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That is the way to do it! You can have a point of view like this, but you don’t claim it as a universal fact, instead you acknowledge that it is a personal perspective that comes from your cultural upbringing. That is so much better than being frustrated at others for not understanding what you mean when you say, “No, you are wrong, not one of these 30 guys in 117 is white.”

ParisRio2000. “I think it's very possible that for people who weren't visiting the saunas 10 yrs ago or more, they don't know what I'm talking about....” i Have been visiting 4 or 5 times a year for 17 years...and i have no fucking idea what you are talking about! i can think off the top of my head of 5 white Hot guys this last year that matched anything i saw in 2001 - 2008. no i am not sending you photos! you can believe me or not, i. think my reputation among people on this board who have hung with me in Rio know i don’t lie or exaggerate! (too much)! lol btw i can think of the same number of stunning Black guys I am a equal opportunity Fucker! and luckily my only preferences are... none!

Ok, so, to answer your question in your original post “do you know why” : no, we don’t know because we don’t even understand what you are talking about. I was in RIo saunas in December and most of guys I fucked were white. Your claim that they have left just doesn’t compute over here.

Alas. Godspeed. Ursula K Le Guin, sci-fi and fantasy author, dies at 88 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/23/ursula-k-le-guin-sci-fi-fantasy-author-dies-at-88

Jim Carey pays tribute to White House mouthpiece and master liar Sarah Fuckabee Sanders.... with his uncanny portrait.

Yesterday(Sunday) i got back to the house around 6:30 and got on Grindr and there was everyone in Merida on it i swear! eventually i narrowed it down to a 20 yr old who was cute, muscular, and one of the sweetest guys i had met! a couple of hours go by and when we were done having sex he says to me “do you have a BF?” i said “no one in particular here in Merida” and he says “can i be your BF?” i thought he was joking at first but he wasn’t! We went to my friends Pizzeria and ate and he asked me if i would go with him to his sisters Birthday Party that is coming up? I said “How would you explain who this older tall guy is that you invited?” He said ”I would tell them you are my Boyfriend”! He has a mother and 2 sisters and a slew of aunts and uncles! i declined but he said we will talk about again on Tuesday when he sees me! but i didn’t ask him over on Tuesday he is just assuming he is coming over! very sweet but a little to clingy for me...plus i have 3 guys coming over Tuesday! LOL

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/top-5-thoughts-by-stephen-hawking/vi-BBKj3f5

I am jealous!

I have been visiting the Brazil saunas often and almost as long as tomcal has has been visiting. I agree with tomcal's assessment. Have you considered the probability that on the nights you visited saunas, and reached your incorrect assumption, it just happened there was a fewer than usual amount of guys you described and prefer? There have been countless threads written in this forum discussing "good" nights and "slow" nights at the saunas. "Good" and/or "bad" nights can refer to a small number of garotos (low turnout) or a lack of garotos that motivate you to hire. I suspect that you merely happened to visit the saunas on the "bad" nights when there was not the type of guy you prefer.

Jeez, you don’t get dismissal, do you? You really are like the mooch. Added to my ignore list so that I don’t stumble upon your teachings anymore.

it is funny you say that about 5 years ago Luis, Juniors silent partner in Pointe said to me “i think if you ran for mayor of Rio you would win! LOL

Wtf? Where did I claim anything of the sort? Please teacher, teach me more about race in Rio!

You are doing so much success there that you are going to end mayor there in Merida Tomcal kkkk Glad you are enjoying it kkkkkkk

Please don’t come near me. I really don’t want to meet an arrogant copy of “The Mooch”

Not surprised at all.

I like it when Greek word formation is used correctly! It is not often in English, too often the meaning has diverged significantly from the original usage, but in this case it works.

That is very useful. Genuinely thank you That was helped clarify my thinking a lot.

They are not exclusive. One is about knowledge, the other is about believing. Not exclusive Gnosticism is about what you know and don’t know. (Greek “gnosis” knowledge) An agnostic is some who doesn’t know ( “a”, without, and “gnosis”, knowledge, someone who doesn’t claim to know, in this case, that a god exists). Theism is about believing in \ worshipping a god. (Greek “a”, without, and “theo” god, so “without a god”). So an atheist is someone who doesn’t worship any god. I am an agnostic atheist: I don’t know that there are no gods for sure, but I don’t believe so, and I certainly don’t worship any.

From the Hornet App: https://hornetapp.com/stories/gay-sao-paulo-brazil/ Personally, I prefer doing the first 5 guys on Tomcal's video. But, hey, I"m flexible and willing to try a few more things. I have done several of these. You?

Yes....someone in the kitchen didn't like you.

Did you seriously just spell the Italian word capisce as “capish”? Did you seriously just denigrate indigenous’ people's social structure as “grass huts”? Ugh.

Last night i went out with friends to dinner got back about Midnight and was really tired so thought i would go to bed in 15 mins...but i got a text from a guy here that said ”hey are you at your house? a friend and i are close by but he is straight and wants to go to the straight bar and i don’t! can i stay with you tonight? He has stayed here before and i know him so i said “sure but i am really tired and am going to bed but if you want to stay up and watch TV that’s fine.” this was 12:30...we finally went to sleep at 3:30! lol so much for a night alone to rest! He left at noon and i said “do you need any cash for a taxi? and he says no, my House is over by the Hyatt and i said that’s about 3+ miles! i told him let me get you a uber so he said ok! Uber was about $1.25!! I do love it here! this afternoon a 19yr old i met off Grindr about 6 months ago messaged me and said “you doing anything around 5:00? “ i go i am meeting friends around 6:00!” and he goes “i am horny i will cum fast!” and that’s a Sunday afternoon in Merida!

You did not need to apologize for this error. It was a very minor mistake. Yes, Rogers was in Copa along with Estacao. I had my first experience there and vividly remember when I walked through the doors, I felt as if most, if not all eyes of the garatos beamed in on me. I slightly panicked but begin to remember all of the salient advice which I'd received from what had been posted at www.daddysreviews.com. ...had a good time. The next night I was at Estacao. It was hopping, but when I went the next night-- it was dead, which I found to be rather perplexing in my NOT knowing the workings and going on's of the saunas. ...went back in February during Carnaval and exposed my friend to Point 202 where he truly overstayed his time while in a cabine. He'd met a guy from Bahia whom I, to this day, think "rocked his world" and then some! Ah, the Brasilian saunas with garatos...!

After a long absence of a few years I am back here in America. I am quite shocked at how expensive thing have become. Much worse than the last time I was here. Particularly beef meat. The news media is consumed by the Trump insanity that thankfully we are not smothered with in Thailand. I'm really sorry for those of you who have to suffer through this. It is nice to see some old friends but other than that I am ready to return to the land of heat, humidity and inexpensive boys.

Also, I read the topic headline and OP to a fellow traveler who isn’t a forum member. His response: ”There’s a place where you can go to find a lot of European men. It’s called Europe.”

Notre Dame Glee Club Was blessed to see these fine young men performing tonight @ Assumption Catholic Church Lauderdale by the sea

...First, there is the titular wizard himself. Ged is a superb creation, by any measure, and was the Archmage of my bookshelf even before he became the Archmage of Earthsea. He was by far the easiest wizard to relate to, and the least derivative I knew. Not to belittle TH White’s, Tolkien’s or Susan Cooper’s wizards (never belittle a wizard of any stripe), but they are variants on the archetype of Merlin, a Caucasian scholarly aristocrat amongst sorcerers, who appears fully formed and with little room for character development. Where the Merlins reveal themselves layer by layer, Ged grows. Each section of the novel is a stage in “Ged’s Progress”: from a village lout called Duny in Ten Alders, “wild, a thriving weed, a tall, quick boy, loud and proud and full of temper”, to an impatient apprentice at Re Albi, hungry for power for its own sake, to a brash student on Roke prone to inverted snobbery, to a chastened survivor on Low Torning and Pendor, to a guest in a trap on wintry Osskil, to a fugitive returning to Gont, and finally to a hunter going to his own death. The narrative is powered by Ged’s vices and virtues, and this intertwining of character and plot gives A Wizard of Earthsea an inherent rightness, like a progression of unexpected yet satisfying chord changes. Any reader with experience of adolescence will recognise herself, or himself, in Ged’s portrait, and because we identify with Ged’s failings, we worry for him, can hardly bear to look when disaster hits, and afterwards care deeply about his fate. Compared to Ged, the novel’s other characters are minor ones in terms of “screen time” and only three appear in more than one episode of Ged’s life: Ogion the Silent, Ged’s master on Gont; Vetch, a friend who sometimes knows Ged better than Ged knows Ged; and Serret, an ill-intentioned sorceress. Yet even the characters that appear most fleetingly seem to be endowed by Le Guin with a fully thought-out inner life, so that when they speak, act and respond, they do so as human beings who have lived lives as full, broken, light, dark, messy and real as Ged’s and ours. Here a fisherman named Pechvarry, whose dying son Ged tried but failed to save, meets the young wizard on his victorious return from Pendor: “‘I did not know you were so mighty, my lord.’ There was fear in that because he had dared make Ged his friend, but there was reproach in it also. Ged had not saved a little child, though he had slain dragons.” How human this brief passage makes Pechvarry, how conflicted, and how visible it makes his scars. Le Guin’s thumbnail sketches contain the psychological depth of oil paintings. The notion that these people on the periphery of Ged’s story aren’t real never crosses my mind. Pechvarry et al. are still out there in their corner of Earthsea, getting on with their lives. As for the titular wizard, so for his titular world. “The rhythmic structure of narrative is both journey-like and architectural,” Le Guin has written. “Great novels offer us not only a series of events, but a place, a landscape of the imagination which we can inhabit and return to. This may be particularly clear in the ‘secondary universe’ of fantasy, where not only the action but the setting is avowedly invented by the author.” Earthsea is an archipelago, dense with islands at its centre and sparser at its edges, and after my first reading, it joined Tolkien’s Middle-earth to form an elite fantasy-world super-league of two. (George RR Martin’s Westeros has since made it three, but CS Lewis’s Narnia feels too fey and allegorical to qualify.) Tolkien, whose influence Le Guin acknowledges, casts a long shadow over 20th-century fantasy, and yet (after donning my riot gear) I would argue that Earthsea is a superior creation to Middle-earth. No territory is as fertile as virgin territory, but Tolkien’s sylvan elves, earthy dwarves, cod-Arthurian knights, scrotum-faced orcs and Dark Lords in implausible towers have ossified into cliche. Earthsea is a fantasy world, and proud of it, mapped by its creator in 1966–7 on a large sheet of butcher’s paper with crayons in a house full of young children. Earthsea has magic, dragons, its own myths and prehistory; but its magic is weighted with metaphysics, its dragons are psychodragons of air and mind, more akin to dangerous Chinese sages than Tolkien’s Smaug; and Earthsea is so human a world – with trade-routes, local politics, class hierarchies, infant mortality, abuse, addiction and slavery – that its fantastical elements feel almost quotidian. Even Earthsea’s islands, with names such as Atnini, Komokome, Selidor and the Isle of the Ear, have a habit of morphing into islands in each reader’s memory: the Hebrides, the Cyclades, the islands of the Seto Inland Sea, or Hawaii... https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/23/david-mitchell-wizard-of-earthsea-tolkien-george-rr-martin

Just returned last night from a friend's birthday weekend in Barcelona replete with eating and lots of visits to Thermas. We all took different airlines (JFK, EWR) and landed in the early afternoon on Thursday (I tried the new Norwegian airline from EWR- the business class tickets are a good deal as they are only slightly more than the premium economy on the legacy airlines). Checked into the hotel (Mandarin Oriental, located on the edge of the gay district. The hotel is well situated, but the interior is a little dated compared to other MOs; however, the doormen are all tall dark handsome spaniards with beautiful smiles and always willing to lend a helping hand). Side note: do not get the bfast buffet as it is not worth 45 euros. Rather spend it at the nice cafe (Faborit) across the street and you can get a really good meal for 10 euros. Upon check-in, i immediately skipped my usual nap and headed straight to Thermas. (Cabfare from hotel is about 6 euros, i tried to save some money on subsequent visits by buying the T10 card, which allows you to take the metro for 1 euro). The entrance fee is now 18 euros and all the rates are well listed (along with the prices for the hourly rooms). Met with Felipe a nice muscular guy from Porto who did an amazing massage and did wonderful things with his tongue. Also played with Douglas, a cute Brazilian who despite claiming he was active proved to be otherwise behind closed doors. His ass was screaming to be fucked and I came within seconds of seeing his cute ass. There was Alberto, a hunky dark haired belami-looking Bulgarian who said he was active and wanted to play- however, i was so physically spent and had to meet up with my friends for dinner at Lasarte, i decided to look for him another time. There were about 15 other beautiful muscular guys and everyone was very friendly. Day 2. Rented a car with friends and went to a cava winery tour at Cordoniu, followed by a trip to the beachtown of Sitges (lovely late lunch of lobster paella at Can Laury - very hot waiters there!). Returned to city by 6 pm, which gave me 2 hours to play before meeting friends again for dinner. Met up with sultry venezualan Rudolfo - nice attitude, puppy dog eyes, beautiful smile and wanted to do everything to make me happy. Met up with Douglas too who i was texting all day. He offered to meet me at hotel for an overnight. I declined as I didn't know exactly what time my dinner would end and i was pretty exhausted from the out-of-town trips that day. Had another great meal at ABAC and went to Axel Hotel rooftop bar with friends for drinks. The scene was really nice there! About 20 guys this evening, with about 70% being brazilian/venezualan. Day 3. Did local touristy things - Casa Batilo, Park Guell and Sagrada Familia. Met up with Igor, a Hungarian who gave a very good massage. Played with Marcel, a venezualan with movie star looks with nice beard and an extremely large cock. Also had fun with Paulo (another venezualan!) frat boy square face with cute freckles and tight ass - he claimed to be active but whispered to me that he'll do anything i wanted... and he did. Had an excellent meal at Dos Palillos (1 star, but very good fusion food). About 30 guys tonight (similar demographics as the previous day- though i was surprised to meet someone from Hungary, and another guy from Macedonia (name escapes me). My good friend who decided to visit the sauna met up with an extremely hot egyptian (looked like a darker version of hollywood actor Henry Cavill) who also offered to come visit him at the hotel. (My friend kept his number but had a grindr hookup that evening). Day 4. Went to an afternoon opera at the Liceu (L'elisir d'amore) and a Strauss Concert evening concert. Between cultural events, i went back to Thermas and met up with Ruslan, a hot silver fox from kazakhstan who is a restaurant worker making extra cash in the sauna.. Very sweet and nice bedroom eyes. Good kisser. Was texting a lot with Douglas, the brazilian from the first night, but i couldn't commit to overnight plans. Went to dinner at Petit Pau, one of the few non michelin restaurants we tried, but we all loved it and thought it was one of the best meals that trip.