Every Brazilian wish
That dish on the right, BD6 would love To have that for his microwave
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For a long time that has been a symbol of Brazil
They were compared to food plates
One is turned up, the other is down
To show that 1/2 had what to eat and the other 1/2 starved
Pretty good. The conservatives here in the US want to stuff the 99% under that overturned one
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Iāve heard from many people that there are places you should not go in America. Thatās not true?
I grew up in the ghetto and at least half of this town is like the south side of Chicagoā¦ Iām good in about any hoodā¦ 
If youāre not causing any problems, being a douche, etc. you shouldnāt have any problems. Most of the hood crime is over money, drugs, stealing from each other and snitching etc. If you arenāt involved you probably donāt have anything to worry about especially just driving through somewhere.
Sorry for the ignorance Billdo, but itās not the impression us out of towners are given about certain American suburbs, which I have heard from Libs and Cons alike. Hell, I found Flynt Michigan scary and we avoided Detroit altogether because of warnings from fellow Canadians.
I just know that there is no part of Vancouver that I would be too scared to walk in alone at night.
I went to the ghetto numerous times to buy weed, I never really had a problem
Of course, I always went during the day and always to the same place, the guys knew me and someone introduced me to them first
For a short time I lived in a ghetto in Newark, my cousinās home was almost finished and he couldnāt put a lease on another year. He rented a house from this also Brazilian guy, dumb fuck built a 300k house in a black are because he had got the land cheap. He was struggling hard to keep up with the 2nd mortgage because nobody would be willing to live there. My cousin said it was for 3 months tops
It was a 2-family and the first was empty and a black family occupied the 2nd.
With exception of the noise upstairs all the time, we didnāt have a problem in the beginning.
When the guy came to collect the 1st month he had an argument with the people upstairs.
The month after that was absolute hell
The noise was absurd. One day the cops came and evicted the people upstairs. The landlord came one day and showed the apartment upstairs to us, it looked like a a dump. It wasnāt 6 months old and it was ruined. Everything was filthy. The bathroom was like it was never cleaned once. The dude was taking pics and holding his tears.
Couple weeks after that, there was nobody home and they broke into the building by the laundry window. They took all the electronics and what else they could carry.
We moved in the middle of the night to my cousinās mother-in-law and a couple days after that I got a studio in Kearny.
South Central LA is sad. Itās depressing because the poverty is so rampant. The crime is high, too. But I have been in and through it hundreds of times without witnessing any sort of violence. So, go figure.
The USA has been very, very good at destroying the middle class and creating more and more poverty in the last 40 years. All to make a few assfucks like Trump billionaires. And the rest of the worldās CONs and neolibs are trying their best to follow suit.
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A few years ago, when I was in London, I had a conversation with a student who was working at the London School of Economics dorms, where I was staying. He was of Middle Eastern descent. When I told him I was from LA, he was horrified. He wanted to know how I survived in such a violent, crime ridden city. He had seen a documentary and perceived LA as a war zone. The irony was not lost on me.
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Yet this thread is about that very thingā¦dangerous zones in the US.
Which one is right? I did not say South Central was ādangerousā I said it was intimidating, largely due to the manifestation of social decay and despair. We donāt have such areas in Australiaā¦although, of course, there are areas of low socio-economic concentration.
But there are no āno go zonesā, and people can pretty much travel anywhere without getting shot.
Oh, and just soās ya knowā¦Iāve driven through a LOT of āintimidating areasā.
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Sounds like youāre easily intimidated snow-flake. 
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Oh, yeah.
In fact, I rarely go outside in case some progs are lurking nearby.
I sure as shit am in big American cities and Iām not afraid to admit it. Iām also not offended at being called a snowflake. Thatās a term of endearment in Canada. 
True. Iāve walked around East St. Louis and Compton/South Central many times. Never had any problems. Whitey tends to shape his view of the ghetto from Hollywoodās portrayal.
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Iāve heard that bogans are like that.
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New Jersey and NYC are pretty challenging even for the natives. Possibly as a result of living there, they tend to be very thin-skinned and largely incapable of civil conversation.
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Miss you Comrade.
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I am hoping this year to take a hike on the Sterling Forest Ridge that Nick had so enjoyed. Talked tonight at dinner of making that very sojourn.
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You really need to grow up, pal. 70 is age enough to get out-a-yer diapersā¦
ā¦Unless you need them anew.
Whichā¦
ā¦you might.