2007 General Reports

[Sperto]

Some more films that are definitely worth seeing:

Cidade de Deus (2002)
Tropa de Elite (2007)
Carandiru (2003)
Cidade dos Homens no 1-3 (2002-2005)
Iracema-uma Transa Amazônica (1976)
Guerra de Canudos (1997)
Cidade Baixa (2005)
Central do Brasil (1998)
Gabriela, Cravo e Canela (1983)
Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981)

All of them are available on DVD (Tropa de Elite might only be available on pirata). A good place to look for these films is at FNAC in Barra Shopping.
By the way FNAC also has a great collection of music and litterature.

[Lorenzo]

I'd like to recommend a Brazilian film called "Cidade Baixa." (Lower City) It's set mostly in Salvador and stars Alice Braga (Sonia's niece) as a young GDP. Alice is seen in multiple nude and hot sex scenes. What I found most interesting was that her primary goal is to find a gringo for Carnaval. If it isn't playing in a "theater near you" (unlikely unless you live in a big city), you'll probably have to see it on one of the premium cable channels like I did. Check it out if you can.

L

[Lorenzo]

I was hoping that the coming summer season and Carnaval would bring some of the top talent back from Europe and elswhere, what do you think?

It undoubtedly will. Europe is cold this time of year. Why not come home, stay warm for a few months, make some dinheiro off some gringos, then go back around March or so and continue the search for a European noivo or, better yet, marido? That's what I'd do if I were a GDP.

[Thanos]

My suggestion would be that you choose Option 2, which is to estimate the total number of days you were out of the country during the period that the suit covers. The referees will then estimate how much of a refund you are due. That certainly saves a lot of hassle.

I just found out that the banks are mandated to give free copies of bank statements when you let them know its for this lawsuit so I'm definitely going to pursue it.

[Thanos]

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Interesting perspective on this subject. I thought what you say was going to happen because of the strong real, because the top talent girls would not come to Rio because they wouldn't want to hear Real poor mongers trying to bargain down TLN to 150 reais because they couldn't afford it.

I was hoping that the coming summer season and Carnaval would bring some of the top talent back from Europe and elswhere, what do you think?}

I think that after alot of girls got burnt during the Pan Am games when they thought they were going to make a killing but didn't; most of the top talent will start to stay away from Rio. Carnaval is never the best time for the majority of the girls. Help is too expensive and the crowd is becoming more family oriented. Of course some will come back because its winter in Europe but on the whole its mostly new girls in Help now sprinkled in with the same old die hard girls like Flavia and others who have been there for years. From what I can see the hey days of Rio are over. The weak dollar, weak talent and too many guys overpaying girls who used to go for 100-150R for tln but now charge 250-300R have seen to that.

[Lorenzo]

The suit is legit but the only catch is that if you have many years to claim the banks kill you with fees for copies of your transactions. I've been visiting brazil since before the lawsuit began so my claim would span the entire ten years. Problem is my bank wants to charge $5. 00 per month for copies of my transactions. That's 120 months at 5 dollars a pop or 600 bucks and I'm not sure if it will be worth it.

My suggestion would be that you choose Option 2, which is to estimate the total number of days you were out of the country during the period that the suit covers. The referees will then estimate how much of a refund you are due. That certainly saves a lot of hassle.

[Easy Go]

As far as the credit card refund suit goes, I read an article that says there are up to 30 million people eligible. The pot of money is less than $300 million after the lawyers take their cut. Do the math before you go to a lot of trouble to document a claim. It's another one of those "only the lawyers win" settlements. I got a check for $0.02 from a previous suit.

[Thanos]

[QUOTE=Brugal8]I'm not sure if this is the right thread to post this but it seems the most appropriate to me to post what I wan to post.

Maybe all the fellow mongers have noticed but Brazil is openly fighting one of the the things that has made the country famous around the world and has us coming again and again: "prostitution".

They have closed several houses in sao paulo which have been closed before but always reopened but not this time.

Several termas have been closed or raided in Rio and in sao paulo is the prostitution in the whole state that is being fought.

I don't know the reason for this but we must admit that since Lula Brazil is a different country very strong economically, solid currency, debts paid to IMF, etc

Yes the situation has definitely changed.

As the economic situation in brazil steadily improves there will be less and less need for the dollars generated by sexual tourism and in turn the gdps and mongers will be tolerated less and less. Its evident now in copa where large numbers of apartments and hotels were always available to foreign tourist who brazilians knew were there for the sex trade. Now more and more owners and hotels are saying NO to mongers or simply jacking their prices up so high as to scare mongers away. Copa went through a downturn in the 90's and during that time mongers and especially americans were welcome because the dollar was so strong. Brazilians who by the way look down on mongers with disdain were economically forced to tolerate the foreigners and the drugs and the gdps. That's changing now and copa has changed as well. With the stronger economy more brazilians have money and girls who would normally come to copa can now stay out in Barra and deal with only brazilians. The beautiful girls have all gone off to europe and gotten married and the VM, Balconey girls have moved up to Help crushing the quality. As Brazil reaps the benefits of its newfound oil field more and more venues are going to be shut down.

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Greetings Thanos,

It appears that you inadvertently forgot to correctly place the quote tags in this report. Usually I can fix this sort of thing before it's displayed, but I don't have a clue as to how you intended this report to appear.

The quote tags are simple to use, all you have to do is look for them in the text. Anything that you want to appear in quotes must start with "[quote]" and end with "[/quote ]". Please note the "/" forward slash in the last tag. It's that simple.

In addition, you can preview your report before it's posted, so it's easy to check if you got it right before it's displayed in The Forum.

Thanks,

Jackson

[Thanos]

Absolutely not true. There was an article in the Wall Street Journal about this class action suit, so it is legit. There are 3 options for making a claim, and it is only necessary to provide your credit card numbers if you choose the 3rd option, which is itemizing expenses.

L

The suit is legit but the only catch is that if you have many years to claim the banks kill you with fees for copies of your transactions. I've been visiting brazil since before the lawsuit began so my claim would span the entire ten years. Problem is my bank wants to charge $5. 00 per month for copies of my transactions. That's 120 months at 5 dollars a pop or 600 bucks and I'm not sure if it will be worth it.

[Sprite13]

[quote]Originally Posted by JohnnyBraz
Without the cheap women there it has nothing, as every monger would just go elsewhere and there are so many south american countries that are willing to take the place of brazil.

I'm quite sure that there are lots of mongers that think Brazil has a lot to offer except for cheap women.

I totally agree with Sperto. What makes Brasil so unique compared to other countries is that there are so many things to do, so many places to go that one could even spend years there, they still wouldn't have done it all and seen it all. I for one, my trips to Brasil are not for mongering purposes as I have some very good and close friends (brasilians) there, plus the unmatched music and futebol which were initially the main reasons that took me to Brasil, and lately due to business. Whenever I go to Brasil, I stay as little as possible in Rio and get the hell out of there as fast as I can. This is a huge country, with an extreme variety of faces to discover and appreciate.

Just an advice JohnnyBraz that could make your next trip to Brasil truly unforgettable: before getting there, try to learn as much portuguese as you can, try to learn about the country, the culture and the people, then once there, try to leave Copa and Rio if you can to other parts of the country. To say that you'd be blown away would be an understatment. And as a general rule, the better one's portuguese becomes, and the more they get away from Rio, SP and onto other cities, the higher your chances of scoring with beautiful, intelligent, charming and sexy non-pros that you won't even have nor the time nor the need anymore to partake in P4P.

A bon entendeur, salut,

Falou.

[Java Man]

Latin Passion you just threw money away.
You can go online and fill out the application. Option 1 gives you a $25 refund. I've changed credit cards, I no longer know all my credit cards numbers between 1996 and 2006. But I can figure out how many days I was out of the US in that period, (Option 3.) I should get more than $25.
As an FYI, this year alone, 3 charges using an ATM in Rio to access my US account were over $25.
The practice hasn't changed, they've only notified card holders of the charges.

[Lorenzo]

Both at my P.O. Box and my home for 3% I trashed that shit, because they asked for my full credit card account number!

Absolutely not true. There was an article in the Wall Street Journal about this class action suit, so it is legit. There are 3 options for making a claim, and it is only necessary to provide your credit card numbers if you choose the 3rd option, which is itemizing expenses.

L

[Sperto]

Without the cheap women there it has nothing, as every monger would just go elsewhere and there are so many south american countries that are willing to take the place of brazil.

I'm quite sure that there are lots of mongers that think Brazil has a lot to offer except for cheap women.

[JohnnyBraz]

Let's discuss it over a couple of garotas and cervejas in VM. I'm sure that hangout won't be closing anytime soon!

Brazil has no other ecomney that supports tourists like us. Sure it has a beautiful tropical climate, but it also has severe slums that are similar to african countries. And very undesirable. Without the cheap women there it has nothing, as every monger would just go elsewhere and there are so many south american countries that are willing to take the place of brazil. The average brazilian earns. 600 reals a month. The average australian earns 6000 reals a month if you compare the 2.come on 10 fold. It would take 2 decades to match. Off massive rececsion in one and massive growth in the other. I't 'I'll never happen.

[Ejam06]

Thanks for the infro.

Belo is about 300 miles from Rio, yes there are dozens of buses everyday including overnight express buses.

Cheers,

Hoje