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japie
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18 Jul 2012 1:06pm
The other day this fellow came in to work and was rabbiting on about the strippers in one of the local pubs.

I do not need to reiterate my feelings about people degrading themselves and in this instance I kept my mouth shut even though I was tempted to have a crack.

He was a little bloke, yappy and pretty full of himself, you know the type. Going on about how you could get the girls to lap dance for you and how it was worth it if there was a group of you blah blah blah.

So tempted I was to point out how lucky the girls were to have his custom.

Particularly as I could smell his halitosis from a good ten meters away

Perhaps that was why he had to resort to paid company!
doggie
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18 Jul 2012 11:10am
What is halitosis?
Chris6791
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18 Jul 2012 11:16am
doggie said...

What is halitosis?


Stinky breath.
felixdcat
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18 Jul 2012 11:25am
japie said...

The other day this fellow came in to work and was rabbiting on about the strippers in one of the local pubs.

I do not need to reiterate my feelings about people degrading themselves and in this instance I kept my mouth shut even though I was tempted to have a crack.

He was a little bloke, yappy and pretty full of himself, you know the type. Going on about how you could get the girls to lap dance for you and how it was worth it if there was a group of you blah blah blah.

So tempted I was to point out how lucky the girls were to have his custom.

Particularly as I could smell his halitosis from a good ten meters away

Perhaps that was why he had to resort to paid company!


Yep that is part of the job, no one force the gurlz to do it and I can smell tobacco halitosis just from across the room and I am not dropping my gear and getting payed to endure it!
Nuthing wrong with strippers!
GreenPat
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18 Jul 2012 1:29pm
The other day I was watching a Stephen Hawking docco on the meaning of life, and he explored the concept that all the choices we make are a series of electrical signals in our brain which fire in a particular order. Each instant in time (a Planck time I suppose) sets up the next, so looking at it like that, it seems that our lives play out according to a fixed chain of cause and effect which happens the way it does and couldn't happen any other way.

So the old musing about whether if you had your time again would you do it all the same, perhaps you wouldn't have a choice, even though you spend your life making them.
japie
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18 Jul 2012 2:02pm
GreenPat said...

The other day I was watching a Stephen Hawking docco on the meaning of life, and he explored the concept that all the choices we make are a series of electrical signals in our brain which fire in a particular order. Each instant in time (a Planck time I suppose) sets up the next, so looking at it like that, it seems that our lives play out according to a fixed chain of cause and effect which happens the way it does and couldn't happen any other way.

So the old musing about whether if you had your time again would you do it all the same, perhaps you wouldn't have a choice, even though you spend your life making them.


I reckon Hawking tries too hard to make a scientific argument about the meaning of things. Mind you he has the nouse and he has the time. Does not have to sit in the library trying to work out whether the effort of starting a self managed super fund overcomes the chagrin at having some over qualified little parasite thieving the profits through fees because he is rained off is worth it.

He just sits there and thinks about stuff which is probably where he goes wrong. Many of the worlds most creative people will admit that their revelations come from a state of no mind.

Not a halitosis induced one though!

I wish I could achieve this SMSF ****e in a state of no mind, it is very very boring.
GreenPat
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18 Jul 2012 2:27pm
My parents have a SMSF and Dad raves about it all the time. He's preaching it to me now, suggesting I should set one up.

He's a solicitor by trade though, so all the legal stuff he can do in a state of no mind anyway. Still, sounds like a good way to maximise your returns.
GreenPat
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18 Jul 2012 2:35pm
So if we are destined to make all our choices the way we make them, how does dreaming, wondering, philosophising and musing fit into the picture? Thought for the sake of thinking? Including the 'no mind' state where revelationary thoughts just occur.

The simple explanation would be to furnish choices we make with the information to make them the way we do. I think there ought to be more to it than that though, something deeper.
Sailhack
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18 Jul 2012 2:47pm
I thought we were on the topic of strippers?
(.(.)

Perhaps use your 'state of no mind' to work out why seabreeze forums always turn something simple (like strippers & stinky breath) into an intellectual discussion.

My wife constantly tells me that when I get home from work, grab a beer & slouch in my chair that I'm in a 'state of no mind'!
stamp
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18 Jul 2012 2:59pm
i'm not sure i understand the point of the original post.
do you want us to know that you feel morally superior to this bloke? or that you showed commendable self-control by keeping your mouth shut? or is it, despite you stating otherwise, that you want us all to know that you're the type of man who doesn't visit strippers?
doggie
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18 Jul 2012 1:11pm
Strippers are people too
GreenPat
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18 Jul 2012 3:17pm
Sailhack said...

I thought we were on the topic of strippers?
(.(.)

I thought the thread was 'Reflections', not 'Reflections on strippers and people with bad breath'.
Wollemi
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18 Jul 2012 3:29pm
stamp said...

i'm not sure i understand the point of the original post.
do you want us to know that you feel morally superior to this bloke? or that you showed commendable self-control by keeping your mouth shut? or is it, despite you stating otherwise, that you want us all to know that you're the type of man who doesn't visit strippers?


This ^ But then, Japie, you could guide your potential shop customer to this > from today's SMH; 'Don't let the prudes deprive us of the spice of sexual banter' What follows here is a response from the public, not what Bettina Arndt said.

...what you're overlooking is that just like there is an etiquette around sexual banter, just like there is around many other social interactions. The problem here only comes up when that etiquette is not heeded. Some of that happens unintentionally, but that is a matter of better education on what is appropriate or not, not of crying ignorance and going ahead anyway.

I compare sexual banter to borrowing someone's property. You don't just go ahead and do it, you need to ensure the other person is comfortable with it first. And just like when you borrow something, you need to respect that even when they've shown it is ok, there are limits beyond which it is really pushing the friendship and becomes disrespectful.

If you make sure it's ok first and stay within the boundaries, then you'll find there's no problem. But if you don't check first, you should not be surprised that it is treated very seriously and there are harsh penalties. Just like when you innocently borrow something without permission it's called stealing, making friendly sexual comments about someone without their invitation is called sexual harassment.

This is why when people who treat it like a game requiring you to surprise the person with how outrageously they can push the envelope end up in big trouble. They shouldn't be surprised.



http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/dont-let-the-prudes-deprive-us-of-the-spice-of-sexual-banter-20120717-228cs.html#ixzz20weSIxAD
evlPanda
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18 Jul 2012 4:46pm
japie said...

The other day this fellow came in to work and was rabbiting on about the strippers in one of the local pubs.

I do not need to reiterate my feelings about people degrading themselves and in this instance I kept my mouth shut even though I was tempted to have a crack.

He was a little bloke, yappy and pretty full of himself, you know the type. Going on about how you could get the girls to lap dance for you and how it was worth it if there was a group of you blah blah blah.

So tempted I was to point out how lucky the girls were to have his custom.

Particularly as I could smell his halitosis from a good ten meters away

Perhaps that was why he had to resort to paid company!


Thanks for telling us this. It was really useless.
evlPanda
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18 Jul 2012 4:48pm
japie said...
He was a little bloke, yappy and pretty full of himself, you know the type.


japie said...
I reckon Hawking tries too hard to make a scientific argument about the meaning of things. He just sits there and thinks about stuff which is probably where he goes wrong.


felixdcat
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18 Jul 2012 3:46pm
^^^^^^
Gold!!!!!
felixdcat
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18 Jul 2012 3:47pm
doggie said...

Strippers are people too

Yes doggie... strippers need love too!

petermac33
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doggie
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18 Jul 2012 4:35pm
evlPanda said...

japie said...
He was a little bloke, yappy and pretty full of himself, you know the type.


japie said...
I reckon Hawking tries too hard to make a scientific argument about the meaning of things. He just sits there and thinks about stuff which is probably where he goes wrong.





No need to sit there and not think hey
Sailhack
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18 Jul 2012 6:47pm
I'm sure most strippers don't regard themselves as being used or degraded by males, and are more than happy with their 6-figure salaries...plus tips!

By the way...great pickup Panda! My 'no-mind' doesn't spot the obvious.
SP
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18 Jul 2012 4:48pm




And I smell good....
SP
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18 Jul 2012 4:48pm
Sailhack said...

I'm sure most strippers don't regard themselves as being used or degraded by males, and are more than happy with their 6-figure salaries...plus tips!

By the way...great pickup Panda! My 'no-mind' doesn't spot the obvious.


No worse than being degraded in an office or factory everday
the gibbo
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18 Jul 2012 4:50pm
doggie said...

What is halitosis?


Jesus thats a rich question from a dog, phew
SP
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18 Jul 2012 4:52pm
felixdcat said...

doggie said...

Strippers are people too

Yes doggie... strippers need love too!




And the good ones liked to be touched...

I like motor boats to... Gee this is a stupid thread....



whippingboy
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18 Jul 2012 5:03pm
My ex brother in law shows up at his mothers house with new girlfriend.

One of the neighbours comes over and asks me when the show is going to start. Said he was very impressed with her last performance involving vegetables.

Told him the real story and we both pi77ed ourselves

Didn't have the heart to mention it to the in laws though
japie
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18 Jul 2012 8:41pm
stamp said...

i'm not sure i understand the point of the original post.
do you want us to know that you feel morally superior to this bloke? or that you showed commendable self-control by keeping your mouth shut? or is it, despite you stating otherwise, that you want us all to know that you're the type of man who doesn't visit strippers?



The point was to post a reflection I had on an incident that I was privy to and promote a bit of discussion about it. Thought it might make a change from talking about telly.

It has not got anything to do with moral superiority. I just could not help thinking at the time how funny it was that whilst he was promoting his libido by relating the experience it was unlikely that he would find himself in a position where women would perform for him without payment when emitting a smell similar to that that comes out of a septic when you take the lid off.

As for morality, I have not always been this way but I have grown to dislike the commercialization of sex for a very simple reason. It is degrading,regardless of how you look at it. Most people who argue otherwise always balk when you ask them how they would feel were it their sister, wife or mother performing and say that that is different. It gets really funny when the odd one fires up and says that his sister/daughter would never do such and such or he would kill her if she did.


They are all someones daughter, wife or mother.
japie
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18 Jul 2012 9:05pm
evlPanda said...quote]

Thanks for telling us this. It was really useless.


So pretty much on tack with the forum as a whole? I would have thought that someone with your mental alacrity would have something better to do
GRunner
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18 Jul 2012 9:09pm
japie said...



They are all someones daughter, wife or mother.


Perhaps they are not....

Perhaps they are angels from God
Gwendy
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18 Jul 2012 8:59pm
I went to the Crazy horse strip club in Adelaide a few years ago.
Walked in the door past the bouncers. All females, Big buff muscly ones.
Bought a drink. Bar staff all women.
Met the manager. Nice lady.
Strippers of course all girls. Totally smokin hot ones.
That establishment at the time was run by a fully female staff. Believe me. If anyone was being exploited there it was the blokes stuffing their hard earned down the strippers knickers and paying 12+ dollars for a drink.
Everyone was having a good time, and no harm done.
As for the morally righteous, Well it really isn't any of their business.
Zachery
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18 Jul 2012 7:45pm
Gwendy said...

I went to the Crazy horse strip club in Adelaide a few years ago
Met the manager. Nice lady.


That aint no lady Gwendy I hope he didnt spike your drink! Madame Josephine has never or will never legally be a lady
Gwendy
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18 Jul 2012 9:31pm
Zachery said...

Gwendy said...

I went to the Crazy horse strip club in Adelaide a few years ago
Met the manager. Nice lady.


That aint no lady Gwendy I hope he didnt spike your drink! Madame Josephine has never or will never legally be a lady


No sh!t Rob, well that really buggers my story.
What about the bouncers, They chicks with dicks too? Why would they buff up to that level and put a mini skirt on? I'm confused.

You sure man? I'm talking mid 90's here.

You guys getting any wind over there?
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