27. O QUE É UM PEIDO PRA QUEM ESTÁ CAGADO?!

I figured that since we were already on the subject with yesterday’s post, I’d get over with it already. And no, not the cow, the poop.

“O que é um peido pra quem está cagado?!” Is more than an expression, it’s a Brazilian concept that shows a lot about how we deal with our own misfortunes.

The expression would mean, literally, “What is a fart for someone who’s already shitted?!” And it kind of encapsulates that feeling of: the situation can’t get any worse, the feeling of resignation.

This person is already at the bottom, there’s not much one can do to make their situation worse.

Apparently this expression came from a book where Luís Fernando Veríssimo, a Brazilian writer, describes with an impressive richness of details and a hell of a great sense of humour an episode when he shitted himself, in a bus, on the way to the airport. Among his unfortunate events, he mentioned that, after he was already all pooped, he let out a fart, thinking it couldn’t make his situation any worse. No little problem is match for a big problem in progress.

This one isn’t really far from its literality, and although that’s exactly what you would say in the event of shitting your pants, it doesn’t have to be always a fecal accident.

Like if you’re outside and it starts raining really bad, and one a*hole of a driver throws his car in a puddle and all that water-mud-God-knows-what’s-in-there washes you from head to toe. You don’t even mind the rain anymore, it’s your last concern, you even decline the offer of a passer-by for an umbrella. What’s the point? You are already – best case scenario – all wet.

So, dear foreign, I hope you’re never in a situation that a fart can’t make worse, and I hope you continue coming here and checking new expressions every day. I promise there’s no more poop on the near future.

Till tomorrow,

expressionada.