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[Nounce]

.... Next time, I am going take over the machine and do it myself. That was actually the instruction on the machine.....

Almost forgot to snap this picture.

[Nounce]

This is the translation of the beginning part of a Brazilian song, I think by POCAH. I found it on Apple Music but you should be able to find it on Youtube. Let me know if you are thinking what I am thinking.

I won't do anything you don't want
I'll tease you until you want
Open your mouth, close your eyes, I have a surprise
Trust me, you won't regret it
I'm going to put something crazy in your mouth
You will taste the pleasure
I'm going to do it slowly, like that
In slow motion that macetin'

You can find this on Youtube with subtitle. you have to watch the video while listening to this song to get the contrast.

Lets go passengers
Pay attention to what's important
Life is hard and we work work work
To get paid little money

I think they are able to live in the moment while I live in fear. LOL. I was approached by a girl to ask me to join her and her two friends a few days ago while walking to a concert. I was scared thinking they were going to rob me. During carnival, there was an older woman who was all over me. All I could think of was "Was she going to pick my pocket?" LOL.

[Xpartan]

Moving on to a more pleasant topic of conversation I. E. Entertainment: check out "Rake" an Australian streaming comedy show starring Richard Roxburgh in the title role. The story line is about the meanderings of an irreverent, mongering, gambling, cocaine sniffing, attorney. He has an ex-wife who is on to him, a prostitute girlfriend who lives with another man, and a secretary who is stealing from him and he will shag any good-looking girl that crosses his path, but in court he is a brilliant, sometimes shady, rogue, defender. It is the funniest comedy I have seen in over a decade. I originally saw it on Amazon Prime, but I don't think it is available there anymore. Too bad! Search it out. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587000..._4_nm_4_q_rake.

Politically correct Hollywood tried to rip off the Australian show with a sanitized American version. Avoid the American version. It is just not funny.

Rake is delightful, especially the first 3 seasons, but the rest are good, too. Easily in the top 10 TV comedies I've ever seen.

Interestingly, Hollywood remakes almost never work with very rare exceptions (Office and Shameless are quite good, but still not as good as originals). Can't duplicate brilliance, I guess.

[Axel Heyst]

I think many of them are lawyers, and lawyers are similar to call girls in some aspects.

There are guys in my college group have nothing to talk about except politics. It drives the mild or the less outspoken classmates away from the group. Occasionally, I would go to the bathroom and sent a picture of my shits to the group. Or I would sent porn or pictures I have taken in that nature. Most are well established at the top of their profession. They could not do what I do so publicly. All my friends and classmates know I monger. I have seen and heard a lot. Last year, I met a group of tourists. One of them is a veteran and he had a strong political opinion while we were eating and he dominated the conversation. I am usually quiet. He then started to talk about a subject that I am certain I know far better than he did. I spoke, and he knew it and he said let's talk about it another time.

Most lawyers are the kind of people I prefer to avoid in social situations, but once upon a time, I found myself in a tough legal situation where I really needed the help of an honest lawyer. Thankfully I have two highly competent trial lawyers in my family, and they bailed me out of this perilous financial problem I was having thanks to the financial maneuverings of a large corporate real estate firm which was in the process ripping me off. My legal team went to war against the Goliath and beat them down to size in court saving me thousands and thousands of dollars.

Moving on to a more pleasant topic of conversation I. E. Entertainment: check out "Rake" an Australian streaming comedy show starring Richard Roxburgh in the title role. The story line is about the meanderings of an irreverent, mongering, gambling, cocaine sniffing, attorney. He has an ex-wife who is on to him, a prostitute girlfriend who lives with another man, and a secretary who is stealing from him and he will shag any good-looking girl that crosses his path, but in court he is a brilliant, sometimes shady, rogue, defender. It is the funniest comedy I have seen in over a decade. I originally saw it on Amazon Prime, but I don't think it is available there anymore. Too bad! Search it out. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587000..._4_nm_4_q_rake.

Politically correct Hollywood tried to rip off the Australian show with a sanitized American version. Avoid the American version. It is just not funny.

[Nounce]

... Coincidentally, there is one other delightful COVID debater, just itching to "scratch his cojones", as it were, on this very subject. .

Spidy, don't be shy, go.

[JohnnyWalker55]

Exactly! Why do they need to see $2,000? What purpose does it serve? Most people traveling from the US exceed that in airfare and lodging alone. A return flight confirmation makes perfect sense. But there is no real need for bank statements.

Agreed, just an arbitrary number made by a dimwitted bureaucrat, no logic or reason behind it. I don't mind tbh, as it will keep the "passport bros" at bay so that rio doesn't turn into the sh*tshow that medellin has become.

I'll be photoshopping a bank statement on one of those online banks, like chime or sofi, and submitting that. Just like with the vax passports when life gives you lemons.

[UniversalX]

Hi,

I am travelling to Brazil. Do they still require Traveler Health Declaration (DSV)?

Thanks

Your airline may ask you about something similar (questions) prior to being able to check-in. As far as a document from the Brazilian government the answer is No.

So check with airline after ticket purchase.

[Xpartan]

I have a feeling every president in the history of Brasil has been involved in corruption schemes.

Yes, but for some reason only Lula gets singled out, as if there wouldn't be any corruption without Lula in Brazil.

[Spidy]

So "appropriately" speaking, might this be a good time take the COVID conversation and hash this out, over in the "Stupid Shit in Brazil" (SSIB) forum? Just asking!

Coincidentally, there is one other delightful COVID debater, just itching to "scratch his cojones", as it were, on this very subject. http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...=1#post2895268

Enjoy!

PS: BTW, I personally, won't be offended, should you wish to continue the convo, here! I'll enjoy reading your thoughts on the subject in either forum.

[Xpartan]

How? The virus pretty much affected the elderly and those with comorbidities. Pfizer also admitted that the vax was not tested for all the shit governments claimed it would do. One funny thing to me was that right before the US election when Trump announced there was a vaccine everyone called bullshit.

I have no idea what you're talking about. No sane people would call it bullshit. Covid almost did Trump in if you don't remember.

Then as soon as Biden got into office and announced there was a vaccine everyone was like thank heavens.

Again, no idea what you're talking about. It was "thank heavens" because the vaccines saved lives, not because of Biden.

Personally I never took it and although I have asthma and was in every imaginable crevice during the pandemic, I got sick zero times. Meanwhile people that were going around scared getting vaxed 4 times and staying away from people and taking all the precautions ended up with the shit.

Your experience: Covid is harmless for not "the elderly and those with comorbidities". My experience: it killed people (yes, I personally know people who have died from it or who got violently sick for months including in my own family).

However, our SINGULAR personal experiences mean exactly squat. You can walk all over Rocinha on your own and never have a problem. But you can't claim that this behavior is objectively safe. Your survival in Rosinha without an accident would be just one person's experience.

That's why scientific reasoning is based on massive amounts of data rather than on one or two personal experiences, thank god!

[ThatIndianGuy1]

Hi,

I am travelling to Brazil. Do they still require Traveler Health Declaration (DSV)?

Thanks

[Explorer8939]

So, I am on a cruise ship off the coast of Brazil. 90%+ of the passengers are wealthy Brazilians. I am bunking with a Thai bargirl.

Most of the Brazilian ladies weigh twice as much as my bunkmate. There are maybe 1% stunners, the rest are heavily unattractive.

Brazil has gone downhill in recent years, as far as women go.

[Nounce]

I think most of us can agree here. Most politicians suck. It is the nature of the beast.

I think many of them are lawyers, and lawyers are similar to call girls in some aspects.

There are guys in my college group have nothing to talk about except politics. It drives the mild or the less outspoken classmates away from the group. Occasionally, I would go to the bathroom and sent a picture of my shits to the group. Or I would sent porn or pictures I have taken in that nature. Most are well established at the top of their profession. They could not do what I do so publicly. All my friends and classmates know I monger. I have seen and heard a lot. Last year, I met a group of tourists. One of them is a veteran and he had a strong political opinion while we were eating and he dominated the conversation. I am usually quiet. He then started to talk about a subject that I am certain I know far better than he did. I spoke, and he knew it and he said let's talk about it another time.

[Axel Heyst]

Lula, like most lefties, is pro-Russian and pro-Palestinian, so he'd never get my vote, but neither would Bozo. It's a curse being centrist nowadays.

I think most of us can agree here. Most politicians suck. It is the nature of the beast.

[Combo]

Me too, but since none of us is a local, here goes.

2. Both he and Lula have been involved in corruption schemes.

I have a feeling every president in the history of Brasil has been involved in corruption schemes.