'The opening ceremony receives an unenthusiastic review from Brazil's O Globo newspaper, which sees irony in the fact that despite the "famously grandiose spending" on the tournament, the show looked to have been organised "without much money".'
Obrigada, O Globo! Hopefully I'll be in Brazil next year and now look forward to similar understated humour.
Anyway, I just wanted to share, and it's also Friday the 13th with a full moon so I'm keeping a low profile.
Humour is hard to come by in the sand, unless you think "Hahhaha, I nearly ran that Indian over" funny, so it was a side-splitting pleasure to come across this line from Brazilian newspaper O Globo (courtesy of the BBC):-
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