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[QUOTE=Kingfish1; 1242743]For parties and hot women, which is better Rio or Sao Pablo?

Thank you in advance[/QUOTE]I think we all agreed it was the FSU. Women there have the most awesome legs, especially their calves.

[QUOTE=Kingfish1; 1242743]For parties and hot women, which is better Rio or Sao Pablo?

Thank you in advance[/QUOTE]WTF is Sao Pablo? And please RTTF.

[QUOTE=Exec Talent;1242940]I think we all agreed it was the FSU. Women there have the most awesome legs, especially their calves.[/QUOTE]No need to to be so embittered (despite your allegedly "wild" success stories with frebies in Lapa, pics to come BTW?). Yes, FSU women are wilder, it is a pure fact. (rolleyes)

all over the world, age of consent laws get tougher and tougher. the ages creep up, enforcement gets stronger. punishments higher. and lighter and lighter behaviors become offensive. in the 70'ies rock stars had masses of 15 year old groupies, mick jagger and charlie chaplin married some really young girls (13 i think) and nobody thought much of it. if there were any age of consent laws on the book, they were for sexual intercourse. now they are for touching, kissing, talking (grooming) and chatting on the internet.

in places were the age of consent is 16, you can have sex with her, even marry her, but beware of photographing your wife (child porn) , chatting with your girlfriend on the internet (grooming over the internet) , inviting someone or get into **** role play. ever seen.

[url=http://human-stupidity.com/stupid-dogma/teenage-sexuality/to-catch-a-predator-nbc-witch-hunt]"catch a predator"? [/url]

[url=http://human-stupidity.com/humor/funny-videos/****-sex-entrapment-catch-a-predator-spoof]spoof[/url]

have you seen italian tv crews filming guys on fortaleza beach, talking to **** girls and hanging out with them? you talk to them, you are a suspect. i know people who got in trouble for talking to 17 year olds on copacabana beach. or for hanging out with a 23 year old without i'd. you are unaware of the legal maxim "guilty until proven innocent" that is valid for all sex crimes (see strauss kahn).

in brazil things are a little more relaxed. you can actually be thankful that police is more interested in getting bribes out of you then locking you away. but, the occasional cover story on globo newspaper of a handcuffed gringo (or, rarely, a brazilian) is good for professional image and promotion, and for scaring the next guy into paying tens of thousands of bribes to avoid such a fate.

yes, brazilians get away with more. my lawyer sent police packing and running after being picked up getting a bj from a 16 year old in his car. but, if the girl or her mom wanted to go after him, he would have a hard time. and a coronel of the firefighters was picked up in a motel with a 15 year old and got in deep trouble. in brazil, a hotel owner and clerk get a few years in jail if they give a room to a 17 year old without a notarized permission of the parents.

so if you talk to an under 18 girls, you'd better prove you had no intent, she is not a pro, you never fucked her, etc. i am actually surprised they never set up anyone for talking to the chiclets girls at help. i always avoided them as good as i could. but believe me, there were 17 year old gdp's with the explicit intent to frame gringos. and there were other 17 year olds with nicely forged i'd (or with someone else's i'd) who plied their profession unopposed at help. i know because i kicked one of these out of [thread=3281]my apartment[/thread] and heard reports of her working at help for months and months. this girl had no intent setting anyone up, but might collaborate with police once she got caught.

now how to i'd a girl before you talk to her on the beach walk, that is a problem. or it is extremely embarrassing if you bring a group of kids home from the gym, for a beer, and you have to i'd them. oh, **** boys are the same problem, even though you might not even have thought of them as sex objects. sorry i did not make these laws, thank your friendly feminists and the religious right.

[quote=bravo; 1241356]or it might be a situation where he was caught fucking a gdp on the beach at night. from my window on bolivar, many times i have seen the police hide behind the bushes / shrubs of closed cafes and watch couples on the beach across atlantica ave. i am sure they are trying to bust them for having sex at night on the beach.

why would a girl need i'd if you are only having a conversation with her on the street? what law are you breaking by talking to a girl who is ****? i only ask because many times i have stood in front of meia pataca and bought peanuts and gum from some of the young girls, i would be interested to know what law i am breaking by doing that.[/quote]

[QUOTE=Safado69; 1237366]So I haven't been in Brazil since last October. This past Friday I tried to use my debit card for my daily mocha and it was declined. Immediately I thought that was strange so I went online and sure enough there were rental car purchases in Florianopolis, restaurants and hotels with unfamiliar Brazilian Portuguese names. Total damage was approximately $1, 200. So I call my bank and apparently they blocked the card bc there were several other attempts at other vendors where the card was declined. Fortunately I received a provincial debit to my account for all the funds after I went through the claims process.

Point of my report I believe someone posted a prior report warning about a scam with copying credit cards some time ago. I do remember at Meia Pattaca a waiter taking my card and not swiping it in front of me and returning with my bill. Very unusual practice.

Thought I'd share as this is still going on.[/QUOTE]Lots of stories about cloned credit cards. I only use mine in highly reputable businesses (large department stores and expensive hotels). I also try to always use banco do Brazil ATMs in places that have 24 hour guards (thus nobody can mount cloning equipment). Never had a problem with cloning in decades. HSBC has a bad rap for cloning, they seem not to watch their equipment carefully enough.

[QUOTE=Christopherd; 1240556]In this week's print edition also.

[url]http://www.economist.com/node/21543210[/url][/QUOTE]Thanks for the interesting article. There is an even easier way for small business. If a garota wants to legalize her business, send her to that site [url]http://www.portaldoempreendedor.gov.br[/url]

Unfortunately, the following quote from the article is true. You have unlimited liability for taxes and labor law suits. And these law suits can be frivolous and the values can be HUGE. I can tell from my own experience. R$ 200 000 tax liability for taxes already paid, R$ 200 000 employee benefits for a guy that a) made 800 per month and be) never worked for me.

[QUOTE=Mr Enternational;1234561]If he is in the military then he will have to come back to US soil first anyway. And a visa only takes a few days. So it would be best for him to send his passport to a service once he gets home unless there is a Brazilian consulate in his city where he can go directly. Better make sure he even has a passport. Most active duty military people do not have one. If he is a contractor then he definitely has one.[/QUOTE]Thanks for the reply. The guy seems a contractor, will not go through the US. And he had some Visa department take care of his Visa (still has not gotten it, though)

I didn't even know I was bittered.

Interestingly ran into one of those FSU girls in central Rio the other day. With guidebook in hand, she was looking for a historic church near Rio Branco and Rosario. She was very hot, so Prosal, you get no arguments from me about FSU women.

I will be staying with friends over Carnaval and I want to bring the family some presents from the USA. I am thinking about a Kindel Fire and maybe some other "stocking stuffer" type things. I thought I heard someone say electronics are outlandish in Brazil. A penny for your thoughts here.

Hey guys,

I was wondering outside of paying for pros and maybe shopping how much should one budget per day in Rio? I'm going there for the first time next week Wednesday and wanted a rough day / day budget and I'll take it from there.

Thank you

[QUOTE=Hungrystud101;1243758]I will be staying with friends over Carnaval and I want to bring the family some presents from the USA. I am thinking about a Kindel Fire and maybe some other "stocking stuffer" type things. I thought I heard someone say electronics are outlandish in Brazil. A penny for your thoughts here.[/QUOTE]Almost eveything is out of price in Brazil when you compare it with the USA (or Canada).

Las year, for example, I had a strange request from a Brazilian fellow monger to bring from Canada a pair of Evo CX II 320tpi tires for his bike. He said that the prices for these Italian tires were exorbitant in Brazil when compared with those in Canada.

Habitually, for a man, I bring as a gift a bottle of Canadian Whisky (like a Crown Royal Special Reserve) or a Scotch Whiskey. I may also bring fine or gourmet products that are typically Québécois such as Maple Syrup, maple syrup products, Icewine, Pinnacle Ice Cider, etc.

Electronics devices seems to be a good idea though.

For women you may think of perfumes, clothes, electronics or electric devices also (a vibrator?).

The list can be endless.

[QUOTE=Making Moves; 1243799]Hey guys,

I was wondering outside of paying for pros and maybe shopping how much should one budget per day in Rio? I'm going there for the first time next week Wednesday and wanted a rough day / day budget and I'll take it from there.

Thank you[/QUOTE]I found Rio Quite Cheap but I did a lot of walking, taking Metro not Taxi etc. Also got a good exchange Rate $1 US. 1.80 Real from Bobby@'Blame it on Rio' Rua Xavier the Silveira. 15.

Copacabana.

I would want around 100 Brazilian Real a Day Min.

[QUOTE=MoneyShot; 1244028]I found Rio Quite Cheap but I did a lot of walking, taking Metro not Taxi etc. Also got a good exchange Rate $1 US. 1.80 Real from Bobby@'Blame it on Rio' Rua Xavier the Silveira. 15.

Copacabana.

I would want around 100 Brazilian Real a Day Min.[/QUOTE]Ok that's how much I had budgeted actually.

Thank you very much.

[QUOTE=MoneyShot; 1244028]I found Rio Quite Cheap but I did a lot of walking, taking Metro not Taxi etc. Also got a good exchange Rate $1 US. 1.80 Real from Bobby@'Blame it on Rio' Rua Xavier the Silveira. 15.

Copacabana.

I would want around 100 Brazilian Real a Day Min.[/QUOTE]Maybe compared to Zurich, Tokyo or Hong Kong, but compared to most US cities, Rio is quite expensive. Was at Balcony the other night and had two caipirinhas (R$ 15) and two draft beers (R$ 6) which with tip came to R$ 46. The exchange rate is back down (USD:BRL- 1. 73) so that is about $26. My girl was feeling frisky, so we stopped by the Praia Lido Hotel where she was quoted R$150 for two hours. She went in alone, so they probably assumed she was a GDP with a Gringo and included the Gringo tax and GDP commission in the price. For less than R$150, we went down to rua Siqueira Campos and had a nice dinner at Carretão.

[url]http://www.praialidohotel.com.br/index_eng.html[/url]

[url]http://www.carretaochurrascaria.com.br/br/copacabana[/url]

I'm not sure if I can post this here, but let's see what happens. I read this today on a Rio oriented blog. It was posted today.

[url]http://riosul123.********.com/2012/02/american-shot-in-robbery-attempt-in-rio.html[/url]

The live links for Carnaval online are updated here regularly:

[url]http://braziltravelcenter.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/watch-carnival-live-watch-brazilian-carnaval-live-online-free/[/url]

Oglobo TV online streaming LIVE Sao Paulo's Carnaval Parade. Hope they do it for Rio's parade.

[url]http://g1.globo.com/sao-paulo/carnaval/2012/desfile-apuracao/cobertura/[/url]