpkin guts and seeds are flung about with abandon and Helen is quite grossed out by the whole process.

The results! Helen is really courageous and carves her pumpkin horizontally (left). Nora’s turns out perfectly (middle) and they all look quite dashing with the Stag Republic office in the background

We studied our masterworks for a while in the dark and came to the conclusion that these glowing pumpkins resembled a group of drunken lads on a Stag Do, so the whole thing seemed very appropriate and worthwhile. Click to enlarge the picture and if you look closely at the pumpkin faces, they do look like drunk people at a bar. We were a bit tipsy too, mind you…