Comments by Tetradon (page 17)

@Icee, you're impersonating 25 but using TheeOSU's and SirLapDanceALot's catchphrases. Tighten your insult game.

For me, it depends on the club. Usually, I want to get T's intro package--two private dances--and make sure she's enthusiastic and skilled about it. I want her to grind and touch and stroke and act sexy like her life depends on it. If she's mediocre in the private area, she won't be better in the VIP. If she's good in the private area, your VIP should be memorable, too. If I'm ready to leave but want some extended female contact before I go, I might TOFTT and take her right for 15 minutes. This is rare unless it's been a shit visit but I see one available hottie on the floor. If it's an extras factory (of the type I haven't frequented in a while) or an FKK, I want a short conversation where she shows she can be seductive and isn't rushing me to the back.

(Part 2, to address others up the thread) Abrams? As a Republican, I love watching Dems toss money down this perennial loser money put. Michelle Obama? She's not acting like it. I think this is a few Dems' wet dream. Murphy? Doesn't have a glaring weakness, but I don't think Dems want to run a deep blue state governor, not when these states are bleeding population to Florida and Texas. O'Rourke? Make Abrams a manchild and subtract the diversity checkboxes. Warren? Tin-eared Lizzie is going nowhere and excites no one. It's going to be Biden, who barring a major improvement in the economy, would lose to every major Republican candidate except one. Now let's see if the Republicans shoot themselves in the foot.

Without some earth shattering scandal that even the Dem-run media can't spin, it's going to be Biden. Buttigieg? Can anyone be worse at their job than Mayor Pete has been at his? Harris? She checks the Dems' equity obsession buckets but has all the charisma of a brick. Klobuchar? She's become all but invisible. Newsom? Too California for the swing states, and all his repeated no's are backing him into a corner. Polis? Intriguing dark horse, but isn't building a national profile. Pritzker? He's Newsom, less the charisma, plus morbid obesity. Sanders? LOL, the perennial no-hope candidate just wants his pet issues front and center. That's all he's ever run for. Whitmer? All the COVID hypocrisy would come back and bite her.

"On the flip side, I know plenty of Harvard and Stanford grads whose careers are on a very unspectacular career path." Speaking from experience, high achievers are a sheltered bunch. Focused on academics and extracurriculars over social development, among other things. That means the undergrad years are going to be a rough time of self discovery. Many discover that they're sick of the academic high achiever life and spend their years smoking pot and partying and slacking. As an undergrad I grew painfully shy, not continuing on a fast track to a top med school or McKinsey or Goldman Sachs, but not living it up socially either. Later, I had opportunities to get back on that track at an even higher level, but decided they weren't worth the 100 hours weeks, living in a city I hated, and dealing with asshole sociopaths. I have hobbies that I love and I go crazy when I can't partake. Some people are willing to give it all for the corner office. I am not. Now, I'm on a solid unspectacular track, maximizing my mix of money, prestige, hobbies, and overall happiness in life. And looking with pity at the ones who made partner at Sullivan and Crowmell or Davis Polk who are raking it in but tremendously fucking miserable.

^ Thanks, though @whodey raised a great point that grads of these top schools are more likely to have rich parents backstopping them in case their big ventures failed. Musk, Bezos, Gates, Zuck weren't going to go hungry if their big ideas tanked.

If she's got a nice ass, then great. If she's got too much cellulite back there, then no. During a lap dance, I want to be feeling rather than looking at it.

As for college in general, I think a top 10 is always going to be a great investment, anything below where you're not going to use what you directly learned (like STEM) is a waste of time and money. Economics 101. When a good becomes common, its value drops. In the 50s, something like 5% of people went to college--even a decent college degree meant you could write your own ticket. Now at 35%, and more among the younger, they're common and have declined in value. That's why you see baristas with bachelor's degrees from respectable schools. The "cancel student debt" movement misses the point. The problem is the gratuitous subsidies of higher education have driven college costs on hockey stick growth. As long as there's no price signal in the market, the bubble's going to grow and grow. We could forgive it all (at extreme cost to the country) and we're going to have another giant student debt problem in a decade. We've also denigrated the trades. We push too many kids into college who have no business there. We're always going to need plumbers and electricians and construction workers. We should market these as honorable careers, not the last resort for people too stupid for college.

As a product of some elite schools, including names on this list here's my take: 1. The names do generate some awe. It's what economists call "signaling," they think "wow, Tom must be a really smart and capable guy if he went to Princeton!" It gets your foot in the door in many places. However, 2. For most people, you're not learning different or better shit. Calculus is calculus, whether you're taking it at MIT or Cape Cod Community College. You might be surrounded by better and smarter people at the former, or have some opportunities for independent research under a top scholar, but only the brightest and most motivated 10% will take advantage of it. Even top schools have slackers and partiers. 3. Outside of academia or big law (where they're abnormally obsessed with names and GPA), the name advantage fades the further you get from graduation day. After a few years in the workforce, your prospective employer or grad school cares more about what you did in your last role. As you progress, soft skills and professional accomplishments matter more and more. 4. You don't become a "centi-millionaire" as an employee, you become one by starting your own business (or getting in on the ground floor) and growing it to the stars. These schools select on more than academics alone. Harvard has more perfect SAT scores and valedictorians alone than spots in the class. They select for drive and abnormal talent in one area ("spikiness") rather than just being all-around smart. If you showed business chops by starting your own thing in high school and having any kind of success, these schools will fawn over you. And many of these schools will consider your (or your family's) potential to give back once you've made it. My guess is a lot of these "centi-millionaires" showed business ambition and talent even as teens.

Oh yeah, last dancer's name was Diamond.

"I actually lift weights and play basketball myself which I'm sure you wimpy vaginas do not so keep talking tough on here with no actual balls in real life." I'm drowning in the irony. (By the way, this is the internet. I'm former Delta Force turned Goldman Sachs partner, 6'6", 280 pounds, 6% body fat, 10.5 inch pecker. You can't prove otherwise.)

From what I recall of the story, Bauer and this chick were engaged in consensual rough sex. Though it's been a while. And Bauer is an asshat regardless. If all the dumb wokes bought WNBA tickets and merchandise at the same rate as they bought NBA merchandise, then Brittney Griner would get paid like LeBron James. But because the woke brain equates any difference to "-ist" or "-phobic," it has to be sexism. Really, some of these dumbasses were saying it's the fault of racism, sexism, and homophobia that Griner had to play ball in Russia in the first place. Don't fucking whine about inequality in sports pay until you're putting your own money where your mouth is.

I keep a fistful of singles for tipping (bartenders and stage performers) in my pocket, and $20s and $100s for dances and VIPs in my wallet. I bring what I intend to spend, whether it's $200 or $1,000.

Depression is a known consequence of the neurological damage from a stroke. I know we're going to hear "what about Oz"--yeah, what about you dumb ding dongs choosing better in the Dem primary? Fetterman was a trust fund baby turned mayor of a dying Rust Belt town. What in there made you think he could handle the US Senate?

I answered it here in the extras context. Short answer: No. Would not repeat. https://tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=82005

Very overrated. I decided to check that box with pros and it was twice the money for twice the work and no more pleasure than one. They approached me as a twosome but barely touched one another. Whenever I went to town on one, I felt like I was leaving the other out. The "left-out" girl would just sit there. Don't care to repeat. I've only had one civvie ex who was actively into girls. We talked about it, but never followed through.

^ This article says it best on Buttigieg: "In barely over two years, Buttigieg has overseen a crippling supply chain crisis (during which time Buttigieg was AWOL on paternity leave); a near-horrific national rail strike avoided at the last minute; the first FAA grounding of all national flights since 9/11; and most recently, a series of high-profile, visually shocking, destructive train derailments. It is evidently not possible to be worse at one's job than the 41-year-old former mayor of Indiana's fourth-largest city is at being transportation secretary of the United States." https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/02/17/democrats_have_no_good_option_for_2024_148881.html

^ Can't be blamed on systemic racism or climate change. The only two acceptable emergencies to Democrats. Doesn't help that Ohio's gone red, and East Palestine is solid Trump country.

"Politics aside we'd be niggaz lulz" I've been confused for black, but I'm no one's African-American. "So, yes, 1,600 deaths are far too many, but these are a lot of categories and circumstances within those numbers." Which is why anyone who conflates the various causes of deaths from guns isn't sincere. Suicides happen with whatever's in reach. Japan's suicide rate dwarfs ours, and the Emperor of Japan himself would have a rough time getting a gun. Hanging is almost as sure as a self-inflicted gunshot wound (I guess most people don't know how to properly off themselves).

With a choice between topless only + alcohol vs. all nude + no alcohol, I'd take the former. But it seems like most "nude" clubs rarely show full cooch on stage these days, anyways. Neither seems to preclude extras. I've been to extras factory clubs where they barely show midriff on stage.

"WTF Tetra Ape?" No wonder there aren't any famous lion gourmands.

The "coffee and donuts" dessert I had at Gavin Newsom's favorite restaurant, The French Laundry Nutella French toast at the diner down the road from where I used to live Calamari with balsamic glaze and hot peppers at Cassarino's in Providence (great conclusion to an afternoon at Desire) Kona coffee rubbed NY strip at Capital Grille Frank Pepe's New Haven style pizza, preferably meatball ricotta Mole chicken with a spicy margarita at Temazcal

It comes and goes in cycles. Always will. I haven't gone in nearly 3 months and not feeling the urge to. After a while, even the best strip club experiences get routine. No matter how hot she is, or how well she grinds.

"a stupid gesture like that will be inviting a lunatic to respond." Not saying it was wise. Some guy up in NH weaved around me, slammed on the brakes, and flipped me off. I was coming back from the gun range and legally armed at the time. Instead, I made a gesture to a Home Depot parking lot--then drove off. But by "aggressive," I mean that in the northeast, someone gives you a couple car lengths to change lanes, you need to take it or you're going to miss your exit. I think everyone accepts it as the way everyone else is up here. Nothing personal.

I used to be a hothead on the road. A bunch of speeding tickets. One guy gave me attitude and I made a "rack the slide" motion with my hands. Now I've calmed down. You have to be aggressive in the northeast, but I'm not cutting people off or getting into shouting matches. Only thing I lay on the horn for is if I see someone (usually a teenage girl driving daddy's Benz) texting while driving. That'll never sit well with me.