SirBillybob

🙏🏼 ”Gentrification” is not all good for all inhabitants. Your account suggests the activity was relatively innocuous for locals, you grasp the nuances of the sociocultural footprints you leave behind that are not uniformly salutary, and is not framed within influencer endeavour.

Thanks for your concern and your response whose worth stands at 0 stars, but it’s legal to have a sociocultural opinion. That the outing has appeal is really partly what I was getting at. Why wouldn’t it be an OK activity for what a proportion of evaluators would nevertheless label metaphorically sheep shepherded in within the frame of a boilerplate list of visitor activities? That doesn’t mean you get to dictate how it’s conceptualized from different vantage points. It doesn’t mean that your recommendations are to be taken as gospel. There is a broader context within which the legitimacy of self-appointed guidance expertise is viewed. Your post thread here is just a slice of your overall content and I would expect that you value it all being noticed and rated collectively, as long as nobody sprinkles a shower on your parade. I do think you have occasionally entered recommendations that don’t get my hackles up. Others are cringeworthy and get my ethics juices flowing. More on that to come, but I think it might be good for you and the group. Stock up on Wheaties. My evaluation of overall content is whether a visit’s sched or activity uptake put together as a whole by one particular individual would inspire me to draw on that guidance. Yours does not. Not everybody is cut out for it and that goes for any occupation and hobby in which somebody seeks influencer status. If you resent 360-degree feedback then you always have the prerogative to slingshoot yourself out of the trajectory at any given angle.

There’s something exquisitely perverse about boarding a climate-controlled tour bus to experience just enough reduced poverty and just enough well deserved life quality improvement to label as gentrified while stepping over people already living it on the sidewalk outside your lodgings. Apparently, cardboard pad walkway and alley dwellers and sleepers in tourist zones don’t equally count as “authentic,” so they’re edited out of the narrative in favour of a scheduled, guided, photo-approved version of thinly veiled deprivation. This particular favela tour promises insight on what contrasts with overall favela zone city reality, but delivers something closer to a poverty safari if astute: observe branded suffering voyeuristically at a safe distance, learn just enough context to feel informed, then retreat for lunch with friends with a geographic view that serendipitously further sanitizes the unscripted and inconvenient misery outside the bus or along the way, or actually at stay base, because it asks uncomfortable questions that can’t be answered with a headset and a fun fact, albeit a leg up for a tour guide making an honest living. It’s a remarkable bit of moral choreography: avert your eyes from the homeless man on Avenida Atlântica environs or the many living sunburnt on concrete in Glória and Flamengo so you can later feel enlightened about whitewashed inequality—on time, on budget, and back at the hotel by sunset. One doesn’t have to uptake a scripted information tour, ticking off bucket list favela when the option to absorb unfiltered reality is in one’s face. Options: theme film, YouTube, spend ticket amount on true organized poverty attenuation activities or the lifeless appearing body you could easily trip over. Or better yet, both … and. U do you.

The book characters are all real, non-fiction people and they didn’t just jump off the pages of novels. So you cannot just fill in information gaps according to your personal whims or confabulation.😏 All of the questions are ultimately important and one hopes all answers are forthcoming.

Good point on the temporal sequence even though the outdoor catharctic 1:1 is not in the novel. May have been a consideration of recognition of on the fly on demand processing and typical ongoing residual ambivalence in coming out parental dynamics. Or budget restraints where set continuity trumped narrative order placement. Or save a tree environmental preservation wrt Kleenex supplies.

I ate once or twice there … TO … while at uni mid-70s. There was also a place with roast beef, mashed taters and peas (exclusively?) in the area … name? … and an all you can eat buffet venue walkable where male students would drink water all day to expand their stomachs and pig out. Wasn’t my thing. Needed girlish figure for Library Baths. LOL. My birth year ‘51. — Honest Ed’s?! re: prime rib above?

Thanks for looking out. There was another MTL fake(s) a few months ago I flagged but don’t have time to trace it now. I’m travelling where trade is paraded before one and vetting 10 seconds max. I overweigh my proportion of play in such contexts.

Sorry about your attention span. My tolerance limits pertain more to the inane than to word count. Though if I were to size you up in general you’d possibly fall short. (Wait … did that exceed 5.7655 seconds? LOL)

Tone deaf and moronic.

Yup. Old.

Sometimes it’s to screen out.

I haven’t myself either. I find that in some places it’s more a travel bonus than a sure-ish thing and my itineraries are shaped to adjust to the varying resource combinations therein.

We tend to get habituated to 5-10-fold that amount, predominantly because that is what punters will pay in one particular context. That is a habit much easier to break when the realization kicks in that there is no true single objective value, as evidenced by what pricepoint standards exist elsewhere. I have found that in Medellín and Bogotá 300,000 is deemed a good date pay day for a nice meal and a few hours of play. Less for short-time brothel transaction. He’ll be available for follow-ups. Our misgivings and worries about under compensation when shifting contexts South are commensurate in the polar opposite direction with the surprise and appreciation of the reality that no one transactional intimacy workforce should actually obtain the final bottom line say on value. It’s easy and one’s prerogative to tip because it will have minimal collective impact on pay expectations and low wallet impact, while a little more effect on understandable compensation hopes. But just follow the lead of your hire’s emotional state and appearance of contentment. They tend not to be disingenuous and a visitor is more likely to be paying within an upper percentile of traditional local range anyway. In contrast, it’s virtually impossible to downregulate collectively what appears relatively exorbitant in expensive trade settings because sexual desire episodically distorts the objective worth dangling in front of it, often accompanied by anxiety about both deprivation and offending trade. That and a relatively small proportion of those consumers branching out to discover vastly different standards of fairness. The thing about going south is that hire savings are offset by travel expenses relative to hosting at home base but travel costs are rarely experienced as set egregiously high. The differential in trade costs is the kicker and exacerbates the benefit-associated tension between “I don’t deserve this.” and “He doesn’t deserve this.” If you like a guy, a small token of extra appreciation need not be cash. It simply conveys that you pay forward your life privilege to an up and comer no less deserving of the boosts that propelled us to the capacity to thrive erotically in our winter years.

I wasn’t there those months, few members here participated, muscularity is subjective, and a Colombian expressed the advice of caution for punters navigating local practice and values. Certainly reasonable to adhere to the subject.

Quoted for instruction, not any recognition of worth. It should reside here.

I’m off ChatGPT and it’s incestuous kissing cousins since it inarguably made a simple math error recently that totally governed the direction of its content in a manner I assume to be unintentional. My elementary school nieces got it; names withheld mysteriously. It appears that one can also specifically request that it undermine the intent of a passage. But enjoy the new toy, whoever, and be sure to wash the fecal matter off between uses. I’m sure that the mods here will view the admonishment to identify oneself and associated context for legitimacy as poorly judged and harmlessly intended proxy bullying. BTW, if the consulate is cognizant of my sexual history then somebody not me shared it.

You are welcome and it’s a bonus that you act with impunity. The lad can show the photos to his grandchildren and brag about his past affiliation with a barrier-breaker advanced for his time. Imagery and theme-wise focus on the anus may be prominent, but who among us hasn’t misspent one’s youth in some fashion. Much of my work has been based on folks dealing with aftershocks.

In that case it should come to nothing and may have been rant-lite, but I think it more reflected others’ views. I don’t know the law there completely but there may be a boundary at some particular threshold. For example, the Nordic model, albeit a far cry from locations south, might view the promotion of a person by a third (non-anonymous?) party as being oddly unaware of certain prohibited aspects. I wouldn’t provide my name in tandem with overt or subtle regard for the talents of a stripper up here from the Colombian diaspora. I thought that there was alignment here regarding collective tact and discretion. I’m reasonably able to differentiate standards dictated by legislation, being myself a consumer. If Substack and AI users are to import the suggestion that this board’s members must all come out, expect pushback. One also doesn’t need 12 years of uni education to realize that the ask directed to the app primed commentary on particular stereotypes. I add that I’m not suggesting your position on this, but read all the posts as a group prior to responding.

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I prefer the $53 e-book old age life chapter price for international non-fiction, the sales table laid out for viewing and vetting and where the same thing can be had with erotic kindling yet not loss of arousal, day or nighttime view and total immersion option, cut or uncut but no paper cuts, typically more consensual clothing damage than bodice-ripping, and sometime greedily turning the page to the next $53 hunk, experiencing the difficulty of shelving any. I don’t understand how publishers get the spine for hardcover upcharges when what gets delivered may be an extensively dog-eared soft cover version.

And there are skips in curling and curling occurs on ice with stones tapping one another and they sweep in curling and the show is disqualified for awards sweeps and Ilya has curly hair but Shane may or may not use a straightening iron and rosebud subs for Rose and when Consuelo was asked her opinion about its future she does not want the series discontinued 😅… … If we weren’t sure, there are no further imminent episodes but let’s do keep the convo alive 😏 ScreenRecording_05-27-2025 23-21-14_1.mov

He evidently has an accordion neck according to the photos. With the compression / elongation feature activated while he whistles one might be able to dance a polka.

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