Comments by RonJax2 (page 20)

> I negotiated him down to $120 which included a bucket of 10 beers. Interesting. Did he just give you a bucket to bring back with you or did he actually come to your room at Cascadas with the bucket? Interesting too that Cascadas didn't try to charge you anything, I wonder if that lasts. Either way, I definitely want to peak into GP next time I'm there!

Thanks for the thorough review OP!

This kid impresses me, and furthermore, I don't see the issue with what he did. He saw a gap in the market for information and filled it, using the tools he had available. The consequence might be that some Scots wikipedia entries contain grammar errors, but it's better than having nothing. Anyway, I bet he goes on to do some impressive things.

@shailynn: > To me it sounds like the OP understands the price increase but is also adding that he feels Tijuana not only increased prices but is also price gouging. The increased prices in general don't feel like gouging to me. I think it's a rational response from any business in this situation, where they primarily take a foreign currency that's losing value versus the domestic currency. I think it's exactly like @booji is saying. What does feel like price gouging, to me, are bar fines. Those didn't exist in 2020. When I first started going in 2022, they were only infrequently enforced and were $50/chica/hour. Now they START at $110/chica/hour but if it's busy will try to charge you even more, and it's rigorously enforced. The main pretext of these barfines wasn't USD/MXN prices though, it was a serial killer who preyed on women at HK. As a result the club had to hire the management staff needed to track chicas in the rooms, so of course they're going to have them enforce barfines too. That one deplorable psycho ruined TLN at HK. > do you think there’s any correlation to the exorbitant price increases and the cartels getting involved The Cartels have always been rumor to be involved, that's not a new thing. And, you can't eat avocados without indirectly benefiting the Cartels. https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2023/02/08/rival-drug-cartels-profit-mexican-avocados-us-police-work/69840227007/ They're everywhere and they don't stop having Cartels in Mexico, but I doubt they're driving price increases. I would observe that the rising MXN/USD rate is likely to the detriment of most Cartel operations, because like the chicas at HK, they're doing business in USD.

Yeah, I'll second what @PoundKing is saying about variety and tastes. OP I think your plan to hit all 3 clubs is a good one, it's probably what I would do if I had 4 nights to spend in DTW. And if you have an amazing time at Flight on your first night, no reason you can't call an audible and return there earlier than Thursday. And FWIW, I don't think you'll miss the talent if you arrive at 10 PM. Most girls are going to be working a night shift that goes from around 6-7 PM to close.

I'm always down to improve my mongering Spanish, thanks for the tip OP. I wonder if I can use this word in Mexico too? "Chicas" can be quite ambiguous as it literally just means "girls".

@Dan3635, that comment is very useful! One club it doesn't mention which OP might consider is Centerfold's Houston. I've been before and had an amazing time. And it sounds like Centerfold's is the kind of experience OP is looking for. @ReverendHorniBastard's recent review of Centerfold's may be helpful to OP: https://tuscl.net/review/407036

^ I wouldn't blame the workers or the customers for revolting over poker room pooled tips. As a patron, pooled tips make tipping feel like tax, not a gratuity. I don't mind gratuities where they are expected, and I like showing my appreciation for someone delivering good service. But if I'm tipping everyone on the damn shift, this isn't a gratuity, it's tax. And pooled tips obviously suck too for the workers that hustle the hardest.

RE: FIV, my ATF complained that she got UTIs from FIV at the foam show. And UTI means no work for these chicas, so I get it.

> "I haven't ate in 3 days" Lol, no one feeds these chicas, it's sad. That said, I've ended a few arribas by taking chicas to dinner at Azul. It's cheap and I think this is a high value play and a nice way to wind down a fun time.

I'm 50-50 on whether I'd lick Stormy's anus. I've never tried analingus before, but I suppose if I were to, I'd want the lady to be more my type and I like spinners. That said, Stormy is pretty hot, and if I did lick her ass, I wouldn't be embarrassed about it, that's for sure. But I'm also not a progressive by any stretch or measure, so I suppose I don't fit into your hypothesis.

> 42 girls on for the evening. Seems believable to me. Assume at any given point in time there's 5-6 dancers downstairs and 4 on stage, that leaves about 30 dancers scattered over roughly a dozen booths, dozen tables and the bar. I bet it was fun there that night. And thanks for the review.

Pooling tips is vaguely socialist. A stricter definition of socialism wouldn't include it, as it has nothing to do with the government owning the means of production. But either way it's a poor practice, and if a club I frequented engaged in such a practice, I would tip less and probably go less. I definitely tip less at the casino knowing I'm tipping into a pool of every croupier or dealer who worked the last 24 hours. And personally, as a fan of capitalism, I've always enjoyed the purely capitalist nature of the strip club and admire strippers who do well in this environment. Most strippers are really their own business owners, some quite successful, and I'm impressed by that. So in short, I agree with @PuddyTat69, @skibum and others here that it's a crappy idea. I hope these strippers win their lawsuit.

It's enormously difficult to keep up with all of Trump's criminal cases, especially with the noise of the civil suits he's involved with. If you focus only on his criminal suits, I think it's hard to argue he's the WORST criminal: Tracking the Trump criminal cases | https://www.politico.com/interactives/2023/trump-criminal-investigations-cases-tracker-list/ The most serious of the crimes he's accused of are election interference. That's serious. And, he's mislead so many people with lies about the 2020 election being stolen, I think that's damaging to our democracy. But there are worse criminals. Trump wasn't (yet) throwing dissidents out of helicopters, like Augusto Pinochet. He wasn't committing a genocide like Hitler. He didn't cause a Holodomor like Stalin. Surely you can think of hundreds of WORSE criminals in this regard. And if you mean WORSE criminal in terms of least effective. I worry you're wrong. Trump's legal strategy in all these cases will be to "deny, delay and denigrate." At the core of the strategy is that if he's re-elected president, he can pardon himself and his co-conspirators once back in office. Given that he's in a dead heat with Biden in recent polls, this isn't a terrible strategy from an "effectiveness" standpoint.

@PT > "The only people blaming Biden for high inflation are right wing media." False. David Lynch of the Washington Post (right wing media my left nut) says 3-4% of inflation (in 2022) was directly attributable to Biden's American Rescue Plan. I actually agree with you that the ARP is one of many causes of inflation. It added $1.9T to the federal debt and that's inflationary. I think I acknowledged in prior posts that pandemic recovery measures under both Trump and Biden played a major role in igniting inflation. FWIW, I've also read the David Lynch Article you're referring to, and largely agree with it's conclusion: Biden’s rescue plan made inflation worse but the economy better | https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/10/09/inflation-economy-biden-covid/ Lynch also acknowledges the major role several of Trump's rescue plans, including the $2.1T dollar CARES Act. What's odd to me is that you see only the American Rescue Plan, when the reality is there were several large COVID aid packages, most of them under Trump (whom you do not seem hold to account in the slightest.) According to the US government, there were six major COVID relief packages signed into law \ https://www.pandemicoversight.gov/about-us/pandemic-relief-program-laws: 1. The Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 (Total $7.8B) 2. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Total $15.4B) 3. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, (CARES Act) (Total $2.1T) 4. Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (Total $483B) 5. The Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Total $900B) 6. The American Rescue Plan of 2021 (Total $1.9T) Trump signed 1-5. Biden signed number 6. Roughly $3.6 trillion for Trump and $1.9 for Biden. Why are you honing in on Biden's pandemic spending as the sole cause of inflation? And we haven't even gotten into the worthiness of any of these aid packages. My personal opinion is that there was probably *some amount* of COVID aid and stimulus deficit spending was necessary, even if it meant paying the inflation price later. I think we overshot the mark, but fortunately not as bad as many of our international friends (where inflation has been worse). I think some of the spending was particularly odious, especially the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), whose loan forgiveness provisions made it effectively a cash transfer to business owners/shareholders. You could argue this was necessary maybe for restaurateurs retail business owners, but the PPP applied to every industry, even in places like tech, finance and health care where shareholders made a ton of money in 2020 without sprinkling PPP funds on top. You talked earlier about the wealthy paying their fare share, the PPP was basically just giving the wealthy money. But this was legislation signed by Trump, not Biden. So to tie this into the original point of who is to blame for inflation, when we account for pandemic deficit spending, we need to account for the fact that the vast majority of it happened under Trump. And not only did most pandemic spending happen under Trump, it happened just after he'd passed one of the largest tax cuts in history for the wealthy, adding trillions to the federal debt.

I laughed at a Stormy Daniels post and so I shouldn't be allowed to reproduce or vote? What kind of Nazi bullshit is that? JFC. The only appropriate response I can think of is blocking you my dude, ain't no one got time for fascist bullshit.

> A MAGA supporter wrote, "Stormy Daniels is a parasite that would sell anything for a dollar," and Daniels responded, saying, "Not true. I wouldn't sell Bibles." 😅🤣

Wait, not just reviews but: > The Daily Mail has reported the attacker had profiles of his own on various escort websites, where he offered services for both men and women. The dude was a sex worker himself! (If the daily mail is to be believed...)

@jackslash already mentioned it, but I'd place Landing Strip as number 1 for talent overall. This is my own highly subjective assessment, so take it for what it's worth OP. I like spinners with cute faces and on all my visits to date, LS has had more of them than Flight. Not that Flight was bad in this regard, LS was just better. OP, I think there's also this to consider: IMHO, the quality of dances is a little subpar in Detroit. I've had some good dances, but I've also had some mechanical grinds and other boring lapdances in Detroit. I think you're unlikely to get a Vegas quality grind here, so set your expectations low. The main appeal of the DTW scene is the menu which is 😚👌 OP, you mention you have four evenings. If I were you, I would dedicate 1 evening each to BT's, Landing Strip, and Flight. Then on your final evening, Thursday (which is going to be the busiest/best of any of the nights), return to the club you liked best. (Or alternatively, do an OTC session, if you can pull that off!)

BRACE YOURSELF It's going to be Stormy for the next few weeks as this NYC criminal trial pops off.

@nicespice > I feel like a lot of customers below a certain age hate socializing This is an interesting observation. Recalling my time as a younger man in strip clubs there was definitely a lot more nervousness involved. Part of that for sure, was money. I had much less of it when I was younger and I was more preoccupied about spending it. Being inexperienced was also a factor. Talking to a beautiful stranger dressed only in her lingerie is something that takes practice.

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> Now if she wanted to go to Chippendales or something My wife does girls weekends with her friends somewhat regularly. The usually (not always) hire some kind of adult male entertainment, or go to a male strip club on these trips. And from the reports I've heard, shit gets pretty rowdy. And, I'm all for it. More power to her, I want her to enjoy life as much as she wants me to enjoy mine. Anyway, this is a great discussion OP. I think you're spot on to question the idea that it's the more moral choice to leave your family for a life of mongering versus patronizing clubs when you're married.

I enjoy talking to strippers. Not all of them, some are pretty vapid. But I've also met architects, artists, musicians, fashion students, entrepreneurs, and budding real estate moguls. I think there are some pretty interesting ladies that get into this line of work, and if they're good at stripping in general, they're good at the conversation aspect of the game. And for me, a fun and flirty conversation is essential to putting me in the mood for a dance. I will say this to the OP - if you do not enjoy conversation and want to get right down to business with dances, I think most strippers will say you're an ideal customer!