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Ah yes, the ceremonial denunciation of verbosity, delivered—naturally—via a luxuriant buffet of thesaurus-polished disdain. A modest complaint, inflated with such artisanal irony that it requires three metaphors and a fainting couch to complete a sentence. One almost admires the commitment to condemning excess with excess, circling the target so many times that satire itself begins to feel winded. The critique preens, nodding solemnly at its own reflection, each clause whispering “note how clever this is” while tripping over the very habits it claims to despise. If self-awareness accrued compound interest, this would be a hedge fund. Alas, it serves instead as a reminder that mocking pomposity does not exempt one from it, and that irony, like perfume, is best applied sparingly—lest the room become uninhabitable. ——- Like I indicated, no!, you, or AI for that matter, may not blow me no matter how elaborate the downvote and how deprivational the lack of an emoticon to represent it and add a reputation point, though I must admit grudgingly that you may be in danger of becoming a tad interesting.

Oh my word, the peril of it all. A flurry of downvotes can yield a reputation tier upgrade for the content recipient because emoticons are not stratified by semantic tone as far as cumulative tally. That said I interpret the downvote as a signal that the poster wishes to blow me … here I need a moment throwing up in my mouth a little … a disturbing offer that simply furthers the reason for its reputation-conferring potential as the hit is the disturbing image. The emoticon library was invented by well-meaning but basic dumbos promoting the overly simplistic codification of affective language in which I am expected to buy book line and sinker the value and intent of symbolic meanings in the absence of capacity to use one’s words. Sadly, and actually the thing that is both funny and sad is that the downward arrow dependents’ delusion while dropping to their knees consists of smug satisfaction at having subtracted rather than, paradoxically, adding to a reputation grade. They want their bread and eat it too.

If one is a frequent visitor the multiple arrival and departure dates according to one’s migratory year date setpoint may be a bit too much for passport control to cobble together at point of inspection. Again, it is possible to unambiguously ascertain for oneself one’s exact 365 day period within which one should technically be granted a cumulative visit quantity of 90 days. But pay close attention to your history and the stamps. Upon my latest arrival in the fourth quarter of last year the officer indicated a new migratory year commencement date that essentially nullified a balance of 20 days that I should have been able to maintain according to that active (now previous) migratory year. It was certainly not intentionally rigid or overly strict, as in good faith she just quickly examined the visa and stamped the passport. I had expected a balance of 110 days as the migratory year reset was to have occurred mid-visit. I had diligently added and tallied my used up period in the event I was to have been grilled. But no, she swept me through, stamping it and wrote in 90 days. Note that it was not my first rodeo on the new e-visa. It is now imperative to ensure that I don’t exceed 90 days from the date of that most recent arrival. I had tentatively planned to use those 110 days through end of 2025 and well into 2026, split up into moderately extended visits but had not committed to booking all the upcoming trips simply because it is typically not necessary to do that so much in advance, so I will need to adjust plans. I suppose that I would have possibly appealed on the spot if it meant that I was about to endure sunk cost issues. Of course it is possible that within the current migratory year my passport will be stamped once again with 90 days allocated, in which case I may recover the lost days or possibly more. Caveat emptor.

IDK, but yes, Sauna Bangu aka Boate Casa Grande is still running. Cigano’s is the one that stopped operating a few years ago, likely the one to which your memory is referring.

His own? One of the Skype calls? I must have missed that.

Me too, but I’ve only just startedThe Long Game (2022), the second and I assume final part of the Shane/Ilya story on which Season 2 will be partially based. It is a longer novel. The merciless teasing between the two, not just erotically themed, is very humorous. Interestingly, I find that the character descriptions in the books tend not to evoke the corresponding actor role images of the series even though one would expect that those visual representations might prevail. The actors are relatively diminutive for pro hockey, though technically tall enough, and in the novels I believe that Ilya is supposedly a 6’3” bruiser to Shane’s 5’10”. Still, good casting.

You may have already quickly obtained this answer. It’s been clear right from the launch. Obviously what is meant in the second sentence, as the visa is not physically contained within one’s passport, is that the passport number on your e-visa corresponds to your travel document, that is, the expired one. Many folks will eventually come up against this with a proportion of them having unwittingly discarded a document that should actually have been hoarded. I expect that they would need to re-apply. Also note, not applicable in your case, that the travel document (ie, passport) must have a commencement date at least a month before arrival, whether it’s the passport corresponding to your e-visa or a renewed passport presented along with the expired passport. The VFS portal stipulates that passport validity must endure for at least one month following arrival. I would not trust this piece of information since one’s visit may be up to 90 days, and for other options of visa acquisition the wording on Brazil’s various government sites ranges from required passport validity for total duration of stay or for 6 months following arrival. An imminently expiring passport may result in the immigration officer writing in the entry a ‘leave by’ date that inadvertently truncates one’s planned visit duration.

There is no Showboys. It is Show Bar Madureira. IMHO of the now four venues sprinkled across this approximately 15 km stretch of the SuperVia line, one in Bangu, one in Reangelo, two in Madureira, it is the least likely to actually offer trade as we typically conceive of it. Photo would not download here but as one can see it worked when I took a run at appending it to the post quote.

Like nobody tuned into the vicissitudes of ventures competing with the ‘establishment’ could see that coming. Another case of the type of hubris underpinning the assumption that one can do it better while foolishly sinking enormous development costs into a business gamble. (Wipe that grin off your face related to your barely disguised subtle sarcasm of a year ago, Rodolfo.)

I must have ages ago forfeited a compass.

Emphasis on minor. That’s as good as it gets. I detect two settings: unapologetically unsubstantial and defensiveness about it. Of thousands of chatroom members I see no trend of true interest in the type of casual banter that floats your boat. There would be much more of it. Read the room in terms of tribal interest. You can be meaningfully participatory and integrated into the forum agenda without constant jumping up and down waving.

Casual or not, why would thousands of forum members be interested in boring banter that would be more appropriately peppering a select email chain? This isn’t Facebook. It’s annnoying even if you delusionally think it’s cute and pathetically imagine it upticks a meaningful following. It adds nothing but pads out volume of drivel. I don’t see evidence that he reciprocates teasing or it qualitatively enhances his wellbeing. It all reflects that you gluttonously seek the spotlight. Now that we know what you are going to write about his style, an inside (as you claim but little more than BS) tiresome joke whose value expired thousands of posts ago, every single time he posts something, can’t we just be left to assume the wording and tone of the text diarrhea prompted by your pathologically stimmed grey matter and be spared it?

With prospective costly and logistically complex injectable formats taking centre stage in research and development, along comes a seemingly promising large Phase3 multiple global locations modality comparator trial in process of recruiting subjects. Search or DM for details. Wouldn’t want to upset any little control-freakish manipulative whiner over word count.

Better yet, opt out of reading the forum at all for extended periods of time. You can toggle Ignore on one or two posters but still get infinite prompts that you have chosen it, evidence that the most ignorable candidates are persistently up to no good and vying for content dominance. Such is chatroom life. Little to see here for most folks. Olddaddy is not the problem. A few geezers struggling for recognition and obsessed with hounding him are the problem. I would go as far as to assert that Olddaddy is comparatively real and has a life.