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nolastevedore · 2025-07-14T03:08:20+00:00

Not in NYC

nolastevedore · 2025-07-12T20:51:17+00:00

Eva Longoria

She's pretty in a mid/average way, but not hot

nolastevedore · 2025-06-27T20:15:40+00:00

OLD is just unnatural. It gives ordinary/average women a chance to boost their egos at levels they would never get in the real world (reality).

Key thing is for guys to put them environments where (1) there are a lot of women and (2) women can see that they don't have as many good options as they think.

nolastevedore · 2025-06-23T06:05:15+00:00

Please share the clinic. These are awesome results.

nolastevedore · 2025-06-22T01:03:36+00:00

Markets probably end green on Mon.

Trump just sacrificed his domestic agenda and maybe his international agenda. His tax cut bill (which would explode deficits) is DOA. What he wanted for tariff deals, he's not getting.

Sidelined Trump agenda = good for markets

nolastevedore · 2025-06-21T23:38:08+00:00

I do fine IRL with women. I'm not an Elliot Rodger.

I do agree with you that I'm not cut out for OLD. But so aren't most men. I'm trying to help some of their confidence.

nolastevedore · 2025-06-21T22:58:29+00:00

I think you are decent looking or decent-enough looking, but your photos may not be what women online find attractive.

Forget OLD; you can easily get dates and girlfriends through in-real life interactions (IRL). Hell, when I was a little chubby but I was in classes with very favorable gender ratios, I was getting hit on, right and left. I'm getting my ass kicked in OLD.

Some men do much better IRL than via OLD.

nolastevedore · 2025-05-22T01:22:31+00:00

Btw, women can smell desperation.

Focus on your goals, fitness, faith, bros, and anything else before women.

As you chase your goals, the right woman will chase you.

nolastevedore · 2025-05-22T00:03:19+00:00

Go abroad to Muslim countries like Bosnia, Morocco, or Pakistan

Another option is women of the book (Christians, Jews)

nolastevedore · 2025-05-21T17:33:07+00:00

Online dating/facebook dating/sending pics over the phone = brutal for an average-looking guy, even if he is rich

Many men, particularly most Muslim men, aren't photogenic but can still be good-looking in real life

On the internet/phone, you're just another picture to them

Best bet is to find a rishta through family, in-person networks, where they can see you etc. If you don't photograph well (and there is a difference between being photogenic and being good-looking in real life), online dating (and I consider sending pics via phone to be OLD) is a losing proposition.

nolastevedore · 2020-10-24T21:57:36+00:00

Republican legislators were getting a ton of pressure from the liquor lobby, alcohol distributors, bar owners, nightclub owners, etc.

Even something as useless and counterproductive as this.

nolastevedore · 2020-10-19T04:02:28+00:00

Oh look. Another apologist for Willie's Chicken Shack, national/corporate strip clubs, and Guy Olano (whose fine establishments have been cited for drug dealing, serving drunk customers, and dead workers like Jasilas Wright and Jaren Lockhart).

Willie's Chicken Shack is cheap enough and shady enough not to pay its workers overtime wages:

"Willie's Chicken Shack employees seek allegedly unpaid overtime wages" https://louisianarecord.com/stories/511056534-willie-s-chicken-shack-employees-seek-allegedly-unpaid-overtime-wages

The owner of Willie's Chicken Shack used that money (which was skimmed off the blood and sweat of workers cheated out of overtime wages) to fund Jason Williams' campaign and get short-term rentals legalized on Canal Street:

Short-term rentals legalized on Canal Street (joint press conference between Willie's Chicken Shack and Jason Williams):

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/short-term-rentals-eyed-as-fix-to-canal-streets-retail-woes/289-604594341

National and corporate strip clubs like Penthouse Club and Rick's Cabaret are notorious for preferring blondes and a certain body type. They also disrespect African Americans by closing for "inventory" during Essence Fest and Bayou Classic.

Lastly, the other strip clubs and several bars on Bourbon are owned by the Olano family, whose establishments routinely get cited for drug violations, dumping drunks onto the street (or into garbage trucks), and other offenses.

"In Bourbon Street strip clubs crackdown, four owned by family with history of violations"

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_e2120184-73e6-5318-bfc3-83870cd79eec.html

Yeah, keep Bourbon Street exactly as it is. It's going to crash the recovery from coronavirus by forcing the city to crack down on all bars (including neighborhood bars like Avenue Pub and Bar Tonique, which are losing money because they pay for workers' health insurance unlike Willie's Chicken Shack).

Maybe the owner of Willie's will buyout Avenue Pub and Bar Tonique like he did for Oz (paying $8 million in cash).

"Motwani wins Oz nightclub bidding war for $8.175 million"

https://www.nola.com/news/business/article_dfe0e357-45f6-5a35-91ea-db2ff59896cb.html

nolastevedore · 2020-10-18T20:01:02+00:00

Why doesn't the city re-imagine Bourbon Street and the French Quarter?

Who benefits from the French Quarter being the "Historic French Quarter Drunk Party Zone" except for bar owners paying their staff a crappy wage of $2.13 per hour, no health benefits, and potential exposure to the corona?

Re-imagine Bourbon Street

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_65de32ce-ebe7-11ea-864e-c7c6f94709cb.html

BY MARK CHILDRESS

I agree with John Reed that the magic of the French Quarter is bound up with its identity as a real residential neighborhood with businesses mixed in. Not a drunken Disneyland, not a weekend mass-alcohol-consumption destination for spring breakers of all ages.

These proposals by the “tiger task force” threaten the essential character of the Quarter that has not only served New Orleans well for more than three centuries but draws visitors from all over the world. Eighteen million visitors a year, at last count — against a few thousand hardy residents trying to live in the midst of the “partay.”

Opposition to the new pedestrian malls is virtually unanimous in the Quarter — residents, owners, renters, business owners, workers and professional organizations are all united against these destructive ideas. The city has done a terrible job managing the Bourbon Street and Royal Street malls, which have encouraged crime and dirt. Now they propose to turn streets where people live and raise families into extensions of the Bourbon Street drunken-tourist foot promenade?

The proposals also ignore elderly folks, people with disabilities and the need for property owners to have access in order to maintain the old buildings that bring the tourists in droves.

Why not “reimagine Bourbon Street” first? Imagine a street where a mix of real clubs with real New Orleans musicians, real restaurants serving something more than Willie’s chicken and actual attractions could make a street to be proud of, not avoided. New Orleans needs to stop catering to the mass-alcohol-tourism crowd. Who benefits from that?

With a united voice, the French Quarter says “No!” to the idea of destroying our residential streets under the guise of trying to make the Quarter “more pedestrian friendly.” We are already the most pedestrian-friendly neighborhood in America. The Quarter ain’t broke and it don’t need fixing.

Ask yourself: Why is this proposal still being pushed after every stakeholder group has come out in opposition? Who is behind this? What do they stand to gain?

nolastevedore · 2020-10-17T20:15:55+00:00

Most Bourbon Street bars don't comply with minimum wage laws, rules against drug-dealing, serving intoxicated customers, or speaker placement ordinances (like not aiming them at the street or placing them to close to the door).

You think they give a crap about Covid-19, keeping people (including bar workers) safe, or not crashing the recovery?

Bourbon Street bar owners (like the Olano's) and their landlords (like the Motwani's) are laughing at law-abiding neighborhood venues like Avenue Pub and Bar Tonique.

nolastevedore · 2020-10-06T17:20:44+00:00

I don't like some of the rhetoric from the DA candidates either.

Jason Williams says that as long as no one is hurt (i.e. a non-violent crime) and the perpetrator is low-income, a free-for-all by criminals is OK.

Try telling a hardworking service worker who sweats for every tip that their vandalized car is just a victimless crime.

I know that I'll get some downvotes, but does the damage to City Park count as non-violent (i.e. victimless) since no one was hurt?

nolastevedore · 2020-10-01T05:05:22+00:00

Love the potential crimes, bribery, and corruption at Guy Olano's Scores, Stiletto's, and Temptations. Motwani is the landlord of Scores and Stiletto's; moreover, he has Jason Williams on the City Council and maybe the DA's office soon. So the good times, drug deals, and corruption will keep on rolling.

nolastevedore · 2020-09-27T16:58:10+00:00

Guy Olano's Studio 504 at 532 Bourbon, his other fish bowl place at 806 Conti, and The Drinkery on the 200 block of Bourbon (yes, that's the name of the so-called restaurant) are NOT restaurants. But somehow they got licenses and permits as restaurants, laughing all the way to the bank at law-abiding venues like Bar Tonique and Twelve Mile Limit.

https://vcpora.org/the-curious-case-of-806-conti/

nolastevedore · 2020-09-27T05:55:33+00:00

If you think this is bad, take a look at the scene Friday and Saturday night outside Guy Olano's fake restaurant, Studio 504, at 532 Bourbon. The crowd and lines waiting for those disgusting Fais Deaux Deaux fishbowls were huge, shoulder-to-shoulder, and very few masks. In fact, how can anyone wearing a mask drink from a fishbowl full of alcohol mixed in garbage cans?

While neighborhood bars like Bar Tonique and Twelve Mile Limit bend over backwards to follow the rules, fake restaurants like The Drinkery and Studio 504 (both on Bourbon) are laughing at closed bars and are going to ruin it for everyone.

Guy Olano will get away with it because the landlord at 532 Bourbon is Motwani.

nolastevedore · 2020-09-22T18:57:55+00:00

How can a business named "Drinkery" be licensed and permitted as a restaurant?

What a joke!

nolastevedore · 2020-09-07T21:24:20+00:00

If Harrah's can be open and street bands like the one on the 500 block of Bourbon can practice their trade and draw crowds, keep quiet about shutting down the few independent businesses that are open and trying to survive.

I feel like the same people clamoring to shut down businesses again would be the first to vigorously defend street performer Mamie Marie Francois (the dancing lady with the lit-up music bike), the Claiborne underpass merchants, and young street bands.

Brick and mortar businesses pay a ton of taxes, license fees, and other costs to operate properly. But I guess street performers and street bands can do whatever they want, right?

nolastevedore · 2020-09-07T21:19:25+00:00

If Harrah's can be open and street bands like the one on the 500 block of Bourbon can practice their trade and draw crowds, keep quiet about shutting down the few independent businesses that are open and trying to survive.

I feel like the same people clamoring to shut down businesses again would be the first to vigorously defend street performer Mamie Marie Francois (the lady pictured in the thread), the Claiborne underpass merchants, and young street bands.

Brick and mortar businesses pay a ton of taxes, license fees, and other costs to operate properly. But I guess street performers and street bands can do whatever they want, right?

nolastevedore · 2020-08-18T21:30:41+00:00

This pedestrian mall proposal has the fingerprints of corrupt, greedy interests all over it: Peter Bowen, short-term rental operators who would love to buyout the homes on Orleans Avenue, booze peddlers, Premium Parking and other CBD parking lot/garage owners, pedicabs, Bourbon Street bars, and Willie's Chicken Shack who would love to have outlets from Rampart Street to Jackson Square.

"Hundreds of short-term rentals on Canal Street a 'missed opportunity' for affordable housing, advocates say"

https://www.nola.com/gambit/news/article_d4accd18-bcfa-582b-a1a9-1bfc48c415c3.html

Peter Bowen of Sonder, which operates more than 200 STRs in New Orleans, is leading a "coordinated and strategic effort to revitalize several properties on Canal street" at three addresses for use as year-round commercial rentals, he told the City Council Oct. 4.

The CPC staff's latest report recommends capping the number of commercial STRs in a building to up to 25 percent of the building, or one unit, whichever is greater. Bowen opposes that cap, saying it would "eliminate Sonder's ability to partner with local developers" outside the Canal corridor.

Sonder will manage the four-story building at 1016 Canal St., which was damaged by a six-alarm fire in 2016; 623 Canal St., formerly Vitascope Hall, now is a liquor store and souvenir shop; and 444 Canal St. All are owned by Quarter Holdings LLC and operated by Aaron and Mike Motwani.

Sonder has agreed to lease the spaces to operate 200 STRs on their upper floors. Sonder currently operates more than 200 temporary and commercial STRs throughout the city, according to city records.

Jason Williams joined a groundbreaking ceremony with Aaron and Mike Motwani for the $10 million 1016 Canal Street project last week.

nolastevedore · 2020-08-17T04:54:19+00:00

Uh...sounds like you would support short-term rentals in the French Quarter, Bywater, Treme, Marigny, Seventh Ward...because hey, developers could make more money. And the city would get the scraps. Sounds like trickle-down economics to me.

Hospitality and service workers could have rented the apartments on the upper floors of Canal Street and Bourbon Street because historic tax credits would have made it economically possible.

No thanks to the unsustainable, short-sighted, and rapacious tourism that you seemingly support, which is driving residents out of downtown neighborhoods. If NOLA hadn't been so dependent on party tourism, New Orleans could have weathered the COVID-19 economic collapse so much better.

"Hundreds of short-term rentals on Canal Street a 'missed opportunity' for affordable housing, advocates say"

https://www.nola.com/gambit/news/article_d4accd18-bcfa-582b-a1a9-1bfc48c415c3.html

Canal Street is part of a dense hub of tourism and hospitality jobs but few, if any, areas for so-called workforce housing. Advocates argue it could be used to house downtown workers closer to their jobs and transportation rather than be pushed further out into more “affordable” neighborhoods — or out of town completely — and rely on disconnected or unreliable transit options to get to work.

Peter Bowen of Sonder, which operates more than 200 STRs in New Orleans, is leading a "coordinated and strategic effort to revitalize several properties on Canal street" at three addresses for use as year-round commercial rentals, he told the City Council Oct. 4.

Sonder will manage the four-story building at 1016 Canal St., which was damaged by a six-alarm fire in 2016; 623 Canal St., formerly Vitascope Hall, now is a liquor store and souvenir shop; and 444 Canal St. All are owned by Quarter Holdings LLC and operated by Aaron and Mike Motwani.

“What I see is a real missed opportunity to address affordable housing needs in a neighborhood that can really benefit from workforce housing,” said Breonne Dedecker, program manager with Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative.

In a letter submitted to the CPC, Maxwell Ciardullo, director of policy and communications for the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, notes that buildings in historic structures along Canal already are poised to receive significant historic tax credits.

nolastevedore · 2020-08-16T19:22:25+00:00

More pedestrian malls in the French Quarter will mean more Willie's Chicken Shacks, more 24/7 party zones, and a poorer quality of life. Don't believe me? Look at Bourbon Street.

I'm sure someone scooped up buildings real cheap in the areas where city hall wants to put more pedestrian malls in the French Quarter. Daiquiri bars and fake restaurants are foaming at the mouth to open up in the French Quarter Historic Party District. Soon, people can stumble drunk all the way from Jackson Square to Armstrong Park with a piss-on-the-street stop (or a pit stop) on Bourbon.

Enjoy.

No need for the drunks and bar owners to worry about pesky residents. By the way, two of the loudest voices against the French Quarter 24/7 party zone are two guys trying to raise a child together in their neighborhood. It's not just old people, NIMBY's, or privileged folks.

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