The only thing that is not true on this video, its the dirty feet over the bed on the thumbnail, Brazilian parents kill us if we do something like that.
When I first arrived in Brazil 17 years ago , I was baffled as to why people brush their teeth after lunch.. In London, this isn't the norm.. Now I do the same! 3 times a day!
Maybe the fact that Brazilians usually eat heavy meals on lunch time might be a factor. If in your country you just have a quick sandwich on lunchtime, you won’t feel the need to brush your teeth as much.
@@felipechaves6100 very true! Brazilians normally have a big slap up meal for lunch, whereas in London we have a quick sandwich or pasty! Easier on the dental hygiene I guess! Haha
@@nordicinvestor I respect that, but in between wasting water and having a skin problem there is a huge difference. It just seemed they were intentionally trying to be offensive since I obviously re-utilized my cashmere and wool layers many times, as well as my coats and costumes. Just my underwear, socks and shirts were changed daily.
@@nordicinvestor mm.. but where does this comes from? is the water bill is expensive? does Swedish government monitor citizens water usage/consumption? how about rainfall volumes and rivers? any shortages/dry season year around?
Also the most deluded in that sense, they can't accept reality and think everything is perfect and they are amazing. Proof of that is the perpetual corruption. How can you say that when you are being ripped off your money behind your back and you ignore it? That is the most basic standard you should have for being "foward thinking". And that is just the basic banal start.
É estranho que no Brasil, as pessoas são extremamente limpas, suas casas também... mas parecem não se importarem com suas cidades e o quão suja elas são. As prefeituras aqui são super relaxadas com a limpeza das ruas e calçadas.
Isso depende da cidade. São Paulo é um dos lugares mais imundos que eu já tive o desprazer de conhecer. Curitiba não. (não se mudem para Curitiba, odiamos forasteiros não-sulistas)
My wife's german cousin (her great grandfather came from Opladen Germany, and the surname is rare even in Germany, so it was easy to find relatives in Leverkusen) came to visit us 10 years ago. When she took showers she would open the water for like 15 seconds, then close it for like a minute. Then open again, multiple times. Probably used soap, then rinsed. Then more soap, then rinse... Not sure if water or water heating is so expensive in Germany or it was just her family custom to save water (or gas heating) like that.
@@nordicinvestor that was what we thought. With the constant droughts in Brazil, maybe we should take less showers. On the other hand, start and stopping a gas heater... I am not sure if it doesn't end up consuming more gas, which is also bad for the environment. I mean, several systems spend more energy to stop and start in a duration of time than if you keep them on for a specific duration
The only thing that I don't agree is about the drinking water, even if its listed as "safe" we have the pipe where it travels, some are old or filled with dirt, and you can never be sure, always drink filtred water (also for cooking), or boil it first, saying this as a nurse and a brazilian.
how can a water pope be filled with dirt? Piping is usually safe if just because of the constant running water. There is a myth the romans got mad because of lead pipes, but that was debunked. So even lead pipes can´t harm you.
Não é verdade que as águas de torneira sejam inseguras na maioria das cidades. Existe um tratamento de águas e existe o controle da qualidade da água que é feito coletando a água nas casas. O sistema de tratamento de água atende 95% da população, e não temos problemas como cólera e diarreias geradas por água não tratada. Mas muitas pessoas preferem beber água mineral por causa do sabor que não tem gosto ou cheiro de cloro.
As a Brazilian, I think we can understand that people don't take a shower everyday in colder countries, despite the customs here. What really attracts my attention are people in Northern Europe and other countries who don't brush their teeth if they are not at home. They can spend many hours at work, for example, have lunch, snacks etc. outside and don't brush their teeth or use dental floss in some bathroom after meals, incresing the risks of cavities, tartar etc. I saw many people in England and other cold countries with bad and dark teeth and it was very clear to me that the reason was not only lack of sun or too expensive dentists...
@@Andre.felipe84 , mas como o clima deles não é tropical, eles transpiram pouco fora do verão, a não ser se colocarem a calefação num grau muito alto, e acabam sentindo menos necessidade de banho do que nós. Mais fácil o povo aqui, principalmente no Sul, ficar sem tomar banho diário no inverno, pois não é comum uso de calefação no Brasil como na Europa etc. e tirar a roupa com temperaturas abaixo de 10/12 graus é desanimador. Só dando uns pulinhos antes para aquecer... 😅
@@Andre.felipe84Exato!! Moro na skandinavia a mais d 14 anos e tomo banho todos os dias e escovo 3 x por dia os dentes. Somente eu levo escova pro trabalho
Sou do Sul, é aqui pode estar caído neve, sempre tomamos banho mesmo as crianças. Lembra que era criança e tinha invernos rigorosos, e nossa banho ficava em uma antiga cozinha, separado do restaurante da casa, mas mesmo assim sempre tomamos banho, lembra do vento minuano assobia forte quase me arrastado, mesmo assim sempre tomamos banho @@nancyleal2529
Uso um bidê samodra que vai adaptado embaixo da tampa do vaso e faz um ótimo trabalho de lavagem! Além de ser recomendado para a sua saúde. Nunca mais usei papel higiênico em casa. Tem no aliexpress 👍👍
Faltou a duchinha higiênica do banheiro, limpa muito melhor que o papel higiênico. Muita gente usa papel higiênico só para enxugar. E não jogar papel no vaso não é só apenas por causa dos canos, o tratamento de esgoto é mais simples também.Para um país que já tem dificuldade com isso é imporante
Well, maybe here at home it's an exception. We don't enter the house with shoes that we wear outside, but we have slippers to wear inside the house. The water we drink is taken from an artesian well. The water is analyzed periodically and has been good for consumption for over 40 years.
Actually, people only take one shower a day. When they get home from work and sometimes two showers a day when they get home from the gym. And sometimes they go straight from work to the gym and save on a shower. The morning shower is usually just to wet the hair (it makes it easier to style when it's not straight) and to wake up. People can also take another five showers throughout the day when it's really hot, but the shower is only 2 minutes long and just to get rid of the heat.
One shower a day is crazy. I was taught to take a shower before going to school, and when I arrived I'd take another one for lunch, and this habit I've carried with me into adulthood. I take a shower before work and another when I get home and it's great because it takes the weight off your shoulders and you feel clean before sleep.
These are all very true statements, including the bad ones. Walking inside with no shoes would be something I would love to be the norm, especially as someone who likes laying on the floor sometimes (don't ask me why, idk). And toilet paper is something I don't use because I prefer using the 'small shower' and then taking a shower, because I still feel dirty using paper. As for the last one, I hope it changes in the future. When I lived in Natal (northeast), the prefecture had already changed and unified the entire sewage system of the city to improve this aspect, and all that was needed was to put it to work, I'm not sure how it is today but I hope it's already working. Great content!
After living in Japan for 5 years, I feel super weird about shoes inside the house whenever I’m back in Brazil lol Same for the toilet paper thing, but that’s an infrastructure problem, so it can’t be helped.
THE TOILET THING IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL THINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!! 1= U DONT WANT PAPER TO GO TO THE WATERS CHANNELS AND HARM THE LIVING BEINGS THEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 2= IT CAN CLOG THE TOILET HOLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 3- IN ASIA THEY TOO THROW INSIDE THE BASKET!! AND ADVICE NOT TO THROW INSIDE THE TOILETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT MY GOSHHHHHHHHH STUPIDITY 4- I NEVER WORN SHOES INSIDE THE HOUSE,WE HAD SPECIAL SLIPPERS IN RECIFE FOR HOME ONLY AND NEVER SLEPT WITH DIRT FEET FOR ITS DIRT AND I HAD TO SHOWER BEFORE BED AND BRUSH TEETH AFFFF
@@mgoncalves5596 I think it’s a minority in Brazil though! Most people I know just wear their shoes inside when coming from outside. That’s the reason why we don’t sit on the floor or on the carpet. Here in Japan it is very common to have a low center table in the living room that you eat at while sitting on the floor!
@@visaoholistica205 ele tem uma sensibilidade boa de como elogiar e criticar da maneira “correta” hahah brasileiro fica muito bravo por pouca coisa, mas do jeito que ele critica, não tem como reclamar haha
@@felipechaves6100 Afinal ele fala a verdade. E o vídeo todo eu fiquei tipo "ok, isso é verdade, dá pra confirmar" mas a última simplesmente me atingiu como um tijolo na cabeça. Não me deixou com raiva, só me fez perceber o quão triste isto é pro nosso país.
@@actosDeGuerra Errado, toda a comunidade humana enriquece com críticas. Todo fenômeno deve ser observado e analisado. Qualquer um que se dói com crítica é porque não quer reconhecer que tem problemas que precisam ser melhorados. Isso vale pra literalmente qualquer um.
Eu moro no RS, sul do Brasil. No meu apto e em quase todos no bairro, nao apenas temos faxineira 1x ou 2x por semana, mas em geral 1 auxiliar domestica, 5x/semana, entao a casa é limpa todos os dias (pisos, banheiros, cozinha, box do chuveiro, espelhos, vidros, tampos, rodapes etc. Inclui lavagem de roupas diariamente. Quando ela nao vem, dividimos as tarefas. O papel higienico vai para o vaso sanitario, mas pq usamos um papel muito fino e leve, mesmo assim, tem sempre um cesto de lixo fechado pequeno nos banheiros, para algodao, cotonete, absorventes higienicos e tampoes, entre outros, trocado todos os dias, assim como o lixo umido da cozinha e seco da lavanderia. Mas em lugares publicos o papel nao é assim e a quantidade de uso traz a recomendacao de jogar no lixo, para evitar entupimentos, o q seria mais desagradável do q ter um cesto de lixo grande ao lado. Mas num lical bem cuidado o luxo é recolhido frequentemente. Em shoppings e aeroportos chega a ter um funcionario fixo semprw presente fazendo a limpeza, a troca do lixo e repondo o papel. Meu filho ja tem 21 anos de idade agora e desde pequeno aprendeu conosco q sapatos, bolsas e mochilas q vem da rua ficam em lugar especifico logo na entrada e sao recolhidos diariamente para limpeza na lavanderia antes de serem guardados. Em casa, usamos chinelos de pano de solado de borracha, pois o piso é de madeira. Com a pandemia do coronavirus, a maioria das casas adotou a mesma pratica, inclusive criando esse lugar especifico no hall de entrada para deixar os sapatos. Banho 2x ao dia é o hábito da casa, mesmo no inverno, mas em algumas casa reduzem para 1x/dia. A temperatura no inverno varia entre 0 e 12 graus e o banho quente ajuda a esquentar e dormir melhor. Mas tenho a vantagem de ter agua quente com aquecimento a gas em casa. Normal por aqui nos imoveis classe media a alta. Morei no exterior, percebi a diferenca na frequencia e duracao dos banhos, mas nem me dei conta da escovaçao dos dentes, ja q nao nos passa pela cabeça nao levar na bolsa ou ter no trabalho um estojo com escova, creme e fio dental. Escovamos 3/dia ou mais se houver lanches intermedisrios. Vamos so dentista fazer limpeza e revisao 1x/ano, no minimo. A agua fornecida nas cidades é tratada e potavel, mas quase todas as casas preferem usar agua filtrada ou comprada para beber. Acredito q é pq as casas e edificios nao usam a agua diretamente do abastecimento da rua, pois da rua ela sobe para caixas d'agua onde fica armazenada. Nao acredito q limpar essa caixa coletiva ou unifamiliar 2x/ano seja suficiente. Aqui, por exemplo, tenho um filtro embutido no misturador da cuba da cozinha e o filtro embutido da geladeira. Antes disso tinha um de parede. Sobre o esgoto, nao sei se somente 50% dele é tratado, mas se for isso entao estou nos 50% em q é tratado. Não acredito nesses 50%. Na minha cidade acho q para nao ser tratado somente se a habitacao for clandestina. Creio q depende muito da regiao do pais. Em alguns lugares q conheço, somente aprovam a construcao de um novo condominio se estiver dentro da capacidade de tratamento de água e esgoto. Se nao estiver, a aprovacao vai depender da ampliação da estacao de tratamento.
It is not about the climate, I live in the south of Brazil and believe me it is cold in winter (not as cold as Europe) but still.... I lived in Europe, Australia and the US and I think we are the cleanest with our homes and with our bodies. Australians are very clean too.
Some Brazilian homes are definetely starting to adopt the "don't wear shoes inside" policy. I know a couple of friends who stopped wearing shoes in their homes and in my own house my family also does that. Even though we have tiled floors, we wear flip-flops inside, that are reserved to indoors use only. The sewage part is just sad, really. Terrible stuff.
@@nordicinvestor Yeah and it's fairly common here, though people in Brazil also usually go out with them on. Here in our family we wear one pair to walk inside the house and another to go out.
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I feel very uncomfortable with shoes inside the house, but I also feel uncomfortable walking barefoot (still Brazilian), so in my house we have different sets of shoes (flip flops) for the inside that we swap when we go in.
Brazilian love clean the house almost everyday, most of Br clean the house just for the visit, so entering in the house with foot wear on is no big deal. There some People who have the habit to take of the shoes, but it's just a few and most of the time is exclusive only for close relatives or close friends.
As a Brazillian, I agree 100% with you.I lived in the US for a year, and now, back at Brazil, I take my shoes off when entering home and throw toilet paper at the toilet. In the US, I lived at upstate NY, which was very cold and dry, and taking many showers per day made my skin so dry that I had to go to the doctor and use some creams and ointments. In contrast, here in Brazil, if I don't take enough showers, my skin and hair gets so oily and greasy that "I could fry a coxinha in it", as I've heard some people say hahahaha. I hope you're enjoying Brazil!
Que legal, eu adquiri o costume de usar hidratantes sem fragrância após o banho depois de adulto. Principalmente porque tenho psoríase, e percebi que quando eu hidrato a pele ela reacende menos.
Another spot on video, EXACTLY in line with my experiences during the last 20 years in Paraná Brasil! This jeito suits me fine. Tenha uma ótima semana!
Literally watching this while brushing my teeth after breakfast. Tche, cade o teu gauchês reveal? Teu inglês é impecavel mas queria ver tu falando pt-br hahah
Great video! I lived in the us for a while. Once, I traveled interstate with the marching band I was part of. After a long day of playing, marching, and carrying heavy instruments under the hot sun, we ended up crashing on the dirty floor of a frat house. The next morning, I was shocked to realize I was the only one in the band who had taken a shower. Talk about culture shock!
Eu moro aqui no Rio Grande do Sul também, e eu costumo usar uma pantufa dentro de casa, então quando chego, tiro meu calçado que usei na rua, e troco pela pantufa!
Pro tip: you can flush toilet paper anywhere. Brazilians are super worried about their pipes but usually toilet paper is more soluble in water than feces and usually have less volume. If a pipe can take away your shit can also take away your dirty toilet paper.
I do walk inside home with shoes, but don't sit on my bed with clothes that I used outside. Also I never ever put a backpack or other kinds of bags on my bed or sofa. The sewage is very true, we do polute our rivers with raw crap. However, drinking tap water is safe 99% of time, what can happen sometimes is the water being loaded with too much chemicals from the treatment plant and taste weird, but that's quite rare. Most of time, when the water is filthy, the dirty water comes from the property's water reservoir and not the plant.
The quality of drinking water is usually good, even if they come from a very dirty river, regulations mandate that it is essentially treated to the point they are very safe to drink, but that's something very recent, and obviously not happens everywhere since 1/4 of Brazilian homes have a hard time getting tap water at all. So the culture of better safe than sorry, is still quite strong, I'm probably not much older than you and I remember when I was a kid, there were epidemics of cholera and diphtherie due to untreated tap water. But its beem way past 30-35 years that despite traveling throughout the country for work o leisure, I don't hear about such things anymore
@@nordicinvestor there are places where it sometimes happens, either due to infrastructure not coping with demand or things like industries dumping kinds of untreated waste illegaly on the rivera, but of a kind waste that water treatment plants are not, by default, supposed to be taking out of the water becaus legally, they should never go directly to rivers. A few years back there was an episode like that in Rio de Janeiro, where both a water treatment plant that was barely coping with the demand on the summer, suddenly had a surge of algae blooms from a species of algae that only feeds on certain types of industrial waste, it took about a couple weeks to locate the place of illegal waste dump, shut it off, reroute the water at the treatment plant to sewage treatment and clean all the tanks and pipes and push the chemicals needed to kill all the algae, this is probably the largest case in the past decade or so. Here, where I live, one of the 5 water treatment plants close to the small, upper middle class, gated community where me and my wife live, about a year ago we had some problems with water supply. Suddenly the water started having a funny smell wet clay, and people started getting itches when they bathed. After an i vestigation, they found out that the reason was that a real state developer that built a new big gated community for very rich people, and around that week many of the homes started getting ready pushed the water treatment plant over the limit. Because there was, kind of all of sudden a lot of big houses with big swimming pools that were getting filled with water, and this imposed a water consumption rate nearly 40% higher than the treatment for this part of town was designed to treat. So you had a situation where the water supply company, had to impose rationing water at certain times of the day, because it was either that or letting water with substandard treatment go to the population. Now imagine, 180,000 people having their water delivered on the clock, so they couldn't get subpar treated water, because some rich people had to fill their swimming pools, it's a very bad joke. The company had to essentially invest heavily linking the plant for this regions to other bigger plants that supplied water to the more heavily populated areas of the town in order to guarantee the quality of the water. Fortunately, I went out on vacations on the beginning of this whole debacle and when I came back the problem have already been solved. But when I was a kid, we could not always trust even drinking milk out of the box or bag without boiling first, let alone drinking water straight from the tap.
In the US, most houses have a septic system that is obviously in the suburbs ,but definitely, most cities have sewage, but going straight to the river, that's bad.
The toilet paper thing must be something in SC, but not a Brazilian thing. As someone that lived in several states in Brazil, that is just not a thing in big cities. I remember it to be an issue heading to smaller villages in the countryside or touristy "balneários". I noticed you mention "Brazil" many a time when it's probably just a regional/local thing in SC or the South. Brazil is ginourmous, things are rather homogenous when compared to other coubtries, but they still vary considerably. Maybe consider that when referring to Brazil 😉
@user-jx2kg2er5o I lived in Sāo Paulo, Campinas, and Sāo José dos Campos when it comes to SP. Always flushed the tp. In Jaguariúna it was a different story.
Olha, eu já viajei pra muitas capitais do Brasil, e todas você joga o papel higiênico no lixo e não no vaso sanitário. Se até shoppings e aeroportos que tem a infraestrutura planejada são assim, imagina os demais. Eu acredito que lugares que permitam jogar o papel higiênico no vaso sanitário são excessões no Brasil, infelizmente.
@@felipechaves6100 eu morei no Rio, Recife, Sampa e Porto Alegre e acho que visitei 20 capitais. Cesta existe em local público pra o.b e afins, mas dizer que o sistema "no Brasil" n comporta papel higiênico na privada n é verdade. É em alguns lugares, mas definitivamente nāo em todos, ou mesmo a realidade da maioria da populaçāo. Definitivamente nāo no Rio e Sāo Paulo, nossas duas maiores cidades.
Since I was born I grew up throwing toilet paper on the toilet. Hence, today, I simply DISRESPECT all the signs that tell to throw it on the rubbish bin. I just don’t care for this asinine custom.
DO IT ELSEWHERE IN YOUR COUNTRY NOT IN SOMEONES ELSE COUNTRY FOR WHEN IN ROME,DO AS THE ROMANS DOES!1 RESPECT IT!! AFTER ALL IF U SPOIL THEIR PLUMBING SYSTEM,WILL U PAY TO HAVE IT FIXED? DONT THINK SOOOOOOOOOOOOO IN YOUR COUNTRY THEY DO IT IN PUBLIC PLACES URINE AND CRAP ABOUT😑😑😐😐
@@nordicinvestor It's the only thing I really despise about Brazil. Yes, some elses doo doo paper next to us while we are sitting on the toilet lol. Especially in restaurants and malls. Gotta be another way surely haha
As a Brazilian I absolutely agree that throwing poop toilet paper inside the trash is the most disgusting thing in the world! but when I was living in Brazil I didn't abide by it and would throw the toilet paper inside the toilet.
A água para beber deve ser checada em todo lugar que vc for.....não sei de onde tiraram que se pode beber direto da torneira... não só ppr causa de germs ,mas também por outros compostos na água como calcário...
Essa história de usar lixo para papel higiênico é coisa de imóveis antigos, construídos sem padrões hidráulicos adequados para escoamento das águas dos banheiros. Nos banheiros públicos esses avisos são destinados a inibir as pessoas de jogar absorventes menstruais, sacos plásticos e objetos, e se você observar, a maioria desses lixos não em shoppings e outros locais públicos, não contém papéis sujos com fezes. Os brasileiros não costumam respeitar regras idiotas, a maioria joga os papeis nos vasos sanitários mesmo. Eu sempre fiz isso em todos os imóveis em que morei a vida toda.
Serei sincera. Quando vivia no Brasil tomava meus 3-4 banhos por dia. Agora vivo na Espanha e tomo um banho por dia e rápido porque aqui tem muita seca.
@@nordicinvestor Sim, e a Espanha está relativamente pegada a África. Aqui já praticamente desapareceu o inverno; já passou a metade de novembro e hoje fazia 19 grados. E faz 20 dias teve uma inundaçao que arrasou com tudo. O cambio climático; o tudo seco o tudo inundado
The more interesting question is why do people stink in the first place.. We dont know then do we if Brazilians really stink, because as with so many other things, Brazilians are very good at covering it up, in this case for example by using a bunch of chemicals on their body and in their home. I guess they're clean in that sense, but I do think the world has a fairly skewed perception of "clean" when it is considered as smelling perfume and having used products such as shampoo, soap etc to make hair and skin appear different than they naturally are.
@@nordicinvestor Exactly.. You can also have the whitest most beautiful teeth, but not be able to eat very cold/warm things because you've treated them so much.. Also, a lot of Brazilians are constantly worrying about their appearance which is a mirror of a very superficial culture only focusing on the exterior.. In this sense, both the culture and the cleanliness can be different on the inside. House is not necessarily clean by pouring 2 litres of chlorine and cleaning products around and mopping, but at least then you can say to yourself you've cleaned it.
Kkk que engraçado ele falar no final que nao odeia o Brasil pra gente não esculhambar ele 😅 Gente, uma coisa a se pensar, tem lugares que tem água mais suja que o Brasil e as pessoas bebem da torneira viu, cuidado. Por exemplo, na Europa é cheio de lugares com a água cheia de calcário, mas as pessoas acham que podem beber. O brasileiro nao bebe da torneira mesmo que possa! É cultural só beber água filtrada por você, mesmo que seja possível bebê-la.
you see the sewage water laws would change in near future? I live in Uruguay, Im specialized in those themes, and I would love to work there about that.
I had environmental engineering classes at uni and know that some large cities have a unified sewage system to reduce groundwater contamination by nitrates and nitrites. But we'd have to do a more in-depth study to find out for sure how these things are working.
If you are an expert in the field and would like to work here in this area, it would be interesting to get a master's or doctoral scholarship at public universities and look for professors who study the subject
Most homes have bidet sprayers next to the toilet. So, in practice, toilet paper is only used to dry your butt after washing it with water. Personally, I find it very gross to clean your butt with just toilet paper, without using water. Of course, sometimes it's necessary when you need to use the bathroom outside of home where there's no bidet sprayer available. But not having a bidet sprayer at home is really disgusting. After all, if you get poop on your hand, do you clean it or wash it? Why should it be any different with your butt?
Hi! Native brazilian 2 showers/day on average here. I feel filthy if I wear clean clothes without having the shower first. I bathe just for changing clothes. Do someone here, brazilian or not, feel in the same way?
9:30 depende muito. Por educação, se percebo que a casa é bem limpinha, eu removo meus calçados. O dono da residência pode dizer que não precisa, mas pode ser que você entre com sapato e tudo, e a pessoa vai te dar um puxão de orelha kkkkkk
The thing about using street shoes inside your home is a collection of cultural things. It's annoying as hell, but it's custom due to the fact that people are too sociable, so people get in each other's homes during the day, many days. Then there's the history of cleaning the home a lot more then 2 times each week, because not only in many places dirt would come from unpaved roads, people walking in and out, but also because the homes stayed completely open in most of the country, most of the year due to heat and/or humidity, since HVAC and insulation was almost inexistent besides newer comercial buildings and a few AC window units in the upper middle class and upper class up until the early 90's. Still limited insulation and AC use due to cost, including high electricity cost considering wages. The sewage thing isn't just about septic tanks in more "rural" areas, since most people and polluted rivers are in bigger cities with sewage treatment. It's all about illegally occupied areas, usually favelas (slums) with no connection with the sewage grid, illegal connections hidden in buildings and businesses to not pay more for the sewage volume, etc. The thing about industrial sewage is ignoring the strict environmental laws Brazil has and saying like it's usual. It isn't! Some do, pay money to corrupt inspectors/politicians/judges, but if you do it even by mistake you're facing a lot of fines and even jail...if you're honest
Toilet paper is always flushed where I live. People in Brazil hate stinky bathrooms. It must be something to with the plumbing system where he lives. Perhaps in public spaces where people overload toilet with papers? It is probably something to do with Education at specific households. But Brazilians in general flush the toilet paper.
Fato é, mesmo vc entrando sem sapatos em casa o chão ainda estará sujo , então deitar e rolar no chão por isso , não é interessante mesmo assim.... Sobre saneamento básico, sim é um grande desafio num país tão grande quanto o Brasil ... que era colônia de países como a Suíça, que , by the way, é minúscula em proporções e que também só é rica e 'desenvolvida graças ao tr@fico de pessoas no passado como muitos outros países 'ricos e desenvolvidos '.... Enfim , comparações são muito complexas .... É não podemos esquecer a história por trás de tudo.... Fica a dica.
Very good video! The conclusion I draw from it is that Brazilians as individuals are very clean, whereas the country (the infrastructure) may be dirty. I'm half-Swiss half-British married to a Brazilian, we live in the Northeast, and my husband never really wore the same 'outside shoes' indoors. Upon getting home, he would take his 'outside shoes' off, and put on his flip-flops. Our kids have always done the same as well. I don't know whether this is something specific to my family or other Brazilians also do that? I also feel that the pandemic was a turning point for many households around the world. Some of my kids' friends no longer hug and cheek kiss one another when they meet up, they just wave and say hi instead, which was something unheard of in Brazil (or at least where I live) before 2020. My impression is that Switzerland is a bit opposite to Brazil in that regard. The country is very clean, the infrastructure is reasonably good, the streets are also clean, but Swiss people won't take their toothbrush to the office lol. I think, however, that Switzerland is an outlier in Europe when it comes to cleanliness, as France, Italy and even the UK lag behind on that. I agree with you on the toilet paper in the bin thing. That's likely why many Brazilians either use the bidet shower or go straight into the shower when they're done with the loo business, though, innit? When I first arrived here I thought Brazilians took too many showers because of the hot coffee they'll drink at any time of the day. I wonder if that's a Northeastern thing or a national thing?
The dirty part is due to our political corrupt system and parcially by our poor educational system. You should make a video about how they drive here: tailgating is a thing!!! I had been rear ended more than 6 times in a space of 5 years. That really sucks.
WHAT DIRT PART? CAN U ELABORATE AHMED,SO THAT I MAY SAY THINGS ABOUT YOUR COUNTRY IN NORTH AFRICA AS WELL WHICH IS WORSE!!!!! BUT MONKEYS SIMIOS ONLY KNOW OTHERS TO TAG AT THEIR TAILS!! TAILGATE IS A THING.WHERE? WHERE WHERE IN BRAZIL A HUGE COUNTRY OF HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE!! AND REGIONS? PLEASE DONT SAY IT S ALL OVER,FOR U HAVE NOT GONE TO OTHERS REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY AND UR NOT EVEN BRAZILIAN AND U SHOULD BE CRITICIZE YR OWN CRAP HOLE COUNTRY I N THE EAST
Os sapatos também nunca eram tirados, porque no Brasil os pisos são diferentes e o clima também, na europa existem muitos ambientes com carpetes o que também faz com que as pessoas adotassem outros hábitos para a manutenção dos mesmos... Mas vi muitos europeus com os seus pezinhos bem sujinhos e fedidinhos... ❤
WHY? WHY? MULTICULTURALISM! AFTER ALL YA NOT TALKING ABOUT A HOMOGENOUS NATIONS,PRETTY MUCH LIKE THE REST OF THE AMERICAS DOH!!!! USE YR BRAINS TO THINK LIKE ME!
I refuse to put toilet paper on a basket. I don´t really think it's infrastructure. Only a few toilets will get clogged. Toilet stores should have demonstrations of the flushing of toilets. Next time I need to buy a toilet I will demand a demonstration. If they can´t provide I will tell them I will go to another store. In the past, bidets were quite common in Brazil. That's a clean thing from the French. Much better than ONLY toilet paper. But many brazilians had bidets and didn´t even know how to use them. Some thought it was to wash the feet lol. Speaking of washing the feet... if your feet are dirty and you don´t want to take another shower, just open the shower, make the shower box wet, then rub your feet against the wet floor. Clean feet with minimal effort before going to bed.
Also, I commonly see people walking down the street blowing each nostril into the air in front of everyone and then going about normal activities without washing hands. Or public nose picking.
ARE THEY ASIAN? WHAT RACE/ BRAZIL HAS GOT MANY IMBECIL! MAYBE U TALKING ABOUT THE ARABS,AFRICAN AND ASIAN AND FOR THIS REASON THAT YOUR DONT LIKE ME,AND I TELL THIS FK OFRE
U AS AN ARAB,SHOULD SEE UR OWN PEOPLE...COZ BLOWN NOSE IS OK..PROVIDED U DO WITH A HANDKIERCHIEF OR TISSUE PAPER,NOTHING WRONG..THEN WHAT? ALLOW IT TO DRIP..DONT BE STUPID ARAB MAN🥵🥵😡😡🤬🤬
UR HEAD AHHHH IMBECIL!!!!! U ARE THIS IGNORANT NOT TO KNOW ABOUT OUTSIDE BRAZIL? SPECIALLY AFRICA AND ASIA,HOW DIRT THEIR BEACHES CAN BE ? WELL U KNOW WHAT.BUT YOU ARE MAKING STORIES
Not sure about the area where you live, but around here where I am (Cabo Frio area, Rio state) it's common to go shopping shoeless. You see people in the supermarkets barefoot all the time. I often do it, even in my white socks too, drive to the stores with no shoes on, people in the queue still strike up conversations with you, as it it's all just normal. No one looks or judges, and sure you go home with black soles, but you just wash up because there is a cold shower or tap outside by the gate. I love it.
Não é emtoda a Europa que você pode logar papel no latrina.... Isso é um mito... A maioria dos paises tem a mesma questão para resolver ao redor do mundo....
1- AINT NO SUCH THING AS XAMANIC..INDIGEOUS TO THE AMERICAS,EUROPEANS ARE...ARABE AND U KNOW ARABE FROM NORTH AFRICA..HOW MANY TIME ME GOT TEACH AHHHH? 2- XAMANIC TRIBAL CAME FROM ASIA 3- NON ASIAN PEOPLE IN BRAZIL CAME TO ME TO ASK ME TO TAKE A SHOWER SO TAK YOUR STUPID ARABIC THEORIES TO HELL😐😐😑😑😑😑🙄🙄😴😴
We enter with tenis at the home thats true, but unitedstatians go even futher, I see on movies they jump over the bed with tenis! Thats crazy, bed should be a very clean and fresh place.
@@nordicinvestor NO NO NO? WHERE? SURELY IN BRAZIL WE TOO DONT DO IT.NOT ALL OVER A HUGE SUBCONTINENT.AND THATS NOT SO INTELLIGENT TO GENERALIZE,WE NEED ANALYSE,,AND BE MORE SENSICAL
I think swedes are concerned about using lots of water because it means using more resources to clean the waste water and also using more resources to supply the water to the cities.
11:39 im brazilian and i find flushing the toilet paper to the toilet itself a great idea, i never do because of clogs, but its something to think about... why are our systems not designed with that in mind like the rest of the world?
The only thing that is not true on this video, its the dirty feet over the bed on the thumbnail, Brazilian parents kill us if we do something like that.
I agree, dirty feet in bed is crazy
that's true... It's something my mother never allowed me.. When I was kind.... and become a culture... lol
@@nordicinvestor you could remove that from the thumbnail if you agree...
My parents would had me dragged by the ears to the shower, not in my corner of Brazil.
@@josedallasta thumbnail é clickbait cara tu não conhece TH-cam bobin?
When I first arrived in Brazil 17 years ago , I was baffled as to why people brush their teeth after lunch.. In London, this isn't the norm.. Now I do the same! 3 times a day!
Me too!
Maybe the fact that Brazilians usually eat heavy meals on lunch time might be a factor. If in your country you just have a quick sandwich on lunchtime, you won’t feel the need to brush your teeth as much.
@@felipechaves6100 very true! Brazilians normally have a big slap up meal for lunch, whereas in London we have a quick sandwich or pasty! Easier on the dental hygiene I guess! Haha
Your teeth thank you.
Likewise!
In Sweden I was questioned Why I put clean clothes everyday. More than once people asked me if I had a skin problem.
Swedes don't want to waste water washing clothes😂
@@nordicinvestor I respect that, but in between wasting water and having a skin problem there is a huge difference. It just seemed they were intentionally trying to be offensive since I obviously re-utilized my cashmere and wool layers many times, as well as my coats and costumes. Just my underwear, socks and shirts were changed daily.
@@nordicinvestor mm.. but where does this comes from? is the water bill is expensive? does Swedish government monitor citizens water usage/consumption? how about rainfall volumes and rivers? any shortages/dry season year around?
Nossa como vc é engraçado,... Vai virar stand up , também?@@nordicinvestor
@@LNVACVAC Swedes reutilize UNDERWEAR?
Brazilians are ahead in most habits. Hygiene, food (usually healthier).
God bless Brazil.
Also the most deluded in that sense, they can't accept reality and think everything is perfect and they are amazing. Proof of that is the perpetual corruption. How can you say that when you are being ripped off your money behind your back and you ignore it? That is the most basic standard you should have for being "foward thinking". And that is just the basic banal start.
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Depende, se comparar o nível de processados e agrotóxicos na nossa alimentação com Europa não fica na frente mas ainda muito a frente dos EUA e Japão
É estranho que no Brasil, as pessoas são extremamente limpas, suas casas também... mas parecem não se importarem com suas cidades e o quão suja elas são. As prefeituras aqui são super relaxadas com a limpeza das ruas e calçadas.
Porque o brasileiro é alienado do próprio espaço físico onde vive e não tem senso de estética. Tem uma visão abstrata da realidade.
País individualista. Foda-se a coletividade.
You raise a good point
Isso depende da cidade. São Paulo é um dos lugares mais imundos que eu já tive o desprazer de conhecer. Curitiba não. (não se mudem para Curitiba, odiamos forasteiros não-sulistas)
Ai eh questao de cobrar prefeitura, e politica de educacao. Algumas cidades no exterior tem uma frequencia maior de coleta e limpeza nas cidades
My wife's german cousin (her great grandfather came from Opladen Germany, and the surname is rare even in Germany, so it was easy to find relatives in Leverkusen) came to visit us 10 years ago.
When she took showers she would open the water for like 15 seconds, then close it for like a minute. Then open again, multiple times. Probably used soap, then rinsed. Then more soap, then rinse...
Not sure if water or water heating is so expensive in Germany or it was just her family custom to save water (or gas heating) like that.
In Sweden people are very concerned about wasting water, not sure if it is the same in Germany
@@nordicinvestor that was what we thought. With the constant droughts in Brazil, maybe we should take less showers.
On the other hand, start and stopping a gas heater... I am not sure if it doesn't end up consuming more gas, which is also bad for the environment.
I mean, several systems spend more energy to stop and start in a duration of time than if you keep them on for a specific duration
The only thing that I don't agree is about the drinking water, even if its listed as "safe" we have the pipe where it travels, some are old or filled with dirt, and you can never be sure, always drink filtred water (also for cooking), or boil it first, saying this as a nurse and a brazilian.
Good tips!
how can a water pope be filled with dirt?
Piping is usually safe if just because of the constant running water. There is a myth the romans got mad because of lead pipes, but that was debunked. So even lead pipes can´t harm you.
Não é verdade que as águas de torneira sejam inseguras na maioria das cidades.
Existe um tratamento de águas e existe o controle da qualidade da água que é feito coletando a água nas casas. O sistema de tratamento de água atende 95% da população, e não temos problemas como cólera e diarreias geradas por água não tratada.
Mas muitas pessoas preferem beber água mineral por causa do sabor que não tem gosto ou cheiro de cloro.
As a Brazilian, I think we can understand that people don't take a shower everyday in colder countries, despite the customs here. What really attracts my attention are people in Northern Europe and other countries who don't brush their teeth if they are not at home. They can spend many hours at work, for example, have lunch, snacks etc. outside and don't brush their teeth or use dental floss in some bathroom after meals, incresing the risks of cavities, tartar etc. I saw many people in England and other cold countries with bad and dark teeth and it was very clear to me that the reason was not only lack of sun or too expensive dentists...
Hoje em dia com chuveiro elétrico e calefação nas casas dos EUA e Europa não há desculpa para não tomar banhos diários.
@@Andre.felipe84 , mas como o clima deles não é tropical, eles transpiram pouco fora do verão, a não ser se colocarem a calefação num grau muito alto, e acabam sentindo menos necessidade de banho do que nós. Mais fácil o povo aqui, principalmente no Sul, ficar sem tomar banho diário no inverno, pois não é comum uso de calefação no Brasil como na Europa etc. e tirar a roupa com temperaturas abaixo de 10/12 graus é desanimador. Só dando uns pulinhos antes para aquecer... 😅
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@@Andre.felipe84Exato!! Moro na skandinavia a mais d 14 anos e tomo banho todos os dias e escovo 3 x por dia os dentes. Somente eu levo escova pro trabalho
Sou do Sul, é aqui pode estar caído neve, sempre tomamos banho mesmo as crianças. Lembra que era criança e tinha invernos rigorosos, e nossa banho ficava em uma antiga cozinha, separado do restaurante da casa, mas mesmo assim sempre tomamos banho, lembra do vento minuano assobia forte quase me arrastado, mesmo assim sempre tomamos banho @@nancyleal2529
Uso um bidê samodra que vai adaptado embaixo da tampa do vaso e faz um ótimo trabalho de lavagem! Além de ser recomendado para a sua saúde. Nunca mais usei papel higiênico em casa. Tem no aliexpress 👍👍
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Instalei uma duchinha na mesma conexåo da måquina d lavar ao lado do vaso pra lavar a rumpe,ora bolas!! C*sujo d m*nåo!🙈
Faltou a duchinha higiênica do banheiro, limpa muito melhor que o papel higiênico. Muita gente usa papel higiênico só para enxugar.
E não jogar papel no vaso não é só apenas por causa dos canos, o tratamento de esgoto é mais simples também.Para um país que já tem dificuldade com isso é imporante
I like the bidet shower too
Well, maybe here at home it's an exception. We don't enter the house with shoes that we wear outside, but we have slippers to wear inside the house. The water we drink is taken from an artesian well. The water is analyzed periodically and has been good for consumption for over 40 years.
Wearing slippers inside makes a lot more sense
Actually, people only take one shower a day. When they get home from work and sometimes two showers a day when they get home from the gym. And sometimes they go straight from work to the gym and save on a shower. The morning shower is usually just to wet the hair (it makes it easier to style when it's not straight) and to wake up. People can also take another five showers throughout the day when it's really hot, but the shower is only 2 minutes long and just to get rid of the heat.
One shower a day is crazy. I was taught to take a shower before going to school, and when I arrived I'd take another one for lunch, and this habit I've carried with me into adulthood. I take a shower before work and another when I get home and it's great because it takes the weight off your shoulders and you feel clean before sleep.
Thanks for the explanation
These are all very true statements, including the bad ones. Walking inside with no shoes would be something I would love to be the norm, especially as someone who likes laying on the floor sometimes (don't ask me why, idk). And toilet paper is something I don't use because I prefer using the 'small shower' and then taking a shower, because I still feel dirty using paper.
As for the last one, I hope it changes in the future. When I lived in Natal (northeast), the prefecture had already changed and unified the entire sewage system of the city to improve this aspect, and all that was needed was to put it to work, I'm not sure how it is today but I hope it's already working.
Great content!
Thank you!
After living in Japan for 5 years, I feel super weird about shoes inside the house whenever I’m back in Brazil lol
Same for the toilet paper thing, but that’s an infrastructure problem, so it can’t be helped.
I agree with you !
THE TOILET THING IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL THINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!
1= U DONT WANT PAPER TO GO TO THE WATERS CHANNELS AND HARM THE LIVING BEINGS THEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
2= IT CAN CLOG THE TOILET HOLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
3- IN ASIA THEY TOO THROW INSIDE THE BASKET!! AND ADVICE NOT TO THROW INSIDE THE TOILETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
MY GOSHHHHHHHHH STUPIDITY
4- I NEVER WORN SHOES INSIDE THE HOUSE,WE HAD SPECIAL SLIPPERS IN RECIFE FOR HOME ONLY
AND NEVER SLEPT WITH DIRT FEET FOR ITS DIRT AND I HAD TO SHOWER BEFORE BED AND BRUSH TEETH
AFFFF
It depends. I'm Brazilian and shoes past the living room and kitchen area is a big no-no.
@@mgoncalves5596 I think it’s a minority in Brazil though! Most people I know just wear their shoes inside when coming from outside. That’s the reason why we don’t sit on the floor or on the carpet. Here in Japan it is very common to have a low center table in the living room that you eat at while sitting on the floor!
Críticas construtivas de estrangeiros que vivem no Brasil vale ouro. Devemos sempre ouvir com atenção.
Críticas e elogios q a gente nem sempre dá o merecido valor.
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@@visaoholistica205 ele tem uma sensibilidade boa de como elogiar e criticar da maneira “correta” hahah brasileiro fica muito bravo por pouca coisa, mas do jeito que ele critica, não tem como reclamar haha
@@felipechaves6100 Afinal ele fala a verdade. E o vídeo todo eu fiquei tipo "ok, isso é verdade, dá pra confirmar" mas a última simplesmente me atingiu como um tijolo na cabeça. Não me deixou com raiva, só me fez perceber o quão triste isto é pro nosso país.
@@actosDeGuerra Errado, toda a comunidade humana enriquece com críticas. Todo fenômeno deve ser observado e analisado. Qualquer um que se dói com crítica é porque não quer reconhecer que tem problemas que precisam ser melhorados. Isso vale pra literalmente qualquer um.
Eu moro no RS, sul do Brasil. No meu apto e em quase todos no bairro, nao apenas temos faxineira 1x ou 2x por semana, mas em geral 1 auxiliar domestica, 5x/semana, entao a casa é limpa todos os dias (pisos, banheiros, cozinha, box do chuveiro, espelhos, vidros, tampos, rodapes etc. Inclui lavagem de roupas diariamente. Quando ela nao vem, dividimos as tarefas.
O papel higienico vai para o vaso sanitario, mas pq usamos um papel muito fino e leve, mesmo assim, tem sempre um cesto de lixo fechado pequeno nos banheiros, para algodao, cotonete, absorventes higienicos e tampoes, entre outros, trocado todos os dias, assim como o lixo umido da cozinha e seco da lavanderia. Mas em lugares publicos o papel nao é assim e a quantidade de uso traz a recomendacao de jogar no lixo, para evitar entupimentos, o q seria mais desagradável do q ter um cesto de lixo grande ao lado. Mas num lical bem cuidado o luxo é recolhido frequentemente. Em shoppings e aeroportos chega a ter um funcionario fixo semprw presente fazendo a limpeza, a troca do lixo e repondo o papel.
Meu filho ja tem 21 anos de idade agora e desde pequeno aprendeu conosco q sapatos, bolsas e mochilas q vem da rua ficam em lugar especifico logo na entrada e sao recolhidos diariamente para limpeza na lavanderia antes de serem guardados. Em casa, usamos chinelos de pano de solado de borracha, pois o piso é de madeira.
Com a pandemia do coronavirus, a maioria das casas adotou a mesma pratica, inclusive criando esse lugar especifico no hall de entrada para deixar os sapatos.
Banho 2x ao dia é o hábito da casa, mesmo no inverno, mas em algumas casa reduzem para 1x/dia. A temperatura no inverno varia entre 0 e 12 graus e o banho quente ajuda a esquentar e dormir melhor. Mas tenho a vantagem de ter agua quente com aquecimento a gas em casa. Normal por aqui nos imoveis classe media a alta.
Morei no exterior, percebi a diferenca na frequencia e duracao dos banhos, mas nem me dei conta da escovaçao dos dentes, ja q nao nos passa pela cabeça nao levar na bolsa ou ter no trabalho um estojo com escova, creme e fio dental. Escovamos 3/dia ou mais se houver lanches intermedisrios. Vamos so dentista fazer limpeza e revisao 1x/ano, no minimo.
A agua fornecida nas cidades é tratada e potavel, mas quase todas as casas preferem usar agua filtrada ou comprada para beber. Acredito q é pq as casas e edificios nao usam a agua diretamente do abastecimento da rua, pois da rua ela sobe para caixas d'agua onde fica armazenada. Nao acredito q limpar essa caixa coletiva ou unifamiliar 2x/ano seja suficiente. Aqui, por exemplo, tenho um filtro embutido no misturador da cuba da cozinha e o filtro embutido da geladeira. Antes disso tinha um de parede.
Sobre o esgoto, nao sei se somente 50% dele é tratado, mas se for isso entao estou nos 50% em q é tratado. Não acredito nesses 50%. Na minha cidade acho q para nao ser tratado somente se a habitacao for clandestina. Creio q depende muito da regiao do pais. Em alguns lugares q conheço, somente aprovam a construcao de um novo condominio se estiver dentro da capacidade de tratamento de água e esgoto. Se nao estiver, a aprovacao vai depender da ampliação da estacao de tratamento.
Thanks for all the explanations, very useful!
It is not about the climate, I live in the south of Brazil and believe me it is cold in winter (not as cold as Europe) but still.... I lived in Europe, Australia and the US and I think we are the cleanest with our homes and with our bodies. Australians are very clean too.
Some Brazilian homes are definetely starting to adopt the "don't wear shoes inside" policy. I know a couple of friends who stopped wearing shoes in their homes and in my own house my family also does that. Even though we have tiled floors, we wear flip-flops inside, that are reserved to indoors use only. The sewage part is just sad, really. Terrible stuff.
Flip flops inside the house is a good solution
@@nordicinvestor Yeah and it's fairly common here, though people in Brazil also usually go out with them on. Here in our family we wear one pair to walk inside the house and another to go out.
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Essa prática já adoto na minha casa desde que me casei há mais de 30 anos. Na porta de entrada há chinelos ou pantufas para os visitantes.
If the floor is not too cold, why not free feet?
I feel very uncomfortable with shoes inside the house, but I also feel uncomfortable walking barefoot (still Brazilian), so in my house we have different sets of shoes (flip flops) for the inside that we swap when we go in.
Flips flops inside make more sense!
@@belialord I need to try that unfortunately I'm using the same flip-flops for outside too. I need a pair to swap when I enter my house!
A maioria dos brasileiros tem costume de ter calçados de rua, e de dentro de casa.
@@prihoffmann1114 Fonte: IMBP (Instituto Minha Bunda de Pesquisas)
5 showers a week? 😿🥲 HOWWWW !? I’m from the south and even on very cold days we still take showers everyday twice !!!
Me too
Wrong, on winter our eletric shower is not hot enough, so lots of people skip the bath till tempratures get higher (including women).
@@albertoalmeida3424 not wrong for me 😓 com aquecedor não tem desculpa
Brazilian love clean the house almost everyday, most of Br clean the house just for the visit, so entering in the house with foot wear on is no big deal.
There some People who have the habit to take of the shoes, but it's just a few and most of the time is exclusive only for close relatives or close friends.
Brazilians love cleaning, that's for sure
As a Brazillian, I agree 100% with you.I lived in the US for a year, and now, back at Brazil, I take my shoes off when entering home and throw toilet paper at the toilet.
In the US, I lived at upstate NY, which was very cold and dry, and taking many showers per day made my skin so dry that I had to go to the doctor and use some creams and ointments. In contrast, here in Brazil, if I don't take enough showers, my skin and hair gets so oily and greasy that "I could fry a coxinha in it", as I've heard some people say hahahaha.
I hope you're enjoying Brazil!
The dryness in other countries can cause a lot of skin problems. For me on the other hand its the humidity in Brazil that is causing problems
Que legal, eu adquiri o costume de usar hidratantes sem fragrância após o banho depois de adulto. Principalmente porque tenho psoríase, e percebi que quando eu hidrato a pele ela reacende menos.
Another spot on video, EXACTLY in line with my experiences during the last 20 years in Paraná Brasil!
This jeito suits me fine.
Tenha uma ótima semana!
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Literally watching this while brushing my teeth after breakfast. Tche, cade o teu gauchês reveal? Teu inglês é impecavel mas queria ver tu falando pt-br hahah
I'll do a video in Portuguese soon
I'm braziian and I live in Sao Paulo. This is true and it's related to the Brazil's hot weather and high umidity.
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Great video! I lived in the us for a while. Once, I traveled interstate with the marching band I was part of. After a long day of playing, marching, and carrying heavy instruments under the hot sun, we ended up crashing on the dirty floor of a frat house. The next morning, I was shocked to realize I was the only one in the band who had taken a shower. Talk about culture shock!
That must have been a stinky band!
Eu moro aqui no Rio Grande do Sul também, e eu costumo usar uma pantufa dentro de casa, então quando chego, tiro meu calçado que usei na rua, e troco pela pantufa!
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Pro tip: you can flush toilet paper anywhere. Brazilians are super worried about their pipes but usually toilet paper is more soluble in water than feces and usually have less volume. If a pipe can take away your shit can also take away your dirty toilet paper.
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I do walk inside home with shoes, but don't sit on my bed with clothes that I used outside. Also I never ever put a backpack or other kinds of bags on my bed or sofa.
The sewage is very true, we do polute our rivers with raw crap.
However, drinking tap water is safe 99% of time, what can happen sometimes is the water being loaded with too much chemicals from the treatment plant and taste weird, but that's quite rare. Most of time, when the water is filthy, the dirty water comes from the property's water reservoir and not the plant.
Right now is Sunday 17:20pm 13/out and i took 2 sowers so far 1 before going to work, and the second after.
You must be very clean !
The quality of drinking water is usually good, even if they come from a very dirty river, regulations mandate that it is essentially treated to the point they are very safe to drink, but that's something very recent, and obviously not happens everywhere since 1/4 of Brazilian homes have a hard time getting tap water at all. So the culture of better safe than sorry, is still quite strong, I'm probably not much older than you and I remember when I was a kid, there were epidemics of cholera and diphtherie due to untreated tap water. But its beem way past 30-35 years that despite traveling throughout the country for work o leisure, I don't hear about such things anymore
I have also never had problems drinking tap water
@@nordicinvestor there are places where it sometimes happens, either due to infrastructure not coping with demand or things like industries dumping kinds of untreated waste illegaly on the rivera, but of a kind waste that water treatment plants are not, by default, supposed to be taking out of the water becaus legally, they should never go directly to rivers.
A few years back there was an episode like that in Rio de Janeiro, where both a water treatment plant that was barely coping with the demand on the summer, suddenly had a surge of algae blooms from a species of algae that only feeds on certain types of industrial waste, it took about a couple weeks to locate the place of illegal waste dump, shut it off, reroute the water at the treatment plant to sewage treatment and clean all the tanks and pipes and push the chemicals needed to kill all the algae, this is probably the largest case in the past decade or so.
Here, where I live, one of the 5 water treatment plants close to the small, upper middle class, gated community where me and my wife live, about a year ago we had some problems with water supply. Suddenly the water started having a funny smell wet clay, and people started getting itches when they bathed. After an i vestigation, they found out that the reason was that a real state developer that built a new big gated community for very rich people, and around that week many of the homes started getting ready pushed the water treatment plant over the limit. Because there was, kind of all of sudden a lot of big houses with big swimming pools that were getting filled with water, and this imposed a water consumption rate nearly 40% higher than the treatment for this part of town was designed to treat.
So you had a situation where the water supply company, had to impose rationing water at certain times of the day, because it was either that or letting water with substandard treatment go to the population. Now imagine, 180,000 people having their water delivered on the clock, so they couldn't get subpar treated water, because some rich people had to fill their swimming pools, it's a very bad joke. The company had to essentially invest heavily linking the plant for this regions to other bigger plants that supplied water to the more heavily populated areas of the town in order to guarantee the quality of the water. Fortunately, I went out on vacations on the beginning of this whole debacle and when I came back the problem have already been solved.
But when I was a kid, we could not always trust even drinking milk out of the box or bag without boiling first, let alone drinking water straight from the tap.
In the US, most houses have a septic system that is obviously in the suburbs ,but definitely, most cities have sewage, but going straight to the river, that's bad.
I agree
The toilet paper thing must be something in SC, but not a Brazilian thing. As someone that lived in several states in Brazil, that is just not a thing in big cities. I remember it to be an issue heading to smaller villages in the countryside or touristy "balneários". I noticed you mention "Brazil" many a time when it's probably just a regional/local thing in SC or the South. Brazil is ginourmous, things are rather homogenous when compared to other coubtries, but they still vary considerably. Maybe consider that when referring to Brazil 😉
They do it in SP too 😅
@user-jx2kg2er5o I lived in Sāo Paulo, Campinas, and Sāo José dos Campos when it comes to SP. Always flushed the tp. In Jaguariúna it was a different story.
Very true, Brazil is a big country
Olha, eu já viajei pra muitas capitais do Brasil, e todas você joga o papel higiênico no lixo e não no vaso sanitário. Se até shoppings e aeroportos que tem a infraestrutura planejada são assim, imagina os demais. Eu acredito que lugares que permitam jogar o papel higiênico no vaso sanitário são excessões no Brasil, infelizmente.
@@felipechaves6100 eu morei no Rio, Recife, Sampa e Porto Alegre e acho que visitei 20 capitais. Cesta existe em local público pra o.b e afins, mas dizer que o sistema "no Brasil" n comporta papel higiênico na privada n é verdade. É em alguns lugares, mas definitivamente nāo em todos, ou mesmo a realidade da maioria da populaçāo. Definitivamente nāo no Rio e Sāo Paulo, nossas duas maiores cidades.
Since I was born I grew up throwing toilet paper on the toilet.
Hence, today, I simply DISRESPECT all the signs that tell to throw it on the rubbish bin. I just don’t care for this asinine custom.
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DO IT ELSEWHERE IN YOUR COUNTRY NOT IN SOMEONES ELSE COUNTRY
FOR WHEN IN ROME,DO AS THE ROMANS DOES!1 RESPECT IT!! AFTER ALL IF U SPOIL THEIR PLUMBING SYSTEM,WILL U PAY TO HAVE IT FIXED?
DONT THINK SOOOOOOOOOOOOO
IN YOUR COUNTRY THEY DO IT IN PUBLIC PLACES
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@@nordicinvestor It's the only thing I really despise about Brazil. Yes, some elses doo doo paper next to us while we are sitting on the toilet lol. Especially in restaurants and malls.
Gotta be another way surely haha
As a Brazilian I absolutely agree that throwing poop toilet paper inside the trash is the most disgusting thing in the world! but when I was living in Brazil I didn't abide by it and would throw the toilet paper inside the toilet.
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A água para beber deve ser checada em todo lugar que vc for.....não sei de onde tiraram que se pode beber direto da torneira... não só ppr causa de germs ,mas também por outros compostos na água como calcário...
I always use a filter
Essa história de usar lixo para papel higiênico é coisa de imóveis antigos, construídos sem padrões hidráulicos adequados para escoamento das águas dos banheiros.
Nos banheiros públicos esses avisos são destinados a inibir as pessoas de jogar absorventes menstruais, sacos plásticos e objetos, e se você observar, a maioria desses lixos não em shoppings e outros locais públicos, não contém papéis sujos com fezes.
Os brasileiros não costumam respeitar regras idiotas, a maioria joga os papeis nos vasos sanitários mesmo.
Eu sempre fiz isso em todos os imóveis em que morei a vida toda.
Serei sincera. Quando vivia no Brasil tomava meus 3-4 banhos por dia. Agora vivo na Espanha e tomo um banho por dia e rápido porque aqui tem muita seca.
Very true, people are very concerned about water shortage in many European countries
@@nordicinvestor Sim, e a Espanha está relativamente pegada a África. Aqui já praticamente desapareceu o inverno; já passou a metade de novembro e hoje fazia 19 grados. E faz 20 dias teve uma inundaçao que arrasou com tudo. O cambio climático; o tudo seco o tudo inundado
The more interesting question is why do people stink in the first place.. We dont know then do we if Brazilians really stink, because as with so many other things, Brazilians are very good at covering it up, in this case for example by using a bunch of chemicals on their body and in their home. I guess they're clean in that sense, but I do think the world has a fairly skewed perception of "clean" when it is considered as smelling perfume and having used products such as shampoo, soap etc to make hair and skin appear different than they naturally are.
You raise some good points about what is the definition of clean. You can be clean externally but not internally.
@@nordicinvestor Exactly.. You can also have the whitest most beautiful teeth, but not be able to eat very cold/warm things because you've treated them so much.. Also, a lot of Brazilians are constantly worrying about their appearance which is a mirror of a very superficial culture only focusing on the exterior.. In this sense, both the culture and the cleanliness can be different on the inside. House is not necessarily clean by pouring 2 litres of chlorine and cleaning products around and mopping, but at least then you can say to yourself you've cleaned it.
Kkk que engraçado ele falar no final que nao odeia o Brasil pra gente não esculhambar ele 😅
Gente, uma coisa a se pensar, tem lugares que tem água mais suja que o Brasil e as pessoas bebem da torneira viu, cuidado. Por exemplo, na Europa é cheio de lugares com a água cheia de calcário, mas as pessoas acham que podem beber. O brasileiro nao bebe da torneira mesmo que possa! É cultural só beber água filtrada por você, mesmo que seja possível bebê-la.
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Calcårio,sim,na alemanha por ex.é demais,MAS....calcårio pode ser problemåtico para os rins,talvez,mas nåo é sujo,nåo ficarås por assim dizer,doente.
Toilet paper is a personal decision, I always flush it, no problems with pipes.
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you see the sewage water laws would change in near future? I live in Uruguay, Im specialized in those themes, and I would love to work there about that.
No
I had environmental engineering classes at uni and know that some large cities have a unified sewage system to reduce groundwater contamination by nitrates and nitrites. But we'd have to do a more in-depth study to find out for sure how these things are working.
If you are an expert in the field and would like to work here in this area, it would be interesting to get a master's or doctoral scholarship at public universities and look for professors who study the subject
Most homes have bidet sprayers next to the toilet. So, in practice, toilet paper is only used to dry your butt after washing it with water. Personally, I find it very gross to clean your butt with just toilet paper, without using water. Of course, sometimes it's necessary when you need to use the bathroom outside of home where there's no bidet sprayer available. But not having a bidet sprayer at home is really disgusting.
After all, if you get poop on your hand, do you clean it or wash it? Why should it be any different with your butt?
I agree with you!
Me: "I already took a shower today"
Brazilian girlfriend: "But did you take 3?" 😂
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Hi! Native brazilian 2 showers/day on average here.
I feel filthy if I wear clean clothes without having the shower first. I bathe just for changing clothes.
Do someone here, brazilian or not, feel in the same way?
Eu.
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Yep. I’m in Blumenau and all of that checks out. I get really uncomfortable just of thinking about not taking at least a bath a day
Me too
9:30 depende muito. Por educação, se percebo que a casa é bem limpinha, eu removo meus calçados. O dono da residência pode dizer que não precisa, mas pode ser que você entre com sapato e tudo, e a pessoa vai te dar um puxão de orelha kkkkkk
The thing about using street shoes inside your home is a collection of cultural things. It's annoying as hell, but it's custom due to the fact that people are too sociable, so people get in each other's homes during the day, many days. Then there's the history of cleaning the home a lot more then 2 times each week, because not only in many places dirt would come from unpaved roads, people walking in and out, but also because the homes stayed completely open in most of the country, most of the year due to heat and/or humidity, since HVAC and insulation was almost inexistent besides newer comercial buildings and a few AC window units in the upper middle class and upper class up until the early 90's. Still limited insulation and AC use due to cost, including high electricity cost considering wages.
The sewage thing isn't just about septic tanks in more "rural" areas, since most people and polluted rivers are in bigger cities with sewage treatment. It's all about illegally occupied areas, usually favelas (slums) with no connection with the sewage grid, illegal connections hidden in buildings and businesses to not pay more for the sewage volume, etc.
The thing about industrial sewage is ignoring the strict environmental laws Brazil has and saying like it's usual. It isn't! Some do, pay money to corrupt inspectors/politicians/judges, but if you do it even by mistake you're facing a lot of fines and even jail...if you're honest
Thanks for the explanation
Brazilians are great about doing pedicures. Their feet are always clean and nails treated once a week.
Toilet paper is always flushed where I live. People in Brazil hate stinky bathrooms. It must be something to with the plumbing system where he lives. Perhaps in public spaces where people overload toilet with papers? It is probably something to do with Education at specific households. But Brazilians in general flush the toilet paper.
Very true
Fato é, mesmo vc entrando sem sapatos em casa o chão ainda estará sujo , então deitar e rolar no chão por isso , não é interessante mesmo assim.... Sobre saneamento básico, sim é um grande desafio num país tão grande quanto o Brasil ... que era colônia de países como a Suíça, que , by the way, é minúscula em proporções e que também só é rica e 'desenvolvida graças ao tr@fico de pessoas no passado como muitos outros países 'ricos e desenvolvidos '.... Enfim , comparações são muito complexas .... É não podemos esquecer a história por trás de tudo.... Fica a dica.
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Very good video!
The conclusion I draw from it is that Brazilians as individuals are very clean, whereas the country (the infrastructure) may be dirty. I'm half-Swiss half-British married to a Brazilian, we live in the Northeast, and my husband never really wore the same 'outside shoes' indoors. Upon getting home, he would take his 'outside shoes' off, and put on his flip-flops. Our kids have always done the same as well. I don't know whether this is something specific to my family or other Brazilians also do that? I also feel that the pandemic was a turning point for many households around the world. Some of my kids' friends no longer hug and cheek kiss one another when they meet up, they just wave and say hi instead, which was something unheard of in Brazil (or at least where I live) before 2020.
My impression is that Switzerland is a bit opposite to Brazil in that regard. The country is very clean, the infrastructure is reasonably good, the streets are also clean, but Swiss people won't take their toothbrush to the office lol. I think, however, that Switzerland is an outlier in Europe when it comes to cleanliness, as France, Italy and even the UK lag behind on that. I agree with you on the toilet paper in the bin thing. That's likely why many Brazilians either use the bidet shower or go straight into the shower when they're done with the loo business, though, innit?
When I first arrived here I thought Brazilians took too many showers because of the hot coffee they'll drink at any time of the day. I wonder if that's a Northeastern thing or a national thing?
I totally agree with your points. Brazilians love their cafezinho and it might be one factor of why Brazilians take so many showers 😂
Beautiful cat!
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Im brazilian and just walk inside my house with "chinelo"
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EXACTLY AND THIS SLIPPERS IS FOR HOME ONLY...OR WE STAY BAREFOOTED
MAYBE DURING PARTY ,,THE GUESTS COME IN WITH SHOES,THAT IS ANOTHER THING
As for the toilet paper, the pipes don't support it. It is disgusting to have a paper bin in every single toilet. It starts to smell after a while
Very true !
Mesmo trabalhando , eu limpo minha casa... muito bem... e sim tiro os sapatos para entrar em casa...
That's good
Wow Brazilians are so clean in the world
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Use shoes INSIDE the house it's a very BAD thing in Brasil!! We don't do it in Skandinavia and I say:Thanks,God for that😁🙏🙏🙏
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Only people who have some money in Brazil have cleaners, the top than 10% financially… most Brazilians don’t have that small luxury….
Good point
The dirty part is due to our political corrupt system and parcially by our poor educational system. You should make a video about how they drive here: tailgating is a thing!!! I had been rear ended more than 6 times in a space of 5 years. That really sucks.
Driving is a bit scary sometimes in Brazil that's true
WHAT DIRT PART? CAN U ELABORATE AHMED,SO THAT I MAY SAY THINGS ABOUT YOUR COUNTRY IN NORTH AFRICA AS WELL WHICH IS WORSE!!!!! BUT MONKEYS SIMIOS ONLY KNOW OTHERS TO TAG AT THEIR TAILS!!
TAILGATE IS A THING.WHERE? WHERE WHERE IN BRAZIL A HUGE COUNTRY OF HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE!! AND REGIONS?
PLEASE DONT SAY IT S ALL OVER,FOR U HAVE NOT GONE TO OTHERS REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY
AND UR NOT EVEN BRAZILIAN AND U SHOULD BE CRITICIZE YR OWN CRAP HOLE COUNTRY I N THE EAST
If I dared to enter the house with my shoes on while my mother was cleaning, I would be a d3ad man.
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Os sapatos também nunca eram tirados, porque no Brasil os pisos são diferentes e o clima também, na europa existem muitos ambientes com carpetes o que também faz com que as pessoas adotassem outros hábitos para a manutenção dos mesmos... Mas vi muitos europeus com os seus pezinhos bem sujinhos e fedidinhos... ❤
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Among the dirty listed points the sewage is one of the biggest problem we have. There is as well people that trow their trash in forests or fields.
True, that's another problem
WHY? WHY? MULTICULTURALISM! AFTER ALL YA NOT TALKING ABOUT A HOMOGENOUS NATIONS,PRETTY MUCH LIKE THE REST OF THE AMERICAS
DOH!!!! USE YR BRAINS TO THINK LIKE ME!
in brasil we have a saying: " i am poor, but i am clean ish =P " xD
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I refuse to put toilet paper on a basket. I don´t really think it's infrastructure. Only a few toilets will get clogged. Toilet stores should have demonstrations of the flushing of toilets. Next time I need to buy a toilet I will demand a demonstration. If they can´t provide I will tell them I will go to another store.
In the past, bidets were quite common in Brazil. That's a clean thing from the French. Much better than ONLY toilet paper. But many brazilians had bidets and didn´t even know how to use them. Some thought it was to wash the feet lol.
Speaking of washing the feet... if your feet are dirty and you don´t want to take another shower, just open the shower, make the shower box wet, then rub your feet against the wet floor. Clean feet with minimal effort before going to bed.
Good tips about cleaning your feet!
Also, I commonly see people walking down the street blowing each nostril into the air in front of everyone and then going about normal activities without washing hands. Or public nose picking.
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ARE THEY ASIAN? WHAT RACE/ BRAZIL HAS GOT MANY IMBECIL! MAYBE U TALKING ABOUT THE ARABS,AFRICAN AND ASIAN AND FOR THIS REASON THAT YOUR DONT LIKE ME,AND I TELL THIS
FK OFRE
U AS AN ARAB,SHOULD SEE UR OWN PEOPLE...COZ BLOWN NOSE IS OK..PROVIDED U DO WITH A HANDKIERCHIEF OR TISSUE PAPER,NOTHING WRONG..THEN WHAT? ALLOW IT TO DRIP..DONT BE STUPID ARAB MAN🥵🥵😡😡🤬🤬
Ah, a polemic topic! That's why the internet was invented!! haha
I love a polemic topic 😂
The water pollution in Brazil is totally shamed!
UR HEAD AHHHH IMBECIL!!!!! U ARE THIS IGNORANT NOT TO KNOW ABOUT OUTSIDE BRAZIL? SPECIALLY AFRICA AND ASIA,HOW DIRT THEIR BEACHES CAN BE ? WELL U KNOW WHAT.BUT YOU ARE MAKING STORIES
Not sure about the area where you live, but around here where I am (Cabo Frio area, Rio state) it's common to go shopping shoeless. You see people in the supermarkets barefoot all the time. I often do it, even in my white socks too, drive to the stores with no shoes on, people in the queue still strike up conversations with you, as it it's all just normal. No one looks or judges, and sure you go home with black soles, but you just wash up because there is a cold shower or tap outside by the gate. I love it.
That's weird but cool !
@@nordicinvestor From your thumbnail I thought that's what you were going to talk about! - But obviously, each area has its own habits...!??
Shower ++ Brushing Teeth ++ Sewage --😀
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Verdade, concordo com tudo que você disse nesse video
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Não é emtoda a Europa que você pode logar papel no latrina.... Isso é um mito... A maioria dos paises tem a mesma questão para resolver ao redor do mundo....
Very true that Brazil is not the only country with this problem with toilet paper.
Tomar banho: A melhor herança indigena que poderiamos querer...
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1- AINT NO SUCH THING AS XAMANIC..INDIGEOUS TO THE AMERICAS,EUROPEANS ARE...ARABE AND U KNOW ARABE FROM NORTH AFRICA..HOW MANY TIME ME GOT TEACH AHHHH?
2- XAMANIC TRIBAL CAME FROM ASIA
3- NON ASIAN PEOPLE IN BRAZIL CAME TO ME TO ASK ME TO TAKE A SHOWER
SO TAK YOUR STUPID ARABIC THEORIES TO HELL😐😐😑😑😑😑🙄🙄😴😴
We enter with tenis at the home thats true, but unitedstatians go even futher, I see on movies they jump over the bed with tenis! Thats crazy, bed should be a very clean and fresh place.
Shoes in bed is a no no, that's for sure!
ALL OVER BRAZIL? COZ MY SISTERS AND I NEVER DONE THAT..AND MY SISTERS WOULD HAVE KILLED ME IF I DID THAT!!
SO ,,PLEASE AHH BE MORE CONCISE TSK
@@nordicinvestor NO NO NO? WHERE? SURELY IN BRAZIL WE TOO DONT DO IT.NOT ALL OVER A HUGE SUBCONTINENT.AND THATS NOT SO INTELLIGENT TO GENERALIZE,WE NEED ANALYSE,,AND BE MORE SENSICAL
Do you have brazilian friends?
yes I do
You're in Sweden what you've got plenty of water there's tons of water what are you worried about wasting it for I never understand this
I think swedes are concerned about using lots of water because it means using more resources to clean the waste water and also using more resources to supply the water to the cities.
11:39 im brazilian and i find flushing the toilet paper to the toilet itself a great idea, i never do because of clogs, but its something to think about... why are our systems not designed with that in mind like the rest of the world?
Allt du sa är sant.
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I’m a total slob but absolutely no shoes inside. I make everyone take off their shoes and most roll their eyes.
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🥱🥱😴😴😴😴🙄🙄🙄🙄U DONT HAVE TO BE A MOSLEM TO DO IT..AHMED,RELAX,,OK? RELAX,ME BEING DOING IT SINCE THE 60S IN RECIFE
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What is this? No, way that this is a Brazilian feet in the bad, I have never seen anyone sleep with the feet like this I Brazil, never, ever 😳🙄☠️🫣😂
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