1. Hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, volcano and blizzards are seen only in the movies;
Let's get straight to the point: what are the (fifteen) advantages of living IN Brazil? | ||
1. Hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, volcano and blizzards are seen only in the movies; | ||
2. Any simple party lasts all night long; | ||
3. If you go to a pub/bar, your friends will never ask for a break before 11 pm; | ||
4. Shops, restaurants, pharmacies, street stalls, (almost) everything is open 24h; | ||
5. There are kilo food restaurants; | ||
6. A barbecue is a true barbecue; | ||
7. Feijoada, tutu, moqueca, acarajé, tropeiro beans, suckling pig, tapioca, pastel, snacks and sweets from Brazilian parties, among other typical foods, can be found on every corner; | ||
8. Sugarcane juice, guarana, matte, açaí, soursop, cupuaçu, among other exclusive fruits, only available in Brazil; | ||
9. Interest-free installments; | ||
10. Even the street vendor accepts credit and debit cards! | ||
11. There is PIX everywhere (even for homeless people); | ||
12. Cars with Flex engine and CNG; | ||
13. Flamengo+Maracanã=Happiness; | ||
14. Women don’t wear coffee filters as bikini; | ||
15. And most importantly: buttocks! ahhh they exist!!! ☺ | ||
Now what are the advantages of living OUTSIDE Brazil? | ||
1. The time has the same 60 minutes for everyone; | ||
2. Your rights really end up where others begin; | ||
3. Respect is neither sold nor bought; | ||
4. Education comes from home. Not from another planet; | ||
5. Common sense doesn't just exist in the dictionary, it's part of real life; | ||
6. People know how to communicate in their own language; | ||
7. Sincerity is standard in any real world conversation! | ||
8. Lottery pens don’t need to be chained; | ||
9. Your shadow doesn’t need to be kept in a safe for fear of robbery; | ||
10. Feces don't swim with you in lakes, rivers and beaches; | ||
11. The trash can is no longer a mere decoration object to be used in its original function; | ||
12. Nobody keeps dirty paper with poop next to the toilet, it goes away with the toilet! | ||
13. A stray bullet is just a candy that someone forgot where they left it; | ||
14. The risk of falling viaducts, bridges, cycle paths and dams is never greater than that of Vasco in the Brazilian championship; | ||
15. Beer and corn juice are different drinks; | ||
16. By the way, “Pure Malt Beer” is just called... beer! | ||
17. And they are never served in jelly cups; | ||
18. Queues are not often and, when they exist, they are respected; | ||
19. Public transport does not have a built-in sauna; | ||
20. Catch the bus at the stop? Yes, (believe me) it is possible! And we don't need to threaten the driver's mother to make him stop at the right place; | ||
21. The bus ticket is not more expensive than your drink; | ||
22. The cell phone speakerphone is not used as a bomb siren by funk listeners on the beach or on the bus; | ||
23. In fact, funk is no longer a nightmare in your life! | ||
24. An international call does not cost the same as a trip to the destination country; | ||
25. Opening a bank account does not take longer than the Halley Comet orbit; | ||
26. Shopping at the supermarket is possible without having to sell your organs to pay the bill; | ||
27. Ben&Jerrys, Haagen-Dazs, Milka, Toblerone and Nutella, among others, are commonplace things; | ||
28. A meal away from home does not cost the value of Messi's boot; | ||
29. Shoes don't cost half the minimum wage (or sometimes all of it); | ||
30. A cell phone is not worth more than your laptop; | ||
31. A video game isn't worth more than your TV; | ||
32. A TV is not worth more than a motorcycle; | ||
33. A one-bedroom house is worth no more than a European castle; | ||
34. The alcohol in your car is not more expensive than the alcohol in the pub; | ||
35. Tickets to a regular show do not cost the price of a Caribbean cruise; | ||
36. You don't have to prostitute yourself to pay interest on a bank loan; | ||
37. Emergency care in hospitals does not usually take as long as the orbit of Pluto; | ||
38. Patients are not cattle and hospitals are not butchers; | ||
39. Evangelicals don't think God is deaf; | ||
40. School is not a miniature version of the drug house; | ||
41. Teacher and beggar are two different categories; | ||
42. Penitentiary and summer camp are different places; | ||
43. Police and criminals are adversaries; | ||
44. Minors do not have carte blanche to kill; | ||
45. Militia is just a group of militants from religious entities; | ||
46. Short or topless clothing is not a green light for rape; | ||
47. Children use traffic lights to cross the street. Not as housing; | ||
48. You don't have to be an incendiary balloonist to honor Saint George; | ||
49. Yemanjá does not force you to pollute the sea in the new year; | ||
50. Trespassing is punished, never applauded; | ||
51. "Minimum consumption", what is it? | ||
52. A cat (Electricity theft) is just an animal. And it is not born on a pole; | ||
53. Finding a mobile data connection is no more rare than finding women's G-spots; | ||
54. Your internet connection doesn't fall as much as Neymar; | ||
55. Call centers do not compete for the “Rubens Barrichello sluggishness Trophy”; | ||
56. Postal delivery time is not the same as a pregnancy; | ||
57. And it is not necessary to pay a “ransom” to receive international orders; | ||
58. The only chance to hear about dengue fever is on a rerun of Xuxa Show (as it is one of the characters); | ||
59. Engineers don't work as Uber Drivers and lawyers don't deliver food; | ||
60. Seats reserved for the physically handicapped are not used by those who strive to be mentally handicapped; | ||
61. The meaning of the word "infrastructure" begins to make sense; | ||
62. The streets are public and have no owner; | ||
63. Flanelinha is just a small flannel, not the street spot owner; | ||
64. The yellow light does not have premature ejaculation; | ||
65. Pedestrians use the sidewalk and cars use the street; | ||
66. The maximum speed of the roads allows you to drive faster than a bicycle; | ||
67. The traffic dept. does not hide irregular volcanoes under the asphalt with strange names for speed bumps; | ||
68. A good car does not have to be an antonym for a popular car; | ||
69. Traffic rules also apply in front of schools; | ||
70. The circus does not send trainees to the traffic lights; | ||
71. No street wants to beat the moon's crater record; | ||
72. Driving in the left lane does not cause mental retardation in people using it; | ||
73. No one loses their hand if they switch on the car's turn light; | ||
74. Rush hour slot machine blitz? not even if bin Laden comes back from hell with Lucifer in the passenger seat!!! | ||
75. The proportion of idiots per square meter closing the intersection of streets does not reach double digits; | ||
76. Toll and extortion have different meanings; | ||
77. Traffic deaths are lower than in the wars in Syria and Iraq; | ||
78. PT is just an acronym to represent Portugal; | ||
79. Laws and regulations are less complex than quantum physics equations; | ||
80. That bureaucracy and the game of interests bigger than Game of Thrones to open a simple company is non-existent; | ||
81. Judge is not God, court is not purgatory and citizen is not devil; | ||
82. And last but not least: it is possible to write all this without having the Supreme Court trying to censor it... |