Comments by Book Guy (page 4)

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I'd like more advice from a seasoned civil liberties attorney. Like those guys on YouTube who say you should roll up your car window and refuse to get out of the car when the cops pull you over ... or something, I don't exactly know in which circumstances you are, or are not, supposed to do that. I'd like to hear more. Just shooting the breeze and talking out of my ass, it seems to me like this. If the police arrive to "raid" the place there must be a reason. They must have "warranted" their searches and seizures, either through a document signed by a judge (actually: "neutral and detached magistrate") or through one of the allowed exceptions from case-law etc.. So, in specific, they must believe (reasonably) that there is crime going on. What crime? If it's suspicion of drugs being distributed, sold, used, then, why must customers be detained? Well, obviously, to search them for illegal drugs. If it's suspicion of something else, why must customers be detained? Because ... blankety blank again. It depends on what crime(s) they're suspecting. The crime must be specific and some evidence must be articulated. Can't be just "he looked suspicious." It has to be, "he looked like he was selling drugs" (specific crime) "because he was trying to hide plastic baggies of a grass-type substance" (specific evidence). More likely it won't be what they saw on the night; the evidence will be, "we have reason to believe that this goes on in that location." Further, I'm wondering whether it's cricket for them to automatically suspect EVERY person in the premises. Can they just have a warranted suspicion that, f.e., if you're within 400 yards of a school, you're a child molester? No, of course not. Not sure where the Constitutional Criminal Procedure law draws the line on raiding nightclubs etc.. Is everyone in the place under suspicion, and is that suspicion reasonable? Just some thoughts?

I've always been told to believe that Republicans always implement tax cuts for the rich and that the poor and middle classes seldom see benefit to their taxation under Republicans. I would wish for proof that this is not the case.

Square masculine-like face, and she's got a kind of non-feminine body as best I can tell looking at her in all those business pants-suits, but a very winning smile, and she comes off as alert, chipper, intelligent, but perhaps argumentative or snide. I hate the California accent, when it comes out of her nose for the latter half of the sentence, with a real braying nasally "ng" type sound to every vowel (regardless of whether the word actually has an "ng" in it). If you don't like her policies, you can still admit that she seems to have an outgoing or attentive personality; she's not "asleep at the wheel" (at least, not when on public display; what do we really know about their real behavior, any of them?). But "hot"? I guess, for a 59 year old, maybe. Is Melania "hot"? Melania or Kamala? I'm going to have to say Melania, though I don't usually like the Raquel Welch / ultra-curvaceous / probably has fake tits / type much.

"If the girl you're dancin' with is below your standards, son, it's time to lower your standards." WTF no no no no noooooooo don't do this. Keep some self respect. Do not chase women (civilians for dates; or strippers for lappers etc.) who are unappealing to your own preferences, especially not out of a sense of desperation. You will NOT be having a better life by making sure you have less of what you want. Talk about lowering your self-esteem!

Silly me, I watched the video. Dead cops, dead rioters, violence on Capitol grounds. But it was just "a rally that got out of hand." Trump requested that they come armed, knew they were armed, tried to circumvent Secret Service security by requesting that mag-detectors be arranged differently, directed them to storm a government building, stated overtly "we're all going to go down there," tried to get down there himself, did it in order to stop certification of the valid election results, announced clearly that he wanted Pence to not certify the election, stated all of this in no uncertain terms, but somehow the people who DISAGREE with Trump are the ones living in an Orwellian sense of denial? Which Party? I'm not a huge fan of Democrats. Illegals are also a problem, though they kill fewer than White Christian nationalists do annually. You can't whitewash an insurrection.

I wonder if strip clubs are BETTER, or WORSE, on major calendar events like New Year's Eve. We've got the Super Bowl coming up here in NOLa, that will bring the Vegas traveling glam glam strippers to town for a weekend or more in advance of it, I'm sure the downtown French Quarter clubs will sell tickets for watch-parties and for pre-parties and for after-parties (with lots of damn throwing of damn beads from damn balconies) and I'm sure all those parties will have dress codes. I wouldn't be so stupid as to pay for a ticket. But maybe the out-of-Quarter club will also have an event? And will not have a dress code?

Not sure what the bachelor's rules were. I was doing my best to appear like a mildly off-put local, since I was living in the city as a graduate (exchange) student at the time and the faculty where I was studying was a mere block or two away. For him, it could have been that the group paid for five girls and they teased him but he was supposed to never finish; or could have been that they paid for five girls and he was supposed to do each in rapid succession until he couldn't finish; or could have been any of a number of other arrangements. Groups like that aren't uncommon in the RLD, though the Elmer Fudd outfits were a step beyond what most bachelor parties achieve. Actually, an even more startling sight is how they treat New Year's Eve. Everything is on fire. All locations include devices which explode and burn. Your left thigh, your bicycle, the foot path, the streetcar, the cafe table, the roof, the wall, the canal, the pile of trash, the tree, the other tree, it all explodes and burns. You are inside a fireworks display. It's so bad that the fire brigades distribute flyers with warnings in multiple languages that you shouldn't wear fuzzy outer clothing, and no hats or scarves, and no fringe, because your clothing would be a conflagration danger. It's frickin' nuts. Most of the year the Amsterdammer citizens are rather staid -- they put up with the tourists doing touristy things, because THEY aren't doing the touristy things. But on New Year's Eve, it just goes all explosive.

@Puddy what about women larger than any of the pictures?

Yeah keeping the peace is a better way to put it. Bachelor parties will pay a lot if they're the right type of group, but I suspect that birthday parties, welcome-home parties, and divorce parties are probably better for the clubs. You've never seen a real bachelor party until you've seen a British bachelor entourage strolling the Red Light District of Amsterdam on a weekend evening in the summer. Forty guys in plastic Elmer Fudd outfits, leading by a leash one dude dressed in nothing but tightie-whities underwear, Doc Martens boots, and a rubber chicken over his dick. With friends like that, who needs enemies. As I overheard it, his job was to NOT finish with a minimum of five girls.

Department of Motor Vehicles wtf ...

I think some clubs that claim to have a "dress code" are actually just trying to enforce a "no trash customers" code but need to put it more politically correctly than that. Until about 2015 or so, French Quarter clubs in NOLa on weekends used to generally reject people wearing blue jeans and t-shirts, except maybe big groups of matching t-shirts for bachelor parties, since the crowds pouring in and out from Bourbon Street aren't necessarily dedicated strip-club goers, so they were simply trying to put some kind of control on the door. But recently they'll take whatever they can get. For another example, the report from TheeOSU about getting kicked from an otherwise empty club for wearing a bandana suggests to me NOT that the manager / owner was trying to be upscale, but rather that he was looking for high-paying customers who wouldn't cause him grief. The original post admits, directly, "this was back in our young days when neither one of us were aware." Probably got kicked for having that appearance, not just for the bandana, is my guess. If you'd been a regular you'd have known something -- maybe the crowd was scheduled to arrive later? Maybe the "dancers" were all direct-to-the-service hookers and there wasn't much dancing at all? College kids in sweatshirts and bandanas aren't usually wanted in places like that. As to sweatpants ... I used to regularly monger in a pair of pants that came from a super-silk style track suit. Very smooth, almost velour type, but slick on the outside like a wind-breaker. Dancers loved them, it was like pajamas or a micro-fiber blanket. But I started to feel like they were creepy-looking, since they were clinging to my thighs and bulge. So I ended up researching (here at TUSCL!) good slacks and upgraded (Hagar Cool 18s). At a club I recently saw a kid in sweatpants with a dress shirt and cross-trainers, he looked too incongruous, it was like he hadn't finished putting on his costume for the school play. He was tall and his semi-boner was poking through the pants too obviously when he went out to the patio (it's more brightly lighted) for a smoke. We didn't appreciate it. "We" means me, all the dancers, and anybody else who mattered.

whoops I got 101% LOL

Happy to see the extra work put in for the examples, thanks Dolfan! I agree with your preferences. (BTW, for people who say that the extremely overweight porkers are just "curvy" ... YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. YOU PL IDIOTS MUST STOP ENABLING OBESITY!!! /s Sorry, just had to get it out of my system.) Now seriously, if you like larger girls, that's OK, please take them off my hands; but there are recently so many more, to the extreme, that there's nothing else! So, presuming (it's worthy of discussion, but for now, just presume) that Dolfan's categories are correct. Over the last year, I have seen approximately 100 dancers, of which I estimate were (a) 2% (one or two dancers, "too skinny") (b) 5% (three to five dancers, "what I like") (c) 20% ("thicker") (d) 20% ("too fat") and I add (e) 54% (remainder, fatter than "too fat", all of them larger than any of Dolfan's pictures).

lol @ myself "fat" for "fact" heh Freudian slip there

(damn, premature post button, doh!) So that's fully 90% who are not just in the "unappealing to me personally" zone, but also in the "automatically disgusting to me" zone. And even if I'm generous, and re-jigger my numbers, I can't really get that number down below 80% or MAYBE 75%. So, really, literally 3 in 4 are I'm not interested, and in fat utterly "I would prefer that you not be in the club when I am in the club." Maybe they're doing a bad job with their "style" and they could improve if they changed something in fashion or makeup or something. I doubt it. I honestly think all humans who are 20 years old should look like track stars. If you have time to do high school sports you shouldn't have any excess body weight.

@minnow I don't know if I want to use the term "fat" to define what I do or don't want. For me, I'd say ANY weight more than "ideal body weight" is too fat to be a good choice for dancing. I realize other guys are different. I prefer spinnners, or ballerinas, or yoga instructors. I really find Alexis Texas (porn star) disgusting. It's not just, "oh she's something which other guys like," no no, my instinct when viewing Alexis Texas is, "fuck DAMN won't someone please HIDE THAT WOMAN FOR THE GOOD OF HUMANITY!" It's very visceral anger at her hugeness, her (what looks to me, automatically, like) irresponsibility. I don't try to justify this feeling. I certainly don't express it. I don't really claim it's rational or something I'm allowed to propagate onto other people. I'm just saying, this is the first thing that automatically pops into my head. So, among the (approx.) 100 dancers I've seen in the last month, I guess the following. 90 are as heavy as Alexis Texas, or heavier.

I also don't understand the vitriol. There's a human who is living his/her/its life differently from how I'm living mine. They're putting themselves through a lot of grief to fix things so that the new set-up is they way they really want it to be, or maybe the way they really need it to be. And they aren't taking my stuff. I figure I ought to be sympathetic, or simply oblivious. Reminds me of the gay-marriage debate. Evidently, people who dislike the idea of gay marriage, somehow think that allowing it, would devalue heterosexual marriage. So, in their thinking, if Bill and Bob buy a dining room table together in California or Massachusetts, then, somehow, they get worried that the dining room table which Herb and Elaine own in Peoria will break. Just, kaboom, of its own accord, magically, because two dudes did something half the country away. Must'a been a pretty shitty dining room table that Herb and Elaine had, don'tcha think? But I do have a concern, or, call it a "question". Are there really so MANY trans-gender people? It seems to me like about one in four high schoolers wants to fix his/her/its gender into something different. I remember in my (very open) upbringing, there were one or two people I knew of, from among my (very open) wide circle of friends and acquaintances, who were gender experimental in some way. That's about one in 300. Why did the ratio skyrocket?

@wallanon "I don't really want to fuck her but I'd let her suck my dick"...? But there's also "I don't want to fuck her and I also wouldn't let her suck my dick." @funonthaside In my experience fat chicks give the worst head because they just think "go to town, get all messy, technique doesn't matter." Professional chicks give the best head because they have a professional level of skill, and also are more generally professional about maintaining their bodies, IME. BTW I won't try to prove you wrong because I'd have to engage in one or another sort of experiment, none of which seem palatable to me.

I don't understand the "lawfare" accusation. Law courts are DESIGNED for finding people who BREAK THE LAW. It isn't somehow "weaponizing" the FBI (for example) to allow them to chase down and get evidence on individual politicians. They started out "weaponized" like that, because that's what they're DESIGNED to do and it is, in fact, pretty much THE ONLY thing they do. It's not "using the courts" in some wrong way, if what you do is use them to find criminals. It's "using" the courts to NOT find criminals. Duh.

To add to the SSN / I-9 / E-verify question, in several places the status of dancers as IC ("independent contractors") is being questioned. Different moves in different places by different actors, generally in favor of treating them like employees. Thus 401ks and better OSHA safety and so on ... supposedly. I assume that would be a helluva headache for clubs as they exist right now (but then, I don't know much, I haven't ever had payroll more than three humans and that was only when expensed directly to an individual client for an individual case). I can't really reason in my mind, that a dancer's behavior is more like an employee than like an independent contractor. Are the clubs going to have different tiers of sexual services? "Gracie, grade one employee, blowjobs only, anywhere in club. Savannah, promoted to full service, but only in Champagne Room. Used condoms exchanged for service tickets at desk in women's dressing room lobby." I agree w RonJax that it's a dumb system to have the employer be the cop -- that's a direct conflict of his interest, because on the one hand he wants the most labor for the least price, whereas on the other hand the government is also demanding of him that he increase his own cost by seeking out, finding, and rejecting groups of applicants who would be more likely to have lower price. We do this mixed-messages thing with a lot of regulation, can't really figure out ideal solutions for each situation. I don't want the Nuclear Power industry to have literally no police except the Federal policing authorities, but I also don't trust them and market-pressures alone to self-regulate.

Hmm. Tell me more about these staff members at adult shops who were ... ahem ... "very helpful." Did they make sure to ... ahem ... "give you a hand" ... ? Hmmm? :)

ROFL is "Indulge" the name of a dancer, a club, or both? Inquiring minds want to know. :)

I have heard about the Lady-Boy thing in Thailand but I don't understand it. If I'm going to a "strip club" in North America (or perhaps Europe?) then I'm going to reasonably have a right to expect the performers to fulfill what typical heterosexual males are interested in -- that is, typical heterosexual-appearing females. I don't want another person's alternative lifestyle FORCED on me without it being overtly chosen by me. I can do the live-and-let-live thing as long as it doesn't enter my own mental space. This is, in fact, what I hate the most about Evangelical Christianity -- its insistence that the REST of us live by THEIR rules. Them -- Hi, I couldn't help noticing, you're using your hands. Me -- Yeah, that's what you do when you're playing basketball. Them -- No, you have to respect my religion. You're not allowed to use your hands. Me -- Dude, you play soccer wherever you want, just don't try to force me to play soccer. I'm playing basketball. I therefore intend to use my hands. Them -- If you don't respect my religion then you are un-American and violating my right to Freedom of Religion. Stop! Stop using your hands! It's against my religion! Me -- No no, man, you seem to misunderstand. I'm not telling YOU not to play soccer with your little soccer pals. I'm just telling you to stop FORCING ME to play soccer instead of basketball. And if you're a public servant, you aren't allowed to pick between soccer and basketball. Them -- Your failure to allow me to cram my religion down your throat means you're an un-American shit. You don't understand the Constitution. Me -- Here comes the Lacross stick ... right across your jawbone. I feel similarly about some of the trans-gender activists. Some of them just want free space to be themselves. Others of them treat me like I'm somehow unclean for having failed to cut off my dick and they seem to be trying to come at my dick with a knife in order to prove how open-minded they are.

@Studme interesting about Jill disliking Joe, and skeletons, would like to know what the rumors are. Not confirming or denying, just curious.