Riobard
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Carioca Metro/VLT, or Sete de Decembro VLT is even a little closer.
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David McIntosh ... strikes me as a bit dunderheaded. Has been in a Jennifer Hudson track vid.
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I have not been to these ... there is a blogspot, and a few short ass-fuck clips from the xnxx vid site. The model in this photo is a Brit, just the usual ad agenda.
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Zürich, Viena, Budapest, or Bucharest?
Riobard replied to Walker's topic in European Men and Destinations
Sounds idyllic ... did not know you had some experience around there. There is progressively more press about these underdiscovered treasures. I hear Lviv Ukraine is nice. -
What's Rio like in May? Help needed by first timer
Riobard replied to Tomasian's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
Also aware of the trends and dangers Gotti refers to, they influence my decisions. The woman who died was killed because the patrolling police elected to use the tourist vehicle for target practice when the driver got confused and drove through an ambiguous checkpoint. My greatest fear is buying it prematurely because of someone's sheer stupidity ... poor judgment, someone driving while intexticated, inability to see grey, anything like that. Also, I simply do not know if a community rep is a prepackaged talking head or a more spontaneously recruited addition to the tour. Are they a fundamentalist radical homophobe at the same time they lament the challenges and governmental/societal treatment of the poor? How safe would it be to drill down provocatively, as I am wont to do? The tourist mishap is rare ... that and other factors are filters I employ looking at the menu. -
What's Rio like in May? Help needed by first timer
Riobard replied to Tomasian's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
Sorry, I just meant it is not my cup of tea. I think there are two camps, those into it and those not. There is rich cultural heritage there. The tours are educational. While these areas are easy to learn about by reading, you may be someone who would enjoy it as a sensory experience. It is not that I avoid that dimension. I sidle up to the Gamboa rise regularly by the aerial tram station but go no further than the base, though I have a reason to be there unavoidably. I have also been to live, very moving performances of the Maré Youth Orchestra. I thought you were possibly foregoing some guided tours and there are many other things to see and sweeping views to be had. Don't let me sway you. You are not alone in keeping it on the bucket list. A lot of things can be done without a formal tour but there may be comfort in a new place picking from the professional excursions available. I subscribe to the local news there. It naturally influences my impressions but, like anywhere else, highlights ths bad incidents, eg tensions between neighbourhoods and military police. Nobody can easily drive a truck viciously into a large gathering of people in a favela. -
Also my first gay book when the 1st in the series was published beyond the 'zine stages, but just as I launched into big city life and realized San Francisco and New York might be more interesting than the OK place I landed. Then Kramer's Faggots ... perhaps a little more jarring than Maupin fare. But who had much time for books competing with tea dance?! I suspect Faggots in Alabama was shelved under fireplace fuel.
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Zürich, Viena, Budapest, or Bucharest?
Riobard replied to Walker's topic in European Men and Destinations
These 3 will put you into Cyrillic territory language-wise, extra-alert territory regarding non-paid hook-ups, and unchartered territory hooker-wise. I believe some eastern European countries are lovely to visit if sex is not among the foremost goals on the agenda. My mantra would be: If you cannot unearth much information on your host, walk within strict lines as a guest. I may have been spared a very private remote Costa Rican burial years ago when my head counselled my dick just short of putting it on a rickety bus accompanied by a rough-looking Nicaraguan hustler to the barrio he suggested for an assignation. Soon after I met a family (mother-son) while exploring Fortuna near Arenal volcano, and the unemployed young man was commissioned to rent some horses and guide me on a DIY jungle waterfall excursion. Platonic but so very enjoyable. The lesson for me ... compartmentalization. The suggestions about the tried and true are repeated here because of their truth. Dream in one place, live the dream in another place, and stave off flatlining. -
Correction: Elio ... has all the letters Oliver has, wheras Elias is more in tune with the antiquities theme.
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It is interesting to witness the culturally based liberal use of terms and worthwhile to give credit, as you have, to their capacity to make distinctions between colloquial usage and more conventional understandings of shared blood.
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A really good clinical primer on family secrets and their consequences would be found in Ackerman Institute's Evan Imber Black's work. She covers a broad range of typical related themes that shape family dynamics.
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The proof is only in the pudd, but aren't viable DNA samples hard to cum by in establishments such as Lagoa?
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Well, they are British [grin] but a lot of families everywhere are not that open. I am just halfway through, had other things occupying me, and I get eye strain at times that is less bothersome off paper. But I, too, liked Part 1 and got ahead of myself. Also working my way across a few other really long novels. The father-son motifs do not mirror Elias-MrPerlman, that's for sure. Different strokes of inadequacies for different folks. If memory serves me from previous works, Hollinghurst's style is to let the reader fill in the gaps while he time-travels with each subsequent section weaving in some of the characters from the previous. To me, it is a balance of plot and interesting on-point interior and internal characterizations. He varies sentence structure at times from the norm which stalls me a little, thwarting my bad habit of skimming. The impression given is a great deal of thoughtful deliberation. The Dax homestead Cranley Gdns bordering Kensington and Earlscourt is just a few blocks east of where Villa Gianni house of boys now sits. My father was stationed in WW2 nearby the Fulham area where the art restoration shop is. It does help to be a homosexual insider reading the book, as some things are not described on-the-nose.
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You do realize in your new family therapist role, sanddunes, it is considered bad form to fuck all the session participants.
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Sanddunes, your recent two threads have commanded greater than 5,000 views! I realize everybody can count, but it just hit me.
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I think Lip's (probably Felipe) surname is Santos.
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Fernando (hat) and Lip who I think has inked his entire back since he caught my eye a while back. Out of dozens of regulars, they are also my 2 favourites! Excellent taste, you. Each has hundreds of images in Lagoa's FB photo cache. They are constantly on the gogo with gogo assignments. Fernando keeps a barebones FB page, last name Miguel.
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Tartegogo, I do not pretend to understand what all the fuss was about. You said what was on my mind while typing. Too many overreactive traffic cops on that cantilevered corner. I should have steered clear. Now I know better where and how to dip my stick. I hope the GPs there are more laid back. LOL.
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I posted info that was a few feet off and tried to keep it lighthearted. It did not interlock 100% and efforts were made to pin it down. I continued to contribute lightheartedly to what I thought amounted to a simple comedy of errors. That is my version of events. I was not riled up, still am not. I just find it humourous that you make this akin to a grand jury deliberation. Nobody is going to expire over a missed dick. It was not catastrophic misinformation. This is all just very very funny. Try some perspective. Sheeeesh .... kkkkk .... hahaha. You guys are, sorry to belabour the point, very funny. It's just a forum. You are not in charge. Nor am I. Keep writing about what others write. Keep commenting on motives. Keep controlling the conversation. Keep using bluster-faced bold. Keep trying to shape for readers a version that is lodged psychologically while attempting objectivity. You can do that. If you get what you want, good on you. This is all just being human ... and is very very amusing. Not the worst bonus in a place where good information can be had. I can say what I want. Do what you like, but it's not in a vacuum. Be as brief or as detailed as you prefer. Everybody will have their own take. I will try to be accurate and unrushed. I will respond to editorializing as I think is merited. I am not remotely close to the threshold of flipping anybody. It takes more than silly gratuitous insults, stern librarian boldface, cross-eyed admonishments. I just needed to remind myself that you are important but thIngs move fleetingly here, and it should be easy and light.
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Lucky, I think that this is just like social media in general. A response to every nugget in every feed may give the false impression close attention is being paid. It may, however, be cursory attention. One single nod may be attentive, genuine, and sufficient, and does not negate the quality of your post. That is the cake ... one person makes it whole. Beyond that is icing.
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Apologies, again, OP sanddunes, am trying to stay single with singular purpose, I really am. But love that's a battlefield keeps snapping at my pumps.
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kkkkkkkkkk ... I think I am sanguine, as I get you now, but I think you think you are in charge about what I am. Perhaps that is your brand of chill humour, relaxed giddiness the signature. If not, you have your work cut out, then. So I am the one that's bent out of shape here? Hard to read absolutely, I may be off the mark, but I want to offer: try not to burst a blood vessel delivering your insights.
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What remains confusing to me is that the available information points to Eros being a tape and video loja, notwithstanding the internet neon. But nearly adjacent to it is the Fênix LAN House café I referenced, that is unambiguously an internet-station establishment with one reviewer verifying its X-rated leanings. All we need is somebody to put on their reconnaisance fatigues ... sanddunes, curiosity piqued? There are two vid venues, separated at the cantilevered corner by a Peruvian restaurant. Who is to say peru is not served all round at all three with or without a side of pāo? Confusion aside, should be easy for an experienced truffle-pig.