solacesoul

I have no doubt you have more accurate information.  
I just know these forums are like oxygen to him & he can't not react - so perhaps it's a temporary ban where he can't post.
he made it clear he could sign on there, yet doesn't post.  
and we all know about the lack of impulse control, among other things 

It’s like the very common late 20th Century PR statement release: “Artist / Actor X checked into Cedar Sinai Hospital due to exhaustion.” 

Recently we had a thread where we discussed $500/hr pricing. Many in that thread concluded the price hike, in addition to inflation, was due to lack of new arrivals in to the trade due to Chaturbate and OnlyFans being good options to make money for many. 
So, quality and quantity both have gone down in the US....even in megamarkets like LA and NYC. New faces are mostly visitors from other countries. 
It"s time to consider immigration to the EU or the UK. Canada also seems to have great options. 

Speaking of scams, here in the US widowed elders are a favorite target.  My 87-year-old dad, living alone in his home, fell victim to a tree trimmer who convinced him that the trees on his property needed trimming.   Over several months while I was away, this crook convinced my dad to write checks totaling around $50,000.   When I returned, I asked my dad about the tree trimmer, whose truck was parked in our driveway, and his response was very vague.  When I confronted the crook, he and his truck disappeared,  Since I had his address, I hired a reputable lawyer to seek restitution or sue.  After a couple of weeks, he said that the crook was a meth head with no assets to speak of and and that the fees for any attempt to pursue a suit would be money down the drain.  Shortly thereafter, my died passed away and his estate  was simply the poorer for this scam.  Elders (now to include me) beware!!

I see that Cooper has closed the previous thread on this subject.   He was right to do so because it had descended into personal invective.  I've been mostly a watcher for around 20 years, commenting rarely and always trying to avoid anything that would draw the fire of either extreme of the political spectrum.
But I am impelled on this occasion to make a point.  I fully support the rights of all persons, including persons in drag, to be themselves without fear.  But the drag marchers made a colossal mistake at NY Pride.  Their attempt to be funny or ironic by chanting they were coming for "your children" was counterproductive to say the least.   While our community may understand the irony and comedy of such a chant, many voters are likely to take their words literally, and right-wing influencers and politicians will be sure to tell their audiences that the paraders meant what they said and must be cast into hell.
The hard won achievement of LBGTQI rights is increasingly under pressure, as SCOTUS is demonstrating, and the LGBTQI community needs to think hard about moderating its irony/humor and all of its words and actions lest we feed the strength of those who wish to reverse what we have achieved.

as mentioned - Riobard is a metaphor for bad online behavior 
not a personal thing 
don’t be a Riobard !

you just don’t know when to leave well enough alone
so, let me remind you;
you have been banned at “the other site” and many of the perps that got you banned are also here - and because they don’t want dirty hands, they have tepid support for your continuing obnoxious shenanigans - and somehow that’s emboldening you ?  another complete failure to read the room, as per usual 
I still dont understand the big deal about your multiple user names & all the secrets (and there are some, obviously) - but really in this forum/context, it’s just like a shady “provider” changing names on RM.  
As a suggestion however, you might want to change your writing style if you don’t want to be found out - it’s a dead giveaway 
of course, you’re absolutely not Riobard - that’s just a rumor 
*and now you’ve deleted the post that prompted this response - except for the quote above which shows exactly how you have absolutely zero impulse control. and so easily triggered ??
please excuse me while I take out the trash - it’s getting noxious in here 

impulse control is not in his wheelhouse 

this is true - however, 99.9% of people on this site are going to Rio for the obvious reason
100% accurate.  I fail to understand the need to minimize crime in Rio. If you want to go, then go - but don’t make it something it’s not.  
Seem like many of them are trying to convince themselves.  It’s a numbers game that gets everyone eventually 

It wasn’t just suggested. It was clearly stated. 
 
 

Let’s address this piece.
Although this site / board and a couple of others cater to sex tourists and are going to attract discussion principally about it, there are many reasons other than just sex that tourists would want to visit Rio / Brazil, and a foreigner might decide to relocate / expatriate / retire there.
Some of us here may tend to believe that because one thing is important to or prioritized by us, then there couldn’t possibly be anything more important to others. Of course, this isn’t the case.
Some people come to Rio or other parts of Brazil and fall in love with the city or country, in spite of its issues.  Others, and this is surely most, can visit and feel very little to no connection or attachment to it — and that should be okay, too.
In my particular case, upon landing in Brazil for the first time almost a decade and a half ago (this was after even more years of study and reading about it), I immediately developed an indescribable love for and connection to the land, the people, the language, the culture, as if it already were my first or second home. I have since learned that this is actually a thing. It’s called “topophilia” —  defined as “a strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place”, or “the affective bond with one's environment—a person's mental, emotional, and cognitive ties to a place.” I have lived many places on four separate continents, and never felt such a way before Brazil. Mind you, Rio was not even my first visit. That was Salvador. Since then, I’ve been to at least 12 different cities in Brazil — all of which have different charms and setbacks (crime and safety being a consideration in all of them, to varying degrees).
I agree that Rio or even any other part of Brazil might not be everyone else’s cup of tea. There are places worldwide I have visited after others have sung their praises, and although I am glad for the experience and the checkmark on my bucket list, I probably wouldn’t ever pay to return there. I have some friends and colleagues who, after visiting, were not as enamored with Rio or Brazil as I am. And that’s great! They should spend their vacation money somewhere they actually can enjoy and appreciate. And if safety or crime issues are deterrents, then no one should lie and blow smoke up their asses by telling them they will not be targeted for crime in Rio (or Brazil).
It’s a big world out there. 
 

Let’s address this piece.
Although this site / board and a couple of others cater to sex tourists and are going to attract discussion principally about it, there are many reasons other than just sex that tourists would want to visit Rio / Brazil, and a foreigner might decide to relocate / expatriate / retire there.
Some of us here may tend to believe that because one thing is important to or prioritized by us, then there couldn’t possibly be anything more important to others. Of course, this isn’t the case.
Some people come to Rio or other parts of Brazil and fall in love with the city or country, in spite of its issues.  Others, and this is surely most, can visit and feel very little to no connection or attachment to it — and that should be okay, too.
In my particular case, upon landing in Brazil for the first time almost a decade and a half ago (this was after even more years of study and reading about it), I immediately developed an indescribable love for and connection to the land, the people, the language, the culture, as if it already were my first or second home. I have since learned that this is actually a thing. It’s called “topophilia” —  defined as “a strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place”, or “the affective bond with one's environment—a person's mental, emotional, and cognitive ties to a place.” I have lived many places on four separate continents, and never felt such a way before Brazil. Mind you, Rio was not even my first visit. That was Salvador. Since then, I’ve been to at least 12 different cities in Brazil — all of which have different charms and setbacks (crime and safety being a consideration in all of them, to varying degrees).
I agree that Rio or even any other part of Brazil might not be everyone else’s cup of tea. There are places worldwide I have visited after others have sung their praises, and although I am glad for the experience and the checkmark on my bucket list, I probably wouldn’t ever pay to return there. I have some friends and colleagues who, after visiting, were not as enamored with Rio or Brazil as I am. And that’s great! They should spend their vacation money somewhere they actually can enjoy and appreciate. And if safety or crime issues are deterrents, then no one should lie and blow smoke up their asses by telling them they will not be targeted for crime in Rio (or Brazil).
It’s a big world out there. 
 

Let’s address this piece.
Although this site / board and a couple of others cater to sex tourists and are going to attract discussion principally about it, there are many reasons other than just sex that tourists would want to visit Rio / Brazil, and a foreigner might decide to relocate / expatriate / retire there.
Some of us here may tend to believe that because one thing is important to or prioritized by us, then there couldn’t possibly be anything more important to others. Of course, this isn’t the case.
Some people come to Rio or other parts of Brazil and fall in love with the city or country, in spite of its issues.  Others, and this is surely most, can visit and feel very little to no connection or attachment to it — and that should be okay, too.
In my particular case, upon landing in Brazil for the first time almost a decade and a half ago (this was after even more years of study and reading about it), I immediately developed an indescribable love for and connection to the land, the people, the language, the culture, as if it already were my first or second home. I have since learned that this is actually a thing. It’s called “topophilia” —  defined as “a strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place”, or “the affective bond with one's environment—a person's mental, emotional, and cognitive ties to a place.” I have lived many places on four separate continents, and never felt such a way before Brazil. Mind you, Rio was not even my first visit. That was Salvador. Since then, I’ve been to at least 12 different cities in Brazil — all of which have different charms and setbacks (crime and safety being a consideration in all of them, to varying degrees).
I agree that Rio or even any other part of Brazil might not be everyone else’s cup of tea. There are places worldwide I have visited after others have sung their praises, and although I am glad for the experience and the checkmark on my bucket list, I probably wouldn’t ever pay to return there. I have some friends and colleagues who, after visiting, were not as enamored with Rio or Brazil as I am. And that’s great! They should spend their vacation money somewhere they actually can enjoy and appreciate. And if safety or crime issues are deterrents, then no one should lie and blow smoke up their asses by telling them they will not be targeted for crime in Rio (or Brazil).
It’s a big world out there. 
 

Let’s address this piece.
Although this site / board and a couple of others cater to sex tourists and are going to attract discussion principally about it, there are many reasons other than just sex that tourists would want to visit Rio / Brazil, and a foreigner might decide to relocate / expatriate / retire there.
Some of us here may tend to believe that because one thing is important to or prioritized by us, then there couldn’t possibly be anything more important to others. Of course, this isn’t the case.
Some people come to Rio or other parts of Brazil and fall in love with the city or country, in spite of its issues.  Others, and this is surely most, can visit and feel very little to no connection or attachment to it — and that should be okay, too.
In my particular case, upon landing in Brazil for the first time almost a decade and a half ago (this was after even more years of study and reading about it), I immediately developed an indescribable love for and connection to the land, the people, the language, the culture, as if it already were my first or second home. I have since learned that this is actually a thing. It’s called “topophilia” —  defined as “a strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place”, or “the affective bond with one's environment—a person's mental, emotional, and cognitive ties to a place.” I have lived many places on four separate continents, and never felt such a way before Brazil. Mind you, Rio was not even my first visit. That was Salvador. Since then, I’ve been to at least 12 different cities in Brazil — all of which have different charms and setbacks (crime and safety being a consideration in all of them, to varying degrees).
I agree that Rio or even any other part of Brazil might not be everyone else’s cup of tea. There are places worldwide I have visited after others have sung their praises, and although I am glad for the experience and the checkmark on my bucket list, I probably wouldn’t ever pay to return there. I have some friends and colleagues who, after visiting, were not as enamored with Rio or Brazil as I am. And that’s great! They should spend their vacation money somewhere they actually can enjoy and appreciate. And if safety or crime issues are deterrents, then no one should lie and blow smoke up their asses by telling them they will not be targeted for crime in Rio (or Brazil).
It’s a big world out there. 
 

Your comment, worded “The favellas [sic] full of drugs and crime are a sad blight on a beautiful country,” reads as if your criticism is principally about the favelas, not the drugs and crime. If your intent was otherwise, a better wording would’ve been, “the drugs and crime in the favelas are a sad blight on an otherwise beautiful country.”
Visiting a favela as a casual tourist is not the same as living in one — which millions of Brazilians do. 

You can edit that to include other parts of the globe as well. 

You can edit that to include other parts of the globe as well. 

Your comment, worded “The favellas [sic] full of drugs and crime are a sad blight on a beautiful country,” reads as if your criticism is principally about the favelas, not the drugs and crime. If your intent was otherwise, a better wording would’ve been, “the drugs and crime in the favelas are a sad blight on an otherwise beautiful country.”
Visiting a favela as a casual tourist is not the same as living in one — which millions of Brazilians do. 

The bloody Cuban Revolution began because Guevara, Castro and a number of others were tired of the rich white Americans and Europeans flaunting their wealth in excess and treating the black and brown Cubans like serfs or property.
Tourists should be a bit more circumspect about their words and behavior. Everyone might not be as impressed or in admiration as they like to think they are. 

There are over 950 favelas in Rio and more than 23 percent of the city's population lives in one of them. 70% of the favela residents are self reported as black, and that’s just those who self-identify as black. 
In São Paulo, 20 percent of the metropolitan-area population (almost 2 million people) live in the favelas.
More people live in favelas in Salvador than in any other Brazilian city: 607,000. 21 percent of Salvador lives in favelas.
Favelas are the working class poor, the laborers, the housekeepers, the restaurant workers, the families of beach barraca owners and workers. The art, culture, music and literature of Brazil largoly originated from the favela. Not to mention, these are mostly Afro-Brazilians.  To ascribe only drugs and crime to them is not only wrong but classist snobbery. And you as a tourist will never HAVE to visit one, so to call them a “blight” is unnecessarily maligning.
 
 
 
 

From one non-white person to another, kindly explain to me what knowing its wholly inappropriate to suck dick in the public square and sexually gyrate in front of young children have fuck all to do with being raised by white parents?

Leave it to a blowhard to proclaim himself to be The Smartest Person In The Room.
Most retired academics I know aren’t as insufferable. 

The bloody Cuban Revolution began because Guevara, Castro and a number of others were tired of the rich white Americans and Europeans flaunting their wealth in excess and treating the black and brown Cubans like serfs or property.
Tourists should be a bit more circumspect about their words and behavior. Everyone might not be as impressed or in admiration as they like to think they are. 

There are over 950 favelas in Rio and more than 23 percent of the city's population lives in one of them. 70% of the favela residents are self reported as black, and that’s just those who self-identify as black. 
In São Paulo, 20 percent of the metropolitan-area population (almost 2 million people) live in the favelas.
More people live in favelas in Salvador than in any other Brazilian city: 607,000. 21 percent of Salvador lives in favelas.
Favelas are the working class poor, the laborers, the housekeepers, the restaurant workers, the families of beach barraca owners and workers. The art, culture, music and literature of Brazil largoly originated from the favela. Not to mention, these are mostly Afro-Brazilians.  To ascribe only drugs and crime to them is not only wrong but classist snobbery. And you as a tourist will never HAVE to visit one, so to call them a “blight” is unnecessarily maligning.
 
 
 
 

It depends on what you think is infrequent or unusual. In Copacabana and Ipanema, these happen maybe every 5-7 years. Anything like that in the tonier districts of Rio where most tourists stay and where most expats live make the national and international news. They happen much more often in the favelas, Zona Norte, and Western Rio, but because the “wrong” people live there (read: blacker, browner, poorer), it’s never covered beyond local TV news blurbs — unless it’s a mass shooting / killing, the size of the ones that occur in the USA weekly at this point.
The Farme do Amoedo incident (at least the one I am referring to) occurred in the early 2010s, if my memory serves me correctly. You might be mistaking your timeline with the gang warfare from rival favelas Cantagalo and Pavão-Pavãozinho that bled out into the street entrance on the edge of Copacabana and Ipanema. Or maybe the beach riot in 2019 near Posto 4 in Copacabana during Carnaval time that ended in police dispersing the large crowd of party goers and beachers with tear gas. 
In Rio, post-pandemic there’s been recurrent wave of mass robberies known as “arrastoes,” or “dragnets”. An ‘arrastao’ is when a big group of people, usually teenagers and kids, from the favelas go to the beach and in a group rob everyone they can see. Since the group is often the majority, sometimes people cannot do anything about it. The popular beaches are mostly in Zona Sul, including Copacabana and Ipanema, and other than Leblon that’s where the money is, so these beaches are often targeted. Sure, police presence is heavy by those beaches, but that only acts as a deterrent, not a prophylactic. 
In any event, any type of drug gang activity or violence in Zona Sul neighborhoods is typically confined to the favelas. The trafficantes don’t want the problems from the UPP police that are caused when things bleed out into the streets where the rich residents and tourists are. And none of the favela residents want problems with the drug lords because they run their favelas and they can exact their own level of justice.  Crimes against tourists and residents of Zona Sul are almost always confined to petty thefts and robberies (street crimes).