Comments on: Infamous Copacabana Nightclub Shutting Down http://www.transparent.com/portuguese/infamous-copacabana-nightclub-shutting-down/ Language and Culture of the Portuguese-Speaking World Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:28:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: dani http://www.transparent.com/portuguese/infamous-copacabana-nightclub-shutting-down/#comment-6655 dani Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:59:03 +0000 http://www.transparent.com/portuguese/infamous-copacabana-nightclub-shutting-down/#comment-6655 it's sad.it's a good place nice girls good music,good security! without it copa will not be the same.lots of man from all over the world found their a liitle romans for one night,one week or more.my heart is with the beautifull poor girls that now will be in danger of the "gigolos"-the pimps.i had in this place a good times...will remember that place for ever! glusia,elaine,juliana,e especialmente ADRIANA -amo voces minhas lindas... it’s sad.it’s a good place nice girls good music,good security! without it copa will not be the same.lots of man from all over the world found their a liitle romans for one night,one week or more.my heart is with the beautifull poor girls that now will be in danger of the “gigolos”-the pimps.i had in this place a good times…will remember that place for ever!
glusia,elaine,juliana,e especialmente ADRIANA -amo voces minhas lindas…

]]> By: Isabella http://www.transparent.com/portuguese/infamous-copacabana-nightclub-shutting-down/#comment-331 Isabella Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:35:56 +0000 http://www.transparent.com/portuguese/infamous-copacabana-nightclub-shutting-down/#comment-331 Hi Rachel, eu frequentei a HELP quando foi inaugurada. Se não me engano, no verão de 1985. Depois soube que a frequencia havia mudado. Discordo do comentário acima. Um local que promove o linocínio, tb promove o tráfico de drogas e a corrupção. Males que o Brasil, há muito tempo, está precisando erradicar! Hi Rachel,

eu frequentei a HELP quando foi inaugurada. Se não me engano, no verão de 1985. Depois soube que a frequencia havia mudado.

Discordo do comentário acima. Um local que promove o linocínio, tb promove o tráfico de drogas e a corrupção. Males que o Brasil, há muito tempo, está precisando erradicar!

]]> By: Manfred Deichmann http://www.transparent.com/portuguese/infamous-copacabana-nightclub-shutting-down/#comment-330 Manfred Deichmann Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:20:45 +0000 http://www.transparent.com/portuguese/infamous-copacabana-nightclub-shutting-down/#comment-330 I am of German origin and living in Rio de Janeiro for for 17 years (1982 to 1990 and 2001 to 2008). I have frequented the HELP night-club / disco quite often - not necessarily to pick up a girl, but also to dance and converse with people. Having been assaulted several times on the roads in Rio in the past and having not always been treaded exactly respectfully in typical Brazilian clubs, I found the HELP-club always as a safe and friendly place for me with no problems within it - and well dressed and well behaved tourists and Brazilian women (a lot of them have lived in Europe / some have even married Europeans and Americans): of course mainly - not exclusively - prostitutes. Likewise the large restaurant in front of the "HELP" night-club seats normally quite well-behaved and well dressed tourists and Brazilians to make contact with each other. I have no idea, why the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sergio Cabral, seems to be so really obsessed to close down the HELP club. What is being gained by that? What problem is the HELP club causing to whom? The HELP-club is not a noisy place (there is no music outside of it audible on the road)and to it's neighbors, also the restaurant in front of it is quiet and well behaved - actually I have never seen any aggressive behavior in it). Besides of that, one finds a lot of street-walking prostitutes at the whole Avenida Atlantica at the Copacabana (who approach people occasionally in a quite distasteful manner)- but not in front of the HELP club. So, where is the problem with the HELP club for Sr. Cabral? The tourism in Rio de Janeiro has been shrinking constantly in the past due to the constant danger of tourists to be assaulted on the road. HELP and it's close vicinity I do consider as quite safe, with police-cars stationed directly in front of it - closing it down means: a lot of tourists will walk at night-time on the roads in the future - visiting smaller night-clubs and questionable places, where the "girls" can be easier explored and controlled by their owners - and tourists easier be robbed. Manfred Deichmann I am of German origin and living in Rio de Janeiro for for 17 years (1982 to 1990 and 2001 to 2008). I have frequented the HELP night-club / disco quite often - not necessarily to pick up a girl, but also to dance and converse with people.

Having been assaulted several times on the roads in Rio in the past and having not always been treaded exactly respectfully in typical Brazilian clubs, I found the HELP-club always as a safe and friendly place for me with no problems within it - and well dressed and well behaved tourists and Brazilian women (a lot of them have lived in Europe / some have even married Europeans and Americans): of course mainly - not exclusively - prostitutes.

Likewise the large restaurant in front of the “HELP” night-club seats normally quite well-behaved and well dressed tourists and Brazilians to make contact with each other.

I have no idea, why the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sergio Cabral, seems to be so really obsessed to close down the HELP club. What is being gained by that? What problem is the HELP club causing to whom?

The HELP-club is not a noisy place (there is no music outside of it audible on the road)and to it’s neighbors, also the restaurant in front of it is quiet and well behaved - actually I have never seen any aggressive behavior in it).

Besides of that, one finds a lot of street-walking prostitutes at the whole Avenida Atlantica at the Copacabana (who approach people occasionally in a quite distasteful manner)- but not in front of the HELP club. So, where is the problem with the HELP club for Sr. Cabral?

The tourism in Rio de Janeiro has been shrinking constantly in the past due to the constant danger of tourists to be assaulted on the road. HELP and it’s close vicinity I do consider as quite safe, with police-cars stationed directly in front of it - closing it down means: a lot of tourists will walk at night-time on the roads in the future - visiting smaller night-clubs and questionable places, where the “girls” can be easier explored and controlled by their owners - and tourists easier be robbed.
Manfred Deichmann

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