tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post842685834367980318..comments2024-01-09T18:40:53.465-08:00Comments on Ramblings of a Creative Double Dipper: Incubus Dreams--chapter 32-33Christwriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17590823821715820817noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-50258693837045058672013-07-18T10:06:06.567-07:002013-07-18T10:06:06.567-07:00I get that, which is why I give foreigners some cr...I get that, which is why I give foreigners <i>some</i> credit. <br /><br />The nice Canadian couple who come in every day for their very first tourist week in Texas? Yeah, a ten percent tip is just fine.<br /><br />The Welsh guy who comes in AT LEAST twice a week, makes loaded comments about orgies and wild parties and a lot of inappropriate come-ons and then consistently tips ten percent despite softball hints that maybe something more than that would make up for having to deal with unwanted sexual innuendo? Yeah, not so much. The last few times he's come in I've conveniently been too busy to take him. It's not the shitty tips, it's the sexual come-ons combined with the shitty tips. If you're gonna be an ass, pay me more to put up with you. <br />Christwriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17590823821715820817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-79073816657866143242013-07-17T12:45:15.081-07:002013-07-17T12:45:15.081-07:00The joke in the service industry is that women and...<b>The joke in the service industry is that women and foreigners don't tip.</b><br /><br />Tipping is a huge deal in the US, less of a big deal in Canada, and very much less of a big deal in the rest of the world. In fact in some parts of the world it's just not done at all. And men often tip to impress people - Either women that they're with, or the other guys at the table, or the wiatstaff if they're female. I suspect that's less of a deal for female customers. <br /><br />The young preppy women you're describing just sound like douchebags to me. I suspect if they were douche<i>bros</i> they'd tip better to try and impress people, but the rest of their behaviour would be the same.<br /><br />And yeah, JC sounds like exactly the kind of boss to allow or even encourage bad behaviour from customers. The customers get to have their fun and they keep coming back because the other clubs set limits on their behaviour.<br /><br />Dirk McMeatslab.<br />Hugh Hardbeef.<br />Rock Hungwell.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05828438966741169694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-80922290175818836272013-07-17T11:11:20.164-07:002013-07-17T11:11:20.164-07:00That and...well, this is probably going to be real...That and...well, this is probably going to be really problematic, but I've found that the specific patrons this club seems to have are TERRIBLE customers. The joke in the service industry is that women and foreigners don't tip. I'll modify that to young, preppy women. They all have the same kind of makeup and clothing, they all treat waitstaff like shit, and they never tip well. Just given the bare-bones descriptions LKH has given me, the customer type is really obvious.<br /><br />I would not want a club with that customer type, and ONLY that customer type, and even if JC is heartless enough to endure it, I sure as FUCK would not want to work there, especially in a strip club where customers would feel (wrongly) entitled to touch. Or do more than touch. <br /><br />I mean, I'm at the point *NOW* where I wish I had a stage name to give customers. That's the first thing Nicky's done that feels perfectly in character, though I'm amazed he gets to be Brandon and not something like "Dick Charger" or whatever the male stripper equivalent is to "Candy Floss"Christwriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17590823821715820817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-13200561759868084112013-07-17T08:31:47.533-07:002013-07-17T08:31:47.533-07:00Then Anita finds out that the guy who should have ...<b>Then Anita finds out that the guy who should have kept the girls away from the stage door is also taking money to let in undesirables.<br /> <br />The undesirables being, you know, men. Yeah, men are strongly discouraged from going into Guilty Pleasures.</b><br /> <br /><br />If this is a private club they may be able to keep men out if they can prove that would directly support the club charter. Just a guess on my part, I'm not sure how US law would deal with that. But if this is a private club then this bouncer letting men in would be fired in a heartbeat because, hey, private club. Members and guests only.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05828438966741169694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-2670492203304389552013-07-16T19:12:19.821-07:002013-07-16T19:12:19.821-07:00....even if it's not illegal, turning away mal.......even if it's not illegal, turning away male patrons just seems like it would mean losing money. Like, that's just really weird to me.RFhttp://a-sporking-rat.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-65161218641118806572013-07-16T15:16:13.360-07:002013-07-16T15:16:13.360-07:00Something that I've been pondering over the al...Something that I've been pondering over the alst few days...<br /><br />Some series are set in a sort of timeless now. The Bernie Rhodenbar books by Lawrence Block come to mind, where Bernie is eternally in his early thirties and the series is always set in The Present. Events in previous books are referred to, but only in broad strokes.<br /><br />Some series are linear. Each book is about a distinct series of events taking place in a specific point in the lives of the characters. The Harry Potter series is a perfect example of this sort of series.<br /><br />The Anita Blake series started life as the second type, and there seems to have been a fairly specific set of character arcs built into the series. Anita is a monster-hunter who becomes tempted by the monsters, and must deal with her own increasing urges towards monstrous behaviour. But at some point the series shifted towards the first type. The series is now set in The Present, and character arcs are now either confined to trivial things or are reset for the sake of the longer series.<br /><br />The problem is that LKH made this shift in the middle of Anita's arc towards monstrosity. Anita Blake is now stuck forever in the act of becoming a terrible person. However she tries to minimize or justify her actions, the fact is that her actions are ugly because that's the point where her character was frozen.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05828438966741169694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-59941369697407937722013-07-16T14:19:04.614-07:002013-07-16T14:19:04.614-07:00"I’m always thinking about how one thing affe..."I’m always thinking about how one thing affects another. The consequences of your actions.”<br /><br />"I'm always thinking about what actions will result in the most gain for me. I am always considering any consequences of any actions that affect me and what I want."<br /><br />There, I fixed it. <br />Duamuteffehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467912396487349539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3350096535937978369.post-86720076029395703492013-07-16T09:45:21.002-07:002013-07-16T09:45:21.002-07:00Erm, not to be gross here but sex (particularly th...Erm, not to be gross here but sex (particularly the kind that soaks your clothing with fluids) has a smell. A very obvious one.<br />Anita's not fooling anyone, they're just too creeped out to mention it.<br /><br />Of *course* men are discouraged from entering GP. Anita can't be there all the time, and gay business without her to watch is just icky.<br /><br />Not to give LKH credit here, but everything I've read suggests that female strip club patrons are the worst (not all, but the majority). They're grabby, don't tip, try to draw attention to themselves, and buy into the whole "I can't be a predator because I'm female/ men want sexy touchings all the time" So I can understand the layer of disgust that seems to coat the perception of the women here.<br />I'm not saying that people who go to strip clubs are bad, mind you! Just that most often their behaviour is bad.Korenoreply@blogger.com