Rio de Janeiro Reports

[Vagabundo1]

Touche, senior.

E instead of Sou perhaps. This is why one person practices.

Regarding the portuguese lesson 2 posts below:
"Learn if you like, and I highly suggest this, the local insults "Flamengistas sou feio e veio" (Female Flamengo fans are ugly and old)"

Assuming he wanted to write "Flamenguistas, sou feio e velho." Meaning, "Flamengo fans, I'm ugly and old."

[Vagabundo1]

Go to a post office and apply for one. But that's bad operational security.

Thank you for your advice, but unfortunately I do not have a CPF. Is there a way around this or can I just use any CPF online?

[Golfinho]

an epic flood on April 9, from a night of continuous heavy rain that trapped me inside my AirBnB apartment almost all day and apparently all options for hobbying took the day off. Tr.

Option: don't send your date home. LOL.

[Vagabundo1]

Wearing a local soccer shirt is a sure sign of the confidence needed for successful mongering in Brazil. Indeed, starting a small collection and suiting up one's equip is extra credit, the graduate level of mongering. I suggest suiting up one mulata with big tits in Vasco and a second mulata with big tits in Flamengo. Botafogo should be worn by the monger who is hosting.

I would never buy a local soccer shirt. Sometimes I may just grab a shirt for travel and then go to a different part of Brazil where I may encounter problems. These people take their soccer very seriously not like US football.

[Gbawekanu]

In general, you can go to any kiosk at any corner in Zona Sul and buy a sim card. You may need a CPF. I have several CPF's I've acquired over the years from Brazilian friends, many of them our special friends that is the subject of this board. The prices etc will be higher at the more formal Kiosks.

The best prices for sim cards are to be had at the mercado popular at Uruguiana metro station. Go to the station via metro, come up to the street, and there will be many street touts happy to sell you a sim card from all the services (oi, etc). You will need a CPF. When you go to buy a sim, simply go up to a street tout, and have the CPF written or on your smartphone. Say, "Requiro chipeee" (chipeee is what the locals call a sim), "Tenho CPF" and stick the number in the local's face. Negotiate a little. Do your business with a stack of small notes, and wear a local soccer shirt, eg, Vasco (or Flamengo etc). You can also buy cheap knock off soccer shirts at the mercado, and you should do this first, for security. Just pick a local team. There are four. Learn if you like, and I highly suggest this, the local insults, eg, "Mais linda gatas do Rio sou vascainas" (Most beautiful girls of rio are vasco fans), or "Flamengistas sou feio e veio" (Female Flamengo fans are ugly and old).

Thank you for your advice, but unfortunately I do not have a CPF. Is there a way around this or can I just use any CPF online?

[Turgid]

In general, you can go to any kiosk at any corner in Zona Sul and buy a sim card. You may need a CPF. I have several CPF's I've acquired over the years from Brazilian friends, many of them our special friends that is the subject of this board. The prices etc will be higher at the more formal Kiosks.

The best prices for sim cards are to be had at the mercado popular at Uruguiana metro station. Go to the station via metro, come up to the street, and there will be many street touts happy to sell you a sim card from all the services (oi, etc). You will need a CPF. When you go to buy a sim, simply go up to a street tout, and have the CPF written or on your smartphone. Say, "Requiro chipeee" (chipeee is what the locals call a sim), "Tenho CPF" and stick the number in the local's face. Negotiate a little. Do your business with a stack of small notes, and wear a local soccer shirt, eg, Vasco (or Flamengo etc). You can also buy cheap knock off soccer shirts at the mercado, and you should do this first, for security. Just pick a local team. There are four. Learn if you like, and I highly suggest this, the local insults, eg, "Mais linda gatas do Rio sou vascainas" (Most beautiful girls of rio are vasco fans), or "Flamengistas sou feio e veio" (Female Flamengo fans are ugly and old). Practice these insults with a safe local, like a doorman at a hotel first. If you can't say these lines naturally and in good humor, eliciting a laugh, then simply shut up, and point at your ear because you are deaf when you are on the street or on public buses. Further, use these lines when talking to rio's finest -- both the working girls and the cops -- but again, only when you can say these lines with confidence. Now, only in Brazil can you: A) activate a sim chip in your phone, and B) activate a whatsapp on your smartphone. Now, do both. Then set as your image for your whatsapp account the same logo as the futbol team you have chosen, eg, Vasco. Now, you can click from the best sites for GDPs to your zap (what the locals call whatsapp) with reckless abandon. The youngest freshest talent is to be found on the most local of the sites, which is the subject of another full post, or perhaps an update to bubba's guide, and of course, recce of the prives in person. Go and monger forth as you mongered for your sim chipeee -- on foot, in a vasco camisa (not to be confused with a camisinha kkkk), with a smartphone with zap with a vasco logo -- and raise a toast to Robert Jordan and Ernest Hemingway.

Therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;.

It tolls for thee.

Find your Maria. And your Gellhorn. And have a threesome with the Morena and the Loira. And post pictures, preferably with baby oil and butt plugs.

I would never buy a local soccer shirt. Sometimes I may just grab a shirt for travel and then go to a different part of Brazil where I may encounter problems. These people take their soccer very seriously not like US football.

[Sperto]

Regarding the portuguese lesson 2 posts below:
"Learn if you like, and I highly suggest this, the local insults "Flamengistas sou feio e veio" (Female Flamengo fans are ugly and old)"

Assuming he wanted to write "Flamenguistas, sou feio e velho." Meaning, "Flamengo fans, I'm ugly and old."

[Kcrl01]

I will be landing at Galeo International Airport in Rio at 9 pm on a Saturday, what will the quickest way be to obtain a sim card as most malls would be closed at this time.

There'll be 2-3 vendors hawking SIM cards immediately after you clear baggage. Do you have a CPF?

[Vagabundo1]

In general, you can go to any kiosk at any corner in Zona Sul and buy a sim card. You may need a CPF. I have several CPF's I've acquired over the years from Brazilian friends, many of them our special friends that is the subject of this board. The prices etc will be higher at the more formal Kiosks.

The best prices for sim cards are to be had at the mercado popular at Uruguiana metro station. Go to the station via metro, come up to the street, and there will be many street touts happy to sell you a sim card from all the services (oi, etc). You will need a CPF. When you go to buy a sim, simply go up to a street tout, and have the CPF written or on your smartphone. Say, "Requiro chipeee" (chipeee is what the locals call a sim), "Tenho CPF" and stick the number in the local's face. Negotiate a little. Do your business with a stack of small notes, and wear a local soccer shirt, eg, Vasco (or Flamengo etc). You can also buy cheap knock off soccer shirts at the mercado, and you should do this first, for security. Just pick a local team. There are four. Learn if you like, and I highly suggest this, the local insults, eg, "Mais linda gatas do Rio sou vascainas" (Most beautiful girls of rio are vasco fans), or "Flamengistas sou feio e veio" (Female Flamengo fans are ugly and old). Practice these insults with a safe local, like a doorman at a hotel first. If you can't say these lines naturally and in good humor, eliciting a laugh, then simply shut up, and point at your ear because you are deaf when you are on the street or on public buses. Further, use these lines when talking to rio's finest -- both the working girls and the cops -- but again, only when you can say these lines with confidence. Now, only in Brazil can you: A) activate a sim chip in your phone, and B) activate a whatsapp on your smartphone. Now, do both. Then set as your image for your whatsapp account the same logo as the futbol team you have chosen, eg, Vasco. Now, you can click from the best sites for GDPs to your zap (what the locals call whatsapp) with reckless abandon. The youngest freshest talent is to be found on the most local of the sites, which is the subject of another full post, or perhaps an update to bubba's guide, and of course, recce of the prives in person. Go and monger forth as you mongered for your sim chipeee -- on foot, in a vasco camisa (not to be confused with a camisinha kkkk), with a smartphone with zap with a vasco logo -- and raise a toast to Robert Jordan and Ernest Hemingway.

Therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;.

It tolls for thee.

Find your Maria. And your Gellhorn. And have a threesome with the Morena and the Loira. And post pictures, preferably with baby oil and butt plugs.

I will be landing at Galeo International Airport in Rio at 9 pm on a Saturday, what will the quickest way be to obtain a sim card as most malls would be closed at this time.

[Gbawekanu]

I will be landing at Galeão International Airport in Rio at 9 pm on a Saturday, what will the quickest way be to obtain a sim card as most malls would be closed at this time.

[Nordico]

ApplePay and AndroidPay are more secure to use, than using your physical card. https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/chip-...cloning/21502/ I have not used them, so I don't know how widely they are accepted in Brazil.

[Mr Enternational]

The ATMs I saw in Rio had a concave card guard outside the cars slot so that if would be obvious if a skimmer had been attached, and it would have been very difficult to do so.

Not necessarily. Years ago when this topic came up I posted a video of where they add an entire face to the machine so you do not know the difference.

[One Eyed Man]

I've read that the best strategy is to stick with ATM machines in bank lobbies (never machines facing the street) during normal business hours. Anybody know of any good bank ATMs near the Pestana Hotel or anywhere else in the Copa area? I've always used cash only before in Brazil, but may be willing to give the ATMs a try. But not at the airport! And not a machine on the street either. Well, I have paid for hotel bills with credit cards before and never had a single problem, but other than that have always settled charges with cash.

My ATM card got cloned in São Paulo in a bank of ATMs at the Morumbi Shopping mall. It was a row of bank ATMs inside the mall, however there was no bank nearby. Fortunately, I didn't have much money in that account, so the thieves didn't get anything. They tried to use it for what seemed everyday purchases at general purpose stores. The ATMs I saw in Rio had a concave card guard outside the cars slot so that if would be obvious if a skimmer had been attached, and it would have been very difficult to do so.

[Sperto]

Rephrasing.
Regarding information given below that most ATMs only allows R$500 withdrawals. That information is incorrect. E.g Banco Bradesco allows R$2500/withdrawal.

[Eszpresszo]

I would have thought that some big Brazilian broom had swept all the bordellos away, a long defunct bar called HELP was the epicenter of all punting in Brazil, and prostitutes in Rio were elusive. Fortunately, I didn't and discovered the biggest problems were: a) who and where to choose at any particular time. B) an epic flood on April 9, from a night of continuous heavy rain that trapped me inside my AirBnB apartment almost all day and apparently all options for hobbying took the day off. That day was a bummer.