Rank the seasons.
1. Spring
2. Autumn
3. Winter
4 Summer
2 and 3 often change tbh
4 is always the same, objectively evil
Discussion
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Satan! What are you doing here? Didn't know you had WiFi! #introductions
the summer gets pretty bad there so i kinda get it
the climate is way different here tho
Ok I'm moving to where you are. It better not be Brazil 😡
it's liveable tbh
but the winter gets as cold as -20C and even colder at times (that's the most extreme it gets)
also where did brazil touch you wrong 😂😂
I have Brazilian neighbours, they are sooo loud lol. They're not even all that close to me lolol. They're that loud.
madeirans are loud fuckers too
number one reason why i want to gtfo this island, but i'm living in one of the quietest parts of the island, i suspect it may be THE quietest place on the whole island.
i've never encountered such a noisy bunch of people as madeirans. really. they are barbarians.
i mean, i have encountered pockets of people like this in other places but the majority of people everywhere else are not like this. i can't stand it. completely ruins my concentration.
'why the fuck are you shouting'
Unfortunately I actually understand a lot of what they're saying and they're literally shouting about nothing.
yeah, exactly.
in my first week on this island, at the airbnb, i several times witnessed the two sisters who were running the joint and they seemed to be fighting with each other. i didn't like it. but then the more i watched people on this island, i saw that to these people, yelling at each other like you were having a fight is a friendly conversation.
what the actual... fuck... is going on in these people's minds, i still haven't figured it out.
I can't find the clip, but Camille Paglia often talks about Italians shouting similarly. She proposes (half jokingly maybe, she's also Italian American) it's about country/rural people being accustomed to communicating over long distances of fields and stuff.
i have no idea but the landscape here makes it even worse because everything is surrounded by rocky slopes and the sound echoes across all over the place
first place i rented when i got here was in front of a primary school. because flat land is scarce here, they run the kids in their break times in a cycle so about half of the daylight hours there is screaming kids running around in the playground outside, which was like 30m from where i was located. all. fucking. day, screaming kids.
not only the screaming, but i started to stand on the balcony and watch how they behaved and man, all the boys were constantly play fighting with each other. like, because they were jammed together in such a small space all the time they didn't have any other kind of game to play. these weren't countrty kids, it was fairly dense urban area. but, having said that, almost anywhere you sit for a bit on this island you will hear the sound of farmers chipping away at their fields or grape vines or the goats (mostly goats) bleating as well. so, idk, maybe madeira really is mostly a rural place. but they are even louder in the dense urban areas like caniso and funchal.
i could not have tolerated living in the environment of funchal, where most of the bitcoiners have set up shop. i couldn't stand it even in ginjas, a little suburb of Sao Vicente on the opposite side of the island. it's not just the yelling people either, they all have dogs that they also confine in these tiny spaces and the dogs just yap yap yap all fucking day long.
damn, like through the day or through the night too?
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summer is fun but always crazy
autumn is always chill
winter is when i have the most solitude, which is my favourite state
this summer has been quite crazy, also, as it often is
i like spring the least because of allergies and the temperature fluctuates so much, autumn is bad like this too but spring is worse.
#gothstr selection!
yeah, i've always kinda been a goth lol. but not really a goth. more like new wave electro style. dark psy has been a big favourite for a long time as well as industrial, in fact before i got into psy, i was a huge NIN fan.
i think sometimes about dying my hair black again but i shudder to think about the chemicals in those things, and i try to wear my black septum ring sometimes but it always ends up back in my ear because i think it irritates my nose somehow, not sure how since it's titanium, so it must just be the anything at all in the nose is the problem. my nose has always been sensitive.
oh yeah, and i did quite like Janes Addiction and before that, Faith No More and Suicidal Tendencies so the trend was pretty clear. Dark and hard is the style.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/47065683@N00/ if you never saw my old flicker photostream... this kinda shows you a lot about me.
Considering that in tropical countries we only have 2 seasons (dry and wet seasons), i'd got with:
1- wet season
2- dry season.
And when i lived closer to the equator, it was even easier: only one season all year round, so it was:
1- only season
A mosquito wrote this
since i live in a borderline desertic region (high and very dry), the wet season is not that wet. we rarely have mosquitoes here.
Ok I'm sold. Where am I moving to?
Central Brazil in general, the region they call "Cerrado".
But we do have lot's of spiders and scorpions, thou... And lizards... And poverty, drug cartels, urban violence, and other things that come from being a typical south american country.
Oh no, I can't do Brazil, no offence..but possibly the worst food in the world. No offence lol.
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none taken, but...
There are distinct culinary regions in Brazil, each defined by unique ingredients and flavor profiles.
Central and Southeastern cuisine, led by the state of Minas Gerais, is heavily influenced by Portuguese traditions. It relies primarily on rice and beans, accompanied by a variety of meats—especially sausages and pork.
Northeastern cuisine blends African and Portuguese influences. It features cassava (also known as manioc or tapioca), bold spices, and an abundance of seafood along the coast. In the interior, goat and sheep are more common.
Southern cuisine centers on beef, typically grilled or prepared as Brazilian barbecue, and served with rice.
Northern (Amazonian) cuisine is rooted in Indigenous traditions. Its main ingredients are freshwater fish and cassava. The entire cassava plant is used, including the leaves—despite being toxic in raw form. These leaves are carefully prepared in dishes like maniçoba, one of the region’s most iconic foods.
What is commonly referred to as "Brazilian food" usually reflects a blend of the central and southern rice-based cuisines. If that doesn't suit your taste, consider trying Amazonian cuisine—markedly different and largely uninfluenced by Portuguese cooking—or the bold, spicy dishes of the Northeast.
Ive never encountered a spicy Brazilian dish tbh. I have been to a few parts of Brazil (very briefly) and I love near quite a lot of restaurants/cafes now. Maybe I was very unlucky lol. I've only eaten a variety of yellow things which seemed to be totally flavourless, rice and beans. And barbeques (you can't really go wrong with a BBQ). I thought Brazilians were scared of spice, I actually thought they were scared of salt and pepper too lol.
salt is mostly due to big government. some cities have laws forbidding salt to be exposed on the restaurant so people wont ask for it.
Salt restrictions in restaurants are largely due to government regulations. In some cities, laws prohibit placing salt on tables to discourage its use without request.
As for spices, their use varies significantly by region. You most likely visited the South or Southeast—places like Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and the southern states—where food tends to be milder. In contrast, the North and Northeast offer a wider variety of chili peppers, such as malagueta and biquinho. Traditional black pepper (Piper nigrum), commonly used in European and Asian cuisines, is not as prevalent in Brazilian cooking.
Spot on, I probably went to the wrong places lol. Typical lolol
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Autumn is underrated. The leaves falling, slight smell of summer mixed with a breeze of winter in the air. Long warm light evenings drawing out, preparing for the cool early winterery nights. There's something magical about it. Plus Halloween and bonfire night are great family events. I do enjoy summer more but Autumn time hits different.
Autumn has been a previous 1 for me for aure
