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To: russwinter who wrote (93269)	4/6/2008 12:32:19 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Absoutly not, that was into todays newspapers across the country. Wild men win wild women. --- Listen , I am very shallow this would never happen in my life:0) << day in Seattle: You are walking around Green Lake with a 50 year old American woman with a very large rear end>> So it is about sex-ng/vbg- --- <<but I'm a "risk taker>> More then you know. When you move to Rio you will be sized up by the kidnapping industry. I definitely agree about spoon feeding them baby food, who could put up with that shit? In Brazil i enjoy smaller Belo Horizonte,Governador Valadares, Porto Seguro then Rio or San Paulo. The people are fabulous and very nonviolent. Along the coast at carnival 100,000 or more falling down drunk teenagers and 20 year old, ZERO fist fights. UFB Even in the smaller places you still have to prepare for kiddnappers when you live there. I Enjoy your blog. <<A day in Rio de Janerio: You are walking along the praia, it is 76 degrees, and the sun is out, and there is a nice breeze. The sea is green, and there are exotic green plants everywhere. You are with a 43 year old Brasileria (I'm 56, and forget about 28 year olds unless you want to pay through the nose, and spoon feed them baby food) with a nice trim butt and figure (almost universal). The conversation is in mixed Portuguese and English. It is not easy, you must focus, and listen closely, and this requires a "special personal interaction" that is challenging. Afterwards you go to a restaurant. There is someone on the sidewalk who spots you and brings you in. Then the service is attentive, everybody hustles. There are exchanges with people at other tables. People talk across the room. There is some milling around. The noise decibels are about twice an American establishment. If you talk to kids, they are curious, the parents almost appreciative. They may even try their hand at English, and you Portuguese. It's fun, so you hang around for a couple hours. In the US, you'd be looking at your watch after 35 minutes. The tab comes, it's $25 (health inspectors, perhaps not, but I'm a "risk taker"), and you pay it all. They thank you as you leave, and you shake hands with the help, and they beam ============

To: russwinter who wrote (93269)	4/6/2008 12:49:45 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

OT: Russ, that's a pretty accurate portrait of Seattle, at least from one perspective. I've remarked to people before how I'm just as likely to talk with a neighbor somewhere else in town (rare) as on the street, and that behavior of people in this area extends to restaurants. If you want a boisterous bistro-atmosphere restaurant with good food, try Ciao Bella on NE 45th. But you are right, you won't get interaction with others at all. I've been elsewhere in the country and had that experience, and in general, the smaller the town the more likely, e.g at my sister's in Georgia or my brother's in Montesano (of course, 1/4 of the restaurant knew him and some remembered me too). Seattle has "nice people" -- polite and friendly, but not close and not warm as strangers. Just about everywhere else I go in the US, people are more open to strangers. But I've never been anywhere in the US like you describe, except when something very unusual happens that rattles our little cocoons, e.g. a huge wind storm, 9-11, etc, or places dominated by foreigners, e.g. Old Faithful Inn. And then after a short period, people reenter their shells. Yes, we are a fat butt culture now. I work near the U and can attest that in the past 20 years, the trend is fatter even for college students, and worse, they are proud of it (low cut jeans, high cut top, roll of fat spilling out for all to admire). A big recession may help that department. Sex... we are freaks -- just look at how cinema is rated: a few murders warrants PG-13; a bit of sex, R. Anything resembling real sex, NC-17. A thousand murders, just R. BTW, Broadway at night is the only place that would even remotely resemble your description of Brazil... but it's really a counter culture.

To: russwinter who wrote (93269)	4/8/2008 9:21:39 AM
From: Keith Feral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

That's really one of the funniest posts I have read in a long time. It's good to hear that old timers like you can still have your jolly way with any woman you like. I'm glad my single days are over, but it's good that you are still a pussy hounds just like Elliot Spitzer. Cramer also supports your position about how attractive the women are in Brazil. My experience to Brazilians is limited to the nanny my wife hired when the kids were younger. She was moderately attractive with an ass that was bigger than most of the married women in my area. Atlanta has the most attractive housewives of any city in America. All the women drink like fish and are still freakishly thin. Meanwhile, our nanny had third world teeth when we first met her. She finally saved the money to get dental veneers so that she didn't frighten anyone with her jungle smile. She was very excited to be in America, to be away from the drug culture of Brazil. She said that their society was great, but everything was controlled by drugs. Sounds like a great place to visit if you want to arrange a marriage or just pay for a few nice dates. It just doesn't seem worth the hassle of travelling to the other side of the world to eat at Chilis, or wherever you are taking your dates for $30 dinners. You might want to consider Germany on your next list of places to go. My Bosnian handyman said that he travelled their this winter and his cousin could negotiate very low rates for all kinds of dates. 20 Euros seemed to get him the full monte. That pretty cheap.