things you have noticed.

IdleRich

IdleRich

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Leo said:
I grew up across the street from a Portuguese church, and they had an annual feast in the churchyard in August. it was a blast, could buy chunks of meat that they put on metal skewers that were about 4 or feet long and you'd roast them over a huge fire pit and make sandwiches with fresh Portuguese rolls. booze, bands, crazy church fundraising auctions where people would show off and bid hundreds of dollars for a massa (Portuguese sweet bread) and then donate it back so it could auctioned off again.

wasn't unusual to find a person or two passed out on our front yard.
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They have a few little events in the church yard here around Christmas and maybe on some random saints days. Nothing as rocking as what you're talking about but they have some decent grub sometimes and I've seen some "bands" - normally a woman with a keyboard or a backing track belting out europop versions of traditional tunes I think. The church building is quite nice - very standard, you see them everywhere but good to look at all the same.

yyaldrin said:
i'd like to go to a proper carnival once. in germany and holland it's so bleak and miserable. people that could be your parents completely wasted, everything and everyone smelling of vomit and dried up beer stains, cold and grey february weather with a wind that cuts right through your clothes and worst of all, the most abominable music imaginable.
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A few years ago we went to Amsterdam. Our friend Luka who is an artist based in Dusseldorf had an exhibition there and he asked us to go and play some records at the opening and just hang out and so on. Anyway, I remember at some point having to wait outside somewhere and it was that exact wind that you're talking about, so cruel like a cold, vicious knife and it was at that exact moment that I said "Fuck this, we ARE moving to Portugal". It was something we had been thinking about but that was the final straw, I realised how much I truly hated that cold and that I didn't really need to put up with it - so why should I? I'm not at all saying that everything is better here but, all other things being equal, almost any situation is improved by being in bright warm sun rather than murderously evil wind.
 
Benny Bunter

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I tell myself binge drinking is worse to make myself feel better about my own everyday topping-up drinking but it's probably not
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
IdleRich said:
I think it's quite varied. I mean everyone piles into the streets and so in some places you just get what the loudest speaker dangling out of a window is playing. There may be some kinda official music in the streets but I've not heard it. Also you get some parties that are affiliated with the carnival, like last year I went to one at Damas which was... well, it was loads of outrageous fabulous men in fluffy bikinis twerking on the speakers to aggressive gay baile funk or something. But also I went to a carnival party at ZdB and it was just kinda techno and house, there was nothing that really linked it to carnival except that it happened while the carnival was on and so everyone was getting wankered on a Tuesday or whatever. And ZdB is normally more like an arty venue so you wouldn't tend to have that sort of thing there (though having said that, DJ Assault played there in December so not everything there is totally cerebral).
One of my friends is keen to go to something on Monday that is part of the carnival and I would like to go after I've played football cos I aint seen him for a while. If I do I will report back. I guess that will be a gay thing again.... in fact I messaged him now seeing as you're asking and he replied "There’s several djs Carnival mood" which doesn't really tell me much - he's not a music guy really in that sense I suppose.
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Though now have asked and you have got me wondering so I looked at the blurb for that particular night and it seems to be something either inspired by, or maybe even actually from the Rio Carnival - but it doesn't describe the music as such, it just says "Dionysian".
 
luka

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Benny B said:
I tell myself binge drinking is worse to make myself feel better about my own everyday topping-up drinking but it's probably not
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binge drinking is way more of a laugh but probably less sustainable if you have a wife and kids
 
luka

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you never, ever get pissed? can you explain how you do this? what is the precise method?
 
Benny Bunter

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luka said:
binge drinking is way more of a laugh but probably less sustainable if you have a wife and kids
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Yes, it's impossible. Even when you get the rare opportunity to go out and do it you can't be arsed in the end and just end up staying in with a bottle of wine or something.
 
yyaldrin

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
i imagine you mostly drinking alone benny, reading poetry in the local taverna? i think that could be a difference, if you're with a mate or several mates there's a sort of dynamic that makes everybody drink faster and more.
 
Benny Bunter

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Beers here are small - 15 to 20 minutes I'd say. 3 or 4 small beers an hour.

Eating tapas as you drink helps a lot. Drinking on an empty stomach is death.
 
luka

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so probably a pint every half hour. plus lots of crisps. that would be my plan if i were to try it.
 
Benny Bunter

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yyaldrin said:
i imagine you mostly drinking alone benny, reading poetry in the local taverna? i think that could be a difference, if you're with a mate or several mates there's a sort of dynamic that makes everybody drink faster and more.
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Yeah that's exactly what I'm doing. The boy is at his grandma's and my partner's away working. I never go on "nights out" with groups of friends anymore.
 
Benny Bunter

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I did have for the first few years when I was doing the TEFL thing but that fades away, people move on. and I've got a family now and we drink for pleasure. I've gone native, pretty much.
 
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