Comments by Papi_Chulo (page 31)

"Iowa Sports Reporter Goes Viral Over Comments About Being Sent Out In The Cold To Cover Winter Storm" https://twitter.com/i/status/1605961457337712640

It’s supposed to get in the low-40s overnight this weekend in Miami (supposed to warm-up by Tu) – can’t remember the last-time it was that cold – and def can’t remember the last time it was actually cold on Christmas eve/day downhere in Miami – for a good # of years it’s usually been in the 70s or low-80s on Christmas downhere in Miami def taking away from the Christmas-feel – back in the 80s it felt like it would get cold more often on Christmas in Miami.

Ebony-Inn is on the border of D.C. – I went to EI (from out of town) over the Memorial Day weekend of 2019 and hit EI like 3x over-that-weekend – I didn’t find the *immediate area* around EI too-bad; seemed like an old commercial area w/ not much people or even car traffic (per my limited experience w/ the area). For me it was a bigger-concern having to safely/attentively cross the 4-lane street from the parking-area over to the club – also; I guess EI is kinda an institution in that area and seems to have a pretty-big regulars-presence meaning that there seemed to be a fair-amount of people hanging-outside-the-club which was a bit concerning on my 1st-visit; but I quickly realized those were people associated w/ the club (staff; dancers smoking outside; regulars-hanging; etc) and actually I preferred it that way since there were always eyes outside-the-club – the other bit concerning-issue about EI was the neighborhoods driving there seemed fairly-rough – the only other drawback to EI was that it seems to have a lot of regulars that feel certain seats in the club belong to them but it wasn’t a huge-issue.

Chances are on avg one will not have issues; but the risks are def there and def much-higher than w/ the avg business. As has been posted, often the more-common drawback is clubs often charging an extra-fee in the order of 20%. If it’s a club one knows well, then likely you won’t have issues – but it’s not just the club itself; but also unscrupulous -employees doing shady-shit unbeknownst to the club/management. Also harder to keep track of one’s expenditures especially if one likes to get a buzz in the club (then trying to recollect/remember the next day if you really made those charges). I’d say if one has a go-to club they feel comfortable with; probably won’t have issues except possible extra-charges imposed by the club – but I personally wouldn’t make I a habit of handing over my cc everytime I hit a club b/c it feels as if it’s not *if* but *when* one will have an issue. At the end of the day; as I’ve posted in the past; strip-clubs attract their fair-share of shady-people from owners/managers to regular-staff to certain-dancers to certain-custies; so some due-PL-diligence is often in order IMO.

I’m a conservative-person, but I think that stuff of certain-businesses not being allowed open on Sundays is way outdated given today’s fast(er) paced-life and many people also have less free time w.r.t. when they can do stuff – reality is we’re not in the 1950s anymore where it was more-common for families to go to church on Sundays; etc. As far as I’m concerned it comes down to personal responsibility – if one does not want to partake in certain activities on a Sunday; then that’s their right; but not right to impose it on everyone else.

"‘Once In A Generation’ Winter Storm Expected To Affect Most Of U.S., Midwest Likely To Be Hardest Hit" https://www.dailywire.com/news/once-in-a-generation-winter-storm-expected-to-affect-most-of-u-s-midwest-likely-to-be-hardest-hit

"... I wouldn't trade the "cool factor" of a stick shift for that extra 3/10ths of a second going 0-60 ..." The difference I think is closer to a full-second or a bit-more - it's computerized-technology vs a human-being

The price the dancer quoted you was a good/fair price - the issue is the room-fee which is usually non-negotiable (assuming the dancer gave you the correct info about the room-fee and didn't pocket-the-difference) - in Pompano, Diamond Dolls does not have a room-fee for a curtained-private-booth; at Booby trap I think it's a $50 room-fee; and at Cheetah it's $75 for a curtained-booth - granted at DDs and Cheetah they are small-booths instead of a room; but they are private and good-enough to get the deed-done.

Of the areas/hoods where I’ve hit black-clubs as I posted previously; the ones where it was street-parking was what concerned me the most having to walk to/from the club. In Philly, Outer Space Club def is scary-looking w.r.t. the surroundings and it’s street-parking – I remember my PL-head being on a swivel (in-large-part b/c I was completely unfamiliar w/ the area) when I visited and it was a late-afternoon with light-out. In Atlanta; I hit a black-club in downtown where I ended up parking around 9:45 pm in a parking-garage several-blocks away (it was about a 10-minute-walk by myself) – it was a bit of an unnerving-walk given the fairly-high-number of homeless-people around – to make matters-worse when I got back to the parking-garage past midnight I couldn’t find my freaking-car and walked around for like 20-minutes freaking-out-a-bit thinking my rental had gotten stolen (finally found the damn-thing) – I’ve never been a fan of downtown areas especially at night – the club was “Gentlemen’s Club Atlanta” in late-2015 (this club has changed names multiple-times and at the time of my visit it was called Goosebumps) – that was my only visit to this ATL club although I’ve probably hit half-a-dozen or more ATL-clubs on my 1x/2x per-year trips to ATL from 2014 – 2019. For me the most bothersome part of black-dives I’ve hit has been mostly when I’ve had to-do street-parking in-da-hood – other-than-that; driving to them thru “questionable-neighborhoods” can also be a bit unnerving.

I’ve been to hood-black-clubs in: Miami/SoFlo; Orlando/Cocoa-Beach; Jacksonville; Atlanta; Philly; Dallas; Houston; Irvington (NJ); Detroit; DC (I may be forgetting an area or two). Some of the clubs already-mentioned in this thread I’ve been to – i.e.: Magic City (Atlanta); Mascara (Jacksonville); Paradizio/Vic’s (Irvington NJ) – of these that have been mentioned: Margic-City – I actually went-there back in 2011 about a year b/f I joined TUSCL – the club itself wasn’t bad but from what I recall (it was nighttime) the area looked pretty-scary but the club had club-side-parking from what I remember. Mascara in Jacksonville I found alright compared to most black-dives I’ve hit in my PL-career – I actually found Silver-Foxx in Jacksonville a lot more off-putting/scary and this included the area; the staff; and other custies – I def felt uncomfortable at Silver-Foxx but not at Mascaras. Paradizio/Vic’s in Irvington NJ I was a bit unnerved mainly b/c I don’t have a lot of experience w/ the northeast – what was most unnerving about these two-spots was there was no-club-parking and one had to park street-side and often walk a block or two which is not something I’m used to b/c in SoFlo (and Dallas) where I’ve lived; almost all-clubs have club-side-parking. When I hit Vic’s in the Fall of 2016 I was able to park on the same-street but maybe ~75-yards-away – this was a bit unnerving b/c: a) I wasn’t sure if I could park where I did and was concerned my rental could be towed leaving-me somewhat stranded in an area where I didn’t know anyone (again in the places I’ve lived; almost all businesses have their own parking and parking someplace else may get your car towed) b) as I was walking to Vic’s (afternoon circa 4:30; club only open on dayshift which should say something LOL) – anyway; I was the only cracker as far as the eye could see and my pale-ass stood-out like a sore-cracker w.r.t. Paradizio in Irvington; that one was also a later-afternoon visit circa 6pm (after I left Vic’s); it was still light-out when I got there but was dark when I left a bit past 7pm – here also I had to park about 2-blocks-away and here also I was the only cracker as far as the eye could see. w.r.t. Vic’s and Paradizio the scary-part was walking to/from the club since it’s not something I’m used to.

As many-on-here know, I’m into ebony-dancers thus for the last 10+ years I’ve mostly hit black-clubs since those have the type of dancers I like/prefer – often-times these black-clubs are small-dives in not-the-best-areas – it’s usually not a big-issue w.r.t. safety; I’ve never been in a black-club where something serious went-down when I was there – although a handful of times I’ve heard-reports of something bad going-down when I haven’t been at the particular-club but-even-then it’s mostly a rare-occurrence – I would imagine strip-clubs in general may be somewhat “hardened targets” per se in part b/c of security and I wouldn’t doubt security/club-staff is packing even if it’s out-of-sight. Most of the time my club-visits consist of me driving to the club; parking in their parking-lot/area; and going-inside (pretty-much all the clubs I hit downhere in SoFlo have their own parking) – this def doesn’t make-it zero-risk b/c anything can happen on a moment’s-notice in-da-hood; and I still try to be aware-of-my-surroundings when I’m walking to/from my car to/from the club’s door; etc – I’ve also switched to mostly dayshift-SCing over-the-last 5-years-or-so mainly b/c of the better-mileage/ROI/dancer-attention; but also cuts-down on potential-drama although it’s not necessarily foolproof.

“… I think automatic trans on a monster like that is stupid unless you're a girl …” AFAIK modern-high-performance-automatics are considerably faster than stick-shift – back-in-the-day it wasn’t a true-sports-car if it wasn’t a stick; but today’s high-performance-automatics are def not the automatics of 20 years ago.

It's a bone-chilling 74 in Miami at 10pm - we're barely hanging-in-there

“… Stayed at that Motel 6 before. Its ok. The drive between Cocoa where I have friends and Palm Beach, where I have relatives is so different from South Florida that sometimes we'll take A1A/Rt1. …” Yeah; the Cocoa-Beach Motel-6 is nothing to write-home-about – there are also some rooms there that are shared in that there is a door connecting 2 side-by-side-rooms which can be locked from either side but allows more-noise to be heard from the room next door – Cocoa-Beach area seems to get a fair-amount of people/visitors from the Northeast (NY/NJ) that tend to talk loud which can be a problem if one is a late-riser – I mainly stayed at that Motel-6 since it’s a beachside-area and hotel-rooms can be costly but since I normally only stayed one-night and just used the room to sleep and for a shower, it wasn’t worth-it-to-me to pay more for a nicer hotel in the area but it’s worth paying for a nicer-room if one wants better-comfort and a better-quality of-fellow-guests. I usually took I95 to go from SoFlo to Cocoa-Beach; even then it took ~3-hours – can’t imagine taking the A1A surface-street and the time that would take but one would imagine it’d be a more-scenic drive and one could see a lot more-stuff/areas than when doing the trip on the freeway – I’ve taken A1A from Miami-Beach to Ft-Lauderdale-beach and it’s more scenic than the freeway since it’s close to the ocean.

AFAIK nightshift has always had a parking-charge (at least the very-few times I've been at night) - question is what time does nightshift officially-begin; seems it may currently be 7pm. And yeah; song-counts here can be an issue IME - depending on the DJ: and often more-so at night; the DJ can go into "party mode" where he things he's “the star of the club” and the reason custies are there and he'll start cutting-and-mixing songs as if he was a "star DJ" at some hiphop-club w/o seemingly caring-at-all that there are custies there to buy dances and that he's f'ing-up the custies' $$$ with his cutting-and-mixing BS where sometimes a DJ will cut-songs at 30-damn-seconds. My M.O. is to tell the dancer upfront to let me know everytime she starts a new song to avoid a nasty-surprise/argument at the end; and even then some of these hardcore ROBs will still overcount your ass (e.g. “this is song 3”; then the next song they’ll tell you it’s song 5 or 6; SMH) – I also time a few songs w/ my cellphone when I get there to get a feel for how long the songs are being played to see if I’m getting ripped by the DJ: then when I get some dances I kickoff my cellphone to help me keep track of the songs; e.g. if the songs are being played at let’s say 2.5 minutes and I get songs for ~10-minutes then I know I did 4-dances vs being unsure – in these low-cost clubs there often seem to be a handful of girls that wanna increase-their-earnings by over-counting or overcharging custies.

Too-much $$$ for the quality of this club - one can get the same-service for same $$$ or less at the Pompano clubs which are much better than this club in terms of club and dancers (Cheetah Pompano; Booby Trap; Diamond Dolls).

Last I heard she had stopped taking her hormone-regimen and had detransitioned back to a man.

Living in South-Florida I have a fair-amount of SC-options – being a variety-guy I like to have a rotation-of-clubs to hit for variety and not necessarily b/c there aren’t good-ones closer to me. I’m single and most of my free-time is my-time; so I have a fair-amount of flexibility w.r.t. clubbing – when I club/clubbed; I mostly hit a club I was in the mood-for vs a club that was more “practical” (closer to me) – most of the clubs in my rotation are within 45-minutes thus not a big-deal in terms of distance; biggest-headwind is that in recent-years I’ve mostly being a dayshift (late-afternoon) SCer and it can sometimes be an issue w/ the very-bad SoFlo traffic if I’m in the mood to hit a SC where I have to get on the freeway to get there. I wouldn’t want to drive over-an-hour for my “regular clubbing” (and again I don’t have to given the # of options near me) – but being a variety-PL and also a fan of the old Inner-Room in Cocoa Beach; b/f IR was sold I’d make the 3-hour-drive (usually on a Fr after lunch) to Cocoa-Beach from Miami every 3 or 4 months b/c the IR and Cocoa-Beach vibe was so different from SoFlo/Miami so it was a little-get-away for me from the same-ole same-ole (I often felt almost-immediately more-relaxed once I got past West Palm Beach (norther SoFlo) and was experiencing a different scenery which included less-craziness and much less traffic) – when I first started making my Miami to Cocoa-Beach weekend-trips I would stay overnight at the (then) affordable Motel-6 in Cocoa-Beach – but after a few trips I started driving-back the same night – although it was a 3-hr-or-so drive; at night (past midnight) when coming-backhome I could usually put the cruise-control-on and barely have to hit the breaks for the first 2-hours of-the-trip till I started approaching the more-congested West Palm Beach area.

One would assume a dancer would have to agree to the club putting up her pic on the website? Reduced-business with qn increase in prices doesn't seem like a winning-formula - especially with current inflation and concerns of an upcoming recession/stagflation.

It was a good review o/w u wouldn't have gotten 7-up-votes. @dha recently got some negative comments on a review he submitted and now he's shitting on others' reviews for no-good-reason (yours is not the first he complains about for no good reason).

I assume the OP did pay a visit although writing fake-reviews to get TUSCL-VIP is probably pretty-common and not that hard to do. What I assume happened with the OP is that when one is clubbing one is usually focused on having a good-time and not memorizing the club details 😊 - perhaps the OP may also be an out-of-towner and not have the luxury of us locals that are more familiar with the club and/or have been TUSCLers for years and have read dozens of DDs reviews.

It's pretty-easy to get ripped-off in clubs and it's unfortunately a pretty-big-part of the business - information, as in most things, is power. My personal M.O. is to try avoiding asking dancers for the price or let them state the price - when I club and agree to dances, I state/verify the price upfront, I don't ask for the price - of course this requires knowing the info upfront usually thru reviews; but in lieu of that I try to ask a staff-person since although def not foolproof they are less apt to give you false-info like some dancers will since the staff is not the one selling dances - so if a dancer asks me for dances I don't ask how much; I say "$20/song right" - asking makes one look like they have no idea; stating makes one look like they know the deal. The more informed we all are the better it is for all of us w.r.t. not getting ripped-off and this also helps the honest-dancers.

Less can often be more when it comes to reviews - i.e. preferable to have less # of reviews that are of higher quality than a higher # of reviews of lower-quality; the latter makes obtaining club info more-difficult for someone researching clubs. It *does* suck to put time into a review to have it rejected by strangers; but it's not personal and it's for the greater PL good 😊

Previous reviews state dances are $20/song - IMO/IME it's counterproductive to agree to multiple-dances upfront when the club standard is per song - if a dancer turns out to be a dud then one is locked into multiple-shitty-dances and needlessly wasting extra-$$$.

Baby Dolls is the big-player in town - very-big-club along with a 2nd-floor balcony area - good number of dancers on dayshift and nightshift to where one can hit the club multiples times and find a lot of new-to-you dancers. PT's in Northeast Dallas is also fairly-popular - if I remember correctly it's no-alcohol so there is nudity but IDK how many of the dancers do nude-dances (I can't remember but I think it was 20-topless and 30-nude). You should read-up on some of the reviews of clubs mentioned so you can have a feel about what to expect.