Golden Age of TUSCL
Muddy
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When was it? And how about the dark age.
Now while I hesitate to call now the best of times, we all yell at each other on here like nowhere else on the internet. But if you compare reviews from a few years ago to now, you realize this voting system has literally trained everybody to raise their game. It’s like night and day now looking back. I saw Wal comment in mark94’s thread that the review output has never been higher. And around here on the DB atleast as long as I’ve been here I can’t remember more dancers posting on here popping in every now and again. Which I think is a real good thing, all kinds of different POV’s, makes things a lot more interesting.
Was it better 10 years when juice ruled the TUSCL universe. Or 20 years ago when it was pretty much just shadowcat, dandydan, and abbienormal talking to each other. Or even just a few years back when Papi was on a South Florida tear. Or when Rick Dugan shocked the world with the system. I guess my question are we going uphill or downhill here? From my view it’s hard to say sometimes but right now I got to admit, I see a lot of good signs.
Now while I hesitate to call now the best of times, we all yell at each other on here like nowhere else on the internet. But if you compare reviews from a few years ago to now, you realize this voting system has literally trained everybody to raise their game. It’s like night and day now looking back. I saw Wal comment in mark94’s thread that the review output has never been higher. And around here on the DB atleast as long as I’ve been here I can’t remember more dancers posting on here popping in every now and again. Which I think is a real good thing, all kinds of different POV’s, makes things a lot more interesting.
Was it better 10 years when juice ruled the TUSCL universe. Or 20 years ago when it was pretty much just shadowcat, dandydan, and abbienormal talking to each other. Or even just a few years back when Papi was on a South Florida tear. Or when Rick Dugan shocked the world with the system. I guess my question are we going uphill or downhill here? From my view it’s hard to say sometimes but right now I got to admit, I see a lot of good signs.
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Unfortunately I cannot say the same for strip clubs. The clubs I knew back in the 90’s were a lot better - and more abundant than today. Despite the improvement in TUSCL, I feel like we are entering the dark ages of strip clubs.
You can’t get it all somtimes, we had CoVid, clubs were shut down BUT no SJG and that was awesome
muddy said "...we all yell at each other on here like nowhere else on the internet."
There might be some rose-colored glasses action going on here. Those who remember the endless spamming war between Dougster, Txtittfag, VinceMichaels, and a few others, will probably agree that at times they really crippled the discussion forums for good stretches of time. I mean, that was a conflict where someone had to die before it really came to a close. So, while things are contentious now, it's not a bad as that (I think).
I'm not sure if it's a Golden Age, but things are actually pretty good now. The boards have drama but it's manageable. There are more active dancers, and I agree that's a good thing. Assuming it lasts (knocks on wood), it's nice to be able to post about strip club fun and not be told that we're having fun wrong, or yelled at about "privacy walls", or told about a crazy-pants rape cult, or have threads bumped over 400 times because the OP used the word 'autism'.
I think it's a very good thing now that the majority of reviewers and review judges are on board with not connecting dancers by name to extras. If you look way back at some of the more vintage "gen-1" reviews, there were more parallels with the USASG-style reports. There are still some whiners about that, but not many.
My 2 cents.
As far as the golden age, I would say it’s now if one is using review quality as the main criteria. If one is using the number and quality of clubs nationwide, the golden age was probably 10-15 years ago. If one is using the discussion board to ascertain a golden age, I think being an anonymous, unmoderated fuck board will always keep us in the “haven’t discovered fire yet” age.
- sjg is gone
- less extra connected to dancers
- lots of reviews
- more dancers participating
- way less trolls
Bad:
- icee is still here
- members contacting other members’s families
- endless scrolling posts loading forever
There’s always been “contrarian” posters. Dougster, DavidS, BobbyL, MisterGuy, ClifBar are some names that come to mind. And Big Third Eye is child’s play compared to the drivel RandomLover posted.
I can remember a July 4 thread (I can’t find it) where a poster - who seemed to come out of no where, and I can’t remember his name - came on and attacked a innocuous “Happy 4th of July” post. He went on a rant about Native American atrocities, and smallpox and other anti-American stuff. It blew up. That was first wild political post that I remember that’s commonplace now
Motörhead, jackslash and flagooner cracking good jokes all the time.
Dougster being entertaining before he went psycho on vincemichaels
Alucard being himself - it was an interesting train wreck to watch
Still one of the funniest things ever here was when Juice made rap songs dissing larrythefisherman.
The most entertaining were farmerart and gawker stories were the best.
Even SJG was somewhat entertaining at first before he really went off the deep end.
I think all of this was going on around 2013ish. As long as you didn’t disagree with Dougster there weren’t many fights on here and very little political talk.
I’m a little fuzzy on this but didn’t all the user accounts get wiped once? I was familiar with the site and had posted some raviews but wasn’t active on the boards back then because I didn’t even know they existed.
But another peak…
just ahead.
Having said all that, I am retired and have less opportunity to get to strip clubs, so that, and COVID, have limited my recent contributions to TUSCL.
That's news to me, I'd like to know what that's about.
Anyway, first time in this thread, first off stop posting those 3 letters that start with s and j, let sleeping dogs lie!
If there was a golden age, it was either before my time here or I missed it. When I joined 8 or so years ago clubs in my area were already on the decline and have never gone back up. The decline was mainly because of Ohio's ridiculous strip club laws that were passed around 2007 before I became a member here and also the increase of heroin and fentanyl use among dancers and I see the board in the same light as my local club scene as I originally joined as a way to get intel on and find out about new clubs but there aren't any new clubs. as a matter of fact over a dozen clubs that i used to sometimes go to have closed.
So from my POV I missed any golden age that there might have been here.