Comments by From978 (page 2)

"The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the experience damnable." Usually attributed to Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1694-1773

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.

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.

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.)

Any time they say, "I've found it best if you pay in advance."

Yogi Berra: You can observe a lot by just watching.

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.

When I moved to my current town, the water commissioner was named Al Piper, and the town groundskeeper was Debbie Parks.

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.

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.

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."

I'm going to take a contrary view here. The physical aspects of a club change infrequently, and are always described in some other review. Dance staff in most clubs change all the time. A bad club with one first-rate dancer will go to the top of my list every time. At my age, I'm going to be able to sample about one dancer per visit (two, if the first was disappointing). Therefore (a) I can only comment on one dancer in my review, and (b) I'm mostly using your review to decide which dancers to look for. I think reviews should be written and judged in context. If previous reviews (including your own) have thoroughly explained that the stage is to the left of the bar, please skip that part. Conversely, if you discover someone who is really good or bad in private, that's useful information.

Autocorrect strikes again. Sorry

Google knows where you are, and they're an ad-supported business. Helicopter probably paid them a couple of Bath to serve you that listing. First rule of the Internet: If you're not paying, you are the product.

The question hasn't come up lately, but I definitely avoid any kind of "special" event. They are aimed at people who don't usually go to the club. For me, it's a distraction from the people I went there to see, and I may have to pay extra for the privilege. I can invariably have more fun with someone whom I know, or at least someone I might want to know.

I'm with Mickey here. We really need the "Ignore" button reinstated.

I'm possibly the only classical music listener here, so I'll limit it to one day, April 13, 1980. The musician was Vladimir Horowitz, one of the great pianists of the 20th century. The place was Boston Symphony Hall. My date was Miss December of a few years before, and my car was a 1936 Bentley. We continued dating until she got admitted to RISD the next year and moved to Providence in the fall. I foolishly thought that was too far to drive and we separated. Fast forward to this year. I found a recording of that concert, and was playing it in the car. My wife heard the applause and said, "Oh, was there an audience when he made this?" The only diplomatic answer I could think of was, "It sounds like it."

This one didn't happen to me, but I swear I saw it: A guy was in the lap dance area getting what appeared to be a long series of dances when a solid looking woman charged into the club. She elbowed the bouncer out of the way (made it look easy), found the guy, and started berating him, I think in Portuguese. She yanked him up by the shirt and marched him out the door, stiffing the dancer about $150. I assume it wasn't an intentional scam, but it crossed my mind that with a good accomplice it would almost always work. You would have to limit it to once per club, since people tend to remember that sort of thing.

There were about 100 contestants; two were transgender. Neither won anything. If you want to get excited about that, go ahead. I have trouble caring.

Of Sinclair's list, I've only been to Camelot in DC, and that was probably in another century. I think I never had a good experience there, but it was a five minute walk from the Mayflower Hotel, so I kept going back. I think my vote for worst is a now defunct club somewhere around Plover Wisconsin. I can't remember the name, but I do remember an extremely irate bouncer barging in to the only lap dance I bought there because the back of my hand had brushed the dancer's butt.

In the clubs I attend, the only safe assumption is that if one dancer knows something about you, they all know. That definitely includes tipping habits. A dancer who knows I'm going to make sure she has a good day is much more likely to make sure I have a good day. So if you're going back to that club more than once, tipping will improve your experience. If you're in the club when I walk in, your non-tipping will probably improve my experience, because she'll dump you and come talk to me, so feel free to keep the extra cash in your wallet. But if you want my advice, it is (1) don't go to a club you wouldn't go back to, and (2) use this visit to improve your next one.

A city clerk in the Philippines tried to convince me that I was getting married in the wrong city. Ten bucks solved it

This doesn't look like a political map, it looks like a big cities map. California, Texas, Florida, Illinois, and New York have nothing in common politically, but they house the largest cities in the country. The data come from a restaurant software subscription service, which seems oriented to fast food, pizza, and food trucks. I'm guessing the high end restaurants you find in Miami and Dallas don't use it, so you're filtering out places with big spenders. In Indiana, Applebee's is a good restaurant. (Not entirely fair; I know a couple of good restaurants in Indiana.)

Both your review and electroman's comment are spot on

I'm not sure whether anyone knows how many illegal immigrants work in strip clubs, but I'm absolutely sure that you don't know. It's not like they're wearing name tags that say Hello, My name is Kandi, and I'm illegal.