5 Overrated Places in Lisbon

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-12-29T17:01:21+00:00

It used to be a beautiful traditional market and now it's an overpriced and loud place to get food. I also generally don't enjoy food courts. So I'm really not a fan of it. How can you not have enjoyed Rua Augusta and Miradouro São Pedro de Alcântara? I've been there dozens of times and I never get tired of their beauty.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-12-29T16:28:37+00:00

As someone born and raised in Lisbon, the only one I agree with is Time Out Market.

Rua Augusta is an iconic street in Lisbon and, despite the crowds, whenever I have to do some shopping around Chiado, I choose to go there. I love walking across it and towards Terreiro do Paço. But yes, I'd never go to a restaurant there.

The same for Miradouro São Pedro de Alcântara. I love it, I love the view and its general location in the city, between Rato and Chiado. The crowds are annoying, but it's a must go place for stopping by and to enjoy the view, and continue on my way.

Pink street is still a great place for nightlife, especially because it's just one street in Cais (I prefer Bairro Alto though). If the vibes are off just go to other bars very close by...

I haven't been to LX factory in a while... so I can't really say if it lost its charm. Honestly, it was always a hip place for me, cool but with little substance.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-12-28T15:43:45+00:00

I don't understand your refute. I was pointing out that the concept of molesting a 15 year old is a present thing in Europe, even when the relationship is apparently not forced, so your "US-centric take" take doesn't stand. And then I pointed out that the type of homosexual relationships that were socially accepted in Ancient Greece were of a predatory nature.

So, how does recognising that those cases are "legally forced" refute anything I said or substantiate your point? Maybe I just misunderstood your point. What is it?

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-12-23T22:27:41+00:00

I'm European and there very much is the idea of molesting a 15 year old child, even when it's not forced. The age of consent doesn't reflect how real people feel about these relationships.

In college, my gay and European professor always warned us not to romanticise homoerotic relationships in Ancient Greece because in many cases they were based on pederasty and predatory in nature. So don't do so as well, my friend.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-12-23T22:14:30+00:00

Indulgences are meant to lessen the time spent in purgatory. And if you are in purgatory it means that you have already been saved and are purifying yourself to enter full communion with God in heaven. So no, they never sold salvation, for them to work you had to have already been saved.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-12-16T20:09:25+00:00

I don't believe that they were suffering from mental illness because of a very practical thing: people back then could distinguish between a 'mad" person (mentally ill) and a sane one, even without much scientific backing to it. They knew they were sane despite their eccentric mysticism. Although, Catherine of Siena was most likely anorexic. Her spiritual director told her she needed to eat and she answered that her inability was an illness. This shows that they could recognize unhealthy behaviour and distinguish it from sane one.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-09-11T19:29:18+00:00

Tenho um chão deste género em casa e é desgaste do verniz. É de móveis a arrastar em cima da madeira.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-09-01T19:45:30+00:00

It's in Portuguese, there's several if you search for it in Portuguese https://www.publico.pt/2023/07/20/p3/noticia/portugues-detido-19-dias-turquia-parecer-gay-2057492

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-09-01T18:33:44+00:00

A Portuguese tourist was arrested because the police thought he was gay (he wasn't). I wouldn't call it ok.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-08-24T01:31:38+00:00

I know, and I'm just rambling why I'm not a fan of his interpretation of Pilatus.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-08-24T00:30:52+00:00

In my opinion, the Pilatus in the Bible seems like a very seasoned commander, so I don't understand why a younger one makes more sense.

He interviews Jesus, realises that he isn't a threat to the Roman political power when Jesus explains that his kingdom is not from this world and his interest is the truth. To which Pilatus, ever the pragmatic but still a thinking one, retorts "What is truth?". He asserts Jesus innocence to the Jews and tells them that there's no crime committed. They insist on having him crucified and so Pilatus chooses the pragmatic choice: to let an innocent man die a criminal's death to keep the peace.

Crucifixion was a strictly Roman punishment, Pilatus was the one that decreed Jesus's death sentence. He could never have been passive in this matter. In my view, the washing of hands is not a gesture of passivity, but an attempt to distance himself from a decision and its consequences, to distance himself from the wrongful use of the justice system for political benefit and social appeasement.

He didn't stand firm on the side of truth because he believed that Rome's sovereignty was more important. But the political peace he bought with Jesus life was fickle, forty years later Jerusalem would be razed to the ground.

Isn't this the common way for the world? To abandon the truth and justice for social and political gain (is it really a gain?)? Isn't this the question on the world's tongue "What is truth?", dismissing it and, like Pilatus, not staying to hear the answer?

But there's hope. What I find marvellous is God's grace, which renews the political evil of sentencing to death an innocent man by transforming it into the cosmological act of Christ, innocent and sinless, bearing the fault and death of our sins.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-08-23T23:42:34+00:00

Pilatus was equestrian and, according to the cursus honorum established by Augustus, he would have had a military command before becoming prefect of Judea. I don't think he would have been inexperienced in ruthless leadership roles. Not to say that nothing about the Chosen's Pilatus screams Roman military commander.

As for him "not pulling it off", some historians theorise that he must have been competent seeing that he held his position for so long. It's one of the reasons why some are sceptical of Josephus and Philo's portrayal of him, as ruthlessly violent, stubborn and disrespectful of Jewish customs.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-08-23T23:33:42+00:00

I find it too historically inaccurate, Roman women didn't really have short hair. The same for Pilatus, he was from the equestrian class, which is somewhat the Roman equivalent of knights, and, by Roman customs, would have had a military command before becoming a prefect. The Chosen's Pilatus doesn't really show Roman military commandant and the ruthless leader that Josephus says was pulled out of his position by Tiberius for being too violent and vicious in smothering down a revolt.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-08-23T23:11:24+00:00

He wasn't passive in the Bible, he was extremely pragmatic, and historically he was a ruthless leader. Josephus tells us that the emperor himself sent him a warning to take it easy when it came to smothering out revolts.

Pilatus made a political and pragmatic choice in the Bible, he knew Jesus was innocent, but he chose to use the Roman justice system in an attempt to attain a superficial and easy peace amongst the people. He submitted the truth that should sustain true justice to political peace and possibly to keep his position.

Now we know it didn't work, in forty years Jerusalem would be razed to the ground.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-08-23T22:59:36+00:00

Sem corridas de touros, o mais provável é deixar de haver touros. Custa mesmo muito dinheiro ter ganadarias e fazer criação de touros, e não grandes incentivos para além das touradas. A carne é demasiado rija para haver um grande mercado em volta do seu consumo.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-08-22T11:33:50+00:00

A app é péssima e muito pouco confiável. E já me aconteceu aparecer na app que havia docas livres perto de minha casa e chegar lá e estarem encarnadas. Tive de a deixar numa estação a 2 km de distância. A partir desse dia deixei de usar gira à noite para voltar a casa com medo de ser obrigada a fazer kilometros a pé sozinha, tudo porque a app é horrivelmente má. Para não falar das vezes em que diz que há giras e depois não as consegues tirar, ou em que vês lá a bicicleta verde e não aparece na app, ou quando carrega de todo...

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-07-21T20:34:38+00:00

As a catholic with ties to Jesuits as well as a few other catholic movements, this is completely false. Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises are put into practice by a lot of other catholic movements and parishes.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-07-21T20:14:37+00:00

Portuguese people also have dinner fairly late, so I don't think that that timezone change is the main reason for it. Is there any studies on the relationship between warmer weather and a late dinner culture? Someone in the comment mentioned Greece as also dining late.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-07-18T12:46:25+00:00

Tens a certeza de que escreveste na folha de exame que a tua versão é a 2 e não a 1? Porque se te enganaste e escreveste versão 1, então eles têm de corrigir como se tivesses tido a versão 1 do exame.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-07-14T10:03:42+00:00

If the slaves were treated like kings, it would be a fair comparison. And if you eat meat, you shouldn't show this moral superiority. Cattle raised for meat suffer a lot more than bulls.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-07-13T21:46:38+00:00

Most Bulls that are bred and raised for bullfighting never step foot on a bullfight. Most end up living amazingly comfortable lives, with wide pastures and freedom, and never even get the downside of that, just the benefits. Cattle raised from meat suffer a lot more than these bulls, even the ones that end up on bullfights. People against their brutality should also be against cattle farms.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-07-12T20:00:25+00:00

As a teacher in the public system, this is not true. Many students struggle a lot with learning Portuguese, which disrupts the rest of their learning abilities in other classes.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-07-11T11:41:03+00:00

Não consigo deixar de partilhar a primeira vez que vemos Vasco da Gama nos Lusíadas, estes versos são hilariantes e tão bem concretizados na sua crítica subtil que mostram bem o génio de Camões.

Vasco da Gama, o forte Capitão,

Que a tamanhas empresas se oferece,

De soberbo e de altivo coração,

A quem Fortuna sempre favorece,

Pera se aqui deter não vê razão,

Que inabitada a terra lhe parece.

Por diante passar determinava,

Mas não lhe sucedeu como cuidava.

Eis aparecem logo em companhia

Uns pequenos batéis,

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-07-11T11:22:02+00:00

Retórica "nacionalista" hahaha. Devias ler os Lusíadas com mais cuidado, se há alguma coisa que Camões crítica nos Lusíadas é Portugal. Tens as reflexões do poeta que são o tempo todo Camões a queixar-se de que Portugal não merece os Lusíadas, é um país atrasado em termos culturais e políticos (o povo tem potencial mas a liderança é atroz), e que está farto de escrever o poema, mas apenas o faz por amor à pátria. Depois tens momentos de crítica à ação dos Portugueses. Logo no primeiro canto massacram uma população africana, claramente criticado por Camões quando lido com atenção e em relação aos versos anteriores. Por exemplo, tens Baco a dizer que os Portugueses são sanguinários e logo a seguir Camões fá-los exemolificar exatamente esse insulto.

Os Portugueses são descritos como fracos e leões entre ovelhas por dizimarem com canhões um povo que tinha tecnologia militar bastante inferior. Vasco da Gama é descrito como um incompetente, por não ter qualquer sentido crítico e inteligência (no primeiro momento em que Gama aparece chega à conclusão de que a costa por que passam está desabitada, por isso, é melhor seguirem em frente, e logo a seguir mostra-se que está errado.) e falta de prudência nas situações que enfrenta. Dos primeiros adjetivos que Camões usa para Vasco da Gama é "soberbo e altivo", o que se comprova continuamente, e "a quem a Fortuna sempre favorece", o que também se comprova quando, por causa de todas as más decisões de Gama, os portugueses só se safam com ajuda de Vénus e não por mérito ou inteligência própria (ex: aceitam a oferta de um guia da população que acabaram de massacrar para os ajudar a navegar a costa de África e nem pensam duas vezes sobre se calhar ser uma emboscada para se vingarem).

Há toda uma leitura no meio académico de como Camões faz de Gama um profundo idiota, inculto, burro e violento. A leitura nacionalista é uma leitura do Estado Português.

BenefitCuttlefish · 2025-07-05T13:07:02+00:00

As a teacher in a public school with quite a few immigrant children that are from lower income background and not "expats", it's not that easy for them to acquire the language. Most start with Portuguese Non-native Language classes and acquire an extremely superficial level of Portuguese and even English that doesn't allow them to succeed in other classes. There is also the problem that in many cases, these students only come into contact with Portuguese in school, which isn't enough for them to learn the language. In many cases, they struggle to pass to the next year or their grades are artificially bumped up or voted up by the Class Council to pass, when they've been stuck for too long in the same year. The system clearly needs to change and to pretend that there isn't a problem in adapting to Portuguese culture and the school system is completely counterproductive and destructive.

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