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Yet it happens in the US too.

Well they are likely more reliable than the CDC these days.  

Well I'm just back from four days in Montreal Sept 5-8.  There's lots to cover here:
MONTREAL & THE VILLAGE
*  Summer and autumn weather experienced.  Two warm days, one wet day,  and finally a cooler day  (high of 56F).
*  I was surprised at the number of Teslas operating in Montreal.  I took plenty of Ubers during my visit and more than half of them were Tesla vehicles.
*  The Village was moderately busy during my stay...especially on the first two days when the weather was warm.    I did not notice an unusual amount of homeless beggars on St. Catherine.  For sure they were there...but no more or less than in the last 2-3 years.  
 
CAMPUS & STOCK
*  Campus in the afternoon seems to be pretty dead.  I went twice arriving around 4:30pm.  The first time there were three dancers...only one was moderately attractive.  The second time, there were no dancers for the first half hour.  Then Carmelo arrived.  He was just OK.  I didn't stay much longer.  
*  Campus definitely has the better evening lineup of dancers.  Just better quality and more attractive than Stock. There are a few cute guys at Stock but you will find more masculine/muscular guys at Campus if that is your thing.  I noticed that former Stock dancer Fabio is now dancing at Campus.  
*  Malik was at Campus on Saturday night doing private dances.  I only noticed him fairly late as I was speaking with several dancers at the bar and not really paying attention to what was going on around me.
* I spent one evening socializing/drinking/playing with Gatuso and Leonardo at Stock.  It was a different experience as one is from Morocco and the other Tunisia.  Neither of them drink much alcohol although they did with me.  Gatuso said he's probably going to go to hell for drinking alcohol.  Meanwhile he does lots of porn videos and OnlyFans content that is very explicit.  Isn't that going to send you to hell too....if you believe that crap?  Anyway, it was a different yet very fun evening.
* I had a great "reunion" evening at Stock on Friday with former dancer Jo, former dancer Zack, and former/current dancer Derrick and former/current dancer Jasper.   So much fun along with sexy bartender Alex.  I've known Jo since 2011.  Such a nice and sexy guy.  He's straight yet very open and relaxed about it all.  Anyway, we all shared old stories about Milton, JP, Thierry, Steven (RIP), Franco, etc.  It was like getting together with old friends.  I treasure those moments.
* This was a shocker.  Stock had what I would call a trans stripper on Friday night.  Biologically male but dressed and coiffed as a female.  Quite short.  Female hair, full makeup, very small penis.  I don't know what to say about it other than I was surprised.  Customers in attendance close to where I was were in shock and not enjoying it.  I have no further comment.  
* As far as females at the clubs, they were in attendance all four nights.  It was manageable and didn't impact my experience with the exception of Thursday night at Campus. There was a bachelorette group there.  One of the women was a very aggressive and in-your-face type of gal.  I paid my cheque and high-tailed it over to Stock.  Problem solved.
 

I feel like the male strip club is a dying business concept.  COVID didn't help things but the decline had already started before the pandemic.  The internet opened up the on-line escort advertising concept.  That hurt the stripping business to a certain degree.  Then the advent of sites like OF came around and hurt the stripping business even more by syphoning off some of the hottest new talent.   The quality of guys dancing at strip clubs has been in a slow decline for more than 10 years.  I was just in FTL over the weekend and spent three nights going to Johnson's.  None of the newer guys were even remotely interesting even though one of the nights there were over 40 guys dancing.  There were more fem twinks dancing at Johnson's than I had ever seen before.   Yes some of the attractive longer-term dancers are still there but some of them are pushing the envelope age-wise.  If the male strip clubs cannot attract young attractive talent, they are destined to eventually fail IMHO.  I'm not interested in going to a male strip club if there aren't hunky masculine muscle guys there.   Why would I spend money to go to a club to watch average looking fem guys dancing on-stage? 
I wonder if female strip club are suffering as well?

I was at Johnson's for three nights last weekend.  A few quick observations:
*  The music is played entirely too loud now.
*  Too many fem twink types dancing there now.  Maybe that's all they can find to dance now.
*  Lot's of chatter that Johnson's won't be around much longer.  Accurate?  Who knows?
*  None of the 10-12 newer guys were attractive or masculine IMHO.
*  Some of the long-term dancers are still good looking but it's a small group.
*  Marlon Brando look-alike (Lucas) is getting bigger and says he will do body-building competition in 2027.

I feel like the male strip club is a dying business concept.  COVID didn't help things but the decline had already started before the pandemic.  The internet opened up the on-line escort advertising concept.  That hurt the stripping business to a certain degree.  Then the advent of sites like OF came around and hurt the stripping business even more by syphoning off some of the hottest new talent.   The quality of guys dancing at strip clubs has been in a slow decline for more than 10 years.  I was just in FTL over the weekend and spent three nights going to Johnson's.  None of the newer guys were even remotely interesting even though one of the nights there were over 40 guys dancing.  There were more fem twinks dancing at Johnson's than I had ever seen before.   Yes some of the attractive longer-term dancers are still there but some of them are pushing the envelope age-wise.  If the male strip clubs cannot attract young attractive talent, they are destined to eventually fail IMHO.  I'm not interested in going to a male strip club if there aren't hunky masculine muscle guys there.   Why would I spend money to go to a club to watch average looking fem guys dancing on-stage? 
I wonder if female strip club are suffering as well?

I think your points make sense even for those of use who like twinks/fem guys...I haven't been to FTL for a while now,  but I've found that in Montreal, the quality of the twink dancers declined precipitously post ~2010.  As has the male strip club experience overall, as documented again and again in recent posts.  However,  I think the Montreal escort scene has changed for the better since then...which might correlate to the decline in the strip dancer scene.

Is a subscription anti-virus even needed these days?  My go-to tech guy tells me he uses it at work but not on his personal computer. His view is if you aren’t going to sketchy sites, you’re likely ok.  Most laptops for instance already have some kind of defender built in that addresses most of the issues. I have not used an anti-virus for two years and have had no issues. 
Then  again, I don’t go to sketchy sites. I know I know…define “sketchy”. 

I feel like the male strip club is a dying business concept.  COVID didn't help things but the decline had already started before the pandemic.  The internet opened up the on-line escort advertising concept.  That hurt the stripping business to a certain degree.  Then the advent of sites like OF came around and hurt the stripping business even more by syphoning off some of the hottest new talent.   The quality of guys dancing at strip clubs has been in a slow decline for more than 10 years.  I was just in FTL over the weekend and spent three nights going to Johnson's.  None of the newer guys were even remotely interesting even though one of the nights there were over 40 guys dancing.  There were more fem twinks dancing at Johnson's than I had ever seen before.   Yes some of the attractive longer-term dancers are still there but some of them are pushing the envelope age-wise.  If the male strip clubs cannot attract young attractive talent, they are destined to eventually fail IMHO.  I'm not interested in going to a male strip club if there aren't hunky masculine muscle guys there.   Why would I spend money to go to a club to watch average looking fem guys dancing on-stage? 
I wonder if female strip club are suffering as well?

Whenever TMZ ever does a piece on Lindsay Lohan, they refer to her as LiLo. 

When I saw the header, I thought Lindsay Lohan had died. Whew!

Who?

Talking with dancers over a drink and then getting a private lap dance! 🤩

At one point the roster there was as good as I have seen anywhere in the US but the good ones never stay long which prob means they aren’t making money.  (Or sugar daddies take them away 😆)

I am posting this in the Male Strip Club section because Phillipe has been a Montreal stripper for quite a few years.  This story is in the public domain so I assume it is OK to post it.  
Stock aficionados will recall Phillipe who danced at Stock some years prior to COVID.  He started as a cute energetic rather skinny but toned guy who, at the time, was a good friend of Yannick (also a Stock Dancer then).  Phillipe eventually got into serious bodybuilding and transitioned from Stock to Campus and also took long stretches off from dancing.  I last saw Phillipe at Campus in November of 2023.  Actually we spent the evening at the bar with a few other dancers reminiscing about old times.  Personally, I did not really care for his roided-up muscles and huge neck but it was fun to reconnect with someone I had spent time with years before.  
Fast-forward to this week and my trip to Lauderdale.  I was talking to a few of the Canadian dancers and they said that Phillipe was in prison for beating up a girlfriend.  I texted a Montreal dancer that I know well and he confirmed it was true.  I quickly was able to find some news stories about the topic.  It seems he is likely to do some serious time for this as he is a repeat offender.
Again, I don't think I'm breaking any rules as all of this is in the public domain.
Warning:  some of the photos of the victim in the hospital are disturbing.
Quebec man accused of assaulting ex-girlfriend facing new charges
MONTREAL.CTVNEWS.CA New criminal charges have been laid against a Montreal-area private trainer after a second complainant has come forward with allegations of assault. Montreal-area woman speaks out about domestic violence after brutal attack
MONTREAL.CTVNEWS.CA Days after surviving a brutal assault, Laury Choinière is speaking out about domestic violence to help women in similar situations.  

I agree. He likely has a year to go. The victim seemed relatively satisfied with the verdict. I don’t think she would have been if he was going to be released in a matter of weeks. 

But that clever name!!

And no tattoos. How refreshing. 

Well...it seems my concerns regarding Brightline's viability were correct.  They are in financial distress.  There was no way this was a sustainable business with the fares they were charging and the ridership they were getting.   I wonder how many federal/state dollars went into this project?
Brightline's future is in doubt after a report outlines the company's multi-billion dollars in debt - CBS Miami

Yep. See my post up thread from yesterday. 

Brightline Florida isn’t even that fast. It’s pretty slow between Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.  It does pick up speed though on the final segment between WPB and Orlando…125mph I think.  By European/Asian standards, that’s not really high-speed. 

Brightline Florida isn’t even that fast. It’s pretty slow between Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.  It does pick up speed though on the final segment between WPB and Orlando…125mph I think.  By European/Asian standards, that’s not really high-speed. 

I agree. He likely has a year to go. The victim seemed relatively satisfied with the verdict. I don’t think she would have been if he was going to be released in a matter of weeks. 

Reporting somewhat ambiguous if not erroneous. Some of the media either garbled the numbers or shorthanded the calculation variables. The math only works if the court applied enhanced credit for pre-sentence custody, eg, 1.5:1 ratio vs 1:1 would explain the deduction in this case. A straight 42-month sentence minus circa 27–28 actual months already detained would still leave roughly 14–15 months, not merely 15 days.
Not all of the local articles referenced imminent release. The articles seem to omit remand credit component details and make it sound like simple calendar subtraction, but that’s a full year unexplained. Granting any additional credit, in this case apparently 50% (unless release “in the coming weeks” was a typo, broken calculator, or glossed over sentencing narrative) is not automatic yet can be uncoupled from crime “seriousness”.
I do believe, though, the judge would have verbally articulated justification for enhanced served time credit. “Already served over 2 years” is not a trigger for the court’s credit ratio discretion. Surely the victim should have complete clarity related to Leduc’s status. My calculated guess, if pressed to hazard one, is that he has another year or so of prison time to serve.

Hooking up with the guy on Sniffies who was in the waiting room at my Dr Office.  We were chatting on Sniffies while waiting, then hooked up after the MD appointment.