Comments by docsavage (page 17)

Water shortages in the western states come more from population growth than climate change. Most population growth over the last 50 years has come from immigrants and the children of immigrants. It has predominantly been Democrats, along with a few big business Republicans who want cheap labor, that has supported these high immigration levels. We can't get population growth under control until we reduce current immigration levels.

Pending home sales in the US plummeted by 37% year-on-year in October of 2022, the sharpest yearly decline on record. https://www.independentsentinel.com/pending-us-home-sales-drops-37-the-largest-decline-on-record/ Fed efforts to fight inflation is pushing us into a serious recession. Either they keep doing it and the recession will worsen or they will pivot away from interest rate hikes and inflation will worsen.

The two clubs in Indy that let girls set their own prices, PT'S and Dancers, seem to have declining stripper quality. More guys will come into a club with set prices and crowded clubs attract better girls. I was at the Pony tonight in Indy and got two lap dances from my pretty little Mexican girl regular. I told her the previous Friday night a dancer tried to sell me a $50 lap dance at PT's and she couldn't believe it. Her lap dances were $25 each plus I got a hug when I left plus she wanted my phone number so she could call me. A lot of times the higher priced lap dance just comes with a bigger ego and less friendliness.

The Smiths- "How Soon Is Now?" Pixies- "Debaser" Blur- "Song 2" David Bowie- "Heroes" Amy Winehouse- "Tears Dry On Their Own" Massive Attack- "Teardrop" Alice in Chains- "Would?"

> And BTW, big pharma donates big time to both Democrats and Republicans. https://sbynews.com/2020/11/12/pfizers-political-donations-favored-democrats-in-2020-cycle-with-biden-the-highest-recipient/

I've worked in accounting for the DoD for forty years. This did not surprise me at all. Several years back they tossed out the computerized accounting system we used, Stanfins, and replaced it with a new one, Gfebs, that would supposedly help making it easier to do audits. It doesn't seem to have helped. Conservatives like the military but the military is just another inefficient government bureaucracy that wastes a lot of money. Billions of dollars disappeared in Iraq. Lots of money being sent to the Ukraine is probably being diverted from its intended use. The top DoD management is also fully supportive of affirmative action and woke propaganda. We were also all forced to get Covid vaccines, being told it would stop transmission of the disease. It was a lie. People pointing out there was no evidence of that, like Alex Berenson, were getting banned on Twitter. It was done to increase the profits of the Democrats big pharma political donors. The DMED database, which was set up to track the health of military members, showed an alarming increase in health problems in the military after the forced vaccinations. The DoD said it was just a "computer glitch" that went undetected for five years. If that is true it shows they are incompetent in not discovering it for five years and if it is false they are lying to try to cover their ass. Either way it makes them look bad. Conservatives need to stop thinking of the current military as an ally against the left. It's not. I would quit if I was younger than my current age of 66 and had time to start another career.

I don't interact with women on the internet except on a public discussion board like this. Women get so much unwanted attention from guys on the internet. I worked with an average looking middle aged female who all the guys in the office ignored. One time she told me she got twenty emails a day on one of those internet dating sites.

Inflation is a tax. When the government spends money it can get it through taxes, borrow it or print it. If it borrows it, that just means people in the future will have to have their taxes raised in order to get the money to pay the loan back. If the government prints the money, it creates inflation and rising prices. The money supply increased by 33% between 2020 and 2022. Four trillion dollars were printed up to pay for government spending. People didn't want to pay increased taxes directly, so they are now paying them indirectly with the inflation tax.

I like the sound of French. I took German in high school, but it was a mistake. All the young Nazi types in my high school that I didn't like took German so I was stuck in a room with them.

If you go to the police and tell them a stripper cheated you by giving you an air dance or in some other way or poured water or anything else on you there is no way you can prove that without witnesses. The strip club has already said they have no film of it. It is just your word versus hers and that is not a basis for an arrest. You have to look at it as caveat emptor, buyer beware, when you visit a strip club. The club owners try to treat customers fairly because they want repeat business but for many of the girls they will only be there a short time and don't care if you come back. I have my best experiences with long time regulars. That is one of the advantages of regulars. When I try a new girl, I know I'm taking a risk. I have had lots of bad experiences, but I accept that. I just never repeat with a girl I had a bad experience with. Most times the girl I had a bad experience with is not even still there when I go back.

Two thirds British, which didn't surprise me, and one third Swiss, which did surprise me. Maybe I have some potential yodeling skills that I'm not aware of that I could develop.

A lot of dancers here in Indiana try to offer two tier lap dances with a higher priced lap dance where breast and hip touching is allowed. I always turn those down and look for the girl who allows touching on the regular price lap dance. I turned down a $50 lap dance with touching allowed recently but ended up struggling to stand up because the girl wouldn't get off my lap. When she realized that I was trying to get away from her she caved in and said I could touch her during a regular lap dance.

The purpose of the Constitution is to list what the federal government is allowed to do, and the tenth amendment says whatever is not on that list is left to the states. Criminal law is a state matter. This used to be commonly understood, which is why an amendment was passed making alcohol illegal and then another one was passed making it legal again. It is not commonly understood now that you needed an amendment to make drugs illegal nationally. Alcohol, drugs, prostitution, abortion and gay marriage should all be state issues. Some states have started decriminalizing commercial sex work in the same way marijuana is becoming decriminalized. One roadblock is that religious conservatives who think it's immoral and the feminist left who think it exploits women both oppose it. I think, if it became common, strip clubs would be more like what I hear Tijuana strip clubs are like. Girls would be leaving with the customers. I like having the "strip club wife" who is pretty and can carry on a conversation that I can visit on a regular basis at the strip club and there may be a few girls in strip clubs who will try to cater to that market niche if prostitution is legalized in my state.

Trump ran two trillion-dollar yearly deficits the last time he was in office. That is not what this country needs. Pairing him on a ticket with a black rapper who hangs out with Holocaust deniers doesn't improve the situation. I'm not at all a liberal Democrat and don't hate Trump. We Republicans just need to be looking at other potential candidates.

It's better to give a general description of the dancers. If the manager hired ten blondes because he really likes blondes or thinks that's what customers want, then mentioning that in a review is useful. I don't mind if a reviewer mentions specific dancers as long as he doesn't connect them with extras. I've gotten a lot of bad lap dances from dancers who said they were "really fun", so I ignore that coming from a dancer but if a customer says something positive about a stripper in a review then I'm more likely to accept that as being possibly true.

In a lot of creative fields like writing, music and art natural talent, luck and a burning desire to succeed are needed. Formal education can't provide that. I visited a regular yesterday who was a drama major in college. I mentioned I was reading a biography of the actor Robert Mitchum and said the acting teacher Stanislavsky gets mentioned a lot in it and she explained to me who he was. She actually follows his acting method. She then launched into a long complaint about getting turned down for acting roles over and over. There are so many people with degrees in that field that the competition is incredible. The same thing is true of many of the college degree fields.

The dancers staring at their phones on the floor is at least better than them hiding out in the dressing room. There have been numerous times I have approached a girl looking at her phone and asked for lap dances, but I can't go back to the dressing room and ask them. There have been a few occasions where dancers have used their phones as a conversation aid. One time a dancer told me she was an artist and pulled out her phone and showed me photos of some of her paintings. I've also had dancers show me photos of their children, their pet dog being given a birthday cake and the flowers and vegetables being grown in their garden.

I wear what I normally wear. I mainly just try to make sure the clothes are clean. I'll shower, shave, brush my teeth and put on clean clothes before going. It's just a form of politeness towards the strippers to not subject them to excessive body odor. From a practical standpoint, they also might get a little closer to me during the lap dance if I smell good and will be more likely to come over to my table if I don't look like a smelly homeless bum.

I used this website to find out the locations of numerous central Indiana strip clubs that I wasn't aware previously even existed. I probably got into the hobby because I happened to live by a street with three strip clubs but being able to visit multiple strip clubs added enough variety to keep the hobby interesting. I have yet to think of a good strip club rating system. The customer scoring system doesn't seem accurate to me. I find the total number of reviews for each strip club the best general guide but there are some clubs that got reviewed a lot several years ago which in past four or five years have declined a lot. Maybe a filtering system that would show the total number of reviews for each strip club in a city for the last five years would be the most accurate. I think it would be the most accurate for here in Indianapolis.

After hundreds of trips to strip clubs I have yet to see someone die after a lap dance. The dangerous part of the evening seems to be walking out to the car after leaving the building late at night. I've seen two dead bodies surrounded by police cars in the parking lot when leaving strip clubs late at night. I worry more about getting shot at a strip club than having a heart attack.

I would always compare all my regulars to each other at their peak. I knew my ATF from when she was a popular 23-year-old dancer to when she was a 30-year-old who was largely ignored by the customers and couldn't make any money and had to quit. When their looks decline, I usually stick with my regulars because by then it's a little like seeing an old friend. I was still seeing my ATF as a 30-year-old even though by that time I could easily have found younger and prettier dancers.

I just pretend to be the stupid old Boomer who can't figure out this new-fangled texting thing when dancers show an interest in texting with me. I don't do otc but they still want to text me to try to talk me into coming into the club to see them.

There is more competition now between the dancers because of the deteriorating economy leading to fewer customers spending less money. Real income, that is income adjusted for inflation, has dropped for 19 straight months. In the third quarter of this year household debt increased at the fastest rate since the first quarter of 2008. That 2008 expansion of household debt led into a serious recession. I've run into a couple dancers who worked then who said the strip club industry never really recovered from that 2008 recession. My regulars have seemed happier to see me on recent visits. None of them have told me I can't do lap dances with other girls, but I did see an angry look on the face of one when she saw me approach another dancer. It's up to strip club management to prevent one girl from trying to intimidate another. Traditionally dancers have an understanding not to approach each other's regulars. As the competition increases for fewer customers, there will be more stripper drama. This is likely to backfire. Many guys don't have girlfriends in order to avoid girlfriend drama and go to strip clubs instead. They will stop going if they have to start dealing with too much stripper drama.

When I was 8 years old, I started riding my bike across the street and looked up and saw a car coming straight at me. I ended up in the hospital. It's that moment right before impact when you know you can't avoid it that the feeling of terror takes over.

It's a good idea not to put your full weight on a customer if you are a dancer who is above a normal weight. I've had situations where a girl did that and it hurt. Whether it hurts has more to do with weight than height. I've always preferred small thin girls for lap dances because I don't have to worry about the lap dance hurting. I think older customers also feel pain more easily than younger customers, possibly due to advancing arthritis, and dancers are not aware of that. I've also had dancers get annoyed at me not being able to hear them over the music so they don't seem to be aware people lose their hearing as they become old. My regulars have also been annoyed at me for not coming over to them when I walk in the door. People don't see as well either as they get old and I often don't recognize them from a distance. Old people are aware what it is like to be young since they were once young but young people have no idea what being old is like since they have yet to experience it.