Posted on 01/22/2018 12:45:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
With a crown on his head, Marcio Matolias carefully retouches his sandcastle, sculpting and smoothing with a shovel as bathers cool off nearby in the suffocating January heat.
They say a man's home is his castle and Marcio has lived in his - albeit made of sand - on a beach in Rio de Janeiro for the last 22 years.
In Barra da Tijuca, a wealthy beachside neighborhood west of Rio, neighbors and friends call him "The King."
(Excerpt) Read more at globaltimes.cn ...
No pictures?
What the hell good is that story without a picture.
I thought the same thing, so I googled his name and there are other articles with photos.
The pictures seem to be Getty Images, in the Daily Mail.
Here’s a link to some of them:
What do beaches in California have to do with beaches in Brazil? They are not even on the same ocean.
That’s an impressive sand castle. I would not want to live in it, but to each his own.
I tried to find one that is able to be posted on FR.
One is habitable and the other is not.
Okay. I guess. Maybe I should have asked: What does the link you posted have to do with this thread?
Didn’t expect someone to get uptight about a beach link in a beach thread.
Not uptight at all, but you posted a link to a serious unrelated story in a light-hearted thread.
Don’t you think such a story deserves its own, more serious, thread?
Thanks for sharing your opinion.
I’ll venture to explain it fully since this is a great big deal for you.
The thread is about a man living in a sand castle.
Like others, I searched for a picture. I then noticed the story about the sewer spillage.
“S-hole” has been big in the news lately and the idea of a man living in a castle on one beach while the other is literally an s-hole became relatable.
Go to bing.com
Grab the link to a thumbnail of the image you want.
Post it using a height tag of 600
profit.
Characters like this guy are what makes life interesting.
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