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I meant to post this in investing in Brasil and I will post it again there because in 3 years of personal experience, including those Brasilians I have spoken with, this is the No.1 important and I wish I had seen it 3 years ago.

If you mean "driving the car really hard", like ridiculous unnecessary accelerations only to slam the brakes, flying over speed bumps to the point the tires almost lose contact with the asphalt, taking turns a Aryton Senna speeds and generally what we call in the States "beating the car", I think it is very common. When I mention anything to my younger Brazilian male friends ...

It's seems you've stumbled across what was otherwise common knowledge; that being, it's not practical to employ people in Brazil and that's why those jobs that are available are so scarce. Why would employers go through all of that pain of taking on more workers just to make more goods, to garner more profit, only to be taxed to death for their trouble? Better to idle ...

If I talk more about this stupid reality of what the people in the Brasil government have done to Skype then I might even risk having Brasil try to ban Skype. If I tell you how to get around it (and oMG it would require a retarded monkey not to work it out) then I might risk Brasil trying to shut down Skype all together and then the people at Skype will be angry with me and ...

Originally posted by Paulistano USA I am starting up a collection of hugs for needy posters on this forum. There is a certain hostility among a few people who probably suffer from a deficiency of hugs that could be due to many factors such as an emotionally distant father, a serotonin deficiency or even worse too many hugs by a creepy uncle. These are just some ...

Dude.. You need to spend money on the more expensive meet.. Depending on the churrasco you go to they'll have a list of cuts they serve.. Get to know those words and search for them in the grocery stores.. If you're shopping in ghetto land and eating a botecos then ya your meat will be sh*tty.. LOL I live in a Jewish neighborhood, the grocery store is just like back home ...

You should not generalise a one-time observation. Brazilian kids grow up with rice and beans. French fries may well have been the exception on this special occasion.

Originally posted by globetrotter I DO like Brazil but at times it's a backward vipers nest. This is where you and I differ. I don't like Brazil. Stuff like this happens all the time and it seems like the number of Brazilians who engage in these shenanigans is disproportionately high. I can't wait to get out of here (next year) and back to ...

By way of history. Brazil was a Portuguese colony (hence olive oil). Black Pepper was mainly brought to Europe from South East Asia by the Dutch. The portuguese used Brazil mainly to grow stuff to be shiped back to portugal so why bring peper there. Peper was expensive as hell, so why use it in the food of slaves?The first black peper was planted for comercial use in brazil by...

Originally posted by Bahiana77 If you find a rock in your beans, it means the cook didn't care enough about you to sift through them manually before cooking. Even bags of beans purchased in the U.S. have the occasional pebble. Anyone who spends even a few minutes in the kitchen with a Brazilian friend and/or his/her empregada/cook learns quickly about sifting ...