So many people complaining about cold

"edu-petrolhead" (edu-petrolhead) 01/08/2015 at 11:17 • Filed to: None

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And I'm here complaining about the heat. I live below the Tropic of Capricorn, in southern Brazil, and it's 34°C now. Or, according to The Weather Channel,

When it's cold, you can ever put even more clothes. When it's hot, there's a point you have nothing left to take off.

My citroen won't start > edu-petrolhead 01/08/2015 at 11:22

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Same here.

Textured Soy Protein > edu-petrolhead 01/08/2015 at 11:23

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I posted this on facebook today:

edu-petrolhead > My citroen won't start 01/08/2015 at 11:24

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Just 27.7°C! I'm envious!

ttyymmnn > edu-petrolhead 01/08/2015 at 11:27

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When it's cold, you can ever put even more clothes. When it's hot, there's a point you have nothing left to take off.

My sentiments exactly.

I was intrigued by the name of your city. I figured that it had been named for some rapacious European explorer. The actual story is interesting, if no less brutal.

edu-petrolhead > ttyymmnn 01/08/2015 at 11:35

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Haha, yeah, even today there are people who doesn't like the name, because they don't want to pay homage to Floriano Peixoto. From times to times, someone makes a petition to change the name from Florianópolis to Desterro back again, but it will never change because we rely a lot on tourism.

There are two curious things about Florianópolis:

1) The locals still speak a portuguese like the azoreans, and many tourists have trouble to understand them, because the portuguese accent is very different than the brazilian accent;

2) Antoine de Saint Exupéry (author of Le Petit Prince) used to visit Florianópolis by plane! He used to stay on the beach of Campeche (a derivation of Camps du pêche , or something like "fishing field" in english), and he taught French to some locals. There are a few locals, today, who still speak a little french :)

ttyymmnn > edu-petrolhead 01/08/2015 at 11:41

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Interesting! I understand that Portuguese, let alone any regional dialects of it, is an inscrutable language. I imagine that if you could master Portuguese as a non-native speaker, something as impenetrable as Icelandic would be a piece of cake.

MHunter905 > edu-petrolhead 01/08/2015 at 11:46

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You are complaining about 34C? Try enjoying -11C with heavy winds. Gotta love those Canada Goose Jackets tho ;)

zeontestpilot > edu-petrolhead 01/08/2015 at 11:46

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Can you box some of the heat and send it up north? I can compensate you with Oppo dollars.

edu-petrolhead > zeontestpilot 01/08/2015 at 11:48

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Maybe something like this, wrapped with those firemen metal blankets?

zeontestpilot > edu-petrolhead 01/08/2015 at 11:51

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Oh, I'd greatly appreciate that! Is 5 oppo dollars enough? Or do you want me to pay for the canning process too? I can't go higher then 8 oppo dollars, sorry.

edu-petrolhead > ttyymmnn 01/08/2015 at 12:03

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Haha, I had studied and lived with manezinhos (how we call the azorean descendents) since I was a little kid, so I understand them perfectly, but my fiancée, who is from another state, doesn't understand absolutely nothing. I even used to speak with an azorean dialect before entering the university and having contact with people from a lot of different places.

And I would love to learn Icelandic, btw. I plan to begin an Icelandic course after mastering French :D

Here are two examples. The first is Dona Bilica , an artist who inpersonates the typical manezinho for tourists, but a bit more understandable. The second video is just a comparison between african, brazilian, portugal and micaelense (from one of the azorean islands) portuguese respectively