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HAHAHAHA. Right! There are some other POV maps. I'm just too lazy to go after them right now. Don't you wanna know about the state which doesn't exist? Everyone asks me what it is like when they know I've lived there.

You can carry my balls all you wish I know you're kidding. I'm not, though. But I meant it in a restrictive way. Like paulistas, who are dumb... vs. paulistas who are dumb...

The reality of the narrow-minded paulistas? Maybe so.

Brazil in paulistas' point of view would be more accurate to say P.S: I've lived in "Não Existe" (does not exist), "Só Mato" (Only grass/jungle/forest), Bahia (Bahia), "Duplas Sertanejas" (Country music Duets?), São Paulo (São Paulo) and Bichas (Fags). I'd like to live in Queijo (cheese) for once in my life. It seems to me like an awesome place to live in.

Ain't nobody got time for opening folders

What about you? You've got 0 shortcuts for games in your desktop, who doesn't game in their pcs these days? Tsc, tsc. Shameful.

Mine isn't Chelsea based

No problem, man. Have fun!

Pics or it didn't happen.

HAHAHA. Great! I've never been to Rio's Carnival. My uncle goes often, he says it is amazing. Watching on tv it doesn't seem that awesome, but I'll see when I go myself. Hoping it lives to its hype. And sure I'm not dying before seeing that I'm not a big fan of samba myself (or axé, for that matter), but damn. It gotta be awesome to be in Rio by carnival, even if one doesn't go to samba school's parade, I mean - all those parties, tourists, people going crazy. I'm really jealous of you right now, haha. Btw, I know you said I shouldn't ask but about how much I should expect to be spending if I did go (hotel, tickets etc)?

Look at his face in the end, it's like he's burned his own brain doing that.

Ghost ectoplasm?

Oh gosh, why did I click on that?

@Rmpr You have many points right, but I do believe he has started to doubt himself against stronger opposition. When he plays for our NT his confidence is way below his usual. And it has been falling for some time now, look how he doesn't try to take on players as often as he used when he first started to play for Brazil's NT. Look how his decision making is poorer. I think Neymar has to go to Europe rather sooner than later. Not because brazilian league is shit or something, but it is clearly not the best. Going to Europe he will be challenged to step up and win games for his team against teams likes Real Madrid, for example (if he goes to Barcelona). In Brazil he doesn't have to stretch up anymore, he's the best player by a big margin, if he doesn't develop at all anymore he will still be ripping teams apart. And that's just normal, every person is like that. I, for instance, would study as much as I would need to be approved in my exams, if those tests are mediocre and don't challenge me I will study less and learn less, that 's just the way things are. And yet, Neymar will get used to play against european players and higher tempo, there will be no reason to be afraid to take on those players, since he'll face them week in, week out.

THIS.

Lampard is too good

You mean for Luskás (Lucas)?

The real one is at Internacional and comes only to play UCL games.

You have to take into account we have a lot of japanese descendants and immigrants, so they bring our average down.

HAHAHAHA

Sorry, I don't speak douche.

I too think everyone is idiot, but I need some more data to prove my theory

There are studies showing most students can keep up with the classes. It is harder in engineering, though, because there are some concepts you must have learnt to progress. But even in those cases it is reversible, they only need to be oriented and visit some library to catch up. In most cases the difference isn't as big as this. That's clear when you look at the grades, just compare, for exemple, ENEM grades between quotas and non-quotas, the difference isn't as big as one would think. The gap becomes bigger only in courses "no one" wanna take. In Engineering, Law and Medicine the grades are all close. Yeah, it's gonna be a bit harder for them, but totally doable. Quitting argument is false also. It is more common for the rich boys to quit. I have "quitted" (interrupted) for a year, for example, just because I didn't feel like doing it. I was really depressed that year. In fact, it is quite the opposite, most people who came from public schools I knew were more motivated than the norm, because university is like the only shot they've got to make a good amount of money in their life. And I admitedly said this is not the best way to do it. It should be an emergencial measure to help those students while they fix the real problem, the public schools.

And I won't even begin to adress this issue:

What I mean is that there are only 28% students from public schools in your public university. It means 72% are from private schools. But if you consider all school students, about 10% of them are in private schools. Don't you find it weird that it comes from 10% at high school level and become 72% in university? Do you really think that it all can be resumed to merit? Do you think those private school students are more intelligent than the public school ones? No, they are not. That's some warped meritocracy. It's like saying to 2 people, you'll race and the first to cross the finish line is allowed to join the university, then one goes by car and the other goes running. Most probably the one in the car is gonna win, but that doesn't mean he has more merit than the loser, it only means he had better support. And that's what this is about, quotas come to balance the poor public education we have at basic education level, that's it. And I'm assuming USP has already taken some quotas or other measures to help the public school students, so the number should be even lower. And actually, I don't think it matters if it is an assured place for public schools only or and additional in your grades. You just have to tune it accordingly, the latter can be even more devastating than the former. Just look at what happened in ENEM to join UFF.