Bizarre Brazil

This are the same guys of this post. They have two wild lizards on his backyard. On the second video (click on the “read more” link) one of the beasts gets angry with them and attacks the cameraman.

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This happened in a favela (shanty town) in Rio de Janeiro. It’s so commonplace in Rio de Janeiro this days nobody cares about anymore. The confrontation is so close one have to praise the cameraman’s and the cop’s courage. Video with english subtitles.

Oh, yes! He fought against the Nazis and I have discovered that he is from Martinique, too! Good Lord, our (Brazilian) icon and idol from Martinique – no offence – but I am desolated…

Don’t you believe me? Ask Silvester Stallone and Michael Caine about or look next pictures.
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Lasier Martins is a TV anchor to a Porto Alegre broadcaster. Porto Alegre is a small micro village in southern Brazil and a place much like Seattle, in which people think their hometown is the best place on earth and so on (quoting an old column of John Dvorak). It shares even the bad climate (the worst winters in Brazil are there) and the bad reputation for their people as Seattle does in the US. Eventually it’s also my hometown.

But Lasier Martins got famous and a meme in Brazil because of the following video where in a live interview in a wine producer region near Porto Alegre he got actually K.O. by surprise. Watch the video to see how.

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Some guys organized this flash mob in Sao Paulo (man, I love this town), in 2004. They repeat the event every year since then. This one was set up in Avenida Paulista and environs, the Brazilian version of Wall Street, NY. The red columns building is Museu de Artes de Sao Paulo, known as MASP - Sao Paulo Arts Museum, which abbreviation in English spells SPAM (!).

Niagara Fools is an old Woody Woodpecker cartoon episode and this episode in particular has become very popular in Brazil, god only knows why (maybe because it’s fun as hell? March! heh).

The footage and edition were made by Fabio Yamaggio and the flash mob organized by Ana Paula.

Mmm… yep: HOORAY!

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