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  • Ladies, I promise I’m not trying to eat you.

    …wait. No, I mean, I’ll go down on you, sure. But I will not consume your flesh.

    Also, I’d like to handcuff your ankles and wrists onto a steel frame, in a vulnerable position. Then tickle the crap out of you for hours!

    Hey! Where ya going, ladies? Come back!

    See? So hard to talk to women!



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    I used to work for a very shitty hotel. Like, heroin and hookers kind of hotel.

    One summer we somehow became the official hotel of something called CLAW. I have no idea what it stands for, but the basic idea is that it’s a gay guys in leather convention.

    Anyways, I’m a straight male. I have no issues with these guys, but I wouldn’t join in. As I’m working the front counter, this guy comes up and tries to flirt with me. I politely decline. Then he goes off to our dining room area.

    Another guy walks up to check in. As I’m doing my job, the first guy comes back, walks up to the guy checking in, and says “Heeeey, I’m Tom. Are you single?” to which the second guy says “No, but I’m free to play”. Tom then gives him a room key, and says “Well I’m room 329. Feel free to bring as many as your friends as you like”.

    To this day I am dumbfounded by that interaction. To any gay dudes reading this, I want you to know flirting with women and sealing the deal is NOWHERE NEAR that easy! I was impressed, and a bit jealous.

    Tom walked up to this guy, and with 1 sentence and 1 question organized an orgy in which he was not at all responsible for setting up. He’s just offering a room. You bring the dudes.

    This means Tom doesn’t have to vet people. He doesn’t need to make sure everyone is comfortable with each other. He just told the second guy to bring all his friends, and he reaps all the rewards of orgy host!

    To put that in perspective, I’m 42, and never even had a threesome with 2 women. Because its such a hassle getting all the details just right. Meanwhile Tom’s over here like “ALL of your friends please!”

    He went from “Hi my name is Tom” to “Lets pack my room with dudes” with only one sentence, and one question. Even the Germans aren’t THAT efficient!

    So for you to say that you can’t get any other guys to give you a handjob…brother, you’re just not trying! Have you tried opening with “Hello”? Apperently that leads to orgies.








  • I’m already seeing on bluesky, in the discover tab, politicians saying how they voted to approve this bill.

    Then bragging about it.

    Which, maybe it’s just me, but it comes off kinda weird. Imagine if I tweeted “I did the thing at work I’m expected to do! And for once I didn’t get bullied out of my position! Yeah! Go me!”

    I’m all for sending Ukraine all the help they want. I just find it weird seeing politicians bragging about it hours after the innitial vote before we can see any actual results. Because you’re a fool if you think trump won’t be finding ways to make this vote mean nothing.




  • So many people go to years of business school to get specialized degrees in very specific aspects of business.

    When I was younger, I thought they must know what they’re doing.

    Since then, in the past 20 years I’ve watched so many huge companies that are too big to fail, go under and cease operations.

    I mean for christs sake! How the fuck does SEARS go under???

    For any Gen-Z people who may not be firmiliar with Sears, I want you to imagine if you get to age 40, and Amazon just stops existing and goes out of business. Personally I think SEARS in its day was bigger than Amazon is now. You used to be able to buy HOUSES from Sears.

    So now I’m older, and I realize one thing. These businessmen with all their degrees and training and world of knowledge don’t know the simple fundamental basics of business.

    Step 1) Sell a quality product for a reasonable price.

    Thats it. There is no step 2. You can try all day to fidget with the numbers, and raise prices, and shrink portions, and decrease quality. All you’re doing is nickle and diming your customer base. You’re destroying any good reputation you once had. You make an extra 5% profit on that singular sale…and then lose a customer.

    I once worked at a hotel. Every week this guy would come in, and rent a room. He barely used the room. Housekeepers always said it was like 5-10 minutes of cleaning (as opposed to 30-40 minutes). He always paid his room for the night in cash. And never was a problem. I charged $60 a night, which was on the low side for our hotel.

    One day he comes in as the owner is with me. He decides to check in the regular. He tries charging $90, and demanded a credit card to be put on file for incidentals. Which is a rule we apply to most guests, but we know this guy isn’t going to be a problem. I told the owner we don’t need that for him, and he’ll pay $60.

    The owner argued, so I backed out. Then he and the guest got into an arguement. He didn’t pay the $90, he never came back.

    I told the owner “When I run my shift, I make sure these housekeepers are providing clean rooms. I make sure the maintence man is on call to fix any break downs. I make sure on my end the computers are functional, and I pass these guests through the checkin process with speed and efficiency. All while doing my best to make you the most money. The tools at my disposal are selling a quality product for a reasonable price. That may sound boring to you. I’m not maximizing profits on short term sales. I’m retaining regular customers through company growth and hospitality. Now I can’t do much to make this hotel any higher quality, but I can at least satisfy the reasonable price aspect and try to retain repeat customers. But if you come in here and argue with customers, and run your company with a short sighted mentality, you’ll run your hotel into the ground.”

    He argued with me. And thats when I knew I couldn’t stay there much longer. I immediately started looking for a new job. I think a month later I left.

    Within 2 years the city shut the place down because they failed a city inspection. Instead of saying “Yes, ok, I’ll fix the violations”, he instead decided to argue with, and threaten the mayor. Which is when they just straight up shut the property down. He paid 2 million for the property. I know for a fact he didn’t make that money back. Then argued with a mayor until he threatened her, which resulted in him losing any chance for a profit.

    Now for the kicker.

    That story happened in 2019. Just last year the Cleveland Browns announced they were going to build a new stadium. That stadium would be built on land that was on the other side of a highway from where this hotel was.

    Meaning, in 2029, once the stadium opens, you could walk out of your hotel room, walk to the end of the property, walk under the highway bridge, and now you’re at the stadium. No need for a cab ride, it’s a 3 minute walk.

    During football season, he could be charging $400 per room, per night, and still be sold out.

    Or, maybe the Haslams (owner of the Browns, and also will be the owners of this stadium) would maybe want to buy his hotel. He could have sold it for 20 million. He could have had a highly profitable hotel which is sold out every weekend during football season.

    Instead, he took a loss. Because every businessman right now wants to direct the world around them with ego and stuborness.

    Just sell a quality product, at a reasonable price. You can use that as a baseline to grow your business.