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Collect Kafka-esque stories of Portugal's dysfunctioning
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see gf order "love strawberries" and they arrive like this 😂😂😂😂😂😂👌 #onlyinportugal
make appointment 3 days ago for new solar company to come check our electric system and roof to install solar panels and batteries, for today Friday 11:30am, but there is of course nobody here and nobody picks up the phone anymore #onlyinportugal
prepare space for the Portuguese electricians to come to finish their job they left finished tor 60% and they announced they would come today at noon but of course it's today and there's no electricians nor anyone replying or telling us, aka Ó Classico #onlyinportugal
see local farm box subscription leak everyone's user data today #onlyinportugal
see Portuguese gardeners do their work #onlyinportugal
go sleep late last night because we had to remove all the stuff from the built-in house closets, because today at 8am the closet construction guys came to remove the current closets so that we can start doing construction there, this was planned months in advance and Monday he confirmed he would come today Wednesday 8am, of course he could not come later than 8am, all good. Today we wake up and there is no closet guy, no message from him, he don't pick up the phone, completely ghosted us #onlyinportugal
get €6,000 Flight Sim computer delivered assembled from Portuguese company but the entire CPU cooler is only half attached 😂😂😂 #onlyinportugal
see guy who came to install solar on roof see we have the typical Portuguese solar water heater, so he then told us we are crazy because we have our regular electric boiler on, saying "you only need to use your electric boiler in the winter, in the summer you should only use the solar water heater" and then he switched off our boiler, then this morning we had had luke warm to cold water in shower, it's so interesting their standards of living are so much lower and every single thing here is about saving money and not life quality, opposite to Kardashev Scale #onlyinportugal
discover the LAN cables in my 2 year old new home are 100mbps and 25 years old and can't handle Gigabit #onlyinportugal
see Portuguese kitchen company fuck up measurements of drawer by 0.5cm so the internationally standard tray doesn't fit 😂😂😂 #onlyinportugal
investigate hiring Spanish builders to come build stuff for us because Portuguese never show up #onlyinportugal
fuck around with Steam for hours because nothing will download then try changing the download server from Portugal to Luxembourg and suddenly everything works, literally the Steam downloader server for Portugal of course doesn't work you can't make this up #onlyinportugal
analyze Nuno Palma recommendation from @nosilverv and transcribe podcast he's on and ask ChatGPT to summarize #onlyinportugal
call Rimowa Lisbon store because the handle of suitcase is broken so I ask can we come by now to drop it off for repair and he say "no because we are closing soon" it's 4pm so I ask what time you close he says "8 pm" 😂😂😂 #onlyinportugal
post idea to fix Portugal by lowering corporate tax rate from 31.5% to 15-20% #onlyinportugal
stand in the TAP Portugal jet bridge with premium boarding for 30+ minutes without AC in intense heat so that they "boarded on time" but actually the plane is late but they record the delay as boarding time, meanwhile everyone here is melting in heat #onlyinportugal
see Taxpayers Association Portugal launch a bug board for Portugal inspired by OnlyInPortugal.com #onlyinportugal observador.pt/2025/06/09/asso…
learn about the massive Portuguese banking cartel of all banks working together with the government to fuck their customers and they got fined for it in 2019 #onlyinportugal
see every single Electric Vehicle power charger be "out of service" a common occurence #onlyinportugal
buy Anker 27,650mAh battery for MacBook Pro 16" so I can laptop outside because no cafe in Portugal has working power outlets now, not even Honest Greens! #onlyinportugal
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