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Me: I'm pretty sure [our dog] was autistic.

My mom: Auautistic*.

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* Au au is the Portuguese onomatopoeia for the sound dogs make, as well as the toddler word for dog.

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My aunt had to kill a spider with a kitchen stool once.

She needed to use a kitchen stool because the spider was the size of a dinner plate. :)

just encountered a spider so big I very seriously considered downloading tinder exclusively to find a man to come over and move it outside

#sspiders #arachnids #brazil #the real life of me #my aunt #minas gerais

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Canada vs Brazil

In their defence, a lot of it is sand.

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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Adventures in Librarian-ing

Today, while reading "Up, Up, Down" by Robert Munsch to a class of Grade 3s, I taught the kids how to say "Ouch!" in Portuguese (Ai!; pronounced AH-ee).

So for the rest of the story, every time a character said "Ow! Ouch! Ow! Ouch!" they'd replace it with "Ai! Ai! Ai!" in choreographed unison.

They started doing it entirely unplanned yet somehow unanimously.

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The Beast and the Bethany - Brazil

Beauty comes at a price. And no one knows that better than Ebenezer Tweezer, who has stayed beautiful for 511 years. How, you may wonder? Ebenezer simply has to feed the beast in the attic of his mansion. In return for meals of performing monkeys, statues of Winston Churchill, and the occasional cactus, Ebenezer gets potions that keep him young and beautiful, as well as other presents.

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The Brazil 1st world media doesn't show

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais

Salvador, Bahia

Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais

Manaus, Amazonas

Recife, Pernambuco

Macapá, Amapá

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul

Florianópolis, Santa Catarina

#brazil #first world countries #media bias #third world country #belo horizonte

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@howiethespacebiker Maned wolves are SUPER chill and shy. It wouldn't even come close if any adults were standing too close for comfort to the food.

This is why in Brazil we don't think of wolves as dangerous -- our only reference is the maned wolf, which is so gentle I was once able to feed a wild one by hand during a nature reserve event when I was 5.

All the grownups had to move away and a single wolf shily edged closer, gently took the meat, and ran back to the rest of the pack.

The only adults who could feed them by hand were he Franciscan monks that fed the wolves every night.

Maned wolf in Brazil

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...Brasil?

Vocab in Portuguese: Food (2/?)

Barbecue - Churrasco

Beans - Feijão

Beef - Bife

Bread - Pão

Cake - Bolo

Cheese - Queijo

Cheeseburger - Xisburger

Chicken - Frango (When in reference to the cooking or already cooked animal; the live animal is "galinha")

Egg - Ovo

Juice - Suco

Rice - Arroz

Noodles - Macarrão (instant noodles are called miojo)

Omelette - Omelete

Pancake - Panqueca

Pie - Torta

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Americans are taking this shit way too lightly. It should be at LEAST pre-trial jail if not worse.

Trump has never earned special treatment through good works, good will.

It's all due to threats of violence, tampering, and defamation. #WhiteNationalism

Detain this fascist traitor. Shut him up.

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Either that or a very confused seriema trying to figure out why its usual killing strategy for prey isn't working.

Follow for more ❤️

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Brazilian taxi drivers would definitely be on New Orleans' side

I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.

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hello beloveds ☺️

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This is most Brazilians on coffee.

Do we drink it a lot? Yes.

But this is why we need a lot.

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Vocab in Portuguese: Food (2/?)

Barbecue - Churrasco

Beans - Feijão

Beef - Bife

Bread - Pão

Cake - Bolo

Cheese - Queijo

Cheeseburger - Xisburger

Chicken - Frango (When in reference to the cooking or already cooked animal; the live animal is "galinha")

Egg - Ovo

Juice - Suco

Rice - Arroz

Noodles - Macarrão (instant noodles are called miojo)

Omelette - Omelete

Pancake - Panqueca

Pie - Torta

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@howiethespacebiker

Well, it is now because he legally added it to his name later on, but his birth name is Luiz Inácio da Silva.

So by North American standards, he should be referred to as President da Silva.

Me about non-Brazilians

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Me about non-Brazilians

#president lula #brazil #brazilian portuguese #portuguese #portuguese language #langblr #the real life of me #brazilian culture #portuguese langblr #world politics #they don't know