Bizarre Brazil

This video is very violent and crude. Watch it at your own risk.

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This is what Brazilian teens do for fun: Mock, film and post to youtube their underpaid nannies. At some point the woman says “Your sister is laughing at me, boy” and he says: “Don’t worry”. Nonetheless, the video shows how difficult is to most down to earth Brazilians understand or reproduce English language sounds.

The Brazilian version of Simple Life sent two ‘model and actresses’ (Ticiane Pinheiro and Karina Bacchi ) to a farm in Sao Paulo state. As you can see bellow, the two beauties didn’t love that much the idea of stripping and cleaning the fish they just caught. It will be broadcast soon on TV Record, Brazilian second large TV network. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge.

Brazil had from the 70’s to the 90’s a law that forbade microcomputer and related technology imports. The intention of the law: to protect Brazilian industry from competition to the level national industry could survive by itself. What happened? Despite minor Rio Grande do Sul and Sao Paulo industries born on their local Universities, most of the industry limited itself to bootleg designs from the major computer and peripheral makers. On the pics bellow, some of them.

TK95 arrived. And it’s not just for fun.

CP 200 was another famous Brazilian bootleg design for British Sinclair’s ZX-81. The company, Prologica, bootleged several other designs from other major foreigner companies.

CP 400 was the most expensive of the small 8 bits computers by the time (from 1982 to circa 1986). It was a bootleg design of RadioShack TRS-80 Color, also from Prologica.