Comments by docsavage (page 23)

I was doing a lap dance once with a girl while a Led Zeppelin song was playing. I told her I always liked that band and she responded she had never heard of them. She would have been born in the nineties and they were big in the seventies, so she wasn't even around during their peak. The music that was popular 20 years before I was born was big band music. I would have recognized someone like Benny Goodman in my twenties but couldn't have named off any his hits. Most people don't know much about pop music before they were born. The biggest surprise I ever had was when I told a stripper I like old Chicago blues and she started talking about her Muddy Waters albums. I asked her how she got into that, and she told me her father was a professional blues musician. If strippers know any old music, it is usually because their parents introduced it to them.

I've noticed I make more spelling and grammar mistakes as I get older due to age related brain fog. I recently used "poll" here when I meant to use "pole". There's a big difference between a stripper poll and a stripper pole.

No one really looks good when they are in their seventies. Just still being alive at that age is something of an accomplishment. The current U.S. life expectancy is 76 so 50% of the population die before then. Caring less about your looks because you have wealth may be a contributing factor, though. In my case, at the age of 66 I just have a general feeling of being slightly tired all the time and that makes it harder to push myself into exercising and keeping my weight down and cooking healthy food. My weight is still normal but every year it becomes harder to keep it there. When I go on a 3-mile hike at a nearby state park I see almost no one else as old as me. I can understand why they are not there because of declining energy with age.

When I was young, I was having sex with a girl who had some old guy giving her expensive presents in order to try to get her as a girlfriend. I could tell she was just stringing him along. She ended up moving in with me, not him. I told myself that someday the situation would be reversed, and I would be the old guy and that I wouldn't have illusions that any girl half my age would have any romantic interest in me. When I'm in a strip club I'm perfectly aware that I'm the customer and the stripper is the employee who is mainly just trying to get money to pay her bills. I think some of my regulars also like my attention. I have one where I'll sit and wait for her to show up for work if she isn't there yet. She told me last Friday she would drive in early if I called her on the phone whenever I got there early. She isn't making that offer because of the two lap dances I buy. She just likes it that I always sit and wait for her and ignore all the other strippers. I may have had regulars who resented me but if they did they were dumb. I don't resent my customers where I work. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't have a job.

It's not that difficult for a younger guy to find a girl to have sex with him. A young guy bragging about that to me is like a young guy bragging he doesn't have any gray hair. The older you get, the more difficult it becomes to get attractive young women to have sex and at some point for most guys it is no longer worth the effort. Life has different stages and I try to just enjoy the stage I'm currently in.

A popular strip club manager was fired from one of our local clubs for allowing too many drug dealers in the club. Owners tend to worry about their club being permanently shut down by local law enforcement if drug activity is going on there. The only thing I would worry about is that drug dealers and violence sometimes come together but I have never seen anything like rival drug dealers fighting over territory in a strip club.

I never had sex outside the club with a stripper but I have taken them out to dinner. It appeared to me that it was easy for them to fake friendliness and interest for a short period of time in the strip club but became more difficult to do so over a long period of time outside the strip club.

Some of our local clubs have tried hiring obese girls when they have trouble finding girls to work as strippers. This doesn't work. One time I was in a local strip club with six other guys when a very obese stripper got up on stage. During her stage set I watched one guy after another get up and leave. By the time she got off stage I was the only customer left in the club. Having strippers that drive customers out the door is just as bad as having no strippers at all.

Illinois is one of those liberal states like New York and California that are slowing losing people. When liberals take over, the productive taxpaying segment of the population votes with their feet and leaves. You can tell a state is poorly governed when this starts happening. Unlike their fellow leftists in Communist countries, the Democrats who run these states can't post guards at the border to shoot fleeing citizens. They have no way to stop this exodus.

We actually don't have all that many smart people anymore. Our welfare and immigration policies over the last fifty years have had a dysgenic effect on the population. Younger people produce less and pay less taxes, are more dependent on the government, and are more likely according to polling to support socialist policies. The future is more politicians like AOC and Ilhan Omar. Our natural resources are no longer what they once were either. U.S. population has gone from 200 to 300 million over the last fifty years. More people mean less resources for each person. Large parts of the country have depleted water resources and are facing water shortages. Soil depletion is worsening. We've used up a majority of our oil. Large scale fracking was only viable when fracking companies could borrow money at low interest rates, but interest rates are going up. The days of cheap gas for your car are over. Our wealth was based on human resources, natural resources and a free-market economy but there have been declines in all three areas.

I've been in strip clubs maybe 500 times and have never heard Massive Attack being played. "Teardrop" would be nice to hear. Trip Hop is not a genre played much in Indiana strip clubs. I've heard Portishead, Morcheeba, Sneaker Pimps, Bjork maybe one time each. More strip club music variety would be nice.

Putin has his own personal strip club with a stripper poll in his mansion. If I were him, I would have spent most of my time there and just forgotten about invading the Ukraine. https://nypost.com/2022/01/21/putins-own-personal-strip-club-purportedly-shown-in-photos/

Cute Albanian girl? Dua Lipa?

One of my stripper regulars would come into the club wearing socks with a marijuana weed leaf pattern. I thought they looked nice, but I wouldn't buy some and wear them when heading into my accounting job.

Illinois, outside of Chicago, is actually a pretty conservative state. The problem is that Chicago is so big it tilts the state to the left. The same is true of Michigan and Detroit. I'm fortunate to live in Indiana where Indianapolis is not quite big enough to do that. Usually, the three most leftist cities in a state are the cities with the most government workers, most college students and most black people. Here in Indiana that's Indianapolis, Bloomington and Gary.

When I get into political discussions here, I consider certain things to be ok and others to be not ok. Saying Biden is a moron is ok. Saying Biden supporters are morons is ok. Telling a specific Biden supporter on here he is a moron is not ok. I try to avoid personal insults. I don't always succeed but I try. When we go back to talking about our shared love of strip clubs, I don't want there to be any lingering hostility because I insulted them during a heated political argument. Most of the guys on here are not really that stupid. A strip club hobby takes money and stupid guys don't make enough money to indulge in that.

Jimmy, lockdowns were justifiable early on when we didn't know much about the disease. Remember "two weeks to flatten the curve"? In some cases, though, two weeks turned into two years. Schools are an example. Children were always at little risk. More children die yearly from the flu than Covid but we never shut down the schools or forced kids to wear masks and stay six feet part to avoid the flu. It soon became obvious hospitals were not going to be overwhelmed. Early on field hospitals were set up but this was not done later because many of those field hospitals were little used. In the case of New York, because of an excessive fear of overcrowded hospitals, patients were moved out of hospitals into nursing homes with devastating results as the disease then spread among the old people in the nursing homes. From the beginning, the focus should have been on protecting high risk elderly people. In the case of the vaccines, the country to first get most of its population vaccinated was Israel. News soon started coming out of that country that the vaccines had limited effectiveness in preventing transmission and created more negative side effects than expected. This should not be surprising. In the past it usually took several years to test and approve a vaccine. This was not done here. There was a mainstream media blackout on this. Alex Berenson reported on this on Twitter and government officials went to Twitter and brought up the subject of banning him. Science is people discussing opposing ideas and theories, not banning your opponents. Berenson recently was reinstated on Twitter because a lot of what he was saying back then turned out to be true.

"Great victories for our country and great challenges or disasters should be events that cause us to put aside differences and fight or celebrate together." People should not have supported moving Covid decisions from the individual decision realm into the political realm and then complained about the politicization of the disease and the resulting polarization. One naturally follows the other. Once the vaccine was available, anyone could have gotten it and been largely protected from serious illness. After that point all the vaccine mandates, mask mandates and lockdowns were not needed. This is a highly transmissible disease that almost everyone is going to eventually get so hiding behind a mask or in your house isn't going to work forever.

When I had a cat, he would sit there and look at me like he was waiting for me to die so he could start eating the body. Every so often when I was just sitting not doing anything, he would bite me and then look disappointed when I screamed in pain. I think he was just checking to see if I was still alive.

"Also, they took items of clothing including golf hats." Merrick Garland was recently spotted wearing one of Melania's Sun Hats.

People were wrong on both sides. Fauci, Biden and Walensky all predicted the vaccine would stop transmission of the disease. The assumption also was made by many that the virus would continue to be dangerous and not mutate into a milder variant. This is in spite of the fact that this type of virus often does that. See 1918 Spanish flu, 1957 Asian flu, and 1968 Hong Kong flu. It should have just been left up to each individual person to do their own cost-benefit analysis on whether or not to get vaccinated. The politicians in power receiving big pharma political donations didn't want that, though.

I am a student of history. I minored in it in college. It won't have much effect on the U.S. if the Russians take over the Ukraine. They controlled it through much of history. I don't believe in some resurrected Vietnam era domino theory where if we don't stop them there, they will eventually be invading here. We have two large oceans on each side of us. We need to worry more about our own border rather than the border between Russia and the Ukraine. We also need to start focusing on inflation, out of control government spending, crime and other serious problems here. The Europeans need to worry a little more. However, their GDP is several times that of Russia and they could easily afford big enough militaries to fend Russia off. The only reason they don't have high military spending now is because the U.S. has been protecting them. European taxpayers, not American taxpayers, should be paying to protect Europe. The U.S. doesn't have the extra money any more to be policeman for the world.

I'm not anti-Russian and I'm not anti-Ukrainian. I'm pro-American. We have major problems in this country we need to be focusing on instead of a regional war on the other side of the planet.

"If Biden wins, that's going to be the power structure: a Democratic Party fully united with neocons, Bush/Cheney operatives, CIA/FBI/NSA, Wall Street & Silicon Valley: presenting itself as the only protection against fascism. And much of the left will continue marching behind it." -Glenn Greenwald, 10/23/20

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