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Enquanto isso, no Rio de Janeiro...

Do no diminish it, please. It is a whole Fucksgiving WEEK.

I understand and makes sense. Reading the books in the 12th grade doesn't surprise me. I do not see teens at that age as children, but in that weird no one's land adolescence is.

Done. I just booked a 2 BRs apartment with a small terrace right by Posto 9 of Praia do Recreo. I am bringing a beauty from Porto Alegre to stay the whole week with me. I am negotiating for a few more visitors, a few days each. Now let's hope Bolsonaro or Trump do not get between Paradise and me.

You were reading Faulkner in your childhood, @AdamSmith?

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I am not sure we are comparing apples to apples here. 40% of Americans support a mysoginist, xenophobic, nationalist, homophobic, scandalously ignorant man. Perhaps we all believe in imaginary people and places. The places and the people we imagine, though, are radically different.

Yes! I had just read the translated article in a conservative Argentine newspaper I check every morning. Coronavirus. Allan Lichtman: "La respuesta de Trump a la pandemia condenó su reelección" I agree with Meacham. It is very clear. My political distance from Biden and the Democrats is absolutely irrelevant in front of such a clear, easy option to make. However, I do not have confidence in the outcome of the election. Although polls and social scientists predictions seem to be very encouraging, I am afraid of sentient people becoming over confident and giving another win to the loonies. Even if Biden wins, I am still concerned. What does it say of America that Donald Trump has the support he has, even after everything he has done? It is not only White Supremacy, but also a core selfish individualism incapable of empathy and socio economic cooperativism. Let's see. Right now, let's work on expanding the anti-trump coalition. We can discuss our differences once Biden-Harris are on charge.

Yes, sir. But here, he is almost always in the screen, and almost always showing his beautiful upper torso shirtless, or very lightly dressed.

Definitely, I am planning my expedition in November, moving away from fantasy territory. It is going to be very different to my previous experiences. Usually, I would stay in Copacabana to be closer to my favorite sauna, but I am not planning to hang out in indoors places this trip. I am exploring airbnbs in Recreio dos Bandeirantes and close to Praia Grumari. It is an area I have not explored much, but liked a lot in my few visits. Hopefully, I will find a roomy an open apartment with a terrace, as I am going to hang out there with the boys more than usual. I am aware than November may deliver a rainy week for me, so I want a place that does not feel crowded with 3/4 people. Ideally, I would prefer to find a place at walking distance to go to Grumari and the protected area over there, without calling an Uber, but there is always the chance to rent a car to travel with my party, as most of the places I am checking include free parking. I have a question for those with more experience and knowledge of Rio. Besides Praia Grumari, what other interesting places can you visit in the area? I am looking for nature, and I do not like heights (I have never visited the Pão de Açúcar, or the Cristo, and I am not planning to). I do love water, if anyone knows of a port or marina where I could rent equipment for superficial scuba diving. We will probably cook and call deliveries mostly, but tips on good restaurants would also be appreciated. I have been in a few posts on Avenida Estado da Guanabara where the food was quite good. I am not high maintenance, I prefer to eat what the locals eat and avoid the Brazilian experience adapted for international tourism as much as possible. I know it is challenging in areas nearby the beaches, but if anyone knows of any places, please let me know.

I just watched the first episode of this new HBO series. Very promising. Just drooling for Jonathan Majors makes it worthy to watch, but it is a very well written, performed, and produced TV. I wish HBO followed Netflix model and released the whole series at once.

Just follow floridarob and numazu1, they are reporting right now from YOLO Land.

Biden surprised me. The last times I had seen him he looked and sounded decrepit. Not last night, though. I wonder what enhancer he was high on. Anyway, it was the speech you can expect from a Center Right candidate. Now let's hope the tensions inside the anti Trump coalition and the idiots playing around them do not ruin everything. We have work to do.

I just had a flash back and called my siblings to help me up to reconstruct this memory. Many years before I read The Little Prince, I was fascinated with Monteiro Lobato's stories. It is a blurred memory from the 60's. My family was living in Buenos Aires, but both of my parents were from a small town in Corrientes, in the Argentinean Mesopotamia. In the 60s there was not paved highway and no bridges to travel to Corrientes. We would board a huge steam boat in Buenos Aires and sail three days up the Paraná river. Then we would switch to a smaller boat to sail the Corriente river (not deep enough for the big steam boat) and in a few hours would arrive to our destination, Esquina. The name of the town comes from being right in the corner where two huge rivers meet. Esquina was a small town with two parallel main avenues and two major squares. Phone numbers were up to three digits, and you had to call the operator to connect you. The milk man would walk the town early in the morning, and deliver his still warm, just milked fresh product. Everybody had chickens in the backyard, and the first thing you would do in the morning was opening the house front door, to keep it wide open all day long. My grandfather (a dark skinned Uruguyan that I like to imagine gifted me with a few African gens, besides being a man slut with many women and illegitimate children, hell yes I feel identified) was one of the town butchers, with a stand in the local Central Market. I will never forget his fresh pork chorizos. There was one main church, one movie theater, one bar/cafe (una "confitería"), and yet many. many "panaderías". Back then it was the golden age for the traveling vendors. The town had una "Escuela Normal", the kind of high schools that educated K-7 teachers, and a population very fond of reading. Traveling vendors from different publishers would arrive and suddenly in all living rooms you would find the same new books collections. All families had the same edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the same dictionary in three fat volumes with dark green covers, the same cooking book by Doña Petrona de Gandulfo. All my relatives also had a collection of light green books by Monteiro Lobato, translated from the original Portuguese. "El Rancho del Pájaro Amarillo". I spent so many hours reading those books and dreaming about traveling around the world and across time! I had completely forgotten this sweet memory. Thanks for this thread, @TotallyOz.

This site is indeed the "Enciclopedia Putánica". Joke for the Romance language proficient.

I was afraid that my troglodyte English would not express it, but I am glad that at least you got it.

I am used to be over ran by younger lovers, do not worry, you cannot make me feel worse. I said after pandemic, because my plan in November is not hunting, but sheltering with a few guys I already know. I will miss them a lot, but I am not planning to explore the saunas. Right now, it looks like I will be there for the Fucksgiving week.

I think we could team up to go hunting without any conflicts. After the pandemic.

Awwww... I was expecting a rain of LOLs... what a disappointment. Anyways... but please, please keep talking.

I was trying to be entertaining, but do not misunderstand me. I do not know how this is going to go in November. I think it is the upmost importance to denounce Trump and the idiots who may get him reelected. Four more years of Trump could take us to an actual proto fascist regime. But I agree with you, I take this discussion as seriously as deep is Tasso's understanding of politics. I am trying to have fun, and hoping that in the process I was entertaining you, and I was also checking airbnbs for November in Rio in another tab.

Forgive my stupidity, Antiracist Tasso. I thought you said it : "Trump is a batshit crazy moron and bigot capitalist but for some reason he has not done the mass killing I have no doubt Hillary would have continued doing and he wasn't even in favor of invading Iraq when all these others were. That was 1 million we killed. With war on Iran and Russia real possibilities from the warmongers controlling the country in both parties, I'm not about to support someone as if genocide is just another issue. Hitler built wonderful highways and hospitals." If you have clearly (and brightly, and eloquently) stated that genocide is THE ISSUE that defines your vote, and next you are adorably drooling for how Trump "has not done mass killing", what do you expect a political imbecile like me would understand? I hope my blatant stupidity is triggering many lol in your keyboard, Oh adorable Antiracist and Moral leader @tassojunior. Please, forgive this White stupid moron.

I have never eaten pizza in South America in such a fancy location. Nice.

Well, there is something that happens quickly: sir @AdamSmith's free association. In Adams' universe there is just one heart bit from post pandemic new seating in planes to Dante's Medieval's nightmares.

I am holding my breath, because I think I am about to break a promise. Actually, I think that we all have the right to troll a wide array of idiots (Creationists, Earthflatters, Conspiracy theorists, racists, homophobic, etc.), and no one would take seriously the "ad hominem" defense. "Ad hominem" is when you attack the speaker's character instead of his arguments. I will not do that. After all, I am a disgraceful fucking idiot beyond any doubt; and @tassojunioris, indeed, a political genius. Have you'll seen his last posts? Wow. Even @stevenkesslaris bending in adoration. My dad used to say that when you talk or write too much is because you have too little to say, or you are hiding something. But you know, my dad was probably another fucking idiot, and I inherited his idiotic gens. Good job, Oh Divine Tasso! What an eloquence, what an overwhelming shower of circular repetitive arguments! I envy you. Such a wave of deep understandings is too much for my little brain to process. Please, please, allow me to scaffold it down and take here and there some precious turds of your wisdom. I am too stupid to use the quotations feature here, but I will not change your words, I promise. Genius Tasso says: "I am not a racist". Well, thank you for letting us know. I have never been able to make such a statement. I think I will start worshipping you. I wish I could say with such an admirable and inspiring conviction that I am not a racist. Unfortunately, more often that I would like, I surprised myself having racists thoughts, prejudices, and attitudes. I used to feel proud of my decades of self reflection and openness to others feedback, in order to wash away from my system all the racist trash imbedded in our racist culture. I feel so bad now. Indeed, another example of what an idiotic stupid dumb ass I am. And he does not ends there. No. To make me feel even more inferior, my little piece of shit being has to hear more. Holly Tasso adds "I am not a racist. Just the opposite." I confess. As I am very slow, I needed to make a pause here. What is the opposite of racist? Antiracist? Oooops, I apologize. There went my cappuccino. But ignore me, it is well established I am an idiot. Our antiracist hero continues: "And you know nothing of me whatever racially or otherwise." I am very stupid, and cannot find where I addressed his race. My problem is that I am an idiot and so I think Tasso is a closeted White Supremacist. Sorry, I should have used the past tense, we have already clearly established that Tasso is antiracist. No question about it. However, I never said Tasso was White, I think, even when I was wrong even an idiot like me knows that you can be a Black White Supremacist. https://youtu.be/7HcQ87RFN5k https://youtu.be/7HcQ87RFN5k Let's keep enjoying Tasso's adorable talents. He continues: " I am not a racist. Just the opposite. And you know nothing of me whatever racially or otherwise. You are white." Uh... am I? Hey, if Tasso says so, and he has obviously a very deep understanding of racial divides and identities. I am so pleased to let him teach me who I am. I hope I am not wrong, I am not sure, I am stupid, remember? Is there anything wrong with being White? I hope he was not insulting me, oh Antiracist Tasso. I tried to keep reading the post but my retarded brain got bored after such a beautiful beginning. I skipped up to the end. "But being called a racist by a white guy? Don't make me wear my keyboard out typing lol's". Again, I confess my retarded confusion. A White guy cannot call out racism? Uh.... sorry I am too stupid and I am lost... Not only that... I have not seen any traces of humor before and now our Antiracist Board Leader gifts us with lols. My brain is lost once again. I would have said that all his posts were an exercise of bitterness and hate. Forgive me, of course Tasso is a comedy genius, besides an antiracist community leader. I am just a blind idiot. I do thank other teachings from our local political genius. Read this beautiful lesson of intellectual consistency: "I follow Chomsky mildly and I always agree with him on almost every issue I hear him on. I immediately listened to the video AdamSmith put up. But I never claimed to be a Chomsky "expert". I am also a Bernie voter but as I explained I don't care whether Sanders and Chomsky tell me to vote for someone or not when there's a matter of genocide involved". Let's leave the issue of Tasso's understanding of Chomsky aside. We already had fun with that. Yet, my idiotic brain find interesting how Antiracist Tasso claims to agree with the ideas of a political and philosophical luminary like Chomsky, but disagrees with his calls for action. As I am stupid, I expect coherence and continuity between ideas and actions. Here, our genius gives us another lesson: do not look at your actions, but at your words. Fucking bright. Chomsky is actually a political dwarf, I am going to start recording the thoughts of Revolutionary Antiracist Tasso. And the lesson goes on. Sorry guys, I am almost closing. Our Moral Leader continues: "Trump is a batshit crazy moron and bigot capitalist but for some reason he has not done the mass killing I have no doubt Hillary would have continued doing and he wasn't even in favor of invading Iraq when all these others were. That was 1 million we killed. With war on Iran and Russia real possibilities from the warmongers controlling the country in both parties, I'm not about to support someone as if genocide is just another issue. Hitler built wonderful highways and hospitals." Our Antiracist Revolutionary Leader prefers Trump. I guess I was wrong when I thought he was playing the KKK and White Supremacist game. Do not forget, I am a White fucking idiot.