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Ancient Amazon Stonehenge discovered in Brazil jungle (video)
“Stonehenge!” sang the world’s loudest band, Spinal Tap. “‘Tis a magic place, where the moon doth rise with a dragon’s face. Stonehenge! Where the virgins lie, and the prayers of devils fill the midnight sky.” But no druids were harmed in the discovery of a Stonehenge-like structure in the Brazilian jungle.
The NYTimes reports:
CALÇOENE, Brazil — As the foreman for a cattle ranch in the far reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, Lailson Camelo da Silva was razing trees to convert rain forest into pasture when he stumbled across a bizarre arrangement of towering granite blocks.
Mas…Ancient Amazon Stonehenge discovered in Brazil jungle (video)
Brazilian artist’s not-so-holy statues called ‘blasphemous’ (photos)
Artist Ana Smile has people all offended in Brazil, but she thinks they need to just chill.
Mas…Brazilian artist’s not-so-holy statues called ‘blasphemous’ (photos)
Cibelle is a punk from the suburbs: ‘Punk da Periferia’ (video)
Thank God for the Internets and Citizen Uploaders like Scott LaFramenta, who has added English subtitles to the Portuguese stylings of Brazilian-Briton Cibelle and her performance of Gilberto Gil’s Punk da Periferia — punk from the suburbs.
Now it all makes sense! Here’s a recent video of Gil performing the same tune live.
Mas…Cibelle is a punk from the suburbs: ‘Punk da Periferia’ (video)
In Rio de Janeiro’s favela, kite flying sets you free (video)
After futebol, soltar pipas, is Brasil’s most popular sport. In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, flying the pipa is more than a leisurely escape from on-the-ground realities — it’s a venue for battle, with the entire sky as the arena. Pipa designs and airborne “cutting” strategies have been passed through generations, from rooftop to rooftop.
Filmmakers Guilherme Tensol and Leandro HBL spent time in Rocinha, Rio’s largest favela, among its young pipa warriors and elder statesmen, absorbing their secrets and documenting their stories.
Rain can’t stop Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro (video)
Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval parade was still spectacular Sunday despite a tropical deluge that soaked thousands of spectators, as well as feather-clad samba dancers and musicians.
Amazing Video Theater: Brazilian guy lifts tree trunk
Strange but true! A guy in Brazil lifts the trunk of a tree and his friends video the amazing feat.
Welcome to the USA! Please to answer a few questions (video)
This is your MIGRA on Brazil.
Brazil’s Got Talent: Menina sings Alicia Keys’ ‘Girl On Fire’ (video)
The Alicia Keys hit Girl on Fire would be perfect for an online video selfie, this Brazilian menina (girl) thought. Her mom? Not so much.
Instant karma is alive and well in Brazil, San Berdoo (video)
“Instant karma’s gonna get you,” John Lennon sang. This is true in both Brazil and San Bernardino County.
Watch and learn: The Brazilian sport of head-butting sheep
With FIFA2014 World Cup futbol now nothing but a memory, Brazilian athletes have revived the traditional sport of butting heads with sheep. But don’t call these guys butt heads!
Watch: ‘First contact’ with isolated Ashaninka Indians in Brazil
A group of “isolates” from the Ashaninka Indian tribe in Acre in Northwest Brazil made “first contact” with government scientists last month.
Mas…Watch: ‘First contact’ with isolated Ashaninka Indians in Brazil
Brazil street musician just kills it with ‘Sultans of Swing’ (video)
Dire Straits’ hit Sultans of Swing filled the air in Sao Paolo, Brazil, last week. This guy rocks!
Pocho Ocho top reasons for Brazil vs Alemania futbol FAIL
Tuesday’s disastrous Brazil-Germany FIFA2014 World Cup futbol match, which ended in Germany whipping the host country 7-1, has saddened the nation (photo.) And on Wednesday, Brazil’s soccer fans were struggling to understand what exactly went wrong.
We analyzed press and social media reactions and translated from the Portuguese to bring you their Pocho Ocho top reasons for Brazil’s FAIL:
8. Blame it on the bossa nova, with its magic spell.
7. All those pesky Hitler clones on the Brazil team let Germany win.
6. Alemania? We thought we were playing Ally McBeal!
Mas…Pocho Ocho top reasons for Brazil vs Alemania futbol FAIL
Watch: In Brazil, one fútbol fan floats some social criticism
How’s your Portuguese? The LiveLeak uploader says this high-tech balsero is yelling “Why do we need hospitals, roads, schools and public security if we have the World Cup? Give [me] my beer to enjoy this shit!”
Brazil TV guy tries to punk Mexicans with extra-picante salsa (video)
When a Brazilian TV guy tries to prank visiting Mexican futbol fans with what he thinks is super-spicy salsa, it turns out the joke is actually on him. What’s uber picante in Brazil, tu sabes, ranks as “meh” to Mexicanos. One intended victim actually thinks Brazil-boy’s salsa is kind of “sweet.”
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Mas…Brazil TV guy tries to punk Mexicans with extra-picante salsa (video)
Overdub, multi window madness: Brazil, the musical (video)
YouTuber Dan Newbie plays bottles, pans, pots and salt shakers, overdubs his nalgas off, and runs through a bunch of Brazil-oriented tunes, the better to World Cup you with, my dear.
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Mas…Overdub, multi window madness: Brazil, the musical (video)
Mexico-Brazil fútbol generates an F-bomb on Irish TV (NSFW video)
Inspired by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s L.A Kings F-bomb on live TV, on-the-air sports presenters in Ireland dropped the bomb during halftime of Tuesday’s Mexico-Brazil match. [NSFW adult language if someone there at your job can understand the thick Irish brogues. It’s more like “fookin” or something.]
Dateline Brazil: Don’t sleep on the job or else! (video)
We present this video, said to be from Brazil, as a cautionary tale about the hazards of trying to catch a few Z’s on the job. Kids: Don’t try this at home.
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Mas…Dateline Brazil: Don’t sleep on the job or else! (video)
Everyone wins a World Cup of Everything Else (infographics)
If there were a World Cup for the Highest Percentage of Middle-Aged Unmarried Women Between 45 and 49, Brazil would win! ¡Ole!
In the World Cup for the Futbol Team with the Most Twitter Followers, the winner is Selección Mexicana, @miseleccionmx on the Tuiter:
Mas…Everyone wins a World Cup of Everything Else (infographics)
Brazil sex workers learn English to prep for World Cup (NSFW video)
The Association of Prostitutes of Minas Gerais is teaching English to sex workers to help them deal with foreign customers. The state will host a match between Costa Rica and England and expects horny hordes of visiting futbol fans. Monday’s class, run by Igor Fuchs, was the last before today’s formal start of the games in Sao Paolo. [NSFW adult language and images.]
Along with normal conversational vocabulary, the students also learn words which might be used during encounters with clients. Sex work has been legal in Brazil since the year 2000.
Ex-Daily Show contributor John Oliver (Last Week Tonight on HBO) has some excellent World Cup coverage, too:
Mas…Brazil sex workers learn English to prep for World Cup (NSFW video)
Odd Couple Brazil: He’s 5’3″, she’s 6’6″ – because love (video)
Francinaldo da Silva, 23, is 1.6 meters tall (5’3″) and Elisany da Cruz Silva, 18, is 2 meters tall (6’6″) but the height discrepancy is no impediment to true love, at least according to this Chinese video about the newly-engaged Brazilian couple with English and Chinese captions narrated by a posh (Australian?) announcer.
Our assessment: She looks much taller than 2 meters. What do you think?
Brazil pot protestors fly a giant doobie (video)
Marchers hit the streets in 20 Brazilian cities Saturday with the goal of legalizing weed and ending the War on Drugs. In Sao Paolo, protestors flew a large papier maché marijuana spliff over the crowd of roughly 8,000. The chelovek who uploaded this video broke all the shots down, in case you have probs with your short-term memory retention:
In Brazil, they’re twerking at the car wash, baby (video)
You might not ever get rich, but let me tell you it’s better than digging a ditch. There ain’t no telling who you might meet, a moviestar or maybe even an Indian chief. Working at the car wash.
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Mas…In Brazil, they’re twerking at the car wash, baby (video)
Brazil team preps for next Winter Olympics (video)
While the rest of the world focuses on Carnaval in Brazil, and the upcoming World Cup, dedicated Brazilian athletes have begun training for the next Winter Games.