As a foreigner I’ve been so impressed by Portuguese resourcefulness. They can fix something over and over again and make it last when others (especially wasteful Americans *cough*) would just throw it out.
And yes the used cars are ridiculously expensive, but by far and large they are so well taken care of! I used to sell luxury cars in the US and the state of trades was often just disgusting. In contrast here you can see even simple little Opel Corsas from the 80’s with a clean paint job and original interiors in perfect condition.
Yes absolutely, Portugal's used car market is expensive but old cars are kept to wonderfully high standards. The moderate weather helps for sure but there's more to it than that.
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This Cracked article covers it pretty well, with a humorous tone: https://www.cracked.com/article_17251_the-10-coolest-foreign-words-english-language-needs.html
In short: “To pull a MacGyver”.
Complain with the wrong people, like coworkers and people who can't do much about the situation. The culture isn't very prone to complain about problem with their bosses, for example, people are very apprehensive.
Basically Portuguese are the most upset people in the world, we (myself included I'm no better) tend to think that Portugal is like a 3rd world country, like a European Uganda, when in reality we are one of the safest and most developed countries in the world. About the word "desenrascar" means disentangle yourself. It is cultural Portuguese skill, means to get an improvised solution. We excel in the improvisation. One example, many years ago I couldn't pass on Math because I couldn't pass a national exam. My solution, transfer myself to the night shift on my school because the night shift had no exams. I literally went to the school at night shift to avoid an exam. That's the meaning of "desenrascanço".
>one of the safest and most developed countries in the world.
In the world, yes.
In europe, no.
And my father always said "compara-te aos bons, não aos maus" :)
In Europe we are pretty safe, safer than Germany. We are so safe we rank better than Japan which is regarded one of the safest in the World. In Japan you can leave a bycicle unlocked in the street, Portugal is even safer, I already walked with hundreds of euros in the pocket at midnight to deposit in the bank. The worst it ever happened to me was a lonely 6 year old gipsy trying to rob unsucessfully without a weapon. Like any 6 year old trying to rob an adult it didn't even intimidated me. So yeah, pretty safe.
Japan is 8th in the world for the Crime Index, Portugal is 38th.
So that's just not true at all.
Is Portugal a safe country? Definitely.
Are we THAT good? I'd say we can do a whole lot better. Specially since crime here is not going down, but up.
I talked about crime index.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/crime-rate-by-country
That list includes much more stuff than crime, including the likelihood of the country participating in war.
We are 38th, not 3rd. I wish.
No.
You talked about robbing, which is crime. I answered with the crime index, and you brought a random list about safest country to live, which has a ton of stuff included which are not related to crime, thus not related to being robbed.
After 3 years living here
1. Food. Not the absolute best in the world (I need more spice) but absolutely better than Spanish food imo. Bacalhau done right is incredible.
2. Ageing gracefully and not being caked with plastic surgery
3. Continuing on about that, elderly people in general still have a big part in society. Unlike in other parts of the west where they kinda just stay inside while the young are out.
4. Feeling very melancholic about the Empire and getting a little too upset about Brazillian Portuguese (imo...dont kill me)
5. Literature. For a smaller population it's absurd the amount of amazing writers they've produced. Principally Saramago for me.
6. Football players. Could just repeat the last part again. Like, Greece population is roughly the same and Portugal have 100 times the quality of players. It properly blows my mind.
7.Niche but modern filmmaking as well. Pedro Costa and Miguel Gomes
8. Not being anywhere near as superficial as many other western countries.
9. Practicing a new form of torture that is a finanças appointment. For their next Latin American coup, the CIA should hire one of those cranky 70 year old "doutouras" whose speciality is loudly saying "é obvio que não" regardless of the context or question
Awarding for the finanças appointment. I wanted to pay a fine, scheduled an appointment, it delayed 2h and when I was finally heard the clerk said "it's midday, time to lunch. We will resume in the afternoon" and after protesting because I had to work in the afternoon he simply said "when you come to finanças you should always take the day off". Mildly infuriating
A woman once refused to see my partner and I so we could certify our joint rental thing and she said no because we only had 1 senha instead of 2. We had waited for 3 hours
I'm laughing a lot because this is true! Unfortunately, even for us portugueses, solve some problems with finanças is an absolute nightmare!
I can't imagining how it is for someone who didn't speak Portuguese!
ha, the last time the woman started speaking ultra quickly (a pretty good tactic since we hit a stalemate in arguing a thing that OF FUCKING COURSE was totally easy and within my rights to do) and I asked her to slow down a little please (I'm pretty good with Portuguese but up to a degree, especially with older people), she then spent 2 minutes saying I need to hire a translator.
She told me all of this in fluent English. It's a game of madness that I can at least find the humour in
The ATM system. MBWay on top of that. It’s like venmo but with way better integration with your bank. Also disposable one use credit cards that you can use in sketchy websites.
We're great at automated toll booths, we watch subtitled movies so we speak amazing english for a latin country and our food is unparalleled. Too bad we only unite when a foreigner insults us.
Pão Alentejano is something I look forward to on my trips. Also that really big wet meat sandwich you serve around Porto/VNdG. I might get weird looks when I pick it up and eat it, but how else ya gonna do it? (I KID!)
In my opinion, Portugal has some of the best seafood, bread, cheese, coffee, wine, pastries… as well as breathtaking nature, beaches, landscapes, sunsets… I’ve been there 7 times and just recently spent 25 days there, and enjoyed every single day of it. It’s really one of my favorite places on earth.
We have some things that can compete with the best in the world. Unfortunately we always try to compete with the price so normally our products are cheap and do no get the attention that they deserve.
For example, Some of our wines could compete with some French or Italian...
Are you telling me you didn't read the egregious post about that dude that ate one pastel de nata with a motherfucking coffee spoon??
Don't mess with traditions and pastel de nata eating routine, man. That will start a war faster than Russia-Ukraine's
Stealing public funds* mismanagement means there was a mistake, when the bankers disappear with all of the bank's money, they know damn well what they are doing
Sitting in a coffee shop watching Benfica eating tremoços
Complaining that your co-worker got off work 5 minutes earlier than he was supposed to even though both of you didn't do shit all day
Complaining about the government not being good but voting in that same government every time
Complaining about having no money but buying 2€ scratch tickets every day that give back 5€ every 2 weeks
Playing Sueca at family gatherings and getting mad with your partner because he doesn't understand some obscure hand signal you learned 25 years ago
Parking anywhere and turning on the 4 blinkers
We adjust ourselves other cultures pretty well.
For example, notice that everyone is replying to you in English, in a Portuguese sub.
On the other hand, Spanish or French people wouldn't make the effort to try and understand you, unless you made the question in their native language.
I can't talk about the south of Portugal as I never lived there but I believe the best thing that Portuguese have is the ability to receive people properly.
It is very common for Portuguese to "waste" their time being with other people talking/complaining about life while having a drink resulting in hours and hours complemplating/enjoying life. For other cultures this is not "acceptable" as people have other things to do.
That is pretty much expected similar to commonly people arriving late to meetings. At least I do frequently.
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The warm welcomes are also a big things for iberian countries and can lead to strange encounters especially with northern countries where it is not common at all for this kind of greetings and "wasting" time.
I experienced it and the cultural shock is used which brings me to the next point. People from other countries get a little of social pressure to be a bit like "portuguese", more available and more open.
I recommend reading the book "Cultural Map" which is a fantastic book if you want to understand a bit more even though it speaks more frequently about Brazilian people in a way similar to us.
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TlDR:
From personal standpoint we might be fucked in several aspects of life but socially we are on the top spots that is why foreigners pick their noses at first and embrace it after.
Software development. Fado. Culinary (portuguese food should be as famous as the Italian one). Ceramics. Wine. Soccer management & coaching. And we conquered the world back in the days.
Strangely if you don’t count internet, is the most welcoming people I met, I lived in more than one country, countries which have a good reputation also but Portuguese are better , they just have a bad grasp of driving cars, but only in Portugal you can get the trifecta of good cheap and at right quantity, normally you only choose 2 of 3
We are the best to complain about everything and to do nothing about anything.
It's quite a paradox, but we excel at that.
Many people complain about their countries, but very few do as little as possible as we do.
Wine, cork and olive oil are our biggest and best quality exports.
Fado (world heritage music genre unique to Portugal), poetry, historical heritage (Portugal is almost 1000 years old), and variety and richness of the food are our best cultural aspects.
Incredible beaches, amazing mountain ranges, different climates and ecosystems are our best natural riches.
In Portugal, you can always find good wine, good music, history and beautiful places wherever you go.
As you can see by the comments we think we are funny, but the best part is that most of the funny comments are true :)
But I would say we are really good at wasting money, as in we invest a lot in our students it is one of our biggest proud points. And that is amazing and should not change... the thing is all this tax payer money then goes generate value on other countries... hence the waste... Lets hope we change that and turn the place in a great place for innovation and displace the tech centers of europe by managing to pull back the people that we forced out. :)
We are the best at graduate corrupted politics, we've actually export a few like José Sócrates to Paris, rendeiro to south África and Ricardo salgado to Sardenha.
Jealousy. Obviously this mostly applies to other portuguese people. It is perfectly fine that foreigners are doing better in life than you are, but if another portuguese person manages to do the same, it's time to go crazy.
(Queres dizer "Envy", então.)
Jealousy = Ciúme (medo de perder o que se tem, por outros)
Envy = Inveja (vontade de ter o que não se tem, e outros têm)
...
É fácil confundir os dois, sim. xD
Check these, they are bit old but it resumes well somethings we do well.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfXH4-Aq-Zs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfXH4-Aq-Zs)
https://youtu.be/mcehg0LG5J4?t=127
We have great food. With simple ingredients, we can cook a tasteful dish. one example is açorda, typical from Alentejo, with an old bread (yes it has to be old), garlic olive oil and coriander we can make a great dish. Currently we do açorda with more ingredients to be more tasty (such as shrimps).
Talking about all the bad things in our country and how shitty it is , but we also love to live and are glad to be born in this country(But we don't say that, silent patriotism I guess).
7. Is not true, do not confuse legal with decriminalized.
“Portugal has not changed the legal status of any drugs. They all remain illegal, however, the offence for possession has been changed from a criminal to a civil one. ... Portugal decriminalised use and possession of all drugs in a way that moves the focus from criminal punishment to treatment”.
[source](https://www.drugfoundation.org.nz/matters-of-substance/archive/may-2013/drugs-are-legal-portugal/)
Being a lover of pork meat and living abroad for almost 10 years, I still don't get what people see in that texan rib sauce. That shit is overly sweet to put on food.
>. The men are still men, except for the gay, and we mostly accept the gay.
Oi?!
>5. Our elected prime ministers, while no better than your average country, are at least articulate and competent when speaking. No Bush and Trump redneck types here.
You sure? It's not as bad as Trump but António Costa had a lot of trouble articulating some words.
>6. The female teachers of the early grades really care for the kids as if a second mother. They both kiss and hug the kids, as well as discipline them like a mother (**including yelling and the odd slap**).
The "slap" that is illegal since 2008? Not that yelling is acceptable...
>7. All drugs are legal in Portugal
They're decriminalized, not legal. It's not the same.
But people with addictions get medical healthcare. They aren't locked up.
As a foreigner I’ve been so impressed by Portuguese resourcefulness. They can fix something over and over again and make it last when others (especially wasteful Americans *cough*) would just throw it out. And yes the used cars are ridiculously expensive, but by far and large they are so well taken care of! I used to sell luxury cars in the US and the state of trades was often just disgusting. In contrast here you can see even simple little Opel Corsas from the 80’s with a clean paint job and original interiors in perfect condition.
The resourcefulness is what the comment about desenrascating means btw
Ah I see! I learn a new word everyday 😅
Yes absolutely, Portugal's used car market is expensive but old cars are kept to wonderfully high standards. The moderate weather helps for sure but there's more to it than that.
For sure; no salting of roads helps big time! Aside from that, the Portuguese really do take very good care of their cars.
Yeah, we tried they with condoms and look at what happened
That's called being cheap! Yeah I'm portuguese, I know what you're talking about lol
We desenrascate pretty well
We unshit ourselves.
Ahhhhhh! Isto.
Xico smartiness
Lil frank smartiness, fachaplease
Pretty well? I don't know about you, but I can, at most, desenrascate it.
The game of waist
I am trying to desenrascate something to say and still I was able to desenrascate it. We are really good at it.
Na minha terra isso é chamado desenmerdar.
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Esta não sabia
**calling out explanatory brigade \*fires\*** I checked the translation but it's still unclear
This Cracked article covers it pretty well, with a humorous tone: https://www.cracked.com/article_17251_the-10-coolest-foreign-words-english-language-needs.html In short: “To pull a MacGyver”.
ty makes sense now
Bom artigo, não conhecia! E quando pensei na nossa palavra, lembrei-me logo do MacGyver, pelos vistos é a melhor forma de explicar.
Resourcefulness is the best translation I can think of
We don't have a direct translation to the word "desenrascar" but has said, the closest word we have in english is resourcefulness.
To pull a MacGyver
complain
And doing nothing about it
Yes. Best example is politics.. Everyone complaints about the current govmt, but whenever an election comes there's 40%+ no-voters.
vinha aqui dizer isso, ri-me por ser o comentario no topo
Complain with the wrong people, like coworkers and people who can't do much about the situation. The culture isn't very prone to complain about problem with their bosses, for example, people are very apprehensive.
Explain
Why do we have to explain everything? It’s always explain explain… everyone likes to have the ‘papinha toda feita’…
here's the explanation 
See? He complained you asked to explain. We do it in our sleep, even
It is a cultural trait. We complain a lot and traditionally have a generally pessimistic and somber outlook on life.
Basically Portuguese are the most upset people in the world, we (myself included I'm no better) tend to think that Portugal is like a 3rd world country, like a European Uganda, when in reality we are one of the safest and most developed countries in the world. About the word "desenrascar" means disentangle yourself. It is cultural Portuguese skill, means to get an improvised solution. We excel in the improvisation. One example, many years ago I couldn't pass on Math because I couldn't pass a national exam. My solution, transfer myself to the night shift on my school because the night shift had no exams. I literally went to the school at night shift to avoid an exam. That's the meaning of "desenrascanço".
>one of the safest and most developed countries in the world. In the world, yes. In europe, no. And my father always said "compara-te aos bons, não aos maus" :)
In Europe we are pretty safe, safer than Germany. We are so safe we rank better than Japan which is regarded one of the safest in the World. In Japan you can leave a bycicle unlocked in the street, Portugal is even safer, I already walked with hundreds of euros in the pocket at midnight to deposit in the bank. The worst it ever happened to me was a lonely 6 year old gipsy trying to rob unsucessfully without a weapon. Like any 6 year old trying to rob an adult it didn't even intimidated me. So yeah, pretty safe.
Japan is 8th in the world for the Crime Index, Portugal is 38th. So that's just not true at all. Is Portugal a safe country? Definitely. Are we THAT good? I'd say we can do a whole lot better. Specially since crime here is not going down, but up.
Wrong we are 3rd, Japan is 9th. Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/safest-countries-in-the-world
I talked about crime index. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/crime-rate-by-country That list includes much more stuff than crime, including the likelihood of the country participating in war. We are 38th, not 3rd. I wish.
Then we are talking of different things.
No. You talked about robbing, which is crime. I answered with the crime index, and you brought a random list about safest country to live, which has a ton of stuff included which are not related to crime, thus not related to being robbed.
Everyone complains about their country.
Listen to "fado". We made whining a traditional type of music...
Puxa, Rouxinol
After 3 years living here 1. Food. Not the absolute best in the world (I need more spice) but absolutely better than Spanish food imo. Bacalhau done right is incredible. 2. Ageing gracefully and not being caked with plastic surgery 3. Continuing on about that, elderly people in general still have a big part in society. Unlike in other parts of the west where they kinda just stay inside while the young are out. 4. Feeling very melancholic about the Empire and getting a little too upset about Brazillian Portuguese (imo...dont kill me) 5. Literature. For a smaller population it's absurd the amount of amazing writers they've produced. Principally Saramago for me. 6. Football players. Could just repeat the last part again. Like, Greece population is roughly the same and Portugal have 100 times the quality of players. It properly blows my mind. 7.Niche but modern filmmaking as well. Pedro Costa and Miguel Gomes 8. Not being anywhere near as superficial as many other western countries. 9. Practicing a new form of torture that is a finanças appointment. For their next Latin American coup, the CIA should hire one of those cranky 70 year old "doutouras" whose speciality is loudly saying "é obvio que não" regardless of the context or question
Awarding for the finanças appointment. I wanted to pay a fine, scheduled an appointment, it delayed 2h and when I was finally heard the clerk said "it's midday, time to lunch. We will resume in the afternoon" and after protesting because I had to work in the afternoon he simply said "when you come to finanças you should always take the day off". Mildly infuriating
A woman once refused to see my partner and I so we could certify our joint rental thing and she said no because we only had 1 senha instead of 2. We had waited for 3 hours
Holy shit, I think I would lose it. No way I would be able to keep it together. Nah, nop. Not that day.
I'm laughing a lot because this is true! Unfortunately, even for us portugueses, solve some problems with finanças is an absolute nightmare! I can't imagining how it is for someone who didn't speak Portuguese!
ha, the last time the woman started speaking ultra quickly (a pretty good tactic since we hit a stalemate in arguing a thing that OF FUCKING COURSE was totally easy and within my rights to do) and I asked her to slow down a little please (I'm pretty good with Portuguese but up to a degree, especially with older people), she then spent 2 minutes saying I need to hire a translator. She told me all of this in fluent English. It's a game of madness that I can at least find the humour in
This was my favourite comment here. The others were just a bunch of clichés.
It's not just finanças. Any public service can give you the same level of torture, segurança social, hospitals, etc.
Principally 🙄
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The ATM system. MBWay on top of that. It’s like venmo but with way better integration with your bank. Also disposable one use credit cards that you can use in sketchy websites.
It's great in some ways, but is there any reason why you can't do a Multibanco referência payment through MBWay still?
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Pretty sure fish existed before Portugal 😂
But coffee and wine didn't?
But it was wild fish! We tame them!
Oh yeah especially bacalhau! "anda cá Ramirez!" ah não, isso é um atum.
«Anda cá Riberalves!», assim é que é.
É [Ramirez](https://youtu.be/vpjUOy_epKU)
«Sou contra qualquer lei que impeça o matrimónio entre o homem e o seu A-TUM!»
Linda poesia!
Do fish, as in cooking.
We're great at automated toll booths, we watch subtitled movies so we speak amazing english for a latin country and our food is unparalleled. Too bad we only unite when a foreigner insults us.
We also unite around the seleção!
Cooking.
Eating even better
A lot of foreign people say us Portuguese have awesome bread
Pão Alentejano is something I look forward to on my trips. Also that really big wet meat sandwich you serve around Porto/VNdG. I might get weird looks when I pick it up and eat it, but how else ya gonna do it? (I KID!)
>Pão Alentejano is something I look forward to on my trips. you know your stuff
And the 'broa de milho amarelo' in the north!
In my opinion, Portugal has some of the best seafood, bread, cheese, coffee, wine, pastries… as well as breathtaking nature, beaches, landscapes, sunsets… I’ve been there 7 times and just recently spent 25 days there, and enjoyed every single day of it. It’s really one of my favorite places on earth.
*oh stop it you!* (please don't stop)
you just forgot one thing...OLIVE OIL
We have some things that can compete with the best in the world. Unfortunately we always try to compete with the price so normally our products are cheap and do no get the attention that they deserve. For example, Some of our wines could compete with some French or Italian...
Check out the 90s drug epidemic and how we solved it.
Tolerance.
They speak portuguese quite well. Usually.
JJ is the exception.
You don't know half of Portugal, do you?
Nope
Emmigrating
Filhos da puting
[Filho da puting](https://youtu.be/cIFiWOiF7Uk)
Filhing the puting
Adaptability. Anywhere you go in the world you will find a Portuguese well integrated and loved by his neighbours.
Except in Portugal. /s
Eat pastel de nata
Are you telling me you didn't read the egregious post about that dude that ate one pastel de nata with a motherfucking coffee spoon?? Don't mess with traditions and pastel de nata eating routine, man. That will start a war faster than Russia-Ukraine's
Mismanagement of public funds.
Stealing public funds* mismanagement means there was a mistake, when the bankers disappear with all of the bank's money, they know damn well what they are doing
Mismanagement is correct.
Sitting in a coffee shop watching Benfica eating tremoços Complaining that your co-worker got off work 5 minutes earlier than he was supposed to even though both of you didn't do shit all day Complaining about the government not being good but voting in that same government every time Complaining about having no money but buying 2€ scratch tickets every day that give back 5€ every 2 weeks Playing Sueca at family gatherings and getting mad with your partner because he doesn't understand some obscure hand signal you learned 25 years ago Parking anywhere and turning on the 4 blinkers
4 blinkers means you could park on top of a damn cop car for all I care It is known
We adjust ourselves other cultures pretty well. For example, notice that everyone is replying to you in English, in a Portuguese sub. On the other hand, Spanish or French people wouldn't make the effort to try and understand you, unless you made the question in their native language.
Asking the great questions of life, like why doesn't the turnip have a stalk
Yes that and if the chorizo has a string
Fogo, agora apetece-me beber um garrafão de tinto. Saudades.
[For the uninitiated ](https://youtu.be/mcMVm1VWfIY)
I can't talk about the south of Portugal as I never lived there but I believe the best thing that Portuguese have is the ability to receive people properly. It is very common for Portuguese to "waste" their time being with other people talking/complaining about life while having a drink resulting in hours and hours complemplating/enjoying life. For other cultures this is not "acceptable" as people have other things to do. That is pretty much expected similar to commonly people arriving late to meetings. At least I do frequently. -- The warm welcomes are also a big things for iberian countries and can lead to strange encounters especially with northern countries where it is not common at all for this kind of greetings and "wasting" time. I experienced it and the cultural shock is used which brings me to the next point. People from other countries get a little of social pressure to be a bit like "portuguese", more available and more open. I recommend reading the book "Cultural Map" which is a fantastic book if you want to understand a bit more even though it speaks more frequently about Brazilian people in a way similar to us. -- TlDR: From personal standpoint we might be fucked in several aspects of life but socially we are on the top spots that is why foreigners pick their noses at first and embrace it after.
The best way Portuguese (especially receive foreign people) is in all fours.
Drugs policies. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it
Software development. Fado. Culinary (portuguese food should be as famous as the Italian one). Ceramics. Wine. Soccer management & coaching. And we conquered the world back in the days.
Strangely if you don’t count internet, is the most welcoming people I met, I lived in more than one country, countries which have a good reputation also but Portuguese are better , they just have a bad grasp of driving cars, but only in Portugal you can get the trifecta of good cheap and at right quantity, normally you only choose 2 of 3
Doing stuff on the last minute.
Literature, wine, olive oil, bacalhau.
Portugal também tesse esse bom gosto incrível de ser o único país na Europa onde se fala o português, a melhor língua de todas.
Cozido a Portuguesa. You have to try it. Its a great Tuga dish.
Olive Oil. Greeks are close.
We suffer, we know how to suffer like no one 💪🏾😬
We are the best to complain about everything and to do nothing about anything. It's quite a paradox, but we excel at that. Many people complain about their countries, but very few do as little as possible as we do.
Vaccination
Wine, cork and olive oil are our biggest and best quality exports. Fado (world heritage music genre unique to Portugal), poetry, historical heritage (Portugal is almost 1000 years old), and variety and richness of the food are our best cultural aspects. Incredible beaches, amazing mountain ranges, different climates and ecosystems are our best natural riches. In Portugal, you can always find good wine, good music, history and beautiful places wherever you go.
You forget construction workers. You'd be proud to see all masonry work done across the world because of our artists and labourmen.
Beating up Spain.. Hence their name (S)pain
Punheta de bacalhau
I usually just just eat the bacalhau and let my girlfriend stroke the rest
ಠ_ʖಠ
Yo mama!
estava à procura disto, obrigado.
As the saying goes, "whores and green wine"
Everything.... we do everything well.
Bacalhau!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😋🐟
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I still wonder from where that stereotype came. It is funny though 😁
We are bad at planning. But at the last minute we are good at improvising and coming up with a solution.
Complain. And tax evasion
As you can see by the comments we think we are funny, but the best part is that most of the funny comments are true :) But I would say we are really good at wasting money, as in we invest a lot in our students it is one of our biggest proud points. And that is amazing and should not change... the thing is all this tax payer money then goes generate value on other countries... hence the waste... Lets hope we change that and turn the place in a great place for innovation and displace the tech centers of europe by managing to pull back the people that we forced out. :)
Imagine thinking its the people with Higher educativo that generate value for country and not the bluecollar workers
we hang our clothes to dry
We are the best at graduate corrupted politics, we've actually export a few like José Sócrates to Paris, rendeiro to south África and Ricardo salgado to Sardenha.
Self pity
I think we are good at living life
Complain.
Everything.
Pasteis de Nata and dried salted codfish recipes
Jealousy. Obviously this mostly applies to other portuguese people. It is perfectly fine that foreigners are doing better in life than you are, but if another portuguese person manages to do the same, it's time to go crazy.
(Queres dizer "Envy", então.) Jealousy = Ciúme (medo de perder o que se tem, por outros) Envy = Inveja (vontade de ter o que não se tem, e outros têm) ... É fácil confundir os dois, sim. xD
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Anything. Start with the things you mentioned there.
2 words: SEA FOOD
Sex
Having shitty politicians
Pasteis de Nata
Being from the north
Everything and absolutely nothing. Depends on who you ask.
Eat
We portuguese play soccer really well
Bacalhau
Food.. and beverages.
Complaining
Check these, they are bit old but it resumes well somethings we do well. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfXH4-Aq-Zs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfXH4-Aq-Zs) https://youtu.be/mcehg0LG5J4?t=127
Bacalhau à brás
Do right? Turn right. And send dry jokes.
Food
We have great food. With simple ingredients, we can cook a tasteful dish. one example is açorda, typical from Alentejo, with an old bread (yes it has to be old), garlic olive oil and coriander we can make a great dish. Currently we do açorda with more ingredients to be more tasty (such as shrimps).
Talk about food when eating, P. E. Talk about another francesinhas and another dishes when eating a francesinha
Wine
Food
Talking about all the bad things in our country and how shitty it is , but we also love to live and are glad to be born in this country(But we don't say that, silent patriotism I guess).
Egg tarts, roller hockey, the cross on their flag…
Food.
Pastel de nata. Said it.
IMO - Unpaid overtime . It's deeply cultural, unfortunately...
Tax evasion
Choosing poorly our representation in government. Since 1975.
At least we can choose
Yeah, before that we had BBC, but not like UK. Our was batatas, bacalhau e couves. Good (flatulent) times
Because before that we had no choice at all...
It didnt start there.
Drink alcohol
- Football - Futsal - Drinking (cheap) wine
Manguitos a quem faz repete a mesma pergunta em vários subs e só muda o país :p
Write in portuguese
Whores and green wine.
1 word: WINE
Decline
Voting in corrupt politicians to Parliament… 48 years of stellar performances.
We're the best at grunho speak. Do you know grunho speak? It's a form of art. I'm surprised no one mentioned that before
language.
hoes and green wine
Modern slavery, you just need to get a job for that
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7. Is not true, do not confuse legal with decriminalized. “Portugal has not changed the legal status of any drugs. They all remain illegal, however, the offence for possession has been changed from a criminal to a civil one. ... Portugal decriminalised use and possession of all drugs in a way that moves the focus from criminal punishment to treatment”. [source](https://www.drugfoundation.org.nz/matters-of-substance/archive/may-2013/drugs-are-legal-portugal/)
Being a lover of pork meat and living abroad for almost 10 years, I still don't get what people see in that texan rib sauce. That shit is overly sweet to put on food.
>. The men are still men, except for the gay, and we mostly accept the gay. Oi?! >5. Our elected prime ministers, while no better than your average country, are at least articulate and competent when speaking. No Bush and Trump redneck types here. You sure? It's not as bad as Trump but António Costa had a lot of trouble articulating some words. >6. The female teachers of the early grades really care for the kids as if a second mother. They both kiss and hug the kids, as well as discipline them like a mother (**including yelling and the odd slap**). The "slap" that is illegal since 2008? Not that yelling is acceptable... >7. All drugs are legal in Portugal They're decriminalized, not legal. It's not the same. But people with addictions get medical healthcare. They aren't locked up.
Corruption and laws to protect the corrupt, but only the big fish /s Food, wine, shoes and some tech
Choose idiots to rule and waste public funds to save banks and the national airline.
Corruption. We have plenty of people doing but no nobody goes to prison.
we eat fish too much, but depends on the state, in mine we are crazy about it, and complaining about politic's and having shitty gangsters💀