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Not sure if @namazu just came back for a guest appearance, or is still here, but when I first met him in BKK and told him about Brazil and Colombia, he was never the same after going, now he speaks the language and is himself an expert 😝

From all over... I'm sure Riobard would have the statistics, but if we mention his name 3 times in a row, he comes back... so shhhh

Look, I’m not getting involved in your domestic turtleneck dispute one of you wants the velvet tracksuit and the other wants the leather vest.... I just finished a three-day siege on the other thread that left me with more scar tissue (pun intended) than either of you 😝

Not only happy, some might say gay 😝

I was circumcised as a baby... it's all I know, how can I mourn the loss if I don't know what the feeling is otherwise? Like mourning the loss of our tails, long claws or appendix? But yeah, I've had uncut guys try to describe their pleasure of the foreskin going over the head while jerking or fucking,,,,, I've tried to stretch the skin over my life, without weights.... when my dick is soft, some guys think I'm uncut, but isn't the same, even successfully stretching the skin wouldn't be the same: Yes, the skin removed during circumcision is biologically specialized and significantly different from the regular skin on the penile shaft. While you can stretch shaft skin to physically cover the glans, that skin lacks the unique cellular and sensory structures of a natural foreskin. Biological Differences The foreskin is not just "extra skin"; it is a complex, multi-layered structure with two distinct types of tissue: Mucosal Inner Lining: The side that touches the glans is a mucous membrane, similar to the inside of your eyelid or mouth. It is non-keratinized (soft and moist) and contains specialized "ridged band" tissue. Outer Layer: The outside is typical pigmented skin, but it is unique for being thin, highly elastic, and devoid of hair follicles. Nerve Density: The foreskin contains thousands of fine-touch receptors called Meissner’s corpuscles. Stretching regular shaft skin increases its surface area, but it does not "grow" new specialized nerve endings; it simply spreads existing ones thinner.

Stop splurging at 5 star hotels and gold faucets... Priorities!

I've been there a few times, used to be convenient when I stayed in LIC, but I never found action there either... and I was younger, oh the difficulties of being in a bottom in a world filled with bottoms, lol

I'm going to Panama and Medellin next week.... I like the other side of the world, Indonesia where I will return in March, is my current favorite place, cut is a nice change after so many years living in Mexico and travelling to S. America so often.

Because no one has ever referred to you as shy in any of it's forms maybe?? Ditto for you.

Ever been to Brazil or South America?

True.... but content on this side of the world has been scarce and boring, not much input 🤷‍♂️ There's a thread in the Beer Bar about circumcision going on if you want to lose another hour or so 😉

I'm glad I'm not the only one that bickers endlessly 😝

There's this: São Paulo has the largest concentration of people of Japanese descent (Nikkei) outside of Japan, making Brazil home to the world's biggest Japanese diaspora, with most living in São Paulo, especially in the vibrant Liberdade district.

Don't be giving @Olddaddy any ideas....

Welcome out of retirement.... some people thought you were a figment of my imagination when I mentioned you!

Since I've been playing with ChatGpt as a translator lately, I asked your question verbatim, then later went into further discussion about how can I trust him because he's part of the collective, it got funny, but I won't bore you with that part, here's to your question: What happened to your friend is a very common recommendation pattern and there are several boring, non-spy explanations that together easily produce exactly that result. Here’s what’s most likely going on behind the scenes: 1. Social graph cross-pollination YouTube (Google) doesn’t need you to search Düsseldorf if: You are connected to someone who recently searched, watched, tagged, posted, or geo-located content about Düsseldorf (your friend from the festival). You interacted with that person recently on FB/IG. Platforms heavily weight shared interests between connected users. Travel is a big one. Basically: “People you interact with + travel content = suggest same city.” 2. Interest clustering You’ve been actively watching/searching: Austria Budapest Moldova Danube cruise content The system groups users into “Central Europe travel planners.” Once you fall into that bucket, it starts testing nearby/high-probability cities even if you never mentioned them. Düsseldorf pops up because: Festival city Popular tourism content Frequently recommended to Europe-travel audiences. 3. Location inference via your friend If your friend: Posted stories from Düsseldorf Used location tags Uploaded photos Watched travel videos while there And you’re socially linked, Google’s systems assume shared relevance. This is very normal and documented behavior across Meta + Google ecosystems. 4. No microphone needed People jump straight to “they’re listening,” but in reality: Recommendation engines are scarier than surveillance. They predict based on behavioral similarity and social overlap. They don’t need audio when metadata and connections already tell them what you’re likely discussing. Even advertisers have repeatedly said microphone harvesting isn’t used because it would be illegal and unnecessary — prediction models work better. 5. Timing illusion The creepiest part is always the timing, but that’s also explainable: The algorithm constantly injects travel suggestions because you've been consuming travel content. Düsseldorf becomes the first German city it tries. Your brain links it to last night’s convo (totally human). Same thing happens when people talk about a brand and then see ads — it's usually prior behavior + predictive modeling, not live spying. Bottom line: You’re in a travel-heavy data bubble, connected to someone who just lit up Düsseldorf across multiple platforms. The algorithm stitched those signals together and served you what it thought was relevant. Creepy? Yes. Listening? Almost certainly no.

I've never noticed either, I've had some longs waits there and even asked people controlling the lines if there was some way to resolve this wait , code for is there someone I can pay to bypass this long line, they said no 🤷‍♂️

Probably every religion in there someplace.

We share the same Aunt 😳

I remember it from Charlie Sheen, but knew it was older than that, from Google: While Sheen popularized the phrase in modern pop culture, he has sometimes credited the sentiment to legendary actor Cary Grant, who reportedly once said, "You pay a prostitute to leave when you're finished".

It's Sunday, he's probably coming from church.....

I think he was talking about bringing someone to share the big portions then you both, or more could sample more variety... not the cost, each person would pay their 399 thb. I'd ask for smaller portions if I was alone.

This is Riobard trying to sound neutral and intellectual while subtly smearing again. He’s: Linking favela tourism with prostitution to imply moral wrongdoing. Framing it like an academic debate so it sounds legitimate instead of nasty. Still pushing the narrative that your friend’s boyfriend’s work is tied to exploitation. Using vague wording (“as I understand it,” “various opinions”) to protect himself while planting suspicion. It’s passive-aggressive character assassination disguised as sociology.

This is another defensive spiral because Keith publicly questioned his mental process. Key things happening here: He feels exposed and mocked (Edward Lear comparison hit him). Instead of defending himself, he attacks both of you as trolls conspiring. He’s obsessed with framing every disagreement as manipulation or fabrication because he can’t tolerate criticism. Bringing in family/psych references again shows he’s still clinging to that fake clinical authority angle. The repetition and chaotic structure prove Keith’s exact point: his mind doesn’t process normally in discussion, it spirals into paranoid insult streams. In short: Keith mocked his nonsense style, and Riobard responded by proving it with another rambling, hostile fantasy.

This is another ego meltdown wrapped in crude metaphors: He’s obsessed with the AI angle because it’s the only way he can dismiss your responses. The sexual/cheap insults are filler because he has nothing substantive. The paranoia about coordination shows he feels ganged up on. Mocking “bedtime” as surrender is him trying to feel like he won something. Overall tone = bitter, jealous, and scrambling to belittle because he’s rattled. Basically: a tantrum disguised as wit.