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LOL, Finally ... Eddie, an appealing <soul jazz holman> crooner, antidote to <soleazzhole man> crone.
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Oh, noooo !!! Nellie Oleson prairie girl couz Sally Alice Hole 'bout gettin' to unfwiend summun an' hewrt there fee-fees weal bad.
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Did I miss something? I thought that Badboy's hostile comment to Sydneyboy was about the perhaps relative safety of Thailand, not to do with age or type of worker. Crime rates seem independent of any dig about age or preferred type. If his advice is to "let go" the assault memory embedded at a younger age, it makes sense to stick with Rio and the many consecutive uneventful visits that subsequently occurred. I cannot be sure due to the trend for some associates to egg each other on in their disorganized contempt for difference. Gets confusing.
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Yes, the predicted mockery Paborn out. Enjoy your Faustian bargain. LOL
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Look, fellows ... there is a division here, fair enough, it happens. And who's zoomin'' who is actually ambiguous. LOL I don't particularly support one-sided alliance either way, and I would prefer to be friendly with everyone, however capable or incapable others are in making an accurate assessment of my motives. This thread got most derailed when I was criticized for posting some data I found interesting and relevant. I was certain that the language I used was qualitatively no different than my contributions earlier in the thread. As I reflect more on it, I think my earlier thread points were valued more because they attracted a shark school of the usual predictable array of bee-atches to send up a contributor whose posts were, granted, inconsistent and exaggerated. When that fizzled, it seems that I was the next best candidate in line for being chum in the water. Historically, it seems that anybody can be that chum for our most favourite chum here and whoever his current cronies may be ... they should all get a room, fuck themselves silly (however flaccidizing that thought) and bite each others' heads off for snacks. I have noticed similar trends in other interpersonal systems ... teams, families, working groups, etc. Best to just try to roll with it. It can be unfortunate and offputting at times. It is a challenge not to feel a teeny tiny bit superior as one witnesses substandard observational skills and half-baked pronouncements. But everybody has their own particular strengths that surpass mine. The negativity is disorienting because I had the good fortune of growing in a very healthy functioning family. On balance, I don't feel strongly I should ignore members. I accept that others may choose to react by not reacting. I think I am of average intelligence but I do like to stretch myself to learn, and I do try to track, unpack, and comprehend the often problematic dynamics that arise in the typical message board setting. I am smart enough to know that even these thoughts are up for grabs for gratuitous mockery. However, the key is simply to deposit such outliers' comments in the "questionable worth" bin, respond as needed, and calmly anticipate the next salvo. Extracting what is good about the forum as long as it is sufficiently proportional.
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Not needed. I can handle on my own an arrogant ostentatious prick insisting on dogging me and select others. You always come back to this amateurish psychodiagnostic bone to gnaw on. It is like a tired invariant script. Don't you get tired of chasing your own tail? I don't mind taking the time to push back. It is like psychological Sudoku. You are both easy to know and flick away. On message boards, folks like you simply represent a faction of bright yet distasteful people that pervade our midst. Don't try to change. Your personality is entrenched, helpless yet essentialist in terms of the inevitable part-time troll role you fill. It is a dirty job, but someone has to fill it and your sacrifice is appreciated. I also prefer a troll with half a brain, so plod on, Snookums. Better you than some pitiful others the antithesis of a Mensa chapter prez. If readers want an education about you, or not, either way no skin off my ass.
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Unexpected guests when renting Airbnb - Yikes!
Riobard replied to mvan1's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
Uh-oh, Adam. Not so simple, particularly kissing bugs that are as likely to fly as crawl, unlike bed bugs, and land on the human facial runway then progress near the gates of eyes, nose, and mouth for the bloody grub they then shit on. Pesticides banned there. A simple netted hood over head and fastened at shoulder level likely more effective. I always bring one to Brazil in case I see culprits in the bedroom because a second clade of dengue exposure from AE ''skeeter while sleeping could end up hemorrhagic. I think you MAY have just opened a minor shit-can of worms but the proverbial genie cannot be easily stuffed back into the pesticide bottle. LOL. I would not be inclined to use either of your two suggestions for bedbug bed locale control because there are easier more effective methods. We had Public Health specialists come in for an in-service a while back when some vulnerable patients were at risk during an urban uptick that was not, BTW, classist. I would also advise not to smash a bug caught in the act, or rub and scratch a bite site, smooshing the gut-sourced or faecal Chagas pathogen into the bloodstream where the wound is. Use an alcohol swab for light cleansing. Try to tolerate the itch or gently apply hydrocortisone cream to the site without vigorously rubbing it in. But here is the other type of rub ... if you precipitously require a transfusion in Latin America, the reliability of mandated Chagas-screening procedures for donated blood and the accuracy of diagnostic assays are not foolproof. The human prevalence is high. If you suspect a Chagas exposure while travelling, go to your closest InfectiousDiseases clinic for early pharmacological intervention upon returning home. Catching it early can eradicate its presence. -
Unexpected guests when renting Airbnb - Yikes!
Riobard replied to mvan1's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
This would be a timely point at which to interject a thought. It is an inarguable point because it simply reflects a preference on my part, in case one ends up thinking it is worth trying to poke holes into. I comment also because it is a pattern rather than a one-time occurrence appropriate to just let slip. It works better for me when I am not informed that one approves of my post while referencing it in comparison to another's not approved of or liked, as if I am the good student while the other is dunce in the corner. It works better for me if one does not allude to my being spared a negative gif or image, as if you one is the authoritative adjudicator of the worth of contributions. My preference need not be heeded. I don't pretend to have strong influence, but I would be remiss if not pointing out something the average person wishes. I do value the prolific initiation of interesting, thoughtful topics. I hope that level of appreciation overrides the risk of offense taken. -
Just how many casts of thousands on the message board here endorse your self-appointed bossy-pants moderator role? Like has been said previously, any reader can just bypass a post and consideration of an appreciative emoticon. Only a reminder ... I don't pretend to have the capacity to influence members very much, particularly the pseudoperson that your bad manners make you. In contrast, perhaps you crashed and burned at a Blue Man Group audition and desperately need a little drummer-boy soapbox for your face and overextended lid of garbage. Just breathe. I won't take editorial direction from any overly critical <soul's asshole>. If you truly understand the audience you would recognize that you are fired in terms of input for me, and would take your unsolicited resumé elsewhere for the oxygen your ego craves.
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Unexpected guests when renting Airbnb - Yikes!
Riobard replied to mvan1's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
Bed bugs as a species are capable of carrying 40+ human pathogens but seem to not easily pass them back to humans. It has been thought HepB would be a likely candidate, but not yet borne out. For Chagas disease the larger kissing bug, its faeces, is the culprit accountable for millions of human infections. However, a second more recent animal-model medical entomology study in New Mexico does corroborate the theoretical potential, as per the Penn findings, for the Chagas pathogen to be transmitted by bedbug faeces. Note, though, the researchers deliberately infected the bedbugs by feeding them the pathogen. The pathogen was then detected in their waste. Bedbugs in the natural setting would need to be first infected by feeding on an infected (eg, human) host. They do not infect one another, so it could be quite isolated. They would also need to mimic the characteristic habit of kissing bugs, immediately shitting where they eat so that it mixes into the feeding site wound. Since kissing bugs are the true risk factor and the source of human-to-bedbug potential followed by theoretical reverse transmission, it seems that insect control should prioritize kissing bugs, so named because they gravitate to the face. -
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Riobard replied to likeohmygod's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
He has to have a Paypal account and invoice you. He needs your email. He does not need your name. You will get the invoice prompt and you can pay the invoice thru your PayPal. I am pretty sure you don't need any of his information to remit it. He can put in the attached note that he is F-Med etc. This is a new playbook for him. He may be reluctant to be seen as stepping up the illegal brokering via digital means. An invoice is more incriminating than exclusively a remittance . Weird he will not facilitate cash in hand. -
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Riobard replied to likeohmygod's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
Oh, sorry, here's the way ... go to xoom.com ... it is a division of Paypal for international transfer and will prompt you to log in to your paypal. Pick the country, bank, and enter his account number. It calculates the exchange so approximate it first in your currency. I only went as far as account field, but I think it does not afterwards request more info on him. PS: NO, wrong, I put in a mockup account number and it does request his specs! -
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Riobard replied to likeohmygod's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
He sounds like an idiot. You will require his name for a bank transfer/remittance. His name must correspond exactly to his account. Otherwise an account entry error could be made by anyone. To send him cash (he picks it up) via Western Union you must enter his name and address ... if his worry is you having both name and banco account #. You can use PayPal with simply person's mobile number or email address, but you will likely need his email because of the country code difference, you can put him in contacts as Fercho. He will need to be set up to receive the SMS or email prompt he has the transfer, or the prompt for him to open PayPal account. -
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Riobard replied to likeohmygod's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
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Riobard replied to likeohmygod's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
Hell no to the no ... who is "he" BTW, owner or escort? -
Unexpected guests when renting Airbnb - Yikes!
Riobard replied to mvan1's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
The short-stay platforms should stop putting out the welcome mat to just anybod ... -
Unexpected guests when renting Airbnb - Yikes!
Riobard replied to mvan1's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
I read the article and got very indignant. Not only is Airbnb HQ remiss in developing a soliution for a growing bedbug problem but they are allowing double booking with the very prolific and bloodsucking Cimidae clan. And, pray tell, what are they doing about dengue, Zika, YF, CHIKV, Lyme's, and Charlotte's Web syndrome. Some people ... why I oughta' ... exterminate. And Airbnb is doing exactly what they should, being empathic and recommending solutions at owners' expense. Bedbugs are brought in by people and only exist where there are people or suitable mammals. Conventional cleaning does nothing. They can go months in hiding and escape the mops and vacuums, feeding mostly just before dawn and then scattering into the baseboards. I had to arrange my very elderly parents' ping-pong Norwegian scabies de-infestation after one of them picked them up in Physio, and a sick and blind friend's terrible bedbug problem, likely brought in my homecare aids servicing a poor and vulnerable population where the problem is widespread. No conniption fit made to landlords or housing authorities. While de-infestation is being arranged there are some simple strategies to prevent them marching up to the sleeping buffet that is you. -
LOL .... the decoder ring could use a software upgrade and better discern the fit of ad hominem attack, #SolsticeSol random star flare burn attempt intent. ;>D The thing is, you grasp exactly what I wrote, have a self-identified maths/prob'y background, and are perhaps overidentifying with readers that may be less familiar with some ideas and language. I was explaining how we organize statistics, probability, and episodic reports to inform our own risk/benefit scenarios and psychologically manage the reality of bad events, including distancing ourselves from identifying with victims. A little more along the lines of things like "outcome bias" discussed in recent threads, and to add insight into why some casualties are offended if others inquire about potential risk attributes. So not just a list of the now repetitive, hence approaching pedestrian, advice bulletpoints as per the article, which of course is interesting and useful on a stand-alone basis. Nobody could accuse you of being discriminatory or not game for playfulness. Rhaonw!! [teasing]
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During visits 2017-2019 I set my Grindr XTRA to one filter only: 'muscular' build. I identify as fit coroa/maduro with travel money I wish to spend on dates with option for intimacy mild-to-mild (not "w") and versatil mais pasivo in so many similar terms. Current photos of my rather average looks and 6'/175 frame. Have sent props out to hotties whose profiles do not explicitly read "não GP". Yield: 0, other than JO to several images. That trend has spared me some expenditures, as sometimes the fantasy supercedes a visit to 117 or 202. I would be more self-conscious about my profile if some older fellows and a few younger slender guys had not hit on me proposing unpaid encounters. I want dinheirophiles not gerontophiles. One persistent programa offer from a 40-ish ex-GdeP residing in Gloria ... why bother? I did get a little fixated on a short but beefy and hung young stud in Lapa, from the northeast, but our communication was floundering and then we hooked up when he ended up at 202 where I got in queue for a session. LOL.
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Here is a representation of what are likely the most accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive data on reported passerby street robberies for the Metro Rio region pop 13,000,000 ... one must logically extrapololate for Zona Sul. Yep, I am guilty of trolling for figures. You can actually find stats stratified according to things like exclusive cell phone theft, so there are overlaps. As you can see, the odds by capita per week are approximately 1/2,000 and bodily injury occurs in about half of incidents. (By Copacana pop extrapolation, would be about 80 robberies weekly there). Still, the chances of being mugged over one week would be not a lot greater than one lightning strike over one's lifetime. Causality trumps statistics, particular for outlier or low probability. For either above scenario, an explanatory "story" helps us make sense of the world's apparent randomness, ie, insufficient precautions contributing to the event. This often leads to neutral stereotyping ... yes, profiling does not always need to be demonized and need not be seen reflective of absence of empathy for trauma. People generally prefer interpreting individual propensity over an act of God or being reminded that heinous felons exist in our midst. This is also exempified, in the not uncommon hackneyed idea of attributing blame to sexual assault victims, an example of pejorative stereotyping.
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ALARM: Fercho masajes Medellin - CLOSED
Riobard replied to likeohmygod's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
Speaking of Mileroticos, in gay escort section this spa is currently listed, in Poblado a few kms south of Fercho's hotel recommendation Bliss. -
Cost of longer stay with boy in Brasil
Riobard replied to pauleiro's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
Somewhere between the floor and ceiling price structure. The higher he and I shoot, the greater the premium rate. Therefore, it tends to be a range rather than a central equilibrium, notwithstanding the length of the arrangement (but possibly other lengths). -
So you also reported two identical muggings 5-6 months apart? It is important to track one's own stories. When calling someone out, it is sometimes customary to use a little sarcasm. And what, exactly, is the concrete advice that ihpguy provided? I glean two things: turn over your "fake watch", otherwise why wear one?; a backpack can be of interest to a pivete (which by the way in Bahia could be slang or colloquial for "buddy"). There have been ample suggestions here over the years for sensible vigilance and for mitigating the likelihood of robbery damage. Otherwise, he seems to suggest that his unique past experiences were predictive of breaking news that is repeated and imported here over the years. Methinks some hyperbole or confabulation was drawn on for effect in that regard. A single representation of a credible incident goes further than making like an amoeba en split. He is grousing about not heeding his warnings, but who exactly reported here an incident that reflected they somehow dismissed his testimonials? Generally, message board contributors have shared their own or hearsay bad experiences, put the stats in context globally, or reported being spared a mugging so far.
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If you visit Lisbon and read gay-themed fiction by prominent authors, try David Leavitt's latest novel set in 1940, The Two Hotel Francforts. I really enjoyed staying halfway up the Bica Elevador tram a few years ago.