Comments by docsavage (page 8)

My grandfather was in on the battle of Iwo Jimo against the Japanese. Fortunately, he survived and came home. My mother said she didn't hear about it until many years later. He never talked about his war experiences.

It's hard to tell. I was in a strip club yesterday afternoon and was the only customer there. That doesn't happen too often. There are usually at least a couple other customers there. Afternoons have been slow in strip clubs ever since the Covid lockdowns. It is either the economy or part of a continued decline of local strip clubs or, more likely, both.

Mexico's President AMLO says the United States cannot talk about human rights with Julian Assange detained, cartel violence with President Joe Biden bombing the Nord Stream pipeline, or democracy while arresting the leading presidential candidate Donald Trump.

This discussion has pretty much stayed on the topic, with everyone offering their own views. I recently started a discussion on strippers sitting at my table uninvited and was a little surprised when everyone stayed focused on the topic and didn't launch personal attacks on the other members that had nothing to do with the topic being discussed. It's kind of nice when discussions don't get derailed for that reason.

Most stereotypes have some basis in reality and that is true of the "angry black woman" stereotype. There are individual exceptions but as a white customer I seem to have more problems with black dancers. Recently one sat at my table uninvited while I was waiting for another dancer. After I said I wasn't interested in buying lap dances, instead of leaving she just kept sitting at my table. When I suggested the dancer that I was waiting for might not come to my table with her sitting there, she angrily said that wouldn't happen. I then got up and approached the dancer I was waiting for and she said, "I didn't come to your table because I thought you were sitting with someone". The worst is the three or four times black dancers have asked me if I'm not buying lap dances from them because they are black. I'm not going to buy lap dances from someone just to prove I'm not a racist.

I was a fan of the ABA Indiana Pacers around that time. The Pacers were the ABA champion and arranged to play the NBA champion Knicks in an exhibition game. The Pacers kept the game close but couldn't beat the superior Knicks.

U.S. dominance is ending and we are moving to a multipolar world where countries have spheres of influence. Empires never last forever because the costs of maintaining the empire slowly drains away the wealth of the empire. When the wealth is gone, the empire ends. The founders of this country warned against foreign interventions and maintaining a large standing army. For a time, they were listened to, and America became the wealthiest country in history. We started to move away from that in the twentieth century.

After much experimentation, I've settled on visiting regulars half the time and seeing new girls the other half. I've also recently decided doing lap dances with the girl who plops down at my table uninvited doesn't lead to good results. I recently started a discussion where I solicited advice on how others politely get that girl to go away. I don't do otc but strippers are more friendly and affectionate after they become my regulars. I always try to treat others fairly and when regulars realize that they warm up to me. Strippers have so many guys trying to take advantage of them, so anyone who doesn't do that looks good by comparison. I also visit new girls sometimes for a little variety. Also, when visiting a new girl, I sometimes meet someone who I want to turn into a regular.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, income inequality increased in 2021. Biden was president that year. It's largely a myth that Democrats are on the side of the little guy. Their promotion of the Covid lockdowns benefitted Big Tech, since people were forced to stay home with their computers. It also benefitted big box stores like Walmart and Target, since they were allowed to stay open, and also Amazon, since everyone was having packages delivered. Harmed were small businesses forced to close. Big Pharma also benefitted from the vaccine mandates that forced so many to get the vaccines, because they would supposedly stop disease transmission. They didn't stop disease transmission. The Pfizer trials never even tested for that and there was no evidence for that. Now you have the Democrats, along with neocon Republicans, delivering weapons to the Ukraine to benefit the giant military-industrial complex. The real divide in this country is between the corrupt parasitic elites at the top and everyone else.

The general public will end up paying. The balance sheet of the Fed increased by 300 billion dollars last week. The Fed is printing up money and buying government securities from the banks that these banks previously unwisely purchased as investments. With maybe half the banks in the country insolvent, this is just the beginning. All this money printing will lead to more inflation. You really have to look at inflation as a tax. It's not a progressive tax that falls more on the rich. It hurts rich and poor alike. The tax is to pay for government spending done to benefit those with political connections. Right now, people are moving money out of smaller banks into bigger banks because they understand the bigger banks are more likely to get bailed out. They will be "too big to fail". It's the little guy, the little business, the little bank that's gets hurt under the current system.

If you raise the retirement age, you could deal with the issue of some people not being able to continue in their physically demanding jobs by giving them disability pensions. In some cases, you might also be able to find less strenuous jobs for them. In Japan, people sometimes officially retire and then stay on with their employer in a part time job. I wouldn't mind doing that. I'm almost 67 and keep working because I like helping people and working with computers. I also feel a need for some social interaction and can meet that need by interacting daily with coworkers along with occasional visits with friends, family and stripper regulars. One scientific study found that people who work past 65 actually live longer.

I sometimes use the "I'm waiting for someone" excuse. If I tell them that I'm waiting for someone, though, they then ask who I'm waiting for. Unless I actually am waiting for someone, which usually isn't the case, I then have to make up an imaginary stripper that I'm there looking for. They then say she isn't there and ask if they will do as a replacement.

In ten years one third of adults in the U.S. will be retired. The other thirds, many of whom will be poorly educated people with low incomes, will not be able to generate enough in tax revenues to maintain current benefit levels for those retired. There will have to be increases in retirement age and cuts in benefits. Benefits will likely be means tested, with wealthier retirees receiving the biggest benefit cuts or no benefits at all. People will reluctantly accept these cuts but not if other government programs are treated as sacred cows that can't be touched. There will be a feeling that everyone needs to share the pain. The military budget will be reduced, and the country will move away from an interventionist foreign policy. By then it will be more evident that going to college is not a guarantee of a middle-class life and both direct and indirect subsidies to higher education will be cut too. Other government programs will also face funding reductions.

The reason they have the second room was because when the club first opened half the club had female strippers and the other half had male strippers. They found there was little demand for male strippers, so they dropped that idea. The second room is usually empty, only being used on busy weekend nights. There is no problem if you want to sit there.

I dread having conversations with strippers, so I like going during times when they are busy enough that they don't have time for that. I've been going to strip clubs almost every week for 12 years and after 500 times of being asked the same questions over and over again I hate it so much I can barely stand it. I just want to sit and relax and watch the stage rotation and then do a couple of lap dances with a girl I pick out and then leave after that.

I was here on a Thursday night like this reviewer, but it was two weeks later. It was a pretty miserable night, with dancers plopping down at my table uninvited and the girl I finally picked out to do a lap dance with being somewhat unfriendly, snooty and stuck-up acting. She also kept her top on, jumped around a little too much during the lap dance and seldom got close to me. She acted like I was a pervy old guy she didn't want to spend time with or have touch her. I really walked out of the club feeling bad and not wanting to go back to ever see her again. I didn't really see either of the two girls described in this review. It would be helpful if reviewers of this strip club were a little more specific on the time they were here. There is a mid-shift that covers the first half of the evening and then a late shift for the second half. With two different sets of girls, you are going to have a different experience depending on what time you go. Overall, though, this was a well-done review.

I don't include detailed physical descriptions of strip club interiors in my reviews. I've never had a review rejected and never had a complaint about lack of such information. Most complaints of my reviews have involved lack of detailed price or mileage information. The review should focus on what made the visit pleasant or unpleasant. Some aspects of the physical interior can influence that like uncleanliness, tables too close together, amount of privacy in the lap dance area or poor view of the stage from the tables. Whether the bar is on the right side or left side or if the walls have wood paneling doesn't really make a difference. It's possible for a review to be too long from being loaded up with too much information.

There's a point in the evening, usually around ten where I live, where the dancers are showing up but all the customers haven't arrived yet. After the club has filled up with customers, it gets harder to get dancer attention. I'm always out of a strip club and headed home by midnight. There aren't going to be any more girls coming in, so I've seen what is available for the night. The time of night is more important than which night.

A regular told me last weekend that I always smell so nice. If I'm an asshole, at least I'm a nice smelling one.

One nice thing about being 66 years old and not interested in being a sugar daddy is that there is no ambiguity about my relationship with any of my regulars. I never ask myself if maybe they might like me enough to be my girlfriend because of the huge age difference. I really like it that the relationship is clearly defined as a customer relationship and ends when they quit stripping.

The new Biden budget has the national debt going to 50 trillion dollars in 10 years. For this year, spending will be 7 trillion dollars and tax receipts are estimated at 5.2 trillion. If you had a normal 5% interest rate, we would be paying 2.5 trillion dollars just in yearly interest payments in 10 years. About a third of U.S. debt rolls over every year so it might take a few years to get there but we will. In ten years almost a third of adults will be retired. The costs of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and government pensions will equal 100% of tax receipts according to CBO projections. Immigrant families receive more in government benefits than they pay in taxes, so our high immigration levels make the situation worse. You also have the defense budget and all the other government programs. We can't come up with enough money to pay interest on the national debt along with everything else under such a scenario. We will either default on the debt or go into hyperinflation and pay the debt back with worthless money. It would be a good idea not to hold government debt or the dollar. Gold, real estate or other physical assets may be safer.

Usually, number of reviews of a club is a good indicator of club quality but there are a couple of exceptions. One is when the owner passes away and the club gets passed on to an incompetent heir, followed by a big decline. This happened here in Indianapolis with the Harem House strip club. It had a lot of reviews here, many of them older, at a time when several other local strip clubs with fewer reviews were better. Another exception is when the strip club is sold, the name is changed, but the old reviews are not carried over to the club under its new name. Here in Indianapolis, the Pony is a top tier club but has a low number of reviews because it has only been under its current owner a few years and hasn't had time to accumulate a lot of reviews. Any list of top strip clubs that is based on the number of reviews is really just a list of strip clubs that have been owned by one person or company and have delivered a consistently good experience for a long time. The two Indiana clubs listed above, Brad's and the Hip Hugger, both fall in that category.

Biden just released a budget that will bring the national debt to 50 trillion dollars in a decade. For the upcoming year, government spending will be 7 trillion dollars and tax receipts will be 5.2 trillion. The gap between spending and tax receipts will be covered by borrowing. The debt will be monetized by the Fed printing up money and buying government bonds. This will be inflationary. If the government has to print more money to bail out collapsing banks, as is likely, the situation will be even worse. You can look for higher inflation in the future.

There was a 1994 Simpsons episode where a bank with a sign on it saying "Silicon Valley Bank" crashes. https://youtu.be/Rkqj_xXdCyQ

I've had several long-time strippers say customers now are more likely to not tip or buy lap dances. I think this is becoming a little bit of an issue for me. Strippers often approach customers and spend time being friendly to them in order to sell lap dances. They know they will only be successful with a certain percentage of customers, but it is worth the effort. If you have a large number of non-spending customers in the club, though, it increases the search cost for these girls of locating the spending customers. It can turn into a looking for a needle in a haystack situation. It lowers stripper income and causes more of them to quit and may eventually lead to more strip clubs completely closing. It makes it more difficult for me to arrange for lap dances since the girls are wasting a lot of time sitting with other guys who won't spend on them. Some customers complain the girls don't approach them, but it makes more sense to do this in a strip club with a lot of non-spending customers. Experienced strippers have adjusted by doing this. The big problem is with the new strippers who haven't figured this out yet. I see more of them quitting, many of them quite attractive. Strip clubs are also starting to adjust by raising entrance fees, lap dance prices or drink prices. The old saying "there aint no such thing as a free lunch" is largely true.