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#135639
Topic
What is your gas at?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/135639/action/topic#135639
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Good question. Over here it's about 2.09 reais (local currency) for each liter. let's see how much it is in dollars and gallons.

According to Google:

1 liter = 0.264172051 US gallons
1 U.S. dollar = 2.34990013 Brazil reais

... which seems to be correct.


2.09 reais a liter, than

2.09 - 0.26417
x - 1

2.09 = 0.26417x
2.09/0.26417 = x

7.91 reais a gallon


Now let's turn reais into dollars:

7.91/2.349 =~ 3.37 dollars

So it's 3.37 dollars a gallon.


So it's the incredibly expensive value of 3.37 dollars per gallon. Which makes me want to sell that freaking car and start riding a bike to work and other places... It mght sound like we have the same gas prices as you guys do, but the thing is, stuff here are usually way cheaper (except gas and electronics), and to compensate that sallaries are lower. So it's not a good comparison, because iet's way more expensive for us than to you guys over there.
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#135118
Topic
katrina
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/135118/action/topic#135118
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Originally posted by: Darth Enzo
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Have you ever BEEN to New Orleans, Ric? I have. My mother has a photo of her shocked face reacting to some of the perverseness that goes on there.

As for racist? RACIST? How is what I said racist? I'm simply stating that there ARE bad people in New Orleans, obviously, and that it was a well known fact before the flood. My mom said she knew a guy who got his wallet taken from his pocket in broad daylight.

Never did I say EVERYONE or MOST of the people were like that, just simply stated fact: it exists. Is your view of the city so sanitized that you don't know about it?


Good point, Chaltab. New Orleans is nothing if not a city of contrast. There are five-star restaurants, beautiful architecture, terrific museums and examples of the best of human culture and creativity literally next door to and mingled with people and places whose crudity and depravity knows no end. Looking through one eye you see a place that I loved for three days and (until a few days ago) would love to visit again. Wink and look through the other eye, and you'll find a hive of scum and villainy so wretched it makes Mos Eisley look like frickin' Disney World.

This has nothing to do with race. There are folks in New Orleans of all races who want to take their families to safety, others who want to try and help their fellow men, and disruptive assbags who are making a bad situation horrible and deserve to be shot where they stand.


I'm sorry if I was misunderstood, and I think I used the wrong term, I deeply apologise. What I meant is that it's a bad stereotype judgment, which I wrongly called "racism".
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#135058
Topic
Guts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/135058/action/topic#135058
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Originally posted by: greencapt
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Originally posted by: ricarleite

It's not like the person survived like in the story. He stated that he had read about rectal prolapse cases and there are documented cases of people who got into these sort of accidents in a swiming pool. It DOES happen. Everything you can imagine happening to someone, it HAS happened to someone at least once.


I once imagined that the flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz flew out of someone's butt...

happen a lot in Brasil?



just kidding ric!


I mean things that are possible to happen. Now, if you are having simian rectal problems, I think you should seek a doctor or a vet. Or both.
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#135052
Topic
katrina
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/135052/action/topic#135052
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
The fact of the matter is that New Orleans has always been a haven for bad people; gangs, hookers and other sexual deviants, voodo witch doctors, ect ect... And now that there is basically no law because of the flood, these people seem to think they can do whatever they want.

Now it IS a minority of people. Most are just trying to get to saftey, but the situation is bad, which is why we're sending in the military police (Yeah. It's THAT bad.)

As for why Texas is putting a limit on the number of refugees: Well, is it not obvious. There is only so much room for them. They will fill up hotels, crowd ins, and consume goods because they need anything the lost in the flood. A sudden influx of *Everyone* displaced by the flood into one state would throw the economy off big time. Besides, 75000 is a good chunk of the displaced, and there are 48 more states in the union anyway.


Oh come on Chaltab, do you really have this stereotyped and racist view on New Orleans?

And oh sure, send them all to Washington State or Hawaii. At times like this, the sole state economy comes in second. But hey that's me, I don't know what are their priorities.
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#135042
Topic
Guts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/135042/action/topic#135042
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Originally posted by: Bossk

Maybe so on the carrot. Who knows? As for the swimming pool... on the Web we "hear" all kinds of stories that people claim are "true." Until I read the actual news report, I'm banking on its falsehood. I don't know how a human being can survive without their intestines. So much nutrient processing occurs there. Without them, food would just pass through and not do anything. Even vitamin supplements would do nothing as they wouldn't stay in your system long enough to have any effect. You would be severely malnourished, dehydrated, etc. You wouldn't be able to live on our own as you would need to be hooked up to a constant IV drip. Just my take.


It's not like the person survived like in the story. He stated that he had read about rectal prolapse cases and there are documented cases of people who got into these sort of accidents in a swiming pool. It DOES happen. Everything you can imagine happening to someone, it HAS happened to someone at least once.
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#135041
Topic
katrina
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/135041/action/topic#135041
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I've not been fully able to see the news, but HOW did New Orleans get into a state of complete bezerked anarchy? I mean, I've read that the Wall-Mart section of GUNS was looted, God knows what will happen to those... How did it reach like it with a mere flood? I mean, there has been other floods caused by hurricanes before, and nothing like it has happened...

Also, Texas has increased the number of people they are willing to recieve from Louisiana to 75 thousand. WHY limit the number of people?! These are people for Christ sake, how come the states are so segregated that they have to impose limits to that? All those state boundaries should be removed at times like this...
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#134778
Topic
Guts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/134778/action/topic#134778
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Originally posted by: Bossk
It's not a true story. The book, which focuses on struggling writers a la an earlier explanation of mine in this thread, is broken into chapters. Each chapter starts with a few pages that describe the action inside the "writer's retreat" and what is happening to our characters. Then the chapter has a poem written about one of the characters in the retreat. This is followed by a short story written by that same focal character. Save for the two people who run the retreat, every character is known only by a nickname. The character in this short story is known to readers only as "Saint Gut-Free" and for good reason.


But the author claimed that the carrot story was inspired in a real life event that happened with a friend he met in college, and that he heard about the swiming pool story, that it actually happened to someone.
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#134553
Topic
Dreams Thread Reloaded!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/134553/action/topic#134553
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Since we were talking about gory stuff at "Guts", I had the most creepy dream last week. I had this dream where I cam into this room, not sure what it was, and there was a cop there, and when he turned to look at me, I could see that he had no face at all, he had a huge hole at the place of his face, with no eyes and no nose and a hole where the jaw would be (and there are actually some people like that), and I felt kinda grossed out but not scared. I felt sorry for him, and I remember asking him if he could see me, and he nodded saying he could, and I would ask him "how", but then he turned a small TV behind him. And it was this documentary about bombs. And I saw that very same cop (with a normal face) disarming a bomb, and it exploding in smoke and we didnt see him after that. Then the narrator of the documentary said "Now we will look at that again in slow motion. I warn that the following images are graphic and might be disturbing", and then it proceed to show the scene in slow motion, and it exploded and I could hear the cop screaming "aaaaahhh!", and I could see a metal place thing tearing his face of, and his whole face flowing into the air.

And I woke up all scared and stuff, and it was still 1 am...
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#134456
Topic
Guts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/134456/action/topic#134456
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Well, it would have freaked me out... Specially when I was 12. I would be able to watch it today with no real problems, although I'd probably be sick.

There was this time when I was about 15 when I was back at the country side, where I used to spend my summer vacations, at my uncle's farm (used to be my grandfather's), and I've witnessed a pig being killed. Although I thought it was an horrible thing to do, I really didnt get sick, seeing all those organs coming out and stuff, but what got me was the stench. And then I looked back and saw some vultures waiting to eat what would be left, and it got me. I got pretty sick and had to step away and take some water.

Later that day I did eat that pig though, with no guilt or feeling ill about it.