Brazil Spill

This is meant as a resource for learning tidbits about Brazilian culture, history, and everyday life. Keep in mind that oral tradition, slang, and even food vary greatly from area to area.  My personal area of "expertise" is from the point of view of someone from the state of Minas Gerais. I also have a YouTube account called PaddySnuffles where i translate songs from Portuguese to English. So check that out too! :)

[seu-bobo-da-corte]

[brazilspill]

UUUUUGHHHH

I wanted to go on the Carrefour site to get some ideas of what kinds of snacks I'll want to get when in Brazil but it doesn't let someone with a Canadian IP address surf the site, which is just stupid.

[lesbianjoong]

if cannibalism was legal would you try it?

yes

no

Voting ended onMay 15

tumblr being the website of cannibalism talk and the moral discussions of it im curious what the consensus is if it was actually legal.

PLEASE elaborate in the tags on reasonings, etc.

[lesbianjoong]

Alright feeling the need to elaborate. The general idea is it’s freely given/consensual and no prions. So basically if there were no negative consequences.

[whatbigotspost]

We are so weird on tumblr. I'm so confused by stuff like this, equally amused, and mildly horrified by the results 😆

Every time we discuss cannibalism (which it TOO OFTEN to be clear), the "imagine if this and then this and then this" to try to pair it down to what is essentially the singular question of, "do you have a curiosity to try human meat?" is absurd. And funny. And weird.

My fucking answer is an unequivocal NO, y'all. It doesn't matter how many caveats you put on it, the fundamental concept of eating human meat is so unappealing and nothing can change that to me.

It's not the legality stopping me! It's not the morality! It's not the consensuality! It's not the consequenceality!

At the end of the day, BEYOND ALL ELSE, it's just a fucking gross ass premise. And 37.3% of y'all are gross fuckers (as of me typing this.)

I don't hate you for that...y'all weirdos are still my people. But I sure will be watching my back bc it's highlighted how many of "my people" types are just a couple flimsy social guardrails away from gnawing on my arm.

[phinarei]

So, like, not trying to be a buzz kill but the question has so many other levels if you're from certain cultures.

I the cultures my ancestry comes from, eating human flesh is how you become a monster that feels constant pain. So the taboo goes even harder than in some other demographics. Could not pay me to do it.

On a... slightly darker note (still not trying to be a buzz kill, just having a thought that impacts my perception), I also wonder how many people's answer would be impacted by being a race that white people have eaten recreationally. Black people, Natives, Egyptians, and other groups have had white people eat our ancestors up until very recently. Like, living memory recently in some cases. I'm personally only 5 generations out from having had a relative cannibalized by white people so that's an extra layer if NOPE from me.

[brazilspill]

In my culture, cannibalism was a spiritual practice with very strict rules.

Basically, it was taboo unless done for very specific reasons in very specific ways.

The main reasons you could do it were:

a) if you are consuming an enemy whom you respect (and perhaps even admire) in order to absorb their qualities which you wish to have yourself

b) if you are consuming a loved one in order to absorb part of their spirit into yourself (kinda like so they can live on through you)

So I wouldn't be averse to consuming human flesh in theory.

But only in those circumstances or if in an extreme situation where someone had already died and cannibalism was the only option for survival (e.g. your plane crashes in the mountains and your options are either to eat the dead or become one of the dead yourself because there's nothing left to eat).

[saopauloantiga]

Casa da frontaria azulejada (1895)

Rua do Comércio - Santos (SP)

[primeministerofantarctica]

do you think ryland grace, after years of living on erid, communicating in eridian, thinking in eridian, forgets the english word for things sometimes. like one day he'll be talking to rocky in english and then inadvertently slip into a shrill whistling noise cuz he was trying to say "microscope".

[brazilspill]

Hi, bilingual person here: There is no doubt in my mind that this would happen. He'd be speaking a mix of English and Eridian with Rocky, where he switches from one language to another based on which word he can remember at the moment. It's how it works with me and my mom, who are both fluent in Portuguese and English. People ask me if I speak Portuguese at home, and I usually say I do, but the reality is that we speak Portuglish rather than one or the other.

[seu-bobo-da-corte]

[brazilspill]

"Don't leave to tomorrow what you can refrain from doing altogether."

Literally, "Don't leave for tomorrow what you can leave to there" ("deixar pra lá" is a colloquial way of saying "forget about it" or "never mind")

[brazilspill]

I think my favourite expression meaning "Don't get me in the middle of this!" is probably "Nós quem, cara pálida?".

Which literally translates as "Who's 'we', paleface?"

[brazilspill]

From a private convo, but I had to share, 'cause it made me laugh too hard not to.

The text in Portuguese translates as "Would Australians be the Mineiros of English?"

Context for non-Brazilians: Mineiro = the dialect of the state of Minas Gerais (often just shortened to "Minas"), whose speakers are infamous for shortening everything often to the point of incomprehension by other Portuguese speakers. It's also the state I'm from.

Context for Canadians: Mineiros are basically the Newfies of Brazil when it comes to language.

[kleefkruid]

The 'hyperspecific situations' polls are really once again highlighting that native English speakers tend to forget that 'foreign' doesn't mean 'non-English' or 'non-American'

"Did you watch a foreign language movie in the past three days?" Yeah I watched the foreign movie "The Martian" with foreign actor Matt Damon

[eastern-lights]

Op why would you hide this is the tags

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tag reading: 'Do you speak a foreign language?' Yeah yours /End ID]

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

Everybody STOP having a crisis, it’s now tea time

☕️☕️☕️🫖🍵🍵🍪

Pause all dread an catastrophe to have a cuppa and some cookies for the next 15-30 minutes

This is a wizard spell

[textpostscymraeg]

Pawb STOPIWCH fod mewn argyfwng, mae'n amser te rŵan

☕️☕️☕️🫖🍵🍵🍪

Rhowch saib ar bob ofn a thrychineb er mwyn cael paned a bisgedi am y 15-30 munud nesaf

Mae hwn yn swyn dewin

[luceirosdegolados]

Rapazada PARADE de ter unha crise, agora é a hora do té.

☕☕☕🫖🫖🍵🍵🍪

Toda catástrofe e anguria queda en pausa pra nós tomar unhas taciñas e unhas bolechas os próximos 15-30 minutos.

Isto é un feitizo.

[simuran]

Всем ВЫЙТИ из кризиса, настало время чая

☕️☕️☕️🫖🍵🍵🍪

Поставьте всю жуть и катастрофы на паузу, чтобы выпить чашечку и поесть печенья в следующие 15-30 минут

Это волшебное заклятье

[brazilspill]

Gente, PAREM de ter crise, agora é hora de tomar um cafézinho.

☕️☕️☕️🍵🍵🍪

Pause todo o medo e a catástrofe para tomar uma xícara de café e comer alguns biscoitos pelos próximos 15 a 30 minutos.

Este é um feitiço de mago.

[brazilspill]

I'm gonna eat so much pastel and pão de queijo when I'm in Brazil that I'll need to be rolled into the airplane on my way back to Canada.

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[brazilspill]

Brazilian Pastel

[seu-bobo-da-corte]

[brazilspill]

"To be abducted is the vacation/holiday I need"

[bookcoversaroundtheworld]

Anne of Avonlea - Brazil (2019)

When twelve-year-old Anne Shirley came to Avonlea, she quickly won everyone’s heart. Now, she’s five years older, almost a woman, and about to embark on a new adventure: becoming the teacher in her old Avonlea school. It’s an exciting year as Anne struggles to win over all her students, welcomes two new members to her family, and feels the first stirrings of love.

[brazilspill]

When my dog was a puppy, she absolutely LOVED her vet.

She might have been the only dog in history to ever get excited about going for a checkup.

When he'd pet her, she'd even arch her back like a cat to get the maximum petting experience.

He really was the best, though.

When we went to put my hamster down (he was super old, deaf, and blind by that point) he offered to care for him instead so that my hamster's last days were the best ever. When my hamster died, he was buried in the clinic's yard.

[nitashinori]

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

[paddysnuffles]

I'm from Brazil, and it was either Sailor Moon or Saint Seiya (which in Brazil is called Zodiac Knights). And Pokemon. They played them in the morning cartoons in the 90s on SBT (a channel you don't need cable for).

They also played Dragon Ball Z, but I didn't really like Dragon Ball Z much.

[intothestacks]

I'm going to Brazil from the end of July to the end of August, so I've been looking up stuff to buy while I'm there.

Book-wise, I'm interested in getting some graphic novels for this comic book series we have that's SUPER famous and popular, called Turma da Mônica (Mônica and Friends).

The ones I want most are:

Apego (Attachment) by Ana Cardoso - Mingau (Porridge) the cat is mistaken for a stray by a little girl who takes him home, and now he must find his way back to his original owner somehow...

Caminhos (Pathways) by Eduardo Damasceno - The story of how Bidu went from being a street dog to being adopted. Sadly, this one isn't available right now. So I might get the sequel, Juntos (Together), about Bidu acclimating to being a house dog.

Noite Branca (White Night) by Marcela Gordoy - A supernatural threat threatens to take the lives of the villagers of Papa-Capim. And the young indigenous man has not only the difficult task of stopping it, but also of convincing the shaman that he was chosen for this.

Herança (Inheritance) by Yoshi Itice - About a character, Do Contra, who deals with the difficulties related to being Japanese-Brazilian.

Vida (Life) by Paulo Crumbim - Wherein a little ghost has 24 hours to confess to his crush that she's the love of his (after)life, because she's about to be reincarnated.

[intothestacks]

Discovered a few more that sound interesting:

Contato (Contact) by Vitor Cafaggi - Bidu's owner receives a mysterious message through his grandfather's old radio, and the adventure begins...

Pele (Skin) by Rafael Calça - The story of Jeremias, a young black boy, experiencing racism for the first time. The story won the Jabuti Award for 2019, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Brazil.

Lar (Home) by Paulo Crumbim - Madam Death is busy collecting souls, so her friends decide to visit her at her office as a surprise. There wasn't supposed to be anyone there when they arrive...

I can't fit all of these in my luggage!!! Which ones should I get??