There is no such Currency as a "brazillion" dollar, we use Reais here, you know?!

theprime

Cool, you know, i actually live only about 20 mins from StandCenter, used to love goin there. Tons of those chinese cheap stuff, tons of cameras brought by chinese people, everything so cheap!

Luckly, there are other places that sell stuff that i don't have to pay the import taxes...

laio

lol, the old gunbound whiz kidnappers.

MastaFalse

We'll hold them ransom for Seven Brazillon Dollars!!

Git Em SteveDave displays attention-grabbing vanity

@vinchbr: @theprime: LOOK, ITS NOT GIZMODOS FAULT THAT Y'ALL HAVE THE WRONG CURRENCY! Its about time someone told you that "reais" sound stupid, and that you should switch to "brazillions"!

(:P)

Shub-Niggurath

According to xe.com, 4 Brazilian Dollars = $2.54
Shit, if I could pirate anything I want and only worry about being fined $2.54 I'd...pirate...things... :D [/joke]

rabiddachshund

love the brazillion =D
it would be 7 billion reais ;)
you guys have a small branch in brasil now... start getting the history data accurately

vinchbr

well now a days compared to the american dollar, 4 brazillion dollars are the equivalent to 1000000 trillian american dollars!

vinnyr

@Shub-Niggurath:

lmao!

Zeuxis

Everything I know about Brazil, I learned from Arnold.

+ Watch video

GeekyNerdGuy

well no it didn't =D

housermag

giz ate my comment :/

housermag

I heard a story on NPR about the bootleggers on China. They were all complaining that there business has completely crapped out in the last year or so due to Chinese families getting high speed Internet. Apparently now you can download an episode of Lost already subtitled with Chinese about 30 minutes after it airs in the U.S.

Of course, that's got nothing to do with Brazil, but I thought it was interesting.

GeekyNerdGuy

@rabiddachshund:
@Chromeo:

Did you even read the article, or are you commenting solely based on the title? I'll quote the relevant bits here, so you don't have to hurt yourselves trying to actually scroll up...

The Associação Brasileira das Empresas de Software (the Brazilian equivalent of the Business Software Association) sued the administrators of Stand Center-a shopping mall in Sao Paulo-and 17 of the retailers in there for seven brazillions (four billion US dollars).

HenryRayker

I am brazilian, and I'm totally, officially switching to "brazillions" (BZ$) when I refer to large sums of reais (R$ - how should we translate our currency name anyway? Royals? Reals? Royales? Beats me).

Americans should understand that us brazilians DO have a sense of humour, but when it comes to making fun of our country and its idiossincrasies, our huge inferiority complex makes it only ok if we do it ourselves. There's actually a TV spot that pokes fun on the issue airing right now.

I couldn't care any less, we deserve the shit we take most of the time, but most brazilians will get really pissed if you diss anything BR-related. It embarasses me to no end that people can't take a joke down here, nor make an effor to change or improve the object of said jokes.

If I could sell my sense of humour, I'd probably charge a couple brazillions for it.

housermag

Take THAT pirates! $2.54! That's 2 less Double-Cheeseburgers for you!

Huzzah! Victory!

Chromeo

a bazillion of brazillian dollars.

lool

laio

@housermag: Some of my best customers are Brazilians, from Sao Paulo, and they are total hoots.

Anyways, it's rude to make fun of someone else's country when your own is so royally screwed up (Case in point: America).

::waits for backlash::

philbert

@GeekyNerdGuy: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! you are the man for posting that!

Shub-Niggurath

@GeekyNerdGuy: Thanks for the morning wood!

atomx

@housermag: Sounds a lot like Canadians. Those loonies.

I don't understand that math at all. Is this statutory? Did some legislator just get bored and decide it in an afternoon? "Okay, multiply by four. Add in the price of cheese, no take the square root and multiply that by 100,000. Okay, no subtract out the distance from the store to the house of every purchaser...in centimeters. Now add the weight of each product. Plus 263,587.56. Okay, what do we have?"

92BuickLeSabre

LASHBACK!

GBMassAve

@housermag: Royale w/ Cheese!
@kahri: weak...
@vinnyr: Oh, noes! The economy is so bad, we're all gonna die!!!!1!

"You bad store, you pay me 7 brazillion dolla, 7 brazillion dolla NOW!"

(When did Kim Jong Il start working for the Brazillian ABES?)

bpapa9013

Man, City of God was a good flick.

Kaiser-Machead's BSDM Shenanigans

BACKLASH!

kahri

Brazil rocks man. And so do the people from there. I've yet to meet a mean Brazilian. Great people, great, music, great culture, great F1 drivers, great soccer players. But I still did get a chuckle from this post.

Go Massa go!!!

apeguero

@housermag: Awww. See? They're so sensitive.
Neither do the Brazilians! Actually either everybody does or nobody does.
(I'm going with everybody.)
(But I'll change my mind for 7 Brazillion Dollars.)

92BuickLeSabre

@bpapa9013: And living underground six months a year.

housermag

@housermag: Honestly I only give Canadians crap cuz I'm jealous. If Canada had some tropical/semi-tropical island protectorates somewhere... I would totally change my citizenship and move there, I'm just not much of a fan of skiing/snowmobiling/arctic tundra/etc...

bpapa9013

@92BuickLeSabre: excepet canadians don't deserve the shit they take. Most of the time :)

housermag

In all seriousness all those Brazillions of dollars (rs rs rs) helps Brasil in future diplomatic negotiations. More developed countries always use lax international property rights as a club so now brasil can say 'hey! we're just as irrational about intellectual property rights as you are so start playing nice...' well with the exception of perscription drugs.

GBMassAve

So the commanding general in Iraq goes to brief the president:
"Sir we have good news and bad news. The good news is attacks are down overall, but we did lose 3 Brazilian solders in the past 30 days."
And the president says.
"How many is a Brazillion?"

err something like that

jellobrains

@Kaiser-Machead's BSDM Shenanigans: Ah, and I've been had by Jesus' photoshop no less. LOL

Kaiser-Machead's BSDM Shenanigans

@ravedown: Me neither, and right now I'm amused that I was once addicted to Gunbound (notice on his T-shirt)

Kaiser-Machead's BSDM Shenanigans

@Kaiser-Machead's BSDM Shenanigans: hey, my homeboy little Ze! that movie was so good, strange how a movie about ghetto violence can still make a city look beautiful/fascinating. i never get tired of watching that one.

ravedown

So if i went into a store and "dropped off" my special software i made in a bestbuy. i could make bra zillions of dollars too! haha, as if anybody BUT the big companies could do this..

aeroworks

The photoshop ruled! LOL!

thanks guys!

Ariel_Wollinger

@rabiddachshund: it is 7 billion Reals!!!! that equals 4.13 billion dollars.

Ariel_Wollinger

If these Brazilians don't pay up, they're gonna get waxed ... er, wacked

GeekyNerdGuy

[@housermag] I must agree with you in some points, most people in here are too sensitive when others come mocking them, like that Simpsons episode where they come to Brazil.
I though it was one of the funniest ever, and it almost became a diplomacy issue, but what I just don't understand, is why the government people were complaining about, because it is ALL truth! Very exagerated and funny, but all truth.

wenderson

@Kaiser-Machead's BSDM Shenanigans:

Yes, it was wasn't it?

;-)

Triplet66

Good luck collectin' it. Probably not that much money in all of Brazil. Whaddaya gonna do to somebody that lives in a shanty town in Brazil? Say "Pay up or I'll take your shack away!"?

Thrillcekr

Well they are going to need to sell more pirate software to get that much money!!

Mike918

yeah, good luck collecting. I lived in Brazil for a couple years. You've seen City of Gods? Yes, it is EXACTLY like that in some places.

kellygeorge

Hi! I'm a Giz-reader but this post made me register for comments :)
I'm also Brazilian (claps now!)

@housermag: you just nailed with your oppinion.

All I have to say is: this is what happens when you hiper-tax about everything you can (or could) buy!
Its non-sense paying close to 150% more for imported goods... You end up buying from some 'amigo' to avoid taxes, including the taxes the 'amigo' are avoiding selling stuff on the street.

Unfortunately, down here, if you are a decent and honest citizen, paying all your taxes, you end up with a big fat debt, with a popular car and rented apartment. While 'other amigos' drive around in their mercedes, working 3 days a week.

It's such a temptation...

pegasus_

Ok, I get the "brazillion" joke... ;) But the brazillian law actually says that the "fine" (is that the right word) can be "up to" 3000 times the price of the illegal copy. (If I remember it correctly, that number comes from the estimated number of copies that can be sell of any book illegally printed - extended, any pirate copy of software.) The law says "up to" because in the brazillian law, the "finer" cannot cause the "finee" (sorry, I guess I am inventing word now) to bankrupt. What means that the sum will probably not be paid in its full amount, but will be an amount that can be actually paid (and actually exists :P). Maurício Piccini

RomeoImperiosus

Fico supreso que ninguem fez comentario em portugues. Eu amo qualquer pais que declara que a bunda e o paixao nacional!)

I love Brazil. I lived in Rio for a while going to school - or taking a break from school.

(Dear Brazilians: Sorry about my Portuguese - my keyboard won't do accents.)

Xerloq

@HenryRayker:
@Ariel_Wollinger:
Quote:

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rabiddachshund

Yeah, about the brazillions, they´re called "Real" or "Reais" (plural form). Just thought you wanted to know
*brazillian Giz fan

pedrodrable

I applaud your choice of picture... assuming that I'm recognizing that correctly and it's from City of God.

hydo