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I am going soon to make my 4th trip to Brazil this year in october! Imho, there has been some changes but overall things are the same as the last 15 years that i have been going here! The terrible economy in Brazil has slowed the saunas down as local customers who are 99% of their business have seen their incomes and/or jobs have been reduced or eliminated are going once a month instead of once a week! On the other hand for the customers it has brought out new guys looking to make money the saunas seem to each have one good night and the rest of the nights range from slow to almost empty with the exception of club 117 which has armt least 3 busier nights. Three guys who live in Sao Paul and work at Lagoa, told me 2 weeks ago they were going to Rio to work there for a month because Lagoa has been so slow, and these are 3 of the hotter(and usually busiest guys there)! Con't

When I go in October it will be my first trip to P.A. since January. My trips in March and June I spent all my time Rio and S.P. and had 4 guys each trip that really get along well and they stayed at the apt the whole time. This trip they will be staying at the apt again, but the first weekend I am spending in Porto Alegre alone....or at least without them! I have friends there I want to see, but I am spending only 2 nights there, getting in on a Friday and leaving Sunday to get into Rio at Noon! I know the owners of both Mezziniu and BarMixx well, and part of the reason in going to meetup and see them...and of course the boys in the sauna and bar. Here are 2 photos I took at Mezziniu

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Last-but-one step to officially declaring it All Our Fault. The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age Experts say human impact on Earth so profound that Holocene must give way to epoch defined by nuclear tests, plastic pollution and domesticated chicken Nuclear test explosion in Mururoa atoll, French Polynesia, in 1971. The official expert group says the Anthropocene should begin about 1950 and is likely to be defined by the radioactive elements dispersed across Earth by nuclear bomb tests. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Humanity’s impact on the Earth is now so profound that a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – needs to be declared, according to an official expert group who presented the recommendation to the International Geological Congress in Cape Town on Monday. The new epoch should begin about 1950, the experts said, and was likely to be defined by the radioactive elements dispersed across the planet by nuclear bomb tests, although an array of other signals, including plastic pollution, soot from power stations, concrete, and even the bones left by the global proliferation of the domestic chicken were now under consideration... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/29/declare-anthropocene-epoch-experts-urge-geological-congress-human-impact-earth

Huffington Post has some fascinating pictures of gays who live in the sewers of Jamaica. Well worth a look, imho. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/christo-geoghegan-gully-queen-photos_us_57c09c34e4b085c1ff29586f?section=&

America's got Talent has got some amazing talent this year. In the singing category is male standout and frontrunner Brian Mitchell Crum. He is gorgeous, sings like an angel, seems like a sweet soul, and he's GAY ! When he sings, it gives Grandma shivers. Reminds me of the first time I saw Adam Lambert on American Idol. Such a powerful, emotional voice. Listen here, then tune in and VOTE for him !

Grandma LOVES the girl groups of the 60's.... Here in a tribute that's pure Purrfection is Carrie Underwood, Kristin Chenowith and Christina Applegate. This Medley just made me so Happy !

I gave you a hydrogen bomb and the Chronostratigraphic Chart. How much more could you take?

You need to post an intermission with a cute picture so we can get thru this article .

I was thinking exactly that too.

How young we were then! Just think how far we’ve come! My, my, we sure have picked up the pace! What a difference nine years makes! We’re so much more urbane! More interesting topics nowadays! I’d give half my widow’s mite to see another post from StuCotts.

No discussions regarding this. It is done!

Can't quite believe this thread is nine years old. Eek. Where does the time go?