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Speaking of my homecountry –and awesome translations– I give you this CDMX pesero, whose owner has earned a spot on this blog for being exactly what he claims to be: The More Dick –presumably “El más verga.” Go ahead and find me a better translation. I’ll wait.
Image via Reddit
They cost between $150 and $200 Mexican pesos (less than 9 bucks) and are available for children and adults.
The idea came from Mexican wrestler el Hijo del Soberano, who has been producing these beauties like crazy as the cases of COVID-19 in the country continue to climb… unfortunately.
So now you know it. Wash your hands, do not touch your face, go grab a conchavirus and… go out as if you’re ready to hit the ring!
Mexican nurses want you to wash your hands like this so you won’t get coronavirus #MuereBacteriaMuere pic.twitter.com/guu1wXrRs4
— Laura Martínez® (@miblogestublog) March 1, 2020
Via: Chilango
The above candle is being sold as a “mystic product” and it promises to protect us from the evils of coronavirus. In fact, according to the owner of this establishment in Tabasco, all you have to do is light it up and move it around your body while you say the special prayer printed on the glass.
I’m going to be honest here: I’m not sure it works, but it’s only $40 pesos (which is like less than $2 USD at today’s exchange) so why not give it a try? Now if I only can get to Tabasco….
Via: xevt.com
In these times of pandemia, we all now know what social distancing (also called “physical distancing,”) means keeping space between yourself and other people outside of your home. To practice social or physical distancing, the CDC recommends to stay at least 6 feet (about two arms’ lenght) from other people and to avoid gathering in groups.
So far so good, but I’d rather follow the guidance of this chicken shop in Mexico, which basically states:
KEEP YOUR DISTANCE AS IF YOUR EX WAS IN LINE WITH THEIR NEW PARTNER
Mexicans: How can anyone not like us?
Photo vía Reddit
1. His name was, well, Jesús
2. He was unjustly beaten up and condemned to death while the real criminal was set free
3. When his family went to visit his tomb, he was not there
4. He was surrounded by poor people [who just kept on multiplying]
5. He miraculously turned up alcohol at a party that only had water
6. At a last dinner with pals he did not pay the bill
7. He did not pay any taxes
8. He explained everything with parables
9. He was baptized by a religious relative
10. He got gifts by the Three Wise Men, not Santa Claus
I don’t know what to think, really, but why not?
Snoop Dogg and Banda Ms on Friday released Qué Maldición, a long awaited collaboration between America’s famed pothead and the Sinaloa insanely popular band. It’s by far the weirdest Anglo-Latin collaboration I’ve seen in a long time and I’m not sure I’m 100 percent sold.
Watch & listen at your own peril. I’ll be somewhere still trying to figure out 2020.
Hat tip: The great Mafer
Yes, according to the Internet my very well-informed sources, this is a real UberEats delivery girl roaming the streets of Metepec, Estado de México delivering her wares in these times of quarantine.
I can’t see her face or her hands but I hope she’s wearing gloves and a facemask. In the meantime #StayHomeMéxico.
Via: Cronio.sv
It is official: Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, the Mexican deputy health minister in the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 has been immortalized in a piñata from the famed Piñatería Ramírez in northern Mexico.
The López-Gatell piñata comes with –what else– a mini version of the coronavirus piñata and a sign with a very appropriate message in these times of pandemia: Quédate en casa (Stay home.)
As a Twitter follower wrote the other day: This is “as prestigious as having been inducted into the Mexican historical hall of fame.”
I had promised myself to stop blogging about coronavirus, mostly because I live in New York City and everything is terrible and I keep having anxiety attacks over the whole thing. But then I’ve been facetiming, skype-ing and zooming a lot lately with family and friends in Mexico who send me the funniest memes, videos and jokes about the pandemia and then I smile again.
However, no meme or joke would ever come close to my country’s daily life struggles as the crisis intensifies, and the Mexican government plays catch up with the rest of the world in setting up guidelines and policies to contain the virus.
Take the above “heroes” on a colectivo stop, keeping a healthy distance in line just to end up all crammed up inside… of course, because Mexico.
Filing this under #SurrealMexico and #SusanaDistancia.
Photo via Reddit México
Today, in the always popular section “Mexico in the time of coronavirus,” I give you Covid, a baby Bengal tiger born March 14 in a small zoo in Córdoba, Veracruz.
“Covid was born to an 8-year-old tigress that had been in a circus and was nursed back to health after needing an operation for a hip fracture,” zoo owner Gonzalo Rodriguez told Reuters.
So now you know it, my people not only make fun of death and calamities; we embrace them all the way.
Welcome to the world, sweet Covid…
Via: New York Post
Well, that didn’t take long.
Barely a couple of days after this VERY INFLUENTIAL BLOG first reported on the Iztapalapa conchavirus, a small bakery in Chicago is now making their own version.
“We wanted to turn a negative into a positive one by creating my very own conchavirus,” Eddie Vázquez, executive pastry chef and owner at Rosy’s Bakery, told ABC News Chicago.
Fortunately for Mr. Vázquez, Chicagoans are so excited about they’re placing their orders by the dozen, and I still don’t know how they get the courage to go out, but that’s another story…
It’s not a secret that 2020 sucks, but –heck– it has been a good year for conchas.
The Mexican police force in Quintana Roo (yes, that’s the state where Cancún is located) has come with an awesome PSA to let the community know that the deadly coronavirus is not going to get them.
Watch as police men and women dance to the tune of the Mariachi loco song and simple but catchy lyrics that go sort of like this:
The coronavirus wants to arrive…
The coronavirus wants to arrive….
But it will have to face the cops
I’d like to inform everyone,
That Quintana Roo will not be infected and we’ll do awawy with this virus
OK that sounds boring if you read it, but the actual video is deliciously fun!
Take it away, mariachi loco!
Al ritmo del Mariachi Loco, la Policía de Quintana Roo emite medidas de prevención contra el coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/05F8tGPLwI
— REFORMA Nacional (@reformanacional) March 25, 2020
Speaking of Mexico and the seriousness of COVID-19, a bakery in Iztapalapa, Mexico has come up with a coronavirus-like sweet bread, which they’re calling –what else?– the conchavirus. According to a very reliable source (i.e. a commenter on my Instagram feed) the genius behind this thing is Panificadora Juanito, a 30-year-old establishment which prides itself of using all natural ingredients.
Oh, did I mention the conchavirus is only $6.50 pesos? That’s… practically USD 25 cents.
Filing under “Mexicans: How can anyone not like us?”
Hat tip: @DatBoopGirl
Via: Mexicans of Late Capitalism
Mexico’s Piñatería Ramirez has done it my friends. And yes, this is racist and so Mexican at the same time.
Hat tip: @lechancle
