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curl-6 on 01 July 2026

As the summers here regularly get up to 45 celsisus/113 Fahrenheit, footwear is optional and it's not unusual to see people go to supermarkets and such barefoot or in the case of men even shirtless.

Again maybe this is a thing elsewhere too, but it's something my non-Australian friends and acquaintances found to be a big culture shock.

We also do sausage sizzles at election locations so you can buy a "democracy sausage" after voting.



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160rmf on 01 July 2026
Malt4zar said:

Wow, so many fellow Brazilians in this thread – that's insane! Haha.

Honestly, I can't think of anything that hasn't already been said. Yeah, we shower a lot, mandioca is weird but great, and we do care a lot about our personal hygiene. Actually, if you come to any Brazilian home, no matter the size or the state of the house, you will find it extremely clean. Cleanliness is just in our blood, I guess.

Edit: oh, yeah, we have eletric showers as well, those i heard are pretty unique

Isn't like the greatest idea mix water with eletricity? I lost the count on how many small shock waves that i took when my arm accidentally touch these things while bathing. At least I didn't suffer severe burns like I heard some news about malfunctioned products that exploded



 

 

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pikashoe on 01 July 2026
Malt4zar said:

Wow, so many fellow Brazilians in this thread – that's insane! Haha.

Honestly, I can't think of anything that hasn't already been said. Yeah, we shower a lot, mandioca is weird but great, and we do care a lot about our personal hygiene. Actually, if you come to any Brazilian home, no matter the size or the state of the house, you will find it extremely clean. Cleanliness is just in our blood, I guess.

Edit: oh, yeah, we have eletric showers as well, those i heard are pretty unique

Electric showers are also pretty common in Ireland and the UK. I always assumed they were common everywhere until I looked it up just now.



The_Yoda on 01 July 2026
curl-6 said:

As the summers here regularly get up to 45 celsisus/113 Fahrenheit, footwear is optional and it's not unusual to see people go to supermarkets and such barefoot or in the case of men even shirtless.

Again maybe this is a thing elsewhere too, but it's something my non-Australian friends and acquaintances found to be a big culture shock.

We also do sausage sizzles at election locations so you can buy a "democracy sausage" after voting.

I get shirtless but I would think those kind of temperatures would make the concrete hot enough to burn your feet.  Here in the USA it is not uncommon to see signs saying "no shirt, no shoes, no service".  Normally up to the person behind the register if they enforce that or not.  More strictly enforced in a restaurant than it may be in a gas station.