well, there's always next month.

Put in 3 short sessions today, didn't feel like a 4th and didn't feel like going to bed. 2-tabled .5/1 7-game for a couple hours. Made 50BB. Thinkin' of shottying 2.5/5 7-game. Anyone know how good those guys are?

thunderdome time.

I've been to strip clubs 2 times in college and both times have been awesome. The key ingredient that made it awesome: lots and lots of alcohol, maybe a cigar or two to make you feel a little classier. Yea you might end up spending $100 on the night between cover charges, paying for lap dances and bar fees but it's definitely a fun thing to do every 6mo-1yr. The next day you feel dirty as **** though.

Also, the thought of having my parents pay for me to go to strip clubs weirds me out so I definitely used some of my poker money instead.

lucky ass mother****ers. my college is too expensive so i pay for everything...including 1/2 of the tuition. gogo fpps. need to get back to grinding. someone write my 8-10 page paper that is due in a few hours. plzzzzzzz.

This is the rule for any strip club i've ever been to.

It's actually the law here in DC. (But better than VA where it's pasties and bottoms!)

Edit: I've never been happy leaving a strip joint. I hate window shopping.

Do you think this is a good thing? Because I don't, but i'm wondering if it's some jealousy of mine because i had to pay for almost everything after 16. I know i still led a privileged life so it's not really appropriate for me to take offense to spoiled children, but i do anyway

People have never been to Tijuana ITT. Then you will wish the rule was no touching.

This rule is unheard of in the Bay Area.

Though only the "topless" places serve alcohol. You have to sneak your booze into the full nude joints.

What's your paper on?

+1

I've also had to pay for most of my expenses since 16 (besides the big ones like college tuition and rent for most of college) - gas/car insurance/food/utilites/going out, etc. I definitely gained a better appreciation for money because of it. However, like you, I still am a little bit peeved at people who get all their $$$ from their parents. Whatever...as my grandpa says "Meh, it's only money"

Make yourself, amirite illini?

Of course

I've had to pay for everything since 16 INCLUDING college tuition and rent for most of college, so I can understand your disdain for those with things handed to them. Lots of my friends tell me they don't understand how I'm "so good with money" and I "work so hard and have a great job", and they don't seem to realize it because I wasn't sitting on my ass from 16-24 spending my parents money.

Yeah, my mom didn't give me monies for college either. Sucked hard at the time. Still sucks having to pay off college debt while trying to make a dolla outta fiddy cent. So for revenge, I am desperately going to try to make her my employee.

I suppose in the end I will look back on the advantages of it all, and I will probably say that if the circumstances were different, there is a good chance I would have turned out worse... but it is definitely hard at the time.

I am both.

My parents gave me $10/mo allowance and never increased it. From 12-15 this translated to one new Nintendo game every 4 months, but when I hit puberty this no longer cut it, and I found a job and have been working since I was 15 years old.

But my parents are both PhDs and believe education is the beginning, middle, and end of life. They paid for 100% of my college education, I only had to work for beer money.

But I am well aware that starting out life debt-free is among the greatest gifts you can give a kid. It has allowed me a lot of freedom, like quitting a job because I didn't like it. Twice.

I was already pretty drunk when we got there because we had been to two different bars/clubs beforehand, so I had that taken care of, but I think I would prefer to go stone-cold sober next time.

I always have cigars on hand though and those did happen.

It's not like I'm just leeching at this age, I have cashed out a decent amount so it's not a complete freeroll. Also, I am paying my parents back for everything they have spent on me since I started University, although it is comforting to know that they are not expecting to get repaid (and kinda don't want to) because it always takes me 5 minutes to get them to accept money from me.

Ironically enough, this is not the rule in any strip club that all of my best friends have been to.

I'm not gonna lie about being spoiled, because I am, but I am also an only child that comes from a middle-class family, so in all fairness, (this is prolly gonna come off as me sounding like a d-bag, which is not what I'm going for, but...) wtf else are they going to spend their money on

Sounds like your friends had some ******ed parents to let them do nothing and spend their money lol. I realize I spend my parents money a lot too, but if I wasn't in a good university program at a good university, my ass would be out on the street.

Out of curiosity, for those of you who had to get jobs young and pay for a lot of stuff yourself, are you happy about it in retrospect or not? Also, would you do the same to your kids?

To me, it seems like if you have the means to pay for things that your kids need (car, school, rent) while they are still young and in school and don't have their own sources of income, then it would be pretty bad parenting not to do it, although then again, I guess I am one of the spoiled kids.

In retrospect, I am happy about most of it, not so much about others. I wouldn't do to my kids all of what I had to do, but they will be paying for most of their college themselves. If they don't have the right grades to get even part of a scholarship to a state school, they probably shouldn't be going there anyway.

I plan to avoid the quandary by never having kids.

Nice TR. Sorry it didn't go better . . . but good experience and you didn't feel outclassed, just unlucky. Roll it back up and beat it next time.

You need to visit Sauget, east of STL . . . best strip clubs in the world IMO. None of this silly no-touch stuff, though of course there are dos and don'ts.

I tell myself I am happy for having done it, because it has made me appreciate money (and my parents weren't in a situation financially to help me, i would have suffered emotionally much more watching my parents bankrupt themselves at my expense).

I like to think i will be hard on my children, provide them with the necessities, but none of the luxuries. I will probably help them some with college, but they're on their own for car, excess clothes, booze, whatever else they want.

I think making your children work does a lot more good for them, than having them be complacent. I believe that suffering/working/toiling makes you appreciate the beauty of life.

disclaimer: I don't plan on having children (but i'm 23 lol, so that's normal)

I must be the only under 25 year-old ever who is looking forward to having kids one day lol.

I want to have 3+

But I come from a big family and so did both of my parents