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Tomorrow's lesson: Different girias/slangs for dick.

I apologize for concentrating solely on the fun part of this thread, as I didn't realize how important this issue is for some posters, as well as for TY and OZ. Thank you all for thinking this through and sharing your thoughts and solutions. It also got me thinking about what I'd do if I got into a dustup with a poster here. My first inclination would be to ignore him. Not put him on ignore, but just not engage him on the Board. If the person had some redeeming features, it's possible I'd send a PM to figure out if a rapprochement were in the cards. But if I got back a rude response, I'd be done. If it seemed threatening, I'd probably forward it to OZ and TY so they knew who they had on the Board. But I wouldn't ask them to ban the poster or take any action on my behalf. I'd just never engage the person again. I hope we continue to keep our social skills on an upward arc and resolve our differences ourselves. It would be a shame to harsh TY's mellow or interfere with OZ's continuing Search for Enlightenment.

One of the most memorable places I have ever visited in my life is Inhotim. Just a really special place. Here is an article direct from the NY Times. Between the architecture of the various pavillions, lush gardens, permanent sculptures and varied temporary installations, amazing. And not far from the park is a really good traditional Mineiro restaurants. If you never have, their farofa is transcendent. http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/in-a-garden-in-brazil-a-biennial-show-at-instituto-inhotim/?emc=edit_tnt_20131109&tntemail0=y&_r=0

Many ways to use the noun that might not be translatable Voce quer dar (sua bunda)? Do you want to bottom? Quero chupar sua bunda. I want to eat you out/rim you. (or) Vc quer chupar minha. Do you want to lick mine? Eu gostaria comer sua. I would enjoy fucking yours.

I'd suggest adding this one too: But I don't want to be called as a material witness in our very first banning trial.

Sounds like a salacious bit of fluff to me-I will buy it when it gets marked down to $1 http://www.buzzfeed.com/timteeman/gore-vidal-iconic-american-author-had-way-more-sex-than-you

Thanks ihpguy, These should come in useful when I get over there at the end of November! Hope everything is good on your beautiful island! Swanny

Thanks Tomcal for replying to my post. I've been away from this forum as long as you have been, you are the one who inspired me to return, the level of the interations certainly goes through the roof. Your Porto Alegre chronicles have been breathtaking! You are topping yourself !The photo of the third guy is certainly the best you ever took. You are certainly an accomplished photographer, I don't know anything about photography technique, but I do know that having an eye to sense the moment that reveals an inner self is part of it. You don't have to tell us that the guy is one of the greatest things you (or anyone) ever had. Is all there, the expression, the body language, yes is possible to sense a body language in a still (masterful shot) picture. I've already copied and I've been looking at it non-stop, figuring the devastation, the fireworks. Congratulations, guess you are moving to Porto Alegre soon. Enjoy!

i use google translator. and i learn some portoguese with FREE computer application called duolingo. i use it now for month and i can use 260 words. i travel in 60 days, and my aim is 1.000 words, but i will let you know how far did i get. it is frendly user application, and i use it for 30 - 60 minutes a day. it's fun.

Thanks for sharing.

Why Terry McAuliffe barely won By JAMES HOHMANN | 11/6/13 1:06 AM EST politico.com How the heck did that happen? Most public polls leading up to Election Day had Democrat Terry McAuliffe coasting to victory, some by double digits, in the Virginia governor’s race. Instead he squeaked by, beating Republican Ken Cuccinelli by less than 3 percentage points. The much-closer-than-expected outcome blunts the narrative that this was a clean win for Democrats going into 2014 and guarantees an intense blame game among Republicans about what might have put Cuccinelli over the top. Based on a review of returns, exit polls and conversations with operatives, here are six takeaways from the surprise election of the night: Obamacare almost killed McAuliffe. The main news stories of the last two weeks of the race were about the botched rollout of the health exchanges and troubling revelations about people getting kicked off their health plans. Cuccinelli called the off-year election a referendum on Obamacare at every stop during the final days. “Despite being outspent by an unprecedented $15 million, this race came down to the wire because of Obamacare,” Cuccinelli said in his concession speech Tuesday night. When President Barack Obama crossed the Potomac for McAuliffe on Sunday, he glaringly avoided even mentioning his signature accomplishment — trying instead to link Cuccinelli with the federal government shutdown. Exit polls show a majority of voters — 53 percent — opposed the law. Among them, 81 percent voted for Cuccinelli and 8 percent voted for Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis. McAuliffe won overwhelmingly among the 46 percent who support the health care overhaul. Cuccinelli actually won independents by 9 percentage points, 47 percent to 38 percent, according to exit polls conducted for a group of media organizations. They made up about one-third of the electorate. “Obamacare helped close the gap,” said Richmond-based strategist Chris Jankowski, the president of the Republican State Leadership Committee. Cuccinelli might have won if he had more money. Even before Cuccinelli delivered his concession speech, the candidate’s close allies were beginning to blame outside groups for not helping out more. McAuliffe outraised Cuccinelli by almost $15 million, and he used the cash advantage to pummel him on the airwaves. A lack of resources forced the Republican to go dark in the D.C. media market during the final two weeks. The Republican National Committee spent about $3 million on Virginia this year, compared to $9 million in the 2009 governor’s race. The Chamber of Commerce spent $1 million boosting McDonnell in 2009 and none this time. “If the Republicans would have rallied around the nominee instead of refusing to support Cuccinelli, he would have won,” said a GOP source involved in the race. A constellation of liberal interest groups, meanwhile, poured money in as McAuliffe’s lead grew in the public polling. They wanted to claim credit for their particular issues, whether the environment or abortion. Mike Bloomberg’s super PAC spent $2 million in the final two weeks on ads boosting gun control, for example. The Republican Governors Association spent $8.3 million for Cuccinelli, compared to $5.2 million four years ago, to try making up for the fundraising disparity. But much of that money came earlier in the summer, and the RGA eventually stopped pouring cash into what looked like a losing campaign. Cuccinelli personally was not a great fundraiser. Removing direct contributions from outside groups, McAuliffe raised $28 million to Cuccinelli’s $11.7 million. RNC spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski defended the committee, saying that it has to make hard choices about how to spend limited resources. “The RNC spent millions of dollars to fund the ground game efforts in both New Jersey and Virginia, working in coordination with both campaigns to identify and turn out voters,” she said. It was a base election. McAuliffe declared in his victory speech that “a historic number of Republicans” supported him. But that’s just not how it happened. The Democrat won only 4 percent of self-identified Republicans, according to exit polling. His key was getting more of his people to the polls — 37 percent of voters self-identified as Democrats and 32 percent self-identified as Republican. In the exit polling, 28 percent of voters supported the tea party movement and another 28 percent were neutral. Virtually all the rest who oppose the tea party backed McAuliffe. The partisan outcome wasn’t for lack of trying. During the campaign, the former Democratic National Committee chairman embraced one of the main attacks against him — that he is a wheeler-dealer — and tried to flip it into an asset, calling himself a problem solver in a period of paralysis. And, after his win, McAuliffe pledged to reach out to Republicans in the statehouse. The gender gap mirrored the presidential. Exit polls showed McAuliffe won women by only 9 points, the same margin Obama won them by in the presidential election last year. The Washington Post poll last week had put McAuliffe ahead among women by an astonishing 24 points. This raises questions about whether women are starting to tune out “war on women” messaging and whether apocalyptic suggestions that Cuccinelli would try to ban common forms of birth control were effective at driving women to the polls who might not typically vote in an off-year. Cuccinelli is a true-believer social conservative, who has spent his career battling abortion and trying to limit divorce. After avoiding social issues the first half of the year, he began defending himself and touting his anti-abortion bona fides in the final weeks as he tried to galvanize his base. The margin will embolden both sides of the abortion issue to claim victories of sorts. The Susan B. Anthony List, which spent $870,000 for Cuccinelli through a Virginia affiliate, noted that McAuliffe ran more than 5,600 spots on the abortion issue alone. “This election shows that it is imperative for pro-lifers to be on offense in 2014 against the distortions and extremism of the left,” said SBA President Marjorie Dannenfelser. NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue said the attacks worked: “Ken Cuccinelli tried to mislead voters by downplaying his extreme social agenda, but ultimately, he couldn’t hide from his long record of attacking women’s reproductive health.” Obama himself was a mixed bag. A 54 percent majority of those voting Tuesday disapproved of Obama’s job performance, according to the exit polling. But 30 percent of those who “somewhat disapproved” of Obama nonetheless voted for McAuliffe. And despite the widespread criticism directed at Republicans for the government shutdown, an equal number of voters pinned the closure on Obama vs. congressional Republicans. The president’s approval rating has slipped in the wake of the Obamacare fiasco and other scandals of his fifth year in office, and his trip to Virginia Sunday probably motivated some independents and Republicans to back Cuccinelli, but he still has deep appeal with the Democratic base. Whether blacks would show up without Obama on the ballot was a big concern for the McAuliffe campaign, and they used the trips of Bill Clinton and the president to push turnout specifically among this community. African-Americans made up 20 percent of the electorate, according to exit polls, on par with the presidential race as a share of the electorate and up from 16 percent in the 2009 governor’s race. Since McAuliffe won 90 percent of the black vote, a 4 percent drop-off in the share of the electorate could have proved fatal. The black vote helped Virginia Democrats break a four-decade streak — electing a governor of the same party as the sitting president for the first time since 1973. The shutdown still hurt Republicans. Though an equal number in the exit polls blamed Obama as blamed congressional Republicans, analysts in both parties agree that the shutdown galvanized Democratic intensity and helped give them the turnout advantage. Republicans had a 4- to 5-point advantage on the generic ballot through the spring and summer, but internal GOP polling showed a flip during the shutdown. Likely voters preferred “Democrats” by 6 points on the generic ballot in their final polling. “The shutdown demoralized a chunk of the Republican base and really energized a chunk of the Democratic base,” said GOP pollster Wes Anderson, a partner at OnMessage Inc. “Terry McAuliffe had not found any way to energize the Democratic base prior to the shutdown.” http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/terry-mcauliffe-virginia-governor-2013-elections-99441.html#ixzz2jsWr56a0

LOL, remember the old styptic pencils?

LOL, who the hell still uses those old Gillette double bladed face slicers? I still remember reading about Gillette's invention of the first twin blade razor and waiting impatiently for over a year until they were finally released retail. 1968, maybe? I'm pretty sure there's nowhere in my home town that even sells the two sided blades any more. I think the old timey single edge blades are still sold in hardware and craft stores; some kinds of cutters uses the things as a disposable edge.

Never really believed the hyped polls and always figured a tight race in the end. Conservatives come out, progressives and moderates generally are less enthusiastic about off year participation. The government shut down helped with that. I thought it was a mistake and would hurt to have Obama and Bloomberg enter the fray. McAuliffe didn't need them and I think they did hurt. He should have left it at Bill and Hillary, both definite pluses in VA. But then McAuliffe has never been very savvy IMO. I'm amazed the Va Dems couldn't do better. Still, the statue of Grant on his Horse would be better than the Cucch. (We need a hair-on-fire icon. )

I LIVE IN QUEENS .. Surprised ?

Thanks for the tip Trzinko, I'll give that a go. Thanks also Tomcal, for the info on iSpeak Portuguse, I just hope that I get to translate hot messages like you describe when I am in Rio! Swanny

Article by the book's author in today's NYT: For Gore Vidal, a Final Plot Twist http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/fashion/In-a-final-plot-twist-Gore-Vidal-leaves-his-estate-to-Harvard-Universtity.html?hpw&rref=fashion&_r=0

Great article to read. Thanks so much.

The third guy is a hottie

More on this... In G.O.P., a Campaign Takes Aim at Tea Party By ERIC LIPTON The New York Times Published: November 5, 2013 WASHINGTON — Open warfare is breaking out among rival Republican groups, with one, Main Street Advocacy, set to start an ad campaign on Wednesday that blames conservative groups like the Tea Party for the recent series of political losses in critical elections across the United States. The ad cites what it calls a “Hall of Shame,” including Representative Todd Akin, Republican of Missouri, who lost his bid for the Senate last year, despite a Tea Party endorsement, after he said a “legitimate rape” rarely causes pregnancy. It also pokes fun at conservative groups like the Club for Growth and Freedom Works — stamping the word “Defund” over their names — because they recently pushed Congress to shut down the federal government in an effort to block financing for President Obama’s health care program. “We want our party back,” said former Representative Steven C. LaTourette of Ohio, who is leading Main Street Advocacy. “And we are going to do what it takes to accomplish that.” The ad was previewed Tuesday during a fund-raiser in New York City hosted by Mr. LaTourette. Main Street Advocacy is trying to raise $8 million to help eight Republican moderates either defend their congressional seats in the 2014 midterm elections or to oust Tea Party-endorsed candidates already in office, like Representative Justin Amash of Michigan. The 14-year-old Club for Growth has become an increasing force in Republican races. It spent $17 million in the last election cycle to help select extremely conservative candidates — including Senator Ted Cruz of Texas — in congressional races that Republicans were likely to win. The Club for Growth opened the offensive against moderate Republicans earlier this year with a website it calls Primary My Congressman! The site lists 10 House Republicans it calls RINOs (Republican in Name Only) that it wants to see replaced by more conservative party members. Some are the same Republicans, like Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, that Main Street Advocacy is preparing to defend. Barney Keller, a spokesman for the Club for Growth, said that Mr. LaTourette’s group was wasting its money going after a rival political action committee. Mr. LaTourette, he added, has been working as a lobbyist since he left Congress and so now is trying to help corporate America reassert its control over Congress. “They can attack the Club all they want, and I hope they spend their money doing so,” Mr. Keller said. “We look forward to adding to the ranks of pro-growth conservatives in Congress next year.” He added that the Club had not endorsed all the candidates featured in the ad. The challenge for Main Street Advocacy, the group’s organizers said, is to build a network of moderate Republicans who are as motivated and politically active as Tea Party enthusiasts have been since Mr. Obama was elected to his first term. Party primary results are often difficult for pollsters to predict because the outcomes largely depend on who turns out to vote, and Mr. LaTourette acknowledged that the most conservative candidates had traditionally had much more reliable supporters. “We are behind the curve with our more conservative counterparts,” Mr. LaTourette said. “They have built grass-roots networks and databases of conservative voters. That is part of this project.” Mr. LaTourette stepped down this year, declaring he was fed up with the confrontational tone of his party and at how partisan Congress had become. Main Street Advocacy has not yet formally picked the eight or so Republican candidates it will spend its money on next year. Besides Mr. Kinzinger and a Republican challenger to Mr. Amash, other possibilities include Representative Mike Simpson of Idaho and Representative Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, who is vying for a Senate seat. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/us/politics/in-gop-a-campaign-takes-aim-at-tea-party.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-thecaucus&_r=4&

So far, I'm taking from this thread either we just go ahead and institute the original plan and the community chooses to make use of it or not, or we just forget the whole thing, continue to enforce bright line infractions and leave it to the each to deal with his neighbors, with Management dispensing a dose of discipline about civility as needed. I'm not into cooling-off periods or hand-slaps or other namby-pamby feel-good accomplish-nothing over-the-long-term actions by Management. The most effective things that can be done is: respect each other or ignore each other. The latter requires self discipline, self restraint and use of forum tools provided. If you guys want to shape your community behavior beyond what Oz and I are comfortable with then do it. Else, live with it as is. The latter will mean that responses to requests for suspending or banning members will most often receive the reply: deal with it. We will review complaints as we do now. But only bright line infractions are likely to result in suspension or banishment. That's my view anyway. Oz will have his say and he and I will move ahead with what we decide. That is unless someone proposes an appealing idea that has not been considered.

TomCal, Great to have you black. The Spirit of Brazilian sauna scene leaves on you, you are above all the scene reconteur. In your recent adventures you mentioned a blonde guy that you met trough OZ and end up going up with him and another boy at 117 the first time you were at the club on your current trek, and met both of them again the following afternoon. You also mentioned somebody named Marco. Is he the blonde guy in 117 threesome and also at your apartment? Is Marco Aurelio his entire first name? This guy fits the description of someone that I know, friends of OZ, blonde,called Marco Aurelio (he might only use Marco nowadays) and if I'm not mistaken lives in the Meir neighborhood, where I once spend the night. I've lost contact with this guy and woul be over the moon if I had a chance to see him again. Well worth a long trip to Rio. Please help me and if you have a picture, (not his forte) , it would be swell, Now enjoy Portp Alegre to the max and tell us like it is.