Comments by mark94 (page 40)

With $20 dances, it’s always been a place for customers who are willing to pay a premium for better looking dancers. The quality of the dancers seems to have slipped and the number of customers dropped. Which caused which ? I know I go there less frequently because the dancers don’t wow me as they once did.

Taking classified documents home is a very big problem if they were being intentionally shared with the Chinese. The University of Penn think tank where many of the documents were found was funded by the Chinese. Biden was paid $900,000 for his involvement with the think tank even though he never taught a class, or any other work. Why did the Chinese pay him nearly a million dollars ?

Back in 2000 our national debt was just over $5 trillion after over 200 years as a nation. Since then we have added over $25 trillion in debt and we now owe over $31 trillion.

Not really a review ? Do you want more info on cocktail napkins and bathroom soap ? The review names and describes dancers and their dances. That’s exactly what a review should cover. Concise and informative.

Things always get strange at HL this time of year with Barret Jackson, Super Bowl, and Phoenix Open. More LE attention. Visiting dancers. Tourists. I tend to go on club hiatus this time of year.

Massive systemic and structural change has begun in the world and will play out over the next 5 to 10 years. China is collapsing, not just as an economy but as a nation. Sanctions have put the Russian economy on a glide path to failure. Europes business model, which relied on cheap Russian energy and the US paying for their defense, is no longer workable. Global trade, along with the concept of globalization, is declining rapidly. Onshoring of jobs is at a historic pace in the US and Mexico. The era of zero interest rates is over. Companies with business models that relied on zero interest will fail. In 10 years, the world will look very different than it does now. Inflation is just a byproduct of these changes.

Bank of America Chief Economist Michael Gapen tells @CBSNews stream prime time the US is probably past peak inflation but to hit Fed target of 2% is likely a “two to three year path” + US is more likely than not to experience “mild” recession 2023

If you haven’t, Watch Dr Strangelove. As crazy as the plot is, it’s plausible.

I also liked Into the Night. A great, quirky little movie. I’d forgotten Jeff Goldblum was in it. I do remember Michelle Pfieffer was in it.

Would you rather spend the rest of your life in prison or a state run mental institution ? Either way, his life is over.

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Very quietly, manufacturing has been fleeing China at historic speed for the last couple years. Much of it is returning to North America ( high value added to US, low value added to Mexico ). Much is also going to Vietnam and India. China gets most of its energy and food imported by sea. They know that we could blockade them and literally starve them into submission within months. The real estate bubble in China has burst. Homes are sitting empty, people have stopped paying their mortgage, and new construction has ground to a halt. As a result of urbanization and the one child policy, China is aging faster than any other country. They will run out of workers by 2020. As Sun Tzu said, the best strategy is to win a war before it’s begun. We’ve won without firing a shot.

“Then that portends that over the next 5-10 years the inflation trend will go back to normal.” Obviously. That’s like patting yourself on the back for correctly predicting the sun will rise in the East. What’s the point of this thread ? To state the obvious as though it took a master intellect to discover it ?

I’ve walked into clubs when I’m out of town and immediately realized it was a clip joint. I walked out as soon as I realized what was going on. That was before TUSCL.

I was at HL not long ago and there was a stunning slender young new dancer. Easily a 9. Best looking girl I’ve seen at HL in a very long time. She was an actual ASU student who said she normally works at Le Girls. We talked for a long time before going to VIP. I think I was her only dance of the night. I got 4 dances for $100. She was mostly focused on scoping out the club, not earning. Would I have paid $400 for 15 minutes ? No, but I’m a little stingy. If that’s the level of talent at Le Girls, I can see some people paying it. If someone does that weekly, it’s $20,000 which sounds like real money to me.

Wait, VIP starts at $400 ?!? Am I reading this right ? I can understand pricing like this in NYC or Vegas, but how many customers would pay this in Phoenix ?

Inflation may be receding for now, but investors should brace for another “spike” in the not-too-distant future, according to Scion Asset Management founder Michael Burry, who shared the warning in a New Year’s Day tweet. The hedge-fund portfolio manager, who shot to fame thanks to Michael Lewis’s “Big Short,” expects the dynamics driving the next inflationary wave will be similar to the previous one: the Federal Reserve will slash interest rates while the Federal Government doles out stimulus in response to a recession that’s expected to begin later this year.

It’s his/her first review. There is nothing in the review that wasn’t already covered in the last ten reviews of HL.Let’s hope the next the next review by them is better.

“Hemingway was contemptuous of writers who, as he put it, “never learned how to say no to a typewriter.” In a 1945 letter to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, Hemingway writes: It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.”

The key word is useful. Every paragraph should contain a piece of information that is useful for future visits, especially about the dancers and the dances they provide. If something has already been discussed in prior reviews ( drink prices, hours, layout ), it is not useful.

In the age of NIL, the NCAA has lost a lot of its power. College sports has become a professional league. The NCAA is pretending we still live in a world of student athletes.

Dealers only make a small percent of their profit from selling a new car. Something like 20%. They make more money from leasing, financing, extended warranties, used cars ( much better margins than new ), and servicing vehicles.

The Inflation Reduction Act changed the EV tax credit so it would only apply to domestic EVs. Under pressure from foreign carmakers, regulations now look like they will let EV tax credits work for foreign vehicles, but only if they are leased, not if they are purchased. So, we may see most EVs acquired through leasing going forward. Weird.

In Phoenix, the over the pants HJ, known as the stripper hand shake, used to be pretty common as they introduced themselves. It was how high mileage dancers announced their willingness. More recently, it’s very rare. Like, almost never. Maybe it’s just me ?

Example 1 “So, I and my friend went to the club last night. We usually don’t go out that late, but it was a special occasion. I ordered my rum and coke and thought about getting a baked potato……” Example 2 “There were 15 dancers, about 12 sixes, 2 sevens, and an eight. The eight was named Bambi and I got 4 VIP dances from her with great mileage……” I prefer the second example.