So. My partner is staying with his family in Brazil. The area has gone downhill and there are gangs and police all over the place.
over the past couple of days he's had to negotiate between the police (his friend who was very high up has been done for corruption so that's his local senior contact gone), some tenants his mum has in a commercial property, gang members, a crackhead mum with a sick 2 year old girl, street dealers and the little kids doing the actual drug-running.

This is an actual message he sent me:
"Btw I have a job offer here. PCC told my sister they like the way I am talking to the scum over here these days. If I ever come back they want me to be their ‘discipline’. Lol"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primeiro_Comando_da_Capital

Have you ever had an offer you've found hard to refuse?
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Thu 10 Apr 2025, 10:37, archived)

flipping heck!!!!

( vladimir, Thu 10 Apr 2025, 11:16, archived)

what an absolutely terrifying life
( vladimir, Thu 10 Apr 2025, 11:34, archived)

Yeah. Brazil is an exciting place.
unfortunately, when you get to know some of the people caught up in the most "exciting" lives it's absolutely tragic. Yesterday my in-laws were dealing with a crackhead woman who has a very sick 2 year old girl, but won't give up the kid to social services because she's relying on the child benefit to feed her habit. My sister in law has a barbers salon and you get all sorts in there. Many of the local police get their haircuts there. So it's ... interesting.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Thu 10 Apr 2025, 11:40, archived)

bloody hell :(((

( vladimir, Thu 10 Apr 2025, 11:46, archived)

My husband is coming back on Saturday
I will be very pleased to have him safely home.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Thu 10 Apr 2025, 11:55, archived)

:( gawd I bet
wishing the time gone away for you right now
( vladimir, Thu 10 Apr 2025, 12:06, archived)

This is all very City of God.

( .Yeti., Thu 10 Apr 2025, 12:15, archived)

Good fillum, that.

( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Thu 10 Apr 2025, 12:41, archived)

I like the bit where Esteban flies around in The Golden Condor

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Thu 10 Apr 2025, 12:51, archived)

Stupid boy.

( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Thu 10 Apr 2025, 13:00, archived)

No u

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Thu 10 Apr 2025, 13:07, archived)

Yeah that time your nan offered me a go on her guffpipe

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Thu 10 Apr 2025, 12:37, archived)

I was offered a small hard butterscotch sweet from my grandfather
I refused and spread a vicious rumor that he had abused me, which led to his imprisonment, where he later died.
( $$ ✅, Thu 10 Apr 2025, 12:51, archived)

I was offered a job in a shop in Spain
There was an empty flat above the shop that I could have had, and it was a full time job. Had to say no because I was waiting for rather a lot of surgery.
( Smash Monkey 2 Anyone know a good therapist in South Africa?, Thu 10 Apr 2025, 14:21, archived)

So.

( brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 10 Apr 2025, 15:36, archived)