Comments by docsavage (page 3)

The yield curve has been inverted for a year. That has been a sign in the past of a coming recession. Most banks now are insolvent so when the recession hits, they will start collapsing. It will be Silicon Valley and Signature bank multiplied by a hundred. The Fed will print up a lot of money to rescue them, as happened in 2008, and that will lead to the eventual return of high inflation. Biden will be running for reelection during a deep recession. By then, it will also be obvious that the Ukraine war is just another endless quagmire like Vietnam or Afghanistan. The Wall Street Journal reported last weekend that officials in the Biden administration knew the Ukrainians didn't have the weapons or training to succeed in their counter-offensive. They pushed for it anyway, the same way a gambler keeps placing bets hoping he finally gets lucky.

Pro football players tend to not live a long time because of multiple head injuries from running into each other. Studies of places where people live a long time have found that regular low intensity exercise leads to a longer life. We weren't meant to sit all day in front of a computer or television. When I'm out taking three-mile hikes at state parks I seldom see any other gray haired 67-year-olds beside me. I spent my whole life never visiting a doctor or being in a hospital until I caught a disease at the age of 64 that had been created in a Chinese lab with funding from the U.S. government. I'd like to live to a hundred. The past dozen years have been the happiest years of my life. I make enough money to engage in all my favorite hobbies, including having pretty young women being friendly to me, talking to me and doing lap dances with me.

Ariel. I think they all saw a Disney movie as children with a mermaid by that name.

I've only had a couple conversations with other strip club customers, and they were drunk. It was mostly them talking and me politely nodding my head in agreement. One of them asked me if I knew who controlled the world. I asked who, expecting him to say, "the Jews", but was surprised when he said the Queen of England. I found out later I had run into a member of the Lyndon LaRouche cult, since that is what they think.

I had a strip club manager tell me one time hiring black dancers was something she was cautious about. It wasn't so much that they were a problem but that, after being hired, all of their friends would start coming into the club and they would end up causing problems. I've had black strippers tell me they think the top Indianapolis club, Brad's Brass Flamingo, has a racial quota. I had a pretty and friendly little black girl regular named Alize who never seemed to be able to get on there. I don't think the owners are closet racists. It's just a business decision and it is one that works since they have kept their customer base while other clubs which hired large numbers of black dancers have gone into a decline. Most club owners think mostly in terms of profits. Maximizing profits here in Indianapolis seems to mean having a mix of racial groups and body types.

I'm like whodey in that I mainly rotate around eight different clubs. I think I agree that regulars don't have a completely accurate perception of a club because their view of the club is colored by their history with the club. I have one nearby club which was my favorite club in the past. The last year, though, I've been there about ten times without buying a single lap dance or even seeing a stripper that was nice to look at. Going is just a habit at this point. This is true in other areas beside strip clubs. Someone might stay with a job, stay married, pursue a particular hobby etc. long after the point where it has stopped having any value. It's good to periodically look at how you spend your time and abandon something you did in the past which no longer is giving you much pleasure and try something new for a change.

The criteria used for the ranking of states should be, of course, by the number of strip clubs. The worst ranked are those two hellholes Vermont and New Hampshire with only three each according to TUSCL. The best states are Texas, with three hundred, followed by Florida.

I often have strippers I run across who remember me, but I don't remember them. I'm not good looking or bad looking but have a unique look that people tend to remember. I even have situations where other customers in strip clubs come up to me because they recognize me due to us visiting the same strip club as regulars in the distant past. They still remember me from that and feel like they know me.

When I was young, going to strip clubs made me depressed. Girls there my age wanted me to hand them a lot of money before they would have anything to do with me. In a way, they were treating me as an inferior. I was happier with my girlfriend who looked just as good as them and who would spend time with me for free just because she liked me. I felt different in my fifties. The dancers looked much better than anyone I could date. A lot of older women can't admit to themselves their looks are gone and still want guys to treat them like they are a hot twenty-year-old. Spending time with a demanding sexually unattractive old woman was what made me depressed and having a cute young girl at the strip club being friendly to me and doing lap dances with me increased my happiness.

The problem with Watters is the problem with the establishment right in general: Mitch McConnell, George W. Bush, Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, McCain both father and daughter, and so on. They support high immigration because big business wants cheap labor, endless wars because they are profitable for the military-industrial complex and are unwilling to work to reduce government spending. They are the Washington Generals to the Democrats Harlem Globetrotters. Tucker was fired because he didn't go along with all this. He was not part of the establishment and was constantly attacked. Trump wasn't part of the establishment either and has been subjected to accusations of being a Russian agent and puppet of Putin and politically motivated attempts to put him in prison. The Democrats are no better. The woke left and neocon right have turned themselves into the Washington Uniparty. Over on the left, anyone who doesn't go along with the establishment like Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. is attacked too.

The girl you know in the strip club is not the real them. I knew one dancer for seven years from her second day on the job until the end of her career. When I first met her, she was quiet, subdued and kind of cold and unfriendly. Over the years she became more talkative, sexy, friendly and affectionate. I met her for lunch one day after she had retired from stripping, and she had reverted back to her original personality. Her strip club personality was just something that developed because she would make more money by becoming a male customer fantasy. I've never tried to see any of my other former regulars after that because that girl I liked in the strip club doesn't really exist anymore.

The working age population is now down to about 50% of whites from European descent. When you get down to the twenties it is even lower. When you consider that many strip clubs are in urban areas, and that many whites have moved away to the suburbs as crime has been increasing in big cities in recent years, that would drop the percentage of whites even lower. Once a strip club becomes majority nonwhite, many whites start to feel out of place and stop going there or, if dancers, stop working there. I've had white regulars quit the business because they said their club was getting too "ghetto". I also have had them say they no longer feel safe in strip clubs. Problems like fights, even ones involving guns, are increasing in strip clubs. Some of my white regulars say they even feel threatened by the other nonwhite dancers. Pretty white girls are still the most popular girls in strip clubs and that causes envy and hostility to be directed at them. This hostility is to drive them out of the club to eliminate the competition.

You have to understand there are a lot of time wasters in the clubs. If the girls are too nice, they end up giving these types of guys lots of attention for no reason. I've seen maybe a hundred times where a girl patiently works on a guy and sucks up to him and then he leaves without spending any money on her. You may not be like that, but she doesn't know that. They aren't mind readers; you know? Most experienced strippers have learned how to calibrate how much time to spend on each customer to maximize their income. That is why they are there with us instead of with a guy they actually want to spend time with: to make money. Never forget that. Also, successful strippers are used to having guys call them a bitch or getting angry at them for not doing something or putting them down as being dumb, fat etc. The ones who don't develop a hard shell soon leave. Several of my favorites left the business because they couldn't take the way they were treated. Customers are not the only ones who have to deal with rudeness. The strippers have to deal with it too.

I once read something about a study on the average price prostitutes charge in countries where it is legal. The twenty-year-olds charged twice as much as the thirty-year-olds and the thirty-year-olds charged twice as much as the forty-year-olds. Supply and demand led to an average price that was higher for the younger ones. Where it was legal and there was a large supply of twenty-year-olds, the demand for older ones twice that age was pretty low.

I agree too on adding some Motown. Also, Stax. Good music doesn't stop being good music just because it's old.

I'm older so for me animation is Disney movies, Warner Brothers cartoons, the Jetsons and Jonny Quest. A friend showed me that Ghost in the Shell animated film and I enjoyed it and I've seen a few Miyazaki movies, but it seems like there is so much Japanese animation being put out that you couldn't even watch ten percent of it and a lot of it would be pretty mediocre. It would be a little like science fiction novels when I was a kid: there's a lot of it and 90% of it is crap. That probably is true, as the sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon once said, of anything.

Here in Indianapolis things were getting better until about ten years ago. The high crime era from the sixties to early nineties was over and people were starting to gentrify the areas around downtown. Then crime started slowly going back up after the protests following the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and others and the rise of BLM and Antifa. The police reaction to this seemed to be arresting fewer people. Crime had dropped previously from arresting and incarcerating large numbers of criminals. Middle class people started moving back out of the city to escape rising crime and increased social disorder. This caused a decline in the local strip clubs, since these people were less likely to make a longer trip from the outer suburbs. Without their spending, there was less reason for attractive girls to become strippers. Increased teleworking made it easier to move. More business was done online, and I saw a decrease in the traveling salesman type of customer in strip clubs. The city government blocked the opening of new clubs using zoning and licensing laws and the lack of competition hurt the local strip club scene.

I agree this is one of the best local strip clubs. I was surprised the last time I was here on a Saturday night around ten the club was mostly empty while Club Rio nearby was crowded. It's usually the opposite. The $20 entrance fee may have been a little too high for Indianapolis. The dancers were also not going up on stage when it was their turn. The dj threatened to start playing country music if they didn't start doing so. Is that punishment for a stripper, being forced to listen to country music?

Their album was played constantly in my college dorm after it came out. The other album that was always heard was the Frampton live album. My roommate was the only person in the dorm playing punk groups like the Sex Pistols, Clash, Television and Ramones.

One time I offered to give one of my regulars a lap dance instead of her giving me a lap dance. She agreed and then sat there with an amused look on her face while I was doing it.

A pinball machine is an original idea. I've never liked pool tables in strip clubs because I find them distracting. Some guys like them, though. I'm all for having some strip clubs with pool tables and some without pool tables. Guys could pick which club to go to, depending on what they like. The strip club industry isn't very innovative. Part of that may be due to customers wanting a standard product but I think it is also because the industry is shielded from competition by the government making it difficult for new strip clubs to enter the market. Personally, as an aging Boomer I would like a local strip club that plays classic rock instead of hip hop. While I'm dreaming, I also want a strip club with a Starbucks inside so I can get my Venti Iced Green Tea to sip while I'm watching the girls on stage.

When alcohol was made illegal an amendment to the Constitution was passed. When it was made legal again, another amendment was passed. It was understood back then that the Constitution limited what the federal government could do. There was nothing in the Constitution giving the federal government the power to ban alcohol so it had to be amended first so that could be done. The same thing is true with drugs. Federal drug laws are unconstitutional, since there were never any amendments passed in that area.

The real inflation rate is much higher than the official inflation rate. If inflation was measured the same way it was in the seventies, we would have double digit inflation. So, dances going up five or ten dollars each is not outrageous. The bigger problem in my local clubs is them letting girls charge their own prices. So, instead of twenty-dollar lap dances going up five dollars you get forty- or fifty-dollar lap dances. That drives off the customers and leads to half empty strip clubs. It's better to have a standard price that slowly goes up. The most successful local clubs seem to do that.

Whether you are seeing these girls outside the club or just in the club, there often comes a point where it appears they are taking you for granted and putting in less effort to please you. To me, they seem to become more like a wife. It's a younger prettier wife but also a much more expensive one. I've decided I don't want the regular I see every week or even every other week. I have two regulars and I see each one about once a month and only in the strip club. I see them frequently enough they smile and head in my direction when they see me but not frequently enough that they start to turn into the strip club wife.

This is not really about the white majority versus the black minority. People who think that are still mentally stuck in 1980. Here in the new multiracial America, it's about the different minorities squabbling with each other. In this particular case it's Asians and blacks. This is going to be our future, all the different racial groups fighting with each other all the time. You can only have social harmony in countries with a dominant group who share a common culture. Our future will be one of increasing animosity between all the different minorities that will make up the country and it will end with the decline and possible breakup of the country.