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My Complaint about Adam J. Lorenz

August 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment

This letter is going to be a book of revelations to many readers. In particular, many will be surprised to learn that I contend that it needs to be taken into account that Mr. Adam J Lorenz discounts important principles of our culture as mere platitudes. Let’s review the errors in Adam’s statements in order. First, lackluster, disrespectful slimeballs are burdened with the preconceived ideas or feeble understanding of the circles to which they previously belonged both politically and philosophically.

Given a choice of having Adam undermine everyone’s capacity to see, or change, the world as a whole or having my bicuspids extracted sans Novocaine, I would embrace the pliers, purchase some Polident Partials, and call it a day. He insists that his grievances are Holy Writ. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. My purpose here is not to weaken the critical links in Adam’s nexus of snotty racialism. Well, okay, it is. But I should point out that we are at war. Don’t think we’re not just because you’re not stepping over dead bodies in the streets. We’re at war with Adam’s baleful hatchet jobs. We’re at war with his mad values. And we’re at war with his dim-witted prognoses. As in any war, we ought to be aware of the fact that it’s a pity that two thousand years after Christ, the voices of saturnine oafs like Adam can still be heard, worse still that they’re listened to, and worst of all that anyone believes them.

Adam’s trucklers all have serious personal problems. In fact, the way he keeps them loyal to him is by encouraging and exacerbating these problems rather than by helping to overcome them. Adam uses the very intellectual tools he criticizes, namely consequentialist arguments rather than arguments about truth or falsity. If there is one truth in this world, it’s that I do not have the time, in one sitting, to go into the long answer as to why he gives his most banal statements an appearance of profundity by utilizing polysyllabic words such as “pericardiomediastinitis” and “dendrochronological”. But the short answer is that his cultists are merely ciphers. Adam is the one who decides whether or not to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Adam is the one who gives out the orders to damn this nation and this world to Hell. And Adam is the one trying to conceal how he has vowed that before the year is over he’ll advocate fatalistic acceptance of an impudent new world order. This is hardly news; Adam has been vowing that for months with the regularity of a metronome. What is news is that every time he utters or writes a statement that supports nepotism — even indirectly — it sends a message that he can scare us by using big words like “poluphloisboiotatotic”. I feel that we mustn’t let him make such statements, partly because the ability to artistically arrange words in an amusing manner does not qualify someone to be the leading social voice of a country, but primarily because if he thinks that he can make me go into hiding then he’s barking up the wrong tree. As I conclude this letter, let me remind you that my goal in writing it was not only to shoo away Mr. Adam J Lorenz like the annoying bug that he is. I sought also to use this letter as a means to focus on the major economic, social, and political forces that provide the setting for the expression of a lackadaisical agenda.

This is funny- you can surprise someone with a complaint letter by going to the Complaint Letter Generator

Categories: Adam's vents · Humor

Brazilians are idiots

July 26, 2007 · 13 Comments

I don’t have anything more to say, there are at this moment 26 comments about some game that Brazil won against the United States. WHO CARES? A Brazilian blogger told his readers to go and bother me about this, and these comments are rude, insensitive, etc. If you have any problems with this, leave a constructive comment. Until that time arrives, all Brazilians are idiots. By the way, the comments are irrelevant to the post…

Understand here. 

Categories: Adam's vents · Latin American idiocy

BraZilians don’t even know why BraZil is spelled with a Z

July 26, 2007 · 19 Comments

Hello, I have read and heard many Brazilians that argue about a silly letter in the English spelling of their country. Sure, we know it’s Brasil in Portuguese, but in English, it’s Brazil.

I thought the whole thing was silly, but there was quite a fight about it on Wikipedia.

In short, the reason why the country is spelled BRAZIL in English is because this is what the country was called when it was founded.

Here is a quotation from an editor on Wikipedia to try to put an end to this silly debate:

Since many people interested in this debate are foreigners and thus don’t have in-depth knowledge of Brazilian History, I want to add Brazil used to be officially called “Imperio do Brazil”. To check this information, see the 1824 Brazilian Constitution in http://www.presidencia.gov.br/legislacao/constituicao where it’s published with the original grammar.

After the Republic was established, the country officially adopted “Republica dos Estados Unidos do Brazil” as its name. Yes, that’s right. Brazil with a “Z”. It surely gives us a very good explanation to why Brazil is spelt with a “z” in English – it’s the way it was originally spelt in Brazilian Portuguese too. Later, of course, “Brasil” was incorporated by grammar reforms and “Brazil” was scrapped, though in other languages (like English) the original spelling was maintained.

Ironically, turns out spelling Brazil with a “z” actually supports the original Brazilian Portuguese roots and therefore in no way diminishes Brazilian culture.

Anyhow, the etymologies of words in English or any language are complex, and it just takes a little digging. Another word, macaw, is the English word for arara. A Brazilian told me, why do you change the word totally for this word? I looked it up in an etymology dictionary and found the word comes from an old Portuguese word – macao. So there you go.

Finally, you should remember, you call the city of London, Londres and nobody there in London cares :)

(originally written by ME at http://www.englishexperts.net/2007/04/its-brazil-in-english.html

Categories: Adam's vents · Latin American idiocy

Illegal immigrants

June 20, 2007 · 2 Comments

I know quite a few immigrants from Brazil, and I am certain that most of them are undocumented. I do various things for them such as teaching English and fixing their computers. Last night I went to a Brazilian’s house to pick up his computer up so I could do some work on it at home.

We got to talking about a few things, and he started to tell me about how cold American people were, how they weren’t happy, etc etc. He said that our food was bad because it seems like the immigrants only go to those chain restaurants such as Applebee’s, Denny’s, etc. I asked him if he knew what our local flavor was (Southern cuisine). He said hamburger and fries lol. So I told him about shrimp and grits, real Southern barbecue, etc, and he was clueless. I also told him that he never had a real home-cooked meal and never spent time with American families, so how could he make such an accusation that we were cold people.

The reason why we got into this discussion is because he asked me if the government was ever going to legalize illegal immigrants. I said, well, probably not because many American people want the illegals to go home… He asked why? So I told him about how illegal immigrants are driving up health care costs, straining social services, etc. I told him that our health care costs are being driven up because many of them get medical services and don’t ever pay for them. So who pays? Us…

Finally, I said, the reason why some immigrants are isolated from the rest of the American people is their refusal to learn English.  I told him, if you learn English, and make American friends, things would be a lot easier for you. He said that we should learn their language… I speak Portuguese, but don’t you think that if someone comes to live in a foreign country, they should learn the language of the land? I didn’t find so many people in Brazil that spoke English, nor did I expect it.

 Ok, enough ranting for now- you get the point.

Categories: Adam's vents · Opinion

As expected, Anti-Bush protests have begun

March 8, 2007 · 1 Comment

In South American-style, the protests are in full swing in Brazil. Bush is on a tour of Latin America, and is visiting the country of Brazil today. The two presidents are holding talks about a possible energy alliance, and the future of ethanol as an alternative energy.

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This is what I picked up from CNN-

“Bush and the United States go to war to control oil reserves, and now Bush and his pals are trying to control the production of ethanol in Brazil. And that has to be stopped,” said Suzanne Pereira dos Santos, an activist with Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement.

Graffiti reading “Get Out, Bush! Assassin!” appeared on walls near the locations Bush will drive past as he begins a Latin American tour that also includes stops in Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico.

Bush will not visit Argentina. However, leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will travel to Buenos Aires to lead protests against Bush on Friday.

Source: CNN

Categories: Adam's vents · Latin American idiocy · News · Politics

Brazil thinks that the US is going to take over the Amazon?

February 23, 2007 · 5 Comments

I thought this hoax was bunked long ago, but apparently not. I was just talking to someone on the internet from the Brazilian city of Manaus which is in the middle of the Amazon. He thinks that the US intends to take over the Amazon “to protect” it.

This is a very old internet rumor that claims there is a US textbook that says this.

Here is the image of this blatant forgery:

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The forgery, pictured below, purports to be page 76 of a U.S. sixth grade textbook titled An Introduction to Geography by David Norman. There is no indication that such a book exists. The U.S. Library of Congress, with more than 29 million books and other printed materials, has no record of it. The Online Computer Learning Center’s WorldCat database, the world’s largest database of bibliographic information with more than 47 million books, has no record of the book. Nor can such a book be found in Internet searches on amazon.com or Google.

Here are some of the gems of the poor English in this text.

We can consider that this area has the most biodiversity in the planet, with a vast number of species of all types of animals and vegetals. The value of this area is unable to calcule, but the planet can be cert that The United States won’t let these Latin American countries explorate and destroy this real ownership of all humanity.

The US State Department and the Brazilian embassy in Washington have gone to great lengths to dispell this myth, but there are still idiots out there who believe this crap.

This is the State Department’s Statement

This is the statement from the Brazilian Embassy (in Portuguese)

Finally, here are all the English errors-

1. “3.000 square miles” – It is using a decimal point instead of a comma to separate the thousands place.
2. “passed to the responsability” – This term is never used and “responsibility” should have an “i”.
3. “is named as FINRAF” – “as” should not be used here.
4. “due to the fact the Amazon” – This should be- “the fact that the Amazon”.

5. “earth” – This should be capitalized: Earth.
6. “irresponsable” – The correct spelling is irresponsible, with an “i”.
7. “a unintelligent” – “an” should be used here.
8. “the creation of FINRAF were” – “was” should be used here.
9. “has the most biodiversity” – Just wrong.
10. “vegetals” – Wrong spelling.
11. “unable to calcule” – Incorrect construction and spelling- “impossible to calculate”.
12. “be cert” – Bad translation- it should be, “be sure”, “be certain”.
13. “explorate” – This verb doesn’t exist, it should be, “explore”.
14. “ownership” – Probably a bad word to choose.
15. “humanity” – Hardly ever used, “mankind” should be used.
16. “eight South America’s countries” – It should be ” eight South American countries”.
17. “some of the poorest and miserable countries of the world” – It should be ” some of the poorest and most miserable countries of the world”.

Categories: Adam's vents · Humor

Idiotic Brazilian internet trolls and Cicarelli

February 8, 2007 · 4 Comments

daniela-cicarelli-002.jpgEarlier this week, Cicarelli’s name made it on an American blog- the wired blog. It has brought the fury of the idiotic nationalist Brazilians who don’t have any arguements except America sucks, everything we do is wrong.

For those that don’t know, Cicarelli is a Brazilian model who was filmed by paparazzi having “fun” with her boyfriend in Spain. This video was leaked on youtube, which prompted the Brazilian government to block the site for a short time.

Have some fun by reading the comments on this simple post. It really is funny because when these people don’t have anything better to do, they say, down with George Bush- you guys suck because your country is at war.I just had to laugh because these fruitcakes didn’t have anything relevant to say about the issue.

This phenomenon is nothing new. Orkut, a networking site similar to myspace has been taken over by Brazilian trolls.

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When confronted about that, they say learn Portuguese, you ignorant fool.

You can see something to that effect on the post that I linked above.

Now- that post has changed, but here is an image of the original post, complete with Cicarelli’s picture.

So- to all you internet trolls out there- Brazilian or otherwise, GET A LIFE…

Categories: Adam's vents