Comments by nickifree (page 2)

Portland by a mile.

By diversity of body types you mean thick girls, then Bourbon Street's days are numbered. It's about to go the way of Christie's.

I was in Austin not too long ago. It was pretty bad everywhere, but before that Yellow Rose was pretty good. You'd never catch me in Divas, nor XTC or Landing Strip. Fat Latinas ain't my thing.

Strip clubs gotta survive someway. They get fewer and fewer hot girls and more and more of the fuglies and fatties.

That's what it was like pre-Covid. The hotter girls came in around 12:30 -1:30. I think the customer got into sync and started coming in around that time too. Then around 3:00pm drew in lesser talent and that's when customers started to leave. It hasn't changed at all.

@ wallanon I haven't visited a lot of the Austin strip clubs in a few years. But I remember "Landing Strip", "Ricks", "Sugars", "Expose" and of course "Chicas", all being Mexican clubs with dancers with minimum English vocabulary. I think that's half of the strip clubs in Austin.

First SC was during a visit to New Orleans when I'd just turn eighteen (that was the legal drinking age back then). I think it was on Bourbon street so it may still be there, but most certainly under a different name and management. The second strip club I went to was near a navy base, and it close soon after that navy base closed. God it had some hot girls in that place.

Hi-Liters was still decent in 2019, especially early 2019. But it and Christie's in Tempe went downhill extremely fast. But with quite a few fat dancers and wall to wall rap music. It'll all come back around as business declines and they fire the fat dancers and enforce a more diverse palette of music. Till then though I suggest going on Monday and Tuesday mornings. They girls who show up on slow days look good and they know they can make money on a slow day. The unattractive ones know they need the crowd.

It used to be that way up till about 15 years ago. Now it's all about getting over, whereas before it was just a hustle. It's not enough for most of these girls now to walk out with $800 after a good night. Some of it has to come from getting over a customer in order to feel satisfied.

The unemployment rate is only 6% as of April 2021. Restaurants, bars, movie theaters- practically all forms of entertainment are still hurting due to restrictive coronavirus policies. Your narrative that people don't won't to work isn't substantiated by the data.

Except for Bourbon Street on rare occasions, I've given up on Phoenix strip clubs. Too many fatties dancing.

Um @cipdevice, FL also has far more elderly people per capita.

I haven't gone back to any of the clubs in Phoenix since the start of the Coronavirus shutdown. But it had gotten pretty shitty even before that. No way I'm going in now. It's not that I'm afraid of COVID, but if I have to sit in a bar or restaurant wearing a facemask then there's not much fun in going.

A DJ asking for $20 for personal requests in a completely dead club.

There's so much inconsistency. Facemasks are supposed to be an effective solution, yet we use contact tracing. Herd immunity doesn't work, yet vaccines are supposed to. God we are really lucky that this virus isn't anything as deadly as ebola, or even influenza (aka, the common flu). Our medical and political leadership are just too reactionary. We are making policy based upon tweets and pressure from social media posts.

It's the ones who don't make money who file these suits. Any dancer finishing a shift with anything over $175 dollars will resist reclassification from IC to employee. Then on top pay income taxes too.

I wish I could ditch Google completely, but as far as browsers and a few other services of theirs, they overwhelmingly offer the best product. I did switch from their search engine though, as they started becoming to "Woke". But I was headed in that direction already because their algorithms are too based toward paid searches rather than accurate ones. A few times I almost got tricked into navigating to illegitimate websites which showed up on top simply because Google was paid to place it there.

People severely misunderstand business "profits". For instance Amazon actually paid $2.4 Billion in Income taxes as they pay foreign taxes as well. If you want to only show what they paid in US taxes then you should only show profits that were made US revenue only. Even then Amazon's US Income taxes were $438M. However the IRS allows companies deductions for Foreign Income Taxes. No, it's not a loophole any more than you use sales taxes and mortgage payments as deductions. Finally, those "Profits" that you see don't account for debt and shareholder investments which total in trillions. Without those you're a universe away from any "profits".

@shailynn - What's Scooter Libby doing these days?

Bork was a rejection of a particular candidate, not a scrupulous tactic to deny a sitting President a Supreme Court appointment. Republican politicians like McConnell are always mouthing off about the 'rule of law', yet never hesitate to break them. If Trump loses I hope his most ardent Senate and House supporters go with down with them. I'm really hating both sides this year. But really I'm hoping we can at least start eliminating the extremes on both sides.

@Papi And I thought 2016 was bad.

Man this sucks. As if the upcoming election wasn't enough turmoil already. If the GOP shoehorn's a nominee, given they denied Obama a nominee in an election year, then they'd lost my vote- and my confidence. We are still a nation of laws.

@ RandomMember - I didn't question the GDP rate. My reply brought in the question that Denmark's GDP would have contracted more had they not increase their debt while Sweden. So when comparing 'effective' GDP. Denmark's was actually worse. Oh yeah, and fuck you too.

@ alkaholik. That's why facemasks are effective in high contaminant environments, and less so in open spaces populated with mostly healthy people.

Vaccines don't (actually) lessen the effects. That's what flu medication is for. Vaccines inject less potent strains of the virus so that your immune system can learn how to fight it when the real dangerous pathogens invade your body.