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Man arrested in Rio suspected of killing European tourist Ilia Kakhaberidze, 31, was found dead in a hotel room in the Lapa neighborhood (image below)  05/31/2023 at 10:15 am | Updated 05/31/2023 at 10:34 am The Military Police of Rio de Janeiro arrested a 42-year-old man suspected of killing a tourist from Georgia, in a hotel in Lapa, in the center of the capital. According to the PM, Wallace de Oliveira was arrested on Tuesday (30), in the act, with the help of witnesses. With the suspect, the police seized documents and cards of the victim. Wallace de Oliveira has nine passages through the police. Ilia Kakhaberidze, 31, was found dead in a hotel room in the Lapa neighborhood. His body was tied up and had signs of violence. According to witnesses, the tourist arrived at the hotel accompanied by the suspect. Four hours later, Wallace left the scene. Employees suspected the attitude, went to the room and found Ilia dead. His body was taken to the Legal Medical Institute (IML) in Rio and the case is being investigated by the Homicide Police Station of the Capital as robbery (robbery followed by death). Ilia Kakhaberidze was a ship engineering officer and worked on board. To CNN , the Honorary Consul of Georgia in São Paulo, Carmen Ruette, informed that the Consulate is aware of what happened to the citizen of the European country and that the Embassy of Georgia in Brasilia is acting in the case. For its part, the Embassy of Georgia in Brazil informed CNN that it is aware of what happened and has already made contact with the victim's relatives. Georgia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was doing what it could to help transport the body to its home country.

Ha! That’s hilarious. I’ve never even smoked a tobacco cigarette in my entire life, much less a hard drug. As for coke, I do like a good and Coke — Cuba Libre. But keep digging! I do admire your tenacity and thirst for knowledge — even if you keep coming up empty.

His inappropriateness and creepiness with posters / clients isn’t just limited to private messages and long, meandering public posts on the board. It has gone far beyond him just being the harmless little socially awkward lonely weirdo on a message board. And he’s done this with several different, completely unrelated posters / clients. Notice he’s attempted to call me every name in the book here (well, by pretending not to be talking about / to me, because allegedly, I’m on “ignore”)… but what he WON’T do is call me a liar, and he won’t call my bluff and respond, “yes, post your claims about my identity here.”

So, since it’s “fake news”, Rioblather aka SirBillyBob aka Bobbalino, you obviously don’t care if I post your identifying government name and photo, along with the inappropriate contacts that you have made offsite with various posters / clients that they have stated to me and others have made them uncomfortable, labeling you as “creepy” and even “mental”? You know, since it’s fake news and not really you… Just say the word. “Yes”, I’ll post. “No”, I won’t. I’m completely unconcerned about any potential defamation claims. Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. So, let me worry about my own liability. Yes, or no?

Oh, by all means. Do share what you think you know with the class. And I’ll be more than happy to share, publicly or privately, what several other very respected posters, young and old, have informed me about your batshit crazy, disturbing, socially inappropriate stalkerish behaviors with them. There’s very good reason why people avoid you. You really think that I randomly plucked you out of thin air to pick message board fights with you? Nope. I have literally been warned about you, and was given your name and photo, and told, “it’s best to avoid this guy if you see him, because he doesn’t understand social boundaries and it’s creepy.” Not MY words. Theirs. So, shall we proceed, Bobbalino? Or should I say, SitBillyBob? Or maybe just spell it out… Your call.

No, you don’t have it right, Brainiac. No one here referred to BlkSuperman as “deplorable”. That was referring to the comments made here by another poster — to which both LatBear and I responded. So, the rest of your usual nonsensical long-winded blather is invalidated.

To clear up any possible confusion you or another poster might have, the original criticisms from me and the other posters (LatBear, Paborn) about the “Ugly American” entitled behavior weren’t about you. They were aimed at the half-vaccinated poster.

So, you don’t proofread your own posts before pressing “submit reply”.

Could it be that he’s finally learned that “less is more”?

We don’t often see eye-to-eye, but you’re spot-on here. Both what was said to that Dominican barber by the black American AND what was said in Paco’s in the example by the white American to the black American who was assumed to be Dominican were just deplorable behaviors. I truly hate to watch when an American abroad talks down to or treats the locals like they are "less than". It reinforces the pervasive, negative stereotype of an “Ugly American” — entitled, obnoxious, loud, showy, privileged-acting, and presuming to be superior and the center of The Universe. But it’s bad enough to see these kinds of presumptions of privilege and entitlement with white Americans. It’s even worse when black and brown Americans adopt these terrible traits. It's like some of us just can't wait to use our "blue passport privilege" for evil and act like the oppressors at the very first chance we get when we travel outside the USA. Travel better.

Without mentioning any names, there was a prolific poster here who, although he never mentioned it on the boards, was recently (as in the past several years) mugged, robbed or physically assaulted on the streets of São Paulo on three trips in a row. He did not mention it publicly but he told friends. I am not sure why, but I suspect he didn’t discuss it here or any of the other popular gay travel boards because São Paulo is his favorite city in Brazil. But to suggest that crime is somehow greater in Rio than in São Paulo is not exactly absurd. It is, not just perceptually, but even statistically. The homicide rate in Rio is nearly 3 times that of São Paulo. São Paulo being the economic center of South America is just a wealthier city than Rio, with a more robust police force, which helps reduce at least the perception of crime if not the reality of it.

There are more than you think.

Yeah, he’s a good guy and tries to be as attentive to the clients as possible. But be honest: is he the best waiter at any of the saunas because he is a good waiter… or because he is available for more?

That’s a relief! I was about to call you a “cheap muthafucka”!

We are not referring here to the pay boys, but to the service workers / staff, like the bartenders who serve you drinks, the bar backs who bring drinks and food and clean the tables, the towel attendants in the locker rooms who often times can go the extra mile, the front desk attendants, and the cleaning crew who have to clean up the rooms before and after the paid sex work as well as the bathrooms, the steam rooms and the video rooms. Not one, ever?

How about simply doing it because it’s a nice thing to do?

I can’t believe this is even a conversation. Tip service workers, you cheap ass muthafuckas. Especially in developing countries. Who cares if they ask or remind you about it? They work for so little. Take an extra roll of small bills to the saunas with you and use them for tips. If breaking a 50 reais ($10 USD) into smaller bits and disseminating it to those who provided you a non-sexual service is going to break you, then maybe you shouldn’t be traveling or even leaving your house at all.

Not a fan at all of his husband (now widow) Glenn Greenwald, but David seemed like a lovely person, who definitely was a rare garoto / beach boy success story. So much accomplished and such promise left, and far too young to leave this Earth — not to mention such an awful way to go. Those poor children that he leaves behind. ————————————- Obituaries David Miranda, Brazilian gay rights activist and legislator, dies at 37 He assisted his husband, journalist Glenn Greenwald, in disseminating information from classified U.S. documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden David Miranda at his office in Brasília in 2019. (Sergio Lima/AFP/Getty Images) By Fred A. Bernstein May 10, 2023 at 2:47 p.m. CT David Miranda, a Brazilian gay rights activist and former lawmaker who assisted his husband, journalist Glenn Greenwald, in disseminating information from classified U.S. documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, died May 9 at a hospital in Rio de Janeiro. He was 37. Greenwald announced the death, which occurred a day before Mr. Miranda’s 38th birthday. After being hospitalized with a severe gastrointestinal infection in August, Mr. Miranda spent nine months in intensive care, where he battled additional infections but occasionally rallied, according to Greenwald. No immediate cause of death was reported. The son of a prostitute, Mr. Miranda was raised by a neighbor in a desperately poor Rio neighborhood. He rose to prominence as a groundbreaking gay politician and fierce opponent of the right-wing Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president from 2019 to 2022. Mr. Miranda ranked among Time magazine’s 100 “next generation leaders” in 2019 because of his outspokenness on behalf of Brazil’s poorest and most-marginalized communities. Mr. Miranda, who met Greenwald in 2005 on Rio’s Ipanema Beach, entered politics in 2016, when he became, by all accounts, the first openly gay man elected to Rio’s city council. Two years later, he ran for the federal legislature with the Socialism and Liberty Party, known by its Portuguese initials PSOL. Mr. Miranda lost the 2018 election but gained a seat the following year after lawmaker Jean Wyllys, another openly gay member of PSOL, left the country following death threats. Mr. Miranda was elected to fill his seat. “Obviously, I’m afraid for my life or what can happen to my family,” Mr. Miranda said in a radio interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in 2019, “but in moments like this you have to be brave. People need a voice.” Before entering politics, Mr. Miranda gained international attention while carrying computer files related to documents leaked by Snowden, a computer intelligence consultant whose employer worked with the National Security Agency. In 2013, Snowden had released a trove of classified material to Greenwald and Laura Poitras, an American documentary filmmaker living in Germany. Among the disclosures were details on surveillance by the NSA and other agencies. Several months later, Mr. Miranda was enlisted by Greenwald to ferry a thumb drive from Poitras back to Brazil. During a stopover at London’s Heathrow Airport, Mr. Miranda was detained under Britain’s anti-terrorism law and held for nine hours. “I was sure I was going away to Guantánamo forever,” he later said. But he made it home to Rio and sued the British government, claiming it violated his rights as a journalist. A British tribunal ruled in 2014 that Mr. Miranda’s detention was lawful although it was “an indirect interference with press freedom.” (Snowden did not return to the United States, fearing arrest, and was granted Russian citizenship in 2022.) “Journalism is not a crime,” Greenwald said after his husband’s detention, “and it’s not terrorism.” Mr. Miranda and Greenwald met in 2005 when the latter, then a lawyer in Manhattan, traveled to Brazil for a two-month vacation. On the beach, Mr. Miranda was playing volleyball and accidentally knocked over Greenwald’s drink. He apologized profusely, in Portuguese. Mr. Miranda and Greenwald went out to dinner that night and began living together less than a week later. Their mutual attraction, Greenwald later told the New York Times, was like “two asteroids colliding,” and they soon married. “I didn’t speak much English,” Mr. Miranda told Out magazine in 2011, “and he only knew a few words of Portuguese, but we communicated everything important. When you meet the right person, you know it.” To stay in Brazil with Mr. Miranda, Greenwald had to stop practicing law. He threw himself into blogging, first with Salon and then for the Guardian. He developed a following writing about the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and their effect on civil liberties back home. Greenwald’s pieces attracted the attention of Snowden years before the leaks. In 2014, The Washington Post and the Guardian were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service for a series of stories that exposed the NSA’s global surveillance programs. The lead journalists on the project — The Post’s Barton Gellman and Greenwald for the Guardian — based their articles on Snowden’s disclosures. “Of everyone who had a hand in the 2013 revelations of global mass surveillance, my dear friend David Miranda was perhaps the most righteous — and pure,” Snowden tweeted after hearing of Mr. Miranda’s death. Snowden wrote that Mr. Miranda “never faltered” during his questioning by British authorities. Life on the streets David Michael dos Santos Miranda was born on May 10, 1985, to a prostitute in Jacarezinho, one of Rio’s most impoverished districts. He never knew his father, and his mother died when he was 5. Mr. Miranda was raised by a neighbor, but he went off on his own at 13. To get by, he shined shoes and cleaned buildings and sometimes scrounged from trash bins for food. Later, with Greenwald’s encouragement, Mr. Miranda graduated in 2014 with a marketing degree from a school in Rio. Mr. Miranda’s involvement in the Snowden leaks inspired him to enter politics, first by mounting an unsuccessful appeal to Brazilian authorities to grant Snowden asylum. A year after his election in Rio, he was joined on the city council by Marielle Franco, a Black woman with a female partner and a child. She became a mentor and “a mother figure,” Mr. Miranda said. Their joint initiatives included a law allowing transgender people to use their preferred names on government documents. “Fighting for the LGBT community,” he said, “is the core of my bones and blood.” In 2018, while being driven home after giving a speech, Franco was fatally shot. Mr. Miranda told Out magazine that he believed it was a targeted killing. (Two former policemen were later arrested in the crime and are awaiting trial.) “They could have pretended it was a mugging,” Mr. Miranda said, “but they didn’t bother. They wanted to send a message.” Mr. Miranda said being a pallbearer at Franco’s funeral “might have been the hardest moment of my life.” After Franco’s death, Mr. Miranda, Greenwald and their two adopted children traveled in cars with bulletproof glass. Mr. Miranda canceled some engagements for security reasons. In the federal legislature, Mr. Miranda led efforts for hate crime laws to protect LGBTQ+ communities. He also worked on investigative projects with Greenwald, who left the Guardian and helped found a news site, the Intercept, in 2014. (Greenwald resigned from the Intercept in 2020.) Mr. Miranda helped Greenwald with a 2019 story that quoted from hacked cellphone conversations between prosecutors and a judge overseeing a corruption case against former leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose jailing cleared the way for Bolsonaro’s election victory. (Da Silva, widely known as Lula, came back to defeat Bolsonaro in 2022 and regain the presidency.) The bombshell story made Mr. Miranda and Greenwald targets of Bolsonaro, who had already declared himself “a proud homophobe,” and his supporters. In 2020, Greenwald was charged with “cybercrimes” by the Bolsonaro government. The case was later dismissed by a judge who said Greenwald had “instigated” hacking but was protected by press freedoms. In addition to Greenwald, survivors include their sons, João and Jonathan. In July 2019, the Times reported that Mr. Miranda was living alone and racked by “loneliness and alienation” in the capital, Brasília. He served out his term, however, and planned to run for reelection in 2022. His candidacy was withdrawn in October during his hospitalization. “Fighting for justice is necessary, an obligation,” wrote Mr. Miranda in 2018, “even if it is always risky.

The undisputed winner of The Most Popular At GP Saunas, for the 35th consecutive year. Also, coincidentally has simultaneously won Most Likely To Succeed At GP Saunas: “Yoi like me! You really like me!”

The Botafogo / Coca-Cola Metro station was reverted back to simply "Botafogo" in early November, 2022.

This thread is full of shitty posts.

This comment misses — or intentionally evades — my original point. “Opposites attract” (at least in physical, superficial measurements) is not really the norm at all in same-sex relationships worldwide — not just in gay enclaves. The international p4p scene thrives because what these men “go for” is usually not going for them — and spending power changes that, albeit usually temporarily.