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Lem23 wrote:

Macunaima nli wrote:
Incoherent? No. Sloppily written? Quite. It becomes painful to read at points, what with all the fragments mascarading as sentences and the torturous constructions.

*masquerading

some tedious cunt wrote:Sadshit was resoonding,moriginally,mto my point about racist violnce in Brazil, Brony.

Oh, the fucking irony.

I assumed it was a typo for macaque. He loves his primates, does MacaMike

Bronshtein wrote:

Macunaima nli wrote:Sadshit was resoonding,moriginally,mto my point about racist violnce in Brazil, Brony.

I think he'd 'run with it' rather than responded to it.

Can I have 2 of what you're drinking by the way?

Smart phone keypads suck. I hate these things.

My favorite parts of the 2016 Olympics opening ceremony:

1) Michel Temer getting his ass booed so loud it even came through Rede Globo's censorship. Two seconds into the interim president's speech and you couldn't hear a word he said over the jeers. "Quick! Someone cue the fireworks!"

2) Young Miss Maria Ritalina, behind and to the right of Kenyan athlete Kipchoge Keino on the podium when he accepted his award. Apparently, her dove kite got tangled in another kid's and fuck whatever else was happening: she was gonna untangle that goddamned kite! I think of this kid watching herself on Youtube twenty years from now and smile. This is the stuff family legends are made of.

3) The weird bikes that led in the the teams. Who did the Olympic Committee get to design this ceremony? Dr. Seuss?



4) The pole dancer who Tonga apparently got to carry in their flag. It wasn't enough that he was built like the west end of an eastbound panzer, they had to lube him up with what looked to be something like six imperial pints of palm oil as well.
Not a dry seat in the house. You can see a young lady from the Australian delegation enjoying this performance just to the left of the flag



5) City Councilwoman candidate Indianara Siqueira and the bonde das travestis taking over the Olympics symbol on Copacabana.

You possibly missed that a number of the girls on tricycles that preceded each national contingent were travestis,the most well known being the model Lea T who came on with Brazil's national team but she wasn't alone. No wonder Temer had such a look of disgust on his miserable mug. I suppose it must be hard attending a public event when you know that most of the public loathe the sight of you. Priceless viewing.

As for the Giselle runs into the favela scene, I don't know if the version shown here was cut or there was an alteration made between the rehearsal and the final version but I didn't see it.

My only complaint and a minor one at that was seeing Jorge Ben Jor bowlderising his own song for public consumption, which seemed to cause a little musical mayhem when the fans were singing along.

Moro num país tropical, abençoado por Deus
E bonito por natureza, mas que beleza
Em fevereiro
Tem carnaval

Tenho um fusca e um violão
Sou Flamengo
Tenho uma nêga
Chamada Teresa

All in all as such things go I thought it was a bloody good effort.

Nice to see that balas perdidas have made their entrance on the Olympic scene. Pity it missed one of the press corps. My own theory is that it's a test event to see whether they can get the traditional Brazilian game of stray rounds and collateral damage into the list of of official Olympic sorts. I reckon a Kiwi journo would have been a decent score. At least 7.5 out of ten.

Yeah, it was definitely not a happy day for Mimi. According to my mother-in-law who is a volunteer and who had a ring-side seat for the practice and the ceremony, they cut the trombadinha scene. Definitely for the best.

It wasn't bad for a budget production.

Makes me want to shout at our men's team: "Why don't you play like a bunch of girls?"

Still, they did beat Denmark 4-0 and hopefully will do Colombia tomorrow.

Best news of the Olympics. Three Argentine tourists assaulted by travestis in Copacabana.

http://extra.globo.com/casos-de-policia ... 22212.html

A pity the cops got them. Really they should get some sort of commendation. Even better than the guys who robbed the US swimming team.

The Jim Jones Cocktail Hour wrote:Best news of the Olympics. Three Argentine tourists assaulted by travestis in Copacabana.

http://extra.globo.com/casos-de-policia ... 22212.html

A pity the cops got them. Really they should get some sort of commendation. Even better than the guys who robbed the US swimming team.

After almost three years on this forum, I was conditioned to expect one story after another from the Rio Olympics of roving gangs of knife-wielding transgender prostitutes and angry, twitchy academics lurking in the shadows, waiting to attack with long-winded verbal assaults. So far, it's been more quiet than I expected.