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[Jan 156]

I look at reports such as this one, I get a bitter / sweet feeling about the changes. Obviously, progress has been made in several facets of the community (Even though, they still have a long way to go) , but I see certain things losing its authenticity. What makes Rio Rio. For example, just on a superficial level. The kiosks at the beach have been replaced with new state of the art structures. Don't get me wrong, they look fantastic. But its not the vintage look or feel. Or plainly."simple". In other words, many things are getting commercialized. And there is a price that comes with that. Certain aspects of the culture are lost when there is change like this one. But I guess you have to take the good with the bad.

Even though the previous example is nothing too harsh, there are other complex one's. The changes have already been taking place in the last few years. Again, nothing wrong with change, but there are some great vintage things that are lost in the transition and process. From the prices going way up (food, rent, T & A, transportation, changes in attitudes, etc.) , and other factors that make Rio a historic place, even with all of its baggage.

I never had the opportunity of visiting brazil during 80's and 90's, but I can sure appreciate the wonderful things it had to offer. Despite its bad qualities. Every place on this planet has good and bad qualities, so that is just part of the deal. I get the impression that most people back in the day were not as concerned about things such as retirement, and more happy and concerned about what they had now. And if it was a place to meet with friends / family, music, dancing, food, and a drink in hand. All was good. Then again, that makes sense. Life of a Carioca.

I couldn't agree more. Much of the direction Brasil aspires to is concentrated in Sao Paulo, an intensity to embrace the new, to 'compete' with places like New York. Yet the subtext (at least my reading of it) is the economic and cultural occupation of Americanism. One can't deny Brasil its future. I just hope it will be uniquely Brasilian and, amid all the modernisation, not lose its essences. Not only in physical things and way of life, but in the unique Brasilian way of doing business, of finding a way round things to make things work, of communicating on a uniquely human level before going into the small print and hard bargaining. I even go so far as to see this symbolised in things like the music, the dance, but maybe that's just me.

[Mangera]

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/brazi...bIurf~_iw.html

Oh, and Trish Regan is really hot LOL!

I look at reports such as this one, I get a bitter / sweet feeling about the changes. Obviously, progress has been made in several facets of the community (Even though, they still have a long way to go) , but I see certain things losing its authenticity. What makes Rio Rio. For example, just on a superficial level. The kiosks at the beach have been replaced with new state of the art structures. Don't get me wrong, they look fantastic. But its not the vintage look or feel. Or plainly."simple". In other words, many things are getting commercialized. And there is a price that comes with that. Certain aspects of the culture are lost when there is change like this one. But I guess you have to take the good with the bad.

Even though the previous example is nothing too harsh, there are other complex one's. The changes have already been taking place in the last few years. Again, nothing wrong with change, but there are some great vintage things that are lost in the transition and process. From the prices going way up (food, rent, T & A, transportation, changes in attitudes, etc.) , and other factors that make Rio a historic place, even with all of its baggage.

I never had the opportunity of visiting brazil during 80's and 90's, but I can sure appreciate the wonderful things it had to offer. Despite its bad qualities. Every place on this planet has good and bad qualities, so that is just part of the deal. I get the impression that most people back in the day were not as concerned about things such as retirement, and more happy and concerned about what they had now. And if it was a place to meet with friends / family, music, dancing, food, and a drink in hand. All was good. Then again, that makes sense. Life of a Carioca

[Kid Cisco]

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/brazi...bIurf~_iw.html

Oh, and Trish Regan is really hot LOL!

Thanks for the link Cane very interesting I think with more and more people becoming middle class there will be less and less dimes that will be willing to get into the "selling ass game" of course there will be chicks BUT over the years what use to be consider dimes back in the day now are 6 or 7's at best. Also many girls are getting married now and getting out of the game BUT like I found out a year ago being married don't stop all of them from working one chick even had her husband drive her over to my place with a plate of Frango / chicken she work at Cancun I was fucking her hard in her ass saying do your husband hit it like this LOL

Kid Cisco

[The Cane]

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/brazi...bIurf~_iw.html

Oh, and Trish Regan is really hot LOL!

[Mangera]

14 iphones and 4 ipads? Damn! They were trying to get PAID! They would have made a killing if they could have found brasilians who were willing to pay for the stuff.

The concept of selling things in Rio is great, actually making it happen, is a whole nother story. Once a brasilian knows that you have the item in Rio and you really don't want to have to take it back to the states with you, they will try to bend you over. Now instead of paying you 1000 dollars for that Iphone that you agreed upon, they will offer the price that you paid for it.

I have my brazilian friends sell the stuff for me, and I give them a commission. Has worked pretty good. However, I am not heavily into buying stuff at home and selling it in brazil. Its just every once in a while type of thing. I take things out of the package, and I try not to bring multiples of the same item. Use some common sense people.

[Bravo]

For those who talk about bringing things to Brazil to sell, Customs don't play that.

http://g1.globo.com/jornal-da-globo/...cueca/2601881/

Two American Airlines flight attendants got busted trying to bring in 14 iphones. 4 ipads. 1 laptop, video games, and watches from Miami without declaring it. And now they want to know who the stuff was going to as well.

14 iphones and 4 ipads? Damn! They were trying to get PAID! They would have made a killing if they could have found brasilians who were willing to pay for the stuff.

The concept of selling things in Rio is great, actually making it happen, is a whole nother story. Once a brasilian knows that you have the item in Rio and you really don't want to have to take it back to the states with you, they will try to bend you over. Now instead of paying you 1000 dollars for that Iphone that you agreed upon, they will offer the price that you paid for it.

[Mr Enternational]

For those who talk about bringing things to Brazil to sell, Customs don't play that...

http://g1.globo.com/jornal-da-globo/...cueca/2601881/

Two American Airlines flight attendants got busted trying to bring in 14 iphones, 4 ipads, 1 laptop, video games, and watches from Miami without declaring it. And now they want to know who the stuff was going to as well.

[Eric Cartman]

There is a solution.

Go to Central. Two blocks down there is a street, Rua Senador Pompeu (?) (close to the teleférico station being built up in the favela Morro the Providência). On this street there are a bunch of big stores doing wholesales of sweets. Lots of camelôs, shopowners, common people and the guys selling sweets on the buses do their purchases there. I went there a couple of times, buying sweets to give to my GF's sobrinhos. BTW, the area is a bit rough. There also GP's hanging in the area, really ugly SWs.

I bought chocolate baton and paçoquita. When buying a big pack the price was about R$0, 30 each. I think pe de moleke was about the same price.

Advance planning! Love it.

[Exec Talent]

There is a solution.

Go to Central. Two blocks down there is a street, Rua Senador Pompeu (?) (close to the teleférico station being built up in the favela Morro the Providência). On this street there are a bunch of big stores doing wholesales of sweets. Lots of camelôs, shopowners, common people and the guys selling sweets on the buses do their purchases there. I went there a couple of times, buying sweets to give to my GF's sobrinhos. BTW, the area is a bit rough. There also GP's hanging in the area, really ugly SWs.

I bought chocolate baton and paçoquita. When buying a big pack the price was about R$0, 30 each. I think pe de moleke was about the same price.

Damn Sperto. Now not only are all the Gringos going to be overrunning the prives, but also wholesale markets. Is nothing sacred anymore? People are going to find out that the baseball cap they bought for R$15 in Copa actually can be purchased in Centro for R$6.

[Sperto]

The newsstand near my office just raised the price of Pe De Moleke (peanut brittle) from $1. 00 to R$1. 20. 20%

There is a solution.
Go to Central. Two blocks down there is a street, Rua Senador Pompeu (?) (close to the teleférico station being built up in the favela Morro da Providência). On this street there are a bunch of big stores doing wholesales of sweets. Lots of camelôs, shopowners, common people and the guys selling sweets on the buses do their purchases there. I went there a couple of times, buying sweets to give to my GF's sobrinhos. Btw, the area is a bit rough. There also GP's hanging in the area, really ugly SWs.

I bought chocolate baton and paçoquita. When buying a big pack the price was about R$0,30 each. I think pe de moleke was about the same price.

[The Cane]

The newsstand near my office just raised the price of Pe De Moleke (peanut brittle) from $1. 00 to R$1. 20. 20%

Thanks for that late-breaking bit of economic news. Time to go re-balance my portfolio LOL!

[Eric Cartman]

The newsstand near my office just raised the price of Pe De Moleke (peanut brittle) from $1. 00 to R$1. 20. 20%

[Jan 156]

BTW you must have made very serious and elaborate surveys to make such peremptory statements (rolleyes emoticon).

http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriw...YourSurvey.pdf

Never seen it. Just speaking from personal experience of going to slightly classier places in the state with well-to-do Paulistana (o) s and seeing what people listen to in their homes. But it's hardly a tit-for-tat and a waste of space on the board really.

[Prosal]

Mostly it's because they've moved out for holiday or work. And half the time they're listening to English-language pop (emoticon back).

BTW you must have made very serious and elaborate surveys to make such peremptory statements (rolleyes emoticon).

http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriw...YourSurvey.pdf

[Prosal]

And half the time they're listening to English-language pop (emoticon back).

FYI the most important annual brasilian pop / rock festival, the Jao Rock, occurs in Ribeiro Preto. I've been there only once (and saw Skank, Charlie Brown Jr, Capital Inicial, ect) but from what I know 90% of the bands performing are brasilian. Thanks to this festival, Ribeirao Preto is known as the "Capital anual do Pop Rock Brasileiro".