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In a quite disgusting turn of events, the leading candidate for the government of the state of São Paulo was recorded on tape having sex with five prostitutes.

 

Brazil truly has no limits.

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41 minutos atrás, vinipereira disse:

 

Once again I'm glad to live in the Northeast region. São Paulo and Rio elect the worst politicians possible.

 

 

I live in Santa Catarina, and this is the state in which Bolsonaro won with the largest margin among all states in the country. This is like living in hell. 

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5 minutos atrás, vinipereira disse:

 

I agree 100%. I think Brazil won a medal at YOG and I didn't even care. It's also disheartening to see many athletes supporting him when he promised to eliminate the Ministry of Sports.

 

The only positive thing about this election: knowing about people that supported him and exclude them from my life (granted, there wasn't that many). Thank lord fascism still isn't that strong where I live.

 

 

My list of friends in Facebook went from around 1,100 people to 470 now. And I still think I'll have to double check about some people...

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4 minutos atrás, DaniSRB disse:

how do you know that that guy just don't talk too much like Trump and Mexican wall to win ellections?

As I said before, I'm afraid of how people will react on the streets. I've seen two videos today of black people being assaulted, beaten and I've read about a man publicly stating he believes men have the right to beat their spouses. Bolsonaro is just the rotten face of what Brazil is, and there are 200 million reasons for me to worry.

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Very few times in my life -- not even when my father died when I was a young child -- I've felt this hopeless, lost, afraid and confused. There's no point for me to cheer for Brazilian athletes anymore because they represent a nation I despise at the moment. 

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11 horas atrás, hckosice disse:

 

Does the president in Brazil have too much power ? I mean for example in Slovakia, the president´s power is very very limited, it´s, honestly, only ceremonial. Yes, sure he can nominate and appoint prime ministers, he is the chief of the Army and has the right to veto any bill and return it to the parliament, but every his decision can be really easily overridden if the parliament decide to pass the bill again a second time.

The problem is not what he can do, but how his ideas make other people do what they do.

Brazil is the most dangerous country in the world for LGBT people to live in. No other country registered such a high rate of crimes against LGBT people, and to top it off, homicide rates are among the highest in the world (and they are the highest in the world when it comes to gay and transgender people). In such a hostile environment, he adds fuel to the hatred against LGBT people. Last week, there was a huge protest on the streets against Bolsonaro, but a number of people in a subway platform chanted "faggots, take care, Bolsonaro will kill your kind". One of the major reasons for people to vote on him is that he promised everybody will be allowed to have a gun. Usually people think this will keep them safe, but in reality we'll have even more people murdering gays, transgenders, lesbians and women (Bolsonaro is also a misogynistic pig, for those who don't know already).  

 

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Em 10/4/2018 at 14:35, konig disse:

it was a funny picture for me and nothing more but is probably not for you and other brazilians of the forum.

 

Temer,Haddad and Bolsonaro are, for diferent reason, terrible politicians for me.

Nothing about Bolsonaro is funny. Nothing. 5 years ago he was considered a (bad) joke, ranting nonstop about a non-existing communist threat, and now he's very close to becoming the president for the next four years. He's publicly stated he believes (pretty) women should be raped, women should earn less than men, black people and native Brazilians are lazy and should be killed, gay people should die... Basically, he should be jailed for even opening his mouth, but somehow he's running for president and many, many people are ignorant enough to vote for him. In fact, I fear for my life if he ever gets elected.

Now, about the other politicians... Temer is as dirty as one can be. He's currently the illegitimate president after a coup d'état, and that says a lot. In short, the coup happened so he could sell for cheap (I'd say give) our oil to the Americans. Of course there's more to it, but it's too long (and boring) to explain. I'm a professor in a federal institution (basically, federal schools and colleges are usually the best in the country) and we've suffered huge losses of maintenance money, so we're screwed for the next years thanks to this coup.

Haddad is not a bad politician, but he is from a party I sincerely hope will not elect a president in the next 30 years, since we've seen numerous scandals of corruption regarding this party. Haddad has good ideas, but he should never have run for president in the first place.

 

Edited October 7, 2018 by thiago_simoes

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11 horas atrás, Olympian1010 disse:

I just want to warn everyone that my attitude my be more moody the next few days because My family put our cat down today. I love this forum so I’ll probably use it as a pick me up, so kept up the posts. Thx

 

I'm so sorry. I'm sure he/she had a good life with you and your family.

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It's winter here in Brazil, and the city I live in, Joinville, is rainy and cold most of the year, so it's even colder (by our standards) now: 12 ºC.

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4 horas atrás, Vojthas disse:

6:0 6:0 in tennis is "rowerek" in Polish, which is a diminutive for a "bicycle".

In Brazil, when a tennis player wins by 6 : 0, we say "pneu" (tire) and winning by double 6 : 0 is called "bicicleta" (bicycle), just like in Polish (and Serbian).

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14 horas atrás, phelps disse:

 

Droga means "drug" also in Italian (actually, between Italian and Portuguese and Spanish there are a lot of words with similar meaning)...

but when it comes to the ITA vs POR translation, the most "tricky" word is the verb "ficar", which is "to stay" or "to put" (I don't know the exact use of that in POR)...

so, if you use the imperative form, it sounds "fica...and so on"...but in Italian that world literally means "vagina" (and it's not the medical version for that, since in this case you have to say "vagina" -pronounced "vageena"- also here)...

p.s. some of you might also have geard the word "figa", which is exactly the same (it's used in many regions, especially in Northern Italy instead of the proper Italian word with the "c")...on the other side, if it's written and said in the male version ("figo") literally means "cool"...it's not a word you should use in a formal speech, but nowadays is normally accepted also on tv broadcasts at least)...

 

I knew about "fica" because I watched an interview with singer Mafalda Minnozzi (she's moderately famous in Brazil and she speaks Portuguese quite well) and she said she brought her parents to visit Brazil once and the first thing that was said to them was "fica a vontade" (literally "stay as you wish", but it actually means "make yourself home"). I can imagine they have a bad opinion about us and our fascination about "fica". 

Also, we use the word "figa" in Brazil to refer to the gesture of putting your thumb between your index and middle finger. I was told this gesture is quite obscene in Italy, but in Brazil it means a way to superstitiously protect yourself against curses and bad luck (and it was appropriated by African-Brazilian religions as a way for one to protect oneself from bad things). 

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I was reading the list of topics and the national thread of Slovakia had the sentence "Cesta do Tokia" added to it. Then I remembered that in Portuguese we usually say "cesta" (literally: basket) when someone scores (one, two or three points, it doesn't matter) in basketball. This made me curious about other languages, since there might be different or unique terms related to sports and we have people from all over the world here, so I would like us to share what we might know.

As a side note, it's amusing that in Portuguese the name of the country Peru refers to both turkey (the animal, not the country) and a penis. Their slogan, "arriba Perú", is sometimes understood by Portuguese speakers as "rise up, cock". 

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14 minutos atrás, Finnator123 disse:

There's no fun in it without being passive-aggressive. And i don't think i'm insecure. I just don't know how to write opinions without showing this insecurity.
I know the meaning of a snowflake , so of course i'll question anybody who calls me with that xd

 

I was joking and you failed to see it. I wrote snowflake the same way I would write honey, dear or something like that. I was being sarcastic. You don't have to be insecure when someone is sarcastic to you. I'm not attacking you as a person, just joking around.

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Agora, Finnator123 disse:

I don't think you even know what a word snowflake means.... Besides the thing that comes from the sky during winter....
Using capital letters makes me a snowflake. Great SJW Logic right there 

 

Man, get a grip. I'm just joking. You seem really insecure and borderline passive-aggressive. Anyway, you made a question, I answered your question, and that's it.

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Agora, Finnator123 disse:

@thiago_simoes HAVE I LOST IT BECAUSE I USE CAPITAL LETTERS? CAPITAL LETTERS LIVES MATTER 

 

Relax, snowflake.

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1 minuto atrás, Finnator123 disse:

Typical for what? I only used Capital letters to point out a fact
What's wrong with that? 

 

Sure. 

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22 minutos atrás, Finnator123 disse:

Why? SHAPIRO IS NOT A HATE SPEAKER. FACTS DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS.

 

You wrote that some people are "snowflakes" who can't take a different opinion, still you lose it when someone presents a different point of view.

Typical.

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Agora, Finnator123 disse:

In America, they seem to fight against almost everybody lol
Especially against Trump supporters. They shout "Nazi!" at every god damn human being, if you disagree with them. And what about this freedom of speech? A conservative speaker called Ben Shapiro have lectures about many interesting subjects & everytime when people are protesting against him, the reason is somehow hate speech. Using facts & logic is not hate speech. Facts don't care about your feelings. A bunch of offended snowflakes calling every white guy with different opinions a white supremacist....

 

When you are in a position of privilege, it's easy to call minorities "snowflakes" with feelings that can be easily hurt. When you suffer the consequences of hate speech, even when hate speech is disguised through "facts", you urge to make the world a better place for you to live, and this means not accepting any made up speech as factual truth (which, quite often, is not). The nazi tried to pass eugenics as the truth, and we all know the terrible consequences this has caused to the world. So, it is important to always pay attention to WHO is talking, and WHAT motivates the discourse which is being spoken/written/etc. And if one's "opinion" makes the world a bad place for another person to live, with all due respect, one can shove his/her opinion up his ass. 

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1 hora atrás, Finnator123 disse:

Antifa is a facist & anarchic organization for entitled crybabies who don't now what an actual facism even means xd

And they're against the freedom of speech. So many Youtube videos with antifa kinda confirm this 

Agree or disagree?

 

Completely disagree. They fight against white supremacists and neonazis. It's one thing to have free speech, it's another thing when your free speech hurts other people and promote, ultimately, segregation to the point where even a genocide could be "explained" through your beliefs. I've had enough of disgusting people who would recruit other people to harass, hurt and even murder black people, gays, lesbians, immigrants, jews and other minorities. They might use violence to achieve their goals, but we're not all supposed to be Gandhis and Mother Teresas when we are dealing with fascists.

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Brazilian songs:

Chico Buarque and Simone - Iolanda
Los Hermanos - Anna Júlia (this was a huge hit at the time)
Ultraje a Rigor - Marylou (this one can't be taken seriously, since it's about a chicken)
Bebeto - Jessica
Legião Urbana - Eduardo e Mônica 
Tiririca - Florentina (satirical song, and the singer is a clown who later became the most voted federal legislator in the country)
Capital Inicial - Natasha
LS Jack - Carla (also a huge hit)
Seu Jorge - Carolina
Sandy and Junior - Maria Chiquinha (children's song)
Latino - Renata (a song where her ex-lover badmouths her... trash)
Sidney Magal - Sandra Rosa Madalena (his one-hit wonder, and one the most important songs from the "kitsch" era in Brazil)
Capital Inicial - Fátima
Nenhum de Nós - Camila, Camila
Ivete Sangalo - Cadê Dalila? (this one never made much sense to me, but once it plays people go crazy anywhere in the country)
Roberto Carlos - Lady Laura
Legião Urbana - Mariane
Ana Carolina - Eu comi a Madonna (literally, I ate Madonna, but in Brazil "eat" is a synonym for "f*ck", so this became something like a lesbian anthem)
Biquini Cavadão - Dani
Tijuana - Renata
Marcelo D2 - Sou Ronaldo
Cazuza - Bete Balanço
Pitty - Desconstruindo Amélia
Titãs - Marvin (huge hit)
Latino - Cátia Catchaça
Fernanda Abreu - Kátia Flávia, a Godiva do Irajá (incidentally, Irajá is the neighborhood where I was born, in Rio)
Raul Seixas - Al Capone
Elis Regina - Madalena
Milton Nascimento - Maria, Maria (LOVE this one)
Bruno and Marrone - Marianne
Nx Zero - Larissa
Jota Quest - Maria
Roberto Carlos - Ana
Carolina and Seu Jorge - Carolina
Jorge Vercillo - Monalisa
Biquini Cavadão - Janaína 
Os Raimundos - Pequena Raimunda 
Skank - Jackie Tequila
Legião Urbana - Andrea Doria
Armandinho - Paulinha (lil' Paula, literally)
Ed Motta - Manuel (kind of a satirical song, though the singer is more of a "conceptual" person who thinks he's smart and everybody else sucks)
CPM22 - Regina, let's go!
Los Hermanos - Bárbara
Capital Inicial - Giulia
Tom Jobim - Luiza

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Official source from the government of Brazil (data from 2010 published in 2016):

Male:

1. José

2. João

3. Antônio

4. Francisco

5. Carlos

6. Paulo

7. Pedro

8. Lucas

9. Luiz

10. Marcos

Female:

 

1. Maria

2. Ana

3. Francisca

4. Antônia

5. Adriana

6. Juliana

7. Márcia

8. Fernanda

9. Patrícia

10. Aline