Comments by docsavage (page 43)

The virus is very small. It can get through a mask as easily as mosquitoes can go through a tennis net. The mask wearing is theater to make people feel safer, even if they aren't. A large Danish study showed they don't work. I'm reluctant to say this because I know the mask wearers don't want to hear it. 40% of cases in the United Kingdom now are among the vaccinated. Either the vaccines don't protect against the prevalent Delta variant there or, more likely, they lose effectiveness after several months. Five vaccinated Texas legislators just got Covid on a trip to Washington. A Foo Fighters concert here in the U.S. just got canceled after a vaccinated band member got Covid. The vaccines may be more like a flu shot you'll have to get every year rather than like a tetanus shot that lasts a decade. The side effects of these vaccines are worse than the relatively mild cases young people would get so mandating vaccines for young people is a bad idea. Staying in good health and taking supplements like quercetin, zinc, vitamin C and D would ward off the disease for many young people. For older people over 60, though, getting Covid is worse than the side effects of the vaccines. Getting the vaccine is a good idea for old guys, especially ones like many of us who come in close contact with lots of strippers. If you are really afraid of the vaccine as an alternative try to find a doctor who will give you a prescription for HCQ or Ivermectin and take them as a preventative or when you start to get symptoms. People In Tanzania take HCQ regularly to prevent Malaria and there have only been 500 cases of Covid there. HCQ isn't going to work for really old obese people, though. It didn't work for Trump and he ended up in the hospital. The under-reported good news is that 99.8% of people under the age of 70 who get Covid survive.

No one year stands out as my favorite year so I'll do my least favorite year instead: 1995. In the late eighties I lived in an apartment complex by a army base. Most of the tenants were soldiers or civilian employees from the base. Several years later they closed the base. This left a lot of empty apartments in the complex so the owner dropped the rent. The bad part of town was nearby and slowly spreading in the direction of the complex and this hastened the process of lots of ghetto types moving into the neighborhood. I would walk to a nearby convenience store and have people beg for money, want to buy drugs from me or offer me food stamps if I would go into the store and buy liquor or cigarettes for them. Cars started driving through my complex late at night playing loud car stereos and my neighbor below me would come home at two in the morning and start to play his stereo. People, instead of taking their dogs out for a walk, would just let them out so you also had barking dogs late at night roaming around the neighborhood. One day I came home and my next door neighbor saw me and invited herself into my apartment. She then tried to talk me into having sex with her in exchange for me buying her crack. Finally, my apartment was broken into while I was gone. A number of items were stolen, the thief sat on my couch and burned holes in it with his or her cigarette butt, and he or she took a cake mix out of the cupboard and set it on fire on the counter. I then moved out. I had grown up in the suburbs and this was my first close contact with inner city slum dwellers. The lesson I learned from this was that many of them are very bad people and if they start moving into your neighborhood you need to get out quickly, even if it means paying more for your rent.

This may be overly enthusiastic but appears to be a legitimate review. Brad's has long been the best club here in Indianapolis. If you check the number of club reviews for this city you will see it has way more reviews than any other club in town. That's because its reputation causes so many guys to go there. So it is not surprising to see this reviewer give it a positive review. The Callie the reviewer mentions is a very pretty girl. The club is not perfect, though. I've been to Vegas and it can't compare to the top Vegas clubs. Indy is not a tourist city and could never support a Vegas type of club. Because of its popularity, it gets too crowded on weekend nights and it becomes difficult to get a lap dance. Some of the girls hang with their regulars too much or are a little stuck up and unfriendly. All the problems it has, though, are the same type of problems the top club in any city would have.

The prettiest regular I ever had started as a waitress, saw how much more money the strippers were making and then switched over to stripping. After a few years of stripping, she switched back to being a waitress in the strip club again. She couldn't really handle being a stripper. She liked me and was always friendly to me but told me a lot of the customers were disrespectful and pervy. Many of the customers tried to go beyond just a lap dance while they were with her without asking her if it was ok first. Her worst experience was a customer who wanted her to pretend she was his 14 year old daughter while giving him lap dances. Some girls can handle being a stripper but some can't. So it's not surprising to see the prettiest girl in the club being the waitress or bartender.

I think the truth about vaccinations is somewhere in the middle between the extreme anti-vaxxers and the extreme pro-vaxxers. A cost benefit-analysis should be done and I think if it were done it would show anyone over 65 should get vaccinated and children under 18 should not be vaccinated. For those between 18 and 65, everyone can decide on their own but as they get close to 65 they should seriously start thinking about getting vaccinated. I just had Covid and was in the hospital 5 days. I was 64 but hadn't gotten vaccinated because I've never been in a hospital my entire life and thought my good health level would keep me from getting a serious case. I was wrong. I developed shortness of breath and my oxygen level dropped so I had to go into a hospital. Looking back, I should have gotten vaccinated since I was almost 65. I also have a strip club hobby that puts me in close physical contact with lots of nubile young women who could pass Covid on to me if they have it and that was another reason to get vaccinated.

My most stereotypical stripper regular had a "fiance" in prison and a dad with a drug problem. She had daddy issues, as a lot of them do. He had deserted her mother because of his drug addiction so this girl had to drop out of high school to get a job and help her mother support the family. Some of these strippers never finished their schooling because of chaotic home backgrounds but are smart enough they could have finished school and gone on to a normal job otherwise. She was one of them.

There has been a slight decline here in Indianapolis but it is a part of a long slow continuing decline that doesn't have anything to do with Covid. The city government uses zoning laws and liquor and entertainment licensing laws to prevent new clubs from opening. This means the existing clubs over time get older and more run down and their surrounding neighborhoods become poorer and more high crime. The high crime spills over into the clubs with more drug dealing, prostitution and shootings. The prettiest women often will not work in this kind of environment so stripper quality slowly drops.

I have talked to a stripper on the phone. I'm very old, 65, so I never got used to texting people since for most of my life texting didn't exist. I called her a couple times to arrange to go out to dinner with her. I didn't pay her to go out to dinner with me. I just bought the meal for her. She called me one time when she got fired from her club and let me know that she moved over to another club and what it was. I was glad she had my phone number so she could tell me where she moved to. I knew her for six years, longer than any other girl I ever met in a strip club. She looked like the actress Gabrielle Anwar from the tv series "Burn Notice" and I consider her the prettiest stripper I ever saw.

Goodyman, the best strip club here in Indy right now is Brad's Brass Flamingo but then there is a big drop off after that. There is a limited number of big spending customers here and when they decide to spend money they just go to the best club, which is Brad's. I live by PT's. I keep finding attractive girls there but then they disappear. Then later I find them at Brad's. They tell me there they left PT's because they were not making much money. Beside a drop in the quality of girls at PT's, there has been a drop in quality at the other good clubs like Dancers, Club Rio and the Pony. The clubs have too many guys now who just sit and drink. They are not doing a good job of drawing in the big spending customers. Without the big spenders, the stripper quality drops.

There are the same number of strippers in Indianapolis clubs as normal but they look worse. To keep the numbers up, they have had to lower their standards and hire girls they normally would never hire. From what I've read, the various benefits for the unemployed add up to around thirty thousand dollars a year. We have a lot of fast food restaurants not able to get workers and I can understand why they would be reluctant to go back to work at a low paid fast food job. I'm not sure why this extends to strippers. A good stripper could make considerably more than thirty thousand a year. Are they just being lazy and deciding they would rather just collect unemployment or is something else going on? Could a lot of them have left the industry over the last year and are now working other jobs?

I went to this club last night and the strippers looked worse than I have ever seen them on a Saturday night. I've been to this club 4 to 5 times a year for the last decade. There were many overweight and older looking ones, which is not usually the case. The reviewer above said he thought this club had the most 8 to 10 rated strippers he has ever seen. The only thing I can think of is that there were really hot out of town strippers working there during race week and they all left afterwards so I missed them. I normally spend a couple hours here but left after an hour. The girls on stage just were not good looking enough to stay and watch. I wasn't even tempted to buy any lap dances. I also saw fewer guys taking girls to the back for lap dances than normal so I was not the only customer in the club who felt this way.

I found it impossible to get a taxi in Indianapolis a month ago. I assumed it was because the extended unemployment benefits were keeping people from coming back to work. I did a bit of internet research and found that Uber was also having trouble getting drivers, at least partly for that reason. It's a good thing you found a driver. Indiana is due to stop offering those extended benefits soon and maybe people are already drifting back to work and it won't be a problem in the future. The last few months I've seen "help wanted" signs all over the place.

I second what whodey says on Indy. My regular at PT's moved from PT's to Brad's because PT's prices are too high and made it hard to sell rooms. I go to the Pony to see a Mexican dancer named Miracle. Sometimes a club may not be good overall but if you find one girl you really like it's still worth going there.

The darkest club I've been in is Patty's on the west side of Indianapolis. The local nickname for the club is "Fatty Patty's" so that tells you right there why they keep it so dark.

When a discussion starts on young versus old strippers someone will always bring up the stripper in her forties or even fifties who is still popular and still making money. These women exist but they are outliers. I started visiting clubs about 10 years ago. I can only think of three strippers who have been in local clubs almost that entire time. Out of every hundred girls who start working in a club I would guess half are gone in a year, eighty percent within five years and almost all in ten years. Many of the older strippers I see in clubs just started and are soon gone. The three I know who are in their late thirties and have been in clubs since I started visiting them a decade ago have very friendly personalities and are good at making customers feel like they are important. They also take care of themselves. I've seen some beautiful strippers who smoked too many cigarettes, drank too much, took too many drugs, and ate too much junk food and had to quit stripping after four or five years because their looks had deteriorated too much.

I like the younger ones best because they are at peak attractiveness and aren't burnt out yet. That makes up for their lack of experience. I like older ones as long as they have worked in strip clubs a long time. They have learned how to keep customers happy. The worst ones are the ones who decided to wait until they are in their thirties before they decided to try stripping. That's too late to start a stripping career. They can't compete with younger girls on looks or older girls the same age as them who have been working in clubs a long time on experience. They usually don't stay around too long.

I've been on here ten years and have 174 comments. I'll be on here 3 or 4 times a week and spend half an hour each time. I usually only make comments on the political discussions if they are related to strip clubs. For example, if the question is whether we should have business lockdowns including strip clubs to deal with COVID I'll comment on that. I work in accounting and am interested in the business aspects of strip clubs and like to start discussions or listen to discussions about that but I'm aware most customers couldn't care less about that so I limit talking about that a lot. I'll be sitting in a strip club wondering about what their fixed and variable costs are, type of depreciation used for assets, their pricing structure or how much profit they are making and then suddenly become aware that I'm probably the only person in the club thinking of something like that unless the club owner happens to be there.

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I've had strippers tell me they don't like couples coming in because the girlfriends get jealous that their guy is paying attention to other girls and other girls are paying attention to the guy. The strippers say the girlfriends like to act like they are cool with all that and deny it bothers them but you can see the anger simmering beneath the surface.

Here in Indianapolis the clubs that have the biggest crowds have the lowest drink prices. People are heading to the clubs because they have cabin fever from being cooped up all these months and just want to get out. While the number of customers have recovered, the numbers of lap dance sales haven't reached pre-COVID levels. I've noticed less crowded lap dance areas and higher dancer turnovers. There have been three occasions in my nearest club where I found a girl I like, went back to see her, and found she was already gone. Many of my old favorites never came back after the clubs reopened. Because of all this, there are few familiar faces in the clubs and it's like being in a room full of strangers. Lap dance sales being down and girls not sticking around due to lack of income is happening but I'm not sure why. Customers have been skewing younger and they may have less money to spend. Older customers with more money may still feel like COVID is a threat to them and haven't returned to their old habits of regular strip club trips. Some older customers may have decided now is a good time to retire from the strip club hobby. This would explain why local clubs appear crowded with young guys sitting in groups drinking. It would also explain why dancers aren't staying. I've seen the girls sitting and socializing with the young guys. They may enjoy this but it doesn't pay the bills so eventually they have to quit the stripper job and get a job where they can actually make some money.

Texas ended all restrictions a couple months ago and have had dropping death rates since then. Yesterday they had zero deaths. You have also seen death declines in other states. A lot of the decline is due to herd immunity because of increasing numbers of people being vaccinated or having had the disease. Ending the lockdowns may also have been helpful. A number of studies have found the disease was primarily transmitted at home. Concentrating everyone in small spaces at home and in a few businesses considered essential spreads the disease more than spacing everyone out in more locations. Now that the weather is nicer, people can also go outdoors and that spaces people out even more. I went to a strip club last Saturday night and the club was so full I couldn't find a place to sit so I think we are near the end of all this.

Thank you. You saved me a trip.

I can't think of anything that had as much effect all at once. Second to COVID in its effect was probably the 2008 economic crash. The number of clubs was increasing before that but then started a decline. I started clubbing shortly after that. I would have dancers who had been working since before the crash tell me the clubs never really recovered from that. Here in Indianapolis about eight clubs went out of business between 2009 and 2019. Then COVID caused four more to go out of business here in just one year. A couple were bought by new owners so that limits the damage somewhat.

The CPI for April just came out. It was .8 percent. That's the biggest monthly increase since 1981, forty years ago. So far in the first four months of this year there has been 2 percent inflation overall. The Fed target was 2 percent for the whole year. We could easily reach 10 percent or more for this entire year.

I don't have a a problem with number one, don't go to a strip club if you are broke. I do have a problem with the idea that some dancers have that they are doing a customer a favor just by being there and doing a stage show for him. I've had situations where a stripper says something to me like "this isn't a free show" while I'm sitting in a club. This is after I've paid an entrance fee to get in and then been required to buy an overpriced drink. The attitude behind girls saying that is that I must spend money every time on the girls in the club to be fair to them. Sometimes I just don't see a girl I like after watching a stage rotation and then leave. Sometimes the girls on stage are so unattractive I almost feel like they should be paying me to sit there and watch them. Sometimes the dancers look ok but are obnoxious, arrogant or unpleasant. There should never be any belief on the part of the dancers that they are doing the customers a favor just by letting the customers be in the same building as them. I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on dancers over the years but there have been a hundred times I've been in a club where I regretted every second I spent there after I left.