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[Perkele]

Talking about the tourist rapped in Rio.

According WHO, Brasil is in the Top 10 (7th place) of the countries with the highest rates of violence towards women (which includes murder, sexual assault, stalking, violence in intimate relationships, and other violations of women's bodies and psyches).

When you scratch a bit the surface, you realise that Brasil is not the carefree paradise filled with nice people that some daydreamers promote here.

You are quite right. Especially Rio de Janeiro is going down the toilet. It's not enough that inflation is running practically out of control, rising prices to ridiculous levels the violence is also rising. Some fools believe that the favelas are being pacified. Well, Rio is welcoming all fat, rich gringo fools to soccer world cup and olympics. At least the criminals will make a good profit.

[Prosal]

Talking about the tourist rapped in Rio.

According WHO, Brasil is in the Top 10 (7th place) of the countries with the highest rates of violence towards women (which includes murder, sexual assault, stalking, violence in intimate relationships, and other violations of women's bodies and psyches).

When you scratch a bit the surface, you realise that Brasil is not the carefree paradise filled with nice people that some daydreamers promote here.

[Bravo]

Do these guys expect that I will call one of my non-pro GF's and say "Hi Fulana. Is it OK if I give your contact info to a guy from a prostitution forum? I have no idea who he is, how he looks like, if he's old, fat or a pervo."

Hey Sperto! Us old, fat, ugly, pervs need luv too! Don't be so stingy! LOL!

[Sperto]

Sometimes it makes me wonder about the PM's I receive. I get quite a few PM's asking for contact info to regular non-pro-girls in Brazil. I'm happy to share mongering info, to a certain limit. But why on earth would I share my non-pro's with somebody I don't know and have never met? The question gets extra peculiar when it comes from members with something like 2-3 posts on the forum. I have hooked up a lot of my buddies with friends to my GF's, but that's a different case.

Do these guys expect that I will call one of my non-pro GF's and say "Hi Fulana. Is it OK if I give your contact info to a guy from a prostitution forum? I have no idea who he is, how he looks like, if he's old, fat or a pervo."

[Kcrl01]

We had this discussion before about a fire at 4x4. There is no way out, if you are in the room upstairs. That is a long ass walk down a couple spiraling staircases to get to the one exit at the bottom. I try not to think about it when I am there, but I know we are toast, if a fire broke out and you are not near the exit. If you are going to go I guess 4x4 being your last night is better than being tortured by Ted Bundy.

If you do happen to get caught in a fire at 4x4, you don't have to pay the cover charge on the way out!

[Spidy]

Take a look at the changing face of the Catholic religion in Brazil.

http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV+Shows / The+National / About+the+Show / Adrienne+Arsenault / I'd / 2342489691/

After viewing the piece, I wonder if they are celebrating God and religion or simply waking up to the exploitations of the church and embracing a more opportunistic kind of religion, . Evangelical capitalism.

[Mangera]

RECRUIT ME!

Good read.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/2...mmigrants.html

[Manoon]

As a side note, the price of a bus ticket (2.75 reals) is 600% more expensive in Rio than in Minsk, and a taxi ride some 400% more expensive than in Tashkent.

Also foods in Brazil cost almost allways double price compare to Turkey. You can buy 2 coke in Turkey for the price of 1 coke in Brazil. And if the coke is in refrigeretor its price tripled in brazil. The potato chips is also cost tripled more. Brazil has very expensive cost of living in indeed.

[Prosal]

As a side note, the price of a bus ticket (2.75 reals) is 600% more expensive in Rio than in Minsk, and a taxi ride some 400% more expensive than in Tashkent.

[Prosal]

Rio is perceived to be the happiest place in the world. I do tend to feel rather happy when I'm there!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...ef=mostpopular

Rio being the 12th most expensive city in the world (and the most expensive in the Americas) , I don't how people living there can be "happy", a forciori by considering the average salary.

[The Cane]

Rio is perceived to be the happiest place in the world. I do tend to feel rather happy when I'm there!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...ef=mostpopular

[HelpRules]

We had this discussion before about a fire at 4x4. There is no way out, if you are in the room upstairs. That is a long ass walk down a couple spiraling staircases to get to the one exit at the bottom. I try not to think about it when I am there, but I know we are toast, if a fire broke out and you are not near the exit. If you are going to go I guess 4x4 being your last night is better than being tortured by Ted Bundy.

[The Cane]

Any updates on Club Florida? I've never been, and I've heard it's a dirty, disgusting place, but with some gems to be found there nevertheless. I'm interested in going to see it for myself some day. Is it still alive and kicking? Haven't seen any mention of it for some time now. Puta Playa used to write about it. Come to think of it, haven't heard from Puta Playa in ages either.

[The Cane]

I have sometimes thought that a fire in one of our favorite Rio termas would be similarly tragic. Best not to think about it I suppose.

I've pondered the very same thing. Like, how fast could I get out of Termas 65 or something if there was a fire? And what if you have to get out with just your robe on? Well, better ashamed outside on the street but alive than unashamed inside the terma but dead. And what if they try to prevent you from leaving until you've payed, like Sperto's post alleges to have happened here?

[RexG]

From CNN:

Sun, Jan 27, 2013 6:37 am.

A fire swept through a nightclub in southern Brazil, killing at least 90 people early Sunday, officials said.

The fire started around 2 am At the Kiss nightclub in the city of Santa Maria. Firefighters were still pulling out bodies, and Col. Adilomar Silva, the regional coordinator of civil defense, expected the death toll to climb.

Officials could not immediately say what caused the fire.

A Brazilian nightclub where hundreds died in a fire Sunday was about 1, 000 people over capacity at the time of the blaze, a fire official said.

"When I arrived, we analyzed the preliminary scene and saw that there was a 1, 000 maximum capacity but we understood there were about 2, 000 there," said Guido de Melo, a fire official.

The fire killed at least 245 people, many of whom apparently died from smoke inhalation, police said.

I have sometimes thought that a fire in one of our favorite Rio termas would be similarly tragic. Best not to think about it I suppose.