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Bisexual Guy Traveling Soon to Rio w GF, Advice?
Riobard replied to moonwalker's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
Aha, So you do run out of steam. It's a relief, toots, that you are not entirely and perpetually full of yourself. In my personal experience, however, bullies recharge pretty quickly following their degenerating to low blows then fizzling out. I expect we'll meet again. C U Next Time. -
This kind of article is what partially prompted me and co-traveller kin to visit for a month recently. Though I already knew to expect some tarnish and don't have sycophant leanings, having done extensive research and eyes wide open. The NYT piece is glossy but unbalanced. You know those lip-service negatives buried within the hyperbole? They are considerably more pronounced than the article will concede. We enjoyed many aspects of our stay, and some further afield options, but will not return. Defensive expat loyalists, predominantly aged opposite-sex couples co-mingling over canasta and oohing and aahing over their cashing in and absence of gratuity expectations be damned. Best approach: nod politely, try not to nod off. If you don't gush, you have not seen the real Mérida, apparently. (Fuck off) One old die-hard chap down the road from our place, actually minutes from #1 boutique hotel Diplomat, lamented the mosquito bites but chastized us for having dared to eat Italian over Yucatecan our first night. He got progressively jittery over our next few weeks as I recounted having had dengue twice. He routinely yelled at his service maid for sloppiness in screen closure. I love to play with fundamentalists. Tequila shots with our next-door neighbours sitting around their cockfight and fighter-pitbull pens, commiserating over the overrun of kitchen ant colonies, doesn't cut it? I can name half a dozen Mexican locales more magical. That said, it rates equally with Ottawa in safety, though much higher pollution index and lower overal QOL index. Progreso north shore is underwhelming. We dressed up regularly and got into Apoala on our fourth attempt, even willing to split up if that helped secure seating ... they reserve for wealthy repeaters but otherwise you takes your chances. I think they felt sorry for us. We tried again subsequently a few times, but only because it was not inconvenient to queue and 'bid' pleadingly along with other riffraff of our ilk, and there were a few other backups nearby, where slathering our Aedes Egypti welts with hydrocortisone and breathing in dense vehicular carbon emissions at the Santa Lucia Park location were less necessary. I had considerable elective time on my own at night. One word: laughable. Mind you, I am spoiled with unlimited access to CSW applicants elsewhere where it's warm. I urge you, do make it a must if only for the typical tourism; come to your own conclusions. Don't just pay attention to a few old fools, myself included.
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Bisexual Guy Traveling Soon to Rio w GF, Advice?
Riobard replied to moonwalker's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
Still the erstwhile puppet-master, SS, like I said, and right-o, my case should rest. What, no meme? How's about I post a photo of today's date Montreal Gazette in tandem with iPad screen and this post nudging up against the snowbank just off St Catherine steps from my loft? If you're going to stalk my busy itinerary, try to keep up or stay a step ahead, will you? But your point is well taken. I will not protest any assertion made (by you, in fact) that you are a waste of time today. I know I am about to have just wasted yours as you scurry your eager little nose and clickety-clack of paws into fact-checking mode. Ya just can't let it go. And Badboy, wowee, what a find among wooden marionettes. Haven't you regularly viciously thrown shade his way? BB, I thought you were trying to downregulate your obsession with my posts by ignoring them. Oh, I see what your problem is ... you trade off your integrity in order to duck the kind of prolific shit-slinging we now dare to call your comrade in arms on, that is, until either of you revises your shit list at the turn of a screw. So now, two soul-less and counting ... will I need two hands? Or will I be tsunami'd by cult-grade followers? But, Soul-less numero uno, you provide the solace of psycho sudoku for my much needed brain fitness. Gym, sights, sucks (well, very very recent memories and forecasts), slights. Repeat. How DO I fit it all in? Perhaps the experience of age and lubrificante. I would not say you lack the potential to inadvertently promote the general value of cultivating hardiness in challenging settings. -
Bisexual Guy Traveling Soon to Rio w GF, Advice?
Riobard replied to moonwalker's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
No latitude, OK. Your tireless longitude is the accepted trend here, pardon me Oh superior life form, in this thread, unsolicited commentary on writing style is impressive for its relentlessness and for your generosity in committed multitasking, taking time out of your busy sched when you have the best experiences, the best tribe clique, the best access to trade, the best access to nontrade guys who inconveniently fall all over you necessitating the consumption of trade, the best crossover between trade and unfeigned kinship with trade, the best easeless integration into trade and its off-clock social settings, the best advice to dispense, the best everything life has to offer, etc, etc to attend to ... a work ethic and pursuit of alpha on this forum approaching desperately sad because you are indisputably accomplished, financially super-flush, and clever. Yeah, I see the likes of your snotty, smugly self-satisfied cliques around and about where many of us intersect. You're not the only one capable of social observation. Though I imagine you, unlike we mere mortals, are beyond objectifying any bedmate procured. Who gives a fuck about your ratings of people or your grandiose bitchy friends' impressions of anyone? If they want to support your feeble effort to strenghten your case, let them register and weigh in. Dude, it's like, "and Millenia sees it, like, calls it a bigly bigly issue just like I saiid, we agree just like the best married couple there is, yeh, yeahh". Surely you have a cadre of staff to archivally research all material here for prosecutorial purpose. And so rushed. If nobody at your beck and call for this, When do you sleep? Let me slip in one more latitude, at risk of contempt: One parallel, not the 69th, to cunt comes to mind. Erm, who might that be? Now go and appropriate another silly meme, or get your your team, or your enviable circle of buddies, or your current hot BFE, or whoever or whatever audience you have or imagine to have, to do that bidding. Nobody puts anything into your pied pipe, do they? Yet I see smoke and mirrors seep through regularly. Nobody gets one past you. You are the penultimate know-it-all mentor. I would never pretend to live up to you. For all your apparent attempts to impress with evidence of your appeal beyond the context of this forum, you can be pointedly such a pill. Surely nobody in your life makes it beyond the visa process without absolute adoration. Annalise, guurrll, I don't worship your brand of flexing muscle. And dollars to Krispy Kremes, I suspect I would be light years from ever creaming myself over you, in any literal or figurative fashion, face-to-face. Get over yourself. I don't know you personally, but I wonder if you know anything about genuine friendship. If you had spent many developmently peak years holding simply too many dying friends in your arms as they begged for release I don't think you would boldly invoke the commentary of your so-called besties on a harmless photo pin-up, irrespective of whatever impels you to shame other posters here, most of whom you consider beneath you. I miss my guys, they outclass you immeasurably, even if I don't. They'd have given me a real tongue-lashing. Get better friends. Be better. -
Bisexual Guy Traveling Soon to Rio w GF, Advice?
Riobard replied to moonwalker's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
Objection ... leading the witless. -
Bisexual Guy Traveling Soon to Rio w GF, Advice?
Riobard replied to moonwalker's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
Moonwalker, the recurring theme you query is 'safe'. It is a self-preservational and commonly asked question. When folks ask about my BRZ travels and safety, notwithstanding they are usually unaware that I pay for muscle studs to skull- and ass-fuck me into next Tuesday, my usual repsonse is that adventures there are unSAFE, where SAFE is acronym for 'satisfactory answer for everyone'. Safe is retrospective ... it was or wasn't. Prospective safety does not exist. Mitigating harm is possible. Folks here like sanddunes and some others are spot on in terms of the central question. He gave some examples for harm-reduction, though you may have already considered them. Same for specificity. Only generality is prospective. Retrospectively, you got royally fucked or royally fucked. If you got royally fucked, no thanks to anyone here. If you got royally fucked, no thanks to anyone here. (Not a typo) Getting us to helicopter here will not have helped you much if it is the good royal, it is flimsy, and I doubt this forum would be credited for any of your good fortune. If it is the bad royal, you messed up or shit happened, but you had asked the unanswerable though the question is instinctive. Ego/status preservation among any of the contributors here will not value-add to the core question or predetermine your sexual fun fate. I do think that in the sexual and fishing-for-same domain some respondents may emphasize checking ego, bravado and previous life averts at the door because libido and naïveté may override common sense. Such admonishments should be taken as community care and I have sometimes wished I were as self-critical of my own risk of safety lapses. How they are packaged is less important than you extracting what is relatable for you and GF. Words to the wise have been delivered. When you ask a safety question within a collective, it is your job to sift, sort, and toss or integrate. You may get your hackles up for me saying this, but I think that you, in this case in this thread, started it going south when you nipped a hand that fed you. Better to think (or say), for answers to questions made that you do not fully like or embrace: I had thought of that, or, if I had thought of that, I'd have thought of that. Not that I am an exemplar in terms of this very advice. Condoms, PrEP, and STD surveillance are recommended. Some of these precautions will be more normative and acceptable within the GdeP pool than at large, where you may get more pushback and ire from recklessly cavalier hot studs with big dicks and atrophied brains. For every 50 local clients a GdeP gets down with, there is a .5% chance a tuberculosis exposure occurred. Public Health there is concerned about the degree of TB denialism that exists. You may see related ed posters in some of the brothel venues. Now then, to more important questions ... will I be safe leaving my house today? -
Order a ride from hotel to airport, available youngish driver Tweedledum IDd within seconds, app quoted X amount, meanwhile a taxi promoter on sidewalk hassling me with flat rate offer of 1.33X. Über driver Tweedledum msgs me the fare is unfair for the distance and he wants 2.0X cash. I reply, not committing to not cancelling, that I only use the app and did not have sufficient cash. He replies song and dance his account on the app is currently problematic glitches etc blah dee blah. I cancel within the app and start fresh. Later report him. Tweedledee comes up on the second round. Same make model different lic. Car with driver looking like Tweedledee and looking like the lic in the app pulls up and I say "Tweedledee?" He is brusque, does not say the usual "Riobard?" Tosses my 2 bags in the truck, plunks a small yellow taxi sign on the hood. I ask him his name. No response. Hop out, leaving door open. I check and photo his lic plate and also check the app and see the # is not exactly the same, just similar. Get in his face raise my voice sternly demanding he pop the trunk. He does not protest, I retrieve my bags. Feel relieved hotel porters, nice guys, are nearby. Renewed cab flat offers come my way. This time they are two cab hawkers, and small crowd watching the sideshow. I look down the road a few metres, lic plate visible and realized the real Tweedledee moved on past this mayhem, evidently thinking I flaked. After all I was not standing with my bags and visible as an apparent customer while dealing with fraudulent cabbie. AYK, a cancellation charge scam is also possible in these circumstances. I msg Tweedledee and he agrees to circle the block. Hotel porters help interpret the cryptic text. Arrives with correct lic delineated on app. Older chap. Fare on arrival airport comes to proper X amount. Not absolutely certain he is not in on the scam, but that would be amazingly more organized and sophisticated a level of scam than I am willingly to give that society credit for. 12 hours later, the pending charges and rebate credits are showing in online banking. Looks in order. For some reason Paypal was not operational in the app and thru the whole ordeal I had had to register another payment method. Must still query that. Time wasted: 20 minutes. Riobard one, scammer(s) zero. Always give yourself some wiggle room getting to airport on time. Have your wits about you. Ask driver his name, let him/her tell you rather than verify what you say. Ask driver to identify your name, do not volunteer your name for him to affirm the giveaway. Vigilance regarding make model lic. If a cash HWY toll booth involved, bear that in mind when tipping. The rates can actually be set on the low end and we don't need to over-exploit discounted rates abroad, do we.
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The quick guide to Santo Domingo boys - v0.1
Riobard replied to likeohmygod's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
Freddy's number is in the public domain. There is enough info here to research it. I found it and confirmed he is Ready Freddy within 5 minutes on 'zap, for upcoming travel. That is how always ready he is. So at 1st glance, his job is to predict and expect rain at any given point in time and your role is to make it rain. Procurerrr: definition "person requisitioning orders of cock U R expecting rapidly regularly rigidly". And then the gravy of regular turista activities. -
A little history on the Portuguese language
Riobard replied to mvan1's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
But does not "comer" mean 'to eat'? I think the ad means he'll toss your salad then pound your arse. Otherwise, foder not comer. The only redundancy I want is repeat, repeat, repeat ... Anyway your points are well taken. Your translation certainly gets the gist. But when you run it thru again and back, he implicitly has the executioner's hood. Now that level of fantasy got me real excited! I think it's typical to ejaculate when dropped thru the gallows. But of course all in good fun with a safe word. -
First Brazilian Trip: Florianopolis & Sao Paulo
Riobard replied to ppappi22's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
A few months ago I took a few shots of some of the Masters at MASP, top floor. Here is a sample cluster. The works are arranged on stands surrounded by a perimeter of windows and natural light, rather than the traditional placement on gallery walls. It is easy to view there, and taking a shot does not disrupt other patrons' enjoyment. Kkkkk ... I did actually gaze extensively, not just blast thru with the shutter in front of my face. Somehow I mistakenly got trapped in a separate queue of locals on a Sunday morn who got in free and in priority time when doors opened. The images are not crisp because I grouped them for this post. Tap the cluster to sharpen the focus. -
The quick guide to Santo Domingo boys - v0.1
Riobard replied to likeohmygod's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
I think I knew all that from your previous posts. In fact, I have viewed all your xtube videos. But was not aware that xtube would somehow automatically generate a link and that you could upload that link to this forum. Though I knew you had mastered the method of doing it. So anyway, I just now created an xtube account. I will see what can happen from there. I bet there are a few tricky steps too challenge my addled brain. I also just figured out how to cut out frames from the beginning and end of an iPhone video. They are often the sloppiest parts. Nobody exclaiming "scene", "smash cut" ... just amateur starts and stops that belong on the cutting room floor. What I am missing is the studio team of 2. But my first vid is not too shabby by xtube standards, a long way off KB quality. -
The quick guide to Santo Domingo boys - v0.1
Riobard replied to likeohmygod's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
No I meant I have at least one an escort made with my bttm and his massive aubergine interacting. Discreet, like yours. But I do not have time and patience to learn these programs. I think fuggedabbuddit. We have no clear way to transmit these scenes behind the forum scenes. -
The quick guide to Santo Domingo boys - v0.1
Riobard replied to likeohmygod's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
I am surprised this Krüger guy's # has not been released. All the other info in these related threads is detailed, in crisp technicolour wth no grey areas. I cannot wait to arrive soon and follow the roadmap to hot inexpensive guys with minimal effort I am not a techy ... tennisace, would you consider hosting brief smartphone vids you approve on your xtube site? I imagine might be complicated without breaking anonymity behind the scenes. I can post nonsex pics here but had no luck posting nonsex vids. I only use a tablet ... do not have a PC. Do not have great skills uploading to things like xtube. -
Oh, geez, tassojr, this is so tricky!!! I don't know what to say. Maybe contact Gay Men's Health Crisis NYC or the ASO in your city, or Ryan White Fdn. The Gilead patent is up and I am taking a considerably cheaper generic version in Canada. Tevapharm's emtricitabine/tenofovir. The company may have geared to income compassionate release. I would just suck up the cost for now.
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Good for you, dude! 4 quadrants: Group 1 neg Time 1, G1 poz T2, G2 neg T1, G2 poz T2.
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Yes, and Ipergay was dumped in favour of moving to comparing the two methods also (I neglected to add) due to the imperative of dispensing the on demand regimen to the placebo group that was demonstrating such a higher rate of breakthrough transmission. Current ongoing comparison of the two drug uptake methods poses less ethical conundrum because all get the meds. What I have not had time to explore is whether subjects self-select method based on preference and sex patterns vs randomized, matched for sex patterns plus randomized, etc. I would guess it is the former. The media sometimes abridges the details, as do conference abstracts, and google is a great but sometimes overwhelming friend. I also opened up Fugues (March edition) in Montreal and saw drug ads for poz I had not heard of. Perhaps PrEP will also evolve to new components down the line. Such a huge gap from single-item AZT menu, right? Stay safe, all!
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R U kidding me, dude?!!! I never set out to post research. You are the one that gave me the challenge. And I thought it would be remiss to not correct some misinterpretations of data. Many in our tribe, judging by empowered behavioural choices I witness in customary brothels, should indeed consume 24/365. I see what the problem is here, Benji ... you want the last word. Have at it. Be the dog vehemently overworking the bone. No lightning rod of yours, frankly, is going to attract an epiphany let alone a bit of give in your stance. Gilead actually does not manufacture my tenofovir-emtricitabine regime. In any case, manufacturers sponsor, not do, research. Caeron, kkkkkkkk, right? LMAO.
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It would be, but you have grossly misinterpreted Ipergay. You need to read beyond the brief summary abstract. On demand Truvada 1% infection annually; 99% effective, not 86% effective. Placebo, no drug, 7% annual infection. All considered, fucking without any Truvada, 93% safe. Remember, HIV is a wimpy retrovirus until you get one particle germinating in your bloodstream. A 14% failure rate might occur in a study arm of full--time darkroom ass-in-sling non-HAART-consuming bttms. For low infection rates, 86% more effective is impressive. Do not get caught up in the complex stats math ... things like rigourous confidence intervals override simple arithmetic and are extreme in taking our wellbeing seriously.
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PS: the Ipergay study is the same lead researcher Molina and compares on-demand to placebo (placebo is no drug; subjects double-blind except side effects may be a giveaway), predates Prevenir research project by a few years, and does not compare on-demand to permanent daily uptake. Very different research approach. In Prevenir, obviously both treatment arms open label unblinded. The team is not self-contradictory. But read, interpret, and behave at will and according to resources and prefernce.
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The Prevenir study ... my clinic where I receive consultation is one of the cohort sites. i believe another study was truncated because the evidence of efficacy was incontrovertible in the early stages and there is only so much funding, and clinicians may be satisfied that replicated findings are less important than one solid longitudinal temporally prospective cohort design. Again, the two options depend on sex patterns and preference. There should be a journal-level report eventually. I am on holiday and do not wish to spend hours using my faculty library privileges for a thorough online search and report. Also consider that many populations do not prophylax due to lack of access to costly meds. On demand may help mitigate infection among these, though sadly not solve the larger socioecon factors. Look, I am reasonably qualified to interpret the findings and make an informed choice. I am a retired clinician/researcher/educator with 12 years of uni ed. This is not the place to more specifically self-identify, but if admin here wants the option to corroborate that my capacity to weigh in ranks highly, I am willing to share with admin my credentials and live with how admin rates me out of 10 viz expertise on this subject. Brooklyn 99 ... not a doctor. That said, I AM NOT GIVING CLINICAL ADVICE. And I don't want the volleying back and forth here to be farthically thilly. A 10% difference is the usual standard for the threshold of clinical significance. I do not have the time or interest to drill down further. I take my health very very very very seriously but I have former trustworthy associates who have world-class status in Infectious Diseases / Genitourinary Medicine. I am not a contrarian on the current subject. I do other pro bono work and folks here can and will put on their bigboy investigation pants. Not my wage grade to be convincing here. I have rather sloppily added some screenshots. And now, breakfast and on to today's collision course of dick, cum and last night's true-vada blue pill swallow.
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First Brazilian Trip: Florianopolis & Sao Paulo
Riobard replied to ppappi22's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
I can try to post a screenshot of the mapping but not until home in a week, as i am currently in east coast zone of the country without the SP portion of my materials. BTW DK guide got two of the SP churches mixed up. -
First Brazilian Trip: Florianopolis & Sao Paulo
Riobard replied to ppappi22's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
I use DK Eyewitness travel guides, hardcover. Much cheaper formats of those publications available iBooks or Kindle. The Brazil version would cover SP and Floripa, as well as RJ for future. The RJ Top10 version is unnecessary if you spring for the country guide. I described a walking itinerary for SP in the thread 'SP in dribs and drabs' here, Sept 2018? -
First Brazilian Trip: Florianopolis & Sao Paulo
Riobard replied to ppappi22's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
Caution re: Grindr, etc. There are reports of setups. Unfortunately, you would need to take several hours to scan this forum section for testimonials related to the darker side. The cautionary info is woven into the fabric of more generic threads here. You may have in your favour being an N of 2, giving pause to wannabe opportunists. -
First Brazilian Trip: Florianopolis & Sao Paulo
Riobard replied to ppappi22's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
TMI?? We expect fully rendered explicit accounts! -
First Brazilian Trip: Florianopolis & Sao Paulo
Riobard replied to ppappi22's topic in Latin America Men and Destinations
Massage houses with tantrica [nudge wink] are less stable. This is my observation following the ads over the years. I stick to Lagoa or Fragata. netgay.com.br may yield some ads/links