Riobard

I was quoted close to a few thousand US dollars a month by a few health insurance companies, healthy gym-fit nonsmoking male approaching age 75, medium BMI, no listable physical health morbidity. Once established as a resident, I assume rates are still contingent upon age. Is that correct? What do you think the range of private health insurance premiums would be, as perhaps sourced in Brazil might be less exorbitant? My longtime Airbnb host is fit and under 50. I don’t know her profession but she asserted that about half her take home earnings goes towards her private health insurance premiums and it would be ill-advised to rely exclusively on SUS. I could pony up $25,000 annually without nearly depleting my assets, but it could be put to good use simply visiting Brazil on an upscale basis a few times per year.

Good question. Left hand or right hand? Gossip about a mutual social function attendee versus sifting through seemingly endless reshared random news topics that already land in our news feeds? What to choose? What to choose? What to choose? Oh … I know … exploring with a nice cold draft beer the just presented Booker Prize longlist, for example.

Man you can really dig in and bury the central details innit. Why don’t you start a specific topic on sex meetup apps, then (?), as your point is neither particularly relatable here nor would it be if it happened to be noticed by the author of the contact number profile text presented upthread. If I enter on my Telegram, Line, or WhatsApp account profile my name, country code area code and number, city I might be visiting at the moment, and a brief rendering of hobbies such as opera etc, where such info is viewable by contacts of all categories why would that data be more likely fabricated than be accurately representative or intended to reel in a specific class of candidates somehow in either a neutral innocuous or nefarious self-serving manner? Same goes for substituting or adding a fondness for music or one’s current Timbuktu location with the goal of raw fucking exploitable males several generations younger. That could only be an unwell elderly person with poor judgement and your voice would be the sole dissenting one in an academic seminar in which I’d be leading a group of medical students on the mental health components of clinical practice.

I would add that the currently broad non-binary range of intimacy potential and expression defies such simplistic categorizations of orientation / preference and that the evolution of artificially or naturally lit walk-in closets should render the term obsolete in relation to sex except for routinely engaged closet organizers or the installation of slings.

Sure they do. Use your head. It’s not a question of accuracy or prerogative. I expect the phone number’s owner is not at all appealing in the way a “daddy” is typically conceptualized, and that he is barf-worthy. It’s actually for real, as it turns out. It’s not Grindr. It's how peculiar this type of phrasing is when associated with the broadly broadcasted phone number of an old geezer for friends, family members including offspring possibly including grandchildren, and associates to have to metabolize. How desperate does one need to be to put aside appropriate renderings of pride in gay and sexual self, of representing the tribe, in the interests of employing something as basic as a phone number agenda byline for recruiting young innocent lads, often for example naïve about bacterial STIs that are challenging to treat? What a sad sack.

Uh, that trends sounds to have been morally bankrupt.

[This ought to be amusing.] That’s our time for today. For your week’s homework: Given your claims of expertise, how are you summarizing and integrating the Senate and House of Deputies’ related activities commencing March 19th? What is the standard code of letters and numbers associated with the actual new legislative initiation that would enable you to track the various governmental documents associated with this action to date? What is the voting yes/no ratio to date regarding the legislative action? What is the name of the governmental department / ministry associated with the action? What evidence of advocacy / activism movement are you assessing on social media? How do you track daily House of Deputies agenda topics for evidence that of many important topics this particular one, up for formal review, makes its way up the list? What are the seasonal session date parameters that clue one in to agenda search strategies?Who are the elected officials steering the legislative action and undertaking ‘whip’ roles? What clear evidence exists this century that the reciprocity principle has not at all been consistently applied in spite of one lazy bloated tiresome eye-roll inducing hot air driven ill-conceived quote signifying nothing and purporting to predict the visa story? What degree of energy can you transfer from your failed blog to topics such as that of Brazil entry visa obligations set by the Executive Branch? It seems a lot, so perhaps you would do us the honour of undertaking some actual research and circling back with a more fact-based rendering of what might be anticipated regarding the ratification potential for reinstating the visa waiver. Of course Sydney guy can draw his own conclusions as well. He asked and one informed analytical answer was graciously produced. All takes are equal yet some possibly more than others, mirroring the tension between the Bozos and the Lulatics. Admittedly, I hadn’t considered the relevance of parade floats, Me, I just hope that Brazilians can thrive independent of the visa outcome and that I don’t misplace my 2 copies in the meantime.

I can’t even. Just why?

… such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Line Somebody sent me this example, ID withheld, of a fellow that apparently has children … well the Daddy part is there inn’t? … and the sender claims this bio is presented within the realm of hiring as well. Believable? Bold? Too much? Thoughts? This was too noteworthy to keep to myself. Maybe I’ve got my bio outside of Grindr all wrong, with low yield on my protected sex requirements on PrEP, and too constricted a target population? What’s BB unequivocally in this context? Could there actually be tongue-specific prophylaxis without the existence of a tongue? I wonder what he looks like and its relation to writing style. Screenshot ⬇️, nation and communication platform redacted.

It’s a distinct possibility and I’m reasonably up to date on the developments so far but it may be stalled in the interests of a tourism entry comparator analysis to support reinstating the waiver. Personally I’m not too invested in the outcome as it has little impact on current visa holders that already got use out of it and have less skin in the game. Yet I’m not putting related tracking in the Ignore category where reside a few annoyingly tiresome ignominious contribution-impoverished trolls frantically canvassing for one or two mean girl alliances. Since it’s plodding along and COP30 will pull in e-visa-linked tourism dollars in November, IMO they should do a Chi-square analysis comparing first quarter 2026 against first quarter 2025 with the three nations cumulatively as numerator and total foreign visitor tally as denominator. That might be more objective and persuasive than various camps massaging data depending on alliance with, simplistic mind you, reciprocity principles versus the legitimacy of decoupling migration law from tourism contribution to GDP. In actuality the true impact of the recent visa reinstatement is not known and first quarter 2025 entry padding to capitalize on the lingering postponed waiver may artificially inflate the year on year difference. In two years FIFA Women’s World Cup may be a factor. I am also handicapped by lack of knowledge regarding how easy it is for the two houses to topple an executive order as well as what contractual financial commitments have already been instituted with VFS Global and what degree of cost recovery would be met by maintaining the visa obligation for a time for that purpose. If you’re Australian the ease of application shouldn’t make postponing acquisition pending legislative outcome too major a factor, unless a visit is not on the near horizon.

“Standard” being what a skinflint bossypants going in endless circles dictates. Oh no! Might he apply psychological tariffs if contradicted?!

This oughta be fun. You are clearly a very disturbed sad sack of a man. That’s no guess. I was at a table with friends, not drinking, and I told you I’d be wearing a red baseball cap. If I said through DM I would be the one looking strange it would simply have been self-deprecating humour. Eventually, I was flagged by somebody you sent over. As you know the music is very loud, something you yourself grouse about, and I was dancing a bit in place. I went over to your table although you could have simply employed the social grace of approaching me yourself. We chatted briefly and yes I soon after noticed you talking up a very young looking male at the bar. In a situation like that my tendency is to give space if not alert the child welfare authorities but for the hopefully adequate venue age vetting. After that, you took the first initiative to text me on WhatsApp to begin considering a pleasant meal worked in through our hiring priorities for greater ease of conversation in spite of the precipitous onset of coronavirus rumblings. I was reluctant about your suggestion of Republica due to your own history of warnings. I suggested Bella Paulista or Spot! near Lagoa but then everything was shoved aside to plan respectively to fly home upon strong urgings from our governments. I was more curious than disappointed. Of course you can make up any crap you like about what a youngster never having interacted with me but ingratiating himself to you through idle gossip threw out there, questionably, as you obsessively whittle back his pay cheque. That I would be seen as standing out as odd by a desperately cash-seeking sex worker among a roomful of aged mostly obese unfit punters dressed like 8-year olds or with poo streaks on their towelled backsides, unlike us (me, anyway) is nothing but laughable. Perhaps the kid thought I was unconventional by virtue of being chummy with a quite beautiful young trans woman and her bashful buddy. And what roaming around, the central activity in such a venue, would be perceived as unconventional? Did he have X-ray vision piercing through the multiple levels? Was I not paying enough attention to the barely legal looking subset of his scrawny peers in trade? Who really is the loser in this story? I’ve treated unfortunate exploited kids probably much like him, often pro bono, and I can assure I’m treated with respect. How I write this is no discernible departure from how they would articulate their history. You gave it your best shot, dude, but little more than kiddie cap gun- grade, and cowardly behind the likely fabricated story of a youth proxy. Drink less, save your liver and tarnished rep.

Thanks for the warning although there was never anything about their ads (Gold) that spoke to me. In contrast, InHouse Agencia has been consistently satisfactory.

When I have time I have another story, amusing to me anyway, to add about a different meagrely attended night.

I’m surprised. I was there 18:00 to 21:00 and I did paws non-erotically for the Panda massage and then put my paws privately all over the gorgeesus student after briefly catching the suck-and-rim prepenetration dyadic show stages, but picked up no 70s/80s tub vibes whatsoever. Urban myth is my Hakim’s Razor take. Neide seemed upstairs all on her lonesome with minimal suite clean-up requirements. Frustrated, sighing empty-pocketed trade for the most part.

Meh. Couldn’t be bothered with 202 Wed tradition so out of curiosity trekked to Gloría. Over a few hours about a half dozen of the older acompanhantes and as many punters, except the single pleasantly surprising hot programa described elsewhere. A massage with ex-stripper (now occasional) Panda, as mentioned. He is very good technically and runs his massage practice in Copacabana around same street as 202 but closer to the beach. I forgot to try to add his socials and I will text him to ask if he’d like the prop here. I don’t think the interactive show, actually average looking dudes, with a handful of spectators, will uptick Wed attendance.

One main thing I’m trying to get across is that the payment playbook consists of competing narratives and those that want to pay the least don’t appreciate their attempts at leadership being challenged. Monetarily this makes sense; having fun without breaking the bank makes more sense. Also, until you’ve had a substantial period of experience observing the range of sex workers towards which various punters gravitate you won’t get that prices approaching rock bottom are associated with trade that a lot of us don’t perceive to be very physically attractive. This confounds the endless discussion. On this topic I can count on one hand the number of perspectives that I consider sound and valuable, irrespective of how we get along otherwise. Other than that, in Brazil nothing about the practice is particularly pricey by western standards.

Well I suspect that the urge to be ostentatious may undermine such intent. I do think that you may be decent enough to merit other retirement hobbies. … And as long as the oxygen masks drop as needed.

One of my spa regulars a few years back described an incident in which a newbie massage client, age late 60’s and a bit frail, had recently been punched and knocked out by an acompanhante and I offered to speak to the chap by phone as he was quite shaken. The massage therapist had made several attempts to reach out among his contacts for support for him, and I was one of a few willing to talk to the poor guy. I just let him vent and didn’t bombard him with details about his home origins etc but I think he was Anzac or South African based on my dealings with the large academic diaspora of clinical colleagues in my uni Medicine faculty days. Evidently there was a long wait for a suite and after waiting for about 5 minutes he apologized that the timing wouldn’t work out due to a later dinner commitment. The acompanhante followed him to the change room where the client extended his hand and expressed hoping to meet the next day or going forward over the upcoming weeks. Next thing he knew he was being pulled up off the floor by staff. The offender was thrown out and banned and the client was provided a copy of the ID on file including phone number. The client shortly afterwards saw his ad with pics in the Skokka listings, same #. Parenthetically, he joked about what a gorgeous appendage had been missed as a result of the unfortunate assault incident. What a Neanderthal, though, impulsively sabotaging a likely lucrative source of income. Who knows whether Rodolfo eventually granted probation. All I could do was commiserate and express that things had moved so quickly but that it appeared a tip had been expected for having consumed a few minutes of time, although much lengthier exchanges often don’t culminate in a programa. He experienced tinnitus and spent BRL1,500 getting checked out for concussion at a private local hospital as he had sustained both the fist blow to his right temple and his head likely struck the floor when flattened out. The guy realized that a modest symbolic-grade gratuity would have been no problem had he been savvier. Not all would agree, I suppose and of course I side with Xclay regarding his own account. He was happy about the silver lining aspect of having subsequently met a few great spa sex workers because there was no way he would return to Lagoa or any other such brothel although I offered the opinion that this was an extreme outlier experience. In ten years I have not had the misfortune of run-ins with any sex worker in Brazil. In that constituency does not nearly comparatively lie the possibility of treachery.😏

I think a troll’s nerve must really have been struck. Said troll has previously written … yes, receipts in fact exist here on the board … that one Riobard upon meeting for a few seconds in a loud barroom was perceived to be friendly and educated. But then, to paraphrase said troll: “one's perception is one’s reality” … in this case all over the map, no? Today’s commentary is, no doubt, manufactured and opinions from acompanhantes have actually neither been sought nor obtained by this unfortunate chap. The guy is upset, feeling insulted, and desperately both raising Cain and frantically waving his cane. In actuality he had suggested in a follow-up text that we could have dinner in Sampa. This resides in my W’zap zip file, an extended array of friendly and enjoyable communication at the time, a chat that I had kept in fact due to its merits. With his permission I’d be more than keen to append it … these are essentially bona fide receipts in a manner of speaking, in contrast to what is upthread a steaming pile of hooey regarding obviously made up transactions. I’d say “what fun” in a Boys in the Band manner, but for it being so pathetic, representing lack of wellness, and a hostile attempt at piling on with fake news. I don’t think it can or should escalate further at this point … Houston, we’d have a problem … but who among us would accept taking fabricated tales lying down? Others here might say to employ the Ignore function. I often do.

I couldn’t check in the flight out of Canada or enter through Brazil immigration without producing the e-visa. I also eventually ascertained that the e-visa issued in May did not nullify entry length tally restrictions that considered the previous cumulative migratory year from mid-January 2025 and on. Therefore must carefully count entry duration until it’s reset mid-January 2026. Not too many allowable days remain until then due to having pigged out this year. No new developments on the review and vote status within the Chamber of Deputies that needs to ratify the visa requirement reversal that had overwhelmingly passed in the Senate and is strongly pushed by tourism entities. COP30 in Belém will waive entry visa requirements based on proof of attendance. There will likely be upticked spillover tourism in November. The same concerns about lodgings access in Belém have been voiced in relation to 2026 FIFA World Cup accommodations capacity for Toronto and Vancouver. Received CPF, picked up in person at my local Itamaraty consulate following about 6 weeks from start to finish. I have yet to have need of it in Brazil.

Better let Monik know that your flimsy attempt at humour has yielded a renumbering of the private rooms, or is that the dank corner of the basement where AI has described trolls hovering and pouring over rent control legal precedents? —— Yawn … back to real life of summer holidays Part 2.

Kleber is not uncommon as a Brazilian male’s given name.

RdeJ? Or a different location for expansion?

So what have you gained so far? I hope that you can suspend some of the bossiness put forward here and focus on having a good time with common sense. I actually figured out how to define fair and reasonable costs in a manner of a few hours during my first visit a decade ago, without the benefit (using that term very loosely) of input from a forum such as this. There’s nothing unique or special about me that facilitated that quickly acquired knowledge. Among the most amusing aspects of this topic is that I have been both falsely accused of overpaying and of being cheap, depending on whatever end game upon which a troll has set its three eyes. I can only concede a little to being stingy but that realization is connected to whatever rates others have been perfectly entitled to shell out. Enjoy the month above all!