Re: [OT] BRAZIL: HEAVEN OR HELL?

2007-05-15 Thread Bob Warren
Andre: Thanks for that great complementary story and comments. If ever Brazil needed a trendy young ambassador, they need look no further. A little more "quebrando o galho" and "jeitinho" is what a lot of people need. But I'll leave you to explain what they are Richmond: As one nutter t

[OT] BRAZIL: HEAVEN OR HELL?

2007-05-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Let me be the first to make the obvious pun about BRAZIL NUTS and let me also point out that variety of opinions, shape, size, colour (Hey, my RunRev palettes have been turned a nifty British Racing-Green!) and so on are both the spice of life, and good, healthy debate and SDLCs. sincerely, Rich

Re: [OT] BRAZIL: HEAVEN OR HELL?

2007-05-15 Thread Andre Garzia
Bob, thanks for the essay, it's hard to come by texts that doesn't picture brazilians being carnival lovers, football dream players, cheaters in general, heavy coffee drinkers. You go deep to think a problem that everyone knows and we all pretend it's not in there. And you live in dream l

[OT] BRAZIL: HEAVEN OR HELL?

2007-05-15 Thread Bob Warren
For those who have not read it, I would like to recommend once again my article at:- http://www.bobsite.org/brazil/ - particularly the early section headed "*Alternative Perception" and the examples of simple dialogues where people very easily drive one another nuts through debate. The point