If you live outside the US, and your country uses coins for your lowest whole unit denomination, how do you tip your strippers?

coin slot?

I have no need to know, @dalepetrie, but I’m dying to see the answer. This is exactly the sort of question that I regard as an art form unto itself: curiosity for curiosity’s sake.

1. Tip more?
2. Avoid strippers <—my personal favorite.

How do you tip a stripper? I suppose you could wait until she falls asleep on her feet, and rush up and tip her over. You know? Like cows? Stripper tipping? Get it?

Actually, the practice of putting smaller bills into coins is a secret plot by the strippers union designed to maximize their paydays. Without ones and twos, you’ve got to use fives. Although, any man worth his dick has to tip in tens and twenties, anyway. Otherwise, no lap dance for you, matey.

But what the hell do I know? I never tipped a stripper. In fact, never met one in her professional setting. I did share a bed with one one night, but I never laid a hand (or anything else—get your mind out of the gutter) on her. It wasn’t like that at all. Or maybe it was, but I was too young to get it.

Each dancer, as we like to call them, “works” a table. She provides chat, drinks and, erm, dancing. The table is billed at the end of the night, and when you pay, you add on a tip. There is no throwing of coins, no cups, no slotting.

@jennifermay Geez, that’s boring.

It was never boring for me, actually.

@jennifermay “Hey, don’t forget to tip, eh?”

Do they call it the “Molsen Room” as opposed to the “Champagne Room”?

“Ain’t no whoopie in the Molsen Room…”

In some of the many strip clubs in Montreal, it’s like 20$/song. You give the bouncer a 5, and cover is 5. Every once in a while the guy who’s DJing will say “go lie on your back on stage and put 5$ in your mouth”, and then the girl will do her thing. It’s like these little “excitement moments” that gets the strippers tips, which are usually in bills.

@Mtl_zack that’s fantastic.

I guess Canadian strippers are better paid than American strppers, as well they should be. Stripping in the Yukon must be very cold.

@galileogirl there’s probably a lower stripper to citizen ratio in Canada.

@eponymoushipster Actually, in Montreal, there are 3 strip clubs on every block downtown lol

@Mtl_zack finally, something to thank the french for…~

@eponymoushipster Even more reason. Basic economics-scarcity drives prices up.

@Mtl_zack So how do YOU tip strippers

@galileogirl Well, you pay after they’re done, and their g string isn’t on them anymore, so I just give 2 toonies. They go directly to the coat check anyways to greet new people, so I guess they have a jar.

Thanks everyone, this is interesting. In the US so I’m told, not that I’d have first hand knowledge of such a thing, cough, ahem yes you do give $20 for a lap dance, but if you want to sit in “sniffer’s row” up front, you better have a wad of ones, and you can stuff them right in the G-string, or have her take it out of your mouth with her teeth, whatever. In America, it’s strictly cash up front, tipping at the end is for restaurants.

putting cash in your mouth? that’s gross.

@eponymoushipster – yes, but with the trace amounts of cocaine on the bill, it gives you a rush if you do it enough! Though honestly, I kind of have to agree, I’ve been to like 2 strip clubs in my life, just not my scene…personally I’m just not all that into have a stranger’s pierced labia shoved in my face, kind of takes the mystery out of it and makes me cringe at the same time.

@dalepetrie wow, that’s quite a scene my man…yeah.

if it’s a big enough piercing, maybe you could tuck a bill into it?

Or perhaps if you live in a country with holes in the middle of their coins, you could just kind of play ring toss!

@dalepetrie i hear the center of toonies in Canada pop out every now and then…

ROAD TRIP!!!!

@dalepetrie ^5! i’ll get my sled, you bring the mittens!

Sounds good, and we’ll buy the liquor once we get up there cuz I hear it’s stronger.

@dalepetrie and somewhat cheaper! yay our blander cousins to the north!

Canada….just like America, only not as much.

1. I think the UK still has pounds (unless they swapped overnight and I missed it). I’ve never heard of a two-pound coin. But yeah, both the UK and Eurozone start from fivers when it comes to notes.
2. I’ve never been to a stripper club, nor do I ever plan to, but I assume the customers simply start with fivers (whether it’s 5 pounds or 5 euros). So yeah, strippers simply make more there, and I guess if the US adopted the same rule about money (had dollar coins and 5-dollar notes) the US strippers would also be making more.
3. I know this for a fact from living in Greece: before the Euro, the lowest paper note was 200drs (60c). There was a 500dr coin, but it was only commemorative, so basically the highest real coin in circulation was 100dr (30c). When people went to church, they’d drop 30c in a plate to buy a candle. Sometimes 15c (or 50drs). The 50dr coin (15c) was also the standard price for a bottle of water. Also in church, when someone wanted the priest to make a special blessing, they’d pay him 500drs (1.50 euro, or the equivalent of 10 bottles of water).
Now here’s the situation after the Euro: the lowest euro note is 5 euros, and the higest coin is 2 euros. This in drachmas is 1700 and 680drs respectively. Now when someone goes to church, they’ll pay 1 euro for a candle (340drs as opposed to 100). The price of water is up to 50c as opposed to 15c (or 170drs instead of 50). And the special “blessing” is bought for 5 euros (the lowest note), which again is 1700drs as opposed to 500.
so yeah, even though a church is not a strip club, the finances are similar

So what has actually happened is that a lot of everyday things like that (including waitor’s tips) have gone up 3.4 times, since in their mind people have translated 100drs=1 euro (whereas the price was in fact 340 drs). This has not happened in Germany (which is where I lived during the swap), where a euro was 1.955 DM (so about 2:1). But I’m sure it has happened in other countries in the Eurozone, eg Portugal or Italy.

@Jack79 – I’d heard that about Italy…I had kind of wondered because in 2000 I went to London for a week, then to Italy for a week, and at the time, we basically thought of a pound as about $1.50 and 2000 Lira as equal to $1, and that made it pretty easy to figure out what we were paying. So, in London, something that I’d expect to cost me $8 would cost about 10 GBP, which was equivalent to $15, so pretty much everything on average cost me double. Then I went to Italy, and things cost a fraction of what they cost in the US, for example, most meals we would dine out, which consisted of 1 bottle of still water, 1 bottle of white wine, 1 appetizer (usually something like meats & cheeses), 1 pizze (authentic Italian pizza), two pasta dishes and 2 deserts, and these meals on average, with tip cost about 45,000 Lira, or about $22—$23. In the US, OK, the water would be free, but the bottle of wine would set you back $20, the appetizer $8, the pizza $10, each pasta dish $11 and each desert $6, that’s $72, add tax and tip and you’re up around $90 so basically 4 times the cost. So it seemed to me that things in general were 8 times as expensive in London as they were in say Florence. So, when they went to the Euro, I had to wonder did prices meet somewhere in the middle, did prices in cheaper countries go up to equalize with the more expensive countries, did the prices in the more expensive countries go down to become more equivalent to those in the cheaper countries, or is Europe essentially now a place where people from one country (like England) treat other countries (like Italy) as their own personal discount shopping malls. I was dismayed to hear that basically everything all over Europe in all countries using the Euro have pretty much become as expensive as the most expensive European countries.

So, that kind of made it hard for me to wrap my mind around the Euro being about what, a buck 40 US now, maybe more, not 100% sure, but let’s go with that, it means that the smallest bill being 5 Euro would be worth about $7 US, probably a bit more. In the US not many guys would stuff a $7 bill (if such a thing existed) down a stripper’s G-string, when they could get a private dance for $20.

And FYI, there is indeed a 2 pound coin, I am pretty sure I still have one, I think I ended up bringing home about 10 pounds worth of coins, and 30,000 lira worth of bills which I kept as collector’s items. The 2 pound coin is gold colored around the outside, silver in the middle and says “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants” around the rim.

So, I could actually still spend my British and Italian money if I ever went back? I thought the Euro was supposed to replace the currencies, not run alongside them….that must be confusing as hell.

Now that you mention it, yes you’re right about the 2pound bill. And yes, you could still use pounds in the UK (currency hasn’t changed there) but not in Italy. Even banks won’t take Liras back anymore (I think they did it until 2005 or so). But keep them as collector’s items.

What actually happened in the Eurozone is that some prices in cheaper countries simply jumped. Things did not change much in Germany (apart from the “normal” rise that would have happened anyway) and some of the more stable economies around it, but yeah, Italy became more expensive. All of southern Europe did. And not homogenously. What I mean is that, in Greece for example, the price of a bottle of water jumped from 50 drs to 50c, but people who were getting 200,000drs sallary did not suddenly get 2000 euros. Instead, their salaries were calculated properly, and over the years rounded up to something like 700 euros. So the price of water rose by 340% overnight, but the salary by 19% over 8 years. And of course other things did not become more expensive at all, it’s usually small and cheap everyday things that jumped without anyone noticing.

I guess that if (or when) the UK turns to the euro, prices might actually drop, especially now that the pound is only 1.2 and not 1.5 euros. And things are already too expensive there. So we might even say negative (or zero) inflation for a while. Or simply wait for the rest of Europe to catch up before the switch.

In the UK we have a £2 coin. It has two different colour metals.

Everything is bloody expensive here. Even though the smallest paper money is £5 most lap dancers would expect £10 or £20 depending on the particular club.

Isn’t the asscrack the slot for coins or is it for change ?
The smallest paper is £5 tho it used to be £1 , the smallest coin is 1p , 2p, 5 p, 10 p ,20 p , 50p , £1 , £2 isn’t there a £5 coin or they were planning on it
Do strippers take pennies ?

Our strippers carry collection plates.

In times like these I almost expect strippers to start giving away toasters the way banks used to.

@Jack79 – thanks for the info, that really helps put it in perspective. Of course, you still have to make the distinction between a tip (a buck or two stuffed in the G-string when a stripper is performing for the entire crowd on stage), and a lap dance (which is generally privately contracted and does cost $20 most places). The later I wouldn’t expect to be a problem, I was more wondering about what is done about the former. Seems the consensus I get is they bill after the service whereas here it’s pay for play up front.

Insert coin in slot and press the little button.

@dalepetrie I assume that if for example the US changed its coin system, this would have an effect on strippers, just like everything else. The result could for example be:
1) strippers are expected to do a lot more for the $5 than they did for the $1 (but not 5 times more)
2) the price of the private dance also goes up from $20 to $40 or something, so as to keep some balance. The whole experience becomes more expensive and strip clubs are for slightly richer people (or you can no longer afford to visit them as often)
3) due to supply and demand, and following from point 2 above, there could also be cheaper clubs, perhaps with strippers that are not as pretty, or older or something. Which could offer dances for the old $1 price, with ways of collecting the coins (some funnel that fills up the stripper’s pants, or a silver tray that goes around, or some jar etc). The stripper could also be creative and incorporate the coins in her dance routine (juggle them, balance them on her nipples or something).

My guess is that the whole thing would just become more expensive (as with my example with the Greek churches earlier), and people would just cough up the extra cash. And get used to it. Simple as that.

as I said, I’ve never been to a stripclub here in the Eurozone, but I assume people just pay the equivalent of $7 instead of $1

I’ve seen (but never been to) clubs which offer their own bucks (yay…just like Disneyworld!) where you can buy stripper bucks, I imagine America being on the extreme end of capitalism would go to a scenario like this rather than lose their business. Basically you’ve got two kinds of clubs in the US, you ahve th ones your regular Joes go to, usually just tons of girls on stage…they come out and do their dances and pick up a few bucks, then when another girl is on stage, they work the crowd looking for people to pay for a lapdance, these clubs often have enticements such as free admission with ticket stub to a game or concert that night, or free lunch buffet or whatever, and you could actually get into some of these places for the cost of one or two drinks, whatever the minimum is, but like let’s say you go to the bartender and buy a $5 cocktail, and pay with a $20 bill, they’ll give you 15 ones back instead of a 10 and a 5. Also, they make the strippers rent space, the clubs don’t even pay the strippers directly, they’re all independent contractors, it’s like renting a chair at a beauty salon.

Didn’t think of that! Yeah, it actually makes sense. I bet it would be something like that then, special “stripper money” that you could buy. And probably forget in your wallet, and get into trouble from the wife when you got home lol

If you buy stripper cash, shouldn’t there be prizes, like Chuck E. Cheese? 400 tickets and you get a free motorboating or something?

Motorboating? Like sticking your face right in there and making the engine noise? Yeah, I’d go for that. I realized I didn’t finish my statement above. There is a second type of club, usually higher buck that has a hefty cover charge, and a 2 or 4 drink minimum with drinks that are way overpriced. Often they also have full meal service, often the girls are topless only, and often the girls are actually pretty and not just abundant. I’ve been to one of each, and I vastly prefer the one I can’t afford to go into.

”...I vastly prefer the one I can’t afford to go into.”

@dalepetrie that’s how guys feel about girls in general, isn’t it?

@eponymoushipster – exactly…to paraphrase, “you can’t always get what you want, but it doesn’t take much to get VD”

You bar fine them!

Strippers tip me.

@Zen_Again that’s called an allowance.

“But how exactly would you go about stuffing a dollar coin down a stripper’s G-String? ”

You could always make a stack of them and have her pick them up. I have seen it done with beer bottles.

@eponymoushipster I know. And it’s time you raised it to minimum wage – I’m starving.

wait you’re coming to see me strip? that’s weird.