Comments by docsavage (page 16)

Maybe if you talk with a Ricky Ricardo accent, they'll understand you. Practice by saying "Lucy, you got some 'splaining to do".

The Cuban stripper invasion hasn't reached Indianapolis. My first thought was that they took over because they charged less or did more than the native strippers. However, you say the customers hate it that they have taken over. If there is a demand for non-Cuban strippers, then how did the Cubans take over? I'm not being confrontational. I'm just ignorant on this subject and am curious. I like variety and wouldn't mind a few here but wouldn't want them to completely take over the strip clubs here.

The only good thing I ever heard about Putin was that he has own private strip club in his mansion. This falls into the same category as "Hitler liked dogs". If I were Putin, I would have hung out in my private strip club and just forgotten about invading the Ukraine.

I'm sad to hear from elmer that Big Daddy's in Kokomo, Indiana shut down. In recent years strip clubs in Muncie, Lafayette and Anderson in this state also shut down. Indianapolis strip clubs dropped by a third, from 18 to 12. Strip clubs are becoming a little bit of an anachronism. Things always eventually go out of fashion. I watched an old movie last night where all the men wore hats and smoked cigarettes constantly. Their interactions with women felt much different than now.

Another sign of the effects of Covid was the reduction of day shifts. A lot of my local strip clubs now open later in the afternoon or have entirely eliminated day shifts. I used to stop at clubs on the way home from work but started teleworking during Covid. I seldom go now in the afternoon. I don't want to make the drive. I also picked up new hobbies and rediscovered old ones during the lockdowns and spend more time on those now. Some older guys were just going out of habit and fell out of the habit during the lockdowns. The changes seem to have hurt day shifts more than night shifts.

A regular at my closest strip club said one time she liked it because it was like "Cheers", a place where everyone knows your name. I always liked those little strip clubs with lots of local regular customers and a crew of strippers who stayed a long time. Everyone gets to know each other.

There were a couple strip clubs in Indianapolis that didn't survive Covid. They were barely hanging on before Covid and the long shutdown with no income delivered the coup de grace. Three other strip clubs also went under but someone else came along, bought them, and reopened them under different names. A number of small mom and pop businesses locally went under. Three of my favorite local burger joints went under. The economy for the country as a whole was permanently weakened, for little reason. Florida didn't lock down and, adjusted for age distribution, had a death rate at the national average. Over in Europe, Sweden didn't lock down. Recently it came out that the lowest overall mortality for European countries from 2020 to 2022 was Sweden.

We should keep people out who are likely to end up on welfare or commit crimes. In the case of foreign strippers, they can support themselves but after their stripping days are over will they end up being part of the welfare burden? A lot of them have poor language skills and not much education. On the other hand, some native strippers I've known do ok after their stripping days are over. They are still more attractive than many females of the same age and can get jobs or a husband based on that. The same might be true of foreign strippers.

Both parties have failed to address the problems this country has. We can't keep running trillion dollar a year deficits and maintain the current level of spending. CBO estimates are by 2032 Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, government and military pensions added together will equal 100% of tax receipts. The rising debt will lead to rising interest costs that will eventually be trillions of dollars a year. There is not going to be enough rich people to increase taxes on to maintain the current system. The current system will end because there won't be the money to pay for it.

I'm surprised no one ever thought before of taking that Wednesday Addams character and turning her into a teenage Goth Girl with her own tv series. The actress involved said she used Billie Eilish as a model for her look and Eilish hit it really big with the teenage girl audience doing something similar in pop music. When I ask my strip club regulars what kind of music they like a lot of them say Eilish so that must be my type. Maybe with the popularity of Eilish and this tv series there will be more Goth Girl strippers in the future. I watched a dance scene from the tv series on YouTube today with her dancing to a Cramps song. I liked it.

9/11 was horrifying but didn't change my life at all. It was the same before and after. That is not true of everyone. The day it happened I went to the cafeteria in the building I worked in. Soldiers who worked in the building were standing around the television set there with grim looks on their faces. They knew it meant war and they would be heading off to that war.

Dancers feel about their boss the same way most people do. With my boss, I just try not to get fired. The best liked boss by strippers I ever saw was here in Indianapolis at Babes. My regular said his philosophy was "you can do what you want as long as you don't hurt anybody". There were a lot of pretty strippers there. The owner fired him and replaced him with the girlfriend of the owner. She was overly strict and drove all the pretty strippers off. The owner then started losing money and had to sell off the club. Never hire someone to manage your business just because she is your girlfriend.

Detailed the point? Are you trying to grasp at "miss the point"? Just because you say something over and over doesn't make it true. Your argument is something that is abhorrent is not a political belief, Nazism is abhorrent, therefore Nazism is not a political belief. If I were to say anyone named Jimmy is abhorrent, Jimmy McNulty is named Jimmy, therefore Jimmy McNulty is abhorrent would you consider that a good argument on my part?

It is pretty clear when she says she will do something and then doesn't she is a ROB. There is an ambiguous situation in which I don't think there is a term for it. As an example, take a strip club where all the girls allow breast touching. You agree to do lap dances with a girl assuming she is like every other girl there but then find to your dismay she doesn't allow that. This girl is not a ROB. However, she is benefiting from the fact the other girls are providing a higher standard of service which is luring more customers into the club. It creates something of a free rider issue where she receives a benefit from what the other strippers are doing but not her. This is not a big deal for me. It's just one and done on the lap dances. However, it makes me just a little less likely to head to the strip club in the future if I'm on the fence about going.

It really is quite ridiculous to say that Germans followed Hitler because they were just in love with the guy and not because of any political philosophy he espoused. Is this really the best you can do?

For my mother the assassination of President Kennedy was a life changing event. For one grandmother it was Pearl Harbor. For one of my grandfathers, it was the 1929 stock market crash. For me it was Covid and the Floyd death. For mike710 above it was the fall of the Berlin wall. Every generation has some life changing event that comes along.

Why did millions of Germans suddenly decide they were going to follow a "sociopath"? There were deep philosophical roots to the Nazi philosophy that prepared the ground for it. It didn't just come out of nowhere. Antecedents could be found for it in 19th century German philosophers like Kant, Hegel and Nietzche. The heir to this philosophical tradition, the German philosopher Heidegger, became a Nazi when Hitler came along. The German Marx was also part of this German tradition. The commonality here among all these writers was that they placed the good of the collective over the individual, who could be sacrificed for the good of the collective. The difference between Nazism and Marxism was Nazism was collectivism based on race and Marxism was collectivism based on class. Stalin killed just as many people as Hitler. I would point out, in order to fight the monster Hitler, FDR made an alliance with someone just as bad. The United States was based on a philosophy, while imperfect, that tried to put more emphasis on individual freedom and individual rights. It was pretty much unique in that belief. Only a few western European countries had similar beliefs and those beliefs never penetrated eastward into Germany or Russia. Putin once said the difference between the U.S. and Russia is that the U.S. puts the individual first over the common good while Russia does the opposite. That is a belief that has always been held in most of the world.

Yes, Hitler is an example of an extreme political position. Saying his beliefs were "abhorrent" doesn't take it out of that category. Taking a "Hitler was a mad man" position is a mistake. There were reasons why he came to power in Germany and we need to understand those reasons in order to prevent something like that again.

The George Floyd death was a low point of my life. While overdosing on fentanyl may have contributed to his death, the indifference to his suffering during the last few minutes of his life by the arresting police officer bothered me. The violent protests after his death led to most of downtown Indianapolis having boarded up buildings and no people on the sidewalks. An epidemic was sweeping through the country, killing large numbers of people. In my personal life a cat I had owned for 13 years and dearly loved died. My all-time favorite stripper who I had been seeing for six years was diagnosed with cancer and had to quit stripping for surgery. The epidemic had caused the closing of the building where I had worked for forty years and I couldn't see my coworkers while working from home. I wasn't seeing friends or family due to the epidemic. I have never felt more depressed, lonely and isolated than that month and I have never felt things ever went back to normal after that.

This is an acceptable review. It's not "fake". I live here and know what this club is like. This was rejected by three adjudicators. It is the first review of an Indianapolis strip club in over a month and is a good example of adjudicators not taking into consideration how often local clubs are reviewed. I would rather read an average review than go month after month with no reviews to read because a lot of the reviews being submitted are rejected.

Saying you love Hitler is just an extreme example of broadcasting your political beliefs. I don't see any problem with that analogy. You are just a quarrelsome person trying to pick a fight with me.

It's usually a good idea for entertainers not to broadcast their political beliefs. You risk alienating a large part of your audience when you do that. I used to watch the Johnny Carson show. Everyone knew Carson was a liberal, but he was pretty even handed when making political jokes and avoided long political diatribes. When I go to strip clubs the dancers are trying to get my money and avoid controversial topics where they might say something that would offend me. Talking politics here is ok but sometimes I wonder if I should. This is the only place I can talk to people with the same strip club hobby so I should take advantage of that and have discussions with them about strip clubs.

I don't think strippers get an accurate idea of what the average male is like because strip club customers are more pervy than the norm. I've heard police officers have a similar problem. They regularly come into contact with the scum of society and after a while start to think most people are like that.

@twentyfive: I didn't say anyone was calling for price controls right now. Stop setting up straw men and then knocking them down. No one is impressed by you doing that. Respond to what people actually say. I said "eventually" in my last comment. Right now, most people still think inflation is temporary. When they realize it is not temporary, they likely won't be willing to go through a sharp recession to cure it. Inflation will then accelerate. At that point you are likely to hear calls for price controls.

@Rick: Going into a serious recession is one alternative but I agree with you that the other alternative of the Fed giving up on the fight against inflation is more likely. Reagan supported Volcker while he did that, but I don't see Biden supporting Powell in the same way. Biden, being a Democrat, would be likely to say inflation is caused by greedy corporations. He would eventually call for price controls as inflation rises. That would be followed by shortages and then rationing. Black markets would develop, and the federal government would hire swarms of new federal agents to crack down on the black markets. Every government intervention requires another government intervention to deal with the negative effects of the previous government intervention. Having gone through the government schools, most voters are economic illiterates and will support all this.