Comments by docsavage (page 5)

Federal tax revenues were 26% lower in April 2023 than in April 2022. Dropping tax revenues is an indicator of a coming recession. The stock market has traditionally not done well in a recession. Most Americans are not aware of the looming economic crisis and government fiscal crisis. The mainstream media doesn't want to report on it because it tilts left and reporting on it might make Biden look bad.

My favorite song by the Smiths, "How Soon is Now", was originally released as the B-side of a single. It was only released later as a single on its own due to the positive reception it received from those who heard it. The song has a strip club connection. A young Natalie Portman once played a stripper in a movie and this song was playing in the background during one of her strip club scenes. I've never heard this song in a strip club. I've also never seen a stripper in a strip club who looks like a young Natalie Portman.

I cap my strip club spending around a hundred dollars per visit. The one exception was on a trip to Las Vegas about twelve years ago. I figured I was only going to be there one time so I should take advantage of that. I went to the Little Darlings strip club, which at the time was all nude, and spent around three hundred dollars. Half of that was for one girl. I also spent about a hundred dollars each on visits to two other strip clubs there.

I don't see a problem with someone opening a discussion about what should be in a review. The only caveat should be that everyone should try to maintain a civil tone. I don't really have a dog in this fight. I don't travel so I never read any reviews for other cities. I live in a non-tourist city, Indianapolis, where the clubs don't get many reviews so I don't usually look there much either. I just looked and I don't see a new review for the last three weeks. You are never going to get everyone completely on the same page for what should be in a review. I try to write a review that will get approved but also throw in a lot of stuff I find interesting that others think is a bore. I do tend to like reviews that show some individuality. The basics should be there, but I find it interesting to see what the personal likes and dislikes of each reviewer are when I do occasionally read a review.

Trump ran trillion dollar a year deficits and pressured the Fed to keep interest rates low to keep the country from falling into a recession. This was going to end up being inflationary and Trump was lucky enough to get out of office before inflation picked up. So, Biden got the full blame. Neither party is fiscally responsible. They both engage in reckless spending and run high deficits when they are in power. There are powerful special interests working behind the scenes to encourage this. The average person really does not spend that much time paying attention to what government officials are doing. We end up with the fox guarding the hen house.

Personal opinions are somewhat subjective. Many of our big cities have more people moving out than moving in. That's an objective fact. I don't see any way to interpret that other than these cities are becoming increasingly unpleasant to live in. The ratio of police officers to total population has been dropping for fifteen years. With fewer police officers, you are bound to have more crime. Soros installed prosecutors in big cities have also been charging fewer people with crimes so that encourages criminals to commit more of them. How safe people feel is a major factor in evaluating quality of life in a large city. If cities can't improve in that area there will continue to be a flow of people out of them.

I tend to avoid them. It's not because I don't think they are pretty because they often are. I like to talk to the girls I visit at strip clubs at least a little bit and the Cuban strippers I've run into so far speak such poor English I can't do that with them. I've liked the Hispanic regulars I've had so far because they seem friendly and affectionate. My two favorite regulars right now are a Puerto Rican dancer and a Mexican dancer. I've known both of them about three years. I would be open to having a Cuban regular if I found one where there wasn't a language barrier.

The leftist voters in these big cities also vote in state elections and are tilting their whole states to the left. People are voting with their feet and moving out of blue states like Illinois, California and New York and moving to red states like Florida and Texas. This could eventually lead to the breakup of the country. Don't think this can never happen. History is just a long succession of empires that declined and fell apart, most recently the Soviet Union. It's likely a group of states will get together and revolt, rather than just one state trying to secede. I work for the military and it's not ready to deal with an internal revolt. I'm too old for this myself and may soon retire, but a lot of the more competent employees might desert and join the rebels. That would leave a lot of incompetent affirmative action hires on the side of the central government. There is a great deal of dissatisfaction with the federal government in this country, as shown by Biden's dropping approval ratings in the polls.

I pretty much keep in contact with anyone I care about already. Maintaining a friendship is a two-way street. Any time I'm always contacting someone but they never contact me I feel like the relationship is not that important to them and I should drop them out of my life. In the case of my stripper regulars, my feeling has always been I am only important to them as long as I am going into the club and buying lap dances from them. I don't want to be one of their fifty Facebook friends after they leave stripping or anything else like that. I just limit my social relationships to a few close friends and relatives who I know care about me.

If they want to have a union that's fine. What really ensures fair treatment of employees, though, is the fear by employers that their best workers will leave and move over to the competition. I've had a number of strip club regulars move to other strip clubs because their manager was treating them poorly. It's becoming harder for dancers to move to other clubs now because local governments block the opening of new strip clubs. This gives the old strip clubs a monopoly. It helps the old clubs because they don't need to worry as much about giving customers good service or treating their employees well since potential new strip clubs are being blocked from competing with them.

Most men have traditionally been able to find some member of the opposite sex of an equal level of attractiveness to have sex with or marry. This is especially true here in the U.S. where polygamy is not allowed. Even if polygamy was legal, most men can't afford more than one wife. This has changed in recent years. Rather than finding a male who will help provide financial support for any children, women now rely more on government income transfers. Government subsidized schools and day care, medical assistance and other programs have expanded. More government jobs have been created and, because of affirmative action, a disproportionate number of them have gone to women. Not needing the male breadwinner husband as much allows women more freedom to become part of a harem sexually servicing the most physically attractive males. This has increased the number of young male incels. Many of us old Boomers tend to lecture at them, not realizing how much the sexual landscape has changed over the last forty years. I got married in 1983 but I think an average guy like me would have a tougher time on the dating market today forty years later than I did back then.

You can still click on a member's name and see their past reviews, discussions and articles but not their past comments. At least if you can I haven't figured it out yet. I had some members here that I thought left unusually good comments and would keep track of their recent comments by looking them up that way.

Unemployment is at low levels, but an analysis of labor trends show that high pay jobs are increasingly being replaced by low paid jobs. With inflation increasing the cost of living and fewer good paying jobs available, you would think this would drive more younger women into stripping and increase the supply. However, you also have to look at the demand side. Many male customers now have less disposable income. I've seen a trend where fewer male customers are in the clubs and the ones who show up spend less money. This trend will likely continue. Many strip clubs are also in cities where crime rates are exploding, leading to an exodus out of these cities. The internet makes it easier to live and work outside of cities. The internet also makes it easier for men to find women without going to a strip club. There will always be some strip clubs, but the golden age of strip clubs is now in the past. I'm 67 so I will have to decide when the combination of my advancing age and declining strip clubs will cause me to quit my strip club hobby.

I never like it when strip club managers come over to my table and offer to bring me a girl. I would rather pick out the girl I want when I want it. I don't see strippers as interchangeable so anyone will do. I sometimes, like on my last trip, have a manager come over and shake my hand and welcome me. I don't mind that sort of thing.

I tip regulars but not someone I'm doing lap dances with for the first time. If someone I'm doing lap dances with for the first time asks for a tip I'll give it to her but it makes it slightly less likely she'll be a future regular. All my regulars acted like they were really trying to win me over the first time I met them and that included not trying to squeeze a couple extra bucks out of me by asking for a tip. If they were going to try so hard to provide good service the first time it was a good sign that they would do the same thing on repeat visits.

There have been some rumors here in Indianapolis in the past of a secret underground Hispanic strip club that us gringos don't know about. It would be a little like a strip club version of Fight Club where the first rule of those who go to it is don't talk about it. I don't think it exists but there was a Hispanic bar that got raided by the police after they put up a stripper pole. A lot of cities have expanding Hispanic populations but the legal difficulties of opening a strip club these days have blocked strip clubs from opening that might cater to them. If strip clubs could more freely open, I think you would see more market segmentation in the industry.

I knew maybe one of the craziest strippers of all time. One time she drank too much and passed out in the club and had to be carried out to her car and driven home. One time she was too drunk and fell off the stage. One time her and four other strippers beat up a customer who tried walking out without paying for lap dances. One time while she was eating a pizza another stripper said she was getting fat and she threw a piece of the pizza and hit the other girl in the face with it. One time she pulled a stool out from under another stripper just as she tried to sit down on it. One time she told the same stripper that the other girl was mentally retarded and had an IQ of 80. One time she invited a fellow stripper over to her house and asked her if she would like to watch her shoot up on heroin. One time she gave another stripper too much heroin at her house and the other stripper overdosed. One time she wrecked her car and told the insurance company someone else stole the car and wrecked it. One time she had an auto accident while drunk and broke her collar bone. One time she came into the strip club covered with bruises because she fell down the stairs at home while drunk. One time she got punched by another stripper for stealing some of the other stripper's personal property in the club. One time she was a hospital patient and pulled out the tubes attached to her and walked out without being released because they weren't giving her enough pain medication. One time I saw her tongue kissing another stripper in the club. One time she told me she ate psychedelic mushrooms and all the houses on her street had giant eyes staring at her. One time she bought a Pit Bull and was surprised it didn't get along with her cat and then tried to give the cat to me. One time she was so drunk she walked off after our lap dances without getting her money and I had to chase after her. One time she told me her parents kicked her out of the house when she was sixteen for constant underage drinking and then she slept on a park bench. One time she told me at her strip club she had been fired from five different strip clubs. Then she got fired from that strip club and I never saw her again.

The dancers all ask the same questions about where you work and live and what your hobbies are. A lot of strip clubs have television screens showing the same sports. There does seem to be a sameness to them all. Owners don't seem to have much imagination and there is not much experimentation in the industry. They tend not to target specific markets, at least here in Indiana. There are some black strip clubs here. A few clubs try to be more upscale but a lot of times this just means higher prices but not better-looking dancers. Almost all target younger customers and the customer base skews in that direction. None of the Boomer musical idols are ever played.

Classy Chassy on the south side of Indianapolis was by a truck stop. It wasn't a bad club. It had a race car motif, including one car hanging upside down from the ceiling, in keeping with Indianapolis being home of the Indianapolis 500 auto race. It also had a friendly singing bartender. With the truckers stopping and there not being very many other options in that part of town, it survived for years. The guy who owned it owned three local strip clubs and when he died whoever inherited it didn't do a good job of running it. Also, Indianapolis strip clubs in general have been slowly declining. It was sold and the new owner decided to turn it into a black strip club called Club Onyx. Following this were shootings, drug dealing and prostitution at the club. The police raided it and then the city government recently shut it down.

Both of my parents were public school teachers. It's not a bad job. They had three months off every summer like I did when I was in school. Like most government jobs there is pretty good job security. You have to be pretty incompetent to get fired. The pay is decent. My parents incomes added together put my family into the upper middle class. We had neighbors like doctors, architects and judges. At the end of their careers, they got a government pension. The main drawback is unruly students. My parents managed to get jobs in suburban schools where the students were pretty well behaved.

This club, as the reviewer says, probably has the best talent in the state. It has more customers with money to spend and that has attracted more attractive girls. The management here understands what the local conditions are and doesn't charge prices outside the norm. This includes not letting the dancers engage in the "if I charge fifty dollars for a lap dance instead of twenty-five, I'll make twice as much money" type of thinking. Those types of prices are too high for Indianapolis. I once asked a dancer who had worked in several local strip clubs including here why other less successful strip club managers didn't try to copy this club. Her response was that their male egos get in the way. She said every strip club manager thinks he is smarter than all the other strip club managers and has nothing to learn from them.

There were many abuses at mental institutions in the first two thirds of the 20th century, including many people being put into them who shouldn't have been there. When they introduced reforms, though, they threw the baby out with the bathwater and let too many people out. The other day I saw an old man mumbling to himself and pushing a shopping cart down the middle of a busy road while cars swerved to try to avoid hitting him. Someone like that needs to have someone watching over him. I'm a small government type but there are some people like the mentally ill, small children and the very elderly who are unable to take care of themselves. Government needs to step in with such cases and take care of them.

In my one trip to Vegas the Vegas strip clubs seemed high cost and high pressure compared to my local Indianapolis strip clubs. They know they might not see you ever again, so the goal is to extract the maximum amount of money in the minimum amount of time. In non-tourist cities like Indianapolis most of the customers are locals who they see over and over again. It pays to treat customers fairly in order to encourage repeat business. I've known strippers who have gone from tourist to non-tourist towns and vice versa and it's hard to make the transition because they have to change ingrained habits.

I've been to a Rick's club. There was one on the west side. It was poorly managed and not profitable, so they sold it. It is now called the Pony. I wouldn't point to Rick's as an example of how to run a strip club here in Indianapolis. I've been going to local strip clubs for 12 years and have spent over forty thousand dollars. I've spent thousands of dollars just at PT's. There is high manager turnover there and they don't know a thing about my history at that club. They shouldn't assume I'm a non-spender. I don't need to know manager names to see how well a club is doing, so you bringing that up is irrelevant. Since I have been going there for 12 years, I can see there are fewer customers now than in the past. My regular there on nights moved over to Brad's because of fewer customers at PT's. She is now making more money at Brad's. Brad's is a better run club and attracts more customers. Yes, this strip club is definitely in decline.

These bank collapses are likely to continue. PacWest bank is now in trouble. The problem is not bad management at individual banks. It's a systemic problem. They know they will be bailed out if they get in trouble so that creates a moral hazard situation where they make risky decisions. The bank bailout after the 2008 financial crisis just guaranteed there was going to be a bigger crisis later on.