Comments by Lurker_X

There was a Chicken Salad Chick restaurant right next to Chic Fil A in uptown Charlotte. People would through loooong lines to get to Chic Fil A, right in front of Chicken Salad Chick which had no line... Eventually only Chic F A remained open. I don't think CFA's menu is anything remarkable.

After my trip to Follies a few months ago, my front thigh muscles were sore, from all the upward thrusting and rubbing I had been doing while girls were on top of me! :^) If a girls asks me to remain still, I will... But she only gets one song to prove herself. She has to make up for my lack of involvement....

It has been a while for BurlingtonHoFactory.

Another loophole is that you can still see the trust comments made by persons on your block list, when looking at other members' profiles.

I only drink a little. I don't like to feel unsteady on my feet or have difficulty remembering things. Sometimes I see some beer marked down at the grocery store and I will try a new brand... It is not something I need to have around. At a club I usually have 1 or 2 drinks of some type. My last one will be non-alcoholic.

Yeah but anyone can trust on you and leave a comment that you cannot reply to... Honk off TUSCLers regularly, and you start accumulating "troll trusts" like IceyLoco...

Comments will sometimes make me curious what the discussion is about. Some of the very actively reviewed clubs like Follies and HKC are almost discussion forums of their own.

Hmm. On my Galaxy, if I look at somebody's reviews, the "quick display" starts to refresh, and then it flips back to full again. I tend to look at reviews more by city or by date submitted more than by I individuals though.

Icey could be a reincarnation of an earlier troll, but I don't think he's Dougster. Icey seems to want to piss in everyone's cereal more than harass specific persons.

I have thought before that clubs which appear mostly empty, few customers or dancers, which remain open anyhow, could be money laundrying fronts

Sitting next to SJG on a long distance flight would be worse.

Seuss was a political cartoonist before writing children's books - he lampooned isolationist stances. His philosophy could be quite a patchwork at times. Thidwick the big hearted Moose is one of his more interesting books. It speaks to the limits of generosity, and allowing a dependent class to outgrow the working class.

Always remember: everything on TUSCL is a work of fiction! ;-)

I know a few relatives who have given some assistance to homeless individuals... and discovered that even years of advice, car rides to the clinic, suggestions where to get assistance, that some people just won't put the effort forward to be self sufficient. My own pet theory is that life has become too complex too quickly. 200 years ago a guy could be a farm hand, earn some basic cash doing manual work and sleep in a barn. A women might be a maid, and sleep on the back porch. People could do simple jobs and earn a subsistence living. Life now has innumerable little rituals to adhere to. All kinds of forms to fill out, schedules to follow. Some people cannot cope with it all - technology and the rules of a highly structured society have moved beyond what some people are able to handle. If you get bad credit, get caught in a minor crime, that record follows you. It is harder to move to a new town, and "start fresh". Turning to drugs to forget one's problems for a little while just furthers the mess.

DC, the clubs often only allow single men on specific nights - and those turn into sausage fests with few couples attending (and skew towards older and heavier women that will attend) To get access to better looking partners, some guys will resort to taking an escort with them to the club and attending on couples nights. This is called "bringing a ticket" and it is frowned on within swing club etiquette.

Back when the web was young and alt.sex.strip-clubs was still a thing (1996) there was some discussion of the Nevada cat houses. $300-$400 was typical then. That sounded like so much money at the time, I never considered it. Although I did pull into the parking lot of the Mustang just to say that I'd seen it.

Dougster finally went away when VinceMichaels quit posting and so he could not stalk Vince anymore. But SJG would probably post as long as anyone replies to him. It would be nice if I am wrong though... And even an Asperger's case like SJG will get bored after doing the same ritual every night for years.

I don't know her age but I did see the grey haired bartender of a dive club drop her top and get on stage - she did not have the body for this anymore and didn't have a graceful strut for walking. I averted my eyes and waited for the song to end... I think nearly everyone there saw it as kind of a joke.

That is true. Charlotte clubs sound relatively small compared to tourist cities. And I avoid the highest traffic hours.

I spent way too much on one dancer - finally told her I was "going to take a long break" and have not been back to that club for a year. Every once in a while I think about texting her again, and then I talk myself down, by remembering how willing I was to spend $300-$400 for an hour of lap dances with her. As Cristobal pointed out, also try to remember why you stopped... I had to admit that I did not have good self control around that one, and there were other places I should spend my money. If I meet her again it is very possible that it would not be a few dances for old times' sake... It could turn into thousands of dollars.

I have only resorted to waitress hounding when I wanted to know if a particular dancer had arrived at the club, and was taking a while to get ready and step into the main room. For the most part, a strip club is a pretty darn easy place to start a conversation with a dancer. Make eye contact and say "Hi" and usually you're on her radar right away.

True story. One of my landlords while in college had the last name "Seamon"... OMG. Imagine the teasing, growing up through grade school and junior high school with that one.

I think there is a different lens for customers. Telling them what they want to hear isn't exactly lying, because it is either "pleasing them" or "they're just dirty perverts, strangers I may not even see again, so who cares?" Lying between dancers reveals more willingness to lie to peers socially, in the family, etc. That is more pernicious, and long term self-destructive behavior.

Jack in the Box - Jack in the Crack Home Depot - Home Cheapo, and Home Dumpo

Hm. I learned something on TUSCL. Microsoft has storefronts? I will admit that I did not know Microsoft had their own branded laptops either, until last month, when I was helping a relative shop for a laptop. It has just been so firmly ingrained in my mind that Microsoft was a software company, and sometimes a peripherals company.