discussion comment
10 days ago
I generally agree with the OP, but I sometimes see a purely negative review that's long on invective and short on facts. If I knew the club, and the review seems unreasonable, I reject it for the same reason I would reject a shill review: the reviewer has an agenda that isn't about informing me.
discussion comment
17 days ago
No
discussion comment
a month ago
I don't know about your guy, but I always walk into a club prepared to spend significantly more than I usually do, in case I get an offer that's too good to refuse. I also take care not to look rich. On the evidence, the only thing that keeps me from meeting your test for pathetic is that I couldn't explain an ATM charge.
discussion comment
2 months ago
∆ beat me to it. Fifty years ago I was broke and had all the time in the world. Now I have no prospect of living long enough to spend it all.
If you want a guaranteed response from a young guy, memorize the following sentence: "The first one is free."
discussion comment
2 months ago
There are 3400 US clubs on this site. 3300 of them are of no interest to me, but that's not a reason to exclude them. It's easy to ignore listings you don't want. It's impossible to see listings that would be censored because Electronman didn't like them.
discussion comment
2 months ago
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shailynnThey never tell you what you need to know.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says 1.5 million people were laid off or fired in April. That's a little below average for the last 12 months.
Your pessimism may be right, but your friend's anecdote doesn't support it.
discussion comment
3 months ago
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Jascoimr.wonderful to single moms and college age girls...
Me too, but since it takes about four other people making the same mistake, I don't sweat it
discussion comment
3 months ago
Wasted time has exactly the same value to her as to you, except the sign is different.
discussion comment
3 months ago
Hi, Ski
https://tuscl.net/listing/2004
discussion comment
3 months ago
I hate to sound like a stereotypical old coot, but you should have been here twenty years ago. The Pew Trust estimates that from 1990 to 2005, the US was gaining about 600,000 unauthorized immigrants per year. From 2005 to 2021, we lost a net average of 100,000 a year. (I couldn't find more recent data.).
Chelsea Massachusetts was one of the first sanctuary cities, and the strip club there saw a steady stream of hot young South Americans starting their careers. There's now nothing remotely comparable within my club orbit.
Does language matter? Absolutely! I speak Portuguese probably about at the level of a slow fifth grader, but that's enough to get me unrefusable offers from most Brazilians on the second dance.
Spanish is taught in high schools, or was in my day, so if you can't speak that, it's on you. Learn some, and ask the hottest Latina in the room to help you improve. It'll change your life.
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3 months ago
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Book GuyI write it like I mean it, but mostly they just want my money.
@Book guy: congratulations on starting an interesting discussion. My bet would be on police corruption and economic inequality. Providence has a long tradition of felonious city officials. Buddy Cianci served 21 years as mayor, interrupted by a kidnapping conviction, after which he was reelected. Providence, incidentally has only about 5% more people than Shreveport. As to economic inequality, I remember Mark Twain saying something like,"when a man with money sits down next to a man with experience, the man with experience gets money, and the man with money gets experience."
discussion comment
3 months ago
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Jascoimr.wonderful to single moms and college age girls...
In a possibly related development, I've noticed that pending reviews often now show a logo for the wrong club
discussion comment
3 months ago
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motorheadFat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life
On my Pixel the comments appear as white text on an almost white background. Nearly impossible to read.
discussion comment
3 months ago
Sorry, autocorrect strikes again: it's the expense that's damnable
discussion comment
3 months ago
"The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the experience damnable."
Usually attributed to Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1694-1773
review comment
3 months ago
Flash: their Facebook page usually lists the roster for the day. It's updated around 1:00 PM, but the last couple of weeks have been spotty. However, it lists only names, and since I'm certifiably bad at remembering names, it's not entirely helpful.
discussion comment
4 months ago
Interesting. That's actually better than I would have expected. The wording discloses that it's summarized from other reviews, and it's not as obviously wrong as some of the reviews I've rejected. The sure giveaway is the disclaimer at the end about views differing.
discussion comment
4 months ago
I see that Muddy has contributed over 800 reviews, so I doubt I can tell him much that he doesn't already know.
For less experienced readers, when I have put this question to dancers, they tell me that nighttime customers tend to be young men with time to kill, but no money. In the day, customers tend to be old guys with money who are running out of time (me, for example).
These dancers tell me they prefer the guys with money. (But then, they would say that, since it's followed by an offer to help me get rid of money in a hurry.)
discussion comment
4 months ago
Any time they say, "I've found it best if you pay in advance."
discussion comment
5 months ago
Yogi Berra: You can observe a lot by just watching.
discussion comment
5 months ago
It depends on what you want to have happen next. Your basic three options are (1) a dollar or two, if you want to never see her again, (2) as much as anyone else, if you want a few minutes attention, or (3) as much as everyone else, if you want to find out what's the best you can get.
discussion comment
5 months ago
When I moved to my current town, the water commissioner was named Al Piper, and the town groundskeeper was Debbie Parks.
discussion comment
5 months ago
It looks like the State Department is about to apply sanctions on part of the Israeli Defense Forces because they are violating human rights.
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/20/us-israel-sanctions-idf-west-bank
I doubt that this would have happened without the protests you describe. You may not like it, but I don't think you can argue that the kids are completely ineffectual.
discussion comment
5 months ago
I long ago decided that affection doesn't have to be real; it just has to be good enough to fool me. And under the right circumstances, I'm pretty easy to fool, and I'm even willing to spell out the best way to do it.
I've also found that you can accomplish a lot more with a kind word and a $100 bill than with a kind word alone. She may not love me, but her love of paying the rent is completely sincere, and some of that will rub off (if you'll pardon the expression) on me.
review comment
5 months ago
The math on the $5 vs $10 house cut is unfortunate but inexorable. If demand falls by less than 50% , the house makes more money with the higher fee. In the long run that can lead to a death spiral of fewer customers and fewer dancers, but I'm sure management's motto is "In the long run we're all dead."