Stupid Shit in Brazil

[The Cane]

Right, and that is not a put down? You're not even in Rio, like The Cane, yet you post daily. It speaks for itself.

Being in Rio (or any other place) is not a basis for posting on the site. Engaging in petty, egotistical banter on a daily basis (by way of multiple aliases) ought not be one either.

[Vagabundo1]

There was a viral sketch on SNL about "Man Park" and an article in the economist.com that describes Male Loneliness in America. It relates to a well known phenomenon, call it Brazil Withdrawal Syndrome. A ISGer comes to Brazil for 3 weeks, announces his pronouns as something like Sir, but the girls he pulls are only from termas, and those are unremarkable. Then he comes to Rio, and is in the absolute opposite of Puritan Pussy Prison in America, where the female faculty at an academic work environment body shame men in acts of some kind of redress. For 3 weeks he gets sex on command. Then he goes back to America, and he has one place he can recall that feeling of superiority that he felt in Rio -- namely the sex tourist message board, where the majority of participants are, like him, not even in Rio. It becomes a kind of online therapy group, like the group therapy for emasculated men in fight club because they are not really using their sex organs to fuck Brazilian women today or this week, or even 3 weeks ago. The obvious answer for this is that like Hemingway going to Cuba after being put in a minor Pussy Prison by his Catholic wife in Key West is that the ISGer should pull a Bubba Boy and figure out how to live in Rio for 7 to 10 years.

https://youtu.be/tTd1hSFzC_E

https://www.economist.com/united-sta...than-elsewhere

Male loneliness.

Why men are lonelier in America than elsewhere.

Marrying later, working harder and being better parents have diminished male friendships.

Are isolated men driving American women up the wall? A recent sketch on "Saturday Night Live", which refers to studies concluding that males in America are increasingly friendless, suggests that they are. A young woman, frustrated by her boyfriend's inability to open up to anyone else, takes him by the hand and leads him to a "man park" (like the dog version) where, after a shy start, he finds fellow males to make friends with. Some viewers disliked the likening of men to dogs, but the sketch, which went viral online, illustrates fresh concerns about an old worry: the loneliness of American men.

As people in rich countries work longer hours, marry later and spend more time with their children, not friends, research suggests loneliness is increasing. A study by the University of Pennsylvania found a direct link between social-media usage and loneliness. More time spent online means less time building friendships.

The problem may be particularly severe in America. A large international study by British academics found that people in individualistic countries (a measure on which America scores highest) reported greater loneliness. America also has one of the highest divorce rates; men may be more likely to lose mutual friends after a split. A strong work ethic and geographical mobility (meaning friendships are liable to be lost or weakened as people relocate) is likely to exacerbate the problem.

A survey published in 2021 by the Survey Centre on American Life, part of the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank, found that friendship groups have shrunk in the past three decades. The decline has been particularly marked among men. In 1990,55% of American men reported having at least six close friends; today only 27% do. The survey found that 15% of men have no close friendships at all, a fivefold increase since 1990.

Those who study male loneliness believe that a particularly American version of masculinity is in part to blame. Since 1990 Robert Garfield, a psychotherapist and author of "Breaking the Male Code", has run "friendship labs", men's therapeutic groups, which have shown him that men crave emotional connection. But American boys, says Dr Garfield, who has also run such groups in Europe, are often taught that successful men exhibit particular traits—restraint, independence, competitiveness—at the expense of others.

As women's and lgbt rights have advanced in recent decades, along with more emotional ways of connecting with others, "men are being asked to stretch themselves", Dr Garfield says. Over time, this is likely to have a positive effect on the way men relate to each other, but at the moment, "males are in a fighting phase".

Marc Schapiro, a 24-year-old English teacher from Maryland, agrees. He says he was taught male friendship is "stoic and lacking outward affection". But now he sees a different portrayal of friendship on social media, particularly by women and lgbt people. He would love, he says, to be able to "show more affection and drop the constant snide comments and ribbing", but he finds the disconnect between what he grew up believing about friendship and how he sees other people relating to each other unsettling. The "quasi-socialising" he and his friends do online, via games and various message boards, meets no real need, he adds.

All this comes at a heavy cost. Suicide is more common among young men than young women. Niobe Way, a psychologist at New York University who studies adolescent male friendship and is the author of "Deep Secrets: Boys' Friendships and the Crisis of Connection", says it is no coincidence this divergence begins to happen around the age that many boys move away from close friendships. In childhood, she says, boys tend to be as open as girls about their need for friends. As they get older, they "feel they have to get into a gender straitjacket" and define their masculinity primarily as not being feminine. By the age of 15, many boys start saying they don't need friends and worrying that close friendships will make them seem "girly". This "clash of culture and nature", Dr Way says, is much more marked among white boys than black ones.

The effects are far-reaching. Research has linked loneliness to poor health. It can make men angry and violent. Male loneliness also affects women. Dr Garfield observes that two-thirds of divorces are initiated by women, many of whom complain their husbands are emotionally incompetent. "There's nothing new about that, but women are increasingly unlikely to put up with it," he says. ■.

[Spidy]

Yikes! VagaPatmarBelazaBundo1 strikes!

A case of Jekyll and Hyde?

Hmmm....well many here do tend to think the crazy girls are more fun. I personally tend to keep my distance from hot head latinas.

[Explorer8939]

It's a long way to travel with a girl: Pattaya to Florianopolis. But the OP wanted out of Thailand and he wanted to bring a favorite Thai girl along for the ride. Ha Ha. I could almost conceive of it myself under these trying times, except that I would not have taken the girl halfway around the world. I would have taken her to a beach island in southern Thailand like Ko Lipe and rented a condo there for a month or two.

But it is all good. Whatever makes you happy. Yada Yada Yada. I once flew one of my favorite girls up from Phuket to BKK. On the surface, that sounds crazy too, but I really dug the girl and I did not want to fly down to Phuket to se her so I flew her up and we had a memorable 4 days and 3 nights in BKK. Then in early 2020, I was all set (tickets and hotel reservations in hand) to fly BKK to Yangon, hang out there for a few days, and then fly back to BKK with my favorite Burmese gal. I originally thought of taking her to a Burmese beach, but she expressed a big desire to see BKK and I thought why not? It will be a lot of fun. Then Covid broke and I have still not been back to SE Asia since.

I took her twin sister to Koh Lipe. Been there, done that.

[Explorer8939]

It's a long way to travel with a girl: Pattaya to Florianopolis. But the OP wanted out of Thailand and he wanted to bring a favorite Thai girl along for the ride. Ha Ha. I could almost conceive of it myself under these trying times, except that I would not have taken the girl halfway around the world. I would have taken her to a beach island in southern Thailand like Ko Lipe and rented a condo there for a month or two.

But it is all good. Whatever makes you happy. Yada Yada Yada. I once flew one of my favorite girls up from Phuket to BKK. On the surface, that sounds crazy too, but I really dug the girl and I did not want to fly down to Phuket to se her so I flew her up and we had a memorable 4 days and 3 nights in BKK. Then in early 2020, I was all set (tickets and hotel reservations in hand) to fly BKK to Yangon, hang out there for a few days, and then fly back to BKK with my favorite Burmese gal. I originally thought of taking her to a Burmese beach, but she expressed a big desire to see BKK and I thought why not? It will be a lot of fun. Then Covid broke and I have still not been back to SE Asia since.

This is a lady I have taken to Dubai and Turkey.

Her friends are acutely aware of the upside of going with me.

[Vagabundo1]

Right, and that is not a put down? You're not even in Rio, like The Cane, yet you post daily. It speaks for itself.

Sounds like Vaginabundle1. Um, sorry "PatmarBeleza" should follow his own advice about "ignoring" and maybe we wouldn't be getting these pathetic, obsessive and insecure posts directed at me. Like I said, yawn.

[The Cane]

Sounds like Vaginabundle1. Um, sorry "PatmarBeleza" should follow his own advice about "ignoring" and maybe we wouldn't be getting these pathetic, obsessive and insecure posts directed at me. Like I said, yawn.

Yikes! VagaPatmarBelazaBundo1 strikes!

[Axel Heyst]

This was new tactics, bringing a thai lady to Brazil. A bit like like bringing feijoada to a Thai restaurant.

Yes, it brings to mind the very appropriate idiom "You don't bring sand to the beach". The beach reference having extra significance to Brazil.

It's a long way to travel with a girl: Pattaya to Florianopolis. But the OP wanted out of Thailand and he wanted to bring a favorite Thai girl along for the ride. Ha Ha. I could almost conceive of it myself under these trying times, except that I would not have taken the girl halfway around the world. I would have taken her to a beach island in southern Thailand like Ko Lipe and rented a condo there for a month or two.

But it is all good. Whatever makes you happy. Yada Yada Yada. I once flew one of my favorite girls up from Phuket to BKK. On the surface, that sounds crazy too, but I really dug the girl and I did not want to fly down to Phuket to se her so I flew her up and we had a memorable 4 days and 3 nights in BKK. Then in early 2020, I was all set (tickets and hotel reservations in hand) to fly BKK to Yangon, hang out there for a few days, and then fly back to BKK with my favorite Burmese gal. I originally thought of taking her to a Burmese beach, but she expressed a big desire to see BKK and I thought why not? It will be a lot of fun. Then Covid broke and I have still not been back to SE Asia since.

[WyattEarp]

This was new tactics, bringing a thai lady to Brazil. A bit like like bringing feijoada to a Thai restaurant.

Yes, it brings to mind the very appropriate idiom "You don't bring sand to the beach". The beach reference having extra significance to Brazil.

[Explorer8939]

This was new tactics, bringing a thai lady to Brazil. A bit like like bringing feijoada to a Thai restaurant. I have a friend who is travelling in Brazil right now. Three times vaccinated, super fit fire-fighter, always very careful and very worried about catching covid-19. He was the one of my friends who caught the most serious covid the last weeks.

I don't go out much here in Florianópolis, just for shopping. Covid is everywhere now.

[Member #4729]

No board member can control another board member.

You are giving other members of this board way too much power.

As Sperto has suggested, you should just ignore if you don't like someone.

Sounds like Vaginabundle1. Um, sorry "PatmarBeleza" should follow his own advice about "ignoring" and maybe we wouldn't be getting these pathetic, obsessive and insecure posts directed at me. Like I said, yawn.

[PatmarBeleza1]

No board member can control another board member.

You are giving other members of this board way too much power.

As Sperto has suggested, you should just ignore if you don't like someone.

People should be free to monger in whatever manner they please without judgement and put-downs.

[Sperto]

I am having a great time in Brazil, living in a condo by the beach in Florianopolis with a Thai lady. I go back to Rio in a couple of days, and will monitor infections closely, both in Thailand and in Latin America, and will go where there is the least Omicron.

This was new tactics, bringing a thai lady to Brazil. A bit like like bringing feijoada to a Thai restaurant. I have a friend who is travelling in Brazil right now. Three times vaccinated, super fit fire-fighter, always very careful and very worried about catching covid-19. He was the one of my friends who caught the most serious covid the last weeks.

[Explorer8939]

I told him that before he left Thailand. But he was adamant that he did not want to stay there and have to take a covid test to get into bars; it wasn't catching covid that he was worried about since he is vaxxed. Now that he is in Brazil, it seems he does not want to go to bars at all, and just a little worried about catching covid.

I am having a great time in Brazil, living in a condo by the beach in Florianopolis with a Thai lady. I go back to Rio in a couple of days, and will monitor infections closely, both in Thailand and in Latin America, and will go where there is the least Omicron. Although numbers are high in Argentina, if they drop a bit, I may go there for a few weeks. Mexico is also on my list, although Omicron is spiking there night now, I always wanted to take a Thai lady to Tijuana.

[Nordico]

Most people that I know that have gotten covid do not even go to bars and have no idea how they got it.

Can we conclude from your post that people get infected because they don't go to bars or that most people you know don't go to bars?