Things You’ll Never Be Able To Do Again.

We have masked poker so we're playing with 20-25 people in a friend's garage now

Have a 3-some with Jessica Alba and Kaley Cuoco. You said list things I want to do but can't. Not sure that Covid has anything to do with why I can't though.

^ Warrior15, the title says Things You'll Never Be Able To Do AGAIN. I'd be interested in hearing about your past 3-somes with those two hotties. Include pics, too, if you've got 'em. 😁

That’s a solid line up. The girls, not Warrior lol!!!

^ Sorry. Missed that part. LOL.

I went to a Thai buffet just a few weeks ago...

If your local Chinese buffet has closed, it might be worth a trip to see Mamisan. I think she offers coupons to go to her cousin’s buffet after you finish and wash your hands.

Ok - hand washing is optional…

They're having poker tournaments here in south Florida. Masks are popular, I think less for the protection from airborne illness and more for their ability to hide facial clues, but I don't think they are required. I mean, you'll probably catch COVID if haven't had it recently, but you probably won't die.

I think buffet's in general aren't coming back soon. Asian ones will likely take longer though, you're right about that. But I always found them a bit unsanitary anyway, and the food quality was generally poor. I don't miss those.

Strip clubbing in Toronto I do miss, but I don't think it's gone forever. Maybe another year or two, but I don't see it as gone forever. Maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part. That was one of the few areas I looked forward to hitting up the clubs while I was there. The exchange rate didn't hurt either.

I know this was labeled a club ad - but it appears strippers and a buffet are available in NYC.

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I’m not sure how sanitary the strippers or the buffet might be.

I've been playing poker in home games. The word is that when the poker room at Encore reopens, there will be no tournaments, much fewer tables, and limited hours. At least one of the poker rooms in New Hampshire, Boston Billiards, is running tournaments. I haven't played there yet, but some fellow players in home games that I play in have. Not sure if any of the other NH poker rooms are running tournaments.

Golden Corral is open in this area, I never really cared for buffets but there also is a Chinese buffet restaurant open in this area as well.

say crosscheck - just curious: any pros that regularly practice at boston billiards?

The Golden Corral in my area is still closed. I don't know why but don't really care. I've never tried it or had any desire to. I've heard nothing but bad complaints about the food.

In my neck of the woods life pretty much returned to normal some time ago. Granted, I’ve never been one to partake much is some of the indoor activities others here enjoy, like poker tournaments. I would guess things like that will come back too as I think people’s desire to do so will lead to that.

What are some things you wish you could do but really still can’t?

Contra Dancing. It's an aerobic, face to face, in your arms, swing the ladies fun fest. Most fun I've ever had with sizable groups of people.

This damndemic will have to be over before this comes back.

GC can be good if you're into the occasional pig out. You just gotta avoid the ones with a total cheapass franchisee, who won't throw away food from the buffet no matter how stale it gets. But don't go for the steak, I've never seen anything but horrible steak at GC.

A good think about GC is that they've paid $12+ an hour for a long time, very high for economy restaurants, even before COVID.

Sit down in a regular club. They're even charging for bar stools...they feel like clip joints now. I don't even go any more.

I've only been to the Yonge St. clubs in Toronto. Gotten some fun dances, but you have to watch out for dancers who are just looking to hustle tourists, aren't looking for repeat customers.

Most clubs are in the suburb of Etobicoke. I've heard those clubs as so high extras you can't make it there as a dancer if you won't do FS. But P4P use to be legal in Ontario, and now they've switched to the Nordic model, so I'm guessing that's a big problem for the Etobicoke clubs. And in general, the lockdowns in Ontario have been much, much more strict than in the US, all retail businesses are struggling to stay afloat there.

Canada seem superficially like the US, but they have much stronger taboos against violence in their culture. Which makes escorting much safer there. So, could be a lot of dancers are just choosing to escort instead, if they have to do FS anyway.

@rattdog - I don't know, I've never been. I've been to Chasers in Salem, NH a few times, but never Boston Billiards at least not yet. I hear good things about it though.

I guess one thing I don't expect to be able to do for a long time is simply just assume someplace is open for their posted hours, much less their pre-covid hours. Or that they offer their full range of services.

I ate at a Golden Corral and a Chinese buffet in 2021. We also have poker tournaments in full swing here.

I've never clubbed in Toronto, but it's on my bucket list. Also I'm sure it will return if there is oney to be made from it.

As far as casinos continuing with poker tournaments, I think that this will also return in greater force once tourist and conference travel returns to some level of normal. Yes poker rooms are far less profitable per square foot than video machines and games played against the house, but casinos have learned the hard way that they need the poker rooms in order to support their more lucrative offerings.

Years ago Mohegan Sun in CT tried to get rid of its poker room only to be forced to bring it back when they started losing foot traffic to nearby Foxwoods. Many degenerate gamblers like to play a mixture of poker and other games and a casino that doesn't offer poker loses some of its slot, craps and blackjack $$ as well.

As far as the broader concept, as far as I know there is nothing that I can't do now that I could before. It helps of course to be in the wonderful free state of FL.

I don't think I will ever be able to travel for work as often as I did over the 10 years leading up to Covid. The company has finally fully embraced both work from home and digital meetings to the point that 95% of our company travel has been replaced with MS Teams meetings. In fact the company has already started shuttering some of our smaller offices and moving everyone from those locations to permanent work from home and I have a feeling the same thing will happen to my office when the lease is up in September unless things change drastically between now and then. Losing the physical office won't be that big of a deal since I have only been there once since March of 2020 but the elimination of business travel has cut down on the frequency of my strip clubbing since that is when I did most of my clubbing.

The only non-work related aspect of my life that I believe will be permanently eliminated is going on cruises. I used to go on a cruise every 2-3 years but right now spending 7 days confined to a ship full of people from god knows where doesn't seem appealing right now. It is probably the only thing I did before Covid where the risk seems too high for the reward at this point. I'm sure the risk will go down soon enough to where I will want to go again but I'm not sure what condition the cruise industry will be in by that point. I was enthusiastic when cruises started back up, but the recent round of outbreaks on ships are going to be another serious blow to the cruise lines. I think they can withstand this current round of Covid outbreaks but if they have to shut down again and have the same issue when they start back the next time it will be the final blow.

One other possible Covid casualty may be local church festivals. There used to be a few fun festivals every weekend during the summer but last year there were maybe 1 or 2 per month around here and their attendance was so light I doubt they even covered their expenses at most of them. The Archdiocese of Cincinnati is undergoing a dramatic restructuring that is going to lead to the combining of a lot of parishes that each used to hold their own festivals so most of those festivals will end up being combined or completely eliminated.

Read new and interesting discussions about strip clubs and strippers on TUSCL. Man, I miss those.

"... I don't think I will ever be able to travel for work as often as I did over the 10 years leading up to Covid ..."

One possible good thing is that this can afford people to relocate who wish to do so - also affords one to be one of those digital-nomads where they travel kinda full time to experience different places and sometimes even overseas and they can get their work done from many different places as long as they have a good internet connection.

Covid has been heavily politicized and depending on which state one lives life can be fairly different - e.g. in FL there are no-vax-cards and very little restrictions that I can think off - if the Dems continue to be in power then IMO it'll be harder/take-longer for things to get back to the old way - there are people that seem to have been scared shitless w.r.t. Covid and there are those that want/crave we get back to the freedoms we had b/f; I think a lot may depend on who's in power post 2022 as to how things will be.

Golden Corral? Yeah, I’m not going to pretend to have a refined taste in food or anything but my digestive system says no thanks to that. 🤢

What I’ll never be able to do is hit up XTC in San Antonio for nostalgias sake. I had considered doing that in 2019 and I missed my window there. RIP to that ghetto, trashy, shady club. 😭

The XTC in Dallas is shady also and there's been multiple shootings over-the-years - I now wonder if all XTCs are shady

Well Covid wise I'm feeling pretty optimistic it'll go back to normal. Shai your thinking they'll be no more chinese buffets? lol what you fucking nuts haha jk.

Not really Covid related but I would've like to have hit Follies.

You know, even before COVID Chinese buffets were a culinary Russian roulette.

We had a buffet place called Souplantation that died early in the pandemic I really miss.

I was always on the fence about cruises but don't think I'll ever take one now.

I missed my chance to fuck Betty White.

List everyone, I’m just pointing out what has disappeared since COVID that may not reappear. Am I losing sleep over Chinese buffets? No. I was just point out they all went out of business where I am, so that’s an option no longer available.

I know poker tournaments are out there, just surprisingly none within a 4 hour drive of me which is shocking considering the number of casinos with poker rooms within 4 hours of me.

Massage parlors and clubs in Toronto will happen again someday, the question is when? I would not want to risk crossing over to strip club and run into COVID issues coming or going. That will be over someday but when knows when that day will come.

I was invited to 2 NYE parties this year and both were cancelled at the last minute because the hosts at both parties came down with COVID. The restaurant I often go to for NYE was also shut down because too many of the staff had COVID to open up.

Hey there’s something else - I hope to party for NYE somewhere other than my dining room! Last 2 NYE were spent there instead of out somewhere.

Buffets are still going strong in FL. I don't ever eat buffets except in hotels, or special occasions like Court of Two Sisters Jazz Brunch. I just don't have an appetite for the kind of crap they serve at most casinos, Golden Corral, and your average Chinese buffet.

Front Room Makeout Sessions in strip clubs are real again, because we make them so.

In AMPs there is plenty of DFKing, but not usually in the front room. If you learn how to play it though in a place like San Francisco, it is real, and real again.

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SJG

^^^ is this all happening in your head? Because everyone here knows the only place you’ve been besides your home in the alley behind the San Jose Public Library is the San Jose Petting Zoo and you managed to get your ass banned from there too.

Shailynn finishing their Christmas fund drive show for the West Texas Christian Glee Club, with his mom, in Sanderson Texas, population 837.

"Shailynn I never could have imagined that we could be still doing this. I thought that when your voice changed it would all be over."

"Mom, the extra tight jock straps are really impossible to stand. They cut off my circulation."

SJG

Keep huffing paint and dreaming of fucking goats SJG.

Will I ever fly again? I used to fly a lot. 25 times a year.

But it seems like every flight turns into a fight between a Dodgers and Giants fan. And I’m not anti mask. It I don’t think I could bear wearing a mask for 4 hours

Play sports.

I don't think any of these things listed are never again but maybe not this year.

In Maryland the buffets are open but I've not gone. Golden Corral has good fried chicken.

^ yep I agree, then million dollar question isn't "if" it is "when" and "when" is happening at different times all over the country.

Remember the early days of Covid lockdowns and how nice these discussions seemed for quite awhile after? Those were good times.

Now that the San Jose public library is reopened, I know this place has suffered.

^^ those were glorious times.

===> "And I’m not anti mask. It I don’t think I could bear wearing a mask for 4 hours"

I've been on one round trip by air since COVID and it sucked. Planes are uncomfortable under the best of circumstances. Add a mask to the equation and it just gets a little more miserable. Perhaps if I traveled less the novelty of flying somewhere might overcome the irritation, but after spending so many hours in so many airports over the years I don't have the patience with it that I used to.

Exacerbating it even more is the fact that I've lost my frequent flier status due to being grounded for almost two years. I had to sign up for an airline credit card so that I could earn points to convert into upgrades and have boarding priority when I can't get an upgrade. My real hope though is that I won't have to fly so much in the future and that I can save the miles for free flights to fun spots.

The COVID hysteria stops the day we make it stop.

SJG

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===> "And I’m not anti mask. It I don’t think I could bear wearing a mask for 4 hours"

I've done it several times and short flights aren't that bad, long ones suck. I'm trying to think... my longest was arriving at the airport at 5AM (mask up) and not arriving to a hotel (cab ride also mask up) until about 6PM. I probably had my mask down 3-4 times during that time period, eating in the airport during a layover and for a few drinks (water) during the flight. on long flights with a mask on, sunglasses on and big bulky noise cancelling headphones I feel like I'm in a casket.

I loved during the summer and fall not having to wear a mask, but now I am again when I go out, because of Omicron blowing up around me. I feel bad for my wife, she had to wear one all day and only takes it off for lunch and when she's in her office alone (which is rare). I can at least take mine on and off all day.

I've been campaigning on the ground to end the COVID precautions since June 2020.

We all need to do what is in our power in order to resist.

Now commercial air travel is not that place. You do anything there and a federal SWAT team will arrest you.

But there are still ways we all can be resisting.

SJG

I've flown 14-15 times during Covid, with Boston to Denver being the longest and while masks suck, I had no issues. My wife is so anti mas that in February, facing a 17-hour flying day (Boston-Dallas-Bozeman) and airport day, we instead drove 38 hours.

I'm not certain, but between zoom and changing job responsibilities,I can definitely see not traveling for work at work's expense like I did in the past... and not traveling cuts into my clubbing options.

If my trip in Feb gets canned thanks to omicron, I'll pass 2 years without a work paid flight; down from ~10 per year.

I've only flown once during COVID from Boston to Raleigh-Durham. Didn't love having the keep the mask on the whole time at the airports and on the plane, but not all that big a deal in the end.

I will never be able to look at mainstream media as anything other than frauds and liars, with an agenda unrelated to facts and the truth.

^ I have two questions for you Mr. Skibum:

1. Why do you care? I mean really, 98% of your posts can be summarized as “my life is all tickety-boo but America sucks and it’s irredeemable.” If your life is indeed tickety-boo and America is indeed irredeemable you should just sit back and enjoy your life and let America burn.🔥 Would that detickety your boo? I think not.

2. How do you know? Maybe your just an ill-informed delusional loser and the mainstream media is right. We’ve already established that you aren’t very logical given that a truly tickety-boo guy that genuinely feels America is irredeemable would just sit back and let said irredeemable America burn. 🔥 Sorta seems like you’re the delusional one.

Now that I have helped you reconsider your entire life and find happiness I will now accept your thanks. You’re welcome!

No one will ever be able to spend time with loved ones lost to covid 19

Except that it remains unclear that there ever were any significant number of such people. It is because we are the only industrialized country which lacks universal health care that there has been a hysterical response in attributing death to COVID. If the people had medical records, it would be very different.

There should be no long term restrictions because of COVID. There should be no continuing restrictions as of now.

If we want higher hygiene standards, let them be in the healthcare system because that is where you protect the most vulnerable.

The reason that the National Leadership of the Democratic Party adopted a platform of COVID hysteria was to deflect there being a discussion about universal health care, because they surmised that that would in a nation wide general election be a loosing issue.

SJG

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I eat at an Indian buffet regularly. I don't see how eating at a buffet will give you covid. It's not a contact virus.

Infected patrons coughing on the buffet would provide an effective vector.🤧🤮🤢

buffets all have sneeze guards.

"I've been campaigning on the ground to end the COVID precautions since June 2020.

We all need to do what is in our power in order to resist.

Now commercial air travel is not that place. You do anything there and a federal SWAT team will arrest you.

But there are still ways we all can be resisting.

SJG"

San Jose Guy I thought you were banned from within 200 yards of any airport in California, just like the ban in place on you to not come within 100 yards of any petting zoo or farm that has goats on the property.

Shailynn and his mom now back at home.

"Mommy, I want to go to high school like everyone else."

"Shailynn we have talked about this before. Those girls at your school were immodest. Even though they wear high neck sweaters in this cold weather, they still parade around pushing their breasts out. Home schooling will be better for you. And besides we can get to more events with the West Texas Christian Glee Club."

"Mommy I don't want to have to keep wearing this tight jock strap."

"Shailynn our pastor has gotten you a full scholarship to Bob Jones University. In another year and a half you will be going there. And yes, then you can take the jock strap off. But for now, that jock strap has kept your voice from changing and so that is what has extended your Glee Club career."

SJG