Actions Speak Louder Than Words

[HooBoy]

I am trying to sort out the problems with the gentlemen I know in Sao Paul and Rio.

 

Some of you will never be welcome in my home and you know who you are.

 

Danilo, if you see this, please email me. You were he ONLY person I considered real.

 

Love,

 

Miguel de Brazil

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The above written as a regular guy, not the owner of a website and has no official meaning, just unofficial BS.)

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--garbo the hoo

[Guest tommy15]

Oh Gladys, Get over it. If you lie down with dogs, you'll occasionally get up with flees. Did you really think all the pretty boys were your friends? You tickled their pee-wee's and they picked your pocket, HA!! Put your shit in a safe, or better yet leave it home!! Try making friends with men your own age (if

they have wheel-chair access) and get a real life. The boys of Brasil are NO diffent than anywhere else, so just put a period and MOVE ON!!

Daddybears in Scottsdale

[VaHawk]

>Oh Gladys, Get over it. If you lie down with dogs, you'll

>occasionally get up with flees.

 

Did you mean "fleas" by any chance?

 

>Did you really think all the

>pretty boys were your friends? You tickled their pee-wee's and

>they picked your pocket, HA!!

 

Obviously you have followed the postings by HB on the situation he encountered, otherwise you would not know anything about the situation to which he is alluding. Also, as such, you KNOW that his pocket was not "picked" by some off the street hustle boy, but that he was "severly robbed" by someone he has known for two years and trusted as a friend. And furthermore, you KNOW that it was the violation of the TRUST that such friendship implies that was the most upsetting, and that the loss of the VALUE of such friendship was much more important than the MONETARY VALUE that was lost.

 

>Put your shit in a safe, or

>better yet leave it home!! Try making friends with men your

>own age (if

>they have wheel-chair access) and get a real life. The boys of

>Brasil are NO diffent than anywhere else, so just put a period

>and MOVE ON!!

 

Oh, now they make safes that will safeguard the basic human values of trust and friendship? Why don't you keep your hateful, ageist spiel to yourself and stop polluting the mc on HB's site?

 

>Daddybears in Scottsdale

 

If you're a bear, please visit Maryland real soon, as that state has an upcoming state sanctioned bear hunt, where the hunters get to shoot nasty bears.

[+ Italiano]

:o

 

What happened?...

[Guest Jake]

When I drank, smoked a lot of funny stuff and did serious lines (25 years ago - and no, I promise I didn`t need a wheelchair then or now), I found that I put myself in situations and had lapses in judgement about my personal actions as well as those of others. When I finally came out of that (and it wasn`t easy), I was AMAZED at how distorted my perspectives had been and how impossible it had been for me to grasp the reality of my addiction. DENIAL IS NOT A RIVER IN EGYPT! I say - quite seriously - that if I had been 5% smarter or 5% richer, I`d be dead. My success (money) was always the barometer of the manageability of my life and I outthought everyone - most importantly myself.

 

Some people who come to Rio are totally disrespected by Brazilians (even as they kow-tow and take their money) because of their drug-induced actions and attitudes. On the other hand, genuine friendships can in fact be established with a significant number (not that I would test them by subjecting them to unreasonable temptation in the midst of poverty).

 

Funny thing, when I thought booze was my problem but I could safely do a little of this or a little of that, I always - and quickly - found myself back in the same or worse places. Addiction is addiction and a drug is a drug is a drug. For my many friends who CAN socially do whatever - Bon appetite, I`m right there enjoying your company. For those who can`t, I`m thoroughly enjoying your company right up to the point that your actions become repellent. (And I would add, my life in recovery has been a whole new amazingly enjoyable life that I could not have understood until I was willing to walk through the `no man`s land` of getting sober AND clean. The third life I have found now as a direct result is a real-life adventure that could have been but a drug-induced dream before.)

 

For those of you who need it - GET HELP! The other side of sobriety is truly amazing. And that`s my experience, strength and hope of the last 25 years. I`m truly grateful and can`t wait to see tomoorow in this next 25 years now unfolding. It pomises to be the best yet!

[CT Dick]

>Oh Gladys, Get over it.

 

I think if you look more closely, it is Greta, not Gladys.

 

Dick

 

PS If you, too, want to look like that, there ARE wigs available. :7

 

http://www.greatwigs.co.uk/shop/media/Greta%20Garbo.jpg

[Guest tommy15]

One doesn't need to travel as far as

Brasil to be robbed and cheated

by someone they have known and trusted for several years.

Yes Virginia, this unfortunate occurance can happen anywhere,

even in Maryland. There is nothing endemic to the Brasilians that

would cause such occurances. I think it is unfair to leave the impression that there is. Of course Greta is hurt and feeling betrayed. Who wouldn't? I think we grieve for a set amount of time, then for the sake of our mental health and spiritual well being we have to move on, and just be grateful for what we still have, let go of the things we've lost. Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Gret!

We love ya!

[Guest msclonly]

BUDDHA teaches

 

To achieve true happiness

 

desire nothing.:*

[HooBoy]

Dear VaHawk,

 

Apparently you are the only person who understood what I was trying to say. And I thank you for attempting to clarify that is was not the loss of stuff -- it was the loss of trust.

 

BTW, my true valuables, like passport, watches, etc were in my safe and I'll never forget when I could not remember the combination, one of my escort friends told me what it was.

 

Any blame rests solely on my shoulders. The sauna boys' entire thought process and morality is different than Americans and probably most Brazilians.. I do not blame the boys. I blame me.

 

Read what Tri, gringo and the long-timers down there have to say. Had I heeded their wisdom, the things that happened to me would not have. Shall I grovel some more, or can we put this issue to rest?

 

Gladys garbo

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The above written as a regular guy, not the owner of a website and has no official meaning, just unofficial BS.)

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--garbo the hoo

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

Speaking from experience...

 

>Dear VaHawk,

>

>Apparently you are the only person who understood what I was

>trying to say. And I thank you for attempting to clarify that

>is was not the loss of stuff -- it was the loss of trust.

>

 

I suspect that many understood and that more than a few have been in the same boat at sometime in their lives. Sometimes enlightening the clueless hardly seems worth the effort. On the other hand offering support is worth the effort and unfortunately that was overlooked until VaHawk.