Riobard

I went to 555 on one occasion when there for 6 weeks. A handful of escorts; none interested me. Arrived too early, about 17:00, had to kill a few boring hours waiting for more/better possible action and the show. Some minor interaction with gogos and obtained one phone number. Without the special birthday group, that did not seem to be there for the trade, I would estimate about half a dozen clients scattered in the very large performance bar. The address was not inconvenient and was about the same distance from my accommodations as Lagoa. Über a few bucks. For contrast is a depiction of the latter’s event the same night; I obviously missed it but I assume it was crowded. In any case, I would see no point in returning to 555 unless one wanted to make a pit stop out of fear of missing out. It likely has a small loyal following.

Apparently Sauna Gran Via in Madrid, according to a few net comments and also a personal source. BUT MOVING THIS TO EUROPE, NO?

Just now boarding a flight out of Europe. About 10% of the mob queues for security clearance and passport control wearing a mask.

A few years ago I created a longlist of about 12 ads prior to visiting. From that list I created a ‘red flag’ sublist based on a quick Google search of each phone contact. They often yielded a Mileroticos ad but a different handle and set of photos. Perhaps scams. Perhaps a few guys sharing or rotating numbers among themselves. None of these responded with a convincing answer. From there it was easy to generate a short list, confirming with a brief text chat, 3-finger selfie request &c. These all turned out to be good experiences when there.

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… not to mention salivalized.

Two local male suspects wanted, 22 and 34, fully identified by their double first names and double surnames.

Paragonya (which is not in Chile BTW) is the same as ever so I have nothing to add. The caveat is ‘chacun à son goût’ factors viz preferred scort types and possible compatible matches, so the ratio of hits and misses when there on different trips may influence your desire to return to the city. I won’t be back as I have thoroughly worked my way through all the tourism activities and there are more reliable consistent venue-structured trade experiences obtainable elsewhere. Local costs are not relevant in this decision. I do heartily recommend it for those that have not explored the region.

Vaccination passports are not uniformly mandated across the nation or within jurisdictions. This may account for lack of consistency in enforcement by venues. Other than that, CPH is a servico for CoV PH planning purposes and Lagoa, etc is consumo bares e restaurantes e similares. Rio de Janeiro municipality just lifted the vaccination passport requirement this week.

We don’t get a formal looking “real” vaccination card from injection sites in Canada, in contrast to Brazil’s that also has an admin signature penned. Digital matrix code with specific text on our device, or something similar printed that looks like a copy is what I would need accepted.

Yeah, Scheuble was closer to CHF250 recently when I looked prior to a trip of a few weeks earlier this year, non-breakfast, so I took an Airbnb apartment a few tram stops south of there near the Seefeld lake park for half the hotel rate and saved a lot of additional cash by having a full kitchen as well.

A lot of moving parts. Some Airbnb listings’ duration-based discounts have a fee structure system in which merely one additional unused booked night can lower the average of actual use. Such variables themselves can obscure currency and inflation factors. But my go-to is qualitatively equivalent to my booking in Switzerland that is 3 times the cost of the Rio one. As it’s often said: money is money. But it brings to mind that we should considering lobbying for multiple-use get-one-free punch-hole cards when our holes are punched. Think of the untapped $ obsession potential.

Shocked at my in-person rube simplicity were you? LOL. Oops, sorry. Am I rudely treading on the thin ice of gossip?: [Rob is gorgeous and shouldn’t have to pay; and one smart cookie to boot] Part of my problem is that I don’t understand the process inherent in some ways that others make decisions. They tend to quickly converge on a solution whilst I tend to get to a point of resolution by being more divergent. You won’t find too many ‘Divergers’ on a forum; they are labelled pompous over-thinkers, often unfairly. What may seem to be an over-expenditure on my part is, to my way of thinking, no different from the consequences that often arise from a more split-decision approach, one that I may unfairly judge to be rash and rigid. I try to parse others’ word views down to possibilities in rationale by second-guessing in the absence of detail, then elaborating on those in ways that are often theoretical and are relatable only in so far as they MAY have been part of someone’s mindset in the first place or even accessible to consciousness. Most of my career was based on these kinds of dynamics, and lucrative according to its pronounced detail. That said, I don’t even consider myself to be much of an intellectual. What I can tell you, though, is that I was known in my field as someone capable of writing a publishable academic research paper in a weekend due more to meticulous organization than brilliance. Perhaps journal editors just threw up their hands and let the verbiage pass. LOL

Millimetres? Kilos? Pounds? DOP? Ambiguity is the lynchpin of scamming.

[Snip] Good to know that not only are you on to my MO, but that all will be resolved, with one solid price range delineated, and not a range in range. According to you, you will corroborate or not what is apparently already clear as you assert, but may be now altered based on one single communication between a procurer and inquirer. Therefore, all that will be required to progress somewhat, going forward, is that somebody with an interest possibly ranging from a rural-type brothel to a curated brokered urban model will outline the cost of specific transactions that will surely be very representative of the reality any punter can come to expect, all this while seeking types according to phallic preferences, etc, already alluded to, as if stratification has no bearing on cost. If I would only just cooperate and add to the broadly expanding data set rather than dancing around it. Good thing you have that D’d level field research going for you. ;>] Really guys, if you operate exclusively on a binary of fairness vs gullible exploitation there should be enough monetary info already presented here to define that threshold. If you seek justification for a deviation in a theoretical standard rate, it seems to me the only party capable of legitimizing the change is the provider. Good luck driving yourself bonkers. I can appreciate that a desire to stand firm on a red line is uncomfortable unless it’s clear everybody shares the acceptable limit; they don’t.

Yes. This suggests that you are driven to BOTH determine an invariant predictable fee structure that has proven to be elusive … otherwise, why does this thread and others like it exist … AND dictate the terms of reference of contribution style such that the agenda is similarly constricted … on an anonymous social media platform! It’s not indicative of a character flaw but you may be sleeping, not dead, and endlessly dreaming.

I give up. I cannot make you grasp the point. Where the guy and I see eye to eye is that as dealer:consumer a Love-Bug and Eldorado have unequal worth objectively, while conceding that subjectivity rules. Doing what you ask would be a poor use of my time, would not illuminate what others should expect going forward, and would amount to my contradicting my own philosophy and agreeing to reside in a world of absurdity. It doesn’t mean my view is superior, just different strokes. LOL

There is no new fee structure. It has always been variable. I just found my ‘zap history with him. It alone was very entertaining and reminded me of my overall satisfaction. For example, he showed be DOP1,500-2,000 guys I wouldn’t be willing to pay anything for and I showed him images of locals, some of whom he knew, for whom I would agreeably pay 10,000; his cut would be at his discretion. We always found middle ground and even that amounted to a range that would be perplexing to many that don’t live inside my brain’s erotic template. By temporal investment he earned a small fraction of my income/time and I could never have endured the same degree of essentially ‘on-call’ task-hopping.

The Rio apartment I rent will be 2% more this summer (not defined school holiday period where demand may be higher) in my currency compared to February, not nearly matching the concomitant 15% relative hike in BRL currency value. So I presume the host receives more reais to help offset the burden of inflation. What limits the comparison, however, is that I believe the host adjust rates seasonally. Oddly, the price differential for 2 separate 5-day bookings in the same Rio hotel within the same month February, almost consecutive by time of month, was 21% so I think other seasonal or seemingly random price factors make it difficult to price compare according to currency value changes. That said, the upcoming summer rate is the same as the higher of the 2 February rates.

Nobody has defined or can easily define an overcharge in quantitative terms. The fallacious assumption is that there is an arbitrary fixed normative fee when in fact what is requested or what is paid is typically a range across a host of transactions, a histogram with a mean average and standard deviations. The majority client collective, understandably, is oriented to holding this theoretical absolute figure constant while the provider collective is similarly oriented to both maintaining that constant (at the very least), while simultaneously attempting an upwards deviation from it. That is the very premise of gratuities. The only way to agree on a threshold at which a theoretical normative charge slips into overage territory, holding the phenomenon of gratuities constant, is to settle, consensus-based, on a proportion of one standard deviation that represents a minimal, moderate, or inarguably substantial amount; in clinical research these are typically represented as 20, 50, and 80% of the standard deviation, respectively. You see, overage is also subject to a gradient. However, standard deviation is a moving target at any given time and payment ranges are far more tenuous than normative means (averages) that tend to maintain greater stability in spite of the breadth of ranges that are largely determined by fee differentials locally versus touristically. Technically, then, overage as a proportion of deviation from central tendency is governed predominantly by the differential between charges below a lower percentile (locals’ payments) and above a higher percentile (a sprinkling of larger payments made by punters with deeper pockets). The greater predominance of the former amounts to the overage threshold being considerably higher because standard deviation is proportional to range; in other words, it’s harder for a visitor to reach the overpay realm at, say 20% of the first standard deviation. Yet one gets the sense that many visitors freak out about an actually insubstantial amount trickling down into transaction expectations that set them too far apart from their perceived entitlement, to be viewed and treated as worthy of the nullification of providers’ bent towards maximal profit. The thrust of much position here on the board is that there is or should be a considerably fixed invariant standard rate, notwithstanding that our tastes dictate that we would balk at paying any amount for a provider whose worth we disagree about. If the ‘going rate’ (funnily, this term actually suggests a fixed amount is on the go, thus variable) were to be the achievable goal then standard deviation would be relatively small and, paradoxically, a very small deviation above the central tendency metric would represent overage of significance (ie, being “taken”, exploited, ripped off) while a similarly small deviation lower would not represent a kind of equivalency in savings. This leads to the tendency to cast aspersions on those that happen to pay more, any amount more without anxiety or any iota of self-loathing, as if worry were truly legitimate, weirdly transposed to needless worry on the part of a separate set of players. My gawd, I don’t know how some punters actually get to have fun unencumbered by bitterness. LOL Most of these ideas and trends governing my take are actually contributed by the readership, your raw (tee-hee) material so don’t blame me for the length of this post. LOL.

Just saw his stepmother’s retrospective exhibition at the Kuntshaus in Zürich on Sunday.

FWIW I don’t know if this venue IW posting but for some reason I follow it on Twitter. It did not come up on a board search. Let the Medellin visitors decide whether to add it to the resource list …

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