Comments by mark94 (page 43)

It’s fun to pretend that strip club relationships are real. The successful dancers can make you believe that it’s about something other than extracting money from you. But, if you choose to go along with that fantasy for too long, it always ends in disappointment. Don’t get me wrong. It’s worth it, but you’ve got to accept the fantasy has a “sell by” date. Sometimes the sell by date is measured in number of dances. Sometimes in months. But, it always ends.

Their business, their rules as long as they don’t break any laws. No point in trying to convince them their rules are wrong. Your money, your choice of clubs.

“old white men channeling Hitler” You might want to read some history before throwing around comparisons to Hitler. He was even worse than an old white guy using the wrong pronoun. Look it up.

In recent years, approval of the military has dropped from 75% to under 50%. This coincides with the purge of true warriors from the ranks and emphasis on diversity, gender awareness, proper pronouns, and other wokeness.

The military should be used to protect the country and protect our critical interests overseas. Unlike the era where we expended massive blood and treasure in the Middle East, we are now energy independent ( or could be once Joe Biden is gone ). Our military should be used to protect our interests in the Western Hemisphere as well as some key trade routes. We should make our intelligence resources available to Allies and SELL them our advanced military equipment. Our military assets are decades ahead of Russia, China, and Iran. Beyond that, if Germany, South Korea, India, Japan, etc want to protect their borders, they need to do it themselves.

After seeing the incompetence of the Russian military in Ukraine, no rational person would invoke the domino theory that an emboldened Putin is a threat to the wider world. The Domino Theory was used by the Intelligence and Military communities to justify all sorts of disastrous actions in the 60s and 70s. With the fall of the Soviet Union, we realized that the estimates of the Soviet Union’s capability was wildly exaggerated. I think this exaggeration was intentional to justify bigger budgets.

Sam Bankman-Fried: I don’t know where $10 billion dollars went The Pentagon: We don’t know where $2.2 trillion dollars went The IRS: You just sent $601.37 don’t forget to report it.

NATO is German and French for “ America will protect us and it won’t cost us a Euro. Let’s build windmills and solar farms. “

“Every conservative who preaches this bullshit should be deported to Greenland or hung upside-down in the town square for all of us to mock.” What is our strategic interest in Ukraine ? How do the American people benefit if Ukraine retakes Crimea ? Why should we pay most of the bill while Germany pays a pittance ?

No government program ever dies. It invents new missions and demands more money.

The Ukraine war has likely given us a preview of how the military will operate when there isn’t a direct threat to America. Provide technical support, intelligence, training, weapons, and tactical advice, but leave the on-the-ground fighting to be done by others. We should help Taiwan become impregnable to a Chinese invasion. We should help Japan build its navy to dominate the South China Sea.

Mission creep, political correctness, and careerism have turned the military into something Eisenhower warned us about. We need to restore the military mission to one of protecting the US, not being a world policeman for all our “Allies”, and fire every flag officer who is a Social Justice Warrior. If we do that, the military could succeed with half the budget it now has.

“What's the deal with the Filipino race? “ From Wiki “The Philippines is inhabited by more than 182 ethnolinguistic groups, many of which are classified as "Indigenous Peoples" under the country's Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997. Traditionally-Muslim peoples from the southernmost island group of Mindanao are usually categorized together as Moro peoples, whether they are classified as Indigenous peoples or not. About 142 are classified as non-Muslim Indigenous People groups, and about 19 ethnolinguistic groups are classified as neither indigenous nor moro. Various migrant groups have also had a significant presence throughout the country's history. Due to the past history of the Philippines since the Spanish colonial era, there are also some historical migrant heritage groups such as the Chinese Filipinos and Spanish Filipinos, both of whom intermixed with the above lowland Austronesian-speaking ethnic groups, which produced Filipino Mestizos.” In other words, like the US, a lot of ethnicities comprise the Philippines.

Most languages can sound beautiful or horrible depending on how the native speaker speaks it. There are also regional dialects that can result in two countrymen not being able to understand each other.

If you recall, a couple months ago, ole Joe assured us he had eliminated any possibility of a strike. Now that the election is over……..

I discovered a bastard first cousin that no one knew about. These tests can open a can of worms.

A big part of the housing crisis is the result of over regulation of housing by local and state government. They limit where a house can be built, how many, what it looks like, how it’s built, who builds it, and who can live in it. After WWII, the nation went on a massive home building spree. Millions of homes like those in Levittown. https://www.levittowners.com/the-history-of-levittown/ There is nowhere in America where government would let such “ Wild West free enterprise” take place today.

In Phoenix, thousands of investor-owned properties, purchased in the last couple years, are being sold at $100,000 less than the recent purchase price. Anything that can’t go on forever ( like double digit home appreciation ), won’t. As with any investment, the small number of people who get in early do fine. The majority of people who wait until an asset has appreciated, then jump on the bandwagon, lose their shirt. Buy high, sell low. That’s why buy and hold works best for most.

People become actors because they crave attention. It’s an addiction. That explains a lot of the wokeness in Hollywood. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me.

She’s no longer the hot young actress so she’s getting attention anyway she can. If she were smart, she would have saved her money and/or married a Billionaire, then retired to a life of luxury. Instead, she’s playing “ I’m woker than you are”.

I was on a work crew where one of the older guys cared only about tit size. Nothing else mattered to him. We’d be driving down the street and drive by a woman who was ugly and fat, but had big tits, and he’d go crazy. Good times.

I rate it based on what dancers were available to me based on my tastes. If there are a few dancers I like, but I can never get their attention, I rate it low. If there are a couple dancers I like and they both approach me, I rate it higher. Both of those situations explain the 6 and 7 ratings. To be an 8, there’d have have to plenty of attractive dancers approaching me. A room full of fuglies is a 5 or lower.

I had both questions in mind with my OP. How it affects the experience of TUSCL members is more straightforward. How TUSCL ( and similar services ) have affected the industry is a little less clear, but I think it has.

Yeah, I’d forgotten the days of sifting through yellow pages and alternative weekly’s for a few bread crumbs of information. That did suck.

I’ve been in Phoenix forever. Every club has had its ups and downs. Some clubs have closed. Others that were great are now avoided by anyone in the know. Things have been unusually stable with clubs like HL and BSC in recent years. I used to rotate to a dozen clubs years ago, looking for the current good club. Now, it’s the same 3. Over and over. I wonder if TUSCL has something to do with this lack of change. Every visitor looks on TUSCL and immediately focuses on HL or BSC.